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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 22, 2008 -> 02:17 PM) The AP has spent some time doing some digging in to where the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on bailouts so far has gone. Their answer? Aside from some chunk going in to $1.6 billion in executive bonuses, no one seems to have a clue or is willing to say. "JACKPOT!"

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 22, 2008 -> 12:04 PM) Reagan talked a big rightist game, but look at what he really did. It wasn't far right at all, with the exception of policy towards the Soviets. I don't think that is necessarily true. If you look in a historical context, Democrats were very harsh towards the Soviet Union as well. JFK is a good example; he played hardball with the same veracity as Reagan towards the soviets. Reagan actually did a lot of negotiating with the Soviet Union, even though he did like to give big anti-communist speeches. Both of which I approve of

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 21, 2008 -> 07:32 PM) Obama must hate gays. uh oh, i think he might get a shoe thrown at him in the near future

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 20, 2008 -> 04:19 PM) Well, I could care less if Al Gore is involved or not. What I am saying is, if done right, a carbon trading system would definitely help reduce pollution and encourage further spending on technologies that pollute less. And you don't have to force buy-in - you tie it to the laws regarding pollution output. The laws should be made more stringent, such that the limits on output for carbon oxides or other pollutants should be just a little above the typical use level. If companies meet the number, they meet the law - just like now. If they WANT to go significantly below the number, and sell their credits, then great - go ahead. If other companies go over, they have to buy the credits, or face massive fines and regulatory investigation (again, like now). The system can be implemented such that it would work. And this is not meant to be some complete solution, BTW. I'm just pointing out one way it could be done. I have no faith in a carbon selling/buying system. I believe it will be wasteful, corrupt, and have far too many politically fraudulent aspects. I would much rather see resources placed into direct funding for advanced engineering; a much better solution in my opinion.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 20, 2008 -> 04:03 PM) In its current form, yes. If done properly, no. Even in its current form, there is nothing per se wrong with people buying carbon credits. They just need to know what they really are. They don't actually cancel out or remove their pollution, in any direct way. Planting more trees or building solar cells are good things to do, but their ties to your individual pollution are so indirect that it cannot function as a real market. Now, if they can have a real, national-level auction market system, it could be real and useful. I don't care if people want to buy 'carbon credits' to make themselves feel better. I do not want a national carbon credit scam which is run by some scammer like Al Gore in which it is mandatory to buy in. Screw that. These scams do nothing for advancing energy technology.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Dec 20, 2008 -> 02:46 PM) Throwing a wrench in here. So Al Gore buys carbon credits from himself to justify using 17 times the electricity of the average american to power his mansion. Hmmmmm The carbon credit purchasing scheme is completely hilarious. A total scam.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 19, 2008 -> 11:50 AM) And sure enough... $17.4B from the TARP fund will go to GM and Chrysler in the form of loans. They need to show viability by March 31, or will be forced to repay immediately, which is of course a joke because then they couldn't pay for it anyway. Also, there is no precise definition of what 'viable' is. Basically, no matter what they do or how much money they lose they are going to get a score of 'viable'. this bailout is just another bad decision within an epic string of bad decisions by Bush.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 19, 2008 -> 02:27 PM) I'm taking bribes for postings banned

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 19, 2008 -> 11:42 AM) G-Rod to give his first post-arrest press conference at 2pm Chicago time today, at the Thompson Center, downtown. Should be interesting. he basically said that he's innocent and we're all just a bunch of haters

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 19, 2008 -> 12:36 PM) More official sources saying that the guy's been beaten in custody. Isn't that precious? Iraq's justice system is growing up so fast, it's acting just like ours! why you gotta be such a Blagojevich?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 17, 2008 -> 04:50 PM) How much tax payer money do you think was wasted on that brief? I guess if it improves chances to become Governor or Senator it was money well spent. (insert rolling eyes) {Edit} Oh yah and how much will the state have to pay Ed Genson when this is all done.... I've never understood the reverence shown to Lisa Madigan on this board.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Dec 17, 2008 -> 05:58 PM) but there must have been other Hitlers, even before Adolf and not in his immediate family, no? i saw somethign about this on the History channel and I guess they are all in hiding, changed names and such. don't remember all the details though.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Dec 17, 2008 -> 10:23 AM) I just love that Shop-Rite wouldn't do that cake...but Walmart did. Reason #424585727494 to hate Walmart. they probably didn't want a law suit for discriminating against some crazy ass religion or something.

http://comments.breitbart.com/d954lh182/ haha there's no way Bush is letting that guy out of prison

I have a feelign the SEIU was a major player in the Blago bribe schemes. Should be interesting.

woooo! Dow up +350 today probably go down 400 tomorrow though

i think Big Macs are better

From what I remember, it's a fairly easy assessment. What math have you taken as an undergrad? You might want to brush up on that, but the math section is actually really easy if you have covered the material.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16600.html might as well make it official i suppose. even though hiring the guy that runs Time to be a mouth piece of the Democrat party seems a bit redundant.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Dec 16, 2008 -> 10:43 AM) Hussein had higher approval ratings. There weren't bombs falling from the sky, blowing up on roadways, etc. he always won by 100% of the vote too but i really don't care if the Iraqi's are ruled by a dictator, that's what they want apparently. honestly, we just need to get working on becoming self-sufficient on energy and we can finally leave that part of the world to it's own demise.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Dec 15, 2008 -> 05:23 PM) Wow, it’s good to see liberals in this post-Obama world are still as bitter and politically uniformed as they were prior. It’s going to suck in 9 months when you can’t blame a thing on GW, isn’t it? They'll still blame him for everything bad that has ever happened. I'm looking forward to additional 9-11 conspiracy theories as well.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 15, 2008 -> 03:36 PM) Coop will fix him! ^^^

QUOTE (lostfan @ Dec 15, 2008 -> 02:53 PM) I thought I read somewhere that Rahm Emanuel blew a whistle at some point. Yea I heard that is a likely possibility. If that's what happened Obama is totally off the hook and basically is making things harder on himself for no reason.

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but if Obama knew about the seat being sold and didn't do anything to stop it that would be a big deal. I think it's obvious that he wasn't going to pay Blago's bribe and probably didn't want anything to do with the whole situation, but still he is the president elect and if he knows about a Senate seat possibly being sold he would obviously need to take appropriate action. I have a feeling that he has realized this and maybe that's why the story has changed a bit.

I think someone has a bright future at CNN! Seriously though, who hasn't thrown a shoe at the TV when W is giving a speech? At least once.