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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 08:19 PM) Just as much as racism played a part in Obama getting elected... Do I need to go find the map of the voting pattern through Appalachia and the South again?

Gameday says Gavin Floyd left due to an injured foot/ankle.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 08:02 PM) WTF IS CARRASCO DOING IN THE GAME??? Is gavin hurt?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 07:52 PM) Just don't strap it on... k...we got another email here...

The best newsman in the country last night became probably the first one anywhere to spend some serious time talking about the implications of the case the Supreme Court heard last week regarding eliminating all corporate campaign finance rules. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission - Jeffrey Toobin www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Protests

Rios got a hit!

Former Indiana University President and head of the NCAA Myles Brand died today. I was in his last graduation ceremony. He sat in on my physics class once.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 07:28 PM) Then go there, since it's so damn great. Of course, California is pretty close. No, California is not. California's tax system is a disaster, and California's public services are soon going to be at the level of Mississippi. Because the state can't collect property taxes at any reasonable level, the state has to rely hugely on income and sales taxes, which pushes up those rates to ridiculous levels making California seem like it's overtaxed. It has the side effect of murdering California any time there's an economic downturn, because housing prices are more stable than incomes or sales. And it has the side effect of being a huge subsidy to the housing industry. And of course, putting a giant distortion in to the housing market can have no negative consequences whatsoever, right?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 05:41 PM) You could always move to Canada where they already have universal everything and astronomical taxes. The Liberal Uptopia! Actually we already pay almost as much for Medicare as they pay for their universal health care system (per person), so you save a bundle on health care there. That's one of the reasons Toyota et al. keep putting factories in Canada instead of the U.S. And their tax collections are astronomical if you mean in the lower 1/3 of developed countries and about 5 percentage points higher than the average rate paid in the U.S. The liberal utopia continues to be those Scandanavian countries.

Climate Change is bad for beer quality.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 04:36 PM) Honestly, I rather have Justin Duscherer or Ben Sheets. Heck, the Sox should just add a bunch of coming-off-injury starters who used to be stars(minus one babied Erik Bedard) and put them in the pen. Just like they used to in the old days. Duchsherer might not be a bad idea if we want a bullpen arm who can maybe come out and give us a few starts, I don't know if he'd be wanting that role though. I bet KW at least asks, but we may never know. He's not getting a guaranteed starting rotation spot coming in to ST, if that's what he wants.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 02:37 PM) Do pitchers effectively even come back from torn labrums. What ever happened to Ben Sheets? Ben Sheets had elbow surgery in Feb.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 01:45 PM) Right - they flood them with money in exchange for control. Pretty simple, and expected, just like we've all been saying - the lead in to the single payer - because it is. It's just a lot more veiled. Wait one moment...so the insurers have flooded them with money in exchange for control...and the thing that the insurers want with that control is single payer...aka none of them existing any more?

Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life.

If Freddo washed out, I'd have had interest in Bedard. But I'd rather go with the one we have based on his performance this season.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 01:02 PM) Uh, I would rope them into the left wing as much as you want to rope in these people on the right. These people are a major part of the biggest parts of the Democratic platform, such as the guys who think it is a good idea to fire bomb car dealerships to protect the environment. I don't see that as any different than lumping the Klansmen in with the right because they are religious. By and large these people vote Democratic, and are on the Democratic side of policy. The way you guys are defining the right wing, that makes these guys a legitmate part of the left wing. Forgot the ELF ones. That's a good point.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 12:07 PM) What makes Olbermann bat s*** crazy? Even I'll say he has his crazy side. I'm always of the sort that thinks its interesting to compare the crazy side of each side of the aisle though. The crazy side of the left...damn dirty hippies. The crazy side of the right...thinks that carrying an AK-47 knockoff to a protest/bar is a good idea. Unless you lump in the really violent anarchists with the left (why would you?)...that always interested me.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 09:25 AM) And he can always beat Freddy out. For what Garcia could do, you just don't pass up that deal. It is uber cheap. There is nothing wrong with Hudson starting off in Charlotte and maybe making a Beckham type entrance later in the season if he is still throwing well. Saves an arbitration year if we can push him past June 1st as well, right?

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 08:30 AM) I think part of the flaw in our arguments, on both sides, is that we expect the status quo in the levels of health care which we'll see in the future. Part of the goal of increasing health care coverage is that preventative care will become a bigger part of the solution than emergency care. Preventative care tends to be much cheaper than emergency/urgent care. If that's the case, wouldn't that naturally bring the cost of health care per capita down? Frankly, the idea that preventative care pushes down costs has been flatly rejected by 1 side in this discussion.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 16, 2009 -> 08:39 AM) One thing, Josh Marshall was reporting that there is a caveat to reconciliation for the public option. Due to some amendment by Byrd, any reconciled bill needs to come in at some zero cost proposal, which would need to beef up the public option. The more they beef it up the more votes they may lose, especially in Arkansas sens. The Dems can lose 9 Senators and still pass something through reconciliation. 10 Senators if Massachusetts names a temporary successor.

QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Sep 15, 2009 -> 11:16 PM) ...case in point to my previous post... out of the last 20 or so games left in the season, the Sox play Detroit 6 times. That's boring, despite the face that there's a division championship at stake. If we were 2-3 games back right now...no one would ever call those games boring.

Tonight's topic for discussion. When George W. Bush was President, more than a few celebrities embarrassed themselves. Britney Spears was even a "Singer" who did so. Why was George W. Bush not asked to comment on them, while Obama was asked (off the record of course) about his opinion on Kanye West?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 15, 2009 -> 07:37 PM) Nope, but it is according to the "outline" proposed by our president. B.S. The obvious Kaperbolic response is "And according to Kap, poor people shouldn't get them."

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 15, 2009 -> 03:08 PM) I think you are correct on that. However, let's call Walt Hrniak, who Frank worshipped adn was darn good if not the best. If Hriniak wanted a permanent job right now, he'd have one.