Rex Kickass

Hey, there are no problems in Iraq. That's all liberal media hype, dontchaknow?

John Roberts should be confirmed. However, Senator Reid - a pro-life mormon who's anything but a liberal - has genuine concerns that he thinks haven't been adequately addressed. If there were 49 or 50 opposing votes, I doubt Reid would have been the deciding vote.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 11:33 AM) Bull. The liberal media has been in existance all of my adult life. Only recently have the opposing viewpoint been available. Like Tom Brokaw who actively worked AGAINST Tom Daschle's campaign in his native South Dakota?

We got out of it?

Whats going on?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 09:35 PM) By the way, I believe both Marte and Jenks have pitched in 2 games in a row, although Jenks faced fewer batters both times. Jenks faced a batter yesterday.

Please tell me when the inning is over and the bottom of the 8th is happening so i can watch the score again.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 06:35 PM) But the tires were made in Italy. Traitor! What's wrong with Goodyear?

Does this mean I can turn the game back on?

It's not that I can't find a troop.

QUOTE(Sox Hustler @ Sep 18, 2005 -> 04:54 PM) Hopefully it will be enough with their easy schedule. Magic Number is 11 4 wins against Cleveland put the magic number down to 3. 3 wins against everyone else put the magic number down to 0. That would be enough.

I really enjoyed my time in Boy Scouts. I wish I could still be a part of the organization as an adult and help give back for all that it gave me as a kid.

Judging from Deutsche Welle's breakdown, a grand coalition maybe the only way out unless the Left Party's Lafontaine shuts the hell up and lets "Die Linke" in the door. Because Schroeder isn't conceding - and frankly if he can get his renegade Linke friends to join in, he has a clear majority of seats supporting him.

Just so you know ARD and ZDF are the same company. Both are publicly run state news agencies. ARD = Alle Rundfunk Deutschland (All broadcasters Germany) and is an amalgam of regional state networks. ZDF = Zweites Deutschen Fernsehen (Second German TV Channel).

Actually, I studied German politics and can tell you what is happening here. 1 percentage point difference will mean approximately equal representation in the German parliament. In fact, ZDF (German TV) projects 223 seats in each party's contingent. The German parliament contains roughly 650 seats. Since the Greens have said that they would not join a coalition with the CDU, the only hope for Angela Merkel's party would be a grand coalition with Schroeder's SPD. This is the most likely scenario and probably the worst for the country because absolutely nothing would get done. Less likely scenarios include this: The SPD forms a three way coalition with the Left Party.PDS (former very left of center members in the West, former East German communist party in the East) who got 8.5% and the Greens who got 8.3%. Together they would hold about 330 seats, enough for a slim majority. However this is unlikely for two reasons. The coalition would be EXTREMELY fragile, and the SPD would be forced to put Oskar Lafontaine back in the cabinet, not a good idea for the SPD who forced him out last year. Also, there is a stigma about including the PDS in a coalition given the history of East German politics. Although the SPD has entered PDS coalitions in two states in Germany with rather boring results. The SPD might form a "traffic light coalition" THe SPD (red) party with the greens and the FDP (often referred to as the yellows). The FDP however, is the CDU light and said they're not interested in such a coalition. The CDU and FDP might try to form a minority coalition to assemble a government. That has a .0001% chance of happening. Hope that clears it up - but it probably won't.

4 wins out of the Tribe/Sox series left. Plus 3 more. 97 would do it.

Actually, it will help getting a fuel efficient car now. That isn't a long term solution, more a short-term one. But more fuel efficiency now buys us more time for a long term solution in the mean time.

Check sidestep.com. It searches most travel websites, with the exception of Southwest and flyi.com. It finds all the possibilities, prices and is very powerful. That's my ex-travel agent (yes i used to be one) tip of the week.

With a digital camera, I can take dozens of pictures a second and get the right moment's shot. And I can always photoshop it b&w.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 01:40 PM) Nuke, you and I may disagree on what is considered a subsidy to the airlines (do you count building an airport?), but overall we're in complete agreement for once...the 2nd "bailout" package that the government gave to the airlines after 9/11 was complete garbage, and I think the first one was too much money as well (the day Congress passed the first post-911 airline bailout, one of the airlines immediately ordered like 7 new jumbo jets with the money). Actually, do some research on that 9/11 bailout. Most of the money was never actually passed on to the airlines. And Amtrak doesn't make money because the semi-private/quasi government rail company has never received full funding and as such has been unable to expand the high speed rail network, or properly maintain and update rolling stock. In the mean time, Congress and state governments frequently require Amtrak to service certain cities that are unprofitable for the company yet don't foot the bill for the service.

Frequent Flier miles are one of the last things that airlines will eliminate in bankruptcy. To do so would put the airline at a competitive disadvantage.

By the way, another reason Southwest works so well. Great relationship with its unions. It's one of the most unionized airlines out there.

Doesn't matter. Still funny.

The Boy Scouts have programs where girls can join. (Partly as an incentive to keep older boys in the program) That's been happening for years. As far as I'm aware, girls can't be regular scouts though.

Southwest is mostly not in the same boats because they get hedge contracts on fuel. Meaning that they're paying about a third less than most airlines at the moment. Or so I've heard.