FlaSoxxJim

Yes, very from the hip... Kind of like giving a guy $27 million after one start. If that's not putting all your money in one start I don't know what is.

Timely DP, then Erstadt with the two out double.

We didn't play or win yesterday. We are barely playing today so far...

Not anymore...

OK PK!!! Way to jump start it!

No TV here, was that PK's fault or Cora's??

Way JOE!!!

Wild pitch - runners advance!

Friggin' Gload...

I had more fun watching the Yanks get pounded 9-1 by Detroit (?!?).

Ironically, getting up to run out and vomit is how I got out of seeing Gigli...

West coast games are particularly brutal for us out here on the other coast. Games don't start for me until 10 pm our time, and usually don't finish up until 12:30 or 1 am. Even if I'm falling in and out of consiousness I can't actually go to bed until a game finishes up or I don't sleep well. Oh, and extra innings should be outlawed on west coast games.

Happy Happy

Letterman's Top Ten List: Top Ten George W. Bush Complaints About "Fahrenheit 9/11": 10. That actor who played the President was totally unconvincing 9. It oversimplified the way I stole the election 8. Too many of them fancy college-boy words 7. If Michael Moore had waited a few months, he could have included the part where I get him deported 6. Didn't have one of them hilarious monkeys who smoke cigarettes and gives people the finger 5. Of all Michael Moore's accusations, only 97% are true 4. Not sure - - I passed out after a piece of popcorn lodged in my windpipe 3. Where the hell was Spider-man? 2. Couldn't hear most of the movie over Cheney's foul mouth 1. I thought this was supposed to be about dodgeball

Well, maybe we have gotten hopelessly off topic, but there isw little in this post I disagree with. There is a reason that none of us here chose to go into politics.

Where should I send the Ritalin?? This thread is like an ADD convention. It began with a thesis post that identified a very specific situation that has arisin where violation of 501©(3) tax-exempt status is all but assured if targeted churches follow the schedule issued by a partisan election campaign. It didn't suggest that there was no other type of campaign violation that occurs or that any one political party has a stranglehold on such violations. All of those other dirty tricks are likely worthy of independent debate, but they do little to further the topic at hand – churches unfairly benefiting from 501©(3) status while blatantly violating the guidelines. Run these issues up their own flagpole (start a thread) and see where they go. Or don't. But the ability of stay on topic is part of the art of debate and anything else is smoke and mirrors. Some folks here may legitimately hold the "so what?" opinion here on the matter (as Jas suggested). Fair enough. But the truth is that it is giving unfair consideration to a church to grant them tax-exempt status provided the comply with the guidelines, and then shrug it off when they are in violation and just continue to allow them to enjoy that exeptions. Tax-exempt status is a huge deal for churches that just scrape by and that have to humbly ask parishoners to fund them and at the same time trust them to handle church finances correctly. That cw initiated this thread as a point of personal outrage is not surprising, but that in itself doesn't in any way indicate a political agenda. Having spent, what, 30 years deiling with the intricacies of church 501©(3) designation, do you think he might have some insight into this? And before this devolves into another 'how is he/she the only person allowed to have an opinion on certain topics' gripe, let's just admit that each of us have our own fields of knowledge and expertise. By extension, we all have different trigger points – news stories that set off feelinngs of outrage because we have logged the time in our respective fields to know when something is awry. Every once in a while a biological matter pops up in a thread and I am, very briefly, wholly in my element. eg, The "controversial" topic of evolution rears its head and people start to spew assorted uninformed nonsense and I cannot in good consience leave it unchallenged. Ditto for all of us when we find ourselves the de facto experts-in-residence on subjects that pop up. Take this thread for what it is. cw has been asked to obey a set of rules regardinng the 501©(3) designation of his church for 3 decades, and despite being very politically active and - yes, partisan in his politics - he has had enough respect for the law to walk the line. I'll allow him his outrage on this matter when the reelection campaign for a sitting President does think it needs to show the same respect for the law.

*SNAP!*

You laugh, but this could have saved the King that infamous final Throne ordeal. Then again, I don't thinnk he could have fasted for five days (unless quaaludes and speed don't don't as food).

EEEEWWWWWWHHH!! Your warning is not emphatic enough. And I was thinking about ordering out for Chinese until I read that testimonial about 'poking around with a chopstick' - now I'm not hungry anymore...

Do the Parisian's know their poop is being flung? Or are they the ones doing the poop flinging? OK, back to the fighting.

Ban the Japanese from the world of competitive eating!!

And Baggio gets things rolling, this from the "So this is Ozzie Ball" thread after the sad, sad weekend on the wrong side of town:

Yippee. My first attempt at using my new, near God-like mod powers to kick off (a little late) the best quips of July...

That is brilliant. Off to the quotes of the month thread with that one...