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QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Apr 22, 2009 -> 10:48 AM) I think the most realistic on that list is Bosh. Maybe something this offseason then an extension I am praying for Bosh. I love Big Center / Good Guard combos. That makes Dang a real nice third player.

we have to take the short term hit (next season) for the long term good... landing Lebron, DWade, or Bosh. Keeping Gordon long term (which I assume he wants) huts us. We will never win a title with a Rose/Gordon tandem.

Rush ass kissing continues LMAO! This is just too funny.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 21, 2009 -> 11:10 AM) I got a kick out of this. LMAO! That's pretty darn funny.

anyone on here who knows me knows how I voted.

3 Killed In Hoffman Estates Stabbing Family goes to the church where I work. My sister went to school with the brother of the deceased 18 year old. Good family. Nice people. Needless death.

QUOTE (ozzfest @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 02:06 AM) They should have frank caliendo replace him he'd do a better job

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 11:11 AM) State department listing of the 16 countries visited by Hillary Clinton since she took her seat, at least until someone noticed last night and the page was scrubbed:

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 10:53 AM) Now, why is that? oh that is a discussion for another thread. all the various reasons and concepts could get very long.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 10:52 AM) Most states in the US are this way, even the blue states, I've found. If you look at a map of blue vs. red counties, most of the country looks overwhelmingly red, but the vast majority of the Dems live in urban/populated areas. Yep! The state maps on election day are staggering.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 10:46 AM) It's kind of like Chicago vs. the rest of IL. ok, thought so.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 10:43 AM) Haha well that's different. Upstate NY (north of Westchester/Rockland/Orange counties) and NYC/LI really should be two different states. As someone who has been to NY once in his life... and doesnt remember much of it.... is "upsate", or anything away from NYC much more of a rural, conservative, area?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 10:38 AM) Why would most people in the US understand how Europe works? That's exactly my point. It's two completely different styles. And she wasnt thumbing her nose. She nicely explained to them how it works.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 10:20 AM) And yet another factor is the cultural setting in this country built around cars, and therefore the proportion of money spent on highways and roads, relative to rail, is so much higher, and its hard to change that. I think I've mentioned this before. My wife sells Europen rail for a living. So, she knows the European rail system better than most Europeans, i think. She can get you a route from Madrid to Salzburg in under 20 seconds. She knows it that well. Recently, we had family travel to Europe on vacation and they said "when we get to Germany, we'll just rent a car". My wife just thought "you have no idea how Europe works, do you?". Didnt say it, but thought it.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 10:15 AM) I'd say lets start small and build it over time. 3 tracks in the first 10 years: Boston/NY, Chicago/Cleveland, LA/SF That's not unreasonable.

I think it's all about scale. It's MUCH easier to build high speed rail in countries like Japan, because it's a much smaller country. It's would be like running a total high speed rail network in say... California, which would be possible. And in Europe, the countries are the size of American states. So, the scale is VERY different. To create a true high speed rail system coast to coast, city to city, would cost an unfathomable amount of money. I would argue parts of our current system were only cost efficient to build in the 1800's because they used cheap immigrant labor. Good luck trying that today.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 09:59 AM) Obama prefers improving existing rail lines to allow for the max speed the equipment can handle - 110 mph. Right now many of the rail segments only allow 70 or 80 or whatever. Going this way is cheaper and faster than building entirely new rail, acquiring right of ways, etc. I tend to agree with him. Yea. Ideally it would be nice to start over, but we have such a massive country and so much of that land is already taken up in urban areas, that a whole new, independent, system is almost impossible.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 07:53 PM) Spectacular. HA! That's awesome

75% of Texans do NOT support seceding:

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 09:04 AM) This is a very Kaperbole post, but from the other side. Homerbole? Maybe Lefterbole? it was just a joke based on stereotypes.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 09:03 AM) Well... duh. Planes go a lot faster than 110 mph. Besides, the only useful measure of travel time from A to B is including everything - you can't fly on an airline but skip all the check in, security and baggage nonsense. Also, I addressed this topic in my first post. Here is an example. If you want to travel to, say, LaCrosse, by plane. The flight itself is only an hour, but if you have to be there 90 minutes ahead to deal with everything, and have to deal with baggage on the back end, etc., now its a 3 hour trip. On the current Amtrak line, Chicago to LaCrosse is about 4.5 hours, but would be 3.5 with the improvements. So they'd be very close in terms of actual time - 3 versus 3.5. Oh I know. What I shoudl have elaborated on is that there will need to be a BIG PR push to explain this to the public. I fear too many people will look at a Chicago to St. Louis flight and go, "see, under 2 hours. And the train is 5 hours". But they dont factor in wait time, delays, so on and so forth. It just has to be a PR push.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 07:38 AM) In answer to the question about what we'd get for the money... the Trib updated their article, and it says that for the entire Chicago hub network improvements on all five of those lines, would be $8B. You'd get rail service that was faster than driving and possibly even flying, and cheaper than flying and possibly than driving, to all those cities. It would only be faster in the "check-in to walk-out" sense. Departure to arrival is faster by plane, but it takes FOREVER to check in.

Good news is, under the new Texas law, there wouldnt be an illegal immigration problem. They'd allow all their residents to own assult weapons (dont you dare infringe their gun rights!) and the law would allow you to shot to kill and illegals.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 02:59 AM) I'll take Robin's 10 good years of holding down 3B over Jermaine. People look at numbers and forget about the leather. 10 years, 171 homers, 219 doubles, 741 RBIs, .274 BA, 5 gold gloves. The states speak for themselves. Also, WOW.... I was looking over RVs career stats, I never really realized how quickly he fell off the map after he left the sox. He has one good year with the Mets, but then his batting average plummeted. Still hot for good power, but that was about it.

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