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QUOTE(rangercal @ Aug 31, 2007 -> 10:59 AM) All I want to add is, stop poking fun at religous beliefs of others. You can't be sure if it offends people or not. Just as we don't poke fun at race,sexuality ect. religion should be off limits too(all religions, not just christianity). I don't see how it is any different than racism and one who is prejudiced towards gays. Doesn't the original post openly attack the religious beliefs of others?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 29, 2007 -> 10:03 AM) once again, whats with all this "measured by finish place" etc etc. He has a ring. Thats the ultimate goal in professional sports. I would gladly trade in 10 division titles for one World Series ring. The goal is to win a ring every year, not once in a career. 2005 was great. Let's do it again. KW's lack of success outside of 2005 isn't a indicator that we will any time soon.

A little bit of both. Lovie has done very well with the talented staff JA has assembled.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 29, 2007 -> 10:08 AM) Just like there's nothing implied by all the leftist links posted about all the conspriacy theories. It's just information, right? A logical fallacy is a logical fallacy, regardless of the source.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Aug 29, 2007 -> 08:35 AM) I made to argument above, merely pasted an article that has an endorement of sorts for a candidate or two, which is what this thread is for. Read into it what you will. Sure, there's nothing implied there.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Aug 28, 2007 -> 09:41 PM) A big endorsement on the Democratic side of things: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/...ket-invincible/ A (fallacious) ad hominem argument has the basic form: Person A makes claim X There is something objectionable about Person A Therefore claim X is false

Blago is a moron. I don't have anything else to add to this discussion.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 28, 2007 -> 04:20 PM) Isnt the goal of playing the MLB to win a ring? I didnt know that also-ran was the goal. It sounds obvious, but you have to make the playoffs to win a ring. There's something to be said about sitting home in October 6 out of 7 years.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 28, 2007 -> 10:40 AM) No matter how they say it, with safety being a major campaign theme for everyone, and something the voter is interested in, every candidate needs to address the question, how will I be safer with you in charge? So they can't duck it. Next, why is your plan better than your opponents? Any event that offers proof that the candidates statements are true will help that candidate. Slimy or not, I do not see how to avoid that. Like much of politics, it's never about how good their plan is, its about how bad the other guy's is.

Someone on another board I frequent managed to spin this story into this: "I love when Dem's criticize Republicans for stuff like this........it makes them even bigger hypocrites than they already are....... First of all by doing so they imply that gay acts are immoral and illegal...........because that is what the guy was caught trying to instigate, a gay act........I'm straight, and I could care less about gays.......but if it's someone else, they are all over it. And if this had been one of their own or any openly gay senator they'd say nothing about it......" Some people are so delusional...

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 27, 2007 -> 08:52 PM) FWIW, I don't have time to listen to the right wing media. I simply don't. But, the rhetoric that is hidden in every quote having to do with anything BushCo is pure hyperbole and bulls***. It's just veiled better then my obvious in-your-face-ultra-crap machine. That's why I counter the crap that's here as "fact" with such "hostility". I know you frequently do that, kap, and that you're not 100% serious with it, but what good does it do? Does it actually open up people's eyes and raise the level of discourse? Or does it still keep it at "lowest common denominator?"

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Aug 27, 2007 -> 12:37 PM) No, I only presume that by staying there is a CHANCE it will improve. Leaving now is automatic game over. Also, I didn't ignore the reality over there. Read carefully, I said it was bad. There's a chance that its worse with us than without us, too, since we make for a nice target for all the radicals in the area.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Aug 24, 2007 -> 02:37 PM) I was being 85% facecious, however, I stand by the comment. One side needs to recognize the greater culture that they are entering and the other needs to be sensitive and understanding of the learning curve of the newly arrived migrants; perhaps even learning a bit about the emerging culture. Sounds like a pretty good perspective.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 24, 2007 -> 12:48 PM) You were closing your eyes and seeing ghost images while driving on 355 in a storm?! Glad I wasn't on that highway. My girlfriend was driving, we ride to work together since we work right down the street from each other.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 24, 2007 -> 10:29 AM) So as i have mentioned before I live within a 3wood (in mymind) of the sears tower. Last night from my roof deck you could watch the lightning repeatedly strike the sears tower with clarity. My friend recorded it on his cell phone and it was unreal how clear it is. I was watching it hit buildings in Oak Brook on 355 the same way. My eyes started to hurt because there were so many flashes, and I could see several "ghost images" of lightning strikes if I closed my eyes.

LEt's just blame it on the Greeks and Persians and be done with it.

Meh, it's a shorter deportation trip from Cali than from Chicago.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Aug 23, 2007 -> 04:27 PM) He owns the mine. He's trying to make $$. He called the mountain evil. He said it was alive. Maybe it's not a matter of believing him as much as thinking he's a crazy bastard. Now if he has regrets because safety was overlooked for $$, I might understand his comments. Remember when he said he'd stay at that mountain until the miners were recovered, dead or alive? I knew that statement would bite him in the ass.

Looks like Vick is still maintaining his innocence on gambling and killing the dogs, and is only pleading guilty to interstate commerce crimes. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/foot...f=si_topstories ATLANTA (AP) -- Michael Vick's father said he asked his son to give up dogfighting, or to at least put property used in the venture in the names of others to avoid being implicated, according to a report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Also Thursday night, a report on ESPN.com cited an unidentified ESPN source saying Vick will not admit to killing dogs or gambling on dogfights when he enters a guilty plea in a Richmond, Va., federal court Monday. ESPN reported that Vick's defense team met with federal attorneys Thursday afternoon to determine the "summary of facts" to which Vick will plead. But ESPN's source said Vick maintains he never killed dogs and never gambled on a dog fight. The source told ESPN the Atlanta Falcons quarterback will plead guilty to the charge of interstate commerce for the purpose of dogfighting. On Monday, Vick agreed to plead guilty Monday in the federal dogfighting case in Richmond. He faces up to five years in prison and the possible end of his football career. Three co-defendants already pleaded guilty and were expected to testify against Vick if the case went to trial. In addition, a Virginia prosecutor is considering bringing state charges against Vick. In The Journal-Constitution report posted on the newspaper's Web site Thursday night, Michael Boddie, who is estranged from Vick and the quarterback's mother, also said some time around 2001 his son staged dogfights in the garage of the family home in Newport News, Va. Boddie told the newspaper Vick kept fighting dogs in the family's backyard, including dogs that were "bit up, chewed up, exhausted." Boddie claimed to have nursed the dogs back to health. The indictment against Vick does not mention the parents' former home in Newport News. In the report, Boddie dismissed the idea that Vick's longtime friends were the main instigators of the dogfighting operation. "I wish people would stop sugarcoating it," Boddie told The Journal-Constitution. "This is Mike's thing. And he knows it ... likes it, and he has the capital to have a set up like that." The report said Boddie and the Atlanta Falcons quarterback have had a volatile relationship for years and that his son has refused to speak with him directly for the last 2½ half months. Boddie, 45, lives in an apartment his son has paid the rent on for the last three years. Vick, who has a $130 million contract with the Falcons, also gives him a couple of hundred dollars every week or two, the father told the newspaper. In the report, Boddie also said he asked Vick for $1 million, spread out over 12 years, Vick declined, the father said. Recently, Boddie asked Vick, through an assistant, for $700,000 to live on.

That was the craziest storm I have ever seen. Around 3 PM in Des Plaines, it looked like a hurricane outside. It took 2 1/2 hours to get home from work and it was down-pouring the entire time. Then I get home and the power is out! I have never seen a storm that heavy last for that long. The lightning we saw on 355 heading towards Woodridge was amazing.

This weather sucks ass.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 12:42 PM) Are you f***ing kidding me? http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?i...e=ESPNHeadlines The Atlanta NAACP was pulling the race card from the minute Vick was investigated and wanted to hold judgement until all of the facts were in -- which is the polar opposite of what they wanted in the Duke case. They're just making themselves look worse and worse.

My brother wasn't talking to us at the time, either. Luckily, my father had a spare set of keys so we just went and took it one night. My brother didn't contest it. Your friend's dad could try having some keys cut at a local Mitsu dealership if he's got the title.

Assuming that health care is a normal good is a pretty poor assumption. Nice article, Balta.

A similar situation happened between my parents and my older brother. My father had the legal right to take the car from my brother, as my brother was no longer making payments and broke their verbal contract.