StrangeSox

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 7, 2007 -> 12:28 PM) It hasn't, but when it becomes "dangerous" is when it's for pure polictical fodder. That's my issue with it. I agree with the second half, but not the first. ANY indication of a candidate or politician changing their positions, even if its one vote 10 years ago, is harped on by his or her political opponents as a sign of weakness.

More on the Juarez murders... http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers.../ciudad_juarez/

GoSox, what's your solution?

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 7, 2007 -> 12:51 PM) Not to sound insensitive about the deaths of 268 women but that isn't an alarming number of deaths in a span of 14 years. The murders in Juarez are particularly brutal, FWIW.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 7, 2007 -> 12:22 PM) For those that voted in favor of the war, what does it say about someone who doesn't change their mind after not finding any WMD, after not experiencing anything the administration outlined? I do not see any virtue in not making a new decision once you discover you were wrong, for whatever reason. Blindly sticking by a decision you made years before, when so much new information is out there is wrong. Like most of politics, it's not clear-cut or black-and-white. Pandering to CNN's latest polls and never taking a true stance on issues is not an honorable trait. Neither is steadfastly sticking with a position that has been shown to be erroneous. I don't know why or when it became such a deplorable thing for people to change their minds when presented with new evidence.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 6, 2007 -> 10:31 PM) Well, the rules are hypocritical and wrong. Enforcement may be hypocritical, but the rules themselves are not in my understanding of them. They used their position, power, and military apparel for inappropriate support of a religious group. Denomination doesn't matter.

From the Guardian, FWIW. Rumors/ allegations of Bush-Hitler ties have been floating around for years. I'm surprised if you hadn't heard someone make that claim before. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html

Rules is rules, boss.

Sounds like you came on way too strong and she didn't like it very much.

I know, I know, the show doesn't come back on the air for another 6 months or so, but a friend sent me this video: http://darkufo.blogspot.com/2007/07/lost-o...tation-six.html It's another orientation film.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 2, 2007 -> 04:22 PM) Ok, I'll stop. Honestly, and you all know I say this all the time. The truth is somewhere in the middle. Most of you want to come in here and take the tact that we're all at fault for everything bad that happens in Iraq. The truth is, we are trying to stabalize the country - but the fanatics over there aren't going to let it happen. To say that we're totally responsible for the chaos is not the truth. To say we're partially responsible because we didn't have a plan to maintain the balance of power, yes, that's right. You all have to see that much, instead of totally, 100% blaiming the Bush Administration, like a lot of you like to do. We are 100% responsible for creating the situation, not neccesarily for perpetuating it. I don't see how it can be argued that the US didn't create the instability that allowed the ensuing insurgency, sectarian violence, and civil war fester and grow into what it is today. It has taken them over 4 years to get together a decent plan and to try to put it to use. We won World War 2 in less time.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 2, 2007 -> 04:17 PM) So we go over there, try to maintain the peace, and get blamed for messing the whole country up? Nice. We went over there, invaded a country and overthrew a government. This wasn't a peacekeeping mission, ala Bosnia or Somalia.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 2, 2007 -> 03:59 PM) They could CHOOSE to live peacefully and harness the opportunities we gave them to be a "free" country. Or, they might not. We're partially to blame, but not all to blame - and it disgusts me that some of you here think this is entirely our fault. That's a rather beneign way of stating a foreign army overthrowing a government, occupying, and running the country for over 4 years. We didn't give them much opportunity when we completely destroyed ability to form a government and stable security forces early on (de-Baathification and disbanding the army).

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 2, 2007 -> 03:14 PM) Now, the good 'ol US of A is TOTALLY responsible for the mess over there. Not Al Queda, not repressed people lashing out because they can, not idiots hell-bent on creating a civil war, THE US is responsible for all of this. We created the situation that allowed for all of this to happen. If we don't invade, it doesn't happen. If we invade and don't totally f*** up their country, government, and army, it doesn't happen.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 31, 2007 -> 08:43 AM) I wasn't sure where to put this, it didn't seem to need its own thread... CNN does an interview with the person who runs a major national gas price survery, used by many media outlets. You just have to read this - it gets funnier as it goes on. She starts logically enough, talking about the effects on prices, refining capacity, etc. Then by the end, she just goes off the deep end. I mean, not just saying she doesn't agree with global warming... but she actually says that conservation or trying to use less oil is bad. Anyone else a little dismayed that the person who is providing this supposedly objective data to the media is so laughably subjective and biased in her views on that subject? And before the responses about global warming not being definite start, I don't even mind that part. Read deeper than that - she is actually advocating using more and more oil as if it were a good thing. That closing paragraph is particularly good: "I don't accept it as established fact, nor do I accept that it would be caused by petroleum consumption, nor do I accept that the human species should not affect its environment. So even if it were someday to be shown to have some small effect on the environment, I see no crime. In fact, taking into account the many, many millions of people around the world that envy our way of life, it would seem more humanitarian to wish them the kind of plentiful petroleum products and vehicles ... that we enjoy ... to lift themselves out of [a] backward, poor way of life. " So its ok that if we pollute and destroy the environment. Its our god-given right! And, we need to help thos "backwards" people and get them some oil!

This team makes baby Jesus cry.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 2, 2007 -> 02:41 PM) And America is 100% at fault. /rolly I must have missed those daily car bombings before we invaded. There were several crucial mistakes made early on by our civilian leadership. Monumental mistakes that we still haven't recovered from. These mistakes led to the current environment and our inability to control the country. We created the situation and couldn't keep it in check.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 2, 2007 -> 02:32 PM) Could also be an average day in Minneapolis. Is it wrong if I thought of posting the same exact thing? Any way, it does make a point. Here, it becomes a tragedy given national coverage for days. It'll be thoroughly analyzed and investigated. In Iraq, it is just another day. Tomorrow there will be more bombings, more fighting. No need to worry about a dozen people being blown up today, another dozen will go tomorrow.

QUOTE(DonnyDevito @ Aug 2, 2007 -> 01:57 PM) sadly, with the way the girly armed podsednik is hitting he'll be around for a long time. i'm guessing he'll have 9 more stints on the DL before his career with the white sox is over. So he'll be gone by next May?!

Pods is now DHing. This team is epically bad.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 2, 2007 -> 01:53 PM) yes, one bad season after winning a WS and 90 win seasons and now we are a laughing stock. Maybe its just to you. Well, that's sort of the point. Look at how far this team has fallen: wire-to-wire lead of one of the best divisions and an 11-1 post season record, to 90 games and missing the playoffs, to the cellar.

It's nice to see other teams go through pitching woes.

LOL. Nice pitching by "the rocket."

QUOTE(BaseballNick @ Aug 2, 2007 -> 12:05 PM) What is it exactly that you're basing this on? Those are just ridiculous statements to make. Floyd has not pitched well at all since being called up, but he's made two starts this year; one against a red-hot Twins team that tore apart our whole pitching staff, and one against the Tigers, who are arguably the best team in baseball, in a game that we actually came back to win. 100+ innings of sucking at MLB-level baseball?

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 1, 2007 -> 08:30 PM) I concede that, and I did a long time ago... but for some folks to say that BushCo has DIRECTLY connected 9/11 and Iraq, it's just plain wrong, and I find it irritating. There's plenty of crap to pile BushCo on, and this is NOT one of them. They linked them indirectly, but intentionally and deceptively. That is how they built up support for this war in the first place, along with all of the other turns-out-its-total-BS boogeymen they marched out in 2002-2003.