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Ok I think I have to give mr. g a point there.

Well technically, you didn't use the exact phrase, so my liver is in the clear.

Aw f*** Balta you're gonna make me go upstairs and get my pint of Hennessy?

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 19, 2009 -> 10:50 PM) I dont use Hollywood to formulate thoughts on this topic. My major is international relations, I play on going to Grad school for it. lol, god you're arrogant, you put me to shame in that category.

He is not that far off about the debt as a big factor though. Germany really kind of got shafted after WWI and everyone wanted to make them pay. IIRC (and I might not be) Wilson tried to talk them out of that and they weren't having it.

Stevenson's presentation before the Security Council where he pwned the Soviet ambassador was a major propaganda victory for the US, although that was mostly cosmetic... the main factor in that (from the U.S. side) was first of all the indisputable evidence that the missiles were there from intelligence gathering, and then Kennedy's leadership. They made their case before the UN so the world saw who was right and wrong though.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 19, 2009 -> 06:52 PM) Nice prediction, was probably written off as completely unrealistic back then. Only off about 4 years. BBC World News America has unearthed a fascinating clip of Dr Martin Luther King speaking to the BBC's Bob McKenzie in 1964 in which Dr King predicts an African-American president "in less than 40 years." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/worl...ica/default.stm Wow, nice find Mr. G. I don't know why I'm subjecting myself to this torture tomorrow, but I'm doing it anyway.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 19, 2009 -> 08:08 PM) The O's might stink right now. But they have a chance to be damn good in 2-3 years. Matt Wieters is pretty much a lock for stardom. They've got 3 of the top 30 or so pitching prospects in all of baseall (even if only two of them pan out. They'll be in good shape). And they've got the 5th pick in this year's draft. Meaning they can either add to their plethora of stud pitching prospects, or go with one of the top position players and add to an already growing young core in that department. I think they should take SS Grant Green from USC if he's still on the board when they make their selection. Is Weiters that OF they have coming up pretty soon?

QUOTE (mreye @ Jan 19, 2009 -> 07:41 PM) I can't throw away a coffee can. They're just really good for storing stuff. The only problem is most of that stuff is too big, so I've got 20 empty coffee cans laying around in the garage. Do you have a bunch of random big ass boxes in your house too? I do. It's really hard for me to throw those away.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 19, 2009 -> 06:38 PM) Good move for the O's. He and Adam Jones (I think Jones is going to be a star) should be holding down RF/CF for years to come. Felix Pie is the x-factor. At 24, he's hardly a bust. The tools are still there. If he breaks out in a new environment, wow, they'll have a terrific outfield for years to come. Luke Scott is pretty decent too. I really like Adam Jones a lot though, he didn't beat the world in his rookie year or anything but I think at the very least he made it clear he wasn't going to be a bust.

Markakis is one of my favorite players.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 19, 2009 -> 03:44 PM) But they're gold plated! Yeah instead of the digital signal arriving at the speed of light, it gets there at... uhh... faster than the speed of light

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 18, 2009 -> 07:41 PM) Think his point was when Javy has a very good year, more times than not, it's going to be when the team overall sucks. And the facts back that up. Personally, I don't care if Javy goes 20-5 in '09. I never wanted him here to begin with (I rolled with it. We were coming off a championship. Kenny could've traded for anybody and I wouldn't have complained). Javy did flat nothing in three years here besides costing us a potential stud CF for the next decade (Kenny obviously made the trade. Still pisses me off), and hurting our draft position in 2007 by, of course, dominating when were were 20 games out of it. Chris Young's offensive stats look a lot more like Corey Patterson's than those of a "stud CF" to me. Everyone still talks about him so much like he's such a special player, but come talk to me when he puts up an OPS+ of 100 or more, his batting average is over .250 (he's never hit for a high average at any level btw, I don't think he's even broken .280), or his OBP doesn't look like a bottom of the order type hitter. I guess then I can be upset about what a great loss he is.

QUOTE (bschmaranz @ Jan 19, 2009 -> 01:34 PM) It's gonna cost a 1st round pick. Don't think Angelo would do that. Just because he's never done it before doesn't necessarily mean that he won't, it's not that he doesn't make moves, it's that he makes bad ones sometimes. Angelo does love his draft picks though so I'd be surprised.

So far this is all I see http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090119/ap_on_...wh/bush_pardons Nothing controversial there yet.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Jan 19, 2009 -> 12:39 PM) our team is looking great lol.... You have 1 position player, the 5th SP, the 4th and 5th OFs, and the back of the bullpen labeled there (not to mention that some of those excess starters are probably gonna end up in the bullpen).

Passing mentions are ok, but let's try and keep the overt political references out of this forum and save them for the Filibuster.

QUOTE (bschmaranz @ Jan 19, 2009 -> 12:05 PM) Praise Larry Fitzgerald for getting you to the super bowl, not Jesus Christ. He didn't have a hand there. Technically he's correct to do that. I'm becoming convinced that Larry Fitzgerald is actually Jesus.

QUOTE (bschmaranz @ Jan 19, 2009 -> 11:54 AM) To quote Kurt, "amen" Pardon me if I'd like my football to be free of props to Jesus over and over again. I'm actually fine with that, I just wonder why they never give Jesus his props when they fumble on their own goal line, miss field goals, or throw pick 6s.

Then we would have the wealth concentrated in a very small percentage of the world's population, and workers' conditions would be brutal.

I've started throwing some of my wife's stuff away. I mean, like the stuff there is not even remotely an excuse to keep.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 19, 2009 -> 10:08 AM) I understand how the UN functions. I just don't think it is fair to be able to give them credit for intervening to stop things, but not to give them credit for when they don't, or won't. Agreed, but I think truth be told is that people around the world tend to talk about doing things a lot about genocide and whatnot, but when it comes down to it, their actions show they don't really care, or that they can't really do anything (example: the "Free Tibet" movement). So the UN really only matters to the various world powers.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jan 19, 2009 -> 09:34 AM) They do, but you have to either have a huge bankroll or be a five diamond government official. And then you have to pay extra for the outfit. They do have standards and all Those are call girls though.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 19, 2009 -> 09:24 AM) So if they get credit for preventing all of the wars, do they get credit for all of the genocides they didn't prevent or just flat out ignored? The UN doesn't really have the power to do things like that especially if the non-US member nations aren't willing to do anything about it. The UN really is just a forum for diplomacy, I don't think anyone is or should be under the illusion that they have the same amount of authority that a sovereign government would in its own territory.