Rex Kickass

I just wish they'd lower the prices. 18 dollars for a cheap seat? Minute Maid Park has a section of cheap seats for 5 bucks each. The Sox don't seem to have a good tradition of filling the seats anyway, why not lower Upper Deck prices?

I just hope that this mess can be put behind us with as little additional loss of life as possible. On either side.

Silkworms and Al-Samoud missiles are not considered WMD unless they contain NBC material. They are in violation of the ceasefire agreement however. :refrains from making the obligatory NBC joke:

When did Iraq use Chem/Bio weapons?

No offense but if you are taking anything from a board about the Chi White Sox as fact in the political world.... you're looking in the wrong place. Go read some Morgenthau now :-)

You're correct. This has been going on for more than ten years. Twelve to be exact. However, between 1998 and 2002, there was no action to see the complete disarmament of Iraq. The Security Council failed in that respect, just as they have failed in other missions they charged themselves with - the creation of a Palestinian state for example. Most UN observers, and experts in the field thought that UN resolution 1441 was having quite a degree of success - it was slow going but there was motion. Keeping pressure on Iraq effectively ended any effort to rearm Iraq and by our own Intelligence reports, the state had significantly fewer stocks of harmful weaponry - and did not pose a current credible threat. Dude, I won't cry when Saddam Hussein leaves. He's a terrible person and deserves everything he's getting. However the policies that led us here do not serve the best interest of the US or even the world. If no WMD were found, or if the number was extremely low or even degraded, it would prove Bush's Preemptive War theory as wrong. The US may like it when it suits us, but this same idea could be used for the North Koreans to invade the South, Iran to attack a new Iraq, China to invade Taiwan, India to invade Pakistan. In any of those cases, we won't be dealing with biochem. We'd be dealing with nukes. Something I wouldn't want to see.

I know I'm hoping that there are no WMD in Iraq. And as callous as it sounds, finding Iraq clean of WMD (which most likely won't happen) will be a vindication of sorts for those who didn't support the policy of Pre-Emptive War. If the Bush administration found itself wrong on its guess about a need for massive disarmament in Iraq, it would make an invasion of other rogue states less likely. My opposition of this fight is that it seemed that the Bush administration gave up too easily on diplomatic or quasi-military solutions to the problem of Iraq. And that he put soldiers in harms way too cavalierly. War is easy. Peace is what's hard sometimes.

Ditto that.

Hey. Those bath salts could seriously aggravate inflammed sinuses. That monster must be stopped.

The CNN.com article states the Army general that it may still be pesticides - and that in any case, these chemicals were nowhere near able to be used in a military sense. Is this a mountain made from a molehill?

Pitching in this weather really works to the pitchers advantage rather than when it gets warmer. It looks good, but I can't make a judgment til the weather gets a little warmer and the bats they face do too.

I could see MJ buying a bit of both and GM for the Bulls. However, MJ could also have some involvement (on a PR level) with the Sox. No?

Actually, what I read from the BBC - attributed to CNN is that the general said that this is either pesticide or non-weaponized chemical agents. Neither appear to be that smoking gun. However, NPR reported on a find of 20 chemical weapon tipped rockets earlier today. This could be a more substantial find.

Love "Reign O'er Me" - The Who

I thought MJ couldnt be an owner and player at the same time. I see him buying in and partnering with Reinsdorf. Stranger things have happened and it would be good for the Bulls AND Sox.

All this fighting... gee. I don't mean to not insult anyone, but why don't ya all do some reading instead? IF you are against this deal in Iraq, you should read "The Clash of Civilizations" by Samuel Huntington. A bit more radical than most of the government will admit to being, but its the same general school of thought that we are acting on right now. If you are for the war, you should read "The Children of Light, The Children of Darkness" by Reinhold Niebuhr, a german theologian that wrote this in exile in 1944. He talks a lot about violence and its uses, both good and bad.

Anti-inflammatory? Is it Ibuprofen? (Advil) or Naproxen Sodium? (Aleve). It worked for me when I was having some carpal tunnel problems. Of course I carpet bombed my body with them for about a month... which means I gotta take 3 extra strength advil to do anything about a headache anymore.

I saw that. However, if an invasion of Iraq didn't give the state the will to fire them at us, what would?

I would think the WTO would create an opportunity for smaller businesses to thrive. If globalization is such a threat, that threat can be used against those companies who globalize. To be honest, I'm more worried about a potential Patriot Act 2 than I am about the WTO.

I wish GN would carry more games. Especially ones where they don't play the Tigers. Cause I can get those games :-)

They're expecting 6-12 inches in Cleveland tomorrow. Not ideal baseball conditions.

But the Cubs are up 4-2 in the 6th

Hell, you think its bad on the field... if there's a Tigers fan in the bleachers, its almost a guaranteed fight there. I thought I was at a Raiders game, the last time I sat there during a Sox/Tigers game.

Stewart looks solid. Throwing a lot of strikes.

You forgot to give the time and temp together! See me in my office after your shift!