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Poreda and Carrasco up. Jose finishes the 6th.

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Jose's pumped.

Can I get suspended for that one?

By the way, I'm sorry but I just have to. Rush Limbaugh Yesterday blamed Sanford's affair on sorrow relating to, I'm sure you guessed it...Obama. Michael Savage...of course, one-upped it today. People actually believe and listen to this. By the millions. Anyway, sorry, I just had to. They were just too damn ridiculous.

Sheed would be an excellent fit there if he could get along with Van Gundy.

Bruno does last minute edit of screening version to pull scenes making fun of Latoya Jackson

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 11:23 AM) I don't think he has 30 home run power. If he can get up to 15 homers, that would be a real plus. Remember that with a wooden bat, he'll likely struggle hitting opposite field homers. I didn't see him try to bunt during the CWS, and he actually seemed to not want to steal when he got on. I keep wondering whether we'll be able to keep Podsednik as a stolen base coach after his legs finally give out. He's not that fast any more and it kills him on the basepaths this year, but he knows when to run and he has the technique down pat. He'd be an ideal guy to have working with people who have speed but need to develop stolen base skill (Owens, Mitchell, perhaps D2: the Mighty Danks)

"And here, this empty nail box once contained the nails that I used to put together the Ark of the Covenant. Some say any who open it are cursed. Some say any who open it will sneeze because of the dust bunnies collected within."

Missed this while we were out.

Kill them Jose.

Norris Hopper is a career .316 hitter in the big leagues. And he's younger than Dewayne Wise. Sweet, what a find! (Ignoring the 10/50 line he put up last year)

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 09:59 AM) My understanding is that the electric companies are responsible for the carbon out-put. So, at worst, churches would pay higher bills. They wouldnt be held responsible for energy usage. And if your bills are too high, invest in solar panels like I have been pushing for where I work. What will actually happen though is 2 things...either the church will also suddenly find additional motivation to conserve electricity (like everyone in the country should - conservation efforts could cut 25% of our current electric demand, give or take), install CFL's, and shut off the heat and computers when people go home for the night, thus saving the church money, and the power company will realize it can make more money off of low-carbon electricity and will begin moving its investments from coal to renewables, and the end result will be that you'll wind up with the church saving money on its energy bills overall and putting out less carbon to boot.

I will add that I don't like how the Democrats are ramming this bill through the house, is that acceptable?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 09:13 AM) Honestly the only part about it that I care about is the hypocrisy. The gambling with the state government doesn't bother you?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 09:56 AM) Like WSF101 was saying it just seems that sometimes it's a consequence of being a genius. Don't leave out his childhood. Seriously.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 08:39 AM) I think you just said that, because I never did. What I did say, however, is that everyone has to get on board and we have to be smart about how we go about doing it. Nothing more. I think the US has become a society of over-reactors which leads to making knee-jerk decisions that later have to be scaled back rather than calmly thinking things through and doing it right the first time. And this bill isn't structured to be smart? It is limited in how much of the carbon credits are auctioned off, most of them are given out at first to industries that aren't hurt. It's cost is very limited. The money coming in is rebated out and the people in this country least able to afford it actually will get money back from it. It's not a hard cap. It's been negoiated downwards heavily, especially to wind up helping farmers. I'd say that a smart bill would be one even stronger than this one, but I'm willing to take this one because of what we've seen in Europe; simply setting up a flawed system and letting it run for 5 years produced results that were vastly stronger than what was hoped by the designers of the bill in spurring energy efficiency and renewable energy development. Basically, if you're opposing this bill because "We need to be smart about how we go about doing it", then there is no environmental bill you will support. That doesn't mean the discussion can't be edifying.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 08:35 AM) It's called the Palmer effect. Even the real world is playing along.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 08:34 AM) Long - term, Beckham's not going to be a SS anyways (either a 2B/3B), so the Sox would have to go outside the organization to find a replacement. When was this determined?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 08:17 AM) I'm not saying we're the best, either, but we're more aware as citizens than ever before. I'm simply saying, and I'll say it again -- the environment is a world problem -- not a US problem. I think we need to do something, but we need to be smart while doing it. If all of our measures make energy unaffordable for some, then it isn't the best way of going about it. We're making strides, and there is a long way to go, but the entire world has to get on board for it to mean anything. Call me a cynic, I just don't see it happening. This world will never be a utopia in our lifetimes. So you're saying the environment is a world problem, the world clearly is already following U.S. leadership now that it's showing some, and therefore it logically follows that the U.S. should stop showing any leadership and drop this climate bill?

I wasn't planning to post any tributes...but this is impressive. Breaking: Google, Twitter, the LA Times, Perez Hilton, TMZ, AOL Instant Messenger, and Wikipedia simultaneously?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 07:51 AM) They still have the highest pollution, regardless. And while some of China is in on this -- other parts are not. I'm sure North Korea has a great method of disposing of nuclear waste from all the bomb building they're doing. My guess is they're just dumping spent rods into the ocean, because they really care about environmental issues, or what anyone says. Do you have any idea what you're talking about? The spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors are actually what they use to extract the material that they build the bombs from. Anyway...if you want to go in to nuclear waste storage issues, you're in the wrong country. The U.S. government decades ago told nuclear power plants that it would take care of the waste from operating them. The government still has not done so, and so the government pays something on the order of $1 billion a year in subsidies to the nuclear industry so that they can rent storage space at reactor sites. Without that giant subsidy practically every nuclear plant in the country would have been shuttered long ago. On top of that, there are huge swaths of this country that are contaminated from decades of weapons tests and work.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 07:41 AM) Yes, because it'll all be fixed now! This isn't a US problem, it's a worldwide problem, and not many developing nations give us s*** about our environment, or their own. For all the US and other countries are doing/have done by going green, it's meaningless unless China and India change the way they do things, and they have no intention on doing so anytime soon. As emerging countries, they have no intention of doing this anytime soon. As it stands, for all the pollution we cut, China adds that much more, it's like a balance, and nothings changing. If this is going to work we absolutely MUST get everyone on board, sooner rather than later, too. Actually, if you've paid attention at all, the fact that the U.S. is no longer giving excuses has spurred China to rapidly get focused on clean energy. They're spending more money cleaning up their energy sources than anyone else in the world except Germany. Hell, they already have a full plug in hybrid vehicle on the market in China - beat the U.S. automakers by 2 years.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 07:32 AM) Hedo's basically Geoff Petrie's favorite player in the league though. If they were going to spend money on anyone this off-season, my guess is that it would be him. I hope Portland does a sign a trade for David Lee so that takes them out of the race. When the Maloof brothers are flying coach to try to get by...they don't have the money to spend right now. That's just how it is.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 06:20 AM) The US government reminds me (and it's not just this administration, for the record), of the mafia in Goodfellas. Run up the stores credit, move a case a booze in the front, and sell it out the back at a discount...I mean, why not, right? It's all free. Nobody's gonna pay for it anyway! And then...when ya can't borrow another buck from the bank...you bust the joint out. You light a match. And it's someone else's climate that gets screwed up too right? Lighting a match = a pretty good metaphor there.