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I thought you or Texsox did. Why not give it to him since he is crying about PTC? I had 4.3 minutes. Wow was I wrong!

oh, sorry - LaRouche is defintely not a Libertarian. I am not sure where he fits in on any spectrum. We have a small libertarian party out here. They are interesting folk (I say that in a very positive way).

excellent choice ss2k4!!!! (and TexSox, ever see the movie Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice? Check it out, and the ending...) my style is more: Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life Keep me free from birth Give me hope Help me cope, with this heavy load Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul OM M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M My Lord . . . PLEASE take hold of my hand, that I might understand you Won't you please Oh won't you Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life Keep me free from birth Give me hope Help me cope, with this heavy load Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul OM M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M My Lord . . . PLEASE take hold of my hand, that I might understand you

he is a loon he is really out there in la la land The major third party candidtaes (Reform, Green, Libertarian) are folks genuinely dedicated to their cause. LaRouche is a felon and a lunatic with a sort of nuke the whales platform (and that indeed was a bumper sticker on the car of the last LaRouche organizer I spoke with).

I have six and I haven't even played much. As for your blow me comment: In Chicago all the gas and service stations and auto dealers used to have the words "blow horn" painted on their service bay doors so that when people wanted service or entry into the service bay, they would blow their horn. My best friend's last name is Horn. I think we are friends because I was the only person in the world who never pointed the "blow horn" things out to him like he had never seen it before.

You are so very, very wrong. I never said that about Reagan. Never. Ever. Here or anywhere. Never. Ever. Not in my life. Now you add more false and baseless accusations. I wasn't going to respond any more in this thread but then you made one more false accusation. I am done with you and this thread. Your lack of integrity defines why. I have pity for you, pure pity. It must suck to be you, to be so wrong and unable to admit it and lack the integrity to apologise but just make more false accusations.

Show me where I said it then. You can't. I never said it. You refuse to accept the truth and the truth is you and Mr Eye are wrong on that accusation. Very and totally wrong. As far as you are concerned, this dead horse has been beaten enough. Stay safe and Go Sox! Over and out.

you are welcome and basicly concur with the rest of your post.

I never criticised Reagan for his military record or in fact in any way commented on Reagan's military record, other than as I just did a few posts ago, that he made training and morale shorts. That you coninue to accuse falsely is interesting. In fact, I never called Mr Eye a liar. back at you. in spades.

from 1549: and in the face of insuts such as you have received above: my friend, hang in there; take it for what it is worth.

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You are wrong, Nuke, I never said anything about Reagan being in the service nor his eyesight. You have taken a false statement as face value and attacked me thereby. You should check these things out first. As a matter of fact, this is my first time ever commenting on Reagans WW2 service: he made training and morale shorts for the armed forces. I have never ever questioned his military record. But you took a false statement and ran with it Nuke and when you build a house on a foundation of sand, it falls. You lie when you you say that I and "everybody" ever said that America's best days are behind us. You lie when you say that I and "everybody" did not think we could defeat communism. And I could continue to list the lies in your rhetoric overblown bulls*** flung based on lies. A lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing. But time does not allow.

a fact: I never, ever once commented on Reagan being in the military or not being. I never ever once commented on that. The above is just plain wrong. I never, ever, here or anywhere, criticised Reagan for his service or lack thereof, or commented in any way whatsoever on that. I do. Do you? I await the next post or PM that says I talk down to people and insult others.

Bush sent the troops into Somalia. Clinton and Kosovo was a NATO operation, In any action the cost of that action must be weighed, and who bears that cost. That is a matter whether you decide to go to a Sox game or want universal health care or buy dinner at Damons or go to war. Someone has to pay. I ask that question not when people disagree with me. I ask it when people advocate a course that they themselves will not support with their own selves. It is easy to send others to do something that one will not. Who pays the cost? "Others, while my life goes on." In all of life, you should never ask another to do what you will not do and never advocate that for which you are unwilling to bear the cost. I have very grave problems with those who are in favor of war as long as others go and they themselves will not fight it. I might suggest that I am not the one who needs to re-examine my values on this. I am often wrong on many things but on this I stand and suggest however humbly I may that others need to re-examine their own selves in this light.

must agree with this

the Home Run of the Century intro is done? Gone? I loved that pasionately. On the other hand, fewer and fewer people were doing it and most Sox players now weren't around for its origins. Times change. If they are doing something new, so be it. It sounds as if the fans are liking it so why not?

I'd guess 92%. Walking into Comiskey was always a rush.

Thanks - the credit for the sig goes to its creator, knightni. I could never do such a thing myself. He did a beautiful job, didn't he?

Mr Eye, your math sucks. Check again the signers of the statement. It is always a valid question about what a person is willing to out their own life on the line for. Coming out of the anniversary of DDay and the dedication of the WW2 memorial we have been reminded again of sacrifice. Jas, I beieve that indeed if you favor military action you must yourself be willing to participate in it. To send others out to do what one will not do one's own self, that is an issue. And the question was put to Evil Monkey in that he makes lights of the outing of a CIA operative and the use of false reports as a justification for going to war. But the reaction to that takes away from the point that a group of mostly/all Republican appointed diplomats and military persons who have been apolitical have taken a stand that deserves to be listened too all the more because of who they are.

No, there is not. He has been substantiated by every measure. Every measure. Substantiated. Ask Nixon, Halderman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Dean, et al that question. It happens. Naivete is not a good attribute for looking at the real world. Do a little study as well on revenge from the Bushies. They are experienced at it. G W himself was his father's hatchet man - when G H W wanted someone done in, he sent G W to get rid of them. And as well, those on top - and indeed any criminal - never thimks they will get caught. As a defense lawyer, you would not do very well. And who said the diplomat in question is anti-war? That sounds like spin. He is a professional diplomat who reported a situation and it was misconstrued intentionaly to make a case for war. To be offended by that is called integrity, not being anti-war. In fact, no one in the diplomatic service is anti war because war is and always be a state that does occur. It is the needless war, it is the case for war built on lies, that is objectionable because if you haven't noticed, lots of people die and other bad things happen in war. The decision to go to war must be based on last resort need, not for ideology or any other reason. Out of curiousty, my son is a Marine; when might you be enlisting to put yourself in a place where your body will be where your words are?

I'll sell you mine for $100 - a deal, a personally kept cwsox scorecard!

yes. 1999. Baldwin lost 6-2 to 2-12 Traschel. Never liked baldwin after that. Sat in Section 520 or so.

71 and 72 were on WTAQ, the Polish langauge station from LaGrange Our home opener was Twins, not KC You'd have to remember Paul Powell, the incredibly sleazy Illinois Secretary of State, from Vy-enna (Viennna) had been sick in his apartment (hotel room) the prior winter. (And he was always called Paul Powell, full name) One day his girlfriend starts loading up her station wagon with shoe boxes, drives away, comes back empty, loads her station wagon up with shoe boxes again, drives off, comes back empty, loads again... you get the idea. After a number of these trips the oficers assigned as body guards for Paul Powell get curious about all these shoeboxes the girl friend is loading and they go knock on Paul Powell's apartment door. Paul Powell doesn't answer. Officers go in. Paul Powell is dead, natural causes. His closet door is open, his closet is half full (half emptied) of shoe boxes. Each shoe box was filled with cash, in bills, mostly hundreds. $800,000 in cash. In shoeboxes. Hmmm... No one every found out where the girlfriend put her shoeboxes and how much she got away with. No one ever found out where the Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell would get shoeboxes full of cash. Corruption? Payoffs? Bribes? Not in the Illinois Secretary of State office! And there was joking that Paul Powell was so attached to his corruptly gained money that he would come back from the dead to Illinois to find out where his girlfriend took the missing shoeboxes she hauled away. This was all in the news and conversation when opening day came. The Sox had been 56-106 in 1970. My girlfriend and I went because I had never been to a home opener and I figured I could study for early finals. I had studied all 1970 in the left stand grand stand since we hadn't drawn 400,000 that season and there was plenty of room of spead out and study. We got there early, and we got let in many 3 hours before game time. People kept coming and coming and coming - a sellout for a 56-106 team! The Sox had won their 3 opening games on the road so everyone must have fired up to see an undefeated Sox team after being so woeful the year before. Comiskey is jammed and noisy and we are playing the hated Twins, our new (as divisions were new) division rival. Sox fans are so damned hungry for a Sox victory. It goes into the top of the 9th. It is 3-2 Sox. Twins batting. Twins get one on, Twins get two on, maybe one out, runners at 2nd and 3rd and the Twins send in a pinch batter. The game is on the line. This twinkie gets a hit, they tie, take the lead, and we might lose the home opener. The crowd is roaring to stop the Twins. The place is alive as only Old Comiskey could be. We are hating the twins. Stop them. We gotta to get this rookie pinch hitter out to hold on and win the game. The Sox announcer says: "Now pinch hitting for Minnesota: Paul Powell." Comiskey erupted in cheers. Paul Powell got an easy 3-5 minute standing ovation. I can still picture the twins rookie staring at the crowd from home plate: I am a rookie, the enemy batter, if I get a hit my team takes the lead, and they are cheering me for my first ever at bat! Damn, what a friendly town!!!!" We couldn't stop lauging and cheering. The place rocked with laughter and applause. The laughter and clapping kept rolling down on the field. After 5 minutes or so the crowd settles down. Meanwhile the Sox had time to to settle down. Paul Powell went out quickly and so did the Twins and we won. Someday Paul Powell will tell his grandchild, "Yeah, I played for the Twins and the biggest ovation I ever got was for my very first at bat in Chicago by those Sox fans... sure are a friendly crowd!" I never laughed so hard at the ball park. It was just so damned funny. No one could stop laughing. I don't think we ever heard much from either Paul Powell ever again. The Left Stand Grand Stand Fan Club had kind of begun from us faithful ones in 1970- but I think that 1971 opening day game kept it and made it bigger because after the Paul Powell thing we had to start coming prepared for what would happen next. It's not ha ha funny to the kids but damn it was the funniest thing ever, 45,000 people cheering wildly for the enemy rookie batter at crunch time in the game -- and it set the tone for the season as a happy season. After that everything was funny and relaxed which is maybe how we got to have a 23 game increase from the year before. Paul Powell the player Paul Powell, Secretary of State and $800,000 in his hotel room