MrRain422

The biggest problem is that the media reports what people say (be it politicians, other news outlets, spokespeople, anonymous government sources) but rarely comment on whether what they say is true or not. They're basically just stenographers.

Impartiality is preferable, but I think a big part of the problem with the mainstream media today is that they are so concerned with looking balanced that they often present conflicting points of view as if they are equally valid, as if both sides are saying equally valid things, when in many instances one side is presenting distortions that the media is treating as simply another point of view. This is why we so often see pundits arguing completely different realities, only serving to confuse the public on the facts. Its possible to be impartial but still call someone out when they're full

Other than Olbermann, NBC and MSNBC are pretty conservative, IMO.

Yikes.

The goal was to create a completely free market for American contracters to dominate. The autonomous government thing is what's used as an excuse for staying, but the current administration doesn't really care of it becomes a reality and probably prefers that it doesn't because it would mean that the contractors would get kicked out. If that was the goal, they'd be working harder towards it and be putting more pressure on the Iraqi government than they are.

In order to lose, there has to be some sort of goal that we're failing to achieve. Since there isn't really a goal, it's impossible to win or lose.

This is one of my favorites: The actual quote is "I think that nobody wants to play chicken with our troops on the ground."

It's fake, but what it's satirizing is just as bad: This one is actually real.

He did have some seriously bad legs too though.

Yes.

Any particular reason you say that other than latent racism? Just wondering.

Trying to find all time WARP/VORP leaders but having some trouble. Can anyone help?

Though it's overrating Jim Rice big time. I don't see how Rice gets an honorable mention but no mention of Manny, Tim Raines, Lou Brock, Willie Stargell, Gary Sheffield, Billy Williams, Joe Medwick, maybe even Minnie Minoso or Ralph Kiner. I was gonna say Pete Rose too, but he apparently didn't play LF quite as much as I'd thought.

Okay.

Why is that?

It wouldn't even be hard for them to make them irrelevent -- all they would have to do is actually make them filibuster rather than letting bills die at the mere threat of one. Not only would they not actually be able to filibuster everything they threaten to, but it would expose their obstructionism to the public in a way that allowing the threats to work simply doesn't.

I disagree -- this Congress is far more inept. The last Congress successfully passed a lot of terrible legislation and rubber stamped the President's entire agenda, much to our nation's detriment. This current one has continued to rubber stamp far more than they should have, and have allowed the minority to railroad nearly every worthwhile bill that they have tried to pass into oblivion. The last Congress was more evil, but this one is more inept.

I don't think it could be kept quiet so successfully if that was the case. But yeah, it's a bad sign for the league that officiating is so bad that so many people believe it could be fixed. Which is pretty much what King Kaufman says there. There's no fix, but jeez, that officiating is so awful that it wouldn't be very difficult to believe.

He's basically a more often injured, better fielding version of Frank Robinson. No one thinks he's the best ever, but he's unquestionably in the top tier, and worthy of being considered among the greatest.