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maybe he's taking advantage of the supreme major league umpires

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 07:54 PM) I read a 1-star review that ripped it to shreds. any tarrantino movie attracts polarization among critics.

I could write a long post about Bush fatigue and how confirming the long held suspicions doesn't even matter anymore, the important thing is just that the press sucked for 8 years. ANd continues to suck. And sucked before that.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 06:04 PM) The main key is to drink it out of a glass. After that it boils down to how "snobby" you wish to be. The only one I am a complete snob about: Trappists and Abbey Ales (one in the same to the beginner) should ALWAYS be decanted into a chalice of some sort. If you do not have something close to a chalice style glass, don't even open that dang bottle. Duvel should pretty much always go into a Duvel glass. This is mainly due to the insane style head that is created when pouring one. It doesn't matter how much experience you have pouring a beer, a Duvel head will ALWAYS get away from you. This is mainly due to that being the intent. It is a HUGE, creamy, meringue style head. A Weiss should go into a Weiss style glass. Those are the TALL skinny glasses you see people drinking from. Fruit or no fruit in your weiss: I actually prefer my weiss without the fruit 90% of the time. It also kind of depends on how much I am planning to put down. If I am out to really let go, then I do the fruit. I think the added fruit wedge might help with the following morning. But remember, adding a wedge to your beer instantly takes you from "beer mode" to "Kool-aid mode" and you will find you are putting them down MUCH faster then without the wedge. With a Hacker-Pschorr, that can lead to hitting a wall REALLY fast. correct? And so those short, straight glasses, I believe I've been served IPA/APAs most commonly. I wonder what the advantages are to those.

I mean this just feels like 02-04, where I felt like (maybe 01 but injuries that year were unbelievable, remember when people were actually calling out Herm Schneider?) we should be 10-15 over but were just unbelievably inconsistent, we had a better offense then but worse starting pitching. I just want us to get hot, this is getting really annoying.

I ask because you know, being young you learn things occassionally. But I was drinking ole fezzywhigs last winter out of a bottle and was not enjoying it, the carbonation was masking it and it just came off us more bitter than I like. Then I put it in a pint glass and it sat for a few and then it was a much more pleasant experience. If that's a universal thing, to always put it into a glass, it would be good to know.

I wouldn't mind a run down of what glasses to drink what beers in.

Couldn't remember where the topic about Panetta scratching that secret CIA program should've gone, but so, the reason it alarmed him was because we were contracting blackwater to do it . I'm more than fine if not happy that these types of programs are being enacted. I think these programs are more effective in fighting terror cells than when we were working cold war in the 50s. However, to outsource it to a private contracting firm, especially one with blackwaters record, is outrageous. We, the people of the U.S., essentially contracted a hit man.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 01:40 AM) I used to brew a mean choke cherry stout based on the recipe from Charlie Papazian's origial CJHB book that I bet you both would have liked. I do know what you're talking about though. The Bell's cherry stout is not an every day beer for sure. It sure as hell beats the taste of the gawdawful cherry wheat Sam Adams came out with several years ago. Any love for kreik lambics? For fruit lambics I'll usually grab a framboise first in deference to the wife, but I quite like the kreiks as well. Around lady friends I'll drink the framboise but even with the high AC it just seems kind of empty. It's too light, like drinking sparkling crystal light to me. I did have a good lambic a couple weeks ago but it was poured for me and never found out what it was.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 19, 2009 -> 10:58 PM) It's so stupid to try and claim that a player getting injured is a good thing. reference spring 2008: injury to Jerry Owens.

I've had Bell's cherry stout but I just walked away with what I usually do: I don't like cherry.

Flaxx and G&T, Any of you tried Xingu? It's a black ale from Rio De Jineiro I quite like. Comparable to Rogue's Dead Guy, if that's your bag.

you guys still use AIM? I'd love to call you names right now.

no. you don't really need to pander to the far left they aren't going anywhere.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 18, 2009 -> 08:55 PM) It's the crying, fake soap-opera, fake-retiring and drama around it year after year after year. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 19, 2009 -> 04:42 PM) They're not. Why is this ridiculous? They are guaranteed health care under the current house bill. There was an amendment proposed to take this provision out and it was shot down. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...,0,887725.story The latest CBO analysis of the house bill also said that illegals were not covered. The only places I see reporting that they are are Free Republic. Pretty funny to criticize others for only getting their info from their blogs, huh? http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/st...ts-health-bill/

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 19, 2009 -> 04:37 PM) no illegals denied, this is why I don't read what you say, you can't write a post without being ridiculous.

props to the media for giving the crazy assault rifle wearing whackos, birthers and deathers, and I haven't seen a single person on any of these shows asking people affected by the health care system.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 19, 2009 -> 01:30 AM) Bloddy hell. I've proposed 4 or 5 ideas myself besides tort reform. But no one wants to hear anything but "government must step in and take this over because it's such a mess". Screw it. No one wants but what the talking points are fed to them by their respective blogs. I stop reading your posts after I read something ridiculous, so rarely do I get past the first sentence. The problem is the only place real pressure is going to come from for change from the insurance industry is the government. So it's either status quo or the evil government is going to have to act on the free market system. So I suggest you call your representatives to put together a plan instead of just playing obstruction.

ahh the slippery slope, the domino effect. If we let gays marry, what's next DOGS MARRYING PEOPLE!?!?!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 03:17 AM) This is a pretty common thought with any band. the earliest stuff is always the best. I used to be a huge 311 fan, but their new stuff is just unlistenable to me. Music-GrassRoots-311-Transistor is just a really hard thing for them to find again. I disagree. It's only true when it's true, some people just run out of ideas. Should be noted that Matt Sharp left after pinkerton, then the bass driven songs gave way to crappy pop guitar and rap lyrics. Rivers is a joke.

linebrink demoted to ball girl

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 18, 2009 -> 10:54 PM) Very little, especially nowadays, is a true free market. But government control is one way to kill what little competition is left. SS said it a minute ago - and it's sad - those who want this so bad just keep accepting every Obama talking point like it's right on and this is the best thing to ever happen. There are alternatives to start fixing this (hell, let's try addressing the PROBLEMS themselves instead of a complete takeover, what a novel freaking idea that would be). No, can't have that, because liberals have had a hard on for health care since the 1930's and they are the closest they have ever been. They will not give this control up... not like they did in 1993. I've heard no solutions from the right besides tort reform and frankly, when states have done that there has been very little change in health care costs. This system is broken, it's causing bankruptcy in businesses and families, and limiting mobility from those afraid to lose health benefits or start new businesses. People aren't choosing to work or not, get health care or an iphone, they are working to get health care and spending absurds amount of income on it, and then might get dropped when an issue arises that they need it most. God save this free market wonder, the American Insurance industry!

we can at least all agree that Brett Favre is a piece of s***.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 06:09 PM) Its funny, if you didn't know any better and were asked to pick which map represented Blue winning 53-46 and which one winning 50-48, i'm sure you'd get it wrong. Well, I mean if you knew where the high populace areas were I bet you could figure it out.