Balta1701

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 25, 2011 -> 08:50 AM) Correction - he's damn good in person on a stage with no one else involved in a discussion. He's good at giving speeches. Some here would apply that same standard to the WH's current occupant.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 11:30 PM) Jax up 9-0 in the 4th. I am very glad I am paying no attention to this s*** game. The MNF schedule has had some real stinkers this year so far. Thankfully...MLB has had an incredible 2 months.

2 more weeks.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 25, 2011 -> 08:15 AM) Put a dollar amount on it, I will take it. How many teams have won fewer than 67 games in a season in the last, i dunno, several years?

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Oct 25, 2011 -> 01:00 AM) I'm sick of what they call "competitive". Then don't show up/spend time on the games until they reach the standard of competitive you'd agree with.

Apparently TLR is saying that the bullpen phone screwed up in the 8th inning and they only heard 1 of the 2 names of pitchers that he wanted up, so the LOOGY wound up staying in to face Napoli. There's a decent case to be made that TLR has cost them at least 1 of the 3 games they've lost.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 10:22 PM) You know why? Because you are so flippant to just give the government everything it wants in order make your decisions for you. I'd rather error on the side of making my own choices and living with the consequences then to have a bailout of every move I make. You know, for the sake of the little guy. Oh the hypocrasy. And yeah...I want to give government control over everything. Another of those pointless sound bytes you complain about when others say them from the other side but are totally ok from you since you know the undebatable truth.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 10:35 PM) So basically, Cash for Clunkers has been the only successful, "universally-popular" program in the last 3 years? Why does "universally popular" have anything o do with anything? If this program worked it would have outraged other people. People here would complain about "paying their neighbors mortgage" and such. But it would have helped a lot.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 09:40 PM) How did this program take people that were in no danger of foreclosure and force them into foreclosure? This makes no sense to me. If they had the money to keep paying, how did anything "force" foreclosure? The only way you can get foreclosed on is if you don't pay your bills...what was this, some sort of program where you paid your bills and they foreclosed anyway? Something sounds fishy with this...sounds to me that people stop paying bills or ran out of money to do so, and were then foreclosed on, despite entering this program. Basically, people applied for "trial modifications". Once they did that, they were told to make lesser payments. But if the modification wasn't approved, and only a handful were...then anyone who followed the instructions wound up in foreclosure. If you applied to the hamp program and did everything you were told to do, you wound up with like a 90% chance of being foreclosed upon, even if you were fully current when you applied. As epic of a clusterf*** as you can imagine.

And there we go...everything that disagrees with you is horrible and needs to be banned because its sickening...but your talking points are great and how dare everyone not agree!

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 10:01 PM) Yea, true... so what do we do? Forgive it all, say cheer-i-o and move on? Seriously, what do these governments do? Raise taxes? That'll work. Lower them? Well, that would depend on how you do it (as I started alluding to before Wall Street suckage started). There are lots of options, none good. Either the ecb can throw moral hazard to the wind...and actually guarantee the debts of those countries....or Greece can default, or Greece can leave the Euro. They've tried massive budget cuts and found that it destroyed the economy and made the debt problem worse.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 10:03 PM) I don't know, dude. It looks like several of those other nations you mention have some pretty bad debt/deficit issues. And you were caught lying only a few minutes ago. They do have bad deficit issues...now...because their economies were driven by massive credit bubbles, which popped. Greece was a fraud, that one is true...the same as our financial system.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 09:54 PM) I mostly agree with your second statement. A lot of aid seems either unnecessary, egregious, or both. Not to mention, I think a lot of it would be better spent on stuff within the country. Just to note...the amount this country spends on foreign aid is less than the amount we spend in a couple weeks in Afghanistan. The Iraq war could pay the non-war foreign aid budget for something like 150-200 years.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 09:52 PM) Greece had out of control spending. From everything I'm reading, they're the most screwed out of anyone. if it were Greece alone, the problems would be easy enough. The big problems are because it was French and German banks that gave them all that money and jut like here, those firms can't lose money...and those same firms have much larger exposures to Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 09:32 PM) No, I don't want to follow a model that endorses out-of-control spending that results in near-bankruptcy and widespread riots. The European model has failed, and if you want to refer to my comments pointing out, in perhaps a snarky tone, why it has failed as jackassery, then so be it. I do want to keep the United States the greatest nation on Earth. This is my home and I would die for it. And I will never believe, having seen what I've seen in Europe and its failures, that your ideas will do anything to maintain my beloved country's success. So yeah, please take your European idiocy elsewhere. I appreciate it. Several of the countries having the biggest problems in Europe had no out of control spending. Spain, Ireland, and Portugal, for example, had solid budget surpluses for years prior to the collapse. Tey just had huge financial industry fed housing bubbles.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 09:20 PM) Napoli was a monster the 2nd half of this year finally getting the starting catcher duties n has continued to hit very very well . He didn't just "finally get starting catchers duties", he was also hurt.

The government told them too! It's the governments fault! That's another good silly slogan to add to your list of things we shouldn't hear again. Thanks. I'm sure that one doesn't count though since republican sound bytes are correct. No one needs to debate correct sound bytes.

A 2 run lead is nothing, but Wilson needs to hold here.

Regulation!

Matt kemp wins NL Hank Aaron award

Oh ok I get it now.

Frankly...no. Having someone else get their jollies off on te shell of a terrorists body sickens me quite a bit. If he ever regains consciousness, then the uk should demand his return from the new government (won't happen, see previous reason). Otherwise, it's a shell, not a person any more.

What's the deal with the blue hand hats?

He shouldn't have been released, but the uk wanted to secure petroleum access. Not the worst thing done this decade for that goal. And regardless of whether he was well enough to attend a rally earlier this year, he's been in a months long coma since then. Torturing the body of a near-vegetable brings me no joy or pleasure.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 06:57 PM) Okay. Whatever. What would we ever do without your business saavy and corporate executive skills? QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 07:56 PM) This isn't about "wall street". I'm so sick and f***ing tired of cliches and little soundbytes to fit stupidity. Yeah, what would we do without cliches and little soundbytes, like making fun of someone's business saavy and corporate skills as a substitute for any sort of legit discussion. When Democrats do it.