Controlled Chaos

Think we'll stop hearing how the ALC is a weak division? Prolly not, but we will have some tough games with the twinks and the tribe

If you were really cool you would've gotten one more rotation out of it and landed on the wheels. Where'd you learn how to drive anyway? Seriously though, glad to hear you're ok Goldy!!

I ate balls and I liked em!! Yes....those balls!!! It was a nut roast down in Roseville, IL. My friends parents moved down there and we went to visit them. They were like oh you guys will be here for the nut roast....it's a big party type thing. I'm like hey that sounds pretty cool. Well this was unlike any nut roast I had imagined...after about my 10th popcorn chicken looking thing, I asked my friends dad....what's the deal with the nuts, I don't even see any...and he's like what do you think you been eating there son... :puke Turkey, pig, cow, deer...I tried em all and kept on eating. Now, if I knew what they were ahead of time, I probably wouldn't have touched them....but since I already popped a bunch I figured why stop now...they're good!!

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Dec 1, 2005 -> 12:45 PM) Anyone here ever have cow brain?....like in an omlete with veggies?...or in tacos? How about cow tongue?.....stewed, again with veggies, it's very tender. Don't knock it til you try it. Both are very good. Tacos de lengua....yum!!! I know it sounds gross, but just try to imagine how tender a tongue is. It melts in your mouth!!

QUOTE(The Critic @ Dec 1, 2005 -> 10:20 AM) Hmmmm....counting backwards 9 months......approximately October 15th......Garland defeats Angels to put Sox up 2 games to 1 in the ALCS.....CC is VERY happy that evening......and the REST.......is history..... unless it's really September 15th and I'm retarded..... ANYWAY: Congrats CC and Mrs. CC!!!! Yeah, it was September and we were on our 1 year anniversary vacation. Sox lost 2 out of 3 to the tribe that week. Im not sure what day the baby was conceived on, but there's a pretty good chance it was during some angry sex. Thanks for the congrats everyone!!!

Anchovies....uggh.. and I never thought there was a green vegetable that I wouldn't like until I had Rapini. Man it is horrible...

QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 1, 2005 -> 10:14 AM) My sister is having an ultrasound today.. I'm so excited to see my little nephew.. Congrats steff....is this your first neice or nephew??

The wife did some major chucking this morning....I felt bad for her, but what can I do?? If I went in there we'd both by chucking. She feels nauseous a lot, but it's only the second time she has been sick. I guess there's a little Chaos inside her... hahahaha

Happy Birthday Greasy!!!!!!!!!!!

Guess he didn't like the facilities.

Kudos Kenny!! Grab yourself another ring....

There's a great special on Butkus, I think by NFL films. My dad has it on VHS, but he just taped it off the tv years ago. Id love to find that. It has former players and coaches talking about butkus. Some things I remember from it: former player: "I once read a book titled "The Man Who Walked Like a Bear" well Butkus was a bear that walked like a man. former center: Here we are a beautiful sunny day...not a cloud in the sky, and Im looking down ready to snap the ball and all of a sudden there's like a downpour on my hands...I look up and there's Butkus spitting all over my hands. former player: Butkus would always yell "hut" hut" which is illegal you can't yell hut....the ref would tell him to stop yelling it, but he would say..hey that's my signal to my defense...which is bulls*** there's no signal like that.... It was a great film....It wasn't really long...but it showed the impact he had on the game and how he played. Had some good interviews with him and his teammates as well.

It says at the bottom introductory price $25.00

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 09:44 AM) I bought this yesterday. Its a 2 disc set that is a history of the Bears. Its pretty good. One DVD has an 1 1/2 hour history of the Bears, with a lot of attention paid to the greats...Payton, Sayers, Butkus, etc. The second DVD was NFL films presentation of the entire '85 season. There are also numerous NFL Presents bonus features...like a history of the Bears/Packers rivarly...a section called 'Wild Men' with bios of Ditka, McMahon, O'Bradovich etc... I highly recommend. Hey, where'd ya get it??

ok so there was this one time in Milwaukee.......ah nevermind...

Hey, I'm all for trying new things....like those 2 chicks from Milwaukee in 94. It was an experience, but not practical for the long term. Kinda like reading through this whole thread to see if something has been said or an article has been posted before posting your own. A sub forum, like the tradewinds, might work, but putting up with both of those chicks for more than a day was just going to be too much... Wait...ugh....er...ah you know what I mean... I Vote Nay. Not that my opinion matters in this case...nor did it in my 94 encounter since I gave in and saw those girls the next night as well. That was the end of the experiment though....this thread orgy should end as well. Thank you and good night...or morning....ahhh Milwaukee

Whoa I just noticed this thread when I was looking for my post. What's the deal? Are we gonna try lumping all topics in one thread? Won't there be like 10 conversations going at once?

Imagine that...some good news from the front! Our Troops Must Stay By JOE LIEBERMAN I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood -- unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn. Progress is visible and practical. In the Kurdish North, there is continuing security and growing prosperity. The primarily Shiite South remains largely free of terrorism, receives much more electric power and other public services than it did under Saddam, and is experiencing greater economic activity. The Sunni triangle, geographically defined by Baghdad to the east, Tikrit to the north and Ramadi to the west, is where most of the terrorist enemy attacks occur. And yet here, too, there is progress. There are many more cars on the streets, satellite television dishes on the roofs, and literally millions more cell phones in Iraqi hands than before. All of that says the Iraqi economy is growing. And Sunni candidates are actively campaigning for seats in the National Assembly. People are working their way toward a functioning society and economy in the midst of a very brutal, inhumane, sustained terrorist war against the civilian population and the Iraqi and American military there to protect it. It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists who are either Saddam revanchists, Iraqi Islamic extremists or al Qaeda foreign fighters who know their wretched causes will be set back if Iraq becomes free and modern. The terrorists are intent on stopping this by instigating a civil war to produce the chaos that will allow Iraq to replace Afghanistan as the base for their fanatical war-making. We are fighting on the side of the 27 million because the outcome of this war is critically important to the security and freedom of America. If the terrorists win, they will be emboldened to strike us directly again and to further undermine the growing stability and progress in the Middle East, which has long been a major American national and economic security priority. Before going to Iraq last week, I visited Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Israel has been the only genuine democracy in the region, but it is now getting some welcome company from the Iraqis and Palestinians who are in the midst of robust national legislative election campaigns, the Lebanese who have risen up in proud self-determination after the Hariri assassination to eject their Syrian occupiers (the Syrian- and Iranian-backed Hezbollah militias should be next), and the Kuwaitis, Egyptians and Saudis who have taken steps to open up their governments more broadly to their people. In my meeting with the thoughtful prime minister of Iraq, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, he declared with justifiable pride that his country now has the most open, democratic political system in the Arab world. He is right. In the face of terrorist threats and escalating violence, eight million Iraqis voted for their interim national government in January, almost 10 million participated in the referendum on their new constitution in October, and even more than that are expected to vote in the elections for a full-term government on Dec. 15. Every time the 27 million Iraqis have been given the chance since Saddam was overthrown, they have voted for self-government and hope over the violence and hatred the 10,000 terrorists offer them. Most encouraging has been the behavior of the Sunni community, which, when disappointed by the proposed constitution, registered to vote and went to the polls instead of taking up arms and going to the streets. Last week, I was thrilled to see a vigorous political campaign, and a large number of independent television stations and newspapers covering it. None of these remarkable changes would have happened without the coalition forces led by the U.S. And, I am convinced, almost all of the progress in Iraq and throughout the Middle East will be lost if those forces are withdrawn faster than the Iraqi military is capable of securing the country. The leaders of Iraq's duly elected government understand this, and they asked me for reassurance about America's commitment. The question is whether the American people and enough of their representatives in Congress from both parties understand this. I am disappointed by Democrats who are more focused on how President Bush took America into the war in Iraq almost three years ago, and by Republicans who are more worried about whether the war will bring them down in next November's elections, than they are concerned about how we continue the progress in Iraq in the months and years ahead. Here is an ironic finding I brought back from Iraq. While U.S. public opinion polls show serious declines in support for the war and increasing pessimism about how it will end, polls conducted by Iraqis for Iraqi universities show increasing optimism. Two-thirds say they are better off than they were under Saddam, and a resounding 82% are confident their lives in Iraq will be better a year from now than they are today. What a colossal mistake it would be for America's bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will and, in the famous phrase, to seize defeat from the jaws of the coming victory. The leaders of America's military and diplomatic forces in Iraq, Gen. George Casey and Ambassador Zal Khalilzad, have a clear and compelling vision of our mission there. It is to create the environment in which Iraqi democracy, security and prosperity can take hold and the Iraqis themselves can defend their political progress against those 10,000 terrorists who would take it from them. Does America have a good plan for doing this, a strategy for victory in Iraq? Yes we do. And it is important to make it clear to the American people that the plan has not remained stubbornly still but has changed over the years. Mistakes, some of them big, were made after Saddam was removed, and no one who supports the war should hesitate to admit that; but we have learned from those mistakes and, in characteristic American fashion, from what has worked and not worked on the ground. The administration's recent use of the banner "clear, hold and build" accurately describes the strategy as I saw it being implemented last week. We are now embedding a core of coalition forces in every Iraqi fighting unit, which makes each unit more effective and acts as a multiplier of our forces. Progress in "clearing" and "holding" is being made. The Sixth Infantry Division of the Iraqi Security Forces now controls and polices more than one-third of Baghdad on its own. Coalition and Iraqi forces have together cleared the previously terrorist-controlled cities of Fallujah, Mosul and Tal Afar, and most of the border with Syria. Those areas are now being "held" secure by the Iraqi military themselves. Iraqi and coalition forces are jointly carrying out a mission to clear Ramadi, now the most dangerous city in Al-Anbar province at the west end of the Sunni Triangle. Nationwide, American military leaders estimate that about one-third of the approximately 100,000 members of the Iraqi military are able to "lead the fight" themselves with logistical support from the U.S., and that that number should double by next year. If that happens, American military forces could begin a drawdown in numbers proportional to the increasing self-sufficiency of the Iraqi forces in 2006. If all goes well, I believe we can have a much smaller American military presence there by the end of 2006 or in 2007, but it is also likely that our presence will need to be significant in Iraq or nearby for years to come. The economic reconstruction of Iraq has gone slower than it should have, and too much money has been wasted or stolen. Ambassador Khalilzad is now implementing reform that has worked in Afghanistan -- Provincial Reconstruction Teams, composed of American economic and political experts, working in partnership in each of Iraq's 18 provinces with its elected leadership, civil service and the private sector. That is the "build" part of the "clear, hold and build" strategy, and so is the work American and international teams are doing to professionalize national and provincial governmental agencies in Iraq. These are new ideas that are working and changing the reality on the ground, which is undoubtedly why the Iraqi people are optimistic about their future -- and why the American people should be, too. I cannot say enough about the U.S. Army and Marines who are carrying most of the fight for us in Iraq. They are courageous, smart, effective, innovative, very honorable and very proud. After a Thanksgiving meal with a great group of Marines at Camp Fallujah in western Iraq, I asked their commander whether the morale of his troops had been hurt by the growing public dissent in America over the war in Iraq. His answer was insightful, instructive and inspirational: "I would guess that if the opposition and division at home go on a lot longer and get a lot deeper it might have some effect, but, Senator, my Marines are motivated by their devotion to each other and the cause, not by political debates." Thank you, General. That is a powerful, needed message for the rest of America and its political leadership at this critical moment in our nation's history. Semper Fi. Mr. Lieberman is a Democratic senator from Connecticut.

alrighty then...this thread took an unexpected turn....

Thanks everyone!! I'll keep ya posted!!

I'm happy to announce my wife and I will be bringing a new sox fan into the world approximately June 15th!!!

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Nov 23, 2005 -> 03:05 PM) Anyone missing Jeremy Reed? I'm not. Welcome to the defending World Champions, Mr. Thome! I just hate losing players that give 110% on every play. Rowand plays with heart. It may have been the right move, but it hurts....

Thanks for the memories A-Ro!! There weren't many that played the game as hard as you did....I wish you the best and I'll be rooting for you to succeed no matter where you're at. You've overcome a lot of obstacles in your life and this is just one more hurdle. Rock em out in Philly!!!

DOH... I remembered my boob song "One more night", but forgot "Don't want to miss a thing" which was my wedding song. Good thing my wife doesn't come on here.

This is some revealing info: THE TIMES CATCHES KERRY IN A LIE But there's something remarkable revealed in one of the tables that accompany Johnston's story -- which he cleverly never comes out and says in the text. As perspicacious reader Jim Glass pointed out to me, the table shows that the entire income decline in 2001 and 2002 is due exclusively to losses by taxpayers making over $100 thousand a year, with the vast majority of it coming from taxpayers making over $1 million. Taxpayers earning less than $100 thousand -- the overwhelming majority of American households -- actually saw their income rise during the two years. It's plain as day: the richer you were, the worse you got it. So why wasn't the headline "The Rich Get Poorer, and The Poor Get Richer"? Because that's exactly what the Times and the rest of the liberal establishment so desperately wants -- and they will never admit that it occurred during George Bush's presidency. Another table accompanying the story shows that the middle class is not only doing fine, but expanding -- in direct contradiction to Kerry's convention claim that it is shrinking. This table shows the change in the number of tax returns filed in each income category. Note that the lowest-income category shrank as people on the bottom rung of the economic ladder advanced. And all the highest-income categories shrank, too, as "the rich" fell down a rung or two (from the artificial heights of Clinton bubble, back when liberals weren't so concerned with income inequality because their team was in the White House). Which categories grew? The middle class, of course. You see, as they say on TV, "the truth is out there." It can even be found in the pages of the New York Times if you know how what to look at and what to ignore. But you'll have to ignore a lot. Get a load of the very first sentence of an article in the current issue of the leading liberal magazine, The American Prospect: "For most Americans, the last four years have represented a low point in our economic history." Never mind that Great Depression thing you learned about from your grandparents. That was hyped intelligence. But I can't say the same thing about what Kerry and his surrogates are saying about the economy. That's hyped stupidity.