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Quote from: Sibling DavidH on May 13, 2012, 08:35:50 PM
Yippee, it's Scrib!  Hello, Scrib, how are you doing?

We had burgers - good ones from the farmers' market.  Excellent.

Good. I've been busy with school and such, lol.

Yerba matte tea and jelly beans. I did not actually mean to buy a pound and a half of jelly bellies when I went to see the Avengers again. But I did. D: I don't know what I'm going to do with them all.

The day listed is correct, yes.

What I got out of Super Tuesday: I've been predicting the GOPster ticket will be Romney/Santorum for a while and I'm pretty sure this settles it. It's gonna be like 2008's, in that the presidential candidate will be actually semi-sane but has fundied up to have a chance to get the vote and the VP will be the actual nutbag to get the nutbag vote.

Quote from: Sibling DavidH on March 07, 2012, 05:30:02 PM
Because all the commentators say so,

Is that ever a reason to believe something?

Quote from: Sibling DavidH on March 07, 2012, 05:30:02 PMand that's the way some of his words and actions have come across.

Here's one recent article from a reputable newspaper: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100027838/barack-obama%E2%80%99s-top-10-insults-against-britain/

My response to the article:
1. First, why would we get involved? If another nation tried to claim, let's say, Samoa, I wouldn't expect the British to coming running to our aid even if there were concerns about our ability to defend it. Second, according to what I've heard, people who live in the Falklands think of themselves as British and aren't wild about the Argentinians shrieking about this issue again, so even if the UK were unable to defend the FI, Argentina would still have a fight and probably a long and protracted one with unhappy locals.

2. And? From a purely political angle the Special Relationship doesn't really benefit either side any more, from what I understand.

3. I don't know enough to comment.

4. Kinda douchey and a little self defeating, yeah.

5. Hella douchey. Won't lie.

6. To me, that sounds a lot like on the author's part.

7. Should have been phrased better and yes, were I Obama, I would have issued an apology to a nation the state department insulted, no matter who it was.

8. That was totally not well handled on the White House's part.

9. Not well done, sure.

10. That one confuses me. It's not like your papers are universally sterling in quality, but either are they all on par with Fox. So, douchey, I suppose.

Quote from: Sibling DavidH on March 07, 2012, 05:30:02 PM
Many people think it's because of his Kenyan heritage and our actions against the Mau Mau.

SAIK, the Special Relationship between the US and the UK didn't start to come unglued when Kennedy was in office so I dunno. Also, Obama doesn't seem the type.

When I first joined Facebook, you could input your credit card number. I was astounded to find that there were people who actually did that!

Same reason people hated Jews for so long?

Quote from: Swatopluk on February 27, 2012, 12:17:05 PM
You should read some of the stuff that did not get into the (generally accepted) bible. St.John is by no means the worst.
I'd say bad fan fiction (even prawnographic*) was very alive then already.
In one of the more notorious (that heavily influenced Roman Catholic Mariological thought) there is an attempted vaginal inspection of Mary to check her virginity after the birth of Christ (who got less born but beamed) with nasty consequences for the (female) inspector. In another text pre-teen Jesus kills other kids to demonstrate his resurrection skills afterwards (and has other Frankensteinian habits too).

*You know, the OT did not make prawn an abomination for nothing

Ok, clearly I need to take a bit to read more than the Gospel of Thomas because what.the.hell.

Quote from: Roland Deschain on February 27, 2012, 12:30:56 AM
There are so many people like this, who think that they're being nice when they say things like this, as to them it's the height of achievement. No wonder there are so many issues in our society, when the most a woman is expected to achieve is to marry a rich Christian (shouldn't that be an anathema to a Christian, what with the camels and eyes of needles?).

Prosperity Gospel. Appeals to innate monkey nature by offering the proverbial free lunch and the opportunity to climb the social ladder (believe in our version of Jesus and don't question it, and God will reward ye with money/social esteem).

Quote from: Roland Deschain on February 27, 2012, 12:30:56 AM
I've never truly understood the rationale behind wanting the world to end. It's almost as if the people who enthuse over it cannot deal with the current one.

It's a strange, confusing, alarming, sometimes painful place and they don't have the guts or will to make the best of it by giving their lives their own meaning. Instead, they'd rather wail about the world being that way, how unfair it is, and how they deserve better. And the vision of the afterlife offered by select varieties of Christianity is what they think they deserve.

Welcome! Always glad to see a new face 'round these parts!

Totally have a facebook. Totally careful about what gets put on there. I also recommend Ghostery, which blocks scripts and such, and is intended to help users maintain their privacy.

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Bigoted and thoughtless. That's what I'd say she is. I'd probably would have given her a Look (woo frown power!).

That you offered to help means more than enough, lol.

Quote from: Swatopluk on January 23, 2012, 08:00:14 AM
I can't promise anything, esp. if it deals not with publications but personal material. In other words, it could be difficult to just walk in and grab it
With old material photocopying may very well be out of the question and if it is from the 20ies a lot may be handwritten in Sütterlin which I cannot read very well (or at all depending on the person writing).

Could you write a formal wish/request list about what and in what form you want? Maybe with a cover letter to the archivists?
If necessary (i.e. nobody at the archive speaking English) I could translate that for you.

I can PM you my email address, if necessary.

Again, no promises!

It's from the 30s, since he didn't show up in Germany until 1933. And yeah, I'll do that, and thank you so much!

Apples, cheese, and orange peel tea.

Quote from: Swatopluk on January 20, 2012, 09:18:06 AM
Do you have the web addresses for the online catalogue(s)?
Any concrete info (author, title etc.)?

http://www.ub.hu-berlin.de/standorte/archiv/
I'm looking for Karl Leonard Falk's file. The article I found it referenced in didn't give a link or a way to find it at all (it just said it's in the University of Berlin's possession). I have the names of a textbook he wrote for HU and his doctoral dissertation, but I'm not particularly interested in the contents of either, per se, so much as the rest of his file (letters, apparently, details of his doings/travels when he was the Reich's pet American, etc.). Some of it only became available once the Berlin Wall fell, if that helps somehow.

Edit: Oops.
Berlin Universitatsbibliothek Archiv certified copies of official documentation of immatrikulation of Karl L. Falk No. 802 05-10-32; resume; travel records; employment record; diploma, records, and correspondence,commendations, requests, academic examinations