NUKE_CLEVELAND

QUOTE(AbeFroman @ Oct 21, 2006 -> 01:24 PM) WHAT?! INTEREST RATES AND INFLATION?! You're crediting Reagan with that?! Aren't you on record as saying the following: Then there's this doozy: So how can this be one of Reagan's "ultimate victories? He didn't have any control over interest rates! For those of you who didn't follow it, Nuke and I just had a lenthy debate on what causes increases in tax revenue. I contended that easy access to investment and capital (caused by low interest rate) generated economic growth with thereby caused higher tax revenue. I contended that even though tax revenue increases correllated in time to tax cuts, they were not caused by them. Nuke maintained (and he can correct me here if I am misquoting him) that decreased taxes caused higher tax revenues by pumping more money into the economy. I agreed with him in principle, but only to the extent that tax cuts didn't cause inflation (higher prices) and didn't get spent overseas. The net effect of tax cuts, in my argument, was very slight on the economy. Our debate was fruitful and I enjoyed it a great deal. The two of us even privately exchange pm's in which we both expressed an appreciation of the dicussion. Since this lengthy, often animated discussion, Nuke has taken a statement of mine and placed it in his Signature. Thats fine... I've got no problem with it. I stand by that statement as it is accurate. But I find it odd that only now does he bring up interest rates and inflation as one of Reagan's "ultimate glories." What happened to the tax cut argument? I thought you said that the tax cuts were what caused the economic boom of the 80's? And what about that quote above? The one in which you say that tax cuts don't do nearly as much as interest rates? If its all true, then what did Reagan really do for the economy? Well, I've got a new signature... you can read it below: Someone's butt hurt about my siggy I see. I sincerely apologize for not mentioning Reagan't tax cuts, which by the way are widely credited with helping spark the economic turnaround, but there. I did it. You want to sit there and cherry pick my posts that's fine but you should AT LEAST TRY and find a contradiction. Notice that in the 1st quote you have I credited tax cuts with being a factor in economic expansion. My second quote says that tax cuts work. So where is the contradiction? This is, of course, leaving aside the 3 times I remember saying that tax cuts weren't totally responsible for the economic booms that followed.

Prankster thinks its funny. http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/105457...tball21.article Lets see how hard you laugh when you spend the next 5 years getting pounded in the ass.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Oct 16, 2006 -> 09:27 AM) Cub fans. Or retards...... oh wait.

QUOTE(beck72 @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 07:23 PM) Fields is probably trade bait. The sox won't and shouldn't put him back in AAA. And he probably can't go anywhere but down as far as value. The sox should get as much pitching in return as possible for Fields now. ^^ Id like to see Crede stick around ( Im hoping his back is back up to par ). Even at 10 mil a season between his defense, power and clutch hitting he's still totally worth it.

QUOTE(juddling @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 11:51 PM) Come on Nuke...be real....everyone knows that if Lech was around nowdays he'd be a reported on Fox News schlubbing the Republican agenda. How much credibility could he have???? Yeah. I guess all those anti-communist Eastern European dissidents like Walesa, Valcav Havel, Lithuanian independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis, and many many others were just a bunch of Republican plants. You gotta love what Gorby said about Reagan at his funeral though.......... Fox News paid him a million bucks for that little blurb.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 11:36 PM) I just love how the GOP faithful believe Reagan did that all by himself. Nope, he didn't wrestle the Soviet Bear himself, as there were a lot of great people who helped out. BUT! Reagan set everything in motion. Reagan initiated the arms race that bankrupted the Soviet Union. Reagan broke OPEC which tanked the price of oil, depriving the Soviets of much needed hard currency. But don't take my word for it. Just ask Lech Walesa. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/fe...ml?id=110005204 Pretty powerful stuff if you ask me.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 07:13 PM) I'll agree that it is going on in almost every large city...but my personal impression is that there are very, very few cities that rival Chicago in that regard. Right with you on this one. What makes it worse is that it's just accepted as if it was as much a part of Chicago's culture as our sports teams, museums, neighborhoods, food, nightlife.....etc........etc.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 11:34 PM) Amazing what one guy could do. If only he had a few more minutes to solve cancer, hunger, and Dole's ED. Weak. Even by your low standards. /rolly

QUOTE(juddling @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 11:30 PM) well...at least it's not like Kennedy killed anyone or anything.....oh wait.....never mind! Drowning that floozy was peanuts compared to his efforts to derail Reagan's campaign to destroy the Soviet Union. Had he been successful the whole of Eastern Europe would have been enslaved for at least another decade or 2 and we would have lived in fear of nuclear annihilation for the same amount of time........... ..........but teh Soviets were on the verge of collapse anyway!!!11!!1!1!!! This is getting too easy.

I don't find this hard to believe at all. Democrats couldn't stand the defense buildup, they couldn't stand that Reagan called the Soviets the "evil empire", they couldn't stand the fact Reagan's economic policies were working and the economy was gaining strength, couldn't stand that inflation and interest rates were falling..................just couldn't stand the fact that Reagan was successful where they had failed. This is, of course, before Reagan's ultimate victories with the collapse of the Iron Curtain and of the Soviet Empire itself.

http://www.nbc11.com/news/10123870/detail.html So some kid gets another kid to drink some hot sauce on a dare. Kid who drinks the hot sauce gets his ass whooped by it and now the school characterizes it as "a deadly weapon". LOL! Someone please tell me why schools are getting so sissified? You bring cold medicine to school and you're a criminal, you bring hot sauce to school you're a criminal and on and on and on. This "zero tolerance" madness in the schools is really getting out of hand.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 09:21 PM) Hey, instead of doing thaaaaat, why don't the "leftists" and the "rightists" (?) get together...figure something out TOGETHER and solve this problem. All this time wasted by the two sides, "I'm right." "Nooo, I'm right." How about this...you both are WRONG! Having a two/multiple party system is a great idea blown out of the water by a majority of old, rich, white people who have egos the size of frickin' Canada! I'm sick of the wrangling on Soxtalk and I'm sick of the Wrangling in DC. I'm out of Filibuster until you can all admit that the other side has a CHANCE to be right once in awhile. Ridiculous. Correct me if Im wrong but didn't I say that there were a couple of ideas that Pelosi had in her 1st 100 hours of a new Congress that had merit? Also, I've been VERY critical of the GOP's inability to rein in spending and letting the defecit go spiraling out of control in spite of record highs in revenues being taken in by the federal treasury. By no means do I think that my side is ALWAYS right but I support them so relentlessly because I feel that in spite of their many shortcomings that they bring a more palatable way of doing things than the other side does.

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 07:17 PM) Yeah as opposed to Bush doing nothing but attacking the wrong country and creating more terrorists while wasting american lives... Correct me if Im wrong but wasn't the 1st country we attacked Afghanistan? Was that a "waste of lives" to you also? To leftists the fact that we are actively engaged in combat against terrorists abroad is a "waste of lives" and "just pisses them off even more". Hell, following that logic we may as well just forget about fighting terrorism altogether and cower under a blanket in the bedroom and pray they leave us alone. Islamic extremists started this war and I really could care less if the actions we take in response pisses them off.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/104486,...day2-20.article http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/103096,...ledex19.article So tell me. When are we going to throw out Daley and his crony and corruption infested political machine? This City government is one of the most unabashedly corrupt entities in the history of politics and nobody so much as bats an eye. The fact that this sort of behavior is allowed to continue, for years and years on end, at the cost of millions of taxpayer dollars makes me ashamed that Im from Chicago and is a big reason why I'll never reside within the city limits again.

You have to love how they are the ones setting off nukes and they then want US to make concessions to get them to talk again. Does he take us for complete morons?

Having watched the ad I don't see what's wrong with it. It is designed to remind people that Democrats have been and will continue to be soft on terrorism. One need look no farther than their relentless whining about the "rights" of terrorists, their desire to close Guantanamo, their opposition to the Patriot Act and the more recent Military Commissions bill.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 07:19 AM) And I guess its refreshing to know that on the other side of the fence there are just as many narrowminded stereotyping elitists with nothing better to do than call people names rather than actually contribute anything to the discussion. It's SOOOOOOO typical of those on the left in general and it's been seen here on Soxtalk more often than not. And they wonder why they keep losing.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 10:01 PM) The biggest, and most important difference here is that the solders are IN JAIL, and will be TRIED FOR THEIR CRIMES. While are you hell-bent on equating terrorists with anything resembling normal society? Our solders do this despicable act, the rest of us are horrified and embarrassed. Muslims do this same crap, they either cheer or just turn the other cheek and ignore that it even happened. His M.O. hasn't changed much over time has it?

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Oct 13, 2006 -> 08:00 PM) Anyone else been checking electoral-vote.com during the elections? Seems to have a slight democratic lean, but it's got bright colors and graphs, which makes my eyes happy. Slight?! I remember after Bush won the author of the site revealed his political affiliation.......then proceeded to savage President Bush and say the country was heading straight to hell. Needless to say I wont be visiting that site ever again.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 06:06 PM) Dirty bombs may be much to do about nothing but, anyone want to bet there will be less than sell out crowds? Who needs a dirty bomb? Last White Sox game I went to I was within the casualty radius of some fat dude's fart. I dont know what he ate or what crawled up there and died but it made several fans get up and leave for a while.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 01:13 AM) I'm flying to Iceland next month. I have a crippling fear of flying. How can I get past it? Sleep. If you need help doing that pop in a couple of your sleep aid of choice just before they start boarding. QUOTE(3E8 @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 07:13 PM) I'm deathly afraid of the slightest turbulence, not so much the takeoff or landing even though those statistically are the most likely times for problems to occur. I have to fly to Korea in a few months which will be a 15 hour flight that I'm already fearing. Call me crazy but I think turbulence is awesome.

QUOTE(longshot7 @ Oct 17, 2006 -> 10:14 PM) Yes it does. No. It doesn't. Communicating a threat to anyone, let alone the President, is a crime and is punishable by various means depending on where you are.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/...d.ap/index.html If he didn't know he's clueless. If he did know he's complicit.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 17, 2006 -> 08:55 PM) Rex, everyone knows he's kidding... but, it's not something you joke about, in that manner. This is supposed to be the "intelligent" presidential candidate, and he should know better. He doesn't get it done as the "intelligent" candidate. He did, however, do a bang up job as the "elitist, snobbish, im better than you cause Im a northeastern liberal" candidate though.