Rex Kickass

New Zogby polls. They are all over the place. http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/doc...778&hasAd=1 The NJ one is about right. The others, no clue.

I remember the next day, my German teacher stopped during class and said in German. "There is so much bad in the world." (He said it in German) I don't think any comment related to 9/11 hit me harder.

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Well if we leave them to its own devices, they should be fine. Unless the devices we sold them don't work.

Anybody remember the wreath laying ceremony at the reflective pool in Ground Zero yesterday? Present were Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Pataki, the President and First Lady. Where were New York's Senate Delegation? Uninvited, according to the American Prospect. http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2006/09/post_1371.html#006242 Of course putting two elected Democrats next to four Republicans will mess up the campaign photo.

QUOTE(samclemens @ Sep 11, 2006 -> 01:48 PM) I thought mugs on you all's side might have a pleasant outlook on this, since this is a withdrawl. seriously, you all dont consider this progress? I don't consider a blanket withdrawal to be progress. I don't consider a legacy of another failed state in a difficult political region to be progress.

You know what, the Twin Tower posters that say "never forget" that my local supermarkets put up around this time to advertise is more than enough to say never ever ever. You don't fetishize tragedy. You work to prevent it from happening again.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 10, 2006 -> 08:57 PM) That is a FDA rule, so it appears that any blood center has to turn away any man who has sex with another man since 1977. There was a proposal to make it a floating 5 year time period, but the FDA voted no to that as well. I thought with improved testing that was an outdated policy. It is, they can now perform extremely accurate tests with a mouth swab in 20 minutes, and it detects the virus as little as three weeks after exposure.

I was at work. After the first 30 minutes of fright, I was told to go technical produce local emergency coverage of the events happening. I was shut off into work mode for the next nine hours.

I did not and will not watch it. I don't need a docudrama to capture anything about September 11 that I don't already feel. Between The Simpsons season premiere, football on NBC, Celebrity Fit Club 4, Flavor of Love 2, Intervention, and a Law and Order marathon on USA, it wasn't even on my radar. What bothered and still bothers me was the way it was marketed, the producer's own comments regarding it, is what bothers me about it.

If you want to call mass executions and torture of any kind stability, then by all means Iraq IS stable. And they get stabler every time a bomb goes off in Baghdad - because that's a mass execution too. How about whether or not the Iraqi government can deliver mail. It seems to me that the best sign of stability is based on whether or not a country has a functioning postal system. Everyone issues stamps, but only the stable governments make good on them.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 10, 2006 -> 05:02 PM) Yeah, please don't take it as me saying that he's not doing well. However, it would be nice if he actually just went out and won us a game, instead of losing the momentum as soon as the 6th inning comes around. It would be nice. However, he's given up a total of three runs in his last two outings. Amounting to.... 16 innings. The Sox have scored two runs in support. If your offense can't score three runs in a game, you usually don't deserve to win IMO.

Didn't Ozzie threaten to dump him publicly three games ago?

In his last five starts, Javy's ERA is 2.81.

If you type louder, I bet he'll hear you .

In my opinion, there are too many politicians who use the existence of a terror to fight against as a plus rather than a minus.

Given the choice for Al Gore and a lot of other candidates, Dem or GOP, I'd vote for Al Gore.

How do you determine who gets wildcard, who gets division and who goes golfing?

They also turn away gay people who would like to donate blood, IIRC.

Actually, his points are based upon materials discovered in the wreckage of 9/11 that may not jibe with the idea of a jet crash. I think he's full of s***, but so is half of academe. Just because its controversial or wrong doesn't mean it's fireable.

No problem. BTW: ABC will be wrapping its miniseries conclusion around a 15 minute live prime time presidential address.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Sep 9, 2006 -> 12:27 AM) Tex, I make no claims on its accuracy. I haven't seen it, and based on reports that appear even on 'conservative' blogs, there are some 'fake, but accurate' moments in it. But this IS a threat to change, or else. "Fake but accurate?" What is this, Fox News?

He didn't make his views in his class. He made his view in papers he has presented elsewhere, unrelated to his work at BYU. Why should that matter?

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Sep 8, 2006 -> 10:48 PM) And after reading that, did you NOT see a threat? Even you are not blind enough to miss the subtlty there. "Gee, what a nice network you have. It would be a shame if something happened to it" Almost like this came from the Sopranos. And this isn't the first time the Dems have threatened people with revocation of licenses. Remember Sinclair Broadcasting? Sinclair Broadcasting owns 62 local TV stations around the country. It planned to air Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal on about 40 of them in October 2004. That would be right before the presidential election. But the Kerry campaign got wind of it and threatened Sinclair that its licenses might be in jeopardy if it aired the doc and Kerry happened to win. You can argue about the timing all you want. I won't disagree, it seems a little odd. You can argue facts all you want, but it doesn't say 'a true story'. If people are too stupid to realize that, oh well. But you can't argue that threatening to revoke a license for political programming you disagree with is a good thing. Maybe Bush should have tried to yank CBS's license after Rathergate, and the 'fake but accurate' documents. First, I don't see a threat here. I see a reminder - which networks seem to get all too rarely - that the bandwidth that they utilize every day does not belong to them but to everyone. A threat to someone's license is more along the lines of what you saw with nipplegate, not the Reagans and not this letter. However, an argument may be made (and knowing slim to nothing about political advertising before an election - I don't know) that this special docudrama, because of the way it has been marketed may be an in-kind political contribution and possibly in violation of FCC/FEC guidelines towards political advertising within an election window.

If you want to collect blood, you need to follow the blood collecting rules.