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http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_21_05_EK.html

Former Clinton Admin official saids wiretaps legal Former Carter admin offical weighs in on wiretaps Harvard prof/legal expert/admitted liberal saids "So that is if you put the Constitutional authority together with the statutory authorization, the president's on pretty good ground..."

Seems that Kofi might be abusing his position by taking a little too much advantage of his status to buy his kid a Mercedes tax free, that now no one can find. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/fe...ml?id=110007729

QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 12:00 PM) She is a complete idiot. We call her and her husband "Tweedle dee and Tweedle dumb". No more. The family had enough sense to know I would have them already. I got some awesome stuff this year though. Even Angie's parents stayed away for awhile when they were sick... And that is saying something. Too many people think of only themselves.

QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 11:52 AM) Jim's stupid niece decided it would be a good idea to bring her kids over despite the fact that they were only 1 day removed from puking their guts up with the stomach flu and now 5 people that were over for Christmas Eve have been infected, including my pregnant sister And because of her we weren't able to go see Joey yesterday. People have no sense I swear. BTW how many more copies of the Sox Pride DVD did you get

QUOTE(timotime @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 11:04 AM) once again, what you are saying is completely contrary to what recent history has proven. Hillary would kill in the midwest?? if by kill, you mean win wisconson and MI, and lose all other midwest states, then yes, she will kill in the midwest. OH has a lot of electoral votes, as the last election proved (the whole claim about voter fraud was sore losers, and i dont blame them, but OH is a red state). and the midwest piles up votes. SOURCE??? you have absolutely no grounds to claim that hillary, or any democrat, will sweep out the midwest. I dont have one for what i say either, but the last election backs me up. you tell me when the last time a democrat cleaned up in the midwest. probably during the vietnam war is my guess. You are trying to tell me that Hillary Clinton would lose IL? LMFAO.

QUOTE(timotime @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 10:28 AM) magic johnson is no longer HIV positive...does anyone here know of that? if you can afford it, you can beat it. problem is, most people with AIDS are junkies and/or degenerates (there are, of course, exceptions) who cant afford the treatment Magic could. such is life. ce la vie. Do you have a link for that bit of info?

QUOTE(timotime @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 10:33 AM) about f***ing time. more than that, we need to put in textbooks how jimmy carter was the worst president in this history of this country. what did carter do for us besides a gas shortage and a f***ing-up of a hostage rescue? all we need is another chump in office like him- then the country can collectively grease up and bend over and prepare to get f***ed. Let me guess... was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Sheldon Williams would be a God send to this Bulls team right now.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 09:51 AM) I hate to say this, but Santo is so much more deserving, and if his career wasn't good enough, Oz better hope to win a few more pennants and a World Series. Absent that, buy a ticket like the rest of us. I'll probably be crucified for this, but considering the era that Santo played in, I think his numbers merit HOF status.

Maybe in 10-15 years of managing Ozzie will be a HOFer, but as a player he doesn't even deserve consideration.

The Bulls need a big guard who can defend, and a legitmate center. The C doesn't even have to be anything special, just someone who can play decent defense, an OK scoring threat, and blockout.

Happy Belated

Remember this was the biggest natural disaster in terms of human life that ANY of us have ever seen. http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt...051227&hn=28015

Just more proof that not every player who leaves the White Sox gets badmouthed.

I got a couple more things actually. An etched baseball display case that is just awesome. I can't wait to fill it. http://froogle.google.com/froogle_cluster?...scoring=p&hl=en I also got the engraved world champs baseball bat #216 of 5000, with all of the autographs and box scores etched into the bat. http://www.onlinesports.com/pages/I,HH-WSO...e-_-HH-WSOX05WS

Since a couple of names got missed in the other thread... Happy Birthday Blokes!

Last night I got the limited edition wooden World Series baseball number 591 of 5000, it will have a great place in the baseball shrine. I know I am getting a bunch more today, and I can't wait.

Merry Christmas to all of my extended family at Soxtalk. Here's to hoping that our presants involved much more of 2005 in 2006. Peace.

The Pines, beautiful Michigan City Indiana on a rainy Christmas Eve that couldn't be more incredible.

Even if people don't do this specifically, remember these people however you can. With the wife not working we donated lots of the extra stuff we got for Madison to our local free clinic, since we have zero money this year. Even something small can mean a lot to someone who has nothing.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 06:44 PM) NBC should pick it up (i don't have showtime). And put it on Thursday nite instead of that new show they are talking about... How's this for a line up. Will and Grace Arrested Development My Name is Earl The Office ER Awesome.

This is one thing that I firmly believe we wouldn't have a chance to survive no matter how much warning we had. Think about the messes of evacuations with 24-48 hours notice in New Orleans and Houston. Now imagine that with a few hours notice on the East Coast with all of the nations huge population centers from Florida all of the way up to Canada all trying to evacuate at the sametime, all going the same direction. Millions of people would die, I have no doubt about it.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 02:58 PM) Tax cuts allow businesses to plow more money back into expanding their businesses ( e.g. hiring more people and expanding operations ). Additionally, individuals have more money to spend on whatever they spend money on and that helps increase economic activity as well. All this increased activity increases the tax base and that allows the government to more than make up for revenues lost fron reducing the tax rates. To add to that, the "windfall for the rich" cuts in Capital Gains taxes and taxes on dividends encourage people to go ahead and book profits they would otherwise be reluctant to. This has the same effect of increasing the pool of people who are paying the tax and thusly increases revenues. You have to look beyond the rhetoric of the left to the economic fact to see all this. And in the case of this recession, it probably prevented a lot more people from getting fired, and a lot more money in the economy, which prevented things from being a whole hell of a lot worse than they ended up being.