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I thought that Bristol Palin quote was funny. She is one of many living examples of why abstinence-only education is retarded.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 08:48 AM) Also, I happen to believe that you cannot get rid of racism by constantly pointing out the difference between races. I feel that is counterproductive. I think some decades ago, you had to truly "combat" racism, because of how prevalent it was. Prevalent, not just in terms of being widespread, but in terms of how deep in the soul of most people it resided. At this point, I think we are making it linger more, and sink deeper, by the constant barrage of people pointing out our differences. The better approach right now, IMO, is to get rid of racism by forgetting about race. Choose not to give a s*** what color someone is, or what that means. Judge all people individually. I know it sounds so simple, its almost trite... but I really believe that is the best way to get where we all want to go. I agree with you which is why I get uncomfortable when people (Jesse Jackson Sr. etc.) bring up s*** all the time. The issue just becomes a big target and people stop listening after a while.

I was having a similar conversation with whitesoxfan101 not too long ago. The common reaction of someone who's not racist upon being accused of racism is to just laugh. When someone IS racist for whatever reason or says something obviously insensitive and doesn't want to admit it and get called on it, they get defensive and argumentative.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Feb 18, 2009 -> 09:08 PM) the cartoon goes along with the news story of a TV chimp that went crazy and attacked some lady. it didn't even register to me as that was supposed to be Obama. more of a hilarious cartoon making fun of congress. Obama didn't write the stimulus plan. talk about a overreaction. wow I'm not saying the cartoon is racist since I know what it's supposed to be saying, but as to how the picture of a monkey and a joke about the stimulus bill (with Obama being the main one that was pushing it so it's pretty easy to infer that's who they were talking about even if they weren't, oh and he happens to be black) didn't trip someone's common sense filter, I wouldn't know. I honestly don't even see the connection or get the joke btw.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 18, 2009 -> 03:04 PM) Eric Holder, further confirming he was a lousy choice for US AG, tells us that on matters of race, the US is a nation of cowards. I don't like the way he phrased that but I agree with the general idea behind it, that people go out of their way to avoid confronting racial matters. I usually do it, because I can't have a conversation about race with random people since the discussion is almost always retarded. To see what I mean just look at some of the comments on that article, f***ing christ.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Feb 18, 2009 -> 02:27 PM) I would like to take issue with the above premise that Reagan was a good president. If creating unprecedented deficits, wrecking the economic structure of the country, spending like a drunken sailor, and expanding the federal government, all while contributing to high unemployment is a good President, then I agree. If not, then sorry - he was pretty bad. Fiscally, he was pretty awful, and that's pretty much the Republican model of spending these days as evidenced by the Bush administration. They get indignant about government spending and massive deficits, but that's really what they're about, it's been proven. Yet they cling to the "fiscally responsible" label. That really is annoying to me. Lower taxes, fine, smaller government, fine. Lying about the latter but pushing the former = disaster.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 18, 2009 -> 10:57 AM) I do, and here's why. The culture wars that the Republicans have made meaningful gains on have been based on being especially down to earth, encapsulating everything down to a catch phrase. Basically, many of them have been stupid. And now, the party of ideas is now the party of guhhh. I'm not saying there are no dumb democrats, boy howdy, there are, but when it comes to picking a Pres. candidates, they pick people with pretty sane minds and good practical decision making. This is a more recent phenomenon though. You go back to the 60s, the 70s, those guys were pretty competent. Today's GOP is the one where a significant chunk of them still think Sarah Palin is a brilliant leader and will argue that with you all day, and embraces stupid ass catchphrases and concepts like Joe the Plumber, like you said. And is still trying to emulate Ronald Reagan. Anyway my point is that for the graph AHB posted, there's far too many other variables for it to give you any meaningful data. Plus you can throw in other stupid arguments to counter it too e.g. the one we heard about Clinton "it takes several years for a president's policies to take effect so Clinton was riding off Bush's policies and now we're dealing with all his crap."

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Feb 18, 2009 -> 11:53 AM) It means our representative in congress took the opportunity to sneak in "free money" to a national bill for something that is far from one of the most important things in the area. I mean they arent in pristine shape, and I cant recall what all of them look like off the top of my head but especially the one's downtown I KNOW arent in that bad of shape. Over the past few years I've noticed we've been making roads and intersections "prettier" one at a time. To me, this is being done just to expedite the process. Now is it wrong for our city to be doing this? No. But just as I dont want to my tax dollars to go towards projects out in Iowa or Alabama, why would people there want to be paying for a bill paying for this? Honestly, that's basically the whole point of having elected representation.

I don't think there is any meaningful correlation there.

So my cousin out in California was telling me how she was out this past weekend and got pretty blasted, so at around 2 am or thereabouts they go to this place called Tacos al Carbon b/c that's what's open. She is the only non-Hispanic person in there, she speaks a little Spanish, but it's crappy. This guy (who is Mexican) comes up and tries to talk to her. She's still pretty drunk so she figures she's gonna mess with him some, so she starts to ask him "you got that paper?" meaning if you wanna talk to me you gotta have money. Except she verbalizes this thought in Spanish as "tienes papeles?" The guy's table starts laughing and she doesn't know why, so thinking she just successfully said something in Spanish she says it again a couple more times, and louder. But she doesn't realize what she's asking is "do you have papers?" which of course if you ask that to someone who's Mexican, it means something along the lines of "are you an illegal immigrant" or "do you belong in this country". Hilarious.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 17, 2009 -> 05:20 PM) There is going to be a lot happening these next 21 months, and I don't want the intellectual and moral lightweight wasting one percent of the spots in the Senate. That'd be 2 percent wouldn't it? nevermind, edited for stupidity

I don't know what to think, really. When he was appointed he was clean or at least had a reputation as someone who was clean, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Now he's just being a dumbass.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 17, 2009 -> 02:08 PM) 2 days ago he admitted Blago's bro contacted him about fundraising, which in itself was a contradiction to his testimony. This is admitting that after that phone call he tried to raise funding for him. Oh, I actually thought he already did that.

Isn't this the same thing he said 2 days ago?

QUOTE (YASNY @ Feb 17, 2009 -> 10:55 AM) Who are you and what have you done with Milkman?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 17, 2009 -> 11:21 AM) Danks wins the Cy Fixed w/ the actual ace of the Sox

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Feb 17, 2009 -> 11:11 AM) I don't think that's very bold. Yes he's going to have to adjust to MLB pitching, but with his contact rate and the fact that he's a line drive hitter who isn't afraid to take a walk (although he's not going to pile them up) I think he can easily duplicate Iguchi's AVG and OBP as a rookie. The question is though, if Getz does that and Beckham tears it up in Birmingham, what do the Sox do then? I love finally having IF depth. It's been a long time. It'd be Beckham's first full year of professional baseball, a little while longer of letting him tear it up wouldn't hurt him.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Feb 17, 2009 -> 10:20 AM) To get the Dems behind his absurdly large defense budget, he gave them every damn program they wanted. Then made certain not to piss anyone off by raising taxes. Once the pols realized how happy everyone was, the vault was open. Yeah, I agree that the politics were different in the 80s... there was really no reason it should've happened again this decade though.

Reagan at least had the Soviet Union there to justify his absurdly large defense budget if nothing else. We are still holding onto some of these defense programs though and we're always caught up in "next war syndrome" ignoring the fact that the second largest defense budget after ours isn't even anywhere close even if we cut it back significantly. Bob Gates is aware of this though, he's a practical guy and he wants to spend money on stuff we need rather than a bunch of cool stuff we think we can use one day. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...ss-politics-cnn

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 11:08 PM) I didn't get it? Maybe it went to your notifications. I dunno. Try to add me.

Fiscal conservatives =/= blindly hawking tax cuts at every opportunity for no reason whether they make sense or not. Bill Clinton called himself a fiscal conservative in an interview, I actually never thought about it like that. Yeah he raised taxes, but he cut back spending and created an annual surplus to where his successor could've paid off quite a bit of debt had he chosen to do so. Which meant that if he wanted to push some reasonable tax cuts later (like Bush's first round), he could have, without hurting the budget.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 09:44 PM) Damn you, knightni! Mafia Wars has taken over my life. Add sent

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 06:31 PM) They might if they are given legal assurances they will not be paying for any of it with federal taxes. States that do not take the money shouldn't be forced to pay in; this could be worked out in the form of lower federal taxes on residents in states that do not take the money. That will never happen though, therefore there is an obligation to try and salvage some of this money. Of course I don't actually expect them to turn the money down, that'd be borderline retarded (eh, for now I'll ignore the fact that a lot of the red states use more federal money than they contribute). Just looking for some consistency is all. I was doing the same thing a few months ago when Palin was screaming "SOCIALISM" after she bragged in front of the RNC that she gave Alaska oil revenue back to the taxpayers, and at the same time Alaska is basically the welfare baby of the union. By her own narrow (and silly) definition that's socialism. I also apply the same principle when Republicans start having a fit about Democrat spending, because they're apparently concerned about the budget, but their solution is to cut taxes. Both will blow a hole in the deficit, what's the difference? (Not a question directed at you mr. g, since I know you'd say the Republicans are being stupid too)

So here is a bulletin my brother puts up on Myspace. sunday feb 15th sucked ass. actually it all wasnt so bad... till i left for work. then fate itself bent me over and f***ed me in the ass. i prolly could of enjoyed the day even with the inevitable dick in my ass if it werent for the fact that fate has a massive phallus and the blood leaking from my anus did not provide sufficient lubrication for the friction induced by fate reaming my ass like a gigantic john deere corn combine. drink with me on tuesday. ill tell u all about it.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 03:21 PM) Sorry to disagree, but Philadelphia booed Santa. They are hateful sports fans. Just ask Donovan McNabb. Oh I know. But Chicago is right behind Philly in terms of dumb fans with ridiculous expectations. I laugh about the annual McNabb to Chicago rumors, as if he'd be treated much better in Chicago if he was always hurt, or didn't win in the playoffs.