StrangeSox

I love when people who run companies into the ground because of their poor management and leadership get to walk away with tens of millions of dollars instead of being fired for incompetence and walking away with squat like they should be.

Starting now. Finally.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 18, 2008 -> 09:24 AM) For anyone curious, Obama is starting a speech right now (~9:15) that I think CNN will carry live, about this and race in general in his attempt to get to the White House. Still waiting...CNN is carrying it live, and you can stream it online.

QUOTE(lostfan @ Mar 18, 2008 -> 07:47 AM) This entire response is based off the fallacious premise that Jeremiah Wright ONLY preaches what you saw in those videos btw. Anything more than that is deliberately polarzing the issue and trying to turn it black and white when it really isn't (pun not intended). I would really like to know how often sermons like that were given. Are the handful of clips out there the only times in 20 years? Was it a weekly or monthly thing?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 15, 2008 -> 03:41 PM) Yes, actually I've done exactly that with this revelation about Obama's pastor. I don't at all like the fact that he's continued to belong to the same church for 20 years if he so thoroughly denounces all of the controversial aspects of the pastor's message. It doesn't mean i all of a sudden believe anothr candidate is a better choice, but I end up feeling frustrated/angry with Obama for either: 1) not having enough moral conviction to take a stand and leave this particular congregation if he disagreed with so much of what the paster espoused, or 2) maybe agreeing with the pastor on some of those views, even if now it's not politically convenient to cop to it. It is definitely a strike against the guy in my book, and it's not the first one but may be the biggest as far as my belief that this can be a guy to help move the country past some of this ugliness. Gotta agree with this post in whole.

Is there anyone in the minor leagues capable of stepping up and taking a shot if Floyd, Danks, and/or Contreras don't work out? Having Danks as the #3 doesn't make me very confident going into the season.

That's one hell of a cop-out, imo.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 14, 2008 -> 10:23 AM) The producers have said in one of their podcasts that the 8 has no significance. Jack was just covering for Kate and threw out a number. Similiar to the newspaper clipping with the guy in the coffin, we're supposed to ignore it. No significance overall beyond that it is their fabricated story, and if Jin wasn't one of the 8 they claimed survived, then his date of death would be 9-22-2004. That's why they'd choose that date, because as far as the outside world is aware, everyone but the Oceanic Six plus two more died on that day.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 14, 2008 -> 10:04 AM) I thought last nights was pretty meh, but it sets up more interesting questions. Is Jin really dead? Why would they choose the date of the plane crash when we know he was alive months and months afterwards? Was it all a setup? Is Jin still on the island, waiting for Sun to return or for the rest to be rescued? In Jack's testimony, he said that 8 survived the crash and 6 made it off the island. Maybe he was one of the ones they said died in the crash?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 14, 2008 -> 09:09 AM) Tough situation, you have to play him to show his rehab progress, but want to hide that .080 You can't show what might not be there...

That was a crap episode. They basically confirmed what everyone already knew. The only new piece of information was Jin is dead. The rest of the plot didn't advance at all.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 03:13 PM) I would agree if it became legal. At this point it is not, so im not going to continue to argue "well this is also/more dangerous, why isnt it illegal as well?" because it is pointless. I never said anything about a breathalyzer for pot, sleeping pills, pain killers, or cough medecine. I said you could be tested (blood, urine)for narcotics in your system at the time of arrest. Early on, Steve made a comment that pot will not be legalized unless they're some sort of on-the-spot test like their is for alcohol, and I was pointing out examples of other things that impair your driving but for which there are no on-the-spot tests. I was talking about that line of thought, not what you said.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 03:10 PM) Step back for a moment. Why are people taking cough medicine and why are they smoking pot? There is a difference in application which is probably relevant. Not too many are texting all their friends to take some Nyquil, but they are making invitations to get baked. That wasn't the case at my HS. And plenty of people take the other drugs I mentioned for the purposes of getting high. My point was that there are many substances out there that significantly impair driving but there are no tests for them. I do not agree with the claim that anyone drives better drunk or stoned.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 01:24 PM) Sure, they can test you if you have a some sort of ephedrine in your system. And they put on the bottle "Do not drive or operate heavy machinery...." Put the same warning on the pack/bag of pot. Lots and lots of things can make you too messed up to drive. Can they do breathalyser tests for sleeping pills? pain killers? cough medicine?

Great. They'll charge Comcast $1/ subscriber, and Comcast will charge me $5 a month for a channel I will rarely watch.

So what does that mean for the votes? The Democrats sure are doing a great job of disenfranchising voters this year.

QUOTE(Jordan4life @ Mar 12, 2008 -> 07:13 PM) Yes, Ace. You as well. There's been about 10 people from this site that haven't completely taken a dump on him the last two years. I stood by him but got sick of having the same argument over and over.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 12, 2008 -> 03:00 PM) California alone gave Hillary 203 delegates. Add in her 139 from New York state and you have dwarved the total of those 11 states that quick. Yet winning those 11 states is somehow put on a pedistool like it is more important. Its misleading and dishonest. Those states are going to go Dem no matter what. Hillary winning in solid blue states like NY and CA doesn't say much. Hillary winning* in solid red states like Texas doesn't say much. Their outcome is pretty much guaranteed in the general. It is the swing states that matter. Hillary won Florida* and Ohio in that area, to her credit.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 12, 2008 -> 12:09 PM) It wouldn't really need to be much larger. Mass transit doesn't need to be trains, necessarily. It wouldn't need to be trains only, but even a bus from my front door to O'Hare (I work about a mile away from the airport) would double my commute with all of the stops and generally driving slower. I just don't believe that mass transit is a feasible option for everyone. I do what I can and carpool with my gf who works down the street.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 12, 2008 -> 11:58 AM) That's cool it you live in a relatively large city or the suburbs of one. Unless you need to commute from one suburb to another and not into the city. I can't imagine how much larger the mass transit infrastructure would have to be to help with all the people that take 355, 83, or 294 from the southern suburbs to the northern suburbs. It would take me about 2 1/2 hours each way to use public transportation right now.

Ferraro: "They're attacking me because I'm white" http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/11/fer...ents/index.html Barack Hussein Obama is so fortunate, so lucky to be a young, half-black man who went to a Muslim school in Indonesia, has a middle name that's the same as a dictator we recently took down, and has a last name that's one letter off from America's #1 enemy. That's the type of person America loves. No wonder its been easy for him! There seems to be more and more racism coming from Clinton's camp. It started with Billy boy in South Carolina, then her latino supporters in Texas, and now this.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336849,00.html Related to this article: http://www.esquire.com/features/fox-fallon The article credits Fallon with "brazenly challenging his commander in chief" over a possible war with Iran, which Fallon called an "ill-advised action." A line states that if Fallon gets fired, we're going to war w/Iran.

QUOTE(ChiSox_Sonix @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 02:07 PM) Could it possibly be Mikhail? We dont know that hes actually dead...although i dont think Locke would have to "sit down to hear that" He wouldn't have to sit down for that. Mikhail was already one of Ben's best guys, and I don't remember Desmond telling them the details of what happened to him.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 12:09 PM) Then I would never vote for him, his daughter, or one of the family ladies, kicked my ass in a tournament in Aurora Rep I assume? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Oberweis The race was over Hastert's seat, so it was a big pick up for the Dem's.

http://www.pkarchive.org/column/31500.html