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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 08:36 PM) Yeah, they are poor. Completely impoverished. And under a very stringent blockade and trade/ aid embargo. They can't get building supplies to repair what Israel bombs. They can't get food. They don't have fuel. They don't have medical supplies. Please give moral justification for blocking the supply of food and medical supplies to a completely impoverished area. eta: there are plenty of s***ty people on the pro-Palestine side. Probably a lot on the boat where the violence broke out. But Israel does not hold any moral high ground. I never said they did. But it is quite interesting that any time things like this happen, it's 99.8% always Isreal's "fault" and they are "wrong".

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 08:34 PM) You said it was little tasteless but not enough to get upset about. I find that personally insulting. I buried my grandfather there in November. Why is it a little tasteless? Or do you actually want to retract that statement and admit it was baseless and insulting to those with loved ones buried at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetary? You want my real answer, since all you're trying to do is bait here? It is a little tasteless because Barack Obama CHOSE to take a "vacation" during Memorial Day - and a hell of a lot of people place a great importance to our Commander in Chief being present and not just attending somewhere because it's up the road from his vacation spot. It doesn't diminish any soldier, so STOP putting words in my mouth. AGAIN, it is not because of where he went to commemorate any soldier, so stop trying to bait and stir up crap.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 08:31 PM) FYI it's stuff like this, the complete lack of building supplies, severe lack of medical supplies, and the general lack of aid that are the motivation for the flotilla. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/02/26-7 Oh, and it's already worked: http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middl...a-95311269.html Oh, those poor Palestinians. This works like a charm, every time.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 01:30 PM) Fishing ban now covers fully one third of the Gulf of Mexico. Obama sending more bodies, but I'm not sure what they are going to do. They're sending lawyers to clean up.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 05:48 PM) There are what I would call rumors at this point circulating that another convoy will be headed for Gaza in a few days time. Escorted by the Turkish Navy. Mind you...Turkey is a member of NATO. As is the United States of America. And Article 5 of the NATO charter says, essentially, an attack on 1 NATO country is an attack on all of them. Awesome. Now they're baiting them again, waiting for the United States specifically to sit on their ass and do nothing to prove the even bigger point.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 31, 2010 -> 08:19 PM) Why is it a little tasteless for him to go to Lincoln? You've given sympathy to the idea that its tasteless, but you're just saying it's not tasteless enough to get outraged about. I can see where people say lots of dumb, irrational things to criticize someone they don't like; this is one of them. There's zero legitimacy to that point unless Arlington is somehow more important than Lincoln. And read the last part of the post I posted right along with it. And then I even clarified it, again, and you're still trying to bait. Give it a rest.

If it gets to 3-0 this will turn into some meat late.

Wow, what a laser... 2-0!

This game is all about the goaltenders, just like game one...

QUOTE (fathom @ May 31, 2010 -> 08:32 PM) Maybe Beckham is sent down? I thought Teahen had a cut, nothing serious. Beckham for Lillypad. Nice.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ May 31, 2010 -> 08:30 PM) Thanks Knight... Ah, gotcha. I thought you were in San Diego.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 31, 2010 -> 08:03 PM) It was the Free Palestine group. They were making a political statement and breaking the blockade. I would doubt that there was anyone of value on that ship or weapons. This was meant to cause a confrontation, and it would completely destroy the protesters' message if they were found to have been smuggling weapons or people. Or so you would think... With that said, it's always the "political statement" things that get Isreal in trouble.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 31, 2010 -> 08:01 PM) Going to Arlington (near DC, where the President generally is) isn't tasteless, but going to Lincoln (near Chicago, where Obama happens to be) is. Why? It's not. But I can see where people could say it could be in that he's only "vacationing". As I said, there's a lot more things to get "outraged" about then this.

This is a whole lot more of what I expected.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ May 31, 2010 -> 07:51 PM) F**K YOU Justin tv!!! Anyone got links to the game please? GO BLACKHAWKS!! It's on NBC - why do you need a "link"? Kane looks like dogs*** out there.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 31, 2010 -> 07:49 PM) So it took a player getting put on his ass right in front of the ref before they blew the whistle. Well lets go boys, lets take advantage of this. They HAD to call that. I will say this - the whistle happy s*** isn't happening in this series. They are letting them play.

Yea... this is going to turn into a war before it's over tonight.

Well, here we go boys. I get the sense that scoring early will be big - I don't think you'll see a ping pong type of scoring game tonight. I also expect the physical play and "grinding" to be critical tonight. Cycling along the boards is going to be a lot bigger tonight.

What the hell is that?

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 31, 2010 -> 06:38 PM) I wonder how many days it will take for him to "consummate" the marriage and be back here. Are you kidding me? He was here on his wedding day, and he was here last night. And there's so many wrong directions this can take, but since this is the man's wedding, I'll give him a break.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 31, 2010 -> 04:13 PM) The more reports I read, this just appeared to be the keystone cops going into an angry mob and then all hell breaks loose. Not sure why that unit decided to go in. Not sure whether the ship was being warned to turn around. Why they did it before the ship reached the trade barrier zone. And why they thought slow entry off of rope ladders from a helicopter into hundreds of really really really extremely pro-palestinian mobs one at a time with paintball guns was a good idea. It'd be funny, if, you know, people didn't die, and the ship wasn't trying to bring relief to people starving and forced to live in poverty, and the situation wasn't so impossible to solve. One of the major problems is along with the aid, usually there's wanted people, and military supplies. Isreal typically doesn't do this without some type of intelligence - there was someone/something aboard that ship that they wanted to capture.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 31, 2010 -> 02:51 PM) There is no way this team is overconfident after game one. The defense and the top line were as bad as they have been in the entire playoffs. Hopefully someone somewhere has a tape of Vancoiver game one. THAT was the worst playoff game for the 'Hawks. If they get a little overconfident, pop that bad boy in a tv somewhere.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 31, 2010 -> 02:35 PM) I find it tasteless that it's somehow a dishonor to go to Lincoln National Cemetery instead of Arlington. Are the people buried there any less worth of memorializing? I don't know if you're implying it, but I never said that speaking for myself. I said I can see why people would make it a point, but that I didn't consider it any "outrage".

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 31, 2010 -> 02:11 PM) He's still commemorating Memorial Day, just not at Arlington. Who decided it had to be at Arlington, when, and why? It's not like every president has done it that way for every Memorial Day there has been (I'm not sure of the year it started). There would be no faux outrage if the president was a Republican right now. It's really not even worth addressing actually. The one reason it's a little tasteless is because he's on "vacation" in Chicago. FWIW, it's not worth the "outrage", but I can see why some consider it a bit tacky.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 31, 2010 -> 02:07 PM) You're finally coming around, Kap Oh, I know - racism, bigotry, greed, waste, diahrrea, , crumbling infastructure, God, and everything else horrible wouldn't exist but for the Republicans.