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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 06:25 PM) He won't last long. They probably called him up just because he's already on the 40 man and thus they don't need to use an option up for anyone. Probably right. Let's hope that's the case. In fact, let's just keep his ass sitting in Charlotte while on the big league roster, please.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 03:51 PM) True, but my retail experience also tells me that these kind of things tend to frontload. 4 billion may actually be the right number, we just may have seen the bulk of the sales this week, believe it or not. I spent four years working on commission and one thing I learned is that when a sale happened, we got a lot of business up front and sometimes, but not always, a lot of business at the tail end - but most of the time (especially if the sale was longer than one day), we'd have quite a lot of business at the start of the sale, but a few days in - it was like normal. At the end of the day, this seems pretty positive - warts and all. Even if it runs out of the full funding in four more days. When all is said and done, this four billion dollars puts about a million new cars on the road, and maybe someone should tell me why that's such a disaster. I'm sure if it was a plan that cost more money you'd s*** on it for the government spending too much. The government shouldn't be in this crap at all, but they are, because after all [they are the only thing that can fix everything for us].

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 03:01 PM) 4500x22200=Ninety Nine Million, Nine Hundred Thousand. One billion dollars would fund 222,222 purchases at $4500 each. You forgot the government's take on the government money.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 02:43 PM) 30% of insured Americans already do. And they do OH SO WELL under those medicare and medicaid programs, don't they? Those programs are part of the reason health care costs too much from a private insurance standpoint as well. /waits for trashing of this statement by liberal blogs, even though it's lies.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 10:14 AM) And really thinking of the big picture here, the federal government underestimates the demand for cars so badly that they are talking about shutting down this program after four days, yet we aren't supposed to questing the CBO cost esimates for health care and how many people would decide to go on the plans and how many businesses would drop their coverages? Yeah, ok. That was my point under the original post - and we trust these people to run our health care?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 12:19 PM) Well, I personally think it's pretty silly to assume the universe and life etc. appeared out of nowhere. I just can't see the earth being a few thousand years old though. Why would God just f*** with us like that? Time is what our definition of time is. Who knows what "time" really is from a God standpoint?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 09:26 AM) China's pretty authoritarian obviously, but their markets are pretty open. We're getting that way. Unless there's beer involved.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 09:31 AM) When did that happen? Everything I've seen so far is that these funds could be paid back whenever. Many firms already have. Now, there were some firms that were encouraged to take it even though they didn't need it, to a point of bullying even. But I haven't read anywhere that a bank wasn't allowed to pay it back when they wanted to (unless it was some small or regional bank that was insolvent or in protection/receivership or the like). Many of the companies that took the money were not allowed to pay it back for a long time. The threat was that they would fail the stress test (that the gov't came up with, of course) if they sent the money back.

I reset the chat to "save" the conversation for 1 hour instead of 24. Let's see how that works.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 30, 2009 -> 08:15 PM) kap you actually managed to make sense, why didn't you just do that in the first place? Is it just more fun to make people wade through the rants? I guess.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 30, 2009 -> 04:38 PM) Can you make it so it scrolls down, not up? That's weird. I guess I will have to see what you mean by that because that's the first software I've heard that does that.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Jul 30, 2009 -> 07:23 PM) Very convenient for the narcs, I'd say. I can turn that off, I think. It "saves" everything for 24 hours. I guess what's the point of that? No, Flash, it's not to spy on you. I can go in and shut that off... let me know if it screws something up.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 30, 2009 -> 08:07 PM) And that part is indeed a shame. It accomplishes the economic goal, but not the environmental one (at least not much anyway). But I can't believe some people are so focused on finding any fault with Obama that they somehow manage to point out a program succeeding beyond expectations as some sort of failure in that light. Yes, they are suspending it because OMG it WORKS! We better cut the funding for THAT PDQ. It's going to cost more then expected, whoa, SHOCKER. The main point is that it's not the government's role to do this s***. Yet, when they do something that works, we better shut it down... yes, that's inconsistent, but they should have never done it to begin with.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 30, 2009 -> 08:01 PM) Everyone might love the government plan because it's so much better run and flock to it, causing the dying insurance companies that have run our system in to the ground to send their last gasp of lobbyist cash to Congress and plead for them to shut it down. OH SO MUCH BETTER RUN! OH, the government MY SAVIOR!

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 30, 2009 -> 07:58 PM) what in the hell are you talking about? This program is, so far, a raging success. So basically, you just said you want the government to run health care. They are suspending it because it's costing too much. Read the article.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 30, 2009 -> 07:51 PM) http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9...;show_article=1 well, that sure didn't last long. LMFAO. You mean people are actually using this? Well, we better s***can it! And you same people want them to control health care? Please.

http://www.soxtalk.com/chat Can you guys please try this out? I'll come in (maybe not tonight but soon) to get mods set up, and you must register. PLEASE use your soxtalk name. I know this isn't quite as nice as what was here, but let me know via PM (that's best as I don't check this thread everyday) if you have comments, concerns, or questions. Thanks for your patience the last couple of days. Edit: the purple background SUCKS. I will see if I can do something about that later, but I wanted to get this up for tonight if I could.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 30, 2009 -> 12:01 PM) 9/11 was a plot by the Illuminati to both give Bush a reason to invade the middle east and to destroy Obama's Kenyan birth certificate. The Bilderbergs were also involved via a co-op with the lizard people, but it was only a minor role. These are all about the same relevancy. Actually this would be a good thread. Conspiracies.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 30, 2009 -> 09:23 AM) soo... what did your brother say when you texted him? Yeah, I am a bad person too. He probably said: "I'll be back in a jingleheimer jiffy".

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 01:00 PM) I agree. Conspiracy theories like these worry me. 9/11 was caused by Bush.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 08:56 PM) Chink in the Sox armor is glaringly large lately. Poor defense. How does a .166 hiter get to you for 2 hits in a game? Easy. The Twinkees play out of their ass every time they play the Sox. Simple enough. They are very mediocre, but sometimes I think they would beat our ass 70% of the time if we just straight up played them. They are in the Sox's heads.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 06:19 PM) When I was a kid all I wanted was to be on Double Dare on Nickelodeon. And the scary thing is, you still do.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 08:14 PM) My reply was an attempt at Liberboletm. Anyway though, energy generation does indeed take oil, along with gas and coal. Various types of oil and gas in fact. Heeeeeee.... I like it, but it's not as katchy as Kaperbole ™.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 07:58 PM) I can't believe my fellow sox fans in this forum actually thought we had a chance tonight against the Mighty Twinkies...this game is already over. I'm gonna enjoy my afternoon ignoring these lifeless f***s! Thanks for the inspiration.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 07:56 PM) It pains me to say, but this team appears to be rapidly reaching its expiration date. They wet themselves quite nicely every trip to Minneapolis the last couple of years. This shouldn't be a surprise. And really, same with Detroit. After the euphoria of the Rays, they're now down.