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RT @CST_soxvan Santiago optioned. For danks coming back weds

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:40 PM) <!--quoteo(post=2435905:date=Jul 19, 2011 -> 06:38 PM:name=southsider2k5)-->QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 06:38 PM) <!--quotec-->Show me the cuts in the biggest entitlement programs. A congressional commerical? Really? What's next a comedian?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:36 PM) The Defense Department is a Social Program? Show me the cuts in the biggest entitlement programs.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:36 PM) I didn't move goalposts because I never claimed social safety nets are meant to lift people out of poverty if poverty is defined by income levels. That was very clearly what you were trying to imply earlier.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:34 PM) Well, considering social mobility in this country has declined significantly over the past 30 years as those programs have been cut back and now stands well below most other countries in Europe that have much more expansive social safety nets, it seems like a lot do. Cutting back on them and then being angry that they don't work would be like putting Adam Dunn out there and being mad that he struck out. Judging by our local, state, and federal budgets, I am guessing what you are saying about cuts isn't true at all.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:33 PM) A more accurate question would be how many people avoid destitution, homelessness and starvation thanks to social programs? Nice movement of the goalposts. Still I would love to see those numbers too.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:31 PM) Btw, I've done enough sales on my own to know...the guy living in the run-down area with the huge TV, new cell phone, Cadillac...very often bought all those items with cash. Literally cash. Paid in $20's and $100's. I'm hoping you're catching my meaning. If that is the case, I had classrooms in a school with a 70% poverty rate filled with kids doing whatever it is you mean.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:25 PM) You can drop the really bad analogy that doesn't make sense any time now. It doesn't? Tell me how many people leave poverty based on social programs?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:24 PM) The answer is to give in to or even accelerate inequalities? So your answer is to keep hitting Adam Dunn?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:22 PM) Cutting social spending is a sure-fire way to eliminate class privilege. Also tax breaks for ADM instead of food stamps. We have spent trillions trying to end class privileged. I think Adam Dunn has a better batting average and less strike outs than our social programs.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:15 PM) Were you entirely responsible for all of your own living expenses and possibly those of your family as well? Did you have children or younger siblings to raise at the same time? Did you grow up with access to better schools and a better understanding of how to get into college, even if you need government assistance in the form of student loans? Are you really denying the existence of class privileges? Or admitting the failure of our social spending?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 03:38 PM) Wife: Honey, it's supposed to be 98 tomorrow with heat indexes well over 100. Me: I know. But to tell you the truth, we should probably just open our windows. A couple of guys on www.soxtalk.com thought that since a decent amount of children survive in subsaharan conditions that we should not worry about ourselves or our 6 week old child. I have to admit they make a great point even though we're on the top floor of a building that gets virtually no cross wind ventilation and is completely exposed to direct sunlight with no trees for shading. Wife: .... To be fair, the African thing was all Balta.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 03:22 PM) I dont remember hearing that at all...Gordon for sure but not Dayan. Id like to know where you heard that. I remember the same thing. The Sox were willing to part with Flowers, not Dayan.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 03:31 PM) Unless the Sox win the central, I do. If the stories about what is going behind the scenes in the front office are true, I don't at all. I see kenny getting kicked upstairs and Hahn promoted.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 01:57 PM) Something very telling was the Tigers announcer saying on Fox on Saturday that "Ozzie Guillen to the Marlins after this season is the worst kept secret in baseball". Unless the Marlins are wiling to pay up, I don't see it happening.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 01:24 PM) They do. All six of them.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 09:25 AM) Yea, another Gordo type player who doesnt know how to handle slumps! I'd rather them learn those things in the minors versus the majors to be honest.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 01:55 PM) You must not have a newborn. Ours didn't change with the two kids.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 01:53 PM) 79-80 here, mainly I only flip the AC on when I need to remove the humidity. Good ol BS, burning up that CO2. He hates the environment. We got to 82 when no one is in the house.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 09:52 AM) It's weeks like this where I regret buying the top floor of a 3-flat. The A/C can't keep up with the heat and by the time I get home from work it's around 79-81 degrees in our unit. Ugh. I think I'll pick up a dehumidifier this week to help out. We keep our house at 78 or 79 in the summer.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 09:37 AM) who did an episode on that? I'd love to watch it. One of the episodes of Chasing Mummies that was on.

If it is a once in a life time shot, and you have the money to see it through, take a shot.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 08:54 AM) I am really hoping the new guy allows for some more exploration of the area around the Sphinx. I'm convinced there's rooms down there. they did an episode on that. They really tried to debunk any of that.

I would agree with BS about asking it at a first interview.