Pryce said she isn't "always happy" with what she hears from Iraq, but she said she "can think of nothing worse for our troops or our prospects for success than having 435 members of Congress second-guessing our commanders."

Where we come from, second-guessing is called "oversight," and it's the job of Congress to do it.

Really Damn Funny.

Truman kept a sign on his desk saying "The Buck Stops Here", implying that he was ultimately responsible for his administration. I feel like these Republicans have a sign on their desk saying "The Buck Never Makes It This Far".

...I haven't a clue who edited this.

If you want the scandal sheet to be effective, the first three entires are "Iraq, Iraq, and Iraq". Not "shoddy science".

Lead with the most important point. You'd think a journalist would know that.

Recruiters are salespeople. The war doesn't sell. Do the math.

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Hilaripus.

Preventing voter fraud is great. Unfortunately, there haven't been a whole lot of cases of mass voter fraud.

Requiring IDs also leads to voter suppression. You'd be surprised how many people have neither a driver's license or a state ID.

Are preventing 100 "extra" votes worth it at the cost of 10,000 fewer votes?

Are we sure these aren't chemical weapons, possibly nerve agents of some kind? Maybe a few people need waterboarded to find out the truth.

...because the Republican party and "neoconservativism", wasn't conservative anymore.

Sadly, "liberal" is still a slur in many places. But a conservative Democrat is by far better for the country than a neocon Republican, or even a conservative Republican who's enabling the neocon regime.

No, but Kissinger often has a hard time traveling out of the country for fear of arrest. The charges aren't completely empty/

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger

In late 2001, the Brazilian government canceled an invitation for Kissinger to speak in São Paulo because it could no longer guarantee his immunity from judicial action.

I believe the notion of "control" is referring to the selection of the leadership positions (Senate Majority Leader), which is done along party-line votes. Jim Jeffords of VT has caucused with the Democrats in this regard. It appears that Joe Lieberman is expected to do the same or abstain, giving the Democrats a 51-49 or 50-49 advantage in these leadership votes.

As loathsome as I find him, I don't expect Lieberman to caucus with the Republicans in Senate leadership voting.

Kudos to Tim Grieve who called this one:

Just a question: If you're a Republican who just lost his or her seat in Congress, are you thinking today that you're glad that the president waited until the day after the election to announce that Donald Rumsfeld is leaving?

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/11/08/waiting/index.html

It probably never occurred to him that many lesbians probably have had unsatisfactory relationships with men *because they're lesbians*.

If you don't think homosexuality exists as a sexual orientation, I can see it being easy to get that cause and effect backwards.

I wish what was meant by "The U.S. isn't winning in Iraq" was "We have no plans to pursue an impossible victory".

Shotsie, if its not in a team's best interests to sign a player to a long-term contract, why do they do it?

Why not call him "Dice" or "Dice-K"? That's basically how his name is pronounced anyway, and its kinda catchy. Though the latter might bring Andrew Dice Clay to mind a little bit more that you'd want.

K-Kauf would be better, which is pronounced "Cake-off", and then could be shortened to "Cake".

The Democrats are said to have control because the independants, Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders, caucus with the Democrats when it comes to leadership and committees.

The BCS standings should be fairly easy to reproduce in the NFL. IIRC, the BCS standings are an amalgam of:

* win-loss record

* strength of schedule

* polls

The first two are easy and the polls can be simulated by using power rankings from major media organizations (ESPN, et. al.)

E Wilson -

That's an interesting win-win situation for Dallas. Probably not widely applicable, but worth keeping in the back of one's head on short field goal tries. On a botched play, every blocker should commence holding, etc. as much as possible to get the ball in the endzone.

Players who are still playing always seem to be undervalued. Sheffield isn't an all-time great, but he's a solid HOF'er. Piazza is the best offensive catcher in MLB history. Frank Thomas is a no-doubt HOF, who also happened to put up most of his amazing offensive seasons _before_ the late 90's power surge. Jeff Bagwell, the same (the two are basically the same player.

Sure, you can say "Ahhhh...he's no Babe Ruth or Ted Williams." But very very few are. Though one could argue for Bonds and Pujols.

You do Barry Bonds a disservice in your pre-1998 stats. Between 1990 and 1998:

* he won 3 MVPs, with 4 other top 5 finished

* his lowest OBP was .406

* his lowest SLG was .514

* his lowest OPS+ was 161 with 2 seasons about 200

In 2006, at the age of 41, he put up a 270/454/545 line for an OPS+ of 156.

To put those numbers into context, at his worst in the 90s, or at age 41 after injuries and (presumably) without PEDs, he is still better than perennial All-Star and feared hitter Vladimir Guerrero.

Bonds was a lock, upper-echelon HOFer in 1998. With PEDs he's the best player in history. Without them, he's become merely an inner-circle HOFer.

The thing is, Roger Maris just wasn't all that good. He was very good to excellent for two years, and merely above average the rest of his career.

Chas - I get the hideous thing that you're saying.

However, it would be far cheaper to have a lottery that randomly picks 2 Americans a day and allows them to be killed by some group of extremists.

I wonder if America would go for it if it meant keeping our shores safe.