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So why not change Title IX? When you consider what Michigan State got out of Mateen Cleaves in comparison to what Mateen got out of Michigan State? I'd say he came out ahead. I think it makes sense to have money making programs pay all their players evenly with a revenue sharing policy. If the school gets 4 million for a bowl, whatever the net profit is to the school oughta be shared by the students who got them to the bowl game. MSU is a great example to me of why players oughta get some payments for what they provide the program. In the last ten years, the Athletic Department has cashed in huge. And not just from gate receipts, sportsgear, ads and concessions. When Michigan State makes a bowl, the school gets a lot of cash from Alumni. When MSU makes the Final Four, donations go way up. The hockey team breaks even and the Womens basketball team is close. Its partially the fruit of the AD and Coaches labor. They get rewarded with better contracts and bonuses. Why shouldn't the players be rewarded as well?

100% baby. But I only got to inspect the bags under the passengers' eyes.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Jan 20, 2005 -> 01:20 AM) BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! That's the worst thing I've ever heard! Its not a cover, Earth Wind and Fire played on the original The Way You Move.

God that Tony Blankley column bothers me. People do see that he's calling for an American journalist to be put to death because he pointed out that the Pentagon is circumventing the CIA to avoid Congressional oversight. You do see that, right?

I just found out there's a new Basement Jaxx album coming out this year. Most excited about that. Gives me a happy jaxxatude for the future. Also there's this new band called Benny Sings coming out Feb 14 on Jazzanova's label. Heard a track off fluxblog today. Very Phoenix like and very very good.

Thats what I meant.

Tony Blankley is an assclown. When was the last time the US was in declared war? Oh yeah, 1945. We are not, legally, at war. Beyond that, what makes this any worse than exposing an undercover CIA agent. Oh wait, I remember - Hersh isn't a Republican. My bad. QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Jan 20, 2005 -> 09:37 AM) Espionage by any other name Tony Blankley January 19, 2005 This week in the New Yorker magazine, Seymour Hersh wrote the following words: "The Administration has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran ... Much of the focus is on accumulation of intelligence and targeting information on Iranian nuclear, chemical and missile sites. ... (The) American commando task force has been set up in South Asia and is now working closely with a group of Pakistani scientists and technicians who had dealt with Iranian counterparts ... The American task force ... .has been penetrating eastern Iran from Afghanistan in a hunt for underground installations ... The task force members, or their locally recruited agents, secreted remote detection devices ... " Title 18 United States Code section 794, subsection (b.) prohibits anyone "in time of war, with intent that the same shall be communicated to the enemy [from publishing] any information with respect to the movement, numbers, or disposition of any of the Armed Forces ... of the United States ... or supposed plans or conduct of any ... military operations ... or any other information relating to the public defense, which might be useful to the enemy ... [this crime is punishable] by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life." Subsection (a) of that statute prohibits anyone "with ... reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates ... to any representative, officer, agent, employee, subject or citizen thereof, either directly or indirectly, any information relating to the national defense, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life." I am not an expert on these federal code sections, but a common sense reading of their language would suggest, at the least, that federal prosecutors should review the information disclosed by Mr. Hersh to determine whether or not his conduct falls within the proscribed conduct of the statute. In the fairly recent past, at least one journalist writing for Jane's Publications has been successfully prosecuted under the statute, freedom of speech and the press not being a defense to espionage. Remember, in the famous Pentagon Papers case, the issue was prior restraint. Could the government stop a newspaper from publishing government secrets relating not to current operations but to prior planning? The answer then was no. But in the current matter of Seymour Hersh and the New Yorker, they have been free to publish the article. The question is whether or not any legal consequences attach to that decision. I was shocked when I read Mr. Hersh's article. Note the tenses he uses to describe American military action: "The American commando task force ... is now working," "has been conducting secret reconnaissance." In other words, Mr. Hersh is revealing to all the world, including the Iranian government, that our commandos are currently behind enemy lines in Iran on a dangerous and vital military assignment. Moreover, he helps the enemy by writing that our commandos have been "penetrating eastern Iran from Afghanistan." That considerably reduces the areas the Iranian military and counter-intelligence forces have to search and monitor to try to catch our brave commandos. Furthermore, Mr. Hersh informs the world that our commandos are working with certain Pakistani scientists who had previously worked with Iranian scientists. Such information might further assist the Iranian security forces in their investigations. After all, there can't be that many Iranian nuclear scientists who worked with the few Pakistani nuclear scientists in the past. Mr. Hersh has virtually given Iranian intelligence the names (if not the addresses) of the Pakistani scientists who are working with our forces from their jumping off places in Pakistan. Finally, Mr. Hersh helpfully writes that our commandos have been working with local Iranian agents to plant detection devices around known or suspected nuclear plants. This gives the enemy insights into our commandos' specific method of operation and alerts Iranian Intelligence to be looking for local Iranians as well as Americans. Not a bad day's work for yet another patriotic American journalist. Almost as appalling as the potentially lethal effect (if not, necessarily, the intent) of the Hersh article, is the quietude that greeted the damaging implications of the article's publication. Whether or not the article meets the technical legal requirements for violation of the Espionage Act, I have seen no articles or public comments expressing concern at the revelation of such vital military secrets of an ongoing secret military operation. Keep in mind, the Pentagon has not denied the story, it has merely said that some of the facts are inaccurate. That is a classic Washington non-denial denial. And this is not just any military operation. The purpose of this operation is to protect the world from a possible nuclear attack once the fanatical Iranian Islamist regime gets its hands on a nuclear bomb. They already have missiles capable of reaching London, Paris, Berlin and Tel Aviv. They are already the world's leading terrorist-supporting state. And our military's effort to prepare to deal with this extraordinary danger is exposed to the world -- while the operation is ongoing. But not a peep of concern can be heard. Apparently, this is considered just journalistic business as usual. The Washington political class is suffering from a bad case of creeping normalcy. We are getting ever more used to ever more egregious government leaks of military secrets. What's the big deal? Maybe I am an alarmist. Or maybe we are sleep walking toward the abyss.

My fat ass desires more cheeseburgers. Gotta go.... Now where does that Mayor McCheese live? Robblerobblerobble.

Impressive.

Will I be able to get Shamrock Shakes in the summer?

Awesome, will I get paid in shakes?

I think that Alberto Gonzales is a terrible choice. His record as White House Counsel was poor at best. He advocated scrapping the Geneva Conventions, failed to vet nominee picks adequately, and have you ever seen what he did as Bush's go-to guy on clemency reviews for executions in Texas? Might has well have called him a rubber stamp. Although I think he'll be socially more moderate than Ashcroft and Justice might actually get uncovered at DOJ now, I don't feel that he has adequately respected the individual rights of citizens to earn him the post of top law enforcer in the country.

Barbara Boxer via her "NO" vote on Rice. Source Salon.com

What it means is that the Democrats wanna play "Opposition Political Theater" (Patent Pending). Most Democrats will vote for Condi Rice to approve her, because by and large, unless Condi did something egregiously illegal or shaming, the Senate will confirm her. The President gets who he wants. However, what the Dems are doing is addressing the core problems that they think that the Bush administration is not. Its effective, because if all they are doing is delaying the vote a day or two to get their voice heard, its not obstructionist because they just want a period of debate, which is allowed under the rules, it takes 60 votes to reach cloture. But it will get media coverage. Fortunately, there are a lot of good speakers in the Dem Senate so its gonna be a good thing for them. They will most likely do the same thing with Alberto Gonzalez as well, and the new DHS pick, although rather than having the likely 85-10 passage, you'll see 20-25 dems vote against Gonzalez minimum because they'll argue (and they have a good case) that Gonzalez did do something egregious as Chief White House counsel - be that the torture memo, or failing to properly vet Kerik (when a Google search would have turned up most of the allegations).

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I'm rooting for D.C. I'm just sad I never got to see a game in the big O.

I'm totally serious. Cap the profit sharing at 25% of net profits to the program, and have it distributed it to athletes who play in the sports that make money. It means most basketball players would get paid (which might help stem the tide of HS draftees) but most football players won't. Most football teams in NCAA Division 1-A break about even.

Sad news from the McDonaldland P.D.

Weren't they a rock band or something?

I might be inclined to give you John Kerry for that. But I won't give you Barbara Boxer. I've seen something in her lately, maybe its the ghost of Wellstone. She didn't attack Rice on Iraq. She didn't vote for Rice based on not telling the truth.

Maybe, there oughta be a revenue sharing policy with the players. If Illinois makes a ton of cash on their program, they should share part of it with the people who make that profit for them.

I'm glad they did. Rice has proven herself to be a less than adequate NSA and a terrible diplomat. Although her talents served her well during the Bush administration of 1989-1993, and she wrote a most excellent text regarding the dismantling of East Germany, she couldn't handle a sit-in at Stanford as the provost. Now she's supposed to handle our most sensitive negotiations with problem states? I'm scared frankly. I have to admit that in 2001, I was rather pleased with the picks of Colin Powell and Condi Rice for state and NSA, sadly I've found their performances to be disappointing.

QUOTE(knightni @ Jan 19, 2005 -> 02:29 PM) http://overheardinnewyork.com/ winoj (I mean Frantic hipster): Please tell me you have The Golden Girls on DVD! Employee: Nope, we are all sold out. winoj (Frantic hipster): Dammit! It's sold out everywhere! What am I going to do? --Barnes & Noble, Chelsea Damn those prying ears!