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QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 07:45 AM) Gibbs To Be White House Press Secretary So many free energy jokes, and only a few years to get them in...

ABC and CNN are confirming that Rahm-bo has accepted the Chief of Staff position.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 10:24 AM) Whenever I have to peer review somebody's paper I'm sometimes shocked at the quality I see, or lack thereof. Most of them are about what you'd expect from a college student (fair to excellent) but occasionally I come across some genuinely awful ones that leave me scratching my head. I read one guy's paper that left me wondering how he possibly could've made it into a 300-level course, he almost did nothing write. He didn't even start off with a thesis, have a conclusion, or even take a side on a persuasive paper, it was indescribably bad, and that's not even taking into account that there was other, more minor stuff wrong with it like writing in the first person, bad grammar, not in MLA format, etc. And I reviewed this other woman's paper who didn't even try to get to 2000 words, she just stopped at 650 and turned it in. I have such an urge to point out the grammatical error here I can't resist... Anywho...

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 10:10 AM) How do those people get INTO college? And not just some podunk CC, but a state flagship school? Frankly I don't know, but I'm sure the answer somehow involves $.

QUOTE (Hawkfan @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 09:57 AM) costs way too much for a s***ty baseball player He made Juan Uribe money last year.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 10:24 AM) No it isn't. I could see them moving him, but only if they were confident that they were upgrading, i.e. like they felt like they had a deal in place for Orlando Hudson. They struggled for too many years to find a regular 2b next to their other IF's.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 09:51 AM) I know the polls/questionnaires that have been released that you are referring to with that, so i understand how ignorant some people truly are. However, Palin has a college degree. It's still hard, and almost unfathomable, for me to believe that someone of her age, with her education, and her current and former jobs, to truly not know Africa isnt a country. I could be wrong, but its just really hard for me to buy. Having gone through a state school as an undergrad, I think there's more than a few people who went through IU who couldn't answer that question. Just some of the memories I have, like the person in biology who said that we shouldn't care about any of this because the sun is just going to expand and destroy the earth anyway. Or the existence of math 001, which was basically the math I did in 7th grade.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 09:46 AM) I would keep this in mind when talking about the Absentee ballots. Most were probably filed before the Stevens ruling came out. He had a very sizable lead until his conviction. I would guess those ballots favor him. Actually, I don' think the polling data shows that at all. It showed Stevens losing somewhere between narrowly and significantly for the last several months. I wonder if Stevens's all alaska ad buy last weekend really did make a difference. <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pollster.com/flashcharts/scripts/javascript/loess.js">

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 09:10 AM) AP reports Obama takes NC. Per MSNBC: Obama - 364 McCain - 173 1 electoral vote outstanding in Nebraska. Did he take MO also? Because CNN's data still shows McCain leading there.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 09:34 AM) I think the GOP will get MN and GA. MN is VERY close, but in the end I dont think a recount will be enough. As for GA, they wont have the Obama machine to get out the vote for Martin. But I might be wrong. Maybe they bring back the GA machine for a final push. I'm expecting in a couple of days to start receiving fundraising appeals for GA through the Obama list.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 09:39 AM) I've heard that, but I find it truly hard to believe. The GOP is probably trying to really to discredit her even more so there is no chance she thinks about running in 2012. I just have a hard time believing any 44 year old with any sort of decent education or IQ is not aware that Africa is a continent and not a country. Welcome. To. America.

Why would the Oriole's have any interest in Javy?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 07:27 AM) For those of us who cant' see YouTube at work... what is the deal with this Africa thing you are talking about?

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 5, 2008 -> 08:37 PM) Supposedly Towers has a hard-on for Felix Pie and Sean Marshall. If I'm the Padres, I don't do this trade unless Marmol or Soto is included. Hopefully this is just planted in order to get the Braves to push harder to make it happen. Pie, Marshall, and one of the other 2, maybe I go for it then. I'd want no piece of Soto if I were them though. Just too many whispers already.

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 5, 2008 -> 08:30 PM) Ugh, a rotation of Zambrano, Peavy, Harden, Dempster and Lilly would be one of the best in the NL this decade. http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8761340...62&ATT=3498 For the 2 weeks it was healthy, maybe yeah. What in the world do the Cubs have that would actually interest the Padres?

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Nov 5, 2008 -> 07:58 PM) Hinrich, Nocioni, Thomas, and Noah all had a combined 15 or so points. I almost feel bad for Rose- he had his best game (20 pts., 7 asst.) and you got Drew Gooden firing up 20 foot airballs. It's ridiculous. Thank the Lord I dumped my Bulls season tickets for Hawks ST's... Gooden shot 4/13 from the floor and logged 40 minutes. Tyrus and Noah together logged about 24 minutes, and Gray logged 2. In other words, for more than half the game, we had a small lineup on the floor.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 5, 2008 -> 07:21 PM) Some of it might be hyperbole, but I think that she may have had a stunning lack of world knowledge for a potential VP candidate. I think right now there is a certain group of Republican's who are out to take down Palin, the ones who come from big cities, with big money and big corporate connections. Obviously all theory, but I just have this feeling so much negative Palin stuff is about to hit. And almost by definition...Fox News is part of the big money, corporate section of the Republican party.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 5, 2008 -> 07:20 PM) I didn't remember offhand where Myanmar was, I had to guess because they were brown people and I knew it was in SE Asia. But that's like in a different category than not knowing where China is. Here's one of those recent attempts to prove Americans are idiots. (From 2006, polling 18-24 year olds, for context to the Katrina/Pakistan questions)

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 5, 2008 -> 07:15 PM) They are, and I agree with that point, but I just think it's ludicrous that she doesn't have second grade knowledge. Problem with that is, we constantly see, once or twice a year, one of those polls that asks Americans to do simple things, like Identify Mexico or Iraq or Europe on a map, and like 1/3 of the people they poll miss Mexico and half miss Iraq.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 5, 2008 -> 07:10 PM) This is just stupid f***ing bulls***. The media perpetuating this is just terrible. Faux News included. You live by Rupert Murdoch's channel, you die by Rupert Murdoch's channel.

Palin getting ripped on Fox.

So is this our election staff postmortem thread? Have some more sniping here. Link And I think this blurb comes from the same Link Tex put up @ the top.

If anyone's posted this one already I apologize. "Black man given Nation's Worst Job."

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 5, 2008 -> 05:23 PM) first link just goes to NYtimes.com The image was indirectly stolen but it tracks back to them in the end.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Nov 5, 2008 -> 02:49 PM) It was just brought to my attention earlier today that this proposition passed. I had no idea. I thought that with how liberal California is, it had no chance of passing. The "No on 8" campaign was pretty much an abject disaster. This will not be the last time this battle is fought.