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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 8, 2007 -> 01:44 PM) Wow, everything in the US media has sounded like just the opposite. It seems like everyone is chasing Rio. A part of me has started to wonder if this story was just a plant for Daley to shake some more money out of corporate donors... Well, that's what it will take for them to land it.

There's a lot of parity in the league where even the post lockout years there wasn't. The Hawks are still on the outside looking in (IMO), but they're starting to catch up on the talent ranks. St. Louis is DRASTICALLY improved. Nashville will regress, but not that far (out of the playoffs). The Pacific is scary good from top to bottom (name me a team in that division who doesn't make the playoffs - my guess is Dallas and they are not that bad of a team). The Northwest is improved. The only team not that much better is Columbus, but remember Rick Nash missed a good chunk of Oct, Nov and Dec last year, and he makes them better.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 8, 2007 -> 01:15 AM) Every President makes some disgusting pardons. Get over yourself. George H.W. Bush's were just as bad (man who would've incriminated his ass); Carter's, in my view, worse (assassins); Reagan's, worse. (Watergate.) Why make it personal?

QUOTE(29andPoplar @ Oct 6, 2007 -> 04:18 AM) Again, if Phil Rogers is the definitive authority. Phil is a nice guy and he has the gift many Texans have, he knows how to spin a good yarn. Hey. . . I know whatcha mean. . .

As I said before, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are pimps of racism.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 02:25 PM) Anyone see the new show last night called "Cubs lose in October"? Seems like a remake to me. The material is not very fresh. But yet, it's a show that I think has a happy ending, or so I hear.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 09:21 PM) the boyscouts are outside my branch selling popcorn... has anyone considered the sexist implications of boy scouts selling popcorn (campfires/masculine) and girl scouts selling cookies (baking/feminine)? just a thought Nope. Just you. Dorkass.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 07:44 PM) I can look back at my old posts and immediately pick out the ones I posted while hammered. . . or huffing aerosol, snorting crack, licking toads, or shooting heroin directly into my carotid artery. Those are the posts where I find myself agreeing with Kap about politics. Man, people today are on a roll. If you've been reading, I've been rather agreeable lately about a lot of you all's bloody wanker liberal butt-head thoughts.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 09:59 PM) Are you sure that isn't just 98.6543% ridiculous? Maybe 99.6543%. Get it right.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 08:47 PM) I'm still holding out a very small sliver of illogical hope for a Richardson vs Paul election in November of '08. They both have some momentum right now, though they are still huge long shots. Now that would be a decent election, and it would be one of ideas and less on attacks. The problem is, no one from either party wants that. It's all fear-mongering politics, and that's how the honchos want it in the parties. Not on a local level, but on a national level.

This thread has turned silly.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 08:37 PM) Has he really said stuff like that? I haven't seen it. I saw one quote where he said that part of the reason things are the way they are over there (in terms of the hatred of the US) was due to our own actions. And he is 100% right about that. But that's not the same as saying that 9/11 was our fault. On this one, I am probably prisoner to the "context". . . I hate that. Everything is a stupid soundbyte. I'll have to do some reading, but the thing is, he has very little chance anyway, unfortunately. I will end up voting for the lesser of two trash heaps again, just like last time.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 08:30 PM) Seems like Ron Paul should be your man? You supporting him? To be honest, I like mostly what he has to say, but - I do differ on him with Iraq and the Middle East - he started that whacko "it's our fault" crap re: 9/11 - and that instantly turns me off.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 08:12 PM) Everything I bolded is true of me too. Honestly. EDIT: I didn't word that correctly but you know what I mean. QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 08:18 PM) BTW - My voting record for Presidential candidates: 88: Bush 92: Perot 96: Dole 00: Bush 04: Kerry I'm being serious when I say this to you both (BS and NSS). I GENUINELY appreciate what you're saying here. I do agree, for the most part, of your assessments. GWB has REALLY disappointed me in a lot of ways, and as time goes on, it gets worse. The hardest part for me is when I hear the Democrats, it just makes me want to vomit. When I hear Bush, I shake my head because I feel like he's a misguided blundering idiot. Can you distinguish the difference? The Re-Pube-licans have totally lost their way. Fiscal discipline. Conservative values (without getting into the stupid religious right crap). Be tough on immigration (no citizenship, but come through the right way, even on a legal work program, which is fine by me). Put American values into place. Be positive. Stay strong on the war on terror, even if it means putting up a facade to leave Iraq more positive then it is now (i.e. the Dems beating up the issue more for political points then anything else, which leads to the dissention that we see today). The messages I put above are gone. It's all asshatery right now, and that's the issue. I feel as though the Democrats are wrong on the issues, and the Re-pube-licans are countering by getting away from their core. That, in a nutshell, is the issue to me.

Ya'll are talking about it, so it must be effective.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 07:36 PM) Blackwater update. The House passed legislation to put these contractors under US prosecutorial jurisdiction, by a hhuge super-majority (389-30). I guess they finally realized it might not be so good that these folks were operating without any sort of oversight or legal limitations, because the administration (DOD and State mostly, you can thank Rummy and Condi for this one) structured their contracts in such a way that they slipped between the cracks. No military justice, no US legal justice. Senate to vote soon, and if they have a similar majority, then Bush's veto will be useless. He was threatening to veto this?

No. You're not breaking any rules. The only insinuation I'm making is that you've been pretty clear on what your point is about 30 of the 80 posts.

QUOTE(Steff @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 02:04 PM) Then maybe you should stay out of the "I wish Barry Bonds played here" threads. QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 03:04 PM) Right. But see, then GP couldn't argue about everything under the sun. It's pretty clear what the opinions are, so I'm not sure why this gets carried out to 80+ posts. Most of them say the same thing.

GP, Alpha and numerous others have answered the question. Stop baiting.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 03:18 PM) Free speach is for adults who can handle the responsibilty. Are you serious? Let's punish a kid who's trying to be active in his country. I'm pretty sure the Bill of Rights dosen't say "18 and over only". Even though he's not 18, the person that get's elected president is gonna effect his life too. School's need to stop telling kid's what to wear and focus on teaching. This particular one is stupid, but have you seen what kids wear today? We never had dress codes, but I see why they have them now. Kids today have no respect, in general. In that vein, I see why they restrict this stuff.

There are good concerns in the article that were dressed up as hyperbole, that's for sure. Some of the points behind the language are a concern of mine, but not to the point that we're going to be in a "great depression" or anything like that.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 02:19 PM) Again folks, for the love of Mary, please READ THE ARTICLE. Obama did NOT issue a statement. He also did NOT say he didn't want to be associated with the flag, or the symbol, at all. He said nothing of the sort. Someone asked him in an appearance why he wasn't wearing a flag pin that day, and he responded that he would rather let his words speak about his patriotism. Then, as again seen IN THE ARTICLE, the author puts statements around his quote to inflate the situation. This is really about nothing at all. In fact, I am 90% sure that if someone asked the question of Thompson, or any other candidate in either party, they'd probably have said something very similar - oh, I'm patriotic, listen to my words, see how I am a patriot, I don't need a pin to show that. That's what it sounds like to me. Thanks for putting it that way. Now I understand. This is REALLY stupid then.

ok, got it. But my question is, why the hell even ask the question? That's #1. #2: why does Obama have to answer it that way? I guess "I forgot to put it on" sounds too much like Fred Thonpson? Why the contrived, theatrical, dramatic answer? Again, it's a dumb issue, and it stemmed from a dumb question, but the answer is very tacky and in poor taste, IMO. Why make it such a big issue by answering it that way ("big" being relative, of course)? Edit: just read NSS's and your post. Thanks for clarifying, and it is a non-issue, much like I thought, which is why I asked the "context" question.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 02:12 PM) I should start running my rants by you first. That is the secoond time you have summed up my point in about 2 lines. Well, my caveat is, was this taken out of context? Because to me, this is a stupid issue.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 02:07 PM) Usually I'll go for some original material, but this seems apt here... Seriously, my cats puke up hairballs that understand macroeconomics and finance better than this guy. Yea, those hairballs were made by freshly grown cat food in the eco-green-capitalistic-moneymaking system that is the United States.