He’s mixed up. The Rockies are the god squad.

Twenty-one wins in twenty-two games. An improbable run
to the World Series. One of the hottest streaks to end a season in the history of the game. And not two
pitchers the average fan could even name. Ladies and gents, your Colorado Rockies: a team performing what
even an atheist could call a baseball miracle. And “miracle” is an appropriate term for a team that riled the baseball world last year by claiming that filling the dugout with Christian players would grease the skids to greatness.

Last year the Rockies went public with the news that
the organization was looking for players with
“character.” And according to team management,
“character” means players who have chosen Jesus as
their personal Lord and manager. “We’re nervous, to be
honest with you,” Rockies general manager Dan O’Dowd
said at the time. “It’s the first time we ever talked
about these issues publicly. The last thing we want to
do is offend anyone because of our beliefs.”

Rockies chairman and CEO Charlie Monfort took it
further, saying, “I think character-wise we’re
stronger than anyone in baseball. Christians, and what
they’ve endured, are some of the strongest people in
baseball. I believe God sends signs, and we’re seeing
those.” The team took some heat for its statements,
especially when former players spoke of having their lockers searched for dirty magazines and feeling pressure that you had to be down with the God Squad to feel part of the team. It also raised the question of whether the team was discriminating against non-Christian players–would Jewish icon Shawn Green
be welcome? What about just straight-up heathens?

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20071105&s=zirin

A lot of good it did them.

All those in Washington have sold us out with a very few exceptions, mostly the newer ones. How about some term limits as well, so these representatives have to associate with the people who elected them.

i hear ya… and agree…
was just sayin’…
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which is why it scares me crazy when you guys start talking
“3rd party! 3rd party!”…
THAT would sure make it easier to steal the election…
IF we even have an election…

and if we DO, then the only way to stop the stealing is

OVERWHELMING DEMOCRATIC VOTER TURNOUT.

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Comment by curmudgeon — November 6, 2007 @ 10:31 am

You’re right — now that waterboarding isn’t torture, this pretty much gives other countries free license to waterboard any Americans they find wandering around.

However, our own State Department has a solution. By jacking up passport fees and making them harder to get, they deter travel outside the United States.

Of course, staying home is no guarantee you won’t be waterboarded, since you could be labeled an enemy combatant at any time…

The United States charged him with war crimes in 1947 for carrying out waterboarding on a U.S. civilian, he was sentenced to 15 years hard labor.

No, seriously.

It was probably an accident, but even so, he just gained one micropoint (which brings him up to negative six billion, but still . . . )

Can they also pass a bill that makes it illegal, punishable by slow death, for a President to lie to your country and drag it into a war of his/her choice because of some voices in their head?

Prospective only, of course.

The United States has ceded all moral authority to tell any other country (or organization, for that matter) that they should not implement similar enhanced interrogation tactics to “get the truth” out of any U. S. citizens who may appear on their radar.

An article recently appeared, indicating that travel by foreigners to the United States has dropped significantly since 9/11. Fears of torture by captors in foreign countries could actually be convenient for the Bush-Cheney cabal — fewer U. S. citizens would observe life other countries and cultures where the contrasts between our country and theirs might be noticed.

[ Is that a TRICK question??? ]

I think you know what I mean.

Just like I know what your name means.

I put TRICK & TREAT behind me until next year.

Have a nice day

this morning matt actually touted the “positive” aspects of climate change in greenland… the people are “adjusting”…
some of the positives are “more open shipping lanes, the access to oil resources, longer growing season” (paraphrasing)…

he actually said that… too bad al gore wasn’t there to slap him around…
…

Anybody got anything on it??

Rather than tear their hair as Attorney General-designate Michael B. Mukasey dodges and weaves on the question of whether a heinous technique called waterboarding is torture, and, if it is, whether that makes it illegal, senators should get busy and pass a law that allows no room for lawyerly dissertations.

Such a law would be Sen. Joe Biden’s National Security with Justice Act. That’s the bill that would limit all U.S. personnel, in uniform or not, to interrogation techniques that are spelled out in the U.S. Army Field Manual. That’s the manual written by professionals and experts who know that cruelty doesn’t work.

Comment by bilbobaggins — November 6, 2007 @ 9:21 am

I suspect Hillary is so anxious to get her hands on the huge toolbox Bush and Cheney have created for her that she can barely stand it.

TMM ~ just read KO’s KO of the criminal cabal, and one word…

WHAM!

RUC, if you have the opportunity, I highly suggest you watch the video. The transcript is good, but it just doesn’t properly convey Keith’s passion.