Controlled Chaos

Front is sexy if she is taking it off..... As for access...it's much easier to take off the back clasp. One hand, one move and bam...its off....and once its off she usually won't stop you to put it back on. So you get to feel on a lot more girls then you would if you were incompetent and had to ask her to help you take it off. Once she stops and has a second to think about it....the moment is gone and she will probably just stop ya right there. Good Luck boys. Practice practice....could be the difference between a single and a double

Trying to piggy back on a neighbors open connection. If you can help me please PM. If you want to tell me I am a bad person...save it....I already know. Thanks

I can see the future....... Sox pound out 13 hits and go on to beat the Rangers by a final of 9-2. Bmac gets the win going 7 with 6 hits and 2ER.

I agree 100%. I enjoyed black Jack!!

Training Different Link

You think the steelers will pound the browns this year? Browns vs Steelers not safe for work

Well it wasn't really just a senior prank, but we did pass superballs around to everyone in the room and when the teacher turned to write on the challk board we all threw them at the board....balls bouncing all over the place. Good times....Teacher...not so thrilled

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 26, 2005 -> 04:34 AM) That was one of the most enjoyable reads I've had in ages. I felt the same way.

6-7 and it doesn't matter if it's the weekend...I can't sleep any longer...I hate it. I have friends that can fall asleep in 5 minutes if they want any time of the day...those bastards!!!

Leaving the left I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity - Keith Thompson Sunday, May 22, 2005 Nightfall, Jan. 30. Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. Three things happen in rapid succession. The right cheers. The left demurs. I walk away from a long-term intimate relationship. I'm separating not from a person but a cause: the political philosophy that for more than three decades has shaped my character and consciousness, my sense of self and community, even my sense of cosmos. I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together. I choose this day for my departure because I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity with oppressed populations everywhere -- reciting all the ways Iraq's democratic experiment might yet implode. My estrangement hasn't happened overnight. Out of the corner of my eye I watched what was coming for more than three decades, yet refused to truly see. Now it's all too obvious. Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom. Like many others who came of age politically in the 1960s, I became adept at not taking the measure of the left's mounting incoherence. To face it directly posed the danger that I would have to describe it accurately, first to myself and then to others. That could only give aid and comfort to Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and all the other Usual Suspects the left so regularly employs to keep from seeing its own reflection in the mirror. Now, I find myself in a swirling metamorphosis. Think Kafka, without the bug. Think Kuhnian paradigm shift, without the buzz. Every anomaly that didn't fit my perceptual set is suddenly back, all the more glaring for so long ignored. The insistent inner voice I learned to suppress now has my rapt attention. "Something strange -- something approaching pathological -- something entirely of its own making -- has the left in its grip," the voice whispers. "How did this happen?" The Iraqi election is my tipping point. The time has come to walk in a different direction -- just as I did many years before. I grew up in a northwest Ohio town where conservative was a polite term for reactionary. When Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of Mississippi "sweltering in the heat of oppression," he could have been describing my community, where blacks knew to keep their heads down, and animosity toward Catholics and Jews was unapologetic. Liberal and conservative, like left and right, wouldn't be part of my lexicon for a while, but when King proclaimed, "I have a dream," I instinctively cast my lot with those I later found out were liberals (then synonymous with "the left" and "progressive thought"). The people on the other side were dedicated to preserving my hometown's backward-looking status quo. This was all that my 10-year-old psyche needed to know. The knowledge carried me for a long time. Mythologies are helpful that way. I began my activist career championing the 1968 presidential candidacies of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, because both promised to end America's misadventure in Vietnam. I marched for peace and farm worker justice, lobbied for women's right to choose and environmental protections, signed up with George McGovern in 1972 and got elected as the youngest delegate ever to a Democratic convention. Eventually I joined the staff of U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio. In short, I became a card-carrying liberal, although I never actually got a card. (Bookkeeping has never been the left's strong suit.) All my commitments centered on belief in equal opportunity, due process, respect for the dignity of the individual and solidarity with people in trouble. To my mind, Americans who had joined the resistance to Franco's fascist dystopia captured the progressive spirit at its finest. A turning point came at a dinner party on the day Ronald Reagan famously described the Soviet Union as the pre-eminent source of evil in the modern world. The general tenor of the evening was that Reagan's use of the word "evil" had moved the world closer to annihilation. There was a palpable sense that we might not make it to dessert. When I casually offered that the surviving relatives of the more than 20 million people murdered on orders of Joseph Stalin might not find "evil'" too strong a word, the room took on a collective bemused smile of the sort you might expect if someone had casually mentioned taking up child molestation for sport. My progressive companions had a point. It was rude to bring a word like "gulag" to the dinner table. I look back on that experience as the beginning of my departure from a left already well on its way to losing its bearings. Two decades later, I watched with astonishment as leading left intellectuals launched a telethon- like body count of civilian deaths caused by American soldiers in Afghanistan. Their premise was straightforward, almost giddily so: When the number of civilian Afghani deaths surpassed the carnage of Sept. 11, the war would be unjust, irrespective of other considerations. Stated simply: The force wielded by democracies in self-defense was declared morally equivalent to the nihilistic aggression perpetuated by Muslim fanatics. Susan Sontag cleared her throat for the "courage" of the al Qaeda pilots. Norman Mailer pronounced the dead of Sept. 11 comparable to "automobile statistics." The events of that day were likely premeditated by the White House, Gore Vidal insinuated. Noam Chomsky insisted that al Qaeda at its most atrocious generated no terror greater than American foreign policy on a mediocre day. All of this came back to me as I watched the left's anemic, smirking response to Iraq's election in January. Didn't many of these same people stand up in the sixties for self-rule for oppressed people and against fascism in any guise? Yes, and to their lasting credit. But many had since made clear that they had also changed their minds about the virtues of King's call for equal of opportunity. These days the postmodern left demands that government and private institutions guarantee equality of outcomes. Any racial or gender "disparities" are to be considered evidence of culpable bias, regardless of factors such as personal motivation, training, and skill. This goal is neither liberal nor progressive; but it is what the left has chosen. In a very real sense it may be the last card held by a movement increasingly ensnared in resentful questing for group-specific rights and the subordination of citizenship to group identity. There's a word for this: pathetic. I smile when friends tell me I've "moved right." I laugh out loud at what now passes for progressive on the main lines of the cultural left. In the name of "diversity," the University of Arizona has forbidden discrimination based on "individual style." The University of Connecticut has banned "inappropriately directed laughter." Brown University, sensing unacceptable gray areas, warns that harassment "may be intentional or unintentional and still constitute harassment." (Yes, we're talking "subconscious harassment" here. We're watching your thoughts ...). Wait, it gets better. When actor Bill Cosby called on black parents to explain to their kids why they are not likely to get into medical school speaking English like "Why you ain't" and "Where you is," Jesse Jackson countered that the time was not yet right to "level the playing field." Why not? Because "drunk people can't do that ... illiterate people can't do that." When self-styled pragmatic feminist Camille Paglia mocked young coeds who believe "I should be able to get drunk at a fraternity party and go upstairs to a guy's room without anything happening," Susan Estrich spoke up for gender- focused feminists who "would argue that so long as women are powerless relative to men, viewing 'yes' as a sign of true consent is misguided." I'll admit my politics have shifted in recent years, as have America's political landscape and cultural horizon. Who would have guessed that the U.S. senator with today's best voting record on human rights would be not Ted Kennedy or Barbara Boxer but Kansas Republican Sam Brownback? He is also by most measures one of the most conservative senators. Brownback speaks openly about how his horror at the genocide in the Sudan is shaped by his Christian faith, as King did when he insisted on justice for "all of God's children." My larger point is rather simple. Just as a body needs different medicines at different times for different reasons, this also holds for the body politic. In the sixties, America correctly focused on bringing down walls that prevented equal access and due process. It was time to walk the Founders' talk -- and we did. With barriers to opportunity no longer written into law, today the body politic is crying for different remedies. America must now focus on creating healthy, self-actualizing individuals committed to taking responsibility for their lives, developing their talents, honing their skills and intellects, fostering emotional and moral intelligence, all in all contributing to the advancement of the human condition. At the heart of authentic liberalism lies the recognition, in the words of John Gardner, "that the ever renewing society will be a free society (whose] capacity for renewal depends on the individuals who make it up." A continuously renewing society, Gardner believed, is one that seeks to "foster innovative, versatile, and self-renewing men and women and give them room to breathe." One aspect of my politics hasn't changed a bit. I became a liberal in the first place to break from the repressive group orthodoxies of my reactionary hometown. This past January, my liberalism was in full throttle when I bid the cultural left goodbye to escape a new version of that oppressiveness. I departed with new clarity about the brilliance of liberal democracy and the value system it entails; the quest for freedom as an intrinsically human affair; and the dangers of demands for conformity and adherence to any point of view through silence, fear, or coercion. True, it took a while to see what was right before my eyes. A certain misplaced loyalty kept me from grasping that a view of individuals as morally capable of and responsible for making the principle decisions that shape their lives is decisively at odds with the contemporary left's entrance-level view of people as passive and helpless victims of powerful external forces, hence political wards who require the continuous shepherding of caretaker elites. Leftists who no longer speak of the duties of citizens, but only of the rights of clients, cannot be expected to grasp the importance (not least to our survival) of fostering in the Middle East the crucial developmental advances that gave rise to our own capacity for pluralism, self-reflection, and equality. A left averse to making common cause with competent, self- determining individuals -- people who guide their lives on the basis of received values, everyday moral understandings, traditional wisdom, and plain common sense -- is a faction that deserves the marginalization it has pursued with such tenacity for so many years. All of which is why I have come to believe, and gladly join with others who have discovered for themselves, that the single most important thing a genuinely liberal person can do now is walk away from the house the left has built. The renewal of any tradition that deserves the name "progressive" becomes more likely with each step in a better direction. Keith Thompson is a Petaluma writer and the author of "Angels and Aliens" and "To Be a Man." His work is at www.thompsonatlarge.com. Contact us at [email protected].

:banghead my head hurts Juggs

Pull the letter to Brooks!!

QUOTE(Cali @ May 25, 2005 -> 11:58 AM) Just watched it, pretty funny stuff. Can't wait to see the rest of them. http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb...ision/index.jsp Looks like Paulie has some new competition as far as best Actor on the Sox this one doesn't quite cut it in my book

Come on Tonyho...we need that inch... Just a little while till game time These are the games that count people Either we thrive as a team... ... or we’re gonna crumble. Pitch by pitch , hit by hit, till we’re finished. We’re in hell right now, friends. Believe me. And we can stay here, get the s*** kicked out of us... ... or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell... ... one inch at the time. We know life is this game of inches Well…So is baseball Because in either game, life or.baseball. … the margin for error is so small… I mean ... one-hanging curve and you don’t get the K. One half – second too slow to first, and you’re out. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They’re in every inning of the game, every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves... ... and everyone else around us, to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch... …because we know when we add up all those inches… ... that’s gonna make the f***ing difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I’ll tell you this. In any fight... ... it’s the guy who’s willing to die who’s gonna win that inch. And I know if I’m gonna have any life anymore... ... It’s because I’m still willing to fight and die for that inch. Because that’s what living is! The six inches in front of your face! Now, nobody can make us do it! We have to look at each other Look into each others eyes! Now I think we’re gonna see a guy... ... who will sacrifice himself for this team... ... because he knows, when it comes down to it... ... you’re gonna do the same for him! That’s a team, gentleman! And either we strive now, as a team... ... or we will die as individuals. That’s being a team. That all it is. Now... ... WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? speech from Any Given Sunday...slightly modified by me!

QUOTE(drowninginflame @ May 24, 2005 -> 08:31 PM) I also would like to add that I passionately hate the Minnesota Twins along with the Chicago Cubs. Like this is any surprise. If you really want to be in the scuba squad you also have to hate ESPN, Sports Illustrated and Moronotti. Welcome Aboard Dude!!!

not safe for work...I guess Just a little trim.... Summer Job

QUOTE(DABearSoX @ May 23, 2005 -> 12:04 PM) And if Ozzie Left B-Mac in there and he gave up the HR we would be ranting and raving about how ozzie is an idiot for leaving him in blah blah......Our bullpen has showed it can handle games....I in no way blame oz for this loss he wanted to win just as much as us. We'll have enough time to see bmac in the future. We won the series and thats all we need to do just keep on winning series......You can just tell he wanted to win with his comments which i dont care about either....whoever said it reminds them of Ditka thats exactly right the only man to bring our beloved bears to the promised land For the record, I would not have ranted and raved that Ozzie left bmac in there. He was at 78 pitches, had not lost velocity, was in the 6th inning with one guy on first and one out. A minor jam as far as jams go and IMO, it would have been good to see him get out of it. If he gave up a homer there...I wouldn't blame ozzie at all. I didn't want him to take him out, let alone EXPECT him to. On the other side I aint ranting and raving or calling him an idiot for taking him out. It could have went either way. I'm just saying he didn't have to freak on that question cause it was a legitimate question. Either way...yes it was a great series. I'll take 2-3 going against their two top pitchers and a hall of famer who can revert to form on any given day.

QUOTE(BuehrleTheAce @ May 23, 2005 -> 08:20 AM) but don't take the ball away and let somebody else take his win away Just to clarify, BMac was in line for the W. He exited after 5IP with a 2-1 lead. That's why Ozzie took him out, to give him a chance for the win with no chance for a loss. Yeah I know he was in line for the win, that's my point...let him lose the game if anybody's going to do it. Don't take it out of his hands. If he gives up a run or two there then take him out. He can blame himself for a couple of bad pitches, but it isn't going to take anythign away from how he pitched in his ML debut. He might have gotten an L...big deal....it's gonna happen sometime. Why not get it out of the way. He has shown he has the composure to handle that. He isn't an emotional basketcase like some pitchers. With all that being said...I totally see Ozzie's reasoning now. He was doing what he thought was best for Bmac and that's fine by me.

Like I said in the first post...I don't mind his rants, but this was just a question on why he did a particular thing. Reporters aren't saying you f***ed up man....they are just saying...why did you do what you did. That's part of the post game interview. Palmer is a weasel and I can careless if Oz gives it to him...just don't think he deserved it in this case. It's a question that needed to be asked and I wanted to hear his answer. Once I got the real answer I totally understand why he made the change. I don't totally agree with the move, but that is a matter of opinion and I can totally see his side now. Just saying he freaked out for no reason there.

I don't get on Oz too much for his comments. I don't mind a lot of the s*** he says...but he had no reason to jump on Brad Palmer, who was just asking the question all of us had on our minds. I know when Oz took out Bmac, I was yelling at the tv. Let him make his own bed. If he gives up the lead then it's on him...and he'll learn from it, but don't take the ball away and let somebody else take his win away. I was pissed. I wanted Bmac to finish the inning, but fine hey I'm not the manager and when Ozzie was asked the question why he did it, I was curious for his resopnse. Instead he went off on the reporter.... A simple explanation such as this one, courtesy of DeLuca from the sun times,...would have been fine.... McCarthy, who hadn't pitched beyond the fifth inning in his previous two shaky outings at Class AAA Charlotte, had thrown only 78 pitches. Ramirez had one hit in his previous 12 at-bats, but seemed locked in against McCarthy with his two line drives. Vizcaino had held Ramirez to a .182 average (2-for-11) with three strikeouts in their previous encounters and Patterson had a .200 average (2-for-10) with three strikeouts against Vizcaino. History favored Vizcaino, and Guillen had reason to be so confident in his bullpen. Sox fans will say Guillen was too quick with the hook, but trying to get a victory for a 21-year-old in his debut was the right move. Here's Ozzies... ''Ah, don't come and second-guess me,'' Guillen shouted in a fast, choppy, angry tone. ''Because if you come here every day and see how we handle stuff on the pitching staff, that's what we do. Gee, oh [bleep].'' This kid comes from the minor leagues and did the best he could do to keep us in the game. I had a lot of confidence in my god [bleep] bullpen, and that's what I put in there. Jesus. Second-guess me after this [bleep] happens. Aramis Ramirez [earlier in the game] hit two good balls against the kid. I want this kid to leave the mound with his head up and a chance to win the game at the big-league level. ''All right. You guys happy about it? You've got to be kidding me.'' Oz needs to chill...people are going to ask questions about moves he made. Nobody is saying he's a bad manager, they're just asking why he made the move. I know I was asking it...and if oz explained it how DeLuca did then I'd be fine with it and say..'That's why I'm not a manager' and chalk it up as the right move they went wrong....but no need to spaz out on a guy. This is one aspect where Ozzie needs to grow up as a manager. There are times when reporters 2nd guess and play monday morning qb's and I don't care if Ozzie goes off on that...but this was just a questoin I'm sure many of us wanted to know the answer to.

HELL MUTHAf***IN YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

come on Cliff!!

Everett PH for Marte

Id rather save Hermy if we can.