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can we please get danks #6?

QUOTE (mumbles3k @ Jul 6, 2008 -> 03:26 AM) He doesn't think that camouflage should be used fashionably. I am 100% behind this statement. Living in missouri is special.

smuggle back the next hot sox Cuban.

I saw this. So sad. I couldn't believe it when I read it, now I think how naive I can be.

their sons and grandsons had just been shot a few days before and now they were asked for commentary. They were still grieving, I'll allow them some time to make poor statements.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 5, 2008 -> 04:01 AM) I'm hoping that Obama wrecks it and they have to start over. I'm about to begin a course on public policy on Monday, and I'm excited for it if just to give me a better idea of how public financing could work. So the problem right now with M-F act is the 527's and groups of unregulated political groups that forum outside the DNC or RNC or Candidates and raise millions and wreak havoc with many false ads. Now, in the next legislation, knowing that this was a problem with the first, how can you stop these? Beyond the fact that it would likely be a free speech issue, if that was not the case, merely saying you can't have these has never worked. Look at acts such as Gramm-Ruddman, who had many stipulations on things congress couldn't do in spending without necessary punishments, so there was no incentive to stop. And I suppose in my mind the only way to stop this is to punish the candidates. If a 527 group forms with neg. ads on the other candidate, the candidate it would inherently support should get punished, even if they had nothing to do with it. Financial punishment with the limited funds that this candidate would have should be a sufficient deterrent. Then again, with calculated risk, the candidate could find that they'd rather just get punished over and over with their campaign funds so they can have these 527's unlimited funds for advertising. These decisions would be bigger than me.

This thread is quite humorous.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Jul 5, 2008 -> 12:55 AM) We have the second best run differential and the 3rd or 4th best record in the majors. What the f*** are you talking about. you know, like, when you actually watch the season.

quote the comments: " Completely tasteless (25+ / 0-) and mean. Delete this piece of s***!" places like dailykos are open for diaries, they open their web site and allow others to post their essays and others to comment on them, where people rate them. This writer did this clearly knowing he would be in trouble, not the "I'm glad that with my only dkos life to live, I spent it on this"

It's like you guys are surprised by this. We've been good one week, bad another for 2 months.

i had no idea radio personalities were responsible for this much revenue.

yeah, the media doesn't cover anything bad about Obama.

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how bout that matt kemp guy? ////GREEN GREEN GREEN

Living in Missouri and having to listen to other broadcasters makes me appreciate the combos we have in Chicago allthemore. My friends love when sox games are on WGN, they think Hawk and Dj are hilarious. Together they are just an odd, odd pairing that has turned into this unique chemistry. I feel that many of the baseball announcers are a dime a dozen, same voice, same token former player, same boring analysis. Being away you even miss the homerism because it's hysterical. "Joe Crede's probably the best 3rd baseman I've ever seen" "Yaz, back when Yaz", in summary, you guys don't realize what you have.

I just know I thoroughly enjoyed that week with steve stone last year. Hawk was better with him. that said I've really gotten to like DJ the past several years, and wish him the best in finding another position broadcasting.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 3, 2008 -> 03:45 AM) Kenny Williams is not a Jedi. i don't know, he reminds me of a young annakin.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Jul 3, 2008 -> 03:51 AM) Nice job by Greg Walker telling AJ to hit a home run to end the game. I still don't get why he tells them to get hits sometimes but to make outs other times. :lolhitting

Awesome, awesome awesome awesome. Can't wait to see the highlights. I do worry about the A's of course, we tend to be kind of streaky, I'd hate to get them to start one of those bad weeks we sometimes have.

So, first, you didn't address the comments you continued to make about asking us why we weren't condemning all the theatre groups who had never thought about putting on Ragtime over this one who tried and lost... and two, I'm to believe this is the situation they are preventing. They are worried that during the performance outside the bandshell a family could walk by overhear the line that has the n word, in song form - if I recall but lost also confirmed - and the kid too young to understand this overhears. That's a lot of variables there, they have to walk by during this line, understand what was said, and be too young to understand the context. This isn't a Jerry Springer show. If the line was like in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles where Rafael screamed "DAMN" after he lost is weapon. The profanity doesn't drive the dialogue. So, they are preventing hypothetical situations of people walking by during that time out of context and being irreversibly offended. So I can make my reasonable hypotheticals, at a fair like this you have hundreds if not thousands of people and a high population of teenagers. I can make the reasonable assumption that many of them have foul mouths. I'm willing to go ahead and say they will use profanity in ear-range of children, and that is a safe bet. Does that mean they should cancel the entire outdoor festival? And there is no redeemable aspect to the foul-mouthed dialogue, and the explanation can only be to ignore or instruct not to say these words. And another problem I have is you are forcing me to have the argument that because I think shutting down this play because of the situation is wrong, I'm for every play or musical to be put on wherever, whenever, and in the spirit of the arts it shouldn't matter if it's obscene. But I don't believe that. I believe in the criticism for pulling this because I've seen this play and it is not a play that in anyway would be characterized by obscene dialogue. No one would leave this play saying "well, that was dirtier than I anticipated!" And I don't think the themes would be over the heads of many children. I've been aware of, have had discussions, or at least instructions, on race since kindergarten or perhaps pre-school. I don't think ragtime is over the heads of a young audience. I don't think it is targeted to kids, obviously, but it's a great example of the magic and power of theatre to show a child to with their parents. It's a great musical. It's a shame.

damn my last post was the last of the page. Awful placement.

I'm anxious for this game to end since I can't watch it. It sucks not being able to see games. It's much less interactive, it's like simulating a baseball season and hoping you did well.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 3, 2008 -> 01:15 AM) Or if it denigrated Christians or America. right, because your one example of that photograph goes to show how all art and theatre is a disgrace

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Jul 2, 2008 -> 11:10 PM) I'm guessing the Twins are almost always on the overperforming part, so it'd be nice if they tailed off but I'm not going to hold my breath for it. I was just thinking this.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jul 3, 2008 -> 12:08 AM) How many musicals will be staged by park districts this summer at out door venues in the US? Would you also condemn those theaters that never even considered this work? So applaud those that stage this musical and condemn everyone else. what is this great argument you think you are making? Yes then, there is a difference between starting to stage a musical then stopping because the award winning musical that families can go see "RagTime" has the N word in it. Because another theatre might not choose it for legitimate reasons like staging or cost, not because they are worried about a hypothetical scenario that would be easily explained anyway. If only the play had just excessive violence, then it'd go on without a hitch.