Rex Kickass

Outdoor would be great, especially if there was no retractable roof.

Condi Rice and I agree on something... http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/02/0...ests/index.html It must be love, this weekend, we're taking out the oil tanker together and we'll solve the Darfur crisis.

So "they all did it?"

What? No Falstaff comeback?

And we're closing....

I'm trying to find out the appropriate comparison for the New York Sun. It's sort of like "NewCity" but without the Gravitas. I've heard this before, there has been whisper after whisper. With as bad as our government wanted WMDs in Iraq, if this had been a reality -something tells me we wouldn't have waited three years to investigate the possibility. And if it was in the amount of weaponry they seem to be alleging, we sure as hell would have known about it.

That's like saying we're all Cubs fans because there are Cubs fans on this board.

I'm sorry what part of the NBC Nightly News did "The Book of Daniel" air in again? The news and entertainment divisions of networks are run by different people with different outlooks, opinions and yes, even different agendas.

If he didn't want to go, he shouldn't have gone. He didn't have to be there and there are plenty of reasonable excuses he could have made to not show up. Politically, he sure as hell didn't have to go. The African-American community basically has -5% support for the President at this point, who the hell would he be alienating any further than he has? Don't blow up my suspicion. I actually believe that he went there to honor her memory. I actually believe that he didn't have to go. And I actually believe that it was a nice thing to do. Let's just leave it at that. I actually complement the President and I get challenged on it. Sheesh

I don't disagree. I love hearing the stories though, the fraud is so intense over there it boggles the mind.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 10:44 AM) He didn't have a choice barring a national emergency or an emergency medical procedure. He sure as hell did have a choice. He could have sent Condi or Dick - well maybe not Cheney so much - but Condi definitely, coulda drafted Colin Powell outta retirement. Could have sent plenty of representatives. And he doesn't have to get elected ever again. He had plenty of choices. If he didn't want to go - as you might be implying - than why should it even matter what the other people said at the funeral. Doesn't that make his speech as insincere and ridiculous as someone calling the President a "weapon of misdirection?" To me, it does.

The stories of fraud that are coming out of Iraq are legendary. Apparently there were millions upon millions of dollars in the CPA petty cash, and Bremer used to leave the key to it sitting on his desk. I dunno if its true or not, but could you imagine being the cleaning lady in his office and knowing that the key sitting on his desk while he's out eating a reuben could basically set you up for the rest of your life, and they probably wouldnt even notice the money you stole?

You're probably right. Gotta give the prez props for showing up though. He didn't have to, and I thought it was a nice thing to do.

I don't disagree, its just amazing how quickly he slammed back to earth.

MLB should build the damn stadium themselves. If there's one thing that bothers me its cities spending hundreds of millions of dollars to put up a stadium for a private business. If baseball wants all the fancy bells and whistles, why can't they pay for them?

Amazing to see how fast Sosa slammed into the ground. Two years ago from being in Pepsi commercial after Pepsi commercial to barely getting offered a Major league contract.

I love that we're gonna get hand me down Red Sox jokes according to the article.

I didn't watch it, but I didn't hear that that specific line got Carter a long cheer. So I take my dealy back about the cheer. Seems like an odd applause line though. I will say this, I'm surprised at how many people seem surprised that you get firebrands giving politically minded speeches at the funeral of a balls to the wall committed activist. Like Coretta Scott King and like Paul Wellstone before her, when activists die, their memorials tend to be like their lives previous, fighting the causes they fought for. Does that mean grandstanding is going to happen? Of course. Does that make it appropriate? No. But it does make it expected.

What Jimmy Carter said didn't get a two minute cheer. What the minister said, was in my view, wholly inappropriate. Although what our former President said wasn't necessarily 100% innocent. There's a big difference from mentioning the wiretapping that the Kings faced (which was factual) and basically calling the President a "weapon of misdirection" to his face at the funeral (which is opinion).

NM is about the swingiest of swing states actually. Doesn't much lean one side or the other.

News organizations choosing not to air something of their own volition is, in my opinion, freedom of the press. And airing the Book of Daniel, is not the same as airing something in the NBC Nightly News. For one thing, people watch the news.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 03:33 AM) I the whole medical-insurance-pharmacutical-medicare racket has to be considered as partly to blame for this. The whole f***ing industry is set up to suck your life savings away from you as you are dying. There are pros and cons to unions. We'd be in deep s*** if the unions didn't exist, as in we wouldn't be making s*** in the work force. And you watch, if the current trend of weakening unions continues, the standard of living for the average American will decline. We're already there in the White Collar world. People are working for less, longer hours and fewer benefits. I have a decent paying job, but no benefits at all. My employer might not be spending a s*** ton of money to insure me which is good for him, but I'm a 28 year old guy who has to spend 200 dollars a month to insure himself if I want insurance. I worked for a company three years ago that posted record profits and two weeks later retroactively took my free (and relatively crappy) health insurance away and started charging me $1000 a year (at the time a 5% pay cut.) Do unions overstep their bounds on occasion? Of course. Are there some s***ty unions? Definitely. But without organized labor, a lot of workers would be left out in the cold. Weekends: brought to you by the American Labor Movement.

That's great. But why would you let the world know about it? If the Senate is all about collegiality, you send him the letter and that's the end of it. You don't put the letter on your website and let drudgereport know that its there. That's grandstanding, period.

p.s. McCain letter = posturing to try to pander to the base he didn't pander to 6 years ago.

QUOTE(samclemens @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 11:53 PM) my ass. we got over two years until s*** happens. mccain has an absolutley stellar repotroir and has the hanoi hilton under his belt. you cant beat that s***. edwards can eat my s***, mccain will kick his ass. dont underestimate the geriatric vote in this country. Bush beat it.