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QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 11:35 AM) If the U.S. has such a problem with communism, why do we do so much business with China? Pretty good article about why Obama shouldn't get involved in the immigration issue. Funny that McCain has changed his tune so drastically in an election year. http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/2010042...10_bushwasright So where is the part about a kid fleeing China and a family trying to keep them hear to keep them out of the grasps of the government?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 11:30 AM) So we're still cool with Cuban refugees, then? That's up to you it sounds like. I was just correctly a falsehood.

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QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 09:44 AM) I'm not sure why Cleveland would be that high. Come to think of it, I'm not sure why we're so damn high. The Sox at least have a rival and some polarizing figures here. Most casual fans couldn't even name a player from Cleveland. That is odd.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 11:04 AM) I agree. Montreal has been a nice story but Pittsburgh is the most complete team in the league. Beating Washington was great for Montreal but the Caps are the Sharks of the East. Plus I dont see Montreal as a physical team so Pittsburgh shouldnt have much wear and tear. Boston and Philly will probably beat the s*** out of each other for 6-7 games and that will take a huge toll on either of those teams hoping to upset the Penguins. All the Pens have to do is control the tempo. This series will be over in 4 or 5 games.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 11:14 AM) Obama: “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money” Shareposted at 8:48 am on April 29, 2010 by Ed Morrissey Via News alert and Breitbart TV, consider this Share the Wealth 2010. Barack Obama went off the TelePrompter in his speech to a Quincy, Illinois audience about Wall Street reform. After saying that Democrats don’t begrudge success that’s “fairly earned,” Obama then ad-libs — and reveals more about himself than he probably wanted: We’re not, we’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that’s fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or providing good service. We don’t want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy. Compare that to his remarks as prepared for delivery: Now, we’re not doing this to punish these firms or begrudge success that’s fairly earned. We don’t want to stop them from fulfilling their responsibility to help grow our economy. He should have stuck with the TelePrompter. The President doesn’t get to decide when people have “made enough money.” In fact, as the radio host notes, that’s a statist point of view. Furthermore, the responsibility of an entrepreneur isn’t to “grow our economy,” core or otherwise. It’s to grow his own economy. In a properly regulated capitalist system, the natural tension of self-interests create economic growth through innovation and efficient use of capital and resources. Put simply, a free people work for themselves, not for the government. Barack Obama seems to have a problem understanding that. Which is funny coming from a guy who has made millions himself, and continues to do so. If you wonder where people start to get the ideas to throw around words like socialism and communism, it is exactly stuff like this. Like it or not, NO ONE has a RESPONSIBILITY to grow the economy. That is not anywhere to be found in our constitution. In fact quite the opposite. The rights of the individual are stressed over and over and over again.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 10:49 AM) I've heard him say enough times that he doesn't. His actions have spoken quite differently.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 09:34 AM) And yet...only 1 of those 3 groups wound up wealthier for it. You are right about the largest ever expansion of the federal government and its regulating bodies.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 10:26 AM) via That is a terrible analogy. The problem was sending him back to an oppressive communist government. Did Castro take over Mexico?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 08:53 AM) Quotes from blogs that I enjoy but that I'll be ridiculed for posting because they're from dirty blogs. Did I miss the part where billions of dollars went to protecting us from this? Yeah, why would they deserve any blame.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 08:51 AM) And the Supreme Court doesn't exist. John Roberts is simply a bad dream. The point is, just like this law, people are going to pass crap, in the name of appeasing their party faithful. Sometimes the Supreme Court has gotten it right, but not always. Most people are going to follow in lock-step with their party in defending this stuff, no matter what. Besides we are only another Obama appointment away from all of this stuff getting taken out again anyway, and we can really get to destroying individual rights.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 09:00 AM) ''Not mechanical. It's more my mind,'' Beckham said. ''I'm not taking my BP into the game. When I'm getting in the game I feel like I'm a little rushed, I feel like my head is moving a little faster than it should. As opposed to being calm and just sitting in the box and let the ball come to me. ''I'm going to spread out a little bit, eliminate the lower half a little bit, and that's going to keep me locked in, a little quieter. Hopefully, that will help me be more accurate with the ball and make better decisions on pitches that are close and not close. That should help. I just have to do it in the games. It's all there.'' Guillen said Beckham would play in the series finale this afternoon, so it was obviously just a rest, not a punishment. And as far as if the club did put too much on Beckham's shoulders and could be ruining him, Guillen didn't think that was the case. ''No, this kid mentally is pretty tough about it, and he grew up with the right people around him,'' Guillen said. ''I don't want him thinking about, 'I'm the man here, I gotta do this, hit .350, I gotta do this, I gotta be the MVP.' No, he's got to go out and play his game the way he did when he was a little kid.'' www.suntimes.com/sports (cowley) Again, Guillen is saying the right things. Of course that won't get said, because it isn't as popular. If anyone understands the position Gordo is in, it is a guy who was traded for a Cy Young pitcher and was rookie of the year.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 08:48 AM) The fact that you included that when gun laws are weaker than they have been in decades... Rich Daley and Washington DC love you.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 08:42 AM) Probably not, but with the players they had (Jason Kidd IIRC), he had to go with a fast break system, which he hasn't replicated in Chicago or Milwaukee. Charles Rosen wrote a really good write-up of last night's game. Atlanta's team is so much more talented than the Bucks, and Brandon Jennings didn't even play well, but the Bucks won because of heart and hustle, Skiles simply has his guys playing very hard. Whether or not they can keep that up for a few seasons or they'll burn out like Chicago, we'll have to wait and see. talent wise this shouldn't even be a series.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 08:38 AM) Yeah I know you only see the constitution as things that create new Democrats and things that are unconstitutional, but there are bigger things here. Take a macro-view of recent history and leave the party politics behind. The funny thing is that I really do believe this is a horrible law and should be unconstitutional, but then I again I don't see the world completely through the eyes of my party. To me this is as big of a intrusion on individual rights as the health care bill, gun bannings, and the Patriot Act, and other things that are bandied about.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 08:39 AM) Those 3 starts last year? Nope. The last five innings looked better IMO.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 08:21 AM) ''[beckham] is trying to do too much, he's desperate to try to do good. This game is a marathon, it's not a sprint. A lot of people in Chicago think Gordon is the man of this ballclub. That's a bunch of crap. He's not. This kid has a long way to go. A couple of years ago he was playing college, and we did something that I don't think we should have been doing, which is put this kid like he's the savior of the White Sox for the next 30 years. It's not easy to handle that. He's struggling right now, and I hope it doesn't carry on to him to be the man. ''He's not the man, and he never will be the man. As long as I manage this ballclub, nobody is the man. There are 25 men out there, not just one. Because it will take 25 guys to win this thing, not one or a couple to win it. This kid has potential to be a great one. But when you're struggling you've got to sit back and relax, don't forget where you come from and do the same thing you've been doing your whole life.'' suntimes.com/sports (cowley) Its really too bad only the second part gets quoted, because the first part is great.

QUOTE (Markbilliards @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 10:55 PM) How bout Steve Stone? He wants to get into upper management. Either as a GM or an owner.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 12:19 AM) Sox will not see .500 in 2010 so this is moot! QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 07:55 AM) the nonstop brilliant one liners continue! There are some things I would like to not see in 2010, but I know will continue...

QUOTE (hogan873 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 06:05 AM) I was thoroughly dismayed by the first inning. I was ready to say pull the plug or whatever other euphanism for giving up on him I could think of. But, he looked very good for the next five innings. It seemed like he just found it, whatever "it" is. So, I'm mildly encouraged about his next start. The first inning was the worst he has thrown since he got here. The next five were the best he has looked since he got here, IMO.

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 07:23 AM) ANYONE working low paying jobs collects more in benefits than they pay in taxes. Which is why using workers that do not qualify for those benefits is so handy for the government. Also, I have not said they need illegals, they need people willing to work temporary seasonal jobs in agriculture and a few other low paying, s***ty jobs. And when they are earning about a $1000 a month, just how much are they really sending back home? And I have said a guest worker program is the best solution. But the bottom line with this law is basically requiring CITIZENS to carry papers proving they are citizens. After viewing what it has become OK to require citizens to do, or wanting to force them to do, in this country lately, I don't see how anyone can use the constitution as a defense any more. That document has been obliterated for all practical purposes.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 05:57 AM) That's like blaming the Chicago Police for gang violence -- just because they're ineffective at stopping it doesn't make them ultimately responsible for it. Unless the Chicago police figured out a way to subsidize the gangs everytime they had a loss, it really isn't similar.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 09:49 PM) Wow Atlanta with a huge choke tonight blowing a solid late and what once was a 2-0 Atlanta series lead is now 3-2 Milwaukee. And it made me a little happy to see Jamal Crawford play a huge role in Atlanta losing tonight. I love Scott Skiles. Too bad he can't keep a teams attention for more than a couple of years. In reality the guy is a college coach, he just doesn't want to admit it.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 08:55 PM) This law seems like burying your head in the sand to me. All we need to do to stop illegal immigration is be tougher on the immigrants! America, f*** yeah, let's get urr jeibs back from them messi-cans!" This does nothing but put a particularly ugly shade of lipstick on a pig. If the following things are still going to happen... 1. American employers hire illegals (particularly for unregulated labor at low wages) 2. Mexico is unable or unwilling to control itself internally, reduce poverty, control drug trade, etc. 3. United States is unable or unwilling to curb demand FOR drugs coming from Mexico, which are the reason for drug wars in the first place Then illegals will keep coming and will continue to be a fact of life here in the U.S. and we are going to have trouble securing our own border. Mexico has no interest in #2. They just export it to the US, and get the extra added bonus of them sending cash back home. It is a win-win.

The 1-2-3 seeds in the East are gone. Wow.