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QUOTE(Hangar18 @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 09:16 AM) So .................... Knowing they must go 20-6, after the first 7 games, the SOX stumble to 3-4. THE SOX NOW must go 17-2 the rest of the way ....... Nice to see you have a new number to keep track of... No, they don't need to go 17-2 the rest of the way. They need to play .5 games better than MIN the rest of the way. So unless you think MIN is going 16-2 during that same span, which they won't, your math is wrong. The Sox need to go .5 games better than MIN in the next 25 games. If they want to be in a strong position when they get to MIN (where they need just 1 win there), they need to be 2.5 games better over 22 games. That is not nearly as bad as you make it out to be. It's not good either, but its surely doable.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 10:14 AM) Pablo will most likely be in LF. Mack is the only guy on the White Sox roster not named Sweeney or Dye or Anderson that actually wouldn't make everyone laugh if he were penciled to play RF at Fenway Park. Gload played out there last night, briefly, I believe. I am NOT saying Gload should be out there regularly, mind you - just pointing it out.

Tuesday, September 5th, 7:05pm ET (6:05 Chicago) Chicago White Sox at Boston Red Sox Fenway Park J Vazquez (11-8) vs K Gabbard (0-3) Preview: http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/gamecenter/p...0060905_CHW@BOS Well, since I'm still undefeated in regular season game threads (4-0), I suppose this team needs another one... Sweeney maybe starting in RF or LF. Vaz looking stronger nowadays. Gabbard less than spectacular. I like our chances. mee mee mee mee mee... GO YOU WHITE SOX!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 09:02 AM) http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/artic...oadcast_1007314 Irwin's family is trying to get the tape of Steve's death broadcast, saying he would have wanted it that way. That surprises me. I thought they'd destroy the tape for sure. Wow.

Its amazing to me how many parents try to live the glory they never received, via their kids. Its kind of sick, really. How embarrassing for them. That's pretty much my thought process when I see some whacked out soccer mom/dad screaming obscenities at an 11 year old kid (or a 17 year old umpire, or a volunteer coach) while foaming at the mouth over a play at a little league game.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 2, 2006 -> 07:16 AM) Notice the nice bell curve of ages Who are the other old people? Well... I am definitely on the downslope of the curve. I suppose it depends on what you term "old". On this site, I think I'd have to claim that.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 07:59 AM) Plus you are able to live in the woods, safely and comfortably, you must be a terrorist. We're going to have to ban you from soxtalk before we all get arrested And when the find out that my bill was paid WHILE I was in the woods, they will be REALLY sure of it. Given that our President has said he isn't even capable of doing email, I don't think that the idea of scheduled, automatic payments has occurred to them.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 07:39 AM) Excellent point Steff. Rule of thumb in First Aid. If you aren't bleeding, leave it in. Get emergency help. Unfortunately, it is usually a reflex and people want it out. Another tip I like, if you need to wash out an eye, if you can drink it, it can go in the eye. So Budweiser or that Bloody Mary can be used to irrigate an eye in an emergency. Of course use water if it's available. I'll add two points to this... 1. Stingrays have reverse barbs - so pulling it out would indeed have done more damage than leaving it in. That said, since it went through his heart anyway, I'd say his chances for survival went immediately to zero. And in Steve's defense, if you look down and see a 10 inch sword through your chest, you probably go into lizard brain mode pretty quick - not much intelligent thought going on there. 2. There is an exception to the rule about impaled objects, in case anyone ever encounters this... if the impaled object in any way hinders the victim's airway (i.e. it is through the mouth, or throat), then you do need to pull it out. Just be ready to treat for bleeding immediately.

Seems to me they alread have grown some balls, and thus are doing what they are doing. I'm willing to bet they aren't letting any Syrian, Iranian or other Middle Eastern national aircraft with military cargo through either.

My wife and I put pretty much everything on the credit card (miles, you know). Even our mortgage payments. So our bill every month is... quite large. That said, we also pay it off every month. I can't remember the last time we carried a balance over. If they method of detection is payments that are unusually large compared to that payor's normal pattern, then I suppose we are OK. If not, I wonder if we are showing up on a list somewhere.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 04:21 PM) I agree that is their primary motivation, an independent, functioning state. The problem is, any independent Kurdistan would either steal territory from Iran and Turkey or would create a minority across the border that wants to join the independent Kurdistan in both countries. That is a dangerous proposition. I still disagree. I think an independent Kurdistan gives those minorities in Iran and Turkey a new option - one which is much more appealing than the current Iraq.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 01:06 PM) Really? Like what? I'm curious. There is a difference between conventional grain-based ethanol (corn, soy) and cellulosic ethanol (switchgrass, etc.). That is one important differentiation. Cellulosic ethanol requires no use of fossil fuels up front for production, or at least a lot less, and gives you more energy by mass. Here is a lengthy but interesting article... http://www.harvestcleanenergy.org/enews/en...sic_Ethanol.htm A brief from Iowa State (go Clones!) on the energy output difference, and links to a DOE study: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~brummer/ag/biomass2.htm Now, part of the problem with cellolosic ethanol is that it will take some time and money to get the infrastructure up and running (just like any other feul source). But once it is there, we would have a renewable, locally-produced, lower emission fuel to work with.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 12:04 PM) Any lineups yet? I've been meaning to ask - where does one find the announced lineups prior to gametime anyway?

You've got to be kidding me, Ozzie. Panic? OMG, Anderson in CF for the 4th straight game! The world is ending! Seriously. That's just stupid. I defended Ozzie playing Mack in CF every third game earlier in the season when BA was hitting .150. It made sense then. Now? With Anderson hitting around .300 for MONTHS? And with Pods struggling so badly in LF, where Mack could out-play Pods anyway???? That quote pisses me off. I know Ozzie's not dumb... so why can't he see this? The only reasons I can think of are either a ) he is just that stubborn, or b ) he knows something about BA and Mack that we don't see on the field. But I cannot see what he could know that would result in this choice. Anyone have any idea?

Breakfast Club was filmed at New Trier West (which at the time was not being used as a high school). Its used now, I believe, as freshman only. But the West campus was, at one, time, a seperate high school from East, which is now the main campus for New Trier.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 01:38 AM) The moment that happens, it provokes a Turkey/Kurdistan war which may also involve Iran. The absolute last thing Turkey would ever want is an independent Kurdistan. They're already bombing Kurds inside Iraq as retaliation for acts by kurdish groups inside of Turkey. Iran could get involved also in such a conflict, as all 3 countries have significant Kurdish areas. And then of course there's the Kirkuk question...Saddam expelled a bunch of Kurds from this oil-rich city and replaced them with other Muslims to try to better control the city...so who gets that city and all of its oil in any partition? As I said, I believe that if there is an independent Kurdistan, then the incursions into Turkey will stop. So, I believe the opposite of what you suggest is true. I think the primary motivation of the Kurds at this point is to obtain independence.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 03:50 AM) Nor will it ever, by some estimates. I forget where I read that, but it would seem to be a farce to think that it will ever come to the amount of energy to even make a dent on our oil consumption. Although, that is on the assumption we continue to use corn for ethanol. Other ag products seem to have much higher energy output.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 2, 2006 -> 09:57 AM) Of course this is an area that is so easy abused that only well trained officers should be involved and then under strict guidance. To me it's similar to putting a beautiful 20 something lady in front of some dumpy middle aged married guy, buying him drinks, and then seeing if he would cheat. That situation would never happen in the real world and this guy may never have cheated in his life. We have to avoid the "testing people" aspect. That should not be a bonafide method of law enforcement. Except the more correct analogy in this case is that this dumpy middle aged married guy (who hopefully is not me) was already browing adds on swinger sites and was seen schmoozing and trying to woo women out at the bar late at night. For the wife, that might be considered probably cause, and I'd say she may have a right to see which side of the fence her husband would fall on. These dudes were found because their activities were already headed this direction.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 2, 2006 -> 09:17 AM) I am troubled when law enforcement becomes a co conspirator. Providing materials that they might not have gotten any other way, seems to step over a boundry. If they were seeking it, they may or may not have gotten it. I'm OK with that aspect. See, part of this whole thing (in my view) is that we do need to give the FBI as much room to breathe as possible. The scary things to me that law enforcement and intelligence have been doing under BushCo are the blatant disregards for personal freedoms in the U.S. To me, this doesn't violate that - its people who are already going bad. You just want to make sure you put them away for good when they reach that point of no return. That doesn't violate innocent peoples' freedoms, in my view. These people, simply put, are not innocent. Sometimes, in law enforcement, you can't wait for the fence sitters to move. You need to force their hand, and get them to back off or go over. EDIT: Further clarification here. I do not agree with purely promoting crime with a subject. I believe in forcing them to choose one. Give them the opporunity (in this case, equipment and support) to decide if they are serious or not. If they back down, great - just keep an eye on them. If they go for it, then they ar toast. QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Sep 2, 2006 -> 09:19 AM) IIRC, in the 93 WTC bombings, the FBI had an informant in there who was promoting the building to bomb, where, how to bomb it, when etc. The FBI even gave them real explosives instead of dummy stuff and knew the date where the bombing would occur but felt the intelligence gained by keeping the guy in would outweigh the deaths at the WTC. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/P...OK/wtcbomb.html And this story was also printed in the Chicago Tribune so we can avoid the NY Slime crap from muddying up the thread. That is certainly the danger. Those sensitive operations need to be taken very, very seriously. And since we hadn't seen that sort of thing in the US before, its possible that FBI team didn't have their head in the game enough. I do NOT know that for a fact of course, and I am not sure I even believe some of the allegations you are referring to. But it does illustrate a very real danger.

I've actually said from the beginning, if you are going to do this (which I wish they hadn't at all), you should allow at least the Kurds to break off and be their own country. Trying to keep these 3 distinct groups together in a whole Iraq is just another typical cold war, nation-state mentality mistake by this administration. Let there be a Kurdistan, and they are more likely to leave Turkey alone. The Shia/Sunni problem is a little more complicated, because they are now spread out over a lot of common territory. There is no longer going to be a good solution to that one. And I'll also reiterate... we can't leave now. I agree with Kap and others that it would get much, much worse if we left. We made a mistake, and we need to clean it up.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 2, 2006 -> 08:12 AM) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...?referrer=email These cases are always tough. FBI agents hand a do it yourself terrorist kit to a group of extremists and then arrest them. I'm OK with pretty much all of that, except for the "suggestions" as to targets and tactics. That is active promotion of a dangerous activity, not to mention engineering an act for the subjects to follow. That was too far. Otherwise, as far as getting equipment they sought, I'd say that is part of the role.

We need the old Jose, if we are to beat Elvis tonight. If Old JC shows up, he'll mow down the boys in the blue (suede) shoes.

QUOTE(Molto @ Sep 1, 2006 -> 10:30 AM) Why do some people have to associate last year's team as a smallball team or longball team? They didn't win because of homers and they didn't win because of smallball ... they won because of both. Their offense, as bad statistically as it was, was versatile. Overall, they were just sound. Waited for the other team to screw up and then pounced on the opportunity, whether with a key hit, a key stolen base, a key squeeze play a key homer. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Sep 1, 2006 -> 11:43 AM) Did you know that after two years, 10% of your pillow's weight consists of your dead skin and the microscopic organisms that feed of it. Hm. I think I need to get some new pillows this weekend.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 1, 2006 -> 10:30 AM) New Enemies demand new thinking Reply: Very nice, sir. That question from Rummy indeed gets at the very heart of the matter, at many levels. Rumsfeld is a bit scary. One of the more well know graduates from my high school. But his hawkish tendencies have grown too far to be useful.