Controlled Chaos

QUOTE(Be Good @ Jun 7, 2005 -> 07:41 PM) I just did a system restore, in the winter I had promblems with my graphics, as the colors were messed up. I had NVida installed (some graphic thing), that im sure you've heard of, now it seems as if the color is how it was in the winter before I had NVida installed. Because in Properties-Display only 16 colors is the option listed and nothing else You might need to reload the video drivers. Do you have the orignal Nvidia disk? Pop it in and reinstall....

Thank you Judge!!! Calif. Men Arrested for Alleged Terror Links U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter A. Nowinski denied a bail request for the elder Hayat, saying he was a flight risk and a danger to the community. "He just returned from Pakistan where he built a new home and contributed financial assistance to an Al Qaeda sponsored program training his son and others to kill Americans whenever and wherever they can be found," Nowinski said

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 11:45 AM) Don't forget... I am having sex with all of you as well. :rolly please change tailgating to saturday's game

A couple girls I know would say their going home to bob tonight or I'm meeting bob later. Which we found out to mean BOB...Battery Operated Boyfriend.

only X content is kid swearing and stuff...need sound http://www.jokaroo.com/funnyvideos/psychorap.html

I found out it isn't a computer and also found this article with Steinbrenner b****in about the schedule... Yanks' Boss reportedly calls out unfair interleague schedule June 3, 2003 NEW YORK -- New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner criticized baseball schedule makers and complained his team is treated unfairly, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The Boss is unhappy about New York's road trip this week, when interleague games begin. His problem: While the Yankees are in Cincinnati and Chicago, the rival Boston Red Sox play Pittsburgh and Milwaukee -- two of the three worst teams in the National League. "I just hope we play well against the National League clubs," Steinbrenner told the Times in a telephone interview. "I don't think the schedule is fair." The Yankees play three games each against the Reds and Cubs, who lead the NL Central. New York doesn't face the Pirates or Brewers this season. "Katy Feeney makes the schedule, and she has never been a favorite of mine or a favorite of the Yankees," Steinbrenner said. "We play Cincinnati, which is a fine, fine ballclub; they're going to be in the middle of it. Then we play the Cubs. "Now who is the other guy playing? They're playing against Milwaukee. Now what's right about that? They're playing Pittsburgh and Milwaukee while we're playing Cincinnati and the Cubs. I think they got the best of that deal. "Bud Selig told me personally that he was overseeing the schedule, and that he'll see to it that it's fine. I used to be for it, but I'm not for it anymore. It's too easy for discrepancies," Steinbrenner said. George Steinbrenner has ripped his players, and now sets his sights on the schedule. Feeney, a Major League Baseball vice president, told the Times it was impossible for every AL East team to play every NL Central team this year. There are five teams in the AL East and six in the NL Central -- plus, the Yankees play six games against the crosstown rival Mets. "You talk to the 29 other teams and they'd probably say I didn't like them," Feeney told the Associated Press Tuesday. "When we go back to the current rotation in 2005, the teams will play teams they didn't play this year. Besides, you can't predict how games will come out. What looks good on paper turns out not to look so good." "I can assure you, I do not, and the other schedule contractors certainly do not, purposefully think, 'How can we make life more difficult for the Yankees?'" Feeney said. She said the interleague schedules were made 1½ years ago, and the Yankees would play Milwaukee and Pittsburgh in 2005. Steinbrenner said he would be at Wrigley Field on Saturday, when Roger Clemens is scheduled to make his third bid for his 300th victory against Cubs ace Kerry Wood. The Boss also talked about the state of his team in interviews with the New York Daily News and New York Post. The Yankees are 15-20 following an 18-3 start and have a 1½-game lead over Boston. "I'm not satisfied with the team and neither are they," Steinbrenner told the Daily News. "I don't think we're playing as well as we're supposed to, or as well as we're going to be playing." The Yankees blew a 7-1 lead against Detroit on Sunday, costing Clemens his 300th victory, before winning 10-9 in 17 innings. "I didn't like it at all," Steinbrenner told the Post. "But I predicted in spring training that when a team has a player going for any record it can lead to distractions. They are all trying too hard for Roger."

QUOTE(GreatScott82 @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 10:27 AM) We have to remember the critics picked us to finish 4th in the division. So maybe they thought Cleveland and Detroit would be a way to stick it to us? Who knows- maybe this is just a way for Carl to pump up his team. They say is a great leader in the clubhouse. I always assumed a computer spit out the schedule??

Two terror suspects arrested in California WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has arrested two California men after one of them admitted he attended an al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan, Justice Department officials said on Wednesday. Hamid Hayat, 23, and his father, Umer, of Lodi, California, east of San Francisco, were taken into custody over the weekend. Both men are being held on charges of lying to federal authorities. Two other men were arrested in Lodi for violating terms of their visas, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Dean Boyd. The men have been identified as Muhammad Adil Khan -- an imam at Farooqia Islamic Center -- and Shabbir Ahmed, who is also an imam in Lodi, an administration source said. According to an FBI affidavit, Hamid Hayat told agents he attended al Qaeda training camps in Pakistan in 2003 and 2004. "Hamid advised that he specifically requested to come to the United States to carry out his jihad mission," according to the affidavit. "Potential targets for attack would include hospitals and large food stores." Hamid Hayat told agents the camp provided paramilitary training, including training in explosives and hand-to-hand combat, the affidavit said. During weapons training, photos of high-ranking U.S. political figures, including President Bush, were pasted onto targets, according to the affidavit. "Hamid further stated that he and others at the camp were being trained on how to kill Americans," the affidavit said. Hamid, whose U.S.-bound flight from Korea was diverted on May 29 to Japan because his name appeared on a no-fly list, had originally denied any involvement in terrorism. After the plane was diverted, Hamid was interviewed by an FBI agent, the affidavit said. Hamid denied having any connection to terrorism or terrorist activities and was allowed to continue his travel to the United States, it said. Upon his arrival in California, Hamid again denied being involved in training camps. One day later, after taking a lie detector test, Hamid admitted that he had attended an al Qaeda training camp, the affidavit said. Hamid's father, Umer, had originally denied that his son was involved in terrorist training camps and had said he knew of no such camps in Pakistan. After he was shown a videotape of his son admitting that he trained at the camp, Umer said he had visited the camps and had paid for Hamid's flight to Pakistan to attend the training camp.

QUOTE(wherehaveyougoneharold @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 07:59 AM) Somebody check our 2003 or 2004 schedule. I'm not sure, but for some reason I remember us getting done with New York very early in the season and before they started rolling. If it were some kind of a conspiracy, with all of the pop culture love for Boston, why wouldn't they lay the schedule out for a Boston repeat? Seems kind of a wacky thing for carl to say, but here ya go... September off days 2005 5,12 2004 13 2003 1,4,15 2002 16, 23 2001 17,24 2004 we played our 6 games with the spankees in April. 2003 we had 3 in late August and 3 in late September. 2002 3 in the end of May and 3 in middle of September The yanks have 3 days off this September, 2 days off last September and had 3 off in 2003, 2002 and 2001 I guess if anything comes out of it the yanks seem to usually get 3 days off in September...but heck that's only going back the past few years....I have no idea how it works out if you go back the past 20. Maybe it all evens out...maybe not

Anyone tailgating for Saturday's game??

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 7, 2005 -> 03:45 PM) I'll strongly disagree that they understood the consequences. Do you think that the kids would have done it if they knew that 1 of them would face life in prison? Secondly...just because some states think that if you're 17 and do any of those things you should be tried as an adult doesn't mean that its the right thing. There are very high percentages of youths who genuinely aren't in a position to make sound judgements at that age. That's why most every other country in the world sets the bar at the age of 18 for allowing children to be treated as an adult by the legal system, and that's why I think it should be set that way in this country. Whether or not that's the case in this situation (they weren't prepared to make a decision), I don't have a clue. These people could have been the wisest, most mature 17 year olds in the country for all I know. But then again...if they're 17, pregnant, and don't really have any plans for what to do, do you really think they're emotionally developed to the point of making sound, rational, adult decisions? Do you think that kids who get pregnant at the age of 17 are the sorts who really stop to consider all the consequences of their actions? Doesn't the fact that she got pregnant in the first place argue that her ability to make sound decisions isn't fully developed yet? Actually when I spoke of consequences I was just talking about her knowing she could get pregnant and doing it anyway. I don't think you have to be emotionally developed or a sound and rational adult to know that punching you're own stomach and having your boyfriend step on you to kill your twin fetuses is kinda f***ed up. Either way...it's a very messed up situation.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 7, 2005 -> 03:14 PM) what does a panicky, 17-year-old girl do if she's four months pregnant? Erica Basoria decided to try to induce a miscarriage. When that didn't work, she asked her boyfriend to step on her stomach. A week later she miscarried. I'd buy that argument at 13, but not 17. If you're 17 and you rob a place, kill a person, rape a person, stab a person you can't use the I was young and dumb excuse. You are treated as an adult. So why should the young and dumb excuse fly here. Why is a 17 yr old in this case not expected to be responsible for their actions, but a 17 yr old that robs a store is. This poor panicky girl had no problem doing the deed and I'm quite sure she knew the possible consequences.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 7, 2005 -> 12:33 PM) Does Texas have a "Parental notification law" for abortions for those under 18? I'll bet you based on this case that they do, and I'll bet you this is one of the end results. I don't think life in prison is a good option at all, but there definately needs to be an incredibly long period of counseling for both of them. I'd say institutionalization would be a better recourse for both them and society. Might give them a chance someday. She decided sometime after the 4th month she didn't want it so she beat her stomach and her boyfriend jumped on it...and you blame it on a notification law instead of the two persons involved. I'm not a big anti abortion activist or anything. In fact, I think theres a place for it sometimes...but this is not one of those times. Just deciding down the road...ah I dont want it now...is not the right reason. Now I don't know exactly how far along she was and I ain't big into the science of abortions or anything...I just did a google search for 4 month fetus...and I'll tell you what...if she punched that and he jumped on it....it looks just like jumping on and punching a baby. So I say enjoy your sentence. Fifth Month Size: about 12 inches; weighs about 1 pound The baby's eyelashes have become apparent. He has developed a sucking reflex and can suck his thumb. His mother can feel him moving now. This is the halfway point through pregnancy. Your prayers have helped the baby's mother continue with her pregnancy and seek the help she needs. Fourth Month Size: about 9 inches; weighs about 6 ounces Right now, the baby's already well-formed body is gaining weight and strength rapidly. Her brain has begun the maturing process that will not be completed until she is about 14 years old. The eyelids are sealed together and won't open again until about the seventh month. Fingernails and toenails appear; fingers and toes have their own unique prints that will remain unchanged throughout a lifetime. The baby kicks, sleeps, swallows and opens and closes his mouth. Her tastebuds are working. At this age doctors have recorded REMs (rapid eye movements), a sign of dreaming

I say Iguchi....and I bet he would be even better if he didn't adjust his game to fit the 2 spot.

Great post jugs. I agree. My only hope is that Timo gets sent down so when we play the bench guys they actually play like professional baseball players.

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QUOTE(doUrememberwhen @ Jun 5, 2005 -> 11:09 PM) dude we lost fair and square get over it! Apparently we can't talk baseball on a baseball message board. I know we lost...I'm over it...I just like reading and talking about the game, if you dont...leave...simple enough..... When Pauly got that single I was happy cause I knew Pods was coming in and we had a good chance of getting him in. Not pinch running for Pauly was a bone head move. I'm not saying we would have won, I'm just saying common sense says you pinch run for the slowest guy on the team there.

I love the high sox too. It just reminds more of a baseball uni. I hate the baggy pants...Willie started going the route of baggy last game I saw him in. He looked like MC hammer out there. I hope he goes with the high socks too. they all should. Pauly used to for awhile..then he switched....

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 6, 2005 -> 10:57 AM) Do you think they should publish the same magazine all around the world? That doesn't make good business sense to me. I never said that...but if you're gonna publish an article criticizing a country then you should let that country see the article.

If newsweek wants to criticize us than have the balls to do it to us...Don't post articles for foreigners and not for us.

Newsweek to America: Stop dreaming Larry Elder (archive) June 2, 2005 Newsweek strikes again! No, not the now-discredited, U.S.-military-flushed-the-Koran-down-the-toilet story. For its Feb. 2, 2005, issue, Newsweek's Asian international edition ran a cover showing a garbage pail with a large American flag inside. The caption read, "The Day America Died." Inside, an article that severely criticizes America, by Princeton Professor Andrew Moravcsik, who, among other things, serves as nonresident senior fellow with the liberal Brookings Institution (a relationship not disclosed). That week's Newsweek European international edition ran a cover of President George W. Bush at the presidential podium. The caption read, "America Leads . . . But Is Anyone Following?" Again, Professor Moravcsik's article ran inside. What about that week's American edition? No cover showing Bush at the podium or an American flag in a garbage pail. No Professor Moravcsik article. Instead, the American edition ran a cover with Jamie Foxx, Hilary Swank and Leonardo DiCaprio, under the caption, "Oscar Confidential: Hollywood's Hottest Stars Together -- A Candid Talk About Acting, Fear, and Fame." That's right, American readers saw an entirely different cover, with Moravcsik's article AWOL. According to Investor's Business Daily, an editor's note accompanied the Asian and European international editions. It read: "Verified facts, not opinions from any viewpoint, are laid out in this issue." Verified facts, not opinions? Moravcsik writes that, contrary to what Americans think, the American Dream no longer exists: "But the greater danger may be a delusional America, one that believes, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the American Dream lives on, that America remains a model for the world... " America's 2004 unemployment rate was 5.5 percent, lower than Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the combined European Union. American GDP grew at 4.4 percent in 2004, versus United Kingdom's 3.2 percent, Japan's 2.9 percent, Spain's 2.6 percent, France's 2.1 percent, Germany's 1.7 percent, Italy's 1.3 percent and the European Union's 2.4 percent. America has the second highest GDP per capita in the world (Luxembourg is first), more than 30 percent higher than both Japan and the United Kingdom. Professor Moravcsik doesn't much care for the Bush administration's foreign policy: "The truth is that Americans are living in a dream world. Not only do others not share America's self-regard, they no longer aspire to emulate the country's social and economic achievements. The loss of faith in the American Dream goes beyond this swaggering administration and its war in Iraq." Swaggering administration? Please note that the president got a U.N. resolution telling Saddam Hussein to disarm or else. Congress passed a resolution supporting the war. The majority of Americans supported the war effort, re-electing George W. Bush. Even now, with the persistence of the so-called "insurgency," the majority of Americans want us to stay the course. Does that make most Americans "swaggerers"? Moravcsik condemns America for not expanding its welfare state: "Once most foreign systems reach a reasonable level of affluence, they follow the Europeans in treating the provision of adequate social welfare is [sic] a basic right." A reasonable level of affluence?' What is reasonable? Defined by whom? Apparently Professor Moravcsik prefers a command-and-control economy -- maybe the appointment of a wage or benefits czar -- to determine the deserving and the undeserving. Moravcsik berates American health care: "'Americans have the best medical care in the world,' Bush declared in his Inaugural Address. Yet, the United States is the only developed democracy without a universal guarantee of health care, leaving about 45 million Americans uninsured." But British media consider their country's state-run health care system in "crisis." Their National Health Service (NHS) is heavily in debt, despite huge taxes and a doubling in spending over the last seven years. The U.K.'s press reports that twice as many bureaucrats now join NHS than doctors and nurses, and that 858,000 people were on a waiting list for an operation at the end of 2004, some of them waiting over a year! For those still in denial about leftist bias in mainstream news, these must be tough times. Consider the Associated Press story on Janice Rogers Brown, the black conservative California Supreme Court jurist nominated by President Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The AP wire story began: "Blacks decried Janice Rogers Brown's nomination to a federal appeals court . . . " Blacks? All blacks? Nobody dissented? All 30-plus million blacks held a straw vote, with Brown getting zero votes? About an hour-and-a-half later, a "recast" AP story came over the wire. Same article, only this time the first line read, "Civil rights lawyers here decried Janice Rogers Brown's nomination . . . " Maybe somebody felt guilty. The Newsweek affair and the AP story serve as a window into how many in mainstream media view our country. They celebrate the welfare state, consider health care a right, while downplaying the worldwide threat posed by extremist Islam. If, as Newsweek's editor note claims, Professor Moravcsik's article simply advances the truth, why not let Americans, the people who stand to benefit the most, read it? After all, it is we Americans who "are living in a dream world." Please, wake us up.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 3, 2005 -> 03:32 PM) So...you can post that in every thread and it still doesnt mean that its true. A player like Chavez wouldnt come out and say, you know what, I want to be traded and I will go anywhere, someone take me!!!!! No offense to the guy or anything....but how do you figure chicago is east coast?? It's just a moronic thing to say.f*** him...forget it...I don't want idiots on the team.... s*** if that's the case...my list can get pretty long eh??

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jun 3, 2005 -> 02:33 PM) ChicagoSportsReview Article that was a good read though....summed up my sentiments exactly

He's bad??

QUOTE(Hideaway Lights @ Jun 3, 2005 -> 12:53 PM) He pitched well in that game and got shelled by the Rangers. The Cubs are one of the top 13 teams in the bigs, in my opinion. In reality or in your fantasy 'nobody's injured' world??