EvilMonkey

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 05:19 AM) I'm not saying Saddam was a great guy but the US should not be the world policeman & not using the military unless there is a direct threat/attack on us. And if we are to getting to be in the role of international enforcer against countries that have violated numerous UN resolutions, when are the bombers headed out to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv? Geeze. First you guys don't want us to go in anywhere, now you want us to go in everywhere. Make up your minds!

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 02:24 AM) Well, I certainly have sympathy for them. But that doesn't excuse the fact that they're here illegally and that their employers are breaking the law as well. While that is truly the point, no amout of explaining will get that thru the heads of the resident liberals here. It doesn't matter what kind of person they are, or how hard they work or how amazing they are, THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALLY.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Mar 10, 2005 -> 12:32 PM) If that was the case, why didn't Bush just say that when they were invading Iraq? That's what the allied nations leaders were telling their people, that they had sent their troops to find these WMD. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20...20021002-2.html He did, in the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, among other things. Notice all the 'Whereas'es which outline the reasons for our actions. Among them are: Whereas Iraq persists in violating resolutions of the United Nations Security Council by continuing to engage in brutal repression of its civilian population thereby threatening international peace and security in the region, by refusing to release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully detained by Iraq, including an American serviceman, and by failing to return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait and Whereas Congress in the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (Public Law 102-1) has authorized the President "to use United States Armed Forces pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 (1990) in order to achieve implementation of Security Council Resolutions 660, 661, 662, 664, 665, 666, 667, 669, 670, 674, and 677"

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 10, 2005 -> 04:38 PM) Read how a staunch conservative GOOPer Evil titled this thread and tell me again that Bushies would like staying in a eco-friendly, low impact resort. The drill and pump oil through the ANWR crowd, isn't staying here. They may have eliminated a small percentage of their potential guests, perhaps someone like you, but I agree with Jim, they didn't eliminate much of their market. Every business should have a target market in mind with their marketing. Just like cruises do not spend much time marketing to 19 year olds, or Moet & Chandon taking out ads in college newspapers, this company knows their primary market are those individuals who hold our environment in high esteem and willing to pay for the privilege. For the most part, they do not vote Republican. COuld you imagine Rush reading their eco-friendly ads? I believe he calls them environmental wackos. I really don't consider myself a 'staunch conservative', but oh well. My main point was the 'no Bush voters' statement. Unless you were going to a Republican national Convention, have you ever seen a 'No Kerry voters', or 'Democrats not welcome' anywhere? Get over it already, stop the hatered, move on with your life. Targeting the eco-friendly crowd is fine. It seems to fit the location and their vision, and as you said earlier, it is nice to see someone betting their pocket books on their beliefs. I just think the Bush voters line is over the top and uncalled for.

http://oceanhaven.com/htmls/practices.html Check out there various posts of things not allowed. Yeah, they really "Respecting the interdependence & diversity of all life." Think there are any hotles out there that have "No Kerry voters" in their ads or web pages?

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 04:29 AM) I don't care about any of those people. It's obvious that the point he's making is that Powell resigned because he dissented/disagreed and he's slamming Condi for not acting at all independently of her "master". So if her views happen to match that of her boss, NOT MASTER, why is that a bad thing? You act like because she agrees with him, that she is somehow betraying her own personal beliefs, when you know nothing of the sort.

You could put it in a cheap bottle of tequila and try to pass it off as the good stuff. Or skip the worm and just drink the tequila!

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 05:10 AM) Interesting observation about veiled racism but you're fishing and I'm pretty sure there's nothing there. I don't think it is fishing too much. Imagine the situation if Condi was working for a Democratic president, and the letter was written by someone like Tony Blair. Jessie Jackson would be creamin his jeans at all the anticipated airtime he would be getting, demanding resignations, reparations and appropriations! Al Sharpton would be knocking Jessie over to get to the cameras first. Dorothy Tillman would be demanding that we stop importing British television on any cable system broadcast in Chicago, and want to investigate the British's ties to slavery before we could watch Monty Python again. Julian Bond, would decry the secret cabal of neocons working with outside influences to keep the black man down. All over something as 'slight' as this.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 06:08 PM) MANITOBA RULES! That's it? You get slammed 9 ways to Sunday and that's all you can come up with? That reply is about as strong as your army up there.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 05:08 AM) If she was truly marked, why exactly is she alive? "400 rounds" should have killed everyone traveling within her convoy. This is key. If she is lying about the amount of rounds, what else could she be lying about? Sure, you can exaggerate a bit, but even 100 rounds should have killed more than one guy. She is making s*** up because she doesn't like Bush and/or America.

"On this score, you might want to explore the concept of the 'Responsibility to Protect' while you're in Ottawa. It's a Canadian idea born out of the recent experience of Kosovo and informed by the many horrific examples of inhumanity over the last half-century. Many Canadians feel it has a lot more relevance to providing real human security in the world than missile defence ever will." If you are so damn willing to 'protect' after the 'many horrific examples of inhumanity', why do you have such a bug up your ass about helping out in Iraq? Were there not attrocities happening there? Were there not mass graves? Was Saddam not gassing and killing his own people? Was Saddam not starving his people while building palaces of gold? And before you even start in with 'NO WMD's', that shouldn't matter, not if you really wanted to 'Protect'. Get off your f***ing high horse you arragont little pissant country and do something that matters. "I know it seems improbable to your divinely guided master in the White House ..." do I sense a bit of veiled racism here? Or is it ok because Condi is a conservative?

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Mar 7, 2005 -> 02:07 PM) Dam evil thats a lot of 600 series...what's your average? I always shoot for a 600, but rarely get it...I'm too inconsistent. I shot a 625 last week though. My average has stayed right around 180 all year My best game goes like so: 8 X X X X X X X X X X 9 = 277 Here's some video clips to help some things wite was trying to explain. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/k...kVideo.htm#Ball On the 2 leagues I am on, my averages are 184 and 185, both up about 10 pins from last year. I started the year on a bad roll having a 165 average after the 6th week, then got up to the 180's. The last 2 months or so I have just been on a roll. Stringing the strikes together is what makes the difference. I am also inconsistant, or I would get that 300.

Another night, no 300 game. Got another 602, the hard way, with a 159 in the second game (4 splits!).

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Mar 6, 2005 -> 08:42 PM) That was my point when I said something like this has never happened to us before. Gun controls have helped us. Yeah, life is great up north. http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readm...?sNav=nr&id=570

Still no 300 for me. However, I have been on a roll, with 600+ series 9 of the last 10 weeks. last night was a 602. Missed a 10 pin in the 10th of the third game. That sucks.

I like this part of the story... "Even with Magglio Ordonez and Carlos Lee having moved on, there's still plenty of power left in the White Sox lineup." Don't hear that often. All you hear is that Mags and Lee are gone, and Thomas is out. Well they forget that Mags and Thomas were out for a huge chunk of the year last year, and they still hit alot. About time someone realized that instead of just repeating the same old crap again.

I thought that with all the gun control laws up there that Canada was free from all this senseless violence?

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 07:52 PM) I haven't yet made my mind up about missile defense and whether we should have pulled out yet. So my point was not to say it's not a worthy pursuit, but that it takes a backseat to things that I believe have higher risks to mankind. And I'll always trust the Liberals to take better care of me than Republicans. What better way to take care of you than to stop an incoming missle from blowing your ass all over the frozen tundra? And why don't you start taking care of yourself, instead of loking for government to do it for you? I don't want libs or conservatives taking care of me.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 05:48 AM) - Canada is a signatory to the Kyoto accord. We are not. - Canada has affordable ARV and cancer chemotherapeutics. We do not. Or was this a rhetorical question? Assuming you live long enough to get an appointment to see a doc and get the drugs, that might be a good thing. As for Kyoto, it will be dead in 5 years, when all the nations that thought it was a good thing, see how it totally f***s their economy and productivity. European countries are so far behind in their 'goals' that it would take a miracle for them to meet their targets for reduction. Kyoto was a good idea, bad execution.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 07:34 AM) Is that my point? No. Your point was that somehow the pursuit of a missle defense system was not a worthy one, and that the US should be doing other things, such as those mentioned. Maybe when North Korea launches a rouge nuke at the US, and due to their crappy targeting systems it appears that it would take out Ottowa instead, we should just let it drop? Canada is being a wuss in this. Publicly 'withdraw' from the missle defense shield, while knowing that if a missle WAS heading towards Canada, that the US would try to stop in anyway.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Feb 25, 2005 -> 04:37 PM) And compared to the search for a cure for Aids and Cancer, or slowing global warming it is very insiginificant. And just what is Canada doing towards accomplishing those goals that the US is not?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 20, 2005 -> 01:22 AM) It's the "living on the edge" frame of mind that I am referring. Different folks express that in different ways. In other words, people that called this guy stupid would probably also call Lewis & Clark stupid for thinking they could walk across the North American continent and get back to civilization in one piece. But Lewis and Clark didn't do it because they thought it would be cool, get them laid, or otherwise get them thier '15 minutes' of fame.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 19, 2005 -> 05:04 AM) Or break the law and cost taxpayers $1 billion in a S&L bailout but be lucky enough to be a Bush and have Asian hotties inexplicably come to your hotel and have sex with you for no apparant reason... Or break the law and have enough money to give to Bill and Hillary to get yourself pardoned.

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 11:00 PM) Mike Jackson Pussed out the first game back.. Its over and done with IMO.. The Sox had a chance to make a statement.. and instead laid down. Mike Jackson pussed out because him and Torii were buddies. Ozzie should have pulled him as soon as he didn't stick up for his teammate, friend or no friend. He's now gone.

Score for the small warehouse that once housed asbestos for a week and now finds itself on the hook for millions from class action suits because all the other companies are now broke from said suits. I'm not saying that people with health problems from asbestos shouldn't have theirr day in court, but the levels of 'culpability' that have been reached in cases like that are just crazy. This is just a pre-emptive strike for the fast food industry, which fears that somehwere a lunatic liberal judge will decide that the eeeevil fast food corporations forced people to eat all those Big Macs and Whoppers, and should be held responsible for the fact that they can no longer fit thru a standard size doorway. Now they will just have to go on a diet. Seriously, you have the right idea, there should be a middle ground here for reform, but with the Democrats fighting each and every attempt at change, Republicans just went for the throat (and seem to be winning, for the moment). "Are there bad lawyers that bring meritless cases? Sure there are, and we should crack down on them," said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada, a former trial lawyer. Yeah, right. Shoulda done something sooner. I like this part of the story: The bill also would limit lawyers' fees in so-called coupon settlements — when plaintiffs get discounts on products instead of financial settlements — by linking the fees to the coupon's redemption rate or the actual hours spent working on a case.