Yay!!! Chicago and Illinois taxpayers rescued!!!

Uncle Dave wrote:
Honestly, I really like Americans, but get two or three hundred million of
them together and you have a problem ;-))

Never mind the millions, if you get 2 or 3 rednecks together you have a
problem.

On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:09:15 -0400, wrote:

Still, almost every neutral accounting and financial analysis done on
ALL major sports venue investments show that they lose money, not make
money,

Where does the lost money go?

On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 06:12:16 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Dave
wrote:

On Oct 3, 12:19*pm, Johnny Twelve-Point presented by JFT
wrote:
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 21:36:16 -0700 (PDT), Scott

wrote:
Aside from the fact that there were plenty of folks on both sides of
the aisle who voted to support the war in Iraq, and who still vote to
support the war in Iraq, WTF has that got to do with the rampant
corruption that Chicago politics is famous for?

HAhahahaha. *Yes, the Democrats were duped into supporting the war in
Iraq, so let's keep it bipartisan since it's such a fiasco.

For sure.

PS - did you support the war in Iraq at the start? *Do you still think
it was the right move? *That'll speak a lot to your ability to comment
credibly on politics.

A surprising number of people around the world supported the war on
Iraq

I didn't.

On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:05:35 -0700 (PDT), Scott
wrote:

On Oct 3, 5:19*am, Johnny Twelve-Point presented by JFT
wrote:
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 21:36:16 -0700 (PDT), Scott

wrote:
Aside from the fact that there were plenty of folks on both sides of
the aisle who voted to support the war in Iraq, and who still vote to
support the war in Iraq, WTF has that got to do with the rampant
corruption that Chicago politics is famous for?

HAhahahaha. *Yes, the Democrats were duped into supporting the war in
Iraq, so let's keep it bipartisan since it's such a fiasco.

For sure.

PS - did you support the war in Iraq at the start? *Do you still think
it was the right move? *That'll speak a lot to your ability to comment
credibly on politics.

Not answering either of your questions, but I have one of my own
regarding your last sentence. Are you suggesting that only folks who
agree with you are credible, and those that don't aren't?

Not in general -- lots of people who don't agree with me are credible
on politics. But on this specicifc topic -- the major screw up that
is the Iraq war, I'd say that anyone who still thinks it was a good
idea has little credibility on national politics and international
security.

Now can you answer my question, and if you won't, why not?

On Oct 3, 5:06*pm, Johnny Twelve-Point presented by JFT
wrote:
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 06:12:16 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Dave



wrote:
On Oct 3, 12:19 pm, Johnny Twelve-Point presented by JFT
wrote:
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 21:36:16 -0700 (PDT), Scott

wrote:
Aside from the fact that there were plenty of folks on both sides of
the aisle who voted to support the war in Iraq, and who still vote to
support the war in Iraq, WTF has that got to do with the rampant
corruption that Chicago politics is famous for?

HAhahahaha. Yes, the Democrats were duped into supporting the war in
Iraq, so let's keep it bipartisan since it's such a fiasco.

For sure.

PS - did you support the war in Iraq at the start? Do you still think
it was the right move? That'll speak a lot to your ability to comment
credibly on politics.

A surprising number of people around the world supported the war on
Iraq

I didn't.

Me neither. In fact I got quite mad about it, telling my wife "they
won't win that war, they won't find any weapons of mass destruction
and they won't find Sadaam Hussein". I got the last one wrong, but he
did his best to prove me right ;-) Two days after it started I saw
the face of a young sergeant from my old regiment staring out at me
from the cover of the newspaper, one of the first casualties...

UD

On Oct 3, 7:05*am, Scott wrote:
On Oct 3, 5:19*am, Johnny Twelve-Point presented by JFT

PS - did you support the war in Iraq at the start? *Do you still think
it was the right move? *That'll speak a lot to your ability to comment
credibly on politics.

Not answering either of your questions

Pussy.

I'm not afraid to answer those questions. I opposed the Iraq war and
I was proven right, it was a very, very wrong move. As I predicted,
Iran was the big winner in all that, with bin Laden coming in second
and the Taliban third. There's your podium.
-Paul

On Oct 3, 5:04*pm, Donald Munro wrote:
Uncle Dave wrote:
Honestly, I really like Americans, but get two or three hundred million of
them together and you have a problem ;-))

Never mind the millions, if you get 2 or 3 rednecks together you have a
problem.

Yeah, I remember how astomished I was when, by the power of the
internet, I was able to communicate with cyclists across the planet
and heard the horror stories from the US. It seemed that chucking
beer cans and other projectiles at cyclists was quite usual and at
least one person had been shot at...

UD

Uncle Dave wrote:
On Oct 3, 5:04 pm, Donald Munro wrote:
Never mind the millions, if you get 2 or 3 rednecks together you have a
problem.

Yeah, I remember how astomished I was when, by the power of the
internet, I was able to communicate with cyclists across the planet
and heard the horror stories from the US. It seemed that chucking
beer cans and other projectiles at cyclists was quite usual and at
least one person had been shot at...

I had the same experience.

On Oct 3, 5:25*pm, "Paul G." wrote:
On Oct 3, 7:05*am, Scott wrote:

On Oct 3, 5:19*am, Johnny Twelve-Point presented by JFT

PS - did you support the war in Iraq at the start? *Do you still think
it was the right move? *That'll speak a lot to your ability to comment
credibly on politics.

Not answering either of your questions

Pussy.

I'm not afraid to answer those questions. *I opposed the Iraq war and
I was proven right, it was a very, very wrong move. *As I predicted,
Iran was the big winner in all that, with bin Laden coming in second
and the Taliban third. There's your podium.

Nah, the Taliban would have tested positive or sure.

UD

On Oct 3, 6:48*pm, Susan Walker wrote:
Uncle Dave wrote:
On Oct 3, 5:04 pm, Donald Munro wrote:
Never mind the millions, if you get 2 or 3 rednecks together you have a
problem.

Yeah, I remember how astomished I was when, by the power of the
internet, I was able to communicate with cyclists across the planet
and heard the horror stories from the US. *It seemed that chucking
beer cans and other projectiles at cyclists was quite usual and at
least one person had been shot at...

I had the same experience.

The mind boggles.

UD