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Sep 21st, 2009 at 8:08 am

The Great Penis-Stone of Freiberg

Went to the Terra Mineralia collection (the largest in Europe) of minerals in Freiberg. This was by far the funniest one:

A more responsible blogger would be saying something about General McChrystal’s request for more troops, but for now I’ll just stand by what I wrote last week.

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theAmericanist Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 8:39 am
So, what does the stalactite look like?
bdbd Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 8:46 am
wow, it’s like they’re looking right at you!
Steve LaBonne Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 9:10 am
Actually I think that picture could hardly be improved on as an appropriate response to McChrystal’s request.
DTM Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 9:24 am
What, no positive comments about European-style density this time?
Emrys Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 10:01 am
Matt needs to keep out of European museums — it’s clearly affecting his brain.
Dohhh! Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 10:03 am
What, no fart jokes?
Kevin Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Ha. High density, mixed use…
soullite Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 10:24 am
At least this thing has a discernible head. I see people claim that any cylnidrical or long object is a “phallic symbol” despite it’s complete lack of a resemblance or any functional purpose that shape may serve. Swords are built to look like penises because men are immature children, it has nothing to do with having a long edge. Towers were built by giggling artisans in monument to their schlongs, not because people needed to see far way back in the day. At some point, you have to wonder about such people.

WTF is it with people seeing penises everywhere they look?
David Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 11:09 am
More proof that Extenze really works!
Pesto Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 12:00 pm
If your stalagmite lasts for more than 400,000 years, please see your geologist.
Adam Villani Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Soullite actually has a point. These are legitimately phallic; calling everything cylindrical phallic is just lazy.
Steve LaBonne Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Soullite actually has a point. These are legitimately phallic; calling everything cylindrical phallic is just lazy.

I blame Freud. (Though even he pointed out that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.)
Jules Crittenden » To Look Good Or To Feel Good? Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 2:09 pm
[...] Yglesias: “Ha ha, penises!” With a link to another reason why you should exercise caution in taking geopolitical deep thot from anyone still two years out from his 30th birthday. [...]
Suzanne Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 2:15 pm
looks like a Louise Bourgeois sculpture
her piece persistent antagonism, may tie into the discussion about more troops as well
Greg Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I think Pesto deserves an Internet or two.
TRIATHLON Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 6:59 pm
THE PLAN?

(In For Ten, Out in Three)

Now, the Empire plan is a (10+) Ten plus year plan you add on the time already that makes it about a (20) Twenty year plan much like Vietnam, then you say you won and leave The German Press is far ahead on this story, because they are going to have to fund the war with a European War Tax, after the (27th) Elections. They have a better plan out in (3) Three or less. Empire plan (20)and leave, German debate for (3) Three or less and leave. And we wonder why the Empire is in rapid decline.

GERMANY’S LAST WARNING!

(The Last Warning)

In a new video message to the German People and its Government in a last warning and providing a last chance, in an attempt to save at least a shred of any credibility of Germany, within the Muslim world, In a new video message, the (IFF) Islamic Freedom Fighter network, member Branch of Al-Qaida has warned of attacks in Germany during the two weeks/forth-night after the Sept. 27th election, if there are no signals of a withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan. Authorities are taking the threat seriously and have raised the level of security precautions. Now, from a military point of view this was Black Knight, to White Queen Bishops There’s, a have gun will travel Paladin move, a tactically excellent move.

(German Must Stay)

Now, Germany has been warned that if there are no signals of a withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan, within a forth-night/two-week, after the German elections of Sept. 27th, the German Fatherland will be the target of terrorist network attacks by (IFF) Islamic Freedom Fighters Networks, Al-Qaida Branch. Germany, has (3.5K-4.1K) Three-Thousand-Five-Hundred to Four-Thousand-One-Hundred, Troops at present in (Northern Afghanistan) having suffered (KIA 35+) Thirty-Five-Plus Killed In Action. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has stated the, (We [Germany] have a great responsibility here. We want to carry our share of the responsibility, militarily, in the area of civil reconstruction and in police training.) And, committed an additional (600) Six-hundred from Germany that was already in the pipeline, sources indicated that the Europeans would be expected to help by providing additional forces, more reconstruction assistance, and increased funding. The Obama administration wants to wait until after the general election in Germany on (Sept. 27) before officially announcing its wishes. Peter Struck the former German Defense Minister (2002-2005), and the current floor leader of the Center-Left German Social Democratic Party, often noted for his statement of [Germany’s security is also defended in the Hindu Kush], in an interview with (WWW.SPIEGEL.DE), Interview conducted by Ulrike Demmer and Konstantin von Hammerstein, Yassin Musharbash, and Marcel, stated that the earliest German withdrawal could not be expected any earlier than (10) ten-years, a decade at the very least, when the Afghanistan security forces are strong enough to deal with the Taliban and the drug barons on their own, and when the Afghanistan People can develop and shape their country as they please.

(Germany must Leave)

Jürgen Todenhöfer former Bundestag member for the Center-Right Christian Democrats and is a prominent critic of the wars in Afghanistan and [Iraq which Germany declared an illegal war], has taken the opposite position in regards to the Afghanistan Quagmire, that Germany has in fact completely lost any credibility within the Muslim world, and that if the commitment of German Troops was going to be a matter of decades, hundreds of German soldiers would join their comrades in arms who have already given their lives in vain, that it is the duty of those elected officials of Germany to develop an honest exit strategy, not in a matter of decades but not later than a (3) Three-Year period.

(The German Quandary)

Now, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor and Peter Struck current floor leader of the Center-Left German Social Democratic Party, seem unaware of the dangers to which German soldiers of both genders are being exposed to in the in the Hindu Kush, of Afghanistan, as only flag covered boxes carrying their broken lifeless bodies are carried home for the last time, but now what will the effects of the scene of German Civilians and the horrors of War once again on German Streets, have on the German People over nothing more than The American-Israelis War of Markets and Resources, in its continuing Blood for Oil War, on the Islamic Crescent, in the Hindu Kush. It is one thing for German soldiers to die in defense of the Fatherland, but another of both German Soldiers and Civilians to die for Resources and Markets for the benefit of the American-Israeli Empire, considering that the American-Israeli Empire has (60K) Sixty-Thousand Troops of German Occupation upon the soil of the Fatherland.

HERCULE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN
Jeffrey Davis Says:
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:43 am
And here I thought they’d been saying “Freebird”.
Freiberg - Blog - 21 Sep 2009 Says:
September 24th, 2009 at 8:07 am
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Ariel Boone Says:
September 28th, 2009 at 5:00 am
You know there’s one of these at the Smithsonian Nat’l History museum, right?

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