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QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 16, 2006 -> 08:23 AM) Well, unless you have evidence he was wasted or evidence he acted with malice you should give the man the benefit of the doubt. That's funny, Nuke.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 16, 2006 -> 08:13 AM) IF IT WAS GORE WE SHOULD HAVE HIM STRUNG UP ON THE NEAREST SOUR APPLE TREE!!!!!! Seriously though......... As much as I disagree with Al Gore a hunting accident has nothing to do with politics. People are human and mistakes get made sometimes. This should be a non-story no matter who happens to be in office. Unless he was acting irresponsibly.

http://www.powerball.com I knew the winning numbers for last night, but I alos knew noboday was going to win. I'm just being greedy for Saturday.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Feb 16, 2006 -> 06:50 AM) Modern video games creep the hell out of me and I would love for my kids to never, ever, get involved with them. Thank you. One of my friends said she potty trained her son by taking away his Play Station if he had an accident. I'm like, "My daughter doesn't even know what a PS is." They're about the same age too.

It said "Vast West Wing Conspiracy" and she wasn't quoted in the article. Reading the article, I didn't actually think she said those words, nor did the author say she did. Am I missing something?

QUOTE(Felix @ Feb 15, 2006 -> 07:44 PM) Does that include not telling the press that you shot someone in the face until 18 hours after the event? And then not accepting blame for the event until today? Was Cheney under oath?

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Feb 15, 2006 -> 07:28 PM) Having Gore, Kerry, or Dean get the nomination would be down right laughable. None of them have a shot unless our party really messes something up and nominates the wrong person. It's either Hillary or someone else. They won't nominate any "has beens."

It wasn't really a part of the debate, I was making a joke, but either way... You keep bringing up bad laws and bad "stewards" as you call them. Yes, people abuse these rights at time and the laws may be arcaic. Hmmm..., how do we fix that? Stop electing these morons into office. 2 words: term...limits. I believe with adequate regulation by a moral and uncorrupt government, under the watchful eye of an informed public, mining, drilling, grazing, etc of public is possible. And don't try to portray that "BushCo" and Reagan appointees are the only problems. They all take money from lobbyists. It's a politician thing, not a perty thing. I can see that.

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QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Feb 15, 2006 -> 02:29 PM) Maureen Dowd: February 15, 2006 Op-Ed Columnist Shooter Slips on a Silencer By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON Who did this old guy think he was, coming between Dick Cheney and his helpless prey? The luckless 78-year-old Texas lawyer, Harry Whittington, is in intensive care after a heart attack, with up to 200 pellets riddling his face and body - one stuck in his heart - from Dick Cheney's designer Perazzi Brescia shotgun. And still his friend, the vice president, is Swift-BB-ing him. Private citizens have been enlisted to blame the victim. Maybe poor Mr. Whittington put himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. But he was, after all, behind Vice, not in front of him. And the hunter pulling the trigger is supposed to make sure he has a clear shot. Wouldn't it be, well, classy for Shooter to express just a bit of contrition and humility? Instead, the usual sliming has begun, with the Cheney camp trying to protect the vice president by casting a veteran hunter as Elmer Dud. Scott McClellan told the White House press corps that Katharine Armstrong, a lobbyist with government ties who owns the Texas ranch (and whose mother, Anne, was on the Halliburton board that hired Mr. Cheney as C.E.O.), "pointed out that the protocol was not followed by Mr. Whittington when it came to notifying the others that he was there." As the story of the weekend's bizarre hunting accident is wrenched out of the White House, the picture isn't pretty: With American soldiers dying in Iraq, Five-Deferment Dick "I Had Other Priorities in the 60's Than Military Service" Cheney gets his macho kicks gunning down little birds and the occasional old man while W. rides his bike, blissfully oblivious to any collateral damage. Shouldn't these guys work on weekends until we figure out how to fix Iraq, New Orleans, Medicare and gas prices? This version of "The Most Dangerous Game" neatly follows the four-step Bush-Cheney cycle: Step 1: Set out to pick off what you think is an easy target, like quail this time or pen-raised and netted pheasant in the past, or a certain sanction-caged Iraqi dictator. Step 2: In the corrupt company of lobbyist-contractor friends, botch things up. Ignore the peril at hand - as with, oh, Osama at Tora Bora, or Katrina, or the Iraq occupation - and with steely resolve, indulge your raging incompetence. (Oops.) Step 3: Stonewall. Resist giving Congress information about 9/11 or Katrina; don't tell the public how you're tapping phones at home, setting up gulags abroad and making war and energy policy in secret. Why give the taxpayers, who are ponying up for these weekend hunting trips, the extraordinary news that Vice shot his hunting companion in the face and chest? Scott McClellan knew before yesterday's White House briefing at noon that Mr. Whittington was worse, but did not tell the reporters. He left that to Corpus Christi doctors, who spun the heart attack as "an inflammatory response to a metallic foreign BB." Step 4: Admit no mistakes. Express sympathy. Blame the victim without leaving fingerprints by outsourcing the smear to the private sector. Trent Lott joked in a meeting yesterday that Mr. Cheney was now the "shooter in chief," while other wags noted that Quayle was always a problem for Bushes. Presidential staff members and lawmakers speculated yesterday about whether Shooter would resign and make room for Condi if Mr. Whittington did not survive. His death would trigger a more thorough police investigation and probably a grand jury. "Are you crazy?" one Republican senator told a reporter. "He'd never quit." (Aaron Burr presided over the Senate after he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.) The shooter in chief can't quit because he is the administration. Who'd even tell him to quit? If necessary, he'd probably make W. take the fall. Despite efforts by Mr. McClellan to joke and urge reporters to get back to "the pressing priorities of the American people," the hunting debacle once more showed Mr. Cheney running the imperial show. He didn't talk to the sheriff for 14 hours, or even call the president to notify him after the 5:50 p.m. accident. Vice left that to Andy Card, who called Mr. Bush at 7:30 p.m. to say there had been a hunting accident, without mentioning that Vice was the gunman. Soon after that, Karl Rove called Mr. Bush back with that little detail. A reporter, surprised, pressed Mr. McClellan: "The vice president did not call the president to tell him he was the shooter?" Usually when there's a White House cover-up, the president's in on it. You know what, I've been pretty reasonable throughout this whole thing and especially throughout this whole thread, but this is just a bunch of buills***. :rolly

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 15, 2006 -> 11:29 AM) Do me 1 favor...don't clump me in with whatever group you're opposing there. To this day I still think Clinton should have resigned in '98, based entirely on what he did during his "Personal" time, if you can call it that. No room fro free -thinkers in here, Balta!

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Feb 15, 2006 -> 11:00 AM) No. Its all Bush's fault. Oh yeah, silly me.

Yes, I give my wife the peck and "love ya" every morning and it may be "routine," but I forgot one time and she was upset about it. Routine or not, it still means something.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 15, 2006 -> 08:44 AM) Just curious, because I sure haven't seen it in any of the articles, but why are they targeting American interests? I still haven't seen where a major American media outlet has shown the comics yet. Shouldn't they be burning down and attacking the French, Danish, German, Eygptian etc... interests??? What do you mean? It's ALL America's fault.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 05:56 PM) Every time I flex my biceps in the mirror. :puke

I thought you "meat" people from the internet. Any whitesox.com old-schoolers here?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 15, 2006 -> 06:10 AM) Not anymore they don't. . . I'm kind of blah about this story. But if it had been a Popeye's on the other hand I'd be screaming for blood!!! Love That Chicken From Popeyes. KFC is WAY better!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 15, 2006 -> 06:26 AM) Gotta love conservatives, they will defend anything their party does, just like Cub fans. More generalizations. Take it easy, Tex.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 04:54 PM) You are correct, I believe you said liberals. No it wasn't, as I have stated, the conservatives on the board immediatly used is as an opportunity to slam liberals and Democrats by predicting their behavior. Not all Conservatives, Tex.

I also heard that Whittington's closest friends couldn't wait to see him because he's such a funny guy and was sure to have some good zingers about this.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 01:13 PM) Well it seemed minor to most of the talk show hosts, I didn't notice any politicians making jokes. But right from the start the Republicans around here started hoping for boorish behavior from liberals, that is sad. The White House thought it was funny.

50 cents, 2 dollars...either way it's obvious it's beyond me and the details you use are beyond me. Your world frightens and confuses me. Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and was later thawed by some of your scientists.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 12:48 PM) Oh, I have some thoughts on this matter. Back when I was teenager (no smartass comments!) I would read in Dear Abby or Ann Landers oodles and gobs of women writing in saying "He never says ILY first" or "He never does the little things" blah, blah, blah. Well, I made a mental note of this and as I went through my marriage I ALWAYS told my wife "I love you." when either one of left for work, or the grocery, or wherever. I usually got home from work before her, and I'd meet here at the door with a kiss and "I love you." Guess what that got me? All my efforts were taken for granted and didn't mean a damn thing to her. That said, I still believe that is the way to go. I believe it is important to know you are loved and I'm not shy about telling my current lady, and, I hope, future wife that I love her. I make a point of it and will continue to do so. They had Dear Abby on stone tablets?

We've been together since 94, married since 99. Every single day.