Rex Kickass

Slate.com has the really really creepy IM conversation log on their website. Members of the house leadership as well as the Congressional Page Oversight committee people said they were aware of this as early as late last year.

Apparently McGovern (yes the really liberal 1972 Presidential nominee) actually has one. It seemed plausible when I heard it talked about on NPR - something along the lines of a phased withdrawal of combat troops replaced by a 15,000 strong international police force while Iraq grows its own police force. The US then focuses its efforts primarily on reconstruction of Iraqi infrastructure. Overseeing projects but allowing Iraqi businesses and other regional businesses to do the actual work, creating employment throughout the region and taking away the whole "insurgency" impetus (unless Iraq actually is in a civil war, in which case - there's not a lot we can really do anyway.) American support would still be there in the Iraqi government's defense, aiding logistics and structure, etc - but the footprint becomes almost invisible.

That's a whole different argument but I don't think forgiveness necessarily brings a relationship back to where it once was.

Frank Pallone is my congressman.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Sep 30, 2006 -> 09:37 AM) That is misleading from you. Hasters said they were doing something about it, you just don't know what it was, or if it worked. It also said that they didn't know the extent of it (the emails), so saying they knew of this implies that they knew it all. Granted, they should have assumed the worst from the start, but you are making assumptions yourself in your accusation that they knew and did nothing. That being said, if the guy is guilty, they need to make an example out of him. So if this was a priest, would it be acceptable for a bishop to have just been "working on it" six months later? In three days, from the first revealed contact, other pages have come out and cited IM conversations with him where he was sexually explicit with teenage boys. Wouldn't you at least ask him to step down as the chair of the caucus overseeing missing and exploited children? If Hastert was working on it, he was only working on hiding it.

I have, and that list is how I predict they'll finish. Jeffrey's collection blew them all out of the water. Michaels was very "one look in many modes" IMO and quite nice. I didn't get Uli or Laura's. Just looked like the dresses they made for the challenges.

Actually, because its post primary, there can be no replacement on the ballot. Foley's name remains - but if Foley wins, the party can choose who fills the spot IIRC. More bad news, it appears the house leadership knew of this as early as this spring and did nothing about it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6092901574.html

From ABC News http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/0..._resigns_o.html He was the Chair of the House Caucus for Missing and Exploited Children.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...p;type=politics Personally, I think its the first step towards an indictment. Even this wouldn't have derailed his candidacy - he would have won handily regardless in that very red district.

Laura is the only designer to have one just one challenge that's left IIRC. Jeffrey and Michael both won two in a row.

Jeffrey, Michael, Uli, Laura at Fashion Week IMHO. I think it was a copout that nobody got cut. They did it because it doesn't matter if someone gets cut - all four show anyway so that who the final three is isn't spoiled before the episodes air.

Is it my understanding that the transfats being regulated are more along the lines of in the oils used to cook with? So this is more like taking the lead out of paint, no?

Again, if Roger Ailes thinks its so beyond the pale, why was it still getting front page promotion on the Fox News website as of this morning?

If youre talking about what was played at the last home game, I believe it was Simply The Best by Tina Turner.

He did have to fight for some form of emancipation I believe.

If Roger Ailes found it so awful, why did he hype it all weekend? Why did he even air it for that matter?

There are lots of other chemicals that are just as bad for you that aren't reduced.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Sep 27, 2006 -> 02:35 PM) What's another 10 years living with tens of thousands of nukes targeted at our country? Not much of a bother when we know that they aren't very likely to be used.

QUOTE(3 BeWareTheNewSox 5 @ Sep 26, 2006 -> 10:16 PM) Eh, you could say the same thing about drinks/foods that are 'diet' or 'fat free', but in the end might be more harmful than the normal version. I am not into cigarettes so don't know how light ones are advertised or what's on the label, but common sense here, a cigarette is a cigarette Light ones do have smaller amounts of nicotine and tar per cigarette in each cigarette. Which is why you feel like you're smoking air with an ultra-light. In my opinion, its an accurate label - because it definitely feels like a lighter smoke than say a Camel Wide or Lucky regular.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 27, 2006 -> 11:22 AM) Just wondering, what kind of CTA and metra link is being called for? The "Gray Line" http://community-2.webtv.net/GLRTS/GRAYLINECONVERSION/ There has been a proposal to turn Metra Electric into an L line, charging CTA fares. It could be done as simply as leasing trains from Metra.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 26, 2006 -> 06:28 PM) Abe...if we want to talk about presidents who's policies had a singular effect on the Soviet Union...I don't think you can possibly ignore the gigantic contributions of the Truman administration. Harry Truman's decision to contain the Soviet Union rather than to invade, to support Democracy as an alternative to communism with force when necessary (but not excessive) and allow the Soviet System to work itself towards its own economic collapse? All of these form the fundamental basis for the reality which allowed the collapse to happen. There was a communist insurrection in Greece after WWII? We're going to support the anti-communist forces. Western Europe is in chaos and Communists are starting to gain traction? Spend a bunch of U.S. dollars on rebuilding. North Korea is invading the South? Send in the U.N. forces. Chinese forces entered on the other side? No, we're not going to invade China, we're going to stop here, and go away Mr. Macarthur. Several Presidents had impacts. Reagan cleary did...Ike, Kennedy, etc., but the whole reason that you get to say that the Soviet System was unstable and was going to eventually collapse is that the Truman Administration basically planned for exactly that. Truman also prevented a democratically elected communist government in France after liberation, btw.

That's about right actually. Although Reagan's arm race accelerated the decline by at least 5-10 years IMO by forcing the Soviets to spend precious resources on defense. Ultimately the problem lay within the thinking of the Soviet itself. It felt like it needed to compete on every level with the US. As the gap grew between economic reality for each of the ways, so did the ability to maintain a legitimate separate way.

We all make choices. And some people make stupid ones. Given that warning labels have been required on cigarettes since the 1960s, anyone that speaks English in this country in the last 30 years and doesn't know that any cigarette is bad for you doesn't deserve a dime.

QUOTE(AbeFroman @ Sep 26, 2006 -> 04:11 PM) Levi's Jeans had twice as much to do with causing the collapse of the Soviet Union than anything any president did... Actually, the Berlin wall fell because of bananas.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 26, 2006 -> 02:57 PM) In a hypothetical situation it could be the difference between being able to execute an attack, and disrupting it. You can legally hold someone for 48 hours without charging someone.