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QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Mar 6, 2006 -> 02:27 AM) Yeah, seriously. I'd want to see the Doctor if my dick were bending like that, and I'd question my sexuality if I appeared to be mildly erect during a basketball game. 'But Coach told me to get up for the game. . .'

These guys, all have you nicely covered for game info and food options, Plod. and it's great that you are getting in for a game. For good beer bar/resturaunts, if you have the time I'd check out the Clyburn Goose Island brewpub. They usually even have one of other of their ales on cask and handpull to make you feel at home. It's a resuraunt so II don't think bringing your son in before 10pm or so would be an issue (but good if a local can confirm). If you take Mplssox' advice about a Cleveland stop for the R&R HOF, you also have an opportunity to try another really good midwest brewpub, Great Lakes Brewing Co. It's just down the road from Jacob's Field where the Indians play, and their beer and food are usually quite good. Get the walleye if you are a fish person. I also agree with Blancas that if you had the time a northside excursion is good to get a feel forthe cultural diversity of the city. And also agree on looking into Tut at the Field if you are a museum family. The Shedd Aquarium ande the Adler Planetarium are also right there on the lakefront "museum triangle" at the south end of Grant Park. The Art Instittute is at the other end of the park as well so you could easily spend a day right there if you had tthe time or inclination.

So how is this for hubris. . . Frist is threatening to change the structure of the Senate Intelligence Committee if Rockefeller can actually come up with enough votes to pass the motion to investigate the illegal domestic spying program. The change would eliminate the nonpartison oversight the Committee now enjoys and turn it into a GOP-controlled vehicle that can choose to turn a blind eye to the abuses of the program. Frist:

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Mar 4, 2006 -> 12:41 PM) King Crimson = never old and busted. One More Red Nightmare is one of the darkest hardest album ive ever heard. I love 'em. Being a huge Belew fan, I like the Beat/Three of a Perfect Pair/Discipline trio the best. Starless and Bible Black is my favorite disc from the earlier incarnation.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Mar 4, 2006 -> 02:21 AM) Practically an open and shut case. First, an overt step towards the commision of a crime is established. Second, Muhammed's fulfilment of attempted murder charges is substantiated with the actual hit and run, in addition to his comments following arrest. Muslims in this nation are under a microscope as it is. When even one solitary person commits an act of violence, it's going to be national news. Yep. Guy is pretty screwed up.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 04:54 PM) And that just makes it alright, doesn't it? I'm not sure what you mean by that. I've conceded the rest of the Filibuster board to you, accepting that any contrarian opinions posted there are only going to get sniped. It would be great though if it didn't have to happen in the Only threads as well. The sniping - from all sides - can't be helped any more in the Filibuster commons. But it can be avoided in the Only threads. Posts in here are not intended to get any sort of rise out of the other side (or to even be consumed by the other side), the whole rest of the forum can be used for that. Not that I would want any sort of enforcing of an Only Onlys policy, because I absolutely do not. But you have to know what your are going to see in here. Maybe just a whole lot of drivel in your estimation. Take us to task for it when it happens outside of our clubhouse. Don't go to a strip club if you are likely to get offended by what you see. And don't make a scene about how indecent it is if you do decide to go. Right? Same deal in the Onlys. The GOP thread posts would probably have steam coming out of my ears. And they should, that's what the thread is for.

It's a strap on.

QUOTE(G&T @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 05:00 PM) But the issue lies here. LCR is telling people to stop pissing on Irish heritage, but who allowed it to become a drunk fest? It may have been the Irish themselves so there is no one else to blame. What's there to complain about if that's the case? Ah, but there is a difference between Irish heritage and the s***e that Irish-Americans several generations removed from Ireland incorrectly believe is Irish heritage. My extended family includes a mix of people where half of them actually knew some Irish history and tradition and the other half just knew all the words to "South Side Irish" and all the bartenders on Western Ave. and figured that made them experts on our ancestral heritage. I blame it on years of drinking too much green beer.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 07:18 PM) That was possibly the greatest post I've ever witnessed on these boards. And ironically, it appears to have been penned by a Cub fan.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 04:30 PM) Fafblog may very well have reached a new level of fafblogginess with this one. (More at link) *sigh*

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 04:11 PM) We should all be gravely concerned when such intrusions are allowed to take place. Yes we all should. But not all of us are. We should also be gravely concerned that the GOP House is working hard on the "oversight" side of the domestic spying program by trying to 'fix FISA' instead of actually looking into the legality of the program as it currently stands. But not all of us are. It's gotten to the point that it's not worth even posting any administration-critical viewpoints outside of the Only thread because it's just seen as piling on the poor maligned president. Off topic but not really. There have been a couple of absolutely alarming global warming revalations in the past two weeks that a year ago I would have been all over, posting them here because I assumed people would want to know what the current findings are. Now I don't even bother, because of course it's not seen as me being a little upset that I've made the mistake of bringing children into a planet doomed by human excess and short-sightedness. No, it would just be seen as piling on and bashing BushCo policy. How urging people to work to forestall the destruction of the only home we have has now come to be construed as a political thing I'll never understand.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 04:02 PM) *sigh* Good to see you, fellow Dem. Yep, I know better than to call the bedwetters bedwetters out in the hostile threads. And I'm thankful I can do it here among the like-minded. *sigh*

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 03:51 PM) So he is a Cub Fan? Why is he posting on a White Sox message board? Huh, you're right. Someone's got some 'splaining to do!! I can only assume that is a twisted joke. But the abundany nods to Japanese films, Hunter Thompson, and Warren Zevon, etc., sure look like LCR's MO. So what's the deal Apu?!?!!

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 03:29 PM) Yikes. If this is legitimate (not saying its not, just placing the caveat), then this doesn't belong in the Dems Only thread - it belongs in the Americans Only thread. Or perhaps the Get Your Damn Government Out of My Business Only thread. You'd think so, but 1/2 of Americans don't care. The bedwetting wingnuts have been hiding under their beds since 9-11, letting the administration operate unchecked and unquestioned in the name of national security, and continue to think nothing of the erosion of our civil liberties.

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 03:10 PM) Is this you as well? or did you steal your post from here? Unofficial: f*** You! Yep, that's LCR.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 03:17 PM) Actually, it's kind of hard for anyone to even begin to approach the Allman/Betts Duo, isn't it? Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew from the mark 2 King Crimson days comes close in my opinion, but yeah I'd agree with your assessment.

Sultans of Swing Romeo and Juliet Industrial Disease If you don't have it, find yourself a copy of Neck and Neck, the album Knopfler did with Chet Atkins a few years back. Some astounding stuff on that one.

QUOTE(G&T @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 02:43 PM) Actually, I would love to find out how our celebration turned into what it is. What are the chances it was the Irish themselves who made it this way? From Wikipedia: Given the time, I doubt it was any Brit that owned the tavern, since they wouldn't celebrate an Irish holiday, and there's no mention of what they did for that celebration. I know it seems like they probably just drank, but the tavern could also have been used as a gathering place for Irish people in the area for a small religious ceremony. This is about all I can find on it, but I can't find who the owners of that tavern were. Nevertheless, I wouldn't jump to conclusions that Americans are to blame for what St. Patrick's Day has become. It could have been Irish bar owners looking to make a profit. But I have no proof of that either. It's pretty intuitive what happend, at least as far as I see it. The first generation Irish in America would have observed the holiday in much the same way they did back home. And sure, they would have convocated in Irish transplant social centers which could be pubs of inns or houses. . . But as successive generations of descendants got further removed from the roots of the holiday observance it began to get twisted into what it is now. It's the same thing that happens to most such observances, they get diluted and commercialized and too big for their own good until they resemble little of the original celebration. As I'm always willing to find any excuse to quaff a Guinness of three, I don't mind throwing in with the other drunk Micks and honorary Micks on St. Paddy's, but there's certainly little that is authenticly Irish about the holiday. Except for the green Natty Light beer. I'm pretty sure that was the ancient drink of the High Kings or Erin. Friends don't let friends drink green beer.

How the heck did Whipping Post not make your list??!!! No love for One Way Out either? Also, Blue Sky isn't an instrumental. Or are you only putting an instrumental version on your list. My top 10 would be: Whipping Post Elisabeth Reed One Way Out (love that slide guitar) Blue Sky (Dickey Betts = God on this one) Jessica Sweet Melissa Hot Lanta Ramblin Man Midnight Rider Mountain Jam

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 12:35 PM) My dad (who is from Ireland) doesn't get the way this country "celebrates" St Patrick's day. When he lived in Ireland it was a day of visiting with family and friends as well as prayer. He says it has started to become more secular in Ireland as well (at least in the big cities - the smaller towns, like where he lived, it is still a religious celebration). I'll bet he gets up for a good Bloomsday celebration though, eh?

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 12:59 PM) Why do I find this picture so funny? Gourd?? Hell, it darn near rectum!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 05:58 PM) To me classic rock is loud, fast, and pounding. Trying to label/compartmentalize/categorize is an exercise in futility, but I think loud+fast+pounding = classic rock would by definition exclude some of the best of classic rock. Jimi's Little Wing or Clapton's Wonderful Tonight, for example, are none of those things. But if you tell me Litttle Wing is not Classic Rock I'll beat you over the head with a pre-CBS Stratocaster. A Day in the Life is deserving because for me is sums up a whole lot of the history of rock music, even if the song itself employs violas instead of Vox amps. It's the culminating piece on the album that defined a huge chunk of what classic rock is and demonstrated how expansive rock could be. There is a psychedelia/drug culture undercurrent expressed in the lyrics and the music that very much had its finger on the pulse of Rock and Roll's coming of age. It's also a near perfect collaboration between the two most impoortant composers in rock history who really rarely ever wrote together despite the ubiquitous Lennon/McCartney byline. Everyone thinks of the song as a John song, and at its heart it is. But the counterpoint Paul's "Woke up, got out of bed. . . " extended bridge provides makes the song pretty focking brilliant. George Martin's contribution to the song truly also should garner him full coauthorship, but I feel that way about a lot of the Beatles catalog. It's also such a watershed song in the world of concept rock. The stream of conciousness freeflow - in which a news story about the disrepair of Blackburn Lancashire and the mundaneness of running late to catch a bus are elevated to laterary status - would impress James Joyce. Basically, I think the song is the perfect logical choice (though I never would have picked it in my initiial vote) because it's so more than what it seems as far as what it embodies and what it means to the genre.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 11:35 PM) On the point of the levees, it's only been predicted for what, 30 years, if a CAT 5 hit N.O. the levees Well, I don't know that ANYBODY could have predicted that the levees could possibly fail, but. . . You hit the problem on the head. If it has been widely known for so many years that they could fail when the "big one" hit, how does the president think he can credibly state thatsuch a possibility had not even been considered? QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 11:35 PM) I guess that is the part that bugs me the most. It's too easy to pin the blame on the President. Most of the time, it's usually something beyond even him. Yes. Honesty. That is the thing that is beyond him.

Wow, what a read. If I was her I would have signed and then I would have pigged out and gotten REALLY FAT on him. There was nothing in the contract about that now was there? Er, uhm, Jabba Honey. . . ? About that mandatory 'get naked for me after the kids are asleep' clause. . . How about we toss that one out?

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 08:48 PM) Alright, that's unfair. I'm sure the president gets tons of threats all the time and I'm sure he takes them seriously...but smashing those planes into the World Trade Center was a suprise to a lot of peole in the intelligence community. Oh, and i'm sure if he had arrested the hijackers before 9-11 you and the ACLU would be screaming "racism, anit-muslim racism!". On Bush's anti-terrorism tactics, he is definately in the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" category with you. no offense. No offense taken. But for the administration to state "NOBODY could have predicted it" is disingenuous. Even if such an attack was envisioned, thwarting it is something else entirely though, to be sure. And I agree there are lots of credible threats that the administration would have to wade through. I understand that, and rational people understand that. So why resort to the bald-faced lies about how nobody in a million years could have forseen any of this stuff?