Controlled Chaos

I can't believe they said the guy was a sox fan. What the hell does that have to do with this story except to let people say "Oh this sox fan came to wrigley and got in to trouble." I mean seriously...why was that put in there. It has nothing to do with this tragedy.

I'm heading to the Lodge to have some beers and play some Golden Tee!! Haven't really watcehd friends inlike 2 years cause I go out with my friends every Thursday night. I'll catch the rerun someday

I look up to someone like Pat Tillman. People keep mentioning the 3.5 mil in the news...and then all the "every soldier is equal" people say...I don't care about 3.5 million it's the same as if he worked at a fast food place. Well in my eyes, it isn't the same at all. Some people join the army cause they want the education benefits. Some people join to get their life on track. Some people join to get out of their neighborhood. Some join to learn a trade. Some people believe in defending our country. People like Pat Tillman have to be in the smallest of smallest percentages. In fact he may be one of a kind. A 26 year old multi-millionaire, playing football for a living and recently married. I'm sorry people...THAT IS different from the 18 yr old kid getting out of high school saying "uh I dunno, I guess I can join the army" My cousin is an Iraq right now and God bless him, but I know the difference between his situation and Pat's. They are NOT the same. He knows they are not the same. Most people join the forces to get something back, Tillman joined to put something in. Boys join to learn how to become men. Tillman was a man that joined to become a warrior. I think the reason a lot of us feel the way we do about Tillman is, he did something that most of us couldn't and wouldn't do and he did it with such humility. It's something to be admired for. People have to get over the fact that just cause you praise one person it doesn't mean you don't care about others....nobody is saying his life means more, but IMO he did give up more. I think about what he sacrificed and it kinda makes me feel like I'm being selfish for not wanting to do the same thing. Everything in this world isn't equal. That's just the way it is...and those of you that are trying to make it that way are wrong. Tillman's story is pretty unique. Unique stories get media coverage. Tillman didn't ask for it, but he was an extraordinary person and I'm glad his story is out there. He is a Hero.

I wouldn't automatically say...if we didn't have the couple run cushion that they would have been Losses. I think Koch pitches different in different situations and it's all mental with him. So if we were only up 1 he might pitch different then when we're up 3. He needs to get his mind set straight and attack every batter like the tying run is on 3rd base with 0 outs....whether we have a 1 run or 5 run lead.

Quotes... "It's pathetic, That's a pathetic showing. It's not fair to the 24 guys in this room or the coaching staff or the fans of Chicago." "There's absolutely no reason in the world I should walk those guys," Koch said. "Let them put the ball in play and get themselves out." "I apologize to everyone out there," Koch said. "It's not fair to have to bite your nails down to a bloody stump watching me pitch."

If I knew how I would love to make one with all the loser things the cubs fans do. Girls stripping in bleachers, guys pissin all over the neighborhood, not knowing the score, yappin on cell phones etc... http://www.spankwad.com/northvssouth

Ad's for the outfielders...local orthodontists Joe Schmoo DDS...We'll close those gaps in a hurry!!

Barry Bonds - Redbull...... When your supplier gets busted and you can't get your juice, try Redbull to give you that extra POP

For a certain right fielder Corkboard.com - For My Corkboard and Yours!

The starting pitcher ad: Viagra...How long can YOU last??

Bob Costas quote "On the one hand, they sell history whenever it suits them, and on the other hand, they disrespect it."

The whole article....for anyone interested The Art of Religious War By Lowell Ponte "RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION MUST DISAPPEAR FROM THE SCHOOLS…. The man who is tied to the dogmas of the Churches need look for nothing from us in the future.” Thus declared the Nazi inspector of Munich city schools in Germany, June 1939. His words appear in the July 1945 U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) study “The Nazi Master Plan,” available online in pdf format in four parts from the “Nuremberg Project” at Rutgers University and the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion. “Implementation of this objective started with the curtailment of religious instruction in the primary and secondary schools,” the OSS (forerunner of today’s Central Intelligence Agency) document continues, “with the squeezing of the religious periods into inconvenient hours, with Nazi propaganda among the teachers in order to induce them to refuse the teaching of religion, with vetoing of…religious text books, and finally with substituting Nazi Weltanschauung and ‘German Faith’ for Christian religious denominational instruction…. At the time of the outbreak of the war…religious instruction had practically disappeared from Germany’s primary schools.” Adolf Hitler’s evil attempt to carry out genocide and his mass murder of six million Jews is recognized as one of history’s greatest crimes against humanity. Less well known, but revealed clearly in this OSS document, was Hitler’s master plan to destroy Christianity and replace it with his own “German Faith” concocted from a mixture of occultism, pre-Christian paganism, racism and National Socialism (whose German words for his political party contracted into “Nazi”). Hitler’s regime was bent on “eliminating all political organizations other than the Nazi party,” the OSS analysis says. It was a jealous religion that allowed no other gods but Hitler and no rival institution that might explicitly or implicitly challenge its totalitarian authority. Such hatred and fear of other religions is a hallmark of socialism. Karl Marx denounced religion as the “opiate of the masses,” preventing them from martyring themselves to the cause of Marxist revolution. The late Soviet Union promoted atheism, then watched its empire start unraveling in Poland because the Roman Catholic Church and its Polish Pope commanded vastly more love and loyalty from the people than the Church of Marx. In the Peoples Republic of China the Marxist rulers fearfully persecute a sect whose simple meditation undermines government control over peoples’ minds. Communist China days ago imprisoned yet more peasants in labor camps for the subversive crime of merely possessing Bibles. Socialists in the United States, including those who behind the scenes control one of America’s two biggest political parties, have not yet attained the degree of power held by their comrades Hitler, Stalin and Mao. But here, too, their aim is to purge all other religions from the public square – from public school classrooms to holiday displays – so that their socialist faith can have a monopoly as our official government-imposed religion. “Religion,” as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary, can be “A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.” Humanism, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary and embraced by socialists from Adolf Hitler to Hillary Clinton, can be “the Religion of Humanity.” In this nominally-secular Humanist religion man replaces God as, in the Greek philosopher Protagoras’ phrase, “the measure of all things.” The Western idea of God is not necessarily essential in defining religion. Buddhism, e.g., has no deity, but few would insist on calling it a philosophy instead of a religion. The United States Federal Government is prohibited by our Constitution’s First Amendment from making any law “respecting an Establishment of Religion [i.e., a state church like the Church of England], or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” This had the effect, wrote the author of our Declaration of Independence and third President Thomas Jefferson in an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists, of “building a wall of separation between Church and State.” What did Jefferson mean by this? Part of the answer appears in his preface to one of the only three things for which he wished to be remembered on his tombstone, his 1779 Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom. “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors,” wrote Jefferson, “is sinful and tyrannical.” (I think of this each time I witness National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) using my coerced taxes to broadcast Bill Moyers, an ultra-Leftist who thus has pocketed far more than $20 million taxpayer dollars.) A man should not even be forced to support a particular preacher of his own religious persuasion, Jefferson continued, for to do so would deprive him “of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness….” Jefferson believed that religion should be something between a person and his or her God and that government should not interfere here. “It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god,” wrote Jefferson in 1785. “It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” For most of two centuries this separation of church and state helped America avoid the religious wars that killed millions in Europe and elsewhere. But the Left has broken that peace. It has done so by violating another key tenant of the Jeffersonian ideal – that government should remain very, very small, thereby leaving almost the entire public square open to each person’s free exercise of religion. The Left has invoked a new syllogism – that church and state must be separate, that the state must intrude and exert control everywhere and over every aspect of our lives, and therefore that the church must vanish. As such reasoning makes clear, today’s Leftists are morally unfit to lick Jefferson’s boots, much less to quote this founding father of our liberties to advance a socialist agenda that Jefferson would despise and oppose with every fiber of his being. Jefferson’s and Ben Franklin’s motto, after all, was “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God,” a phrase that almost became part of America’s Great Seal. Today’s religious war, launched by the Left, masquerades as a struggle to preserve religious liberty by exorcising religion from every government building, budget expenditure, public school commencement speech and other activity. This is a lie. We in truth are caught in a crossfire – oops, delete the word “cross” with its Christian implications – between two religions. The Judeo-Christian faith of the Bible is under attack by the Humanist “religion” of the Left that aims to uproot and replace it, just as was attempted by Hitler’s National Socialist Germany, by the late Marxist Soviet Union, and today by Communist China. The central point of this column is that secular socialism in America inherently violates the First Amendment. It does so by relentlessly enlarging government. Because every new inch of cultural and social ground invaded by government is thereafter purged of religion, every incremental expansion of government violates the religious “free exercise” right of those whose lives it invades. All secular socialism is therefore by its very nature a rolling juggernaut of genocide against the worshippers of every other religion. And all socialism is therefore evil and an enemy of human rights, whether it is the socialism of Hitler or of Hillary. In recent decades the courts (most of whose current judges have been appointed by Leftists) have tended to rule that where government advances religion must retreat in the name of separation of church and state. What the courts should rule, instead, is that, because of the inherent supremacy of the First Amendment, government should be prohibited from advancing its own Establishment of Socialist Religion, its sphere of power and influence, any further. Wherever government advances, it creates a de facto “Establishment of Religion,” a humanist state “church” from which all other faiths are forcibly excluded. Non-statist religions should not be required to retreat or yield in the face of expanding government. The state religion that worships ever-larger government should be prohibited by the courts from such expansion in the name of religious liberty. Okay, I confess. I’m a utopian idealist. As wrote the poet Robert Browning: “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?” --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION MUST DISAPPEAR FROM THE SCHOOLS…. The man who is tied to the dogmas of the Churches need look for nothing from us in the future.” Thus declared the Nazi inspector of Munich city schools in Germany, June 1939. His words appear in the July 1945 U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) study “The Nazi Master Plan,” available online in pdf format in four parts from the “Nuremberg Project” at Rutgers University and the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion.

It's a good debate!

Wow.. after typing that as a joke, I searched to see what the hell it meant. Here's an interpretation I found: I Am The Walrus - An Interpretation I am he as you are he/ We are all spirits of the same God as you are me and we are all together/ therefore we are all the same See how they run like pigs from a gun/ Man on earth today for the most part see how they fly/ denys this simple beautiful truth I'm crying / That they do is a sad thing Sitting on a cornflake, / Cookie-cutter conformist capitalists waiting for the van to come/ that take carpools to work Corporation t-shirt, stupidy / all dressed the same, in their boring bloody tuesday / day-to-day jobs man you been a naughty boy/ and criticise people like John Lennon you let your face grow long / who don't look like they do I am the eggman / I am a spirit of God They are egmmen / And so are you I am the Walrus / I am God (and therefore so are you) Goo goo ga joob / Isn't that Wonderful? Mr. City policeman/ The policemen (the establishment) sitting pretty little policemen in a row / look pretty and officious in their uniforms see how they fly / But when it comes down to doing the like lucy in the sky / right thing and helping people see how they run / They just sell out I'm crying, I'm crying / That they do is a sad thing I'm crying, I'm crying / Very sad Yellow matter custard / Man's inhumanity to man gets worse dripping from a dead dog's eye / and more ludicrous and disgusting Crabalocker fishwife / every day pornagraphic priestess / And those that are not corrupt boy, you been a naughty girl / monetarily are corrupt morally you let your knickers down/ I am the eggman / I am a spirit of God They are egmmen / And so are you I am the Walrus / I am God (and therefore so are you) Goo goo ga joob / Isn't that Wonderful? Sitting in an English garden / If you just relax and get into a waiting for the sun / calm state you can see the If the sun don't come / simple beauty of life you get a tan from standing / And the world goes on if you do in the English rain / or not I am the eggman / I am a spirit of God They are egmmen / And so are you I am the Walrus / I am God (and therefore so are you) Goo goo ga joob / Isn't that Wonderful? Expert texpert choking smokers / The morally corrupt think they're don't you think the joker / cheating fate laughs at you / And don't realise that they're ho ho ho / going to have to pay in the end hee hee hee/ ha ha ha/ See how they smile / But they just go innocently on like pigs in a sty / not caring about the world see how they snied/ I'm crying / That they do is a sad thing Semolina pilchards / Some people try to reach God in climbing up the Eiffel Tower / the strangest ways Elementary penguin / But even the lowly animals know singing hare krishna / know how to be one with God man you should have seen them/ And even if you're a good person kicking Edgar Allen Poe / you shouldn't expect praise I am the eggman / I am a spirit of God They are egmmen / And so are you I am the Walrus / I am God (and therefore so are you) Goo goo ga joob / Isn't that Wonderful? http://www.getback.org/breflib/iatw.html

I am the walrus!!!!!!!

I agree with most of your post. Clearly, it has been shown that removing some of the principals that this country was founded upon has influenced the degradation of our society.

I was just having that same discussion with my friend last night. This has been labeled more OUTRAGEOUS and ATROCIOUS and DISGUSTING...then when our own people were burned and hanged. It's hard tro make the argument without sounding like your defending the actions of those soldiers which I am absolutely not. However, it is hard for me to comprehend that some people are more appaled by this than when our own people are murdered. There has been more outrage over this than: Murders, hangings, and burning of civilian contractors, Murders of our own soldiers held in captivity, The Daniel Pearl execution, the finding of mass graves. Imagine that...263 mass graves with as many as 300,000 people buried in them and the humiliation of some Iraqi prisoners has received more media attention and more outrage and outcry.

I know about Jose at third, but 1) I wouldn't want to take Crede out of that spot and 2) My whole reason for even mentioning him at second was to help with his throws. He still has ability to use his good range and has an easier throw from 2nd. I'm not sure they will do any kind of switch like that. it will most likely be Jose at SS and Uribe at 2nd. I think only thing we lose is Rowands arm....whcih isn't good, but I think it's better than Willie's.

Who is suing steff?? I find this interesting in the article and I don't know which is true. Can anyone help? So was there a high speed chase or was he picked up running from a car? Or was him running considered the high speed chase?

I think the odd man out here is A-Ro. I wanted so bad for him to prove he belonged out there, but he just isn't cutting it. Can Jose play second?? I like Uribe at SS. He has good range and gets rid of the ball fast. I would like to see: Uribe SS, Valentin 2b, Harris Center but it will most likely be: Uribe 2b, Valentin SS, Harris Center.

Makes me sick!!!!!!!! Does this judge do this with all his criminals? Maybe Ligue is shining some light on how this guy holds up the law. Is the judge fighting for us or fighting for criminals.

In Ozzie's defense: {from today's trib} Schoeneweis had a two-hit gem working. But he also had thrown 106 pitches and told Guillen he was out of gas. "At least he was honest with me," Guillen said. Show has been great.... Now come on big Jon...you were my pick this year!!!!!!!!!!

BIRGLEFICKLE!!!!!!