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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 15, 2011 -> 02:01 PM) Did he openly admit to making it up in the book? There was no evidence in favor of and some contradicting his bulls*** as far back as 2002/2003, but not an open admission by the source until now. Its been a few years since I read the book, but as I recall, not only were some of his stories directly and clearly refuted, but he did begin backpedalling and admitting some falsehoods. Maybe not a complete overall diatribe of guilt, but something close to it.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 15, 2011 -> 01:57 PM) Curveball, the Bush WH's source for most of their Iraq war justifications, admits to making it all up. Shocking! How is this news? The book "Curveball" covered all of this years ago, they guy was full of it, and the Germans and Brits knew it. The US just WANTED it to all be true, so they could do what they had already planned to do for different reasons.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 15, 2011 -> 11:25 AM) I know that...I'm just asking...in terms of the law itself, if a state chose to legalize murder, could they do so? They'd be disagreeing with Federal laws and the Feds could take actions to respond in carrot and stick style, but the Feds can't force a state to prosecute a crime if the state chooses not to, can they? I don't know the dynamics involved, but there are certainly federal laws on the subject. Would take some research to determine how it would fall out. In any case, a court of law will squash this thing.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 15, 2011 -> 11:10 AM) I think there's a more interesting legal question here. Obviously, a person who killed someone for political reasons would still be subject to federal murder and terrorism prosecution, but the question I have is...can a state legalize murder? Some people see abortion as murder anyway. Thing is, the court system doesn't, so this won't fly.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 15, 2011 -> 09:17 AM) Balta, no one reads your posts. I did. More amazing stupidity from the religious right crowd. I like to think it won't actually pass into law, and even if it does, I'm pretty darn sure it gets stayed in court immediately, and then stricken down.

Sort of funny... Balta is saying that real income versus business performance hasn't risen at the same rate and that's the problem, while Y2HH is saying that the definition of "need" for middle classes has changed and that causes the problem. Um... how about, its all the above?

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 9, 2011 -> 04:57 PM) From everything that I have heard from people higher up the chain and those in MBA programs/have gone through them, I would highly suggest getting work experience before you get an MBA. Yes. Honestly, looking at a student who gets an MBA right after undergrad, the first thing people in most businesses will think is... useless to have done that so early. And in fact most high end MBA programs won't even accept people right out of undergrad. QUOTE (PeavyTime @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 10:02 AM) I want to go into Forensic Accounting, so I figure a good start would be Auditing. I have heard both good and bad things about public, but given the opportunity, I would jump at it. Forensic accounting, you have your master's, having trouble getting a job? Look into the FBI.

QUOTE (shipps @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 09:20 PM) As soon as Maury tells us I will let you know. LOL thanks homeboy. Its our first child so we are really excited about it. Congrats! QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 10:22 PM) Add me to the list of people that are stoked that Throwback Pepsi is on the shelves again. Mexican Coke and seasonally available Kosher Coke used to be the only ways to get a cane sugar cola fix (without shelling out for Boylan's or some other boutique brand cane cola), so the Throwback Pepsi is a welcome addition. I still like the real sugar coke better than the pepsi, hopefully they will follow suit.

So, remember after the Gulf oil spill, many were warning about the big potential problem if the massive methane gas plumes that would result? And their effect on not only the oceanic ecosystems, but also on the atmosphere as it was released? In June, it looked bad. Real bad. In September, when they went back to look for it... it was gone. One scientist theorizes it was methanotrophs, but another says they don't eat that fast. So, either there is really good news - it was eaten - or really bad news, that its not moved on somewhere else. Good read.

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 09:28 PM) Anyone know or think he will he get a ST invite? He wasn't an official NRI last year, but he did spend some time in the big league camp late in the spring, and even pitched in one of the late season games. I wouldn't expect him to get an official invite, but if he's healthy, I'd bet you will see him travel with the team once or twice late in the Spring to get a look.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 06:37 PM) http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/...ers-and-losers/ tax rates per industry Shows production of petro products to be in the lower rate half, paying effectively 11%. And its not an industry that needs early growth protections like the high tech, not-yet-mature fields around it.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 03:20 PM) I'd say at 25-years old it's time for AA. I agree. Keep in mind though... the way he was pitching last year, he may have seen AA at a more appropriate 24, until he got injured. He also played 4 years of college ball and then unaffiliated amateur ball before he got into the system, so he didn't get started until he was 22-23. I'm still convinced of his talent. Assuming this injury doesn't have a permanent effect, if he can do in AA this year what he's done in A- and A+, I think you start hearing his name a lot more often.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 12:15 PM) If those tickets are in the $50-$100 price range I bet they are easy to get and will not sell out. The steam for this series is getting really old especially if the cubs suck this year. They will all sell out, I'd bet on it. They won't get as much of a mark-up on Stub Hub, but the games will sell out.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 12:46 PM) It's pretty embarassing, in all honesty. Ugh. I'm kind of surprised that Hoiberg is going this route. I mean, its possible he thinks he can "fix" these guys. And if by some miracle he can actually get some of the problem children to straighten up, then kudos to him and that's great. But unles Freddy is a miracle-worker, most of these guys won't change. They'll get in trouble again, and make a program that's been pretty clean historically look pretty bad.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 11:02 AM) Balta laughs at inadequacy of funding relative to the challenge. Republicans laugh at the fact that they get to vote against it. Its a start though, and its definitely a good place to invest infrastructure money into. Huge money and time savings long run, not to mention job creation, increase in tourism spending, etc. But you are right, the GOP in the House will say no. 81 members of the Senate think the money is better spent on oil subsidies - that's how laughably shortsighted they (81 being multple parties) are.

People whose need for attention is so great, that they intentionally take one silly extreme or another in an argument to make their point. Pretty much ruins any chance of discussion. Similarly, posters who go into a thread where everyone is pretty much agreeing on something, see the chance to stand out in some way, so they say some assinine thing like "I would have kicked that puppy too. Who cares?". Which is inevitably followed by people getting all up in arms, like "puppy kicker! How could you?!?!?!", not realizing that was the exact reaction they were going for.

QUOTE (G&T @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 08:49 AM) 1. I never said anything about their treatment. They did what they could do. 2. Actually they kinda did make a rash decision. They admit in the article that they didn't follow any procedure and never informed the patient. I never minimized the help they provided. Every hospital should have done the same to treat the patient. What I said is that a hospital does not have the power to deport an illegal immigrant. That is the power of the federal government and they must make the determination based on the facts of the individual. In some situations illegals will not be deported for humanitarian reasons. All I said is that a hospital cannot make that call since they did not and cannot perform a proper investigation. And don't make it sound like they just "sent him home" like he lives down the street. That is a good point, about them doing the deportation. But it does cause a different issue, if they don't deport him. Do they turn him out on the street? That would be worse for all involved. And let's be honest, ICE may have taken months or years to ever get to handling this. So the hospital was in a no-win situation. Its a corner case, but it does expose a problem that should be addressed in the law with more clarity.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 04:06 PM) Without the worker to testify that he was on the job at the time the injury occurred, there's no case, that seems plain to me. Doesn't to me. Makes it harder, doesn't make it no case. And if the law was written a bit differently, as I am suggesting it should be, it could be easier.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 04:01 PM) The fact that if the guy is deported and dies in the Mexican health care system there's no case? Why would there be no case? I think you are missing my point here. I feel the laws should be written on this to turn pretty much all these costs around on the employer. I fail to see what his status in Mexico would have to do with that.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 03:11 PM) The current political environment isn't going to change any time soon. I know a lot of people on the right cynically lol'd at people on the left who bought into the Obama "new kind of politics" movement and found out it was business as usual, then they bought totally into the Tea Party movement and swore it was going to be different and change everything. Politics is politics. On the flip side of that, most people scoffed at the idea of Obama or any racial minority becoming the President. Not everything changes, and most things don't change quickly, but things definitely change over time. The political map has changed dramatically over decades, geographically and figuratively.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 03:57 PM) Then who pays to keep him in this country and alive if the case takes years to wind its way through courts/appeals? Who says you keep him in the country?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 01:40 PM) Just out of curiosity...did he fall and become injured while on the job? If so, I'd suggest the hospital sue the company that had hired him. If you set up the laws such that people who employ illegals end up on the hook for their workplace costs in any form, that should help deter future employment of this type.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 6, 2011 -> 11:55 PM) I'm quite sure that's illegal. He would have had to have sold his shares to be able to use that money towards the White Sox. I wouldn't be so sure. These are not publically traded companies. The "shares" they issue are private investments of personal money, so it depends entirely on the nature of the contracts. Its possible he could pull his money out of one team, and put it into the Sox. There is nothing per se illegal about it, unless he violates the contract - and that's contract law, not criminal law, anyway. What laws would he be breaking? Now, if you are talking about an outright transfer of capital, that's different. But even then, I am not sure that's illegal either - it would just be fraught with potential problems.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 01:04 PM) Thoughts? Full Article Hospital's decision to send quadriplegic man back to Mexico angers those in Chicago who cared for him For almost four months, doctors and nurses at Advocate Christ Medical Center cared for the young Mexican laborer who had fallen from a roof and lost the ability to speak, breathe or move most parts of his body. But Quelino Ojeda Jimenez was in the U.S. illegally, and just before Christmas he was taken from the Oak Lawn hospital, loaded on an air ambulance and flown to Oaxaca, capital of the Mexican state where he was born. "They threw him out like he was a piece of garbage," said Horacio Esparza, a disability rights advocate who runs the Progress Center for Independent Living in Forest Park. Advocate Christ spent about $650,000 on Ojeda's medical care and another $60,000 to transport him to Mexico after several private long-term care facilities refused to take the young man as a patient, Golson said. "We saved his life and brought him to a stable condition," but when it became clear that Ojeda needed a lifetime of care, it seemed best to return him close to family, she said. Seems like they did quite a lot for him. Certainly on a personal level I feel badly for his situation, but I also think this was the best way to handle it. They spent gobs of money and time to get him stable, and then sent him home. I think the advocate's statement that he was treated like garbage is absurd. He's here illegally, he broke the law and gambled, and he lost. That loss should not be extended to the rest of the country. He is owed nothing, but received a lot.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 10:56 AM) So, it's impossible. He's saying its impossible in the current political environment. And contrary to what we may sometimes believe, these things do change over time.