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QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jan 27, 2006 -> 01:08 PM) Hey, Frank could've ended his career with the Sox if he just f***ing retired instead of pulling a Fred McGriff. And yes, I realize Frank is much, much better than the crime dog. He's just sticking around to get that 500th homer, though. exactly ^^^

molesters should go to jail. for 25 years, no matter if they happen to be clergy or not. we need a nationwide meghans law.

its pretty despicable in my opinion, but i am much more conservative than liberal

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Feb 1, 2006 -> 06:09 PM) If that was the case, we really did a bad job. Iraq considers Iran an ally now. hardly. iraqi gov't officials wouldnt have a job if it wasnt for us. whether they support iran or not, they arent stupid enough to become allies with iran. edit: oh yeah and we are way too powerful

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jan 25, 2006 -> 01:44 AM) So you're saying there should be no more funding of memorials? Because those are publicly funded art projects. This isn't about a New Deal or whether or not money is take out of your check to fund a public mural. This is about whether government should encourage cultural growth in a society. And it's not about building a wall the size of which would rival the Great Wall of China and still fail to stop people from just simply bringing a ladder with them when they cross. Publicly funded art is everywhere. Christo's Gates in New York City. The 9/11 beams of light in lower Manhattan. The Picasso in downtown Chicago. Soldier Field. In many cases supporting the arts might be built into growing economic stimulus or encouraging greater usage of designed public space. Perhaps, if you're so against the idea of public funding of art, you'd be against public funding of single use stadiums - they in many cases serve the same purpose. Would you also agree that if funding a sculpture to be placed in downtown Chicago is wrong, so would spending several hundred million dollars to build a stadium for a baseball team who will then sell the right to attend the ballpark and the right to name it without any further benefit to the government coffer? i dont define a baseball stadium as "art". I think it is a business venture, that, if funded by a city, will bring more money into the city in the future. so if building a statue is going to bring people and money to an area, i would advocate it's funding as an investment, not the arts.

tex in response to your dean post... i didnt even read the whole thing, but notice that dean b****es about social security not being solved. who were the obstructionists, who were open to no negotiation there? dean is kinda over the top. does anyone have a dean scream link? the solutions he offers are so empty (at least for the energy dependance point he givess some kind of indication about HOW the goal is going to be accomplished) and typical fatcat. are the dems here honestly satisfied with dean running the dem party? seems like hes running towards the ground

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 11:59 PM) Its not a one to one black and white issue. Its called investment and return. I get a tax break which means that I can create a job where I wouldnt be able if I was taking that money and using it for taxes. The salary on those jobs are taxed. The product I make with those workers are sold and are taxed. Those inviduals are given benefits and a salary which means that the government is not paying for those services. Maybe I dont have to outsource my companys jobs to a foreign country. These are all extreme examples. But it seems our economy started to grow when the tax cuts were initiated. Rates, money introduced, and other methods didnt work to invigorate our economy. After the tax cuts our economy got better. on point. taxes need to be lowered. i live in MI and we currently have the most stagnated economy in the entire county. the cause is the large amount of taxes due to democrat control of the state government. my only hope is that jennifer granholm loses. considering her opponent, devos will probably win simply because granholm doesnt do a damn thing. anyway, i thought bush did a great job on the speech. very nice. then i saw that new gov. from VA jump on with a response and i turned that s*** off, i'll go to bed on a happy, constructive note tonight, not a pessimistic, no solution, high-taxing note.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jan 28, 2006 -> 09:07 PM) I love your honesty. I don't love your point of view. I don't love being compared to nazis, wiccans or warlocks. I don't love that it's legal in most states to be fired for being gay, yet not legal to be fired for being a wiccan, or a warlock. It may very well not be legal to fire someone for being a nazi. I don't love being called a threat to marriage. I don't love the fact that I had to lie about my entire life to keep my job in Michigan. I don't love the fact that I have been denied jobs solely because I am gay. I don't love the fact that people think gay people want special rights because they want the same rights that you have. I don't want to be a political issue and if you notice, the only ones that bring it up all the time, are the ones that want to insult gay people. I get insulted when other people think that I have some secret agenda. Or that gay people do. And I get insulted when people believe that the notion of equal rights doesn't or shouldn't exist. Sorry if I seem overly sensitive, but it's all part of my "agenda," I guess. first of all, i never said you had a hidden agenda. take the angst out on someone else man. sorry if you feel insulted when people disagree with you and you feel the need to throw pseudo insults around because you cant tolerate other people's points of view. and you call other people here ignorant? kettle calling the pot black my friend. and i never said equal protection "doesnt or shouldnt" exist! what the hell, why are you twisting words? its idealism, something that is strived for, but can never be reached. its a goal, like perfection. and since humans are imperfect, it would follow that humans can never reach that goal, only approach it. as i said, it DOES exist, but can never be truely acheived. you can have that chip on your shoulder if you want though man, thats your problem. what bugs me the most is that you b**** and b**** and b****, yet i havent seen you offer a single solution. how do you suggest we fix all these gripings you listed that i am responding to? p.s. its kinda hard to have reasonable conversations with people who take everything personally. just a general rule you should keep in mind in the future.

not only do I support the death penalty whole-heartedly, but i am all for a fast tracking of the appeals. 1 appeal is enough for me. no reason to keep someone sitting on death row for over 15 years before killing them, get it over with and deal out some justice already.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jan 29, 2006 -> 01:47 AM) In the long term, this will be good for the MidEast. In the short term, it won't seem that way. i swear i saw a post by you a few pages ago in this thread saying they were good for the long term. anyway, how exactly are hate-mongering terrorists good for palestine? for the middle east?

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jan 26, 2006 -> 05:32 PM) They could introduce articles of impeachment. Oh wait, they've tried before and they weren't honored. They could try to hold hearings, but the rules prevent them from being entered into the Congressional record. They could ask the administration to answer questions but they have and the administration has refused. They could demand investigations from the full Congress, but those get rejected too. They could command a secret session of the Senate to get information from the NSA on this program... but that's an extraordinary step taken only when every recourse is taken because it essentially shuts the government down for a day. So short of that, I don't know what they can do. you seem to do a ton of complaining without making a single suggestion on how to remedy any of these situations. if you think a democrat or republican administration hasnt been doing this basically since the presidency has existed, the only person you are fooling is yourself. just try to have some kind of constructive advice, something! c'mon!

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jan 28, 2006 -> 12:14 PM) I don't know what Bolivian legislators make but even if all of them followed suit, you might be able to hire enough teachers and support staff to open up 1 or 2 schools. Either that or open up 1 hospital. Of course if the new President of Bolivia donated the fortune he made selling cocaine his whole life he might be able to make a sizeable difference.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jan 27, 2006 -> 11:55 PM) It is my opinion that she would really want Stevens to be poisoned whereas I am just saying it about her in jest. or perhaps she was joking too....? edit: in no way am i defending what a stupid comment she made. a lady on air america made a joke about GWB like that too a while back, and got in deep s***. coulter deserves serious backlash for what she said, but probably wont get as much as she deserves.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jan 28, 2006 -> 06:26 PM) I think anyone that meets me knows that I am utterly common. Being gay has nothing to do with that. But the "hollywood homosexual agenda" that you describe calls for equal protection under the law. I should know because I'm a proponent of it. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a latte to sip. And that's a chore because I hate coffee. you seem like a pretty bitter or angry guy when it comes to this topic. seriously, im not trying to offend you, you just come off that way. he does make a decent point about the small percentile. to make an extreme point, theres around 4-6,000 people who vote for the american nazi party in each election. i dont see a s***load of movies and sitcoms about them and a s***load of legislation for what that tiny group of society wants. or wican laws, we should be having more wican and warlock legislation in the US house and senate. equal protection under the law is a legal fiction that we strive for as a society but we will never acheive. to think imperfect beings can is pure idealism, or more frankly put, a pipe dream. and for the record, i would never let my kids see a movie about queer cowboys because i dont want to promote that sort of thing to them, not because i am predjudiced. i guess i would just rather have my kids doing the asskicking on the playground instead of getting their ass kicked. now please dont start with any more namecalling, cause i noticed you and juggernaut were getting into it. just giving my point of view.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jan 26, 2006 -> 12:12 PM) I don't bank on this, but I hope now that Hamas has 'real power' (whatever that means in Palestine) they will renounce the old and actually negotiate. Time will tell. kap, this isnt only directed at you, but other people here too... you've got to be kidding. look at that headline about militants storming their parliament, which hasnt even been formed for a week. what more is it going to take for people to start to see palestine for what they are? and saying that hamas only doesnt specifically call for destruction of israel is a bit of a cop-out. i blame much of this on arafat. he squandered so much of the aide he got for palestine on himself and....who knows what he spent it on?? all i know is he had over $1 billion in a multitude of bank accounts when he died (of AIDS....maybe he spent some on his treatment). seriously, arafat's deficient leadership was never meant to make peace with israel. he fostered the entire atitutde and environment in palestine today. think about how an entire generation of palestinian children have grown up listening to fatah and hamas preach hatred and arafat condoning it, sometimes openly and sometimes through his failure to call it what it was. that entire country has some serious growing up to do. and by growing up, i mean becoming civilized and realizing they are only going to eventually force the rest of the world to straighten them out. for our boys in uniforms' sake, i hope we have nothing to do with it.

good for frank. hope he doesnt tee off on us when we play the a's.

rose was a bum. always has been, always will be. what is this from him now, reverse psychology? "i dont really care anymore...i swear", like that will get him in? bottom line, rose gambled on his own team while he was a manager. absolutely dispicable. he should continue to be banned, even if it did take him 20+ years simply to come clean.

another poor move by boston. i feel confidant that the bluejays are going to end up in 2nd place in the al east, not boston

crisp was good; these minor leaguers have not been proven like crisp has. bad deal for the tribe.

wade who?

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Jan 23, 2006 -> 11:13 PM) Since when does a president have to know everything? The last few haven't and I'm sure there's been more than that. It happens to everyone, he's a human being. ^^^ finally, some rationale

this is a competition, so i'll go extreme and stick by it. what the hell, why not? the great depression happened over 70 years ago. why the hell are we still funding this stuff? FDR hasnt been in office for years. the New Deal is no longer needed. It served it's purpose, but all it's remnants do today is eat up tax dollars. I am willing to say that I advocate the termination of funding of the arts. In reference to another debate that used the same question, I would be pissed as hell if $$ were taken out of my paycheck to fund a public mural. Let some Van Andel fund that crap, not my money (I am from grand rapids MI originally, so if you are from around the area you will know what i am talking about). How about building that wall along the mexican border that i talked about in my first post? thats really what im all about.

stupid b****es. well, she can blow me, but as a business owner, i would never hire her. hell, id even throw a f*ck her way

my favorite part was when that trailor trash latent queer was asked by randy jackson why he was "different" and simon burst out laughing

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jan 22, 2006 -> 01:04 PM) Looking back at the article, it does say it was based on sales though. Gee, thanks for the help Dave...like that was a tough article to put together, and a buncha help. Just a waste of time. Of course, it could also be broken down into some interesting articles. "Top 10 Classic Rock albums as bought by Wal-Mart customers" could actually be a fascinating article, and we might find that according to Wal-Mart shoppers, the greatest band in history is indeed Air Supply! ^^^^ nice, brother sir