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Here was late night's take on it: (my favorites in bold) "Late Show with David Letterman," CBS: • "Good news, ladies and gentlemen, we have finally located weapons of mass destruction: It's Dick Cheney." • "But here is the sad part — before the trip Donald Rumsfeld had denied the guy's request for body armor." • "We can't get Bin Laden, but we nailed a 78-year-old attorney." • "The guy who got gunned down, he is a Republican lawyer and a big Republican donor and fortunately the buck shot was deflected by wads of laundered cash. So he's fine. He took a little in the wallet." __ "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," NBC: • "Although it is beautiful here in California, the weather back East has been atrocious. There was so much snow in Washington, D.C., Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fat guy thinking it was a polar bear. • "That's the big story over the weekend. ... Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter, a 78-year-old lawyer. In fact, when people found out he shot a lawyer, his popularity is now at 92 percent." • "I think Cheney is starting to lose it. After he shot the guy he screamed, 'Anyone else want to call domestic wire tapping illegal?'" • "Dick Cheney is capitalizing on this for Valentine's Day. It's the new Dick Cheney cologne. It's called Duck!" ___ "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Comedy Central: • "Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a man during a quail hunt ... making 78-year-old Harry Whittington the first person shot by a sitting veep since Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, of course, (was) shot in a duel with Aaron Burr over issues of honor, integrity and political maneuvering. Whittington? Mistaken for a bird." • "Now, this story certainly has its humorous aspects. ... But it also raises a serious issue, one which I feel very strongly about. ... moms, dads, if you're watching right now, I can't emphasize this enough: Do not let your kids go on hunting trips with the vice president. I don't care what kind of lucrative contracts they're trying to land, or energy regulations they're trying to get lifted — it's just not worth it." ___ "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," CBS: • "He is a lawyer and he got shot in the face. But he's a lawyer, he can use his other face. He'll be all right." • "You can understand why this lawyer fellow let his guard down, because if you're out hunting with a politician, you think, 'If I'm going to get it, it's going to be in the back.' " • "The big scandal apparently is that they didn't release the news for 18 hours. I don't think that's a scandal at all. I'm quite pleased about that. Finally there's a secret the vice president's office can keep." "Apparently the reason they didn't release the information right away is they said we had to get the facts right. That's never stopped them in the past."

feel good story From today's trib: Cheek's golden gesture U.S. skater zips to victory, uses his '15 seconds' for greater good By Melissa Isaacson Tribune Olympic Bureau Published February 13, 2006, 10:31 PM CST TURIN, Italy -- America's latest gold-medal winner is a speedskater from North Carolina who enjoys playing the guitar, wants to attend law school and host his own "MTV" show, not necessarily in that order. He also has a weird penchant for killing time between training sessions building and shooting potato guns. This all may sound superficial, but Joey Cheek is just the opposite. On Monday, the 26-year-old took what he called his "15 seconds" of fame and used it for a greater good. Walked onto a worldwide platform, seized control of the moment and walked off with his mother, proclaiming more joy in that than in winning the long-track 500 meters. Stopping his victory press conference before it began, Cheek took the floor and would not relinquish it. "I know you want to do sweet Hallmark stories about chocolates and butterflies and all that, but I've had a pretty neat experience, this is a pretty neat opportunity and I'm going to take advantage of it while I can," he said. "For me, the Olympics have been the greatest blessing. If I retired yesterday, I have gotten everything in the world from speedskating and competing in the Olympics. And the best way to say thanks that I can think of is to try and help somebody else." With that, Cheek said he would donate the entire $25,000 bonus the U.S. Olympic Committee awarded him for his gold medal to an organization called Right To Play. Created by Cheek idol Johan Olav Koss, a four-time speedskating gold medalist and sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee, Right To Play describes itself as "an athlete-driven international humanitarian organization that uses sport and play as a tool for the development of children and youth in the most disadvantaged areas of the world." Cheek, whose runaway victory made the U.S. 2-for-2 in men's speedskating, hopes his donation and the plea for Olympic sponsors to match his pledge will help 60,000 children displaced from their homes in Chad. Cheek, who could have used the money to help pay for college—he has applied to several Ivy League schools, Stanford, Duke and others—turned in a personal-best time of 34.94 seconds. "I don't know how I skated that fast, but I'm grateful that I did," he said. "I'd always dreamt that I would skate that fast. But on some level, it is empowering to think about someone other than myself. "What I do is great fun. I love what I do. I've skated the entire world and met amazing friends. But it's honestly a pretty ridiculous thing. I mean, I skate around the ice in tights." The former inliner skated around the ice in brilliant fashion, winning by an unheard-of margin of 0.65 in the combined heats. The current world sprint champion and '02 bronze medalist in this event also is favored in the 1,000 meters. "This is the most relaxed I've ever skated, for sure the most relaxed I've ever been in the Olympic Games," Cheek said. "It has sort of been a goal for me. I don't skate as well when I'm not relaxed, so I went into this thinking I'd love to skate well, but if I'm too tense then I'm going to [stink]." Dmitry Dorofeyev of Russia won the silver in 1:10.41 and South Korea's Lee Kang-Seok took bronze in 1:10.43. Meanwhile, Cheek's teammates Casey FitzRandolph, the 500-meter winner at the 2002 Salt Lake Games, finished a horribly disappointing 12th, and Kip Carpenter was 26th. "You have certain guys that you root for, and Joey is one of them," FitzRandolph said. "I root for guys, not because of what country they're from so much as what type of people they are. I like to see guys that work hard and really pay their dues and put their life into it, not just their talent. Joey is one of those guys. "He's probably the hardest worker we've got on our team, so it was nice to see everything came around for him at the right time. He's on fire right now." It is conceivable that the U.S. men's team could win gold medals in every speedskating event in these Games. Next up may be the toughest, Wednesday's team pursuit without Chicagoan Shani Davis. Cheek, who says he will retire from skating after the Olympics, has already pledged that he will make the same donation if he wins the 1,000. "I've learned how news cycles work and I've learned that there's a gold medalist tonight and tomorrow there's another gold medalist," he said. "So I can either take the time and gush about how wonderful I feel or I can use it for something productive." Cheek's mother Chris, a hotel manager in Hilton Head, S.C., had no trouble putting her son's victory into perspective after watching him surprise her with his announcement. "It's probably one of the best things I've ever heard, experienced, felt or heard from him," she said. "It makes me probably the proudest of him that I could possibly be. The skating stuff is fun and I'm glad he's done well, but I'm glad it has enabled him to take it and help somebody else." [email protected]

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Feb 13, 2006 -> 02:59 PM) We never even talk about specific Dems... Except Hillary, Carter, Kerry, Clinton, Gore. . .

Section 1. White Room - Cream vs. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan vs. Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix vs. When the Levee Breaks- Led Zeppelin Section 2. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen vs. Baba O'Reilly - The Who Pinball Wizard - The Who vs. Street Fighting Man - The Rolling Stones A Day in the Life - The Beatles vs. Dream On - Aerosmith

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 13, 2006 -> 01:11 AM) We know their coming. Yas, I expected the spirit of this comment from you--but not the incorrect grammar.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 03:44 PM) From too much flouride? Are you sure it wasn't some other chemical? That seems like a strange reaction. The only info I could find on too much flouride talked about skeletal problems with too much bone mass (and too brittle). Everything else I found is weird conspiracy stuff about Nazis and Communists. One of the people I work with actually has done some work with Flouride. Apparently now there's some big debate that it may interfere with your neurotransmitters.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 11, 2006 -> 04:40 PM) LOOK IN THE SKY!!!! I'M f***ING GETTING MOTHERf***ING WET, MOTHERf***ERS!!!! No, no, no motherFUCERS, there's a slight stylistic difference.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Feb 11, 2006 -> 04:36 PM) Snow in Chicago? How is this so? I've never heard of such a thing!!!! The world has gone mad, mad I tell you!

QUOTE(Brian @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 02:06 PM) She looked super thin. Thanks. Iirc she pretty publicly dealt with anorexia.

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46292

No Time - Guess Who vs. White Room - Cream While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles vs. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynard vs. Strawberry Field Forever - The Beatles Ticket to Ride - The Beatles vs. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy vs. Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones A Day in the Life - The Beatles vs. All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix Surrender - Cheap Trick vs. When the Levee Breaks- Led Zeppelin Dream On - Aerosmith vs. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Street Fighting Man - The Rolling Stones vs. Thunderstruck - AC/DC Stay With Me - The Faces vs. Pinball Wizard - The Who Crazy Train - Ozzy Osborne vs. Baba O'Reilly - The Who

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 9, 2006 -> 08:53 PM) How do you know what that smell like?! Hey, I went to church camp!

It looks likes the season finale is on fox tomorrow (friday night)--I feel like there's been no real promos for it, but I happened to see one getting ready this morning. Anyway, I know there's a lot of AD fans on here, and thought I would put this up so no one misses it. Stupid fox. They take away everything I love. Feel free to discuss that point.

I switch back and forth. My cursive writing is much better than my print, so I tend to use it more. Or I will use elements of both. I write on the board a lot for teaching, and cursive is faster for me to write when taking notes and stuff. So, I'm glad I learned it. Plus, I think it's harder to forge than print writing. . .

Cute I figure at least Steff would appreciate this story. Seriously, though, what kind of sick jerk does stuff like that? Kitten Goes Undercover in Vet Scam Probe By TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writer Wed Feb 8, 6:09 PM ET NEW YORK - He came from the streets of Brooklyn, a cool customer on four legs, the perfect bait for a sting on a fake veterinarian. Meet Fred, undercover kitten. Authorities on Wednesday introduced the 8-month-old former stray cat that posed as a would-be patient while police investigated a college student accused of treating pets without a license. At a news conference, Fred sported a tiny badge on his collar as he posed for photos with owner Carol Moran, a prosecutor. "He's pretty easygoing, a real Brooklyn guy," Moran said. Fred shared the spotlight with Burt the Boston terrier, an alleged victim of Steven Vassall, 28, who was arrested last week and released on $2,500 bail. Burt's owner, Raymond Reid, contacted authorities after the dog survived a botched operation. In hindsight, he said, he should have been suspicious of a veterinarian who only made house calls and treated animals at an undisclosed location. Vassall "seemed like a genuinely nice guy," Reid said. "I'm glad they caught him, but at the same time I feel sorry for him." Last week, an investigator posing as Fred's owner summoned Vassall to an apartment rigged with a hidden camera. Authorities played a videotape at the news conference showing the defendant saying the kitten could be neutered for $135. Vassall was arrested as he left the apartment carrying Fred in a box and cash for the operation. Investigators later recovered a price list for vaccinations and other procedures, including surgeries. It was unclear how long Vassall — a college student who once worked as a laboratory assistant in a vet's office — allegedly scammed pet owners before Fred helped put him out of business. Joyce Clemmons of the nonprofit Animal Care and Control, which rescued Fred, predicted the kitten had a future in law enforcement. "He's going to be the detective for the animal world," she said.

One hallway in my (work) building REEKS of pot.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Feb 9, 2006 -> 12:07 PM) Point taken, but I just don't see the point in spending an hour of my primetime TV viewing watching something I can see at any karaoke night in the area. There's less crying and dream crushing at karaoke.

I was warned by a psychic to stay away from them. And I do. (When I told this to a cognitive neuroscientist his reply was: Is your psychic a neurologist?)

Link From article: Despite opposition from some of their colleagues, 86 evangelical Christian leaders have decided to back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying "millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors."

I know I shouldn't but. . . A man enters a bar and orders a drink. The bar has a robot bartender. The robot serves him a perfectly prepared cocktail, and then asks him, "What's your IQ?" The man replies "150" and the robot proceeds to make conversation about global warming factors, quantum physics and spirituality, biomimicry, environmental interconnectedness, string theory, nano-technology, and sexual proclivities. The customer is very impressed and thinks, "This is really cool." He decides to test the robot. He walks out of the bar, turns around, and comes back in for another drink. Again, the robot serves him the perfectly prepared drink and asks him, "What's your IQ?" The man responds, "about 100." Immediately the robot starts talking, but this time, about football, NASCAR, baseball, supermodels, favorite fast foods, guns, and women's breasts. Really impressed, the man leaves the bar and decides to give the robot one more test. He heads out and returns, the robot serves him another perfectly prepared drink and asks, "What's your IQ?" The man replies, "Er, 50, I think." And the robot says... real slowly, "So.......... ya gonna vote for Bush again?"

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 03:49 PM) I do find it interesting though that although I have chosen to ignore my nemesis she continues to stalk my posts. The wickedness that lives & breathes daily in the left is unimaginable. Awwww, I wanted to be your nemesis. I'm way more left than Steff!!!!!

BWAHAHAHA to both of you guys.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 03:16 PM) Apparently you are addicted to me Yes. I want you. I need you.

Linkage Bush's Budget Sparks Bipartisan Protest By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer 1 hour, 19 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The administration defended President Bush's $2.77 trillion budget plan Tuesday against criticism that it would damage education, health care and farm programs in the name of combating budget deficits. Treasury Secretary John Snow, among leadoff witnesses in a series of congressional hearings, said the administration had made the tough choices to fund programs that were working and eliminate those that were not. "This budget represents the president's dedication to fiscal discipline, an efficient federal government and the continuation of a thriving U.S. economy," Snow told the Senate Finance Committee. But critics noted that the deficit for the current budget year would rise to an all-time high of $423 billion and they questioned Bush's projections for declining deficits in future years. Democrats said Bush's proposed budget for Fiscal 2007, beginning Oct. 1, was seriously understating spending that will be needed to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and did not include the billions of dollars needed in future years to make sure the alternative minimum tax designed for the wealthy does not pinch more and more middle class taxpayers. Sen. Max Baucus (news, bio, voting record), D-Mont., said the explosion of federal deficits was adding to the national debt, requiring the administration to come to Congress in the next few weeks to raise the $8.18 trillion debt ceiling. He said all of that debt is being financed more and more by foreigners. "America is borrowing 80 percent of the world's annual savings. We are handing our children and our children's children a set of obligations they will owe to foreign central banks," Baucus told Snow. Sen. Kent Conrad (news, bio, voting record), D-N.D., produced charts showing that the amount of federal government debt held by foreigners before Bush became president totaled $1 trillion and now in the first five years of his administration has more than doubled. Snow said the ability of the United States to pay interest on the debt was a function of the economy's size and the vitality of the nation's bond markets. "There is no doubt given the deep and liquid capital markets of the United States, that we will continue to attract capital from investors around the world," the Treasury secretary told the committee. Testifying separately before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said the military must continue to change in order to defend against terrorists who could get a nuclear weapon or launch a biological attack. "No nation, no matter how powerful, has the resources or capability to defend everywhere, at every time, against every conceivable type of attack," Rumsfeld said. "The only way to protect the American people, therefore, is to provide our military with as wide a range of capabilities, rather than preparing to confront any one particular threat. Bush's budget, which was sent to Congress on Monday, has faced predictable criticism from Democrats but it is also facing attacks from Republicans. Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., called Bush's proposed cuts in education and health "scandalous" while Sen. Olympia Snowe (news, bio, voting record), R-Maine, said she was "disappointed and even surprised" at the extent of the administration's proposed cuts in Medicaid and Medicare. Snowe pushed the administration on Tuesday to explain why it was putting so much emphasis on getting a permanent extention of reductions in taxes on capital gains and dividends when, she said, the more immediate problem was keeping the alternative minimum tax from pushing up the taxes of more of the middle class. She said the administration's emphasis on extending its first term tax cuts rather than dealing with the AMT was "putting the cart before the horse." Bush's spending blueprint for the 2007 budget year that begins Oct. 1 would provide large increases for the military and homeland security but would trim spending in the one-sixth of the budget that covers the rest of discretionary spending. Nine Cabinet agencies would see outright reductions with the biggest percentage cuts occurring in the departments of Transportation, Justice and Agriculture. And in mandatory programs — so-called because the government must provide benefits to all who qualify — the president is seeking over the next five years savings of $36 billion in Medicare, $5 billion in farm subsidy programs, $4.9 billion in Medicaid support for poor children's health care and $16.7 billion in additional payments from companies to shore up the government's besieged pension benefit agency. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley noted that Congress has just completed a yearlong battle to achieve far smaller savings in Medicaid and Medicare and "any more reductions of a significant scope could be difficult this year." Bush's budget would meet his twin goals of making permanent his first-term tax cuts, which are set to expire by 2010, and cutting the deficit in half by 2009, the year he leaves office. Democrats, hoping to wrest control of Congress from the Republicans in this year's election, charged that Bush was forced into an austere spending plan because of the estimated $1.35 trillion over the next decade that it will cost to extend his first-term tax cuts, which Democrats claim primarily benefit the very wealthy. In addition to strict limits on most discretionary, non-security spending in the budget, Bush sought drastic cuts or total elimination on 141 programs that would produce savings of nearly $15 billion in 2007. Bush's budget submission is just the opening round in what opponents are promising will be a spirited fight in Congress over spending priorities.