The Folklegend

I'm more upset that Fredi didn't do anything at all. No strategy at all. With one out and the score 6-5, why aren't you walking the hitter to try to set up a game-ending DP? Why don't you go talk to him before things got out of hand? Julio stunk, but there was no managing going on there either.

Especially given the volume of Iraqi documents that were seized that have yet to be translated.

Welcome to the Nanny State. In the new People's Republic of America, you will not smoke, drink, or sleep with your students. Sorry, couldn't resist.

It's not like he was six. 14 is hardly a child. I'm pretty sure most of us wouldn't have been complaining if at 14 a hot 25 yr old was all over us. ABCNews.com is reporting that France thinks this is no big deal...which makes me wonder what the hell is going on over there in middle school.

I can't take North Korea seriously as long as Kim Jong Il continues to try look like Al Davis.

We never go in and exit quickly. Bosnia/Serbia/whateverelsethearetoday-ia drug on longer than expected. That's the nature of military action. Unless you're planning on decapitating a regime and letting the power vacuum fill itself (which can be an even bigger risk), timetables for troop extraction are irrelevant. If you go in with a pre-announced withdrawal date, you're telling the enemy just hold out until date X. You have to go in with the mindset that we're staying until the job is done. You can argue about the mission we undertook, but now that we're in it we need to see it through.

I want that video HC, so I can sell it on the internet. I'd be on her like stink on a monkey.

And yet the same people who say we shouldn't do anything about Iran will be the first to condemn the President if Iran gets and uses a nuke. If you think military action is out of the question, then what is your answer? How do you deal with a regime that has openly declared their intent to wipe Israel off the map if they get the chance. It is the height of folly for the UK to categorically rule out the threat of force a priori. Even if they have no intention of it, they're better off keeping their mouths shut and playing it close to the vest. Sometimes just the possibility of retaliation is enough to deter. The UK has given that advantage up with nothing to show for it.

Why the hell didn't teachers look like that when I was in school?

Stocks are an indicator not the only one, but you won't see the economy surging if stocks aren't involved. Again, they indicate capital movement which drives growth. Currency devaluation is not always a bad thing. It could be that the Euro is overvalued. I find it interesting that all anyone posts is negative economic data and not things like this where wholesale inflation fell even further than analysts thought it would. ABCNews.com - Wholesale inflation falls

Neither political party has a claim on being more Christ-like. Politics is a dirty business no matter which party you belong to. Neither party wants exclusionary healthcare. The difference is the Democrats think these issues are best handled by the government while the Republicans think it is best handled privately.

The stock market is an indicator of capital growth. We do live in a capitalistic society. Growth in capital drives an expansion of business increasing employment and wages increasing sales and...oh forget it. People who don't want to admit the economy is doing well will cherry-pick whatever indicators they can find regardless of any basis in reality or big picture view of the health of the economy. Go pick up a copy of the Economist week-to-week, and you'll notice despite all the alarmist rhetoric the US economy continues to chug along. To listen to the doomsayers you'd think we're all standing in breadlines with imminent collapse a foregone conclusion. The constant harping of critics about this or that minor indicator grow tiresome when it's obvious the economy is doing well.

That is fantastic! This Irishman thanks ye

Jeffersonian, which sadly is about 12 of us these days

Thanks for posting those. All I could picture was a babe with a long beard, and that was just not good for anyone.

Obviously in this case it is, or we wouldn't be having this discussion.

The debate didn't come until the deal was nearly done. The debate should have been first for something they should have known would be this controversial. My initial reaction was that they could not possibly be this stupid to approve this deal. Even if it was economically justifiable, the PR would be nothing but negative. That should have been obvious to the administration.

If you start recognizing recent religions (regardless of whether they claim to be based on historicity or not), you have to recognize everything. Otherwise you're going to see lawsuit after lawsuit and wind up with the Supreme Court trying to determine grounds for what is and isn't a valid religion. No one wants that. Having an arbitrary line is indefensible legally. The markers are an unfortunate consequence of how the Armed Forces chose to recognize religions. The problem is that the way the Armed Forces has chosen to recognize religions impacts things like this. The larger debate is should the Armed Forces be in the business of recognizing them at all? How that question is answered determines all the other issues.

He's never vetoed anything, and no one believed for a moment this was going to be what he made his first stand for. It is baffling how badly run the administration is. Not even Carter's was this bad. I'm not talking about the decisions being made, but strictly from an operational standpoint. They mishandle the press, the complete lack of trying to give any justification for most of their policy decisions (or they do at the last minute when it's almost a fait accompli), the seemingly random decisions that are made which don't adhere to any one ideological agenda or cohesive paradigm. Just inept.

It's naive to think you open this Pandora's box and all sorts of consequences won't come of it. Hotcorner, since Hollywood is the stronghold of Scientology, and none of them would ever go to war now, we won't have to worry about them. :mischief

I'm not defending Mormonism. I'm simply stating one of the biggest hurdles Wicca has had to face in being recognized by the Armed Forces. Where do they draw the line? Do they just accept anything someone claims is a religion? If they worship sexual organs as a fertility cult, do we allow them to put those images on their tombstones even though they are largely considered offensive? If someone claims to worship Ronald McDonald, now you've offended people who take religion seriously. The unintended consequence of accepting a recently made-up religion is that you lose any basis to deny any other religion no matter how frivolous it is. Right or wrong, it is easier for the Armed Forces to err on the side of caution and acknowledge the major religions which have long-term historicity. Mormonism gets lumped in even though it's relatively recent because of the large number of people who practice it, its American roots, and its claim to be part of Christianity.

Or maybe it's the fact Wicca was made up in 1954.

I'm condescending about everything. Get over it.

If Russia does not support Sanctions against Iran then why did it support the resoultion on Iran to the U.N. Security Counsel? Which it did, they were talking about it yesterday with Wolf Blitzer on CNN. As for the "Harm and Pain," we and are allies can cause much more. For all we now their could be an Iranian on this site. Samson and Loria are Iranian. :plain Samson is definitely the Pain in that pair.

i'm sorry, but if experts on this are worried about it and often disagree then it's not quite so simple. if it were so simple then the problem would have been solved by now and no one would be worried. You can't get two economists to agree on anything. That's not news.