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Not really. I guess hateful rhetoric only matters when it's aimed at muslims.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Nov 25, 2009 -> 12:21 AM) Considering all the allegations surrounding Sosa, Bonds, Manny, A-Rod, and McGwire, Thomas was arguably the best hitter in the past 10 years. Eh, Griffey.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 09:38 PM) I'm married and if I made 130k + benefits I'd be very well off. Depending on how you define rich, I could be rich making that money. In comparison to the richest people in the world...no, but 130k+ for me, I'd be rich, yes. we should pay them $20,000! then special interest money surely wouldn´t be a problem! What´s that pining about trying to attract the best talent?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 07:40 PM) You guys think they're just sitting on their ass or something? I think there are cases that it´s clear the US screwed up and is now only holding them to save face and justify the techniques. and no, i don´t think they are doing enough to move these cases forward, and no, I don´t see GITMO closed down by Jan. 20

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 06:17 PM) Its not nearly as easy as you characterize it. Executive Orders can be overturned by Congress, the judicial system isn't ready for all of them at once, and making a blanket rule about state secret use is incredibly dangerous. The only one you mention here that could even possibly be done as quickly as you'd like is extraordinary renditions, which I think is a difficult subject, and simply turning it off has consequences as well. No, Bush did not do it, at all. the use of state secrets under the bush administration was unprecedented, and now, it´s precedent is the status quo. obama, who railed against this, hides behind it. Good luck overturning anything in congress, you need super majorities now! No, turning off extraordinary renditions has no consequences. It´s supporting torture. If I order a man to murder someone, I´m as guilty as the murderer. It´s not easy, but it´s completely possible, and could be done. But it´s not going to be done, because they don´t want it to. So Obama is doing pretty much everything exactly the same. Considering Bush stopped torture in 2003, I´d say near identical.

what is the benefit of dumping konerko, only to receive an awful contract in GMJ?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 06:44 PM) I have, though I certainly don't claim to be an expert. Do you? What is delusional is this idea that people seem to have, that Obama could simply "solve" all 250 cases in less than a year. Its not possible. And as for talking out of my ass, I seem to be the only one in this discussion looking at the situation as it stands in reality, not in some world I've built in my head where the US government can be turned on a dime. The Bush administration seemed to. The executive branch, through it´s judiciary, has much of the resources to solve these problems. With one declaration, yes, extraordinary rendition ends. Not use state secrets for any business the state does. that ends. Not try and shut down cases in OTHER COUNTRIES that are researching what illegal activities their intelligence agencies did. All within their power. And yes, they can move forward with prosecutions for ALL of these inmates, and the ones that didn´t do anything do not have to be indefinitely detained. All of these is fixable. But they don´t want to fix them, or else they would have. And now, let´s put american soldiers to die for a drug dealer to get his act together and help a country he´ll never have control over.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 06:02 PM) LOL, you guys are delusional. You have 250 dangerous individuals in custody, you realize the previous President did this in a way that was despicable, so... you do what? Release all 250 back to their countries? What did you expect would happen? Your la-la land desire to have a complete 180 here is not possible in any reality. read some of these cases before you talk out of your ass and then claim we are delusional.

We´re only being partly evil!!! go U.S.! Now Egypt and Iran can only half-laugh when we tell them to support human rights.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 05:42 PM) Did I say it was OK? Pretty sure I didn't. Let's break it down... indefinite detention: not at all, in fact we are seeing people released, sent to trial, taken out of Gitmo, etc.Wrong Obama is doing this for SOME GB inmates, not all, he´s left the door open for many to be held indefinitely. military commissions: still there, but I don't recall anyone saying they shouldn't be. Considering the joke of justice they were and still failure to reconstitute them as something legitimate, WRONG. Blackwater assassination squads: Xe has lost lots and lots of contracts, their presence is decreasing rapidly, as expected, and that's a good thing. Check out the chart of them in AFghanistan, more hired guns than NATO troops escalation in Afghanistan: This looks like it will be true, but Obama all but said it would be. extreme secrecy to shield executive lawbreaking from judicial review: Not sure precisely what he is getting at here, so might be true, kind of vague. What he´s getting at is something he´s documented extensively, OBamas embracement of state secrets, intense fighting to shield any info such as the case in britain, where an english citizen was sent to egypt and tortured, with documents showing CIA involvement. The failure to prosecute anyoen for the illegal tortures happening in Bush 03, despite much less modern countries in Eastern europe even taking those steps. renditions: Is this still happening? Probably occasionally, but probably less, however we don't really know.Yes Obama specifically left ext. rendition open for a reason. denials of habeas corpus: Again very broad statement here, I haven't seen it, all I've seen is getting more people in front of judges. then read about them. So basically, as I said, mostly untrue, or partially true. see comments in quote

~I´m borderline insulted this was asked

I mean, if we are comfortable with how we are controlling northern pakistan, then I see no difference between it and Afghanistan. If anything we should invade pakistan. And then the African countries they'll migrate too. There's no benefit to Afghanistan except for human rights, and even those are questionable when you have as many civilian casualties as we've had. Let's see, America in neverending wars to protect corrupt governments. Sounds like a plan. And besides that the Northern Alliance is far from pro women's rights. This is a joke. I didn't think he'd say he was pulling out, but I also didn't think he'd re-commit damn near 40k troops after pulling the options off the table. 8 f***ing years of this place. And we're back where we started.

Jesus Christ. WAR WAR WAR! HOW PATRIOTIC! This, of course, was the centrist, sensible thing to do. War is always more sensible. Anything else other than constant war is weakness, of course.

QUOTE (chimpy2121 @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 03:11 AM) Doubt this has any substance to it: (from a ND board) a ten-year $50,000,000 base salary, wtf? Is that a typo?

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 03:28 AM) bmags, Brazil is PAL format. Amazon.co.uk has PAL copies used of "Edmond" for under $2, + worldwide shipping under $4. !!! what the EFF is PAL? Would I be getting a hard copy?

I hope this doesn't confuse the boy/girl's identity.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 23, 2009 -> 04:42 AM) So, the NYT reports on the climate email situation, and has this to say about it.... Really? Is that all it takes? Because I am sure there are many emails, pictures and conversations that they have printed in the past, especially ones making politicians look bad, that weren't intended for the public eye. If the emails contained plans for how the US was going to invade Cuba, I am sure they would have printed them. Or detailing an illicit affair involving a married Senator. Or converstions between auto execs about how they are conspiring to do somethign nefarious. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/...ons-on-display/ Emails fall under the open records act and regarding all the examples you cited would be acquired legally through a document request. So, awesome righteous indignation once again! (edit: except for the latter, unless it was a criminal investigation...etc) And everytime emails have been printed, they were acquired legally, or were done on gov't computers/accts, giving them a claim to publish.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Nov 23, 2009 -> 03:16 AM) I would think the magic broomstick is capable of quite a bit, wouldn't you? Well it certainly seemed to be able to take care of the "clean-up" spot. god. Kill me now.

I'm pretty sure I've yelled this before. Would never call anybody up. I'm pretty sure I would have rather had a broomstick hit instead of Lillibridge this year though. Especially one of those magic brooms from fantasia.

Wait, Upton with his current MLB resume we're saying could net 9 mill a season? Or are we assuming improvement to what he should, in fact, be?

QUOTE (2OutRally @ Nov 22, 2009 -> 06:58 PM) Teahen needs to stay at third if we want a really solid year out of him, IMO. Also, I think his defense will improve tremendously there if they just leave him alone. He hasn't played a full year at third since 2006, his best season. This is a guy who had to constantly bring 5 gloves with him everywhere the past few seasons. He deserves a chance to settle into one position. Why does he deserve that? It's not like he's an excellent offensive player that is getting screwed around.

I'm thinking pitcher as well. I can't imagine we sign another reclamation project that's a fielder, I mean, besides backup C, what is left that wouldn't be starting. And if they are to be starting - fml.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 22, 2009 -> 06:38 PM) Morel was drafted for his glove, but its his bat that has really come around. If you look at his swing now compared to before he was drafted its much different. Its more compact and his timing is much better. Did he do that on his own? Have we actually started to fix players before they fail?

Perhaps we should look at it as Straight marriage purposely banned Texas.

nazi sympathizers are only funny for so long. About negative time actually.