ChasingBlueSky

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  1. He doesn't have any concrete plan to actually effect change. That didn't stop anyone from voting for Bush two times. I agree, we need change related to energy and his plan will make sure that happens. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  2. I agree so is it just a matter perspective? And time....the IRA at one time was considered a freedom fighting group. Many years later it became a terrorist group. Sometimes the best intentions get sidetracked and a dream get blurry. But for the most part, I agree with Quade. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  3. No. It was crimes against humanity worthy of an international tribunal on war crimes, but that's never going to happen either. If Obama wants to increase foreign relations he can allow it to happen and never pardon the current administration. It's possible since he has gone on record that he won't pardon a former friend in Tony Rezko and that he would have his AG investigate this administration. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  4. Outside of Rupert Murdoch claiming that the Iraq war would bring us $25/barrel again most anyone with a clue knew that this was coming. The price will never drop down again and it will only get worse if new sources of fuel are not produced......and an infrastructure that can deliver them. New drilling will only delay the problem. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  5. it will no longer be the latest and greatest thing on the market. and for lots of people, if its not the best thing out there, there's no point in having it. iPhone 2.0 won't be that either, so if you really want cutting edge you should look around as there are other options. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  6. This is a very real law and it is often enforced. In a very short period of time we had a State Trooper and a highway construction worker killed while on duty. A few weeks later several more construction workers were hit as well. They found that outside of Chicago city limits, most people were doing 60-75mph in construction speed zones, even if workers were present. So Scott's Law went into effect. Also, if you are caught speeding in a construction zone it's a $500 fee first time and automatic notice to your insurance company. If you hit a worker or state employee on the highway first offense is 14 years jail time and $100,000 fee. Also, in case you haven't noticed, they have put up speed cameras in construction zones now as well. I haven't had a car in about a year but I know there used to be signs at every toll booth about yielding to emergency vehicles and changing lanes for cop cars on the shoulder. There is one for the Midway Airport exit and I think there is one at O'hare as well. Also every 1 mile in a construction zone has reminders on the fee/fine for speeding/hitting. As I look out my office window at the I-88 construction I can see a sign about it right now. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  7. He also introduced HR #333 for impeachment vs Cheny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_House_Resolution_333 The first time he did it there were no co-sponsors. This one is sitting in front of two subcommittees with no scheduled hearing. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  8. http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/10/the-iphones-new-business-model/ So, you will be paying more for v2.0, $40 more over the length of the contract. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  9. http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSL1062226620080610 It's a global issue. I wonder if we have enough fuel reserves in the US to prevent another 78/79 crisis. No _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  10. So basically Apple released a phone with the technology that was already old when the first version came out. He took everyone for a ride at $399 and now is going to get all the fanboys to drop another huge chunk of change to get slightly up to date with the rest of the smartphone crowd. Oh ya, then there is the increase AT&T is including with the phone plan if you upgrade to 2.0. Meanwhile, I've had all the same technology on my phone for the last 2.5 years at a cheaper cost and a cheaper phone plan. Having real GPS in my phone over the last year has been a very nice thing at times. Plus full native support of all Adobe and MS document formats. Also, full support of every IM client and google mail, yahoo mail, hotmail and full Exchange Enterprise integration. If you want to toss out the 16gb of memory for music an iTunes support, go ahead. I prefer my $14/month subscription to Zune that allows me to download as many songs as I want. I've already downloaded 7000 songs from Zune in three months! Outside of that, I could care less about portable gaming. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  11. I haven't read this full thread,but when you make a donation to the Obama website you are given a space to make your own blog. I'm pretty certain that some whack job that donated $10 represents Obama's message thou _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  12. There's a term for this kind of activity........wait, um.... hang on...it's.......oh yeah. Whoring. Interesting enough, Hooters is now apparently a family restaurant. A bunch of us guys went there for some beers over dinner last weekend around 5pm on a Saturday. There was a line to get in because a bunch of 4th grade kids and their families were there after a baseball game. Along with all the other families there the place was full. This also happened to be in one of the bigger suburbs here around town and there is no less than 35 other restaurants within a 3 mile radius of it. Also, there is a huge BW3 about 4 blocks away if they were looking for a family place for wings. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  13. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Kucinich_presents_Bush_impeachment_articles_0609.html http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSN09301988 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/09/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4167427.shtml He was on the floor for 4 hours and 40 minutes and introduced a total of 35 articles _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  14. Everything in moderation. Hiding out in a dark room all day is just as bad as baking your body to a crispy brown several hours every day during the summer. My friend's wife was a chronic tanner and I think she spent our entire trip in Mexico on the sun deck. She just had several pieces of skin cancer removed at the age of 32. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  15. AH yes, because the US wasn't an isolationist country only joining the war once Pearl Harbor happened ....hrm...sounds familiar. It's too bad Bush wasn't in office back then. He would have invaded Chile and spied on American's thinking they were trying to dig a hole to Japan to help them invade our farm land. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  16. I ran into the same issue about a year a go, but the hospital sold the charge off to a collection agency. Each time I've warned them of reporting them, they sell it off to another company and restart the process. I already pay too much on a yearly basis for shitty medical coverage, I'm not going to pay more for their billing mistakes. Medial insurance is just awful. edit to add: Along the same lines, I am getting letters from a law firm claiming I have $200 in unpaid parking fines from early this year. Interesting enough that I haven't had a car for nearly a year. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  17. I just upped my insurance coverage costs and basically had to confirm or deny if I have participated in about half of these, including jumping. Luckily they asked if I had done it within the last years and not if I was planning on doing it again soon. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  18. Her speech confuses me greatly. She knows she lost. Why is she pushing people to her website and what is left for her to decide? SHE LOST. It feels like she is holding her voters as leverage to gain a veep spot. Putting the meeting in an underground bunker with no mobile connections was just amazing. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  19. No doubt, and I didn't argue that with you. However if they are closing four plants and sales are down it's because the economic impact of driving one is greater than the status icon of having one. Those that still need them will get one either way. We will see more of this. Those sitting in a board room will make an choice and the blue collars will suffer. It's only going to get worse from here. It's times like this I really wish we had an Administration that spent the last 8 years putting money into alternative fuel resources instead of pushing for more drilling. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  20. I don't have an issue with people using an SUV or pickup if your family, farm, or profession needs it. But there are too many places where they have been a status icon for far too long. Why do people in downtown NYC, Chicago, Vegas, LA need to drive one with only one person in the middle of city traffic. Then go to Dallas/Ft Worth and look at everyone driving them in loops around town on the weekend. You will see that far more often than someone using one for its intended purpose. I don't want to see a town like Janesville die out but you had to see this coming. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  21. For once I can agree with you on something political. I can see McCain picking up one of the few female candidates out there for VP. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  22. It's a huge clue that the Dharma Initiative is back next season. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  23. Only got to see him twice in concert with all the times he was in Chicago :/ At least I got a chance to meet him at one of those shows. Hey, I had to meet the Blues Legend that shared my name! One of the most under rated visionaries of the blues. This is a sad day indeed. I will head to Blues Fest this weekend and drink a beer in his honor and jam out with the rest. I'm sure that Koko, BB, Clearwater, and Winters will help with that. Damn, not too many of these greats still around. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  24. http://allthingsd.com/d At that conference last night he was asked about politics. He wouldn't say directly who he supported but said that Obama is a Rock Star, the Dems will win in a landslide, McCain has many problems and doesn't understand the economy, Obama's education platform is amazing, he forced the NY Post to endorse Obama in the Primary, he believes FoxNews really is balanced, he thinks that the politicians have destroyed trust in the country and with 80% of the US lacking trust in them, we really are in a recession, .....I think that was the majority of it. http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed2/idUSN2936112720080529?sp=true You can find some of his video here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-rosen/rupert-murdoch-says-obama_b_104018.html I have no idea what his angle is, but this really surprised me. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  25. Accuracy? Realism? Don't care about that. If I did I would talk about gold/gun powder and magnetism. It was a terrible movie. It had no story to tell. I didn't rip into Batman Begins because it was good, the same for Ironman. Spiderman 3 suffered from the same issues as Indy: It was just bad, poor direction, terrible script and couldn't tell a story. btw, I went and saw it again with some free tickets. It gets worse on repeat viewings. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....