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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 03:40 PM) So you're saying that a team with an average offense and a great pitching staff can't win a world series? Really? Didn't we just do that a few years ago? An average at best bullpen, one ace, and 3 good starters =/= great pitching staff.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 03:39 PM) Gimme a break. That's just silly. Well my point was that that's a lineup built to win a mediocre division and not a championship.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 03:36 PM) ...we'd win the Central. And lose 3 straight playoff games by a score of 1-0.

QUOTE (Sox1422 @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 02:38 PM) Lost 97.62 to 97.66 after last nights game. I feel ya. It's like a punch to the gut.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 12:21 PM) the use of state secrets under the bush administration was unprecedented, and now, it´s precedent is the status quo. This

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 11:48 AM) Isn't the estimate of Al Qaeda members in Afghanistan somewhere between 30 and 100? LOL. For each Al Qaeda member we dedicate 15K troops.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 11:02 AM) LOL, you guys are delusional. You have 250 dangerous individuals in custody, you realize the previous President did this in a way that was despicable, so... you do what? Release all 250 back to their countries? What did you expect would happen? Your la-la land desire to have a complete 180 here is not possible in any reality. We have 250 dangerous individuals based on what evidence? Hearsay?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 10:51 AM) 75 of the 200-something? You make my point here quite well - they are making a lot of headway, more than half, and then they'll get to those 75. Did you think they'd just up and release all 250 of them and say "have a nice life"? Based on the article I linked, I don't get that impression.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 10:42 AM) indefinite detention: not at all, in fact we are seeing people released, sent to trial, taken out of Gitmo, etc. What about these 75 guys being held?

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 10:38 AM) Come on people we are smarter than this. The bill is a fraud. They cannot show the real cost over a ten year period because it is more than 2x the reported price. And you know this as fact how? Charles Krauthammer told you?

Maybe Terry Bevington is a member of ST?

Non-PED stud. That is all.

Here's a tidbit from today's Greenwald that sums up my disappointment in Obama:

And it's not like we could use the billions of dollars to rebuild our infrastructure.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 09:11 AM) I'm quoting this because I don't think many people understand that. When you speak of war, people often think win/lose. This war will be a win if we accomplish a few main objectives. And I highly doubt we accomplish those objectives. You can't just make an entire nation want a democracy. This is a land of tribes and sects that have lived that way for millennia. Brute force won't change that.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 24, 2009 -> 08:36 AM) That country, unlike Iraq, is still a haven for the terrorist network that was not only responsible for 9/11, but also for other acts, and will be in the future as well. The central government is terribly weak. The border areas with Paki are lawless. If the US just up and leaves right now, the consequence is not just what happens to Afghanistan. Its that you hand the country over to being, essentially, a free-reign base for all manner of jihadists who would like nothing more than to train and send out attackers to all corners of the earth. Haven? Don't you mean Pakistan? Terrorists don't need a centralized location to plan their attacks. They don't need to be in Afghanistan and most likely aren't really there anymore anyway. Occupying a region that is unoccupiable is a waste of lives, time, and money. We will never win there and we're just churning out more anti-American sentiment and creating more terrorists.

It comes off as purely political to me. If he pulls out he loses in 2012 because he "surrendered".

TPM reporting that Obama will be sending 34K more troops to Afghanistan. I am extremely disappointed.

2 weeks straight I lose by 1 point. Unf***ing believable.

Zinc deficiencies were prevalent in the old times.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Nov 23, 2009 -> 12:33 PM) Why would someone publish to the internet the last few paragraphs of a report their kid wrote for their 4th grade class?

Totally unaware of that town. Was just sharing a local experience.

Really poor service at Alhambra Palace which I visited last night.

LOL

Jim, that's what she said.