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QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 05:24 PM) Nancy Pelosi has outlined the first 100 hours of the Democratic Congress as she would see it. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061006/ap_on_...e/pelosi_time_1 I agree with all of that. I just don't think Pelosi would follow through with some elements of that plan (the Pay as you Go part, most specifically).

QUOTE(GaelicSoxFan @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 04:27 PM) I wouldn't be surprised if Obama runs. I'm okay with anyone but Hillary. She just grates on me. If she does run and gets the nomination, I'll vote for her against Jeb (you know he's gonna run on the GOP ticket-he probably sees the Oval Office as his birthright) but I won't like it. Obama won't run. He has said clearly, numerous times, he won't. And for a guy like him, that sort of "word" is is reputation. If he goes against it, be buries the very thing he would use as his "in".

Right now, of all the names being bantered around as possible Prez candidates, Bayh is my second favorite (behind Bill Richardson).

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 01:32 PM) It's a data set. If the poll was weighted in anyway to reflect a specific area of the district that's traditionally red - it might explain the weird data. Is the skewed poll from Zogby? That would also explain it.

QUOTE(Steff @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 11:28 AM) And I'll agree with you every time on that one. Yet how does that compare to someone older using power over someone younger? Cut to the chase, I'm looking for a correction of the ignorant generalization here. Um... I guess I am missing your point then. You mean the comparisons to Clinton and Lewinsky or something? If so, I agree, that isn't in the same ballpark.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-s...p&type=lgns Fun little article on the possible New York subway series, popular opinions of New York, etc. Chicago mentioned a few times.

QUOTE(Steff @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 11:20 AM) How is an older person abusing power with someone younger remotely comparable to a pedophile taking advantage of a child...? I guess I see both of them as pedophiles - the teacher and the Congressman.

QUOTE(Steff @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 11:02 AM) Quit making excuses and just call this spade a spade. They are sick bastard pedophiles. An older person in a position of power on a playing field with another - but younger - niave ADULT is again not even on the same planet for a comparison to be made. I think he was comparing the 35 yo teacher and 16 yo boy with 55 yo Congressman and 16 yo boy. In which case, I think its an OK comparison. I don't think he was making excuses for anyone, unless I misunderstood.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 10:14 AM) I'd rather have both ALC teams out of it. I like to see our division do well. The Twins got a little irritating this season though, so they can lose to the A's and I'm perfectly happy. But I'd love to see Detroit win it all. They remind me a lot of the 2005 Sox (not exactly, I know, but similar in some key areas). Just as long as the Yankees lose.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 09:38 AM) Would the reaction to this situation have been different if the page had been a female of the same age? I think mostly yes. Other than the fact that the far right talking heads wouldn't have been trying to make this assinine connection between homosexuality and molestation. QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 09:38 AM) Also what would the reaction have been if the situation had been a female representative and male page? This one, the reaction would not have been as harsh (except from the opposite party, who would have tried hard to make it as big an issue as possible). Look at the situations lately with 30-something female teachers and 16 year old males. Yeah, they got in trouble. But the public outcry was minimal. I mean heck, look at some of those threads on this board when they happened - guys here were too pre-occupied deciding whether or not they'd "hit that" to notice it was technically rape.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ Oct 1, 2006 -> 04:58 PM) The tigers will not have a lead on the yankees the entire series. Book it, they are very lucky to be in the playoffs. You were saying? Tiggers now go home having split 2 in NY. Not a bad position to be in. Go kitties! Knock those friggin' Yanks around. I'd love to see a Tigers/A's ALCS. An ALC representative, and Frank Thomas.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Oct 5, 2006 -> 04:16 PM) sox pride just opened back up again. here's a perfect example of the logic used to close a thread. I'm closing this thread. Because nobody has anything new to say. It's a conspiracy, it's not. It's a conspiracy, it's not. This got talked out a month ago and its boring. -------------------- So if a thread is boring or repetitive to a moderator, it automatically gets closed??? That thread was the only one closed in Buster in some time, and it was closed because it was useless. Take a look through it and see. Nothing but bickering. As for a "near record" of closed threads, I see a grand total of.... ONE.... in PHT first page. And it is quite clearly explained, in the second of two posts in there, why it was closed. What the heck are you talking about? Do people have nothing better to do during the offseason than create controversy where none exists? On a Sox message board?

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Oct 5, 2006 -> 03:18 PM) Oh come on. All we hear about is how it is a small percentage. Even if it is only 2 or 3 percent, that is still a HUGE number. And I guarantee that some 2 or 3 percent of Christians, or Jews or most any other religious group, are fanatic and hateful too. Its human reality. And as Santo said, if you want to generalize, at least try to use the great majority instead of a minority.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 5, 2006 -> 02:33 PM) It's being handled by top men. Top men. Nice Indy Jones reference.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Oct 5, 2006 -> 01:19 AM) This is cooler than cloning. Didn't scientists figure out how to have a cell in two places at once a year or two ago? That was spontaneous quantum teleportation of a subelectronic particle. Happened in New Zealand a few years back.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Oct 5, 2006 -> 07:44 AM) When the small percentage numbers a billion, you talk about it. Oh please. If people elsewhere in the world watch the news about the U.S., and see school shootings and violence on the news, are they right to think that all Americans are violent? Look at broad information. Look at entire countries of Muslims that don't have these issues. Look at the fact that those protests on TV are, what... a few hundred people? Please rejoin us in reality. The religion of Islam is not the problem. Extremism and violence are the problem.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 06:29 PM) You can be against the Patriot Act and for tougher measures to fight terrorism. There are few people in the Congress and Senate who oppose NSA surveillance programs as long as they act within the law which would require getting a FISA warrant 72 hours after you actually start the surveillance. Opposing torture is not the same thing as opposing interrogation. And locking someone up forever isn't a problem as long as they are granted due process and the ability to have justice fairly and transparently imposed upon them. The fact that the debate has even been framed between "you either torture terrorists or you coddle them" is everything that's wrong with our political world today IMHO. I really, really agree. This whole thing where everything has to be one extreme or the other, us versus them... its small-minded and pathetic. And it also seems to parallel the increasing preoccupation with violence in this country.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 04:02 PM) But you can't look at SS defense and put it on a pedistal with LF defense. You're talking about two opposite sides of the spectrum. I'd venture to guess that the difference between Uribe's and Figgins' defense at short is upwards of 10-15 runs. Then again, I'm not that much of a fan of Figgins, period. He's another player in the mold of Podsednik, a no power slap hitter who is better suited towards the bench. QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 04:23 PM) Figgins is a bad defender at 3B, a brutal defender at SS(17 starts in 3+ years), passable at 2B, good at CF, and figures to be excellent in LF (he hasn't gotten much PT there). He's a more useful player than Pods, but he really should only be used in the OF. I don't think anyone KNOWS how Figgins would do at SS. I am just asking how he might do. You both think he'll be pretty brutal, and you might be right. But with the athleticism and the arm and the hands he has shown, he certainly has some of the right skills for shortstop. Is he that bad at 3B defensively? See, I thought he was OK over there. If he's that brutal at third, then I agree, he might be pretty awful at shortstop. What would be really great is Figgins in LF and Furcal at SS. But I don't suppose that is realistic. I'd be ecstatic with one or the other, though.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 04:03 PM) It's not the same on a lot of levels, but it is on others. The double standard is the raising hell, when the other is a personal matter, and it's both sleaze. To say it another way, consent vs. minors, yes, I agree that's pretty bad and should NOT be compared. I'm talking about how it was/is being handled. That's more my point. It would only be a double standard if the two acts were on the same scale. They are not.

Clinton was sleazy. Foley is sleazier. Anything else?

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 03:21 PM) Figgins over Uribe? The decline in defense would be enormous, and although there'd be an upgrade in OBP, we're also losing ten homers and ten points. It's a lateral move, at best, and more likely, a big mistake. In a vacuum, that is somewhat true - Uribe to Figgins is a gain offensively and a loss defensively. But by having our SS be our leadoff hitter, look at what that does to left field... you replace Pods. You could put Crawford out there in the uber-ideal scenario, or heck even Gload. So now, looking at those two moves together and what they get you, you go from Uribe and Pods in the lineup to Figgins and someone with much better offense and similar or better defense in LF.

QUOTE(SoxHawk1980 @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 01:00 PM) We don't need speed at the top of the lineup, we need OBP. For the love of god, we need guys who can get on base. With guys like Thome, Konerko, Dye and Crede in the middle of the lineup, it would be stupid to play small-ball. We need guys who will get on base so that those big bats can drive them in. In 2006, the offense was better than 2005. Pitching completely carried us in 2005. We can't count on that happening again. We need an offense that will maximize Runs Scored. More speed and small ball isn't going to score more runs. Figgins' OBP in the last 3 years: .350, .352, .336 Pods' OBP in the last 3 years: .313, .351, .330 Uribe's OBP in the last 3 years: .327, .301, .257 Figgins would be an upgrade in OBP over either one. Maybe only 10-30 points over Pods, but still a difference. And better D. As for Uribe, if Figgins plays SS, well... his OBP gain would be huge, and that would allow us to put someone else in left with better overall numbers for elsewhere in the lineup. Plus, Figgins ALSO has speed, which is a nice bonus in a leadoff hitter.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 12:55 PM) Bob Novak is reporting today that the head of the NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committee) knew of all the emails last year - and rather than demand an investigation, or even encourage him to retire (as he was considering) - he encouraged Foley to run again. That person? Congressman Tom Reynolds. http://www.nypost.com/seven/10042006/news/...rrespondent.htm Um... So a guy heard this second hand, and its reported in the NY Post... I'm not sure I find that very credible.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 12:54 PM) I can almost guarantee the Iowa 1 is wrong. Braley had a 13 percent lead, and last I know, he hasn't stalked enough pages to drop 26 points. That does seem odd, doesn't it? And the fact that he had a 13 point lead, and now is down that same 13, seems to suggest this may be an error. But, stranger things have happened. Anyone have another source?

QUOTE(Frank the Tank 35 @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 12:35 PM) I'd like to subscribe to your weekly newsletter. Its called Filibuster.