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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 01:39 PM) I'm kind of surprised that ObamaCo, and before him BushCo, when confronted with this sort of B.S., didn't do an end-around. If they won't nominate that person, fine. Hire them on in a non-nomination position to provide exactly the role he would have anyway, except without the specific constitutional authorities. Leave that authority with whatever figurehead is temporarily running that agency line, who just rubber-stamps everything. The response that they keep getting is "We'll shut down the entire Senate if you bypass us." Which...one person can do.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 01:35 PM) It would have to be some pretty special circumstances to take him for free even. GMAB Man. You're telling me that if they walked to the Yankees right now and said "Give us something garbage from single A and we'll give you Zambrano if you pay $10 million of what remains on his contract" they wouldn't jump at it? The White Sox might think about it for a minute because they already have 6 starters, but if the Cubs offered him up for a couple million dollars remaining they'd jump at it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 01:29 PM) I see waaaaaaaaaaaay more lefties talking about Sarah Palin than righties. It isn't even close. That's because you count everyone on TV who's not on Fox as a "lefty". The people on TV won't shut up about her.

Peter Diamond, the Nobel Prize Winning economist who President Obama nominated to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors has announced that he is withdrawing his name from consideration, after over a year of having his nomination sitting in the Senate without ever coming up for a vote. Thankfully, since we're at full employment right now, there's no obvious need for a guy who won his nobel prize working on issues of unemployment and employer/employee mismatch in that organization. That seat has now been unfilled for several years. Thankfully again, there has been no economic turmoil or major decisions made by the Federal Reserve Board over the last few years.

The former U.S. Citizen turned Al Qaeda public face/spokesperson Adam Gadahn released this statement on America.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 12:53 PM) This whole week scares me. They need 5-2, but I'm afraid of the reverse. To quote Dr. Nick Riviera..."Then you'll be cured. Or dead. But the important thing is, we'll know."

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 10:53 AM) Apparently Ozzie is accross the street from me right now at the CBOT. Link

Come on Johnny, you've got to be in there somewhere.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 10:40 AM) That is just wishful thinking. No one is touching Z. There's probably some level of money they could include to get someone to take the remainder of his deal off their hands. You'd take him if he was free, for example.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 10:18 AM) Edit: She probably still overplayed his role, but the fact that there's some much hatred and anger over what she said just speaks volumes about the people that don't like her. Get over it. Geesh. If people stopped reacting that way she'd fade away and never be heard from again (something I'd like to happen). I'd have agreed with you before this bus tour. Now I think she'll be running next year and not going away.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 10:00 AM) Has anyone looked to see if more people are getting cancer these days, or is it that medicine has allowed us to detect cancer better? I'd imagine it's the former, but I'd be curious to see how much screening/getting checked more often increases those numbers. Both are probably happening. We had this point during the Affordable Care Act discussion...the U.S. spends an inordinate amount of money diagnosing prostate issues compared to the UK, but the death rate from prostate cancer is very similar in the two countries, suggesting that the U.S. is diagnosing a lot more benign/non life threatening conditions. So yes, there are worldwide and overtime large shifts in diagnosis happening. There are, however, also other environmental factors going on. New diseases do crop up in populations, in fact we're encouraging that with our overuse of antibiotics and factory farming. New chemicals are introduced into the environment every year from industry. New GMO crops have been introduced. Lifestyle changes (i.e. obesity) have happened. It's really difficult to isolate a specific cause by looking at a general population. The rule of thumb here is that correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation, but lack of correlation implies that causation is impossible.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 09:38 AM) Why autism? I don't see lots of babies using cellphones Autism is one that comes to my mind because it's a brain-issue that has skyrocketed in occurrence the last few decades...and by all accounts it's not just better diagnosed now, it's actually happening a lot more. That's the type of pattern you ought to see with some set of brain tumors for cell phones to be a causal factor.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 09:04 AM) I didn't read the study, but I've heard about the connection, no pun intended. It's amazing to me that this isn't a bigger story, given that bees are such a crucial part of our ecosystem. There is also a lot of buzz (jeesh, all these unintended puns) in Europe about the effects cell phones may have on our brains, however that seems to be getting swept under the carpet in the US as well. You know why I've been skeptical about the "Links" of these things to cell phones? Although there has been cell phone expansion over the past few years, it's not as if there wasn't significant cell capacity a decade ago when there wasn't colony collapse disorder around. Furthermore, you'd expect geographic effects if there was a direct cell phone link...areas like around San Francisco should have huge problems while the Central Valley should be nearly spared, and I've never seen publications suggesting a geographic effect of cities on those. Same thing for the reports about brain damage. People have been using cellular phone systems for 30 years...and honestly I'd bet that the older versions were much stronger microwave emitters than the recent versions, yet we haven't seen a huge spike in brain cancer over the last decade as far as I know. There ought to be a correlation here with something...if cell phone use is causing damage, then you ought to see correlations between cell phone use and the effects of that damage, either in time or in space or based on usage. If someone came out and alleged a correlation between cell phone use and autism rates, which have skyrocketed over the past 30 years, that would intrigue me a lot more, for example.

Sometimes even a blind squirrel finds a nut.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 09:07 AM) No, I was mocking those that act like Peavy is some kinda inspirational hero because he pitches in pain. Yet if you blow on him wrong he gets hurt. Basically, we must mock for everything. Makes us feel like big men ourselves! /mocking.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 09:04 AM) But he's a warrior! http://www.suntimes.com/sports/5793841-574...jake-peavy.html So, he pitches through it and we insult him for costing us a game, he goes on the DL and we insult him for not being a warrior.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 12:09 AM) Bingo. Unfortunately Kenny apparently doesn't care about guy's reputations when they join his team. It was a horrible acquisition. He's Jose Guillen. Jose Guillen? That might be the most inapt comparison I've ever heard, unless you are alleging Rios is a juicer.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 04:10 AM) (fathom has gone back to this point constantly over the years), You say that as though it doesn't argue against you.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 06:21 AM) Every time I watch Rios hit, or should I say "not hit", I wonder why he doesn't try to get his hands up, where they belong, and place his feet in a good athletic stance. Rios probably has a lot more athletic ability than Konerko, but his approach to hitting is just awful. If I were the hitting coach, I'd tell him to try something new, because whatever he's doing now isn't working. Rios had his hands higher up in 2009 when he was having a terrible season with the Blue Jays/White Sox. He lowered his hands last year and suddenly refound his stroke.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 03:09 AM) Adrian Gonzalez says "not so much" Gonzalez put up a .732 OPS his first 3 weeks in the AL. Even he took a bit of time.

QUOTE (OilCan @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 09:19 PM) KW2 continues to be the absolute joke of the entire farm system. That guy should be in Single A. Low A ball, not high A. Kuhn, Marrero, Axelrod and Leesman should be promoted to AAA very soon. Leesman has what amounts to a full season in Birmingham from last to this year. Axelrod's K/IP ratio, not to mention his other peripherals, have been excellent. Kuhn and Marrero, well, nuff said. Oops, forgot about Remenowsky. Him too. Loman, Short, Phegley, Omogrosso and Edwards shouldn't be too far behind. This org has a recent history of pushing guys up too fast.

Quit it. Every time you call the Tank by that crappy name, Kw moves his callup date back a week.

QUOTE (Palehosefan @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 09:16 PM) Eh, he's just 11-43. Not bad. So wtf was the deal last series anyway?

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 05:09 PM) lol @ Albert homering in extra innings to beat the Cubs 2 days in a row. First guy with back to back walkoffs since Albert Belle in 1995. 5th guy to do it since 1980. Tom Pacoirek is on the list of guys who did.

D2 0/4, 1 K.