Rex Kickass

Yes, like the Texas Rangers.

That was sort of his point.

Actually, the Swedish dude called us cheap when we pledged 15 million dollars. France is one of the top three or four economic engines of the EU, I'd be willing to bet that a fair amount of aid from the EU is coming directly from France. However, I do think that Chirac is a chintzy piece of crap. But if the UN guy said that, something tells me we wouldn't hear about it. After all, France doesn't quite hold the same sway in the world, as much as they might like to think they do.

I'd be willing to play for the league minimum, but being a fat and out of shape Sox fan with no athletic ability, only for the Cubs, or Cleveland.

You should have asked him for the noodles too, then you'd know how great he really is.

Actually, after 9/11, NATO invoked the mutual attack clause of its charter, and aid was offered from everywhere. Even Cuba.

The one who complained was Swedish. ss2k4: The complaint about the Bush administration saying nothing - was just that. That he couldn't deign to speak on the issue until people started complaining about the fact that he couldn't even offer official condolences on behalf of the American people. How many world leaders went mountain biking on 9/11? Not many and certainly none who lead countries with anything close to the power that we hold. To a lot of countries around the Indian Ocean - where the prospect of Terrorism is a real possibility, this is way bigger than 9/11. If the guy we elected to lead this country as seen as uncaring, how does this help us abroad? These kind of PR mistakes, and I do think that they are honest mistakes, do a lot more to give "aid and comfort" to the enemy than Michael Moore complaining about a heavy handed Bush policy. With the fight we're in, we're going to create some recruitment tools for terrorists - that's inevitable. We don't need to create more by our President seeming callous to the death of hundreds of thousands.

Alright then, b**** slap away

How many rings did the Yankees get in the 80s? The Indians had a lot of lean years before they dominated our division for most of the 90s. The Twins had lean years too. It has nothing to do with the need for a salary cap, it has everything to do with a desire to win. The A's have shown that you can be successful without spending tons of cash, so did the Marlins last year.

I dun follow. It's emergency aid. The return on investment has everything to do with better relationships with governments and a better PR picture for the government - something that the US forgot to realize this week when they let the President go mountain biking for half the week before making a statement, personally. With 100K dead easily, and as of last night another island of 60,000 people nobody has heard from at all since the Tsunami, it doesn't help our image abroad.

The Netherlands also pledged 2 million Euros (2.6mil dollars) Spain pledged 1 million (1.3 mil dollars)

European Union 33 million Euros (Approximately 45 million dollars, 10 mil more than the US) and an additional 3 million Euros ($4m) to the Red Cross for their needs in this crisis. In addition to EU aid: UK: Ten Million pounds. (19 million dollars) Germany: Two million Euros (2.6 million dollars), Three planes. France: 100,000 Euros (130K dollars), 10 tons of material aid and a team of 16 rescuers to affected areas. Finland: 575,000 Euros (800K dollars), field hospital and 15 trained medical folk. Czech Republic: 300,000 Euros (450k dollars), plane full of drinking water. The US originally pledged 15 million dollars, the day after the UN director referred to the US as "stingy" with its aid, the US pledged another 20 million.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=..._dc_4&printer=1

No Yankees? Maybe not but last time I checked, Green Bay has been the equivalent of the Atlanta Braves, always making the postseason. Much like the Braves, they only have the one ring to show for it. The Patriots have won two of the last three superbowls and look primed to get to this years. Football has more parity because every game counts. Not so good teams that get a hot streak can get a lot further. A four game win streak in FB is like a twenty game win streak in Baseball. If baseball had a 16 game season, we'd have a lot more parity too.

To the 6 people who give a s*** about this stuff.

The U.N. guy is off the mark.

If Mariotti had killer ratings, he wouldn't have gotten the bounce. The likely scenario is that he was second in the Sports Talk market for his timeslot. Out of two. If you're making your bigger biz partners pissed off and you have the ratings to back it up, you don't get fired. He obviously didn't.

They were running CNN international coverage late night? I think if you get a chance to watch that regularly, you'll agree its a superior news product to any stateside cable news product.

Wait, you mean I got into college based on my ability? I thought it was my Fonzie like good looks.

The truth of it is, talk radio is not journalism. And when you've got multi-million dollar partners who butter your bread - you don't constantly s*** on them. You won't make many friends over the airwaves and you certainly won't make any backstage either.

Yes. Yes it was.

So... YAS, I gotta ask. What are you doing to protect your liberties? And I mean that in the most nonconfrontational-not-meaning-to-put-you-on-the-defensive sense possible.

To be honest, I agree with you. But I think the responsibility goes further than that. 9/11 should never have happened, and we ought to take responsible steps to make sure that these things never happen again. I wish I could say that we are taking those steps, but we aren't. To do so, without infringing on the liberties that you and I hold dear, would require a significant investment - about 3 to 5 billion dollars, or about what we spend for one week in Iraq. Instead of ramping up actual security measures like inspecting air cargo and sea cargo, we have runs on duct tape and saran wrap and bans on nail clippers. To not hold our government responsible for overlooking our safety is to be an irresponsible citizen.

I was wondering, do folks in the Navy make Admiralizations?

Agreed. And there are things you can do to turn the tide. Like shopping at stores that allow union representation over stores that don't.