The Critic

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 19, 2005 -> 08:28 AM) I do not believe we can advocate violence and condemn violence at the same time. I especially do not believe the government should be in the business of killing citizens. If he is found murdered, I will have the same disdain for his murderer(s) as I do for him. Once we start placing relative values on human life we jump on a slippery slope that leads to all sorts of moral nightmares. I am not devaluing his life. He devalued his life through his actions. He is without worth as a human being, so I can't find any sympathy for what might happen to him. Two wrongs may not make a right, but a wrong towards another wrong at least doesn't harm anyone innocent or decent.

The Cardinals are the TRUE "best team in baseball" without having Rolen, Walker, Sanders, Molina, etc. for parts of the season. They find guys ( including minor-leaguers ) to plug in to their roster and they just keep on rolling. Even as talented as he is, I think they'll be fine without Rolen.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Aug 18, 2005 -> 07:43 PM) His sentence seems like a slap on the wrist for what he did. I don't care that he will likely be dead before the 40 yrs are up and wouldn't be let out regardless. Life I agree with, but should have been with out any chance of parole. The sentence should have also included ritual beatings and daily anal rape. ....debating the use of green here....

That's it, I'm choppin' the disobedient f***er off!

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 18, 2005 -> 11:21 AM) Some more details at the link about his actions. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8996967/ And would you guys mind not turning this into an argument dealing with the bible. Thanks. Sure, as soon as he stops having been a pastor... I don't think I was arguing for or against the bible per se - I just don't like the inequity of some folks who blame "evil" things for influencing "sickos" and then ignoring the fact that this particular "sicko" was very involved in the church. Just seems too convenient. ....JMO, of course.... Oh, and I'm pretty sure your request was aimed more at others, I just felt the need to kinda clarify my own point.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 18, 2005 -> 10:24 AM) The Prius is generally widely available...Toyota had a lot of problems with the new 04 model when it first came out because they were in such high demand...waiting lists up to 6 months. They have since ratcheted up production on that model quite a bit, and I believe in almost every case they're either in lots or can be delivered quite rapidly. Sounds good - it's almost time for me to car-shop, and when I do that's where I'm starting.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Aug 18, 2005 -> 10:20 AM) BUt people talk about certain tunes being the best songs to drive to. You never notice a change in your driving habits with certain music playing? Isn't there a certain song you like to hear while flying down the highway? It's an extreme comparison, but these are people with extreme problems. When you work out, to get your blood flowing, don't most people have "work out tapes"? I spent a lot of time in Gracie Jui Jitsu doing a bunch of ground fighting and street fighting techniques. Everytime we did any sparring we had our music to fight to. I see your point, but then wouldn't the urge to kill fade out when the song was over? I'm just really tired of music/TV/movies being scapegoated every time some nutbag is caught in a Marilyn Manson t-shirt, especially when the same uproar is absent when it's a guy like this, who was active in the church and the community, like all good Gawd-fearin' 'Merkins oughta be.

This whole thing is 30 years too late. I remember the gas lines in the 70s and IMO THAT was the time to start developing alternative-fuel vehicles. I'll be looking at the Prius and the Insight when it comes time for me to get a new car, but I'm not sure what the availability is for those cars now and in the near future. But I'm not worried, because a stable, democratic Middle East is SURE to bring back $1.50-per-gallon gasoline.....

QUOTE(WSNS-TV44 @ Aug 18, 2005 -> 10:13 AM) I know what you're saying.But as a moral example to younger viewers it was I was saying. You know how worry-sick parents wouldn't let kids watch hockey because it's violent.I was being sarcastic when they prefer to kids watch how to bet their money,house,car,and life away from poker.Didn't they learn from Krusty The Clown about the evil of gambling!? ...but then we wouldn't have baseball either.....DAMN YOU, PETE ROSE!!!!

QUOTE(WSNS-TV44 @ Aug 18, 2005 -> 10:09 AM) Let me say that the pitching staff's numbers are not up to the first half's standards.But there are some game the Sox should have won,if it wern't for the bats going on deep freeze. Jose and El Duque should have won a couple of games more if the offense produced.Because I know Jose had that dreaded "Bad" inning,so did El Duque,and maybe Garland did as well.But the staff is still solid,it just the bats need to get fired up. This. The pitching staff has been stressed all year. That's part of small/smart/Ozzieball, at least in theory. It's just interesting to me that small/smart/Ozzieball minus Podsednik = a less powerful version of the same old offense. If Scott is this important to the Sox' fortunes this year, then he must be the American League's Most Valuable Player!!!

QUOTE(WSNS-TV44 @ Aug 18, 2005 -> 08:55 AM) Yeah,gambling.Better than hockey.Yeah,right!!! It WAS getting better ratings than hockey telecasts. That doesn't mean that the WSOP is BETTER than hockey ( I find the poker shows interesting, but I'd watch a hockey game before that any day of the week ), but ratings = legitimacy as far as the networks are concerned. I don't even know if I have the Outdoor Life Network on my cable package. I'd guess that I do, but I've never tuned in once to that channel.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Aug 18, 2005 -> 08:36 AM) When Columbine, Jonesboro and all the other school shootings occurred we were inundated with "Well it was obviously Marilyn Manson songs and violent video games like Doom and Wolfenstein that made them commit these crimes." BTK was a major player in his local church leadership structure. Where are the people "Well, the church obviously influenced him to commit these crimes!" and trying to shut down the church like they've been trying to censor music and video games. You know, that IS a valid point. If this guy was into Howard Stern or Slipknot or Wes Craven films, people would hop up and down bellowing about how those things should be censored, shut down and thrown off the air. But when a "religious community leader" turns out to be an animal, it's suddenly an individual weakness/sickness. I highly doubt we'll hear any discussion about whether the church or religion could possibly have influenced his mind in any way. I don't think it did, but I also don't think that other stuff does either.

I have some words for that. If there was any real justice, he would have the same things done to him, just to the point of almost dying, and then be left to recover so it could be done to him again and again and again, every day for the rest of his pathetic, miserable excuse for an existence. T-shirt and plastic bag over the head, bound, gagged, jacked off on by other inmates, all of it, constantly every day forever. And if he seems to enjoy it, find another torture he doesn't like. Take your time and find the right torture, cuz that assbag ain't goin' anywhere.

I'd tape a video of me trying to get out of the casket, all panicky and yelling HELP ME, PLEASE, I CAN'T LAST DOWN HERE MUCH LONGER!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Guido's retarded!!!! You're gonna make that cheap bastard pony up for the new mic at least, right??? HIIEEEEEEEEEEE-YA!!!!!!!! ....oops....

QUOTE(DePloderer @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 04:39 PM) Thought as much. Unfortunatly not over here; more to do with the 5 finger shuffle around here. Either way, it's not realy called for. That's the use I've always seen for calling someone a Wanker. It would be equivalent to calling someone a Jackoff ( or the more colloquial Jagoff ) here. Either way, NOT a nickname I'd want. As far as a nickname goes, whenever I see your screen name I just call you Plod, so that's the nickname I'll use for you.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 12:01 PM) Brian's proposal was pushing me into a jewelry store and saying, "Pick one." Not romanical, but it got the job done. Good thing he didn't say "pick two", or you'd have gotten poked in the eyes!

"B. You take her for a walk on a moonlit beach, and you say her name, and when she turns to you, with the sea breeze blowing through her hair and the stars in her eyes, you tell her." This is ALMOST how it happened for me. But instead of asking her on the beach, we kept walking and ended up at my favorite bar ( the Wrigleyville Tap next door to Metro, may it Rest In Peace - spilling a little Hacker-Pschorr on the ground in its memory - best jukebox in the world - now I'm getting weepy.... ). Once we were there, the subject of weddings came up and I proceeded to rant about everything I hated about weddings ( and I DO hate every single solitary thing about weddings and receptions - mine is the only one I've ever been happy at ). When I stopped for air, she said to me "you don't even want to get married, do you??" To which I replied with a sentence that would come back to taunt me over 4 million times in the years to follow: "I don't want to GET married, but I want to BE married to you". Then she asked me if I would marry her. I asked her if she was serious, and she said she was, so I said "That's MY job - will YOU marry ME?" She asked if I was serious, so I took the tab off her beer and put it on her ring fingernail. She said yes and starting crying. She's been crying ever since..... ...and she still has that beer tab.....YES, I BOUGHT HER A RING......shut up......

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 09:37 AM) Pretty much everyone calls me Gage. And than a couple of my buddies will ocassionally call me Ten-Gage. Well, you've got us all beat cuz now your name is a verb! It could take days to fix a computer or server once you've "Gage'd" it.....

Hey, at least it ain't a kid.......

Never heard of the dude.

My friends call me Lars. No, I was not named after the balding elfen drummer of PatheticA - I was named after the lumbering, oafish, mediocre Vancouver Canucks defenseman Lars Lindgren ( and later for equally mediocre Canuck Lars Molin, which briefly led to "Lars" giving way to "Molin" - VERY happy that Molin didn't stick ).

QUOTE(Brian @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 08:39 AM) I'm putting "Diddy" in everyone's name now. Steff Diddy Grease Diddy South Diddy Chi Diddy Fla Diddy Gleas Diddy Win Diddy Bri Diddy That would make me either Crit Diddy or the more whimsical Critty Diddy. And Kid Gleason would be Kiddy Diddy. I don't call him anything, because the only thing I ever watched or listened to by him was the terrfically awful Making The Band.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 11:40 AM) The reviews of the actual musical performances were more kind. But I think the producer and director have to be rethinking their strategy of letting Yoko have so much input into the production. Yoko + anything = crap.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 09:21 AM) Pure bred Cocker Spaniel. Her name is Molly and she is 9 weeks old. My kids are head over heels in love with her already. My wife, who never wanted pets, now is the proud owner of a hamster, a fish, a cat, and now a dog. Plus I have had injured squirrels in the house and injured birds, and we had another cat and we took in my dog from childhood. The other cat and that dog though had to be put down. Bless her though, as this one was her idea. That is one cute pooch! My daughter wants a dog, but we're going to wait until after her cat is gone to get another pet. Two reasons - one, the cat is like 15 years old and we don't think he'd accept another housepet. He'd either try to fight it, or he'd freak and never leave the area behind the entertainment center. and two - my kid tends to treat her pets like stuffed animals. She's constantly grabbing the cat and carrying him around the house. So when it's time, we'll either have to get a small dog with a mild attitude that she can lug around, or we'll have to get one of those big lumbering dogs that she couldn't lift anyway. I don't think we have enough house for a Clifford/Marmaduke type of dog, so we'll probably go with a tiny mellow dog.