From the wacky leftist-commo rag the New York Times comes a screed against the brave new world of commerce and banking created by forward thinking and actionable men who pushed beyond the stars into whole new worlds of heady profit and genius.
Why is it government that's always called short-sighted and ignorant? Bureaucratic, ok, and sometimes that sucks, but how is this any better? It's not. These men are fucking idiots and they are breaking things. They should not be allowed near these things, and many of them should be in jail. And all of them should get a good swift kick through the ass:
"Not a week goes by that the Fed doesn’t inaugurate a new way to provide liquidity — meaning money — to the financial system. Bear Stearns isn’t enormous. It doesn’t take deposits from the public. Yet the Fed believed that letting it implode could unleash a domino effect among other banks, and the Fed provided a $30 billion guarantee for JPMorgan to snap it up.
Compared to the cold shoulder given to struggling homeowners, the cash and attention lavished by the government on the nation’s financial titans provides telling insight into the priorities of the Bush administration. It’s not simply a matter of fairness, though. The Fed is probably right to be doing all it can think of to avoid worse damage than the economy is already suffering. But if the objective is to encourage prudent banking and keep Wall Street’s wizards from periodically driving financial markets over the cliff, it is imperative to devise a remuneration system for bankers that puts more of their skin in the game.
Financiers, of course, dispute that they are being insufficiently penalized. “I received no bonus for 2007, no severance pay, no golden parachute,” E. Stanley O’Neal, the former chief executive of Merrill Lynch, told a House committee recently. That doesn’t seem like much of a blow to Mr. O’Neal, who was removed earlier this year following gargantuan subprime-related losses."
Friday, March 21, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Another Quitter
GOP Loses Another Leader in Congress
Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (RN.Y.) announced yesterday that he will not seek another term in office, becoming the latest member of the former GOP leadership team to step down in the past two years.
And these are the same losers who want us to stay in Iraq until the end of the time? The party of Americans has turned into the party of AmeriCANTS. Well, don't let the Capitol Hill door hit you on the ass on the way out. Best to put that tail between your legs, too, like a skunk...
Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (RN.Y.) announced yesterday that he will not seek another term in office, becoming the latest member of the former GOP leadership team to step down in the past two years.
And these are the same losers who want us to stay in Iraq until the end of the time? The party of Americans has turned into the party of AmeriCANTS. Well, don't let the Capitol Hill door hit you on the ass on the way out. Best to put that tail between your legs, too, like a skunk...
The Avalanche Continues
J. E. Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes: No such thing as a war for free
And this is what McBush wants to continue for another 100 years? Seriously, do we want to take a crack at solving America's problems, or make some people seriously rich at the cost of nearly 4,000 American lives and an undetermined, mind bogglingly large number of Iraqi lives? Not to mention everyone else in the world hating us?
Where are those New Zealand emigration papers...
And this is what McBush wants to continue for another 100 years? Seriously, do we want to take a crack at solving America's problems, or make some people seriously rich at the cost of nearly 4,000 American lives and an undetermined, mind bogglingly large number of Iraqi lives? Not to mention everyone else in the world hating us?
Where are those New Zealand emigration papers...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
a YOOOOOOOOGE asshole... or... da YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGEST asshole?
News item: Bush "Envious" of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
"I must say, I'm a little envious," Bush said. "If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed."
"I must say, I'm a little envious," Bush said. "If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed."
Dick Cheney to Everyone: Go Fuck Yourself
An enormous asshole or a gigantic asshole??
Raddatz: Two-thirds of Americans say it’s not worth fighting, and they’re looking at the value gain versus the cost in American lives, certainly, and Iraqi lives.
Cheney: So?
Raddatz: So — you don’t care what the American people think?
Cheney: No, I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls. Think about what would have happened if Abraham Lincoln had paid attention to polls, if they had had polls during the Civil War. He never would have succeeded if he hadn’t had a clear objective, a vision for where he wanted to go, and he was willing to withstand the slings and arrows of the political wars in order to get there. And this President has been very courageous, very consistent, very determined to continue down the course we were on and to achieve our objective.
Smiff does it in basketball, too...
Hedo Turkoglu's dream season continued on Wednesday when he hit 11-of-20 shots and seven threes for a career-high 39 points in a loss to the Wizards. Turkoglu added six boards, three assists, a steal and a block, but the Magic were unable to overcome a three-point night from Dwight Howard in the loss. Turkoglu may be the biggest fantasy SHTEAL this season, and will likely be a hot draft pick in the early rounds next season.
dese just in...
Today's Top Searches
Audrina Patridge
Soleil Moon Frye
Squat Toilet
Puggles
Spring Equinox
Survivor Micronesia
Madeleine McCann
Fall Out Boy
Hogan's Heroes
Boston Red Sox
...As of Tuesday, at least 3,990 members of the U.S. military have died in the war, which has cost the U.S. roughly $500 billion. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglizt and Harvard University public finance expert Linda Bilmes have estimated the eventual cost at $3 trillion when all the expenses, including long-term care for veterans, are calculated.
Without specifics, Bush decried those who have "exaggerated estimates of the costs of this war."
"War critics can no longer credibly argue that we are losing in Iraq, so now they argue the war costs too much," the HYOOOGE @$$#0LE said....
Audrina Patridge
Soleil Moon Frye
Squat Toilet
Puggles
Spring Equinox
Survivor Micronesia
Madeleine McCann
Fall Out Boy
Hogan's Heroes
Boston Red Sox
...As of Tuesday, at least 3,990 members of the U.S. military have died in the war, which has cost the U.S. roughly $500 billion. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglizt and Harvard University public finance expert Linda Bilmes have estimated the eventual cost at $3 trillion when all the expenses, including long-term care for veterans, are calculated.
Without specifics, Bush decried those who have "exaggerated estimates of the costs of this war."
"War critics can no longer credibly argue that we are losing in Iraq, so now they argue the war costs too much," the HYOOOGE @$$#0LE said....
speaking of the sun coming up...
Nomar Garciaparra got a cortisone shot for his right wrist after an MRI Wednesday detected a microfracture. Trainer Stan Conte likened the injury to a small bone bruise. Nomar was hoping to play tomorrow, but that won't happen now. He needs to get some at-bats soon if he expects to be in the lineup on Opening Day.
Cricket Rules - Post Zzz of Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Y'all made me do this...
Cricket equipment guide
Cricket is a sport where you need a few bits of specialist equipment to keep you safe.
Most clubs provide bats and all the protective gear, but you may want your own kit.
In fact, there can be so much kit you may feel as though you're packing to go on holiday.
But a hard cricket ball can do a lot of damage - so protective gear is essential.
It will stop you getting hurt, though you may find the odd bump and bruise slips through now and then.
My Personal Favorite piece of equipment:
You won't need to guess where the most painful place to be hit by a cricket ball is - particularly for males.
A box should always be worn to protect the "privates" when batting against a cricket ball or other hard ball.
Wicketkeepers and fielders close to the wicket should also wear a box at all times.
You won't regret it. Neither will your kids.
Cricket equipment guideCricket is a sport where you need a few bits of specialist equipment to keep you safe.
Most clubs provide bats and all the protective gear, but you may want your own kit.
In fact, there can be so much kit you may feel as though you're packing to go on holiday.
But a hard cricket ball can do a lot of damage - so protective gear is essential.
It will stop you getting hurt, though you may find the odd bump and bruise slips through now and then.
My Personal Favorite piece of equipment:
You won't need to guess where the most painful place to be hit by a cricket ball is - particularly for males.
A box should always be worn to protect the "privates" when batting against a cricket ball or other hard ball.
Wicketkeepers and fielders close to the wicket should also wear a box at all times.
You won't regret it. Neither will your kids.
and why not anudder 5 years, or 50, or 500...
This guy's supposed strength is foreign policy and defense? God help us all.
Oops! He Did It Again: McCain Confuses Iran/al Qaeda Link In Speech Marking 5th Anniversary of Iraqi Invasion
Sen. John McCain has done it again.
For the third time in two days, the Arizona Republican has pushed the definitively false statement that the terrorist group Al-Qaeda was getting assistance from Iran, even though he was publicly ridiculed for the same false assertion on Tuesday.
This time, in a statement from his campaign honoring the fifth year anniversary of the war, McCain wrote:
“Today in Iraq, America and our allies stand on the precipice of winning a major victory against radical Islamic extremism. The security gains over the past year have been dramatic and undeniable. Al Qaeda and Shia extremists — with support from external powers such as Iran — are on the run but not defeated.”
On Tuesday, the senator, appearing in Israel, made a nearly identical assertion that al-Qaeda was leaving Iraq to retool and regroup in Iran.
Countdown’s Worst Persons: Olbermann Murdoch & McSame
Last, and by no means least, Senator John McCain takes the gold for making a fool of himself by claiming that Iran was training al Qaeda members in Iran, and sending them into Iraq. (not once, but thrice) Unfortunately for Grandpa McCain, he was mistaken and had to be reminded by Joe Lieberman that Iran was NOT training members of al Qaeda.
Olbermann: “No wonder McCain’s talking about 100 years in Iraq. It’ll take him that long just to figure out what’s going on there!”
McCain Doesn’t Know Who We’re Fighting In Iraq
Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that’s well known. And it’s unfortunate.” A few moments later, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, standing just behind McCain, stepped forward and whispered in the presidential candidate’s ear. McCain then said: “I’m sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda.”
Oops! He Did It Again: McCain Confuses Iran/al Qaeda Link In Speech Marking 5th Anniversary of Iraqi Invasion
Sen. John McCain has done it again.
For the third time in two days, the Arizona Republican has pushed the definitively false statement that the terrorist group Al-Qaeda was getting assistance from Iran, even though he was publicly ridiculed for the same false assertion on Tuesday.
This time, in a statement from his campaign honoring the fifth year anniversary of the war, McCain wrote:
“Today in Iraq, America and our allies stand on the precipice of winning a major victory against radical Islamic extremism. The security gains over the past year have been dramatic and undeniable. Al Qaeda and Shia extremists — with support from external powers such as Iran — are on the run but not defeated.”
On Tuesday, the senator, appearing in Israel, made a nearly identical assertion that al-Qaeda was leaving Iraq to retool and regroup in Iran.
Countdown’s Worst Persons: Olbermann Murdoch & McSame
Last, and by no means least, Senator John McCain takes the gold for making a fool of himself by claiming that Iran was training al Qaeda members in Iran, and sending them into Iraq. (not once, but thrice) Unfortunately for Grandpa McCain, he was mistaken and had to be reminded by Joe Lieberman that Iran was NOT training members of al Qaeda.
Olbermann: “No wonder McCain’s talking about 100 years in Iraq. It’ll take him that long just to figure out what’s going on there!”
McCain Doesn’t Know Who We’re Fighting In Iraq
Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that’s well known. And it’s unfortunate.” A few moments later, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, standing just behind McCain, stepped forward and whispered in the presidential candidate’s ear. McCain then said: “I’m sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda.”
What is America searching on the 5th Anniversary of Bush's Insanity in the Desert?
Today's Top Searches
1. Miley Cyrus
2. Judy Greer
3. David Archuleta
4. Robot Dogs
5. Edmontosaurus
6. ABBA
7. Anthony Minghella
8. May Pang
9. Bread Pudding Recipe
10. Second Amendment
1. Miley Cyrus
2. Judy Greer
3. David Archuleta
4. Robot Dogs
5. Edmontosaurus
6. ABBA
7. Anthony Minghella
8. May Pang
9. Bread Pudding Recipe
10. Second Amendment
The Sun Rose in the East Today
Kerry Wood, who was supposed to work on back-to-back days for the first time this spring, had to be scratched from Wednesday's appearance because of back spasms.
"Look, we do have one setback with Kerry today -- his back is really, really stiff and he's not going to be able to pitch today," manager Lou Pineilla said. "It has nothing to do with his shoulder, or elbow, it's just with his back. He went to see a doctor, and hopefully we'll get him out there (Thursday) or the next day." Piniella wants Wood in the closer's role, but it's unclear if he'd hand him the role without him having pitched on back-to-back days first.
"Look, we do have one setback with Kerry today -- his back is really, really stiff and he's not going to be able to pitch today," manager Lou Pineilla said. "It has nothing to do with his shoulder, or elbow, it's just with his back. He went to see a doctor, and hopefully we'll get him out there (Thursday) or the next day." Piniella wants Wood in the closer's role, but it's unclear if he'd hand him the role without him having pitched on back-to-back days first.
Decadent Westerners (cont)
Olympics crisis over squat loos
China is rushing to install sit-down loos for its 500,000 foreign Olympics visitors, after complaints that venues had only Asian-style squat toilets.
A lack of Western-style facilities was a common complaint after some 30 test events at Games venues, officials said.
"A lot of parties have raised the question of toilets... We have told the venues to improve on this," said Yao Hui, deputy head of venue management.
He said bathroom renovations were already under way at three key venues.
"Most of the Chinese people are used to the squat toilet, but nowadays more and more people demand sit-down toilets," said Mr Yao.
"However, it will take some time for this transition."
He said that the proportion of squat toilets to sit-down facilities would vary depending on the nature of each venue.
But he said most of the lavatories at the 91,000-seat National Stadium - known as the Bird's Nest, the Water Cube and the National Indoor Stadium "should be" sit-down style.
Beijing is said to be spending at least US$40bn on 37 venues for sporting events at the August Olympics, 31 of which are in Beijing.
China is rushing to install sit-down loos for its 500,000 foreign Olympics visitors, after complaints that venues had only Asian-style squat toilets.
A lack of Western-style facilities was a common complaint after some 30 test events at Games venues, officials said.
"A lot of parties have raised the question of toilets... We have told the venues to improve on this," said Yao Hui, deputy head of venue management.
He said bathroom renovations were already under way at three key venues.
"Most of the Chinese people are used to the squat toilet, but nowadays more and more people demand sit-down toilets," said Mr Yao.
"However, it will take some time for this transition."
He said that the proportion of squat toilets to sit-down facilities would vary depending on the nature of each venue.
But he said most of the lavatories at the 91,000-seat National Stadium - known as the Bird's Nest, the Water Cube and the National Indoor Stadium "should be" sit-down style.
Beijing is said to be spending at least US$40bn on 37 venues for sporting events at the August Olympics, 31 of which are in Beijing.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The Grand Scientific Host (cont'd)
Thickest, oldest Arctic ice is melting: NASA data
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The thickest, oldest and toughest sea ice around the North Pole is melting, a bad sign for the future of the Arctic ice cap, NASA satellite data showed on Tuesday.
"Thickness is an indicator of long-term health of sea ice, and that's not looking good at the moment," Walt Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center told reporters in a telephone briefing.
This adds to the litany of disturbing news about Arctic sea ice, which has been retreating over the last three decades, especially last year, when it ebbed to its lowest level.
Scientists have said the trend is spurred by human-generated climate change.
Melting Arctic ice does not raise sea levels as the melting of glaciers on Greenland or Antarctica could, but it does contribute to global warming when reflective white ice is replaced by dark water that absorbs the sun's heat.
Using satellites that measure how much ice covers water in the Arctic and Antarctic, Meier and other climate scientists found a steep drop in the amount of perennial ice -- the hardy, thick ice that is over a year old -- in the north.
The oldest Arctic ice that has survived six years or more is the toughest, and even that shrank dramatically, Meier and the other scientists said.
OLD ICE "TOUGH AS NAILS"
Some 965,300 square miles of perennial ice have been lost -- about one and a half times the area of Alaska -- a 50 percent decrease between February 2007 and February 2008, Meier said.
The oldest "tough as nails" perennial ice has decreased by about 75 percent this year, losing 579,200 square miles (1.5 million sq kms, or about twice the area of Texas, he said.
This doesn't mean the Arctic is open water during the winter, but it does mean that in many areas, the stronger perennial ice is being replaced by younger, frailer new ice that is more easily disturbed by wind and warm sea temperatures.
"It's like looking at a Hollywood set," Meier said of an Arctic largely covered with younger ice. "It may look OK but if you could see behind you'd see ... it's just empty. And what we're seeing with the ice cover is it's becoming more and more empty underneath the ice cover."
Perennial ice is also vulnerable to a recurring pattern of swirling winds and currents known as the Arctic oscillation, which ejects the old ice out of the zone around the pole and aims it south where warmer waters will melt it.
The scientists also analyzed satellite data for Antarctica but found less dramatic change there.
This was attributed to the difference in the two polar regions. The Arctic is an ocean surrounded by land while the Antarctic is a continent surrounded by ocean.
However, the scientists noted sharp warming on the Antarctic Peninsula, which stretches northward from the southern continent toward South America.
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The thickest, oldest and toughest sea ice around the North Pole is melting, a bad sign for the future of the Arctic ice cap, NASA satellite data showed on Tuesday.
"Thickness is an indicator of long-term health of sea ice, and that's not looking good at the moment," Walt Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center told reporters in a telephone briefing.
This adds to the litany of disturbing news about Arctic sea ice, which has been retreating over the last three decades, especially last year, when it ebbed to its lowest level.
Scientists have said the trend is spurred by human-generated climate change.
Melting Arctic ice does not raise sea levels as the melting of glaciers on Greenland or Antarctica could, but it does contribute to global warming when reflective white ice is replaced by dark water that absorbs the sun's heat.
Using satellites that measure how much ice covers water in the Arctic and Antarctic, Meier and other climate scientists found a steep drop in the amount of perennial ice -- the hardy, thick ice that is over a year old -- in the north.
The oldest Arctic ice that has survived six years or more is the toughest, and even that shrank dramatically, Meier and the other scientists said.
OLD ICE "TOUGH AS NAILS"
Some 965,300 square miles of perennial ice have been lost -- about one and a half times the area of Alaska -- a 50 percent decrease between February 2007 and February 2008, Meier said.
The oldest "tough as nails" perennial ice has decreased by about 75 percent this year, losing 579,200 square miles (1.5 million sq kms, or about twice the area of Texas, he said.
This doesn't mean the Arctic is open water during the winter, but it does mean that in many areas, the stronger perennial ice is being replaced by younger, frailer new ice that is more easily disturbed by wind and warm sea temperatures.
"It's like looking at a Hollywood set," Meier said of an Arctic largely covered with younger ice. "It may look OK but if you could see behind you'd see ... it's just empty. And what we're seeing with the ice cover is it's becoming more and more empty underneath the ice cover."
Perennial ice is also vulnerable to a recurring pattern of swirling winds and currents known as the Arctic oscillation, which ejects the old ice out of the zone around the pole and aims it south where warmer waters will melt it.
The scientists also analyzed satellite data for Antarctica but found less dramatic change there.
This was attributed to the difference in the two polar regions. The Arctic is an ocean surrounded by land while the Antarctic is a continent surrounded by ocean.
However, the scientists noted sharp warming on the Antarctic Peninsula, which stretches northward from the southern continent toward South America.
k-mad finds something to get pissed off enough about to get off his ass and post something cranky (cont'd)
News item -- Public schools Tibetans attend give short shrift to the Tibetan language, emphasizing Chinese instead. Ethnic Chinese hold most jobs, and Tibetan civil servants can be fired if their homes contain the traditional Buddhist shrine: a Buddha statue with incense sticks in front. Portraits of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan leader who has been in exile since 1959, are prohibited.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Colony Collapse Disorder?
Or just Quinny on da loose...perhaps he thought the honey was beer?
Bear convicted for theft of honey
By Paddy Clark BBC News
The taste of honey was just too tempting for a bear in Macedonia, which repeatedly raided a beekeeper's hives.
Now it has a criminal record after a court found it guilty of theft and criminal damage.
But there was an empty dock in the court in the city of Bitola and no handcuffed bear, which was convicted in its absence.
The case was brought by the exasperated beekeeper after a year of trying vainly to protect his beehives.
For a while, he kept the animal away by buying a generator, lighting up the area, and playing thumping Serbian turbo-folk music.
But when the generator ran out of power and the music fell silent, the bear was back and the honey was gone once more.
"It attacked the beehives again," said beekeeper Zoran Kiseloski.
Because the animal had no owner and belonged to a protected species, the court ordered the state to pay for the damage to the hives - around $3,500 (£1,750; 2,238 euros).
The bear, meanwhile, remains at large - somewhere in Macedonia.
Bear convicted for theft of honey
By Paddy Clark BBC News
The taste of honey was just too tempting for a bear in Macedonia, which repeatedly raided a beekeeper's hives.
Now it has a criminal record after a court found it guilty of theft and criminal damage.
But there was an empty dock in the court in the city of Bitola and no handcuffed bear, which was convicted in its absence.
The case was brought by the exasperated beekeeper after a year of trying vainly to protect his beehives.
For a while, he kept the animal away by buying a generator, lighting up the area, and playing thumping Serbian turbo-folk music.
But when the generator ran out of power and the music fell silent, the bear was back and the honey was gone once more.
"It attacked the beehives again," said beekeeper Zoran Kiseloski.
Because the animal had no owner and belonged to a protected species, the court ordered the state to pay for the damage to the hives - around $3,500 (£1,750; 2,238 euros).
The bear, meanwhile, remains at large - somewhere in Macedonia.
Everybody's on da internets
Israel's Shin Bet launches blog
Spies blogging? What's next, a blog with 4-6 members talking about their expertises, whether it be baseball, IT, law, libratorrs, weather and the like?
Spies blogging? What's next, a blog with 4-6 members talking about their expertises, whether it be baseball, IT, law, libratorrs, weather and the like?
If we knew then what we know now...
Iraq key players, then and now
The US president said he had three reasons for going to war against Iraq - to disarm the country of its WMD, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism and to free the Iraqi people. "The attacks of September 11 2001, show what the enemies of America did with four airplanes. We will not wait to see what terrorists or terrorist states could do with weapons of mass destruction," he said in March 2003.
He forgot to mention - "Also, Saddam tried to hurt Daddy."
The US president said he had three reasons for going to war against Iraq - to disarm the country of its WMD, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism and to free the Iraqi people. "The attacks of September 11 2001, show what the enemies of America did with four airplanes. We will not wait to see what terrorists or terrorist states could do with weapons of mass destruction," he said in March 2003.
He forgot to mention - "Also, Saddam tried to hurt Daddy."
Sunday, March 16, 2008
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Africa gets shafted, again
We really coulda used that money too...
Nation Of Andorra Not In Africa, Shocked U.S. State Dept. Reports
Nation Of Andorra Not In Africa, Shocked U.S. State Dept. Reports
an update
There are two Google hits for brain-dead Floridians whut cain't tell the difference between a squirrel and an orangutan. Google also offers this helpful suggestion:
Did you mean: brain-dead Floridians who cain't tell the difference between a squirrel and an orangutan
Did you mean: brain-dead Floridians who cain't tell the difference between a squirrel and an orangutan
Thursday, March 13, 2008
The Dumbshine State (cont'd)
Do-over primary getting lost in the mail
"There's no authority under Florida law that would allow county supervisors of election or the state to verify signatures in an election of a state party..."
Last week, the party said a mailed ballot would cost $4 million to $6 million. The new estimate: $10 million to $12 million...
"There's no authority under Florida law that would allow county supervisors of election or the state to verify signatures in an election of a state party..."
Last week, the party said a mailed ballot would cost $4 million to $6 million. The new estimate: $10 million to $12 million...
literally, there is nothing to see here
Pentagon cancels release of controversial Iraq report
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Wednesday canceled plans for broad public release of a study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the al Qaida terrorist network.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Wednesday canceled plans for broad public release of a study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the al Qaida terrorist network.
True Love
A survey of Illinois Statutes
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720 ILCS 5/11‑7. Adultery. (a) Any person who has sexual intercourse with another not his spouse commits adultery, if the behavior is open and notorious, and (1) The person is married and the other person involved in such intercourse is not his spouse; or (2) The person is not married and knows that the other person involved in such intercourse is married. (b) Adultery is a Class A misdemeanor.
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Read: Marriage is a special promise when you tell someone - I want to make it illegal for you to have sex with other people.
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720 ILCS 5/11‑8. Fornication. (a) Any person who has sexual intercourse with another not his spouse commits fornication if the behavior is open and notorious. (b) Fornication is a Class B misdemeanor.
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Read: This is my favourite Class B misdemeanor. And if you are reading this and not a bible, you are a criminal. Thankfully the "another" part means that single people can still take the Jocelyn Elders route.
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720 ILCS 5/11‑14. Prostitution. (a) Any person who performs, offers or agrees to perform any act of sexual penetration as defined in Section 12‑12 of this Code for any money, property, token, object, or article or anything of value, or any touching or fondling of the sex organs of one person by another person, for any money, property, token, object, or article or anything of value, for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification commits an act of prostitution. (b) Prostitution is a Class A misdemeanor.
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Read: If you ever see a prostitute, ask her or him just to touch herself or himself. Also if you attribute any value to love, and you are not a virgin, then you are a prostitute.
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720 ILCS 5/11‑14.1. Solicitation of a sexual act. (a) Any person who offers a person not his or her spouse any money, property, token, object, or article or anything of value to perform any act of sexual penetration as defined in Section 12‑12 of this Code, or any touching or fondling of the sex organs of one person by another person for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification, commits the offense of solicitation of a sexual act. (b) Solicitation of a sexual act is a Class B misdemeanor.
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Read: Marriage is state sanctioned prostitution.
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And as a special bonus - The definition of obscenity:
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(b) Obscene Defined. Any material or performance is obscene if: (1) the average person, applying contemporary adult community standards, would find that, taken as a whole, it appeals to the prurient interest; and (2) the average person, applying contemporary adult community standards, would find that it depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, ultimate sexual acts or sadomasochistic sexual acts, whether normal or perverted, actual or simulated, or masturbation, excretory functions or lewd exhibition of the genitals; and (3) taken as a whole, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
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Here is the special problem. Are we asking people about the contemporary adult community standards in public, or are we having a real talk with Jesus with them. Because every man is going to say a centerfold is pornographic if you ask them, every man is going to vote against pornography, but then they are going to go home and watch some porn. When I was helping on a Village Planning and Design Commission, they told me they didn't want an adult use business in town because no one there would like it and only truckers would use it. My response - "that explains why it is a multi-billion dollar a year industry - all those rich truckers."
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Why is this country so phucked up sexually? There are good reasons to protect marriage, and good reasons to curb prostitution - these laws don't seem to be reaching any of them.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Eliot a Goner
Proving, once again, that what goes around comes around. Or is it that good guys finish last? Can't fight the system, coz the system always wins? Whitey keeping whitey down?
And can we not have the wife out every time this happens? Or, if she does come out, can we have her either beat him up, chew him out, or displaying the new bling he had to cough up millions for in order for her to stand up there?
And can we not have the wife out every time this happens? Or, if she does come out, can we have her either beat him up, chew him out, or displaying the new bling he had to cough up millions for in order for her to stand up there?
Scary $#!+
US government forces military secrets on Brit webmaster
Sorry, we thought you were us
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco → More by this author
A website promoting the town of Mildenhall has been shut down after it unintentionally became the recipient of hundreds of classified emails, including messages detailing the planned flight path of President Bush.
Over more than a decade, www.mildenhall.com received emails detailing all kinds of secret military information that were intended for official Air Force personnel. One detailed where Air Force One could be found in the air during a planned visit to the region by President Bush. Others included battlefield strategy and passwords.
"I was being sent everything from banal chat and jokes, to videos up to 15mb in size," Gary Sinnott, owner of mildenhall.com, said in this article in EDP 24. "Some were classified, some were personal. A lot had some really sensitive information in them."
As owner of mildenhall.com, Sinnott received every email that had that domain name included in the address field. The site was set up to provide information about the town of Mildenhall, which is about a half-hour's drive north east of Cambridge.
Sinnott says he brought the SNAFU to the attention of Air Force officials but was never able to get the problem fixed. At first, they didn't seem to take the matter seriously, but eventually, they "went mental," he said. Officials advised Sinnott to block unrecognizable addresses from his domain and set up an auto-reply reminding people of the address for the official air force base.
But still, the official emails continued to flow in to Sinnott's site. And to make matters worse, some people got angry after Sinnott told them they were sending email to the wrong address and gave his address to spammers. Sinnott was receiving 30,000 pieces of email per day, most of which was junk mail.
So Sinnott pulled the plug on the website. Though he remains the owner of mildenhall.com, it may only be a matter of time before all those emails incorrectly addressed to Air Force personnel at mildenhall.com automatically begin to bounce. And that ought to make security conscious people everywhere breath a little easier.
Alas, according whois records, mildenhall.net and mildenhall.org are in the hands of non-military individuals and mildenhall.us is available to anyone with $35. Given what we now know about the boobs who send confidential information, that ought to give us pause. ®
The article doesn't really get to the heart of the problem - there is an Air Force base near Mildenhall called Mildenhall Air Force Base. So the dumbasses here, instead of checking to see what the domain is for the base, just assumed it was mildenhall.com (because that's what it should be, right? Even though it's a military base, and not a commmercial entity, it's always .com isn't it?) and sent messages, UNENCRYPTED, to the wrong people. Then said person, being nice, alerted the military and they basically waved him off. Imagine if someone else had thought of this - heck, this could be happening all over the world.
This goes under Bushian, even if it did start before he was in power...
Sorry, we thought you were us
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco → More by this author
A website promoting the town of Mildenhall has been shut down after it unintentionally became the recipient of hundreds of classified emails, including messages detailing the planned flight path of President Bush.
Over more than a decade, www.mildenhall.com received emails detailing all kinds of secret military information that were intended for official Air Force personnel. One detailed where Air Force One could be found in the air during a planned visit to the region by President Bush. Others included battlefield strategy and passwords.
"I was being sent everything from banal chat and jokes, to videos up to 15mb in size," Gary Sinnott, owner of mildenhall.com, said in this article in EDP 24. "Some were classified, some were personal. A lot had some really sensitive information in them."
As owner of mildenhall.com, Sinnott received every email that had that domain name included in the address field. The site was set up to provide information about the town of Mildenhall, which is about a half-hour's drive north east of Cambridge.
Sinnott says he brought the SNAFU to the attention of Air Force officials but was never able to get the problem fixed. At first, they didn't seem to take the matter seriously, but eventually, they "went mental," he said. Officials advised Sinnott to block unrecognizable addresses from his domain and set up an auto-reply reminding people of the address for the official air force base.
But still, the official emails continued to flow in to Sinnott's site. And to make matters worse, some people got angry after Sinnott told them they were sending email to the wrong address and gave his address to spammers. Sinnott was receiving 30,000 pieces of email per day, most of which was junk mail.
So Sinnott pulled the plug on the website. Though he remains the owner of mildenhall.com, it may only be a matter of time before all those emails incorrectly addressed to Air Force personnel at mildenhall.com automatically begin to bounce. And that ought to make security conscious people everywhere breath a little easier.
Alas, according whois records, mildenhall.net and mildenhall.org are in the hands of non-military individuals and mildenhall.us is available to anyone with $35. Given what we now know about the boobs who send confidential information, that ought to give us pause. ®
The article doesn't really get to the heart of the problem - there is an Air Force base near Mildenhall called Mildenhall Air Force Base. So the dumbasses here, instead of checking to see what the domain is for the base, just assumed it was mildenhall.com (because that's what it should be, right? Even though it's a military base, and not a commmercial entity, it's always .com isn't it?) and sent messages, UNENCRYPTED, to the wrong people. Then said person, being nice, alerted the military and they basically waved him off. Imagine if someone else had thought of this - heck, this could be happening all over the world.
This goes under Bushian, even if it did start before he was in power...
who's hating America today?
This one's almost too easy: Bernie Sanders.
According to the latest available statistics from the Internal Revenue Service, the top 1 percent of Americans earned significantly more income in 2005 than the bottom 50 percent. In addition, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently reported that the wealthiest 1 percent saw total income rise by $180,000 in 2005. That is more than the average middle-class family makes in three years. The CBO also found that the total share of after-tax income going to the top 1 percent hit the highest level on record, while the middle class and working families received the smallest share of after-tax income on record.
Why does Bernie have a problem with freedom?
According to the latest available statistics from the Internal Revenue Service, the top 1 percent of Americans earned significantly more income in 2005 than the bottom 50 percent. In addition, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently reported that the wealthiest 1 percent saw total income rise by $180,000 in 2005. That is more than the average middle-class family makes in three years. The CBO also found that the total share of after-tax income going to the top 1 percent hit the highest level on record, while the middle class and working families received the smallest share of after-tax income on record.
Why does Bernie have a problem with freedom?
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
too much information
Kaz Matsui will miss four to five days with an anal fissure. That's an unnatural tear or crack in the anus skin, for those of you not in the know. Matsui is expected to be out until at least Friday. Anal fissures can become chronic problems, but the Astros hope using a different medication will sooth Matsui's issue.
nothing to see here, move along, etc. (cont'd)
News item: Former attorney general John D. Ashcroft today strenuously defended a government-sanctioned contract that could earn his consulting firm more than $50 meeeelllion, saying there is no conflict of interest in the appointment made by one of his former U.S. attorneys.
Ashcroft has come under scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers since he accepted a no-bid contract to oversee the operations of an Indiana medical equipment company which is accused of giving kickbacks to doctors. He was chosen by U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie of New Jersey, a Republican who once worked for Ashcroft.
"There is not a conflict," Ashcroft said. "There is not an appearance of conflict."
Ashcroft has come under scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers since he accepted a no-bid contract to oversee the operations of an Indiana medical equipment company which is accused of giving kickbacks to doctors. He was chosen by U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie of New Jersey, a Republican who once worked for Ashcroft.
"There is not a conflict," Ashcroft said. "There is not an appearance of conflict."
Eliot a Goner?
New York Assembly Republican Minority Leader James Tedisco said: "If he does not resign within the next 24 to 48 hours, we will prepare articles of impeachment to remove him.
I thought the rules were:
Sex Scandal for a Democrat=flaw
Sex Scandal for a Republican=fatal flaw
So while a Republican resigns immediately, a Democrat soldiers on. I guess that's why the Republican would impeach though - since to them it's a fatal flaw, it should be to the other side too, and they get all pissy when the Democrat refuses to go. Though this one hasn't refused. Yet.
Also, where does this story go on the whitey vs darky sub topic? I's confused...
I thought the rules were:
Sex Scandal for a Democrat=flaw
Sex Scandal for a Republican=fatal flaw
So while a Republican resigns immediately, a Democrat soldiers on. I guess that's why the Republican would impeach though - since to them it's a fatal flaw, it should be to the other side too, and they get all pissy when the Democrat refuses to go. Though this one hasn't refused. Yet.
Also, where does this story go on the whitey vs darky sub topic? I's confused...
Zombie Constitution
WARRENSBURG, Mo. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a withering and practiced critique of modern constitutional interpretation during an evening address at the University of Central Missouri.
Scalia, the second-most bat-s#!t-crazy justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, focused particularly on the notion of a “living Constitution” that evolves as society “matures.”
“The Constitution does not change,” Scalia said. “It means today what it meant when it first was written. … It does not morph. The founding fathers had no concept of the 'future' and therefore never left any deliberately ambiguous terms in the constitution. They just weren't bright enough to think like that. Terms like 'well regulated,' "unreasonable,' 'probable cause,' 'due process of law,' 'just compensation,' 'speedy and public trial,' 'excessive bail,' 'excessive fines,' and 'cruel and unusual punishments' have very specific meanings, which are all contained in the definitions section of the Constitution, which is available only to members of the Federalist Society." Scalia is of course a member of the Federalist Society.
Scalia stated that the Constitution is like the Bible. "It is the Divine and infallible word of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and roughly 35 others, all of whom are dead white landowning males." Just like every word of the Bible is true, so is every word of the Constitution, Scalia argued. "Generally, I am in favor of books being written by dead white landowning males controlling society for thousands of years. Of course, I suppose if I ever saw a conflict between the two, I would go with God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost rather than Washington, Franklin, Madison and Hamilton. They may be outnumbered, but the reward plan looks better to me."
Scalia appeared before a friendly crowd of about 1,300 as part of the university’s Julius J. Oppenheimer Lecture Series. "Now I am become death, the destroy of worlds," Scalia quipped, when first stepping up to the podium.
Echoing themes he fleshed out more than 10 years ago in his book A Matter of Interpretation and in hundreds of opinions and dissents, Scalia said judges who read more into the Constitution than actually was written there could make the document less capable of protecting citizens from an unjust majority. Scalia noted that he errs on the side of reading less into the Constitution than was actually written there in order to make the document less capable of protecting citizens from an unjust majority. "Either way works, though," he added.
Scalia described himself as an “originalist” who went to the text of the Constitution to find what was there and what wasn’t. “The Constitution is not a living organism,” Scalia said. “It’s a legal document that says some things and doesn’t say others.” He added, "I have never understood metaphors." One of the main themes of Scalia's speeches on the issue has been that the Constitution is "dead."
Scalia’s humor punctuated the evening, particularly during a question-and-answer session. When one of the questioners asked "If the Constitution is dead, is the 2nd Amendment dead?" Scalia responded "Well maybe dead isn't exactly the right word. Perhaps undead is a better way to put it. Can you be undead and never have been alive? It would be like that I think. Like a stillborn zombie."
Scalia has been seen as a strong protector of rights that are explicitly defined in the Constitution. He has voted, for example, to strike down laws restricting activities at each end of the conventional political spectrum, flag-burning on the one hand and cross-burning on the other.
Scalia, the second-most bat-s#!t-crazy justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, focused particularly on the notion of a “living Constitution” that evolves as society “matures.”
“The Constitution does not change,” Scalia said. “It means today what it meant when it first was written. … It does not morph. The founding fathers had no concept of the 'future' and therefore never left any deliberately ambiguous terms in the constitution. They just weren't bright enough to think like that. Terms like 'well regulated,' "unreasonable,' 'probable cause,' 'due process of law,' 'just compensation,' 'speedy and public trial,' 'excessive bail,' 'excessive fines,' and 'cruel and unusual punishments' have very specific meanings, which are all contained in the definitions section of the Constitution, which is available only to members of the Federalist Society." Scalia is of course a member of the Federalist Society.
Scalia stated that the Constitution is like the Bible. "It is the Divine and infallible word of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and roughly 35 others, all of whom are dead white landowning males." Just like every word of the Bible is true, so is every word of the Constitution, Scalia argued. "Generally, I am in favor of books being written by dead white landowning males controlling society for thousands of years. Of course, I suppose if I ever saw a conflict between the two, I would go with God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost rather than Washington, Franklin, Madison and Hamilton. They may be outnumbered, but the reward plan looks better to me."
Scalia appeared before a friendly crowd of about 1,300 as part of the university’s Julius J. Oppenheimer Lecture Series. "Now I am become death, the destroy of worlds," Scalia quipped, when first stepping up to the podium.
Echoing themes he fleshed out more than 10 years ago in his book A Matter of Interpretation and in hundreds of opinions and dissents, Scalia said judges who read more into the Constitution than actually was written there could make the document less capable of protecting citizens from an unjust majority. Scalia noted that he errs on the side of reading less into the Constitution than was actually written there in order to make the document less capable of protecting citizens from an unjust majority. "Either way works, though," he added.
Scalia described himself as an “originalist” who went to the text of the Constitution to find what was there and what wasn’t. “The Constitution is not a living organism,” Scalia said. “It’s a legal document that says some things and doesn’t say others.” He added, "I have never understood metaphors." One of the main themes of Scalia's speeches on the issue has been that the Constitution is "dead."
Scalia’s humor punctuated the evening, particularly during a question-and-answer session. When one of the questioners asked "If the Constitution is dead, is the 2nd Amendment dead?" Scalia responded "Well maybe dead isn't exactly the right word. Perhaps undead is a better way to put it. Can you be undead and never have been alive? It would be like that I think. Like a stillborn zombie."
Scalia has been seen as a strong protector of rights that are explicitly defined in the Constitution. He has voted, for example, to strike down laws restricting activities at each end of the conventional political spectrum, flag-burning on the one hand and cross-burning on the other.
Blackwater: doing very well for a small business
And here comes annudder whiney Democrat to phokk it all up...
News item: In letters to the Internal Revenue Service, the Small Business Administration and the Labor Department, Waxman (D-Calif.) questioned Blackwater's classification of its workers as "independent contractors" rather than employees. That designation, which the government has questioned in the past, has allowed the company to obtain $144 million in contracts set aside for small businesses and to avoid paying as much as $50 million in withholding taxes under State Department contracts, he said.
News item: In letters to the Internal Revenue Service, the Small Business Administration and the Labor Department, Waxman (D-Calif.) questioned Blackwater's classification of its workers as "independent contractors" rather than employees. That designation, which the government has questioned in the past, has allowed the company to obtain $144 million in contracts set aside for small businesses and to avoid paying as much as $50 million in withholding taxes under State Department contracts, he said.
To Eliot Spitzer...
...we've all been there. Spending $4,300 a pop on a prostitute, transporting her across state lines, and using a friend's name as a pseudonym (in my case, Decker's)? Yep. But since i don't know how to text, i wasn't stupid enough to do that. I also don't have a hot wife and three daughters, and i'm not the governor of Kollyfornia (yet). Also, “to do things that, like, you might not think were safe”? I can't imagine what this could be--Decker, can you help out a bud here? Maybe it involves standing on your head?
But my real point is merely to point out the fact dat Spitzer is a super-delegate for Hillary.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Why aren't all of these phokking @$$HOLES in prison?
Let's start with this @$$hole:Rove taunted in Iowa
Former top Bush aide Karl Rove didn’t get the friendliest of receptions at the University of Iowa Sunday, CNN affiliate KCRG reports.
Rove, who was paid $40,000 to speak at the University, was confronted with an at-times hostile crowd of 1,000, and was interrupted on several occasions.
$40,000 to be lied to for an hour? Er, YOU ARE A UNIVERSITY...people learnin' and s#i+...has no one there been reading the papers since January 2001?
don't know...don't wanna know...
Medic!
Felix Pie was scheduled for outpatient surgery to correct a case of testicular torsion. That can't be fun. Pie originally hoped to have the procedure on an off day next week, but he needed it immediately and is expected to miss the next 3-5 days. Sam Fuld and Eric Patterson will play center field.
Felix Pie was scheduled for outpatient surgery to correct a case of testicular torsion. That can't be fun. Pie originally hoped to have the procedure on an off day next week, but he needed it immediately and is expected to miss the next 3-5 days. Sam Fuld and Eric Patterson will play center field.
You've been hoodwinked... bamboozled... etc... cont'd....
News item: Sen. Barack Obama accused rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton today of attempting to "hoodwink" and "bamboozle" voters into thinking she was the front-runner by offering him the second slot on her ticket.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
If the sun came up today, well...
...Jim Oberweis must be losing another election in Illinois:
Major Democratic Victory - Hastert’s IL Seat Goes To Bill Foster
What's next for Jimbo? Is "ice cream truck driver" an elected position anywhere?
Face it, no one likes you. Dick.
Major Democratic Victory - Hastert’s IL Seat Goes To Bill Foster
What's next for Jimbo? Is "ice cream truck driver" an elected position anywhere?
Face it, no one likes you. Dick.
not my fault, but dere is a McClure involved
Jimmy Gobble had a cactus thorn removed from one of his big toes on Sunday morning.
Gobble got the thorn stuck in his foot after accidentally kicking a cactus while playing golf early in spring training. Gobble apparently felt the pain, but continued with normal spring activities. "They said it was almost an inch, three-quarters of an inch long," pitching coach Bob McClure said Sunday. "How he was pitching with that, I'll never know." Gobble had a 3.02 ERA in 53 2/3 innings last year out of the bullpen and he will act as the Royals' primary left-handed specialist this season.
Gobble got the thorn stuck in his foot after accidentally kicking a cactus while playing golf early in spring training. Gobble apparently felt the pain, but continued with normal spring activities. "They said it was almost an inch, three-quarters of an inch long," pitching coach Bob McClure said Sunday. "How he was pitching with that, I'll never know." Gobble had a 3.02 ERA in 53 2/3 innings last year out of the bullpen and he will act as the Royals' primary left-handed specialist this season.
Fuzzy Math
Beating Cook's sales tax
After shopping around for a new laptop, Patti Jo Mitchel took a 40-mile drive from her home in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood to a Best Buy in Indiana.
It wasn't a sale that lured Mitchel over the state line. It was the sales tax.
"On a big-ticket item like this, I figure it's worth it," Mitchel said while making her purchase Thursday.
By crossing the state border, she saved more than $32 on her $1,075 purchase of a laptop and accessories.
OK, so assuming by 40 mile trip they mean there and back, and assuming she had one of dem SUV's that gets 10 miles to the gallon. Gas was about $3.50 a gallon when I was out yesterday, so that means she spent $14 on gas for the trip. So that's down to $18 savings. She probably spent 1 1/2 to 2 hours more going to Indiana than she did if she'd stayed in Chicago. Let's use the IL minimum wage to put a price on that time. $7.50 an hour. We go with 90 minutes, that's $11.25. So we're down to $6.75. If she took the skyway, $3 each way, $6 total. Now we're at 75 cents. This doens't count the cost of the pollution she caused. But now were under a tenth of 1% savings.
I wish the Tribune had counted all the costs when saying the woman saved money. It would have been really easy. But no, oversimplify, as always. It is alluded to in the article, that border communities will be more affected than downtown Chicago, but that's because all the costs I outlined above go away. And they don't mention that. Why not do the calculation - see if driving 40 miles away to save 2% on taxes is worth it? Isn't that what they, as our MSM, should do? Inform us fully?
After shopping around for a new laptop, Patti Jo Mitchel took a 40-mile drive from her home in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood to a Best Buy in Indiana.
It wasn't a sale that lured Mitchel over the state line. It was the sales tax.
"On a big-ticket item like this, I figure it's worth it," Mitchel said while making her purchase Thursday.
By crossing the state border, she saved more than $32 on her $1,075 purchase of a laptop and accessories.
OK, so assuming by 40 mile trip they mean there and back, and assuming she had one of dem SUV's that gets 10 miles to the gallon. Gas was about $3.50 a gallon when I was out yesterday, so that means she spent $14 on gas for the trip. So that's down to $18 savings. She probably spent 1 1/2 to 2 hours more going to Indiana than she did if she'd stayed in Chicago. Let's use the IL minimum wage to put a price on that time. $7.50 an hour. We go with 90 minutes, that's $11.25. So we're down to $6.75. If she took the skyway, $3 each way, $6 total. Now we're at 75 cents. This doens't count the cost of the pollution she caused. But now were under a tenth of 1% savings.
I wish the Tribune had counted all the costs when saying the woman saved money. It would have been really easy. But no, oversimplify, as always. It is alluded to in the article, that border communities will be more affected than downtown Chicago, but that's because all the costs I outlined above go away. And they don't mention that. Why not do the calculation - see if driving 40 miles away to save 2% on taxes is worth it? Isn't that what they, as our MSM, should do? Inform us fully?
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Hell Freezing Over?
Cubs to play on the South Side? Could happen
I predict as soon as da Cubbies start playing on da Sout Side, Wrigley will be sold and new high class condos will go up - dis is just a smokescreen to get da Cubbies out of prime real estate...
I predict as soon as da Cubbies start playing on da Sout Side, Wrigley will be sold and new high class condos will go up - dis is just a smokescreen to get da Cubbies out of prime real estate...
As Far As I Know
Confronting the Kitchen Sink
By BOB HERBERT
Published: March 8, 2008 in the New York Times
The high anxiety in the Obama circles has thrown the campaign off its game.
Samantha Power, one of Senator Barack Obama’s senior foreign policy advisers, had to quit Friday after she lost her cool in an interview with a Scottish newspaper and called Senator Hillary Clinton a “monster.”
The campaign apologized for the flap. But Mr. Obama himself seems unsure of how to respond to the trash-and-thrash tactics that helped Senator Clinton defeat him in Ohio and Texas this week.
The anger that caused Ms. Power to blurt out the monster comment is widespread inside the Obama camp. But Senator Obama, for a variety of reasons — some of them self-imposed — is sharply constrained in the way that he can respond to provocations.
And if there is one thing the Clinton crowd knows how to do, it’s provoke.
On Thursday, Senator Clinton’s spokesman, Howard Wolfson, likened Senator Obama to Ken Starr, the independent prosecutor who hounded the Clintons in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Why the Clinton forces would want to inject that poisonous bit of business into the campaign is a mystery.
But there was Mr. Wolfson on Thursday, in response to a call from the Obama campaign for Mrs. Clinton to release her tax returns, asserting: “I, for one, do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president.”
More serious was Senator Clinton’s assertion that she was qualified to be commander in chief, and that John McCain had also “certainly” crossed that “threshold,” but that the jury was still out on Mr. Obama.
In other words, if a choice on national security had to be made today between Senators Obama and McCain, voters — according to Mrs. Clinton’s logic — should choose Senator McCain.
That is a low thing for a Democratic presidential candidate to do to a rival in a party primary. Can you imagine John McCain saying that Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney or even the guitar-strumming Mike Huckabee might be less qualified than Hillary Clinton to be commander in chief? It couldn’t happen.
But Senator Clinton never gave a second thought to opening the trap door beneath her fellow Democrat.
And then there was Mrs. Clinton on “60 Minutes,” being interviewed by Steve Kroft. He had shown a clip on the program of a voter in Ohio who said that he’d heard that Senator Obama didn’t know the national anthem, “wouldn’t use the Holy Bible,” and was a Muslim.
Mr. Kroft asked Senator Clinton if she believed that Senator Obama is a Muslim. In one of the sleaziest moments of the campaign to date, Senator Clinton replied: “No. No. Why would I? No, there is nothing to base that on. As far as I know.”
As far as I know.
If she had been asked if she thought President Bush was a Muslim, would her response have included the caveat “as far as I know”? What about Senator McCain? Why, then, with Senator Obama?
In the run-up to the crucial Texas and Ohio primaries, the plan in the Clinton camp, as The Times reported, was to unleash as many lines of attack as possible — a “kitchen sink” fusillade — in the hope that something would work. Senator Obama is still trying to figure out how to respond.
Whatever anger and frustration he may be feeling, he should stick to the high road. He can’t win wrestling in the mud with Hillary Clinton. That will not put Barack Obama in the White House.
Mr. Obama’s strength was his message of hope and healing, the idea that he could bring disparate groups together to work on the nation’s toughest problems. That has gotten him this far, which is much further than almost anyone expected.
He now needs an added dimension. He needs to articulate a vision. He needs to spell out to voters where he wants to take this country over the next few years, how he will alleviate the suffering of millions trapped in vicious economic circumstances and what he will do to restore the honor and prestige of the U.S. around the world.
Political campaigns are not about fairness, but they can often be about vision. Voters want more from Senator Obama.
He may not be able to close the deal with, say, working-class whites, but he more than anyone else has the eloquence to try and make a compelling case. He should go for it.
We have seen election after election in which candidates have won by fanning the anxieties of voters. Elect me, or something terrible will happen to you!
That is now the Clinton mantra, which is a measure of how grim our politics have become.
By BOB HERBERT
Published: March 8, 2008 in the New York Times
The high anxiety in the Obama circles has thrown the campaign off its game.
Samantha Power, one of Senator Barack Obama’s senior foreign policy advisers, had to quit Friday after she lost her cool in an interview with a Scottish newspaper and called Senator Hillary Clinton a “monster.”
The campaign apologized for the flap. But Mr. Obama himself seems unsure of how to respond to the trash-and-thrash tactics that helped Senator Clinton defeat him in Ohio and Texas this week.
The anger that caused Ms. Power to blurt out the monster comment is widespread inside the Obama camp. But Senator Obama, for a variety of reasons — some of them self-imposed — is sharply constrained in the way that he can respond to provocations.
And if there is one thing the Clinton crowd knows how to do, it’s provoke.
On Thursday, Senator Clinton’s spokesman, Howard Wolfson, likened Senator Obama to Ken Starr, the independent prosecutor who hounded the Clintons in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Why the Clinton forces would want to inject that poisonous bit of business into the campaign is a mystery.
But there was Mr. Wolfson on Thursday, in response to a call from the Obama campaign for Mrs. Clinton to release her tax returns, asserting: “I, for one, do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president.”
More serious was Senator Clinton’s assertion that she was qualified to be commander in chief, and that John McCain had also “certainly” crossed that “threshold,” but that the jury was still out on Mr. Obama.
In other words, if a choice on national security had to be made today between Senators Obama and McCain, voters — according to Mrs. Clinton’s logic — should choose Senator McCain.
That is a low thing for a Democratic presidential candidate to do to a rival in a party primary. Can you imagine John McCain saying that Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney or even the guitar-strumming Mike Huckabee might be less qualified than Hillary Clinton to be commander in chief? It couldn’t happen.
But Senator Clinton never gave a second thought to opening the trap door beneath her fellow Democrat.
And then there was Mrs. Clinton on “60 Minutes,” being interviewed by Steve Kroft. He had shown a clip on the program of a voter in Ohio who said that he’d heard that Senator Obama didn’t know the national anthem, “wouldn’t use the Holy Bible,” and was a Muslim.
Mr. Kroft asked Senator Clinton if she believed that Senator Obama is a Muslim. In one of the sleaziest moments of the campaign to date, Senator Clinton replied: “No. No. Why would I? No, there is nothing to base that on. As far as I know.”
As far as I know.
If she had been asked if she thought President Bush was a Muslim, would her response have included the caveat “as far as I know”? What about Senator McCain? Why, then, with Senator Obama?
In the run-up to the crucial Texas and Ohio primaries, the plan in the Clinton camp, as The Times reported, was to unleash as many lines of attack as possible — a “kitchen sink” fusillade — in the hope that something would work. Senator Obama is still trying to figure out how to respond.
Whatever anger and frustration he may be feeling, he should stick to the high road. He can’t win wrestling in the mud with Hillary Clinton. That will not put Barack Obama in the White House.
Mr. Obama’s strength was his message of hope and healing, the idea that he could bring disparate groups together to work on the nation’s toughest problems. That has gotten him this far, which is much further than almost anyone expected.
He now needs an added dimension. He needs to articulate a vision. He needs to spell out to voters where he wants to take this country over the next few years, how he will alleviate the suffering of millions trapped in vicious economic circumstances and what he will do to restore the honor and prestige of the U.S. around the world.
Political campaigns are not about fairness, but they can often be about vision. Voters want more from Senator Obama.
He may not be able to close the deal with, say, working-class whites, but he more than anyone else has the eloquence to try and make a compelling case. He should go for it.
We have seen election after election in which candidates have won by fanning the anxieties of voters. Elect me, or something terrible will happen to you!
That is now the Clinton mantra, which is a measure of how grim our politics have become.
Friday, March 7, 2008
we're phokked (cont'd)
News item: George W. Bush is a f*ck*ng @sshole
With his ubiquitous shit-eating grin, Bush not only dismissed the predictions of experts like Meredith Whitney and Stiglitz, but stood firm if not stubbornly for continuing his war in Iraq. For that reason alone, he endorsed John McCain, who boasts of his economic ignorance and glories in the notion of perpetual war.
Like the truly rich, the Bush family doesn’t see or feel material suffering.
With his ubiquitous shit-eating grin, Bush not only dismissed the predictions of experts like Meredith Whitney and Stiglitz, but stood firm if not stubbornly for continuing his war in Iraq. For that reason alone, he endorsed John McCain, who boasts of his economic ignorance and glories in the notion of perpetual war.
Like the truly rich, the Bush family doesn’t see or feel material suffering.
really, what's worse here?
News Item: Obama adviser resigns after calling Clinton a 'monster'
News Item: Clinton spokesman compares Obama to Kenneth Starr
News Item: Clinton spokesman compares Obama to Kenneth Starr
Business as usual
Zimbabwe bans Western monitors
"Clearly, those who believe that the only free and fair election is where the opposition wins have been excluded since the ruling party, Zanu-PF, is poised to score yet another triumph," Mr Mumbengegwi told the state-owned Herald newspaper.
So, because the ruling party's gonna win, and those pesky westerners would say that the ruling party cheated, they're not allowed in. Meanwhile, the minions of Hugo, Ahmadinewotsit, Putin I mean Medvedev and best of all, the Sudan, will be allowed to "observe".
"Clearly, those who believe that the only free and fair election is where the opposition wins have been excluded since the ruling party, Zanu-PF, is poised to score yet another triumph," Mr Mumbengegwi told the state-owned Herald newspaper.
So, because the ruling party's gonna win, and those pesky westerners would say that the ruling party cheated, they're not allowed in. Meanwhile, the minions of Hugo, Ahmadinewotsit, Putin I mean Medvedev and best of all, the Sudan, will be allowed to "observe".
So, nothing will change. The ruling party will win, the west will say they stole it, and it's business as usual.
Oh, and now the Brits are mulling a ban on Zimbabwean sportsmen (and women). Oh no, we didn't mean all sports. We just meant cricket, which, as we've found on this blog, nobody cares about. Are you phokking kidding me? Is that the best they can do? Ban the Zimbabwean cricket team from touring England? Because the President apparently is the patron of Zimbabwe cricket and loves to watch? That's supposed to make him change his mind? Stop phokking nitpicking. Either go all the way or do nothing. Leave em alone, or invade. You know, regime change. Iraqi style. What, they have no weapons of mass destruction? No oil? So phokk em?
Oh, and now the Brits are mulling a ban on Zimbabwean sportsmen (and women). Oh no, we didn't mean all sports. We just meant cricket, which, as we've found on this blog, nobody cares about. Are you phokking kidding me? Is that the best they can do? Ban the Zimbabwean cricket team from touring England? Because the President apparently is the patron of Zimbabwe cricket and loves to watch? That's supposed to make him change his mind? Stop phokking nitpicking. Either go all the way or do nothing. Leave em alone, or invade. You know, regime change. Iraqi style. What, they have no weapons of mass destruction? No oil? So phokk em?
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Hillary: Unhinged
9:10 PM me: did you hear your boy, Hillary Clinton, today endorse McCain over Obama?
9:11 PM i hate her - i don't think i can vote for her in the general
Andrew: Ah...she's liking the whole "bad boy" image she's got going on.
I will vote for her because of the supreme court. But I hate her goddamn guts.
9:12 PM She's like the boss you hate. You hope they just go away. You don't want them to die, you don't wish them pain - you just wish they didn't exist in your life.
9:13 PM me: i think her dying at this point would be a good thing [I kid, i'm a kidder!--ed.]
Andrew: You know - I wouldn't wail and gnash teeth.
9:14 PM What the fuck is the matter with Ohio? I mean, Texas, whatever, they're fucking hillbilly morons who paused from jerking off on dead black corpses...but Ohio?
me: you tell me...aren't the Deckers from Ohio?
9:15 PM Andrew: It's sadly true. And then Oberlin right? I mean a state wise enough to have an Oberlin should hold itself to a higher standard. I think David Brook actually had a salient observation - Obama's failed to connect his new politics to a concrete idea of how it will actually help people - and that's killing him in Ohio and maybe in Pennsylvania if he's not careful.
9:16 PM me: and Hillary being a BEE-ATCH and people sucking it up
9:17 PM Andrew: They love it. Because it's like reality tv
9:18 PM me: she was like Joe Lieberman today campaigning for McCain...just shameless
Andrew: She's such a piece of shit. I didn't hear about any of this.
me: it's on Olbermann right now
9:19 PM Andrew: Ah.
I don't have that newfangled televishon stuff...
9:20 PM me: she said..."John McCain is qualified, it's been shown i'm qualified to be president...you'll have to ask Barack Obama if he's qualified."
9:22 PM Andrew: What does she even mean by this argument? How is she qualified. Because she stood by her "man" while he was getting blown by a fat secretary in training so that she could get her turn at the drinking fountain? What is she talking about? He's done more organizing than she has - worked with more types of people and has been a more interesting senator in that he's worked with more people. Besides that he can actually give a speech - forgive me for believing that the bully pulpit is an effective presidential tool for change...
9:25 PM me: well...YEAH. Obama's response was she thinks she's more qualified because she's been in Washington longer... i can understand she thinks she has to run BO down, but by propping up their opponent in the general? what kind of fucking democrat is that? she should run with fucking Zell Miller.
9:26 PM Andrew: Trust the democrats to fuck this up.
9:52 PM me: Hillary's statement today: "Look, I have said Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign. I will bring a lifetime of experience, and Senator Obama will bring a speech he gave in 2002. I think that is a significant difference. I think that since we now know Senator McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And i think it's imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the Commander-in-Chief threshold. And I believe I have done that, certainly Senator McCain has done that, and you'll have to ask Senator Obama with respect to his candidacy..."
Hillary: Unhinged
Andrew: Umm...how has she demonstrated this?
9:53 PM By voting to waste money going after people who had nothing to do with our security at the expense of our security?
She's such a goddamn piece of shit.
But sadly...I have to sleep.
You're right though - she's so gross it'll be hard to vote for her.
9:54 PM I wonder if Nader is hoping she wins?
me: maybe the answer is in her tax returns?
9:55 PM Andrew: Yeah...it probably turns out she's been making money off of haliburton and she attended the energy summit in Dick "Dick" "Dick" Cheney's offices...
on that cheerful note...10-4 good buddy!
me: Zzzzzzzz...
9:11 PM i hate her - i don't think i can vote for her in the general
Andrew: Ah...she's liking the whole "bad boy" image she's got going on.
I will vote for her because of the supreme court. But I hate her goddamn guts.
9:12 PM She's like the boss you hate. You hope they just go away. You don't want them to die, you don't wish them pain - you just wish they didn't exist in your life.
9:13 PM me: i think her dying at this point would be a good thing [I kid, i'm a kidder!--ed.]
Andrew: You know - I wouldn't wail and gnash teeth.
9:14 PM What the fuck is the matter with Ohio? I mean, Texas, whatever, they're fucking hillbilly morons who paused from jerking off on dead black corpses...but Ohio?
me: you tell me...aren't the Deckers from Ohio?
9:15 PM Andrew: It's sadly true. And then Oberlin right? I mean a state wise enough to have an Oberlin should hold itself to a higher standard. I think David Brook actually had a salient observation - Obama's failed to connect his new politics to a concrete idea of how it will actually help people - and that's killing him in Ohio and maybe in Pennsylvania if he's not careful.
9:16 PM me: and Hillary being a BEE-ATCH and people sucking it up
9:17 PM Andrew: They love it. Because it's like reality tv
9:18 PM me: she was like Joe Lieberman today campaigning for McCain...just shameless
Andrew: She's such a piece of shit. I didn't hear about any of this.
me: it's on Olbermann right now
9:19 PM Andrew: Ah.
I don't have that newfangled televishon stuff...
9:20 PM me: she said..."John McCain is qualified, it's been shown i'm qualified to be president...you'll have to ask Barack Obama if he's qualified."
9:22 PM Andrew: What does she even mean by this argument? How is she qualified. Because she stood by her "man" while he was getting blown by a fat secretary in training so that she could get her turn at the drinking fountain? What is she talking about? He's done more organizing than she has - worked with more types of people and has been a more interesting senator in that he's worked with more people. Besides that he can actually give a speech - forgive me for believing that the bully pulpit is an effective presidential tool for change...
9:25 PM me: well...YEAH. Obama's response was she thinks she's more qualified because she's been in Washington longer... i can understand she thinks she has to run BO down, but by propping up their opponent in the general? what kind of fucking democrat is that? she should run with fucking Zell Miller.
9:26 PM Andrew: Trust the democrats to fuck this up.
9:52 PM me: Hillary's statement today: "Look, I have said Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign. I will bring a lifetime of experience, and Senator Obama will bring a speech he gave in 2002. I think that is a significant difference. I think that since we now know Senator McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And i think it's imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the Commander-in-Chief threshold. And I believe I have done that, certainly Senator McCain has done that, and you'll have to ask Senator Obama with respect to his candidacy..."
Hillary: Unhinged
Andrew: Umm...how has she demonstrated this?
9:53 PM By voting to waste money going after people who had nothing to do with our security at the expense of our security?
She's such a goddamn piece of shit.
But sadly...I have to sleep.
You're right though - she's so gross it'll be hard to vote for her.
9:54 PM I wonder if Nader is hoping she wins?
me: maybe the answer is in her tax returns?
9:55 PM Andrew: Yeah...it probably turns out she's been making money off of haliburton and she attended the energy summit in Dick "Dick" "Dick" Cheney's offices...
on that cheerful note...10-4 good buddy!
me: Zzzzzzzz...
[insert your own funny response here]
Funny, FUNNY stuff:
Reds manager Dusty Baker has already decided he doesn't like Joey Votto's approach at the plate. The approach that led to a .321/.360/.548 line and 17 RBI in 84 at-bats following his callup last season. "He needs to swing some more," Baker said. "I talked to him about that. Strikeouts aren't the only criteria. I'd like to see him more aggressive." Baker doesn't want Votto, Adam Dunn or anyone else taking called third strikes. "I really, really hate the called third strike," Baker said. "I hate that. You're guess and you ain't ready to hit." That Scott Hatteberg rarely strikes out makes Votto a particularly risky pick this year.
Hatteberg also takes a lot of pitches though. Dusty might be driven insane. Anyone seen Randall Simon lately?
Reds manager Dusty Baker has already decided he doesn't like Joey Votto's approach at the plate. The approach that led to a .321/.360/.548 line and 17 RBI in 84 at-bats following his callup last season. "He needs to swing some more," Baker said. "I talked to him about that. Strikeouts aren't the only criteria. I'd like to see him more aggressive." Baker doesn't want Votto, Adam Dunn or anyone else taking called third strikes. "I really, really hate the called third strike," Baker said. "I hate that. You're guess and you ain't ready to hit." That Scott Hatteberg rarely strikes out makes Votto a particularly risky pick this year.
Hatteberg also takes a lot of pitches though. Dusty might be driven insane. Anyone seen Randall Simon lately?
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
if you want your blood to boil while projectile vomiting...
Watch The Rezzidunce endorse McCrazy...
Scroll down past Hillary (yuch!):
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/
Among the many insane things said here, the craziest is always when Dumbya talks about "respecting life":
"...how to have a culture that respects the dignity of every human being."
By every, of course, he only means rich phokks who might give him some money. How about those children not getting health care through S-CHIP? How's their dignity, Mr. President? Oh yeah, FUCK YOU, KIDS! The soldiers in Iraq? the veterans back home? FUCK YOU, too, suckers! The thousands of dead Iraqis? FUCK YOU--they don't even count as human beings, everybody knows dat. ETC. Well, i can't wait to see Mr. FUCKFACE on the campaign trail trying to scare up votes (literally) for McCryptkeeper...
Scroll down past Hillary (yuch!):
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/
Among the many insane things said here, the craziest is always when Dumbya talks about "respecting life":
"...how to have a culture that respects the dignity of every human being."
By every, of course, he only means rich phokks who might give him some money. How about those children not getting health care through S-CHIP? How's their dignity, Mr. President? Oh yeah, FUCK YOU, KIDS! The soldiers in Iraq? the veterans back home? FUCK YOU, too, suckers! The thousands of dead Iraqis? FUCK YOU--they don't even count as human beings, everybody knows dat. ETC. Well, i can't wait to see Mr. FUCKFACE on the campaign trail trying to scare up votes (literally) for McCryptkeeper...
now batting fifth for the Nationals...it appears...a blimp
According to the Washington Post, the Nationals are both disappointed and understanding that Dmitri Young was unable to drop wait [sic] over the winter. Young, who was diagnosed with diabetes in 2006, says he's learned to eat right, but he still reported to camp at 298 pounds, up slightly from the end of last season. Because of all the weight he's carrying, he might be as much of a breakdown candidate as Nick Johnson. He's already dealing with a rib-cage strain that's cost him five days.
Rotoworld has him listed at 245. Ryan Howard is at 252...
Rotoworld has him listed at 245. Ryan Howard is at 252...
not sure how K-Mad is involved, but he is a Monk
Andy Sonnanstine is being treated for an ear infection he got by listening to his iPod. Sonnanstine said he fell asleep on the bus ride back from Sarasota on Friday wearing in-ear headphones, which led to some clogged pores, which led to the infection. He's not expected to miss any time.
if it's a day ending in the letter Y, John McCain must be flip-flopping (cont'd)
From Progress Report
"I do not agree with your sentiment that there has been widespread corruption [in Washington]. I just don't accept that."
-- Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), 3/4/08
VERSUS
"You've seen the corruption in Washington. We have former members of Congress in federal prison. ... [I]f anybody thinks that special interests didn't write legislation in Washington, they didn't work there."
-- McCain, 10/21/07
"I do not agree with your sentiment that there has been widespread corruption [in Washington]. I just don't accept that."
-- Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), 3/4/08
VERSUS
"You've seen the corruption in Washington. We have former members of Congress in federal prison. ... [I]f anybody thinks that special interests didn't write legislation in Washington, they didn't work there."
-- McCain, 10/21/07
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Umm...no thank you please.
From the New York Times:
Mrs. Clinton is glowing: “For everyone in America who has been counted out but refused to be knocked out, and for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up and for everyone who works hard and never gives up, this one is for you!..."
Shut up.
This is so fucking condescending it makes me want to spit hairballs at her. Her story's about as dramatic as a Ford commercial.
Why does Ohio always, always, always fuck up?
The idea I would have to vote for her for the sake of the Supreme Court pains me. Deeply.
Mrs. Clinton is glowing: “For everyone in America who has been counted out but refused to be knocked out, and for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up and for everyone who works hard and never gives up, this one is for you!..."
Shut up.
This is so fucking condescending it makes me want to spit hairballs at her. Her story's about as dramatic as a Ford commercial.
Why does Ohio always, always, always fuck up?
The idea I would have to vote for her for the sake of the Supreme Court pains me. Deeply.
in SHOCKING breaking news...
BREAKING NEWS: Ballot shortages reported in some Ohio precincts; polls stay open late
Well, historically speaking, this democracy thing is new. We've only been at this for over 200 years. We will GET 'R DONE eventually. You'll see! You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet. Or some s#i+... Jesus H. Christ, we SUCK.
Er, and Ohio - WTF? Every freakin' election it's the same thing with you. Is there something in the water in Lake Erie? Someone throw me a bone here... really, why does Ohio suck so much at this voting thing? Fitting that it's the "Mother of Presidents," the "Cradle of Coaches," the "King of the Idiots"....
Well, historically speaking, this democracy thing is new. We've only been at this for over 200 years. We will GET 'R DONE eventually. You'll see! You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet. Or some s#i+... Jesus H. Christ, we SUCK.
Er, and Ohio - WTF? Every freakin' election it's the same thing with you. Is there something in the water in Lake Erie? Someone throw me a bone here... really, why does Ohio suck so much at this voting thing? Fitting that it's the "Mother of Presidents," the "Cradle of Coaches," the "King of the Idiots"....
inside the mind of the foxnews.com reader
Here is the full list of the "most read" items at foxnews.com:
* Marines Outraged by Puppy-Throwing Video; Investigation Heats Up
* California High School Football Star Gunned Down in Random Gang Attack
* Cops: No Suspects, Few Clues, No Motive in Memphis Slaying
* YouTube Gets Slammed for Video Showing British Mom's Gang Rape
* Washington Soldier Accused of Killing 2, Pouring Acid on Bodies
* Report: School Janitor Nabbed in Teen Sex Sting
* Report: Racy Pics of 'American Idol' Contestant Ramiele Malubay Appear on Web
* Report: Big Breasts Win Verdict for Model
* Six-Legged Octopus Discovered at English Aquarium
* Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson — They Weren't First
* Off-Duty Chicago Police Officer Tasered After Arrest Struggle, Spitting on Paramedic
* Pop Tarts: Lindsay Lohan Behaving Badly? Plus, Playboy Wants to Talk to Her
* Police Say Couple Spent Weeks Planning Bloody Texas Attack on Family
* Global Warming: Is It Really a Crisis?
* Wikipedia Founder's Fling With Columnist Ends in Nasty Public Breakup
* Group of California Teens Accused of Raping Two Girls, Ages 14 and 15
* Marines Outraged by Puppy-Throwing Video; Investigation Heats Up
* California High School Football Star Gunned Down in Random Gang Attack
* Cops: No Suspects, Few Clues, No Motive in Memphis Slaying
* YouTube Gets Slammed for Video Showing British Mom's Gang Rape
* Washington Soldier Accused of Killing 2, Pouring Acid on Bodies
* Report: School Janitor Nabbed in Teen Sex Sting
* Report: Racy Pics of 'American Idol' Contestant Ramiele Malubay Appear on Web
* Report: Big Breasts Win Verdict for Model
* Six-Legged Octopus Discovered at English Aquarium
* Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson — They Weren't First
* Off-Duty Chicago Police Officer Tasered After Arrest Struggle, Spitting on Paramedic
* Pop Tarts: Lindsay Lohan Behaving Badly? Plus, Playboy Wants to Talk to Her
* Police Say Couple Spent Weeks Planning Bloody Texas Attack on Family
* Global Warming: Is It Really a Crisis?
* Wikipedia Founder's Fling With Columnist Ends in Nasty Public Breakup
* Group of California Teens Accused of Raping Two Girls, Ages 14 and 15
i smell breakout... or maybe a fire...
News item: CTA vows 'breakout year' for service fixes
(Crain’s) — The Chicago Transit Authority’s new boss Tuesday promised riders a specific set of service improvements — including a near-end to bus bunching and slow zones on el trains — that they will be able to count on seeing no more than 18 months from now.
Damn, that's a long year...
Also: do numbers go that high?
In another change, electronic schedule boards telling riders how long it will be until their train arrives should be installed in every el station within 18 months, Mr. Huberman said.
"Your train will arrive in... 18 months..."
(Crain’s) — The Chicago Transit Authority’s new boss Tuesday promised riders a specific set of service improvements — including a near-end to bus bunching and slow zones on el trains — that they will be able to count on seeing no more than 18 months from now.
Damn, that's a long year...
Also: do numbers go that high?
In another change, electronic schedule boards telling riders how long it will be until their train arrives should be installed in every el station within 18 months, Mr. Huberman said.
"Your train will arrive in... 18 months..."
here's anudder query
"I live in Ohio or Texas, am I brain-dead?"
But much of Obama's traffic is about topics he'd rather avoid. Yahoo! analyst Vera H-C Chan says people in Ohio and Texas are still scouting out rumors about Obama, as reflected in queries like "barack obama muslim," "obama's church," "obama antichrist," "barack obama muslim school," and the straightforward question, "is obama a christian or a muslim?"
But much of Obama's traffic is about topics he'd rather avoid. Yahoo! analyst Vera H-C Chan says people in Ohio and Texas are still scouting out rumors about Obama, as reflected in queries like "barack obama muslim," "obama's church," "obama antichrist," "barack obama muslim school," and the straightforward question, "is obama a christian or a muslim?"
Monday, March 3, 2008
Smiff is going to send them a few bucks...
Watch it...
Of course, we still have the best health care system in the world. And, by best, i mean absolutely the most pathetic for the richest country in the world. And, by richest, i mean most in debt. And, by most in debt, i mean thanks, Dumbya! And by Dumbya, i mean the idiotic, brainless moron "running" the country...
Is dis one of the signs of the End Times?
I will defer to our resident End Times expert, Mr. McClure...
Six-legged 'hexapus' claimed as world first in Britain
British marine experts have found what they claim is a world first -- a six-legged octopus, or "hexapus," whom they have christened Henry.
The unique sea creature, which has two limbs fewer than a normal octopus, is believed to be the result of a birth defect rather than an accident, say his keepers at the Blackpool Sea Life Centre in northwest England.
"We've scoured the Internet and talked to lots of other aquariums and no-one has ever heard of another case of a six-legged octopus," said supervisor Carey Duckhouse.
Henry was discovered in a lobster pot off the north Wales coast two weeks ago, and was one of eight creatures that Sea Life staff picked up from a local marine zoo there -- where staff hadn't noticed his missing legs.
It was only when he attached himself to the inside of a glass tank that Sea Life staff noticed he was two limbs short of a full set. Octopuses are renowned for having three hearts and blue blood, but not usually six legs.
"He's a lovely little thing," said a spokeswoman, adding that he will go on display to the public later this month.
Six-legged 'hexapus' claimed as world first in BritainBritish marine experts have found what they claim is a world first -- a six-legged octopus, or "hexapus," whom they have christened Henry.
The unique sea creature, which has two limbs fewer than a normal octopus, is believed to be the result of a birth defect rather than an accident, say his keepers at the Blackpool Sea Life Centre in northwest England.
"We've scoured the Internet and talked to lots of other aquariums and no-one has ever heard of another case of a six-legged octopus," said supervisor Carey Duckhouse.
Henry was discovered in a lobster pot off the north Wales coast two weeks ago, and was one of eight creatures that Sea Life staff picked up from a local marine zoo there -- where staff hadn't noticed his missing legs.
It was only when he attached himself to the inside of a glass tank that Sea Life staff noticed he was two limbs short of a full set. Octopuses are renowned for having three hearts and blue blood, but not usually six legs.
"He's a lovely little thing," said a spokeswoman, adding that he will go on display to the public later this month.
Is one of the tools getting injured? how about all five?
Milton Bradley on, what else, Milton Bradley:
"You take my last five years, and put those numbers and put them over a 162-game season, I'm pretty damn good. Let's be honest--I'm a five-tool guy here. There is no risk. You pay me $5 million as a five-tool guy, I'm underpaid. What other five-tool guys are there? Jimmy Rollins? Carlos Beltrán? Look what they're making. Look what I'm making. So I'm a steal, I'm a bargain, in my words."
Er, crazy much? First, his career high in stolen bases is 17. He's had 10 or more three times. So, speed is not one of the tools. Career .273 hitter. Hitting for average? Not one of the tools. His HR total pro-rated over a 162 game season is 19 (also his single season high). Along with a career .439 SLG%, power is also not a tool. (Rollins, a SHORTSTOP, has a career .441 SLG%). How about fielding? Slightly above average RF, though with a slightly below average fielding %. Call him average. Throwing arm? Career high in assists is 9.
"There is no risk." He's played over 101 games in a season ONCE in his career.
I would say the five tools he's referencing are: getting injured, spending weeks every year on the DL, whining, "domestic disputes," and being a GIGANTIC ASSHOLE. Granted, he was the best hitter on the Padres last year WHEN HE WAS IN THE LINEUP. When they needed him the last week, he blew up at an umpire and got injured after he fell down when HIS MANAGER TOUCHED HIM. And then--SHOCKINGLY--they didn't resign him.
"You take my last five years, and put those numbers and put them over a 162-game season, I'm pretty damn good. Let's be honest--I'm a five-tool guy here. There is no risk. You pay me $5 million as a five-tool guy, I'm underpaid. What other five-tool guys are there? Jimmy Rollins? Carlos Beltrán? Look what they're making. Look what I'm making. So I'm a steal, I'm a bargain, in my words."
Er, crazy much? First, his career high in stolen bases is 17. He's had 10 or more three times. So, speed is not one of the tools. Career .273 hitter. Hitting for average? Not one of the tools. His HR total pro-rated over a 162 game season is 19 (also his single season high). Along with a career .439 SLG%, power is also not a tool. (Rollins, a SHORTSTOP, has a career .441 SLG%). How about fielding? Slightly above average RF, though with a slightly below average fielding %. Call him average. Throwing arm? Career high in assists is 9.
"There is no risk." He's played over 101 games in a season ONCE in his career.
I would say the five tools he's referencing are: getting injured, spending weeks every year on the DL, whining, "domestic disputes," and being a GIGANTIC ASSHOLE. Granted, he was the best hitter on the Padres last year WHEN HE WAS IN THE LINEUP. When they needed him the last week, he blew up at an umpire and got injured after he fell down when HIS MANAGER TOUCHED HIM. And then--SHOCKINGLY--they didn't resign him.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Train Wreck...
One of the kids should be counting pedals from a flower in her sleep...
The only thing I don't like about this little mash-up is they leave out the final image of Hillary used in the original ad - the one with the humorously fashionable glasses, the practiced look of quiet intensity and the well placed jewelery at three in the morning.
The only thing I don't like about this little mash-up is they leave out the final image of Hillary used in the original ad - the one with the humorously fashionable glasses, the practiced look of quiet intensity and the well placed jewelery at three in the morning.
Friday, February 29, 2008
when does he start working this kind of magic on the Cubs?
For Whom the Zell Tolls
"I’d say people are shocked and demoralized," said one insider. "This billionaire [Zell] comes in and says he is going to save us and then he screws us..."
"The whole history of this being a great national paper, this is definitely the death knell," said one shell-shocked insider.
"I’d say people are shocked and demoralized," said one insider. "This billionaire [Zell] comes in and says he is going to save us and then he screws us..."
"The whole history of this being a great national paper, this is definitely the death knell," said one shell-shocked insider.
Clinton faces Kenya cattle fine over Obama photo
News item: NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan elders may impose a fine on U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, payable in livestock, after a photo of her rival Barack Obama in robes dragged their people into the race for the White House.
gosh, we never expected people to show up
News item: Record turnout in this year's presidential primaries has election officials worried about possible shortages of machines, ballots and poll workers in November.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Speaking of recycling...
Smiff mentioned earlier dat MSNBC decided to spend a few minutes Farrakhan-bashing. Well, apparently BillO noticed too (Smiff & BillO have something in common? Fung's not surprised) and complained about it on his show. Then KO has BillO as his "Worst Person in the World" for complaining about the Farrakhan thing and then spending more time on it than MSNBC did.
Now I know BillO and KO have been feuding since the Spanish Inquisition, but can they at least wait a week? You know, and deal with real news? That is what they're supposed to do, right?
Now I know BillO and KO have been feuding since the Spanish Inquisition, but can they at least wait a week? You know, and deal with real news? That is what they're supposed to do, right?
please, don't eat
There are now 1,866 Americans fasting for "holiness in the life of George W. Bush," up from 1,493 a year ago, according to http://www.heartlight.org/fast, for those keeping track.
What do you think, idiots?
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Do you want to see more night games at Wrigley Field?
Yes (1971 responses)
54.9% No (1618 responses)
45.1% - 3589 total responses (Results not scientific, but idiotic)
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Do you want to see more concerts at Wrigley Field?
Yes (1558 responses)
45.6% No (1861 responses)
54.4% - 3419 total responses (Results not scientific, but moronic)
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Should the naming rights be sold for Wrigley Field?
Yes (673 responses)
18.6% No (2951 responses)
81.4% - 3624 total responses (Results not scientific, but so Cub)
Bushisms
WASHINGTON - President Bush said Thursday that the country's wealthy are not recession-bound and, despite expressing concern about slowing economic growth, rejected for now any additional stimulus efforts. "We acted robustly," he said, referencing Merriam-Websters second definition of that word. He then noted that rather than using the accepted macroeconomic definition of recession: a slowdown in a country's gross domestic product, or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year, he was relying only on the dictionary definition "a period of reduced economic activity."
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"We have not yet reached a 'period'" he remarked, noting that it has been more like a smidgeon, glimmer, dash or spot of reduced economic activity. "There's no sure-fire way to know we are in a recession before January 09, I think," he added.
"We'll see the effects of this pro-growth package," Bush told reporters at a White House news conference, referencing himself and his major contributors with his pronoun. He acknowledged that some lawmakers, are already talking about a second stimulus package, aimed at the middle-class. "Why don't we let stimulus package 1, which seemed like a good idea at the time, have a chance to kick in?" Bush's eloquent comments were of course evocative of FDR's first fireside chat after his court packing plan, when, using brevity as the essence of wit, he reminded the American people "it seemed like a good idea at the time."
Bush's view of the economy was decidedly rosier than that of many economists, who say the country is nearing recession territory or may already be there. The difference, said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino is that "the President is drawing a distinction between the haves and the have-mores." "I'm concerned about the economy," he said, subtextually indicating that he is concerned about his own financial well being. "I don't think we're headed to recession. But no question, we're in a slowdown." His first we was meant to represent families with an income in excess of $200,000 per year, and the second we was intended to represent lazy, non-constituent, and probably black families.
The centerpiece of government efforts to brace the wobbly economy is a package Congress passed and Bush signed last month. It will rush rebates ranging from $300 to $1,200 to millions of people and give tax incentives to businesses. That money can be used by most consumers to offset the higher price of gas, or to buy a Nintendo Wii. There are indications that paying $4 for a gallon of gasoline is not out of the question once the summer driving season arrives. Asked about that, Bush said "That's interesting. I hadn't heard that. ... I know it's like $6 now, right?"
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Bush criticized the Democratic presidential candidates over their attempts to disassociate themselves from the North American Free Trade Agreement, a free-trade pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Bush said the deal is contributing to more and better-paying jobs for Americans - outside the US.
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Following his news conference, Bush expressed confidence in the nation's ability to weather the economic downturn. "We'll make it through this period just like we made it through other periods of uncertainty during my presidency," Bush said, suggesting our long national nightmare is just beginning.
Republican Multi-tasking
Boehner tells GOP to get off 'dead asses'
I didn't actually read this article, but I'm assuming that it has to do with Republicans combining their two favorite hobbies of beastiality and necrophilia.
I didn't actually read this article, but I'm assuming that it has to do with Republicans combining their two favorite hobbies of beastiality and necrophilia.
Sam Zell: a HYOOOGE @$$hole or the HYOOOGEST @$$hole?
It didn't take long for me to start hating dis @$$hole's guts. And this is a mortal lock: despite their Obama worship, the Chicago Tribune will keep their Republican-lovin' streak alive and endorse John McCain... oh yeah, screw the Cubs. 100 more years of suckin'! (or at least while this @$$hole owns the team...)
But don’t tell that to media mogul Sam Zell, new owner of The Tribune Co. Guess who he blames for the state of the economy?….Wait for it….Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Seriously.
"Obviously what we have going on is an attempt to create a self-fulfilling prophecy," said Zell, chairman of Equity Investments Group and owner of the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and other companies. "We have two Democratic candidates who are vying with each other to describe the economic situation worse."
Yep, no way it could be the ding-a-ling who's been in the White House for the last 7 years...
But don’t tell that to media mogul Sam Zell, new owner of The Tribune Co. Guess who he blames for the state of the economy?….Wait for it….Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Seriously.
"Obviously what we have going on is an attempt to create a self-fulfilling prophecy," said Zell, chairman of Equity Investments Group and owner of the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and other companies. "We have two Democratic candidates who are vying with each other to describe the economic situation worse."
Yep, no way it could be the ding-a-ling who's been in the White House for the last 7 years...
Winning Hearts And Minds! (WHAM!) (cont'd!)
Sunni Forces Losing Patience With U.S.
BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 -- U.S.-backed Sunni volunteer forces, which have played a vital role in reducing violence in Iraq, are increasingly frustrated with the American military and the Iraqi government over what they see as a lack of recognition of their growing political clout and insufficient U.S. support...
"Now, there is no cooperation with the Americans," said Haider Mustafa al-Kaisy, an Awakening commander in Baqubah, the capital of Diyala province, an insurgent stronghold that U.S. and Iraqi forces are still struggling to control. "We have stopped fighting al-Qaeda..."
"They should make me stronger. They should not weaken me," said Kassim, a former commander in the Islamic Army, an insurgent group. "We need weapons. We need vehicles. We do not even have gas for the few cars we have. When we joined, the Americans promised to provide all necessities. Now we know those were only words..."
Inadvertent U.S. killings of Awakening fighters -- five such incidents have occurred in the past three weeks -- are adding to the frustrations. In the southern town of Jurf al-Sakr, U.S. soldiers killed three fighters Feb. 15. U.S. commanders said that the men had fired upon the soldiers first and that the troops acted in self-defense.
Within hours, more than 1,000 fighters walked away from their posts. Sabah al-Janabi, who heads the Awakening in the area, publicly criticized the U.S. military, alleging it had killed 19 of his men in the past 45 days, which U.S. commanders deny...
In the village of Zaab, west of the northern city of Kirkuk, police officials and witnesses said U.S. forces on Feb. 14 killed six relatives of an Awakening leader, Issa Muhsin al-Jubouri, and detained him and others. In an interview last week, after his release, he said U.S. soldiers had "raised their weapons in my face and shouted at me, 'Confess or I will shoot you.'
"They beat me and cursed me and made me face the wall, saying to me, 'You have exploited the Awakening to support the terrorists,' " Jubouri said. "I kept saying, 'You are mistaken, because I and my family have been victims of terrorists.' "
BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 -- U.S.-backed Sunni volunteer forces, which have played a vital role in reducing violence in Iraq, are increasingly frustrated with the American military and the Iraqi government over what they see as a lack of recognition of their growing political clout and insufficient U.S. support...
"Now, there is no cooperation with the Americans," said Haider Mustafa al-Kaisy, an Awakening commander in Baqubah, the capital of Diyala province, an insurgent stronghold that U.S. and Iraqi forces are still struggling to control. "We have stopped fighting al-Qaeda..."
"They should make me stronger. They should not weaken me," said Kassim, a former commander in the Islamic Army, an insurgent group. "We need weapons. We need vehicles. We do not even have gas for the few cars we have. When we joined, the Americans promised to provide all necessities. Now we know those were only words..."
Inadvertent U.S. killings of Awakening fighters -- five such incidents have occurred in the past three weeks -- are adding to the frustrations. In the southern town of Jurf al-Sakr, U.S. soldiers killed three fighters Feb. 15. U.S. commanders said that the men had fired upon the soldiers first and that the troops acted in self-defense.
Within hours, more than 1,000 fighters walked away from their posts. Sabah al-Janabi, who heads the Awakening in the area, publicly criticized the U.S. military, alleging it had killed 19 of his men in the past 45 days, which U.S. commanders deny...
In the village of Zaab, west of the northern city of Kirkuk, police officials and witnesses said U.S. forces on Feb. 14 killed six relatives of an Awakening leader, Issa Muhsin al-Jubouri, and detained him and others. In an interview last week, after his release, he said U.S. soldiers had "raised their weapons in my face and shouted at me, 'Confess or I will shoot you.'
"They beat me and cursed me and made me face the wall, saying to me, 'You have exploited the Awakening to support the terrorists,' " Jubouri said. "I kept saying, 'You are mistaken, because I and my family have been victims of terrorists.' "
keeping America safe from Americans
Record-High Ratio of Americans in Prison
More than one in 100 adult Americans is in jail or prison, an all-time high that is costing state governments nearly $50 billion a year, in addition to more than $5 billion spent by the federal government... With more than 2.3 million people behind bars at the start of 2008, the United States leads the world in both the number and the percentage of residents it incarcerates, leaving even far more populous China a distant second, noted the report by the nonpartisan Pew Center on the States.
The ballooning prison population is largely the result of tougher state and federal sentencing imposed since the mid-1980s. Minorities have been hit particularly hard: One in nine black men age 20 to 34 is behind bars...
More than one in 100 adult Americans is in jail or prison, an all-time high that is costing state governments nearly $50 billion a year, in addition to more than $5 billion spent by the federal government... With more than 2.3 million people behind bars at the start of 2008, the United States leads the world in both the number and the percentage of residents it incarcerates, leaving even far more populous China a distant second, noted the report by the nonpartisan Pew Center on the States.
The ballooning prison population is largely the result of tougher state and federal sentencing imposed since the mid-1980s. Minorities have been hit particularly hard: One in nine black men age 20 to 34 is behind bars...
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz(cont)
McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out
Shouldn't they check this (and make a ruling) when a person STARTS their candidacy? They need to change the law anyway. If you're born to US parents, it shouldn't matter where you were when you were born - why would that be good enuff for citizenship but not for the presidency? And why shouldn't Ahnuld be able to run? In a true democracy, we should be able to vote in whoever we want. Even a non citizen. Some guy just off the boat from Haiti should be eligible, at least for the two days before we send him back.
Shouldn't they check this (and make a ruling) when a person STARTS their candidacy? They need to change the law anyway. If you're born to US parents, it shouldn't matter where you were when you were born - why would that be good enuff for citizenship but not for the presidency? And why shouldn't Ahnuld be able to run? In a true democracy, we should be able to vote in whoever we want. Even a non citizen. Some guy just off the boat from Haiti should be eligible, at least for the two days before we send him back.
Such Candor...
...is why the US thinks the election has little chance of being "free and fair"...
"I am giving you an order to vote for the President (Cde Mugabe). Do not be distracted. The challenges we are currently facing are just a passing phase," he said.
"I am giving you an order to vote for the President (Cde Mugabe). Do not be distracted. The challenges we are currently facing are just a passing phase," he said.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Tim Russert is a Putz
So i'm watching the 2nd part of last night's debate and they just spent 10+ minutes on Louis Farrakhan?!?!
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING IMPORTANT?
Hey Tim Russert: Go Fuck Yourself.
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING IMPORTANT?
Hey Tim Russert: Go Fuck Yourself.
Good God (see previous post)
Dodgers manager Joe Torre said he told Nomar Garciaparra that he'd have the inside track at winning the starting job at third base over Andy LaRoche.
Figures. "I talked to him the other day," Torre said. "I explained to him that being the veteran guy, he has the inside track as far as being the starting third baseman. But we will (start the season) with the best 25 (players) we can get." Torre's love of veterans also figures to be good news for Juan Pierre. The Dodgers have shot themselves in the foot a lot the last couple of years with their playing time decisions. Torre has his strengths, but breaking in youngsters isn't one of them.
Figures. "I talked to him the other day," Torre said. "I explained to him that being the veteran guy, he has the inside track as far as being the starting third baseman. But we will (start the season) with the best 25 (players) we can get." Torre's love of veterans also figures to be good news for Juan Pierre. The Dodgers have shot themselves in the foot a lot the last couple of years with their playing time decisions. Torre has his strengths, but breaking in youngsters isn't one of them.
How to suck at managing, part 785
Tigers manager Jim Leyland announced Wednesday that Miguel Cabrera would open the season batting fifth. Leyland will use a lineup of: CF Curtis Granderson, 2B Placido Polanco, DH Gary Sheffield, RF Magglio Ordonez, 3B Cabrera, 1B Carlos Guillen, SS Edgar Renteria, C Ivan Rodriguez and LF Jacque Jones. Marcus Thames is expected to start over Jones versus lefties.
Yes, batting your best hitter 5th - great idea, Jimmy. Fortunetly for "Smoke 'Em if You Got 'Em" Leyland, Sheff will miss about half the year with a bad hammy and pouting over his contract, his agent, the media, Joe Torre, his hair stylist, the Detroit nightlife, etc.
Yes, batting your best hitter 5th - great idea, Jimmy. Fortunetly for "Smoke 'Em if You Got 'Em" Leyland, Sheff will miss about half the year with a bad hammy and pouting over his contract, his agent, the media, Joe Torre, his hair stylist, the Detroit nightlife, etc.
Was he hanging with Bret Boone?
An arrest warrant has been issued by the Irvine Police Department for Scott Spiezio on six charges stemming from a Dec. 30 incident. The warrant alleges driving under influence, driving under the influence with a blood alcohol content of .08 percent or more, hit and run, aggravated assault, assault and battery. Spiezio was on the restricted list for a time last season because of substance abuse problems.
Smiff is a drunkard, too, but at least i have sense enough to have a personal chauffer (Rebecca) drive me to rock shows where i can have a few gin & tonics and white russians...
Smiff is a drunkard, too, but at least i have sense enough to have a personal chauffer (Rebecca) drive me to rock shows where i can have a few gin & tonics and white russians...
maybe they should follow da Huckster around for like 20 minutes...
News item: The IRS is investigating the United Church of Christ over a speech Sen. Barack Obama gave at its national meeting last year after he became a candidate for president, the denomination said Tuesday.
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