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Fox News throughout history. Just enjoy the satire. This one's my favorite:

That Lake Michigan precinct of Chicago is what gave Kennedy Illinois. Or as one historian generously put it - "creative voting methods."

My goal is 2500 a person or less including air, hotel and tours. We'll see what happens.

You guys, Tin Foil Hat Tuesday was yesterday! It wouldn't surprise me and there's a lot about this suicide that's weird to discount the chance of fair play totally.

I'll have a great deal for you! The plan is 3 days Rio, 2 days Manaus, 2 days Amazon Rain Forest.

Hey, great for him. That's a start for making stuff right. Now he should tell his friends in the Republican leadership to allow the second phase of the Congressional investigation regarding intel and the Iraq war to happen.

There's a good good chance that I'm going to get to escort a tour to Brazil in December.

I would like to see Garland as our chip for the midseason. BMac can spot start and be long bullpen for the first half. If its JG's walk year, it's his money year too - and that kinda motivation might make him a great person to have pitching for the first half of the year.

I'm going with 92.5 Million. For no real reason.

Florida 2000 - thrown? Probably, but then again so was Illinois and Texas 1960. That stuff happens. Ohio 2004? There was some funny business there, but I don't think Kerry won.

Ricist? Are we gonna start seeing conspiracy blogs now linking hanging chads to domestic rice paddys and irrigation controversies in California?

Actually its a tubetop with SLAP MODERATOR written in gothic letters. But otherwise, youre dead on.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 03:39 PM) hey, cut me some slack. I can't hit home runs every time up to bat, lol. OK then, how about your first? SNAP! *oh no, he didn't!*

The A's sure seem to have a MONOPOLY on players like that Bradley. It's one PARCHEESI of a deal.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 05:18 PM) From rotoworld: The A's have acquired Milton Bradley from the Dodgers for one of their top prospects, FOXSports.com's Ken Rosenthal reports. Does that make them a winner at the game of LIFE? Or is this just a clever play at RISK? Who knows? Perhaps the HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 02:04 PM) Okay, so an atomic bomb detonates inside of Israel. The world reacts, the news presses jump at it. Panic sets in. Then 10 minutes later a video of a masked man speaking Farsi with a picture of the flag of Palestine calling for Jihad and that the will of Allah has been commited and says they are the Jihad Warriors of the World and they are alligned with Al Queda. So do you think that after we obliterate Iran, that a lot of people might get miffed that we jumped too soon. That it could of been terrrorists. Maybe they got their weapons from North Korea, or from the black market from "missing" nukes in the former Soviet Union. Who knows. But before we take retalitory action there would have to be proof beyond a worlds reasonable doubt. Remember also this is not an attack on the US. So technically how are we justified to respond with nukes on Iran. It can become cloudy. There wouldn't be ten minutes. If Iran was a declared (or known but undeclared) nuclear power, it would be that fast. Too fast for any videotape to see the light of day.

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QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 02:22 PM) In honor of Soxy, I gotta go with some Camus: "Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life." It is difficult to hear a politician talk about the sanctity of life but then in the same breath talk about how war and capital punishment are noble means of keeping a "civilized" society. As to the "We need to do this fast" argument: Complex pre-trial motions, lengthy jury selections, and expenses for expert witnesses are all likely to add to the costs in death penalty cases. The irreversibility of the death sentence requires courts to follow heightened due process in the preparation and course of the trial. The separate sentencing phase of the trial can take even longer than the guilt or innocence phase of the trial. And defendants are much more likely to insist on a trial when they are facing a possible death sentence. After conviction, there are constitutionally mandated appeals which involve both prosecution and defense costs. The first to quote a modern French novelist wins. Congrats Soxy! (edited) And by Soxy I meant LCR.

The response comes from us, comes from Great Britain, probably even France (despite the state being traditionally Anti-Semitic) and it comes so immediately, the Iranian government wouldn't have time to deny it or even regret their decision.

Yeah, cause I'm 28 and I'd still fail the test. :-P I agree we have to draw the line somewhere, and I personally think 18 is a good line to draw. But I think that we need some perspective when we take a look at acts of abuse against minors. There's a big difference between relationships with 17 year olds and relationships with pre-teens. Both are Wrong with a capital W. But I think there's a degree of severity there that everyone should take into consideration. By the way - that priest should be spending a long long time in prison. Perhaps earning the nickname "Poundcake."

But this is a state to state relationship. I find it unlikely that Iran would give its nuclear weaponry away to a non-state actor that they can not control. The risks are too high. If Iran is the only other nuclear power besides Israel, they know that a nuclear detonation in Israel means the end of Iran. Because A+B will equal close enough to C that so many people will rain fire down upon Iran that not even China would dare to step in. States have no problem giving away guns and small bombs to terrorist organizations because they know that they can always top them. But to give them your best firepower would be stupid - because what if they turn on you? As awful as a nuclear Iran would be for the region, it may lead to some stabilization. Iran wouldn't have to fear a US attack as much and could focus on either pressuring its neighbors to sway the way of Iran or focus on fixing the problems within its own society. The US doesn't want Iran to go nuclear - not because it fears an attack on Israel but more likely because it fears what would happen when/if that government falls apart. Will it be controlled like in the Soviet Union? Or will it be chaos like Iraq? The Soviet Union would be a not-so-good but best available option. Iraq would be a nightmare. The US would then actually have a vested interest in keeping some degree of military order and status quo in Iran and that does not taste well to any American government.

Not that I'm saying anything about the case - this kid was molested and the dude ought to be in prison - regardless about how old the kid was. The kid was harmed by what happened to him and the priest ought to be punished, severely. But let's have a little perspective. In a lot of states the age of consent is 16. If someone dates a person that's 15 years and 364 days - does that make them anymore of a pedophile then if they date someone one day over that invisible line?

Gunnison Beach, Sandy Hook National Park, Middletown NJ. The PREMIER Federally sanctioned clothing optional beach.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 09:10 AM) We rented the Life Aquatic this weekend with Bill Murray and company and it was horrible. It was too busy being caught in between being a spoof and being slapstick to be funny at all. Skip it. I really liked it, I thought it was very Royal Tennenbaums-ish but a bit more absurd. I love getting lost in the visuals of that movie. That and the portugese David Bowie covers still mystifies me to this day.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 01:00 PM) Oh... one other thing... I personally don't like the female drooling here either, for the record. But it's here and I can click off just as fast as I click on it. *insert traditional "clicking off" joke here*