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I hope you enjoy the FBI reading all of your posts. I know I do.

The media is biased!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 9, 2007 -> 10:23 PM) I would hate to imagine that child... Oh good God, I didn't say they should procreate. BLAH!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 9, 2007 -> 09:21 PM) God I can't stand Ted Rall. Ted Rall and Ann Coulter should go off in a room and out snarky each other - maybe then we would never hear from either of them again.

What the F ever, MLB. It's all a sham. Period. Way to piss off your hard-core fans.

There's some pretty crazy pictures in there.

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ Mar 9, 2007 -> 02:26 PM) Has anyone ever heard that tape where Kasim freaks out about a dedication for a dead dog? Hilarious. Yes, Sunjaya has all of Dell's tech support running auto dialers for him I think. The transvestite looking girl got screwed but my real problem is with Sanjaya making it. Did anyone notice that everyone that made the top 12 got a big group hug from the rest of the singers except him. They just looked at him and watched him take his seat and no one said a word or anything to him. I hadn't thought about it, but you're right. The dude definitely doesn't fit.

"covert" and "classified". Learn the difference. The end on Valarie Plame.

And the Senate committees that looked into it pretty much said that there were no violations committed. But that doesn't fit the agenda, either, now does it?

Waxman drools over getting the mighty VP Dick and *gasp* Karl Rove!!!!!! That's not political at all, now is it? Look, Scooter did perjure himself. I totally agree with that. However, the desparate connection or the attempts to connect the White House gets really, really old.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 08:18 PM) Figured out that the Niger yellowcake story was bunk. That's bunk as well, but it makes for a damn good story. QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 08:21 PM) Maybe I'm in the minority, but I actually think that it was good that Fitzgerald went after Libby, AND I think it was good that Starr went after Clinton. Any time one of our higher government officials lies under oath, they need to be nailed to a wall. You're right, but I hate the fact that each was politically motivated. That's the part that makes me sick.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 08:08 PM) So I finally did it. I signed up for the Chase corportate run May 24th. Anyone else doing this? Now I have to get back into some running shape. It'd be cool to get back down around 20 minutes, but I won't count on it. I'd be lucky to run this in about 60 minutes these days.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 07:24 PM) A couple things are different between the President's impeachment trial and this criminal trial. The first of which is that Libby's trial is a criminal trial. The second of which is that Libby testified before grand juries several times. Not only was his story different than others on his side, but they were different each time he went up to testify - and not in minor ways. Bill Clinton testified before a grand jury once. The Clinton trial, although some people may feel it justified, was - at its essence - politically motivated. Articles of impeachment had been introduced by many of the same Congressmen who introduced it in 1998 as early as 1993. It is my understanding that someone who is impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors" can also be tried in criminal court for the same offenses. If there was a serious legal issue that warranted an actual conviction in this case, why didn't Starr seek out federal prosecution for Clinton after he left office in 2001? Had the statute of limitations run out? Or had Clinton's "indictment" been unable to pass the smell test in a criminal court? It was absolutely politically motivated. That stunk, and this stinks as well. However, there was much more that Starr could have went after and didn't. The point is, though, Clinton perjered himself and got away with it. Libby did too, and didn't get away with it. I don't think he knows what the hell he was doing, to be honest. I know you all want to make it seem like VP Dick was puppetting this whole thing, but I don't think so, based on some of the evidence that came out. BTW, there is a difference between "classified" and "covert", but that's neither here nor there anyway.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 07:17 PM) You are sooooooo suspended for that completely unprovoked personal attack. I know... the hypocrisy, oooooooh the hypocrisy.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 07:09 PM) Don't make me come down there and show you why Roanoke was the lost colony... That's Virginia, you stupid ass.

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QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Mar 7, 2007 -> 09:21 PM) I think I was the one that started the Dyson thread. It was awhile back when I was looking for a new vacuum and I asked if they were worth the money. I don't remember who it was that said that they would eventually wear out because they were plastic and I should look for a metal one. I even asked a guy at a local vacuum store and he said they weren't worth the money either even though they sold them. I ended up getting one with a bag (after having horrible luck with 3 or 4 bagless in a row)and it's been pretty good so far. The only thing that's been wrong is that I broke the belt when I accidentally ran over my daughters backpack strap. So, what do you think of your Dyson now that you've had it for a little while? Damn I wish I saw this thread about a week ago. We bought a Dyson - we had a bagless vacuum of another brand and I hated it. Before that, I went through about three or 4 "cheap" vacuums over the last 5 or 6 years. This time, we thought what the hell, if this (Dyson) is as good as all the reports out there on it say it is, it will be worth it. Last year about this time, I had to tear out a wall at my house to fix a leaky pipe. There was sheetrock everywhere. We vacuum that room about twice a month, and when I got the Dyson home, that damn thing picked up sheetrock dust out of the carpet that the old vaccum hadn't gotten the last 25 times over the last year. I must say I'm impressed... it cleans pretty damn good.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 06:07 PM) I still don't understand what Scooter did wrong to be honest. His perceived wrongdoing, I agree, is nothing more than left wing politcal agenda. However, I think our "fine" VP did a lot of things wrong, but I guess it was thought the evidence wasn't there to convict him, but then again I don't think the evidence was there to convict Libby when you consider 2 of THE main witnesses were Judith Miller and Tim Russert, who I wouldn't trust to watch a burnt down newsstand while I went to get lunch. He "lied" to a grand jury. It's called perjury, and he got convicted of it... something the illustrious Bill Clinton got away with. I'm sure, since this is Bush's administration or anything having to do with Bush (85 times removed), it's different.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 04:17 AM) What really happened is that he concocted an untrue story which he told investigators repeatedly in multiple separate interviews to cover up the inconvenient facts that the VP's office had attempted to use his wife's job at the CIA as a means of smearing her husband. That is why he was convicted. Saying "I don't know" would have been a lot better than the fabricated story he did tell them. See, now, that's what you WANT to believe happened. This is all about smearing the Bush neo-con adminstration to you people and nothing more.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 03:36 PM) Until last night I stayed away from this thread because while I do think Al Gore is far and away a net positive effect for change regarding human contributions to global climate change I also thought he could do with some consumption belt tightening like all of us. I agree, to a point. My personal hangup was/is that we hear all the time about how we need to change, and you know what? Yes, we do. However, to me, all this is a mechanism to interfere with free enterprise and get a cut of the profits for the government to regulate environmental controls. The government doesn't belong in it, period. That's where I have major disagreements with the Goracle crowd. I do believe that MNE's need to be socially responsible when given credible evidence that there is environmental damage being done that they need to fix it right away. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen near as often as it should.

Here's what I don't get about this whole thing. "I don't remember"... that is all this man had to say. Period. I mean, hey, it worked for both Clintons for years! But seriously, why did Scooter go through all the trouble of trying to remember what really happened and then why did he choose to air it all out? As I get older, I mix up stuff all the time, and no, not on purpose. I remember details a lot less clearly then I did 10 years ago. So, "I don't remember" is plausible, and there's no trial. So what the hell REALLY happened here? Of course, you Dems will defend Joe Wilson because he's a HERO to you all, but that's the scumbag that needs to be drilled, but oh well.

The guys sucked, large, last night. *yawn* BOOOOOOOORING.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 7, 2007 -> 06:05 PM) The Republicans actually had no choice. The party in power is the one that writes the organizing resolution. In 2007, the Democrats have a majority as long as Lieberman votes with them and Jeffords does not caucus with the Republicans. I would also doubt that the Republicans would have included measures similar to 2000 when they wrote the organizing resolutions in 2004 and 2002, but I can't be certain without knowing where the hell to look for them, and I'm too busy for that anyway. The case of the Jeffords switch actually being able to change things in the Senate is, as far as I can tell, a unique event, precipitated by the dual facts of a 50-50 Senate on January 3 2001 and the fact that Al Gore was still VP on that day, which would have given the Dems the power to enact the organizing resolution if they really wanted to try to. I know that this is all procedural and parliamentary rules, but I would think that if the Republicans wanted to block this, they could have. It really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, it's just interesting.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 7, 2007 -> 05:46 PM) This is actually incorrect as I understand it. When the Senate adopted its rules at the start of this session, the way the rules were constructed, even if 1 Senator were to flip parties or were to leave, Harry Reid would still maintain his role as majority leader and the Democrats should still maintain committee chairmanships. It was different in 2000 where the Senate was actually split 50-50, and the Senate started off when Al Gore was still the VP. For about 2 weeks, the Dems had enough power that they could have actually constructed the organizing resolutions for the Senate if they had so chosen. Instead of being difficult, a deal was struck in that case where by the organizing resolution called for an even distribution of the committee chairmanship power between the 2 parties, and an additional clause was included such that the full set of majority leader and committee chair positions would flip fully to the new majority party in the event of a change of 1 seat (which wound up happening with Jeffords). That same sort of language was not included in this year's organizing resolution. It's always possible a deal could be struck or the new majority could just shut down the Senate until the new minority decided to listen, but even if Joe Lieberman switched parties today, as I understand things, the Dems would still control the machinery of the Senate barring a revisiting of the organizing resolution. And the Republicans agreed to this? That would be a surprise.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 7, 2007 -> 05:05 PM) Well its good that things might get fixed now... Where were these people over the last few decades? This has been going on for a long time, and no one said a damned thing about it. That being said, hopefully they can get it right, but I am not holding my breath. That was exactly my point about 5 or 6 posts ago.