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QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Feb 20, 2008 -> 02:31 PM) Hey, as long as they shoot missles at us when the sky's clear, humidity is low, the seas are calm, there's not too much wind ..... Ah, hell, it'll just take a few trillion to get it working right! I'll bet you they can shoot those things in any weather if need be. Hmm, I seem to remember liberals screaming "It's completely IMPOSSIBLE to shoot a missle with a missle !" years ago. so now it's "THEY'LL NEVER GET ONE OFF IN THE RAIN!!!"

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 19, 2008 -> 08:44 PM) In his speech tonight, John McCain referenced an "eloquent but empty call for change" several times. Get used to that slogan folks. We've got almost 9 months of it. Actually, I thought it was a good speech. Better than Obama's speech for the first time. Barrack's delivery and constant 'change' stuff is getting a bit stale.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Feb 19, 2008 -> 06:15 PM) I have often thought about getting an EU passport for the sole purpose of legal travel in Cuba. you left wingers and your loving obsessions with authoritarian communist dictators /snark

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Feb 18, 2008 -> 10:07 PM) That's why the lights should be turned off. ^^^ i was thinking the same thing.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Feb 19, 2008 -> 02:13 PM) WWTDD on Michael Moore. wow, it looks like he is actually gaining more weight. if he's not careful he could end up on one of those "Super Fat People" Maury Povich episodes. the ones where the obese person has to be lifted with a crane out of their house and transported to the show via flatbed truck.

QUOTE(bmags @ Feb 19, 2008 -> 02:08 PM) I don't mean to look like I'm giving legitimacy to Rush Lumbaughs and they must be a voice of the Republicans, but I think there is some truth to it in the low Republican voting for McCain, but I don't doubt that Republicans are going to vote and fight full force for McCain in the face of a Clinton or Obama ticket. It's just I believe that liberalism can take the offensive right now in a way that conservatism is not (not to say that conservatism has no agenda, it's just they aren't seen as proactive like in the past). With a dem. congress, Obama/Clinton can make the fight for more control of the banks with the mortgage crisis, fight for health care, ending war v. fighting war, etc. These goals seem like they are going to do something, as opposed to the Democratic candidates of past where their only goals were "Stop doing what they are doing". I'm not going to argue it's merits because I don't care to, I'm just looking at the situation of the Republicans and it seems after about 2 decades their policies have become outmoded, and you are starting to see them say "we're going to bring it back to Reagan", Reagan, new party founder and builder, but McCain doesn't have the charisma or respect IMO in the party to lead it in any real way. Looking at it like this, I wonder if the democrats realize how much is at stake with their election. The goals and policies of this next president will likely guide the party for probably the next decade at least, if that is indeed where we are at. I would attribute low GOP voting turnout to a massive dept, unpopular war, and slumping economy under a Republican president. Republicans just aren't as fired up as the Dems are, and it's obvious when you look at voter turn out in the primaries. I don't think McCain is going to run into problems of getting support from the GOP if he is president. But this is definitely a big opportunity for the Democrats to get some of their programs in place. If they can't beat the GOP in the current atmosphere, they really have some problems. I think you are right about a turn in direction for a while, but a big issue is going to be if these Democrat programs actually work or not. The Democrats last political dominance was coming off a big WWII win, which left much of the world in shambles and the US basically untouched and ready to take the lead in the world economy. It will be interesting to see if these new big social programs end up working.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Feb 19, 2008 -> 12:33 PM) Because it can. And there won't be war. UN peacekeepers are in the way of that. I don't know about that. If Russia is against this and they give weapons under the table to one side, what are UN peacekeepers going to do? Fight them? yea right, we'll see how long that lasts. Without the US carrying the vast majority of the work, the UN can't really fight off anyone IMO.

QUOTE(bmags @ Feb 19, 2008 -> 12:07 PM) I'm reading this theory about looking at presidency's in political time. I'm not sure I can see where we stand right now. Either George Bush is the end of the Reagan political dynasty, and with Clinton you can argue he would be the Eisenhower sandwich during a democratic political reign, or or if Clinton brought this new party of democrats. I don't really see that with clinton b/c he didn't really institutionally change anything, (imo), so that means we could possibly be on the cusp of a new democratic dynasty or an even more official end to the Reagan Republicans, their party is too fragmented in fiscal conservativism and domestic issues. But that said if Obama wins, I can see him as more of a Jackson, one who has some institutional changes (immigration/health care), but is more effective as a party builder. With Clinton, i could see her doing more institutional changes in the ilk of FDR, but fragmenting her party's conservatives (and yes there are those). But if McCain wins, he's really be in for a tough presidency, imo, there'd be lines drawn in the party in addition to major issues in the country that he'd be fighting to get whatever policy he has through. Was just thinking about this. Largely based off of Skowronek's model. I'm studying too much actual stuff so I figured I should waste time theorizing in the Texas Primary thread. McCain pretty much has the GOP totally with him. The main split is with the radical neo-cons on the radio and stuff (who admittedly have a lot of pull with certain voting blocks of the party). The Dems seem a lot more split, with Obama and Clinton running neck and neck, in what could turn out to be the nastiest primary in history (super delegate controversy). Even with the long primary battle, I think this will be a good year for the Dems at the polls. It's going to be really hard for them to blow this election.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 18, 2008 -> 06:52 PM) Have you even seen Wasserman pitch? He's your type of pitcher, he throws the ball over the plate and gets [right handed] hitters out. He has a pretty simple approach. screw that. walking batters is the way to go. walk the first few every inning, then get down to business.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Feb 18, 2008 -> 05:26 PM) Which candidate is he using phrases from? http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8570.html

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 18, 2008 -> 04:46 PM) So they should be ahead of the prosecutors? We're not going to cover the prosecutor or that big protest with 2,000 people who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars because our sources can not confirm the facts? didn't the prosecutor want to charge the kids that attacked the other ones with attempted murder? I think thats what touched off the big controversy. Sure, cover the protests, but put things in context. They were led by Al Sharpton. The media ignores plenty of big protests which have people raising millions of dollars. I guess they just decided to go along with mob rule on this one. I think the media did a poor job covering the story. You think they did a good job. Maybe we should just leave it at that.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 18, 2008 -> 04:36 PM) but is hiring a bunch of private investigators our medias responsibility? They already have a bunch of employees whom should be digging into stories and trying to find the facts. They are called journalists

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 18, 2008 -> 03:38 PM) Yes. It would be easier if we expected news the next day or week. But we want news all day and all night. Not certain how to fix that. People get interested and tune in. I think they are more reflecting our own interests. And if we are not interested, and they start pushing something, people complain they are being "activists". Perhaps the Soviets had it right with TAAS. Official news right from the source. It's fine to give out breaking news. But they were on this story for months, they decided to go with the pc version of the story (white kids bad, black kids good). When the story was actually much more complicated. They had plenty of time to dig deeper into the situation. And no, having some lame soviet style news agency is a bad idea. Even with our sad state of network news, it's still better than that.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 18, 2008 -> 03:24 PM) Plays up? Perhaps. Would prefer if the media could not advertise? That seems to be where they get into trouble. The breaking news alerts and stay tuned kind of stuff. I think they need to look deeper into stories they decide to give that much attention.

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QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 18, 2008 -> 02:44 PM) Someone makes a statement, the media points a camera at him and broadcasts it to the world. Later the statements that person makes is found to be false. Has the media done anything wrong? If the media plays up the interview as "total truth". It is their job to question things, not just go along with the politically correct version of a story.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Feb 18, 2008 -> 02:24 PM) Did you just call me a racist for pointing out inaccuracies on a story? Are you f***ing kidding me?? There was a post on here last week about how some people act different online as opposed to in person. Well you just gave the best example of that, cause you would never EVER dare call me that to my face. You have a pretty heavy hand typing on a keyboard. That is the thing, with a story like this it is impossible for a lot of people to take an impartial approach. When all is said and done, it is obvious the media trumped this case up for reasons of 'scandal sells' and they really did a horrible job in their reporting. It's too bad any discussion of this case automatically turns into accusations of racism. It's not surprising seeing the amount of race baiting the media took part in.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 18, 2008 -> 11:42 AM) If there was, I think Clinton would have used it to bail out of the Lewinsky affair. It was my dooooouble . . . haha good point

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Feb 18, 2008 -> 12:53 AM) I finally found a reason to vote for Hillary. Sorry Barack. that has to be fake

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 18, 2008 -> 07:15 AM) I'm not knocking the technology - it is the mindset that is outmoded. They are intended for air-to-air combat with a Cold War superpower that no longer exists. Our enemy now doesn't fly hundred-million dollar jet planes. they plant $25 roadside bombs and strap explosives to themselves. Rolling out more B-22s is an excellent way of tackling that problem, and highly cost effective too. With all the US soldiers dying because their body armor sucks and their vehicles aren't armor-plated, I for one think the $300 million a pop for B-22s could be better spent actually equipping our soldiers for fighting today's enemy, not the enemy of 20 years ago. I disagree. Having air superiority is still very important. But I also don't think the US should be in countries policing things, so in my world view we wouldn't be in countries facing roadside bombs and stuff. If we are doing that stuff, we obviously should have proper equipment for troops.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 17, 2008 -> 03:09 PM) At $300 million a pop, and having never flown a single combat sortie since their debut, I propose we stop building these dinosaur Cold War holdovers rather than renewing the contracts year in and year out. dinosaur? dude they are stealth fighter jets, not really a primitive technology. they are totally badass too.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Feb 16, 2008 -> 11:10 PM) The salesman was a scumbag. I should have stayed home and kept doing this. Bowling SUCKED! I picked up a 4-7-10, a 6-7-10 and a 5-10 tonight, but chopped 5 easy pickups and missed a 5 pin! Glad my team is still in forst, because I sure didn't help the cause tonight. i went bowling the other day and totally pwned. 8 strikes in a row. best game i've ever rolled.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Feb 15, 2008 -> 03:16 PM) maybe if we gave teh terrorists welfare checks and sponge baths they'd be happy? sounds reasonable. OBAMA 2008!

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 09:36 PM) What happened to sitting on the tree limb? Or a ladder outside of a sorority?

whoa. i didn't even know it was possible to get that big