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QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 08:55 PM) I'd really like to see them give Danks some of his ABs against righties until he shows signs of snapping out of this terrible June slump Frankly, no. His job ought to be to play out of it.

Drat

SECOND DECK!

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 06:42 PM) Which may not even be possible, but it always feels like the Bulls lack creativity when it comes to making moves. I feel that if the Bulls had a GM like KW, they would do more things. Maybe good, maybe bad, but at least not the status quo. The cap makes it so much more difficult in that league. Plus 1/2 the size rosters mean fewer players can be dealt in the first place.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 06:28 PM) Too much of a gamble. if adding john danks is a gamble, then so is any other starter that you could trade for.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 06:20 PM) It may not last? I think it won't last, needs bolstering. Great. I think the White Sox have a good shot at adding John Danks and Philip Humber to their rotation by the trade deadline.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 06:03 PM) So I take it all the trade Deng or Noah talks is over and we are just going to continue with this core and hope Rose can carry? Face it, none of the deals anyone has talked about involving either of those 2 really make sense for the other teams.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 05:27 PM) Ladies and Gentleman, we have our Idiot of the Year. The only reason I'm commenting on "Someone stupid said something stupid" here is....he's also the next likely governor of Indiana.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 04:23 PM) Just call him The Gladiator Hopefully his average lifespan will be more than a week.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 03:44 PM) Because its ultimately a loser. Eric Holder's initial response was pretty strong and kind of a winner, politically to be honest. National Review has even gone out and said that this contempt vote is ridiculous. The deeper this investigation goes, I think the less we'll see actually happened. I disagree. Even if there's really nothing to this at all..."President uses executive privilege" and "Attorney General held in contempt" are big, powerful headlines. They make it clear that something untoward happened. Those are now buried on page 9.

As a matter of politics, I have no idea why on Earth you would bury the House voting to hold the Attorney General in contempt on this day.

Barclay's has reached a $450 million settlement with US and European regulators which establishes that they illegally manipulated LIBOR, the inter-bank lending rate which is used by a multitude of other financial instruments to set rates. According to the Wikipedia, LIBOR underpins about $350 trillion (yes) in financial instruments, so a small variation in that rate can have something of a big impact. So basically, for a period of years, they were ripping off everyone in the world to some extent.

Trevor Bauer is up.

Another sign Roberts flipped...this clause in the dissent refers to it as "the joint opinion". Later in the same paragraph they say "joint dissent", suggesting they missed one of the changes.

CNN's employees aren't happy with their morning. NSFW language.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 02:54 PM) He has some ability to that, yes. It's essentially what happened with the EPA under Bush. We see a similar effect when the IRS chooses which tax-cheats to actually use its enforcement efforts against.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 27, 2012 -> 08:53 PM) Lochte is in Phelps head, all through the race he was peaking to see where Lochte was and he went all out to beat him. Phelps really got outgunned in one of his best events last night too, the 200 m fly.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 02:49 PM) Because making a slight shift from pro-civil unions to pro-gay marriage is similar to crapping on *your own idea*. Bah, if he wants to be angry about Obama for changing positions, feel free to let him be, because anyone who take the position that politicians should never change positions on anything of major importance is not only being silly, but will never find a politician they can cast a vote for. Mittens changed his position and thinks his own accomplishment was terrible. Don't care that he changed position. Care a lot that he has turned his back on a very effective bill.

The word choices in Kennedy's dissent suggests that it might well have been written as a majority opinion prior to a flip by Roberts. It even refers to the arguments of Justice Ginsberg as being from "The dissent".

QUOTE (mmmmmbeeer @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 02:39 PM) By voting for the guy who created the prototype? Politically speaking, this decision hurts Romney's campaign because his only means of justifying Romneycare while being against Obamacare, despite them being essentially the same program, was that Romneycare was constitutional under MA constitutional law. With SCOTUS declaring Obamacare constitutional, there is basically nothing different between Romneycare and Obamacare. mrnn Bah, no one's going to pay that much attention unless Obama makes that a feature of his debate defense. Romney still felt it fully appropriate to go out today and reiterate that on day 1 he'll repeal the full bill without saying what he would do instead, which is all he's said for the last year.

By the way, another bright spot here is that I should get a $200 rebate check this year from my Health Insurer in August. Yay money!

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 02:22 PM) No offense to anyone, but I don't think he'll be up long. Do you see Robin tolerating wildness from any of his bullpen members for an extended period of time? Clearly Septimo and Bruney are the first 2 guys on the list to go down if Danks and Humber can come back. But they certainly have th e right to earn the chance to stay.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 02:00 PM) They don't use him like a loogy, but his numbers suggest he's probably not all that different from Ohman performance wise. Dominates lefties, walks a ton of righties. I'm not sure I mind a LOOGY walking a righty. I mind it a lot more when the righty homers off of him.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 02:08 PM) LIke all the outrage over the now unneeded pre-emtive strikes against the court, 'warning' them not to overturn this case, blah blah blah. All the court did was say the things wasn't unconstitutional by changing the verbage to 'tax'. They didn't say it was a good law. Nothing wrong with people still not liking it and seeking to change it thru legal means. Did you just call "State level nullification" "thru legal means"?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 11:09 AM) It's one thing if they call it a tax...it's another entirely if they call it a mandate, which is what they originally attempted to do...which was wrong, and IMO, illegal. If it's a tax, that's fine...but using the word mandate is where they went wrong. Edit: Some will say this is semantics...but it's not. Just call a tax a tax instead of playing word games to skirt around the fact you are taxing people for a service. Amazingly, I can now say that by some bleeping miracle, both I and a narrow 5-4 majority disagree with this interpretation.