Controlled Chaos

QUOTE(3E8 @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 01:18 PM) He must've moved there at some point in time. So he got two educations. The street(chicago) and the street(NY). Word dog, I ain't want no part of that dude. I know how he do....so I got much love for him...

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 12:57 PM) Well, for Sierra Mist I know of the white guy who dances and smells his co-workers breath, and the white guy from That 70's Show. Oh, there is the black lady whose breath the white guy smells! Is that him? Oh...wait... Nope...drawing a blank. I had no idea such violent people were on Mad TV. Here I thought it was called that for the magazine, not for the 'tude. He was Cuba Gooding's brother on Jerry McGuire. He was an asshole in the movie...life imitating art perhaps.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 12:53 PM) He's a stand-up comic and a regular on madtv. You may have seen him in those Sierra Mist commercials. He's a Chicago native. Why did he say he grew up on the streets of new york so he knows tuff talk.

Yeah, I know the big mama is fully mackin' some gnarly grinders this time of year....

The wife and I are heading to Santa Monica for our 1 year Anniversary. Are there any 'must see places' that should be on our list? We are doing some goofy tour bus thing on one of the days. (Uggggh...she's lucky I love her and it's our anniversary, cause I can care less about seeing so and so's house or whatever)

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 09:15 AM) Gee, I thought he finally saw the light :finger

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 09:09 AM) You realize that post should be in green right? CC is the hardest core republican on the site. . . aww I ain't that hard core....but yeah I figured I made enough posts for people to know my true feelings.

I bet that b**** helped Georgie boy stir up the waters in the gulf too. These Bushies are really something else. If they're not creating natural disasters to rid the country of black people and make money for their friends companies, then they are starting unjust, illegal and immoral wars to make money for their friends companies. Impeach Bush now!!

I'll be destroying my liver the whole game in the BP bar depending on if we get LL tix.

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 01:10 PM) Wow, that was horrible. Enjoy. Horrible is right... It reminded me of like the background music of a video game in the 80's or something....and you would just be like....UGGGGGGGH turn off that dam music!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't been up there since they got all fancy and added seats, let alone an elevator. Steff you goin tonight?

Here ya go http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb...ps/fan_deck.jsp Fan Deck Parties With a magnificent view of the field, the Fan Deck includes exclusive access for the entire game for 150 guests and your choice of either catered or a la carte food or beverage service. Catered packages include chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers, potato chips, popcorn, beer, soda and water. Non-catered packages will be provided with an a la carte food and bar service and start at only $50 per person.

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 11:36 AM) I have a bad feeling about that one. But first things first..... Looking forward to seeing the green unis tonight. Sox are 4-2 v. Anaheim this year. Although, most of that the Halos were Vlad-less. I think we have an answer for Vlad. Check out these numbers over the last month H/AB R H HR RBI SB BB AVG OPS 29/92 21 29 6 15 5 22 .315 1.038 31/96 17 31 8 15 0 9 .323 .998 Whose numbers are these you ask?? Well the top one is Vlad and the bottom one is none other than our very own Paul Konerko. I know we don't compare Kong with Vlad, but If Paulie can cancel him out...I like our chances with the rest of our offense against the rest of theirs.

Anyone going to the game??

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 11:21 AM) R-O-W-D-I-E THAT'S THE WAY YOU SPELL ROWDY, ROWDY, LET'S GET ROWDY, WOOOO! Oh hell yeah, I remember that from picking up cheerleaders back in the day.

QUOTE(SpringfieldFan @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 10:03 AM) Hey, folks. I would appreciate some help placing a song that they queue up every so often at the Cell. I am not very musically saavy so it is hard for me to describe, but it is stuck in my head and I would really like to know what it is. It seems to me to be more of a beat then a song and the best I can describe it is that is begins by sounding kind of like bubbles popping or water dripping. It goes kind of like "bum BUM bum bum-bum bum, bum BUM bum bum-bum bum...". Does anyone recognize what song I am talking about? If not perhaps you could list the songs you know are played regularly and I could look them each up until I recognize it. SFF I think this is the pirates of the carribean thing again. Is this it?? Skull and Crossbones edit: I do have this song if someone wanted me to email it to them. It's only like 2mb and I think it goes more like...Bum Bum Bum-budah-Bum Bum Bum-bUdah-Bum Bum Bum-bUdah budah budah

Since you "Core of the Core" peeps couldn't get it done. I'm bringing my 10-0 record to the cell tonight. I'll take care of business.

QUOTE(maggliopipe @ Sep 8, 2005 -> 02:25 PM) caught this on outside the lines last night which is normally as boring a show as its host, but this was an interesting debate. to summarize, fantasy sports is a $150 million dollar industry. mlb and the nfl players' association see little, if any, of that money as they at present charge nominal licensing fees for use of players' names and statistics (i think they said yahoo pays 25 cents to the nfl for each fantasy football team in all of its leagues). the debate is heating up because mlb and the nfl want a bigger piece of the pie. they consider the player names proprietary and are bringing their case to the courts to allow the charging of heavy licensing fees for use of them. the industry says if this goes through, obviously the bill will be passed on to the consumer in the form of $50-$150 entry fees for any team in a league. ouch. the greediness of mlb sickens me but i think they've got a great point. however i enjoy free fantasy sports, so i'm hoping there's a sticking point or a loophole. I guess I'd have to go back to the old days where a friend and I would get the paper and figure all the points out for each game manually. THAT SUCKED!! I honestly don't think this will ever happen. I mean the nfl could charge more and then yahoo could in turn charge more....but then people would just create their own fantasy sites. As long as there are stats posted somewhere online....people can pull that into a program and spit out points. It would be more of a pain in the ass, but it can happen.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Sep 8, 2005 -> 02:19 PM) The secret weather making device that created Katrina and steered it into the Democratic city. Its all a plan by the evil Republicans to take over the world. Thanks for the conspiracy theory. I haven't had one of those since the last election. Wow that is just scary cause I had typed the below post out in response to Balta's a while ago, but I had to go work away from my desk for a while...and forgot to post it when I got back here.... Clearly they need to hide the new high tech super secret reality globe, which Bush and Co were huffing and puffing on resulting in the catastrophic winds of Katrina. I mean can you imagine if that got out??

"City of New Orleans Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan." The plan makes it evident that New Orleans knew that evacuation of the civilian population was the primary responsibility of the city – not the federal government. The city plan acknowledges its responsibility in the document: As established by the City of New Orleans Charter, the government has jurisdiction and responsibility in disaster response. City government shall coordinate its efforts through the Office of Emergency Preparedness. The city document also makes clear that decisions involving a proper and orderly evacuation lie with the governor, mayor and local authorities. Nowhere is the president or federal government even mentioned: The authority to order the evacuation of residents threatened by an approaching hurricane is conferred to the Governor by Louisiana Statute. The Governor is granted the power to direct and compel the evacuation of all or part of the population from a stricken or threatened area within the State, if he deems this action necessary for the preservation of life or other disaster mitigation, response or recovery. The same power to order an evacuation conferred upon the Governor is also delegated to each political subdivision of the State by Executive Order. This authority empowers the chief elected official of New Orleans, the Mayor of New Orleans, to order the evacuation of the parish residents threatened by an approaching hurricane. It is clear the city also recognized that it would need to move large portions of its population, and it would need to prepare for such an eventuality: The City of New Orleans will utilize all available resources to quickly and safely evacuate threatened areas. Those evacuated will be directed to temporary sheltering and feeding facilities as needed. When specific routes of progress are required, evacuees will be directed to those routes. Special arrangements will be made to evacuate persons unable to transport themselves or who require specific life saving assistance. Additional personnel will be recruited to assist in evacuation procedures as needed. ... Evacuation procedures for small scale and localized evacuations are conducted per the SOPs of the New Orleans Fire Department and the New Orleans Police Department. However, due to the sheer size and number of persons to be evacuated, should a major tropical weather system or other catastrophic event threaten or impact the area, specifically directed long range planning and coordination of resources and responsibilities efforts must be undertaken. [You can read New Orleans' Emergency Plan for hurricanes at its Web site: http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?portal=46&tabid=26] The city's plan also specifically called for the use of city-owned buses and school buses to evacuate the population. These were apparently never deployed, though the Parish of Plaquemines just south of the city evacuated its population using school buses. The plan, written well before Katrina was even a teardrop in God's eye, was obviously never heeded or implemented by local leaders. But why should the New Orleans mayor and Governor Blanco take responsibility when they can blame George Bush and the Republicans in Washington? With congressional elections fast approaching, Democrats who are out of power in every branch of the federal government know they need to change the tide quickly. They have apparently seized on the Katrina disaster to harm the president politically. Criticism of the federal government's response is fair and warranted. But putting full responsibility for this disaster on the Bush administration is way over the top. Primary responsibility for this disaster remains with local officials like Nagin and Blanco, not President Bush.

QUOTE(shakes @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 03:00 PM) There's still lower level available for all 3 games. I just picked up 2 for saturday. Thanks...I saw that, but figured if someone here had good seats that they needed to get rid of I'd buy them here first. I'll be there either way.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 02:56 PM) nope, but I have 2 on sat that I need to get rid of Can't help ya there.

Anyone selling their tix??

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 08:01 AM) TIA Daily -- September 2, 2005 By Robert Tracinski It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can't blame them, because it has also taken me four long days to figure out what is going on there. The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a natural disaster. If this is just a natural disaster, the response for public officials is obvious: you bring in food, water, and doctors; you send transportation to evacuate refugees to temporary shelters; you send engineers to stop the flooding and rebuild the city's infrastructure. For journalists, natural disasters also have a familiar pattern: the heroism of ordinary people pulling together to survive; the hard work and dedication of doctors, nurses, and rescue workers; the steps being taken to clean up and rebuild. Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists--myself included--did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting. But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster. The man-made disaster is not an inadequate or incompetent response by federal relief agencies, and it was not directly caused by Hurricane Katrina. This is where just about every newspaper and television channel has gotten the story wrong. The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did not happen over the past four days. It happened over the past four decades. Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view. The man-made disaster is the welfare state. For the past few days, I have found the news from New Orleans to be confusing. People were not behaving as you would expect them to behave in an emergency--indeed; they were not behaving as they have behaved in other emergencies. That is what has shocked so many people: they have been saying that this is not what we expect from America. In fact, it is not even what we expect from a Third World country. When confronted with a disaster, people usually rise to the occasion. They work together to rescue people in danger, and they spontaneously organize to keep order and solve problems. This is especially true in America. We are an enterprising people, used to relying on our own initiative rather than waiting around for the government to take care of us. I have seen this a hundred times, in small examples (a small town whose main traffic light had gone out, causing ordinary citizens to get out of their cars and serve as impromptu traffic cops, directing cars through the intersection) and large ones (the spontaneous response of New Yorkers to September 11). So what explains the chaos in New Orleans? To give you an idea of the magnitude of what is going on, here is a description from a Washington Times story: "Storm victims are raped and beaten; fights erupt with flying fists, knives and guns; fires are breaking out; corpses litter the streets; and police and rescue helicopters are repeatedly fired on. "The plea from Mayor C. Ray Nagin came even as National Guardsmen poured in to restore order and stop the looting, carjackings and gunfire.... "Last night, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said 300 Iraq-hardened Arkansas National Guard members were inside New Orleans with shoot-to-kill orders. "'These troops are...under my orders to restore order in the streets," she said. "They have M-16s, and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if necessary and I expect they will." The reference to Iraq is eerie. The photo that accompanies this article shows National Guard troops, with rifles and armored vests, riding on an armored vehicle through trash-strewn streets lined by a rabble of squalid, listless people, one of whom appears to be yelling at them. It looks exactly like a scene from Sadr City in Baghdad. What explains bands of thugs using a natural disaster as an excuse for an orgy of looting, armed robbery, and rape? What causes unruly mobs to storm the very buses that have arrived to evacuate them, causing the drivers to drive away, frightened for their lives? What causes people to attack the doctors trying to treat patients at the Super Dome? Why are people responding to natural destruction by causing further destruction? Why are they attacking the people who are trying to help them? My wife, Sherri, figured it out first, and she figured it out on a sense-of-life level. While watching the coverage last night on Fox News Channel, she told me that she was getting a familiar feeling. She studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Chicago, which is located in the South Side of Chicago just blocks away from the Robert Taylor Homes, one of the largest high-rise public housing projects in America . "The projects," as they were known, were infamous for uncontrollable crime and irremediable squalor. (They have since, mercifully, been demolished.) What Sherri was getting from last night's television coverage was a whiff of the sense of life of "the projects." Then the "crawl"--the informational phrases flashed at the bottom of the screen on most news channels--gave some vital statistics to confirm this sense: 75% of the residents of New Orleans had already evacuated before the hurricane, and of the 300,000 or so who remained, a large number were from the city's public housing projects. Jack Wakeland then gave me an additional, crucial fact: early reports from CNN and Fox indicated that the city had no plan for evacuating all of the prisoners in the city's jails--so they just let many of them loose. There is no doubt a significant overlap between these two populations--that is, a large number of people in the jails used to live in the housing projects, and vice versa. There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans when the deluge hit--but they were trapped alongside large numbers of people from two groups: criminals--and wards of the welfare state, people selected, over decades, for their lack of initiative and self-induced helplessness. The welfare wards were a mass of sheep--on whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves. All of this is related, incidentally, to the apparent incompetence of the city government, which failed to plan for a total evacuation of the city, despite the knowledge that this might be necessary. But in a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political supporters--not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case of emergency. No one has really reported this story, as far as I can tell. In fact, some are already actively distorting it, blaming President Bush, for example, for failing to personally ensure that the Mayor of New Orleans had drafted an adequate evacuation plan. The worst example is an execrable piece from the Toronto Globe and Mail, by a supercilious Canadian who blames the chaos on American "individualism." But the truth is precisely the opposite: the chaos was caused by a system that was the exact opposite of individualism. What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state. What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face. They don't sit around and complain that the government hasn't taken care of them. They don't use the chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men. But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them. The welfare state--and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains and encourages--is the man-made disaster that explains the moral ugliness that has swamped New Orleans . And that is the story that no one is reporting. Source: TIA Daily -- September 2, 2005 There's a lot of truth in here. Many of these people have never cared to lift a finger to help themselves or their situation. I feel terrible for the good people that were caught up in the madness.

Finished product. I went with the longer bags.