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QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 06:03 PM) 1919. The Sox went to the World Series and then got rid of like EIGHT of their high-priced players soon after that. I win. Good one

A sox fan in Montana, that deserves some well wishes

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 07:49 PM) No, I'm afraid you're the one who is simply completely wrong. The Pakistani nuclear program focused almost entirely on Uranium production, because in the 1970's foreign powers began restricting sales of equipment to Pakistan that could be used in plutonium production. Pakistan was virtually unable to produce enriched plutonium before the turn of the century. On the other hand, the devices that AQ Khan built for the Pakistanis, which were tested successfully in 1998, were Uranium 235 fission devices, not plutonium devices. Khan developed the program and the technology that would export his uranium enrichment experience. North Korea was consequently only able to deal with the Khan network on Uranium enrichment, because that was all that Khan had to offer. Plutonium enrichment is a totally different story, and North Korea had been working on that path for decades prior to the framework of 1994. It is in part because of the fact that Khan's network only had uranium enrichment technology to sell that the Iranian program is based largely on uranium enrichment. However, uranium enrichment is simply not an easy process. Even with what the Koreans were able to purchase from the Khan network, they were well behind even Iran in terms of being able to enrich uranium. On the other hand, North Korea probably already had enough fissile plutonium for 1 low yield bomb in 1994, and they had the fuel rods and expertise sitting around that could allow them to produce 5-10 more of them, possibly more. Without the Agreed Framework, those all would have been processed into bombs by 1996-1997. Because of the Agreed framework, the material was placed under U.N. Seal and monitored until the North Koreans removed the monitoring equipment and reprocessed the material while we were invading Iraq. I never said there was no nuclear program at all in North Korea. They did manage to have dealings with the Khan network in the 90's. However, they were ungodly far behind even where Iran was in terms of uranium enrichment, but they were standing on the doorway of a plutonium bomb when the 94 accord was reached. Roughly 9-10 years of delay were created by having that material under U.N. lock and key, and if we had managed to keep it under lock and key, North Korea would today still be decades away from successful completion of a bomb through uranium enrichment. You seem to believe that is the only nuclear bomb material they have gotten ahold of. Its two separate sets of material. There is the stuff they did themselves, which is the public stuff, and there is the stuff that has been done underground from Pakistan. I hope you don't actually believe Mushareff and Kahn when they said they had nothing to do with the NK program. They had enough material from Kahn to potentially build only a couple of bombs, but when they uncapped their overt program because we quit bribing them not to do so, that is when they finished the materials to make the bomb they screwed up a few months ago.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 03:14 PM) Oops sorry. Wrong forum. Die f***ing Iraq bastards!!* *trying to fit in before leaving. OK, that makes a little more sense. I was trying to figure out how a Howard Dean spam with links to the Dems site belonged in here...

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 02:58 PM) Totally untrue. The material which made up the attempted test was under U.N. Seal from the time of the agreed framework until 2002. They may have been doing other things that were in violation, but the program which produced their testable device was totally interrupted for a number of years. They could have reprocessed those fuel rods years beforehand, probably giving them multiple nuclear weapons by 1996-1997 barring U.S. invasion and did not do so. That was a major interruption in the program. You are completely wrong here. They weren't processing it because they were buying it from AQ Kahn and Pakistan. They still had a nuclear program going on underground. There was no interuption of their program.

Why would you post that crap here? There would be a fit if I posted something like that from Rush Limbaugh, or the like, in the Dems thread.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 02:43 PM) If the whole system is going to collapse...i for one would have liked it to do so before they reprocessed all that plutonium, rather than after. Their program has never been interputed, even when we had "agreements". The only difference is it has been more "public" at times vs other times when they hid it better to keep receiving their bribes. This agreement will be no different.

What should Pax do if the Knicks pick ends up as the #1?

for the kids involved

I am happy to see that pre-sales are so high. I am curious to see what our season ticket base # is, and how many tickets we sell before opening day.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 01:46 PM) Mariano Rivera made a similar threat to the Yankees yesterday, that really caught me by surprise. Whoa, I missed that one. The Yankees seriously collapse without Mo at the end of that pen. I'd bet both Toronto and Boston pass them if Rivera leaves.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17124042/

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 11:33 AM) Transcript. The irony is that I don't think it will work any better than the 1994 agreement, and even if we had done the agreement 6 years ago, it wouldn't have worked then either. I imagine we will be at this point again in the future, because NKs economy is a shambles, and they will need to hold the world hostage for something again soon enough. Our best hope is for Il to somehow exit the picture, and the whole system just collapse. At least then someone could get some influence in the country while they are rebuilding it.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 12:15 PM) That'll be the end of that. Thank God I wasn't holding my breath

I voted for CCR. I loves me some John Fogarty

Wow. I don't know that there is a right answer for something like this. As long as she is old enough to understand what is going on, and how she has to act at an event like this, I would say it was OK. It really depends from kid to kid.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 09:36 AM) OK, this is pretty badass. Someone reversed the "brainwashing" scene from last week's Lost. Starting at about 23 seconds in, the phrase "Only fools are enslaved by time and space" can be heard, repeatedly getting easier and easier to hear. Here's a link to the reversed video. Let me say, once again, this is badass. reversed brainwash scene from Lost Wow. We rewatched the episode for specifically that scene. That is wild.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 09:13 AM) I'm so sorry. My first year of college 5 of my friends that were a year ahead were going to spend their spring break volunteering in St. Louis. 3 of them were killed by a drunk driver on the way down. It was horrible, one of my friends called me to tell me over Spring break. It was just such a shame. And so completely perventable. Apparently the drunk driver was driving THE WRONG WAY down a freeway, and the police had been called and were looking for him. Very few things make me as angry and upset as drunk driving. Very few. I feel so bad for the kids, especially the ones that the youngest victim tried to call to get a ride home from. And for the ones that survived. What a tragedy. Thanks. I agree with you, that is was completely preventable. In my friends case, this SOB was a lawyer from another state who had gotten bombed at a wedding and decided to drive his sportscar back to his hotel. Apparently the guy was doing nearly 100 MPH on one of the little state highways, and got underneath my friend's car who was going something like 30-40 mph less than he was and flipped them over. Both his and his best friends necks broke on impact and they died instantly. The guy got released on bond the next day, and was out of the state on his own recognisence. There are very few times in my life I have ever been so mad.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash4.htm GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY'S PRESIDENTIAL ANNOUNCEMENT EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY Tue Feb 13 2007 08:31:33 ET

I had a college roommate killed by a drunk driver between my sophomore and junior years. I remember not believing the person who was telling me what had happened. It was so surreal, even through the funeral and everything. It took forever to set it.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 07:45 PM) So, if for example, a governor from some random large southern state were to declare during the Presidential campaign that he was in favor of regulating CO2 emissions from power plants, quite directly and specifically, even going so far as to put out specific proposals for the policy and having his underlings refer to it, despite having taken no steps at all to regulate virtually anything while he was governor, and then 2 months after taking office flip-flops and declares that he is not in favor of regulating CO2 emissions from power plants, wouldn't that satisfy your criteria exactly? (Yeah i know I belongs on the other side. I just couldn't resist on this one.) He must have been for it, before he was against it.

Now starting at SS for Your Chicago White Sox Pablo Ozuna :

QUOTE(Vance Law @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 06:43 PM) Also, it's a minor league deal. Does anyone know, does this mean that despite his years of MLB service, we can play him in the minors whenever we want? Technically yes, but usually with these kind of deals there is a handshake agreement that Perez could look for other employment, and be able to request a release if we aren't going to keep him on the 25 man roster. QUOTE(spiderman @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 09:27 PM) Do you think that's Sicso will spend the 07 season being converted to a starter ? God I hope so. If we do this right, he could be competing for replacing Buehrle in 2008. QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 09:38 PM) Breaking out the quote machine tonight. Oz has some MAJOR faults, but I do think he has learned and gotten better in certain area's, and the use of the bullpen could be an area that Ozzie improves on this upcoming season. I believe Ozzie and Kenny got some of "Their guys" this off-season, and you might see a quicker hook for the starters.... The more I see of it, the more I think the bullpen was used so little because of how bad it was, not because Ozzie has a man-crush on his starters. He obviously had zero confidence in anyone down there for the middle innings, which is why Kenny completely remade the pen in the last year. It will be interesting to see how he uses it now. QUOTE(knightni @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 12:40 AM) Sisco converting to a SP would really help in '08/'09. I really think starting is this kids calling. The rule 5 draft just screwed up years of his growth.

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