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QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Oct 2, 2011 -> 11:14 AM) I have a certain level of resentment for any CiC who never served. He holds this authority over our Armed Forces but never wore the uniform himself? How is he supposed to understand our lives and the challenges we face? Now, I'll follow the CiC's orders no matter what his background. And if you've read enough of my posts, you know I also resent people like Terrence Lakin, the field grade officer who refused to deploy until Obama provided his birth certificate. The man brought his politics into the workplace and his career was rightfully ended in disgrace. My personal distaste for how the CiC spent his youth is my problem alone. Of course, you already know my solution. Never vote for non-veterans. I, personally, will never support a man for the position of my boss if he hadn't once been in my shoes. I don't think that's unreasonable. You will vote for a republican regardless of their military service. So how can you support the military if you don't support the CiC? You're questioning others that they can support the personnel but not the cause, how can you support the cause without supporting the CiC?

Really, thirty year old dirt about a name that Perry wasn't even involved in? http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_...11-10-02-11-34-

Jim is my other name.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 2, 2011 -> 10:38 AM) If you're making $2 million a year and spending it all, you deserve what's next. He wants a $2 million boat. Enough said. And he has the opportunity to earn the money to acquire it. I'm not suggesting he is spending it all, but how much of it should he spend? $50,000? People live comfortably on that and he'd have enough to live on for 30 or 40 years.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 2, 2011 -> 09:22 AM) I'm trying to think of other fields where the employees (players) make many millions more than management. Not millions but it happens in sales all the time for the top producers. And IMHO, wise management allows for this and doesn't adjust the pay structure.

QUOTE (Whitewashed in '05 @ Oct 1, 2011 -> 06:28 PM) I am happy to post that I am now employed!! First post college job! Finally after a few months of searching! Amway? Whatcha doing?

It's also an ego thing. You think these guys don't know what everyone else makes? Athletes are competitive in most everything. Wanting the fastest car, the biggest house, the best parties . . .

yes, Ozzie could buy a nice $150,000 in Waukegan or Ford Heights and drive a 4 year old Chevy to to the ball games and never worry about money. Guys making minimum wage think if I was just making $25,000 a year, I'd be happy. Guy making $25,000 wishes he was making $50,000. It just keeps going up from there. Some people are happy just to be able to give their kids a 10 year old Toyota to drive, but wish they could give them something a little nicer. When you are making $2 mil its remarkably easy to spend it and want to have $3 million.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 1, 2011 -> 11:02 AM) Ok, so were going to get into hypotheticals here. Hypothetical: American citizen joins the mob. Travels to Sicily to plan a crime or murder of a us citizen. Is this a military strike target? If you know where the meeting is, do you blow it up based on the accusation? It's the same level of "imminent threat" talked about here. Or how about a US citizen that supported the Irish republican army in the 80's. Giving money to actively support terrorism against a us ally and verbally exhorting people to join in and support the revolution back home. Actively supporting and funding bombers against a us ally, based on this standard the president would be able to strip that person of citizenship and have them killed with no due process. Same level of decaying obedience to a violent foreign based group. That's where I am glad we have well trained humans making those decisions. While no solution here is perfect, the best system I see is allowing the people in our government the authority to follow through on their responsibility. Of course you can pile up hypotheticals from here to China but my answer will all be the same, at some point we have to trust the people making those decisions. And that is how it has been from the beginning of time. It is all people making decisions, including what was written in the Constitution.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Oct 1, 2011 -> 03:38 PM) Give me a f***ing break. I'm supposed to equate some Peace Corps dork with the American Soldier? No. Not happening. This post has been edited by the Soxtalk staff to remove objectionable material. Soxtalk encourages a free discussion between its members, but does not allow personal attacks, threats, graphic sexual material, nudity, or any other materials judged offensive by the Administrators and Moderators. Thank you. I'm guessing you are unfamiliar with either the cause of the Peace Corp or the causes you are fighting for. There are many ways to secure our borders from enemies, one of which is to stop creating them. Perhaps you are embarrassed when some military dork is photographed feeding a little kid, handing them a doll, or handing out water bottles in a disaster zone.

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.