NUKE_CLEVELAND

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 26, 2005 -> 11:03 AM) Man, thanks for telling us now, Mr. Chairman...only 4 years after you endorsed the tax cuts which created over 1/2 of the current hole in our budget deficit. CNN Thats simply not the case. Runaway spending is the cause of our problems. Cut and dried. Id like to see Congress grow some stones and slash away at spending before I hear anything about hiking taxes on anybody. They could...... -Cut billions in pork barrel bulls*** out of the latest highway bill -Freeze entitlement spending at previous years levels -Have Rummy do a full and complete audit of the Defense Department, which is a notorious cesspool for wasteful spending. -( I'll toss the lefties a bone with this one ) Reduce our troop presence in Iraq. (No I did NOT say pull out )

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Sep 26, 2005 -> 08:38 PM) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush http://www.cbpp.org/10-21-03tax.htm Can someone point to an article that is not heavily conservatively biased that talks about this 265 billion dollar increase, I can't bloody find one. I can't get much of any relevance with searches on google news Watch CNBC. I heard several commentators cite that figure from the CBO when compared to the year 2000. Here's an article to help out for now though. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5070101926.html It should be clear to one and all that runaway spending is what is making the defecit a chronic problem not tax cuts. The same thing happened in the 1980's when spending increases far outpaced increasing revenue from increased economic activity which was spurred, you guessed it, by tax cuts.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Sep 26, 2005 -> 10:11 AM) A little energy conservation won't hurt anybody. I'm in favor of escalated tax rates for the energy pigs in America. Let that $ be channeled into cleaner renewable energy sources. Personally, I dont care how much money they make. I open up my E-Trade account and see what my EnCana and Halliburton are up to and all my concerns about high energy prices go away. This administration has allowed massive consolodation in the energy industry most notably Valero's merger with Premcor (2 large type refiners ). The Clinton Administration saw the mergers of ExxonMobil and BP Amoco. That dynamic, along with rising demand from Asia and infrastructure hits in the gulf are going to conspire to keep oil and gasoline prices high for a long time and keep the money rolling into their coffers at record rates. BTW.........You think Gasoline sucks now......just wait till you get your natural gas bills this winter. Way I look at it is you can curse under your breath or, if you have the means, you can take advantage of the situation and profit from it.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 26, 2005 -> 09:04 PM) The blame for this game definitely goes on AJP. It's disappointing to see the terrible approach some of our veterans, like AJP and Everett, have had down the stretch. I respect that Ozzie is going with the 9 guys that got us this far, but why not give one of the benchers a chance to give us a spark in a game? Play 8 of the core guys, and put someone like Gload/Borchard/Anderson into the game. The Yanks have got a big lift from Bubba Crosby lately. As I said in a post last night, there's a difference between making a guy a "starter", and just sitting him out one game. If Ozzie had followed that strategy earlier in the season instead of doing the Sunday lineup thing so damn much earlier in the season we would be a lot mroe well off at this point.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 26, 2005 -> 07:46 PM) Do you have the Vets Aren't Fonda Jane bumper sticker? No. I just hate that f***ing b****. Intensely.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Sep 26, 2005 -> 02:57 PM) Ah yes, lets compare a mother protesting a war in Washington D.C. to an actress pretending to fire North Vietnamese guns in Hanoi while visiting the enemy during a war. That seems apt. :rolly You're thinking of Jane Fonda......

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Sep 26, 2005 -> 11:16 AM) Well, NUKE, you asked for it. In my inbox this Thursday... One day about a month ago, the President was looking for a call girl. He found three such girls in a local lounge, a blonde, a brunette and a redhead. To the blonde he said, "I am the President of the United States. Now how much would it cost me to spend some time with you? She replied, $200." To the brunette he asked the same question. Her reply was $100. He then asked the redhead. Her reply was, "Mr. President, if you can get my skirt up as high as my taxes, my panties as low as my wages, get that thing of yours as hard as the times, and keep it rising like the gas prices, keep me warmer than it is in my apartment and screw me the way you do the public, then believe me, Mr. President, it isn't going to cost you a damn cent. I got an awesome Clinton Joke. Bill Clinton and his wife are laying in bed on their 30th anniversery. When they first got married Bill told Hillary that he kept a box under their bed and that she should never open it no matter what. Hillary's curiosity got the best of her on their 30th and she opened the box. In it was 3 empty beer cans and 80 thousand bucks. Hillary tells Bill that she opened the box and wants to know about its contents. Bill is like ok. Honey every time I cheated on you I drank a beer and put the can in the box. Hillary thinks for a second........ok Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky.......then says "well whats with the 80 thousand bucks?" Bill then says........well baby every so often the box would fill up with empty beer cans so Id take em to the recycling center and cash em in.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 26, 2005 -> 05:31 PM) *sigh* I'm not even going to argue because you don't even want to hear the other side of it. I'll bite. Revenues brought into the treasury are some 265 billion more annually than they were prior to the tax cuts. But why let a little detail like that get in the way of rich people bashing? :rolly

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Sep 26, 2005 -> 01:15 PM) I have a hard time believing there isn't one "qualified" female worthy of nomination. I didn't say that.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Sep 26, 2005 -> 01:09 PM) I am certain if it were all women up there you'd be clamoring for a man to be appointed. Not if there wasn't a qualified male candidate under consideration. That works 2 ways.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Sep 26, 2005 -> 01:03 PM) Being a woman, I'd like to see a qualified woman up there instead of all men. What's wrong with a little variety? Variety is wrong when its done just for the sake of variety and no other reason.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 26, 2005 -> 11:05 AM) I just had a thought I would like to share. How many of us would be comfortable of placing our entire investment portfolio in a blind trust in exchange for public service? I can see the temptation to lift the veil of a blind trust. I'm not excusing the behavior, but it did give me pause. I'm willing to bet a number of posters here have peaked at least once of twice this morning at their holdings. Too bad for Frist if this knocks him down. I could never be in Frist's position. I watch my money and where I got it parked like a hawk.

Why is everyone so worried about diversity as opposed to finding the best candidate?

I want to beat the Spankees. I want to send them and their 200 million dollar payroll straight to the golf course. Dont pass go, dont collect 200 million dollars......just f***ing go!

LOL Does anybody care what this idiotic, airheaded singer thinks? Thats what I thought........

EAT s*** MINNY!!!!!!! WTG MARK!!!!! NICE TO SEE THIS TEAM GROW SOME BALLS AND PLAY LIKE THEY WANT TO BE IN THE POST SEASON......... GIMME A HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Sep 25, 2005 -> 04:49 PM) I'm contemplating making a career change - and a major concern involves the price of oil. What are you considering doing..........if Im not prying too much by asking?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 25, 2005 -> 02:10 PM) I doubt the prices of those stocks has gone up 250% over about 2 years. The energy futures is where it is at. I get nervous about commodities, the stocks offer some great returns if you're nimble with em and they're a lot less risky.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 25, 2005 -> 01:25 PM) http://www.nymex.com/gas_pre_agree.aspx Probably better off buying gas producers like Chesapeake and EnCana. Im happy with my halliburton as of late but those 2 are rocking a lot more.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 02:32 PM) The original announcement above said for people to refrain from searching. However, since we expect very heavy traffic again tonight, as a temporary solution (we hopefully will have a better more permanent solution in the near future) we are going to turn off the search function during tonights game as well as turn off the members viewing this forum and the members viewing this thread feature. We think this will put a limit to both the queries and as a result of that the mysql useage and connection hangups. We also plan on in the near future upgrading our mysql software (hopefully...the expert Kap has yet to tell 2k and I if what were thinking is actually right in terms of going to version 4.0 but we think were probably right for once). Also we'll be cleaning up the database a bit during a downperiod (not during a game or anything). We want to do our best to make sure people can access and talk with the rest of the community throughout the game thread and than after games we will turn those features back on. Hopefully this works and once again were going to work on a permanent solution. When I first looked at this thread title I cringed. Any time Jason says he's gonna try something new its time to run for cover.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 25, 2005 -> 10:58 AM) Your honor my client is innocent because the police officer failed to patrol that area properly. Come on Nuke, you are sounding like the ultra-liberal, society is at fault type, that I can't even respect. It's not my fault, I didn't know?? What happened to personal responsibility? Wanting to go after the right people doesn't make me an ultra liberal but hey, you get an A for effort on that one.

From cnn.com Put the rope away Tex.........no lynchings today.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 25, 2005 -> 10:50 AM) Sorry, what I wrote wasn't clear. The Trust Company is there for Frist's benefit and to help him comply with ethics laws. Shouldn't he be the expert on those laws and work to stay within them? Or are you saying that politicians can use ignorance of the law as an excuse to break it? It seems to me just from what you wrote there that someone in this Trust company either was stupid or complicit. Whoever said that in going after Frist you missed the real offenders seems to be spot on. But hey, don't let things like the presumption of innocence and the likelihood that Frist himself did absolutely nothing wrong stop you........we got ourselves a good ol fashioned Texas Lynching to do heaa. WOO HOO!!!!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 25, 2005 -> 08:38 AM) Were any laws violated by the Trust Company in giving him the info? It seems that the burden is on Frist. The Trust company is violating ethical standards, Frist may have broken the law. law>>ethics (although it would be nice if they were the same) Since when is the burden of proof on the accused............... Just curious about what you armchair constitutional scholars think about that since you're so eager to extend that courtesy to rapists and murderers.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 25, 2005 -> 08:23 AM) This is probably just lies from the liberal media trying to make Bush look bad Washington Post Link more, much more than that, at the link . . . And protesting never changed anything and never will...........whats your point?