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QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 10:22 PM) Reporter for Atlantic Monthly haha yea. i have no idea who Atlantic Monthly is till now. seems like a junk site honestly edit: OHHH the McCain = Dracula 'journalists' right? oh my

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 07:27 PM) Some rumor of what McCain was pushing for... Seriously John, keep pushing that. I agree with you 100%, too much regulation is the problem! who is marc ambinder? never mind i just went around the site. lol.

well this was the crappy ass twinkie dome. the Sox played bad, this is true. screw it, i'm holding out some hope. win out, twins lose a game, Q back for playoffs.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 09:36 PM) I honestly had a bad feeling in my gut that this season was over the second he went down. Not much hurt revealing it now, I think. really, that guy going down was a critical shot on the team. for punching his bat.

QUOTE (Mr. Showtime @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 09:33 PM) Certainly they are still in it, sure. It's one thing to have faith just as fan and sensethat they can come home and play better. I just don't see it in their play that they can do it right now. yea i really don't like the build of the team, no Q is big too (obviously) and this twins series was a complete disaster. i'm still holding out hope to sweep out and win this and get hot in the playoffs. i know, a pipe dream probably.

QUOTE (Steff @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 09:30 PM) Ya know what guys we ARE in the hole.. but we still have a chance to take this. that is true. not time to give up, thats for sure.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 09:29 PM) Our veterans are a f***ing piece of s*** on the road. Jimmy, Dye, Paulie, all of them had chances against an average twins team. Wow. It'll be a fun offseason for Kenny with all the rebuilding going on. he'll just go get some old players that will hit 25+ homeruns, bat below .250 and can't play defense

for f***s sake can the sox go back to having a team that advances runners, has speed, and plays defense. THIS SOFTBALL STYLE OF PLAY IS CRAP

COMPLETE MELTDOWN MODE! KJSDFHKJSDFJLHSFJHSLJDHFHLJHJLSF SHSDFH DAMN IT!

QUOTE (Texsox @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 08:54 PM) BTW, I would totally have supported Obama suspending his campaign to focus on the White Sox playoff run. That's a good reason, not this bulls***. now THAT is a good excuse

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 08:47 PM) Obama is still doing all those things, at least he's been giving that impression from watching the news today (I've been watching since like 5 pm because today's news cycle is f***ing hilarious to me, I don't know why). The campaign memo is just garbage background noise, I don't think anybody's going to notice it. I haven't been watching, thats probably a good thing. I really think McCain ditching the debate would be a disaster for him. Reminds me of a quote by Winston Churchill "Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide". If McCain wants to ditch debates because he needs a nap after working in the Senate, thats his problem not Obama's. If it was a total political stunt, McCain was really rolling the dice. If the deal doesn't get done and he shows up he obviously went back on his word. If the deal doesn't get done and he ditches he looks bad while Obama goes on the offensive with free national TV coverage to get his message out and communicate with the American public (assuming they would go on with the "debate" as they stated even without McCain) He didn't leave himself much of an out.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 06:16 PM) Obama's camp, after sniping at McCain's "suspension," dismisses it this evening as a stunt in a memo to the press: the Obama campaign is a train wreck. they just blew a huge chance to appear to be presidential; they went with the petty stuff. I mean really, McCain is pretty much putting the ball on a T to hit and they are missing. Obama just needed to get to Washington, have his meeting with the president, engage in talks (give the impression of being on top of things). Then if asked about the McCain ditching the debate? Make it known that he will be at the debate, if McCain doesn't show up, take the time to grab the headlines and give his detailed plans with no rebuttal. McCain would come out looking too old to handle more than one thing at a time during a crisis. Obama's youth and energy would have been big here, it's an advantage for him.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 04:41 PM) Right. What DukeNukeEm posted in the Dem thread with all the state polls is a lot closer to what the election looks like. I think the electoral college tally still favors Obama pretty strongly. I don't see McCain snagging Michigan or Penn. But even the state by state polls seem to be fairly turbulent. I think there's still a lot of voters who could be convinced to vote either Obama or McCain.

Looks like it's tied again http://www.gallup.com/poll/110668/Gallup-D...ie-46-Each.aspx

John McCain. 25 May 2005, speaking to the Senate:

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 01:00 PM) how long until McCain takes credit for this? Because, there wasnt a deal until he threatened to show up. maybe Barney Frank can claim victory

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 12:46 PM) No kidding. What next? They going to tell us most of the homes and cars the McCains have are just cardboard cut outs? why do you care about what John McCain's wife wears? lol

well, looks like McCain is going to the debate Suntimes is reporting a deal has been reached http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/118472...t092508.article

From the bank bailout thread QUOTE (Heads22 @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 10:22 AM)

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 10:22 AM) haha thats perfect

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 10:06 AM) ''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing." I found my new signature! thank you, Cknolls.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 11:29 AM) We adapt. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. Well, that is impressive (and slightly terrifying). for future versions i would recommend using a declarative coding scheme, with a realization of this code being accomplished with PROLOG. The perfect logical programming language for this task as there is a only a single data type, yet complex relations can be defined. imperative programming, progressive indeed.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 10:39 AM) That same argument is used by some nut jobs to promote only eating fruit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitarian sounds reasonable. only eat fruit. haha

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 07:26 AM) So killing animals on purpose in a factory farm = harvesting vegetables (because an occasional animal might get killed by a tractor) I honestly don't think I've heard of a dumber argument to justify factory farming. Oh it's way more than an occasional animal, my grandma had a farm and I've seen the carnage. Also, did you know that the fertilizer farms use often get into our river system and cause eutrophication in areas such as the Gulf of Mexico (thus killing many fish)? just saying, maybe you could use a intravenous nutrient drip to supply you with sustenance. Much more humane. I agree with you about animals being held in horrible conditions, it should be banned. But I also think animals can be killed humanely and then I make hamburgers.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 08:08 AM) Yeah that was me. Hmm, I see the new Obamatron software patch included stealing my robotics based jokes.