FlaSoxxJim

Some of the pages ages of the document are going to be on display at the National Geographic building in DC starting today. Pretty cool. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060406/ts_nm/...gion_judas_dc_2 My 2 cents on Judas: Even growing up as a devout Catholic, I always had the viewpoint that Judas got the cosmic shaft because he was cast to play a role that had to be played for the larger evvents to unfold. Sort of the Biblical equivalent of Rosenkrantz and Gildernstern. I couldn't help but question the concept of free will when Event A had to happen in order to set successive events in motion. The notion that Jesus literally told Judas to turn him in certainly wouldn't sit well with people who believe in the official NT canon;. But I guess I always had an interpretation that was only slightly removed from that, in which God placed the burden on Judas to set these events in motion even if it wasn't literally spelled out to him by Jesus.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Gonzales...ority_0406.html Hooray for the US Police State!

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 7, 2006 -> 01:29 AM) Exactly what I was thinking. And you'll note that bmags said "keyboards" and not "organs". My wife has informed me that, indeed, organs can be be hung. Then she cries just a little. I don't get it.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 7, 2006 -> 07:11 AM) The ship SANK?!?!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Easy there, Darth.

QUOTE(bmags @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 10:46 PM) you don't hang up keyboards... Blahbady blahbadee blah. . .

I'm pretty sure there was not an actual Adam's Ribs in Chicago at the time of that episode or during the Korean war when it was supposed to be occurring. There may be one now, as I know there is a chain of them in Maryland now.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 03:18 PM) Well, how else can you save the Netherlands? I wasn't referring to anybody's nether lands, Missy. Get your mind out of the gutter!

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 02:30 PM) Let me provide an example for the kids. "I'm gonna go smoke a f**" Now that can be taken a number of ways depending on your context of "f**" and/or "smoke." Once again...no good here. Please stay away. Thank you!! Being a indoors facility you shouldn't be smoking in here anyway!! Interestingly enough, you can still talk about putting your finger in a dyke (sic) and nobody bats an eye. . .

Nevermind. . .

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 01:43 PM) This makes me ill. This is the topic that I feel this Administration has screwed up worse than any other (although the Iraq War had more immediate dire consequences). BushCo are unquestionably the worst environmental administration in my lifetime. I'm not meaning for this to be a sarcastic post, but I'm starting to realize that we are all the delusional ones for thinking BushCo would have behaved differently. It is a huge cosmic irony that THE Oil President and friend to Big Energy had to sit in office at such a ctitical juncture in the environmental health of the planet. Getting the right pro energy company adminsitration in place to roll back clean air, put the final coffin nail in any plans to require plants to be brought up to code, etc., at the precise time when the country and the planet needed a far-thinking stewardship administration to pay attention to the mountain of evidence on anthropogenic climate chage and sound the alarm . . . well, what did we think was going to be the result?

Holy Hopeful Monster, does that mean Goldschmidt is vindicated? [/obscure evolutionist reference]

QUOTE(Steff @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 09:16 AM) If there's a sports memorabilia store at North Riverside or Oakbrook Mall...? I don't know the name of any of them so I can't look them up in the yellow pages. TIA. Steff There is a JCJ Memorabilia listed in teh Oak Brook Center directory (there's also one in Northbrook I think), but no phone number, http://www.oakbrookcenter.com/html/storedirectory.asp

QUOTE(THEWOOD @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 08:40 AM) Maybe you should put some of that money in a savings account. Stick in the mud. Get the scout seats, but don't EVER tell your girlfriend how much you paid for them.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 09:14 AM) I am hoping/assuming that The Sox know how popular the live organ was, and will have a replacement player when Nancy fully retires. Nancy cannot be replaced.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 07:08 AM) Fruit Loops WLUP or Roller Coaster Loop? WLUP by default. I was deprived, my parents never took me to Old Chicago Kona coffee or Columbian coffee?

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 12:18 AM) Doesn't immigration come from the word migrate, anyways I said I don't consider either one immigration for the same reasons as you do. Settle down there bud. As settled as settled can be. The statement that "everyone is an immigrant" is simply incorrect. Those who actually did the inward migrating are immigrants, but that is not everyone. As a 4th generation American I can't see how I qualify as an immigrant. Perhaps you'll enlighten me.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 10:23 PM) Glasses. I hate contacts. But I am planning to go under the laser soon...hopefully. King Kong '33, King Kong '76 or King Kong '05? '33 - Cooper and Schoedsack all the way baby! Of course if you included King Kong Lives that would have made the decision much harder. Snickers or Milky Way?

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 10:49 PM) When you think about it, if I remember right, didn't the Native Americans migrate from Asia. So technically everyone is an immigrant if you feel like going back that far. I prefere not to and I prefere not to consider 1492 immigration either. Every individual who leaves one population center for another IS an immigrant. By definition. And that is nit confined to the human population. But the first humans to migrate into an area populated by no other humans do not displace anybody. "Everybody" is NOT an immigrant. I am the great-grandson of immigrants, but I am not an immigrant. What boat did you come over on or what border did you cross to get here? Explorers in 1492 who did not stay are not immigrants. Any that did stay thereafter were immigrants at best, and in many cases conquerers. So what do you prefer to call people from several centuries ago who MIGRATED INTO a new area in not immigrants?

No, it's not just you. The feature has been pulled apparently. Maybe in anticipation of increased useage at the start of the season? I dunno.

No, it's not just you. The feature has been pulled.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 07:58 PM) no offense, but your arguments are starting to deteriorate. I'm not sure what "arguments" you are referring to. The fact that Mexicans have Native North American ancestry? OK then, you win, they don't. I bow to your superior arguing skills. Dude.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 07:53 PM) Sounds like something the Germans were saying about their country in the late 1930's. Yeah, it sounds exactly like that. :rolly

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 07:40 PM) Regarding "Modern Mexicans", your post isn't really accurate. The various "Modern Mexicans" all have some mix of spanish and AmerIn blood, and the mix varies widely. In fact, in the early days of Mexico and then the US in what is now the southwest, there were many layers of social classes within Hispanic culture, mostly based on the extent (or claimed extent) of Spanish blood. Read "Enchantment and Exploitation" for a great enthography. The point is, it should be noted that all those classes were considered well above any AmerIn groups. The Spaniards, then the Mexicans, then the US, systematically destroyed those cultures - in that order of magnitude. Racism in the US is, and always has been, a perspective of time and position on the totem pole. Mexico holds as much, or more, responsibility for the decimation of the AmerIn peoples as the US. I agree, certainly there was a social pecking order, and certainly the indiginous North Americans were at the very bottom of it. The point was, and you concurred, Modern Mexicans have legitimate claim to indiginous American Indian bloodlines. Most of us do not.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 07:10 PM) oh, i'm sorry flasoxdjim... i thought your post of "illegal since 1492" was backing up the picture. it sure seemed like it was. and as far as that goes, wonder why they are so proud to speak an illegitimate/foreign European language (Spanish)? oh, and i'm sure the Europeans were the first to ever invade any land on this continent. no way the natives of southern regions took northern regions way back in the day. Like I said, I think the "Illegal since 1492" picture is thought provoking without being disrespectful of the US flag like the image YAS posted was.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 06:08 PM) thats perfect i hope they keep doing stuff like this and i hope guys like flasoxxjim keeps defending it. it will definately help get stronger immigration laws on the books. QUOTE(mr_genius @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 06:44 PM) also, i like how you try to mock my original post for calling out someone who doesn't directly make the laws of the country then in your post do the exact same thing bringing up what some random "right wing" caller said on a radio show. I've been quite reserved in what I have said in this thread. YAS posted an image offensive to many Americans with regard to respecting the US flag and suggested it be a Time magazine cover. I posted an image in response that I thought would be an equally good cover. Moreover I thought because it had more substance to it rather than just disrespecting the flag, I thought it a better 1-picture portrayal of two opposing yet valid viewpoints of the issues at hand. Where exactly is my defense of the image disrespecting the flag that YAS posted? Please don't blow the question off, and don't imagine or assume something I didn't post. Dude.