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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 10, 2010 -> 09:09 AM) You really think that Angle unscripted and on stage next to Harry Reid is a wise move? No, but I also think that saying you will, then backing out, is equally dumb.

Sharon Angle agrees to on-air debate with Harry Reid, station schedules event with Reid campaign, then Angle campaign calls back and says nevermind. She really does appear to be pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.

Age before beauty...

With as young a crowd as we have here, should be lots of single and dating. Could be amusing to do an age poll too, and see the relationship there.

Teahen was a failure at 3B defensively, but his bat has been about as expected. He's expensive for it, but because he's not going to be traded easily, you might as well have him be a bench guy next year. Have him learn 1B, he already looks passable in RF, he can DH or PH, etc. He's got a good bat for that role.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 05:02 PM) We acquired him too late. You were saying you didn't want to acquire him at all at the time!

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 09:01 PM) Damn, Axelrod has just been dominating this year. I wish he was 4 years younger. 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 9 K. That'll work. Yeah, its interesting to see his numbers in his years in the minors. Two mediocre seasons in whatever organization he was in before... then since coming to the Sox org, he's dominated in two seasons. He's old for his level by a good couple or three years, but it looks like the Sox org found something to fix in him, and its working. If he can put up these kinds of numbers next year in AA, despite his age, I think its time to start keeping a close eye on him.

Well, the NYC mosque and quran burnings are now officially intertwined, and a whole lot weirder. The Pentacostal whacko says he won't do the burn now, because the imam of a mosque in central Florida has promised him that the mosque a thousand miles away will be moved. WTF? If any governmental body had any hand in any sort of deal here - which I doubt - I will be f***ing livid.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 04:23 PM) What Catholic Church has a bookstore, food court, fitness center, swimming pool, basketball court, culinary school, performing arts center, and an auditorium for public performances? There are megachurchs, particularly in the South, that are all that plus a Starbucks.

Jenks, FYI, it is indeed a community center, complete with swimming pool, etc. Further, it has interfaith chapels built in as well.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 03:16 PM) I still don't understand why people have an issue with this. 2 blocks was well within the zone of damage/destruction caused by 9/11. You state this as though the site is some tiny 10 foot by 10 foot plot of land. (and my position has always been it's f***ing stupid for these guys to not use common sense with this. Should the government step in and stop them? No. Is it purely anti-Muslim, racist outcries? No. It's akin to the US putting up a monument to the creator of the atom bomb in Hiroshima 10 years after ww2. I think the reactions are justified) What? This is a private owner putting up a religious and community center. The bomb is, you know, a weapon. And this isn't the government of Afghanistan putting it up anyway. That comparison is atrocious. You are basically equating Islam with a weapon of mass destruction - and if that comparison is true, then the Catholic Church is the neutron bomb.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 03:09 PM) Word on the street is that the feds may hammer at jesse jr and rahmn in the next Blago trial to keep them out of the running for the mayoral position. Wess also may getting his walking papers. Why? Feds could care less who runs for Mayor, UNLESS they have something brewing against them specifically. Otherwise, they could care less. Weis will almost surely be out with the new mayor, unless the new mayor is a Daley lackey.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 02:37 PM) "Let" the supply of money go down? That is gross misrepresentation of current fiscal policy at best... At worst it is a complete fabrication. The fed can get money into the economy by buying bonds, setting interest rates low, and setting lending requirements low. The reality is that the Fed has been buying tons of bonds, and the interest rates are at zero. The only reason we haven't seen a change in lending requirements is that the banks aren't able to stomach that with the current lending laws. Actually, this has changed somewhat recently. Mortgage rates have dropped again, and are hovering around 4.25%. And I've been talking with mortgage people lately for my own needs, and have gotten the impression that things are lossening up a bit.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 02:22 PM) just like those who say Barack Hussein Obama. they say, well that his name. Yes, but they say Hussein because Hussein has a negative vibe for a lot of people. So its a way to associate the President in a negative way. "Name calling without Name Calling." Those same people never say John Sidney McCain or Willard "Mitt" Romney. Of all the things to be upset about in the political discourse, you are really going to keep going with this? Because someone said "ObamaCare"?

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 12:35 PM) I believe it is used as an insult way more than a neutral label. I never said it was neutral. I just don't think it rises to the level of "insult".

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 12:11 PM) I thought this team would only win about 75 games this year. I haven't gotten too upset over this season since they exceeded my expectations. It's been awhile since the Sox have put together nice winning streaks. They dug too deep of a hole to crawl out of when the season started. I swear, its like you are living in some other season. The Sox JUST came off a 7 game winning streak.

Imagine for a moment, if a mosque in the US decided to have a bible burning session. Now imagine the outcry in this country in response.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 11:13 AM) Put in the context of the political discussion in this country, it most certainly is meant as an insult. Oh please. You could propose a plan for health care right here in this forum, and I could label it StrangeCare - is that an insult? I just don't see it.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 11:06 AM) ObamaCare has been turned into an epithet for evil Democratic policies. Just like the term "liberal", but I still don't see how either is an insult or name-calling. Its just a label, and I see no offense in it.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 10:55 AM) so should we re-name any/all iniatives brought on by Presidents. How does BushTarp sound? I really don't get your crusade here. You really think ObamaCare is an insulting moniker? I don't see it. If you want to call it BushTarp, feel free (its actually kind of funny), or if you want Bush to own Iraq, it can be BushRaq.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 10:38 AM) i forgot, name calling is especially important within the tea party. (socialist, obamacare, etc) Like little children. Obamacare isn't exactly name-calling, I think you are stretching here. Your "like little children" comment is more name-calling than simply referring to the healtcare initiative as belonging to Obama, which it sort of does, for good or bad.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 10:26 AM) libertarians did scream about it. People like Ron Paul and such. Yes, that's why I used him as an example in a later post. He's an actual libertarian.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 10:21 AM) Right, but military funding equates to wasteful spending to most folks, especially 10 years later. And since 9/11 was widely the result of a failure of intelligence, I think the expansion of intelligence powers provided by the Patriot Act was a reasonable move, just like despite the enlargement of government, I was ok with Bush creating the Department of Homeland security. Clearly what we had wasn't working, so he tried to fix it. I don't think many libertarians are upset about expansion of government relating to defense/foreign policy issues. That's not something the private sector can handle on its own. My understanding of true libertarianism is that it wants smaller government, ESPECIALLY in foreign policy. Listen to someone like Ron Paul, who, despite being a bit crazy, sticks to a true Libertarian agenda.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 10:14 AM) I'm saying that in context, considering the timing of it all, I understand why some people (like me) were willing to be ok with expanded government for defense and intelligence purposes, so that might excuse why they wasn't the same type of backlash for it. OK, but the Patriot Act wasn't about military funding anyway. It was the expansion of federal power to intrude on people's lives, and that's something I'd expect any libertarian to scream and yell about.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 10:12 AM) There were big corporate funders pretty much from the start of the "Tea Party" idea. "People pissed off at Obama and Democrats" came before that, but the movement, as it were, didn't really come together until their was significant backing. That doesn't mean it's wrong or bad, just that it really isn't the populist, grass-roots movement it's described as. I don't agree with that. Big powerful money were not organizing the early rallies and what not - that just isn't the case. Now, these big Glenn Beck scream-and-shout hate-the-world chorus events, sure, those are backed by big bucks.