NUKE_CLEVELAND

QUOTE(bmags @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 07:16 PM) i found an awesome mom and pop record store that i have huge loyalties to. I miss...good cartoons. Mid nineties nickelodean was the tits. How bout Mid 80's Nickelodeon with Double Dare and You Can't Do That On TV. Now THAT was the tits.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Nov 4, 2005 -> 08:39 PM) Marte for Thome...............DONE! LOL! Beat me to it. Maybe throw in a bag of used balls to sweeten the deal.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Nov 3, 2005 -> 04:36 PM) Any chance he could play first base if Paulie goes? Or is that something the White Sox would never look at doing again? Frank at first base is the worst option. If we lose Konerko then the common wisdom seems to be move Dye there and bring up Anderson. I can deal with that but I want Konerko coming back to be the 1st option.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 02:15 PM) Details will probably become clear when the audit is actually finished. The monitoring board also suggests that other contractors should be reimbursed only when the audits are actually finished. If the rest of the members of the board are like this then the "UN is corrupt judging the corrupt" argument doesn't fly. Yah, forget the UN is corrupt too argument. Yeah, even though they're sitting on the board. Independent indeed.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 02:04 PM) You do realize it was an independant auditing board that is making the accusation? Do you really want the UN investigating this themselves? Yes I do. However, with their rush to accuse without anything to back it up I wonder just how "independent" this agency really is. Unfortunately, without any objective evidence this whole thing just stinks.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 01:56 PM) So who should blow the whistle? If the UN discovers that billions are missing, what should they do? Wouldn't keeping their mouth shut be corrupt and covering up? They could start by gathering something more concrete than accusations. As I said before, they are the only proven theives between the 2 of them and accusations backed up by nothing lead me to call bulls***.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 01:52 PM) And it is a bi-product of politics in America. I don't remember when it happened, but all of a sudden, people started defending crappy behavior and government because it was "our side". If you vote for a guy, and he screws up, you should be *more* upset. Instead, we feel like we need to defend the guy and the opposition wants to pile on any minor infraction. When supporters demand more from their candidates, then we'll get back on track. That will not happen because there are no multi million dollar campaigns and radio shows calling for it. If by crappy behaivior you mean the Plame investigation or cronyism in the Administration I haven't defended it at all. Recall that in an earlier thread I referred to the conduct in the Plame outing as treason and how those guilty should be punished accordingly. By guilty, I mean convicted in a court of law, however, not in the court of public opinion. I also took a shot at Bush for part of the Katrina disaster, specifically the fact that a hack like Brown got a job as important as head of FEMA. All I ask is for someone, ANYONE, at the local level to stand up and say "I screwed up". Blanco and Nagin preferred to point the finger at the President and that was most unfortunate because those 2 were the first lines of defense in a crisis and they utterly failed at their jobs.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 01:38 PM) You wrote it's not our money, what did you mean? Which is better quick to believe, investigate, and determine what is correct or quick to ignore and make excuses? The GOP has their ditto heads defending anything and everything. How did Republicans think before the GOP Radio Network? Now Rush tells it on his show, and all the GOPerheads shout ditto Rush, bow, and say it must be true. Nice to see you are keeping score and as long as Halliburton isn't as corrupt as other companies, they must be OK. The GOP doesn't want you to believe any media sources that criticizes it, and you take their party line hook line and sinker. The GOP wants the Judicial branch to not use it's Constitutionally given rights and has been mounting a activist judge campaign for years. Talk about rewriting the Constitution! Let's say Halliburton did steal millions from the UN. Who can make the claim and have you believe an investigation is necessary? The UN is 10X more corrupt, so they can't. The media has a liberal bias so they can't. I guess Chaney's old company just gets a pass. I stand corrected Tex. Since the U.N. has proven to be extremely adept at plundering Iraq ( they did it for 8 years so they at least have experience on their side ) they should know theft when they see it, evidence be damned. The only thing Haliburton has been caught doing wrong is overcharging on fuel and the Congress made them pay for it. Until they come up with some concrete evidence the U.N. needs to keep its collective mouth closed because they are the only proven thieves between the 2 of em.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 01:40 PM) Nuke, riddle me this. A city lines up and starts chopping thumbs off petty criminals, is it in Iraq, Somalia, or the US? My experiment is a failure. I was hoping someone would say "you're kidding right" but everyone overreacted and came out blazing with the "cruel and unusual", "you're a pshyco" tack. Come on Tex, even I can't agree with something like that!

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 01:33 PM) Any book or movie or anything that paints the other side as the real problem is divise. Michael Moore, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bernie Goldberg and even Al Franken do it. I dont disagree that the book is divisive ( thats probably why I can't wait to get my hands on it ), I just get tired of hearing the lefties in the media paint the right as the dividers while leaving the left untouched. We're on the same page on that point.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 01:08 PM) Dear, I can see that having a light touch isn’t your strong suit. Remember, when one’s oeuvre consists of negative posts which rely so heavily on constant shouting, sexual slurs, profanity and ad hominem attacks on individuals, groups - nay, entire countries - (as yours does), you leave yourself open to mocking responses. I suggest you learn to laugh along with me. I suspect most everyone else here is. >> You're spot on with your 1st point. As for your second point, there's a big difference between mocking and actually refuting what I say with intelligent thought. You choose to do the former and thats fine with me. I can handle you 2 ways. I can sit here and trade nasty post for nasty post with you or I can simply ignore you're taunts and allow your petty, condescending attitude to speak for me. I choose the latter because people like you end up condemning themselves with their own big mouth far worse than I ever could. Also, I realize that you're new here and starved for attention ( not just on this message board but I suspect in life as well I suspect ).

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 05:52 AM) Well, I don’t make a practice of publicly correcting someone’s improper grammar, spelling or usage, but I see I’ll have to make an exception in your case. But trust me on this, dear, you’ve started something you have absolutely no hope of winning, so you’d do well to just drop this folly right now. >It should be Captain Fact Check, not Captain fact check. (Are you sure you're in the Army?) >It is – I’m, not Im. >I think we’ll leave a discussion of “Commas – just old school or helpful in furthering clear exposition?” – for another day. When you need further help, please don’t hesitate to ask. Kind Regards, Captain Fact Check It's sad really that when someone has no points to argue that they resort to nitpicking grammar and spelling. Trust me, if I thought you were worth the effort I would take extra care to ensure my posts were free of spelling mistakes and that every last comma was in the right place. Unfortunately, however, you are nothing more than a petty, stuck up asshole and you're simply not worth it.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 05:14 AM) I sense a kindred spirit, as I love books and reading. So may I give you a few tips on book reviews? >First, get the title right, spell all the words correctly, and include the author's full name, all of which you have failed to do. You owe it to the author. And it makes a good first impression on your readers. >Second, it’s not enough to just order the book. You’ll need to receive it. >Then (and here’s the time-consuming and more difficult part) you’ll actually have to read it. >Next, take some notes as you go, mull things over, and then write down some of your own thoughts and post them here. >Finally, it’s okay to cut and past a large block of someone else’s words about the work in question, as you have clearly done here in your initial post. But it’s considered really bad form not to credit the person who actually wrote them. Hope I’ve been of some help. I look forward to your evaluation of this book - after you read it. Kind Regards, Captain Fact Check I dont recall reviewing or commenting on anything. I posted a little snippet that I found on a website regarding a book that looked interesting to me. In the future I'll remember what you deem as the proper format for talking about books.........then laugh hysterically. You can take your elitist, holier than thou attitude and kindly shove it up your ass. I promise you that you won't last very long here acting that way.

QUOTE(illinilaw08 @ Nov 5, 2005 -> 05:22 PM) At least not with the product currently on the ice. If the Hawks start winning, the fans... and the roar... wil return to Blackhawk hockey. After 8 full years of rebuilding there still is no reason to believe this organ-i-zation is going anywhere but backwards.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 01:24 AM) He’s not the mayor of Reno. It’s Las Vegas. I reckon Nuke isn’t strong on those pesky little details. Oh damn. Captain fact check got me good there. Im devastated.

QUOTE(Cerbaho-WG @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 01:08 AM) That's pure ignorance. Some Pied Noirs have been kept down for over forty years, and, as said earlier, this was just waiting to happen. Algerians and other immigrants have been in a cycle of abject poverty for over four decades now, and they're finally showing their disgust with the French government. If they are being treated so badly in France then let them go back where they came from. Nobody forced those people to move there in the 1st place. There is no excuse for this behavior whatsoever but the French......being the French.......are letting it spin out of control and tear the country apart.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Nov 6, 2005 -> 01:57 AM) "The reality is that conservatives like to preach in moral platitudes. They like to condemn ordinary Americans and Liberals for a whole host of things - lack of patriotism, lack of action to protect Americans from terrorists, abuse of family values, and greed. But when it comes to applying those same standards to themselves, conservatives are found to be shockingly guilty of hypocrisy." I hope this book is funny because books that divide are a dime a dozen Educational is more like it. Also, its ok for your side to point out our shortcomings but when we do it we're "divisive".

I just ordered this book over Amazon. A little taste.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/05...iots/index.html Violence gets worse and worse instead of better and is growing more widespread. The French Government better do something to get this over with quickly or the whole country might fall into chaos. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/02...mann/index.html This article is pretty telling as well. Its actually being suggested that the police leave the neighborhoods in order to "calm them down". LOL! Yeah so the rioters can tear the place down without police interference. I love how the media is spinning this into the typical "frustration and rage" story. These Muslim immigrants show up in France with no skills and no education and they expect to be provided with everything and if they dont get everything they want then they burn the house down.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 5, 2005 -> 10:53 PM) LOL. First off I vote for individuals, but you all play ditto heads and vote for any GOP who happens to be on the ticket. First the GOP gets you to denouce one third of the governement, the Judicial branch. Then they get you to ignore any media that criticizes them. Then they get you to defend anything they do because it's your guys. Now you'll defend any GOP led business??? :headshake The dumbing down of America is almost complete. Funny how leftists like you are so quick to believe reports of American corruption stealing money from Iraq which are written and dissiminated by an organization ( The U.N. itself ) which wrote the book on corruption and stealing money from Iraq and did so for about 8 years. Never mind that the source is 10 times as corrupt as the corporation which is supposedly doing all this theft. Never mind that there is no evidence in their report, just accusations. I do agree with 1 of your points though. The dumbing down of America IS nearly complete. It is YOU and those who think like you who are leading the charge.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Nov 5, 2005 -> 04:24 PM) It'll be a tall order for the Democrats to regain control in either. For Senators the Republicans have 55, the Democrats have 44, basically 45. For Congress the Republicans have 229 and the Democrats have 204 I think. Not to mention that Republicans have a massive edge in money. Democrats are going to be the minority party for a long long time and rightfully so.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Nov 5, 2005 -> 04:19 PM) Well, I guess you guys like having your money stolen. First of all it was not our money. Second of all, there is no evidence included in their report, just accusations. Third. Halliburton was punished by Congress and forced to pay fines when they got caught overcharging. This report is total nonsense.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Nov 5, 2005 -> 04:16 PM) Vote Republican in 2006. I will be.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Nov 5, 2005 -> 03:17 PM) How long until France surrenders? This is why jokes about their lack of military prowless continue. I wonder if the riot police are going into these neighborhoods with white flags over their heads. I had to do it.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/05...iots/index.html Rioting continues unabated for the 9th straight night.