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QUOTE(mreye @ Jul 8, 2005 -> 03:54 PM) I don't think he could win Indiana. ...I now doubt that you're from Indiana. Bayh would take Indiana and is probably the most well known name right up there witht Dick Lugar, who's pretty much a complete badass.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jul 7, 2005 -> 09:04 PM) First. I should be so lucky t be treated like that if I was to be taken prisoner by Radical Islamists. Anyone they get their hands on gets tortured....I mean real torture not this BS that the leftys like you trump up as torture......and then beheaded and a video of that would be posted on the internet, Al Jazerra and anywhere else they could get an audience. Either that or my mangled corpse would be hung off a bridge in Fallujah or some other s***hole like it. Secondly these people have no rights whatsoever with their status as terrorist mercenaries. If you bothered to read the Geneva Convention you would note that individuals have to meet certain criterion to recieve its protections. Terrorists do not meet these criterion. There was a nice long thread where this was debated at length and I don't feel like re-hashing it here. Go and actually read the Geneva convention and tell me if a terrorist mercenary REALLY falls under its protection. Why do I seriously doubt that you have read the Geneva Conventions in full? Could it be that your jingoism is attemtping to demean me because I don't have the same viewpoint as you? Could be. But more likely, it's that you are acting like a Conventional scholar when you are in fact not one. The article which you quoted actually refutes your claim if the word "Party" can be interpreted in any way shape or form. Now unless there's some "Geneva Convention in Exile" group that I'm missing, please show it to me. The bullet I want to note is: (1) Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict, as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces. Now either way it's hard to argue whether or not the terrorists were part of the original conflict, as none of us really know. What has to be done is an assumption of whether the terrorists, if placed along side the Iraqi guard and the American forces, would act as independent and attack everyone or just one force. Without any doubt whatsoever, the terrorists would fight alongside the Iraqis and have probably done so up to the announcement of MISSION ACCOMPLISHED and LOOK HOW BIG MY COCK IS. If any mercenary or member fought alongside the Iraqi forced, they would fall under protection of the Geneva Conventions. It's not as simple as you put it, as usual, NUKE, there's a lot of wiggle room in these documents and you're not allowing for such. Once again, everything isn't black and white. Also, please respond to French comment, I'd love to see you refute that one.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jul 7, 2005 -> 05:16 PM) I have added my own insightful judgement of each of these acts of "torture" as I view them. Some are stupid and reprehensible while those I have no issues with got the big WHAAAAAAAAAAA from me to poke fun at the bleeding hearts. a. (S) Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet; WHAAAAA b. (S) Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees; Stupid and pointless c. (S) Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing; Pointless and stupid d. (S) Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time; Pointless and stupid e. (S) Forcing naked male detainees to wear women’s underwear; Pointless and stupid f. (S) Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped; Pointless and stupid g. (S) Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them; Pointless and stupid h. (S) Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture; Pointless and stupid, shoulda cranked up the juice i. (S) Writing “I am a Rapest” (sic) on the leg of a detainee alleged to have forcibly raped a 15-year old fellow detainee, and then photographing him naked; Poetic Justice. I love it. j. (S) Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee’s neck and having a female Soldier pose for a picture; Pointless and stupid k. (S) A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee; What was that moron thinking? l. (S) Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee; WHAAAAAAAAAAAA m. (S) Taking photographs of dead Iraqi detainees. WHAAAAAAAAAAAA --- a. (U) Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; That stuff is harmless. How do I know? I've had it spilled on me before on accident. b. (U) Threatening detainees with a charged 9mm pistol; WHAAAAAAAAAAAA c. (U) Pouring cold water on naked detainees; WHAAAAAAAAAAAA d. (U) Beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; WHAAAAAAAAAAAA e. (U) Threatening male detainees with rape; WHAAAAAAAAAAAA f. (U) Allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell; The medic was probably busy. g. (U) Sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick. Stupid h. (U) Using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee. WHAAAAAAAAAAAA While some of this does qualify as abuse it pales in comparison to the activities these people engage in. Again. Those who perpetrated abuses were tried, convicted and sentenced by a jury of their peers or pled guilty in the first place and recieved what the military thought was an appropriate sentence. The killing or planning thereof of innocent civillians in Western countries as well as in Iraq and Afghanistan makes the petty nonsense those few soldiers took part in look like littering. When we start yanking random innocent people out of their cars and be-heading them on live TV, hanging burned corpses off a bridge in Fallujah and sending suicide car-bombers into crowded markets or blowing up commuter trains and busses in Tehran or Damascus then you can come whine to me about how horrible we are. These people are indeed savages and throwing flowers and candy at them like you want to do is not going to do anything of value. Only by finding and exterminating those responsible for terrorism can we hope to stop it. Thank God people like you don't write the guidelines when it comes to terrorism. Imagine, and I know this might be a hard thing to do, would you particularly enjoy any of the aforementioned offenses occuring to you if you were held prisoner? I thought one of the points to Operation Whip Out Our Collective Cock And Flop It Around was to be better than the terrorists, not stoop down to their level. Beating them with chairs, sodomizing them, and everything else points straight to idiocy and barbarism, something which the military would like to avoid (they can't avoid having f***ing retards write "rapest" on them. I'm almost comforted that a typical High Schooler can spell better than certain jarheads). The simplistic ideology of "Well these guys killed 3000 civilians so we can s*** all over them" doesn't apply here and never should. As I've stated before, the Geneva Convention does apply here, contrary to what President Bush is being told by his legion of yes men. If the US wants to continue with treating their prisoners like subhumans with and without probable cause, I urge them to go right ahead and prepare for the international look of disbelief that the French received after Algiers. What's ironic here is that the US military just stooped down, and perhaps below with rendition tactics, to the level of French paratroopers during The Battle of Algiers. Must be harsh to realize, Nuke, that you and the inferior French military are now on the same page.

A blonde with big tits and is dumb as a brick on The Real World? s***, didn't see that coming.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Jul 7, 2005 -> 11:39 AM) for the innocent. Time to take paradise away!! Kind of hard to do that when there weren't any suicide bombers. I still say the solution to the insurgency problem is the Bundeswehr. Germans have had little problem holding down civilian uprisings throughout the years. Oh those crazy Germans!

It would be a very, very risky move. The move would of course open a spot for Anderson, but I don't like the idea.

5 IP 1 H 2 R 2 ER 0 BB 7 SO 1 HR Impressive.

Chicagoans: We know how to vote. Also, f*** you, New York.

Off to cut the grass and then vote more.

7 PM.

QUOTE(mreye @ Jul 6, 2005 -> 12:39 PM) Any updates on the standings today? Yes, Podsednik is in the lead barely over Jeter. Time for me to vote.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jul 5, 2005 -> 11:11 PM) This is nothing new. I came up with this idea last year. It's not going to work but hel when your team is this f***ing bad why not sqrew around a little. Too bad other people came up with this idea 50 years before you did. The original idea was to use a reliever for the first two-three innings of a game and then pinch hit for him when he came to the plate. Repeat as neccesary. It was described in more detail which I cannot remember fully in The Numbers Game by Alan Schwarz. There were also some smart ideas about batting your best hitter in the leadoff position to make sure he got 30-50 more ABs per season. No one has really tried any of this, so if Lou was doing this in an NL stadium, I'd be applauding him.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jul 5, 2005 -> 10:36 PM) And the rest of the world can kiss my ass RIGHT DOWNTOWN AND PRINT IT!!! ( Blatant swipe of the Lee Elia Rant ). Its certainly possible and it's most unfortunate because this Administration has done more to advance the cause of freedom and democracy than any of these other sniveling morons who call themselves world leaders and were the most critical of it. NUKE, Europeans, Canadians, non-Americans hate, loathe, abhor America is because of people like you who constantly belittle other nations and calling their leaders morons. Stop flaunting your ego and try and comprehend their ideas before your überpatriotic self blinds basic listening skills. I have a hard time believing you that this administration has done more for democracy and freedom than Chirac, Schröder and Putin because George and Blair installed two democracies that at this point are very inefficient. Putin is dealing with terrorists in Chechnya, Schröder with massive unemployment and economic collapse in Germany, and Chirac...he's doing...something? Conservatives like yourself want cake and to eat it when it comes to foreign policy, but America is blind more often than not to other countries. Do you honestly expect policy cooperation when the administration is in essence telling other countries to go f*** themselves because they're with the terrorists? This administration's gung-ho approach to foreign policy will never unite anything and will just produce political quagmires like we're seeing within the US and around the world. There would be much more room on the news for this type of news if America wasn't fascinated about some white kid or teenager who died. Do I honestly give a f*** if some 18-year-old woman died in Aruba? Do I care about Michael Jackson? Do I care about Terri Schiavo? If conservatives and liberals would stop b****ing and moaning about such meaningless drivel of a vegetable or random white girl, there would be more than enough time for news. The simple fact of the matter is that while yes schools are being built, there is no way it should take precedence when a war is going on and American lives are being lost and that the country is inherently unstable. Did newspapers read during WW2 or Vietnam that "REALLY NICE ALLIES REPAIR ORPHANAGE IN NORTH AFRICA" when "Battle of The Bulge Going On -- s***load of People Dead" is next to it? f*** no. You want to hear about schools, rose petals and civilians getting on with life better? Knock out the insurgency completely. Don't f***ing b**** and moan about America is Nice when Iraqis and Americans are dying every day in the dozens. Get the f***ing job done, but it's going to take probably a decade or more, contrary to what the dumbasses in the administration said before the war.

Shingo time.

Hahaha. I hope the org at least thinks about releasing Walker after the game.

Kevin Walker is a stud.

Looks like Sigur Ros tickets for Chicago will go onsale two weeks from now, most likely 7/16 sometime. New album due out in September.

If Baj isn't called up after this game, I may, I may....laugh a lot.

I hear that Jeff Bajenaru murders small children. Confirm/deny?

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I'd say that the norms for good private schools, say Carnegie Mellon and Washington at St. Louis will run about somewhere in the vicinity of $35K. Oddly enough, it will only cost my family and I $22K to study in Germany next year.

Verlander will be promoted to the bigs on the 4th of July and will face the Tribe on the road.

QUOTE(shawnhillegas @ Jul 1, 2005 -> 10:29 AM) I smell another tim hummel/aarpn miles coming here... Agreed. He's a Craig Counsell type player and his ceiling is very low but is very polished. I can see him becoming a utility player one day.

QUOTE(danman31 @ Jul 1, 2005 -> 12:40 PM) His numbers are impressive, but it's rookie ball and a hitters' park. If he came out of the gates like this I'd have been excited. Not to say he's bad because he didn't hit his first year, but in my 2+ years of closely following the minors I've seen more rookie ball flops than expected. Hit at Kanny, then I'm excited. Speaking of which, he might have a chance to do this year if he keeps hitting above .400 lol. I love Rookie ball because video game stats start popping up. Missoula with a 8.66 ERA? Awwww yeah!

Inherited the 2002 Dodge Durango. I f***ing hate it; sucks up gas like no other (V8). My parents recently bought a Volvo S80, and I find any excuse to drive that thing then kick on the turbo.