Rex Kickass

I haven't been paying too much attention to ST stats. How bad is he doing right now? I'm a big fan of Shingo. Domo Origato Mr Roboto!

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050317/D88T05CG1.html

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Mar 17, 2005 -> 05:00 PM) Over 18? Don't use them either. Unless you want to look like a s***ty, cheap leather handbag by 40. Ick. Your skin will feel like a s***ty cheap leather handbag too.

Bama's gone. 2-2 so far in my bracket, need Pitt to catch Pacific.

I have two nicknames at work. What are they?

Vatican City is really small. I didn't even know there was a fiction bookstore in the Holy See.

I can't say that the recent Bush appointments have made much sense. A guy who is pretty much reviled by a lot of foreign governments to head the world bank probably isn't a good choice - especially without any banking experience. Bono was also being considered though, so it might have been the wrong short list to begin wtih. Coupling that with John Bolton as ambassador to the U.N. who seems one step away from the John Birch Society, just doesn't seem like the best choice either. I'd make pot shots - but its too damn easy.

I love the 8% statistic for the drilling in ANWR. It's not like this is one 8% chunk of the Wildlife refuge that they are going to block off and drill. If it was, it's something that I could probably begrudgingly get on board with. However, that's not the case. There may be only 8% of the refuge directly affected, but the areas surrounding it would be affected by associated pollution. It is expensive to do this, the taxpayers are probably going to fund it, it will take ten years to produce and we'll see little payoff - except for maybe another year or two below three dollar a gallon gas. If the Federal Government was serious about reducing foreign oil dependence, they could raise the CAFE standards 3-5mpg. Oh and Ann Coulter smells. Like French Fries.

Graft and corruption on a massive scale knows no partisanship.

Yes, because red state projects never get screwed up.

Wait, doesn't this story reappear every six weeks?

I don't understand how people can get punched in the gut repeatedly by someone and still support them. (Metaphorically speaking, of course.)

I've decided to have a better security system. I own nothing of real value. Break in if ya want, just make sure to turn the lights off when you leave.

He's actually doing quite well for himself, I've heard.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Mar 14, 2005 -> 02:23 PM) All the stuff has been calling him the "favorite to win", but I have been thinking he would be gone in the next few weeks. Anybody who has watched the show so far knows he is good, but not the best there. The winner will be one of the guys this year though. I'm a little ashamed that I know the show as well as I do. If the guy wanted to avoid an exclusive contract, he may have wanted to stick around a little longer to show what he was capable of. Unless once you get into the top 12 you have to sign contracts to saying you are in it until the end or voted off. Maybe by his bailing now he avoids those contracts. But if not, this is the stage of the whole thing where the people get the real BIG exposure. Once you hit the final round, you basically have agreed to sign your life away to Simon Cowell's production company. Like Kelly Clarkson agreeing to appear on subsequent American Idol's for 1200 dollars.

AOL did update the TOS by the way again yesterday or today.

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?d.../48-gov-bar.inc

I read the TOS, it doesn't seem as blatantly awful as what people are making this out to be. Mostly they said that if your IM records are subpoenaed in a criminal court, they'll hand em over. Big deal.

Wouldn't that be expected though of a candidate running with four years track record in that office? I remember finding difficulty in seeing/hearing stories that were really positive to either candidate.

You forgot the fifth possibility. The government borrows to fund the program.

QUOTE(soxman352000 @ Mar 12, 2005 -> 12:42 AM) I always thought it was a talking plant She has no eyebrows you know. I had a girlfriend with no eyebrows once.

I don't follow how I'm comparing the President to the House Majority Leader. If you're referring to Bill Clinton, I believe he was held accountable.

If I'm seein green when I'm paying this tax, I'm eating the wrong things.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 03:45 PM) If Saddam hadn't destroyed his own economy by invading two countries, the Oil-For-Food program wouldn't have been necessary in the first place. And now we know that most of the money went into Saddam's own pocket anyway. Actually, you're completely wrong there. Although there was graft and corruption from the Oil For Food program, the total amount of corrupted money related to OFFP was less than 10% of the money that came from OFFP. That's one third of the money that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia received in reparations from OFFP. Contrast that with the 40 cents on every dollar spent to rebuild Iraq being lost to graft today. Further, if you take a look at the Iran/Iraq war, you'd see that Saddam Hussein didn't start that war to expand his sphere of influence but rather as a preemptive strike against what it viewed as an aggressive Iran that was a perceived threat to its security. Sound familiar? I remember a war being fought on a perceived threat in 2003.... wonder who started that? Oh yeah, us. Yes that is a big difference. When we sought to pull out UNSCOM in 1998, we walked away from the table - not Iraq. And I'm willing to wager we did it because it was a wild goose chase to find weapons that were mostly gone. UNSCOM estimated Iraq to be between 90 and 95 percent dismantled. A lot of the same people were working in the White House when Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurds. They chose not to respond then. Only when a major source of oil was threatened did the Bush white house choose to intervene. I'd say the race card was in play long before anyone here brought it up.

I'm so missing that show. And he never revealed what happened to the missing half finger...