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QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 22, 2006 -> 06:40 AM) I am sitting here wondering, what percentage of the population is as f***ed up as this guy? I don't know, what percentage of the population are reporters covering the case?

So I'm not sure what to be happier about...the fact that I didn't watch any of the White Sox game last night, or the fact that I didn't watch any of the game because I was off buying my first car. 2006 Honda Civic EX. Metallic Blue color. I'm fairly happy. And I didn't have to see Jose get hammered again. Yay!

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 08:18 PM) I'm gonna barf the next time somebody claims Kenny traded a top 20 prospect in hopes of getting back a typical #5 starter -- especially one that makes as much paper as Javy does. You're 100% right. He came in at #23.

Mark needs these today:

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Aug 22, 2006 -> 09:53 AM) Couple new polls out this week in CT Senate. Lieberman 45, Lamont 43, Schlessinger 6, Rasmussen Lieberman 44, Lamont 42, Schlessinger 3, ARG. MO Senate Talent (R, Inc) 46, McCaskill (D) 44 Rasmussen Talent 46, McCaskill 47 Survey USA MT Senate Burns (R, Inc) 47, Tester (D) 47 PA Senate Santorum (R, Inc) 41, Casey (D) 47 Strategic Vision Santorum (R, Inc) 42, Casey (D) 48 Quinnipiac On everything but the PA...KICKA**!!!

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 03:36 PM) And they've got Frank Thomas. But, at least for 2 weeks, no Houston Street.

QUOTE(GreatScott82 @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 03:23 PM) dont remind me! This is why it is really important to beat the Tigers and catch them because the Twins have our number. If the Central is unreachable and the Tigers have it by that final weekend and we are tied for the wildcard with the Twins going into that series, I dont like our chances of reaching the playoffs. So yeah the Twins scare me. Our last 3 games last season were with the Indians. Ah, happy memories.

Podsednik, LF Iguchi, 2b Thome, DH Konerko, 1b Dye, RF Pierzynski, C Crede, 3B "Instant offense (for the Tigers)" Mackowiak, CF Cintron, SS Contreras, P Granderson, CF Monroe, LF Young, DH Ordonez, RF Guillen, SS Rodriguez, C Casey, 1b Perez, 2b Inge, 3b Verlander, P

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 02:43 PM) Best 1-2 punch in baseball? Who's that? Manny/Ortiz. And yes, he's still right.

QUOTE(Bonderman38 @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 02:28 PM) I guess Perez is starting. Horrible trade by the Tigers. Hopefully Infante gets traded so he doesn't have to deal with this bs anymore. I really, really hope that Leyland gives Perez as much playing time as Dusty did.

We'll know the answer to this question in 4 games. If we sweep those 4, I say yes. If we split or worse, the answer is no. Both us and Minny would have to leapfrog Detroit in 40 games. Which means both of us need to keep playing well, Detroit needs to keep playing poorly, and they can't make up too much ground while the Twins and White Sox play each other. Liriano and Verlander are also big pieces of that puzzle, and God only knows what each of them will be able to bring to the table the rest of the year.

Allen's lead drops to 3 points. 48-45, down from a 19 point lead in an identical poll in June.

Blueberry nutri-grain bar and a banana. (At least the banana was organic). I could really go for a cup of soup. Something with a decent amount of veggies in it.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 11:38 AM) So, there are degrees of racism? Hmmm. I would say so. I for one would judge that insinuating that a lot of people of a certain race wind up at certain jobs is slightly above randomly dropping a racist word, which is slightly above directly using a racist word in an insult (ie that stupid N*****), which is slightly above an actual racist action (like denying a person housing based on their race), which is slightly above racial violence. Probably a few steps i didn't bother to think of, but I would judge a person who launches into a racial tirade worse than a person who drops a random remark, and a person who commits a crime in the name of race more harshly than almost any of the others. Seems to make sense to me.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 10:55 AM) ah, i see. what a prick. meh, i think it was racial. kinda like saying "Martin Luther King worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken in St.Louis" It may not have been intentionally racial, but she certainly managed to lump in Ghandi with what would be an exact negative stereotype of the sort of work Indian-Americans might be expected to do. I for one don't believe that was any more of a random choice of jobs than I believe Allen's choice of words was just some random pick. So yeah, Hillary's remark was definately racial, it's just a matter of where do you drop it on your personal scale of offensiveness.

Jose, remember your last game against Detroit? Like 10 days ago? That game? Yeah, you remember it? DO THAT AGAIN.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 10:29 AM) Macaca? wow, that is obscure. never heard that one before Macaque is a French term used to insult North Africans, i.e. basically calling them monkeys. George Allen's mother is French-Tunisian and he speaks French.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 10:30 AM) Not familiar. Source? I'll cite this one, not sure it's the same he means. Linkity.

Bush on Iraq: ‘We’re Not Leaving So Long As I’m The President’. There should be a rule where every single Democrat running for Congress this year has to use that clip in at least 5 ads.

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 09:23 AM) Also wish our system could produce some Morneaus, Bartletts and Puntos, scrappers who kick our tail. Morneau's first season wasn't anything to write home about either. We're going to have one of the best Center Fielders in baseball for the next 6 years or so. I'm pretty happy about that one. Minnesota might also be a bit jealous of that guy we developed at 3rd base. Or the 38th rounder and 17th round picks who look like they may anchor our starting 5 next year.

We don't deserve that.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 09:08 AM) The UN is not going to get there, nor was it ever. Smoke and mirrors. I doubt anyone really believed that there were countries willing to go in and fight and disarm Hezbollah instead of Israel, even when they signed the cease fire. I think the reality is that the cease fire was basically an admission by both sides that Status Quo antebellum was a better situation than having a lot of fighting, because Israel was not getting anywhere with its armed incursion against Hezbollah, and the nation of Lebanon was sort of running out of things that could be bombed. Think about this...the U.S. started off the Lebanon campaign with our government saying things like this: Now, we're saying things like this: . We've gone from thinking that Israel would just crush Hezbollah in weeks and the whole world would be safer to basically admitting that there's nothing we can do to get rid of Hezbollah by military action right now, so we've gone from saying "we want a lasting peace before there's a cease fire" to "give us the damn cease fire." If there was any real thought that anything more could have been done to weaken Hez, the U.S. wouldn't have allowed the cease fire, Israel wouldn't have signed on, and the Israeli government wouldn't be on the verge of falling. So what happens? The U.S. pushes for clauses in the U.N. resolution calling for things it knows won't happen, because a.) it gives the U.S. leverage in negotiations on other fronts, because if France isn't helping out here, we can use that as a diplomatic club to bash them with the next time we disagree on something, and because b.) we can blame the U.N. for the failure to have Hezbollah disarmed instead of blaming the fact that it's impossible to beat them militarily. That way, the U.N. becomes a scapegoat for why things didn't work out, while our government never has to acknowledge that the idea of bombing away a guerrilla resistance group is just as flawed today as it was in the 1770's.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Aug 19, 2006 -> 06:48 AM) You've got to wonder what sport is clean anymore. Sad. Golf, Tennis, Basketball. They haven't had anyone big test positive, so I'm sure that means they're clean, right?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 08:35 AM) Thank you, I was just looking at the resolution and discovered saved resolution and projected resolution are different. I will be sending this to about 100 people over the next couple weeks and I need for any of them to be able to open the program. I was using MGI Photosuit but developed some issues there and decided on Powerpoint, I assumed they had an option to create a .exe and just have it run and not require the user to have ppt Hmph, I'm afraid that if there is such an option, an easy way to open a ppt file as an EXE, I don't know how to do it. And I for one am always nervous about opening ANY .exe file from anyone, unless I actually speak to them on the phone or in person and they say "Yes, this is ok to open (I don't trust email for that purpose, since virii can fake emails quite easily.)" But, I do think that there are some software programs which could be purchased/obtained to do the task for you. Quick download.com search turned up this one (hope the link works), free to try, like $50 to buy. If you just go to Download.com and search for Powerpoint, you'll find a fairly long list of file convertors on there. Not sure if any of them are any good, try to follow reviews for that.