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nuke, boredom increased with each repitition of the phrase we heard before Nixon had to resign for comiting criminal acts in the oval office and setting a record for vice presidnets who had to resign for talkng bribes, attorney generals as convicted felons, and the whitew house staff, felons all. a new slogan might be better luck than Nixon's 4 more years mantra. Heads, your man did alright, 34% as I see it, a very solid second - it is now Kerry vs Dean vs Edwards vs Clark --- and my ultimate choice Clark is running solid in NH but lest see what the bounce is -- depending on how Clark polls in NH, we can lose a candidate going into the Carolina primary and the Michigan caucus - my guess is it turns into a three way race, Clark vs Edwards vs Kerry by the time New Hampshire is done.

are you kidding? what was the Glenbrook North Powder Puff football thing all about?

sign him in a heartbeat

i'd like to know what it says about lease extension -- how long are the Sox lasing the facility

totally not believable

I always picture people getting into Illinois like the scene in Risky Business when Tom Cruise says "University of Illinois, here I come"

Aniston is an outstanding actress - some of her movie choices have been lame, but The Good Girl (definately not a chick flick, got rave reviews, and does have a police stand off with guns and a suicide so might be close to Nuke's criteria) was a really fine film and Aniston was really amazing good in that that - she should have had the Oscar nomination that went to Diane Ladd -

pointless? so is most everything, especially trades and FA signings, we talk about!

if the Sox move, I will renounce pacifism and relentlessly hunt down and castrate every f***ing asshole who said they were boycotting or otherwise choosing to not go to USCF to support the the Sox for whatever bulls*** reason, thereby eroding the gate and contributing to the team's moving and for those who in another thread argued one should "buy American" to support US industry but failed to "buy Sox" to keep the Sox in Chicago, I would also stomp on their pea brains. no Sox fan would ever cheer for the cubs for any reason, not if they were the last baseball team on earth

prices are not high with all the things USCF offers and what about fan loyalty? others make great points about being there as being worth it and I agree -

my comments on Clayton - no I don't want him back but truth is the last year he was here he outhit Jose Jose has his aura from 2000 hittig wise and the one game a year hitting he does and the sosa mocking other than that the Jose has such heart and Jose is such a leader is just bulls***, image over reality. YASNY's comment is right - damn it.

when I move the Ozzie death Watch fom Sox&Roll to here, will you help me keep it up? Everything you say, I fear is true.

not always sure a song helps but sometimes when something bugs me I sing a song over and over to work out some of the feelings I need an easy friend I do ... with an ear to lend I do ... think you fit this shoe I do ... won't you have a clue I'll take advantage while You hang me out to dry But I can't see you every night for free I do I'm standing in your line I do ... hope you have the time I do ... pick a number too I do ... keep a date with you I'll take advantage while You hang me out to dry But I can't see you every night for free I need an easy friend I do ... with an ear to lend I do ... think you fit this shoe I do ... won't you have a clue I'll take advantage while You hang me out to dry But I can't see you every night (x2) For free I do ... (x4)

are you a hermit, or live in a very, very small tiny town?????????? thanks for the nice words

he can pitch and cat for all I care if he can hit

ok, Mr. Current Language Impaired - the word is dawg pronounced usually with 2 syllables or perhaps dogg with 1 syllable "dog" is so white boy unhip I may deny knowing you! "for shizzle, my nizzle for dizzle" speak went dead once it was done on the AOL commericals

I saw that 115 average in the Trib and thought words I cannot post here... maybe we should sign a better hitting shortstop, and a beter fielding shortstop, before the season starts is Royce Clayton available? and discuss 115 BA

now that I would get in long lines and wait to see...

Rex, in your opinion which i value and am particualrly interested in on this issue as I am undecided - should it? everyone else?

no its not or like with prescriptions drugs the ingredients are made here, shipped to another country, there made into capsules of pills, shipped back here and we buy at the local drugstore from perhaps a nonUS owned company it is just not simple with the way parts are trucked around here and there for assembly

i think the one thing we all agree on is that Boras is a total asshole - even JR and KW would agree! but then again remember that Detroit has signed a few free agents so that team will be better next year

I didn't think this was USA-only website - and in fact it is not - it is a Sox fan website for Sox fans everywhere I welcome the global perspective we get from others and the comments from others about American parochialism do not equal hate Rafa, I appreciate your opinions I think the statement is true and it is a pity because we live in a world where the problems and solutions are global today the largest employer in town by far (2,700 employees in a town of 8,000) announced its final decision to shut down here and relocate the plant in another country if "buying American" alone were the solutution that would be wonderful but then again no matter what anyone says in that poll, most Americans by far will shop at WalMart to save a few bucks and keep those foreign factories going rather than buy American made goods but the economy is also global and it is just not always that simple

Real life experience is that it depends on the congregation, not the church teaching, whether people feel accepted. It helps in a church body such as the United Church of Christ (the Congregationalists, Americas oldest church body) where none of this is an issue, for all congregations to be accepting to everyone. In the Episcopal dioceses where it is felt not to be an issue, it generally isn't in the local congegations. But in real life it comes down to the local congregations. Some parishes of whatever chuch body tend to be very open and people feel very comfortable there, and others are very forboding and forbidding, and that cuts across denominational lines. Same with race. Some congregations are just more comfortable with diversity than others, regardless of national affiliation. that would be true - but the inverse is so also, there are congregations where the official position is not so great but the local congregation is just fine.

Texsox, not a response to you at all, but a riff on things... Being gay is not a sin and the quote "love the sinner, hate the sin" is not Biblical, in that the Bible enver says that, God never says that, it is a sound btye made up by some people to excuse their hate or get around their hate. The only things that God says God hates are in the Scriptures and they have nothing to do with sexuality but everything to do with injustice and callousness to the plight of the poor by religious peple. See the book of Amos for the use of the word. The Roman Catholic teaching is that being gay is not a sin. So will all mainline American church bodies and almost everyone in Europe, Christian wise. There is diversion on whether acting on being gay in physical sexual expression is sinful. The Roman Catholic teaching would be yes. For almost everyone (Christian church body) in Europe and most/almost all mainline protestant bodies, no. For church bodies in Africa in particular and for American non-mainline church bodies the answer would tend to be mixed; certainly for some, yes, but others (Disciples of Christ comes to mind), no. A distinction further gets made in that believing that acting on being gay in physical sexual expression is fine for laity, whether it is appropriate for clergy, and the issue of blessing unions. That is not that surprizing a distinction. In the Ev. Lutheran Ch. in America for example clergy are forbidden from being Masons and laity aren't, and in any church body the realistic expectations of what is expected from clergy differ from those of laity. And the matter isn't one of sinfulness (i.e. the Mason issue) but what is appropriate behavior. So nuke, without moving on to other religions (Judaism shows the same may I say rainbow of views as does Christianity whether one is orthodox, reform, or conservative) it is not correct to say that all major religons condemn homosexuality. To everyone, it is not true that being gay is a sin for the majority of Christendom. Questions follow on what is *done* with it - but *being* it is not a matter of sin, and acting on it is *not* considered sinful in many church bodies. And that leaves out a definition of sin - sin is not actions per se as much as something much more basic as a commonality in humanity that all share. Theology/church doctrine happens to be a stock in trade for me. If I comment on on base percentage and someone expounds at length on far more complexities than I see in understanding stats, I am grateful because someone has shared their expertise with me. I am not posting to be in anyone's face. I am trying to clarify the church bodies postions (agan, excuse the phrase) on the issue.