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QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 17, 2008 -> 09:04 AM) Wisconsin is another one of those states I wouldn't put enormous hopes on going red this year. But there are some interesting indicators - like the phone lines in the McCain-Palin office in Green Bay getting overloaded from calls requesting tickets for a rally Thursday. And Obama's lead in the state seems pretty modest lately. Having said that, Milwaukee voter fraud — er, "vigorous Democratic turnout efforts" — should keep the state blue this year. Wisconsin's Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is suing the State Accountability Board, trying to get them to check all new voter registrations since Jan 1, 2006. People in the statewide voter database whose names don’t match up with information maintained by other state agencies would be forced to cast provisional ballots on Nov. 4 and must bring back proof of identification and address within 24 hours to ensure their votes count. It will come as an enormous shock to you that the state Democratic Party is fighting this in court. Now, mind you, this is exactly what Barack Obama did in his first race for public office, except he and his guys disqualified signatures under a much stricter standard — i.e., where the name was in print instead of cursive. But apparently enforcing the law is partisan. Couple points in reply. 1. The McCain/Palin office clearly needs better telecom tech support. 2. Why do we want so badly to keep people from voting? Without knowing the details, I can already see a couple problems there. A person registers to vote with one name, and then another agency makes a mistake filing a document, or doesn't update their info after a name change, and you manage to keep them from voting. The law is very clear. We don't let people vote twice. You vote twice under false names and you risk jail time. The fact that documents in some state agency are wrong does not mean that there is going to be a massive voter fraud scheme perpetrated on election day, nor does it mean people who try to commit fraud won't be arrested.

Help us out kid.

I'm sure this is somehow sexist and offensive to many people, but I found it darn funny. The Sarah Palin family name generator.

First time in his career I think I've ever cheered for something he did.

Martinez is 1/10 career off of Nathan with a homer.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 08:17 PM) Murrow Good night

QUOTE (Texsox @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 07:13 PM) Which gets to the point, both Chicago newspapers believe he will increase circulation. If the Sun Times didn't believe it they would not be blocking this and the Trib wouldn't be trying to hire him. I think Sam Zell standing up in the Tribune newsroom and firing randomly in to the air so that the Tribune gets the exclusive story of him going nuts would increase their circulation as well. Seriously...if I were still in that area, there are very few things that would make me flip papers. I'd be dropping the Trib and picking up my local paper or something like that in a half second if I had that decision to make

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 08:06 PM) Ben & Jerry's Commies.

QUOTE (chiguy79 @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 07:05 PM) Prince Fielder just swishered also with the tying run on 3rd. Kerry Wood is a gas can waiting to explode. Dude, this is the Twins game thread, keep the Cub stuff out of here!

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 06:46 PM) That was after the '07 season. he had plenty of value and I'm sure there were more than a few interested parties following his career year in '06. Considering his back went out for basically the 2nd time at the start of September 2006 and the Sox advised him to have the surgery in October, 2006 (advise he didn't take, which I'll note, probably plays in to the fact that he hasn't recovered yet)...I really doubt anyone was going to give you anything of solid value for Crede at that point. Of course, that does assume some basic level of intelligence for the GM's in this game.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 07:39 PM) Hurricane Chocolate

Spade

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 07:15 PM) balls Gavin Floyd.

Thor is in.

Floyd starts the inning with 97 pitches. I'd imagine we'll see a lefty against Damon.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 05:27 PM) I'm going to do my best John McCain impression and say "I don't know anything about the economy", other than the fact it's bad right now. But shouldn't the government stay out of stuff like AIG and maybe even Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? It seems weird to have them involved in things like this. But again, I know nothing about the economy and realize I could be very wrong. Somebody please help me out and try and explain this. The 2 Mortgage giants are an interesting deal, because they were originally started by the government and it's only been really in recent years that they've behaved as entities in the market rather than as government run things. The government guarantee on them was basically implicit. If the government turned its back and let someone run them in to the ground to make a quick buck, the government was always going to have to bail them out. They actually have provided a fair amount of stability in the mortgage market and the peopel who have mortgages probably pay something like a half a point of interest less because they exist. AIG though is another matter. This certainly seems to be another case of the fed deciding that this company was too big to fail, despite all their mistakes. Lehman Bros. going in to bankruptcy is going to be a mess that takes years to clean up, AIG would have been worse. Would have been a major disruption to an awful lot of people's lives (Imagine needing to get in touch with them related to an insurance policy tomorrow. Yowza). Basically, it's the classic example of the government helping the big guy. You go bankrupt tomorrow because of some medical bills, ha, personal responsibility! You shoulda planned for that. AIG goes bad because of some bad bets, and the government is happy to help. Anyway, congrats Americans, we just bought ourselves a failed insurance company!

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 04:44 PM) Do you just feel more comfortable being worried? It's hard to imagine how if I told you earlier the Twins would be down 8-5 in the 5th with Liriano starting and the Sox would be up 4-2 in the 6th that anyone would find something to complain about.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 04:40 PM) 86 pitches through 5 for Gavin. Not good. That Giambi at bat is the difference between him going 6 and him going 7. What can you do sometimes.

And there we go. The Feds will give AIG $85 billion dollars, call it a loan but also buy out the majority of the company and pretend it's worth that much. The U.S. government just took an 80% stake in a Dow component, I believe. Workers of the world unite!

55 pitches through 4.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 04:11 PM) Yep, this would be huge. How many pitches for Floyd so far? That home run was on #50.

Come on OC, one time...

Come on Alexei...make it hurt

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 03:40 PM) I see alexei went deep can anyone tell me the story, how does pettite and gavin look? I don't get this one on tv. 3 hits, 0 walks, 2 k's for both pitchers so far (although Pettitte's thrown 3 innings)