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All right! Now I can get some work done! Thanks for the updates!

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 04:46 PM) I hate to say this, but... Good. It should be $4 a gallon, if not more. More good than bad will come from higher gas prices, at this point in our country's history. It will suck for all of us in the meantime, but it will force changes that are desperately needed for our long term success and survival. That's probably the only way we'll see real emphasis on efficiency and conservation, as well as alternate forms of energy. Lord knows, it won't happen because of anything this presidential administration does.

...and I have to put 93 octane in my car. Good thing it gets almost 30 miles per gallon.

Let's take the series!

April 15 vs. TOR. I would have gone today, but I had to do that whole work thing. Apparently, I picked a good game to miss.

DeLay= "He gone!"

I was a 30, barely in the "headed to geekdom" category.

When it's your full-time job to lie, day in and day out, it probably takes quite a toll....

I've already taken advantage of the early voting.

I called the Sox today, and they said that tickets were being mailed by the end of this week. We can expect to receive them by early next week.

So, all I've been told is that my tickets for the Double Play Plan will be mailed in March. Does anybody know exactly when (or about when) the Sox will put them in the mail? They can put 'em in the mail..... YES!

I can see it's Friday afternoon......

If you don't quit it, I'm going to take my ball and go home.....

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Mar 10, 2006 -> 01:44 PM) Again, call me crazy, but I disagree with what they are doing. IMO, there are plenty of children that need to be adopted and need good parents. He's evading the question like a kid in a dodgeball game! Answer the question! If you want to create a thread with your own hypothetical, then do it. If you're in here, play by the rules and tell us what you'd do and why!

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Mar 10, 2006 -> 01:37 PM) From a life begins at conception position, I got to say, why were they removed in the first place? That in itself is an act close to killing them or at least significantly endangering them. You have pretty much sentenced them at that point already. Like FlaSoxxJim already kind of talked about, you are already subverting God/nature/providence. So, I would definitely take the 2-year old. It's a fertility clinic. The eggs were fertilized in the petri dish. That's what happens in fertility clinics. :banghead

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Mar 10, 2006 -> 01:33 PM) The child. Why? Two reasons. One, from what I can remember from high school biology, the pain receptors do not develop for some time after conception (it's been 15 years since that class so bear with me if I screwed that up) and the 2 year old obviously already has pain receptors. Two, the kid is already here; a definite where there are no guarantees that the fertilized eggs would successfully inplant, grown to be a full-term baby and be birthed alive. On the abortion issue, I, myself do not believe in it and likely could never go through with one, but I am not about to stop a woman who is okay with it from having one. (I do believe that abortion is completely acceptable in cases of rape and incest.) OK, but you're not playing by the rules. As I mentioned, we're taking the pain issue out. The 2-year-old is anesthetized; she won't feel any pain. And for purposes of the experiment, there is a 100% guarantee that each and every fertilized egg will result in a healthy full-term baby, if and when they're implanted. How does that affect your answer?

QUOTE(zach61 @ Mar 10, 2006 -> 01:33 PM) I would be able to save both then because I would have already been dealing with the abandoned 2 yr old and it would already be in my arms before the fire started. I see. You have just been immolated in my thought experiment. You no makka the game, you no makka the rules. :banghead

I find myself agreeing with YASNY and WCSox.

Zach- The 2-year-old is alive. It doesn't matter why she's there. This is a thought experiment. If you don't want to participate, then don't.

So far, not as much controversy as I might have expected. Nobody has taken the "life begins at conception" position yet. I guess, since Juggs isn't sround anymore, that's not going to happen. I think it illustrates that there is a significant difference between a baby that has been born and reproductive cells that have just gotten together. Which, of course, was my not-veiled-at-all point.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Mar 9, 2006 -> 05:58 PM) Oh, did you have evidence to prove otherwise? I'm all ears... How about the reward offered to anyone who could prove that they served with Dubya in the guard, and could prove it? No takers. How about the numerous articles about how Dubya was helping with a political campaign in Alabama when he was supposed to be on duty with the Guard? Need more? You got Google. Use it.

I recently heard of a conservative radio show host who was presented with the following thought experiment. I'd like to know what all of you would do in this situation: You are in a fertility clinic. In one room of the clinic, there is a two-year-old human child. In another room of the clinic, there is a petri dish containing ten human blastulas. Let's say that the blastulas have been frozen in the petri dish a few seconds after sperm and egg united. All of the blastulas, if implanted into a woman's uterus, would be able to grow into normal, healthy children. The fertility clinic catches fire. You are the only adult in the clinic; no one is there who could help you. You only have time to save the two-year-old child or the petri dish with the ten blastulas, not both, before the fertility clinic is completely engulfed in flames. Which do you save, the two-year-old or the petri dish, and why? EDIT- Let's also assume that the two-year-old is anesthetized. She wouldn't feel any pain or suffering in the fire.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Mar 9, 2006 -> 05:35 PM) The Swift Boat campaign was indeed nonsense. The obvious difference was that it was organized by a grassroots organization and not a major media outlet. On the other hand, Mary Mapes' unathentic documents were presented on air by Dan Rather of CBS News. There's bias everywhere, the the MEDIA bias in this case was definitely on the liberal side. The Swift Boat nonsense was treated as actual news, however. If the news was so liberally biased, it wouldn't have been brought up day after day after day after day. It never would have gotten the coverage it got. The same is true for the Al Gore "I invented the internet" issue. He never said that. But the so-called liberal media allowed it to be twisted into that to make Gore look like a liar. If you think that the fake memo is all the evidence, or even the most important evidence, that Dubya skipped out on his national guard duties, then I really don't know why I'm wasting my time trying to convince you otherwise. Nothing I can say will change your mind.

The "liberal media" mantra is a Republican cop-out. Don't blame the media for reporting things that actually happen. That's their job. Blaming this on the media implies that people hearing about events, and then using their knowledge of events to form opinions is a bad thing. Lots of negative things are happening in the world. Don't blame the so-called "liberal media" for letting people know that they're going on.

1) A White Sox starter will win 20 games FACT 2) Joe Borchard will get the last roster spot FICTION 3) Lopez will be the 2nd left handed reliever FACT 4) Thome will hit more than 35 homers FACT 5) Uribe will still be hitting 2nd at the All-star break FICTION 6) Javier Vazquez will win 15 games FACT 7) Brian Anderson will hit over .260 FACT 8) Jon Garland and Jose Contreras will have ERA's under 4 (please elaborate if not) FACT 9) Scott Podsednik will steal more than 45 bases FACT (In the first half of the season, he'll steal more than 45) 10) Bobby Jenks will save more than 35 games FICTION (I think he may have some trouble adjusting; Hermanson will pitch in with some needed closing stints) 11) Tadahito Iguchi will hit over .280 FACT 12) Jermaine Dye will play more than 145 games FICTION (He'll get rested at times) 13) Joe Crede will hit over .260 FICTION (I'm picking "FACT" too often) 14) Paul Konerko will hit over 40 homeruns and drive in more than 100 again FACT (Backing up that contract) 15) The Sox will improve their team ERA (3.61) FACT 16) The Sox will make a trade for a major league player at the deadline FICTION (But where would he play?) 17) The Sox will finish in the top 5 in the AL in runs scored FACT 18) Jermaine Dye will drive in 90 runs FICTION 19) The Sox will win the AL Central (this one better be fact ) FACT (This year, without building the tremendous lead they built last year) 20) The Sox will return to the World Series FACT (How could I say otherwise?)