Texsox

QUOTE(EvilJester99 @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 11:38 AM) I know I know.. I was jesting about that. I believe you were EvilJesting™

They showed a flock of ducks Bea Arthur's picture and 1 in 10 preferred it to another duck . . . Simple research

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 08:57 AM) Thanks for focusing on the most meaningless part of the post and actually making a post regarding it. Let me clear it up for you... "You sped through a patrol due to your disgust for the war. You weren't going to stop for any American checkpoint...they shouldn't be there in the first place....so f*** em. You were just released from being held captive, and you weren't going to be detained any longer in this country than you had to be." There is a difference between a checkpoint and a Patrol. Checkpoints have barracaids, signs, and other attention getting devices. Patrols do not. Look at any of the pictures of checkpoints and you will see why this is not a meaningless distinction. It's the difference between a toll booth and a cop waving on the side of the road. A special agent received the death penalty for speeding. Which may have been appropriate, but we won't know until an investigation QUOTE(EvilJester99 @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 10:03 AM) Wouldn't it kind of stand to reason that since she hates America more than the terrorists that she would have no problem lying about certain facts to make the US look bad?? Wouldn't it kind of stand to reason that since he loves America more than the terrorists, that he would have no problem lying about certain facts to make the US look good?? It cuts both ways, which is why an investigation needs to occur. This is an ally, one of the few Coalition of the Willing that offered more than a pat on the back. The US has made plenty of mistakes. Some are justified, possibly some are not. I believe we get better by questioning and challenging and training and learning. To just accept whatever Americans do and not take any responsibility as an American doesn't make us better. Lick once from the lollipop of mediocrity and you will suck forever. IMHO I would rather have America accept we are not always perfect and fix the problem then blindly accept whatever version of a story makes us look perfect.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 08:09 AM) The thing that really pisses me off is our soldiers wouldn't bat an eye to risking their life to save this lady. If we got information that she was held up in a house our guys would go in there in a heartbeat and risk their lives to save her. No questions asked...They would die, without hesitation in trying to rescue her. I mean give me a f***in break lady...you want to make baseless accusations...here's mine You sped through the checkpoint due to your disgust for the war. You weren't going to stop for any American checkpoint...they shouldn't be there in the first place....so f*** em. You were just released from being held captive, and you weren't going to be detained any longer in this country than you had to be. Where's my facts for making this statement?? I have none....where's yours b****??? I thought it was already proven it was *not* a checkpoint but a patrol

I assume there will be a lot of Southside love on a White Sox board. If you enjoy the outdoors, lakes, boating, snow mobiling, etc. I would look up north. I lived for a while in Wildwood, on Gages Lake. The Fox Lake Chain-O-Lakes was 30 minutes away, Lake Michigan was 20 minutes away.

What's the difference between Jack and Arnie and Tiger and Phil? Arnie actually won once in a while . . .

If you have a job or school lined up, that would help to narrow down the search. The city of Chicago is just like Minnesota, only with more people

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Mar 7, 2005 -> 09:53 PM) Well I finally watched The O'Reilly Factor tonight and for the most part it was what I expected. Here's what I got out of it and some other random observations. First off I've never seen a commentator compliment his guest as much as he does (ie you're obviously a good person, you're a good american, you have a good head on your shoulders type thing). Also, I haven't seen a commentator interrupt or talk over a guest as much as he does since I last watched Crossfire. Anyways on to the meat and potatoes of my summary. After viewing it once, it seems that this show's goal is to pit the right against the left and I'd say to the extent of the right being the good guys and the left being the bad guys. All the topics on this episode were displayed this way. 1.Colorado U. President stepping down -O'Reilly uses very simple minded arguments like Churchill is a Traitor and his work was nothing but propaganda. This subject is obviously way to complicated to do in a 7 or 8 minute segment and to simply to throw harsh terms at the subject is ineffective and repetitive. 2.Diplomat attempted child Rape story -It could be made an argument that this was more about taking shots at people of brown colored skin but O'Reilly didn't really say anything like this. His guest got into issues of law and that was pretty boring, O'Reilly was obviously bored too. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washingt..._avoid_charges/ 3.Weed Book -Next O'Reilly had a guy on who wrote a book about Marijuana for kids. The author tried to make up something about how this will actually prevent kids from using pot even though pot is obviously portrayed in a favourable manner in this book. O'Reilly wasn't buying it and neither am I. http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0509,pietras,61592,6.html 4.Virginia Islam School where man accused of plotting to kill Bush went -This was interesting but the guests he had on were students from many years ago at the school and didn't really have anything interesting to say. Then O'Reilly cornered them into answering the question "Does Al-Qaeda need to be completely destroyed" which had nothing to do with the subject and was completely unrelated and it pissed me and the guests off. 5.Moore speech cancelled by school -This was more about bashing Moore than about the school. Certainly not very interesting segment, especially for a Canadian. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles...academic_honor/ 6.Guy suing Tsunami warners -This is obviously a shot at frivalous lawsuits and the conspiracist in me says it's also a shot at John Edwards. Nonetheless the lawsuit was stupid. http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region...105394&region=2 Anyways no real surprises here, this really isn't news program and I guess it's not supposed to be. I've also never seen a program anywhere near as bias as this and I have no idea what "you're entering the no spin zone" means. Well I won't be watching again, so I'll probably never find out. Actually, of everyone on the GOP Media Network, O'Reilly is my Fav. He will take on GOP wrongs and compliment DEM rights quicker and without choking. Down here people can listen to these programs and know the host is human and has some bias and then make their own choices, they get confused however, when they hear a news report minutes before. That presumed bias, is evil and must be stomped out.

Plus, they all get Secret Service protection for life. I wonder how much we are paying for that They all seem in good health, I suspect we'll set the record in a couple more years.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 04:49 AM) Alright so i'm exporting some of my CDs into my Itunes library and then into my Ipod. I came across one of my CDs where this does not work because it has other files on it, such as music videos, pictures, etc. So when i go to "file - add file to library" it only gives me the option to import these bogus files, not any of the songs. Is there any way to get these songs into ITunes? I can't figure it out. If I understand what you have, is it possible via Windows Explorer or My Computer to get a directory of the CD and move just the music tracks to your hard drive, them into iTunes from there? I assume the software is trying to handle the entire CD.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 07:23 AM) She survived, so it couldn't be a hit. One person is dead, maybe he was the commie!

But not too busy to educate and research

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 07:18 AM) That would be an interesting research project for somebody. TexSox, you busy? Yes

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 12:07 AM) It wouldn't, but they're claiming that it WASN'T an accident. That's where the problem lies. Let me see if I understand this She's a commie b****, so it couldn't be a hit?

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Mar 7, 2005 -> 08:19 PM) You still fail to recognize the difference between being hit by indiscriminatory fire and being kidnapped, tortured, and beheaded because of one's race and/or religion. Did you catch the story about Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana being killed by a mortar round back in August? Or how about the one about Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly, who was killed in a Humvee accident? Most people recognize the difference between bad luck and the intentional slaughter of civilians. Most consider the former an unfortunate, but inevitable part of war. The latter, however, is only accepted by terrorists. Well, that's because communism is wrong. History has clearly shown that it doesn't work. This woman clearly has an anti-American agenda and she doesn't deserve a shred of respect from me. Being angry at the U.S. troops for accidentally opening fire on her car is certainly understandable. Trying to undermine our government with her "Bush tried to assassinate me!" rhetoric, however, is not and, frankly, gives me every right to give this left-wing America-hater the "b****" label. And I agree that we should apologize for making a mistake (if, indeed, the investigation determines that we were at fault). Then again, it's equally possible that her driver made the mistake. We'll have to wait until the investigation is complete. If it was an accident, what difference does it make what political views the journalist who is living or the DEAD Special Ops Agent have?

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Mar 7, 2005 -> 05:10 PM) It does seem sad and I'm not trying to sound mean or anything but I almost feel that it's somewhat better that they learn other languages too. It's just too bad that they have to give their own up. I can't believe there is over 6000 lanquages though, too many in my opinion. Americans are so adaptable, I remember when we jumped at the chance to switch to the worldwide accepted metric system back in the 70s. Less adaptable societies would have clung to the old system. I am certain we wouldn't have a problem switching to French

Daniel Pearl, and all civilians in the war zone, ignored repeated warnings from the terrorists that they would be executing people. Not saying it is fair, or not, just pointing out that warnings do not excuse behavior.

I believe President Bush's greatest strength is he hires good people. I might not agree 100% with all of their positions and views, but with one exception, I applaud the way he has filled the positions. In fact, I might regret saying this without thinking all the way back, but he may have the best track record of the past 30 years. Again, taking the politics out of it, I think he has done a tremendous job in this area, across the board. Or does he make them look better?

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Mar 7, 2005 -> 12:46 PM) I saw a commercial for that DVD on ESPNews, and I was like "What the f***? Is this real?" I thought it was a SNL parody at first. I did a google search to find out. LMAO on the picks and comments. If it drives like a 4 door sedan, stand back and look closely and see if it IS a 4 door sedan.

QUOTE(Steff @ Mar 7, 2005 -> 12:03 PM) Just stay at the Pfister with us. That was my favorite Milwaukee Hotel. Are they still operating The English Room? The sommelier, don't call me a wine steward, was excellent. Once, I had called ahead of time, hoping they would have a particular Oregon Pinot in the celler. He called around and could not procure it in time and when I asked about corkage fees he was very nice. We worked out a trade that was very one sided for me. It's little touches like that, that make the Pfister so nice. That and all the marble. The one down side was the var always sucked. Great few but empty and boring. Old Hotels are the best.

Official US Policy is we do not negotiate with terrorists. Unofficially we may negotiate with a 3rd party who negotiates with the terrorist.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Mar 7, 2005 -> 10:23 AM) Obvious? Been done "My Fellow Americans" with James Garner, Jack Lemmon, and Dan Aykroyd

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Mar 7, 2005 -> 10:21 AM) Bush is older than Clinton. And also did lose to him, so I guess I can't complain that Clinton is giving him the bed. It is interesting how our Ex-Presidents all seem to get along. Carter and Ford have discussed this on many occassions. It's a small club. Usually even smaller. At one time I believe we only had Nixon as a living ex-President. Now we have enough Presidents to field a basketball team. I'll guard Ford

FWIW, a guy I know owns a couple LaQuinta Hotels. He's told me the actual best way to a great rate is to call the sales department, explain you visit the area on business and are interested in checking out the hotel. What is the best rate they could offer on X nights. Explain, you would prefer to not book through one of those internet sites, but wish to check out the hotel while on a pleasure trip to the area. It's a white lie of sorts. Many Hotels will offer the price you would get because they actually make more than booking through the agency. It also allows you to choose which hotel you are staying at. It all depends on how much time and effort you wish to invest.

President Clinton sleeping on floor