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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 01:38 PM) The big question is if Harry Reid is blacker than Obama? Check his language.

Today's date is "30" in binary.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 01:03 PM) This is similar to the Leno/Letterman issue that came up when Carson retired. NBC has this weird preoccupation with Leno that I cannot fathom. It's his high ratings. For some reason they like that.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 12:55 PM) Agreed. It was quite obvious. If they brought back the TD and spotted it at the point of interception minus a 15 yard penalty then who knows. The ref was behind the QB and it was impossible for him to see it from there. Although, frankly, raise your hand if you think the GB Defense could have legitimately stopped Arizona's offense.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 12:13 PM) Current Temperatures as of 12:10pm Jan 11 Nuuk, Greenland airport - 41.0 F Jacksonville, Florida airport - 42.1 F There's a really interesting graph that shows this quite well: No scientist is really saying it because no one wants to over-step things and get the attack dogs after them and because it's an El Nino year so everything is crazy anyway, but this is exactly what models say should happen if you start to weaken the Gulf Stream or if you rotate it away from Europe and towards Western Greenland (say, due to added meltwater entering the Atlantic from Eastern Greenland). Freeze Europe and the eastern U.S., everywhere else gets hotter.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 11:27 AM) Oh and the arctic is having a warm trend this December which is really really bad for sea ice. Impossible. My Fox News hosts tell me its cold everywhere.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 11:14 AM) I'm sure the MSM will be full of retractions and corrections to set the story straight after running with a rumor as fact. Supposedly the NYT ran a correction on December 30th. Impressive how little that got picked up.

Betcha didn't know that the guy bought a round-trip ticket.

I believe Lostfan would like this posted here. The Obama facebook update. Orzsag's baby spouting out wave functions. Nice.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 09:53 AM) It sure is. And the longer it is artificially propped up, the worst the burst is. Even a small bust in China could be quite awful for the world, because everyone seems to believe there'll be a huge political feedback against the Party

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 09:48 AM) Wow, and I was expecting the onion. You got it.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 09:48 AM) If China sneezes, the rest of the world gets really sick. Or something. It's sort of a provocative point. Basically in my lifetime, can you name any economic sector that has undergone massive growth which hasn't been followed by the bursting of a bubble in that sector? Internet, banking, housing, even foreign countries such as SE Asia, energy/commodities, etc. Isn't the expectation now that China grows at 8% a year? Isn't that typically exactly what a bubble looks like?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 09:47 AM) I'm Blacker Then Barack Obama LMAO! This is hysterical. Senator Reid, I'd like you to meet your replacement.

The Post calls Bubble on China.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 10, 2010 -> 10:44 PM) If Castro takes 500k, then Flowers can be semi-fulltime DH. We don't need a semi-fulltime DH from the RH side, we already have one of those. We especially don't need to spend a year of arb-eligibility on that.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 02:11 AM) I still wouldn't mind seeing Alejandro de Aza as a 4th/5th OF, but with Quentin/Pierre/Rios/Jones/Kotsay, it seems doubtful. Start him off in AAA and see what he's got. The odds of all 5 of our OF guys staying 100% healthy all year is pretty low, with Q, Kotsay, and Jones out there. If he can get back some of his form from a couple years ago, then he'll get a chance.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 09:00 AM) 2013?? I dont think you are giving Dusty Baker enough credit. If he makes it to 2012 it will be a miracle He's got to get to the big leagues before then.

Forget that.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 08:47 AM) Highway construction alone was $30B. That's more than 10 times what we are spending on this latest energy package. Wrong priorities, IMO, and short term thinking is going to kill us. Highway construction was $30 billion, and that's a factor of 15 less than the amount of tax cuts included in the package. Hence, it was a pittance.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 10, 2010 -> 05:56 PM) Hm. He's still listed as a free agent on the Free Agent Tracker list. "Remember the Jays signing Ramon Castro? Well, they kinda didn't."

Maybe you should try some serious lobbying.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 10, 2010 -> 05:52 PM) Really not liking 2k5s insinuation of available positions and "favors." Quit thinking like a man and think like a politician.

That was not a Horsecollar.

And there's what the Pack needed.

Should be pretty easy these days