Balta1701

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 1, 2010 -> 11:54 AM) Banks are full of hard working people too. Of course you see them through a biased prism that all of them are bad, instead of recognizing the separation between management and employees that exist there as well. Remarkably, if you take your average Ford workers, and your guy working at the bank down the street, the union guy is going to be getting paid tons more. Because your average guy at the bank down the street isn't what we're talking about, unless Ford has a plant in downtown Manhattan. The average guy at the bank down the street didn't get his or her year-end million dollar bonus from the taxpayers after he or she nearly took down the whole country.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 1, 2010 -> 11:45 AM) What is intersting about that is the quiet influence that unions have had on elections for decades, and I don't recall any outrage here in these parts.... http://www.aier.org/research/briefs/1550-o...d-union-support I'd happily trade zero contributions from labor unions for zero corporate contributions. For example, you seem to be a lot angrier about the $70 million coming from labor unions last cycle than you are about the $166 million coming from the Health Care industry alone. One single industry in one cycle more than doubles the total contributions of unions, and you wonder why we think corporate influence is a little more pernicious than union influence?

Normandy Beach (NJ)

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 1, 2010 -> 11:36 AM) Perhaps he works for one of the many big banks that funded his campaign. You say that as if its something unusual that the Banks have purchased the government.

Yreka

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Feb 1, 2010 -> 11:32 AM) Did they change from 2007 to now when Tsongas was seated in 2 days? I know it a representatives race, but the same premise. Quite frankly, yeah. The "We're not seating them until they have all of the appropriate signatures" came about because the Senate didn't want to seat Burress, and then it was used to keep the Dems from seating Senator Franken during the legal challenges.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Feb 1, 2010 -> 11:16 AM) I find it fascinating that nobody can give a good answer as to why one person is seated the next day,TEDDY, and another who won with his opponent conceding has not been seated 13 days later. Maybe if the Dems needed his vote for a veto they would seat him? hmmm..... I'm glad only the r's play games. Because over a period of 45 years, laws change?

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Feb 1, 2010 -> 10:58 AM) I'm not completely sold on the idea that Amare can't work in Chicago with D-Rose, but you've made some valid points and I tend to agree with your analysis. I certainly could be wrong also. But knowing enough about how much 1 bad contract, let alone 3, can hurt an NBA team in the cap era, if you give Amare $16 mil, when Deng is getting $13 mil, Noah is a year away from being a RFA, and Hinrich still gets $8 mil...if Amare shows even a small dropoff when leaving Phoenix's system, say he drops from 21/8 to 18/7, suddenly the Bulls are trapped in that 4 seed area and will have no ammo left to get out of it.

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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 1, 2010 -> 09:32 AM) Well, back to my original post, I would much rather have Bosh. But I dont think that Amare would be THAT bad of a second option If Amare is sitting there chewing up $16 million in cap space for each of the next 5 years, I really get the feeling that it won't take more than a year or two for the Bulls to regret it and start looking for a Ben Wallace type deal.

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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 1, 2010 -> 09:15 AM) Im sure Rose would find him on the floor if he came to the Bulls. But...what happens if he doesn't find him as much, and then Amare starts feeling down and neglected and pouts and so forth. It's not like we haven't seen it from him some already. From what I've seen of Amare's game, he's not very good at creating his own shot. He get shots by getting the ball after the offense has already broken down the defense and gotten his man out of position. Add in his poor defense, and until proven otherwise, I don't think you can design a system to make him look better than the one in Phoenix. Take him out of that system...and I think you've taken away so many of the things that made him an all-star.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 31, 2010 -> 06:31 PM) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60U1PZ20100131 so, i'm guessing it will end up being at least 2 trillion. 2 trillion more debt IN ONE YEAR. For reference, this # is approximately 11% of GDP. Historically, the WWII deficits ran up to 20% in single years.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 1, 2010 -> 08:44 AM) I would rather the Bulls make a play on Bosh in the offseason than make a play on Amare right now. I love Amare's game, but that knee worries me for the future, especially considering the commitment the Bulls would have to make to him. Personally, I really don't like Amare's game, and I think it'll be especially noticeable if he has to leave Nash.

Freeney supposedly has a torn ankle ligament (although the Colts haven't confirmed it yet). May not be playing or may not be nearly 100%.

Yellow Water

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 31, 2010 -> 02:47 PM) This may be an accurate reading of the law, but this is not what happens in practice. The Federal Government can stretch the Commerce Clause quite a bit to show that something is affecting interstate commerce, and the SCOTUS has backed them up when challenged quite frequently. In this day and age of globalism, it is almost ALWAYS possible to show at least a tenuous link (or as the SCOTUS so often likes to say, "a slender reed") to interstate commerce, and therefore, to clear the way for their own intervention. And do we really think the Roberts court will step up to protect the rights of marijuana users?

If Danks doesn't hit 30 HR...then the only way he'll ever being a starter big leagues is if he cuts down on the strikeouts by like 33% or more. Otherwise he'll be hitting .250 or below with 10-15 HR's.

Replace the question "what would Branyan command" with "What would Branyan's surgeon command" and I think we're more on the right track. If anyone thought he would be healthy someone would have snapped him up by now.

The Special Inspector General for TARP says the government is trying to blow the housing bubble back up. And also from this report: