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QUOTE(Cknolls @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 08:58 AM) Maybe the family can charge money for copies of the funeral like they charge for their father's speeches. Thank God we're being respectful about her passing.

QUOTE(Yoda @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 07:55 AM) She has a 4-month-old baby!? Where have I been? If you truly didn't know that...in some blissful heaven where many of us can only dream of winding up some day.

Which was William Shatner's finest Star Trek performance? ST II: Wrath of Khan 67.9% ST III: Search for Spock 10.7% ST VI: Undiscovered Country 16.7% ST V: Final Frontier 4.7% Damn straight. Who the Hell are those 4.7% voting for #5?

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 08:52 AM) he will probably rob the Rangers or indians again. It doesnt matter which, one of them will sign him. And if it's the Indians...once again will we hear people saying how this signing might put them over the top in the AL Central, like we did last year?

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 08:40 AM) What exactly is the prof's quote? This web page may be a good start. I think the specific remarks he's being called to task on are these, said about the Iranian president's denial of the Holocaust.

Meanwhile...while GM can't figure out why revenues are going downhill so they go after the Union...Toyota is posting record profits, up 34% or so over last year. And roughly 44% of the cars they sold in north america last year were made in...North America. As a great man once said..."I believe that has some significance for our problem."

Great headline currently on CNN.com..."Bush urges end to cartoon violence". Somewhere, Itchy and Scratchy are crying. Pick a sign...imagine Bush (or Laura) holding it, and just laugh. Marge - I'm protesting because Itchy & Scratchy are indirectly responsible for my husband being hit on the head with a mallet Maggie- Stop me before I kill my father again Homer - Please ban violent cartoons -- next time I might not be so lucky Lisa - Ban Itchy & Scratchy Bart - Ban Itchy & Scratchy {Bart later adds `Don't' to the sign} Some more protest signs: Timothy Lovejoy - For heavens sake -- make them stop fighting Helen Lovejoy - Erase Itchy & Scratchy Maude Flanders - Join S.N.U.H. NOW! Ned Flanders - Save the cartoon animals ~Skinner's mother - Destroy the Violent People Moe - Bring back ``Wagon Train''

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 08:26 AM) http://www.nbc5.com/news/6819489/detail.html I saw the other day where he was complimenting the Irani president for investigiations into the holocaust. :headshake The entire Republican party is responsible for this guy! He's the root of all evil and he controls the party! He begat Mel Gibson's father! He should step aside and take over the RNC! WAAAAA!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Sorry bout that, yeah the guy's a moron...I'm just still annoyed about the other side's obsession with some random, stupid Colorado prof that a specific group of political "analysts" somehow decided was the emblem of their political opposition.

Linky.

QUOTE(Steff @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 08:17 AM) Which is what funerals used to be about... I never understood the need to televise and make a spectical of a wake or funeral. Because we have 24 hour news networks, something has to fill those 24 hours, and there just aren't enough missing white women.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 07:21 AM) I heard this on Democracy Now this morning and was quite pleased. This was the BushCo hack appointment story in microcosm. How many decades of extertise in the intelligence, natuonal secirity, defense, and science fields have been lost as career staffers have been ousted in favor of hacks whose only job qualification is unlimited and unquestioned support of BushCo policy? I don't think any of those staffing changes compares to the job we did in sending folks right out of the College Republicans and Heritage foundation to go and orchestrate the rebuilding of Iraq.

Why is it I get the feeling Sosa could use the money?

QUOTE(whitesox1976 @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 10:28 PM) That made my month! Pitchers and catchers and Thome reporting will do that for me.

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 10:47 PM) Yeah I can't see them moving. It'd be even more bad PR for MLB and I think there is no real solid alternative as Vegas is years away from ebing big league ready I think Montreal and San Juan have nice stadia.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 10:29 PM) Yeah I saw the stat before they've lost their last 2. They'll still get into the upper 60's in wins. That depends a lot on what San Antonio/Phoenix/Dallas wind up doing. If Dirk/Nash/Duncan go down for while, there'd be little reason for them to slam on the accelerator at the end of the season when they could give people a week or two of limited playing time, extra rest, and Darko. I mean, you'd have to feel pretty damn stupid if you wrapped up home court advantage and then a few games later one of them 5 starters comes down with a nagging injury like Shaq had in the playoffs last year.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 09:56 PM) House Republican Who Oversees N.S.A. Calls for Wiretap Inquiry http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/politics..._r=1&oref=login Conveniently, just today, a new poll came out in that district showing that the re-election race for the fall currently is a statistical dead heat, 44-43 versus the Democratic challenger. Linky.

The independent newspaper "The New York Press" just had its entire editorial staff quit after the paper refused to publish some of those comics.

The Administration hackjob who was forcing NASA to add the word "theory" to any paper referring to the big bang and who seemingly lied about graduating from Texas A & M Has resigned. I'd have posted this in that thread...but some mean person closed it for no obvious reason.

Washington Post, tomorrow. Here's the question...if the guy from the WaPo who wrote that piece were to read it out loud...would he do air quotes on the word "rents"?

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 10:14 PM) I haven't been paying much attention to the Pistons record, I didn't know they were up to 8 losses. They've now lost 2 games in every single month this year. 2 in Nov., Dec, Jan., and now Feb. Difference is, they've only played 4 games in Feb., while they were averaging like 14 games in each of the other months.

QUOTE(samclemens @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 09:18 PM) bush cant run anymore. who is left to compete? thats what i thought! Um, there are plenty of people in basically the same place where Bush was in 1998. The smart money right now in insider circles seems to be on former Virginia Governor George Allen, depending on who all actually winds up in the race.

QUOTE(samclemens @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 06:04 PM) and what is your problem anyway, picking out the 17th person to say what a joke that funeral was for a debate. Only 1 person I saw thus far in this thread had the gall to say "If I was a member of the King family". That's why you caught my attention.

I spent several weeks getting ready for it as much as I possibly could...like sitting around every night spending a coupel hours with those flash cards, doing at least 5-10 practice tests, etc. But then again, I was hoping to wind up getting into MIT or Caltech, so my requirements were probably a little more stringent than yours. And I'm no Rocket Scientist...I'm a rock scientist.

QUOTE(samclemens @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 05:43 PM) put yourself in their shoes. if you had a family relative die, how would you feel if the funeral was turned into a stage for politics(for example, that comment on WMD's by that old reverand; absolutely shameless and unrelated to the funeral)? you apparently would be OK with your realtive's funeral being turned into a mockery. i would not. and i dont need to say after every post that it's just my opinion- that goes without saying for what anyone says on this board unless they link some article or facts with their post. but you're right, i must be as ignorant as you imply, since i dont agree with you. Why do I need to put myself in their shoes? You've already put yoruself in their shoes and told them what they should do and how they should feel. Mrs. King worked for many causes during her life. She believed in many things. She spoke at an anti-Vietnam-war rally 3 weeks after Dr. King's assassination. Her family was close personal friends with the preacher you're calling absolutely shameless. He formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. King in 1957, and served as its vice president. And you're trying to tell me that you believe beyond any shadow of a doubt that they found the words of that reverend inappropriate? If my relative was a powerful political figure and wished for those political views to be expressed at her funeral, then I'd be damned if I was going to allow some random person out there in the middle of no where to tell me that the service was inappropriate. It'd be much more of a mockery if the wishes of the deceased weren't followed. If the family finds it inappropriate, then it was inappropriate. If the family believed in every word and wanted it to be said and heard, then who the Hell are we to tell them they're wrong? Give me an actual statement by some of her kids that they found the sermon inappropriate, or stop trying to tell the family what they should feel.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 05:44 PM) I highly doubt that health insurance benefits are valued at $70,000 per worker annually. Congrats...beat me by that much...