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The "rain forest" of Curitiba. Just ribbin you. Pretty far from the rain forest. Sao Paolo state sees much less rain it seemed than does Parana. Here's a view from where I live!!!!! http://twitpic.com/iuqey

QUOTE (The Critic @ Sep 23, 2009 -> 05:02 PM) It can't be worse than the CTA. There's no way. It is because CTA sucks but can take you all over chicago and into north/south suburbs, and if not you have metra that'll extend you close to anywhere. STL's transit covers very little. Sox72, I have a couple friends going to WashU, I think you'll enjoy yourself. And go to Papis

5 years old is not that old. lol there are pictures of all four of us boys in my family when I was like 1.5...that made my brother like 8.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 23, 2009 -> 04:37 PM) I've listened to some of her speeches and seen interviews, and what I see is a wavering back and forth that I believe is her injecting exaggerated quirks for effect. But she has been doing it so long, its probably instinctive now. And no, obviously, I don't know here personally so I can't say for sure. Just my opinion. In any case, real or fake or a bit of both, she belongs nowhere near any sort of leadership position - she is either really that dumb (which I find unlikely), or she is just a little dumber than the people typically at her level but plays up the hick angle which says she thinks everyone else is stupid. Just not good, either way. has there ever been this kind of "aww shucks, i'm dumb" type politician before?

Ugh that woman is among the dumbest in the world.

hahahaha oh sorry. No, seriously, there is a chance you might really love st. louis. Just, if you have kids, after they leave high school walk around with them the first day at college and if they ask the new people what high school they went to just punch the hell out of them. My major gripe with STL is their really crappy crappy public transport.

she was warning Chinese about big government?

I'm not sure what "here" means.

Yes I asked my 82 year old professor if the dude's dick still worked as a follow up question

did you see where I said someone got a blowdart into the dick

This story halfway sucks because I don't remember the names... Anyway i had this teacher Stu loory who used to do CNN world report in Moscow, he said you'd hear a lot of stories never reported because this and that. one was this german technician who knew would clean out the german embassy of the KGB spy s***...and rig it against them but I'm not exactly sure how. it was something as simple as shocking on the other end other transmissions I don't remember. Anyways the guy wanders out of the embassy and into a church. A kgb assassin blows a poison dart into his dick. Not lethal, he manages to get to the embassy, where the US arranged for a helicopter to lift him out of there. How bout that, poison dart to the junk.

I think it didn't cause much discussion because John Bolton and John McCain aren't on this site. McCain's dream of entering another cold war with Russia is admirable, it produced many great clancy novels and military movies including making Top Gun have an ending, but not very smart.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 22, 2009 -> 10:15 PM) I said this before in the Dem thread, but on substance Obama's CT policies aren't much different from Bush's. To believe this you would have to think Bush was wrong on everything and Obama came through like some holy crusader to reverse everything. In reality a lot of these things are cookie-cutter. So when I say policies I meant legislative... but even so, Bush's use of Guantanimo killed us with support from abroad when we needed support from abroad to share the costs of 2 wars. And this kept us safe memo. I just don't buy it. You may think this is bunk logic, but by going into Iraq I believe we emboldened Iran as well as put 4,000 Americans in caskets. If "us" is Americans, no, I think his misguided quests in the attempts to keep us safe put many of "us" to death. I just, no, lets be objective here. The president is responsible for things. And Bush was the commander-in-chief. From what we now know, they knew this intelligence from Iraq was highly questionable, PUSHED for our intelligence agencies to find bunk links, and then invaded a country with next to no plan on what the eff to do with it after we were there. The articles on the corruptness of some of the people that profited in the rebuilding (building halfassed schools, painting old automobiles and charging the gov't as if they were new) and the use of Blackwater which, may, have committed a massacre on the people we were trying to save, but at the very least were very questionable in their methods. Add on TOP of that Abu Ghraib, which recently we found out was not just a couple bad apples, but more influenced from the top than we were lead to believe. Yes, 9/11 happened. But the above were things he could control. He didn't. He could've controlled hiring a head for FEMA who had a clue about emergency situations. He didn't. ANd it lead to people dying. He controlled going into Iraq, and it lead to thousands of Americans dying, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Iraqis dying. And through the whole of this, he didn't do a thing domestically besides cut taxes while he spent billions out of the allotted budget. We are talking about someone who was BAD, B-A-D at his job.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 22, 2009 -> 10:42 PM) Bush did a lot of s*** wrong and was a bad president, dont get me wrong. But to call him worse than Reagan or Carter is a little overboard. Not really. I mean...policy wise both Carter and Reagan did some good things (tax reform, civil service reform) I literally can't think of a policy that Bush put forth that was wise.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 22, 2009 -> 10:27 PM) Those are two entirely different animals you just lumped together. Not really I'm saying I can't wait for the US to get out of the two major military operations going on right now that serve no benefit to the itself.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 22, 2009 -> 10:24 PM) Dubya wasn't a very good president, but he was probably dealt the worst deck of anyone in a long time. He also had a base that demanded he cradle the balls of Reagan's policies... not good. But...you are the company you keep...and as far as personnel around him I can't think of a worst top to bottom administration in my lifetime. Even the ones that seemed promising (Cheney) turned f'n crazy after 9/11.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 22, 2009 -> 10:23 PM) Well that and the UN/allied nations didn't want him to. WEll yeah. The UN/allied nations didn't really seem to be gung ho about Iraq pt. II. God I can't wait until we get out of Iraq/Afghanistan. What a waste of money and brave people.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 22, 2009 -> 10:17 PM) I think it would be an ideal solution if the "caretaker" Senator would be considered ineligible for the special election. Yeah. BUt it seems if it's Dukakis that's not a worry THIS time. But giving that person the name recognition is an unfair advantage.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 22, 2009 -> 10:16 PM) Bush 41 probably would've been the best if he hadn't backed himself into a corner and ran out of gas against Clinton. Bush 41 has grown much more favorably, as I've said before. I have mucho respect for how pragmatic he was at governing, and unfortunately for him he signed a bill that raised taxes, but also helped lead to the balanced budgets of the 90s.

Damn I was hoping this would be more historical. How about 1840-1860? *there is only one right answer for this*

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 22, 2009 -> 10:09 PM) There is one August . Shocker. I go by Gus and there's only one of those too. Interesting that there are more August's than Gus'. The movie "august rush" caused a phenomenon"

no one found it strange how many people were named superman?

on the weeks it's so rainy here I'm on soxtalk more than when I left

Man the velvets are well represented in this thread

haha good luck. Better than Dye, no?