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QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 07:02 PM) I guarantee if there were a draft instituted a lot of war supporters like you would change their tune. I guarantee you I would NOT, so don't you go talking about something you know NOTHING about. I support the war because ultimately it's my opinion that some good will come out of it. I also think that there's a greater cause for this besides getting rid of Saddam Hussein, who openly supported terroristic activities and openly committed acts of war EVERY SINGLE DAY by shooting at our planes. I also choose not to politicize this (like you just did by making the statement you did). I DO choose to call out the hypocracy of those Democrats who want to have control of something that isn't theirs to control right now. I furthermore choose to try and beleive that ultimately we are doing the right thing and don't run around with cutesy little pansy ass saying like "Bush lied, people died" and "No blood for Oil" and stupid little s*** like that. I choose to remain respectful of those who serve and frankly I owe my lifestyle to those people. I don't forget that. I don't need you to tell me what tune to sing and negative bait people because of a stance that I choose to support rather then pour cold water over it every day (I like the "ohhh I told you so" crap about how "bad" Iraq was going to be). The fact is we are in it, and I support it based on the knowledge that I have (no, I do not blindly follow it - I make my educated decision on what to support or not). If I were chosen to go, I'd go because that's the way it works. Just because I have made other choices doesn't make it wrong to support the position.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 06:17 PM) Well early as it may be, the earliest vicitm of the interest rate hike is the US dollar itself. It has been beaten up since the rate cut, and along with that, the stories about countries abandoning the dollar peg, and our bonds is really starting to beat loudly. Not good. Not good at all. I knew that was going to happen. That was an easy call. Wait until people start dumping and pumping.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 04:38 PM) Politico Yea, and that's not rhetoric at all - you know - the spirit of cooperation she promises and all.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 05:04 PM) Well then go out and enlist and help the cause. Our soldiers are getting tired from their over-extended deployments. So every person who is "for" this has to go enlist? OOOOOOOkay.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 04:32 AM) Yeah, I agree. I especially like the part about drafting a fruitcake in the 17th round. That would be great for team chemistry.

IMO, because we've had successes in settling a lot of things like this in a positive manner. The positive results far outweigh the negative ones if we are remotely successful and is worth the risk.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 03:58 PM) Enough to where we stop sending people to die for a country that won't help themselves? But that's on them, not us. That's my point. We gave them the opportunity, and if they squander it, the presence of the troops did not cause them to destroy themselves, they did.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 03:45 PM) If this forum were an actual room, I think we'd need to put a scarecrow in the corner, dress him up and put "DEM" on his chest. That way, every time someone gives some ridiculous hyperbole and assigns it to a non-existant, fictional caricature of a Democrat, we can all just point at the straw man and say, "Look at the silly straw man!" And of course, we'd need to do the same for the GOP, so that Sqwert would have someone to pin stuff on. Nah, seriously, I get your point - but at the same time, how much do we have to hear that we've totally ruined Iraq and our troops are making things worse from (specifically) Harry Reid, Schmucky Schumer, Mrs. Bill Clinton, John Frankenstien Kerry, Bill Richardson, Barack Obama, et. al.? They run for the camera every day to tell us the exact same thing.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 03:35 PM) I have a hard time equating "regime change" with the extermination of a whole nation of people. But Democrats don't. They equate it being one and the same (those poor people who's lives we totally f'ed up!!!). (yes, BIG difference between "extermination" and "making it difficult because of the totalitarian ways of a former government, and now people are trying to find their way).

QUOTE(NUKE @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 02:58 PM) Narrow minded bulls*** that is OH so typical of these so called black "leaders" who are nothing more than a bunch of leftist shills for the Democrat party. It doesn't matter how heinous the crime, there is no such thing as a guilty black person in their eyes. QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 03:02 PM) You are really stretching here. I don't think most Dems would want to be associated with Jesse or those comments, so he certainly isn't a shill for them. I wouldn't say that either. What they are, though, are "racist" pimps looking to make America look worse then it is along racial lines to stuff their pocketbooks, all while claiming that they are bettering America. They are jackasses. Period.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 08:28 PM) Not wanting to get into whether or not the taser was appropriate in this circumstance...let me just say that stating a taser is a non deadly weapon is simply false. In a majority of cases it is non-deadly...but there are more than a few cases where it actually does wind up being deadly, especially in cases of pre-existing conditions. Sending that much voltage through a person's heart is not a healthy thing to do, and it can kill a person. Drudge even has a link up right below the Kerry story today of a person who died after being hit repeatedly by a taser. Um, hmmmm.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 07:49 PM) Silly, it's only a "filibuster" when evil Democrats do it. When Republicans do it it's simply "60 votes needed for cloture". You got it! Seriously, the way things are ran now, was never intended. Both parties do it and it's totally not the way things are supposed to be done.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 06:34 PM) That 0 quality start prediction of yours is driving you nuts, isn't it? Zing.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 06:53 PM) Yes I did. I am going out of my way to make you miserable with all my posts. And fyi I watched a partial clip of the video so I didn't see if they pulled him into the hall or another room. I still stand by my thoughts that they used excessive force. This wasn't the middle linebacker from the Florida football team they were dealing with. The number of cops I saw in the video should have easily been able to handcuff this imbecile. STOP THE VIOLENCE! Peace, love, and hippie s***. :wub: *yawn* Now seriously, if the guy had this planned out, it was going to happen whether there was 1 cop or 25.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 05:41 PM) I'd rather have that than a bunch of meat heads running treating world affairs like it was a WWE match. Yep, 'cause that's exactly what happens. Pssst - 9/11 was an inside job.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 05:31 PM) Yeah lets bomb those dirty islamo-fascist's. Let's bomb everyone!! That will solve everything. Drop the hammer! Just like Hulk Hogan! Love, peace, talking, and slobber - that is what makes the world go round.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 04:47 PM) I thought I'd let Ozzie's continued skepticism speak for itself. And I didn't want to make the point that, hey, KC has very little power and one of their more "potent" bats, Alex Gordon, wasn't in the lineup, but I wouldn't want to take anything away from Gavin Floyd. If you take the little he has he goes away with nothing, so he can celebrate the fact that his outing teetered on disaster a hundred times and that he got hit pretty hard by a punchless Royals team. Good for him, though, he reached the "quality start" qualification. You didn't have to post anything, I posted it for you.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 03:03 PM) in their defense, both Germany and France were correct about Iraq. I wonder why?

He just should have politely asked the cameras to be turned off, and then he would have become the pacifist that deep down he really was.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 01:47 PM) I would say Fox News is America's Al Jazeera network. (Feigned outrage - much like what was seen when I said Al Queda's rhetoric equals the Democrat's rhetoric). WHAT?!? OMG. STOP IT! THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS! BACK THE F'IN TRUCK UP (over your ass... ) WHAT THE EFF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!? Oh, now I feel better. At the end of the day, all "TV" news is just plain crappy anymore, I don't care what network you watch.

Floyd sucks.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 01:09 PM) You can put me solidly in the "I'd rather watch neither" camp. ^^^ O'Reilly is a douche. Olbermann is a bigger douche.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 18, 2007 -> 08:05 PM) Yup. RF stands right next to the Indians pen with Keith. We sat out there and watched the Sox pen door open, and the coach come out with his hands in the air with the expression of "Who the f*** are you calling for??" on his face. I thought so. I do remember that but I didn't tie it to the Fisk deal.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 03:07 AM) Get us out of Iraq and you pay for Hillary's entire Health Care plan. That's a GREAT way to look at it!

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 01:00 AM) Not at all. Please read the other posts in the thread, it was being used as an example of a negative article against a Dem. I am merely pointing out that it is hardly negative. You're wasting your time. The media has a "little" bias, but it's not that big of a deal - and "Faux News" is the most despicable organization in the United States when it comes to "reporting." The other side is always prettier.