Friday, October 17, 2003
Thursday, October 16, 2003
George Nethercutt. congressman from Washington.
"The story of what we've done in the postwar period is remarkable. It is a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day.”
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Just thought I’d share this. Part of my time is spent wandering Yahoo political message boards debating conservatives (it’s become quite easy, they tend to lie frequently). There’s one guy who has and I aint kidding, defended Bush on everything and anything that he has been criticized for. The lengths he will go to are impressive. Case in point. During the campaign Bush made the following statement in a speech on Spetember 29th 2000
``We will require all power plants to meet clean-air standards in
order to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide,
mercury and carbon dioxide within a reasonable period of time.''
Here is a letter to te senate by Bush on March 14th 2001:
`I do not believe, however, that the government should impose on
power plants mandatory emissions reductions for carbon dioxide"
Broken campaign promise. All Presidents do it. But not to this guy. Here is his response:
One speech, if parsed a certain way that conflicts with what he said
both before and after that speech is NOT a promise. And it was not
seen as a promise until he adopted policies that seemed to conflict
with what that one speech said.
That is a freaking masterpiece. I love this guy. He never blinks. Bush could be caught raping nuns on video and he’d think up an excuse.
His Rush posts are something.
And of course he thinks Clinton is a scumbag rapist, meaning of “is” yada yada yada.
From MSNBC:
They beat the Cubs 8-3 in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series and forced a do-or-be-done Game 7 Wednesday night. They had help doing so, either from the ghosts that curse this franchise or just one fan who got in the way.
It was neither you idiot. Yes the kid tried to catch a foul ball that was headed his way. So would anyone else. Was it fan interference that cost them an out? Possibly. But does that make the Cubs pathetic performance after that the kids fault too?
Was this kid responsible for Alex Gonzalez juggling the ball in what should have been an inning ending double play? Was this kid responsible for Prior then sending a meatball over the plate giving up a single, then a double? Was the kid responsible for the Cubs issuing an intentional walk to load the bases and then give up a bases clearing double?
The Cubs lost the game because of bad late game pitching and fielding, and bad management choices. Its not this kids fault they couldn’t make one lousy out.
Here’s Jayson Stark with the same thing. Blaming the kid and not the Cubs for giving up 8 freaking runs in one third of an inning.
Being a Red Sox fan I see the same thing all the time. It’s the curse. Oh woe is me, were cursed. If only we didn’t sell Babe Ruth it would have magically made the Red Sox win the World Series.
The Red sox aren’t cursed with anything but years of playing in a league with no wildcard and a filthy rich and dominating Yankees that kept them out of the playoffs by always winning the division, a racist owner who hired lumbering slow white guys who could hit over the wall and nothing else, while passing over Willie Mays and Jackie Robinson, and a fat manager named Don Zimmer who had a team with a 14 game lead over the Yankees in July and pi$$ed it away (the list goes on). Pedro should’ve smacked him in the head for that alone. People complain about Bucky F’ing Dent, but not the manager who never should have let his team get into a position where they had to have a one game tie breaker.
And people who always complaining about Bill Buckner always leave out the fact that:
1. Boston was leading 5-3 with an 0-2 count with 2 outs in the tenth and then gave up 2 straight hits to tie it up. Why blame Buckner for what happened instead of the pitchers who couldn’t get one lousy out with a freaking 0-2 count?
2. The whole incident did not cost them the World Series. They lost the World Series the next day when they choked and lost by 3 runs.
It’s easy to blame curses and spirits instead of bad baseball.
If the Cubs and Red Sox lose tonight it’ll have nothing to do with that kid or a billy goat (stupidest “curse” ever!) or some dead fat guy, and everything to do with the performance of the actual teams on the field.
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Some choice quotes from ESPN's Page 2
The staggering moment from the game we will long remember however was in that amazing fourth inning, when the two great rivals were angrily storming the field, shouting obscenities and issuing threats -- and a seething Zimmer came racing around the bend, violently charging Pedro with such passion and energy that the Notre Dame Victory March should have been playing.
Now, imagine if you're Pedro in this situation. You're standing by the dugout and an enraged senior citizen is charging you and raising his arm to smack you in the head. If you fight back, you're going to get ripped for attacking a senior citizen. If you don't, the old man might clobber you and knock you out of a game your team needs to win. I don't know what you would do but Pedro coolly grabbed Zimmer by the head - it's hard to avoid, really -- and pushed him to the ground.
Given the situation, the reaction didn't seem out of line. As Boston reliever Scott Sauerbeck put it, "I don't care if the guy is in a wheelchair, you have to defend yourself.''
People will excuse Zimmer because he's old and supposedly a lovable character (he isn't) but his behavior was disgraceful and inexcusable. Not that the Yankees agree. That's because they never think they're at fault whenever anything happens.
"Zim was probably out of line, too, but you have to consider his age,'' reliever Jeff Nelson said. "What, Pedro couldn't dodge him? The guy is 75 years old, how is he going to hurt you? You have to have more respect than that for someone like, an elderly man. You have to get out of the way.''
Nelson is one to talk. He was involved in such an ugly incident in the bullpen during the ninth inning that he may face arrest.
President Bush complains about the news coverage in Iraq. Too much about violence, he says.
OK.
3 more GI's killed in Iraq today.
Also, 10 year old Salam Al Shakar of Northern Tikrit got a new puppy! It's ever so cute! Praise be the Americans!
Happy now?
I like to think I have a good sense of humor. Maybe i'm wrong here, but this made me laugh out loud for like five minutes.
Holy shit.
I mean, holy shit.
San Antonio Sen. Leticia Van de Putte says that on Sept. 18, shortly after the Democrats returned from their 45-day exile in New Mexico, she was in the members lounge and approached a Republican senator with a question: "Why are you being so punitive?"
She asked the question moments after Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, had been warned that if she parked her car at the Capitol, it would be towed and after Republicans had placed the Democrats who fled on "probation." Any Senate Democrat absent more than 72 hours will face $57,000 in fines, levied by the Republicans.
Van de Putte, who refers to herself as a "probationer" these days, refuses to name the senator to whom she posed the question. She says one of the rules of the Senate is that anything said in the lounge is privileged. However, she told the Express-News Editorial Board on Monday what the unnamed senator said.
According to Van de Putte, the senator looked at her and said, "If you are going to act like Mexicans, you will be treated like Mexicans."
Monday, October 13, 2003
It used to be that we pulled Charles Manson out of the hole hes in and videotaped his parole hearing so we can be periodically reminded of what a truly insane and evil human being is like. THen they denied his parole and he got thrown back into his hole.
But now we have Pat Robertson.
"I read your book. When you get through, you say, 'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer.' I mean, you get through this, and you say, 'We've got to blow that thing up,'
Foggy Bottom is where the State Department is located. Pat Robertson wants to detonate a nuclear device inside the state department.
A slip of the tongue! Thats all it is!
here he is in June:
"Well, it looks like Congress had better do something, and maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up,"
I know, making fun of Pat Robertsons insanity is an easy target. But it's important that we know the evil among us.
This describes a lot of what is wrong with this country
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 12 — A kind of pacemaker for the tummy, an implanted electrical device that fools the body into feeling full, appears to be an effective alternative to radical digestive surgery for helping obese people shed large amounts of weight.
Just put the fork down fatty.
That sound you hear is whats left of Charles Krauthammers credibilty racing out the door (from talkingppoints).
Chuckie back in April:
Hans Blix had five months to find weapons. He found nothing. We've had five weeks. Come back to me in five months. If we haven't found any, we will have a credibility problem. I don't have any doubt that we will locate them. I think it takes time.
Chuckie today:
Hussein was simply making his WMD program more efficient and concealable. His intent and capacity were unchanged.
Being a lying whore is easier when the palce where your soul normally resides is full of human excrement.
Sunday, October 12, 2003
Boston Red Sox ace Pedro Martinez should have been arrested for throwing 72-year-old Yankees coach Don Zimmer to the ground during Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday.
"If that happened in New York we would have arrested the perpetrator," Bloomberg said. "Nobody should throw a 70-year-old man to the ground, period. You start doing that pretty soon you're going to throw a 61-year-old man to the ground, and I have a big vested interest in that."
"You just cannot assault people, even if it's on a baseball field," added Bloomberg, who was asked about Saturday's bench-clearing matchup before marching in the Bronx Columbus Day Parade.
You're right Mayor Bloomberg. You should not assault someone on a baseball field. So when Zimmer lunged at Pedro and started swinging, don't you think that fat turd should be arrested and thrown in jail? Or is the fact that he's 71 make that OK? If I hire a 72 year old homeless guy to attack you on the street tomorrow, I would hope you dont try and throw him to the ground, because youd have to go to jail.
THis is why everyone hates Yankee fans. Hypocritical assholes.
Thoughts on that wacky game:
Pedro did not throw Zimmer down. The fat f*ck swung at him so he pushed him off without swinging a punch.
"There's no question in my mind that Pedro hit him on purpose" Yankees manager Joe Torre said. "I didn't care for that."
And I don't care for a pompous hypocrite manager who is regaled as somehow "great" because he is able to take a 188 million dollar payroll team to the playoffs every year.
And He doesn't complain too much about Clemens headhunting ways while he is a Yankee.
And I didn't see him comment on his bullpen jumping and beating up on a groundskeeper for cheering on the red sox.
