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QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Oct 30, 2007 -> 10:30 PM) Skiles says junk about that about every player it seems.... so I dont see how that makes him lazy. Again you are jumping to conclusions based on very little. A reporter that from what I heard has ripped TT since day 1 and Skiles who calls out every player not named Hinrich. Show me where he has said stuff like that about any other player recent.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 30, 2007 -> 06:58 PM) So, oil hit a significant mark at the end of trading yesterday - $93.53. Why is it significant? Its the highest level... ever. Even adjusted for inflation. Now, interestingly, gas prices are still not overwhelmingly bad. I think its still averaging just under $3. Now, I am sure it will go up into the $3 to $3.50 range soon, but, I think its really surprising that its not a lot higher. Experts are pointing out that demand has been down this fall, keeping prices lower. What is cool about that, to me, is that a couple of the factors involved in that trend are a change in the habits of Americans, along with a slightly more diverse energy base. The use of alternative energy sources, the efforts of people to cut down consumption, etc., may finally be having a positive effect. I think thats fantastic, and its a sign of how much better things could get if we keep pushing new technologies and energy independence. So, I guess I'm saying... nice start, America. Let's dig in and keep it going. Look at where it closed... It ran like a scared little b****. It isn't fundamentally ready for these levels. At least not yet.

Great news for us!

These were the obvious decesions. Personally I really can't see them letting Uribe walk away because it would leave them with no SS in the system and desparate for another guy. KW doesn't usually operate like that.

It seems the Repubs are going to import a candidate to try to knock off John Murtha. http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/loca..._301003334.html

I guess the White House isn't the only one that likes to use its editing pen... http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/pelosi...2007-10-30.html

Hey Nuke, with the stories starting to creep out of Iraq about violence being way down, as well as servicemen and civilian deaths, what do you guys feel is the reason? Is it better direction from up top? A new strategy? The surge? I have even heard a conspiracy that the US is getting Iran to back down behind closed doors, and they are going to use that in exchange for ignoring Irans nuclear plant. Any thoughts?

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Oct 30, 2007 -> 12:46 PM) Brian doing his part to get traded. Bye Brian, hope you enjoy the commemorative 2005 WS DVD as a parting gift. "If the White Sox are really worried about me getting at-bats, well, I sat on [the bench] and had 17 at-bats for the whole first month [last season]," said Anderson of a possible winter playing stint in Mexico during an interview with MLB.com. "Apparently, at-bats weren't that important. Just when I thought there were no more bridges left for Anderson to burn, he fines one.

http://www.talkbhawks.com/forums/index.php...;gopid=794& Three good stories from other media outlets about the up and coming Hawks kids.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 30, 2007 -> 11:53 AM) I just realized we've been living with this for over twenty years. Many people here have known AIDS all their lives. And that is how long we have known about it, its almost 40 years that it has been here... Crazy.

So a month and a half later, the MSM is starting to pick up on this... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21530470/

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Oct 30, 2007 -> 07:09 AM) Scott Skiles is a basketball person, here's his quote in the Tribune on October 4th: "I wouldn't read a lot into who's declared the starter," Skiles said. "Much like P.J., Joe has a nice veteran way about him. We need that while Tyrus is still coming on, but Tyrus is, without question, better than he was. Joakim has unique things he can do. It's a matter of how quickly he'll pick things up. So far, so good. But each guy does something a little different." For a guy who supposedly did nothing, its amazing that the coach thinks he's better than he was. I think people misread Skiles a lot. He has his way with pushing players which make people think he doesn't like them or thinks they aren't very good. If Scott Skiles coaches Tyrus the next 2 or 3 years, I really believe he will be a star. You have seen the rest of his quotes, right? This was from two days ago. Or this from the beginning of camp... Or this from after their first exhibition game He pretty much called him lazy, unfocused, and out of shape. Heck even the "compliment" you posted was pretty weak.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idU...=22&sp=true

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 09:53 PM) According to the Washington Post, the guy who arranged the Presser, John P. "Pat" Philbin, FEMA's director of External Affairs...has already resigned. Of course...resigned in these times is defined widely enough to include "promoted to Head of Public Affairs for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence". Not exactly true. He had been scheduled to take that job before he pulled this stupid stunt... He isn't getting the new job anymore. http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/29/fem...wser/index.html

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 30, 2007 -> 09:24 AM) Their staffs play a huge role. They email, call, send memos. You don't think they are roaming the halls taking meetings? They are spread out in various office buildings around Washington. They convine to vote. Same thing if they are travelling. It's 2007, we have the technology that replaces face to face meetings. I assume their district offices have the technology to work effectively. So the technology doesn't work in reverse? They can't forward the local information to Washington, where they actually work? I'd much rather see the Reps and Senators in committees and meetings working together to come up with ideas to actually fix the problems, then seeing them at home at $1000 a plate hot dog luncheons. To me the negotiations that need to take place to fix the countries problems are more critical in being in a face to face setting, then anything that is going to be done in their district. Being in their district isn't going to solve the compromises and negotiations that need to take place in order to actually fix the problems. They have not come up with a technology yet that sovles the intracacies of those types of mass human interactions. If you want to utilize staffs and such, it is much easier for them to send relevant information on to their one rep/sen than it is for all of those reps and sens to negotiation the finer points of immigration reform or social security reform with each other. Going home early is just a cop out so that they can ignore the problems and fund raise for their re-election.

How exactly do you work on the details of a bill when no one is in Washington?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 30, 2007 -> 08:39 AM) I think they would do better if they got their asses out of Washington and came back to see the people they are paid to represent. Not working less. I don't see where they are forced to work less. They are not required to be in Washington. That is very different than not working. The one thing they have to be in Washington for is voting on new laws, I don't think that should be a priority. And by the way, you do realize it is an election year and of course they are going to need that time to campaign. Which is the real reason for this. You know what the best campaign of all is to me? Results. Think about all of the broken and worthless programs that exsist today, that get completely ignored, so Congress can pass a bill honoring the Boston Red Sox for winning the World Series. Then they go home and raise more money to get re-elected. Sorry, that bothers me. Get to work on the important stuff. Think about it, we know Social Security is going to go belly up, and the fixes are pretty obvious. Immigration still hasn't been fixed, and it being ignored because they don't have the stones to stand up and fix the problems in one form or another. Medicare/cade is going to suffer a huge SSI-like shortfall in the future, yet that never gets talked about. Our transportation infastructure is failing, nothing has been done there, oh except for a few billion for-show dollars after some people died because of a bridge collapse. Mass transit? disaster. FEMA? Uh, ok. Homeland Security has more holes than the Bears secondary. Our school systems are slipping behind in the world, but hey lets offer free college and $5000 to every kid! Are you happy with the state of health insurance in this country? It doesn't sound like many are to me. Sarbines Oxley is choking off IPOs in the US, is anyone trying to fix that? Nah. China and other nations continue to dump products onto our shores made by no pollution standards, government subsides, currency manipulation, and child labor, not to mention other anti-competitive practices... but we don't want to upset them. Nuclear materials have gone from Pakistan to North Korea to Syria, and probably to Iran as well, they probably should ignore that too. Nope, I can see why they need to be home campaigning... They need to make another wasted Congressional session sound like they actually did something, when in reality all they did was steal our money, again. You can be happy with that, but I am not.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 30, 2007 -> 08:16 AM) Again, what outcomes are you looking for, something concrete. More legislation? Name something they did not accomplish that could have been accomplished if they work longer hours? When I was managing sales reps, that's what I looked for. Outcomes. In this venue, do you want a CEO whose companies shows a profit of $100,000,000 and works 30 hours or someone who leads the company to a profit of $10,000,000 in 80 hours? And the only work that counts is in Washington? Are you discounting everything they do in the District? Sorry you found my question comical. Do you equate hardworking with hours worked? That somehow a person who completes a project in 3 hours is not working as hard or efficient as someone who completes the same task in 6 hours? I hope you never manage hourly rate employees. Dispite your initial protests, I know you are trying to bait here. You went from talking about not happy with your governments body of work to immediately questioning why anyone would want them to do more... What kind of sense does that make? They have failed, so they should work less. Uh, ok.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 29, 2007 -> 03:14 PM) The troubles here are now being highlighted on a national level. There is a nice big front page write up in the Trib today, so now the entire country is going to see it. Chicago, Cook County, and the State of Illinois ought to be embarrassed at how badly the mass transit system has been run. In an age of "going green" and trying to ween the country off of fossil fuels, they have squandered an opportunity where under one party control, they could have pushed through pretty much any program they like, except they were too busy bickering about every stupid thing. They literally could have put together a transit program second only to NYC, and instead they are looking to butcher it, right before the Olympic vote. How stupid are these people?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 29, 2007 -> 09:59 PM) Those that think they should be in session more, is it because you want more government? What is it that hasn't been done, and why is it better that they be in session instead of somewhere else? I find it interesting that the small government advocates are the same ones advocating for more hours in Washington for the representatives. I am seriously not trying to bait anyone, I'm interested. You find it interesting that people expect an effecient, hardworking, government for the huge salaries and benefits that we pay them? You must be the greatest boss in the world to work for. Also the correlation between size of government and work ethic is pretty much comical. They have nothing to do with each other, at all.

In this situation, I think Kenny's big mouth is a good thing. Its one less GM that Borass can use to try to drive his price up against other people. If more GMs did this, it would make it much harder for this guy to get his big money.

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QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Oct 29, 2007 -> 06:03 PM) I wonder if the Braves just plucked another John Smoltz out of the Tigers organization. It looks to me like they just sent Doyle Alexander to Detroit...

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Oct 29, 2007 -> 09:31 PM) who isn't? outside of his wife and kids?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 29, 2007 -> 04:09 PM) Well, the other part that could be said is that until training camp started, there were at least positive reports appearing about his work over the summer. There was a more detailed ESPN piece on that same topic but I can't find it now. So essentially in the off-season the PR department through softballs Tyrus's way, and when the actual basketball people showed up is when the coverage went south on Thomas... nope, that doesn't make me feel any better about him.