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While I did say I would hit that in principle (the fact that she is made of plastic does not bother me) my wife is significantly better-looking.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 29, 2008 -> 03:13 PM) sure would make a nice talking point for Obama "I want to push renewable energies while Bush/McCain bow to big oil" I dunno if they are bowing to Big Oil so much as they are doing this to f*** with the Democrats.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 29, 2008 -> 01:26 PM) How about a lame attempt at humor. This It's just like when Huckabee cracked that lame ass joke at that NRA meeting about Obama falling off a chair or something because somebody pointed a gun at him. There was nothing offensive about it, it was just dumb.

So I'm just checking in to the game, looks like the offense is hitting (via the normal way), but Javy is fighting bouts of the suck again.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 28, 2008 -> 07:09 AM) George W. Bush is a pandering f***ing idiot. That is all. He doesn't even need to pander, what does he have to gain at this point?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 09:00 PM) LOL. After all the hubbub about how we need to open more public lands for oil drilling that's lasted for the last 8 years, the Bush Administration has imposed a 2 year moratorium on new solar plants on BLM land while they study the environmental impact. wtf? That doesn't make ANY sense especially when you consider that the main complaint about the Democrats is that they're holding us back on developing any new domestic resources. We need to stop talking about things, and actually start moving forward on some of this stuff.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 06:47 PM) What I mean is his religiousness is over the top for the average person. people want to respect religion, they just don't want it shoved in their face. He comes across as way too zealous to me and apears to be a bit loony. My opinion, that's all. Oh I agree with you, I just wanted to know if that's what you actually thought. He comes across as if he honestly believes he is some kind of a Christian warrior on a personal mission to do God's bidding to change everything and start some kind of social conservative revolution. Just no. Other than that I like him, if he tamped down all that a lot and he wasn't so locked into ideological views I'd consider voting for him.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 05:06 PM) Huckabee is a loon I wasn't really posting here much during the GOP primaries but I'm curious why you think that? I don't know this board's general opinion on him. A little too religious for me is my main complaint but otherwise he seems like a pretty stand-up guy.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 06:09 PM) Up 7, try and save the pen from another inning. Jose has a rubber arm. No problem leaving him out there. Ozzie yanking him at right time. I'm not really complaining, it didn't hurt anything. But Jose was pretty close to the magic number there and Ozzie was rolling the dice IMO. Then again I don't think any of us will ever actually understand Ozzie's method of handling pitchers.

It's still a QS but there really wasn't much reason to have Jose out there to start the 7th, he came into the inning at 96 pitches.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 06:04 PM) I like BA and want him to succeed, but to say Wise sucks is ridiculous. He has been more than serviceable for us. I didn't say anything about Wise (right here, anyway), I mean in however many limited ABs he's had he's hitting over .300 and he deserves props for that, but I don't think it's unfair at all to say he's sucked as a major league hitter before this year.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 04:26 PM) I don't know where they live. Remember Cuban baseball players usually flee to Latin or Central American countries. Does anyone know where home to him is now? Maybe the USA I could've sworn he lived in the Dominican Republic.

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 05:59 PM) BA can have a good 3 game streak too..... It's just funny that nobody (besides the usual culprits in the game threads) was saying ANYTHING when his average was above .250, which it has been most of the season. It's just plain comical.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 05:37 PM) Serviceable doesn't cut it in the playoffs. He was LIGHTS OUT until a couple of weeks ago.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 03:53 PM) I disagree, this isn't that different than interpreting/reinforcing the consitution by saying the 4th amendment and such ensures a right to privacy. I don't understand, it doesn't sound like you're actually disagreeing with me.

I just had a feeling about that Swisher at-bat. Lovely to hear NA-NA-NA-NA, HEY HEY HEY, GOODBYE! I love that we just sent a f***ing torpedo at Dumpster's ERA

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 03:04 PM) I totally agree that you're right on the usage of the phrace "Judicial Activism". The thing I find interesting is that by overturning precedent and creating a new right, I think this ruling is just about as "Activist" as you could get using any definition other than "left-leaning". I don't really care that it is, because I view the constitution as a living document that doesn't have static meanings (That's part of its strength) and thus, as society changes, the courts should allow their interpretations of it to change also. But if you're going to define judicial activism as a problem, then here's a classic example of it. I thought that here was more of an example of interpreting/reinforcing the Constitution where it hadn't been before which is basically their job, just they're not always going to agree. As far as judicial activism I think the eminent domain from a couple years ago was a better example since the majority basically changed the meaning of a word so they could change the definition of the law entirely, and interpret it however they wanted, seemingly arbitrarily.

I really hate the term "judicial activism" because probably 80% of the time you hear it used, all it means is "I hated the judge's decision, I'm right and he's wrong therefore he is making the law up" and it has nothing to do with the actual definition. What it's supposed to mean is a judge exceeding his authority and effectively creating a new law or changing the meaning of an old one. It doesn't happen that way nearly as often as people like to pretend it does.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 02:11 PM) uh you are really reading a lot in to that. his point was obviously that Obama is similar to Kerry. he didn't say anything derogatory about Obamas race. it's obviously not racist. it seems people may have reached uber hyper pc sensitivity levels. edit: as far as injecting race, Obama has already done that. By the time Obama made an obvious reference to his race, other people had already done it. Did he need to bring it up, no probably not, but it really didn't matter. The only real effect it had was allowing people to go "ha gotcha I KNEW it!"

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 01:59 PM) how is that not racist? He basically said "hey, he's John Kerry, but black" He does NOT need to inject race. Make a stand on how you think they are alike, just dont go "hey, he's the same, just blacker" It wasn't racist in the slightest, all he did was point out the difference in skin color and even then didn't say it as a perjorative.

It would be pretty bad ass if that was happening on Mars and not here.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 10:01 AM) Being an information soceity, we are a lot less vulnerable to commodity price shocks than we were even a generation ago. Places that are huge net exporters to us are going to get killed in this current enviornment, because of the lower dollar. They are also getting murdered on the capitol end of things with the record commodity prices. The big red flag to me was China raising fuel prices dispite the riots and problems going on there. The government is having big problems fiscally, i would bet on it. I pat myself on the back for actually being able to understand this post

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 27, 2008 -> 11:42 AM) The country would have fallen apart before the turn of the 19th century. The way we have our gov't now isn't really how it was planned, that didn't become the way it is until the Civil War. Which, the more I thought about it on my own, was pretty interesting... you want to preserve the Union and end the blatantly immoral practice of slavery (if possible, since the two were linked so closely) but in order to do that you have no choice but to s*** on states' rights and change the role of the federal government forever. That being said I'm not really convinced we could function in this century with a weaker central government. Smaller certainly, weaker no.

QUOTE (TCQ @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 01:57 PM) Im surprised the Libertarian party is gettng such little love. Less government is a good thing, hell if the Articles of Confederation were still around we wouldnt have any of the problems we have today We wouldn't have the problems we have today because the country wouldn't exist as we know it.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Jun 26, 2008 -> 07:58 PM) i dont wanna sound like too big of a downer because i love rose's athleticism but here are a few reasons why i dont really love the pick..... http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/leaders?grou...ts&sort=AVG #90 with the talent memphis had around him and playing in that conference? (to his credit he averaged about 3 fewer minutes than most the people at the top) 71% Free throw %...thats bad especially for a slasher who should get to the basket and draw fouls 34% 3 point %...thats also bad for a guard Well Rose doesn't really have to score to have an impact on games. The skillset is there, the Bulls will have a bona fide offense with him in there. Secondly Rose is 19, I think people are going to tend to forget that. He has good shot mechanics and he's coachable, and it'll be a couple of years (at least) before he's any kind of finished NBA product.