Controlled Chaos

Wait a minute the article sites facts.....and you reply with an opinion.... Have you heard ANY news station say that those people that were quoted belonged to that group?? I just posted this...because when a little research on a story is done...some different takes come out of it.

Holiday for Abortionists—Seriously Joel Mowbray March 9, 2004 | This Wednesday, March 10th, is a holiday with which you may not be familiar, but should be: the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers. The very fact that there exists such a “holiday”—created in 1996 and co-sponsored by more than twenty major groups, including Planned Parenthood and National Organization for Women (NOW)—says everything you need to know about the pro-abortion movement today. Most ordinary Americans who identify themselves as “pro-choice” would be disgusted that abortion providers are being hailed as heroes. Even to people who support keeping the procedure legal, abortion is not something to be glorified. The National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers cannot be dismissed as something celebrated by fringe elements, though. Aside from Planned Parenthood and NOW, it is endorsed by such mainstream “pro-choice” groups as National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The abortionist appreciation “holiday,” according to the web site of the umbrella group that founded it, Refuse and Resist, entails such as activities as “local appreciation day events,” and asking people to use their “imagination, creativity and dedication to help create a climate” where abortionists “can hold their heads high.” The Refuse and Resist web site also encourages people to give gifts to their friendly local abortion providers. So what do you get someone after a long day of collapsing the skulls of unborn children so their tiny bodies fall lifeless out of the uterus? A “breakfast basket of fruit or muffins” is recommended. Some will complain that I’m making abortionists look worse by highlighting partial-birth abortion, a particularly gruesome procedure. But that’s the thing about abortion. It’s always gruesome. It’s always violent. The end result is always that an unborn child dies at the hand of the abortionist. Over the years, though, most Americans never really had to bother much with the details of abortion. All that changed, however, with the long-running debate over partial-birth abortion. When the partial-birth abortion issue came to prominence in 1995, support for abortion was at its highest point in nearly two decades. Gallup found that 56% of Americans identified themselves as “pro-choice,” compared to only 33% calling themselves “pro-life.” The hard-core abortion supporters preferred the clinical-sounding medical term “dilation and extraction.” The public didn’t. Once Americans were forced to consider the ugly reality of a procedure where full-term babies are partially delivered breech (meaning feet first) so that the brain could be suctioned out, support for abortion—not just partial-birth—plummeted. Since 2001, roughly the same number of people polled by Gallup identified themselves as “pro-choice” as “pro-life,” a seismic shift in public opinion in just six years. Most Americans now find abortion morally wrong when done in any type of procedure, and only one-third think that ending the life of the unborn child is morally acceptable, according to a Gallup poll released last summer. Perhaps the most logical explanation is that more and more people recognize the core nature of abortion. Even the most common procedures, such as “suction curettage” (typically performed in the first trimester) or “dilation and evacuation” (usually done in the second and third trimesters), are too horrifying to fathom. As described by pregnantpause.org, “suction curettage” is where an abortionist inserts into a woman's dilated cervix a tube with a sharp edge on it that "is connected to a suction device, similar to a home vacuum cleaner but much more powerful. Between the sharp edge and the force of the suction, the developing baby is torn apart and the pieces sucked out through the tube.” Even more gruesome is “dilation and evacuation.” From pregnantpause.org: “A seaweed-based substance called ‘laminaria’ is inserted into the cervix to dilate it, usually overnight. The next day forceps with sharp metal teeth are inserted and used to twist and tear off the unborn baby's limbs and remove them piece-by-piece. The head is usually too large to be removed whole and must be crushed.” It’s not difficult to see why the more the details of abortion creep into the public debate, the more pro-life Americans become. It’s only natural. Abortion’s “ok”—as long as it is just a “choice.” When people are forced to think about the details inherent in an abortion, however, fewer and fewer people support “choice” when they realize what that “choice” actually entails—and fewer still will celebrate the abortionist “holiday.”

Nitpicking the 9-11 ads Brent Bozell (archive) March 10, 2004 | John Kerry's Super Tuesday wins on March 2 marked the formal start of this year's presidential campaign. This might explain why the liberal media silliness began with the first Bush-Cheney ad buy on March 4. The Bush ads were positive, promotional, piano-plunking, the type that usually bores reporters to death. But this time, they were quickly slammed by the press. The Democrats thought they had an angle to trip up the Bush campaign, and they pushed it. Say, didn't those ads flash about a second of pictures of September 11? Well, yes, and so what? After being attacked unmercifully by the Left for his handling of the war on terrorism before and after 9-11, shouldn't the president be allowed to defend himself? Apparently not. Bush, we are told, is playing politics. Which is exactly what his hypocritical critics are doing. Some relatives of the lost, like Debra Burlingame on MSNBC, said the images of 9-11 "belong to all of us. We were all attacked." But most of the relatives quoted were fierce critics of Bush. Many of those featured in early press reports were members of a little radical conclave called "September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows," founded by about 80 relatives of the more than 3,000 victims of that infamous al Qaeda attack. The Washington Post called them "nonpartisan," which is laughable. They are very active lobbyists of the far Left. See their Web site at peacefultomorrows.org. Last year, they were hosting protest marches to condemn "the illegal, immoral and unjustified U.S.-led military action in Iraq." They opposed the war uprooting al Qaeda in Afghanistan and complained that 9-11 was "used to justify the deaths of thousands of Afghan men, women and children." Their members give speeches across the country with titles including "Exploiting 9-11 for Empire Building." Their fundraisers starred Amy Goodman, the host of Pacifica Radio's morning show "Democracy Now," the taxpayer-funded public radio show that replays long speeches by radicals like Michael Moore and Arundhati Roy spewing hate at Team Bush in the ugliest language. "Nonpartisan" is a rotten label for this group because it assumes they have no agenda, that they're quietly apolitical or perhaps soggy centrists. By the way, please note that the "Peaceful Tomorrows" gang has been funded by a liberal philanthropy called the Tides Center, as their first newsletter in 2002 explains. The Capital Research Center notes that the Tides Center received at least $650,000 in 2001 from the Howard Heinz Endowment, led by none other than Mrs. Teresa Heinz Kerry. Keep waiting for the media to report any of this. Some anti-Bush critics were so nonpartisan they could not recall whether they voted for Bush or Gore. On MSNBC's "Hardball," Monica Gabrielle, who gained prominence for slashing the Bush ads as "a slap in the face of the murders of 3,000 people," was asked how she voted in 2000. She said, "Politics don't have anything to do with it." Chris Matthews pressed again. She claimed: "You know what? To be honest with you, I don't even recall." Uh-huh. Maybe Mrs. Gabrielle can recall her political position last summer, when she complained to the left-wing Web site Salon.com: "We've been fighting for nearly 21 months -- fighting the administration, the White House." She told Matthews that Bush spent September 11 in a schoolroom and then on his airplane, so he wasn't a leader. So she is uncommitted on Bush's re-election? She has no agenda? Her activism can be seen as a laudable response to losing her husband, but she should not be presented as having no axe to grind. Our sensitivity to every image in a Bush ad is not matched by any sensitivity to the tone of Bush's critics. One widow, Kristin Breitweiser, even claimed, "Three thousand people were murdered on Bush's watch." Can you imagine a widow ever getting national media exposure by throwing hardballs about murders on President Clinton's "watch" in Oklahoma City, or the Khobar Towers, or our embassies in Kenya or Tanzania? That would be seen as a low blow, not worthy of broadcast. But not in this election year. The media are at their most hypocritical when they suggest Bush is unfairly benefiting from 9-11 in his ads. But who has piled on the profits with hours and hours of specials, and newspaper and magazine special editions, devoted to 9-11? Because Bush has done a good enough job in preventing attacks on the homeland, the media can go back to profiting from the usual sludge on Martha Stewart and Kobe Bryant and Michael Jackson. Imagine how the media will react when the Bush people go negative!

Everyone should be evaluated on present ability and production. Screw that s*** about it's his as long as he is in a sox uniform. You have to earn and keep your spot. If he became a liability would some you people still keep him in the 3 hole just because he is Frank?? With all that said...I say he starts off season there...buit if he aint producing he gets moved...

Where do you see that the Cubs games won't be available the 13th?

I am an Ameican. I am a republican. You're text : " You did not say every republican in congress. You maed a remark about congress and then made a remark about EVERY REPUBLICAN I didn't put words in your mouth. I may be of a differnt party preference than you, but I am still an American. So when you blame EVERY REPUBLICAN you are in turn blaming Americans..whether your warped mind wants to believe that or not. So I know you wanted to get all bad and bold tellin me not to make s*** up and that you won't stand for that s***, but I simply remarked on YOUR comment. As for the rest of your comments....they are just opinions Not one is fact. You don't know what Bush thought or what he knew. We can go back and forth forever on opinions...so I'll let them go. Good Luck with Kerry. I'll vote for Bush! Go SOX!

With all due respect Steff, I'm afraid this seems a bit more comedic than the actual news organizations reporting the tragedy....Three people falling to their death spewing anti-bush opinions isn't appropriate. God Bless Them.

Lobbing a few cruise missles isn't getting the job done...yeah we caught the actual guys that did the bombing...but we didn't disrupt anything. That is like arresting a bookie and claiming you took down the mob's operation. Nice of you to blame Americans and Congress for Clintons failures. Clinton lied under oath and it is Congress' and American's fault he didn't try to go after the top terrosits. You want a badge for Clinton because the morons that tried to blow up a building were caught??? We need someone that is willing to go to the root of the problem. Stop grasping at straws..I live in reality....we were bombed...TWICE. On prez followed through..the other showed us some fluff. The fact that you agree with Abu, that it is appropriate to show those people diving off the buildings should really enlighten some people on this site.

Talk about crossing the line....Real f***in appropraite sideshow.

What a ridiculous argument....Dude don't just make s*** up to tell your side of a story. That is a terrible analogy. It has absolutely NO comparison to Bush reminding Americans that we were attacked and he had the balls to do something about it. A fire chief trying to get a job, by showing a house that burned down and a family that died???? gimmie a break... Now maybe if that fire was arson, and the chief hunted down the arsonist and captured him. THEN... maybe the Chief would use that fire as an example of his skills and I'm sure the family wouldn't object...since he did a good job and caught the guy that was responsible. Unlike Clinton, who did s*** last time the WTC was attacked, this pres acted. The first time it was attacked, the intention of the terroists was to blow up the one and topple it into the other to kill everyone!! KILL EVERYONE!! That is when this war on terror should have started...We were attacked on OUR soil...the intention was to kill thousands of people, but because we didn't suffer sever casualties...it was basically swept under the carpet. That and the fact Clinton figured if he sent over some troops and boys started coming back in body bags fighting a war...his polls would go down. That wasn't worht the risk...so let's just let it go. As an American, I want a president that will respond decisevely...and the democrats are too dam political to do that, as demonstrated by Mr. Clinton.

57,000 Americans died in Vietnam...John Kerry should stop using his military record in his campaign cause it tramples onthe deaths of those people. That is basically what they are saying. This was 4 seconds in a commercial...and there are plenty of families on the other side that think it is something that we should be reminded of. So to all you moderates out there don't believe the hype....The mass media usually only gives you one view and that is the view of the left. Here's some other sides.....New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he did not object to reminding "the country and the world about the sacrifices that the New York City fire department and police department and civilians made." And former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (search) said Bush's "leadership on that day is central to his record, and his continued leadership is critical to our ultimate success against world terrorism." Deena Burnett, a Little Rock, Ark., resident whose husband, Tom, was a passenger on the plane that crashed into a Pennsylvania field, said the ads were "a perfect reminder of what happened that day."

Yeah what a s***ty day. A group of at least 20 of us go every year and for the last 3 or 4 years we get the club section on opening day. It's heated, they have tables and chairs and they have the flat screens all over...so when ya come in to warm up or dry off you don't miss any action. Half of our group never even came outside last year. I was only out for the last 3 innings and that's only cause I was nie and toasty inside by that point. f***in miserable day,,,but still good times had by all!!!!!!!

I understand....but your argument seems like the sox raised prices 61% in a year...when in truth it's the specific games in your package that were raised...not all games. I don't knock the sox for raising prices for the games that they will profit the most from. I hate even discussin this cause it appears I am defending them for raising prices, but I totally disagree with a balnket price increase...I do however agree with raising prices for cub games and opening day. Make the cub fans that fill our park pay more...and if the casual fan that is only coming to the opening day game then he can pay more too. It's a blanket increase that I am against....

I am not at all defending the sox here, but you are asking for 4 of the biggest games of the year....If you pick 9 other games I'm sure the increase won't be that much....

Oh my god....Can most of you normal people here see how ridiculous liberals really are. The stuff I am hearing here is absolutely insane. Anyway here are a few facts...I know the libs don't want to use facts, but here ya go Abortions based on the mother's health account for 3% of abortions. Abortions based on the baby's health account for 3% of abortions. Total: 6% Abortions from rape or incest 1%. Just look at the statitistics they don't lie... http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0904509.html In 2000, 1.31 million abortions took place....1.3 MILLION Anyway I think the parents should be notified. Will they be upset...hell yeah!! Will they beat their daughter....doubtful. If they did hit their duaghter over that then would hit them over other things as well....which just means they're bad parents. Before I am pitted as some radical pro life right wing freak. Let me say I am not. I beleive abortion is valid in cases such as health,rape or incest, but I believe the statistics back me up that probably 90% of abortions performed now are out of convenience. Anyway just my opinion

Another side of the argument. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadA...le.asp?ID=12312 What happens when ya stand up to a teacher? http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadA...le.asp?ID=11882 and 100's more to choose from.... http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/GetAr...igns+&ID=1&CP=1 Some of these articles are long, but they are real eye openers.

I guess I should have posted a link.... http://www.nbc5.com/news/2860056/detail.ht...994&dppid=65192

I'm not sure where to post this(not sex lies and politics, or other sports talk) so I'll do it here. Were we on to this guy? I mean the first thing I thought of when he was missing was is this guy some sort of threat? It wasn't a usualy case of a missing person. I mean when ya look at the facts involving his disappearance. A banker from lincoln park going all the way to 64th pulaski to take out 5,000 from a bank. Then he came all the back to his condo...stood in the lobby for like 15 minutes then left. To me that is very sketchy..like he was contemplating something and descided to go through with it . Just the fact that a north sider came to the south side to take money out of a bank was enough to make the light bulb go off in myhead. They kept saying on the news that they were ruling out foul play and it just looks like a disappearance...all the while I'm thinking is this guy gonna be in union station strapped with a bomb or something. They found his SUV in Englewood...then they found out his credit card was used in New York at a hardware store. After that I figured for sure something was gonna happen over there. So my whole question here is...Was I the only one thinking this? If AL Qeada can take a guy who is apparently happily married and has a wife 6 months pregnant and convince him to just get up and do this, then I think we all better start being more cautious.

Yeah I must say I am a little pissed about this too. We like to keep the party rolling right after the game...now we all have to work the next day! What gives?

Ok screw the money part...these are the quotes that hit me the hardest.... "I don't think we have an obligation to get out if we want to run it the way we want to run it," said Einhorn, who heard suggestions to the contrary from fans during SoxFest. "I don't think the fans have suffered, because there's no guarantee that you're going to win by spending money. I think you do have an obligation to get out. We have suffered...Mediocre is not acceptable. Since 1959 we have been involved in the ALCS twice. TWICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and this is competitive??? No there isn't a guarantee the sox will win by spending money, but there is a better chance. We all know there are no guarantees in life, but getting better players gives you a better opportunity to win. That Einhorn quote explains just how backwards their logic is....and it pisses me off that they don't see it. That is liike going to a gay bar to pick up chicks and offering your reason as "well there's no gurantees that I'd pick one up at a straight bar" So you go to a place where it's nearly impossible?? That's what the sox have done....we are at a place where it's almost impossible for us to win. Yeah it can be done...I mean the sun shines on a dogs ass now and then, but chances are it ain't gonna happen. We are not put in a position for it too happen. "We've been competitive. Sometimes we're not as competitive as we want to be, but we've been competitive over the years. "When you're in it this long — we're like the third-oldest ownership in baseball — you're going to take a lot of hits along the way because it's hard to win." We haven't been competitive. See above rant. We won he division 3 times since 59. How is that competitive? When I played sports competitive wasn't good enough for me. If you're overmatched, then yeah it feels good to hang and be competitive. So is that we Einhorn is saying. We are overmatched and we should feel good as fans because we are competitive?? And the way I see it is, when you're in it this long we have had even more of a chance to win. "You're relating that to something that I don't know is true anymore," Einhorn said. "It helps to have more. But I don't know that just having it guarantees you're going to win. I think that's what people need to understand. Again with this guarantee s***...We know it doesn't guarantee anything..but it lets us get excited about the chance. It gives us a better opportunity to win. That whole article makes me want to :puke Cause I know this is the sentiment all the way from the top. New sox slogan "2004 Being competive for you" Sorry for the Rant!!!!

Hence letting Graffinino go? Now I'm seeing the light? Well as an Italian...can I still root for the sox??

What is the deal with stating something won't happen cause he is not of latin decent? Do all sox pitchers have to be latin now?

I almost want to say the same thing, but I don't really know. That's why I asked for some inside scoop. I thought he made some decent moves at the end of last year...I mean at least we went for it instead of playing dead. However, if it wasn't him pulling the strings...then who's the Godfather and why is this puppet master hiding himself???

How about Einhorn??

I know if you go to the official sox site there is a Mr "I know everything" who has been saying since last year that KW no longer pulls the strings. Does anybody here with inside knowledge feel this is true. Is there someone else working these deals and if so how could the press not catch wind of it.