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What happened to the Republican's moral values?? I guess helping those less fortunate who have lost everything in the nation's worst natural disaster is not as important as gay bashing and some of the other moral values the party preached. What a f***ing joke.

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Jan 7, 2006 -> 11:41 AM) How is stating a fact racism? And if that statement is racist, then all the news channels that reported the opposite to be true must be racists. Right. Get a clue. Which fact are you referring to? I was just commenting on how obvious that there are people on this site with silver spoons in their mouths who show their true colors. I was raised Catholic and was taught that Jesus helped those less fortunate. He didn't whine that they should stop asking for handouts. But then again, Jesus would be considered a lefty extremist with his views if he were around today.

http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle_n...sp?ArticleID=13 Four months after he took the oath of office in 2001, President George W. Bush was the attraction, and the White House the venue, for a fundraiser organized by the alleged perpetrator of the largest billing fraud in the history of corporate lobbying. In May 2001, Jack Abramoff’s lobbying client book was worth $4.1 million in annual billing for the Greenberg Traurig law firm. He was a friend of Bush advisor Karl Rove. He was a Bush “Pioneer,” delivering at least $100,000 in bundled contributions to the 2000 campaign. He had just concluded his work on the Bush Transition Team as an advisor to the Department of the Interior. He had sent his personal assistant Susan Ralston to the White House to work as Rove’s personal assistant. He was a close friend, advisor, and high-dollar fundraiser for the most powerful man in Congress, Tom DeLay. Abramoff was so closely tied to the Bush Administration that he could, and did, charge two of his clients $25,000 for a White House lunch date and a meeting with the President. From the same two clients he took to the White House in May 2001, Abramoff also obtained $2.5 million in contributions for a non-profit foundation he and his wife operated.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Jan 7, 2006 -> 11:30 AM) Do you have any idea how many people the President sees in just one day? He could have met someone several times and not remember it. Most politicians wouldn't. They would rely on staff to give them notes about people they are meeting, so they sound like they remember. Ok. Keep your blinders on.

Taken from Think Progress: The White House maintains that Bush does not “recall” meeting Abramoff and, if they ever did meet, it was only in passing at a large gathering: MR. McCLELLAN: Yes, I said it’s possible that they would have met at a holiday reception or some other widely attended gathering. The President does not know him, nor does the President recall ever meeting him. Q But he has the special designation as a Pioneer, as Terry was alluding to, raising more than $100,000. And he attended, as you told us, three events, holiday receptions at the White House. How likely is it that the President would not have met him — MR. McCLELLAN: That’s why I said it’s possible. But I just told you what I know at this point, and the President doesn’t recall meeting him and he certainly doesn’t know him. It’s not just possible, it happened. The Texas Observer reports that Abramoff met with Bush on May 9, 2001, with his clients, the Coushatta tribe. (The chairman of the Coushatta tribe initially denied the meeting occured, but subsequently admitted that it did.) Abramoff charged his client 25,000 to arrange the meeting.

Amazing how much racism and hatred there is among fellow soxtalkers.

Anyone know how long the pre-order price will be available before they sell for regular price? Is it up until the item is available?

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2280623 CHICAGO -- Chicago Cubs pitcher Mark Prior voided the final year of his contract, making him eligible for salary arbitration. The right-hander's agent, John Boggs, said Wednesday that Prior notified the team of his decision on Nov. 29. Prior's deal, agreed to in 2001 after he was drafted, allowed him to void the contract after 2004 or 2005, but only if he had accumulated enough service time to be eligible for arbitration. He just missed having enough service time after 2004. His first contract had called for a $2.75 million salary next year, and he will earn far more because of arbitration. Prior went 11-7 in 2005, posting a 3.67 ERA. The 25-year-old had 188 strikeouts against 59 walks in 167.2 innings of work. Prior has only topped the 200-inning mark once in his career, and that was in 2003.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 03:43 PM) Eighty percent (80%) of Republicans expect 2006 to be a good year along with 49% of Democrats. Wonder how excited Republicans will be after this Abrahamoff disaster. From everything I have read it looks like mostly Republicans will look bad after this is all said and done.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 06:01 PM) ThinkProgress has a very nice, succinct, yet detailed summary of almost all of the tentacles of this scandal. Great site. CNN mentioned it earlier tonight while I was on the treadmill at the gym.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 01:09 PM) That's probably accurate, and I'd say that it probably won't go higher than that, even if they win 99 games again. What's the season ticket-holder base projected to be? Maybe 20,000? They'd need to average 37,000/game to get 3 million. Something tells me that they won't average 17,000 walk-ups per game. Season tickets are around 20K right now. Then you have single game ticket pre-sales. After that you factor the walkups. We had about 12 sell-outs last year. I'm sure there will be at least 15-20 this year.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 12:50 PM) Thanks for the answer!

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 12:19 PM) If they don't know already they they are idiots. Is the game 2 ring ceremony an official announcement or rumor? I forgot.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 1, 2006 -> 05:45 PM) the NSA seems to have been willing to share the info obtained by these intercepts with a wide variety of other federal agencies, just as was done back in the 70's before Congress created the FISA courts. Big deal. As long as you have nothing to hide why would you care?

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Dec 29, 2005 -> 10:28 AM) For the 10 cents its worth. BRUUUUUUUUUCE Levine stated that there is a lot of interest in Contreras, and that he thought the Phillies had Abreau on the table for Contreras at one point. Now conjecture and bulls*** aside, Contreras pitched like a number 1 for the second half of the season and into the playoffs. A team would give up a lot of this type of pitcher. If we do dump Contreras and people believe he has finally turned the corner, man if Abreau is on the table, what else is on the table. I don't know. Would be cool to get a stud in return for Jose but I'm not sure how many teams will give up a lot for a guy who will be a FA after this season. If we can do a sign and trade that's another story.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Dec 28, 2005 -> 03:23 PM) I just don't see us going with a 6 man rotation. Our bullpen needs help and we have an arm to spare. K Dubs is not done. I think you're right.

QUOTE(ChWRoCk2 @ Dec 28, 2005 -> 03:15 PM) Mccarthy still could use some more games out of the bullpen, i dont think hes ready right now He really started hitting his stride during his last stint from AAA.

I still would rather have Bmac in the rotation over Vazquez. Now it looks like that won't happen.

QUOTE(fathom @ Dec 28, 2005 -> 03:00 PM) BTW, just my two cents, but this makes me hate the Vazquez trade now. Any chance KW moves Jose now or does a sign and deal with Jon?

I kind of like being under the radar like last year. The team that makes the best moves each year (according to the experts) ususally doesn't wind up being the best team. But I won't complain about the moves we've made so far.

I grew up watching Ozzie play but I honestly can say I don't think he is hall of fame material. Maybe after the three-peat he can get in as a manager?

OBAMA!!!

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Dec 25, 2005 -> 01:13 PM) The President and the DOD now admit they've been spying on thousands of people in this country for simply exercising their constitutional rights. Oh snap kapkomet, I guess it's a little more than 4 people after all.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 25, 2005 -> 01:22 AM) "THOUSANDS"? Yea. Whatever. And why the Quakers? Seriously. Why? Seeing that you actually have the list on who is being wiretapped and it only has 4 people on it I guess I should apologize. Also, I wasn't the one who brought up the Quakers so I cannot respond to that.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 05:37 PM) Now how have YOU personally lost your rights again? Why do you insist on a selfish perspective like that? "How does it affect ME as an individual? Because if it doesn't affect me personally than I don't care. Who cares if it affects thousands of other law-abiding Americans because I only matter." Great attitude!