Compare George W. Bush's popularity ratings to Congress'
Rick: "India is building, what I think is, the world's largest refinery. The real hook is that it will process high sulfur content oil. Think Iran." Yeah, but also think Venezuela. (Tuesday | post #46)
Campillo shuts out Marlins as Braves win, 4-0
Eh, Bonds will want all kinds of perks - a private icebox for his syringes, etc. and a separate mailbox for his subpoenas. He'd probably want incentives per indictment, too. And why would you put anyone old enough to have osteoporosis in the outfield where he might crash into a wall? Hell, if you want a codger for the outfield, let's go all out and get Al Kaline. At least he could accurately throw to the plate on a hop. Bad game last night. The whole team looked stiff, flat and bamboozled. Yeah, this swinging for the seats at every pitch is not going to cut it when crunch time comes. Even Hanley...what is he batting, 20 or 30 points below his usual BA?...let's get on base too, eh, kiddo? Tourists watching the surface of Loch Ness through their binoculars from Urquhart Castle reported a swimming object that resembled Alejandro DeAza.... (Tuesday | post #23)
Cantu's single in the 11th beats Phillies, 3-2
Lou - all well and good but, seeing as how Andrew Miller has been rushed into action and misused this year, perhaps to his long-term disadvantage, I'm fine with leaving those future stars down on the second and third rungs for another year or so to get them some more polish and experience. Miller reminds me a bit of those barely-trained adolescent troops whose helmet rims were down around their noses that the Germans threw at the Soviet tanks during the siege of Berlin - except that those kids usually showed more resolve in dealing with an oncoming T-32 than Miller's face reflects when he's got men on base and no outs. The team should be looking to shore itself up with current big league players through trades or cash deals (muahahahahah) until the gems can be mined. But I fear that the ownership will be ver-r-ry circumspect about making any moves that would add to the payroll until they see which way the Braman wind is blowing. (Monday Jul 21 | post #44)
Lieberman Defiant As McCain's Wingman
If Lieberman is anything, he is no "chameleon " or turncoat. He ran unapologetically on his record in both the Connecticut primary and the general election. I vehemently disagree with his foreign policy but he has been nothing if not consistent - a quality so sadly lacking in many of those with whom I do agree that, come November, I still have no bloody idea who I'm going to vote for. It's not pretty: a decorated combat pilot with the nerve to stick to his ideological guns despite the gross unpopularity of his position, but with a number of very troubling financial and ethical lapses in his career and a social agenda with which I hugely disagree, or a telegenic, youthful, charismatic leader whose social and foreign policy agenda (to the limited extent that he has undertaken any lucid exposition of them) I mainly endorse, but whose experience is nil and whose consistency on issues seems, well, malleable? >sigh< Not a good juncture in history to be confronted with two such unappetizing alternatives, is it? (Monday Jul 21 | post #277)
Compare George W. Bush's popularity ratings to Congress'
Quinn: be careful with that straw man you just built. It'll catch fire right in your face. Few if any correspondents on this blog have blamed Bush for congress' approval ratings; they (and I) blame his own appalling ratings on his and his administration's own appalling incompetence and stupidity. And yes, Bush Derangement Syndrome is real - you can detect it easily every time the Chimp opens his mouth. One of the symptoms, as expressed by the Dim Bulb in Chief himself, was the fact that his mouth is a place where words go to die. This results when the brain and the mouth are not properly connected to each other, one of the most visible symptoms. However, there's no evidence that the syndrome is contagious; it is apparently spread only by direct contact with the vector or his ideology. (Monday Jul 21 | post #34)
Compare George W. Bush's popularity ratings to Congress'
Rick - thanks, these do look interesting and well-documented (for a change). I'll look them over before responding - though I'm going to be on my way to New York this PM so it may take me a day or two to get back to it. But here's a quick question, and I haven't been able to read anything that explains - or even tries to explain - what I'm curious about: why are fuel prices that are dragging down a deeply layered and complex economy like this one seeming to have no comparable effect on the much thinner, and one would expect more vulnerable, economies of the "emerging " giants like India and China whose demand is ostensibly driving the price increases? I gather they're paying the same prices that we are - if not more, given how much more they would have to pay for refined products until they get their own refineries up and running? Something about this just doesn't seem to make sense. What do you think? (Monday Jul 21 | post #33)
Court overturns fine on Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction'
Nothing like "activist judges" for keeping "big government" in line, eh? (Monday Jul 21 | post #5)
Compare George W. Bush's popularity ratings to Congress'
Republicans are Scum: I dare you to name a single topic that Hey Piddling America's stunted so-called mind IS big enough to grasp. But don't sprain your frontal lobes trying to come up with one, okay? It's easier to solve a unified field equation. Also, don't use words like "atrophied " when addressing Hey Muddled America. You'll be accused of memorizing the dictionary - all the ten or twelve words that he thinks are in there, in fact. Also, try to remember that he's just a dumb kid who spends all his time at his keyboard because, apparently, no one will let him play baseball with them. (Sunday Jul 20 | post #26)
Compare George W. Bush's popularity ratings to Congress'
Poor dimwitted Hey Muddled America seems not to have been able to figure out that when I mentioned ethanol, I was criticizing the Democrats. Apparently it's too difficult for our little virtual village idiot to connect one post with the one that preceded it. Apparently, also, he's missed (or chooses to ignore) all of the discussions Rick Caird and I have had about what's wrong with the ethanol program and how to fix it on a variety of other threads. Oh, and another thing, moron: fillibusters are part of parliamentary procedure, but you'd like to make them sound conspiratorial. Thank Buddha that the Democrats did fillibuster those idiotic attempts to wreck the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem for yet another profit grab by the oil companies that wouldn't have lowered the price of gas by a single cent anyway. If Cheney and his cheap thugs in expensive suits had emerged from their sewers with a sane and progressive energy plan, instead of another crate of candy for their oil company wh*remasters, the fillibusters wouldn't have been necessary. What's really kept us from keeping ahead of the energy crisis isn't the Democrats, jellyfish that they are, but one-dimensional free marketeering ideologues like you. Every time I come back here from abroad, where I've been riding 250-mph trains, natural-gas powered buses, streetcars and personal vehicles (Australia had natural gas engines available for private cars fifteen years ago), I have to endure the third-world rattletraps running on our roads and rails. And why have we slid back so far? Because selfish boneheaded atavistics like Hey Mediocre America think the "free market" should determine what kind of transportation systems we have here, while "big government" programs and incentives - like the ones that have most of western Europe and Japan decades ahead of us in energy policy - represent some kind of paranoid "collective " intrusion on our freedom to remain utterly backwards by comparison. Well, giggle on while you keep scrounging for scapegoats for the disaster people like you have brought upon us, you ignorant, illiterate clown. Enjoy your ride down the drain of history - because that's where you rats-arses are taking this country. (Sunday Jul 20 | post #25)
Cantu's single in the 11th beats Phillies, 3-2
Jacobs is a perfect DH for some second division American League team - until he learns some discipline at the plate. Who needed Jason Taylor anyway? There's so much talent on the Dolphins that they could trade away an all-star team and still finish 1-16. (Sunday Jul 20 | post #27)
Compare George W. Bush's popularity ratings to Congress'
Oh, yeah - and let's see who's got anything intelligent to say about this corn ethanol fiasco we're both so **** off about. I supported - and still support - a functional biofuels program, but the ethanol program as currently constituted is just more sugar for a diabetic economy. (Sunday Jul 20 | post #19)
Compare George W. Bush's popularity ratings to Congress'
Rick - we'll have to agree to disagree about that. My premise here is that Republican reps also had large constituencies opposed to offshore drilling and had to watch their steps - especially here in Florida, where Jeb was prudently unsupportive of as well. It's a given that Clinton would have vetoed it; my point was that during the six years of Republican administration and congressional control, nothing got done. I would also blame that joke of an "energy policy" that the Cheney working group produced, one that was so lopsidedly weighted in favor of continuing our petroleum addiction that it even embarrassed Republicans. If it had recognized and encouraged much more work on solar, wind and geothermal energy - not to mention investment in hydrogen-power technology - there would have been some negotiating room across the aisles. Something might have gotten done. As it was, nothing did. But as you know, there's not much for which you could criticize the Democrats that I'd disagree with. It seems like I wake up every morning to another inane comment by Pelosi or some dithering neither-either by Reid that makes me want to tunnel under my dog and try to get back to sleep/ (Sunday Jul 20 | post #18)
Lieberman Defiant As McCain's Wingman
Mac: yeah, I have a problem with that. This planet needs more racially or religiously motivated violence from any direction like it needs another Cretaceous-Tertiar y meteor strike. DeLauro: fact is, Lieberman was a pretty solid moderate to liberal voter for most of his career. His big divergence from the Democrats was his support of the war. The fact that he'd help empower a president who stands for just about everything he voted against in his career to keep the war going is evidence of how deeply committed he is to Israel. The problem is, he isn't helping them at all by keeping the pot boiling over there. And with this economy on crutches over this horrible war of lies and greed, and worse to come, he sure as hell isn't helping us much either. (Sunday Jul 20 | post #227)
Lieberman Defiant As McCain's Wingman
Pat Paulsen: as a matter of fact, I attended your "presidential debate" with Godfrey Cambridge at the University of Miami in 1968. No one else showed up, and Howard the Duck wasn't running that year. In any case, whereas it lacked some of the intensity of the Buckley-Vidal debates, I will never forget something that you said during one heated exchange: "America is still the only country where any little boy can grow up to be president. And if he never grows up, vice president." By the way, was that you running under the pseudonym of "Ron Paul"? (Sunday Jul 20 | post #226)
Cantu's single in the 11th beats Phillies, 3-2
Reprinted from the previous thread: Lou - oy, now vere iss dot cockamamie station numper? Maype you put it up here vun more time, nu? Great game. If Cantu plays like this all year, he'll be able to sign with a team with a dermatologist on staff. That complexion looks like he went duck hunting with Dick Cheney. (Sunday Jul 20 | post #21)
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