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Notice that U.S. friendly governments are for the most part governments that are based on the principles of freedom. Note that the only good governments are governments based on freedom. Bad government: Iraq, no freedom civilians killed (Iraqui soldiers fired at all civilians who tried to leave Basra today). So yes I guess we should manipulate them into having U.S. friendly governments for their own sake.

In seventh grade I accidentally went to whitehouse.com while researching a project. The teacher really b****ed me out for that one

I feel like an idiot...It took me a while to figure out that was a joke lol. I was looking at it saying to myself "what the hell is this". Then I remembered the real white house is .gov not .org That I liked the one that asked, "what would Jesus do?"

Actually we still have soldiers there...two were killed in an ambush yesterday, or today. As for future generations of terrorists: There are terrorists because there is poverty in the middle east. Groups like Hamas or evil regimes like Saddam's are able to manipulate the minds of the poor. Now imagine if people were able to get educations, and think for themselves, and know what is going on in the world without hearing it from a slanted Saddam Hussein news report, or a slanted Hamas recruiter. If the poor people there had a chance to think then maybe terrorism would become less popular. Instead they are manipulated and bought by the powers of evil. In a middle East that is free, people will think for themselves and they will not become terrorists.

Crede's OB% was in the toilet last year. .311 that is terrible. Hopefully this year he lowers raises that. I am a believer in the statistical revolution, and based on ob% the sox are pretty weak at the top and bottom of the order. Luckily though, Jimenez showed signs at the end of the year, that he may be a good ob% guy. I think it the problem will resolve itself as Jimenez and Crede, and Rowand get more ab's.

You are the smartest person here...I wish I had the will-power to restrain myself, but I can't do it. I have to make predictions

We haven't found Bin Laden yet, but he is still believed to be in south eastern Afghanistan. We found and destroyed many al-queda training grounds. We captured many Al-queda foot soldiers, and we killed one of their top 4 executives. Most importantly we installed a new government. So the citizens there are now free. My favirote picture was of the people getting hair cuts after the Taliban was gone, and the guys looking at the porn magazine because they were allowed to now. As for giving the Taliban money...who cares. We gave them money, then we had to destroy them, no problemo. I hate it when people say "we are the ones that armed Bin Laden", well so what, now we have to dis-arm him. You can't change the past, but because we are the U.S. of America we can kill our mistakes...it's a beautiful thing. We had to attack Afghanistan anyways to find Bin Laden. End of story. So far we haven't, but anybody that says, we shouldn't have tried to find him is supporting terrorists and the regimes that harbor them. As known globally, peace is achieved with the sword

At least when their civilians die it is an accident, unlike when ours die. Speaking of weed, I saw a cheech and chong movie the other day. I didn't like it all that much, must be because I don't smoke...but I had heard that Cheech and Chong movies were funny from a variety of people, I was disappointed

Those are great shows, Futurama is great because of Bender. He makes the show for me.

Maryland is another team with a bright future, they have so many young guys, like Duke does. The Maryland Duke rivalry is going to have some classic games in the years to come.

By the way the question about supporting the attacks in afghanistan was addressed to anybody opposed to the current war in Iraq.

How am I making generalizations when I say the protest in New York got rather violent, and that it is ironic when war protests get violent. I don't believe I made any generalizations, I made one assumption and that is the protestors got b****ed out in their night in jail, that is assuming that they had to spend a night in jail after their arrest. I am not joining the army either, I am only 16. As far as news originizations, Fox News kicks ass. Shepard Smith delivers the news fair and balanced...The No Spin Zone may be conservative, but that doesn't necessarily reflect the views of the entire network. Hannidy and Combs is a show with one Conservative and one Liberal sound fair and balanced. As far as the BBC goes, stupid ass tv, when I was in London last winter the only good show the bbc had was the olympics, for news I watched CNNinternational. And by the way the details i got from the protest, came from my favorite news paper: The New York Times. So if a liberal newspaper says something bad about war protests, than I will believe it. I still don't even see what would have been accomplished had we not gone to war, Saddam stays in power, continues to abuse his citizens(in the NCAA tournament issue of SI, there is a great article about how Uday Hussein, tortured athletes), and nothing would be solved. I also want to know how you felt about going to war in Aghanistan after 9/11. If you didn't agree with that, than you make me sick. Because then you are taking the deaths of 3,000 people in vain.

I also used to watch Scooby Doo, and the Chipmunks...so many great cartoons kids are deprived of today

I forgot all about inspector gadget, that show kicked ass. I had that whole theme song memorized back in the day

I remember one passed at a very close distance this summer, they said it would have knocked off a major city, but not the planet. I remember from a movie we watched in school, this scientist said that the likely scenario is that it will come unexpectedly with 6 seconds notice, he said this is because they are hard to detect and only 10% of the skies are monitored...oh well, I hope I dont see it coming

I love it when Cop's beat the living s*** out of the mofo's blocking major streets, as was the case on fifth avenue the other day. From what I heard the protestors were resisting with mase and stuff...as these protests begin to get a little more violent, it makes me appreciate the irony and hypocracy of war protests, they get violent. "Lets stop war by masing some cops, stopping traffic, annoying the hell out of New Yorkers, and getting the crap kicked out of ourselves"--nice thinking dirtbags, enjoy being the b**** in your night in jail.

I read somewhere, I think in U.S. Weekly or something that there is a conference to decide whether or not to alert the public if the Earth was to be hit with a global killer asteroid...I say don't tell us, but also even if the teperatures went nuts, and the sun was blocked out all over the earth, do you think there would be enough technology for some people to live. If green houses with artificial lighting were built and livestock were put in indoor fields and power plants stayed open and people had a lot of canned food? I think some would survive, knowing my luck though, the asteroid would center itself right on New Jersey so I would be screwed. Either way, it is a good reason why Solar Power sucks...if the sun is ever blocked, humanity would be screwed, GO NUCLEAR POWER! KEEP HOMER'S JOB!

Speaking of crappy cartoons now adays, my saturday mornings as a little kid were much better than the Nick Jr. garbage little kids watch now, mine consisted of the cartoon train on USA...Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Garfield, and I think G.I. Joe was on there too. then I grew into Looney Tunes...damn that show is classic. I have also always watched the Simpsons, and always will. I loved Family Guy until it was pulled, Stuie was good, that show was very funny. I think every kid should watch cartoons that have some level of violence, I also think little kids should have toy guns and action figures...it toughens them up. I remember pretending my G.I. Joes were fighting Iraqui's during the Gulf War...I can remember one night my parents were watching the bombs on tv, and I was dropping bombs with my GI Joe airplane...ah to be 4 again

I picked U-Conn to go to the final 4...sucks for me. Okafor is a beast though, I can't wait to watch his further development as a player

A.L. East: Yankees A.L. Central:White Sox A.L. West: A's A.L. Wild Card: Angels N.L. East: Phillies N.L. Central: Astros N.L. West: Dodgers N.L. Wild Card: Mets White Sox win 94 , lose in ALCS A's over Mets in the world series...the mets pitching staff may not look to good now that Astacio is on the DL, but I have a feeling about them this year, so I will go with it.

And by playing the game I mean on a professional level, little league and high school baseball doesn't count, because most fall in to this category

So basically your saying that anybody who doesn't play the game shouldn't have an opinion? Well if that the case shut down this site, because all of us never played the game and we feel that we know enough to disect it...You don't have to play the game, and I doubt there disgruntled, they are probably just like us...baseball fans that know a s***load about the sport

I have to disagree with everybody hear...SI is still in my opinion the best sports magazine there is. Rick Reilly is the best sports writer in the business. If you buy any national magazine for the purpose of Sox coverage you are an idiot, so don't complain when you feel the sox are getting hosed in SI. The fact is, at SI they have cover everything Nationally and they are going to go on how they feel the chips will fall. If they are high on Mark Prior then they have to pick the cubs. If they tried to please a certain group of fans they would go out of business. I like what the scout said in the scouting report of the cubs, mostly saying they are overrated. As for their final four picks...they have to go out on a limb or else why even bother doing it. This year they decided to pick the teams that were stacked with Seniors, it didn't work out, but hey thats why you should think for yourself. In conclusion, I love SI's articles especially the Jack Morris one in this issue. And don't rip on SI for picking the Twins because every national magazine did

Wright is decent when you score 7 runs for him.

Fitty Cent is one of my favorite rappers...but no one not Eminem, not Dre, not Fitty Cent, not even Nelly can top Outkast! Outkast by far produces the best hip hop