MarvinisaLunatic

Iraq - we can't just leave Iraq all at once in 13 months, it will end up costing more money when he have to go bail the middle east out again, and we will unless we stick our heads in the sand and adopt isolationist views on the world again, which we wont. Border - we need some sort of fence built whether it be real or virtual to control the border. the alternative over the long haul will cost more than building the fence. Drugs - I dont remember posting an opinion on here about drugs other than when I said it was rediculous to think they'll legalize marajuana since the government is moving towards banning things (trans fats, cigarettes, etc). Id be all for legalizing drugs because I really dont give a damn what other people do to their lives and if it meant that we wouldn't have 1 out of 100 people in america sitting in a prison somewhere, most of them for drug violations, go for it. Im surprised they haven't legalized drugs so they could tax the hell out of them like cigarettes but that tax would be so easily avoided anyway.. What we cant afford is to spend billions of dollars on Global warming, hundred of millions of dollars to bail out stupid idiots who applied for interest only loans and cant pay them, and more money to send kids to college free that don't even appreciate the free education they get now. We cant afford to spend "0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid" through the Global Poverty Act which was sponsored by Barack Obama in the Senate and passed 2 weeks ago, which is almost a trillion dollars more than we already spend on foreign aid now over the next 13 years. We can't afford to completely ignore Social Security and Medicare, keep on borrowing money from China to pay off debt..etc..etc. Its not the governments responsibility to bail out stupid people, nor is it to make sure kids go to college or to make sure that someone in Africa isn't living in poverty.

Why the fuck did EHME have to clean up his act? Ive never had to be threatened with a ban to clean up my act, Ive never been warned for anything Ive done. I dont go around calling people fags and trying to start lame fights with people. Im not even half as bad as he was.

TNA should probably sue since this makes it look like the WWF and TNA are partners or something..

You got that backwards there. If they were to cut spending instead of spending more and more, they wouldnt have to keep raising taxes to cover it.. Next year will bring new taxes on alcohol. $1.50-$4 a gallon on liquor and up to $.50 on beer. Hopefully Maryland is the new New Jersey and everyone flees for Delaware or elsewhere instead of putting up with the high taxes. We also have some of the highest electricity rates in the whole country which the state caused itself through deregulation.

I'll keep my mystery player on the board for this round.. Nuclear HD Selects Austin Kearns, OF I think the new ballpark will help his stats

I really hate Ticketmaster right now..I had 2 $5 bleacher tickets for the 5.20 Yankees/Orioles game and by the time the page loaded to pay for them my window to buy them (2:15) passed and now..no bleacher tickets available for any night that series. Im not paying $80 a ticket either for seats halfway up the stadium..fuck Ticketmaster... I went to Stubhub and got 2 tickets in the RF Bleachers in Row B for $8 a piece for the 5.21 game (CAP NIGHT!) plus fees which made it $30, but still better than going through Ticketmaster at regular price which would have been $36 for the same tickets.

I hate to harp on O'malley on here some more since theres only like 3 posters from MD here, but it does show ultimate stupidity when the Governor, in plans to save a whopping $327,000 in his 09 budget decides.."Hey..lets close down the State Police Barracks in Annapolis" UGH. I lived in Annapolis for 6 months, and I can only say I hope that the State Police aren't needed at rush hours...its almost impossible to get around the downtown area of Annapolis at any time, let alone rush hour and cosolidating the two barracks over to the Glen Burnie facility will mean quite a long travel time for the police to get to Annapolis. I cant wait to see what other "cuts" he's going to make to get the budget straight for next year. They need to spend less money, not eliminate Police Barracks, especially in the State's Capital for crying out loud. I cant wait til the slots referendum doesn't pass and then taxes go up even more.

I wish I had a clue what the Ravens were doing. I know they released Mike Anderson and Mike Flynn..not really shocking news but I dont see them making a push for any free agents..hmm I heard a mild rumor on Donte Stallworth..

Did you miss ESPN throughout December and January when the Patriots had their own PATRIOTS label on the ticker?

EFA In this thread? Man, I'll keep that in mind when Im winning the league in August..

Well at least Loewen pitched somewhat decently in the first inning (2ks 1BB 1 unearned run on 2 SBs and a throwing error)

yes because everyone that stays home to watch the first round of the basketball tournament wants to also be doing something else. Eh..I have other plans and I'll prerank I guess.

I thought it was part of the joke

Hes not in the minors, hes been out for almost 2 years, which probably gives away who it is and the insignificance of who it is.. I doubt I really care but I was just wondering Im keeping track of my team through the watch list feature and I like what I have. Im short a 2B and 1 more SP but other than that I think I have a solid roster.

funny no? you should go dig up some of my posts from 2006..I bet those are great. Loewen would have had a breakout season had he not gotten hurt. Bedard is obviously an ace..and if Kranitz cant help Cabrera and they dont stick him in the bullpen then I hope they give up on him completely..someone will snap him up and he'll get his act together and make Os fans even more miserable.. Oh, and I watched the HD Theatre special on the Nationals new ballpark..it totally seems bland and uninspiring though it was about 1/3rd finished during the show.. I found a good one in 2006 haha

remember last year when I had a "Im surprised this guy is still available" Mystery Playe (Torii Hunter) who went in the 8th round and turned out to be a pretty good bargain.. Ive got another mystery player that I cant believe someone hasnt taken yet...and if he's still on the board for my pick this round he's mine. Also, question: Whats the rule for drafting a player that isnt in the Yahoo database but will likely be at some point in the near future?

NY Times 2004 That video is swell and all..he can predict the future. More than enough reason to elect him..he can see the future!

I was gonna do it til I realized I cant make it on the 20th for a live draft so..I still signed up in hopes that will get moved to earlier that week or something but if not I'll do the prerank job. Im the Salisbury Indians , the 8th best team ever in Minor League Baseball history circa 1937 out of the Class D Eastern Shore Baseball League.

Because the Republicans have done such a great job combatting terrorism so far? No one in their right mind would trust Obama over McCain in that scenario unless we're completely ignoring everything that actually matters now. That's one of those arguments that is so irrational, I don't even know where to begin. Do I attack the "no one in their right mind" part as being a variation on an argument from incredulity; or do I go after the complete arrogance of Marvin for not only claiming he knows what "everything that actually matters now" is but it is so obvious that he need not define it? Decisions, decisions. I thought it was pretty obvious it was John Mccain's experience. Who would want someone with almost no foreign policy and war experience in that situation? Experience is worthless if it doesn't provide you with good judgement. For example, John McCain's experience told him it was a good idea to invade Iraq. Obama's experience told him it was a bad idea. McCain may have more experience, but Obama has better judgement. Obama was a state senator at the time, hardly in the position to know enough about the invasion of Iraq in 2003 to pass judgment one way or the other 5 years later when hindsight is 20/20. I doubt he was getting briefings on that matter or had any access to information about it that the people in the HR and Senate had. And if he had been in the Senate at the time, he may have voted for it anyway despite partisan politics since some democrats that did vote for the Resolution given the intelligence reports that were presented to them at the time. He's fooling a lot of casual voters with his "I did not vote for the Iraq war" crap, which isn't a lie but only because he wasn't eligible to vote for it. Most people who have been pulled into his following probably have no idea he was in the Illinois State Senate in 2003 or probably think that state senators had some say in the war. So if I am voting for Obama because he is fooling me, then at least I have the excuse of being fooled, however you are voting for McCain who really isn't fooling anyone with his poor judgement on the war from the beginning and flip-flopping on key issues, so what exactly is your excuse? Oh and I love this notion that he was "hardly in any position to know enough about....etc" Fuck that noise, plenty of people were opposing the potential invasion during the run up to Iraq and being quite vocal about it, not to mention other nations, and all the protesting the actual citizens of America were doing that was going largely ignored by the media because they were too busy cheerleading for the "with us or against us" administration. All this utter bullshit about "everyone was for the war in 2002, and now they are trying to monday morning QB" is just more revisionist history trying to be peddled. There were people damn angry with what was about to go down, but they were being attacked and labeled "unamerican" "terrorist sympathizers" "soft on terror" etc etc etc..... Im not voting for Mccain..thought I made that pretty clear last month. Im just saying Id rather have someone with some actual experience if this scenario were to occur..too bad I cant trust the one guy with experience but I would rather have McCain over Obama in a heartbeat if there was a terrorist attack, I just wouldnt be voting for him. And as far as the 2nd paragraph goes...It says something that 1/2 of the democrats in the Senate at the time voted for the resolution based on the information they were given leading up to the vote. While we know now that intelligence was severely flawed/eroneous/lies/etc, but at the time in 2003 it was compelling enough to get some 20+ democrats to go against party lines and vote for it. Obama has said he never felt that there was a case made for the invasion Iraq but he was never "in the know" enough to get the information to make a justifyable case for it one way or another. Its pretty easy to say he was against the Invasion of Iraq at the time, and I doubt he is lying when he says it, but its easy to be against something if you dont have any information concerning what it is you are supposedly against. Just like everyone else that you say that were against it, I doubt most of these people were getting the daily intelligence reports on the situation that the senators and representatives were.

Because the Republicans have done such a great job combatting terrorism so far? No one in their right mind would trust Obama over McCain in that scenario unless we're completely ignoring everything that actually matters now. That's one of those arguments that is so irrational, I don't even know where to begin. Do I attack the "no one in their right mind" part as being a variation on an argument from incredulity; or do I go after the complete arrogance of Marvin for not only claiming he knows what "everything that actually matters now" is but it is so obvious that he need not define it? Decisions, decisions. I thought it was pretty obvious it was John Mccain's experience. Who would want someone with almost no foreign policy and war experience in that situation? Experience is worthless if it doesn't provide you with good judgement. For example, John McCain's experience told him it was a good idea to invade Iraq. Obama's experience told him it was a bad idea. McCain may have more experience, but Obama has better judgement. Obama was a state senator at the time, hardly in the position to know enough about the invasion of Iraq in 2003 to pass judgment one way or the other 5 years later when hindsight is 20/20. I doubt he was getting briefings on that matter or had any access to information about it that the people in the HR and Senate had. And if he had been in the Senate at the time, he may have voted for it anyway despite partisan politics since some democrats that did vote for the Resolution given the intelligence reports that were presented to them at the time. He's fooling a lot of casual voters with his "I did not vote for the Iraq war" crap, which isn't a lie but only because he wasn't eligible to vote for it. Most people who have been pulled into his following probably have no idea he was in the Illinois State Senate in 2003 or probably think that state senators had some say in the war.

maybe just maybe they're all from the same police dept?

Because the Republicans have done such a great job combatting terrorism so far? No one in their right mind would trust Obama over McCain in that scenario unless we're completely ignoring everything that actually matters now. That's one of those arguments that is so irrational, I don't even know where to begin. Do I attack the "no one in their right mind" part as being a variation on an argument from incredulity; or do I go after the complete arrogance of Marvin for not only claiming he knows what "everything that actually matters now" is but it is so obvious that he need not define it? Decisions, decisions. I thought it was pretty obvious it was John Mccain's experience. Who would want someone with almost no foreign policy and war experience in that situation? Maybe Obama can hope that the terrorists change their minds and decide not to kill us.

That's a good thing! Loewen to hitter: "You know, if you really think about it, it's best that you don't swing, because if you swing, you might hit the ball. If you hit the ball, you might break your bat. With ash trees in danger of a crisis akin to that of Dutch elm disease, we can't afford to just treat our bats like they grow on trees, haha, as it were. So really in the grand scheme of things, it's best if you just take your base here. Don't worry, I'll get out of this inning somehow." Now if he walks batters profusely, that's bad! Ive been awake 36 hours..bleh. Profoundly, profusely..a lot..too much..I knew what I meant and you knew what I meant.

I saw him pitch with my own eyes back in 2004, so yes I know he walks batters pretty profoundly. Supposedly though Rick Kranitz is working with him and Cabrera on the walks. Kranitz being the same guy that worked wonders with the Marlins young pitching staff a couple years ago, getting 4 rookies to 10 wins for the first time ever in history. Hes just the guy they needed to bring in for the young pitchers.

They don't have to be. Those Tigers lost 119 games. I have no idea why, besides homerism, you're so high on the Orioles. They have one of the bottom three Opening Day rosters in baseball (probably the worst, but I'm being generous), and they play in the toughest division in the majors. Tell me how this team isn't losing a hundred games. Im not coming in here saying they're going to win 90 games and the wild card but they wont lose 98 games either. theres enough talent thats been added in the OF in Luke Scott and Adam Jones along with a healthy Adam Loewen who could easily put up similar numbers to what Erik Bedard put up if he stays healthy all year, plus Jeremy Guthrie who should have a good season. The Bullpen cant be as abysmal as it was last year or else it would end up being one of the worst all time and they've added Sherrill still have Walker and Bradford. I dont like Luis Hernandez at SS but if he plays solid defensively and gets on base a decent amount of time ahead of Brian Roberts things wont be that bad. I suppose Im more optimistic than I should be but if you look at it even from a distance they aren't that bad. Roberts/Jones/Markakis/Huff/Millar/Scott/Mora/R.Hernandez/L. Hernandez plus Loewen/Guthrie/Cabrera/Trachsel/?? and a bullpen with Walker/Bradford/Sarfate/Hoey/Cherry/Burres/ set up and Sherrill closing.