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Just finished listening. Good stuff, but it made me want to pee.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 01:03 AM) Guys, Are you genuinely telling me that you think that al-Qaeda had no idea that we've been monitoring bank transactions, and that this has given them the tip that, hey, the Americans might be watching your money trail? Yes. Shocked. SHOCKED I say. A good question. kap?

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 26, 2006 -> 02:18 PM) Yeah, except that's not the way Juan pronounces it when he says it. However the person wants it pronounced is how it's pronounced. QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ Jun 26, 2006 -> 02:27 PM) We have a winner! No no no, it's spelled, "Raymond Luxury Yacht," but it's pronounced, "Throatwobbler Mangrove"

QUOTE(Julius_Seizures @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 12:29 AM) QUOTE(Julius_Seizures @ Jun 26, 2006 -> 01:21 PM) I kinda feel stupid right now i didnt realize that i spelled it wrong well i might as well go out back and beat myself lol its been awhile since i've had it like i said since it makes you fat lol Ah, it's Guinness then. "Brilliant!!"

QUOTE(DABearSoX @ Jun 26, 2006 -> 10:24 PM) Natty Light hands down the worst beer.....I think I drank in for 2 months straight my freshman year in college.....will never touch it ever again Average Priced: Miller Lite mmmmm my favorite Good s***: Bell's Oberon, Fat Tire, This crazy rasberry beer I got in Tucosn when I was down there for spring training.....forgot what brewery it was but I know it was local. If anyone wants to goto beer heaven come out to Denver this fall for the "Great American Beerfest" just imagine 4 straight hours of power hour with 1,200 different types of beer I went in 1995 and have been dreaming about getting back there! But my office mate is moving to Denver (left today as a matter of fact), so now I have a place to stay for GABF!! Hey, I can't remember, do the Sox play NL West next year for interleague?? If so, then the Denver road trip is as good as done.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Jun 26, 2006 -> 09:33 PM) However, I would like to just add that the whole Turn the Other Cheek stuff, isn't about pacifism and nonviolence only, one theologian (my bff, Walter Wink) suggests that it was Jesus being all, subversive and trying to upend the classist system he lived in. And I object to teh soft and fuzzy lovey-dovey Jesus. His rules are freaking hard. Point taken, but the subsequent verses in Matthew about loving your enemy certainly are about pacifism and nonviolence, and they flow out of JC's trashing the eye4eye concept.

QUOTE(bmags @ Jun 26, 2006 -> 08:23 PM) northern beer is the worst. Are you serious? Pacific Northwest American Ale is already a world class style. Lots of good beers out of the northeast as well. And plenty of good craft beer out of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan as well.

QUOTE(minors @ Jun 26, 2006 -> 05:45 PM) I will take a stab at it. There is also a commandment that says Eye for an Eye which I take to mean that if you kill an knowingly innocent person then your life has to forfeited. Like LCR pointed out, you are talking out of your ass. "Eye for an eye" is Biblically from Exodus (also Leviticus), and non-Biblically reflected in the code of Hammurabi. You are apparently also unaware of what the Nazz had to say about Old Testament retributive justice, according to the Gospel of Matthew: You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth. But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also . . . You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. Ah, well, I understand that the soft and fuzzy lovey-dovey Jesus is hard for the Kill 'em All Cult to abide sometimes.

QUOTE(Julius_Seizures @ Jun 26, 2006 -> 01:21 PM) Milwaukee's best is just god awful but if you wanna enjoy a beer and are willing to get fat from it drink genuis or strongbow freakin amazing lol Strongbow is a cider. And what is this "genius" you speak of?

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Jun 26, 2006 -> 03:36 PM) eh after they killed off Dumbedore so easily just like that I dont think this one will be as good as the first 5. Notice i didnt say 6 =p. Also I dont see how Harry has the power to take down Voldemort who is like 10 times the wizard Harry is. I was as jaw-drop shocked and then bummmed as anybody about Dumbledore's fate in Halfblood Prince, but I thought that book lived up to the legacy of the series quite nicely. And like everybody, I have a bunch of half-baked theories as to what really happened then and what that means for the end of the series. As far as Harry being Unable to best Voldemort, you have to keep in mind both the strange and not fully explained power connection between the two of them, and also the love-based protective spell thingie from his mom. sort of related to both of those is my most recent half-baked theory (and I have to look back at HBP to see if it would even work): Can Harry be the last Horcrux? And dang it, I just Googled it, and I'm not the only one who thinks this is possible. But think it through. Dumbledore did believe that Voldemort was trying to make a horcrux (probably #7) when he killed James and Lilly and tried to kill Harry. Dumbledore thinks he failed, but maybe not. There is a suggestion that the horcrux vessel does not have to be inanimate, as Dumbledore thinks that the snake Nagini is likely a horcrux. OK, think about the connection Voldemort has with Nagini. Now think about how similar the connection to Harry is. I really think part of Voldemort's sould could be in Harry, and that could explain a lot of the connection. It can also set up the huge catch-22 of the final book: Once the other horcruxes have been destroyed, the ONLY way to make sure Voldemort could never return would be for Harry to sacrifice himself so that both he and Voldemort die. I guess Harry could survive and if he contained only 1/7 of Voldemort's sould it would be hard for him to regain power. But this line of reasoning does jibe with JK's hints that two key players are going to die. I figured Ginnny was going to bite it as well in the last book, despite Harry trying to distance himself for her safety. Damn, I want that book to come out. Hurry up and finish it JK!!

Really amazing.

Many happy returns of the day to you all.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jun 24, 2006 -> 11:55 PM) And, I might mention.....this would give all of you a real nice chance to check out our sister sites at talkbears.com, talkbulls.com and talkbhawks.com Who are these "bears" and "bulls" and "hawks" of which you speak? /retreats back to his baseball cave

QUOTE(Ndgt10 @ Jun 24, 2006 -> 10:24 PM) Talk about a team playing over their heads. The sox are going to run away with this division. Agreed, but it would be nice to see the tigers start hinting at a fade.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Jun 23, 2006 -> 02:00 PM) Booo...that one was humorous and didn't come off as arrogant...most of minors' posts have been about how unbelievably amazing of a job republicans do anyways... Yeah, sheesh, you give a guy God-like Mod powers and all of a sudden it goes to his head and he gets all thread Nazi. :headshake

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 23, 2006 -> 05:21 PM) Jim. You're taking me a bit out of context there. My slippery slope argument was in response to SoxBadgers "legalize and tax" strategy. That also went for LCR's thing about making pot use legal because having it against the law "violates peoples privacy". I apologize, I did not mean to do that. I hadn't read fully through the discussion, and assumed the slippery slope was reference to the conundrum of legality for clinical use but not for non-indicated recreational use. I don't see that as a slipper slope. Rather, it is two distinct issues that are often conveniently conflated to more easily denounce clinical patients who can legitimately benefit from doctor-prescribed use as potheads and doctors who took an oath to first do no harm as pushers and enablers.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 23, 2006 -> 04:50 PM) Where does this slippery slope you want to put us all on end? There shouldn't even be a slippery slope in this discussion. It is put there through artifice. Legalization of recreational marijuana (or any other drug) is a matter unto itself. If a medical profession sees marajuana as the appropriate indicated treatment for a given condition, he should be allowed to prescribe that as a controlled therapeutent just like he would prescribe any other chemotherapeutic. The fact that recreational pot use exists has no more bearing on whether it is effective when taken as indicated for medicinal use than the fact that people recreationally abuse pain pills and other prescription drugs.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 23, 2006 -> 01:27 PM) I like Alligator Gar. Oooh, now you're talking. Love them ganoid armor scales. Primitive baby, primitive.

Thanks for the history lesson, LCR, and especially for the new addition to me siggy.

Congrats, NorthSide. I hope you negotiated a fat signing bonus. Good picks all around this week guys.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 23, 2006 -> 09:32 AM) If I find the link, I'll post it. Please do, NS. I'd like to see that report. I'm a big fan of the big ass fresh water fish of the world, nearly all of which are on the brink of extinction from habitat decline. Some of my other favorites are Australia's Murray Cod (Maccullochella peelii) and the American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula[i/]), which may be my most favoritest freshwater fish ever.

QUOTE(dasox24 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 11:40 PM) Rex, may I just say that in my plan, the "lock-box" would be used only for Social Security and Medicare. It would have two different locks. Now, one of the keys to the "lockbox" would be kept by the President; the other key would be sealed in a small, metal container and placed under the bumper of the Senate Majority Leader's car. The "lock-box" would also be camoflauged. Now, to all outward appearances, it would be a Leatherbound edition of Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. But it wouldn't be. It would be the "lock-box". I don't know what that was all about.. but I'll tell you this: "Don't Mess With Texas!"

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 05:59 PM) Tien Shan, huh? Bring me back one of those 15-foot salmon relatives (forgot the name). . . That would be the taimen, aka Mongolian salmon, Hucho taimen. And though they get quite big, the 15-foot number is a fish story. In fact, some fanciful literature has the species reaching as much as 15 METERS (>45 feet! ), and weighing several tons. In fact, the natural high-end sizes are more realistically put at 2 meters and 70 kg, and the angling record is actually less than 50 kg. Big as the taimen is, it's got nothing on it's fellow Chinese/South Asian big fish, the Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) . The record mekong cat, caught just about a year ago in Thailand, was 9+ feet long and almost 300 kg (~650 pounds).

Hey, there's still time to turn this thing around. Just repeat this always handy and well-known ditty: "Really it's the next six months that are crucial." Then in six months, be sure to say it again. Then again in another six months. . . And then, snap, before you know it, our biggest problem is going to be what to do with all the flowers and candy.

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 04:01 PM) Thats actually not true: http://www.opcw.org/html/db/members_ratifyer.html In 1993, the United States signed the UN-sponsored Chemical Weapons Convention. In October 1996, the 65th nation ratified the convention making the treaty effective on April 29, 1997. Through ratification, the United States agreed to dispose of its unitary chemical weapons stockpile, binary chemical weapons, recovered chemical weapons, and former chemical weapon production facilities by April 29, 2007, and miscellaneous chemical warfare materiel by April 29, 2002. Adding to that, it is a near-certainty that the US will not make the April 2007 deadline for disposal. They finished off a big reduction at Edgewood (Aberdeen proving Grounds, MD) in 2005, but there are still lots of unknown, unexploded shells all around there that they are having to find and dispose of. The amount in the big disposal was just over 1500 tons and it took several years to dispose of. There are still 7 big stockpile sites, including one in Utah with over 6000 tons(!) that just started disposal this year. They have less than a year to finish the job there and elsewhere, and unless the disposal technology has improved significantly in the last couple of years they won't make the deadline. All of this is dwarfed by the 60+ MILLION pounds of mustard and nerve gas we disposed of by dumping into our own coastal waters before we finally banned the practice in 1972. We don't even know the location of half of those dump sites anymore either. So, we've got all that mustard gas lying around in stockpiles and unexploded shells -- lots of that really close to neighborhoods and schools (they had to equip the schools near Edgewood with special overpressurization units in case of an accident at the Aberdeen disposal facility). And there is essentially 0 chance we will meet the disposal deadlines we agreed to in the Chemical Weapons Convention. But 550 old shells turned up in Iraq is supposed to justify the $290 billion and thousands of lives the war has cost so far??