NUKE_CLEVELAND

QUOTE(Yoda @ Dec 25, 2005 -> 07:56 PM) I don’t think this year can get any better. The White Sox give us an early Christmas present and now the Bears clinch the NFC North on Christmas Day! In GREEN BAY no less. EAT s*** PACKERS!!!!!

No.

I got a digital camera, a couple hundred in cash and a few assorted gift cards. Not a bad haul.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10594017/ LOL!

Now that it's clear, based on evidence, that we haven't beaten and tortured Hussein my question becomes............. "Why not?!?"

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 09:07 PM) I wonder how gung ho you would be if instead of Middle Eastern American males they were targeting the males of you or your family's ethinicity. Might not be as dissmissive and apologetic about wire taps and the like. If people of Polish ( Im Polish ) descent were known to be plotting and committing acts of terrorism then I would have absolutely no problems with Law Enforcement profiling Polish people. If they ran my record they'd see Im a card-carrying Republican, NRA member, military guy and go "next". Wait, I just thought of something, every time a polak gets behind the wheel of a car he commits an act of terrorism. Seriously though, if people would stop whining about Law Enforcement and just co-operate with them then life would be a lot easier. Some people here make it sound like Law Enforcement has nothing better to do than harass people just for the sake of harassing them.

Spending Christmas Eve with the folks .........going out to dinner. Christmas Day is the whole family gathering at my uncles house in Glen Ellyn.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 09:59 PM) I think I am going to turn in Nuke. Seriously, I really hope this team gets crushed into the ground. You're learning grasshoppa! Another big home game against a division rival............. ..........Slacks get pwn3d!!! like b****es yet again. Way to send the fans home happy Dollar Bill...........Well the Red Wings fans went home happy anyway. BTW...... do they even consider us a rival anymore?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 02:39 PM) Investigations should center not on categories, but suspects and evidence. I have an idea. How about I start pulling over cars to check for DUIs only if they have USMC stickers on the back window? 'Cause, you know, all those military brats are wont to drink and drive when they are off base. Sound good to you? :headshake You jest but your example is already in practice. Go to any military town's local watering hole about 2 AM and see the coppers hanging around waiting to nail drunk soldiers stumbling to their cars. You just proved my point.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 02:47 PM) And what's funny about your post is, you seem to think people have been taken in by phantom "rhetoric". I don't categorize in the small-minded way that you seem to in your posts. If all you're going to do is write off people's statements by assinging them to a category (everyone not in agreement with you is a liberal) and/or being media zombies, then why bother contributing to the discussion at all? Im not writing off any individual persons statements per-se. Im attacking the party line of class/race warfare that dominates the mainstream of Democratic thought. All I see when I watch the news or read the paper is some prominent Democrat going on and on about rich vs poor, black vs white. Pitting American vs American is wrong and destructive and is worth attacking at every opportunity.

NO!!!! IT CAN'T BE!!!! THIS IS A PLOT BY THE US MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT TO SUGARCOAT THE DISASTERS IN THE ECONOMY AND IRAQ AND EVERYTHING ELSE UNDER THE SUN!!!!!

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 01:45 PM) The snooping is directed at private individuals and private property and thus requires a warrant. The courts have determined it is illegal to randomly fly infrared sensors over homes to check for heat patterns that would indicate an indor pot operation. But with probable cause and a warrant they can do it. Same situation here. Racial profiling issues aside, if probable cause had been shown and warrants issued, monitoring these sites would be completely different. It again shows that BushCo does not care to bother with the pesky details that would force them to comply with the law. Im so sick of hearing about racial profiling. I look at it as common freekin sense. If the people who are committing terrorism are young Middle Eastern males then it makes sense to focus your investigations on them. Same goes for Young Black Males and random acts of criminality. Im sorry if it looks bad but thats just facts of life.

Here it comes kiddies. Wirt$ aint happy with their record so a salary dump is imminent. They're following the script to the letter.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 07:17 AM) Yeah Yawney's gotta take some of the blame no doubt, but I also gotta look at Dale Tallon for signing someone like Martin LaPointe who was terrible in Boston to a 3 year deal, and in this new NHL, he just doesn't fit. For a while the Hawks were actually playing some ok hockey, but they've just gone downhill since that Nashville game. This is on you Kap. He shouldn't have made that bet with me at the beginning of the season. I put the hex on em. LOL!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 09:10 AM) http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports....E20051222a.html Irony. Hypocrasy is the word I was thinking of.

I think this is just the beginning of a more substantial withdrawal of troops as the year goes on. I expect to see US troop levels at no more than 80,000 by the end of the year.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 08:57 AM) I think the tax cuts probably had some material positive impact, but not nearly enough given the deficits t put us into. In any case, I think the real estate boom generated a lot more cash to encourage the recovery than any tax cuts did. Actually, that would be a really great study - how much buying power was generated in the consumer markets by the tax cuts, versus the real estate boom? If I was in Grad school for a PhD in anything math or finance/econ or Poli Sci related, I'd be all over that. Tax cuts allow businesses to plow more money back into expanding their businesses ( e.g. hiring more people and expanding operations ). Additionally, individuals have more money to spend on whatever they spend money on and that helps increase economic activity as well. All this increased activity increases the tax base and that allows the government to more than make up for revenues lost fron reducing the tax rates. To add to that, the "windfall for the rich" cuts in Capital Gains taxes and taxes on dividends encourage people to go ahead and book profits they would otherwise be reluctant to. This has the same effect of increasing the pool of people who are paying the tax and thusly increases revenues. You have to look beyond the rhetoric of the left to the economic fact to see all this.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 04:45 PM) Bush's tax cuts didnt do a damn thing. I ask a simple question... if we just experienced the "Clinton" recession (which is total bs) what did G HW Bush experience... the "Reagan" recession? Somebody please let me know when the stock market gets back to where it was back in 2000. Then we can show a 0% gain in 5+ years. You dont do a lot of research to back up what you say do you? There isin't an economist out there who isin't saying the Bush tax cuts had a big hand in the economic growth we're experiencing now. I'll take their word over yours. The Clinton recession was just exactly that as the economy began slowing while he was still in office and dipped into recession shortly after Bush took office. The recession under Bush Sr happened in 1990-1991 which is well after Reagan left office ( Jan 1989 ). That recession was his and his alone. The Stock Market bubble popped under Clinton's watch also. That wasn't his fault though as it was rampant speculation on tech stocks that caused it. Take a class called Econ 101 then come back here and post about economics.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2005 @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 12:55 AM) But Orton "Manages" the game well. LOL yeah, he's a "manager" of the 3 and out like none other.

QUOTE(Spiff @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 03:46 PM) I was in the hospital from the 2nd until today with a nifty little bug called Wegner's vasculitis, in case anyone had wondered where I went. Anyway I tried to keep up with the Sox, I guess I like the Vazquez trade even though Chris Young was gettin a lot of good pub. Hope everyone's holiday season is shaping up well. At least I got out in time to watch all the bowl games (and Christmas, obviously). Welcome back dude. Glad you're feeling better.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 11:09 AM) Let me correct that for you. Wow. Now we are paying American newspapers to print negative stories? Why waste the money? The leftist media is more than happy to dig up all the negativity they can possibly find.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 11:01 AM) OK, I'm convinced. If a wonk from Joe Coors' Heritage Foundation says this is the right (Right?) thing to do, then absolutely let's do it. I mean, if this works out half as well as the Foundation's Reagan era advocacy of SDI and the arming of Afghanistan and Nicaragua it should be just fine. Not to hijack the thread but Reagans SDI efforts are widely credited as the final straw that broke the Soviet Union's back and were the basis for the current and nearly operational missile defense systems we have going into place right now. As for arming Afghanistan it achieved its purpose of engaging the Soviets in their own Vietnam which ended up being a crushing blow to their military. Its too bad Bush Sr walked away from them entirely during his administration.

WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE!?!?! NOTHING IS GOING RIGHT IN IRAQ!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS MORE U.S. PROPOGANDA TO SHORE UP FAILING SUPPORT FOR THE ILLEGAL, IMMORAL, RACIST, OIL HUNGRY WAR OF AGGRESSION!!!!!!!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 10:09 AM) Looks like a settlement could be close... http://nytimes.com/2005/12/22/nyregion/22c...agewanted=print I hope so. Nobody really wins in a situation like this and the biggest losers are people who rely on transit to get to work and such.

It doesn't surprise me one bit that they'd say stuff like that. The Democrats have no message at all except Bush sucks so they have to point to how awful things are in the country. One little problem though, things are actually going rather well in the country. The Economy keeps on growing and a good clip ( 4.1% GDP at last check ) and is cranking out anywhere from 150-250 thousand jobs a month consistently ( aside from the blip from Katrina ) with unemployment levels right about where they were during the 90's boom years. Despite the left hanging on every single US soldier that dies in Iraq, they have their new government all the way in place now its getting better all the time and we should be able to start withdrawing troops this year. As far as the Katrina mess goes I think most people are reasonable enough to see through this bogus claim of racism by Democratic politicians in the state. Its pretty clear to most that charges of racism are nothing more than a smokescreen to mask incompetence on the local level. Yes Bush deserves some blame but no more of it than Nagin and Blanco. Mark my words the Democrats will pay for their behaivior in the mid terms.