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EAT s*** NUKE, AND MAYBE A LITTLE CAKE!!! HOPE ALL IS WELL WHERE EVER THE ARMY SENT YOU!!!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 02:13 PM) If I'm contending that the problem is the idiots that won a 5/4 election in 2000 and their determination to use the government solely for the benefit of their friends and contributors rather than running the government well...then pointing at Katrina is not evidence to back up your case. That's evidence that backs up my case...that the problem we have is the group running it right now. I could point to things from every administration as evidence of how badly our government functions. I purposely picked one that I knew you would relate to. If you would like one from the golden era of government, how about something like Echelon or Janet Reno and Waco...

Mike's Chicken on Clark south of the CBOT is my favorite.

39 more games to go...

70-53 Tied with the Twins.

If that is what they were asking for Washburn, we never had a chance.

Howard Dean is a racist.

69-53 tied with MN.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 01:45 PM) Here's the question though...is it government in general screwing things up...or is it the people we have in that government. Yes. Government is the most ineffecient, slow-moving, and least motivated entities out there. There is no incentive to ever get anything right, because there is no reward for it,. There is no disinsentive for doing something wrong, because there is no one to answer to. Preservation of budget is the only mitigating factor, so instead governmental policy is formed by those who have direct interest in what governmental policy is doing. For example, what happened to FEMA for screwing up in NO?

From the FWIW category... The A's are 4-23 in their last 27 games.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 10:01 AM) Hamburger heaven. Hoagie Hut I could do a whole thread by itself of things to eat in the financial district.

42 more games...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 12:54 PM) Unless, of course, the government was also being used by certain elements to keep alternative energy sources from being profitable, by, for example, dumping huge subsidies on to the old fossil fuel sources, creating regulatory issues that prevent development and deployment of alternatives or encourage additional consumption rather than conservation, allowing indirect costs for things like cleanup and mitigation of environmental harm due to the use of those fuels to be covered by someone other than the purchaser of that energy, and so forth. And you wonder why I don't want government involved in things they have no business being involved in...

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 10:46 AM) We still have the "food" card, btw. If our hand was forced. Great point. I think they would blink a little quicker.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 10:10 AM) I am a firm believer that the government should NEVER be acting in it's own business interest, which is the problem. Legislatures sure as hell aren't the inventors of the marketplace. If there were high levels of money to be made off of "alternative energy", someone would already be a freaking trillionaire and the richest person in the world. You can't make money off of alternative energy (at least I'll say it this way - the technology is not there YET), otherwise there would be people cashing in hard core, DESPITE Congress, who has no power over these things. That's yet another reason why I say RSO is full of s***, but it sure does sound good coming out of his mouth, doesn't it? It makes everyone feel good about what he'll do as president. *cough*. Well to be fair, Al Gore is making boatloads of money off of this stuff.

QUOTE (Gregory Pratt @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 06:06 PM) Hope McDowell's on it, too. There is no doubt in my mind.

If I were to put a label on this team, based on their expecations, it would have to be overachievers. NO ONE expected this team to be here at this point.

The list is really looking good right now. It is nice to see real fan favorite type players starting to show up on the list.

68-52 +1 game over MN

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 07:51 AM) It's the pot calling the kettle black - we're in a pretty weak condition to criticize. It'd be different if they were, say, using chemical weapons, because we don't do it. But for us to make a fuss about something we regularly do (and have done recently) doesn't pass muster with people outside this country. That is probably why the US isn't raising a stink about it. Since I don't cluster bomb anyone, I don't see the problem with me pointing it out.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 07:45 AM) ...you know we use those regularly too right? Two wrongs make a right?

QUOTE (watchtower41 @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 03:35 PM) Shame on the! Where are these plenty better burgers that you speak of in Chicago?? Redamak's reigns supreme as far as I am concered with burgers. Hackney's is the only place to come close to me, and I can't even compare the two since Hackney's is a classic pub style burger. I can name three just in the financial district. The bacon double char-cheddar burger from Gold Coast. The double cheesburger from Pepper's The hand-made 1/2# cheeseburger from Coca's.

Speaking of war crimes... http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...6-12377,00.html

So who is fact checking the fact checkers? I wonder what part of labeling everyone who disagrees with you qualifies as "change". http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/pos...zIwZTVmMmRjM2E=

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 04:42 PM) They will never be the cubs, the location, season, sport, history, and coverage will stop it from ever happening. Not to mention is takes half of a brain to understand the game of hockey.