Balta1701

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 09:09 PM) Um, this is a product of Democratic intervention to stop foreclosures. All of the fees and interest keep accruing. Instead of a foreclosure taking place, the house keeps accruing interest and latel payments. Are they just supposed to completely stop everything when someone stops paying? You just gave the perfect argument for why stripping out the cram-down provision (allowing bankruptcy judges to modify mortgages like they can all sorts of other loans) would have been so effective.

QUOTE (robinventura23 @ Aug 29, 2009 -> 12:32 PM) http://www.entertonement.com/clips/xhbshfn...Doyle-Tim-Bell- This was exactly what I was thinking when I read this box score.

Here's a version that I can find tonight.

Link. Did Democrats contending for serious political positions at the state level keep making jokes about shooting Bush? WTF makes this OK?

MLB.com

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 10:40 AM) I think someone could question why Dye stayed in the 3 spot of the lineup for so long, but there is no way the Sox are going to bench a guy whose produced like Jermaine has over the past few years. He's healthy and in a funk, but when he gets out of it, he'll get out of it big and he might damn well carry the Sox to a surprising post-season birth. Are we really sure he's healthy?

Zzyxx is one of the places I'm flying over.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 12:38 PM) Which is what Congress is proposing. No changes at all? You're right, that is what a good chunk of Congress is proposing.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 12:42 PM) That's true - and those are the folks in foreclosure now. But in the long run, this ends up creating a healthier housing market. And we've seen so many foreclosures, I think we've played out a substantial part of the burst. Not all, though - foreclosures are a laggard of unemployment, so we'll still see big numbers there for a while. But as unpmployment stays generally even (around that 10% mark), the foreclosures will start to drop off, which further decreases over-cheap supply. Its sort of Darwinian, but it ends up helping. Looking at the nubmers on the "Option ARM" market and when those reset/whatever they call it...we're only at "The end of the beginning" in terms of the foreclosure surge. Especially now that the banks have figured out how to make a lot of money off of the stragglers in foreclosure.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 12:58 PM) I have to find an actual source on this, but I podcast I listen to said that apparently other stadiums have wanted to put screens at around 85-90 ft, but they brought in punters to see how high they could kick it and found out that 90ft is not nearly enough, so they put the screens up higher. Here's an official source for you. The Colts were the team that did that test.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 28, 2009 -> 12:13 PM) NFL is going to be in for a huge lawsuit if they try and change the rules and then retroactively apply them to Cowboy stadium. From what ive heard the scoreboard can be moved (it has to be moved for some upcoming concert) but Jones likes its location. If its the same for both teams, it really doesnt matter to me, and if the rules were 85 ft he did follow them and gave it an extra 5 ft. If you're a QB with a cannon for an arm, and you drop back and see that no one's open, or you flush out of the pocket and you're facing a sack, you think you can hit that? It's a free play if you do.

Is using a minotaur to gore detainees a form of torture?

QUOTE (C_LEE45 @ Aug 26, 2009 -> 07:00 PM) Figgins 3rd ANYONE? Dumping that Beckham guy?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 26, 2009 -> 02:58 PM) U.S. debt dropped off in the 50's. Very little, if at all actually. U.S. public debt in 1950 was $254.7 Billion, in 1960 was $290.5 billion. The debt wasn't paid off. It grew during the 50's. But the economy grew massively. Thus, the debt as a fraction of GDP declined massively. The U.S. typically doesn't "Pay off" its debt. The U.S. typically grows its way to the point that the debt is no longer all that big.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 07:54 PM) Which then leads me to - you still support bankrupting everything for who knows how long to fund GOVERNMENT health care (BS on the "PUBLIC" option, it's semantics, and you all know it). Oh, what's a few more trillion? It CANNOT be sustained, and AGAIN, instead of throwing out the baby with the bath water, why can't our entire government (forget who's in power right now or last year, whatever) fix the baby instead of throwing in the whole damn ocean? There's one big flaw with your logic. If we do nothing, health care will bankrupt this government even faster. There really is no way around it. In 10 years, anything close to the current growth rates, health care spending will be like 25% of the economy. We'll have to shut down the defense department to pay for medicare. If we don't bend the curve downwards (technical expression) then we won't just be talking about the evils of rationing or the evils of deficits. Solve the health care crisis and your long-term debt problem vanishes. The public option is an absolute key to doing that.

Team just has no marbles.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 07:20 PM) And that recovery was with a much less competitive global market; WWII completely wrecked major economic power houses. The US homeland went basically untouched as Germany, England, Russia, ect took tons of damage. I guess we need China and India to destroy each other. And instead of a huge fraction of the wealth being concentrated in the hands of a very small and shrinking few, the U.S. emerged from that war with the strongest middle class at any point in the last century. There is no sign anywhere of that purchasing power reappearing.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 07:03 PM) You're so quick to believe what you want to where any of this stuff is concerned. There's still a lot of junk not released and who the heck knows when it will be. You know why? Read Cheney's statement. He didn't reference anything else secret. He didn't do anything that acknowledge what was actually in those documents. He basically admitted that they didn't show what they said he showed, but then tried to obscure it by putting out a perfectly worded statement. Even he knew that the jig was up. If there was anything else in there that they'd gotten from what they'd done to the U.S., he'd have made another vague reference to it and the media would have went along.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 25, 2009 -> 06:52 PM) they proved you right! I just wish that I didn't know it was coming.

Sigh.

I have so little confidence in our bullpen this inning...

Quit failing with RISP! ARGH, you couldn't even GIDP with a man on 3rd! ARGH!

Walker needs to fix him.

Seriously...

Damnit AJ If you hadn't been so good this season I'd be really pissed about tonight. He's just been awful with lots of runners on base.