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I don't normally do plugs, but I know my friends are a group of twisted, toy-collecting mo-fo's... So help another friend of mine get his business going!

http://vladstoys.com/Scripts/default.asp

Go buy a thing! Tell your friends!

There is a long, FUCKED UP story associated with why I'm plugging this particular site, but let us just say that its success is very important to me...

Let it also be known that this is NOT being plugged for any anti-Semetic reasons. If you have things to say about other races, don't say 'em to me. I think these toys are keen for HISTORICAL reasons. They are banned from eBay due to "potentially offensive content".

There's a lot of stuff in history that's offensive, but that doesn't mean we can regulate it out of existence. Then what will we have learned? Sure the Germans were at one point the bad guys, but now ebay is trying to say that ANYTHING from WWII era Germany is offensive, and I find that really irritating. Next it'll be the Japanese. And we all know where that's going.

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." ~George Santayana

One of my bestest stories is about how I was watching Pearl Harbor (the movie) with a friend of mine and commented that my Great Uncle died at Pearl Harbor... My friend looked at me gravely and asked, "Don't hit me, but I need some clarification... Was your Uncle on a BOAT or in a PLANE?"

Mom's Japanese, but it was my Great Uncle on my Father's side who was serving on the USS Arizona when it sank at Pearl Harbor. I'm glad my Grandmother didn't have the same prejudices as eBay, or I wouldn't be here.

/rant

Kay. Thanks for listening. Now go look at the pretty toys and go buy something that'll really disturb your mother-in-law...