This is the question I've been asking of Lieberman specifically (and of our policy towards Isreal, generally) ever since this so-called "War" started. The Jews that I hang out with don't trust a Christain Conservative any further than they can throw them (and with their back, oy!).

And most Jews (who I know) certainly don't believe that the CC's have the their best interests at heart in the CC's fawning support of all things Israeli. They know that it is part of Christian dogma that the end times cannot begin until all the Jews have returned home. At which point, all the Jews get to burn in hell for eternity! Weee! Thanks Christians! It's par for the course when you let religions that predate penicillin and refrigeration determine your actions in the present day...

Which brings me to this guy:

"That day will come when I am able to vote for a Democrat who has not managed to delude himself, after all therse (sp) defeats, that the question of aborting life by "choice", of farming embryos for "medical cures", of asserting the oxymoronic "right" of "homosexual marriage" (!)---that these grotesqueries have not alienated the Catholic vote and cost the Democrats election after election after election."

Those Democrats don't exist anymore. They had to die in order for JFK to get elected, remember? And for one, this former Catholic says "good riddance". I also think your overestimating the so-called "Catholic vote". I'm pretty sure Massachusetts is still a blue state...

You want to talk about deluding yourself? Let's try the millions of people in Africa dead or dying of AIDS because your infallible "voice of God" says they can't use a condom. What about the millions of children in the U.S., the richest country in the world, living in abject poverty, destined for a life of poverty, drug abuse, and prostitution because Christians have held the same birth control beliefs since the middle ages?

As for "farming" of embryos, that's already done daily in fertility clinics throughout the U.S., so we can coo and ahh at the "miracle" of 8 children born at once that will automatically go on welfare. Where's the outrage at this?

Cures to diseases don't grow on trees and they're certainly not accomplished overnight. Are you for children dying of polio, too? Wouldn't have been cured without government assistance. Hospitals (in blue states, at least) are required by law to conduct 30 odd tests to detect things like juvenille diabetes and PKU that would result in hundreds of dead or metally retarded children per year. Are those not necessary either? Would you like to ask the Pope first before you answer or are you allowed to form your own opinions at times?

It would be poetic justice if someone you loved dearly was dying of Parkinson's or the myriad of other diseases that embryonic research has given hope for a cure.

Don't even get me started on the gay thing: notice that the "abomination" edict occurs in the Jewish section of the bible; right next to the "abomination" of working on Sundays and eating shellfish - curiously, all punishable by death...?

End of rant: If you want humanity to move beyond things such as killing each other over land disputes (which you are, thankfully, against - you're in the Christian minority over that, BTW) you might want to re-evaluate the entire mythos rather than the parts you pick and choose to believe. But that's just me...

Chicago White Sox

Boston Red Sox

Florida Marlins

Anaheim Angels

Arizona Diamondbacks

New York Yankees

Now what was that about a small-to-middle-market team "getting lucky" and then losing in the 1st round. Looks like about 50-50 for those "getting lucky" teams.

Yes, I'm counting Anaheim as a small-to-middle-market team; trust me, other than Disneyland, there's nothing in Anaheim (don't even get me started on their current name - Oakland's closer to San Francisco than Anaheim is to L.A. - why aren't they the Oakland Athletics of San Francisco?)

One could even make the case for the White Sox being small-to-middle-market team, what with the way they are (were?) completely ignored in Chicago for the last 40 years.