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Apparently Brandon Inge has broke his hand and is going to be out for a while.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 08:25 PM) If Wsox are interested in Dejesus, maybe they should expand it and try their take on Alex Gordon. Especially if they are planning on including Morel in the trade as well. I would love to take a flyer on Gordon. There is a world of talent there, it is just a matter if someone can get to him

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 06:50 PM) KW will find a way to do something. I just don't think he deals anyone of our top 4 guys. The problem is that once you get out of our top few guys, we have s*** in the minor league system. It is at a time like this that the big injuries have killed us.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 10:29 PM) http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,2154462.story KW to English translation... "These motherf***er are asking for way to f***ing much for any decent b**** ass players."

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 10:22 PM) Absolutely. Prior to that the population numbers were pretty comparable. I wouldn't even be sure that the colonies would've actually taken hold. We would have had to go on shore D-Day style to make something happen. And even then we would have gotten no native cooperation, unlike with the mass dyings, where the natives had no choice but to help as there was no where else to go. yeah, I can't wait to get through this book.

So our Movie Gallery went out of business last week. We went up there on the last day that it was open and they had all of their movies on sale for 99 cents each. We ended up buying like 15 movies, including a bunch of stuff we had never heard of, but we figured we would check out for that price. One of the movies we picked up was a picture called The Statement, which was one I was really impressed by. It was about this French guy who helped the Nazi's round up jews at the end of WWII, and the guys trying to chase him down. I really enjoyed it.

QUOTE (ICP! @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 07:30 AM) Me and my fiancee got in an argument on the way home from seeing Inception because I didnt understand a God damn thing in it. I love complex movies but I was not in the mood or even have the energy after working all day to stay with this one. If you guys are going to argue everytime you don't understand something... well be prepared to fight all of the time.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 10:10 PM) Yeah the part that really caught my attention is how the Europeans weren't significantly more advanced than the Indians or the Africans at the time that whites first contacted North America. There was an exchange of technology between the Europeans and the Indians, but the narrative we're taught is that the technologically advanced Europeans came and tried to civilize the poor, backwards Indians, and they stubbornly didn't let that happen so the Europeans were forced to get rid of the savages. That's not how it happened at all. The Indians were just as civilized as the Europeans, the Founding Fathers actually used some concepts of liberty from Indian society for the Declaration of Independence. I guess things are pretty unequal when one side loses 95% of its population from smallpox. The black history stuff is pretty fascinating too, I already knew most of the facts, but it's the way it's just kind of glossed over like slavery was just some sort of random historical event that has nothing to do with the next century that followed. Then they eventually say "oh, and blacks were treated kinda bad so the government decided to make whites treat them better in the 60s and everyone lived happily ever after." It would have been a really interesting history here if it wasn't for smallpox. There is no way that we get the foothold here that we got if there was a significant amount of people around to offer some real resistance.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 06:53 PM) He was saying how the more American history classes you take, the dumber you get, and that doesn't happen with math, science, language, etc. He really tore into the Columbus myth though. Columbus wasn't a hero... that's not really a strike against him because that was just standard colonial activity back then (kind of like how Lincoln was racist) but our society over the years turned him into a hero for pretty much no reason. And it's pretty unbelievable that I was once taught everyone thought the world was flat and this crazy guy Columbus thought the world was round and wanted to prove it. When in reality, globes were already invented by 1492. lol. I actually knew lots of the Columbus stuff. I have even watched stuff on the History Channel about all of the different groups that probably "discovered" America before Columbus did, and stuff like the belief that CC probably had a map that one of his relatives passed down to him from a previous voyage to North America. The ones that have really blown my mind are the things about how we were pretty much at war with the Indians for about 4 centuries, how much of the slave trade actually involved the Indians, and how much stuff the natives taught the idiot Europeans. I am about half a dozen pages into the black history stuff, and it is wild how still portray slavery as just kind of happening, but not really how it relates to anything and where it came from, not to mention how much the north was involved in it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 02:36 PM) Toyota + Tesla working together to produce an all-electric Rav4. Well look at that... private companies making it work.

You can. I would recommend you go directly to their internet provider with the information you have and tell them your story. That is in violation of their service agreements and they can have them terminated. You could also contact the police if you believe that some more malicious is going on. It is next to impossible to find out exactly who it is without at least going through their service provider though.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 05:34 PM) Have you finished Lies My Teacher Told Me? It's like we're afraid to do that for some reason. I am tearing it up. I just finished Indian history and am into black history. It is incredible. It kinda made me laugh at the debates over things like ID that go on while we still have history books teaching that Columbus discovered America.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 05:21 PM) Well obviously it didn't tell me much I didn't already know, but where they are talking about the disorganization and duplication of tasks is absolutely true, I thought that was common knowledge and I was surprised the article gave it so much attention. There are a lot of different reasons for that I could name off the top of my head: Turf battles - not just interagency battles, intraagency battles, and these really aren't going away, it's the nature of bureaucracy. One unit/section/organization wants to have control of a certain mission. This means personnel, funding, prestige, etc. Prima donna/alpha mentality - everybody wants to be doing something important and "sexy." Everybody also wants to be relevant, people genuinely believe in their work and they want to be doing something high-speed. This kind of overlaps into other areas too, like where one agency says their files are too important for another agency to see. Are the files really that important, or do you just think they are? Poor organization/overlapping of similar missions - Analysts produce similar products that someone else is doing, but the organization they work for wants it done a certain way. This also creates unnecessary rivalries. Another organization has a similar mission and the first agency takes offense to it and feels like their toes are being stepped on. Profit motive - self-explanatory. Billing positions is the reason private companies are in business so of course they have incentive to be actively adding value, however that's done. This isn't really that big of a problem though IMO and it can be managed. So nothing has changed since the 9/11 commission made their recommendations.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 04:28 PM) It's time to revive this thread http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20385926_20386375,00.html Wow. I can't wait to get my hands on this.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 01:50 PM) Link Well to be fair, the federal government's response in both this and the gulf has been the same... cover their eyes and act like it doesn't exist.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 09:40 AM) The tea party caters to moderates. And you have to look no further than the "radicalization" by the left to understand it.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 07:31 AM) A Democratic Texas? All over the border region and the cities. As the GOP starts losing their more moderate members, a Dem will have a chance. Which is why the Tea Party movement scares the s*** out of the Democrats as it caters to those exact middle GOPers who don't want the government in their wallet or in their bedroom.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 12:11 AM) I'll admit, I've never been a huge fan of Bobby, but his post game comments were ridiculous today and just because of them, he should take a role as middle reliever for a while. "I didn't have it," closer Bobby Jenks said after failing to retire any of the four batters he faced and ending a streak of 15 save conversions. "My cutter was coming back. My sinker wasn't sinking. The slider was big. I just didn't have my stuff." So f***ing what Bobby? Not every pitcher is gonna have his good stuff everyday. This is just a p**** ass excuse by you and everyone knows that. You f***ing stunk today. And just because your stuff was flat doesn't mean you have to walk the first two batters. If you throw strikes, you will always have a shot. There's just no need for players making lame ass, p**** excuses like this. Bobby, take a seat for a while. QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 12:31 AM) hahahah, that is possibly the lamest "rant" I've ever heard about any player on this site. Every pitcher in the history of the game uses that after a bad outing. All of them. Every single one. You know why? Cause its the f***ing truth. He just pitched about 5 weeks with 1 ER and a handful of hits. He's not Randy f***ing Williams. And you've "never been a huge fan of bobby"? I'm sorry, but that makes you a piss poor fan. I agree with the first half of the reply. It was a bad outing, he admitted, told us exactly why, and you still went off of the deep end. The ironic part is the lofty standards you expect from a post game interview at the guys locker who blew the game, and yet you show no common decency in your reply.

He's not banned. He is suspended.

QUOTE (bighurt4life @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 12:35 PM) possible that he's in Bristol to get some confidence going, otherwise I can't really see any reason to start a college pitcher with high 90's heat at the lowest level. That type of gas should blow people away in Bristol, I'm sure he needs work on his secondary stuff but he could have done that at G-F and experienced a bit more of a challenge at the same time. There could be mechanical work going on there too.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 01:34 PM) Brad Miller reportedly signs with the Rockets http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5388602 3 years/$15 million. That is a lot of years and money for Brad.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 09:06 AM) Just heard on the radio that Dunn is looking for 4 year 15 million per year contract. He's tired of the trade rumors. I don't think he's coming here. I'd bring him in and offer arbit. Sounds like there is no chance he takes it.;

QUOTE (Ranger @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 06:21 PM) Jones won't be going anywhere either. They believe he's been too important in keeping Rios comfortable this year. So who is out when Teahen comes back?

QUOTE (ICP! @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 08:00 AM) I thought Starved Rock was amazing. The Canyons were actually bigger than I thought. The water was just a trickle in most places though. I thought there would be more considering all the rain the midwest has been getting. Loved all the stories they had about the murders there back in the 50's and the whole Starved Rock history. It was really a fun time. I didnt have time to get to Mathiessen which I really wanted to get to but next time I will go there because I am surely going back. Thanks for all your input guys. Mike The Dunes I will probably do next. Let me know if you want to know anything specific!