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QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 15, 2008 -> 09:42 PM) CNN making a lot about the reaction shots. I guess other networks weren't using the side by side shots. Said McCain looked angry and flustered at times with the way he was looking around during Obama's answers and replies. I watched channel 2 and I agree with this. A lot of eye rolling and looking like a deer in the headlights. Two things: When Obama tried to get McCain to admit his running mate was one of those spewing s*** ("running around with a terrorist...") he changed the subject to the crowd saying s***. That pissed me off. It's all over the news from her own mouth. And from your nasty wife, too. Second, when McCain tried to make light of a possible reason for abortions being the "health of the woman" as bs (how I interpreted it) I honestly wanted to reach into the tv and choke the living s*** out of him. Regardless of my stance on abortion unless I walk in those shoes I will never have any idea what it's like and therefor I would never, EVER, try to make light of it - which is exactly what I thought he was doing. You don't agree with it, fine. Say so then STFU and move on. I hope that seals the deal for undecided females. If it's not abortion, IMO, it will be some other medical condition with him.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 10, 2008 -> 06:11 PM) Let me get this straight. Obama is bad because one of his lieutenants hosted a community meeting/pep rally and some of the people who attended the PUBLIC meeting were unsavory? I need a yawning while playing a tiny violin emoticon.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Oct 10, 2008 -> 10:25 AM) Maybe if you had it blaring into your 'right' ear, you'd be voting for the better candidate in Nov. As for the thread topic....pretty simple...Did they touch up photos for RSO, his wife, Hillary, etc...If so....why wouldn't they for Palin. That's all it is, nothing more, nothing less. Unless it's some leftwing rag mag, all things should be equal and that includes how they treat cover photos. If they were gonna show some photos in an unflattering light for one party and not for the other, well then the arguement is legit. I've got the mag right in front of me and she looks like she looks all the time. She is very naturally beautiful and, IMO, wears too much makeup.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 9, 2008 -> 06:33 AM) You betcha! Her folksy bulls*** has made me despise the McCain campaign. When he announced her I was like "oh yea baby...." until she opened her mouth. I have tried so hard to like her. She is just way too good at seeming to not be taking all of this seriously. It's shamefull. Although not as shamefull as Cindy McCain getting in front of a crowd yesterday and saying that (sic) Obama not voting for funds to help her son in Iraq sent chills down her spine... This topic is sooo under my skin it's not even funny. I wish someone, anyone, would just say "Yo John.. you also voted no so how about letting it go...". I have an uncontrollable urge to slap Cindy upside the head at times.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Oct 8, 2008 -> 02:04 PM) Balta that article really get to the heart of what drives me the most nuts about Sarah Palin. I'll admit it, I'm kind of an intellectual elite. I think that the country should be governed by highly educated and knowledgeable people. So, I'll take the right's label as an elitist with pride. And I look at Sarah Palin and it just frustrates me so much that this woman who seems to pride herself on ignorance and being outside these educated circles. Sometimes being educated means being out of touch with people--I'll admit that. But her whole cutesy, folksy attitude is such an affront to me. I am so proud to be well educated. To have a deep understanding about statistics, neuroscience, cognitive science. I work just as hard at my job to be well educated as a Joe Sixpack working at a construction site. We finally have reached the point where we can put a woman candidate up in a viable ticket (sorry Geraldine), and we pick this gorgeous non-threatening mess of a woman. We pick a woman that is in no danger of showing a man up in foreign policy or economic knowledge. We pick a woman who is PROUD of her ignorance. What the f*** kind of role model is that? We pick a woman who thinks she can win a debate by attacking her opponent and winking--WINKING. What is that teaching girls about how to debate--how to express themselves? We pick a woman that would rather resort to personal attacks and cliche slogans than an actual substantial debate. What kind of role model is that? Let's say that a male candidate pulled the winking and gibberish that she did. There is no way he would be taken seriously. NO f***ING WAY. I am so incredibly upset that it is this woman who is proud of her ignorance and would rather rely on her cutesy folksy self than her knowledge and credentials is there. I think of all the generations of intelligent, capable women who were DENIED this opportunity and I don't even know what to think. I know this probably comes off as crazy feminist gibberish (just like my Hillary supporting moments did) to a vast majority of this board. But dear god. If I am ever blessed with kids, I would be so ashamed to offer them Sarah Palin as a role model. I want my children, girls and boys, to have role models who rely on the contents of their minds and souls and not populist panderings. I want a Virginia Woolf, a Marie Curie, f*** it--a Hillary, a Shakespeare's sister to portray what it means to be a woman. /rant Followed by a refreshing sigh of relief.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 6, 2008 -> 07:57 PM) FWIW, there are people on here with inside info on how hated OC is. I'd love to hear from those people. No one I know feels that way. Especially JD.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 6, 2008 -> 07:32 PM) A guy who is often seen loosening up the boys, dancing with other players before games, and the first to celebrate another's home run. He shows more passion than most of the rest of the team combined. It's a lack of that that we often complain about from other players. What a cancer. ^^^ That. I'd love to see the looks on some of the posters who s*** on him when they learn he's loved by his teammates.

I have the Garmin 780 (or 750 not sure and our friends are using it in Florida right now) as well and love it. Used it a ton before we got the nav in both cars. Now we maily use it when we travel in rentals.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 4, 2008 -> 06:55 PM) I've used thousands of dollars of per diem, and never once have I reported it as income, or even thought to. It can't be per diem $. If it was there wouldn't be the variance on the W2.

QUOTE (BainesHOF @ Oct 4, 2008 -> 06:05 PM) Nobody forced you to buy tickets on Stubhub. You obviously felt it was worth it or you wouldn't have done it. It's not bull. The Sox held back tickets in order to sell season tickets for next year. They waited as long as possible, then put the relatively small amount of tickets that they had leftover on sale. They did so in a manner where the diehards who were shutout could buy them if they were paying attention. There's not enough tickets to go around. Be glad that you have some, and be glad the organization did its best to look out for the die-hard fans. It sounds good, but it's not correct. The tickets being released are being released by MLB not the Sox. By the way, still some out there. Friends just got UD's 15 minutes ago and there are some for Monday for sale as well.

QUOTE (Whitewashed in '05 @ Oct 3, 2008 -> 11:07 PM) You definitely have a right to be pissed. All of a sudden were down 0-2 in the series and they start selling tickets. I never even got a notification for tickets when I registered for them. Brooks Boyer may need to be made aware of this. Or maybe MLB since they controlled the ticket sales.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Oct 4, 2008 -> 08:14 AM) I'm no CPA, nor am I any fan of Palin's, but how is this tax thing even an issue? I don't see how travel reimbursements can be deemed taxable income. By definition, aren't reimbursements "make wholes" rather than earnings? Furthermore, I realize that her receipt of travel reimbursements for staying at home is at odds with her reformer, anti-earmark image, but I don't recall there being any question as to whether they were permissible under Alaska law. For this to morph into an income tax issue seems to require some legal and logical leaps. It looks like she double dipped. She got paid for the travel - the comments above seems to indicate that travel was included in her salary - and she also claimed a reimbursment which the state should have caught, but once they didn't it is then considered income. Honestly if that's what she did (knowingly put in for reimbursments that she knew she was already getting paid for) and it's pressed further she could be in a lot more trouble than just not declairing income, IMO.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 2, 2008 -> 03:35 PM) Sure ties some things together: I'm going to refrain from commenting on the kid not being hers.. the story she tells is more interesting to comment on. Woah, woah, woah..... her water broke THEN she got on an airplane...??? Something that OBGYN's DO NOT ALLOW during a normal pregnancy after 32 weeks. Could it have happened, not by any sane woman I know. And I'm sure any OBGYN in this country would have advised a pre-term special needs child to be IMMEDIATELY monitored at the nearest hospital. Obviously she's incredibly lucky as well as incredibly stupid. And I also want to say that I think it's very odd that every time she gets that kid in her arms she almost immediately passes him off to either Bristol or the youngest child - who almost dropped him twice last night.

I'm pretty sure I am passing a kidney stone. As long as I don't run a fever I can skip the trip to the doc, right?

Ugh.. why is that baby not in bed!!!!

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 2, 2008 -> 09:31 PM) uh... it's a lame veiled shot. Not that big of a deal to me. Not a big deal, but not at all necessary.

"I'm proud to be an American, always have been, and so has John McCain"

Shot at Michelle. This woman is disgusting.

Yikes.. Joe's on fire.

Liberman said she was going to suck tonight and did I miss something... Romney likes McCain now..???

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Oct 2, 2008 -> 09:16 PM) Did they cover anything on the pro-choice / pro-life debate? Not yet... but I hope they do.

Maybe it's just me.. but on no level do I think she has any clue what it's like to worry about paying the bills.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 2, 2008 -> 09:14 PM) Palin's answer to the VP-branch question was just awful. That's an understatement.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 2, 2008 -> 09:11 PM) doggonit goshdarn betcha ohmy shoutout mainstreet seenow ohsee STOP THE PAIN. Say it aint so Joe...

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 2, 2008 -> 09:08 PM) Steff, Didnt you read your Alaskan history book, the Vietnam "conflict" was a roaring success. No soldiers were lost and Vietnam is a thriving democracy... I'm sorry I passed over that book. Shooting moose from helicopters doesn't interest me much.