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QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 01:36 PM) I think its a drastic leap to believe that terrorist organizations are going to bankroll these defense cases. The last thing they want is their money getting to US soil and then all of their bank accounts/ assets frozen. No it would make us look like a country that actually believed in our own principles. Maybe our system isnt perfect, maybe its not right 100% of the time, but its the AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM. If we cant believe in our own system, then what is the point of any of this? Maybe Saddam was better than the United States if we truly want a system where suspect criminals have no chance of beating the system. But thats not me, thats not what I believe America stands for. Everyone gets their best shot to put on a case and declare their innocence. Some times innocent people are going to lose, and some times guilty people are going to win. I dont know of a better or fairer system, so Ill stick by the one we have. If that means a few people are going to be found not guilty, then so be it. So far I have yet to see any evidence of an impending wave of not guilty verdicts coming from the federal courts. Now who knows, but as of now theyve done a pretty stellar job at convicting everyone and everything, so Im really not that concerned that a bunch of foreigners who 50% of Americans hate and would convict with no evidence are going to be found not guilty. What I do think is that the cases where the prosecutors have little to no evidence will be dropped, as they no longer can hold detainees indefinitely. I'm not sure why you are arguing with me about this, because I think we are both sayinig the samething. There are going to be terrorists are going to go free. To the world who is trying to kill us, it will make us look weak. To American's it will make us look noble, until blood is spilled. Past that, in the end, the government will get the blame, even if they follow of the rules to the letter of the law. We already hear all of the crap about our government failing to stop 9-11 based on antecodes and hindsight, I can only imagine what the outrage will be when we let a terrorist loose who ends up killing American's in the US. You think our rights have been trampled now, wait until that day.

41-34 +1.5 games

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 12:57 PM) Are the terrorists going to have the best lawyers that money can buy? Are the terrorists going to have their trials located in areas that are extremely sympathetic to them? http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/fed.htm#Adjudication If they convict 90% of the terrorists in GITMO its unlikely that many guilty terrorists were let free. The OJ Simpson case is the exception, just like Claus Von Buleau and all the other super rich defendants who can put on the best case money can buy. Its not a big leap to think that these guys are going to have plenty of moeny behind them, when you stop and think that the people bankrolling these people have tons of money. It would make us look impotent if they got off in our courts of law, and then went and struck at us anyway.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 12:03 PM) I just would like to know who, how, and why people expect someone to be able to govern without at least a nominal acknowledgement of Washington insiders. I would like to know why you would say something if you had no intent on following through with it...

QUOTE (RibbieRubarb @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 11:47 AM) Shut up and eat your vegatables! How about these yummy, totally safe, tomatoes.

And another campaign promise bites the dust... http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak/1016477...novak22.article

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politi..._fundraisi.html

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 11:14 AM) Thank you ...when we start actually letting terrorists arbitrarily go free is when I will start getting pissed off. That has not happened. Its GOING to happen, I would bet you money. If terrorists are going to get the same rights as everyone else, they are going to get the same kind of odds at getting off in court. That's a part of our system, just ask OJ how well the justice system works.

QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 08:28 AM) I don't think it has to, though. It's not the popular conception of evil traders hoarding, then dumping at expiration (which wouldn't be a good story, anyway, as it's really hard to see how that would affect the spot price). It's more a story of financial market-based inflation feeding more quickly into commodities prices than elsewhere. Basically, it's speculation without the speculators (only potential speculators). Not at all the popular bugaboo, but a consistent story, at least. Potential demand, isn't demand. Either there are buyers, or there aren't.

QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 08:03 AM) An interesting piece by Guillermo Calvo that challenges the inventories no-speculation argument, http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1244 Basic idea hinges on inelastic demand, anticipation of a shift away from tbills, and differential price adjustments. Found this through Krugman's NYT blog. At first blush, I think Krugman is more right (he's critical of Calvo), but it's still worth a read. I should add, to be clear, for those who are convinced it's all evil speculators swimming in their pools of money, Calvo's NOT saying that. It's a lot more nuanced. Its interesting and plausible, but it still doesn't explain the lack of a divergence in prices at expiration.

Yup. Big tough Jay standing up to everyone... This sounds more like WWF than a respected large city newspaper.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Jun 22, 2008 -> 03:20 PM) So you have no problems surrending what our forefathers fought for? Indeed, you certainly do fail. Exactly. In reality you should be willing to die to protect the rights that our forefathers themselves died for.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 21, 2008 -> 01:21 PM) Well, if I got drafted out of high school, I'd sign right away. If I was in the same exact shoes as Long is, I'd still sign out of High School. I love playing the game of baseball, but I really dislike school. Lots of these kids are smart enough to know that the degree they can earn for free is worth more than they will ever make in professional baseball. Unless you are talking about first round picks or so, 99% of these kids will never sniff the big leagues, and need to stay in school at somepoint in order to live the other 50 years of their lives in a comfortable fashion.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 22, 2008 -> 04:12 PM) actually, I thought I heard somewhere that possibly 60% of today's oil prices might be pure speculation. Heck, even the Saudis went "something isnt right here". What are the Saudi's supposed to say? "Hey you stupid American's, why don't you guy buy some more SUV's and keep making us rich?!?"? Of course they want someone else to blame. Let me put it this way, if someone can find something that has a basis in economic fact, instead of just blaming someone else for the price of energy, I'll listen. I want to see someone prove to me how something that involves a buy AND a sell of an energy contract (to avoid delivery, because if you take delivery it is REAL demand) can only have a positive effect. If what all of these people is saying is true, there are all of these people who own crude oil contracts, who have to sell them out at the last minute so that they don't take delivery of them. The last days or so of trading would involved a huge influx of sell orders in the front month (all of these speculators who don't want to take delivery), coupled by a huge influx of buy orders in the second month(all of these speculators who still want to own crude oil for the run up in prices), which would lead to a large divergence of prices. July's price should crash in relation to August. For example if at the end, there are 25,000 contracts owned in July by speculators, that means all 25,000 of those have to be sold, and 25,000 August's would be bought. Crude oil expiration for the delivery month of July just happened on Friday, and there was no change in the differential between the prices of July and August. In simple terms, that is how you could tell if this was truely a speculative bubble. Until someone actually proves something different, there is no reason to believe otherwise.

All I have to say is s***, piss, f***, cocksucker, motherf***er, tits, and c***. When you are so good, your legend is the formation of a set of rules, that is about all that needs to be said. Carlin was my favorite of all time. RIP.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 05:59 PM) Here's one that SS2k5 should absolutely love. McCain's energy speech 2 days ago...saying that speculation and commodities trading is part of the reason oil prices are so high. Pure 100% pandering.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 22, 2008 -> 01:20 PM) He didnt event REMOTELY say that! He said people will try to make you afraid of him for reasons OTHER than his policy. His name and race WILL come up and he was pointing that out. It already HAS and it will again in the future. He's playing both sides of the fence, just like Jesse and Al do all of the time. If I didn't know the economy would be torched by an Obama Presidency even worse than what has been done so far, I would almost want him to win so that I wouldn't have to be fed this one way racism crap anymore. Racism is a two way street. Exploiting your own race, is as bad as exploiting another's race because it reinforces the same racial divides. If you want true equality and true erasing of the racial lines in this country, stop using them as an offense AND as a defense. I'd have much more respect for Obama if he said something as simple as "In the 21st century America, race should not matter, and I won't dignify those people with a response, because I want to talk about the things that really matter."

QUOTE (chimpy2121 @ Jun 21, 2008 -> 09:11 AM) Kyle Long will be in Tallahassee today and will be taking Summer C classes which start Monday. Does that disqualify him from signing, or does it have to be fall classes?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 09:15 PM) You know, all this talk about various Obama 'gotchas' supposedly out there got me thinking. They should stop worrying about wheter Michells hates whitey or not, or if Obama is really an American. Instead, they should look for who really catapulted Obama into the political world, and why. Who leaked the sex info about Jack Ryan? Info from a sealed court case comes out, conveniently after the primaries when there really isn't time to get a serious challenger (C'mon, really. Alan keyes? Yeah, right.) so that Obama just walks right into the Senate without a challenge. And once there, the talks about 'President' start almost immediately. Then he gets tapped to give a speech, and the liberal white-guilt establishment goes gaga. The rest may be history. So, who leaked that info, and what, if any, reasoning was behind it? Hmmmm.... (Sorry guys, my tinfoil is a bit tight today, but that question has lingered on for me for a while now. It's been a long day.) It depends on what you're definition of "is" is.

41-32 +3.5 games

Cabrera flies out to start it... AJ pops out for two down.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 12:48 PM) Weren't the Nazis given fair trials where they could present a defense? (please correct me if I am wrong) Hell, Saddam was given a "fairer" trial then these people are. They were also attached to countries under the Geneva Conventions, for arguements sake.

It has started

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 08:31 AM) How about the $500 million dollars the unions will spend trying to b*** Obama? That doesn't count right? In addition to the estimated $500 million the Tribune says he could raise by Nov. The AFL-CIO has already pledged $50 million alone.

They just had a quote from Ozzie calling Wrigley a museum, and that there were rats as big as pigs out there while you took batting practice... I do want to correct Ozzie on one thing... Those rats are the Cubs fans