Balta1701

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 5, 2007 -> 09:13 AM) No kidding. What does he really expect. I mean, sure, we will send you to the raiders or the Lions, happy career. See, everyone disagrees with me until there's a player's name attached.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 05:20 PM) Well, SHE called it a joke, sorta like Kerry called his comment a joke. Gonna believe one and not the other? Seriously? I'm not saying it wasn't a joke, I'm saying it wasn't botched. It wasn't botched when she called Edwards a f*g, it wasn't botched when she called Gore a "total f*g", it wasn't botched last year at this exact same event when she called Arabs "ragheads" and threatened violence against them or saying that she "had a shot at Bill Clinton", and so on and so on and so on. It's not a botched joke here. This is exactly what she does. Over and over and over and over. And her completely-non-apology apology fits exactly with that formula. Her schtick is to say the most offensive thing humanly possible, whether it's a joke or not, it is 100% deliberate. And every time she does something like this, the mainstream folks condemn her for a day, then give here 2x as much time on TV, give her another cover on Time Magazine. And then the Republicans invite her repeatedly to conferences just like this one, they show up knowing full well what kind of person she is, and then they come out and praise her.

You know what I like about this thread? Rush Limbaugh says something that isn't obscene, obnoxious, shocking, threatening, or evil, which was actually sorta funny the first time I heard it before Limbaugh stole the joke, and everyone is so surprised by the fact that it isn't outrageous that it gets its own thread.

Bring the heat Captain Sisco

Come on Sweet-Swingin' Ryan Sweeney...

Welcome to the parade, Fields.

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 10:12 AM) Still can't believe Broadway is in the race. I have a feeling he's going to need a little more seasoning in the minors. I think that it's entirely possible that each and every pitcher on that list could benefit from at least a few months in AAA.

That's the fastest I've ever heard anyone say the words "Jack Bauer".

QUOTE(Reddy @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 02:35 PM) control issues... Well, that's why we employ the witch doctor...

Ok Aardsma, show us something useful.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 02:29 PM) He's not related to the Trio of Major League Molinas I know. But hey, hitting a home run against the Cubs has to be a part of the admission price, right?

Ken williams looks sexy in them shorts.

QUOTE(quade36 @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 02:27 PM) I don't understand a comment just made. "Will Ohman looking good against some tough right-handed hitters." ??? What right-handed stud hitters are still playing for the Sox? Gustavo Molina?

Welcome to the family, Mr. Molina!

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 02:15 PM) So, botched jokes about military intelligence = ok Botched jokes about a candidate being gay = bad Got it. And before you get yourself all worked up, I think both are bad, just trying to figure out how you can excuse one, but not the other. You're calling Coulter's remark a "botched" joke? Seriously?

Does the radar gun feel slow to anyone else?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 02:09 PM) The cubs cannot stop overhyping some of the worst players ever. How can you sit there and say Cliff Floyd is a great player, when the guy hasnt touched the field for you yet. And calling the cubs a good team already is starting to make me sick. Newsflash: your team blows. Hell, at some point, I'm even one who's willing to suspend disbelief...that's the job of these guys! It's a spring training game...the job of these guys right now is to generate some hype for the team, whether or not it's justified. That's why you get interviews with both Pinella and Trammel, that's why you get repeated mentions of all the new guys, etc. Yeah, sometimes it's gonna get annoying, but we're better off just putting up with it and ignoring it. If you let the fact that the Cubs announcers are trying to be positive in spring training get to you...then you're gonna wind up with some anger management issues pretty darn soon.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 12:13 PM) Do you think he will face any death threats as Hank did? Every stadium across the country needs to start playing Waylon Jennings "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" when Bonds gets to bat. Of course Bonds will face death threats, because almost every public figure does. But here's the thing...I guarantee you, the absolute worst of them, Mr. Bonds will make sure that the media somehow hears about them. Because for a nation of people who don't pay attention, when you've made 95% of the nation despise you, what better way to make your fans even more die-hard than to use the actions of a few idiots to smear everyone else who doesn't like you.

Good guys enjoying that left field wall. Good work 32. Keep that up.

Spivey to the wall

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 03:01 PM) Mitt Romney's latest supporter. Ann Coulter Link. Glad we cleared that up.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 01:39 PM) And that makes her different from the average politician, how? She hasn't been elected for anything by anyone except the major media groups that support her.

Jerusalem Post.

QUOTE(hitlesswonder @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 11:06 AM) As for poverty in America, I don't believe it's that rates are worse than they used to be. From Wikipedia: "From 1963 when Lyndon Johnson took office until 1970 as the impact of his Great Society programs were felt, the portion of Americans living below the poverty line dropped from 22.2 percent to 12.6 percent, the most dramatic decline over such a brief period in this century". That 12 percent is about where we're at today. Similarly homelessness and poverty among the elderly is much lower now than before social security. No luck finding the actual data on Google yet, and I'm only on a modem today so I'm lazy, but I believe one of, if not the biggest group, which moved from being consistently stuck in poverty to actually being able to move out of poverty in the 1960's was Senior Citizens...because suddenly there was a program dealing with their catastrophic health costs.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 07:21 AM) In the state of New Jersey, you can not be denied service if you walk into an ER. Seeing a non-walk in clinic doctor can be quite difficult without insurance, IMO, here otherwise. The rules are the same here in California. The uninsured have basically no place to go other than to the ER. Of course, anyone who had half a brain and was designing a system would consider this a terrible idea; ER visits are ungodly expensive, they're designed for emergencies, not to be the sole provider of care for people. But because of the lack of insurance for so many people, we wind up having people with no choice but to go to the ER when they decide they need care for something, which of course helps drive prices through the roof and keeps those people in debt. And on top of that, the huge cost of going to the ER when you have no other insurance is a huge impediment to getting actual care, such as, for example, being able to go to a dentist when you have a cavity before they turn into 6 cavities or a disease that kills you. Preventative medicine would be so much cheaper if it were just employed in an intelligent way, but no, we just toss people to the ER.