southsideirish71

Well the Bhoys are up by 13 points in the league. And the Rangers are in 4th place. So all is good with my club team. We took them at Ibrox this weekend 1-nil. Onto the Cup. The US defense should be solid. They have finally figured out what makes the English defense so good. Tall athletic guys who can box out people on set pieces. We have had pretty good goalkeeping over the last few decades. Our problem is creativity in the midfield, and good solid striking. Our strikers get into positions to score however their striking capability on goal is horrible. They either field goal the ball or its totally off the mark. Sometimes putting a good ball on goal with pace even if its saved can setup a play later on. Donovan is okay. When he plays against Costa Rica he looks like a world beater. When he plays against a physical defense he disappears. Keeping Eddie Johnson healthy should be priority number 1 until the cup. He is our most dangerous striker right now. The US needs to find a guy to take over Claudio Reynas spot eventually. When he is not on the field the offense becomes stagnant. He has nice crisp passes and provides some nice running feeds. I would like to see EJ and McBride up front with Donovan playing and attacking mid position. Beasley will be a huge key. Playing for PSV Beasley has improved his striking capability bit time. Watching his finishing this year over the last few years is like watching two different players. I would like to see Adu make this team just to get him experience. If we really believe he is the future of our team, then its time to get him on the pitch. He can provide a nice option off the bench as his pace is nice and his ability to dribble around players is not quite as good as Ronaldo from Portugal, but he could be that kind of electric footsman.

QUOTE(DukeNukeEm @ Feb 11, 2006 -> 02:32 PM) SNOW I can only imagine your postings in the spring when the sky tinkles on you.

When I think of strong defense and making the country safer I immediately think of Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Hill and the rest. LOL

This thread just reminded me of a family guy episode.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 02:03 PM) Nope. It was in the stevebartman's my idol farewell thread. I didnt think someone else would have that silly idea. But then again Rock, SBIMI is a lawyer, the smartest man alive, he bench presses 18 wheelers for fun, and dates all of the victoria secret models at once. Maybe he could be onto something and we are all just missing it. That reminds me, Crazyman have you told us your IQ yet?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 02:00 PM) DId anyone catch this quote, and do you know who posted it? I had a drag out in a game thread over silly comments made by someone that thought Buerhle was better than Santana but I dont think its the same person.

This explains it all for crazyman.

QUOTE(crazyman26 @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 01:22 PM) I actually gauranteed 3 years ago when Grossman first came to Chicago he would never be a starting QB. So far I have been right but people tell me I am lucky to be right. It does not matter the reasons though, facts are facts, until he plays alot more than 2 starts in a single NFL season, he has never been a starting QB in the NFL, and I have been right since I predicted it 3 full years ago. Next year if he does not get injured, the people who discredit my prediction of 3 years ago will have run out of excuses I believe, since he will be on the bench behind Orton and no injury there as an excuse. They will have to concede I was right all along that Grossman would never be a starting QB in the NFL. Hopefully you will also concede that I knew all along what was going to happen if I turn out to be right, especialy if Rex does not get injured. I believe the answer for your problems are at Moraine Valley Community College. I bet if you take the following PHI-110--(3) INTRO TO FORMAL LOGIC Introduces formal and symbolic logic, including syllogistic, propositional and predicate inference.(3 contact hours) PHI-111--(3) CRITICAL THINKING Introduces principles and methods for rational argument and effective problem solving.(3 contact hours) and then return to this forum you too will make fun and laugh at the comments you are making.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 02:03 AM) Coop needs to start teaching that cutter with Bobby. But a change would also be good, and we saw the way B-Mac had developed with his during 2005. The only thing that worries me about teaching him a cutter is the torque on his arm that already had a sttress fracture in it. The cutter would be a devistating pitch and all, but its a lot of stress on the arm. Even more than a curve at times. If Bobby can throw his fastball in the strikezone and get his curveball in the strikezone he will be unhittable. Its hard to hit the 99 mph fastball and then sit back on the 12/6 curve. If he can get the fastball over for strike one and start to go up the ladder, that plus his curve will be a devastating combo. Closers dont need a s***load of pitches. They just need 2 that are nasty. If they throw strikes and get ahead its half the battle.

There will only be a few people who will give two s***s about Ozzie going to see the president. 1.) Politicians trying to deflect their own scandals and issues. Or Politician suck ups to the president. 2.) People who are ignorant and dont know the facts, like they have tried for a while to get the invite date down and have had a hard time. 3.) Moronic upset cub fans that have to latch on to anything that takes away from the sox. I could give two s***s if Ozzies goes. As long as we have some representatives that go. They do the photo op, give the president his white sox jersey and then move on because it really doesnt matter in the big picture.

QUOTE(S720 @ Feb 9, 2006 -> 09:09 PM) And guess who urged the Kurds to overturn Saddam, and then when Saddam used those deadly sarin and mustard gas bombs on the Kurds, who turned their back and allowed Saddam to do it? Another thing, if Saddam had those same sarin and mustard gas bombs as well as others, why did not he use them when he was cornered? If your enemy are coming to kill you, and if you possess those WMDs, isn't it naturally for you to protect yourself. NOBODY on this board tolerates Saddam. After the first Gulf War, Iraq's power has already dwindled to nothing. It's just the misleading justification the Bush administration has used to go to war. And this war has cost us tremendously. Well maybe because if he used weapons of mass destruction against our troops that we would of made Bagdad glow in the dark for the next 1000 years. Remember Saddam is a coward, and thought he would get away some how with this.

Here is what the Iranians use as cartoons in their country. Its basically a cartoon that teaches their kids on how to be good little terrorists and perform suicide bombings in Israel. Classy at best. Iranian Saturday Morning cartoons Transcript of this lovely cartoon This was televised on IRIB 3 TV in Iran at 8am for the kiddies. I wonder why the concerned Muslim countries didnt b**** about this. Double standard.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 9, 2006 -> 04:19 PM) Syria has had surprisingly little to do with this in terms of the government thus far. Egypt (which btw gets a couple billion from us a year) has been VASTLY more important, along with our good friends in Saudi Arabia who we can't criticize because we like 4 wheel drive. Thanks for quoting Juan Cole, he is obviously an objective guy. Maybe I can quote Daniel Pipes. I am sure he is just as objective from the other point of view.

Its nice to see the crazy terrorists piping up about spilling more blood over f***ing cartoons. Maybe this is one of the reasons why we are doing our part is shrinking their money up and branding these fools terrorists. Its the crazy islamofacist clown convention. And its nice to see Mr Oil for Food pipe up and scold the media instead of scolding the fools who are running around killing people over f***ing cartoons. Maybe he should scold Hezbolla, Iran, and Syria over this.

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QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 11:22 PM) on most of your post. Only thing is that we have no choice but to do everything we can to help Musharaff hang on to power. I shudder to think what might happen if Al Qaeda gets their hands on Paki nukes. Bush thought of that. He weighed the risk of the nukes vs doing everything he could to isolate bin laden. Everyone forgets that we are basically fighting the Taliban with a magically safe home zone. All they have to do is cross over into Paki space and they are safe. The locals keep them safe. They refresh and recross the border. s*** we just had a predator take out some terrorists in paki and their government had a s*** fit. Thank God I am not in charge. My grand air strike campaign would of make Shock and Awe seem like the fireworks at the pier during the summer.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 11:05 PM) If you can point out the faults of the previous administration why not this one? They obviously ignored the facts up to 9/11 as well. Is there ANYTHING that this administration has done wrong in your opinion? I think the biggest mistake in Bush's handling of the war on terrorism is our relationship with Pakistan. I dont believe that the Pakistani country is in line with what our goals are. I believe that Pakistan are doing more to help Bin Laden keep hiding. Mustraraf is afraid of an uprising and caters to extremist. I would of approached the mountains by both the paki boarder(after we surpressed their military by airstrikes) and then squeezed the mountain area creating a isolated zone. Now Bush aligned with Paki probably because Pakistan has nuclear weapons, and I believe that he probably weighed getting bin laden over toppling Mustaraff and pretty much guarenteeing that the nukes could get into extremist hands. I have a much simplier view on war, and it is probably good that I am not in charge. My view is when you go to war, you do whatever is required to win that war. Your responsibility is to save american lives, and do your best to limit civilian casualities. However now its changed. Because of the laser guided weapons and the first gulf war. People think that we can fight a war without any civilian casualties. Everytime the press shows a laser guided bomb missing the military base 100 feet to the left of Johns house everyone has a s*** fit. My view is if you live next to the ministry of defense and you know that a war is about to happen, f***ing move already. You are a dumbass and are a darwin award winner if you stay. If I was in charge I would have Ted Kennedy choking on his second helping of pumkin pie over my bombing campaign in the middle east. You should be lucky that Bush is in charge. LOL

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 10:57 PM) We can go back and forth all night with this but to be honest I have gotten serious about politics only after we went to war in Iraq. I can't speak about things during Clinton's presidency...hell I didn't even vote for him. So I won't comment on how well or how poorly he handled terrorism. What I do know is this adminstration did ZERO about it up until 9/11. Nothing. The 9/11 Commision clearly laid that out. And I'm supposed to feel like Bush is some hero or something. Who wouldn't be tough on terror afetr 9/11? s***, even Ross Perot would be the anti-terror czar after 9/11 if he were president. Well its good that you can take the anti-this administration stuff from the findings of the 9/11 commission, however just ignore the comments made about the previous administration and their handling of the terrorism. Because the 9 months that Bush was in office really is compelling when you look at the body of work on how he could of prevented 9/11. Maybe if we also look at the facts of items that happened since the first bombing of the world trade center, and the years of other acts of terrorism by Al Queda before 9/11. The fact that he was listed as a very real threat, and of course was ignored by the previous administration. These to me are also compelling on why we got hit. But then I forget, 9/11 like all things evil are the result of Bush. And only the things that happened under his watch matter.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 10:48 PM) And this administration did an outstanding job when they had Bin Laden cornered. Kudos! Cornered in a mountainous area is the same thing as having a predator with its sights trained on an individual sitting out in the open? Ask any military person which is the easier target, the rat in one of many holes in a mountain, or the tall guy having a picnic out in a field. I think even our video gamers in this forum could of taken Bin Laden out with the Predator while he was in the open. But then again its a law enforcement issue or at least that was the previous administrations view.

QUOTE(bmags @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 10:44 PM) well maybe if bush had read and given serious credibility to intelligence reports telling about airplanes attacking major targets we could've stopped 9/11 revisionist history is fun! Whats worse, f***ing up a intelligence reports on something that might happen, or seeing Bin Laden in your gun scope and deciding not to do a f***ing thing. This is fun.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 10:22 PM) It's nice to see how he got serious AFTER he allowed thousands of Americans to die on his watch. What a f***ing hero. Nice to see the grand total of ZERO meetings on terrorism before 9/11 and that this incompetent administration ignored all the warning signs of the attacks before hand. "Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S." Remember that? Too bad Bush and his cronies didn't do s*** when they were given that intel. Well maybe if the president before bush actually had taken out Bin Laden when they sighted him with the Predator a few years before 9/11, maybe it wouldnt of happened. But then again that president throught it was a f***ing law enforcement issue. See how fun it is to go back and paint revisionist history. Clinton going Hollywood Clinton misses opp to kill Bin Laden

This keeps getting better This is a f***ing joke. He touched her back. Lets lock him up for 20 years, no visitation from Barney or Spongebob

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 01:59 PM) That news article has little information in it. It could have been an overreaction, or may not have been. If the kid stuck his hand down her pants, and if he did it repeatedly, maybe he needed to stay home for a day or two. Since the only person they cited was the victim's parent, what can we really know? Nothing. I reserve judgement on the suspension. That's some pretty pathetic news reporting in that article, BTW. How about some facts? How about asking the school or the teacher? This is a bit different than putting his hands down her pants, inside her waistband is different verbage than he shoved his hands down her pants. Remember this is a 6 year old also. Maybe they could reverse it and anytime a 6 year old girl kisses a 6 year old boy we can suspend them a day for a lewd advance. If they hug them maybe its something worse. God forbid if the child loses balance during the hug, it could be assault. Maybe if the child farts its a weapon of mass destruction.

When objectivity and sanity goes out the door I think this school district should have better things to do. What a bunch of morons to suspend a 1st grader for this. And my favorite is the morons who think the 1st grader was correctly punished.

I know that Northwestern said they couldnt fire him because he said this crap outside of his role as a faculty member. But cant they at least do a little "rm * -rf " work on his goofy website. That is their website and they can determine what goes up there.