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I don't know if it's even still there, but J&J's Pizza Shack in Portage always made one hell of a meal.

My God...more than 1300 people died in the violence in Iraq Last week.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 07:06 PM) YEEE f***ING HAW!!! LOW POLL NUMBERS! OUR PRESIDENT SUCKS!!! WOOO HOOOO!!! And then you wonder why the perception is from a conservative standpoint all you want to do is attack and wish bad things for this president. Edit: Oh, crap, my fault. This is the Bush bashing thread that no one dare speak anything good about the president in here. My fault, I just realized where I was. But I think this is a good enough point to leave it here. Or...could it be that I'm hoping for a win in this little election at the end of the year, and the lower Bush's poll numbers, the easier it will be to defeat Bush's party?

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 05:10 PM) i don't like his ideas, i don't like is speaking style, he has never been challenged by anyone in the media (aka, he could crumble when he gets asked hard questions), he has hasn't done anything out of the ordinary to deserve to be ordained the best young politician in the country.... ect. oh, but if i don't like him it's just because i hate all democrats... See, I actually was very impressed with his speaking style. I thought it was a tossup between him and Bill as to who gave the best speech @ the Dem convention in 2004, for example (Clearly better than either Kerry or Edwards).

I think this is clearly an outlier on the negative side, but it's nice to see the Port deal doing some dragging in this number. And the approval rating for Iraq has dropped hugely from their poll in January. The internals of this poll seem really skewed. They veer from Bush being at 35 in October up to 42 in January and back down to 34 in February. That's a lot of movement. I bet there's something funny in the way they're adjusting their sample which gives extra weight to Republicans polled...where a few ticks upwards in Republican approval gives a larger tick upwards in overall approval because they're a minority in the sample. Anywho...always nice to see a new low. The lower the outliers get, the lower the mean gets.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 04:41 PM) I don't think that place is an ideal situation for a rookie. Half the players on that team take everything as a joke. Are the Knicks right now the ideal situation for ANYTHING? (Except of course, for the Bulls, who have their picks)

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 04:35 PM) Oh man. I was hoping JG would lose the patch. It looks even longer and more ridiculous now. :rolly Hitters can't help but stare. Then they strike out. See: the Angels in the ALCS. That's the source of all his power.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 04:24 PM) Obama is so overrated. media darling, nothing more. Based on what I've seen of him, at least on the national stage, his reputation was well-deserved.

QUOTE(SoCalSouthSider59 @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 10:43 AM) Sure, why not. L.A. pulled off a very profitable and safe Olympics in 1984, and so could Chicago, with the right planning and security measures in place. Traffic on the L.A. freeway system was at it's lowest in years during the 23rd Olympiad....... The security concerns have also massively increased since 1984, even given that 84 was less than a decade after Munich. September 11th made a lot of changes, to the point that in 2004 during the Athens games there was talk that we would never again see a small nation able to run an Olympics because the costs of providing high-tech and capable security had exploded in the years between when Athens was selected and when the games actually were held.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 04:00 PM) Remember when Cheney was supposed to be dumped from the ticket in 2004? The guys who were floating that rumor went out on hunting trips with Mr. Cheney...and well...let's just say they weren't able to find the weapon.

This is pretty cool

I hardly believe a word the Washington Times writes which doesn't have someone else to confirm it, and this is yet another unnamed source which isn't willing to give it's name. There are a thousand reasons why someone might want to leak a lie about Cheney resigning, whether it's to hurt the President's campaign or help someone else in 08, whether or not it had any truth at all. With an unnamed source, there's no way to evaluate the credibility, and we should give this no more credence than Judy "F***ing queen of all Iraq" Miller's NYT anonymously sourced reporting on the WMD's.

So supposedly the Coast Guard doesn't seem to confident about the company.

Vlad the impaler has left Angels camp after 3 of his cousins died in a car crash. Zack "Cy" Greinke has left Royals camp for undisclosed reasons. He's back at home in Orlando. No reports about when or if he'll be back.

AP

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 01:19 PM) For those of you who say you will give a standing ovation to Frank when he comes back, i believe you are putting a player, Frank, in front of the organization that you are supposed to be a fan of. Sure Frank did a ton for this franchise. However, he just trashed this organization left and right. I'd say that a standing ovation is a slap in the face to this organization because you are putting a player in front of the organization - something i think should never happen, and especially not in this case. What will KW and everyone else be thinking when there is a standing ovation for him? If i'm KW, i'm pissed. There's no middle ground here. Maybe some people think i'm out of line, but so be it. Personally, i'll just sit there and do nothing. Perhaps we just value 15 years of service to the organization more highly than a few months of verbally trashing that organization?

This little nugget appeared in the Washington Post today. Now, as we all know, this sort of thing seems to happen quite consistently, with things like Judicial Watch randomly coming up for an audit every year of the Clinton Administration, etc. But as I understand it, it's pretty darn unusual to be able to draw that straight of a line from a politician directly to an audit of a group criticising that politician. Anywho, at least now I have something to point at the next time people cite Clinton's use of the IRS against his critics as a major problem of that administration.

SI with a useful piece on cap room.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 12:45 PM) True. Iguchi still put up a good OBP while batting second. Who knows if Uribe can actually do that. Productive outs is one thing, OBP is even more important in the #2 spot. Then again, we also don't have a good way right now to estimate whether getting increased power production from Iguchi might make up for a decrease in OBP from the #2 hole, if productive outs were to remain constant.

QUOTE(thedoctor @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 12:30 PM) i don't have a dish, but my cable company offers extra innings if you have digital, which i do have. if you've bought it, what do you think? is it worth the money, and how much does is cost for the season? thanks in advance. I spent I think $149 on it from DirecTV last year. Worth it, but that's in large part because I picked the right year to buy it. They have a habit of not carrying a decent chunk of the Sox games broadcast over that other channel in chicago (Is it still CLTV?) because that channel has some sort of exclusive deal. So on those days, if Extra Innings isn't carrying the other team's announcers, they won't carry the game at all. They also have an obnoxious habit of carrying the big name announcers, like the guys from New York whenever we play the Yankees, regardless of the venue. That said, at least I got to see the team play.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 09:57 AM) PODS If Owens keeps progressing, Scottie's stay here will be pretty short too.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 09:50 AM) That was my guess too, but I thought NASA invented it for some reason... I think they just discovered it's not a good thing to ignite it in a 100% oxygen atmosphere.

Sheffield has back spasms, and Pavano may start the season on the DL.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 09:41 AM) OK, try to answer this trivia challenge without going to the Internat for help. Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral invented this product in 1948 after he took a close look at the seed pod burrs which kept sticking to his dog on their daily walk in the Alps. What is the product? Velcro?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 09:40 AM) Konerko? I keep meaning to buy one of those. Alternate opinion...should I get it in black, white, or road grey? I already have a black replica jersey with no name on the back, so I've been leaning towards the white one, but I don't want to get it dirty and ruin it.