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I can't wait for the talking heads to appear on tv and proclaim, after the umpteenth suicide bombing, that Islam is a religion of peace.
You ignorant troll. You and your kind always conveniently ignore terrorism and suicide bombings/mass shootings perpetrated by non-Muslims (like the IRA, or our own American charmers such as Timothy McVeigh, the Unabomber, Eric Rudolph, more school shooters than I can name, and their ilk) because you prefer to think of them as just "crazies" instead... I suppose the ludicrously applied "distinction" helps you to look yourself in the eye and not see yourself for the shallow, hateful, bigoted jerk you are.
All terrorists are not Muslims, and all Muslims are not terrorists. If you want to judge Islam by the actions of its extremist nuts, then you also must judge Christianity by the actions of its extremist nuts. You know, like the "freedom fighters" of the IRA, who kept Great Britain under siege with their constant bombings and executions? Or the ones over here who blow up government buildings and abortion clinics to make their point? By your simpleton logic, Christianity is a religion of violence.
What? That's ridiculous, you say? You can't judge an entire religion by its nuts? Unless you're talking about Islam? 'Cause "those people" are all nuts?
Yeah, I figured you'd say something like that. *sigh* I don't even know why I bother.
I'm with you. The moment Clemens insanely hurled the jagged business end of a shattered bat straight at Mike Piazza and then claimed he thought it was the ball, he lost any future hope of being the beneficiary of the benefit of the doubt. What a heady combination of both obvious 'roid rage and righteous indignation he displayed on that occasion.
And here he is again... "Who, me? Why, how DARE you!! How can you not respect me enough to believe me after 25 years in the game?" Uh, so are we *also* to believe that after what, 18 years in the game, you didn't know the difference between a bat and a ball, even after picking it up and examining it? And that your usual custom would be to throw the ball at the runner (who's halfway to first), instead of to your first baseman? You can't have it both ways.
Dude, just cop to it. You don't look or sound any more convincing now than you did then. You're a liar and a bully, and if you have ANY hope of redeeming yourself even slightly, telling the truth for once is the only way. I respect Jose Canseco a heck of a lot more. And that is a really, really sad state of affairs.
Marry me.
If he was repeating "what do you want me to do?" like "what am I supposed to do?" As in "what do you want me to do, Roger? I can't make the truth go away. It is what it is. Yeah, I can come out and say I was misunderstood, and that you didn't use 24/7/365 like the report makes it seem, but I'm not going to lie. You did what you did. What do you want me to do? Wave a magic wand?"
As for the "I'll go to jail" thing, he could have been saying that in exasperation, like "OK, I'll take it all back, say I was lying and go to jail. How does that work for you? Will that make you happy?" [said in frustrated tone]
You're dealing with two people being cagey, one knowing he was being recorded and one suspecting it. So every carefully measured word has to be read between the lines.
Making this "evidence" totally useless.
She said that she felt like she was running against herself... so many questions at the NH debate (and the others) were either about or directed at her. Perhaps the NH voters also sensed the same thing, and got tired of hearing the other candidates say "here's why you shouldn't vote for Hillary" instead of "here's why you should vote for me." I myself am so tired of that dynamic in this campaign that I've started to tune out the debates... they've become one long, monotonous "why Hillary is the devil" attackathon, and if I can see through it, so can other people. Stop telling me about HER. Who are YOU? What have YOU done? What will YOU do?
As for her "breakdown," I'm tired of that crap, too. She doesn't show emotion, they jump on her (she's a heartless, cold robot). She shows emotion, they jump on her (she's either weak or phony and manipulative). Yes, she became misty-eyed and soft-spoken, but she didn't "break down." She didn't even "cry." The press in this country continues to be disingenuous and sensationalist, seizing on something small and blowing it up into something it's not, to create an angle that just isn't there.
I wish we had just one primary election day like we somehow manage to do for every other election. I'm sick to death of this whole endless, nonsensical, column-inch-filling, time-consuming, money-wasting crapfest that is the primary season.