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QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Mar 13, 2011 -> 01:41 AM) OMG BUT OZZ AND KENNY WILL DRIVE PLAYERS OFF!

QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 13, 2011 -> 01:05 AM) Sox fans are smart. They know Teahen is a utlility guy at best. If he starts and boots a grounder Opening Day the fans will let him have it. He'll be this year's Kotsay. Will be? He has been since the trade last year. I literally believe there are no Teahen fans on this board.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 12, 2011 -> 04:11 PM) I think it's worth posting in reply that as a share of state budgets, the amount paid out in benefits + wages has declined on the whole in the past decade. Which is interesting because that pretty well corresponds to the big underfunding of pensions going on right now. It would be very interesting to see how that graph would look if it weren't biased and it actually included everything.

As a self-centered American, the scary part for me is seeing how bad this affected the best prepared country in the world for a seismic event, and then thinking about the three major areas (CA, the Pac NW, and the New Madrid) which could see a major quake in the US and wondering how bad things would be here.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 12, 2011 -> 10:14 PM) I was 9 years old in the summer of 1991 but I VIVIDLY recall EVERY SINGLE ONE of those players from that team. Cliff Levingston, Craig Hodges, etc. I was almost the same age with the 83 Sox team, but I am still the same way to this day. Line ups, batting stances, etc.

I liked Melton thinking the mics were off "Picked a helluva time to run out of water"...

QUOTE (Charlie Haeger's Knuckles @ Mar 12, 2011 -> 03:33 AM) Sergio Santos. Why? Because he has f***ing sweet sleeve tattoos. That means he has a high pain tolerance and is prime fit for the ninth inning. All jokes aside, it would be awesome if he could steal the job, because it would allow us some awesome flexibility in matching up with the lefties in the division. He has closers stuff, it is just a matter of if he can grow into it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 12, 2011 -> 12:35 PM) This is the same basic reason why the 2004 event in SE Asia and the 2010 event in Haiti killed so many more people than this one in Japan. Or even in Chile

So the idea that our ownership is cheap, is a joke.

Looks like there was a pretty big explosion at the Nuke plant.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 09:03 PM) I like you and everything but I still would talk s*** about you really bad. See also facebook.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 06:08 PM) Sigh... idiots on the West Coast standing on the shore trying to get a look at the tsunami waves and take pictures. Only in America... I'm not gonna even lie. If I knew my kids were safe, I would totally be one of those people.

So who has the real "edge"?

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 02:50 PM) I am not sure exactly what that is telling me, but that is freaky. I'm guessing it is some sort of wave intensity or height measure.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 01:35 PM) You aren't familiar with the standard insulting names used on other Midwestern states? As I recall... WI: Cheeseheads IL: FIB's LP MI: Trolls UP MI: Youppers (sp?) IA: Iweejans (and no, I don't know what that name comes from) MN: Puddle Jumpers I can't remember the Indiana one. Usually Hoosiers is good enough.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 01:29 PM) You are also a FIB, not a Cheesehead, so I didn't ask. We prefer FIP in Indiana.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 01:27 PM) As I recall, the numbers on that bill were better than 50% in favor before it passed, then dropped to right around 50% around the time it passed. Not sure where its at now. Not great, but not exactly against the will of the people either. What are the numbers like supporting this WI bill? I'd love to see support for the benefit cost increases, and the collective bargaining issue, seperately. At least in Indiana the bills are all seperate.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 12:10 PM) I agree. You've actually argued that corporate tax breaks are the best solution to poverty, at least for food and fuel. That is simply insane. All I am saying is don't ever be upset when someone argues on emotion over "scientific fact" again.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 12:19 PM) I haven't watched much big ten basketball this year outside of the big 4...Other than Shurna, is Northwestern actually any good? Every year I root for them to do something. I don't know why, I just do. It really stunk when their top scorer left before the season even started.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 12:04 PM) Do any of you other financial guys here agree with Mike? Am I just missing something in this "the best way to help the poor is to give money to the rich to give to the poor" argument? Yeah I am done. This is just stupid that this point.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 12:01 PM) Your argument is that the shareholders of oil companies see no financial benefit from these subsidies, then? Why do the economists at the IMF completely disagree with your argument? You are talking about one product versus hundreds. Also the IMF's existance is build around them providing subsidies to the poor of the world and then controling their economies for them. What possible reason would the IMF argue something that would put them out of business?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 11:56 AM) All subsidies are passed on directly to the consumer through price breaks? Help me understand. To me it simply looks like an insane argument. Honestly it depends on elasticity of which products we are comparing.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 11:55 AM) Where's your source for food stamps and energy assistance administrative costs being in the billions? How much of those subsidies are pocketed by executives as bonuses and shareholders as dividends? What do those costs, which simply redistribute wealth from all Americans to the already wealthy, amount to? For the 97th time, those costs would be there anyway. Your uptopia does not exist in reality.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 11:53 AM) But you are a strong proponent of GOVERNMENT investment in fossil fuels. Either way, I want to be clear: you think the poor would be better served by eliminating funding for food stamps and energy assistance and instead giving those funds to multi-billion dollar corporations? Not new investment. Again you are comparing programs that are already in place, to things that don't exist, or are made up. You are all over the place here.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 11:39 AM) What's the efficiency of these subsidies of actually reducing prices versus driving profits higher, by the way? This simply isn't true, no matter how many times you say it and close your eyes.