FlaSoxxJim

What day is that??

I think I'm the only member of my extended family to ever have moved out of a two-mile area straddling south Western. My Lil' Bro lives on Oakley, a 1-block stumble from the parade, so ehether he invites them or not - heck, whether he's home or not - the entire extended clan makes their way to his place after the parade. He was busy putting in a new downstairs toilet and picking up a cpuple of kegs of Guinness today, as he has decided it's easier than moving and not giving family members a forwarding address. Hoist a few for me if you get out there. But don't throw up on my high school girlfriend's family's lawn - I found out the hard way her dad really doesn't like that. :puke Slainte'

Well... I think YOU'RE kinda dumb. Stupid poopie-head.

Started off funny with Mel's Prime Time interview snippets intercut with the brutal murder of poor Humpty D. Got funnier with the first faux Bush campaign ad. Funnier still with more wacky Mel and poor dead Dumpty. Then to the absurd conclusion with the next Bush ad and all the old b/w animation from the 20s and 30s... And the best part was at the end with Mel as his Lethal weapon character breaking through the Loony Tunes bass drum, with 'Merry-go-round Broke Down' ('ba-de-ba-de-ba-de... that's all folks) playing, and him with the line "Crazy? I'll show you crazy," and doing the Curly Howard routine. Robert Smigel is a twisted genius. I must not be the only one to think Mel is off his nut.

Hey, nice avatar!

I completely understand that position and I assume Rummy is treating the item with more dignity than that. And, I also think it is different because it is part of the plane that hit the Pentagon - the home turf for the Department of Defense - it wasn't part of the Ground Zero site wher ethousands of civilians were killed. The piece is a very real reminder that the Pentagon, of all places, is vulnerable to attack.

Yeah, she was just asking for that baby to get hit. Some negligent parent out under a canopy with an infant when she knows perfectly well what the chances are of a ball carroming off a wall and ending up right where she is! Guess it helps to have the entire story before spouting off. Agreed, mumetyfour is out of line, but assume he will admit it.

I'm usually the last one to defend Rummy (in fact I don't think I ever have), but it sounds like the piece he has is a legitimately solemn reminder of the event. He's not hiding it or using it as spectacle (so it sounds from the article); it is openly displyed in his office and used as a physical reminder to an event that has defined a lot of what he has been involved in. FBI agents pilfering souvenirs on the otehr hand, OR thinking that it is appropriate to give dignitaries with pieces of 911 debris as souvenirs or wghatever, that's WAY out of line. The difference between that and what at least from that post it seems like Rummy has is wxactly the difference between A piece of wreckage from Shuttle Columbia being enshrined as a memorial at the space center versus the vultures who collected debris aginst the direct orders of investigators, to keep as keepsakes or try to sell on eBay, etc. Even if Rummy's piece is not on public display as an open memorial, it seems to serve the same touchstone purpose for him and those who pass through his office. Am I wrong to see it this way?

Thanks, Yas! I guess I can stomach Chimp long enough to get through the game.

Is it on WGN? ESPN? I'm supposed to be taking the kids to a birthday party tomorrow (With a pony AND a magic clown - somebody please shoot me.). But if there's a Sox/Cubs ST game I can get on tv down her then... cough, cough, wheeze... I must be coming down with something and better stay home and rest on the couch... Oh, and "yeah honey, I thought it was weird too when he prescribed beer as a treatment, but HE IS the doctor."

Chopper?? "What he said was "Chopper, sic him boy". But what I heard was "Chopper, sic balls." ("God, that's weird. What the Hell is Goofy?") ("Boy you don't know nothing. Mighty Mouse is a cartoon. Superman is a real guy. No way a cartoon could beat up a real guy.")

Actually it's what you get into fights with friends and family over, right??... "Ah lent him twenty dollars and then he never paid me back." And just to be pre-emptive/exhaustive, Advent is what them fellers like Edison and the Wright Brothers and Bell did.... "If Tom Edison hadn't advented that there light bulb, Ah'd never find my way to the tel-e-o-phone down the hall that Bell done advented." Yep, still amusing only myself.

Isn't Mathew asking what Lent is about kinda like John, Luke, and Mark asking what the big fuss is over that Jesus feller...? Sorry. Flaxx -- self-amusing for 30+ years and counting.

You realize you rwill be giving up SoxTalk through the opening series and two games of the Yankee series? Why don't you just drive nails into your head or something else reasonable instead of cheating yourself out of the excitement of the opening week of the season in the company of other Sox fans? Good luck at any rate. You know, however, that God is a big-time Sox fan, right?

Albert Fish, hands-down, no contest. This vile person was the real-life Hannibal Lechtor. Here's a confeession he wrote to a pen pal: Do we have a winner in the evil psycho contest or what???

The Goebbels = propaganda machine reference was not lost on everyone, and is entirely appropriate here. His propaganda machine really revved up in 1933 and had its actual origins even before this, so it speaks to the incomphehensible rise of very bad people to power, NOT of what they did to the Jews while in power. Especially given the earlier very inciteful post of Tex pointing out that the first thing to go in a society being stripped of it's liberties is freedom of expression and of the press to present dissenting views, I thought the Goebbels reference was on the mark. Now, if you wanted to get the point across without striking raw nerves you could have put up a picture of America's version of Goebbels - one Karl Rove.

I guess these are all balanced out by the fair and balanced folks at Fox News.

After some serious scrutinizing, I did find a facts in the article you posted, namely the citing of an illegal, immoral and unjustified U.S.-led military action in Iraq. That is a fact, you are correct.

Yes he is. My Dad's business partner is his Uncle. He used to get a block of 20-30 tickets for one game every year and bring the friends and family. After the game Josh would always manage to sucker a couple of other players into a meet and greet thing. I was happy for him when he signed with the Cubs org just because there was a chance he'd get back to the bigs and be close to home. That tenure didn't last too long though.

Didn't they already announce Mark would start the season, giving Loaiza the home opener? I thought Esteban wanted Mark to get the nod over him, as a thanks for Mark giving up a turn at the end of last yeear when Loaiza was chasing the Mexican-born win record.

Yeah, but then who gets stuck cleaning up after the party? Too lazy to add green...

More Fun with Flash!

That sure didn't take long. Still, enquiring minds want to know, was the thumb on the juice or not on the juice?