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Great job by Contreras tonight to make the Thome blast hold up. Pitching and Defense are WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY better than last season and we're getting just enough O to get it done. GIMMIE A HELL YEAH!!!!

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Apr 7, 2008 -> 06:04 PM) Wow, Nuke, where you been? Nice to see an intense Nuke thread again! GO SOX! 5 GAME STREAK! HELL YEA!!! Been away in Iraq but now that Im about to come home I'll be around a lot more.

EAT s*** TWINKIES!!!!!!!!! JAVVY WITH A NICE SOLID START TODAY.......... SWISHER AND QUENTIN WITH SOLID......SOLID GAMES YET AGAIN.......... DYE AND AJ CONTINUE HITTING.......... OH AND THAT CREDE GUY TOO............. WAY TO KEEP THE STREAK ALIVE BOYS!!!!!!!!!! GIMMIE A HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good job by Javy to man up that inning...........Lets get him a lead now.

Good job by Javy to man up that inning...........Lets get him a lead now.

QUOTE(maggsmaggs @ Apr 6, 2008 -> 11:18 PM) Let's go out there and make is 5 in a row. I love the patience of our hitters this year, so much better than any other Sox team I can remember. That's one thing I really can't believe about this crew. They've stopped trying to hit home runs and are just going for the hit to keep the line moving. That's how you play offense. A little patience and the cookie pitch will eventually come. I wanna see number 5 tomorrow!

Another monster win comes from another monster effort! Plenty of offense to back up a start by the REAL Mark Buerhle and this team is rolling now!!! Kitties are still winless, We're in 1st place!!! What's not to love!? We're waiting..........Twinkes. GIMME A HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!

I love the fact that the Tigers are still winless but it's still too early. Danks really impressed me the other night and Dye & AJ are rocking the house so far. What's NOT to love?!?!

Another great win for the Sox! They stayed patient, took some pitches and pounced when they had the chance. Dye rocking a 5 game hitting streak with a dinger....... Floyd with a quality start............. Bullpen came through with another scoreless performance......... Whats not to love?! GIMMIE A HELL YEAH!!!

MB needs a real good outing here to make up for the opening day disaster. Lets keep this thing alive and send the kitties away still winless. GO SOX!!

GREAT WIN GUYS!!!!!!!!!! AJ is starting off on fire and the pen is looking really good to start things off as well. Oh yeah.......EAT s*** TIGERS!!!!!!!! Had to get that in there.

QUOTE(lostfan @ Mar 29, 2008 -> 01:39 PM) You don't have to go to Kuwait first? Yes, but only for 24-48 hours from what Im hearing. Not too bad at all.

Back again. Well boys and girls, it's all over for me over here. All but the plane ride home anyway. We finished our missions off a couple of days ago and have spent the last couple of days alternating between loafing around and packing up all our stuff. This morning we signed over all our trucks to the new guys and now all I have to be responsible for is my rifle and that's it. My original flight date from Baghdad was supposed to be the 6th but it's entirely possible that we'll get that pushed up a few days so we can open up space in our building for the new unit. Obviously we're all pretty pumped about all this and even more so that we're safe now and not having to deal with these Iraqi's anymore. My next entry will be from U.S. soil.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 1, 2008 -> 04:46 PM) For anyone who thought the housing market might be starting to approach a bottom, the NYT has a column today noting that in a few of the roughest areas, in January (admittedly part of the slow sale part of the season according to their graph)...the number of new foreclosures actually approached or even topped the number of new sales. In other words, foreclosures alone in these areas are creating more vacant housing than can be sold, let alone anyone who actually wants to sell who isn't being foreclosed on. Let it keep tanking. I'll be in the market for a 1st time home here in just a few months.

Back again to check in. Still nothing of any interest going on around here. It is still VERY quiet in our area and boredom is still our number one enemy. It's getting harder and harder to kill off these tedious 8 hour patrols, but the good news is that we're running out of them. On the 26th of March, we start handing over our sector to our relieving unit and a few days later we fly out of here and start heading home. Being pumped about all that is solely what is keeping us going nowadays.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 28, 2008 -> 01:03 PM) Yeah, that really is disturbing. And while I certainly think that we have much less racism now than we did 30 years ago, that difference in race in prison is hard to ignore. Not that its the result of racism occurring now, necessarily - its probably mostly not. But because of the way blacks were treated previously, they haven't been able to land on equal footing as often. On the other hand, I have a hard time abiding helping one race at the expense of another for any reason, because that's just more racism. So... what to do? What to do? I prefer the Bill Cosby approach. Blacks should quit whining about racism and stop committing crimes. It's really simple but as long as they want to live the "thug life" they can spend the bulk of it behind bars.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 27, 2008 -> 07:45 PM) As if on queue, the House today passed a bill to lower current tax incentives (or raise taxes, depending on your perspective) to oil companies, resulting in $18B in revenue that would be turned around as tax credits for alternative energy and technologies. The Senate plans to use some sort of fast-track procedure related to budget items to avoid the GOP filibuster thread, and get the bill passed. Bush is promising to veto it... naturally. So, when oil was $55/bbl, Bush says that the oil companies don't need tax breaks anymore. Now at $100/bbl, Congress takes some of them away (roughly $1.8B per oil company), and Bush says its unfair and promises a veto. I guess this is the legend he wants to etch in history for his Presidency - abject stupidity. So frustrating. Please, for the love of God, bring on Obama, or McCain, or hell even Clinton - anyone but this buffoon. I can't defend Bush anymore so I won't even try. Actually, that 18B is spread over 10 years so the annual hit to oil companies yearly would be far less than even that. Fact is that we shouldn't be giving the oil companies ANY subsidies at all. I can see doing something like that when oil is dirt cheap like it was during the 90's but now that we're north of 100 a barrel this is just asinine. http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national...position=recent

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 27, 2008 -> 09:07 AM) Ethanol is fine as a bridge technology on the way to other things. But its certainly not any sort of long term solution, and its got its limits. But the biggest reason ethanol is a "boondoggle" is the insistence on using corn. Right now of course, that's what's available. But other countries have made much better use of much more energetic biomass, and if you are going to have ethanol be part of the picture, you need to use those other crops. Using corn, its ineffective and causes all sorts of economic problems. No. Ethanol is a really bad idea. It takes more energy to produce it than we get for burning it and it is driving the price of food through the roof across the board. About the only people making out on this are the big farmers who have tons of it planted.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 02:04 PM) Rent-A-Center is two steps ahead of you. CURSES!!!!! I totally forgot about rent-to-own places.

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 01:52 PM) Better make your peace with whatever Deity you worship, I'm in full agreement with NUKE on an issue! Ain't that something. Seems to me the biggest group of people in favor of this silliness are the politicians ( on both sides of the aisle ) who are falling all over themselves to see who can pander to the masses better than the other. Them and the knuckle-draggers out there who will use their check to put it down on a new ginormus 123451234 inch screen LCD TV that they have no business owning. I got it!!! The newest and greatest in financial products!!! The SUBPRIME big screen TV loan!!!! I'm such a genius. There's so many knuckle-dragging suckers out there that I could make a killing off this in no time.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 01:50 PM) Ethanol can be a good thing. Corn-based ethanol, not so much, but some of the switchgrass stuff is promising. I was all about ethanol as an environmentally friendly method of fueling our vehicles. That is, until I read further into it and saw how it was sending food prices to Pluto and causing more environmental damage than it saved due to clearing lands for more corn and such. At least the farmers are getting a better price for the corn they have.

So now that we're just beginning to get our heads around the damage done by subprime HOME loans, now we have subprime CAR loans? LOL!!! Does this mean that in 6 months we'll get another check from the federal government that I can just dump into my mutual funds..........er.....I mean help stimulate the economy?

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 01:41 PM) It would be nice to cut out the billions in subsidies to them. ..................and use those dollars to fund alternative energy research. Preferably something that doesn't do more harm than good like ethanol either. Agree. Still doesn't have anything to do with high oil/gasoline prices though.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 10:06 AM) I cant speak to the intricacies of how other countries work. But I saw in an interesting note the other day. Congress just passed a $150 billion stimulus package. $150 billion would pay to run fiber to EVERY home (and i think business) in the entire country! I am not saying we should run fiber instead of give people money, but it's an interesting comparison. If instead of spending $275 million per day in Iraq we turned that money around and ran fiber... we could have fiber to every home in America within 2 years. The way things are now with the deficit and national debt, I'd rather just not spend it at all. The reason the economy is in such trouble right now is that consumers have been on an unsustainable coke-binge of spending for the last 10 years and now we're going to use deficit spending to serve up some more and say "go spend it!".