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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 27, 2009 -> 04:36 PM) One thing I'll never figure out is how having some windmills far off on the horizon cuts the value of someone's real estate more than things like having shipping in those same lakes, the occasional shipwreck/oil spill (this is a classic one for the ones off of Boston; they don't want the windmills but they keep having oil spills right along shore from the shipping lanes) and the coal fired power plant further along the lakeshore dropping soot on you. I'd say ask Teddy Kennedy, but you know...

QUOTE (SouthsideNorthsideFan @ Sep 27, 2009 -> 11:50 AM) Jason Marquis, too...200+ innings again, 15 wins, under 4 ERA in Colorado. And they didn't think he was a viable 5th starter? NO ONE was going to trust Marquis before this season.

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 27, 2009 -> 08:22 AM) What are lake shore Condos selling for? If you owned an asset worth $750,000 that would drop to $600,000, how happy would you be? It may be selfish, but people don't want their property values to decline. There are some real hardships in owning real estate that is declining in value. Maybe if they called it a tax, it would be OK?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 27, 2009 -> 11:26 AM) Yeah, I can't really blame Ford here anyway. GM and Chrysler got some serious competitive advantages via bankruptcy and the bailouts, while Ford managed to avoid that and are penalized essentially. Not a surprise they need to find an edge somewhere else. Well they don't have to pay back on any loans, and they don't have the genuises in the federal government telling them what their game plan is. I'd call that two pretty big advantages.

Toews looks posessed.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 26, 2009 -> 10:40 PM) things we've learned since then: Fed is confirmed to be on his chest. Sources say it was not a suicide. Rumblings that there was duct tape around his neck. Great timing. I have already intimated that this killer will have acted on his own accord. But, my point is, a US congresswoman and a TV host with a 2.5 mill audience are making completely inciteful and insanely inaccurate and untrue comments, and we're being told by you to just laugh them off. Is it AS possible that this was a dumbass meth dealer not understanding that by sending a message to the feds to stay out they would be getting the opposite? Of course. Is it possible the murderer was just bats*** insane? That is not just a possibility, that is an absolute truth. and finally: That's right, none of those other forms encourage violence, but some sort of round about way of saying that the government might come after you, in the context of something that the majority of the country doesn't even realize actually happened... Yes THAT will be actually something that causes violence. I'm just going to take from this, since because kap is allowed to run free and act like this, we all are, that you are implying that michelle bachmann is right. That this is a prescient analogy, because during an actual WORLD WAR 70 years ago, we used census data to round up a population that emigrated from an enemy country, it is analogous to a 2010 census...that will be used to map out congressional seats and see what the different populations are in the country. Census' have been done for thousands of years. What a hoax. What a travesty that you are stuck defending this scum. and you wonder why we continually make fun of you for false equivalencies. My point is the exact same thing that the left wing has been defending, at worst. At best, it is a connection that is completely dependent on hearsay, a solid knowledge of history, and the inner anger needed for something like this to happen. Calling my point "false equivalencies" couldn't be further from the truth. The point has always been the media's effect on people. As long as I can remember, I have read about it just being happenstance, and that Hollywood, the music industry, and the video game industry shouldn't be held responsible for anything. Now that the right wing is the favored target, somehow that is going to lead to genocide. To me that is the king of "false equivalencies". It's complete garbage. Why was no one screaming to imprison any of the left wing over the last eight years if hate speech in politics leads to violence?

Its been days, and still not a one person has made the big connection, so I am going to go ahead and do this. Realize, that the same people who try to tell us that watching violent movies doesn't cause violence, seeing murder and rape, and anything else on screen isn't responsible for how people react to it. Playing video games where the player commits acts of violence/rape/murder etc, doesn't cause any of those to happen, and violent imagery in music isn't responsible for any violence that listeners might commit, etc, but somehow, this stuff... QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 24, 2009 -> 12:52 PM) This is what happens when you demonize the Govt. QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 24, 2009 -> 01:11 PM) "If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the census bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations, at the request of President Roosevelt, and that’s how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. I’m not saying that’s what the Administration is planning to do. But I am saying that private, personal information that was given to the census bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up." - Michele Bachmann Causes this stuff... QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 24, 2009 -> 02:20 PM) BAHAHAHAHAHAHA is that what you actually think you are writing when you write : Your hands typing and what you think you are writing are completely different. Where did I say that Glenn Beck and Bachmann should be on trial? I said the EXACT opposite of this. If you think hate speech can't fuel some nasty violence, check out Rwanda. That's right, none of those other forms encourage violence, but some sort of round about way of saying that the government might come after you, in the context of something that the majority of the country doesn't even realize actually happened... Yes THAT will be actually something that causes violence. Excuse me while I LMAO at the irony here.

Well now we know why Hawk wasn't in the booth tonight. He was home on Soxtalk.

What a dick. This is a moment that this kid will remember for the rest of his life, and some random person wants to be greedy for no other reason than they can.

QUOTE (bschmaranz @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 02:53 PM) I'd take it if I were him. He seems very comfortable in Minnesota. No doubt. He has it made there.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Sep 26, 2009 -> 10:14 AM) So how long before Phil Rogers writes a column b****ing that KW let Egbert go?? I am sure he has a generic one written where he just fills in numbers and names.

I can't believe Egbert gets a pinned thread

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 03:05 PM) Especially with that, in fact. They've destroyed all sorts of projects, which were awful for everyone involved, in favor of mixed income housing, which is a far better idea. Anything you do will have negatives of course, but there is no doubt in my mind that mixed housing is a better idea that piling all the poor people into projects. They haven't replaced but a small fraction of the housing in reality.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 02:19 PM) I'd kill to have Mark Lowe on this team. He's pretty much Matt Thornton with a better breaking ball. So would 28 other teams.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 02:38 PM) Richie II has been far better for the poor in Chicago than Richie I was. Even with the destruction and non-replacement of nearly every housing project in the city?

Here is a pic from a couple of winters ago, with little to no zoom.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 02:35 PM) When you say you can see Chicago what does that mean? A small speck of what looks like the Sears Willis Tower? Wind turbines are much smaller than that and probably wouldn't be as easy to spot 30 miles out in the water. And if they are then build them 40 or 50 miles out. Nope. You can see a couple dozen buildings, including many of the smaller ones in enough clarity to be able to name which one it is.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 02:27 PM) But isn't it 30 miles across the shore line as in my rudimentary drawing? I'm talking out in the middle. Actually its almost all of the way around the other side, but not quite straight across. Put Michigan City into google maps and get good and panned out. I know the lake widens out, but the I don't think it ever gets wide enough to wear you could put something more than 30 miles away from one of the coasts.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 02:23 PM) If they were far enough off shore no one would even see them. I live in Michigan City, and I can see Chicago from my beach most days. That is 30 miles over the water.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 10:37 AM) Off topic but how come there aren't a ton of giant wind turbines in the middle of the great lakes? I would guess the same reason they aren't off of Cape Cod... NIMBY's.

I wonder how much money, and how long he was looking for...

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 02:11 PM) Frank Thomas says hello And technically Frank was never dealt... He was just let walk away.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 12:26 PM) What about all the displaced poor people? I'm guessing that will be way less than what King Richie the Second has been doing for decades anyway...

Technically businesses get basically the same set of rights and rules has humans.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 12:24 PM) Twins. They play the game right, and I always admire teams going to the playoffs with low payrolls. I hate everthig about Detroit. Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, etc. Seeing Detroit close to choking is a thrill in my eyes. I couldn't have said it any better. f*** Detroit.