FlaSoxxJim

No, at this point I’m not going as far as saying anyone knew with certainty what was coming on 9/11. I don’t have enough faith in our intelligence gathering ability for that I guess. But the fact is that as early as 1997 Neo-Cons were bemoaning in communications mostly among themselves that their version of the New Worls Order/Pax Americana/whatever you want to call it was going to take excruciatingly long to bring about UNLESS there could be some catalyzing catastrophic event, “a modern Pearl Harbor” that would make it easy to ram otherwise unsavory policies and agendas through both at home and abroad. Basically, they got what they asked for, and noone should be surprised that they are taking full advantage of the situation.

As far as 9/11 goes, we don't have to pretend anymore. Bush and Co, conceeded yesterday that intelligence was greatly overstated and there were NO KNOWN LINKS between Saddam and bin Laden/Al Quaida. And the current war against Iraq has been on the schedule for several years, just read PNAC's own publications and pay special attention to the several members who now happen to make up much of the Bush Administration. Having an excuse to do what they planned on doing anyway was convenient, even if they couldn't decide on the right excuse... WMD, free the Iraqi's, American security, Osama and Saddam are really the same guy... honest... etc. The Neo-Cons got the disaster they hoped for in 9/11 (check it out if you don't believe me) and they now have war they have been trying to get off the schedule for some time now. Convenient.

Yes. After badgering my employer (who should know better anyway) for two years, our retirement fund investment options will finally include a 'green' option. I work at an oceanographic research institution, and you'd think they would care about environmental responsibility in their investing. But noOOOOoo!

Great list, Jim. I've only made about half of those places, so I'll have my work cut out for me when I come in for the Cubs and Twins series' in June. I had never noticed the price gouging at jimbo's, but then again I was never there when it wasn't baseball season. Post game tradition I have enjoyed the last couple years is going to an outstanding hotdog stand called fat Johnnie's on 72nd Western on the way back to my family's place from day games, or getting some Harold's takeout if it's a night game. Mmmm mmm.

Jason the Slum Lord? Well at least you wil have the law degree so you can defend yourself in court when you need to...

Screw the stock market. Put your money in Mason jars and bury it in the back yard.

There should be an "all of them" choice, since except for Spider-Man I think they have all jumped the shark.

It sounds more like they want to use the old Tiger Stadium so much they are ignoring a lot of economic realities. I mean, how important will a January 2006 Super Bowl be in making this move successful?

RPS hasn't given you the bad news yet then, has he? R.I.P. Sox and Roll

Nope, that link brings up a page (see below) that says the park in 1918 was Wrigley (though it was still called Weeghman Park back then. At the time it was only 2 years removed from being the home field of the CVhicago Whales of the short-lived Federal League. Weeghman owned the Whales, and when the league folded he and several other people (including Wrigley i think) bought the Cubs and moved them into Weeghman Park.

It is also likely that they were involved in scapling their own tix to that series, according to the same research - buying the tix themselves on the cheap and turning around and reselling to fans at scalper prices. Sounds familiar, huh?

It wasn't for all of 1918, Tex, just for the World Series against Babe Ruth and the Red Sox. Comiskey held more people than Weeghman Park (It wasn't renamed Wrigley until 1926 I think, and it was also Cubs park for a few years before that). Here's some more info on the Series.

Not that anything on a radio show is gospel, but when was this broadcast? It sounded from Josh's initial post that the thought of moving Jose was a possible a result of getting bit not moving Nomar. It was just confirmed this week that KW's plan was not to ship hhim off to LA as speculated. If that had happened, yeah I could see trying to move Jose around. But barring that, it makes no sense to use Uribe over Jose - especally when the plan seemed to be using Uribe as this year's Tony G.

The downside of leasing is obvious. At the end of your lease period after you have paid all kinds of money, you return the car WITH NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT! For essentaill the same payments (maybe a little more down), you at least have something to show for all your payments, and you can sell it to get out of payments, trade it in etc., but you get the benefit of the equity you have in the car. I think leases make sense for professionals who use their cars to make statements. They can turn in the old model for the new one every year and don't care that they are renting rather than buying their vehicle. For anyone else, I think it's a bad deal for the consumer. Just my opinion. I'm also interested in hearing others on this.

They'd get the munchies tho and then fight over that last bag/box/truckload of Cheeto's, then it's all out war...

Should that have been in green, or are you just returning from the Amazon?? Where oh where is Roman? Good to see you posting Baggio. You need to check in on the SLP (off topic) board too, because the conservatives here often get beat up on by their betters and they can use your help in our varied and interesting debates.

OMG!!! Tex, you are brilliant! For everyone who didn't get the joke, that's a picture of Salix discolor. Ha ha, get it?! Oh yeah, sometimes I forget we all come from very diverse backgrounds so I'll drop the other shoe. It's a pussy willow.

So as not to seem sexist or pandering to one kingdom of organisms over others, here is a nice stinkhorn mushroom... This is Phallus ravenelii, and this is actually a less 'impudent' specimen than others I've seen. The genus was named a couple hundred years ago by Linaeus, the father of biological classification and binomial nomenclature. The genus is interesting not only for its suggestive shape and its sickening stench, but also in that it yields extracts with some anti-cancer properties.

I've come to really appreciate wildflowers because I can't keep the cultivated ones going either due to lack of time. I grow 9-foot tall sunflowers once a year with my daughter and that's about it.

If it is offensive to some then that needs to be considered. Instead, I'll share an innocent picture of one of my favorite wildflowers... It's a member of the pea family, with the scientific name Clitorea ternata . I wonder where they got the name. I kid because I care. I do have to remember that it is harder to offend us biologists than those from other walks of life. You can dress us up, you can take us out, but we're still going to talk about snot and bizzare animal mating.

That is true, my curiosity got the best of me. I actually think they are quite tastefully done. Plus, all of a sudden I'm thinking about going canoing this weekend and I don't know why...

Ha-friggin'-ha. Douchebag goat plooker. :fyou

Am I the only one who has noticed that you, my friend, are obsessed with peanut butter?!?

Yessirree, the cooterpop does look good enough to eat! As for the offended women students in the bit Tex pasted, I think they have entirely missed the point. One of the points of "shocking" works like Vagina Monologues, and tongue-in-cheek (or elsewhere ) informative books like "The Clitorist" (really good book btw) is, I think, to allow the reality of womanhood to rise above the jokes that we men have heaped on womenkind for so long. Psychologists came up with the concept of penis envy, what, like 100 years ago? All the while, the reality was that any man who doesn't suffer from 'cooter envy' doesn't have much of a clue about that spectacular piece of equipment. The clitoris is the ONLY organ designed for no other purpose than the enjoyment of sex. it's got something like 100x the nerve endings a penis does, all packed into a very small funzone. Wire that baby up to a couple breasts and a G-spot (if you believe in it and/or have bothered to find it), and you have a multi-orgasmic machine the likes of which we poor men can barely fathom. Yap. Big fan of the vagina. The grand cosmic irony, of course, is that we poor men are the one's cursed with minds that think about sex 100 times a day. Cruel universe indeed.