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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 05:12 PM) So would Jason Williams get a chance to play? Which one?

QUOTE (Markbilliards @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 06:15 PM) He would not be considered. He showed too many holes in his game for AA in '09. He has a major gaping issue of plate patience. The Sox also wouldn't want him to all of a sudden revert to DH either when he hasn't even played a major league game yet. Furthermore, with Konerko and Teahen starting, there's really no place for him to be an everyday player in the big leagues. They're not putting him at 1b in the majors after having barely played that position before.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 03:53 PM) Or PETA's ad last year. To be fair though, the ads PETA makes are deliberately designed to be so offensive that they get rejected based on the close to explicit sexual content of the ad. Although, one does wonder why it's ok to put Cialis ads on the air. My issue with CBS is that their policy on "Issue-advocacy" ads seems to apply to any ad that would come from the left, and doesn't get applied at all from groups on the right.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 03:43 PM) ?? filll in some blanks for me. CBS has repeatedly rejected anti-Bush ads from Moveon.org, amongst others, for the Super Bowl. Fairly mild ones at that.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 03:41 PM) You have no problem with advertisers capitalizing on which beer to drink or car to drive? Every ad is pushing something for their benefit. This one isn't asking you to buy something. So why was it not ok to run an ad questioning great master W?

Dems put out talking points. To paraphrase: "Republicans are mean, they win, we give up." Last article I posted had a spot on headline.

Were those draft-and-follow guys?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 03:12 PM) As to the positive articles, if you want something to worry about, think about the guys you aren't hearing about. The biggest one of note...the big guy at the back end of the bullpen.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 02:46 PM) Did I say the others were OK? Are you seriously using the 12-year-old classic excuse of "everyone else is doing it!"? If you are looking for a nominee to run the Transportation SECURITY Administration, you'd think you might want to find someone who hadn't abused power and broken the law in a law enforcement role previously. Call me crazy. I'm just a little annoyed here. Bush got whatever he wanted through the Senate Dems, including guys who did a lot worse than this guy. Now the Dems can't do squat, and it's actually hurting. Diplomats are missing, a ton of positions at Treasury are still unfilled, the TSA has no head and there are a bunch of other intelligence postions unfilled, and when bad things happen, it's of course the Administration that takes the blame. I'm just somewhat frustrated over how badly the Senate has broken down over the last year. Bush got wars, funding for those wars without any checks, the Patriot Act, multiple Iran Contra criminals, John Ashcroft, Mike Brown, 3 budget busting tax cuts, and his insurance company bailout bill all through the Senate. The Dems can't even get a frankly qualified guy to the TSA.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 10:28 AM) Yeah... I'd have to think there is a candidate for this job, somewhere, that hasn't himself showed multiple instances of abusing a position of power in law enforcement. After checking, this appears to be an incident that occurred in the 1980's. Simple question...how exactly is this guy disqualified when GWB was able to put damn Iran Contra criminals pardoned by his father into multiple government positions, including those approved by the Senate? Seriously, this guy gets a reprimand and that becomes the excuse to get rid of him, while the Senate approved multiple previously pardoned people for GWB. I guess IOKIYAR.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 10:04 AM) Karma's a crazy thing... The Senate was 59-41 in January 2009 and it's 59-41 in January 2010. Arlen Specter's party switch made it 60-40 for about 8 months, but then things somehow get back to the way they were intended. Best headline of the day:

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 02:03 PM) That is a bit more acceptable. I thought it was the hole hand. I believe it was also.

If the Bulls weren't so close to the Luxury tax threshold, I'd totally expect them to do it. Thankfully, reality is going to intervene; the Bulls are barely under the tax, and if they go over it, they lose about $4 million or so in tax payments. Noc is making about $3 million more than TT this year, which means that the Bulls would have to include an extra $3-$4 million in that deal to make it work. The only guys they have even in that range are Noah, or a combination of Gray + Pargo + one or two of the Rookies. Since the Bulls don't have extra $ to bring in people, they can't empty their roster with a 3 for 1 either.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 01:50 PM) Would the left spend this kind of money on asshatery? ??? I dunno, I'm just asking. Someone else said it, I think, but it's also Tim (slurp) Tebow. Yes, they've tried to, and been told no.

Frankly, that's a good match for him too, maybe give them what they tried to get with Burrell last year...although he kinda duplicates Pena with the bat a lot doesn't he?

For Jones, there's more to it than being in shape, he has some serious technical things with his swing (see his 2005 season). Although that'd be a great sign.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 11:11 AM) I wont mention the drastic difference between number of human lives killed by abortion verse those killed by Hitler. Hitler must be stopped.... but this abortion things ok. Link

Just a little admin-style heads up, keep it kinda civil in this thread, k? Know it's a complicated issue, but we're not going to let this thread go crazy.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 10:28 AM) Yeah... I'd have to think there is a candidate for this job, somewhere, that hasn't himself showed multiple instances of abusing a position of power in law enforcement. He'll still wind up with a hold on him unless he's sufficiently anti-Union.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 10:26 AM) So they will run a commercial by extreme right wing homophobic group Focus on the Family, but PETA can't run an ad promoting the benefits of eating vegetables. Correct.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 10:14 AM) How the heck is that an appropriate setting for pushing one's religious and political views? Hard to ask for a larger audience. What you do with it should be your business.

Let's also be clear about what FOTF's message here is. Tebow's mother's doctor said it was medically inadvisable for her to carry the pregnancy to term. Let's say that the case was a mother being told that there was say a 25% chance of everything going right and a 75% chance of serious, perhaps life-threatening complications. Probably just guessing on the numbers but presumably not that far off. She chose to carry through the pregnancy, had a child, and that child is now a famous athlete. Therefore, because this situation worked correctly, everyone should be forced to make the same choice by banning abortion, or at the very least, more people should be willing to gamble against a doctor's advice.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 10:09 AM) How is that for irony... The guy admits to running illegal background checks on his ex's-boyfriend and yet the Dems have problems with illegal information gathering on terrorists... Oh but he changed his story! lol. I see, I hadn't even read that about him.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 10:00 AM) Good, that guy should never have been nominated. Another example of Obama's odd tendency to nominate people with legally or financially troubled pasts. What exactly was wrong with him (Seriously?). The guy holding him up supposedly did so because of a concern that he might not be a big enough enemy of unions in the workforce.