============ The Morning Thread ============

[wideright]

No Ult Sig break today Keith???!!! Man I'm gonna melt down. Been trying to contain the excitement all day.

 

[George_Calfas]

Charlie, nice rack.........errrr rack pack.

 

[gracecollector]

My **** feels stretched. Just bought two cards from Burbank for way too much.

 

[ASTROBURN]

Got my cards in the mail yesterday, but couldnt open them til this morning. Didnt get home til after one in the morning due to band practice. Cant wait to scan em and add em to my site, then onto here. Thanks again George!

Sorry to hear about the fuel pump Joe. I wish you were closer to my neck of the woods so I could help you a bit on the price.

 

[js0000001]

trying to scan while i rip

 

[js0000001]

 

[George_Calfas]

Got my cards in the mail yesterday, but couldnt open them til this morning. Didnt get home til after one in the morning due to band practice. Cant wait to scan em and add em to my site, then onto here. Thanks again George!

Sorry to hear about the fuel pump Joe. I wish you were closer to my neck of the woods so I could help you a bit on the price.

:grouphug:

 

[69MetsFan]

Good evening all!
Joe - Sorry to hear about your auto issues. Nice TTM success! (Full range of emotions in one post)
Charlie - Nice additional buybacks and excellent rackage! :shock: That Eric's a pretty good guy. That '62 is very nice.

 

[tramers]

save your money i just bought winning mega ticket :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[69MetsFan]

save your money i just bought winning mega ticket :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

We don't have mega millions here. We have power ball.
Good luck, Barry!

 

[TBTwinsFan]

I found the perfect lawn mower for the perfect price...

Problem is it's a 5 hour drive and I ain't willing to make that trip.

 

[metallicalex777]

Good Evening Gents!!!

Charlie - OUTSTANDING package from Eric...VERY cool on the packs and a great looking Gramps card as well

Eric - Well done with your package to Charlie!!!

Joe - VERY sorry to hear of the car troubles...especially since it was not at home when it happened

JS - Nice scans man!!! Great names on the die cut holos too!

Keith - Good luck with the Ultimate tins...can't wait to see what you get

 

[muskiesfan]

JS- Nice breaks!

Charlie- Nice pick ups, brother! Way to go E!

Astro- I appreciate it.

Dave (b)- :lol: Thanks brother.

Alex- Thank you too.

Well, the bad news is the part did not come in today. They said it should be in tomorrow. Hopefully it does come in tomorrow so we can get it fixed. The worst news is that took all of my money! :lol: There's an Adam Dunn 1/1 I was going to make a run at, but no more. Oh well. It's not like it's the first 1/1 I've missed out on.

 

[FrostyCollects]

That's one uber-groovy lot, Charlie...

I miss seeing cello packs at retail. For what set did we last see such packs?

 

[metallicalex777]

So we had our work fantasy league draft on Sunday. I had to set up my draft list as I couldn't make it live. It was a snake draft and I had the 6th slot out of 10. Here is my lineup...any opinions?

 

[IndyManning18]

Ty Cobb had a pretty good Biography of him written. I was really young when I was reading it so I never finished it (it was longer and a little complex for me back then) but I would love to give it another shot.

Yeah, racism is hard to understand at 6 :shock:

I don't really know if the book was filled with racism, but I remember that parts were pretty heated.

And then mommy took the Ty Cobb bio away and gave you more age appropriate reading material....Green Eggs and Ham :lol:

So she takes away a book about a racist and let's him read the drivel of a communist who favored Japanese internment camps during WW2? That sounds about right. ::facepalm::

 

[schillingfan]

Good evening. Long day.

Joe - Sorry to hear about the car issues. Always a stressful and expensive thing to deal with.

 

[ChasHawk]

As World War II began, Geisel turned to political cartoons, drawing over 400 in two years as editorial cartoonist for the left-leaning New York City daily newspaper, PM.[19] Geisel's political cartoons, later published in Dr. Seuss Goes to War, denounced ****** and Mussolini and were highly critical of non-interventionists ("isolationists"), most notably Charles Lindbergh, who opposed US entry into the war.[20] One cartoon[21] depicted all Japanese Americans as latent traitors or fifth-columnists, while at the same time other cartoons deplored the racism at home against Jews and blacks that harmed the war effort. His cartoons were strongly supportive of President Roosevelt's handling of the war, combining the usual exhortations to ration and contribute to the war effort with frequent attacks on Congress[22] (especially the Republican Party[23]), parts of the press (such as the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Washington Times-Herald),[24] and others for criticism of Roosevelt, criticism of aid to the Soviet Union,[25][26] investigation of suspected Communists,[27] and other offenses that he depicted as leading to disunity and helping the Nazis, intentionally or inadvertently.

In 1942, Geisel turned his energies to direct support of the U.S. war effort. First, he worked drawing posters for the Treasury Department and the War Production Board. Then, in 1943, he joined the Army as a Captain (OF-2) and was commander of the Animation Departmant of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces, where he wrote films that included Your Job in Germany, a 1945 propaganda film about peace in Europe after World War II; Our Job in Japan, and the Private Snafu series of adult army training films. While in the Army, he was awarded the Legion of Merit.[28] Our Job in Japan became the basis for the commercially released film, Design for Death (1947), a study of Japanese culture that won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature

Geisel was a liberal Democrat and a supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. His early political cartoons show a passionate opposition to fascism, and he urged to oppose it, both before and after the entry of the United States into World War II. His cartoons tended to regard the fear of communism as overstated, finding the greater threat in the Dies Committee and those who threatened to cut the US's "life line"[41] to Stalin and the USSR, the ones carrying "our war load".[42]

Geisel's cartoons also called attention to the early stages of the Holocaust and denounced discrimination in the USA against African Americans and Jews. Geisel himself experienced anti-Semitism: in his college days, he was mistaken for a Jew and denied entry into conservative social circles, although he was actually of German ancestry and a practising Christian.[citation needed]

Geisel supported the Japanese American internment during World War II. His treatment of the Japanese and of Japanese Americans, between whom he often failed to differentiate, has struck many readers as a moral blind spot

After the war, though, Geisel overcame his feelings of animosity, using his book Horton Hears a Who! (1954) as an allegory for the Hiroshima bombing and the American post-war occupation of Japan, as well as dedicating the book to a Japanese friend.

His feelings on the Japanese were basically status quo at the time, since as you may recall, they had just bombed us... ::facepalm::

And if he was a Communist, then so is Jesse.

 

[tramers]

to late and heavy to think it over :? :?

 

[IndyManning18]

As World War II began, Geisel turned to political cartoons, drawing over 400 in two years as editorial cartoonist for the left-leaning New York City daily newspaper, PM.[19] Geisel's political cartoons, later published in Dr. Seuss Goes to War, denounced ****** and Mussolini and were highly critical of non-interventionists ("isolationists"), most notably Charles Lindbergh, who opposed US entry into the war.[20] One cartoon[21] depicted all Japanese Americans as latent traitors or fifth-columnists, while at the same time other cartoons deplored the racism at home against Jews and blacks that harmed the war effort. His cartoons were strongly supportive of President Roosevelt's handling of the war, combining the usual exhortations to ration and contribute to the war effort with frequent attacks on Congress[22] (especially the Republican Party[23]), parts of the press (such as the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Washington Times-Herald),[24] and others for criticism of Roosevelt, criticism of aid to the Soviet Union,[25][26] investigation of suspected Communists,[27] and other offenses that he depicted as leading to disunity and helping the Nazis, intentionally or inadvertently.

In 1942, Geisel turned his energies to direct support of the U.S. war effort. First, he worked drawing posters for the Treasury Department and the War Production Board. Then, in 1943, he joined the Army as a Captain (OF-2) and was commander of the Animation Departmant of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces, where he wrote films that included Your Job in Germany, a 1945 propaganda film about peace in Europe after World War II; Our Job in Japan, and the Private Snafu series of adult army training films. While in the Army, he was awarded the Legion of Merit.[28] Our Job in Japan became the basis for the commercially released film, Design for Death (1947), a study of Japanese culture that won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature

Geisel was a liberal Democrat and a supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. His early political cartoons show a passionate opposition to fascism, and he urged to oppose it, both before and after the entry of the United States into World War II. His cartoons tended to regard the fear of communism as overstated, finding the greater threat in the Dies Committee and those who threatened to cut the US's "life line"[41] to Stalin and the USSR, the ones carrying "our war load".[42]

Geisel's cartoons also called attention to the early stages of the Holocaust and denounced discrimination in the USA against African Americans and Jews. Geisel himself experienced anti-Semitism: in his college days, he was mistaken for a Jew and denied entry into conservative social circles, although he was actually of German ancestry and a practising Christian.[citation needed]

Geisel supported the Japanese American internment during World War II. His treatment of the Japanese and of Japanese Americans, between whom he often failed to differentiate, has struck many readers as a moral blind spot

After the war, though, Geisel overcame his feelings of animosity, using his book Horton Hears a Who! (1954) as an allegory for the Hiroshima bombing and the American post-war occupation of Japan, as well as dedicating the book to a Japanese friend.

His feelings on the Japanese were basically status quo at the time, since as you may recall, they had just bombed us... ::facepalm::

And if he was a Communist, then so is Jesse.

Is Jesse a Lorax?