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Why am I all about Peaches lately?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/15...ction=cnn_world

I listened to the game on WCBS AM last night (parts of it anyway) and they were falling all over themselves to talk about how "big league" Jose's pitching was. You'd have thought Randy Johnson was pitching for us the way they were just gushing how he got himself out of that jam in the fifth with the guy on 3rd and nobody out.

If we give an effort, an honest full-hearted effort, and it fails - there's nothing we could do. If we half ass it and it fails, we do bear some responsibility for it. Small events can change minds abruptly. Will every islamofascist change their mind? Of course not. The idea is to change the minds of the people in the governments across the world. To change the minds of the people that are in the street too, that aren't islamofascists either - but just people.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 03:57 PM) I am so disgusted. On the way to the restroom I saw the CFO's exec sec walking around with her shoes OFF... And if that wasn't repulsive enough... some nasty skank left the bathroom WITHOUT washing her hands.. :puke I don't know what the big deal is about walking barefoot. There's a reason why your feet are built the way they are, and part of it is that we weren't evolved with shoes.

I was just gonna say the same thing.

The US has to take a leading role in bringing peace here. The Bush administration has to walk a fine line between supporting Israel, which it can and really should do - but also appearing even handed. Although it's understandable, the Israeli strategy with Lebanon is really hard to defend. This is a Democratic State attacking a Democratic State for the actions of an unregulated militia in its southern region - that is financially supported by other state actors from outside its borders. Were they provoked? Hell yeah, but the provocations aren't much different than the ones that started the Iran/Iraq war and few people see that as a just war. The US was able to broker a deal to help get some foreign owned assets (passenger jets) out of the country through Beirut's airport which is admirable. I hope that this spirit of being an honest broker can continue and prevent a worsening of tensions and open hostilities in the area. This is Condoleeza Rice's moment and I wish her well. If her leadership can stand up here, this could be a historic opportunity for peace in the mid-east, or it could blow up into a bad situation for a lot of people. Ourselves included. But only with an active show of diplomacy can we keep that opportunity open. If we work hard and show ourselves to be an honest broker and more interested in peace than who's right or wrong in the immediate moment, we can radically change the viewpoint of many governments and people in the mideast and radically change the direction that the mideast seems to be headed towards. If we remain passive and don't take a keen interest in creating a peace (i.e. resisting calls to pressure for truce), any conflagration becomes partially our responsibility. Whether we like it or not, we're the 800 lb gorilla in the world now. And if we want to be viewed as the fair, honest, upstanding 800lb gorilla, sometimes we gotta do the right thing - even if it doesn't seem in our immediate best interest.

That's really good.

63 Lebanese dead. 2 Israeli civilians killed by Hezbollah rocket attacks which are now hitting the center of Haifa. Hezbollah also hit an Israeli navy ship currently blockading Lebanese ports. The US brokered an emergency repair deal on a Beirut runway allowing several private airline jets to leave Beirut without damage to their planes.

If you started the season and suddenly dropped to third on the closer depth chart, would you want a shot to pitch elsewhere? Or would you want to go to Charlotte in August?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 11:54 AM) The NYT is liberal rag. That's liberal newsprint, rag is so expensive these days.

If you would like to debate affirmative action, we invite you to the filibuster. If you'd like to debate Bobby Jenks, please continue in this thread. Thanks.

QUOTE(whitesoxin @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 01:13 PM) Since this is apparently still up for discussion, will instigating become a punishable offense? Behavior deemed inappropriate will be considered a punishable offense. Period.

I can watch the whole series on tv.

QUOTE(AbeFroman @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 08:29 AM) I understand the many points made against my previous post. Frankly, I don't think it has much credibility either. I was kinda just posting it cause I think it made some logical sense.... Basically I am surprised as the large scope of Israel's military action. There has obviously been large/suicide attacks against Isreal before... And, its been no secret that lebanese, syrians, and iranians have supported those attacks in some way. WHILE I HAVE NOTHING TO BACK THIS UP IN ANYWAY, i do find the timing of the decision to blockade Beirut and destroy its airport unusual in light of the fact that Israel has never take such decisive steps before when faced with terrorism supported by regional foes. Edit: As a note, I'm inclined to believe that Nuke's theory, the one being perpetuated by the administration and media, is probably more accurate.... That's not entirely true, Israel once occupied a good portion of Southern Lebanon. I was listening to On the Point on WNYC yesterday and a very interesting theory was launched. The last time they did this sort of thing, it backfired on Israel because they occupied Lebanon. So instead of creating a wedge between Lebanon and Hezbollah, Hezbollah was seen more and more as freedom fighters rather than armed thugs. However, with Israel out of Lebanon - public opinion in Lebanon has changed severely and air attacks over Lebanese targets may acheive their goals from the 1990s, to isolate Hezbollah and make them give up their armed wing and be better neighbors. It is commonly seen that the most divisive issue within Lebanon is regarding Hezbollah and the armed wing of their political party... and whether or not unregulated militias should be permitted. Hezbollah's attack on Israel is giving her the opportunity to utilize the regional influence it seeks.

Sadly no. The 14 dollar tickets suddenly became 30 dollar tickets. Plus the 20-25 dollars each for train tickets. It suddenly became 100 dollars to take my squeeze to a game with horrible seats.

When the President said he'd fire anyone to do with the leak. Karl Rove still has a job, and has now been publicly named as a source by the person who first printed it.

We hope the same from the administration. I won't hold my breath though.

Scooter Libby and Karl Rove too according to CNN.

Nothing good.

Provided Thome stays healthy, I say it happens.

He did only blow two saves last year, Shingo didn't get a lot of spring training work - and we were working so late into the games first half, he didn't get a lot of time on the mound. Less than 30 innings in over half a season.

You can make an argument that missile testing is a right of self-determination. We've done our share. Not saying its right, but the argument is there.

I highly doubt that this conflict will be nuclear in nature. Israel has not disclosed its weapons of mass destruction, although it is assumed that they have all three letters of the NBC variety. Today they bombed the Beirut airport. This whole situation just makes me sad to think about it.