FlaSoxxJim

Thanks for the insights. I still think it may cost us the series, but the reasoning is sound. With maybe a 50% chance of getting Sunday's game in, I'd still go with BMac Sunday.

QUOTE(JDsDirtySox @ May 21, 2005 -> 12:27 AM) The Score is reporting now that BMac is starting Saturday, with Contreras pushed back to Sunday. Now I was cool with all of this and cautiously optimistic that they're just being careful with Hernandez. But it's just stupid to pitch Brandon on Saturday if that's the plan, imo. Contrearas against Zambrano looked like a probable win, while ANYBODY against Prior is likely a loss if he's on. But like people have said, if we already won the series, BMac can relax and just pitch his game and if we win it's gravy. Are they trying to drop two to the Cubs? What am I missing here, guys?

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ May 20, 2005 -> 12:18 AM) Do you have anything nice to say about him? You know the saying, if you don't have something nice to say, just don't say anything. Uhm... How about... If Reggie went to a Star Trek convention he could go as a Ferengi and he wouldn't need to buy a costume? I Kid Because I Care Reggie

QUOTE(TheDybber @ May 20, 2005 -> 04:16 PM) Looks like poop on wheels. Or a ho-ho. Ho' ho' V V V

Chappas (only comes in XXS )

Nice to see they still have good drugs at MIT.

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 20, 2005 -> 11:45 AM) Nobody said any f***ing thing about humane treatment. We were talking about due process. Stop putting words in my mouth or twisting my words for your own bulls***. Wow. My apologies for assuming that 15 months of detention/interrogation in the absence of due process presupposed that treatment during that period might be less than civilized. It's not my bulls***. It's the bulls*** of those military and non-military personnel directly involved, those in higher positions who gave them tacit approval to act in the manner they did, and the Administration that refuses to accept responsibility for it. Yas, there's a gesturing smiley I'm looking for that seems to have gone missing at the moment or I'd probably use it.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ May 20, 2005 -> 11:46 AM) You're confusing the "right to a speedy trial" with "humane treatment." EVERYONE deserves the latter, but those being detained as enemy combatants (it's not like they're jailing people in Afghanistan for parking violations) don't have the right to the former. Please read the entire NYT story, Hurt. Prior to Dilawar's death most of the interrogators had already been convinced of his innocence. Why then did the brutal "interrogation" continue and why was he not taken to a doctor as he had requested. He told the interrogators he was going to die if he did not receive medical attention and he didn't get any and he was dead the next day.

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 20, 2005 -> 11:40 AM) Only if they are American citizens and not terrorists. Sadly, the truth of that paired statement is evident. Not a terrorrist, but also not an American is a combination that doesn't warrant humane treatment apparently.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ May 20, 2005 -> 11:36 AM) Terrorists aren't entitled to due process. What about cab drivers?

A very cool bit of research that. It fits the predictions of several of the global warming models nicely, even though as the article said the time frame is too short to completely discount nartural variability.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ May 20, 2005 -> 11:16 AM) /If there's free beer, I'll wait too. Mmmm, Hey now... How you doin'?... (Now where did that smooth smiley with the shades go...?)

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ May 20, 2005 -> 10:36 AM) Gotta love the Rupert Murdoch owned Sun running the photos. /sits back and waits for somebody to discuss the liberal bias of Rupert Murdoch /joins him in anticipation, buys the first round of e-beer

QUOTE(CubKilla @ May 20, 2005 -> 10:26 AM) Consider the source though. The NY Times is just liberal dreck in the printed form. Someone once said, "misery loves company." That quote can now be modified to, "misery loves company and the media. " Yes, by all means disreagard the story entirely despite the corroborating testimony of those involved and the military investigators, coroners, etc. and dismiss it and anything that appears in the NYT as "just liberal dreck". Brilliant.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 20, 2005 -> 09:42 AM) The media seems to have no problem minding its business when it comes to showing the good our solidiers are doing in Iraq, Afganistan, and around the world in general. All of our boys and our country is being painted as blood thirsty savages. This is bigger than one parties political agenda, or at least it should be. When was the last time you saw a picture of American's building new roads in Iraq? Or a little girl going to school for the first time in Afganistan? But I'll bet you have seen a picture of Lyndie England in the last month. Yes the media has a role in opening up scandals, as they are the final check and balance of government. But their agenda needs to be bigger than taking down a President. They are daily putting our lives in danger, not just our soldiers. If their were images of Americans saving lives around the world, that might go towards actually showing that the vast majority of American's want the world to be a better place. Instead the media only concentrates on the worst of the worst. Feeling the hate we do from the rest of the world, makes me want to close up shop and say screw the rest of the world. Pull out all of our companies, resources, food, aid companies etc, and let them see how they get along without the great satan. They all hate us, but where is the first place they turn to when they need help? Who is in there saving the lives of Iranians after their huge earthquake? It wasn't the Russians who are selling them the bomb making equiptment they hope to someday use against us I will tell you that much. It is us. The citizens of this country give self-lessly to the rest of the world, more than the rest of the world gives combined, yet we are the evil ones. What does the Muslim world provide for our poor and starving people? Did they offer to send rescue crews and relief aid after all of the hurricanes hit Florida? Nope. I am sick of it. I am sick of being protraying as treating the rest of the world as a doormatt by our own citizens, and having my life put in danger because of it. All because they want to sell a few more newspapers. Hell the reporting of the abuse of American;s, our families mind you, doesn't even get reported as much as the abuse of other people? This same kind of stuff happens in our own prision systems everyday, but are there reports about that? Nope. I am f***ing sick of it all. Did you take the time to read the piece? At eight pages it is long, but it is well worth reading. Nowhere in this piece, nowhere in the earlier Afghan abuse reports, the Abu Ghraib pieces by Hersch or others, or the Citmo pieces is the entire US military being villainized in a way you describe. These are revelations of very specific events involving specific people. As far as the "same kind of stuff happens in our own prison system every day," again I'd like you to read the piece and then see if you still stand by the comment. For one thing, I highly that our own prison system holds American citizens as detainees without specific charges for 15 months and then lets them go with a note saying 'sorry,' and gets away with it. For another, I highly that today somewhere in an American prison an inmate is chained to the ceiling and receiving 100+ kicks to peroneal blows to the leg so a handful of guards can laugh every time he cries out "Oh God!" in pain. If there is such a place in the US prison system let me know which one, because I'll go write the expose' on it and get a Pulitzer.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 20, 2005 -> 09:12 AM) We have a winner! The comment is not just in reference to Gitmo/Newsweek - althoughthough I agree that since former interrogators had corroborated the Quran abuse there is likely a real story here, Newsweek's lack of due dillegence notwithsstanding. There are plenty of people who think the media should have minded it's own business instead of exposing Abu Ghraib, physical Gitmo abuses, etc., and see the media as being the real problem. They'll feel the same here. Amazing, but not at all unexpected in this era where the President has decided that if we don't see footage of the caskets coming back home we'll continue to think everything is going smoothly with the war.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ May 20, 2005 -> 02:00 AM) ...if anybody is interested. http://www.thememoryblog.org Not very likely, I'm afraid. [anxiously awaiting the "irresponsible journalism" battle cry from thos who think it's better that this stuff doesn't come to light...]

Wow, I saw that episode. That really sucks.

That was taken before I got in trouble for taking out my Goldmember...

You wouldn't say that if you saw how TOTALLY COOL I looked in my C3P0 costume at the theater last night... Now who's the nerd...? Oh.. wait.... uhm...

Well, I can't pass up a request. Watch out for that bubble! That's a pic of a minke whale taken by an Australian biologist who confirmed that they had to move away from the bow of their vessel very fast because of the stink.

I don't think there's anything inherently whong with combi-chem other than the fact that it seems like 10 years or so and untold billions of dollars were spent on high throughput screening of these massive libraries of non-rationally designed molecules simply because the technology had advanced to the point that it was possible. Libraries rationally built around active, biologically relevant scaffolds.... that's where it seems things are finally heading, and should have been headed all along.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 19, 2005 -> 01:07 PM) WOW. A picture of whale s***... this board has sunk to new lows. No, first it floats for a while, then it sinks. Also, just be happy I didn't post the pix of the whale fart that I thought about putting up as a bonus. yes, I really do have one of those.

The Google Satellites... Didn't they do that song about "free milk and a cow" a few years back??