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2 hostages (potentially all of them) released

Talk seems to be growing about a 50 basis point cut here in Dec.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 30, 2007 -> 11:48 AM) Britian should swarm in and take her back to the homeland. If Sudan wants to say anything about it, Britian should pimp slap them and say "welcome to the 21st century you intolerant bunch of boobs." Because clearly...this is going to convince these people that the modern, pluralistic way is better than their way.

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One witness claims the hostage taker showed the people in the office a bomb strapped to his chest. Other reports now have the man demanding to speak to Senator Clinton. She has canceled a speech she was supposed to give at the DNC in about 10 minutes. So, this is certainly a variable I don't think anyone had planned for.

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Obama, Bloomberg chat over eggs, potatoes.

QUOTE(Lemon_44 @ Nov 30, 2007 -> 05:23 AM) Hopefully KW looks into trading JC to the Mets since Minaya seems determined to try and re-assemble the Cuban National team pitching staff. I wonder if Contreras and Sweeney could land you Lastings Milledge? I know he played well down the stretch but, back in June, his trade value was practically nothing. I'm sure the Sox would have to pick up some salary but Milledge has alot of potential. I wonder what kind of trade value Sweeney has. Ozzie raved about him a couple years ago but he hasn't really done anything with his chances. I think, at best, he could turn out to be a Shawn Green type hitter or,at worst, never see MLB again. No.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 29, 2007 -> 12:48 PM) Edwards cannot finish third in Iowa. He has to AT LEAST beat Obama, he can lose to Hillary, but he can't lose to Barack, because then his spot as the "not Hillary" candidate is done. None of the other candidates would survive a Hillary win in Iowa. I think it'd actually be better for Obama to win Iowa than for Hillary, from Edwards's perspective, because if Hillary takes Iowa or NH, it's all over.

Wow. At least it's less than what the Mets paid him.

Thank God we're being stubborn with Rowand.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Nov 29, 2007 -> 08:10 PM) I agree, which is what I said earlier, as did others. You sub out Owens and put in DLS, the Sox can't do any better than the package offered. You give up that package for Cabrera, you better sign him to a 6 or 7 year deal the day after. Well, the question is...if you sub out Owens and put in DLS...if the Marlins are looking for star power, does even that cut it?

Other than including DLS, I don't see how we can offer a better deal than that.

Bobby Knight gets into an argument with his neighbor while hunting...and armed.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 29, 2007 -> 04:02 PM) I can't stop eating today. I'm just constantly eating. Whoa, Tex's posts are stuck in a 1 week time warp...

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 29, 2007 -> 04:30 PM) I would love to see the questions for the Dems include those asked by conservatives, liberals and independents. I didn't see the Dem YouTube debate though, so I don't know if that is what happened. So, Media Matters, of course, has at least catalogued some of those so as to allow a baseline of comparison with what came up during the Republican debate. While obviously none of these are exact parallels, given that presumably none of these folks are allowing their names to be publically presented as high-profile endorsers of another candidate, I believe they at least help give an answer to your question (and please note, this is not a defense of CNN's failure to do a background check on this guy or whatever it was that allowed him to ask a question, merely an attempt to answer NSS's question)

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Nov 29, 2007 -> 05:50 PM) Rowand was one of the most valuable players in the NL last year, probably in the top 10. He's worth well more than $10 million and will likely end up getting around $13-15 mill a year; so long as you understand what you are getting, that should be a pretty fair contract. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Last year's Aaron Rowand is worth that kind of money. The 2006 and 2005 versions of Aaron Rowand are worth 1/4 of that. If you could guarantee me we'd get the 07 version at least most of the years of that contract, ok, but I still don't have said guarantee from anyone. Here's my comparison. Uribe gets hot next year. Puts up a Tejada like OPS. 900 or so, 30 home runs, .300+ average, etc. Would you then give Mr. Uribe a 5/$75 deal? If he put up those same numbers every year, he'd be worth it. But when Mr. .240 comes back...

QUOTE(Benchwarmerjim @ Nov 29, 2007 -> 01:59 PM) He stinks I didn't know that was a side effect of sticking a needle in one's behind. Quick, MLB, develop a smell based test, you won't even need the blood/urine samples!

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Nov 29, 2007 -> 05:12 PM) KW obviously picked the contend route by resigning Dye, Buehrle and AJ. However if he cheaps out on CF, LF, 2B and middle relief, it will be all for not and this ballclub won't contend for at least 5-6 years. in addition, if the Sox are playing .500 ball in June, and Danks or Floyd is struggling, he better be willing to deal for an arm before the break. KW tries spending $15 million a year on Hunter, spends $4.5 million a year on middle relief, and still gets accused of "cheaping out". With the pitching depth in our minors, if we're in this race come June and there's 1 of those 2 guys with an ERA well over 5 and not winning a thing, either it should be Gio/Broadway/Egbert/Sisco time (whoever is doing the best) or we'll see what sort of pitchers are available.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Nov 29, 2007 -> 01:40 PM) okay, forget about the Rays now... what other team could use an overpriced, overweight, and horrible hitting SS? St. Louis and Toronto. He'd be a dramatic upgrade over what is there for both of those teams.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Nov 29, 2007 -> 01:15 PM) this has the making of another long season, especially if one of Owens or Anderson are a fulltime starter. I think it's 95% right now that at least one of them will be.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Nov 29, 2007 -> 11:12 AM) Why does this state's government seem like its run by jnior college drop-outs? Because any time any politician tells the truth about taxes in any state, (CA certainly included) they get thrown out of office. The truth like, "You can't just make money appear out of thin air" or "if you guys want these things done someone is going to have to pay for it." It's far more fun to get elected, cut taxes by $4 billion a year, then take out a $15 billion bond issue to balance the budget (And take out another bond issue of course when you realize you're in the hole for another $7 billion a year in bills from the tax cut and the $3 billion a year you're paying on the bond issue). Of course, I just conflated 2 states, but as far as I'm concerned its the same problem.

Me thinks y'all may want to consider cooling it off some...

Not sure yet if I'll be able to go, but Dr. James Hansen, the guy who claimed a couple years ago that while at NASA the government was censoring his reports on climate change, is giving a talk today a couple buildings down from me on Climate Change and mitigation.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 29, 2007 -> 06:32 AM) It had to do with gays in the military, and I think the story is even up on drudge now. Bill Bennet busted CNN out on the after part of the debate where they were talking to the six critics about what they thought of the debate. The sad thing? I think it appears that the Youtube debates were 2 of the 3 most interesting debates this cycle, because the questions were totally different from what are normally asked. Then of course, CNN has to bugger it up by not bothering to check on the backgrounds of people. Hell, Grover Norquist, a very powerful Republican activist, managed to get a question asked too. I mean, yeah the question is tempting, but seriously, don't you at least bother to Google the names of the people asking questions?