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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/23/war.deserter.ap/index.html Clap him in irons and send him off to Levenworth for a nice long stay. Pussy.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 10:07 PM) They're 1-7 in their last 8, and have won just 2 of their last 12 series. Just mailing it in. They are SUCH a disappointment this season. Its really sad.

You have GOTTA love how there are certain circles who say the Bush Administration is the biggest bunch of boobs ever to inhabit the White House, how they were so totally clueless when it came to dealing with Katrina, yet they allegedly pulled off the grandest conspiracy in world history by "perpetrating" 9-11. You have to laugh at the irony there.

Until they can confirm it beyond a shadow of a doubt I classify any report of his death as dubious at best.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Sep 23, 2006 -> 10:21 AM) I would put Egypt on the more moderate side of things. Calling Egypt extremist isin't right at all. They are among the most moderate of the Islamic countries.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/22/...reut/index.html I think Isreal is going soft. This asshole is allowed to go out in public and call them out. Why on earth didn't they cluster bomb this "victory rally" and whack this s***bag?

QUOTE(kwolf68 @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 08:09 AM) I want small ball back. Our team in 05 had a great mix....plenty of power and ability to move runners over, and manufacture runs. True, the pitching went into the tank this year, but we have to believe they rebound next year. Jimmy Rollins and Michael Bourne from Philly would be a good start. The '05 team was hungry, the '06 team was not. Thats why we didn't produce like we did before. Also, our "table setter" Scotty Dergan wasn't doing much of anything save for striking out looking a lot. I think Mr. Dergan needs a good kick in the ass or a kick out of town.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 07:56 AM) Their big problem was that Iraq was bombing their facilities and setting them back 20-30 years. It wasn't that they weren't trying, it was that they were forced to start over. Granted no one really wanted to help them during their war with Iraq, but that still didn't change the fact that they were trying to go nuclear, if at that time for no other reason than to proabably drop it on Iraq. Iraq was trying to develop nukes as well but Isreal stopped em cold before they got too far along. Eventually, I think its going to come down to us having to bomb Iran's sites. I don't see that whack job Ahmeneawhosits backing down through diplomacy.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 07:53 AM) 35 year old lead off hitter is a no-no if you ask me. Theres gotta be someone better out there. You want an old man for a leadoff hitter lets go see what Rickey Henderson is up to these days.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 07:55 AM) If we are going to dump a starter, make it Buehrle. He's only ours through 2007, is a lefty with trade value, and has terrible stuff. At least Vaz has shown some signs, and Freddy has shown he can get people out lately. I think MB can bounce back. I'm still pissed that Freddy and Vazquez didn't decide to show up until it was too late.

You can point out poor SP, poor timely hitting, failure to get on base enough (*cough* Podsednik *cough) but it all boils down to not being hungry this season. Thats it in a nutshell.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 06:10 AM) Interesting read; So would you trade Garland as part of a deal for Willis, and who would a young quality SP be to make you think about dealing Jon? NO, NO, NO! There is no reason at all to trade Garland. The starter we need to move before anybody is Vazquez. I just love how he decides to show up after we're basically out of it. Get rid of his ass. That goes for Garcia too. Another one who didn't show up until we had knocked ourselves out of the hunt.

QUOTE(Pierzynski_12 @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 07:25 AM) AJ's homerun in the top of the 9th against the cubs with 2 outs and 2 on! That has to be my favoirte and I know I'm not alone on that one. Totally agree. The bat flip he did made it that much sweeter.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 07:32 AM) One thing this team has shown since the ASB is that they have small balls. LMFAO!!! sooooooooooooooooooooooo true.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 07:33 AM) That's not what I'm referring to. Financial resources for Iran were pretty strapped throughout a big part of the 1980s. They had few friends and little werewithal to work on the technology. In the 1980s, there wasn't a lot of interest in helping Iran go nuclear. Iran/Iraq was just another proxy war between the Soviets and ourselves. We propped up Hussein and the Soviets propped up Iran. Last thing the Soviets wanted, however, was another crazy Muslim nation on their border with nukes, which is why I can't understand their intransigence about imposing sanctions on Iran today.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 07:36 AM) That's our best alliance? The man who won't let US forces in Northern Pakistan to hunt down taliban bases and Al-Qaeda bases which are known to be there? The guy who's protecting AQ Khan? The only thing keeping Pakistan out of the Axis of Evil is that it's a nuclear state. Perhaps best was a poor choice or words. They are certainly doing a bunch of shady stuff in the background. Still, they have done quite a lot to help us out since 9/11. This deal they made with the tribes in the border region f***ing sucks though. They should be going through there with a fine tooth comb looking for Bin Laden if they wont allow our guys in there. However, methinks that we already have SF teams hanging around in Pakistan looking for a sniff to where OBL or Mullah Omar are hiding.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,215141,00.html I often wondered what Bush said to Musharraf to get him to help us out.

QUOTE(rangercal @ Sep 21, 2006 -> 01:46 PM) Do you know for sure? Nobody on this board really knows. We only know what we are told. All theories to the contrary have been soundly refuted.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 21, 2006 -> 06:14 AM) The irony is always that if you aren't doing what I want you to be doing, you are doing nothing. The repubs have had their laundry list of stuff they have been trying to pass, but because it doesn't fit the agenda of the dems, they are tying the hands of congress, and on the other side of the aisle the Dems have a whole different list of stuff they want to do, but because it doesn't fit the agenda of the Repubs they are a "do nothing congress" Please. Its just more of the same old politicking for the party bases. I am sure if you look hard enough you can find some long winded speech about the Dems allowing the murder of babies, the undermining of our military, the enabling of terrorists, or anything else you want to find that fits the exact same type of arguement. BTW, thanks for freeing this up from "hiding" Rex. A congress that does nothing is far less dangerous than a congress that does too much IMHO.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 21, 2006 -> 03:57 PM) So, someone want to tell me why Medicare is forbidden from doing this? Way I see it, Medicare and SS should both be blown up and redone. In their present forms they burn through more and more money every year and the value of their services declines at the same rate.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 21, 2006 -> 08:13 AM) Iran has been asking the U.S. repeatedly for direct talks for years. The U.S. has said they will only talk to Iran on the condition that Iran stops its uranium enrichment program in its entirety. Which is the right answer. Anything less would be giving in to them.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 21, 2006 -> 02:21 PM) You know what will happen next, right? Now we will start to hear about the poor local pharmasists who are going to go out of business because of those low drug prices... Wal-Mart can do no right with some people. They are going to get bashed no matter what they do.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 21, 2006 -> 02:03 PM) I answered that questions a few posts ago. I am OK with requiring ID as long as ID's can be had in that state (or at a federal level) free of charge. I will never accept the idea of charging for a right. If Im not mistaken, this latest bill includes funding to help defray the cost of getting these people state IDs. With all the accusations of fraud that Democrats make you would think they would welcome something that helps stop election fraud. Oh, wait, This means no voting 3 times and no illegal aliens voting either so we cant have that now can we?

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 03:38 PM) Anybody read Chavez' speech transcript. Can't say I agree with him, but I loves me some oratory! He calls the UN worthless, calls Bush "the devil", complains about the smell of sulphur, cites Noam Chomsky repeatedly!, invites everyone to Venezuela, and talks about how most of his delegation isn't allowed out of the planes that took them to the US. That's some speechifyin! http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm Rex, you must be one of about 4 people on this planet that take that blustering idiot seriously.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 08:20 AM) So their FY 2006 goal total was 288,497 accessions (whatever that means). For the year before, FY 2005, it was a total of 299,333. They decreased their goals by about 4% YOY. accessions = people brought into the services. I know the Air Force is in the process of drawing down right now. That might explain the overall reduction in people being brought in.