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QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 22, 2008 -> 11:16 AM) Bill Clinton DENIES he ever said it even though it is on TAPE! You act shocked, but this routine has worked for them for a LONG time. Hell he did it under oath, and people made excuses for him, do you seriously expect him to be truthful now?

Reading the Konerko and Thomas threads was pretty humorous I must admit? The Jays were wrong for releasing a 39 year old Thomas, a notorious slow starter, yet we should bench/trade a younger/more productive (for the last few years) Konerko, who is a notorious slow starter. LOL. They are both highly paid and highy talented guys, who will both hit. Have some patience guys, and look at the histories of both of these players.

Personally I would like to see Tim Raines into the Hall of Fame before Kenny Lofton, but that is just me.

To each his own I say

QUOTE (Texsox @ Apr 22, 2008 -> 08:30 AM) I can't believe I've never seen it. Based on your recomendation, it's on its way from netflix Its the first movie out of ones like Dogma, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob, Mallrats etc. It opened the door for all of those movies.

The first Clerks was SOOOO much better than the first. Its not even close.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 22, 2008 -> 08:00 AM) They really managed to kill ANY momentum and positive feelings behind the Democratic campaign. I would not be surprised with a McCain win in November. Three months ago I would have thought that idea was crazy. As low of expectations as I have from the Clinton's a part of me almost wonders if she knows she can't win, so she is trying to give the election to McCain, that way she can run again in 2012. It makes way more sense than most other explanations of why she is still in the race.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 22, 2008 -> 07:58 AM) That's inaccurate. She used Osama in her closing ad in Penn. She also showed WW2, Pearl Harbor and the stock market crash. It was basically, elect me or you all may die. Even better, I love it! I am just waiting for her to take her ball and go home! In all seriousness, I wonder if she would be bold enough to run as an independant or form her own party if she can't steal the primary from Obama? She seemingly has had no problems trying to sabatouge him at every step of the way, despite her having about a zero chance of winning. Why not take the next logical step and keep trying still?

I saw where Hillary linked Obama to Osama in a campaign commercial apparently? This primary cycle has been the perfect storm for the GOP. They came in a heaby underdog because of George Bush, they had an early winner in their primary, and sat on the sidelines while the Democrats have tried to do everything to destroy their own chances at winning in November. I just can't believe the things that have been said and done by people in their own party. All the GOP will have to do is step into void, instead of getting ugly, because the Dems did all of the dirty work for them. I really hope to see Hillary win PA by double digits just to keep this quagmire going into the convention.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 21, 2008 -> 03:38 PM) If you had that kind of money where you could just drop $10 grand on a kid's birthday party and not have to give it a 2nd thought, what's wrong with it? If people are going to have a problem with this, my response will be that the problem is not how the people are choosing to spend their money, it's that income distributions in this country have just gotten so out of whack in the last decade or so that there are more and more people able to throw around this kind of cash while at the same time median incomes in this country haven't increased in a decade. There have been classes of people doing this since the beginning of time. It is nothing new...

Happy Birthday Jason

Ah yes, some great choices so far. Great to see two of my favorite comedic directors starting to get plenty of movies on the list in Kevin Smith and Mel Brooks. Two of the best in the business, without a doubt.

I didn't even think of Gump as a comedy. I wouldn't have included it at all, dispite how much I liked it.

There is no solution that will make the Palestinians happy, that doesn't involve Israel becoming a part of history. They have negotiated this for centuries, and it always comes back to violence, no matter what. Every time that the involved parties have come close to an agreement, violence flares from one of the Palestinian groups that believes Israel should be destroyed, Israel retailiates 10 fold, and both sides call off the peace agreement/ceasefire. I really don't think forcing out Israel out of East Jeruslem will make one damned bit of difference, based on the history in the region.

People really worry too much about what other people think... that is the only reason you would spend $10k on a kids birthday party.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 21, 2008 -> 11:29 AM) Honestly, that's why I included that as a caveat. It might actually be the format of a workable solution, to treat Jerusalem like the Vatican and set it up as an independent state that none of the religions control. I really don't know if any of the parties would accept that solution without pressure, but I would bet that if a President honestly went to Israel and said that they had to pick between that option and a complete cutoff of all U.S. aid, most Israeli leaders would choose that option. ? Why is it that the Israeli's have to be forced to choose an option?

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Apr 21, 2008 -> 08:06 AM) I do worry about the run scoring aspect however. This team has 3 regulars hitting above .250. Stop and think of it this way... If I told you that Konerko and Thome would be hitting under .200 and Buehrle would have an era of about 6, what would you guess the Sox record would be?

That didn't take long... They are better, but still probably only a 70-75 win team.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 20, 2008 -> 05:38 PM) http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cu...gordo18.article classy move, cubs. insult your new player. And yet White Sox fans are the ones steretyped as some kind of narrowminded hicks... That is the kind of stuff that you should get your head beat in for.

Going forward I have more confidence in Floyd versus Danks over the course of a whole season. I am not sure if Danks will be able to hold up to the workload of a whole season, whereas we know Floyd can pitch that many innings.

Happy Birthday

Someone told me that it was a prank phone call that triggered these raids... Is this true? If it is, does that affect the legality of these raids? Can the cat be put back in the bag?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 20, 2008 -> 08:33 PM) When some says "you can make an argument" then rattles off a list of things to support it, they are making the argument that you believe that. Why would you rattle off facts that support something you dont think is the case? And facts that are WRONG! Inflation and Job Creation be two. On your second point, can you prove it was "obviously" a different point? I can prove it was in context. I am willing to concied that there is a POSSIBILITY we were better in 2004 or 2005 than we were in 2000. however, in 2008, we are worse than we were in 2000 on a total economic level due to lax economic polices and an ongoing war that has tripled the price of gas.. THerefore, we are not "better off overall if you look at the entire eight-year period" Lax economic policies is very incorrect. Out-dated is much more accurate. The problem is when Congress "fixes" the problem, they will screw it up worse than before, just like they did with Sarbines Oxley. They need to leave economic regulation alone, because they have NO IDEA what they are doing. Also the tripling of the price of gas is not someone else's fault, its our fault. We keep buying no matter what, and you can throw China and India into that if you like. Because of the narrow elasticity of gasoline it takes near zero change in supply or demand to change the price by a huge amount. Remember the gas crisis of the 1970's was caused by only a 15% net supply reduction, which quadrupled prices. With the steady demand increases, it doesn't matter who was President, prices would have increased a ton, and economic disincentives such as "windfall profit taxes" would have only encouraged less production, and would have increased prices further. Really that proposal might be one of the dumbest things I have heard come out of Obama's mouth so far this campaign, as it has historically proven as a failure, yet he is putting it out there like it is some brand new idea, and it will work.

Boy he really went out on some limbs there... They might not win the division, but there is a chance! The Sox won't maintain their HR/allowed rate! I was surprised he didn't go really risky and say that AJ probably won't hit .350 for the season this year, or that Floyd won't finish with an ERA of 1.5!

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Apr 20, 2008 -> 03:43 PM) A-Rod went down with a strained quad today, looks like he might miss a few games. That could be huge for this week... IIRC, the Sox have always had decent "success" against Arod, but missing a guy like that is never a bad thing.