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Damnation.

QUOTE (ChWRoCk2 @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 06:45 PM) OK COME ON DEFENSE, BUCKLE DOWN AND GET A MOTHER F***ING REBOUND. Fixed that for you

GOD DAMNIT THE REBOUNDING FINALLY KILLED YOU YOU DAMN SOB'S

QUOTE (ChWRoCk2 @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 06:39 PM) Maybe Rose can plea to bring him back It's not going to be a question of being nice, it's a question of the luxury tax or whether or not we can move Hinrich somewhere to save some cap space. Thanks to Gordon turning down those contracts, he's going to wind up somewhere around an MLE player given how bad the NBA's financial situation is. No one is going to be spending money on players this offseason.

New career scoring high for Davis.

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 06:32 PM) Pax has to find a way to keep Gordon. Rose allows it so Ben doesn't do his dribbling all the time. Can we just give him Deng's deal? Like take it away from Loul? JR won't pay the luxury tax for a team that can't win the title. If we get to the 2nd round, is that close enough to convince him to go there for 1 season?

This would be excellent news out of the CARB.

REBOUND DAMNIT

Rebound god d*mnit!

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 06:09 PM) If Gates retires in a couple years, Obama should nominate Quentin to be Secretary of Defense. The Sox fan in him probably won't allow that though. Q's hair looks too much like Blagojevich.

The Center for American Progress here tries to make the case that we're getting our arses totally handed to us on development of renewable energy resources, and that even the devil of modern CO2 emissions, China, is doing a better job of developing renewables than we currently are. An interesting note is that the European countries are much worse places for alternative energy development than the U.S. The U.S. has much larger wind resources, and in particular has enormous amounts of open, sunny space perfect for solar development. And even with the stimulus package, we're struggling to keep up with the rest of the world.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 05:49 PM) Allen is hitting wide open 3s, that's not being hot. Not worried about him. Ben Gordon is responding in kind.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 03:31 PM) I know, it's supposed to be funny, but on the serious side, you know damn well that this is not anywhere comparable, even for a joke. The President himself has joined in with the scorn of this silly idea.

QUOTE (ChWRoCk2 @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 05:44 PM) Don't let Allen get hot. Too late.

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Something interesting playing in to the data we're getting on these "Profitable" banks. It seems that, especially amongst the ones we thought were in the worst trouble (Citi, etc.), although they're telling us how they're currently making profits, they're also acting like banks that are very concerned about what's on their balance sheets; dramatically cutting back on lending, esp. over the last couple months. By the Journal's way of counting, they claim that lending in Feb. was off by 4.7% over January. Noteably, that's a raw number, not projected out over a year; it fell 4.7% in 1 month. Over a year that'd be well over a 30% drop if you factor things that way. Whatever the banks are saying publicly, there's a lot more depth to those "profits" than what we've been presented so far. It's hard to know exactly what to make of those numbers, given the recessionary pressures, the movement of money between different types of lending, etc, but it's as interesting of a signal as the claims of profitability.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 04:55 PM) Injuries suck, but I wouldn't mind if Rondo was out the rest of the series. Minor right ankle sprain, expected to return in the 2nd half. Minor knee sprain for Leon Powe, also expected to return.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 05:01 PM) I'm not insinuating anything, but Rose to Noah looks A LOT like Paul to Chandler right now. Now we just need Luol Deng to actually turn in to David West.

Obama shakes hands with President of Mexico Felipe Calderon's dog, appears to bow to him. The level of embarrassment to this country by this man's actions here are unspeakable.

I think we can probably all agree that this is a bad idea. I feel this makes a very strong case for an international agreement allowing these guys to be tried before the international courts. Because right now, the alternative is releasing them. Somehow that doesn't strike me as a very effective method of dealing with these guys. Getting the U.S. to take the lead here in setting up a legal way of dealing with crimes on the high seas would be an excellent step.

Different subject. The battle in NY appears over before it's even begun.

If Chrysler comes back asking for more money now, let em burn. Anyone want to give us a lecture about how corporate pay levels are reasonable because the executives are always beholden to shareholders and work in their best interest?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 02:13 PM) I thought that Miami series might be really close. From the looks of game 1, it might not be. You should never take too much from a team's game 1 performance on the road.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 12:22 PM) I'm not missing any point because I'm not advocating torture, even waterboarding. I'm expressing my disapproval of the administration seemingly politicizing things that aren't meant to be talked about in public (in this case that i bought up you mentioned they were sued to release it, but he's made it a pretty clear pattern). You're talking to someone who has actually interrogated people btw. If you don't want this type of information receiving public focus, if you don't want it politicized, then there is a very simple solution; the CIA needs to follow the law. The Geneva conventions are the law in this country, and many others. They have existed in their current form for decades. If the CIA can not follow those laws, then either the prosecutions of the people who violate the law are going to be very large, political events, or the withdrawal of the United States from the Geneva Conventions is going to be a gigantic political event. And given that the Nuremberg defense didn't work at Nuremberg, even saying "I was ordered to do so by my superior" isn't good enough. Make no mistake. This is a democracy. If branches of the Federal government are going around breaking the law, then regardless of their motivation, it is something the public needs to know about. And at least until the last door closes at the last newspaper in the world, we will find out about it.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 12:08 PM) Did he really think that somebody was going to think, "Say, I wasn't so sure if I should vote for Terry McAuliffe, but after 20 miles of continuous signage, I'm convinced!" I'm sure that they didn't specify the rules for where the signs were going to be put very well, for why that ended up happening. But frankly, in a race that is 3 ways, 20-15-15-50 with the 50% being undecided, pounding your name in to a voter's head like that is a totally valid technique. All it needs to do is make it so that a portion of that 50% undecided who doesn't even know there's a primary election happening suddenly knows the name of one of the candidates.