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Skip to comments.Hillary, You Are No Bill Clinton
Posted on 02/13/2006 5:54:51 AM PST by Neville72
The London Times reviews the performance of the presumed front-runner for the Democratic ticket in 2008 and finds her performance wanting. Gerard Baker, the editor for its American desk, notes that Hillary Clinton not only cannot connect well in her appearances but cannot even escape the long shadow cast by her husband and most potent political asset:
Few deny that Mrs Clinton is razor-sharp and politically savvy. But even supporters worry about her personal skills, at least before a large audience. She is a somewhat wooden speaker with a hectoring style at times more reminiscent of Al Gore than her husband. And unlike Bill, she projects a lofty, distant air that has been likened to the Queen of Sheba in a power suit. Last weekend Ken Mehlman, the Republican National Committee chairman, homed in on Mrs Clintons personality, saying that she was too angry. His aim was both to pinpoint her weaknesses and to needle her, and it seems to have worked. ...
The hope in her camp is that people will believe that Mrs Clinton has her husbands political strengths and none of his weaknesses. The growing fear is that she incites the same level of loathing and suspicion as her husband always did, but has none of the charm and personality to deflect it.
Hillary has always come across as a scold and a cold fish on the stump, where Bill may only truly find himself in that setting. He has always had a grace and flow to his appearances that served him well on most occasions. His charm finds its best and most productive outlet there, while Hillary usually sounds rather tight and forced. The comparisons will not make her look any better, and if she has Bill at the same events with her, he will continue to upstage her every time. That only plays into the suspicion that Hillary will run as an end-around to the 25th Amendment to garner Bill his third term in office.
Democrats need to find a national candidate with less baggage than Hillary. Almost half of the electorate doesn't want anything to with the Clintons ever again, and about half of what's left doesn't think Bill is worth casting a vote for Hillary. Rasmussen's last poll demonstrates that Hillary might win in the primaries, but she will get shellacked in a national election and probably would be the biggest get-out-the-vote incentive for the GOP in years. When the London Times plays Lloyd Bentsen to Hillary's Dan Quayle, her negatives no longer can be portrayed as Republican wishful thinking.
I've never seen evidence of her intelligence. The fact that she won't take unscripted questions from an audience tells me that she is not quick on her feet. Likewise, I think she has a tin ear and is not politically savvy at all.
The empress has no clothes. Someone has to say it, no matter how utterly distasteful it is.
I can't wait for 2008 presidential elections.
I'm going to have the tape rolling at every debate.
After the polls start to look desperate, her handlers are going to tell her that she needs to "seem passionate" about some issue, and she's going to let out one of those torrents of spine-twisting screem rants, and it will be over.
there is NO WAY she will win a national election.
What a silly little girl! Most kids outgrow their fantasies. Aw, don't cry, honey. Maybe you can be a princess.
Two words....Ross Perot.
Yep. And there is a very real possibility that that might just happen again since there are many disgruntled conservatives. A solid 3rd-party candidate might be able to scoop allot of them up.
It was his way of saying to her, "Honey, you will always need me."
The guy we were speaking with seemed very wired in and told us to concentrate on Warner much more as a long term threat. I indicated to him that Hillary has the money cornered, but that he could be right once minds start changing, especially if Condi does get in the race (as we suspect she will by next January) and the presentation contrast becomes all too stark.
Be Seeing You,
Worst of all (from her perspective) she's transparent as glass.
So is her husband, but, unlike Hillary, he can seduce large populations into disregard.
"The hope in her camp is that people will believe that Mrs Clinton has her husbands political strengths and none of his weaknesses."
Those "political strengths", of course, are a talent for seducing and bamboozling (also known, to the incognoscenti, as "charm and personality").
"Democrats need to find a national candidate with less baggage than Hillary."
No. Democrats need to get out of the way, drop into the oubliette of history, and let the Republicans and Libertarians govern the U.S.A.
Those who want to "make a difference" or "make a contribution" (as they love to crow) can best do so by leaving the process of governing to others.
Bill Clinton has the rare gift of being able to fit in anywhere among any kind of people, be it a Black Baptist church or Oxford. Hillary doesn't have that.
She is about as sharp as a brick and almost as pretty.
While watching Fox on election eve '04 they had Susan Estrich on. As some of you may recall she was a bit "relaxed" that night. When asked if the Hildabeast would win in '08 Susan said that she was "unelectable".
Agreed. The woman couldn't debate her way out of a wet paper bag. She's the Dark-side version of the Wizard of Oz.
The Democrat Party is nothing but angry "activists" from the 60s. All those confused, drug dazed, iconoclastic hippies are now middle aged and run the Democrat Party.
They were--and still are--angry rebels searching for a cause. The noble Civil Rights Revolution conincided with their tantrum and many, naively, gave them undeserved credit for it, at least in part.
However the Hippie Tantrum of the 60s had little or nothing to do with the Civil Rights Revolution or anything else worthwhile.
Meanwhile, these 60s hippies continue to rage and bluster, as they had some purpose or something to offer.
Only a complete moron would allow them to govern the U.S.A. (Unfortunately, there are many complete morons among the electorate.)
oubliette>>>>>>>>great word
The Oubliette
Oubliette - a little place of forgetting. A small, windowless room where someone is locked away, forgotten, left to go mad.
This is my personal place to rant and rave like the lunatic I am, my oubliette. It's dark, quiet, and I come here to forget about things. Or maybe to remember them.
After all, where does insanity end, and insight begin?
***Great question for Democrats to ponder.
I do!
Yes, he's kinda like a combination of Zelig and Don Juan.
And you know what I am talking about! ! !
I do also. So right there you have a few.
When is Saturday Night Live going to parody Hillary with a a huge ass eating a bucket of chicken? How come this supposed great comedy comedy show has never ONCE poked fun at her obesity and ghoulish looks? Not once?
You hit the nail on the head with that one.
I will give Hillary some credit though, she's got that "rode hard and put away wet" look down cold.
Huh? The 25th has nothing to do with 3 terms.
In the medieval castles of Europe, an oubliette was situated beneath a trap door at the entrance. When a lever was pressed, an intruder standing on the trap door was dropped into the oubliette, from which there was no exit, and left there to die and be forgotten.
That's what we need to do with the Democrat Party.
"And there is a very real possibility that that might just happen again since there are many disgruntled conservatives. A solid 3rd-party candidate might be able to scoop allot of them up."
And return a Democrat to White House again. The Perotistas
just don't seem to learn, or perhaps they don't give a d**n as long as they cast their dissenting vote against a viable Republican candidate.
Third parties do NOT work. Even the guys who are going to contribute to the NRA and let that august organization speak for them don't get it.
She is sharp having the FBI Files to intimidate people.
I think it is the nice turn of her ankle. :-)
The problem with Hillary pulling off the 'Perot Gambit' is that any 3rd party candidate will have to come from the right and the more likely 3rd party candidate scenario in '08, especially with HRC nomination, will come from her left.
Is it wonder after her collusion with Ng Lap Seng, Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie; Wang Mei Trie, John Huang, Johnny Chung, Liu Tai-ying, Bin Liu, Irene Wu, Nora Lum, Shi-Zeng Chen, General Ding Henggao, Lt. Gen. Huai Guomo, "Col. Xu", William Peh, PRC Defense Minister Chi Haotian, China Resources chairman Shen Jueren, Bao Peide, 5th Vice Minister of the PRC, Zou Jia Hua, Vice Minister National Technology Planning, Bernard Schwartz, Zhu Roug-ji, Vice Premier of National Finance, .Liu Ju-Yuan, Minister of China Aerospace Corporation (made both satellite orbiter version of Long March and the nuclear tippled missile version for the PLA), Ms Melinda Yee, Ira Sockowitz, Leon A. Panetta, Mark Littleton, Neal Ainley and convicted Miami drug trafficker Jose Cabrera, along with Hillary's ongoing ties to James Riady and the Lippo Bank-Lippo Group & Lippo Pacific in Indonesia---Hillary has no chance of winning anymore elections.
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U S Congressional Record/Senate
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Congratulations for knowing what an oubliette is. I bet you even know what "hoist by his own petard" really means.
We can add our terrorist enemy No. 1 during the Vietnam War, Communist North Vietnam Dictator HO CHI MINH, to the list of HILLARY's collusions as well.
Bringing about for all of us to see in the end:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
And make no mistake, with HILLARY back in our Oval Office...
...it could all happen HERE.
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965
'MAKE IT A RULE' -- PLACE YOUR ORDER FOR OSAMA WITH CLINTON and CO.
THE (oops!) INADVERTENT ADMISSIONS OF HILLARY AND JANE IN SAN FRANCISCO
THE (oops!) INADVERTENT ADMISSIONS OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON (HEAR HILLARY IN SF) ~PART ONE~
for the birds
"the smartest woman in the world" sought less competitive venue
HILLARY!?? WHAT IS THIS MORIBUND LOSER DOING IN THE POLITICAL ARENA, ANYWAY? (bill's bud explains)
If every American woman who has a big ass -- or thinks she does -- votes for Hillary in sympathy, she will be elected by a landslide. If you don't want to see Prez Hillary, I'd avoid that line of attack.
lol/ bttt
Bill Clinton is a sociopath--a bad person but genuinely charming in personal interactions. Hillary lacks the charm.
Next up from Hillary Land:
They will put her through "charm school", and then the MSM will hail her turnaround as a revitailized candidate.
Geez, the plot practically writes itself...
I hate to admit it, but I think you're going to win the bet. What does it mean? ~S
Strangely, I was thinking of that phrase just this morning. A premonition? I didn't take the time to search out the meaning as I often do. Strange...
It's a small explosive device used by sappers (who "sap" the enemy's fortification walls) who dig a tunnel under the wall and then explode the device to cause a breach in the wall.
Thanks for the ping!
If she was elected POTUS what she get instead of a BJ in the OVAL office and who would be performing the service.
hoist: lift up; raise or lift somebody or something up.
be hoist with your own petard: to be the victim of your own attempt to harm somebody else
(Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation)
One thing I love about the internet is the easy ability to look up words and their derivations and consequently to use them precisely as well as creatively. I like to keep the dictionary at an easy click, and I keep a dictionary of my own of words and phrases that are not easily accessible otherwise and of quotations for easy reference.
Thanks, LS and AAM, for bringing this useful concept to clarity. ~S
Interesting. I hadn't thought of it in just these terms, before. Rather sickening, the thought of Billy-Jeff re-installed in the WH with his hand on the lever of power. However, I rather think Hillary wouldn't let Bill near any real power. She'd want it all for herself, using Bill for tactical advice, only.
Very welcome. Bttt
Warner is their best shot IMHO, Hillary ain't a Thang.....
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ROBERT KENNEDY'S CHILDREN -- A Special Report.
Struggling to Please the Father Who Died
By DEBORAH SONTAG
Published: June 15, 1997
In her loft office in Manhattan's TriBeCa, Rory Elizabeth Kennedy, a 28-year-old documentary film maker, sips tea on a worn couch draped with Guatemalan textiles and shoots out a quick answer to the question of who, if anyone, had served as a paternal figure in her life.
''Well, my father, of course,'' she said recently. ''Even in his absence, he was an enormous presence.''
The 11th and youngest child of Robert Francis Kennedy, Rory was born six months after his slaying on June 6, 1968. An older brother, Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, known as Max, was 3.
A former prosecutor in Philadelphia, Max Kennedy, 32, has taken a leave from lawyering to compile a book about his father, and his rental house in Los Angeles is littered with American history. Plucking a paper from a pile, then stretching out beside his pool, he reads aloud the extemporaneous speech that his father delivered in Indianapolis on the day the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Mr. Kennedy's voice eerily echoes the familiar accent and cadence.
''Obviously this project is an attempt to make whole a part of myself,'' Mr. Kennedy said. ''But it is not at all a desire to keep my father alive. Really.''
At the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Christopher George Kennedy, 33, race-walks through acres of designer furniture showrooms in the mammoth edifice where he helps tend the Kennedy family fortune. He talks occupancy rates with purposeful fluency, but his crisp businessman's demeanor wilts ever so slightly when the subject of his father's death, when Christopher was just short of 5, inevitably arises.
''I find it hard to think about it,'' he said briskly, breaking eye contact. ''It trips me into a funk, and I can't afford that. I have too much work to do.''
Twenty-nine years after their father was shot dead in Los Angeles, the children of Robert and Ethel Kennedy are still grappling with his death, which made a strong paternal figure loom forever larger than life, frozen in time at his moment of political ascendancy, without warts. Whether the children lost him at such a young age that they barely knew him or late enough to deeply know what they were missing, they are all still trying to please him, to live him down and to move beyond him -- seemingly impossible tasks.
It is as if the unfulfilled potential of their father's life had been handed down as an unmeetable challenge. For most of Robert Kennedy's children, this is less a struggle than a reality. They grew up coddled by a rich, sprawling and complex political dynasty, with a bounty of opportunities. But they were also marked for life by a tragedy that many Americans felt to be a collective loss, and there are ways in which they have been living inside a three-decade-long memorial service that does not allow them to move on.
''They'll go to a party or event, and 20 times in the course of an evening, some stranger will come up to them and say, 'I remember the day your father died,' '' said Paul Hill, the husband of Courtney Kennedy Hill and one of the Guildford Four, who were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for Irish Republican Army terrorist acts.
Mrs. Hill, 40, said: ''People will say, 'I know just how you feel.' And it's like, 'No. You don't. I lost my daddy.' ''
Eight of the 10 surviving children -- David Kennedy died of a drug overdose in 1984 -- granted interviews for this article: Kathleen, 45, Joseph, 44, Robert, 43, Courtney, 40, Kerry, 37, Christopher, 33, Max, 32, and Rory, 28. Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, 39, and Douglas Harriman Kennedy, 30, declined to be interviewed.
In the public eye, the children of Robert Kennedy and their cousins are lumped together and stained by the stumblings and exploits of a few: by the alcohol and drug abuse, the arrests, the sex scandals. Indeed, one of Robert Kennedy's children, Michael, made recent headlines when he was accused of having an extramarital affair with a teen-ager who baby-sat his children, and a local district attorney in Massachusetts has been working -- so far unsuccessfully -- to prove that the affair began when the girl was under 16, which would make it a crime.
Because Michael serves as campaign manager for his older brother, Representative Joseph Patrick Kennedy 2d, there were immediate political repercussions for the Congressman. Joseph Kennedy had been gliding into an election for Governor of Massachusetts. But when he simultaneously found himself coping with his brother's difficulties and with the fallout from a new book by his former wife, Sheila Rauch Kennedy, the glide went into a skid. In her book, Mrs. Kennedy asserted that her husband had bullied her into an annulment of their marriage of 12 years.
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Join us for this special opportunity to hear Jose Oubrerie, professor at Ohio State's Knowlton School of Architecture, provide a first-hand account of the completion of the Church of St. Pierre in Firminy, France.
Oubrerie began working on the church as a protégé of famed architect Le Corbusier in the early 1960s, but a series of misfortunes conspired to delay the project's realization for over 40 years. The church was at last completed under Oubrerie's direction in November 2006 and is the subject of the exhibition Architecture Interruptus, on view through April 15.


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Sales at 10 major convenience store operators totaled 673.0 billion yen, the Japan Franchise Association said.
The number of customers in April fell 1.7 percent to 1,137.46 million, the 11th consecutive monthly decline, due to a number of rainy days in northern and eastern Japan. Tokyo and Yokohama in particular had a record amount of rainfall last month.
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Although I could be mistaking, I think I found a big security hole in the protection this plugin is supposed to provide.
Basically, after you setup the "secure.htaccess", if you try to perform this query:
it will throw you to the big, bad 404 page.
Now, in case you are using wordpress permalinks (most people do) try to perform this query:
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Why? Because the wordpress standard htaccess code:
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If I am not mistaking, this can be fixed by placing this standard WP htaccess code below the security redirect rules, but I'm not sure if it does not break anything else, so I hope the plugin author can confirm or infirm it.
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PROVO — Many people only dream of being a national champion.
In the space of a mere 24 hours, however, BYU star runner Miles Batty twice lived that dream last spring.
"It was probably one of the best weekends of my life," he said.
Batty, a senior from Sandy, Utah, went into the 2011 NCAA Indoor National Championships with high expectations, but he never could have predicted the results of that weekend.
On the first day of the championships, the BYU distance medley relay team, with Batty as the anchor, was able to escape close finishes by both Indiana and Minnesota to secure the national title with a time of 9 minutes, 29.28 seconds.
The next day, Batty came away with his own individual championship in the mile, narrowly beating Chris O'Hare from Tulsa with an impressive sprint down the homestretch, finishing with a time of 3:59.49.
"Winning something individually is awesome, but winning something as a team is great as well," Batty said. "The guys on that relay team worked so hard and they wanted it so bad, so it was great to help them finish it out and win the race. And then to come back the next day and win one for myself in the mile was a very cool experience."
With Batty's talent and ability, some would assume that he had been running his whole life. But growing up in Arizona, Batty preferred other sports.
"I have two brothers who are close in age to me and growing up we loved playing sports and especially basketball," Batty said. "We would play on a dirt court with a hoop nailed onto a pine tree."
After moving to Sandy, Utah, he even played football as a kid, but his small size limited his capabilities.
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While in rehab for his knee his freshman year, Batty had a friend recommend he join the cross country and track teams.
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By that time cross country season was already over, so Batty first joined the track team the following spring. Although he had a knack for the sport, success didn't come immediately.
"I think my first 2-mile time was over 12 minutes," Batty said. "Kyle Parry and John Cotter, who both run for BYU, were in the first 2-mile race I ever ran and they both lapped me, and Kyle almost lapped me twice."
As high school continued, Batty progressed each year, running both cross country and track, and he credits his persistence in the sport to a coach at Jordan High School.
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|4 Pound (Use Chuck Or Rump)
|Freshly ground black pepper
|To Taste
|Wine vinegar
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|1 Clove (5 gm)
|Sliced onion
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Bay leaf
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Whole cloves
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Bacon drippings
|2 Tablespoon
|Sour cream
|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
|To Taste
1. Season the meat with the salt and pepper and place in a large bowl.
2. Bring the vinegar and water to a boil and add the garlic, onion, bay leaf, peppercorns, sugar and cloves. Pour the marinade over the beef, cover and refrigerate twelve hours or overnight.
3. Remove the meat and dry thoroughly with paper towels. Reserve the marinade. Dredge the meat with flour.
4. In a heavy kettle heat the bacon drippings, add the meat and brown on all sides. Add two cups of the marinade, cover tightly and simmer gently until the meat is tender, two and-one-half to three hours. Remove the meat to a warm platter and keep hot. Thicken the gravy with a little flour mixed with water. Stir in the sour cream and serve over the sliced meat.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 3255 Calories from Fat 1222
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 137 g211.4%
Saturated Fat 63 g314.9%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 273.6 mg91.2%
Sodium 6819.6 mg284.2%
Total Carbohydrates 368 g122.7%
Dietary Fiber 24.8 g99.1%
Sugars 84.8 g
Protein 137 g273.5%
Vitamin A 424.4% Vitamin C 151.1%
Calcium 72.5% Iron 149.1%
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Has anyone got any tips for this mission to get gold, Seems everytime I do it I get so far and then a Hasfient (or what ever they are called) is stuck way back from the pack & I have to fly a mile back to be able to get to it which wastes alot of time. The other thing that happens is it is hard to do it in the time frame, I know it is possible because I did it in 8:33 and the target is 8:30. I have spent almost 3 hours on this 1 stage and haven't come close to that time again.
Finally done it with 10 seconds to spare, I ended up using the last battleset as it built up prowess faster and has a better attack. I tried Diamond Dash but found it worst. Thanks for your help.
The best approach is use up on your :rs: when it seems you're not gaining much on the enemy to do the rescue. Once you do get it, hit back on your :rs: and then hit up on it to get a good fast start. To gain prowess, dive and collect coins. Only bother with enemies on the way back if you need prowess (and by deal, I mean counter). If you don't need any, when they get really close to hitting you just hit left or right on :rs: and you'll hardly lose any momentum from flying.
I must be missing something. Is there a fast way to kill Hagsfiends? I am having a hell of a time killing them before they reach their goal. For a 3/10 this game is a pain in the ass for me. I must be missing something.
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Site Speed
Posted by Sean Forman on August 19, 2011
I try to be very careful with how the site's code is structured, so that the pages will load and render as blazingly fast a possible. Users like it and it can have a direct impact on our bottom line.
One item that has been out of my control is the ad code we include on the pages. Some of these ads load 5-15 additional files and quite frankly some of the ad servers don't seem to have a good idea of what speed means, so the pages hang and we get lots of frustrated e-mails. As well as being frustrated ourselves.
We have just made a significant investment in our infrastructure that should remove this issue from the equation. All ads on B-R and eventually all SR sites now load in the background and will not block the page from loading. This went into effect sitewide last night, and at least as I've been using the site then and this morning I haven't seen any hangs. Hopefully this will solve this matter and we can all get back to looking at stats rather than waiting for things to load.
One other complaint we get is ads with audio. We have repeatedly asked not to serve these and report these to our ad provider as soon as we notice them. The way ads work is we have someone we deal with and then they are dealing with 5+ large networks themselves and selling their own ads. The 5+ large networks appear to have some issues filtering things on there end. I know this is passing the buck, but that is how it happens. I've found that the mute button generally stays muted from page to page, but your mileage may vary. We'll continue to work on this.
56 Responses to "Site Speed"
anon Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 10:10 am
Thanks for everyone's hard work on this site. I greatly value quickly loading sites (Brian Wilson stare at you, ESPN), and this one has always been fast for me.
John Autin Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 10:13 am
"For this relief, much thanks."
The ad loads hadn't been a big issue on my PC at work, but on my laptop at home the delays had gotten so irksome that some nights I'd just give up and read a book. [Egad!] I'm grateful that you're trying to address it and hope to have it licked.
Evan Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 10:14 am
Your efforts to eliminate the automatic audio ads is greatly appreciated as they are very intrusive and I'm sure I'm not the only one who often ends up closing the whole page rather than searching for the pane that is causing the problem.
Overall I don't think the level of advertising on B-R (I rarely frequent the other S-R sites) is bad at all, especially considering that the web site itself is the primary business (as opposed to existing to support an alternate business). One of the issues I have with MLB's site is that there is a constant barrage of advertising, much of which is designed to delay access to content. Their video clips are especially bad as they will usually require you to watch the same 15-30 second ad over and over again each time you switch from one video clip highlight to another - this is bad enough on 2 minutes of game recap, but is quite outrageous for videos showing a 15-20 second highlight of one play.
Thanks again for not only making the information on your sites available to the public, but for doing so with a business model that values how the user experiences the site.
mike Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 10:45 am
If you're using Chrome, http://www.mutetab.com/ has a pretty useful extension that'll tell you which tab is making noise (since I also frequently have the problem of loading a bunch of pages in tabs & then trying to figure out which one is blasting Lady Gaga at me).
nightfly Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 11:00 am
Ironically, this page hung for me when I first tried to open it.
And frankly, if that's my biggest problem in life, then I'm way out in front. (It certainly wouldn't be a save situation.) Thanks for making this site so wonderful - and for providing so much of it for free.
John Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 11:21 am
Yeah, add my name to the chorus: you've done a fantastic job with the site's loading speed, and it actually did make a difference in driving me to this site, as opposed to some others. (That was back when I went to any other stat sites, for stats I knew I could find on bbref. Those days are behind me.)
As a web developer myself, I get angrier at the advertising companies than I do at the site, when it causes problems. Doubly so here, because it's obvious -- without you even mentioning it -- that performance is a (if not the) principal consideration here.
Scott Taylor Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 11:23 am
I guess I should be grateful because I never EVER have a problem with this site and I'm browsing here quite often. Thanks for the hard work
Baseball: B-R Improves Site Speed » Stathead » Blog Archive Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 11:27 am
[...] B-R Improves Site Speed: A note from B-R's Sean Forman on how the site will be faster from now on. [...]
John Autin Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
I still dream of a "pay for content" option that would let me pay a market price to use the site without ever having to see or hear ads. I've quick-pitched the notion once or twice; perhaps it is currently impractical, or perhaps not enough people have expressed the willingness to pay.
But it would definitely be worth a chunk of change to me.
Christopher Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 12:25 pm
I have to agree with Evan. Compared to the extensive time delay on loading MLB's site, I can't honestly say that I had even noticed any delay on this site. Great work!
Devon Young Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. It's usually not a big deal to me to wait a few seconds, but lately, it's been a whole new ballgame.... I've actually found some of the flash ads would stop the rest of the page from loading (using Chromium & Firefox on Ubuntu), and reloadin the page a dozen times doesn't change it. It was only certain ads causing it. I really HATED that. I mean, just trying to check for something on the Pirates 2009 schedule page shouldn't take me 5-10 minutes.
So thank you for addressing the problem the ads have been causing.
Tom Epp Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
I, too, want to thank you Sean. I have noticed the improved loading speed this morning - though it was never as bad as sites like mlb.com or espn.go.com.
Now if only you could host a "gameday' / 'gamecast' equivalent without the annoying talkie ads...
mosc Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
the site loading issues were especially bad for me. My work blocks some of the add sites which means I often had to refresh pages before they'd load. You fixed that now, thank you.
I want to thank you for posting this where we can discuss it as well and voice our gratitude for this website and the direction you take it. Keep up the good work!
Sean Forman Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Mosc, what happens now. The ads just don't load? That's fine. I just wasn't aware that companies were doing that.
KB Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Wow, it does seem to be loading faster. Just when I thought BR couldn't get any better, it did. Thanks.
Nash Bruce Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
I love 'behind-the-scenes' info. Nice.
@2: surprised to see that you still have a job, I thought that this was it now ;-p
Thanks all.
Frank Clingenpeel Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
This is GREAT! Thanks to the non-interuptions, this site loads fast, instead of half-fast.
{Say this quickly to get the meaning of my message}.
Nash Bruce Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
going off-topic here, but a couple of lines in this article:
'Rickett said the "culture of accountability" in the organization led to the decision and they need "different perspectives." '
'As for what qualities he will seek in the new GM, Ricketts listed player-development skills and a strong baseball analytical background. Hendry was not a proponent of sabermetrics.'
(the times, they are a-changin'..........)
Timothy P. Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Even though I often take SABRmeters to task, and partake in vicious HoF arguments, and enjoy ethnic jokes, an occasionally calling people names, and often have to defend myself from attacks on my manliness which is silly since I'm the very essence of manliness and being macho, and even though I often have to defend myself from the anti-feline cabal, and get teased about my lack of education, and the fact I used to go to Boys Town, I do appreciate a fast loading website.
Timothy P. Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 2:36 pm
The Cubs fire Jim Hendry! And you know why? The treatment of Carlos Zambrano. Big Z got mad and cleaned out his locker, so what? That's baseball! Hendry is a fat idiot and was trying to do to Zambrano what the Yankees did to Jorge Posada earlier this year.
Cheese Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 3:04 pm
I offer this only to help people still having issues with loading, etc. (Don't use if you experience no loading issues, since sites like these rely on the occasional accidental ad click 😉 )
AdBlock for Chrome.
John Autin Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 4:01 pm
@19 / @20, Timothy -- Even though your first post was hilarious, your second was a side-splitter.
I'll go out on a limb and guess that Hendry's suspension of Zambrano headed the short list of what management liked about his performance -- but that giving Big Z that fat contract in 2007 (even as he was in the process of leading the league in walks for the 2nd straight year and punching out his catcher) was among the Top 3 Reasons Hendry Must Go Now.
Phil Haberkorn in Indiana Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Advertising is good. Greed, no. Advertising, yes. It is the American Way.\
I don't mind unexpected audio, unless it has rap or country music. But I do my computer surfing in a public library lobby, and other patrons just don't like computer noise at all, so I firmly second the support for your efforts to reduce if not eliminate the sound track. If my former bosses in radio and TV read this, I will no doubt be removed from their Christmas card lists, but hey, what's life if you don't take a chance one in a while?
I am blown away on a daily basis by the fact that this website is basically coming from the fan population, not MLB, and even with advertising support, there's gotta be a lot of unpaid "volunteer" time put into it. When they open a Technology Wing at the Baseball Hall of Fame, you guys should be among the first inductees along with the original crew of WGN-TV who set standards for broadcast coverage of baseball, and the guy who invented those old-style flip-up sunglasses, they are so cool.
Phil Haberkorn in Indiana Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 4:24 pm
Re: 18, 20, 22.....could the CUBS FIRE HENDRY subject be posted as a separate thread so that debate can continue there?
mosc Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 4:29 pm
@14 Sean, they basically block the ad. There are other client side ways of doing it too (firefox plugins is probably the most common). Your change let the rest of the site load now.
It's hard to replicate. The majority of the ads do load.
Hey, since I've got your undivided attention for a second, I'll offer a suggestion. I like the comments here but I wish they were replaced by a more complete forum solution. That way the forum would be searchable and it would be easier to keep track of discussions in multiple threads. I think you could generate some income off of it by posting your more official blog posts as they are here with comments taken from the forums but only allowing people to add comments who are forum members. Then you could charge for forum membership (more generally done as just forum "premium" membership charges) and use other time tested forum income generation as well.
I love this site so much, thanks for reading this.
Thomas Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
This site remains fantastic. I'm here way more often then I probably should be.
The idea of a forum of some kind vaguely interests me as well, as there are plenty of times where I've wanted to randomly ask a stats question or mention a random thing I've seen.... but I also understand it's a major undertaking, and I'd rather have the stats remain amazing...
Whatever, keep up the great work.
Whiz Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
I too have been annoyed at the slow loading of ads in the past (and I realized it was the ads, not B-R). Thanks for making your website even more enjoyable than it was before. (I echo Thomas' remark -- I'm here way more than I should be!)
Andrew Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 5:35 pm
So what is the site's new Speed Score?
Sean Forman Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 5:37 pm
On Yahoo we have a speed score of 92 last I checked.
91 on AOL webpagetest.org.
At least on the front page.
Kahuna Tuna Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Speed Scores . . . if I'd ever thought about it, I'd have had to realize that such things exist.
"In Cyberia, you do not keep track of baseball statistics. Baseball statistics keep track of you."
Timothy P. Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 7:03 pm
@22 JA In the last game Zambrano pitched, what the heck was he still doing in the game down by 8 runs in the 4th inning after giving up 5 home runs? He deserved to get tossed out of the game, but the pitches he threw at Larry Chipper Jones were low breaking balls, he was trying to get tossed to make a point. And then Quade starts arguing with the ump! What for? Zambrano walked calmly to the dugout and smiled. If you watch it again you can tell that Quade was so confused he didn't know what to do. There is a back story here and it's that Z thought Quade and Hendry left him in the game too long to embarrass him. Hence the desire to drive Z out of baseball so they can try to get out of his contract. By the way JA it's not Z's contract that is outrageous, he only has one year left. It's effing Soriano's contract that is the biggest joke in all of sports! It's the cornerstone of Jim Hendry's stupidity. Not to mention the 3 year Fukudome debacle. After getting kicked out of Boys Town, I lived in downtown Omaha for a while when Jim Hendry was the coach at Creighton University and I use to drink downtown sometimes at the French Cafe, and that fat idiot Hendry would come in and sit and have dinner and he would order his his steaks well done!! and these at the time were $35 - $50 Iowa cornfed Sirloins or New York strips, this was good beef and that rube would ruin it!!!!! I even saw that SOB put ketchup on a $60 filet one time! I should have known then that anybody that would ruin a perfect steak like that has the potential to ruin a ball club and the finest hitting pitcher in baseball!
DoubleDiamond Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Thanks for this change. In fact, I had noticed slower loading recently but wondered if the problem was my overloaded hard drive on a 2003 model Windows computer.
There are many things I'd like to change about the MLB web site. If I go to http://www.phillies.com because I'm not in a place where I can watch or listen to the game and just want to know the score, a bunch of backgrounds loads first, before any news items, and the score is usually last.
Also, you have to log in EVERY TIME you go there. There is no option to save my log in information, which most sites (such as the Play Index here) do these days. I suspect that it is because they want you to have more opportunities to forget to uncheck that box that lets them send unsolicited stuff to you.
On MLB's amateur draft page, where you can search for drafted players by various criteria, DC is missing from the state option. True, not many players from DC get drafted, but not many guys from, say, Vermont and North Dakota do, either, but their states are listed. (This year, there was a real prospect from Wyoming, and I read somewhere that he was something like the only the 12th player ever drafted from that state.) Incidentally, it's not due to DC not being a state, because players from Puerto Rico are subject to the draft now, and that's listed as a "state" option.
When you view comments, only 10 are displayed per page, with no option to increase this number. Ironically, this was probably designed to allow the comments to load faster. These days, though, the comments themselves probably don't take long to load. But every 10 comments, we have to sit through the loading of the graphics, ads, etc. On a lot of newspaper sites (of which some, notably the Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News, load very slowly), articles of a certain length are broken down into two or more pages, and again, I have to go through a lot of graphics loading to see the eventual article. Some papers give you the option to View All, but first you have to see page 1 to get that option. And if it's only 2 pages, you don't save much time that way. Also, at least one paper - I think it's either the Inquirer/Daily News or the New York Times - doesn't give you the View All choice.
Thanks again for your efforts on this site.
Neil L. Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Timmy P., you are definitely an all-American man! 🙂
DavidRF Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Thanks Sean!
John Autin Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
@31, Timothy -- I hear your points. Hendry gave out so many bad contracts, it's hard to know where to start.
"Ketchup on a $60 filet" -- that's kind of the opposite of some of those contracts, eh?
But I don't see how you can blame Hendry for leaving Zambrano in that game. As for what Z thought, isn't that part of his problem? He always seems to think someone is against him.
It was the 5th inning, and Zambrano had only thrown 74 pitches. Yeah, he was getting rocked. But the Cubs don't exactly have a deep bullpen. Marmol had worked the last 3 days, Samardzija and Marshall the last 2 days, and Wood 2 of the last 3. Zambrano had an extra day's rest since his last start. Why can't he take one for the team?
His actions afterward pretty much answer that question. The team is not his top priority.
Look, I can relate to frustration, anger, embarrassment, even temper tantrums. But Zambrano's getting paid to be the ace of that team, and that means a leader. If he can't pitch like an ace, it's even more important for him to try to act like one. Clearing out his locker after that game -- no matter what his rationale -- was 100% bush league, and management was right to punish him, regardless of their own failings.
John Autin Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 8:07 pm
"Speed score" is fine and all, but what's our Power/Speed Number?
jbird Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 8:20 pm
@5. dead on.
jbird Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
@26 & 27. more dead on.
@31. youre too much tim :O)
@ mr. forman: as stated in the "historic ellsbury" thread, this site is THE BEST. thank you.
Cheese Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Ok, no one can complain if they are on a 7 year old computer...Do you complain that your VHS doesn't play Blue-Ray? Come on.
Timothy P Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 10:38 pm
@35 JA - "Ketchup on a $60 filet" -- that's kind of the opposite of some of those contracts, eh? Great point!
Timothy P Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 10:53 pm
I wanted to mention that I never have any problems with slows on this site. I think it's because I only have my computer hooked up to the cable, and not the TV, I don't have a TV. Maybe the reception is good in this part of the country.
thom-13 Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 10:55 pm
I was a bit confused by some of the comments but realize it might be the way I browse. I typically use Firefox and have NoScript constantly running. This tends to block out many ads as they don't have permissions to work. Occasionally, I'll want to see some content that is being blocked and I can temporarily allow permissions for a specific site or all on the page.
If you're viewing from work, you may have issues depending upon how much IT allows you to download stuff.
Mr. Dave Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 11:15 pm
I've never had a problem with this site being either slow or not loading at all. Then again, my computer is about five months old, and the previous one wasn't old either. I wonder if any site speed issues were due to the age of the computer than anything else.
At any rate, I appreciate the work that is done on the site and the constant efforting to make sure that things run smoothly on here. Keep up the great work!
DavidRF Says:
August 19th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
If you had an adblocker, then there weren't any problems.
I didn't have an adblocker at work though. The problems I saw was that the ads would try to load before the page loaded and sometimes the ad-load would hang.... so then no page. Hitting reload repeatedly... it would eventually load. It was strange, lots of sites have ads, lots have more ads even. But this ad-load blocking the page load seemed unique to this site.
Glad they've found a way to fix it.
Mr. Dave Says:
August 20th, 2011 at 12:05 am
@44 Unless Norton has something like that, then I definately do not have an adblocker. I didn't even know they existed until this thread.
Thomas Says:
August 20th, 2011 at 2:43 am
I know this isn't the spot for it but here's something I'd like if possible:
On the mobile blog site, I'd like to have the comment number posted, because so many people start their response with @## and it becomes incredibly difficult to follow along and try and keep track of the numbers...
Rich Says:
August 20th, 2011 at 4:00 am
@ 3 Ugh, yes, mlb.com is so awful with this. My biggest pet peeve with them? You have to watch 3-4 freaking video ads WHEN USING GAMEDAY. It's not even game footage you're watching and yet they think a video ad there is appropriate.
nesnhab Says:
August 20th, 2011 at 10:14 am
That is great news, especially from a paying customer. Thanks
Nash Bruce Says:
August 20th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
I don't have any problems with this site either. To echo what a couple others have just commented, my laptop is only a year-and-a-half old and runs great (knock on wood). I use Firefox, always. Just got back from Chicago, and, in the hotel, the common computers only offered IE as a browser (didn't waste the 10 seconds, to find out which version, but I'm sure that it was a newer version). What a terrible product. Slow, and rendering sites incorrectly. Ugh.
I'll also echo some other comments, which have stated that "I am on here far too much." Timmy, I'll admit to thinking that on some of your worse days, I've felt the same about you- but (again, echoing some other comments) #31 was a killer! LOL
Zambrano, at this point, is actually the best pitching hitter in baseball. (Sorry, Rick Ankiel. It was a good run.) I'd thought, 'well, why not ship him across town to the Sox? They need a DH.' Imagine my surprise when I saw that very same idea in one of the Chi papers a few days ago. Sox fans were not enamored with the thought, however- one comment went something like 'fans are going to be (going after somebody) with pitchforks and torches if this happens'.
I guess that this fan felt that what is Dunn is Dunn.
(Guess I've been on here a little too long myself!! *groans)
Phil Haberkorn in Indiana Says:
August 20th, 2011 at 2:15 pm
STEAK WELL DONE: you have to leave it on the fire a while, then remove it, hopefully before it gets burned. Kind of like having Jim Hendry around too long.
KETCHUP ON STEAK: isn't there an 11th Commandment against that?
ZAMBRANO: I've posted here before, that he needs to go to an AL team where he can DH on non-pitching days. He will ONLY be happy when he has HIS way. I recommend the Yankees if they'll have him. On a pennant contender he'll have to put up or shut up. Maybe he'd be good for middle relief, to set up the 9th for Mariano Rivera. Just make sure he doesn't leave the ball park early, so he can watch Rivera and see how a real PRO handles pressure.
Timothy P. Says:
August 20th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
@33 you are definitely an all-American man! No Neil, I'm just a regular Amercan, no hyphen! Just a man and his cat.
Neil L. Says:
August 20th, 2011 at 9:02 pm
But Timothy P., you are admirably loyal to Juan Pierre, Michael Young, Carlos Zambrano, Josh Hamilton, and your cat, whose name, I must confess, I have forgotten.
And I don't even know what team you root for. My guesses are the Cubs, the Brewers, the White Sox or the Rangers.
Timothy P. Says:
August 20th, 2011 at 11:38 pm
@52 Speaking of Hamilton, I have heard talk recently about how his play is very uninspired this year, and I've seen it too. He is probably the most gifted player in baseball except for Pujols, but he is 30 already. Combine his injuries with his off-the-field issues and I think you may have the Hack Wilson of the 21st Century. I'm a Cub fan, and like the White Sox also having lived in Chicago for a while. I like the Rangers because I'm a Nolan Ryan fan, and a George W. Bush fan, big fan of Bush! I lived in Fort Worth for a while too. My cats name is Sally. I like Konerko also, and Damon, Jemille Weeks, Alex Gordon, Delmon Young will be great one day, Berkman HoF, Kinsler I like he takes his walks. I don't like anything in the state of Wisconsin. Ever notice that in every WWII movie all the German speaking American translators are from Wisconsin? I think to this day there are still Nazi sympathizers in the cheese state and something that needs to be kept an eye on. Nazis = bad! I hate the Brewers.
Timothy P. Says:
August 20th, 2011 at 11:55 pm
I like Sean Marshall also, I think he will have long Jesse Orosco-like career but with a better ERA.
John Autin Says:
August 21st, 2011 at 2:02 am
@49, Nash -- Groans from me you'll never get with punnery.
A bad-contract swap like the one you proposed can only work if it's made before the fans have time to marshal their opposition. Thus, "If it were Dunn when 'tis Dunn, then t'were well it were Dunn quickly."
(Just trying to bring the subject back to site speed!) (Also it's late and I may be incoherent.)
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As for Mike, what can I say? What a humble adventure he's starting. He's working wonders for us gays...
OMG that is SWEET ASS! Jones is a hero in my book. I wish more people had the courage to out these hate-mongering, self-loathing, fuck how I say not how I fuck assholes.
I think it's terrific! Someday soon I hope something like this occurs at Antioch Bible Church or Mars Hill Church. Just walk right in and call them to the carpet on their hypocrisy. Let these people know that they can't even hide in their "churches".
I'm still entirely against what Mike Jones did. He dug his own grave by disclosing information that was (meant) to be private. Now that he has a dirt reputation, has lost almost everything--everything but his crappy book--he appears to be resorting to intimidating churches and outing as many faces as he possibly can.
He wants to sit down and have an honest discussion? My ass. He knew exactly how New Life Church would react, as he also knows how many churches would react. He wants to write that second book. Honest discussions are not going to pay his bills.
I know I'm blowing this out of proportion. I just have this funny feeling Mike Jones is going to eventually end up giving gays a bad name with this 'outing' crap. Several familiar faces, eh? I just don't buy it. He's a fabulist.
Mike Jones HAD his 15 minutes of fame already. It was great what he did but let's face it, his book was at crappy and written at the 7th grade level. He did make a choice and a sacrafice which I appreciate and we all should be thankful for. But now it is starting to look like someone desperate for attention, any sort of attention.
Mr. Poe why are you against what Mike Jones did? I guess look at it this way... If Mike Jones advertised himself as "Hey, for $100 come over and I'll fuck your ass until you cum and then the date is over" that is one thing, but I'm sure he advertised as a "masseur". There was a lack of honesty at the very beginning.
I have to say that Mike Jones is a better man than me, because I very much DO want to see more individuals and families ruined. Schadenfreude. If you can't take it, stop being a hypocrite in church.
Mr. Poe - go fuck a fundamentalist.
Do I approve of outing people? You better bet your cock sucking/butt fucking ass, IF THEY ARE HYPOCRITS TRYING TO TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE. They want to ruin my family by making my partnership illegal? Well, I'm gonna go down kicking and screaming and "ruin" their family. "RUIN" in quotation marks because was Haggy's family ruined? Can he not adopt now? Can he not get married again if he wanted to? Is it illegal for him to fuck his wife in the ass if he wants to?
Ruined? Fuck off.
1) Since Haggard made everyone's sexuality his business, it follows that his sexuality is everyone's business.
2) In Haggard's view, admitting you are a homosexual is the first step towards recovery. Jones was simply helping Haggard make that first step.
Jones did right by us and Haggard.
He was not advertised as a 'masseur' alone. Mike Jones has made the entire three years pretty obvious. He was an escort. Haggard knew it. Duh. They were fucking for three years, and Ted was paying for three years. There was no lack of honesty on either side in any room that which they were fucking.
Ted was a hypocrite. Yeah. We know. Duh. Thanks for reminding us. Do I need to remind you that Ted was for civil unions? Also, you're an idiot.
I'm not defending Ted. I'm not saying Mike Jones is a bad person. I'm saying I personally do not agree with how he handled that situation. If it were me, I would have simply stopped seeing Ted. Let him go fuck someone else. I might have even exchanged a few choice words/opinions with him. But I would not have outed [sic] him.
If Dan was sleeping around behind his husbands back with a female escort--who doesn't personally agree with the fact that he's gay, stands for gay rights, and makes a note of almost every heterosexual family dilemma he can--and she decided to 'out' his adultery and hypocrisy. I find it hard to believe many of us gays would defend her, buy her book, and drool over the idea of her disclosing any other information she possibly can. (On anyone, for that matter.)
we should build a monument for mike... he is a gay hero...
Gore Vidal is a Gay Hero...
Rosie Odonell is a Gay Hero
Barney Frank is a Gay Hero
Mike Jones is an opportunistic hooker with NO job possibilities. Kinda like Dan Savage.
I'm an idiot? How would The Honorable Mr. Savage sleeping with a woman be hypocritical? He's never said that he would never ever EVER sleep with a woman and that heterosexuals are all going to hell. Please educate me smarty pants.
Oh, and I love these choice bits:
"Now that he has a dirt reputation"
Ummmm, he was a prostitute. I don't think his reputation was golden in the first place. Except maybe as a prostitute.
"I might have even exchanged a few choice words/opinions with him"
Fuck lot of good that would do, but quite prissy and uptight.
@10 So you would have been totally ok with letting Haggard continue on with his hate spewing at the "church"? That's such a pussy "I only care about me" attitude. As long as it doesn't personally have any direct bearing on your life you don't care, but you have personally been involved with the person and know exactly what they are doing on both sides of the fence? That's just weak. "Gee, I was sleeping with Hitler and knew what he was doing, but since it didn't affect anyone in my family I just didn't feel like I needed to say anything."
Also, I doubt Dan would go to a female whore, but instead would dress up as a frustrated housewife and go to a male hustler for some good loving.
Say it like it is GRRrrrrrrrrl.
"How would The Honorable Mr. Savage sleeping with a woman be hypocritical?"
I said: "If Dan was sleeping around behind his husbands back with a female escort..."
Not that I should even point that out...seeing how everything you said @ #13 was utterly empty and stupid.
Actually, it would bother me. A lot. As for the outing; of course I would think about what it would do to me. I'd also think about what it would do to my...um...coworkers. Peers in the industry. Whatever. Let's show a good chunk of our business that we can and will tell the whole world that you're sleeping with us. Great idea. Gay escorts now have the proud label (further enforcing the stereotype) of being deceitful, untrustworthy, drug-dealing whores.
Also, your comparison to this situation with Hitler is ridiculous. For reasons that are obvious.
So...what do you think Mike Jones really accomplished? The way I see it, all he did was give us gays something to talk about. Ted's sheeple at the New Life Church will believe that he is cured, which will promote the idea that homosexuality can be cured. The parents will explain to their children the horror of homosexuality, and how Ted was tormented by demons, while mentioning the rampant sex, the meth, and how it destroyed Ted's life.
Or do you actually think that the eyes at the New Life Church have been opened? To what?
Yeah Mr. Poe I gotta side against you on this one. Not with that Hitler dumbfuck, with #13. The issue is the hypocrisy. Dan cheating on his guy might make him an asshole but it's in no way comparable to Haggard's sexapalooza. While Haggard is on record as saying gay sex=eternal damnation, Dan is on record as saying cheating is sometimes okay. Anytime you stridently and self-righteously proclaim something in a public forum you open yourself up to scrutiny for any contradiction. Just look at Dan v. the trolls re: the war in Iraq.
Yeah, well you're "utterly empty and stupid" too!!! Meany. - sniff -
I'm trying to point out your inconsistent and thoughtless logic and all you can do is insult me.
Poo on Poe.
Right on Chi!
i'm with poe on this one. though it's a close call. do you use slimey tactics to deal with slimey people? well, if you do, then you are may be in danger of being slimey.
when you pay an escort, you pay for discretion.
"The issue is the hypocrisy."
Yeah. I know.
"Dan cheating on his guy might make him an asshole but it's in no way comparable to Haggard's sexapalooza."
Right. Dan sleeping behind his husbands back with a woman, given all he has said and stood for, makes him an asshole. So, Ted sleeping behind his wifes back with a man, given all he has said and stood for, makes him what?
The only time I've ever read Dan saying cheating is okay was in a situation where the wife simply said 'no' to anymore sex. So I'll give you that. However, Haggard may be on record saying gay sex = eternal damnation, but he did stand for civil unions, so I could really care less. He's not the first person to say gay sex = eternal damnation, and he's obviously not the last. He's following what he believes. Well, sort of.
Look, your points are clear and they do make sense. I don't believe we're going to find any common ground here. I simply do not agree or approve of what Mike Jones did. That's my opinion. I'm not expecting to change anybody's mind here. I'm simply defending how I feel about it. How I feel happens to be different from almost everybody else (Or so it seems).
Escorts are required for one thing: private sex. Ted didn't go to a gay bar and pick Mike up for sex. Did he go to gay bars? Yes. Looking for sex? I don't know. Maybe. Or maybe he was trying to slowly identify with himself. Who knows, and who fucking cares? If you're an escort, outing one of your clients because of their hypocrisy is just ridiculous to me. Can you imagine what that will honestly do to the escort industry (at large)?
Just the other week on Control Tower, some allegedly important fellow called the Mistress regarding this very same thing. So it is causing a little silent stir in the way things are working in the escort industry. Now picture this, if Jones starts galloping this outing shit all over the country, or even at New Life Church (his only semi-believable location for walking in and seeing similar faces), some escorts with private clients might start turning up dead. Don't be so neglectful of how powerful Mike's actions may be.
So like I've said: I really do not see how Mike's actions were great, important, heroic, whatever. It's good news for us. It's news Conservatives will ignore. It's news Christians will use. (Homosexuality is evil, homosexuality ruined Ted's life, his family, the 'sexual immorality' eventually led him to drugs, homosexuality can be cured, homosexuality should be cured, blablabla.)
It's Friday. I hate being in any kind of serious mood on Friday's. In fact, I hate being in a serious mood almost all of the time. I have spoken. It is done. Agree or disagree. I love cock.
I am used to the hate speach against me. I just happen to the the guts to be honest. Let us not forget all the lives Haggard, Dobson, Falwell, Robertson ruined and perhaps caused suicides preaching shame and guilt. Who else is speaking up? Mike Jones
"when you pay an escort, you pay for discretion"
ahhh yes!!
the descretion premium, that is what some do pay;
as opposed to the cheaper methed out low rent-boys I pay to toss my salad like the swedish chef weilding two salad shooters admist cartonfuls of bibb-lettuce and frisee....
I don't give a shit about Mike Jones. I just want to see more Ted Haggards exposed and humiliated. If Mike Jones can do that, godspeed. It doesn't mean I think he's a hero.
addendum to #22:
all the while, as msrs. poe & fnarf http://static.flickr.com/18/24172962_451f34da6e.jpg look on from the balcony with mixtures of awe, revulsion, respectful glee and cringe-worthy concern, at our public display of debauch...
As a het female, with a family, I think Mike has honor and style. I hope he brings down tons of those lying bastards. If he were my son, I'd be damn proud of him.
Wow, I hadn't realized that hookers were like priests and counselors.. an automatic presumption of confidentiality. Go figure.
If you pay a guy for sex, I figure that he could also be paid to give up his client list.
I would like to see Mike Jones hook up will all of these cocksucking hypocrites and out them one by one. Besides generating a steady stream of media titillation, that might--just might--teach them not preach about other people's private business up on a pulpit and scumbag their wives through the back door. BTW, my comment is not in any way intended to disparage cocksuckers.
"Mr Poe"'s probably one of Mike's customers at the New Life church, and he sounds so pissy because he's trying to remember how much homophobic hate speech he preached.
If these Christian preachers are going to keep preaching hate:
Go get 'em, Mike.
Some pastors should read their Bibles more carefully. Jesus met with prostitutes, did not comdemn them, and did not hide behind a lawyer.
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6 Reviews
Really nice, moist banana muffin! I didn't really like the addition of the twix bars - I think it made the muffins less attractive with "holes" in the sides & bottoms of the muffins and I don't think the flavour shone through the banana. I only used 1 1/2 large bananas because that was all I had (it equalled one cup) & ended up with 10 large muffins.
My husband loved these muffins. Very moist and tasty. I used 1/4 cup of oil and didn't add salt. This recipe made 12 muffins for me. Thanks for sharing, Tunasushi :-)
These were HEAVENLY! I used large, and I do mean LARGE bananas, and smaller than average muffin tins, so I had more than 10 muffins. I made them yesterday, and they are GONE. There were only 6 of us!!!!! This was a huge hit with the adults as well as the kids! Thanks for posting a fabulous recipe which included a delicious and often overlooked candy bar! Made for ZWT3.
My husband loved these muffins, talk about how moist they are! Unbelievable! We will have to make them again! I didn't have the regualr size candy bar (only the fun sizes) So I ended up using 5 little bars, crushed up. Thank you for sharing!
Really great tasting and easy to make! Shared with friends and everyone loved them! Thanks for the recipe!
very yummy, a hit with everyone!!


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Michigan Mountain Biking Association
grix wrote:Is TK Lawless closed now? I was thinking of riding it this weekend.
jpc1 wrote:Anyone know when the trails officially open?
edwdim wrote:According to the latest posts on the NIMBA site, Lawless is now open.
I also would like to get out to Lawless soon. It is an hour and a half drive for me though, and I would like to make sure it is worth the drive...BiknMachine wrote:I was looking at riding at Lawless next week, and was wondering what the condition of the trails are? Muddy?
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