sweetheart-mine

nice birthday! and nice pic -- or apt, anyway. but look at those rays. if they can pull this off after too many years in the cellar, surely the Os' turn for a good season can't be too long away. some of us red sox fans still don't know how to behave like non-chronic-underdogs after the two series; it's weird, sort of like someone stops kicking the wind out of you and hands you a lollipop, and you can't figure out if it's safe to get up or not. good luck for 2012 -- hey, that'll be just in time for another election year! yippee!

I'm eagerly awaiting the Baltimore 2012 schedule, myself. That'll be our year! (to break .500)

awwwwwwwww. but:

thanks for this, LOVE it.

Obama Team Files Suit Over Alleged Voter Suppression Plan

fantastic.

talk about obvious disenfranchisement attempts!

Forgive me for bringing race into it, but Obama's nonwhiteitude excites the exoticism of the left in way even Mrs. Kucinich can't.

exotic? how about simply "refreshing" and "it's about time" and "finally possibly the ultimate representation for african americans after centuries of little to none"? all-white can get old after a couple of centuries plus here in the melting pot. i don't know why other people are voting for him, but i'll vote for him because he's the best one running in my book and yes, that he's not white is icing on the cake in some pretty meaningful ways.

"I believe that Barack Obama, with MoveOn.org and Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean, has taken the Democratic Party

And Jaye Davidson should've been nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Actress.

i've always thought that.

You know why are we arguing abotu the financial meltdown of the united states when we have good news to talk about? Good news like this...

Toilet-paper researchers create 3-ply tissue Tue Sep 16, 7:36 PM ET

i just hate that i'm late to this important discussion. people tend to rip the same length of paper off the roll no matter now many plies it has. this means that the use of two-ply is a waste of one whole ply; three-ply will waste double that. we can't help ourselves.

I'm a public defender, so I cite the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendments pretty regularly...but rarely a day goes by without me using the 4th Amendment for all it's worth:

 

 

 

That's some good stuff right there. Gotta love criminal law!

i'm glad someone is using it for all it's worth!

So Manny should get the AL MVP.

Sort of late on this, but I just stumbled on this nugget at FJM:

 

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Interesting note from the latest Gammons piece:

 

In Ramirez's first 40 games, the Dodgers had a run differential of plus-22 and averaged 4.55 runs per game, as opposed to 4.43 through July 31....It's hard to talk about the MVP Award for Manny when the team that paid the Dodgers to take Ramirez is 27-13 without him through Sunday and have seen their runs per game increase from 4.94 at the time of the deal to 6.22 since.

# posted by Junior : 9/14/2008 8:34 PM

wow, that's interesting. i suspect the sox clubhouse atmosphere was worse before the trade than anyone could say, despite numerous leaked hints.

Thank IHVH Winston Churchill isn't alive anymore, or he might rethink the following: "Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

ultimately, i think he's right, though no doubt it sometimes depends on just what our democratic government is doing.

What does defecation have to do with anything?

a lot here today.

It's got to be one extreme or the other apparently.

kwall does this almost 100% of the time, and bobbob copies him part of the time. i wonder why you don't object then.

this is impossible to prove.

process of elimination.

when i see a gore sticker next to a kerry sticker . . . i point and laugh.

very helpful, when you look at what's happened since those people failed to get elected. i thought kerry had almost nothing to offer, but nothing would have been a hell of a lot better than what we got instead.

BECAUSE THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY REPUBLICANS AND HAVE NO EMPATHY FOR OTHER HUMANS!

no empathy for other humans is very easy to spot, no matter what the political party.

Do you drink? If not, you should start.

totally off topic, but against my better judgment i saw an absolutely ridiculous movie last night out of desperation. it had only one good line. older mother and grown daughter met in a restaurant for lunch. the mother said "i know you don't drink in the afternoon, but you will, so why not start now."

by the way, i think the whole shopping "ethic" that has grown in this country is absolutely pathetic and causes all kinds of people to take their eyes off the "balls" that count. and it isn't just the availability of shopping or pressure to shop that's at fault, it's the people who "buy" into it.

exhausting reading.

many individual people were selfless and giving in countless ways both on the scene on 9/11 and for a long time afterward. this means that american people, like others in most countries, care enough about their neighbors to do something, whatever they can at the time, when tragedy hits. this describes a good portion of humanity the world over, period, and at those times the best that many people have to offer comes to the fore. it's moving. hell, i sometimes choke up when people actually forget their own personal road missions enough to automatically pull over when they notice an ambulance or rescue van coming up behind them trying to get through to someone in need.

i would never take this for granted; it's to be cherished and encouraged.

as some have pointed out, there is a huge difference between people helping others and how their government behaves in the world. countless individuals behaved heroically on 9/11 and do so when other kinds of tragedies strike also. our government has not behaved heroically since 9/11, including katrina but also in many smaller ways too numerous to count or even for some people to notice.

there's a really disturbing disconnect here. when so many individuals are apt to step up and do the right thing on a personal level, why is it that they continue to elect governments that do the opposite? despite some election fraud, why is it that people who will bend over backwards -- and sometimes even put their own lives at risk -- to help their neighbors end up throwing their voting support behind politicians whose leadership they've either seen or suspect will not represent their best selves both at home and abroad? i don't understand this.

"Alaska Women Reject Palin" Rally

verrry interesting -- with great pics, showing some protest signs with sparks. my favorite might be the young girl holding a big sign that says "THANKS BUT NO THANKS, SARAH! I DESERVE A BETTER ROLE MODEL."

i don't get the oprah fuss. obama was on before he was a candidate, so none of the pres. or v.p. candidates since their announcing have been on oprah.

if oprah were to change her policy about having candidates on her show this year and interview v.p. candidate palin, she might be obliged to have v.p. candidate biden on as well -- but not obama and not mccain. in any case, i think her decision not to interview any of them on her show was a wise one because she endorsed one of them.

I got an email Obama is really white & black, not black and white. I'm pissed!

How do we know Obama isn't al queda? I got this email the other day...

ask beltmann.

Dude, even al-Qaida has CNN. Their opposition to the Western way of life goes far deeper than any party's policy, but I would imagine they take a tactical interest in who's in charge over here. If I were Osama I would endorse Obama, so McCain would win and get more Muslims to hate America.

and also, "it's the policy they care about." not any party's policy, u.s. policy in the middle east when it is based on desire for control over their resources.

Or in this new way of running things are we just jailing assholes we disagree with?

i would not be interested in that, and hope you'll knock off making such assumptions about my views. this isn't the first time you've done it. knock it off.