HoyaNyr320
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Jan 29, 2007 14:06:43 GMT -5
It's ok. I think Buffalo invited Barbaro over for milkshakes and juiceboxes before his demise.
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Jan 18, 2007 12:03:04 GMT -5
I've heard people on this board say similar things a lot, but I don't really understand....if a college is offered a spot in a better and more lucrative football and basketball conference, why should they be hated for taking that opportunity? Seems like a business decision to me. BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!!!! Lol... Pg, I think it probably has something to do with the fact that BC was one of Big East teams that had joined in filing a law suit against the ACC for poaching Miami and Virginia Tech. However, once they were offered a spot in the ACC, they suddenly found the maneuver to be legally ok... an interesting "flip-flop" if you will.
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Dec 14, 2006 11:54:20 GMT -5
I like to watch gator hunting. Particularly hifigators.
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Apr 4, 2006 14:27:13 GMT -5
Wow.... I can' t believe this guy is still posting here. I mean, congratulations to your team and everything but isn't it time to move on? Don't you have a job or something?
hifigator:Florida is great::edstimes:Esherick sucks
Using that logic, I believe that hifigator deserves a break from Hoyatalk.... or at least another Frank Black reprimand
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Sept 11, 2007 8:50:38 GMT -5
It's hard to evaluate the job Director Muir has done because the only direction the department could go was up. Maybe I'm overstating a little, but it seemed that the end of the Lang era was just about rock-bottom as far as Georgetown Athletics was concerned. That being said, there have been many positive changes and I don't doubt that Director Muir will continue to hire the right people and successfully pressure the administration to fund athletic priorities.
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Nov 27, 2005 20:25:48 GMT -5
Wow... almost as bad as scheduling a home opener during Thanksgiving break.... The Athletic Dept. still has a long way to go when it comes to thinking about the student fans. And with this bit of scheduling, they can't use the venue excuse- Men's Lacrosse can play on the the MSF whenever they want. Hard to understand really.
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Dec 5, 2007 13:21:22 GMT -5
exorcist, those are good points. I too admit to being long-winded and not especially clear with my first post.
I guess the part of this administration's approach that I'm most opposed to is rhetoric similar to that which occured prior to the invasion of Iraq.
I agree with you that the administration's approach in terms of unifying other countries in favor of sanctions, including France this time around, has helped to isolate the hard-liners in the regime. It was also good to see the entire Arab world, including Syria, in attendance at the Annapolis peace conference with Iran being the sole non-attendee (in terms of the important countries in the region).
My worry is that, like the invasion of Iraq, the hard-line neo-con hawks in the administration are winning the day and the President is using this tough-guy rhetoric to make a case for air-strikes of nuclear facilities and ground force incursions on the Iran-Iraq border. Moves like this would be disasterous to development of the pro-Western contingent of the Iranian people.
ON EDIT:
Also in response to the issue of finding nuclear sites in the case of a regime change- I don't believe that forced regime change is the answer - just that this regime's support of terrorist groups should be limited covertly until the Iranian people select a new regime. I also believe that the NIE estimate has eliminated the concern of nuclear launch sites, as Iran clearly does not have enough enriched uranium to create a nuclear warhead.
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Dec 4, 2007 13:25:03 GMT -5
The report also estimates that Iran would not be able to enrich enough uranium to continue such a program until 2010. President Bush claimed today in a news conference that this report somehow confirms his policy towards Iran. To me, this is just another example of how this Administration has botched Middle East policy. The people of Iran, especially young people, identify with Western culture and want to live in a modern, Western-like country. There are other ways of isolating their more fundamentalist leaders besides threatening the use of ground forces, calling their country a threat and the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning the actions of Iran and their support of Hamas and Hezbollah. However, I trust that our Central Intelligence Agency along with Mossad have covert operations in place to undermine these actions. Instead of letting these covert operations take their course and isolating the fundamentalist elements of the Iranian regime diplomatically, the rhetoric used for the past seven years has undermined our diplomatic position in the Middle East (and around the World).
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Sept 5, 2007 16:30:30 GMT -5
The devil went down to....
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Sept 4, 2007 7:14:23 GMT -5
Ed, Now if you don't believe in some form of global warming, you are calling the Pope fallible! Maybe you can explain why carbon offsets are important without accepting global warming?
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Aug 29, 2007 15:20:15 GMT -5
UPDATE: The Bathroom Bandit has stepped down from his committee assignments and Senior Republicans, such as Senator McCain and Senator Coleman have called for his resignation. Stick a fork in him, he's done by the end of the week. www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/29/craig.arrest/index.html
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Aug 28, 2007 16:09:59 GMT -5
Craig has categorically denied he is gay and has not ever engaged in homosexual activity. That's right easyed... he plead guilty because he forgot to seek the advice of council, right? Oh.. and I'm sure the Union Station bathroom allegation which was reported BEFORE this arrest was just a coincidence. Must be some flaming liberal spouting out non-truths... oh wait.. I forgot.. the person that made the Union Station allegation was a Republican. Well... the media is just blowing this out of proportion... ON EDIT: By the way, I love how Senator Craig is accusing an Idaho paper of being on a "witch hunt." I would like to point out to the Senator that the Idaho paper has not engaged in any hunting- Roll Call Newspaper plopped the "witch" right into their laps with the arrest record. The other allegations have come in the form of people coming forward, not because the newspaper has some vendetta against the Senator.
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Aug 28, 2007 14:54:50 GMT -5
My question - when will he resign? Before the end of the day (Tue) Before the end of the week (Fri) Within the next week (Before next Tue) Within the next month (Sept) Before the end of the year (2007) Never, but no Reelection Reelection Within the next month. As more information trickles in about the similar incident in Union Station, the pressure will increase. It could be within the next week if one of those pages from 1982 comes out of the shadows and reveals details about a sexual encounter with Senator Craig.
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Aug 27, 2007 21:55:10 GMT -5
At least this one wasn't soliciting high school boys. Wasn't Brokeback Mountain filmed near Idaho? I'm sure Senator Craig could have taken a few "fishing trips" with a "friend" if he wanted to... that would have avoided the whole lewd conduct in public thing. Well... innocent until proven guilty right? Oh wait... he plead guilty. Damn... then I guess we should give him the benefit of the doubt?
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Aug 27, 2007 9:20:32 GMT -5
WOW.
Automatic Post of the Year Honors!
Someone with time on their hands needs to figure out how many resignation speeches were referenced in that post- I recognize some of the obvious ones- Nixon, Bob Knight, Donald Rumsfeld, but this thing is loaded with past speeches if anyone wants to find them.
Mr. Attorney General, although I cannot bring myself to thank you for your service- since I believe you caused more harm to our Justice system than any individual in recent history- I thank you for providing much needed amusement to HoyaTalk.
And yes, I realize I am a candidate for the The List.
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Jul 24, 2007 11:01:49 GMT -5
Mr. Attorney General, I must say you are really hitting a home run with your testimony this morning. Telling the Senators that a statement you made to the press was a mistake and that a spokesperson corrected it to the Washington Post 2 days later... classic... Telling the Senators you are unable to explain why it needed to be corrected and how it was corrected... priceless
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Jun 27, 2007 14:26:25 GMT -5
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19461815/The Democrats timed this perfectly. I can't wait for the Vice President to invoke "Executive Privledge" when it was just revealed that he claimed to be part of the Legislative branch in order to evade an Executive Order. Dick Cheney is probably the most disgraceful Vice President since Spiro Agnew. With Cheney's political involvment during THAT catastrophic abuse of executive power, it is quite clear that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Jun 12, 2007 13:07:30 GMT -5
After reading the interview with Chase, I'm even more convinced the guy had no clue how to end his own show/creation and that is lazy. You think it's genius--enjoy, I just enjoy some sort of resolution to a story/series that I've watched and while I understand not everything wraps up cleanly in life, you don't have resolution in a finale to a show? You owe that to viewers and it doesn't have to be happy or how the viewer wants it--but something must be resolved in a way that rewards those who allowed Chase to share his story. If you leave it as "You decide"--what talent does that take as a writer? I agree with you RDF. I wanted the series to end with Tony eating sandwiches and cookies with his cell mate in the A-Block of Sing-Sing prison. I've toured the prison there and I know they make mean sandwiches. I think they give out juice boxes too at lunch time. I can't think of a better way to end a series than with sandwiches and cookies for all.
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Feb 7, 2007 15:06:13 GMT -5
I'm already tired of this story but I suspect the media will harp on it forever. It beats them having to cover what's really important. I completely agree with you ed on the ridiculous level of media coverage (even though I found myself engrossed in this story at the beginning). Ironically, the Executive branch probably welcomes this distraction from coverage of our continued failures in Iraq. It seems like a new version of "Blackhawk Down" could be drafted every other day. It is so sad that as our troops are forced to die for this failed policy (with more on the way), the American public and media seems more focused on this and the Duke lacrosse case.
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Feb 6, 2007 15:58:56 GMT -5
Saw a report on TV this morning on this story...favorite nugget of information from the newscaster: this is the first NASA astronaut to be charged with a felony.... Yeah? that's good to know...no ex-cons in the space program...glad we could confirm that... Hey, if they're in space at least they have no chance of harming anyone down here. Maybe this is a good new use for the space program. Kind of similar to the way England used the United States and then Australia.
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