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Jon Stewart on the race: "If this lady loses, the health care reform bill that the beloved late senator considered his legacy, will die. And the reason it will die... is because if Coakley loses, Democrats will only have an 18 vote majority in the Senate, which is more than George W. Bush ever had in the Senate when did whatever the f*** he wanted to."

I remember about 10 years or so ago when the Olympics used to be about everyone getting together in the spirit of competition and watching the United States win everything

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 18, 2010 -> 05:37 PM) If memory serves..."It's about my penis", is eligible this year, yes? Yes, happened early in the year, it was decided right off the bat. lol.

Yesterday was pretty much the Chargers in a nutshell. So much hype in the regular season leading into the playoffs, everyone jumps on the wagon and starts calling them a Super Bowl contender (and Chargers fans get obnoxious as hell) and then they fall flat in the playoffs. Back a couple of years ago Chargers fans insisted that we'd have to start mentioning LT as one of the best ever... yeah I just don't see it.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Jan 17, 2010 -> 11:48 AM) This might might make me sound bad but wow was that a waste of a 2nd rounder, definitely unexpected though. Yeah, I felt the same way I do about any random stranger I don't know dying, yeah it's sad to hear, but I don't know him and I think of him strictly in terms of the Bears... I said it earlier somewhere else (rather tactfully I thoguht) and you'd have thought I was the biggest douchebag ever.

There are good unions and bad unions (in terms of how well they represent you), and there are good non-union employers and bad non-union employers. My dad's worked for them all at some point in his life. But there are some employers out there that seriously do not give a f*** about you, at all, and will bend you over dry to make a few extra bucks.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 17, 2010 -> 12:28 AM) kap, the point was that just because they created an effective and stable structure for government, doesn't mean that they were infallible and allknowing. There were a lot of stupid, short-sighted compromises made to create the constitution, including one to treat slaves as 3/5s of a person. Did they say that the gov't should be responsible for health care? No, but they also had no f***ing idea what modern gov'ts could be capable of. Thanks bmags, it's good to know I didn't suddenly acquire another language in my sleep that I started inadvertently typing in.

Uhh... I did not s*** on the founding fathers, nobody else did either.

The Democratic Party annoys the hell out of me.

I mock the political opportunists because they deserve to be mocked. It's funny that it was implied there is a such thing as a liberal attack machine that I'm a part of (those "downplaying" comments are things I said), but I don't even watch the news on tv. Ever.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 16, 2010 -> 02:29 PM) did you look at the date of that article? lol

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 15, 2010 -> 08:14 AM) They did exactly that in the first place, so I don't know what your point is. They had a hell of a lot more wisdom then we do now, with our "me, me, me, I, I, I" (including our president) attitude. We don't think 30 seconds beyond our actions today, unless it's to "redistribute our wealth" and how we're going to do it. The founding of this country was aboslutely against that. They wanted a place where the individual could choose what it is they wanted. Today, we have to pay for everyone else's stupidity. That makes their wisdom a whole lot better then ours. lol that wasn't really where I was going that, I just triggered a rant which I think is kind of funny. This country wasn't perfect when it was founded, it never really has been either, that was known back then, too.

Moving this thread to Slam per request (sorry for delayed response, CC)

I think over the years we tend to think the Founding Fathers are infallible and have infinite, timeless wisdom. What would you think of the leader of a new country, with a relatively weak military, if they stupidly instigated a war with a superpower with the world's most powerful military, ended up getting a bunch of people killed, and made no real tactical or strategic gains from it? James Madison awaits your answer.

I actually have no idea what you're talking about so I can't even respond. Failing to do what empowers whom? And why? I don't even know what you're calling for. FWIW this is how it played in the Arab press - the last week or so of December it got ignored, or got a very vague passing mention in most outlets with the exception of maybe one Saudi newspaper that's heavily anti-AQ. The narrative of Islamic terrorists just doesn't really get that much play there anymore unless it's something big, and all the news was about Gaza (it always is). Then after some of the talking heads started hyperventilating they started covering it except the tone is "what the hell is wrong with the Americans?" The fact that Obama waited a few days to make a statement and didn't interrupt his vacation didn't do any strategic damage at all, whereas if he had, that's the reaction they want us to have. I can't imagine they actually thought a failed terrorist attack where the dude ends up setting his balls on fire would actually end up being a successful terrorist attack but the cadre of p*****s on TV alley-ooped that for them.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jan 14, 2010 -> 01:54 PM) We are all inferior, but how is it ridiculous? So, just because im inferior, my experience as a baseball player doesn't matter. So, if I was Bryce Harper, but decided to bulk up for football, and lost my bat speed... it only matter then? Plain and simple, bulking up in muscle makes your ligaments tighten up. Having your ligaments tightening up = a reduction in bat speed. Its really not that complicated and it doesn't matter how good or bad the ball player is. It just looks ridiculous to talk about a professional athlete (we'll just go ahead and put Harper in that category) and say "when I played..." I just laugh every time I see someone do that.

I really wasn't exaggerating or joking, there is a cadre (Giuliani and Cheney always, we will throw Lieberman into this too, and a few others) that does the EXACT SAME s*** every time something vaguely terrorist-related is in the news. Really they do purely to score political points and not out of any actual concern but it has a different effect than they think. I don't know what this Democrats kowtowing stuff is, that's just part of the standard rhetoric from the Republicans. Democrats tend to point out flaws in policies or how war doesn't really help terrorism (i.e., the same stuff I say on here all the time) and the message either gets lost in translation or deliberately distorted in the noise machine. Aside from the occasional outlier like Reid saying "the war is lost" I don't see Democrats actually undermining any counterterrorism policies. Obama's is mostly the same as Bush's but it's low-profile and he uses different language, on purpose. Which isn't good enough for Cheney, that amounts to neglect. And I swear to God, Dick Cheney has to be the biggest gift the United States has given al-Qaida.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 14, 2010 -> 06:22 PM) I'm no Palin fan, and I do find her to be a raging idiot, but would it really be that bad? She's pledging massive change in government just like Obama did. And what has changed? What has he done? Seems to me like he's extended nearly every policy that Bush had in place before he left (and which Obama claimed were the worst ideas ever). Fact is the candidates say one thing, but when elected they can't do any of it. The country is no worse off in her hands than in Obama's, and I truly believe that. Both are controlled by their masters ($$$). Sadly, I mostly agree with you

I'm getting really tired of the Republicans acting like Al-Qaida's hype men. Frankly, their panic and consistent overreaction makes for successful terrorist attacks. Getting on TV and cowering like a p**** (while pretending to sound tough) is the exact opposite of helping. Isn't this the home of the brave? f***ing act like it or remove that line from the national anthem.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 14, 2010 -> 06:11 PM) But Bill Clinton is the same way! Ugh. With Billy, everyone knew he was whoring. Newt b****ed about the whoring, talked about how bad Billy is, and was doing it at the same time. Go screw a tree, Newt. Pretty much sums up how I feel.

Gingrich is honestly really smart and capable, but it's hard to ignore how much of a flaming hypocrite and disgusting human being he is. Did people just... like... forget? It wasn't even that long ago.

Government isn't inherently corrupt and believe it or not ethics compliance etc. is really taken seriously... but it's a massive, sprawling bureaucracy and there's a lot of times where the right hand doesn't have a clue what the left is doing but the public expects the pinky finger to be able to touch an eyelash at the drop of a hat. It just can't. But a large corporation probably functions the same way actually.

The Orioles. I live here, my wife is a native fan, they have an awesome stadium, and a lot of really good young players.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 13, 2010 -> 09:17 PM) Lott would have survived just fine if the Bush's had wanted him to. True, Lott wasn't pushed out by the left (they can only dream of having such influence), he was not rescued from the bus by the GOP establishment because they wanted another guy in charge of the Senate, so Rove et. al. left him to the media wolves.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jan 12, 2010 -> 10:52 PM) Mauer developed and grew. He never "bulked" up. He just developed his body and did the neccessary baseball lifts. When I hear the term "bulk up", I think of adding muscle mass and bulk, which will cause your ligaments to tighten up, therefore causing you bat speed to obviously go down. As a former two sport athlete who played both baseball and football, I used to have very good bat speed. But once I started to focus on football and bulked up with weight lifting, my ligaments naturally lost some of their elasticity and my bat speed took a hit. This is funny as hell to me - dude, you are inferior to these guys by orders of magnitude, and when you make a comparison, any comparison, it looks completely ridiculous.