"To promise a withdrawal of our forces from Iraq, regardless of the calamitous consequences to the Iraqi people, our most vital interests, and the future of the Middle East, is the height of irresponsibility."
-- John McCain
Monday, April 7, 2008
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Is he a Chicken?
Keiichi Yabu’s status for Monday’s game is uncertain after he hurt his eyes when the elastic bands he was working out with Saturday became unhooked and snapped across his face. The blurred vision would be a bigger problem, but it prevents him from actually having to watch his team play. Giants fans everywhere will be trying to duplicate the effects by the end of the month.
K-Mad's Career Killer Corner (non-injury) (cont'd)
Travis(ty) Buck is 0-21 on the season, with no walks and nine strikeouts. He did knock in his first run of the year on a sac fly today. And he has a hit by pitch, so at least his OBP isn't .000. Udder dan dat, he should be approaching a record of futility to start a season.
1st round pick by the Cherries dis year...
1st round pick by the Cherries dis year...
da world is upside-down, left is right and right is left, cats and dogs are living together etc.
Current Temps
Chicago 65
San Diego 59 (brrrr)
Chicago 65
San Diego 59 (brrrr)
Brett Myers SUCKED again today?
I am SHOCKED.
Brett Myers was charged with four runs in five innings of work in a loss to the Reds on Sunday. Three of the runs came on a two-run blast from Ken Griffey Jr. and a solo shot from Jeff Keppinger. Still, Myers wasn't very good as he gave up eight total hits and three walks while throwing just 59-of-95 pitches for strikes. Good Lord, he SUCKS.
Brett Myers was charged with four runs in five innings of work in a loss to the Reds on Sunday. Three of the runs came on a two-run blast from Ken Griffey Jr. and a solo shot from Jeff Keppinger. Still, Myers wasn't very good as he gave up eight total hits and three walks while throwing just 59-of-95 pitches for strikes. Good Lord, he SUCKS.
K-Mad does it again...
First start of the year...HE GUONE.
Justin Duchscherer will undergo an MRI on his biceps Sunday.
The A's believe the injury is just a mild strain. If the MRI shows nothing, it's possible Duchscherer could make his next scheduled start Wednesday in Toronto. If he can't make that start, the A's will probably either pull Lenny DiNardo out of the bullpen to take his place or activate Chad Gaudin a couple days early. Gaudin (foot/hip) is slated to make his first start Saturday in Cleveland, but is eligible to come off the DL at any time.
Justin Duchscherer will undergo an MRI on his biceps Sunday.
The A's believe the injury is just a mild strain. If the MRI shows nothing, it's possible Duchscherer could make his next scheduled start Wednesday in Toronto. If he can't make that start, the A's will probably either pull Lenny DiNardo out of the bullpen to take his place or activate Chad Gaudin a couple days early. Gaudin (foot/hip) is slated to make his first start Saturday in Cleveland, but is eligible to come off the DL at any time.
who hates America more than anyone?
Moveon.org, obviously...
Howard Dean says "McCain will make Cheney look like Ghandi." Then again, what would you expect from...
Wait. It was Pat Buchanan who said that. Sorry.
Dear MoveOn member,
For all the coverage this week of Senator John McCain's background, there are some important things you won't learn about him from the TV networks. His carefully crafted positive image relies on people not knowing this stuff—and you might be surprised by some of it.
Please check out the list below, and then forward it to your friends, family, and coworkers. We can't rely on the media to tell folks about the real John McCain—but if we all pass this along, we can reach as many people as CNN Headline News does on a good night.
Click here to tell us how many people you can pass it on to—and to see our progress nationally:
http://pol.moveon.org/mccain10/?id=12407-4533788-mG3Chs&t=231
10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):
1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."
3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.
4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."
5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.
6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.
7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."
8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.
9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."
10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.
John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be. Please help get the word out—forward this email to your personal network. And if you want us to keep you posted on MoveOn's work to get the truth out about John McCain, sign up here:
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Thank you for all you do.
–Eli, Justin, Noah, Laura, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Howard Dean says "McCain will make Cheney look like Ghandi." Then again, what would you expect from...
Wait. It was Pat Buchanan who said that. Sorry.
Dear MoveOn member,
For all the coverage this week of Senator John McCain's background, there are some important things you won't learn about him from the TV networks. His carefully crafted positive image relies on people not knowing this stuff—and you might be surprised by some of it.
Please check out the list below, and then forward it to your friends, family, and coworkers. We can't rely on the media to tell folks about the real John McCain—but if we all pass this along, we can reach as many people as CNN Headline News does on a good night.
Click here to tell us how many people you can pass it on to—and to see our progress nationally:
http://pol.moveon.org/mccain10/?id=12407-4533788-mG3Chs&t=231
10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):
1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."
3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.
4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."
5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.
6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.
7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."
8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.
9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."
10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.
John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be. Please help get the word out—forward this email to your personal network. And if you want us to keep you posted on MoveOn's work to get the truth out about John McCain, sign up here:
http://pol.moveon.org/mccaintruth/?id=12407-4533788-mG3Chs&t=232
Thank you for all you do.
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
no homes and next...no benches
Activist* Seeks to Eliminate Transient Loitering
Peter Feytser Thursday, Apr. 3, 2008
Community activist Esther Viti attempted to organize a group of volunteers to prevent the homeless from occupying benches in downtown La Jolla, ...by sitting on the benches themselves in three-hour shifts.
Why don't these worthless homeless people put on some heavy weights and walk into the Pacific Ocean? There, problem solved...
*"Activist"? Uh, i don't think so. HYOOOOooooooOOOOGE @$$HOLE, maybe...
Peter Feytser Thursday, Apr. 3, 2008
Community activist Esther Viti attempted to organize a group of volunteers to prevent the homeless from occupying benches in downtown La Jolla, ...by sitting on the benches themselves in three-hour shifts.
Promote La Jolla’s previous attempts to deal with the problem include installing metal dividers on benches to split the seats, but this tactic was unsuccessful because the homeless simply “perfected sleeping upright,” Marengo said.
Full Story
Why don't these worthless homeless people put on some heavy weights and walk into the Pacific Ocean? There, problem solved...
*"Activist"? Uh, i don't think so. HYOOOOooooooOOOOGE @$$HOLE, maybe...
there he goes again (cont'd)
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright excoriated America as having "committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world," saying "we are criminals in that war," and adding that "a nation that put as many Japanese in a concentration camp as they did in the '40s ... will put black people in a concentration camp. And I'm not interested in being in any concentration camp. I been on the reservation too long now." Then again, what would you expect from...
Wait. It was Martin Luther King who said that. Sorry.
On a lighter note, "the week before his death, he was planning a sermon for that Sunday titled 'Why America May Go to Hell.'" (from an email from Sojourners)
Wait. It was Martin Luther King who said that. Sorry.
On a lighter note, "the week before his death, he was planning a sermon for that Sunday titled 'Why America May Go to Hell.'" (from an email from Sojourners)
there he goes again
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright excoriated America as "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world" and a nation "founded on genocide." Then again, what would you expect from...
Wait. It was Martin Luther King who said that. Sorry.
Wait. It was Martin Luther King who said that. Sorry.
what took them so long?
Original Schlitz coming back to Chicago
April 04, 2008
(Crain’s) — Schlitz, known as “the beer that made Milwaukee famous,” is bringing its original taste back to Chicago on Monday.
Woodridge-based Pabst Brewing Co. has recreated the original formula for the beer, which was a top seller nationwide in the 1970s before it was reformulated. The recreated beer will be sold in brown longneck bottles and labels noting the “Classic 1960s formula.”
“We are going after the baby boomers who remember Schlitz when they first started drinking,” says Jerry Glunz, the general manager of Lincolnwood-based Louis Glunz Beer Inc., which is distributing the beer in Chicago. “This is a different beer than the (current Schlitz line in the can), and this beer will stand up to its former glory.”
He says the beer will be available at about a dozen locations on the North Side of Chicago on Monday, the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition.
He says the locations will include: Schubas Tavern, Southport Lanes & Billiards, Cardinal Liquors, 1000 Liquors, Chicago Brauhaus, Sheffield’s Bar, the Long Room, Simon’s Tavern, Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, Glunz Bavarian Haus and the House of Glunz.
Pabst Brewmaster Bob Newman researched the old formula and interviewed previous brewmasters to find the correct recipe, Mr. Glunz says.
Mr. Glunz said the beer declined in popularity because of changes to the formula in the 1970s and a switch to cans in the 1990s.
April 04, 2008
(Crain’s) — Schlitz, known as “the beer that made Milwaukee famous,” is bringing its original taste back to Chicago on Monday.
Woodridge-based Pabst Brewing Co. has recreated the original formula for the beer, which was a top seller nationwide in the 1970s before it was reformulated. The recreated beer will be sold in brown longneck bottles and labels noting the “Classic 1960s formula.”
“We are going after the baby boomers who remember Schlitz when they first started drinking,” says Jerry Glunz, the general manager of Lincolnwood-based Louis Glunz Beer Inc., which is distributing the beer in Chicago. “This is a different beer than the (current Schlitz line in the can), and this beer will stand up to its former glory.”
He says the beer will be available at about a dozen locations on the North Side of Chicago on Monday, the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition.
He says the locations will include: Schubas Tavern, Southport Lanes & Billiards, Cardinal Liquors, 1000 Liquors, Chicago Brauhaus, Sheffield’s Bar, the Long Room, Simon’s Tavern, Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, Glunz Bavarian Haus and the House of Glunz.
Pabst Brewmaster Bob Newman researched the old formula and interviewed previous brewmasters to find the correct recipe, Mr. Glunz says.
Mr. Glunz said the beer declined in popularity because of changes to the formula in the 1970s and a switch to cans in the 1990s.
hooray!
Stocks rise following report of large job loss
By Tim Paradis
Stocks moved modestly higher and Treasurys rallied today following news that the economy gave up 80,000 jobs last month, the biggest loss in five years. UPDATED, 2:05 p.m.
By Tim Paradis
Stocks moved modestly higher and Treasurys rallied today following news that the economy gave up 80,000 jobs last month, the biggest loss in five years. UPDATED, 2:05 p.m.
Worst lineup in the history of baseball?
San Francisco
D. Roberts lf
E. Velez 2b
R. Winn rf
B. Molina c
A. Rowand cf
J. Castillo 3b
R. Aurilia 1b
B. Bocock ss
J. Sanchez p
I count Winn and Rowand, at best, as average at their positions. Everyone else is well below. Maybe Molina is approaching average, but that's about it.
D. Roberts lf
E. Velez 2b
R. Winn rf
B. Molina c
A. Rowand cf
J. Castillo 3b
R. Aurilia 1b
B. Bocock ss
J. Sanchez p
I count Winn and Rowand, at best, as average at their positions. Everyone else is well below. Maybe Molina is approaching average, but that's about it.
why can't we just kill all the birds and be done with them?
Couple forced to remove bird feeders
Apr 03, 2008 22:30 -0500
They say they just wanted to enjoy the freedom of watching birds feed outside their Prospect Heights home. Neighbors claim the bird feeders brought too many critters to the neighborhood, and a judge agrees.
* Should bird feeders be banned?
* For the birds? Vote
Apr 03, 2008 22:30 -0500
They say they just wanted to enjoy the freedom of watching birds feed outside their Prospect Heights home. Neighbors claim the bird feeders brought too many critters to the neighborhood, and a judge agrees.
* Should bird feeders be banned?
* For the birds? Vote
which is more shocking?
Bluestem and Maddogs tied for 7th, or this?
1. Blue Ward Cyclones 197.5
2. shot_at_bill 179
3. Lord Viper Elefantes 171.5
1. Blue Ward Cyclones 197.5
2. shot_at_bill 179
3. Lord Viper Elefantes 171.5
Thursday, April 3, 2008
newest k-mad injury plague
Inability to breathe.
Conor Jackson left Wednesday's game in the fifth inning and later headed to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing after being weakened by an undisclosed illness this week.
Conor Jackson left Wednesday's game in the fifth inning and later headed to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing after being weakened by an undisclosed illness this week.
Must not be a Chicken, Smelt, Horror etc.....
Johnny Cueto 7IP 1H 1R 1ER 1BB 10K 1HR 1.29 Season ERA
How to Suck at Baseball
After being one-hit yesterday, octogenarian Jamie Moyer proceeds to give five runs in the 1st today. Who do they think they are, the Cubs?
Scoring Summary
Top 1st: Washington
- R. Zimmerman grounded into fielder's choice, C. Guzman to third, L. Milledge out at second, C. Guzman scored on second baseman C. Utley's throwing error
- A. Boone singled to center, R. Zimmerman scored, A. Kearns to second
- R. Belliard doubled to deep left center, A. Boone and A. Kearns scored
- J. Flores doubled to left, R. Belliard scored
Was 5, Phi 0
Scoring Summary
Top 1st: Washington
- R. Zimmerman grounded into fielder's choice, C. Guzman to third, L. Milledge out at second, C. Guzman scored on second baseman C. Utley's throwing error
- A. Boone singled to center, R. Zimmerman scored, A. Kearns to second
- R. Belliard doubled to deep left center, A. Boone and A. Kearns scored
- J. Flores doubled to left, R. Belliard scored
Was 5, Phi 0
he is probably also a tarrist
For Little Children, Grown-Up Labels As Sexual Harassers
By Brigid Schulte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 3, 2008; A01
In his seven years, Randy Castro has been an aspiring soccer player, an accomplished Lego architect and a Royal Ranger at his Pentecostal church. He also, according to his elementary school record, sexually harassed a first-grade classmate.
During recess at his Woodbridge school one day in November, when he was 6, he said, he smacked the classmate's bottom. The girl told the teacher. The teacher took Randy to the principal, who told him such behavior was inappropriate. School officials wrote an incident report calling it "Sexual Touching Against Student, Offensive," which will remain on his student record permanently.
Then, as Randy sat in the principal's office, they called the police.
"I thought they were going to take me to prison," Randy said recently. "I was scared."
By Brigid Schulte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 3, 2008; A01
In his seven years, Randy Castro has been an aspiring soccer player, an accomplished Lego architect and a Royal Ranger at his Pentecostal church. He also, according to his elementary school record, sexually harassed a first-grade classmate.
During recess at his Woodbridge school one day in November, when he was 6, he said, he smacked the classmate's bottom. The girl told the teacher. The teacher took Randy to the principal, who told him such behavior was inappropriate. School officials wrote an incident report calling it "Sexual Touching Against Student, Offensive," which will remain on his student record permanently.
Then, as Randy sat in the principal's office, they called the police.
"I thought they were going to take me to prison," Randy said recently. "I was scared."
I might need to raid my pension fund so I can afford a last visit to pay my respects
State's plan to buy Wrigley lands it on endangered list
While fans have been concerned about the possible renaming of Wrigley Field, some preservationists have been more worried about how the Cubs' park will look if the state buys the North Side stadium. The preservationist group Landmark Illinois put Wrigley Field on its most endangered historic places list Wednesday.
While fans have been concerned about the possible renaming of Wrigley Field, some preservationists have been more worried about how the Cubs' park will look if the state buys the North Side stadium. The preservationist group Landmark Illinois put Wrigley Field on its most endangered historic places list Wednesday.
laws? we don't need no stinkin' laws (cont'd)
Post-9/11 Memo Indicates View Around Constitution
For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Bush administration argued that the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures on U.S. soil did not apply to its efforts to protect against terrorism.
That view was expressed in a secret Justice Department legal memo dated Oct. 23, 2001. The administration stressed yesterday that it now disavows that view.
For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Bush administration argued that the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures on U.S. soil did not apply to its efforts to protect against terrorism.
That view was expressed in a secret Justice Department legal memo dated Oct. 23, 2001. The administration stressed yesterday that it now disavows that view.
Stoopid Criminals (cont)
I saw this story on da news dis morning:
A pair of hoax ads on Craigslist cost an Oregon man much of what he owned.
The ads popped up Saturday afternoon, saying the owner of a Jacksonville home was forced to leave the area suddenly and his belongings, including a horse, were free for the taking, said Jackson County sheriff's Detective Sgt. Colin Fagan.
But Robert Salisbury had no plans to leave. The independent contractor was at Emigrant Lake when he got a call from a woman who had stopped by his house to claim his horse.
On his way home he stopped a truck loaded down with his work ladders, lawn mower and weed eater.
"I informed them I was the owner, but they refused to give the stuff back," Salisbury said. "They showed me the Craigslist printout and told me they had the right to do what they did.
"The driver sped away after rebuking Salisbury. On his way home he spotted other cars filled with his belongings.
Once home he was greeted by close to 30 people rummaging through his barn and front porch.
The trespassers, armed with printouts of the ad, tried to brush him off. "They honestly thought that because it appeared on the Internet it was true," Salisbury said. "It boggles the mind.
"Jacksonville police and Jackson County sheriff's deputies arrived but by then several cars packed with Salisbury's property had fled.
He turned some license plate numbers over to police.
Michelle Easley had seen the ad that claimed Salisbury's horse had been declared abandoned by the sheriff's department and was free to a good home.
"I can't stand to see a horse suffer so I drove out there and got her," Easley said. "The horse didn't look abandoned. She is in good shape for being 32 years old.
"But it looked odd, so she left a note on Salisbury's door explaining the ad. She then decided to call to make sure the ad was legitimate when the second similar ad appeared.
"I feel bad because I was a part of it," Easley said. "It felt right to call the police.
"Fagan praised Easley's honestly but said prosecution was likely for anybody caught with Salisbury's property.
Items can be returned with no questions asked, Fagan said.
Detectives have contacted Craigslist's legal team to try to trace the ad.
Meanwhile, Salisbury could not even relax on his porch swing.
Someone took it.
I can't find the update to the story, which is that them smart cookies decided to track down who had posted the listing. Led them to the real crooks, who had allegedly hit up the place first, got all the good stuff, then posted the Craigslist ad to have other people come in and cover up their crime. Actually, it's a really ingenious way of covering up a crime. Using a computer whose IP address can be traced back to you - stooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopid!
A pair of hoax ads on Craigslist cost an Oregon man much of what he owned.
The ads popped up Saturday afternoon, saying the owner of a Jacksonville home was forced to leave the area suddenly and his belongings, including a horse, were free for the taking, said Jackson County sheriff's Detective Sgt. Colin Fagan.
But Robert Salisbury had no plans to leave. The independent contractor was at Emigrant Lake when he got a call from a woman who had stopped by his house to claim his horse.
On his way home he stopped a truck loaded down with his work ladders, lawn mower and weed eater.
"I informed them I was the owner, but they refused to give the stuff back," Salisbury said. "They showed me the Craigslist printout and told me they had the right to do what they did.
"The driver sped away after rebuking Salisbury. On his way home he spotted other cars filled with his belongings.
Once home he was greeted by close to 30 people rummaging through his barn and front porch.
The trespassers, armed with printouts of the ad, tried to brush him off. "They honestly thought that because it appeared on the Internet it was true," Salisbury said. "It boggles the mind.
"Jacksonville police and Jackson County sheriff's deputies arrived but by then several cars packed with Salisbury's property had fled.
He turned some license plate numbers over to police.
Michelle Easley had seen the ad that claimed Salisbury's horse had been declared abandoned by the sheriff's department and was free to a good home.
"I can't stand to see a horse suffer so I drove out there and got her," Easley said. "The horse didn't look abandoned. She is in good shape for being 32 years old.
"But it looked odd, so she left a note on Salisbury's door explaining the ad. She then decided to call to make sure the ad was legitimate when the second similar ad appeared.
"I feel bad because I was a part of it," Easley said. "It felt right to call the police.
"Fagan praised Easley's honestly but said prosecution was likely for anybody caught with Salisbury's property.
Items can be returned with no questions asked, Fagan said.
Detectives have contacted Craigslist's legal team to try to trace the ad.
Meanwhile, Salisbury could not even relax on his porch swing.
Someone took it.
I can't find the update to the story, which is that them smart cookies decided to track down who had posted the listing. Led them to the real crooks, who had allegedly hit up the place first, got all the good stuff, then posted the Craigslist ad to have other people come in and cover up their crime. Actually, it's a really ingenious way of covering up a crime. Using a computer whose IP address can be traced back to you - stooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopid!
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
K-Mad, Smiff: we're here to help
7:19 PM Kevin: awful
7:22 PM me: what now? Phillies one-hit by TIM REDDING et al? or... Pedro out 4-6 weeks, which means 8-10 weeks?
7:24 PM Kevin: tim redding? awful
7:33 PM me: AWFULLLLL
7:37 PM me: Gomes benched (again) for...Nathan Haynes
Kevin: who?
me: Joe Maddon should be shot
i dunno, but draft him and his career over ASAP
7:38 PM Kevin: newest cherry
7:39 PM me: this just in: Larry Bowa BLEW UP and was suspended for 3 games
Kevin: rip them motherfuckers?
me: yeah
7:40 PM Al Reyes: LIT UP tonight
Kevin: in a good way?
me: no
Kevin: phokk
7:42 PM me: the INSANE Kevin O'Neill OUT in Arizona
7:43 PM Kevin: @#$&^% #@(*&&$ #&^#$*#@ #&#%*#@ 4&#!
7:43 PM Kevin: $^*#$!
me: yes#
Cubs lost again
also: White Sox
7:45 PM Smiff shocked:
Storm? What storm?
A woman bikes along Mission Bay, where bright blue skies rule the day. The storm that National Weather Service forecasters expected to arrive Wednesday afternoon has slowed and weakened and may not hit the county until after 10 p.m.“I don't think it has much chance of holding together,” forecaster Steve Vanderburg says. “There's a good chance it won't do a lot for us.”
Steve Vanderburg: FULL@SHIT
7:46 PM Kevin: he will be hailed as a liberator
me: on da udder hand, it's ridicurously chilly round here: 56 right now
7:49 PM Kevin: man that's rough... do you have an electric binky?
me: yes.
but first, i may have to put on pants
Kevin: i would set it on "thermonuclear"
7:50 PM me: noted
Kevin: and mittens
me: don't have any of dem
socks?
Kevin: go outside and kill someone for their mittens... it's every man for himself in situations like this
7:51 PM me: i would, if i could stand up
the Ernie Banks statue has a typo? dat's so Cub
7:52 PM Kevin: really? i didn't hear about that. ridikkerus
they just figgered this out?
7:53 PM me: left the apostophe out of Let's Play Two
Kevin: datz phokkin retardid
7:54 PM me: Yes.
7:54 PM me: watching Obama on The Insane Chris Mathews Show
Kevin: whats da deal wid dis phokkin twitter phing
?
7:55 PM me: whadya mean what's the phokking deal?
HARDBALL!
Kevin: http://twitter.com/kmaddest
7:56 PM how can i set dis up on my cell... ditn work for me
yeah i heard about dat
me: i don't have a cell, ask Rebecca
Kevin: duff
7:57 PM me: i let her know...she'll be very excited!
Kevin: that is so sad
7:58 PM me: Yes.
7:59 PM Kevin: i'll try to make it less negative from now on
me: really? can you?
Kevin: no
8:00 PM that marines commercial is phokking awful though'
obama da rock star
8:01 PM west chester -- rams?
me: haven't seen it
oh, dere in West Chester? just west of where i was born...in Chester
8:02 PM Kevin: west of there?
of chester?
me: yeah, dats why dey call it West Chester...duh
Kevin: philly sport magazine endorsed him
8:03 PM me: HYOOOGE
Kevin: i phink dat settles dat
me: Ollie Perez: DOMINATING tonight
Kevin: my hands are tied
8:04 PM all my drafts are over
8:04 PM me: trade? trade for him?
Kevin: dat might work
so it's west of chester? west chester?
8:05 PM me: no-IDIOT- West Chester is west of Chester
den we moved to Rochester
later, i lived in Chichester
Kevin: ro chester?
8:06 PM me: yes, ro of chester
Kevin: k
bluestem - last place
raise your hand if you're shocked
yooooooge night tonight though
8:07 PM me: \\|//
Phants in 1st? equally shocking
Kevin: the whole world has gone upside dowsn
down
8:08 PM me: speaking of Phants: Y Escobar (1, 8th inning off E Meek 2 on, 2 Out).
8:09 PM GUONE
8:09 PM Kevin: bluestem slugging 765 tonight
like i said............
yoooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooge
8:10 PM me: could move up to 11th
Kevin: maybe!
me: Jair Jurrjens: why don't you have him?
Kevin: i know
it almost happened
8:11 PM me: FAIL
Kevin: datz a little harsh
8:12 PM obama prattlling on about green energy
do i look like an elf?
me: a tall elf, maybe
8:13 PM Top 2nd: Houston
- G. Blum homered to deep right
- T. Wigginton homered to deep left
8:14 PM me: Monk:
Bot 2nd: San Diego
- S. Hairston homered to deep left center
8:15 PM shteal
8:16 PM Ludwick: Triple
8:17 PM zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
8:18 PM Kevin: wi@@y!
8:19 PM he's a bluestem
ludwick: horror
callix crabbe: smelt
5 minutes
8:25 PM Kevin: i'm outta wine so i phink its bedtime
8:26 PM me: i got a cheap pinot here, if dat helps
8:27 PM Kevin: uhh no
i got whisky dough
me: what's da prollem den?
8:28 PM Kevin: i can't remember
8:30 PM me: i gots wine, beer, scotch, a cheap canadian whiskey, port (from kollyforniyah), gin, vermouth, bitters
and absinthe
8:32 PM Kevin: submitted for your tendention:
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/food/873052,FOO-News-wine02.article
8:33 PM i phink da plutos just got one step closer to da windowledge
me: anudder reason to drink Kollyforniyuh wine
8:34 PM phokk does frenchy phokks
Kevin: yeah dats true... but i need da aussies
8:35 PM me: Kollyfoneeyuhh makes sum pretty good shirazez
Kevin: dat would be good news
8:36 PM west chester is in phact da rams
me: lots of rams in SE PA
Kevin: yeah dat is dere natural habitat an shit
me: dis Obama guy makes a lot of sense...too bad he's a darky
8:37 PM Kevin: yeah i don't phink america is ready for a president who knows what da phokk is going on
8:39 PM me: dats sum phunny stuff on Lattice ya phokker
8:40 PM Kevin: tough one tonight!
me: Obama gets the WYOMING GOVERNOR'S endorsement
phokk U
Kevin: you can't stop tim redding, you can only hope to contain him
8:41 PM me: we will stay the course
Kevin: the phigtin's will turn the corner
8:42 PM me: already turned dat mudderphokker
8:43 PM shit sandwich...dere wuz anudder corner
8:44 PM me: JR Towles: .000
Kevin: he might be a horror
me: you don't know?
Kevin: dunno man that was like last month or some shit
8:45 PM me: he is in fact AN Horror...R.I.P.
8:46 PM Kevin: well den i guess he is AN dead mudderphokker
i blame society
me: da Horrors have a grand total of EIGHT pitchers in the majors
8:47 PM Kevin: three starters and five relievers, whats da phokkin prollem gollum?
me: dat inc. John "Soon to be deceased" Bale
8:48 PM Pat Misch? not so much...
Kevin: not soon enough
me: also inc. a Smiff...
Kevin: misch... as in jealous much?
8:48 PM me: no, as in Fresno a lot
8:49 PM Kevin: well then... you've run rings round me logically
me: Yes.
8:52 PM Smiff muttering to himself...what is Hillary's experience Howard FULL@SHIT Fineman is talking about...
8:53 PM Kevin: what da phokk are you watching? or is it a bad hallucinatin
o
n
me: KO
Kevin: stay tuned for west chester
8:53 PM Kevin: not westchester
not chichester
west
wait for it...
8:54 PM chester
me: we're waiting
Kevin: he's wearing a necktie
like datz sposed to make us forget his wid da tarrists
or black
8:55 PM me: Smiff HATES neckties...stoopif phokking pfings
Kevin: sounds like a something the LAPD would phink up
"we were able to place the suspect in a necktie..."
8:56 PM "at which point we were able to subdue the suspect..."
chief gates where are you
8:57 PM me: all i gots to say:
more pinot!
Kevin: phokker
me: ha ha
8:58 PM you shoulda stopped at da booze store on da waz home and shit
8:59 PM Kevin: i phought i had enuf
8:59 PM me: wah roh - the game in LA is delayed DUE TO RAIN
Kevin: the end times will soon be here (wait they are here)
me: no shit, we're next
9:00 PM Kevin: what's it like to be dead?
i've always wondered
me: i'll let you now tomorrow
know
and shit
9:02 PM Kevin: k, but put "i am emailing you from the next world" in the subject line so i know it's worth opening
me: k
9:03 PM it will prolly start:
TOTALLY PHOKKED
here in Waco
Kevin: how can you be totally phokked in the next world if we are totally phokked here in this one?
9:04 PM me: it's just da next stage of being TOTALLY PHOKKED
dis just in:
9:05 PM Dick Cheney: A TOTAL FUCKING ASSHOLE
Kevin: dat is a surprise
me: yup
just came over da wires
9:09 PM me: GUMBO!
Kevin: whu?
9:10 PM me: dinner
Kevin: now? it's like... tomorrow
me: yes
9:11 PM Kevin: go eat your pokking guumy bear den... it's bedtime here in da real world
me: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Kevin: yes
also, this just in
horror: sucks
me: yeah, real world, where it's not about to drop water from the sky
9:15 PM Kevin: water from the sky? dat sounds pretty biblicamol.
9:16 PM if you get raptured up an shit be sure to say hi to billy graham for me... he's dead right?
me: Jehovah Jehovah Jehovah
9:17 PM Billy Graham is still dead..hallelujah
9:18 PM Kevin: he will be missed
i guess
k den
me: our work here is done
Kevin: no question
7:22 PM me: what now? Phillies one-hit by TIM REDDING et al? or... Pedro out 4-6 weeks, which means 8-10 weeks?
7:24 PM Kevin: tim redding? awful
7:33 PM me: AWFULLLLL
7:37 PM me: Gomes benched (again) for...Nathan Haynes
Kevin: who?
me: Joe Maddon should be shot
i dunno, but draft him and his career over ASAP
7:38 PM Kevin: newest cherry
7:39 PM me: this just in: Larry Bowa BLEW UP and was suspended for 3 games
Kevin: rip them motherfuckers?
me: yeah
7:40 PM Al Reyes: LIT UP tonight
Kevin: in a good way?
me: no
Kevin: phokk
7:42 PM me: the INSANE Kevin O'Neill OUT in Arizona
7:43 PM Kevin: @#$&^% #@(*&&$ #&^#$*#@ #&#%*#@ 4&#!
7:43 PM Kevin: $^*#$!
me: yes#
Cubs lost again
also: White Sox
7:45 PM Smiff shocked:
Storm? What storm?
A woman bikes along Mission Bay, where bright blue skies rule the day. The storm that National Weather Service forecasters expected to arrive Wednesday afternoon has slowed and weakened and may not hit the county until after 10 p.m.“I don't think it has much chance of holding together,” forecaster Steve Vanderburg says. “There's a good chance it won't do a lot for us.”
Steve Vanderburg: FULL@SHIT
7:46 PM Kevin: he will be hailed as a liberator
me: on da udder hand, it's ridicurously chilly round here: 56 right now
7:49 PM Kevin: man that's rough... do you have an electric binky?
me: yes.
but first, i may have to put on pants
Kevin: i would set it on "thermonuclear"
7:50 PM me: noted
Kevin: and mittens
me: don't have any of dem
socks?
Kevin: go outside and kill someone for their mittens... it's every man for himself in situations like this
7:51 PM me: i would, if i could stand up
the Ernie Banks statue has a typo? dat's so Cub
7:52 PM Kevin: really? i didn't hear about that. ridikkerus
they just figgered this out?
7:53 PM me: left the apostophe out of Let's Play Two
Kevin: datz phokkin retardid
7:54 PM me: Yes.
7:54 PM me: watching Obama on The Insane Chris Mathews Show
Kevin: whats da deal wid dis phokkin twitter phing
?
7:55 PM me: whadya mean what's the phokking deal?
HARDBALL!
Kevin: http://twitter.com/kmaddest
7:56 PM how can i set dis up on my cell... ditn work for me
yeah i heard about dat
me: i don't have a cell, ask Rebecca
Kevin: duff
7:57 PM me: i let her know...she'll be very excited!
Kevin: that is so sad
7:58 PM me: Yes.
7:59 PM Kevin: i'll try to make it less negative from now on
me: really? can you?
Kevin: no
8:00 PM that marines commercial is phokking awful though'
obama da rock star
8:01 PM west chester -- rams?
me: haven't seen it
oh, dere in West Chester? just west of where i was born...in Chester
8:02 PM Kevin: west of there?
of chester?
me: yeah, dats why dey call it West Chester...duh
Kevin: philly sport magazine endorsed him
8:03 PM me: HYOOOGE
Kevin: i phink dat settles dat
me: Ollie Perez: DOMINATING tonight
Kevin: my hands are tied
8:04 PM all my drafts are over
8:04 PM me: trade? trade for him?
Kevin: dat might work
so it's west of chester? west chester?
8:05 PM me: no-IDIOT- West Chester is west of Chester
den we moved to Rochester
later, i lived in Chichester
Kevin: ro chester?
8:06 PM me: yes, ro of chester
Kevin: k
bluestem - last place
raise your hand if you're shocked
yooooooge night tonight though
8:07 PM me: \\|//
Phants in 1st? equally shocking
Kevin: the whole world has gone upside dowsn
down
8:08 PM me: speaking of Phants: Y Escobar (1, 8th inning off E Meek 2 on, 2 Out).
8:09 PM GUONE
8:09 PM Kevin: bluestem slugging 765 tonight
like i said............
yoooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooge
8:10 PM me: could move up to 11th
Kevin: maybe!
me: Jair Jurrjens: why don't you have him?
Kevin: i know
it almost happened
8:11 PM me: FAIL
Kevin: datz a little harsh
8:12 PM obama prattlling on about green energy
do i look like an elf?
me: a tall elf, maybe
8:13 PM Top 2nd: Houston
- G. Blum homered to deep right
- T. Wigginton homered to deep left
8:14 PM me: Monk:
Bot 2nd: San Diego
- S. Hairston homered to deep left center
8:15 PM shteal
8:16 PM Ludwick: Triple
8:17 PM zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
8:18 PM Kevin: wi@@y!
8:19 PM he's a bluestem
ludwick: horror
callix crabbe: smelt
5 minutes
8:25 PM Kevin: i'm outta wine so i phink its bedtime
8:26 PM me: i got a cheap pinot here, if dat helps
8:27 PM Kevin: uhh no
i got whisky dough
me: what's da prollem den?
8:28 PM Kevin: i can't remember
8:30 PM me: i gots wine, beer, scotch, a cheap canadian whiskey, port (from kollyforniyah), gin, vermouth, bitters
and absinthe
8:32 PM Kevin: submitted for your tendention:
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/food/873052,FOO-News-wine02.article
8:33 PM i phink da plutos just got one step closer to da windowledge
me: anudder reason to drink Kollyforniyuh wine
8:34 PM phokk does frenchy phokks
Kevin: yeah dats true... but i need da aussies
8:35 PM me: Kollyfoneeyuhh makes sum pretty good shirazez
Kevin: dat would be good news
8:36 PM west chester is in phact da rams
me: lots of rams in SE PA
Kevin: yeah dat is dere natural habitat an shit
me: dis Obama guy makes a lot of sense...too bad he's a darky
8:37 PM Kevin: yeah i don't phink america is ready for a president who knows what da phokk is going on
8:39 PM me: dats sum phunny stuff on Lattice ya phokker
8:40 PM Kevin: tough one tonight!
me: Obama gets the WYOMING GOVERNOR'S endorsement
phokk U
Kevin: you can't stop tim redding, you can only hope to contain him
8:41 PM me: we will stay the course
Kevin: the phigtin's will turn the corner
8:42 PM me: already turned dat mudderphokker
8:43 PM shit sandwich...dere wuz anudder corner
8:44 PM me: JR Towles: .000
Kevin: he might be a horror
me: you don't know?
Kevin: dunno man that was like last month or some shit
8:45 PM me: he is in fact AN Horror...R.I.P.
8:46 PM Kevin: well den i guess he is AN dead mudderphokker
i blame society
me: da Horrors have a grand total of EIGHT pitchers in the majors
8:47 PM Kevin: three starters and five relievers, whats da phokkin prollem gollum?
me: dat inc. John "Soon to be deceased" Bale
8:48 PM Pat Misch? not so much...
Kevin: not soon enough
me: also inc. a Smiff...
Kevin: misch... as in jealous much?
8:48 PM me: no, as in Fresno a lot
8:49 PM Kevin: well then... you've run rings round me logically
me: Yes.
8:52 PM Smiff muttering to himself...what is Hillary's experience Howard FULL@SHIT Fineman is talking about...
8:53 PM Kevin: what da phokk are you watching? or is it a bad hallucinatin
o
n
me: KO
Kevin: stay tuned for west chester
8:53 PM Kevin: not westchester
not chichester
west
wait for it...
8:54 PM chester
me: we're waiting
Kevin: he's wearing a necktie
like datz sposed to make us forget his wid da tarrists
or black
8:55 PM me: Smiff HATES neckties...stoopif phokking pfings
Kevin: sounds like a something the LAPD would phink up
"we were able to place the suspect in a necktie..."
8:56 PM "at which point we were able to subdue the suspect..."
chief gates where are you
8:57 PM me: all i gots to say:
more pinot!
Kevin: phokker
me: ha ha
8:58 PM you shoulda stopped at da booze store on da waz home and shit
8:59 PM Kevin: i phought i had enuf
8:59 PM me: wah roh - the game in LA is delayed DUE TO RAIN
Kevin: the end times will soon be here (wait they are here)
me: no shit, we're next
9:00 PM Kevin: what's it like to be dead?
i've always wondered
me: i'll let you now tomorrow
know
and shit
9:02 PM Kevin: k, but put "i am emailing you from the next world" in the subject line so i know it's worth opening
me: k
9:03 PM it will prolly start:
TOTALLY PHOKKED
here in Waco
Kevin: how can you be totally phokked in the next world if we are totally phokked here in this one?
9:04 PM me: it's just da next stage of being TOTALLY PHOKKED
dis just in:
9:05 PM Dick Cheney: A TOTAL FUCKING ASSHOLE
Kevin: dat is a surprise
me: yup
just came over da wires
9:09 PM me: GUMBO!
Kevin: whu?
9:10 PM me: dinner
Kevin: now? it's like... tomorrow
me: yes
9:11 PM Kevin: go eat your pokking guumy bear den... it's bedtime here in da real world
me: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Kevin: yes
also, this just in
horror: sucks
me: yeah, real world, where it's not about to drop water from the sky
9:15 PM Kevin: water from the sky? dat sounds pretty biblicamol.
9:16 PM if you get raptured up an shit be sure to say hi to billy graham for me... he's dead right?
me: Jehovah Jehovah Jehovah
9:17 PM Billy Graham is still dead..hallelujah
9:18 PM Kevin: he will be missed
i guess
k den
me: our work here is done
Kevin: no question
giant sucking sound
PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Tim Redding took a one-hitter into the eighth inning and Ryan Zimmerman hit a solo homer to help the Washington Nationals stay unbeaten with a 1-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday night.
Anudder Nort'side Suck-Fest
Suppan?!, Kendall?!?! lead Brewers over Cubs 8-2 as Chicago loses 2nd straight
Preview Box Score Recap
CHICAGO (AP)—So much for the Chicago Cubs getting off to a fast start in their quest to win the World Series for the first time in 100 years. Jeff Suppan held Chicago to two runs and six hits in 6 1-3 innings, Rickie Weeks homered on the game’s first pitch and Jason Kendall reached base five straight times to lead the Milwaukee Brewers over the Cubs 8-2 Wednesday. Ryan Braun and ex-Cub Kendall—batting ninth—had three hits each in Milwaukee’s 14-hit attack. The Cubs were 8 1/2 games back of the Brewers in late June last season after a slow start before overtaking Milwaukee to win the NL Central. Chicago lost Monday’s opener 4-3 in 10 innings.
Suppan (1-0) gave up Derrek Lee’s home run leading off the fourth on a 41-degree day and left after allowing Geovany Soto’s (MONK!) home in the seventh. Salomon Torres relieved Suppan and, after consecutive one-out singles by Felix Pie and Mike Fontenot, retired Ryan Theriot on a flyout and struck out Alfonso Soriano—off to an 0-for-9 start. Chicago starter Ted Lilly (0-1) gave up four runs and five hits in 4 2-3 innings.
Milwaukee took a 3-0 lead in the fourth when Braun doubled off Aramis Ramirez’s glove at third, Bill Hall had an RBI single and Corey Hart delivered an RBI double. Lee’s first homer got a run back for the Cubs in the bottom half but Milwaukee drove out Lilly in the fifth when Kendall doubled, and Lilly hit Prince Fielder in the side with a two-out pitch. Braun greeted Kevin Hart with an RBI single for a 4-1 lead. Fans at Wrigley Field started to boo* the Cubs in the sixth when Milwaukee scored without a hit thanks to two walks, three stolen bases and a Soto’s error.
Notes
Longtime Cubs’ clubhouse manager Yosh Kawano, who joined the team in 1943, two years before its last World Series appearance, is leaving the job. He will stay with team in another capacity and be honored at a ceremony later this season. Kawano turns 87 in June. Dis poor guy has probably seen more losses in the history of losing dan anybody...
*Dose are da real Chicago fucking fans?...MY FUCKING ASS!!
Preview Box Score Recap
CHICAGO (AP)—So much for the Chicago Cubs getting off to a fast start in their quest to win the World Series for the first time in 100 years. Jeff Suppan held Chicago to two runs and six hits in 6 1-3 innings, Rickie Weeks homered on the game’s first pitch and Jason Kendall reached base five straight times to lead the Milwaukee Brewers over the Cubs 8-2 Wednesday. Ryan Braun and ex-Cub Kendall—batting ninth—had three hits each in Milwaukee’s 14-hit attack. The Cubs were 8 1/2 games back of the Brewers in late June last season after a slow start before overtaking Milwaukee to win the NL Central. Chicago lost Monday’s opener 4-3 in 10 innings.
Suppan (1-0) gave up Derrek Lee’s home run leading off the fourth on a 41-degree day and left after allowing Geovany Soto’s (MONK!) home in the seventh. Salomon Torres relieved Suppan and, after consecutive one-out singles by Felix Pie and Mike Fontenot, retired Ryan Theriot on a flyout and struck out Alfonso Soriano—off to an 0-for-9 start. Chicago starter Ted Lilly (0-1) gave up four runs and five hits in 4 2-3 innings.
Milwaukee took a 3-0 lead in the fourth when Braun doubled off Aramis Ramirez’s glove at third, Bill Hall had an RBI single and Corey Hart delivered an RBI double. Lee’s first homer got a run back for the Cubs in the bottom half but Milwaukee drove out Lilly in the fifth when Kendall doubled, and Lilly hit Prince Fielder in the side with a two-out pitch. Braun greeted Kevin Hart with an RBI single for a 4-1 lead. Fans at Wrigley Field started to boo* the Cubs in the sixth when Milwaukee scored without a hit thanks to two walks, three stolen bases and a Soto’s error.
Notes
Longtime Cubs’ clubhouse manager Yosh Kawano, who joined the team in 1943, two years before its last World Series appearance, is leaving the job. He will stay with team in another capacity and be honored at a ceremony later this season. Kawano turns 87 in June. Dis poor guy has probably seen more losses in the history of losing dan anybody...
*Dose are da real Chicago fucking fans?...MY FUCKING ASS!!
if it's not one thing, it's another
News item: Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), predicts that unless present trends are reversed, there will be more than 25 nuclear weapons states in a few years, many of them unstable and prone to takeover by extremists. The likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons would then be greater than at any time during the Cold War.
who's hating America today?
In somewhat of a surprise, it turns out to be senior Army and Marine Corps leaders.
Heavy Troop Deployments Are Called Major Risk
Readiness Is Dangerously Low, Army Chief Says
By Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 2, 2008; A04
Senior Army and Marine Corps leaders said yesterday that the increase of more than 30,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has put unsustainable levels of stress on U.S. ground forces and has put their readiness to fight other conflicts at the lowest level in years.
In a stark assessment a week before Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is to testify on the war's progress, Gen. Richard A. Cody, the Army's vice chief of staff, said that the heavy deployments are inflicting "incredible stress" on soldiers and families and that they pose "a significant risk" to the nation's all-volunteer military...
"I've never seen our lack of strategic depth be where it is today," said Cody, who has been the senior Army official in charge of operations and readiness for the past six years and plans to retire this summer (and hates America -- ed.).
Heavy Troop Deployments Are Called Major Risk
Readiness Is Dangerously Low, Army Chief Says
By Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 2, 2008; A04
Senior Army and Marine Corps leaders said yesterday that the increase of more than 30,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has put unsustainable levels of stress on U.S. ground forces and has put their readiness to fight other conflicts at the lowest level in years.
In a stark assessment a week before Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is to testify on the war's progress, Gen. Richard A. Cody, the Army's vice chief of staff, said that the heavy deployments are inflicting "incredible stress" on soldiers and families and that they pose "a significant risk" to the nation's all-volunteer military...
"I've never seen our lack of strategic depth be where it is today," said Cody, who has been the senior Army official in charge of operations and readiness for the past six years and plans to retire this summer (and hates America -- ed.).
K-Mad now affecting potassium levels...
Carlos Zambrano is expected to make his next start after leaving Monday's game with forearm cramps. "He's fine," manager Lou Piniella said. "His potassium level was a little low. I think that was the problem." Zambrano is scheduled to face the Astros on Sunday.
next thing you know, we'll all be smothering our hot dogs in ketchup
News item: All Blackhawks games to be on TV next season
Cook County: the system works
County’s new lobbyist throwing fundraiser for Stroger
(Crain’s) — Just months after receiving a pair of six-figure, no-bid contracts, Cook County’s new Washington, D.C., lobbyist is hosting a fundraiser for the official who awarded him that work: County Board President Todd Stroger.
Lobbyist Richard Boykin is holding the fundraiser for Mr. Stroger on Thursday evening at the Loop offices of Mr. Boykin’s law firm, Barnes & Thornburg LLP. Invitations for the event request donations of $250 to as much as $2,500...
Mr. Boykin says there is "no connection" between the contracts and the upcoming fundraiser, which will pull in a reported $30,000 or so for Mr. Stroger’s political campaign fund.
Mr. Stroger’s spokesman says only that Mr. Boykin "can throw a fundraiser for whoever he wants..."
Crain’s first asked Mr. Stroger’s office for comment on this matter Tuesday afternoon. By mid-afternoon Wednesday, the president’s spokesman said he had not yet been able to reach the appropriate county officials to confirm that Messrs. Boykin and Burkhardt had been granted a second contract.
The spokesman added that he was aware of Thursday’s fundraiser but was not prepared to further discuss the matter.
(Crain’s) — Just months after receiving a pair of six-figure, no-bid contracts, Cook County’s new Washington, D.C., lobbyist is hosting a fundraiser for the official who awarded him that work: County Board President Todd Stroger.
Lobbyist Richard Boykin is holding the fundraiser for Mr. Stroger on Thursday evening at the Loop offices of Mr. Boykin’s law firm, Barnes & Thornburg LLP. Invitations for the event request donations of $250 to as much as $2,500...
Mr. Boykin says there is "no connection" between the contracts and the upcoming fundraiser, which will pull in a reported $30,000 or so for Mr. Stroger’s political campaign fund.
Mr. Stroger’s spokesman says only that Mr. Boykin "can throw a fundraiser for whoever he wants..."
Crain’s first asked Mr. Stroger’s office for comment on this matter Tuesday afternoon. By mid-afternoon Wednesday, the president’s spokesman said he had not yet been able to reach the appropriate county officials to confirm that Messrs. Boykin and Burkhardt had been granted a second contract.
The spokesman added that he was aware of Thursday’s fundraiser but was not prepared to further discuss the matter.
Smiff beating Decker in yet another fantasy league
We were chatting last night and thought we would give ESPN a whirl since their game is free again. Who is shocked...SHOCKED!...that I'm in 2nd, Sarge is in 9th...
Senor Chico Standings
1 Team Ross
2 785 Smelly Hound Dogs
3 Team SENOR
4 kansas city kc royals
5 Skeetin on Ya
6 new york newyork bombers
7 Elgin Cell
8 Annapolis Crunchers
9 BROOKLYN Dogs of Yore
10cardington yankees
Senor Chico Standings
1 Team Ross
2 785 Smelly Hound Dogs
3 Team SENOR
4 kansas city kc royals
5 Skeetin on Ya
6 new york newyork bombers
7 Elgin Cell
8 Annapolis Crunchers
9 BROOKLYN Dogs of Yore
10cardington yankees
behold the flippity-floppery
KOREA FLIP FLOP: Although McCain is now fond of using South Korea as a model for the Iraq occupation, he had rejected such a framework as recently as last November. At that time, PBS host Charlie Rose asked the senator whether he thought "South Korea is an analogy of where Iraq might be...over the next, say, 20, 25 years," to which McCain replied, "I don't think so." Rose followed, "Even if there are no casualties?" McCain repeated "no," adding that because of "the religious aspects of it [Iraq] that America eventually withdraws." Just two months later, however, McCain emphasized that as long as there are no casualties, he wouldn't mind staying in Iraq for "one hundred years, one thousand years, ten thousand years or until the earth collapses under global climate change." McCain is now fully embracing the Korea model, remarking just yesterday, "We fought a war with Japan and Germany. Afterwards we maintained a military presence there, which we are doing today. We fought a war in Korea, we maintained a military presence in Korea, which we are doing to this day. The first Gulf War, we threw Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, and we have a military presence there to this day." But as McCain himself seemed to recognize just a few months ago when talking to Rose, sectarian Iraq presents a very different situation than relatively ethnically- and religiously-homogeneous South Korea or Kuwait.
Smiff's new hobby
May also explain Roddick's hubby - Smiff took dis to the next level and modified a human...
Internet Miss Bimbo game for girls attacked by parents
Internet Miss Bimbo game for girls attacked by parents
Prairie Chickens: the system works
News item: Pedro Martinez added injury to a rough '08 debut, straining a hamstring in addition to allowing four runs over three-plus innings at Florida on Tuesday.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Decker betrothed?
Andy Roddick won at love – he is engaged to swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker.
The 25-year-old tennis star met Decker in New York last year and proposed to him in early March, his Web site said yesterday.
“With their hectic travel schedules, Andy and Brooklyn plan to enjoy their engagement and will wait to set a wedding date,” the site said.
Roddick is ranked No. 6 on the ATP Tour and is competing in the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla. Decker has appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and is a New York City school teacher.
I haven't seen Decker in a while, but either he has had significant "work done," or Sports Illustrated airbrush the shit out of their photos. (And they must have caught him on a Monday, aka "shaving day.") And couldn't he have done better than a "never reached his potential" like Roddick for, say, Smiff? Brooklyn, call me!
The 25-year-old tennis star met Decker in New York last year and proposed to him in early March, his Web site said yesterday.
“With their hectic travel schedules, Andy and Brooklyn plan to enjoy their engagement and will wait to set a wedding date,” the site said.
Roddick is ranked No. 6 on the ATP Tour and is competing in the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla. Decker has appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and is a New York City school teacher.
I haven't seen Decker in a while, but either he has had significant "work done," or Sports Illustrated airbrush the shit out of their photos. (And they must have caught him on a Monday, aka "shaving day.") And couldn't he have done better than a "never reached his potential" like Roddick for, say, Smiff? Brooklyn, call me!Laws? We don't need no stinkin' laws!
U.S. to bypass 30 laws to build border fence
The Bush administration plans to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations to finish building 670 miles of border fence – including 30 miles of fencing and technology on environmentally sensitive land in San Diego County.
The Bush administration plans to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations to finish building 670 miles of border fence – including 30 miles of fencing and technology on environmentally sensitive land in San Diego County.
USA 2008: The Great Depression
News item: Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world's richest country faces economic crisis
You would almost think there had been a nearly decade-long effort organized at the highest levels to make life better for the rich at the expense of everyone else.
You would almost think there had been a nearly decade-long effort organized at the highest levels to make life better for the rich at the expense of everyone else.
Monday, March 31, 2008
tough one today
Milwaukee 4, Chi Cubs 3, 10 innings
See also: the last century.
And Gagme gets "the win" - how stupid is that?
See also: the last century.
And Gagme gets "the win" - how stupid is that?
Woops...must really be off the roids
Chi Cubs Inning Summary
- E. Gagne relieved G. Mota
- D. Lee singled to right
- A. Ramirez walked, D. Lee to second
- K. Fukudome homered to deep right center, D. Lee and A. Ramirez scored
- E. Gagne relieved G. Mota
- D. Lee singled to right
- A. Ramirez walked, D. Lee to second
- K. Fukudome homered to deep right center, D. Lee and A. Ramirez scored
Can you hear the booing? I can...
Washington 9th Inning Summary
- T. Gordon relieved J.C. Romero
- L. Milledge singled to shortstop
- R. Zimmerman lined out to right
- N. Johnson doubled to deep center, L. Milledge scored, N. Johnson to third advancing on throw
- A. Kearns walked
- N. Johnson scored, A. Kearns to second on C. Ruiz's throwing error
- P. Lo Duca doubled to deep center, A. Kearns scored
- R. Belliard doubled to deep center, P. Lo Duca scored
- C. Condrey relieved T. Gordon (ya think?)
Was 10, Phi 6
- T. Gordon relieved J.C. Romero
- L. Milledge singled to shortstop
- R. Zimmerman lined out to right
- N. Johnson doubled to deep center, L. Milledge scored, N. Johnson to third advancing on throw
- A. Kearns walked
- N. Johnson scored, A. Kearns to second on C. Ruiz's throwing error
- P. Lo Duca doubled to deep center, A. Kearns scored
- R. Belliard doubled to deep center, P. Lo Duca scored
- C. Condrey relieved T. Gordon (ya think?)
Was 10, Phi 6
This Can't be Good
- B. Hall picked off at second, pitcher to second
- C. Marmol relieved C. Zambrano
- C. Hart struck out looking
- C. Marmol relieved C. Zambrano
- C. Hart struck out looking
Speaking of Sucking (cont'd)
Your 2008 San Francisco Giants:
D. Roberts LF 1-1
R. Aurilia 1B 0-1
R. Winn RF 0-1
B. Molina C 0-1
R. Durham 2B 0-0
A. Rowand CF 1-1
J. Castillo 3B 0-1
B. Bocock SS 0-0
B. Zito P 0-0
Zito (125 MEEEEEeeellion $, or was it 127?) has only allowed 4 runs through 2 innings...
Bocock?
D. Roberts LF 1-1
R. Aurilia 1B 0-1
R. Winn RF 0-1
B. Molina C 0-1
R. Durham 2B 0-0
A. Rowand CF 1-1
J. Castillo 3B 0-1
B. Bocock SS 0-0
B. Zito P 0-0
Zito (125 MEEEEEeeellion $, or was it 127?) has only allowed 4 runs through 2 innings...
Bocock?
makes ya feel all warm inside...
This is what George Bush and his band of cronies have turned America into. This is on all of our hands, whether we accept it or not.
An innocent man loses 5 years of his life at Guantanamo Bay
An innocent man loses 5 years of his life at Guantanamo Bay
Smiff is SHOCKED (cont'd)
So i ordered MLB Radio so i could listen to today's Phillies' opener (just as well, since Brett Myers totally sucks, and why isn't Hamels going anyway...), and guess what? Are you ready for this, are you sitting down, are you prepared to be SHOCKED?
IT DOESN'T WORK.
Much like Dumbya & Co., everything Bud Lite touches turns to shit.
IT DOESN'T WORK.
Much like Dumbya & Co., everything Bud Lite touches turns to shit.
Speaking of Sucking (cont'd)
Dere's Brett "HYOOOGE @$$#0LE" Myers:
Washington 5th Inning Summary
- W. Harris lined out to second
- M. Chico singled to center
- C. Guzman singled to center, M. Chico to second
- L. Milledge hit by pitch, M. Chico to third, C. Guzman to second
- R. Zimmerman hit sacrifice fly to deep right, M. Chico scored, C. Guzman to third
- N. Johnson walked, L. Milledge to second
- A. Kearns doubled to deep right center, C. Guzman and L. Milledge scored, N. Johnson to third
- P. Lo Duca safe at first on shortstop J. Rollins' fielding error, N. Johnson scored, A. Kearns to third
- R. Belliard popped out to second
- End of Inning (4 Runs, 3 Hits, 1 Error)
Washington 5th Inning Summary
- W. Harris lined out to second
- M. Chico singled to center
- C. Guzman singled to center, M. Chico to second
- L. Milledge hit by pitch, M. Chico to third, C. Guzman to second
- R. Zimmerman hit sacrifice fly to deep right, M. Chico scored, C. Guzman to third
- N. Johnson walked, L. Milledge to second
- A. Kearns doubled to deep right center, C. Guzman and L. Milledge scored, N. Johnson to third
- P. Lo Duca safe at first on shortstop J. Rollins' fielding error, N. Johnson scored, A. Kearns to third
- R. Belliard popped out to second
- End of Inning (4 Runs, 3 Hits, 1 Error)
Shoulda played the game in San Diego or somewheres wif a dome, like, say Milwaukee...
Here we go again
Live play-by-play of the Chicago Cubs' home opener against Milwaukee. A second rain delay has halted play in the bottom of the third inning.
Live play-by-play of the Chicago Cubs' home opener against Milwaukee. A second rain delay has halted play in the bottom of the third inning.
How Not To Start The Season
Cleveland 2nd Inning Summary
- V. Martinez singled to center
- J. Peralta singled to left, V. Martinez to second
- R. Garko singled to left, V. Martinez to third, J. Peralta to second
- A. Cabrera grounded into fielder's choice, V. Martinez scored, J. Peralta to third, R. Garko out at second
- F. Gutierrez homered to deep left center, J. Peralta and A. Cabrera scored
- C. Blake grounded out to shortstop
- G. Sizemore homered to deep right
- J. Michaels walked
- T. Hafner doubled to deep right, J. Michaels scored
- V. Martinez singled to center, T. Hafner scored
- N. Masset relieved M. Buehrle
- V. Martinez singled to center
- J. Peralta singled to left, V. Martinez to second
- R. Garko singled to left, V. Martinez to third, J. Peralta to second
- A. Cabrera grounded into fielder's choice, V. Martinez scored, J. Peralta to third, R. Garko out at second
- F. Gutierrez homered to deep left center, J. Peralta and A. Cabrera scored
- C. Blake grounded out to shortstop
- G. Sizemore homered to deep right
- J. Michaels walked
- T. Hafner doubled to deep right, J. Michaels scored
- V. Martinez singled to center, T. Hafner scored
- N. Masset relieved M. Buehrle
Buehrle Throwing Like a Girlie?
Cleveland Inning Summary
- V. Martinez singled to center
- J. Peralta singled to left, V. Martinez to second
- R. Garko singled to left, V. Martinez to third, J. Peralta to second
- A. Cabrera grounded into fielder's choice, V. Martinez scored, J. Peralta to third, R. Garko out at second
- F. Gutierrez homered to deep left center, J. Peralta and A. Cabrera scored
- C. Blake grounded out to shortstop
- G. Sizemore homered to deep right
- J. Michaels walked
- T. Hafner doubled to deep right, J. Michaels scored
- V. Martinez singled to center, T. Hafner scored
- N. Masset relieved M. Buehrle
Or could it be:
Wind: 19 mph, out to center.
- V. Martinez singled to center
- J. Peralta singled to left, V. Martinez to second
- R. Garko singled to left, V. Martinez to third, J. Peralta to second
- A. Cabrera grounded into fielder's choice, V. Martinez scored, J. Peralta to third, R. Garko out at second
- F. Gutierrez homered to deep left center, J. Peralta and A. Cabrera scored
- C. Blake grounded out to shortstop
- G. Sizemore homered to deep right
- J. Michaels walked
- T. Hafner doubled to deep right, J. Michaels scored
- V. Martinez singled to center, T. Hafner scored
- N. Masset relieved M. Buehrle
Or could it be:
Wind: 19 mph, out to center.
Ziggy brings it
The case for U.S. disengagement from combat is compelling in its own right. But it must be matched by a comprehensive political and diplomatic effort to mitigate the destabilizing regional consequences of a war that the outgoing Bush administration started deliberately, justified demagogically and waged badly...
In brief, the war has become a national tragedy, an economic catastrophe, a regional disaster and a global boomerang for the United States. Ending it is thus in the highest national interest.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinksi
In brief, the war has become a national tragedy, an economic catastrophe, a regional disaster and a global boomerang for the United States. Ending it is thus in the highest national interest.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinksi
Jesus is angry, my friends
Liberal evangelicals hope to link faith, social justice
"A whole generation of young evangelicals believes that Jesus would probably care more about the 30,000 children who died again today -- as they did yesterday and they will tomorrow -- from preventable disease than he would about passing a gay-marriage amendment in Ohio," Wallis said.
I guess this guy hasn't read his Bible lately... gay marriage stuff is all over the place in there, must be 100 times at least...
"A whole generation of young evangelicals believes that Jesus would probably care more about the 30,000 children who died again today -- as they did yesterday and they will tomorrow -- from preventable disease than he would about passing a gay-marriage amendment in Ohio," Wallis said.
I guess this guy hasn't read his Bible lately... gay marriage stuff is all over the place in there, must be 100 times at least...
yup, he is a Prairie Chicken
3/31 7:03 am: Elijah Dukes has been placed on the 15-day DL, one day after his selection by the Prairie Chickens in the Burkholder Baseball League draft, according to MLB.com. Dukes said, "It's not getting any better by me going out there and still trying to run on it. I'm going to give it some time and let it heal properly so I can give 110 percent." Dukes has won the starting spot in LF.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
From the idiots that brought you the Bush Administration:
“market discipline is the most effective tool to limit systemic risk”
They're saying this today. Right now.
Umm, boys? Can we take another look at what's going on? Market discipline? The mind reels...
They're saying this today. Right now.
Umm, boys? Can we take another look at what's going on? Market discipline? The mind reels...
So how much are the bastards in the finance game going to have to pay back again?
How long does this kind of stuff go on before people fight the huge amounts of power giving to assholes who don't deserve to lick the slime off the streets?
Katrina Victims May Have to Repay Money
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 30, 2008
Filed at 3:10 a.m. ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Imagine that your home was reduced to mold and wood framing by Hurricane Katrina. Desperate for money to rebuild, you engage in a frustrating bureaucratic process, and after months of living in a government-provided trailer tainted with formaldehyde you finally win a federal grant.
Then a collector calls with the staggering news that you have to pay back thousands of dollars.
Thousands of Katrina victims may be in that situation.
A private contractor under investigation for the compensation it received to run the Road Home grant program for Katrina victims says that in the rush to deliver aid to homeowners in need some people got too much. Now it wants to hire a separate company to collect millions in grant overpayments.
The contractor, ICF International of Fairfax, Va., revealed the extent of the overpayments when it issued a March 11 request for bids from companies willing to handle ''approximately 1,000 to 5,000 cases that will necessitate collection effort.''
The bid invitation said: ''The average amount to be collected is estimated to be approximately $35,000, but in some cases may be as high as $100,000 to $150,000.''
The biggest grant amount allowed by the Road Home program is $150,000, so ICF believes it paid some recipients the maximum when they should not have received a penny. If ICF's highest estimate of 5,000 collection cases -- overpaid by an average of $35,000 -- proves to be true, that means applicants will have to pay back a total of $175 million.
One-third of qualified applicants for Road Home help had yet to receive any rebuilding check as of this past week. The program, which has come to symbolize the lurching Katrina recovery effort, is financed by $11 billion in federal funds.
ICF spokeswoman Gentry Brann said in an e-mail Friday that the overpayments are the inevitable result of the Road Home grant being recalculated to account for insurance money and government aid given to Katrina victims.
Brann said there was a sense of urgency in paying Road Home applicants, and ICF and the state knew applicants would have to return some money.
''The choice was either to process grants immediately or wait until the March 2008 deadline (for submitting Road Home applications) before disbursing any funds,'' Brann said in her e-mail.
Brann pointed out that 5,000 collections cases would represent a 4-percent error rate for the Road Home that is ''quite good for large federal programs.''
Frank Silvestri, co-chair of the Citizen's Road Home Action Team, a group that formed out of frustrations with ICF, sees it far differently.
''They want people to pay for their incompetence and their mistakes. What they need to be is aggressive about finding the underpayments,'' he said. ''People relied, to their detriment, on their (ICFs) expertise and rebuilt their houses and now they want to squeeze this money back out of them.''
The prospect of Road Home grant collections comes less than two weeks after the Louisiana inspector general and the legislative auditor said they were investigating why former Gov. Kathleen Blanco paid ICF an extra $156 million in her waning days in office to administer the program. With the increase, ICF stands to earn $912 million to run Road Home, a contract that also sweetened its initial public stock offering, and helped it buy out four other companies. It now reaches into government contracting sectors that include national defense and the environment.
Paul Rainwater, executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the state body that asked for the Blanco-ICF investigations, acknowledged the collections could be painful for applicants, many of whom have used up their nest eggs to rebuild.
''The state must walk a fine line of treating homeowners who have been overpaid with fairness and compassion and ensuring that all federal funds are used for their intended purpose,'' said Rainwater, an appointee of new Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Upon receiving money from Road Home, grantees sign a batch of forms, including one that says they must refund any overpayments.
Melanie Ehrlich, co-chair of Citizen's Road Home Action Team, which has documented Road Home cases that appear littered with mistakes, said she had no confidence that ICF had correctly calculated overpayments. She charged that the company was more likely using collections as retribution against people who had appealed their award amounts in effort to get the aid they deserved.
''I think they are looking for ways to decrease awards and that's part of dissuading people,'' she said.
Brann said applicants are told an appeal could boost or diminish their award. She called Ehrlich's charge ''a totally unfounded assertion.''
Katrina Victims May Have to Repay Money
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 30, 2008
Filed at 3:10 a.m. ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Imagine that your home was reduced to mold and wood framing by Hurricane Katrina. Desperate for money to rebuild, you engage in a frustrating bureaucratic process, and after months of living in a government-provided trailer tainted with formaldehyde you finally win a federal grant.
Then a collector calls with the staggering news that you have to pay back thousands of dollars.
Thousands of Katrina victims may be in that situation.
A private contractor under investigation for the compensation it received to run the Road Home grant program for Katrina victims says that in the rush to deliver aid to homeowners in need some people got too much. Now it wants to hire a separate company to collect millions in grant overpayments.
The contractor, ICF International of Fairfax, Va., revealed the extent of the overpayments when it issued a March 11 request for bids from companies willing to handle ''approximately 1,000 to 5,000 cases that will necessitate collection effort.''
The bid invitation said: ''The average amount to be collected is estimated to be approximately $35,000, but in some cases may be as high as $100,000 to $150,000.''
The biggest grant amount allowed by the Road Home program is $150,000, so ICF believes it paid some recipients the maximum when they should not have received a penny. If ICF's highest estimate of 5,000 collection cases -- overpaid by an average of $35,000 -- proves to be true, that means applicants will have to pay back a total of $175 million.
One-third of qualified applicants for Road Home help had yet to receive any rebuilding check as of this past week. The program, which has come to symbolize the lurching Katrina recovery effort, is financed by $11 billion in federal funds.
ICF spokeswoman Gentry Brann said in an e-mail Friday that the overpayments are the inevitable result of the Road Home grant being recalculated to account for insurance money and government aid given to Katrina victims.
Brann said there was a sense of urgency in paying Road Home applicants, and ICF and the state knew applicants would have to return some money.
''The choice was either to process grants immediately or wait until the March 2008 deadline (for submitting Road Home applications) before disbursing any funds,'' Brann said in her e-mail.
Brann pointed out that 5,000 collections cases would represent a 4-percent error rate for the Road Home that is ''quite good for large federal programs.''
Frank Silvestri, co-chair of the Citizen's Road Home Action Team, a group that formed out of frustrations with ICF, sees it far differently.
''They want people to pay for their incompetence and their mistakes. What they need to be is aggressive about finding the underpayments,'' he said. ''People relied, to their detriment, on their (ICFs) expertise and rebuilt their houses and now they want to squeeze this money back out of them.''
The prospect of Road Home grant collections comes less than two weeks after the Louisiana inspector general and the legislative auditor said they were investigating why former Gov. Kathleen Blanco paid ICF an extra $156 million in her waning days in office to administer the program. With the increase, ICF stands to earn $912 million to run Road Home, a contract that also sweetened its initial public stock offering, and helped it buy out four other companies. It now reaches into government contracting sectors that include national defense and the environment.
Paul Rainwater, executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the state body that asked for the Blanco-ICF investigations, acknowledged the collections could be painful for applicants, many of whom have used up their nest eggs to rebuild.
''The state must walk a fine line of treating homeowners who have been overpaid with fairness and compassion and ensuring that all federal funds are used for their intended purpose,'' said Rainwater, an appointee of new Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Upon receiving money from Road Home, grantees sign a batch of forms, including one that says they must refund any overpayments.
Melanie Ehrlich, co-chair of Citizen's Road Home Action Team, which has documented Road Home cases that appear littered with mistakes, said she had no confidence that ICF had correctly calculated overpayments. She charged that the company was more likely using collections as retribution against people who had appealed their award amounts in effort to get the aid they deserved.
''I think they are looking for ways to decrease awards and that's part of dissuading people,'' she said.
Brann said applicants are told an appeal could boost or diminish their award. She called Ehrlich's charge ''a totally unfounded assertion.''
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Opening Day!
Predictions:
AL Division Winners and Wild Card
AL East
Boston - 97-65
AL Central
Detroit - 100-62
AL West
California - 91-71
AL Wildcard
Cleveland - 95-67
NL Division Winners and Wild Card
NL East
New York - 94-68
NL Central
Chicago - 96-66
NL West
Arizona - 91-71
NL Wildcard
Milwaukee - 92-70
AL Playoffs
Boston over Cleveland
Detroit over California
Detroit over Boston
NL Playoffs
Brewers over New York
Chicago over Arizona
Chicago over Milwaukee
World Series
Chicago Cubs: World Champs 2008
PLAYERS
AL MVP - Miguel Cabrera
NL MVP - Derrick Lee
AL CY Young - Justin Verlander
NL Cy Young - Cole Hamels
AL ROY - Evan Longoria
NL ROY - Joey Votto
AL Manager of the Year - Eric Wedge
NL Manger of the Year - Dusty Baker
Biggest Surprises
Rich Harden, healthy, has one of the best seasons on a bad team ever. But his bad team/great pitching is shadowed by the as good pitching of Cain and Lincecum who have a combined 21-27 record with a 3.45 e.r.a. and 345 innings pitched//360 k's. In the year of bad team//good pitcher, Zach Greinke, Ian Snell and Shawn Hill will also put up great periphials. As a unit, all these pitchers will go something like 62-80 with a 3.70 e.r.a. and 1030 innings pitched//980 strikeouts.
The Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays will compete for a playoff spot into mid-August if Kazmir is healthy relatively soon.
Daric Barton will break out hard-core.
Biggest Questions
To what extent will Felix Pie develop this year?
How healthy is John Lackey? If he's worse than they're saying, Seattle will be right there.
Where will Barry end up (if anywhere)?
Will the Twins get smart about Joe Mauer and at least have him play a Victor Martinez kind of role - dh'ing, maybe playing a little 3B and catching 4 games a week?
To what extent will Joba and Hughes be allowed to develop into front-line starters this year? Will Ian Kennedy kill the Joba-star? Is this allowable?
Will Alex Gordon become a beast?
What will the Mets rotation look like in mid-August? If there's some injuries, Atlanta and Philadelphia get back in the middle of things real quick.
Minor League Break-outs:
Tim Alderson - SF Giants Starting Pitcher
Joe Savery - Phi Phillies - Starting Pitcher
Josh Vitters - Chicago Cubs - 3B
Jeremy Jeffress - Milwaukee - Starting Pitcher
Bill Rowell - Baltimore - 3B
Neftali Feliz - Texas - SP
Mike McCardell - Minnesota - SP
I write this as if it were in stone.
AL Division Winners and Wild Card
AL East
Boston - 97-65
AL Central
Detroit - 100-62
AL West
California - 91-71
AL Wildcard
Cleveland - 95-67
NL Division Winners and Wild Card
NL East
New York - 94-68
NL Central
Chicago - 96-66
NL West
Arizona - 91-71
NL Wildcard
Milwaukee - 92-70
AL Playoffs
Boston over Cleveland
Detroit over California
Detroit over Boston
NL Playoffs
Brewers over New York
Chicago over Arizona
Chicago over Milwaukee
World Series
Chicago Cubs: World Champs 2008
PLAYERS
AL MVP - Miguel Cabrera
NL MVP - Derrick Lee
AL CY Young - Justin Verlander
NL Cy Young - Cole Hamels
AL ROY - Evan Longoria
NL ROY - Joey Votto
AL Manager of the Year - Eric Wedge
NL Manger of the Year - Dusty Baker
Biggest Surprises
Rich Harden, healthy, has one of the best seasons on a bad team ever. But his bad team/great pitching is shadowed by the as good pitching of Cain and Lincecum who have a combined 21-27 record with a 3.45 e.r.a. and 345 innings pitched//360 k's. In the year of bad team//good pitcher, Zach Greinke, Ian Snell and Shawn Hill will also put up great periphials. As a unit, all these pitchers will go something like 62-80 with a 3.70 e.r.a. and 1030 innings pitched//980 strikeouts.
The Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays will compete for a playoff spot into mid-August if Kazmir is healthy relatively soon.
Daric Barton will break out hard-core.
Biggest Questions
To what extent will Felix Pie develop this year?
How healthy is John Lackey? If he's worse than they're saying, Seattle will be right there.
Where will Barry end up (if anywhere)?
Will the Twins get smart about Joe Mauer and at least have him play a Victor Martinez kind of role - dh'ing, maybe playing a little 3B and catching 4 games a week?
To what extent will Joba and Hughes be allowed to develop into front-line starters this year? Will Ian Kennedy kill the Joba-star? Is this allowable?
Will Alex Gordon become a beast?
What will the Mets rotation look like in mid-August? If there's some injuries, Atlanta and Philadelphia get back in the middle of things real quick.
Minor League Break-outs:
Tim Alderson - SF Giants Starting Pitcher
Joe Savery - Phi Phillies - Starting Pitcher
Josh Vitters - Chicago Cubs - 3B
Jeremy Jeffress - Milwaukee - Starting Pitcher
Bill Rowell - Baltimore - 3B
Neftali Feliz - Texas - SP
Mike McCardell - Minnesota - SP
I write this as if it were in stone.
Friday, March 28, 2008
This should make Smiff happy
The Philadelphia Daily News reports that Adam Eaton may have pitched himself out of the No. 5 spot in the Phillies rotation.
Eaton allowed six earned runs in 4 2/3 innings on Thursday to raise his spring ERA to 7.41, and manager Charlie Manuel didn't exactly commit to using him. "I don't know... We'll see when we get there. We've got plenty of time. [Next] Saturday's a long way off. Hell, I might be dead by then," Manuel said. The Phillies could turn to Chad Durbin, who has a 5.25 ERA this spring, in his place.
Eaton allowed six earned runs in 4 2/3 innings on Thursday to raise his spring ERA to 7.41, and manager Charlie Manuel didn't exactly commit to using him. "I don't know... We'll see when we get there. We've got plenty of time. [Next] Saturday's a long way off. Hell, I might be dead by then," Manuel said. The Phillies could turn to Chad Durbin, who has a 5.25 ERA this spring, in his place.
Capitalism gone awry
It's unbelievable how da cubbies (and other whiteys) have been milking dis 100 years of futility for all it's worth. Here's a new site, courtesy of World Awfulest Newspaper(tie), TV edition...
http://www.since1908clothing.com/
http://www.since1908clothing.com/
Thursday, March 27, 2008
What's wrong with Fung?
Dis is what CNN tells Fung he should read, based on the previous stories he read:
Stories you may be interested in based on past browsing
People who choose to eat 'Dumpster' food
Kids train to be ultimate fighters
Female author writes about her own male past
Never go against the family
Da story he was reading at dat time: Mom goes from $70K to food bank.
I haven't read any of those stories, but I wonder - did they actually study my browsing habits and choose those, or are they just pulling my leg and putting up stories noone else reads? Or is Fung so Bushian he must be told what to read?
Stories you may be interested in based on past browsing
People who choose to eat 'Dumpster' food
Kids train to be ultimate fighters
Female author writes about her own male past
Never go against the family
Da story he was reading at dat time: Mom goes from $70K to food bank.
I haven't read any of those stories, but I wonder - did they actually study my browsing habits and choose those, or are they just pulling my leg and putting up stories noone else reads? Or is Fung so Bushian he must be told what to read?
Unhinging (cont)
McCain: Create league of democracies
McCain said he favors creation of a world organization he calls a "League of Democracies" that would work to put political, economic and possibly military pressure on countries considered undemocratic. Such an organization could move in ways the UN can't because of resistance from Russia and China, among others.
OK, so he wants to bring together a bunch of countries of his choosing so they can invade the countries that are not like us and make them like us so they can join us and invade the countries that are not like us. But we already have the UN? Well, they don't work fast enuff and we gave undemocratic nations too much power so we need a new group. That we get to pick. Well then use NATO. That group's been looking for a purpose for almost 20 years.
McCain said he favors creation of a world organization he calls a "League of Democracies" that would work to put political, economic and possibly military pressure on countries considered undemocratic. Such an organization could move in ways the UN can't because of resistance from Russia and China, among others.
OK, so he wants to bring together a bunch of countries of his choosing so they can invade the countries that are not like us and make them like us so they can join us and invade the countries that are not like us. But we already have the UN? Well, they don't work fast enuff and we gave undemocratic nations too much power so we need a new group. That we get to pick. Well then use NATO. That group's been looking for a purpose for almost 20 years.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Understanding Whitey
Fung's quest for knowledge continues unabated. Briggsy said this site would help me out...
Wha happen?
The widget thingie says Obama lost 2 sooouper douper delegates to the uncommitted pool. Wha happen?
Stooopid Criminals (cont)
Only the manager can open the safe? Well, then here's my cell, call me back when he gets in so I can come back and rob you. And you better call me, otherwise I'll shoot you.
those wacky pastors (cont'd)
What About McCain's Pastor Problem?
In a September 2006 interview on National Public Radio, Hagee reaffirmed his view that Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment against New Orleans for hosting a homosexual parade. Hagee has also said that the Jews brought the Holocaust upon themselves by "turning away from the true God." He referred to Catholicism as a "false cult," and said the religion contributed to Hitler's anti-semitic views. When Hagee endorsed him, McCain said he was "proud" to have the pastor's support.
In a September 2006 interview on National Public Radio, Hagee reaffirmed his view that Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment against New Orleans for hosting a homosexual parade. Hagee has also said that the Jews brought the Holocaust upon themselves by "turning away from the true God." He referred to Catholicism as a "false cult," and said the religion contributed to Hitler's anti-semitic views. When Hagee endorsed him, McCain said he was "proud" to have the pastor's support.
being president is hard work (cont'd)
"I thought it was important to welcome these champs here to the White House, you know, to encourage people to fish," Bush said. "There’s nothing better than fishing..."
-- RezzzzziDUNCE
-- RezzzzziDUNCE
things that are shocking (cont'd)
News item: A senior U.S. Secret Service official testified in federal court today that he was "shocked" to find out that an agency inspector had destroyed original documents sought in a long-running civil lawsuit alleging discrimination against African American agents.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
This is probably nothing to worry about (cont'd)
Western Antarctic ice chunk collapses
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said Tuesday.
Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 160-square-mile chunk in western Antarctica, which started Feb. 28. It was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been there for hundreds, maybe 1,500 years.
This is the result of global warming, said British Antarctic Survey scientist David Vaughan.
Because scientists noticed satellite images within hours, they diverted satellite cameras and even flew an airplane over the ongoing collapse for rare pictures and video.
"It's an event we don't get to see very often," said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. "The cracks fill with water and slice off and topple... That gets to be a runaway situation."
While icebergs naturally break away from the mainland, collapses like this are unusual but are happening more frequently in recent decades, Vaughan said. The collapse is similar to what happens to hardened glass when it is smashed with a hammer, he said.
The rest of the Wilkins ice shelf, which is about the size of Connecticut, is holding on by a narrow beam of thin ice. Scientists worry that it too may collapse. Larger, more dramatic ice collapses occurred in 2002 and 1995.
Vaughan had predicted the Wilkins shelf would collapse about 15 years from now. The part that recently gave way makes up about 4 percent of the overall shelf, but it's an important part that can trigger further collapse.
There's still a chance the rest of the ice shelf will survive until next year because this is the end of the Antarctic summer and colder weather is setting in, Vaughan said.
Scientists said they are not concerned about a rise in sea level from the latest event, but say it's a sign of worsening global warming.
Such occurrences are "more indicative of a tipping point or trigger in the climate system," said Sarah Das, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
"These are things that are not re-forming," Das said. "So once they're gone, they're gone."
Climate in Antarctica is complicated and more isolated from the rest of the world.
Much of the continent is not warming and some parts are even cooling, Vaughan said. However, the western peninsula, which includes the Wilkins ice shelf, juts out into the ocean and is warming. This is the part of the continent where scientists are most concern about ice-melt triggering sea level rise.
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On the Net:
The National Snow and Ice Data Center: http://nsidc.org
The British Antarctic Survey: http://www.bas.ac.uk/
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said Tuesday.
Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 160-square-mile chunk in western Antarctica, which started Feb. 28. It was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been there for hundreds, maybe 1,500 years.
This is the result of global warming, said British Antarctic Survey scientist David Vaughan.
Because scientists noticed satellite images within hours, they diverted satellite cameras and even flew an airplane over the ongoing collapse for rare pictures and video.
"It's an event we don't get to see very often," said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. "The cracks fill with water and slice off and topple... That gets to be a runaway situation."
While icebergs naturally break away from the mainland, collapses like this are unusual but are happening more frequently in recent decades, Vaughan said. The collapse is similar to what happens to hardened glass when it is smashed with a hammer, he said.
The rest of the Wilkins ice shelf, which is about the size of Connecticut, is holding on by a narrow beam of thin ice. Scientists worry that it too may collapse. Larger, more dramatic ice collapses occurred in 2002 and 1995.
Vaughan had predicted the Wilkins shelf would collapse about 15 years from now. The part that recently gave way makes up about 4 percent of the overall shelf, but it's an important part that can trigger further collapse.
There's still a chance the rest of the ice shelf will survive until next year because this is the end of the Antarctic summer and colder weather is setting in, Vaughan said.
Scientists said they are not concerned about a rise in sea level from the latest event, but say it's a sign of worsening global warming.
Such occurrences are "more indicative of a tipping point or trigger in the climate system," said Sarah Das, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
"These are things that are not re-forming," Das said. "So once they're gone, they're gone."
Climate in Antarctica is complicated and more isolated from the rest of the world.
Much of the continent is not warming and some parts are even cooling, Vaughan said. However, the western peninsula, which includes the Wilkins ice shelf, juts out into the ocean and is warming. This is the part of the continent where scientists are most concern about ice-melt triggering sea level rise.
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On the Net:
The National Snow and Ice Data Center: http://nsidc.org
The British Antarctic Survey: http://www.bas.ac.uk/
Made up experience is not experience
News Item: After stating at least 4 times in prepared speeches that on a trip to Bosnia as first lady that the welcoming ceremony had to be moved inside because of sniper fire Hillary Clinton says that she misspoke after having it pointed out that no such thing had occurred.
Since when did lying become mispeeking and when can we have lying back?
Since when did lying become mispeeking and when can we have lying back?
you go into democracy with the electorate you have, not necessarily the electorate you might want or wish to have
Is 'success' of U.S. surge in Iraq about to unravel?I dunno, but would you like to be put in leg irons for putting "success" in quotation marks? I kid, I kid... Anywho... good to see people have stopped paying attention; now we can get back to work.
K-Mad, Smiff breaking it all down for you...
9:04 PM me: did you watch 60 Minutes this week? anudder doomsday: crop extinction
none of this will matter after the bees and seeds disappear
Kevin: dang i missed it
9:05 PM none of it will matter after the asteroid impact / yellowstone caldera eruption / mccain victory in november
me: especially the latter.
9:06 PM Kevin: or if i draft prior, setting off the Rapture
me: you can watch segments on the CBS website
stay from prior - this is your only warning
Kevin: ok, but only if it's really gloomy
9:07 PM me: we've lost 86% of apple varieties since the 1800s
that's 5800 of 'em
Kevin: what have apples ever done for us anyway?
9:08 PM me: uh, well, we do eat them
anyway, there's a seed repository in Svalbard. Svalbard, dammit!
Kevin: we could eat polar bears too but nobody gives a shit about dem -- dere, i've run rings round ya logically
9:10 PM me: well, vegetarian know-it-alls can't eat polar bears. besides, there are only about 30, 35 of them left
Kevin: my boy dick clarke is on frontline in a hectoring, tendentious anti-bush diatribe
if obama is as smart as i think he is, that's your next VP
me: i'm taping dat Frontline
9:11 PM Kevin: it will make you frow your television out da window
me: apparently, BushCo made a couple mistakes, huh?
Kevin: mistakes were made
9:12 PM the new dick clarke
now with more hectoring
me: i do love hectoring
Kevin: see? we all do. he'd be a great vp
9:13 PM an amazing tapestry of lies
9:14 PM if there was a nobel prize for lying, this guys would deserve to win it for the next 100 years pre-emptively (irony not intended)
9:16 PM me: also on 60 Minutes: dey may have found the box dat Jesus' brother James' (dead) bones were put in
9:19 PM Kevin: well if dey get dna dey can recreate him an ask him whut really happened
9:20 PM wolfie etc -- it's as if they were unaware that the future would come and everyone would find out they were fullashit
do they not understand the crushing linear trajectory of time?
me: i pfink dats just a side effect from being filthy rich
9:21 PM Kevin: that might be the most plausible explanation available
9:25 PM me: 3rd story: David Beckham!!
Kevin: finally -- something interesting
9:26 PM me: he talks funny - is dat english?
9:27 PM he was injured most of the year - did you draft him?
9:28 PM Kevin: his prollems are not my fault
but even if they were, he knew da risks
never mind the world ending and shit -- i would like to know more about his life
9:29 PM me: he's very very rich
Kevin: now THAT'S interesting to me
9:33 PM me: he has 15 tattoos
that's how he expresses his feelings
Kevin: dat is so phokkin cool
9:35 PM me: his three sons are named---are you sitting down?--Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz (sp?) i must have heard this wrong
Kevin: get the PHOKK out! that is really incredible
9:37 PM me: now Andy Rooney is bitching about doctors
Kevin: sorta puts the bees disappearing into perspective don't it?
maybe now you'll quit yer whinin
9:42 PM me: did Bush catch Osama yet on dat america hating show you're watching?
Kevin: dey probally cut dat part out just outta dere deep hatred of america
9:43 PM me: so we actually win the war?
Kevin: duh!
9:44 PM we are americans!
USA! USA! USA!
9:45 PM dat happened a coupla years after mccain got elected. dont you remember?!@?!?
me: i must have been reading boxscores
Kevin: dats ok
9:47 PM me: Cheney thought he had United 93 shot down? i bet he cried when he found out he wasn't responsible
9:48 PM Kevin: he has many other corpses to feed on
9:49 PM me: aaaahhhhhh....all is revealed...Saddam did it!
9:53 PM Kevin: now you're getting it. a little late to save your soul but better late than never
9:54 PM me: weren't most of the terrists from Saudi Arabia? why didn't we attack them?
Kevin: cuz pappy bush holds hands wid dem an shit
9:55 PM me: oh, well, rich phokks does trump everyting
9:56 PM Kevin: its so easy once you get on dere wavelengf
9:59 PM me: Tommy Franks: 15 cups of coffee a day - your new boy?
Kevin: guess dat would explain why we bof like ta blow shit up
but you wont believe
i'm down ta free cups a day
10:00 PM me: are dese cups the size of pails?
10:01 PM Kevin: this is no time for splitting hairs
10:03 PM besides there is no agreed-upon definition of how large a pail really is
10:05 PM me: ok, a three gallon pail den
10:06 PM Kevin: so? it's still progress\
me: sorta like da surge
10:10 PM Kevin: i have one last opportunity to end many baseball careers this weekend
10:11 PM me: good luck!
Kevin: i'm taking bribes if theres anyone you want me to avoid
10:12 PM me: Cole Hamels...STAY AWAY
10:13 PM Kevin: dang -- he's already a brawler
10:14 PM me: maybe there is a God...
Ian Snell?
Kevin: he will be missed
10:16 PM me: pinot?
10:17 PM Kevin: sure!
me: putting Rummy in charge...woops!
18 minutes
10:36 PM me: Maybin demoted...thanks a lot
10:37 PM Kevin: still breathing?
me: i think so...for now
10:38 PM Kevin: lucky!
me: shouldn't you, like, be passed out?
Kevin: i'm working on it
me: vino?
10:39 PM Kevin: yellow tail shiraz -- less dan six bucks a bottle at dominicks
10:41 PM me: at least you're not drinking alone...i got a J. Lohr Monterey Valdiguie
Kevin: a whu? sounds fancy
10:42 PM won't matter after the bees / volcano / asteroid impact / rotator cuff / shit blowing up / mccain getting elected though
me: Yes.
10:43 PM Kevin: i forgot also: great depression
6 minutes
10:49 PM me: Before Monday's game, Manager Joe Maddon announced that Chad Orvella (RHP, TAM) would probably start the year on the DL with shoulder issues. After posting a 3.20 ERA in 50 IP in 2005, Orvella was a prime candidate for the closer's job in Tampa. But over the next two years, he put up an 8.81 ERA in 24 IP. That's not to say that he doesn't have skills - he had a 12.8 Dom at AAA in 2006, and a 9.2 Dom with 20 saves at AAA in 2007. But until he reduces his Ctl (8.8 the past two years) at the major league level, he's not likely to find success...see also: K-Mad
10:51 PM Kevin: what can i do to discourage him?
7 minutes
10:59 PM me: Tommy Franks also likes margaritas
11:00 PM Kevin: he also loves america
6 minutes
11:06 PM me: Richard Perle: Amoral Piece of Shit
11:07 PM Kevin: and the kicker is: we're all dead
me: "The people are just so friendly, so respectful. We could learn a lot from them as far as how to treat each other."--A's second baseman Mark Ellis, on his team's trip to Japan to open the 2008 campaign against the Red Sox.
11:09 PM Kevin: see: shit blowing up
me: "I don't read books."--Jonathan Papelbon
11:13 PM "Every time we don't play good, I let them know right away. That's how we're going to do it this year. I don't like how they play the last couple of games, and I say it in the paper, and then I have a meeting."--White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, on his managerial style.
Kevin: thats it! rip the motherfuckers!
11:18 PM me: HYOOOGE ASSHOLE William "The Bloody" Kristol shows up...
Kevin: it's an asshole parade. with curveball as the clown
14 minutes
11:32 PM me: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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11:52 PM Kevin: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
none of this will matter after the bees and seeds disappear
Kevin: dang i missed it
9:05 PM none of it will matter after the asteroid impact / yellowstone caldera eruption / mccain victory in november
me: especially the latter.
9:06 PM Kevin: or if i draft prior, setting off the Rapture
me: you can watch segments on the CBS website
stay from prior - this is your only warning
Kevin: ok, but only if it's really gloomy
9:07 PM me: we've lost 86% of apple varieties since the 1800s
that's 5800 of 'em
Kevin: what have apples ever done for us anyway?
9:08 PM me: uh, well, we do eat them
anyway, there's a seed repository in Svalbard. Svalbard, dammit!
Kevin: we could eat polar bears too but nobody gives a shit about dem -- dere, i've run rings round ya logically
9:10 PM me: well, vegetarian know-it-alls can't eat polar bears. besides, there are only about 30, 35 of them left
Kevin: my boy dick clarke is on frontline in a hectoring, tendentious anti-bush diatribe
if obama is as smart as i think he is, that's your next VP
me: i'm taping dat Frontline
9:11 PM Kevin: it will make you frow your television out da window
me: apparently, BushCo made a couple mistakes, huh?
Kevin: mistakes were made
9:12 PM the new dick clarke
now with more hectoring
me: i do love hectoring
Kevin: see? we all do. he'd be a great vp
9:13 PM an amazing tapestry of lies
9:14 PM if there was a nobel prize for lying, this guys would deserve to win it for the next 100 years pre-emptively (irony not intended)
9:16 PM me: also on 60 Minutes: dey may have found the box dat Jesus' brother James' (dead) bones were put in
9:19 PM Kevin: well if dey get dna dey can recreate him an ask him whut really happened
9:20 PM wolfie etc -- it's as if they were unaware that the future would come and everyone would find out they were fullashit
do they not understand the crushing linear trajectory of time?
me: i pfink dats just a side effect from being filthy rich
9:21 PM Kevin: that might be the most plausible explanation available
9:25 PM me: 3rd story: David Beckham!!
Kevin: finally -- something interesting
9:26 PM me: he talks funny - is dat english?
9:27 PM he was injured most of the year - did you draft him?
9:28 PM Kevin: his prollems are not my fault
but even if they were, he knew da risks
never mind the world ending and shit -- i would like to know more about his life
9:29 PM me: he's very very rich
Kevin: now THAT'S interesting to me
9:33 PM me: he has 15 tattoos
that's how he expresses his feelings
Kevin: dat is so phokkin cool
9:35 PM me: his three sons are named---are you sitting down?--Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz (sp?) i must have heard this wrong
Kevin: get the PHOKK out! that is really incredible
9:37 PM me: now Andy Rooney is bitching about doctors
Kevin: sorta puts the bees disappearing into perspective don't it?
maybe now you'll quit yer whinin
9:42 PM me: did Bush catch Osama yet on dat america hating show you're watching?
Kevin: dey probally cut dat part out just outta dere deep hatred of america
9:43 PM me: so we actually win the war?
Kevin: duh!
9:44 PM we are americans!
USA! USA! USA!
9:45 PM dat happened a coupla years after mccain got elected. dont you remember?!@?!?
me: i must have been reading boxscores
Kevin: dats ok
9:47 PM me: Cheney thought he had United 93 shot down? i bet he cried when he found out he wasn't responsible
9:48 PM Kevin: he has many other corpses to feed on
9:49 PM me: aaaahhhhhh....all is revealed...Saddam did it!
9:53 PM Kevin: now you're getting it. a little late to save your soul but better late than never
9:54 PM me: weren't most of the terrists from Saudi Arabia? why didn't we attack them?
Kevin: cuz pappy bush holds hands wid dem an shit
9:55 PM me: oh, well, rich phokks does trump everyting
9:56 PM Kevin: its so easy once you get on dere wavelengf
9:59 PM me: Tommy Franks: 15 cups of coffee a day - your new boy?
Kevin: guess dat would explain why we bof like ta blow shit up
but you wont believe
i'm down ta free cups a day
10:00 PM me: are dese cups the size of pails?
10:01 PM Kevin: this is no time for splitting hairs
10:03 PM besides there is no agreed-upon definition of how large a pail really is
10:05 PM me: ok, a three gallon pail den
10:06 PM Kevin: so? it's still progress\
me: sorta like da surge
10:10 PM Kevin: i have one last opportunity to end many baseball careers this weekend
10:11 PM me: good luck!
Kevin: i'm taking bribes if theres anyone you want me to avoid
10:12 PM me: Cole Hamels...STAY AWAY
10:13 PM Kevin: dang -- he's already a brawler
10:14 PM me: maybe there is a God...
Ian Snell?
Kevin: he will be missed
10:16 PM me: pinot?
10:17 PM Kevin: sure!
me: putting Rummy in charge...woops!
18 minutes
10:36 PM me: Maybin demoted...thanks a lot
10:37 PM Kevin: still breathing?
me: i think so...for now
10:38 PM Kevin: lucky!
me: shouldn't you, like, be passed out?
Kevin: i'm working on it
me: vino?
10:39 PM Kevin: yellow tail shiraz -- less dan six bucks a bottle at dominicks
10:41 PM me: at least you're not drinking alone...i got a J. Lohr Monterey Valdiguie
Kevin: a whu? sounds fancy
10:42 PM won't matter after the bees / volcano / asteroid impact / rotator cuff / shit blowing up / mccain getting elected though
me: Yes.
10:43 PM Kevin: i forgot also: great depression
6 minutes
10:49 PM me: Before Monday's game, Manager Joe Maddon announced that Chad Orvella (RHP, TAM) would probably start the year on the DL with shoulder issues. After posting a 3.20 ERA in 50 IP in 2005, Orvella was a prime candidate for the closer's job in Tampa. But over the next two years, he put up an 8.81 ERA in 24 IP. That's not to say that he doesn't have skills - he had a 12.8 Dom at AAA in 2006, and a 9.2 Dom with 20 saves at AAA in 2007. But until he reduces his Ctl (8.8 the past two years) at the major league level, he's not likely to find success...see also: K-Mad
10:51 PM Kevin: what can i do to discourage him?
7 minutes
10:59 PM me: Tommy Franks also likes margaritas
11:00 PM Kevin: he also loves america
6 minutes
11:06 PM me: Richard Perle: Amoral Piece of Shit
11:07 PM Kevin: and the kicker is: we're all dead
me: "The people are just so friendly, so respectful. We could learn a lot from them as far as how to treat each other."--A's second baseman Mark Ellis, on his team's trip to Japan to open the 2008 campaign against the Red Sox.
11:09 PM Kevin: see: shit blowing up
me: "I don't read books."--Jonathan Papelbon
11:13 PM "Every time we don't play good, I let them know right away. That's how we're going to do it this year. I don't like how they play the last couple of games, and I say it in the paper, and then I have a meeting."--White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, on his managerial style.
Kevin: thats it! rip the motherfuckers!
11:18 PM me: HYOOOGE ASSHOLE William "The Bloody" Kristol shows up...
Kevin: it's an asshole parade. with curveball as the clown
14 minutes
11:32 PM me: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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11:52 PM Kevin: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
a YOOOOOOOOGE asshole... or... da YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGEST asshole? (cont'd)
News item: Noting the burden placed on military families, the vice president said the biggest burden is carried by President George W. Bush, who made the decision to commit US troops to war, and reminded the public that U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan volunteered for duty.
who's hating America today?
The communists at Media Matters, who show wanton disrespect for our McRezzziDUNCE.
oh! to be a merry plutocrat (cont'd)
Most Republicans Think the U.S. Health Care System is the Best in the World. Democrats Disagree
Source: Harvard School of Public Health
A recent survey by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harris Interactive, as part of their ongoing series, Debating Health: Election 2008, finds that Americans are generally split on the issue of whether the United States has the best health care system in the world (45% believe the U.S. has the best system; 39% believe other countries have better systems; 15% don’t know or refused to answer) and that there is a significant divide along party lines. Nearly seven-in-ten Republicans (68%) believe the U.S. health care system is the best in the world, compared to just three in ten (32%) Democrats and four in ten (40%) Independents who feel the same way.
Source: Harvard School of Public Health
A recent survey by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harris Interactive, as part of their ongoing series, Debating Health: Election 2008, finds that Americans are generally split on the issue of whether the United States has the best health care system in the world (45% believe the U.S. has the best system; 39% believe other countries have better systems; 15% don’t know or refused to answer) and that there is a significant divide along party lines. Nearly seven-in-ten Republicans (68%) believe the U.S. health care system is the best in the world, compared to just three in ten (32%) Democrats and four in ten (40%) Independents who feel the same way.
Thanks volunteers...
I can understand Bush s#itting all over the troops, but McSame? Bush is smiling here because someone, an animal species, or a plant species, died on his account. He just loves things when they're dead. Monday, March 24, 2008
Dick: future weatherman?
On Monday, Vice-President Dick Cheney came to Baghdad and talked about "the phenomenal improvement in security". That day more than 60 Iraqis were killed in bomb attacks.
News item: "America after the invasion of Iraq is no longer the superpower it was before."
News item: "America after the invasion of Iraq is no longer the superpower it was before."
Flying Soon?
Den better make sure your state ID or drivers license will be good enuff starting May 11...
When are we ever going to resolve this national ID issue? Why can't politicians ever fix anything? Properly?
And do we really expect the TSA staff to actually note which state your ID is from, then remember whether those are acceptable or not? Apparently security lines are moving way too fast, we need to slow them down to show vigilance, or something.
When are we ever going to resolve this national ID issue? Why can't politicians ever fix anything? Properly?
And do we really expect the TSA staff to actually note which state your ID is from, then remember whether those are acceptable or not? Apparently security lines are moving way too fast, we need to slow them down to show vigilance, or something.
We are living in a golden age (cont)
News item: Under Bush, endangered species list dying off
With little- noticed procedural and policy moves over several years, Bush administration officials have made it substantially more difficult to designate domestic animals and plants for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
As a result, listings plummeted. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has not declared a single native species as threatened or endangered since he was appointed nearly two years ago.
Some species have vanished. The Lake Sammamish kokanee, a landlocked sockeye salmon, went extinct in 2001 after being denied an emergency listing, and genetically pure Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits disappeared last year after Interior declined to protect critical habitat for the species.
Not even animals are safe from the Wrath of W.
With little- noticed procedural and policy moves over several years, Bush administration officials have made it substantially more difficult to designate domestic animals and plants for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
As a result, listings plummeted. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has not declared a single native species as threatened or endangered since he was appointed nearly two years ago.
Some species have vanished. The Lake Sammamish kokanee, a landlocked sockeye salmon, went extinct in 2001 after being denied an emergency listing, and genetically pure Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits disappeared last year after Interior declined to protect critical habitat for the species.
Not even animals are safe from the Wrath of W.
we are living in a golden age (cont'd)
News item: Gap in life expectancy of rich, poor widens
New government research has found "large and growing" disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of income inequality in the past two decades.
New government research has found "large and growing" disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of income inequality in the past two decades.
Another Milestone Reached
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000. The grim milestone came on a day when at least 61 people were killed across the country....
Thanks Bush and Dick: YOU FUCKERS.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
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