Berkman on the chicks.....

Great Pic!

 

Funny, I guess if I don't vote for Bush, I can expect to find my self photoshoped into a picture of Osama.

 

I'm pretty sure you will have to get famous first. Lighten up, dude.

 

Do you want to get famous Oski2005?

 

I'm the one that needs to lighten up? Ok, I guess it's no big deal to put Hanoi Jane status on the Chicks for disliking the prez, my bad.

 

How do you know I'm not already

 

To be fair, I didn't suggest that there weren't other people in the world who don't need to lighten up. I just thought that getting upset over the above picture is taking things a little too seriously.

 

AMEN!!

You know, that reminds me of the time this local guy wrote these funny songs. Before I could buy the CD though, he started posting on some BBS I was on. Turns out he was a liberal bashin' lefty hater ... yadda yadda yadda ... I saved my $13.50.

 

I actually voted for Perot back in the day...I don't bash. I have my opinions and respect other people's opinons. I think diversity is healthy in our country and have stated that on numerous occasions. If someone chooses not to by our CD because I support the President and the troops I respect their decision. I would be a hypocrite if to state otherwise.

For what it's worth, I get along well with just about everyone on here. I would even call Mrs. JB's husband a friend (he is not exactly a beacon of Republicanism). Ienjoy reading the political posts of all of the lefties and the right wing nutjobs. I use this bbs as a pulse of society.

Chance

PS-a lot of you guys are gonna HATE the song we recorded tonight. It's a funny song about how wimpy the frenchies are.

 

I think my mind might be too open. I tend to live life as a hypocritical liberal. I believe that the right is right on most issues and that is better for the US but personally enjoy some liberal liberties. I vote straight Rep. though.

I heard a neat question today on the radio. Dude said..."If Jesus came back to earth tomorrow would he be a conservative or a liberal?"

Pretty thought provocative...

 

That's what you think -- just today I found out he bought a non-organic tomato from a mega-corporation Kroger supermarket.

Oh, and gr8-1, I was just messing with Chance about being a liberal basher. As far as I can tell, he bashes people of all political persuasions.

 

Yeah that freakin' TheHorns guy...

 

Duh. Sarcasm sometimes entails taking things to the extreme.

 

I guess ewfd has a few more shirts to burn.

Zaun has become my new favorite player.


Several Astros, Marlins players line up behind Bush's war plans
By JOSE DE JESUS ORTIZ
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle
JUPITER, Fla. -- While some sections of America protest an apparently imminent war with Iraq, a number of the Astros and Florida Marlins support President Bush's desire to remove Iraq President Saddam Hussein from power.

"Obviously our thoughts and prayers are going out to all our troops," Craig Biggio said before the Astros beat the Marlins 9-5 on Tuesday at Roger Dean Stadium. "I'm in total support of our president. Obviously, he can't disclose everything Saddam has over there and what he's doing.

"Obviously, the president knows that Saddam has something that can do damage to us. The last thing we want to do is go to war. But you know what? Saddam left us no choice. I'm 100 percent behind our president, and I'm 100 percent behind our troops."

Astros second baseman Jeff Kent's support of the president is based on his desire to keep his wife and three children safe.

"I relate the political issues in a small scale in relation to being a father," Kent said. "I want to do everything that I can to protect my family. The value that my children have is incomparable to anything in this world that I have. I think the president feels the same way about protecting the American people.

"I need help in protecting my family from the outside world. I think what President Bush is doing to protect our country enables me to protect my family. I applaud him for giving me the ability to do that. Somebody needs to take a stand. He's the guy that's doing it right now."

Ballplayers have been known to shy away from political statements, but several Astros cited a desire to defend the president and counter the anti-war sentiments coming out of the entertainment industry.

Gregg Zaun's cousin is an Air Force pilot stationed near Iraq, so actors and musicians speaking out against Bush repulse him.

"There's a lot of idiot liberals in the entertainment industry," Zaun said. "We're going over there to Iraq to protect the interests of America and the free world against a tyrant dictator with weapons of mass destruction. That's a threat to decent people all over the world.

"It's amazing for somebody like (Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines) to be living in a society that allows her to make the kind of money that she does and feel the luxuries and the comfort and safety and security that she does. For her to bad-mouth our policy and our president and then to make it even more personal to say that she's embarrassed he's a Texan, I don't think I'll ever buy another Dixie Chicks record as long as I live."

Marlins pitchers Braden Looper and Doug Bochtler complained Tuesday morning after hearing a Dixie Chicks song played over the sound system at Roger Dean Stadium.

"It irritates me the way people come out against the war, like the Dixie Chicks," Looper said. "We need to support our troops and back them. And when something like that (Maines' comment) comes out, it's pretty bad. As a U.S. citizen, we need to be there for our troops and back them. I saw that, it got under my skin. I'll throw their CD out."

Ironically, There's Your Trouble was the Dixie Chicks song that prompted Bochtler to look up at the press box and make a slashing gesture across his throat with his finger, as if to say "turn it off."

"We were doing our bunt defense, and I heard the Dixie Chicks' song come on," Bochtler said. "I was like, `No, no, no, no. Shut that down.' I said, `Loop, how can they be playing this?' "

Bochtler has special respect for service men. His father served in the Air Force and Navy. His grandfather, who died last year, earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart after losing a leg in World War II.

"The great majority of my night is spent watching news," Bochtler said. "I follow it very closely. This is our society. This is our freedom. I like playing baseball for a living. That's my job. Those guys are over there willing to risk their lives so we can live our lives. How can that not be supported by anybody?"

Astros third baseman Geoff Blum and his Marlins counterpart Mike Lowell wondered just how much their opinions really mattered.

"How do you make a comment when you don't know all the information?" Blum said. "If I was in some national security meeting, I might feel a little different, but the chances of that happening are a little slim."

Lowell's father and grandfather were in the Army, but he limits his political comments.

"You've got to put pressure on Hussein," he said. "I don't feel comfortable making a political statement because I'm not a politician. I support what we're doing. If we don't do it, who is going to do it? Unless Saddam starts throwing (fastball) heaters middle in, there's nothing I can do."

 

And there are a lot of ****ty backup catchers in MLB.