mr_genius

QUOTE(qwerty @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 09:05 PM) If you go ahead thinking ice cube and anaconda are great actors/movies... there is really no help.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 06:36 PM) I'm just trying to really dispel the "Well, I have nothing to hide" defense that some are attempting to use in this thread. Nothing personal. i agree and no personal offense was taken

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 06:23 PM) Actually I've done lots of my own research on the topic so please preach to me more in a condescending tone. Please tell me how extrajudicial murders (as seen in COINTELPRO, for example) keep me more secure or sending tapes telling MLK Jr. to kill himself make me more secure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cointelpro Uh, all I said was the U.S. isn't as 'evil' as you have been lead to believe. I don't think the government should be able to ignore the 4th amendment, so I agree with you in a lot of ways, just not on the 'blame america always and first' stuff.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 09:41 AM) Stolen bases are overrated :headshake

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 05:59 PM) Given government's track record (Palmer Raids, COINTELPRO etc. etc. etc.), then yes, they have abused power. contrary to what your sociology teacher has been preaching to you, compared to most governments, ours has done a pretty good job protecting it's citizens rights.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 04:11 PM) So you just guaranteed that the Bears will make the Super Bowl AND win it. Nice. i sure did

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 04:08 PM) The Colts should risk injury, because..? The Bears could have taken care of business for themselves. The Colts aren't required to do charity work for the Bears. thats fine, the Bears will get their revenge if the Colts make it to the superbowl.

Manning is on the bench now. :headshake

I was hoping for the Bears to get the #1 NFC seed, but it the Seahawks are looking pretty good right now against the Colts.

WHY DID YOU LOCK THE FESTIVUS THREAD! well, yesterday was probably the best festivus ever.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 03:53 PM) right after he scored, the ref was right on top of him so nothing could happen. boo

This is a very bad idea, Mayor.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 12:17 AM) Clearly, this conversation is lost on you. it certainly isn't Al-Quida is just fighting the evil white male oppressor which is the Great Satan (united states). IMPEACH BUSH! IMPEACH BUSH! NO OIL FOR OIL!

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 11:52 PM) lol A whole lot more terrorists in this country have hung out in Christian churches than in mosques. Osama used to attend St.Rita's all the time.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 11:25 PM) OK, so let's go a step further with this example. To me, one thing is OK here, and one is not. It IS OK, I feel, for cops to hang out near a bar where people tend to get drunk and drive. Similarly, it's OK to hang out near the night club where fights tend to start. The police are reacting to a BEHAVIOR. lol than you would support bugging Mosques (that is where the terrorists go, like drunks go to a bar).

NBC should pick it up (i don't have showtime).

To all the Bear haters on this board:

beggers can't be chosers

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 05:21 PM) Are you really making fun of this 7th grade girl? Or just her bat mitzvah? both

QUOTE(greg775 @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 04:43 PM) If Garland wants mega dollars in free agency he's going to have to pitch his ass off this year. A 3-15 implosing won't get him squat. That said, if he goes 20-2 for us in search of a big deal, more power to him and us. We have him this year. Keep him!!!!! i agree. as far as the "we will get nothing for him if he walks" argument: i wouldn't consider another championship nothing.

QUOTE(WinninUgly @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 03:54 PM) Have you seen some of the crazy salaries from contracts signed years ago? They are hilarious. Jeff Bagwell is going to make something like $17 million this year, signed thru 2007 Jason (I robbed the Big Hurt) Giambi will make $18 million in 2006, and that jumps to an absurd $21 million in 2007 & 2008. Mike Hampton? $13.5 million for 2006. Todd Helton? $16.6 million and he is signed thru 2011. whoa those are some bad contracts (for the team atleast).

QUOTE(sec159row2 @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 12:28 PM) http://debka.com/article.php?aid=1123 i knew they would do something like that

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 06:30 PM) Wow. Nice sweeping judgement. And totally inaccurate. Many of those countries HAVE those governments, but even in places like Iran, the majority of people in the country scratch and claw for western freedoms of all kinds. Its really pretty sad that some people (like you, apparently) think that everyone from the Middle East is a radical fundamentalist maniac. Hey, if Iraq doesn't elect a theocracy I will gladly admit that I was wrong. And of course everyone in the middle east isn't a fundamentalist, maybe the majority of them are but not all. Once again... prove me wrong middle east, prove me wrong.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 06:24 PM) After a bit more reading...I think the Iraqi "leadership" did insist on having the trial in Iraq, but that was entirely the U.S. Appointed Iraqi Governing council, the first (and badly failed) attempt to make it look like the Iraqis were actually running the show there. By the time even "Sovereignty" was transferred, he was already in our hands and the tribunal which would try him had already been set up. So no "Sovereign" government ever was given the chance to make that choice, much less an elected one. If I had to wager, which I often do, I would place a large amount of money on any elected Iraqi government having the trial in Iraq and executing him.