FlaSoxxJim

Crap, I meant BE GOOD. Sorry. Go back to your vapid metalhead wasteland, Beastly. My brain fart notwithstanding, good on ya for getting a little rootsy with your music.

Hey, not bad for a youngin' Beastly. Get your ears grooving with some Sam Cook, Smokey and the Miracles, Otis Redding, Wicked Wilson Picket, 'Retha, Tops, Temps, Ray Charles, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, and Little Stevie Wonder and you'll be doing alright.

I got a special treat from Good Mr. Johnson as well and I second that Digging some 1968 deliciousness as I type. And I have been wracking my brain trying to come up with a way to return the favor – Beatle boots are out since Hammerhead puts my old vinyl collection to shame – but I think I have come up with something to put in the mail that will put a smile on his face. In the meantime, Hammerhead Johnson.... YOU DA MAN!

"There has been one person to respectfully & intelligently debate in this thread...." I am at least glad that you did not attempt to count yourself among the respectful and intelligent debaters. With statements like: "please go find a thread that is more suited for your level of comprehension & intelligence..." and "It does however; assume a certain level of intelligence..." it's clear you cannot refrain from personal attacks in these threads. For you to try to equate doubt in the existence of a Divine Agent with sadism, depravity, hedonism, etc., is not debate, nor is it rational. Very little of what you have put up here the last week or so has been rational, but at least most of it was not as off the deep end as your inital post in this sad thread asserting that 'Godlessnes' was pretty much to blame for all the social ills of modern America. I'm sure you had to bite your tongue to maintain even that tenuous appearance of rational thought. You are correct in one thing, I should find a thread more suited to my level of comprehension & intelligence, though sometimes that is difficult. I've been slumming here for way to long.

Speaking as an athiest with ambitions of ascending to hedonism (and perhaps debauchery) at earliest convenience, I can tell you that it's no different than for any other group. You are going to be suspicious of 'facts' set forth by groups with perceived or real agendas not in accord with your own line of thought. All the moreso when statistics that are rarely the result of rigorous or scientific polling (the pollsters usually admit that up front) are bandied about. And on top of that when these stats are cut and pasted by all of us in a free-for-all forum the possibility of extending the numbers beyond their intended utility is great. All of that is well and good. Your continued insistence on trying to force some implied parity upon very different populations (i.e., "athiests and hedonists," "Goddless individuals and sadists," etc.) is really tiresome, however.

Certainly that is what is going on, and I was just having fun at the expense of the Christian Scientists. But in truth, when a number of mutually exclusive poll question results are reported, they are reported similar to your oddly tangential 2000 voter stats, wherein each question's results are presented as demographic percentages that add up to 100% or something approximating it allowing for rounding error. Presenting the data on divorce stats the way you did implies a demographic breakdown relative to a single statistic (what is causing divorce), even if a cursory glance at the numbers tells you that cannot be the case.

We were all disgusted by what we saw happening to American soldiers and civilians, as we are all disgusted by what we have seen done to the Iraqi prisoners. There is a very real difference, however, in who the abusers were in both cases and whether Geneva applies to them. Iraqi civilian insurgents are NOT a government sanctioned military force, and the Geneva Accord is of no consequence to them. Of course that has been a very real issue in the war oagainst terrorism post 9-11, terrorist organizations are not part of a government and so we often have no clear foe to target in retaliation and the other side doesn't have to play by the "rules" of war and treatment of prisoners set forth by Geneva.

There is an outstanding piece in today's New Yorker by investiggative journalist Seymour Hersh that gets at some of the complexity of what happened and how it was allowed to happen. He was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition today as well, which id how I came to know of the story. The piece is lengthy but really informative. Here is an extracted set of hilight paragraphs in sequence but quite a lot of detail left out...

Sounds like he knows he has to put more behind his fast ball but seems confident he can do it. Maybe he's been so concerned with hitting his spots and not overthrowing recently he's just lost the feel for the pitch temporarily. That said, with a couple complette games under his belt already I'd assume his arm strength would be there.

If we adhered to the Geneva Convention there would be no war in Iraq. We were very quick to point out that the Iraqi military parading our captured soldiers on Iraqui television last year violated the Convention though. What? Do you want us to toe the same line we ask the rest of the world to toe? It would be nice.

So Internet love interests and internet porn sites accounts for all 120% (?!?) of last year's divorces? Those Christian Scientists are not very good mathematicians. They're not concerned though, they're waiting for the problem to fix itself.

This Saturday and Sunday was the first time in a long time that my wife and I decided to put work and such on hold and spend time with the kids and it was most excellent. Went to a fiend's and hung out poolside, went to the beach, the zoo, Mom's day breakfast out. Mrs. Flaxx liked her gifts and I learned how to mix up a killer rumrunner (bannana liquor was the missing ingredient that had thus far eluded me). Way too short, but a good weekend.

I can take dropping a series here and there, it happens. But I really dislike getting swept. I'm most frustrated this last weekend with Garland's outing and blowing a game like that by giving up a couple 2-out HRs in an inning. If we took that game and dropped the other two I'd be feeling better about it. Curiously enough, it was a plumbing repair weekend for me as well. I got a notice from the city saying I had a leak somewhere (not looking forward to the bill), so the terlet got an overhaul.

Mr. Silver Lining this morning, aren't we?

Sox have not been able to take advantage of lower tier teams for 4 years now. We manage to get up for many of the big series' (unless they're out on the west coast), and then fail to steamroll the teams we should be able to make hay against (Sorry for the mixed metaphor).

Whatsorts of tools does one use when smegma raking?

These are Brits after all Tex, cut them some slack.

This is such an easy thing to poke holes in, but facts is facts. There's only one way to get pregnant and oral sex ain't it.

I included 'Ohio' in my set at the local coffee shop's open mic this week. The teenage world yawned but they got the history lesson nonetheless.

And usually in October as well, as far as the Sox are comcerned.

Hope it's a good one!

Testify! A scant few around here get it.

I personally hold Jason responsible for become a less productive person, so, sure, way to go Buddy! Seriously, major kudos and thanks!

Yeah, I thought everyone was prematurely high on him after a couple of decent outings.

Crap!!! Pollite has underwhelmed the last three outings.