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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 09:50 AM) Unless ESPN moves their studio out west it'll be tough. ? He'd have won this year if Greinke wasn't so damn good.

I'm sick of arguing over the budget and HCR, so I figured...let's throw some gasoline on those old, smoldering embers over there and see what happens. So, Tim Tebow is going to go on during the Super Bowl and give an anti-abortion lecture, sponsored by Focus on the Family. Comments? A few I'd like to make...CBS is of course running the Super Bowl this year, and will seemingly be running this ad. They're the same network that refused to run one of Moveon.org's anti-Bush ads a few years ago, on the grounds that they weren't going to run "Issue advocacy" advertising. It's also fun to note that Focus on the Family was cutting staff last year and spending money on Super Bowl ads.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 09:35 AM) Yeah, if you can't find them, you need to read something other than the same crap you have been reading. This whole "do my homework for me or you are wrong" thing is just stupid. So if I actually tried and I seriously can't figure out what you're talking about, what does that count as? The only real mandates to states that i can find in the bill were mandates that the stimulus money actually be spent. The main "unfunded mandates" from the government are things like NCLB and Medicaid, which really weren't stimulus projects as far as I can tell.

Lincecum submitted a $13 million number in what I think is his first arbitration year.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 09:30 AM) If the dems want to push the health bill as is, they can -- congress simply has to vote yes to the senate version and its done. If I were in the House...I might well say no to that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 09:32 AM) Creating government agencies and programs is not stimulus spending, and neither are unfunded mandates. Could you cite for me a few examples of that actually happening in the Stimulus package?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 09:27 AM) Could be. It depends on how it was done. I am guessing if it was done the way that the rest of this was done, not really. Please spell out how this is different? I think you're going to argue somehow that the current stimulus isn't temporary or something along those lines, which thoroughly confuses me because like 99% of it would be spent within that 3 year timetable i gave you anyway.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 09:24 AM) I am literally arguing that WWII spending was the very definition of stimulus spending. And if we dumped $500 billion over the next 3 years into alternative energy, would it be or would it not be the very definition of that?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 09:21 AM) Because wars don't require any kind of industrial output or anything... Intended or not, war spending in WWII was the very definition of stimulus spending. There was no alternative energy or voting programs being put into place. This was very literal job creation because of what was being asked. It was also completely temporary, because when it was done, it was done. So are you literally arguing that defense spending is better stimulus than say, infrastructure spending?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 09:10 AM) It was also the very definition of a stimulus package. Very pointed and TEMPORARY spending. But you'll note...it wasn't directed at job creation at all. It was directed at winning the war.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 09:01 AM) Interesting. So... do earthquakes along one fault, cause quakes on other ones? Like moving a pebble on a beach releases pressure on ones around it, sort of a chain reaction? Absolutely does happen. I'll cite the most beautiful example in the world momentarily, but here's the science; when an earthquake happens, an enormous amount of stress is released on the area of the fault that slips. But, not all of the fault slips. Imagine you're grinding 2 bricks past each other...if you're pushing hard enough, eventually they'll slip along the plane between them. Now, imagine a long line of bricks doing the same thing, but only let 1 pair of bricks slip at a single time. Once one pair goes, it's going to push on the next set to either side. The complicated way to put this is, the earthquake changes the stress field. You release stress in one place, but you build it up in another place. Aftershocks, esp. large aftershocks, can often be related to this phenomenon; suddenly a fault that was near failure finds itself having more stress on it, and its rocks give quite quickly and you get another event. This is also how you can have a smaller earthquake trigger a larger event. The world's most beautiful example of this phenomenon is the Anatolian Fault, in northern Turkey, which last broke in the Ismet earthquake in 1999. This fault appears to rupture in beautiful, nearly perfect chains. A quake happens at one end (typically the eastern end) of Magnitude 7+, then there's another next to it, and it marches along the fault. We've watched it happen on this fault since the 30's. If you take something scary from this picture, you'll probably note that if the chain keeps going, the next one hits Istanbul directly.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 01:23 AM) But I still dont get who John Galt is?! The rich guy from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" who leads a revolution of rich people who decide they don't want to contribute to society to punish the government for being so intrusive. You know, I ought to write the sequel to that novel, where Galt gets bailed out by the Feds.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 08:02 AM) I don't get it. Don't you need 51 votes to pass a bill? Let the Republicans filibuster and talk for 20 straight days and then vote on the bill when they're finally done talking. The sad thing is, the way the rules are now written, the Republicans don't need to maintain a filibuster. They need exactly 1 person on the floor. The majority that is trying to break the filibuster needs to maintain nearly all of its 60 members on the floor. Otherwise, the single Republican there can note a lack of quorum and have the session ended.

QUOTE (G&T @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 06:36 AM) I don't know what the language of the settlement is, but I can't imagine it will allow that to happen. If Conan gets another job it will be expected that he receives his market value, or takes a lower than market value offer in good faith. If he accepts a deliberately low ball number, NBC can sue and have their payments reduced by the FMV. With as fast as this settlement was put together, it might well be possible that one of the 2 sides made a stupid mistake in the contracts.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 08:44 AM) This quake was 35 miles NNW of PAP, and was 6.1. Since it was like 60 miles from where the previous quakes were, is that really an aftershock? Seems like a different event. In any case, they are saying they can't tell how much new damage there is from this one. That might be because there was so little left to damage. But what it might do, is cause further damage in areas further north, that weren't as badly hit by the first quakes. Its like its spreading out. Ugh. The official definition of an aftershock is that it is an event within 2 rupture lengths of the original event that occurs before seismicity returns to background levels. Seismicity will be above background levels for years, probably a decade or two after that first event. Without knowing 100% the original rupture length, a brief check shows that this event was still, IMO, somewhat close to the original event, and occurred either on a very close fault or perhaps on the same fault. It almost certainly meets all the criteria for an aftershock.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 01:50 AM) If he can be used as a strict LOOGY, Williams is fine by me. The problem is a real DH is far more valuable than a LOOGY, and I think an extra bat off the bench is more valuable than a LOOGY too. The big problem to my eyes winds up being that KW keeps giving Ozzie guys with reasonably solid splits against LH batters and terrible splits against RH batters, and Ozzie insists that if he's bringing a guy in he needs to be able to get out hitters from both sides.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 08:52 AM) As is KW, cause if Rios doesnt turn it around, that move is gonna haunt and follow him for years to come... It's more likely that Rios will haunt hitting coaches if he doesn't turn it around than KW.

Back on the HCR topic, I'm stealing a line I thought was brilliant.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 10:59 PM) Seriously, though, it does say that the country is more conservative then you would like to admit - again, that's my opinion. Replace the word "Country" with the word "Media" and I'd be happy to agree, but as I said, wrong thread.

QUOTE (since56 @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 10:54 PM) Hopefully he will be OK. I just don't want to hear this best starters in the league stuff until they have done it. One or two of the starting five will go down for at least some of the time. Is Hudson ready? Where is Carrasco? Beurhle has been durable, limit his innings and maybe he will be alright. Carrasco signed a minor league deal with the Pirates.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 10:56 PM) And when will you figure out that you can't government spend your way out of an especially deep recession? You're right. I can't think of a single time in history when an especially deep recession has ended because of government spending. A great depression, yeah I can think of one of those where it did.

I know this is the Republican thread so I have to accept that the media is a bunch of crazy liberals, but it really says something about either the people running the party or the people running the media, or both, that GWB gets a 51-50 minority in the Senate in 2000 and is able to ram through NCLB, 3 batches of tax cuts, the Medicare insurance company bailout bill, the Iraq war, and so on, and is able to every time peel away significant numbers of Dems, and the Dems 6 years later have a much, much stronger majority and are totally unable to do anything, and the moment anyone says anything mean to them they run away screaming.

Sweet! The Dems have responded to the election by declaring in one voice "WE NEED THE SECOND DIP!" Well, it worked great in 1937.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 10:41 PM) Well, you need the bank first. Why? Goldman, JPM, etc., didn't.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 10:39 PM) Hence founding of the southsider2k5 bank. Bank Holding Company, you mean.