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This is what the movie the zookeeper should have been about.

hahahahahaha

I see no reason why you wouldn't pin this on John Boehner.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Oct 19, 2011 -> 06:57 PM) I've heard amazing things about San Francisco (and the surrounding areas, including Wine Country), save for two things: Cost of Living (it's the most expensive in the country, even more than NYC, isn't it?) and the rainy/crummy weather. Those two things might be enough to deter me from wanting to live there; however, I've never even visited. Yeah, from what we've talked about, we'd rather live in SF for the first year just to alleviate the social anxiety, and once we are more comfortable look at the surrounding areas. The rain doesn't bother me so much, as you can drive 30 minutes out and have a nice picnic in 80 degree weather.

had a great time. Sonoma was great, amazing to think that's a 1hr drive away. A bit uncertain on where we'll live. My go's in person interview is today.

Visited san fran this week. Got some good networking done. Pretty confident, now.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 05:45 AM) Just watched Inside Job. If you ever need something to get your blood boiling...just watch this. I assume you aren't referring to the spike lee joint.

I didn't see the thread taking this turn.

What The Hell? http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011...l.php?ref=fpblg

??? What the f***? http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/1172 We define the Lord's Resistance Army as a Terrorist Group. They are in Uganda? I think. Lost?

So they took a 2 year hit? That's not that bad.

That's like tour de France cyclist territory.

hahaha

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 03:33 PM) Basically, we eat a lot better (or at least, we eat a lot more, and in more variety). Also advances in disease prevention and treatment. We actually do eat better due to variety. The diets of plains settlers and others is atrocious. Meat and potatoes sounds well and nice until you, um, have no fiber to help you, you know.

Actually I believe we've pushed for parliamentary elections in most countries we've tried to build up.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 09:55 PM) Dozens of cultures, as much as 90% of the Western Hemisphere population and a good percentage (40% was the estimate, I think) of the world population. But in like...1-2 generations of people! Can you imagine how that would affect someone?

It still blows me away from the book just how quickly disease destroyed a whole culture of people. It's just incomprehensible.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 09:06 PM) I guess my point is there seems to be quite a bit more interesting things happening right there in your post than in how Robert E Lee felt, at least to me, anyways. Well yeah, these aren't all big lies. But that's the precisely the point, they are small colorful lies that can be used as evidence for advancing certain insidious world views. The biggest lie here was addressed by strangesox...that native americans were just dumb hunter gatherers that came up against the european intellectual machine.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 07:47 PM) Well, it's no revelation at this point, and I don't mean to state the obvious...but Lincoln is portrayed as this great friend to the African American people...whereas he was simply much more concerned about keeping the Union together. He didn't want slavery spreading throughout all the new territories, but he didn't really have an issue with slavery continuing in the south for the forseeable future. The Emancipation Proclamation was certainly not issued because Lincoln was concerned about freeing the slaves, either...he was just tapping another available resource to him. This is not to say that Lincoln believed in slavery or the Southern way of life, but to say that he was some great advocate for the slaves simply because it was morally unacceptable is to not exactly be clear. Again, maybe it's a bit of an issue of the age of the learning audience, as you pointed out. I disagree. I think this is the push to whitewash the fact that the civil war was about slavery, first and foremost. Lincoln spoke before even officially becoming president that he wasn't goign to free slaves. The south seceded anyways. BUt not all slave states seceded. So he was forced to do a political balancing act to keep them in. IF there's ever been a man to not entirely judge by all of his words it was Abe Lincoln circa 60-65. Regardless of whether Lincoln stated he just wanted to keep the union together, it just so happens that by the end of the conflict, the president nominated by the anti-slavery party 5 years later resided over a country where slavery was now illegal, and whose party was now re-writing the constitution to give rights to those former slaves. So while he may not have been perfect from a civil rights perspective, he just so happened to be the leader during a dramatic transformation from a slave society, to a non one.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 07:20 PM) It wasn't like race relations were better in 1865 than 1965. The whole storyline of whites were fighting to free the slaves is kind of over dramatized. It wasn't like there were jobs or great opportunitities for blacks after the war. My students do find it strange that black men received sufferage before white women. Ta-nehisi Coates has probably the best line to put it better in perspective: The civil war is but one bloody chapter in the war against black people.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 07:18 PM) I think Lincoln's feelings towards slavery would be a bit more of an issue than Lee's, to be perfectly honest... What are you referring to?

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 06:45 PM) particpate in video reviews, deal with the extended travel due to expansion, or lead and control a clubhouse full of blogging and tweeting multi-millionaires with their superagents, entourages, I'm sure travel takes less time than when bus travel was common. As for video reviews and tweeting multi-millionaires, I'd bet video reviews are more efficient than whatever the hell scouting they had back then. ANd players back then were a bunch of alcoholics, probably not the easiest to manage either.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 06:44 PM) Really, what do you think is the most likely scenario here? Not sure, but I reject that they are sunk costs. Lots of things can change that could make those contracts more movable. I don't believe we'd ever move those whole contracts, but I do believe with luck you can make a move that removes enough to give you a lot more flexibility especially on a rebuilding team.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 06:26 PM) If they play better, heck even career average seasons, the need to move them lessens. After 2012, Peavy is all but gone, Rios has one more year, and Dunn has two. Maybe, but if this team is going in the direction we all think it is, I don't see the need to have players like that around.

Do you mind if I ask why you don't move?