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True, but I'm basing this on what I heard (rarely do I know much anything inside) and from all intents and purposes, it was a very very fair offer. In fact, I don't think their was much anything deferred from what I was told. But take it for what its worth.

Of course on that same line of thought, I'd of much rather had Clement (Via FA) and Garcia and not even think about Contreras. If you can't tell, I'm not much of a fan of Jose and I don't like the fact were stuck with his contract. I don't doubt his stuff, but I'm wishy washy on Coop and question whether the Sox will fix his delivery. 12 mill over the next two years was too much to risk on what I'd deem a project, imo. I hope to hell he proves me wrong though.

I know one thing, I'm glad the Sox didn't give him that much money. When you look at it this way, I'd rather have Contreras and Garcia then Maggs. Plus I think the Sox will still add another pitcher, which makes me happy.

The thing is, he was offered Vlad money, 5 yr 70 mill. Well, its not quite Vlad money, but its pretty damn close. 14 mill per season.

No, its only wrong when at voter registration sign ups, your telling the people which candidate to vote for. Thats where I have my problem and I'd have that problem if a democrat said it or a republican said it.

That shouldn't be in green, but I think the show on my life is seriously the greatest thing the world has ever seen to date.

Lol, I am miffed at why Maggs is saying all this crap. He needs to shove it cause the Sox gave him an insanely fair offer, in fact, I think it was a stupid offer they made cause Maggs wasn't worth what they offered him.

Because I don't think the Sox are going to acquire RJ and then ship him across. I think it would be a 3 way deal if it went down. Plus I think Niavarro is yet another overhyped prospect in the Yanks system.

I don't have much interest in Niavorro or however its spelled.

I'd put it more along these lines. The Sox take on Javier or Brown. Brown makes a s***load more sense since he doesn't have a mega long term deal attached to him. The Yanks pay pretty most of Browns salary and the White Sox send one player of interest the Yanks way (This player of course would be destined to Arizona). That or they'd give up like two guys, one position prospect and a guy like Felix Diaz or what not. I don't know how it would work, but thats the way I would see it happening. Yanks get their guy, Sox get an ace without giving up too much of a ransom, plus his contract is basically paid. Kenny and Cashman have a good working relationship. I think you could see these deal working out a little farther potentially, with the Sox maybe getting a reliever in return. Although the Yanks probably woudln't want to give up any of their good relievers.

I feel for anyone who has to take stats. I'm in the 2nd version of stats right now and god do I hate it. But ya, I call it a CI too.

Isn't there a lot of debate in regards to Neandrathals and that they may of been at least in a part a pretty seperate species? And then they pretty much dissapear and its unsure if they bread in with our modern ancestors or if they were killed by them or simply died off. I remember in my anthro class their was a pretty big on-going debate on this issue.

Imo, Detroit doesn't have what I'd call a top notch farm system. On the other hand, Mil has a top of the line farm system now and they seem to be making great strides in the player development department.

The WTO is an increidlby corrupt organization, imo. Their are so many flaws in it that I can't even begin to go into it. Once again, its an organization whose ultimate goal is a good one, but the way they enforce different things and the way certain things happen it still doesn't result in the proper outcome, imo.

Bmags, I can't talk about your state specifically but I can tell you that businesses are freaking getting up and leaving California in droves because of the absolute ridiculous taxes and social programs in regards to unemployment, etc. When all these companies are running out and your creating incentives for them not to hire, then all of a sudden the gov is gonna be receiving less and less in taxes and money. I'm a big believer in free markets and that the government really had to do very little to keep things involved. Every one in a while they have to step in, but in general people will manage themselves wiseley. It failed a long time ago and certain programs were needed, but with news coverage teh way it is now (pretty much accessable to everyone), people and businesses aren't going to get away with absolutely screwing their employees, etc. Of course their are some gov programs that are needed, but why would I'd rather have someone in charge of everything thats in it for profit and minimizing costs then I would for a government which is just their to do it and quite frankly does it at a ridiculously more innefficient rate then the private sector. Consumers and Suppliers both create the demand and supply needs and in a sense both have a control of the market. Their are some industries where that doesn't happen right now, for example pharmaceutcals and I think some things need to be done to fix it. I think in due time we'll see the US enter agreements with certain other countries pharmaceutical producers to open up a bigger supply and other options for US customers which will lead to lower prices. THe key is to make sure the products coming in our safe and the FDA has always been insanely conservative when it comes to new mediciation and approving medication. Well at least compared to France and other governments who are a little more leniant and don't have quite the acceptance laws (Not saying France's medication sucks, far from it, I'm just saying prior to getting approval, the US medicines have to go through a much more strict and long term test).

My problem with some of these youth voter registration rallies and let me first say I've seen plenty of them on campus, in fact I stopped by one a couple weeks back when the registration deadline was close coming (I was already registered but was interested in hearing what they were saying). Basically, at least the people I saw doing them, they were absolutely slamming Bush and saying how Kerry is gonna create this bright future. I know the other side probably does the same thing, although to be honest, on my campus I rarely see much anything republican (and i live in a notoriously Republican Region...OC is one of the highest republican areas around). I just find it bulls*** that when people are registering to vote you have the people doing this registration rallies spewing their beliefs. Just say, have you registered to vote because voting makes a difference. After you register you'll get a ballot with the issues and I advice you to read through the issues and if you got a little more time, check out the candidates websites. Or at least have an equal number of republicans to democrats doing these things. For example, if the school is holding some type of voter rally thing and you have this going on, make sure that you have an equal number of stuff. Of course this will never happen, I just think its bulls*** and so many people will believe everything they hear. I had on jackass telling our class when we were debating politics that the rich pay less then the poor in taxes. When he said this you heard all these people thinking wow, the rich need to get taxed more. Of course I calmy said thats absolutely absurd and I think everyone will agree on that. But all I'm saying is people my age are incredibly impressionable and its bulls*** that they have to be warped to stuff they can't tune out. Your in class and your teacher decides to go on a tyrade, it should be freaking mandatory that if someone else in the class wants to say something to disprove the teacher that they can. In my history classes specifically we'd always have the teacher go off on why this policy is s*** and that policy is s***. I don't mind his opinion, but clearly state this is my opinion and leave it OPEN for discussion. A couple of my buddies are going to be teachers and my word of advice was, if your going to talk politics, you got to leave everything open for discussion and if your teaching a poly sci class and your a dem or repub, then get a colleague or friend or other person whose the other side and have them discuss some things as well, so they get both sides. I know at my high school we had some politicians (local councilmen and stuff) come in and we'd get to talk to both candidates and hear stuff from both sides. Thta was nice, of cousre you can't have that happen with a big election like this, but I'd just do what I could in places where you can't tune otherwise (for example, on tv, you have the option of changing the channel, in class you can't really just get up and leave). Anyway, end rant

The treaty would definately have to be modified quite a bit before the US steps in. As of now the treaty has too many flaws and it would be detrimental to agree to it, imo. However, I do like the idea behind the treaty, but some gaping holes have to be fixed before I'd ratify it.

Good article on our big allies standing alongside us. Great Britian is redoplying their troops in an area where the US has been holding them. They are doing this so the US can send their troops into some other areas for attacks on the rebels in an effort to calm things down before the election. Also Japan's prime minister wouldn't back down from threats by the terrorist who say they will behead a captured soldier unless Japan withdrew its force. Personally I thought this was a good article. With all the negative stuff out their talking about how this war is a failure, yada yada yada, I figured this article showed the other side well and how some of our allies are helping us out. British Troops in Iraq Begin Redoployment

You don't have to go to the clothes shop right away. Just look on the map and their should be either a disc or a yellow blurb and you can go via that. Also, you can hit start and look on the map and set a target, thats what I did so I always know where it is (It gives you this big red target). Its in the Del Los Santos district or something like that.

I got an original PS2 and thus far its holidng up. Hopefully I don't hit a point where it all locks up or something. *Knock on Wood*

http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/content/goo...c/frameset.html I don't know if anyones seen this before, but I damn near fell out of the couch when I saw this.

He hires a couple less employees. For example in California a lot of companies that would hire more then 15 employees don't because then they have to pay more in a lot of employer taxes and those taxes are so expensive that it makes no sense to do so. The other thing it will do is prevent the employer from adding more employees.

This game is badass, I've been playing it for a few hours now since picking it up. I ended up paying 7.33 for the game. I traded in NCAA for 25 bucks at Blockbuster and had a coupon for 20 additional bucks for any trade in game if you purhcase a new game. Best coupon Blockbuster ever had. The games really badass, I'm at the part where you do the low-rider races.

For me its always opening myself up to the girl when your first going out. When I first know someone I'm insanely shy, but the more I know them the more they get to know the real me. However, right now, the hardest thing for me has to be communication because the current girl I'm going out with and I go to different schools and don't really live that close to each other. And to make it harder I'm not one of those people that enjoys talking on the phone for hours at a time.

Its regarded as a leftist British paper. Its a big paper, but I wouldn't call it amazing nor would I call the New York Times amazing.