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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.

that's a disgusting, though provocative name for something.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 6, 2009 -> 01:35 PM) http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,7511697.story Tigers? Doubt that.

God I can't wait to find someone with the last name McSlappington.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 21, 2009 -> 11:33 PM) Meh the presence of Joe Scarborough hosting a show in the morning (nevermind who Mika's father is, she is easily convinced by whatever Joe says) and the fact that Pat Buchanan is taken seriously on that network already kind of throws a big dent in that. Of course MSNBC is biased overall, and is pretty unapologetic about it, but they aren't anywhere near as good at blatantly pushing an agenda and dominating the direction of a national argument as Fox is. If they really were trying to be the liberal Fox they would try harder. Once again, MSNBC is liberal leaning, Fox is republican. The National Review, for instance, is conservative. The Weekly Standard, bats*** republican. Larison - conservative. Kristol, et al. - Republican. There is a difference between political ideology and party ideology.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 22, 2009 -> 12:51 AM) Pssst. Dey have dis thing called the "Internet", see... Ha, trust me I know, but I can't even imagine how long it would take me to torrent a movie. For much of the day my internet is close to 56k speed.

unfortunately, I don't think it is. Nonetheless, it was among the dumbest things I've ever read in my life. So a single university was able to concoct and cover up climate change through changing data numbers, as if all data comes from one, central source. British conspiracy theorists are even dumber than american ones.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Nov 19, 2009 -> 10:02 PM) bmags, IIRC you're a Mamet fan. Have you watched 'Edmond' with William H. Macy? Curious to hear your thoughts. Damn, no. And unfortunately, it will be difficult to any time soon.

QUOTE (Cali @ Nov 19, 2009 -> 08:52 PM) The av club releases their best albums of the decade list this was a really fun list until #1 came.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 21, 2009 -> 05:17 AM) Here's an interesting question: Would we have been better off not acquiring Teahen and signing Omar? Then we'd have Gordon at third, Omar at short, Lexi at second and Paulie at first. After a year of Omar, we then the following year acquire another OC or Omar-type ss. No, we wouldn't "have" that, they wouldn't move Alexei again for Omar Vizquel age 43. Why has this signing been so polarizing again? We have an excellent defensive infielder who can play 3 positions, which was a BIG problem last year.