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Glad you're alright. Here's hoping for the best.

From this week's Onion

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 01:58 PM) LMAO There are still 10,000 Hawks fans? It has enormous potential to do good, but I wonder about the competitiveness of having all the teams owned by one firm. This could just be the XFLification of Hockey.

I love the show, just never get the chance to watch it.

I think it would be easier than you think dude. I did mornings at WIMS for about 6 months in 2000.

This is all about the GOB ya know. Good Ole Boys. Been running the city for far too long - and Sheila was one of the biggest GOBs of em all. Until someone like you runs who's actually honest about the city problems, and wants to do something about it, it will continue. Hey, SS - you ever listen to WIMS?

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 12:24 PM) The only thing that clouds your thinking is your utter disdain for anything that may shine a postive light on this administration. This article doesn't mention Walib Jumblatt...but you bring him up just to state that a conservative columnist used his quotes. You dont mention them cause they don't fit your right bashing. So you mention a quote given by Jumblatt to the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat on February 12, 2004, not two months ago. So basically your whole reason for even posting this garbage is to say that a conservative used a quote from a guy who hates America. Thanks for your insight. What it was that Walib said just a few weeks ago as opposed to last year was this "It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq," explains Jumblatt. "I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world." Jumblatt says this spark of democratic revolt is spreading. "The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it." The point here isn't that a conservative columnist used this quote from Jumblatt even though Jumblatt has been very anti american in the past. It is that a man as radical and anti american as Jumblatt now sees some good in what is happening in the arab world and attributes that good to America. Clouded thoughts from a title??? I don't think so. You're not excited about peace or stabilization in the mideast. You'd only be for peace if Bush didn't get any credit for the process. If he was going to get some credit...you'd just assume they continue on as is. Clouded thoughts.....yeah I'd say so. Maybe you missed this.

If I'm not mistaken, the city has little to no say over the school board. Doesn't Indiana set up school boards so that they are their own separate entity?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 08:25 AM) I found it interesting that both of you had to point out that it wasn't the US that was responsible for most of this, when that wasn't the crux of the article or in anything I said. Probably your "on the march" title clouded my thinking there (That's a Bush line, ya know.) That and I've read a half dozen pieces regarding the same thing in the last few days. I'm excited about the prospect of a more stable and democratic Lebanon. Maybe then Beirut will once again become the "Paris of the Mid-East."

A lot of these movements (particularly Saudi Arabia and Lebanon) have been in the works for quite some time - they have their own pressure cookers building. Iraq may have been a tipping point in some, not all, of these events. Israel/Palestine has little to do with freedom on the march and more to do with a dead Yasser Arafat and an intifada that has begun to exhaust itself over time. Lebanon may be a little more jumbled. Conservative columnist David Brooks said that Lebanon was a direct result of Iraq elections quoting dissident leader Walid Jumbalatt as talking about how the election made him see the start of a new Arab world. Here's another quote from the same Jumbalatt two months ago. The tipping point here seems to be the assassination of the former Lebanese president who wasn't as cozy with Damascus and the government's seeming intent to not really get to the bottom of the situation. William Saletan had a great column in Slate today talking about the very same thing. Although Bush deserves some credit for some of the baby steps these countries take towards democracy, inside pressures building for years have a lot more to do with these moments than Iraq's election. And sometimes reform movements suffer backlashes too. Just look at Iran.

I met his daughter in law once.

Love hearing things like "my role is what my manager tells me." Love that.

Rock over London, Rock on Chicago! Walgreens, The Pharmacy America Trustseses.

Aren't Dish and DirecTV owned by the same folk anyways?

If you think that's great try Hardee's Son of Sandwich! Quick killer bites of the best beef east of the Mississippi!

How many different nickels do we need?

So I'm thinking lots about this. I really can't decide right now if I would be happier in Michigan or happier here. I like the area, but I don't know that I can afford it. If I stay here, its a lot harder to change my employment because it pays well enough... so getting back into my passion would be more difficult. But if I move, I basically end a relationship that seems to be growing pretty well. The dilemma continues.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Feb 28, 2005 -> 04:15 PM) When this was coming across the wires the other day - that was the first thing I was thinking when I saw his "name." McDonalds had a competing burger, the "McManson Special."

If you replace the word bad with good, I'd agree. I prefer Loggins and Messina myself

That was one of his arguments in his dissenting opinion. That's funny coming from the guy that tried to keep my sexuality illegal.

I accept that. Flawless then on your part.

I have been 219, 614, 785, 517, 231 and 732. Oh yeah briefly, I was 1.

QUOTE(winodj @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 12:13 PM) Some people will win. I'll get bored and watch something else. Chris Rock will not be funny. I WAS RIGHT!

That's the graph I nitpick with. Something about the 0.9 seconds is a little jarring to me visually. Using Bellarmine rather than winners and "less than a second" would be good for both situations.

Poker night at Motel 6 baby.