Texsox

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Nov 4, 2005 -> 10:18 AM) Knowing me and knowing Texas I would say a lynch mob. Not at all, welcome to the border region. 85% Democrat. Now up by Kap, that's GOPer heaven.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Nov 4, 2005 -> 12:39 PM) Well it makes us feel safe, doesn't it to blame the victim? I'll never be that stupid, so I won't be raped. I'll never walk alone late at night so I'll never be raped. After all, good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. Isn't that the easiest way to live your life? Unless, of course, something bad's happened to you. . . I'm not saying blame the victim, I'm saying we have less sympathy for someone who was dealing drugs than someone who was sitting in their living room when they are murdered. Perhaps you are right, we do feel safer if we think, I won't be robbed if I avoid this neighborhood, or I won't get raped if I don't get drunk and lose control around strangers. From another angle, if you were teaching a class on how to protect yourself from rape, wouldn't you discuss this situation and explain the evils of getting into a van with 6 men? Clearly that is risky behavior. Does she deserve to be a victim of a crime? Of course not. Are the 6 men involved the lowest forms of human life? Absolutely. How can one fit all that together? Should her actions be discussed at all, in the context of how to avoid being a victim?

half way dilated? Just like the World Series, all Mike can do is sit there and cheer and say "we" a lot

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Nov 4, 2005 -> 11:02 AM) Well, what was the FIRST comments about this? Bad girl, stupid choice. As opposed to WHAT KIND OF f***ING ASSHOLE RAPES A GIRL WITH 5 OF HIS CLOSEST FRIENDS? Essentially, focusing first on the victim's behavior reduces the accountability that we put on the perps for RAPING someone. Soxy, How much of this would you agree with? Our society always identifies with the victim and tempers their response to the victim. A couple of examples An elderly woman is home alone, someone breaks in, and murders her. A 17 year old drop out is hanging with gang members and in a drive by shooting, he is murdered. Our society has a greater moral outrage for someone who is as innocent a victim as possible. Especially someone who had not put themselves in a dangerous situation to begin with. The headline is usually about the victim. 10 year old shot on the way to School; not 23 year old shoots student. I do believe our military, like teachers, clergy, Doctors, etc. should be more trustworthy. Had these not been Marines, we wouldn't be discussing it. Somewhere in all this, I think we all can agree, we wish she had exercised better judgment. I think we all agree these men, if guilty, are despicable pigs that should be given the harshest sentence available.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 4, 2005 -> 08:01 AM) That's the point. The main audio channel on the DVD would be Darkside of the moon, and if you really wanted to watch the real movie for some unknown reason, you'd select the alternative audio channel. For the people who are too stoned to synch it correctly. Brilliant! have a Guiness.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Nov 4, 2005 -> 07:39 AM) Effective immediately: 5 day suspesion for incorrect use of your, you're, there, their, they're, its, it's in SLAP. Thanks guys. I will try very hard to not get drunk on my own power. And I would like to add, in the grammatical vein, and to not risk the 5-day suspension, urine for a real treat as mod. That's the end of Jas posting. BTW, not everyone here is a guy. and with this power, you won't even get a buzz . . .

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 3, 2005 -> 07:09 PM) I see this thread as an example of immense progress. Only four dickheads (so far) thought the subject of gang rape was a good subject for a joke or a blame the victim statement. We’ve come a long way, baby. I'm hoping you miscounted, if not, you must have mis-read my post. Not to defend the Neanderthals here, but there is a statement, part way between blaming the victim and excusing bad judgment. I would not be blaming her when I say, I wish she had exercised better judgment than trusting 6 members of the US military. No one deserves to be a victim of any crime, especially rape. But I don't think any parent would suggest to their kid to jump in the van and have a good time. I'm not blaming her, but wishing she had displayed better judgment. Maybe this tragedy would have been avoided.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Nov 3, 2005 -> 07:38 PM) I find it funny but people who cry the most about security lines at the airport are typically the same ones who arrive at the airport right about the time their flight starts boarding. Like the one knucklehead in the Tucson Airport I ran into when I flew to Washington last month. He comes running up to the checkpoint line all in a huff saying "I cant believe this!!" I asked him what time his flight left and he goes "in 30 minutes". It took all the patience I could muster to keep from yelling out "DUMBASS!" right there in front of everyone. I was thisclose to missing a connecting in Dallas last month. Damn travel agent only gave me 47 minutes between flights and I was transfering between American and Delta. Had to go the length of one terminal, grab a shuttle bus, and get over to the other.

People die in wars, suck it up. America is so much safer now. And build your own damn house, don't wait for some government trailer like it's free cheese. Damn it's fun being a republican

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 3, 2005 -> 01:52 PM) LMAO... It never gets old. Unlike YAS

Steff that is bout the stupidist damn thread you have ever started. I don't know what kind of a moron you must be to even read that garbage, then pass it on. Why don't you MYOB once in a while? Geez Whizz. WTF GMAFB

When I was travelling weekly, I would have paid it, without hesitation.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Nov 3, 2005 -> 05:30 PM) If you don't like the topic, you don't have to post in the thread....Just a thought. But then we could be overrun by crappy threads, I'm not saying this is a crappy thread, but if people don't question the quality of threads, we run the risk of having 50 thread starts a day, all with no replies. BTW, WTF, the WS was just a week ago. Why worry about what to do if Kong isn't signed?

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Nov 3, 2005 -> 01:17 PM) 6 strange men, 1 chick, in a van? Bad choice. Doesn't excuse it, but that was some very bad decision making on her part. If a guy walks down the street wearing a nice suit, a nice watch, and is carrying $500 and gets mugged, was that a bad choice? If the accusations are true, she allowed herself to get tricked by rapists. Yes, Nuke she made a poor decision to hang out with rapists. I doubt if you were hanging out with 5 buddies, you would be thinking, let's find some woman and rape her?

One of the most basic protections we have as Americans is from our own government. The right to free speech allows us to clean up our own government. If something illegal is going on, whether it is illegal truck leases or CIA ilegal prisons, cruelty to prisoners, outsourcing interrogations to countries that allow torture, etc. we can and will talk about it. So I don't care who is in power, if something illegal is going on, I say let's shine a light on it and fix it.

I saw that and started laughing. How many other qualified people has the government hired and placed in important positions? And I know Bush isn't the first President to have a loser in such a position, but this is clearly over the top.

I need a bunch of bread and loads of butter and a big class of milk with my pot pies.

:headshake http://news.inq7.net/top/index.php?index=1&story_id=55387

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 3, 2005 -> 12:30 PM) Where's the weather...? Still waiting for the weather..? Someone said there'd be weather... !!!! I've been threatened with a banning if I post a weather report for McAllen between September and May. Of course, you could always keep that from happening.

The GMs must handicap what Kong will be playing like in 2011-2013. That is the core of the negotiations. Past performance of course comes into play, but what will he do during the contract, that's the crystal ball work. Once a GM has a higher regard for a player, he's got a better chance of singing the guy, good or bad.

To be honest, I've never understood the fascination of the running boob look? The Farrah Fawcett beach scene is the possible exception, but that was in slow motion, I was 14, and only watched it a few times more the SS has posts.

My info is a few years old by now, but fwiw Sunday afternoon games use to get crowded with the sweater and suburb crowd. I have gone there so often I take sideroads leaving and head north to Division(?). by the Pizza Hut. There is so much security and cops around, I never worried. Just don't stop in Lake Street for a date. The neighborhood isn't the best, who really wants to live that close to a stadium? Be prepared to learn some new words. Begin cheering before the anthem starts, and you will have a great time.

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 3, 2005 -> 11:58 AM) Egggzactly. Damn, if I knew you liked fat, ugly, old men, I wouldn't have gone on this diet