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QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Nov 23, 2005 -> 02:09 PM) What the hell is a boob song? Like "Boobs Alot", by The Fugs?? That would be the song you copped your first feel to. I have no boob song, as the girl from my first cop-and-feel was eerily quiet while I, er. . . , worked my teenage magic.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Nov 23, 2005 -> 02:04 PM) DOH... I remembered my boob song "One more night", but forgot "Don't want to miss a thing" which was my wedding song. Good thing my wife doesn't come on here. Well-placed priorities are overrated anyway.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 23, 2005 -> 01:54 PM) That is so wrong it is laughable. The US has bent over backward for 60 years now to ensure Israels exsistant and safety. They get more of my tax dollars than any other country on the planet. We hide protect them in the UN, we protect them against their middle eastern enemies, and we supply them with every kind of aid imaginable. If we were truely f***ing Israel, we would cut them off and see how long their survival lasted for. If it wasn't for us, the Jews would have been a deadrace a long time ago, both because of our work in WW2 and our protections of Israel over the last 60 years. I wish someone would f*** me over the way the US is doing Israel. Anti-semite.

Tex toosed out this Thanksgiving haiku on another thread: Seems like this could be fun. Or maybe I don't know what fun is. But I do know that all the economics banter on the other thread has my head spinning. Anyway, here's my offering: T-Day Deja vu' Same goddamn thing ev'ry year Detroit Lions suck

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 23, 2005 -> 01:51 PM) Yea, I think someone's back. He's a little too crazy to be his "calm" brother. Meds run out?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 23, 2005 -> 01:45 PM) I know y'all are having fun with the eye charts, but just one quick break for the Holiday Is that autobiographical? If so, remind me to pass on the glazed ham when I come over for dinner.

Think somebody's slipping him Twinkies after the touristas leave? http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1340629

QUOTE(Soxy @ Nov 23, 2005 -> 12:42 PM) I used to go to ceilidhs just to see all the kilts. No idea why they are so incredibly sexy, but, hot damn, they are. Well done on getting one of the correct spellings of that one. Céilí is the other Celt-certified correct spelling. And it also happens to be my daughter's name. Though it means dance or party, as you well know, it is believed to be originally derived from the Latin word for heaven. Whether a room full of Celts in Kilts qualifies as heaven, I'll leave you to be the judge of.

QUOTE(Tmar28 @ Nov 23, 2005 -> 12:59 PM) only saw a little bit of the movie, thoroughly enjoy the song though. That, of course, being the point. Movie shmoovie. But Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the church nearby the restaurant, in the bell tower with her husband Ray and Facha, the dog.

Happy Almost Thanksgiving, Soxtalkers. Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago... two years ago, on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant.

If you can't laugh at a looming pandemic what can you laugh at?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 23, 2005 -> 11:28 AM) Way wrong. The statistics prove it. [Here comes the 11:45 tangent. . . ] You do not ever "prove" anything with statistics. You support or refute an hypothesis, sometimes to the point of amassing an overwhelming amount of supporting evidence. But you do not "prove." [/There goes the 11:45 tangent. . . ]

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 23, 2005 -> 08:36 AM) I shouldn't have to check my Christian ideals at the door because I want to help, I am part of this country, and should have equal opportunity. So I have no problem with faith based through the government. I also don't have a problem with non-faith based solutions as well. It's a big country and a big budget. Yes, there were a few clinkers in his picks, but that's the case with every President. I think he tried and succeeded in diversity, in diversity of conservative ideology, and picked people of strong character. No one hires at a perfect 100% rate, especially on this scale. The early stages of 9/11 were very confusing. Who really could understand what was happening at the moment? Yes, the first 15 minutes could have been better, but in the overall scheme of things, I give George a high A grade. I've thought long and hard about the faith-based charities question. And my concerns about the problems that can arise if they receive government funding are echoed by a lot of the people who run these charities as well. Faith-based charities that fund themselves do not have to check their Christian ideals at the door, and it is great that they exist to do what they do. Ditto for Muslim faith-based charities, Jewish faith-based charities, etc. All of these charities are primarily in the business of helping folks who need help, and more power to them all. But a lot of them also have the side business of proselytizing, evangelizing, and converting. That's remains their prerogative if they are self-funded, and folks can choose to take them up on the charity/sermon combo or not (though desperate times can force the choice, see the history of the Irish "soupers" – Catholics who converted to Protestantism during the famine years in order to receive charity from Prod soup lines) But if they are funded with tax dollars, these organizations should not be able to proselytize on the sly on the government dime, regardless of the good they may be doing. Like you, Tex, many service oriented persons of faith understandably have a hard time checking their faith at the door, which is what has to happen to avoid a situation in which tax dollars are subsidizing the furthering of specific religious messages. Above and beyond that is the obvious potential for conflict in awarding the funding. When secular and faith-based organizations or organizations tied to different faiths are competing for moneys, there is too great a risk of real or apparent bias in awarding those moneys.

Way to go with that Skorski chick, Chaos! My favorite love song, hands down, is Little Wing by Jimi.

Is this shaping up to be a Neocon nightmare or what?: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...icle%2FShowFull I'm sure the administration and the PNAC brain trust was tickled pink when Iraqi Prime Minister al-Jaafari and a gaggle of cabinet ministersmade a cordial social visit to Tehran this week too. And the big winner in the Iraq War: Iran! :banghead They never would have been able to topple Saddam and get the Shiites (and Kurds) into positions of power. I guess we can be happy we're playing an important role in bringing neighbors together.

FSM2k5?!?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 23, 2005 -> 08:04 AM) It is proably about the time most second term Presidents begin thinking about their legacy. I love George for a couple things. His initial push for faith based community groups to be a part of solutions. His cabinet appointments where, for the most part, excellent. His response during the 9/11 aftermath was incredible. Faith-based community groups have been a huge part of the solution to social problems for a long time. And as long as they do it on their own dime and not the government's dime they are tops in my book. Excellent Cabinet appointments? Norton is a ctastrophe for protected lands. Ashcroft, Powell and teh first EPA head (not technically a Cabinet position) bailed after the first term. Condi is a Cold war expert who brought a lot of outdated ideas to the post of national Security Advisor. Gonzales (sp?) slimed into Ashcroft's spot because he helped figure out the torture loopholes. I'll concede that once he got off his ass and put down his copy of My Pet Goat, he did rise to the occassion and act very presidential during the 9-11 crisis. And the entire country and world rallied behind him. How the hell somebody could have sqandered that kind of universal goodwill is still betond me.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 23, 2005 -> 07:53 AM) **INFERRING... really? In SEVERAL speeches, again, they have said over and over and over and over that there is ****NO**** DIRECT connection between 9/11 and Iraq. But he HAS said that Iraq is a part of the larger war on terror. There's a huge distinction between the two. You're looking for a silver bullet here, and there's not one here. In no way do I think this is any kind of silver bullet. I think it's a timely reminder story given that so much currently hangs on whether Congress did in fact have the infirmation they needed in order to truly make an informed decision. This is one more case documenting that they clearly did not. There are no silver bullets, just many many chinks in the armor until hopefully things that need to come to light can. And of course it's a double-edged sword for the dissenters who are forced by that reality to throw everything at the wall to see what sticks because the White House has been very successful at stonewalling on th big issues. Then we get the snide 'that's right, it's ALL Bush's fault' comments.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Nov 22, 2005 -> 11:31 PM) I can't vouch for its health--obviously it was well enough to live 14 years, but didn't it appear to be in extreme agony? Tumor (I assume) near the owners left hand, cataracts, loss of fur and teeth--thankfully it doesn't have to be an exhibit anymore. I think that is the look of this (ugh) purebred line. I agree with you, that these things have obviously crossed the fine line between purebred and just inbred.

QUOTE(watchtower41 @ Nov 22, 2005 -> 05:10 PM) My buddy pre-ordered in June and didnt get one. Which tells you they are artificially creating a demand to hype the buzz. If Microsoft knew how many preorders there were from June – and also authorized that number of preorders I assume – there is no excuse for not being able to ramp up production to provide that many units 5 months later.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 22, 2005 -> 04:45 PM) Ahh, so Microsoft is creating an artificial demand? How cool of them. And BINGO was his name-oh!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 22, 2005 -> 02:50 PM) Speaking of checking ones mailbox filled with antica pation... Nice Rocky ref. You had just better keep checking - Elvis has left the building at this end, for real and true. Damn, now did I forget to put stamps on that thing . . . ?

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 22, 2005 -> 09:38 PM) This is really, really old. And furthermore, I've heard SEVERAL times, by GWB AND his administration, that they know that the two are not DIRECTLY related. I think you are missing the pregnant point, which goes back to exactly what you said – this news is REALLY OLD. Four-plus years old. If you are George Bush, that is. This is information that Bush had TEN DAYS after 9/11. Not now, four years later, but back while Ground Zero was still smoldering. The Administration immediately fell all over themselves to figure out how to parlay the 9/11 tragedy into an Iraq invasion, despite knowing full well that there was no credible Iraq/Al Quaida link. More importantly, having this knowledge did not in any way stop GWB from inferring an Iraq/Al Quaida connection. OBL/Saddam connection at every possible opportunity. And none of it was accompanied with a big "*" stating that "The credible intel strongly suggests otherwise."

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 22, 2005 -> 06:32 PM) What possible upside can there be for an elected official to have his photograph taken with a turkey? Well, sometimes the turkey is family and it can't be helped. . .

I don't intend for this to be a threadjack so I won't pursue it beyond saying that the codified discrimination of American citizens on the basis of sexual orientation is not Constitutionally justifiable.