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AJ line drive single to left on the 1st pitch. The entity steps to the plate.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 11:59 AM) The the score's stream just switched to "what's your beef". damn it. Gameday Audio is broadcasting for me and as far as I know I haven't yet paid this year's $15

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 11:52 AM) I love when geology gets into politics You know who doesn't like that? The state of Louisiana.

Last year's Nobel Prize winning economist:

The Volcano Chaiten in Chile has responded to Jindal's speech by erupting 3 times in 24 hours. (Until 2008, that volcano was inactive for somewhere around 9000 years.) .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px;} .msnbcLinks a:link, .msnbcLinks a:visited {color: #5799db !important;} .msnbcLinks a:hover, .msnbcLinks a:active {color:#CC0000 !important;} Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Feb 24, 2009 -> 09:33 PM) I agree... if they can get the sixth seed (only 2 games back right now) I can see the Bulls taking a game or two from Orlando (without jameer nelson). We won't win a game against Boston or Cleveland though. Didn't the Bulls already beat Cleveland this season?

BTW, just going at the politics of Jindal's "Disaster preparedness for me but none for thee" speech last night....you have to wonder how it hits his career.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 09:44 AM) Be careful though, I just went to my local Quiznos' and they said they weren't taking coupons, bastards. Had to settle for Thai Food for lunch instead. Great, now the printer will not take the file. I love my life!

QUOTE (Texsox @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 09:07 AM) getting rusty? More reducing than that.

Ok, Governor Jindal, seriously, now it's personal. Bobby Jindal is opposed to me having a job, and Bobby Jindal wants you all to die in volcanic eruptions.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 08:52 AM) It was Shrine Tuesday yesterday or Pancake Tuesday (or whatever it's called). But if you're hungry, go get yourself a free Quiznos sandwich. http://www.millionsubs.com/Landing_Registe...c08c872a1a6d00f Assuming this doesn't put me on a dozen spam email lists and I actually get the sandwich...thank you. Best gift I've gotten in a while.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 06:47 AM) You just said in so many words that people can/should just go bankrupt every time they need urgent care. That's the way it should be. It's the only way to bring market forces to health care. You better literally be dying before you use health care unless you're rich.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 08:08 AM) I saw a headline today pointing out that the major markets are now down approximately 50% from their peak. Half. Yikes. Didn't the graph I posted yesterday make that point? Am I back on Ignore for you? Dah.

This close to a Ph.D. in geology...(Come on Iron, stop screwing me over!)

QUOTE (daa84 @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 08:54 AM) if you are a major league baseball player...why do you have all of your money in one spot?? youd think these guys would be smarter than this If you're making double-digit returns with a guy who is politically connected up the Wazoo, hanging out with Congressmen, Ex-Presidents, taking them on Junkets to the Caribbean, etc., why would you look a gift horse in the mouth?

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News & Notes.

Link to IU Press release Read the rest before challenging, all the details are in a long press release.

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On a different subject, this makes me proud to be an American. Greedy workers, always thinking they deserve more than they get. America; where unless you're already rich, you can land a plane in the Hudson and still have to work 2 jobs to get by.

LOL

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 24, 2009 -> 03:31 PM) That power should be replaced by Fields, Viciedo, Flowers and Allen...not to mention "plus" power up the middle of the diamond with Beckham and Ramirez. How is it you've forgotten the awesome power we received in exchange for Carter?

Great, now I'm getting Soxtalk spam through Facebook. So dizzy...

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Feb 24, 2009 -> 08:52 AM) Hers's the link to Cora making Beckham fess up for not knowing who Harold Baine's was. http://csnchicago.com/pages/soxdrawer Link

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 24, 2009 -> 12:16 PM) You can't sit there and say that "2nd biggest tax rate" doesn't mean anything... you cannot diminish that fact. If they cut corporate tax rates, it would stimulate the s*** out of this economy. It's a fact. Tax cuts on individuals doesn't have the stimuls effect that corporate taxes do. But there is no way they will adjust that. They need to money too bad and companies will continue "tax avoidance". Hello, Company XYZ SA. (SA being Switzerland). Couple of points. First and foremost, according to both the CBO and Moody's, you are simply wrong on individual tax cuts having a greater stimulus effect than corporate tax rates. But we went back and forth on that for several pages last month, rather than drag that back up I'm just going to repeat that you're wrong. You're wrong. On the corporate tax issue itself though, the U.S. is an interesting case. The actual U.S. corporate tax rate as written is something between 35 and 40%. Everyone knows this, it's the number that we're told is one of the highest in the world. The reality of course is that U.S. corporations actually pay a tax rate far, far below this number, through various deductions, tax shelters, etc. According to the GAO, 2/3 of the incorporated public companies within the U.S. did not pay a single cent of income taxes to the U.S. government between 1998 and 2005. If you're going to claim that's an artifact of small business deductions, you're still wrong, because when you include only the 1000 or so largest companies, the %age of companies not paying taxes actually goes up. When the deductions are taken in to account, a dramatically different picture emerges. Including this fact, a potentially better way to evaluate the corporate tax rate is corporate taxes actually paid as a percentage of GDP. In that metric, the U.S. is unremarkable, and the complaint about the U.S.'s high corporate tax rate breaks down. (link) The U.S.'s corporate tax rate is only high if you don't have a good enough lobbyist to keep you from paying it.