Gregory Pratt

Anything less than a sweep is unacceptable to me.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 09:58 AM) I have found that if you are looking for something that is outside of the 'normal' seating area, a LOT of Sox employees either have no idea how to find it, or give you bad directions. It's not the end of the world, eventually you can find it on your own, but you waste a lot of time dummying around the park. Oh yeah. I've been around those before.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 10:58 AM) This supreme court aint the same one that was sitting in the 1960's and 70's. They will slam dunk the NYT if it comes to that. I'll bet they don't. Much like the Rehnquist Court declined to overturn Miranda, for instance. Like I said, let Gonzales do it, and he'll be made a mockery of.

You know, I'm in the mood for a resounding victory for freedom of speech. By all means, let Mr. Gonzales do it.

You should've put something in the title to let people know just how hilarious this is.

That guy sucks. f*** him. Good bye!

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 12:27 AM) Im gonna take a shot at getting this thread back on topic. The reason we're starting to re-deploy is that the Iraqi security forces are assuming control over larger and larger swaths of the country and, in an increasing number of cases, are able to undertake counter-terror ops on their own and without US support. This is exactly what the President said was the deciding criterion for how many troops we keep over there. Contrary to how it may seem sometimes I DO want us to be done with Iraq but I also want it done the right way. Letting the status of Iraqi security forces and the situation on the ground dictate our actions is the right way to do this. Bottom line........they are starting to stand up so we are starting to stand down. Or, everything is going miserably, as I contend with the Khali memo as my base, and we've realized that us being there isn't quite helping.

I don't buy Harry as a horcrux, but we'll see.

QUOTE(minors @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 12:17 AM) To pre-emptive war, deficits and fewer trees!

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 12:14 AM) The fact that a program of this type was outed in the level of detail it was will cause terrorists to rethink how they move money and that will make it harder to track...........and that will mean that it takes longer to run them down...........and that means that more people will die. Get it now? I get the point -- I got it the first time, thanks -- but I don't buy it. That's one hell of a stretch, especially since the program wasn't even outed in THAT much detail.

QUOTE(minors @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 12:11 AM) Wow I am sorry I pressed reply to the wrong post. It was meant to be delivered at LCR. Oh okay, I'm glad we're still on good terms, and I hope we can drink to the President someday!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 12:10 AM) Newspapers don't kill people. People kill people. I think you're overlooking the cases of people killing people with newspapers. Maybe al-Qaeda terrorists are beating hostages with this article, rolled up? Ye Gads, stop the presses -- FOREVER!

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jun 27, 2006 -> 12:03 AM) What's so bad about the article? What did it reveal that was so wrong? What was so surprising about it? I don't know, but apparently it's killed some people.

What are you getting pissed off at me for? I was seconding your motion! He should get the s*** beat out of him for doing research and coming to his own conclusion. The nerve! (I'm sure that veterans were spit on, contrary to the researcher's thesis, but I think it an incredible stretch to say it was some widespread phenomenom, and I think you've got issues to react to things the way you do, with "f*** YOU" and "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO" and "HIPPIE f***ING LIBERALS LOLOL!".)

Guys, Are you genuinely telling me that you think that al-Qaeda had no idea that we've been monitoring bank transactions, and that this has given them the tip that, hey, the Americans might be watching your money trail? Give me a break. Besides, in Price of Loyalty it's revealed that Paul O'Neill had been taking actions similar to this, except that there was no mention of the database. It's not as if this program -- this tool in the "War on Terra" -- is some huge secret unknown before today. And Kap, you say they've got "blood on their hands." Do tell me who was killed because the New York Times leaked this, specifically and not in the abstract.

I love that.

I second that motion, sensible as it is. We can not allow the Liberal Hippies to go unchecked, and if that means bashing the skulls of those elitist researchers then it shall be done!

We're cutting our losses, is what we're doing. That's the way I view it, and I think that because of the Khali Memo from the other thread about Iraq being in a miserable state.

Is there any place where all of them can be found, and as they come out and such, like on WhiteSox.com somewhere? I was looking around but couldn't see them.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jun 24, 2006 -> 10:07 AM) Looks like Albert PuHGHols is back in form. How dare you imply something like that! Haven't you gotten the memo -- the steroid age is over! (I'm kind of glad someone else is skeptical about Pujols.)

I'm surprised no one's made the thread yet. 7:05 start. Go Sox!

I love stories like this, and I hope he winds up okay. It'd be a helluva story, although his life already is. I hope he's okay.

This was a letter that I wrote to President Bush this morning, and that I posted on my blog as well. (I post daily, fyi -- it isn't somethign that I just pick up every few weeks and then half-ass a post.) Skip the non-quoted portions of this if you don't care what the background information is. Well, to quickly explain a few things. When I was dating my ex-girlfriend, a girl I was thoroughly fond of, we would talk for hours of history and government and politics and all the silly things that policy dorks and public affairs lovers like to talk about. Sarcastically, I would tell her that we should invade Peru, "nobody expects Peru!" and then we would crack jokes about a movie with a President who plans to invade Peru, and an ambassador telling him someday, "Hold off on invading Peru!" which was humorous to us. It's hard to explain, but that's the basic gist of it. Well, okay, that's not, and I guess I'm just being a bit meek and shy about it. I love politics, and politics are my ambition. The basic gist of it was that I would kid her about Iraq and tell her that because I'm such a warmonger (she was very Liberal, and I called her my "Squishy Leftist" as a contrast to "Hard Right-Winger" and as a contrast to my own, harder brand of Liberalism, though I label myself a "Centrist Democrat") I'm going to run for President and invade Peru, and then we'd joke about it. I also told her that we should declare War on Wisconsin someday, as a State. It's silly, but that's one of the many things we loved about each other. And so that's why, in the recent thread about Bush's poll numbers, in response to someone saying we may very well be at war with Libya, North Korea and Iran, I was so readily able to kid about how Peru should be our next target, and why. And that got me thinking, and I recently started reading the works of Jonathan Swift, so I wrote this: "A Modest Proposal"

QUOTE(Wedge @ Jun 24, 2006 -> 07:53 AM) The Yankees are a joke... people hate the Sox because they're actually good. And actually, I have a lot of friends that are fans of a lot of diverse teams (NL and AL) and many of them love the Sox, how they play, and are jealous as hell of us having Ozzie. Don't let the media cloud your vision of how this team is really perceived. I don't know anyone who ENVIES us for having Guillen. Most people outside of Soxdom that I've met like him as a Manager but think he's an absolute idiot. I do know that a lot of fans in baseball thoroughly enjoy the way we play the game. In Cincinnatti there were some guys telling me about it. It felt nice. I was kidding as the Yankees comparison, but I was kidding on the square. We are nowhere near as hated as some people would imagine, and certainly not by fans. Hell, DJ says (on the air) that other teams react to us by saying, "Wow, you guys are good!" after games and stuff, and so I'd doubt that a lot of teams have a problem with us, either. Except for, you know, Texas.

QUOTE(rangercal @ Jun 24, 2006 -> 12:00 AM) Not cool. The core of the white sox fan base does not do the wave and HATES it. That's what I learned from my childhood and have passed on to generations below me. The band wagoners love it. The white sox Marketing/pr team should have a certain level of respect for those of us who have supported this team on rainy days against the Royals when we were a notch above .500 every year. Don't give in to the bandwagoners comfort! Please! Fans were starting the wave in my section tonight and many sox fans were yelling at them to stop . The sound system had a sound bite 'here comes the wave' or ' I think I see the wave'. It made me want to throw up my beer. It is bad enough some bandwagoners want to start it. I am very disapointed that the Sox sound system ENCOURAGED it. just my 2 cents. what is everyone else's take on this? By the way, what makes your fanship more a part of the White Sox "core" than that of someone who enjoys the wave? What makes you "the core" of the Sox fanbase? I thought that the jerseys you buy, And the tickets you buy, And the beers you drink, And all memorabilia you own, ultimately come out the same as that of other people? Or I guess someone who does the Wave spends less money on the game, Doesn't own any Sox gear, And enjoys the game less than yourself.