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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 09:17 AM) i always delete the emails. The entire goal of these emails is to gather email addresses for spambots, if you send out some sort of correction, you are just sending out another forward that is going to gather a bunch more emails that will inevitably end up in the hands of another spammer who will turn it around and start sending you more junkmail The e-mails I am referring to are e-mails forwarded to you by people you know. My grandma is famous for forwarding almost anything that she gets.

Leave it up to Fox News to spread more lies with bad fact checking: 53 House Republicans Try to Oust Safe Schools Czar Over Retracted Fox News Story

I am sure we all get silly e-mails that are forwarded to us that have some picture / or story that looks just too good to be true, but of course the e-mail says it's an amazing real picture or real event. Those of us who are skeptical, go to Snopes.com and fact check. So, here is my quandary. Whenever we get these e-mails and they turn out to be false, should we fight back with fact in hopes of either getting people to stop forwarding crap and being more proactive in checking their own e-mail and/or just stop sending the crap to you. Or, do we just let it go and delete it. I say fight back!

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 06:12 PM) However, I'll never stop complaining about Missing White Woman Syndrome. News Orgs: Cute White Blonde Woman/Girl > Any women of any other race

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 05:29 PM) Hahaha. How was this not known five minutes after the search began? This kid must be awesome at hide and seek. he was in the attic in the garage

CNN Breaking News Twitter: Sheriff reports that the 6-year-old boy who released the balloon in Colorado has been found alive at home.

Fox News: Obama is to blame for the bad economy, but the DOW going over 10,000 is because of Bush. huh???

Meghan McCain - Boob-tastic! (Kinda NSFW) She apparently wasnt ready for the response:

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 07:11 PM) greatest running back in Bills history, and I'm not forgetting OJ Probably right.

I debated if this was a Filibuster or NFL topic, I went NFL: Limbaugh dropped from group seeking to buy Rams And as always, he was denied because..... it's the liberal media's fault: But in the end, it's the NFL that didnt want his loudmouth in ownership: And as always, Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton had to chime in:

Via TPM:

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 02:03 PM) How is this different than The Road, a book I still need to read. I've never heard of that book

The Book of Eli looks very interesting. Some pretty blatant religious imagery. Per Apple.com/Trailers:

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 01:30 PM) So basically, he is trying to do what the party has already been doing for a couple decades now. seems that way, but he's hipper.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 12:45 PM) So, does anyone know what Steele has been doing behind the scenes? One of the things that helped the Dems a lot in some of the recent elections was the under-the-hood stuff that Dean was doing. Dean didn't focus on a lot of public statements and policy stuff, he acted more like an operational guy. So even though he came off as a bit crazy, that was OK, because he was effective. Can the same be said of Steele? Is he maybe doing some positive things that he doesn't talk up in the press? Has anyone read about anything like that? I think he's trying to build a solid base... maybe ineffectively, with hopes of building on that. The problem he faces is that he is trying so hard to build a very conservative base that it doesnt give much room for moderates. We've already heard a lot of the "if you arent with us, you're against us" talk coming from Steele.

I still stand by my comments that Steele was elected so they can say "see, we have a black guy too!". I know that's not PC, but I think it's right.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 12:19 PM) Not necessarily. If you try to have everyone lockstep, you end up seeing your power to actually do anything dwindle. There is a balance there. To be effective as a legislator, you have to be able to compromise, and to be effective as a party, you have to be able to work across the aisle occasionally. Unless a party can somehow get lockstep AND have a 60% majoority in a chamber, but honestly, I think that is nearly impossible to do at the national level. To point this out and turn the table a bit, look at the bush administration. Some had no problem with him running up debt but others who are the far right fiscal conservatives had issues with that. It's just ironic now that those same people who supported bush's spending now oppose Obama's.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 12:10 PM) The Rodney King situation, and the riots and court cases that followed, were the opposite of everyone agreeing on a course. I should clarify. Steele thinks it was a come together moment, I think. As for me, I am too young to remember it. So, I have no pesonal commentary on the situation.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 12:00 PM) The weird bit to me is the Rodney King moment comment. I don't even get what he is trying to say. Well, what he was trying to say that in the King beatings there was a general course of direction that everyone agreed on and he'd like to see that with health care. however, using the Rodney King beating as an example, with both him and Obama being black, is probably not a good reference point. 9/11 might be a good "America comes together" moment, but comparing 9/11 to Health Care might raise a few more eyebrows in the bad analogy department. Maybe the moon landing?? i dunno. King was a bad reference.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 11:44 AM) I'm not familiar with the term cow on the tracks. Why does that get a "WOW!"? Back... like 200 years ago, prior to the invention of the "Cow Plow" aka the CowCatcher, you would have to stop a train and get the cow off the tracks... assuming he wanted to be moved... which Steele does not. Then in 1838, Charles Babbage invented the CowCatcher. This allowed a train to basically push the cow off the tracks instead of stopping. often... it would probably kill the cow.

WOW!... just wow, he needs to talk much less

GOP.com Changes The Game On 'What Up?'

Takin' it back to the old house:

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 08:37 AM) Quite possibly the greatest two intros, ever Pretty Good, but I am a bit partial to this: If you dont get tingles up your spine with all the memories, you ain't human.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 08:05 AM) That is the dumbest leap of faith I have seen in a while. You do realize that reporting news doesn't equal what they believe is the biggest threat, right? The point of the article is to say you have a major news network ripping Obama for not dealing with "important world events". While they temselves are not talking about or dealing with "important world events".