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QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Oct 1, 2011 -> 12:31 PM) They're allowed to be against the war. I have no problem with that. But you simply can't claim to support us while refusing to support the cause for which we are prepared to give our lives. Simple, you will understand why some of us do not support some of the causes when you understand why you do not support the Commander in Chief. How can you support the military then rip the Commander?

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Aug 28, 2011 -> 11:41 AM) Look on the bright side though, they'd probably erect a statue of you. They are erecting a statue of the boy and his dad as a tribute to all their fans.

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/pitch-5...ath-player.html Son of fan who fell to his death throws first pitch to his favorite player

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Is Ben related to Jacob?

QUOTE (alwaysonthesouthside @ Oct 1, 2011 -> 02:31 AM) I posted this on the other sox manager board... QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 1, 2011 -> 07:10 AM) There's another Sox board? Apparently it is just for Sox managers. Manuel posts all the time, but he has plenty of free time. Bevington only posts in the "I am drunk" thread and no one can figurre out what the fock Ozzie is posting.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 12:30 PM) There is a reason for that... This thread would look more like an Adam Dunn boxscore strikeout strikeout strikeout got to first base strikeout strikeout I almost restarted the QOTM thread for this one

The just crossed my screen and I wanted to share . . . America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense .. human rights invented America. The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself — always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity. Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use. War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth — one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president. All from Jimmy Carter

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 10:30 PM) and that's still a dumb non-argument on why you're cool with denying due process rights to American citizens The issue becomes updating our laws to reflect that not all of our enemies are in traditional armies with national ties. If this guy was flying a Japanese plane over Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 we'd have had no problem with blasting him from the sky instead of detaining him for questioning and possible arrest. If this guy was on Pork Chop Hill talking away on his radio helping the North Koreans we'd have no problems with providing a bullet to the head instead of providing a phone call. If he was facing south in Kontum Province we wouldn't have any second thoughts about heroes like John Vann (Medal of Freedom as civilian in Vietnam) or the 44th Infantry Regiment dealing with this guy instead of a lawyer dealing with him. Today we have a different battlefield. We may never have clear lines of command, no lines in the sand. What line would have been placed on the World Trade Center? At some point we will redefine who is, and who is not, and American citizen. When we do, I am quite certain, he will be an example of someone who has given up that citizenship and taken up the role as enemy.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 10:34 PM) Oh cool. The leftist circle jerk never would have been complete without you. Thanks for coming. If you don't support our assigned mission, you don't support us. Any troop would tell you that. The whole "support the troops by bringing them home" idea is ludicrous to us. We weren't drafted. We signed up to support a cause. If you don't support that cause, you don't support us. End of story. I don't really give a s*** if a troop is gay or not. I just don't like seeing our time wasted to conduct social experiments in tolerance. Time that, mind you, could be better spent training for actual combat scenarios and not on how to see gay people as people. How do you sign up in support of a cause that hasn't even started? Are you seriously claiming that every war action the US is involved in should be 100% supported? Morally and legally aren't you required to not follow an order that you believe to be illegal or immoral? Shouldn't the citizens be allowed that same right?

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 10:08 PM) I just think it's funny. Let me guess...you're one of those "support the troops but not the war" types, right? Nah, f*** the troops, they don't need civilians, they do this all by themselves. You told me. Which makes this kind of weird http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/am...-130842483.html Seems like some of the military think they actually need the American citizen's money. And at least according to the American Legion head, they even want the American taxpayer to keep paying them huge benefits after they leave the military. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/30/...E78P0DY20110930 Oops and it seems that the military may be concerned about losing civilian manufacturing capabilities. They need infant in charge, he'll set them straight. The military doesn't need support from anyone.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 09:49 PM) I can't be convinced that a certain strain of thought is bad for my country, bad for my people and bad for me without being hyperviolent and intolerant? I never said anything of the sort. Unlike you, I actually believe in your freedom to say what you want. I'm in the Army to fight for such freedoms. However, that doesn't change my utmost belief that your opinions are idiotic, unrealistic and bad for America. I believe that leftist politicians should be voted out of power in every election and that leftist ideas should be fought against and revealed for the bulls*** that they are. But I didn't say we should just go around killing all the leftists and forcibly converting them. Stop acting like I ever did. Is there any chance that you are wrong?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 09:07 PM) Was this a little hint of Ozzie's lifestyle when you said wife n girlfriend? Not flaming, just wonder if u suspect he is a candidate to go on the show, "Cheaters." Nah, I was talking in generalities.

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/players...ded-taking.html NY coach suspended for taking players to cemetery

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 06:32 PM) Of course. But at least start with job-related qualifications, and see where that gets you. I've been in a position of hiring and firing people for a lot of my career, and I've seen a LOT of resumes. For every job I've ever seen, most applicants lack fundamental things, and your pool decreases dramatically if you use those qualifications. Though I admit, that may not be true of every job in every sector. But in the sectors where a zillion people are qualified, you then look to the intangibles - like hunger and drive. Furthermore, you want cheap. Both, IMO, point TO the unemployed, not away from them. I believe the point now is because of the higher unemployment rates the past couple years after completing that step they now have too many applications to consider and the next divisor is current employment status.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 05:38 PM) Dude, it's just my style. You know that. Careful, it was bordering on hyperbole, and that's my style. You work your side of the alley, I'll work mine.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 05:32 PM) Funny how Ozzie had to have that option exercised, it gets exercised and he doesn't honor it, and HE pops off about loyalty. Maybe he should re think that. If JR doesn't let him out of his contract, its very debatable whether he ever gets offered what he signed for ever again. Where was Ozzie not going to honor the contract? Did we really want him to?

Depends on the bodyguard

NSS, from a practical point of view, it is impossible to interview ever qualified applicant. So you start to apply filters to narrow down the list. Whatever filter you use will potentially cause you to overlook the very best candidate. So which filters should be employed first? The unqualified are tossed aside. Then here is the first cut I used, local versus out of the area. Unemployed applicants from out of say a 100 mile area, went in the bottom stack. Employed applicants without specific industry experience were placed on top of them. The top of the stack were applicants from my biggest competitors with three years of experience or less and one promotion in that time. Why? Because that formula worked for me on numerous occasions. In fifteen years I never fired someone who fit that profile. I was 100% happy with each hire. Some left on their own accord, but were considered solid employees while working with me. Any one of those filters may have caused me to overlook someone, but you have to trust your gut and history.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 05:07 PM) He lost that status when he took up arms against the United States. I will shed no tears for him. Besides, if this wasn't justice, what would have been? Allowing him to live and continue to murder innocent people out of some refusal to extrajudicially execute a "US citizen" (and I use that phrase in the loosest way)? I don't think so. Regardless of the legal implications here, the world is now a better place and AQAP is substantially weaker. I'll take it! Besides, he could have gotten his fair trial at any point by simply surrendering. But he didn't do that. Instead he continued to fight. And we have no obligation to capture individuals who take up arms against us and do not surrender to our forces, no different than the fact that a cop no longer has any obligation to capture the criminal who shoots at him. Awlaki can burn in Hell. I hope his body is devoured by wild pigs. While I stop a little short of the blood thirsty rhetoric, I do agree with, and endorse, this message.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 03:31 PM) The answer to this is to go back to Reagan-era upper level tax rates. (/rimshot).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 03:24 PM) In fact the evidence is quite the opposite. Exactly, which is partially why he does not take 100% of the fall. Oz playing Dunn in 122 games or so and getting him 400+ ABs is more the problem.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 12:05 PM) Can we STOP acting like Ozzie would have died poor if he left the Sox and had to go be an analyst for Fox or something? The guy has probably over $40M in career earnings. Give me a f***ing break. Your analogy makes sense for normal jobs, but when Ozzie is already set for life, no, it doesn't work. LOL. I don't believe I sugested Oz was going to die poor, but do you really think Ozzie has enough to watch $8,000,000.00 slip away? You can always live a little better. An even bigger boat, an even bigger house, bigger diamonds for the wife and girlfriend, even longer and more lavish vacations. I just watched a special about a ship that rents for $500,000 per week. Think a guy with a couple million in the bank will lease it for a month and cruise the Med Sea? How about a guy with $10 mil in the bank? If no one desired a house more expensive than a milliom bucks, then no one would build $5 mil homes. Think about this, didn't Jordan make enough playing basketball? Why did he endorse products? I've read very few people that say they have enough money and don't want any more. Yes, he's set for life. But do you think he doesn't want to improve on how "set" he is?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 03:10 PM) What's that old saying, the buck stops here? I don't care if everyone in the world heralded the Dunn signing at the time. The GM has to take responsibility. Hell, he's done that publicly and there are still those on this board who give him a pass. Actually Dunn should be the person to take the responsibility for playing this poorly. About the last guy to be blamed for the way Dunn played should be the GM.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 02:35 PM) There is absolutely zero evidence that Kenny was against signing Dunn. Nor is there any evidence that he was the only one that wanted him.