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Passing this message on for Salty99. Jim Thome is in attendance at Soxfest.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Jan 26, 2007 -> 02:08 PM) actually this is not true. Kerry won Iowa because he was endorsed by the Govenor of Iowa's wife who took a liking to him. The newspaper endorsements didn't hurt either. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles...9/19point.1.htm above is a link to a 34 page article on how Kerry actually ended up winning Iowa. It had nothing to do with his wife's $. Oh.please. If TH Kerry doesn't throw money at her husbands faultering campaign, he never goes anywhere. I don't care what 34 pages say, canditates don't win in this day and age without raising huge dollars. Kerry was a failure at fundraising compared to Dean at the time, and it was once he got the dollar infusion and sold his face as being "electable" that he started to really enter into the race as a possibility. Add into that the Dean yell, and there you have it.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jan 25, 2007 -> 10:13 PM) LOL There really is no real advantage from filing separately based on what you said - unless you have a boatload of capital gains that ONE of you need to offset, and you can only do that in certain circumstances anyway. Exactly. In 99.9 percent of cases you file jointly.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 25, 2007 -> 07:07 PM) Beyond that and probably more importantly, there is no national primary, which is what that poll would measure. There are a series of state-by-state primaries. John Kerry was not winning any of the national polls IIRC until after he won Iowa. But anyway, it at least is measuring something, and useful or not, data is data. And why did John Kerry win Iowa? His wife infused his campaign with a s***load of money and inundated the state with his campaign ads. It would have still been a much more interesting primary season if the rebel yell never took place.

And we could still kick all your whippsnapper asses!

Hill has a 19 point lead over the golden child Barack Obama http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,...1582130,00.html

QUOTE(knightni @ Jan 25, 2007 -> 11:33 AM) The internet didn't exist and our dorm had no cable when I was in college. Appreciate what you have, youngster. We got internet access in our rooms my senior year, but only if you brought your own CPU, which only the ultrarich kids had. We got computer labs in our dorm my sophomore year. My freshman year we didn't even have direct access to the net, and we had to backdoor in through other schools sites. We didn't have cable at all.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Jan 25, 2007 -> 10:29 AM) Kap, since you've been so eager to throw out diplomacy as an option... exactly what else is the US able or prepared to do right now? *HUGS*

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Jan 24, 2007 -> 03:13 PM) The top 3 polling on the Dem side are Clinton- who will have 8 years of senate experience by 2008 Obama- who will have 4 years of senate experience by 2008 Edwards- who will have been out of politics since 2004. The top 3 polling on the Rep side are McCain- who will have 22 years of senate experience by 2008 Guiliani- who will have been out of politics since 2002 Gingrich- who will have been out of politics since 1999 anyone notice something similar about 3 of the Top 6 polling candidates???? Its also the reason that Obama had to run NOW. The nature of politics today is all about what you have done wrong. For whatever reason, people don't want to know enough about what you have done right. Its hard to do anything wrong from the sidelines where all you have to do is snipe at what the people in power are doing. Its the reason the minority in Congress usually has it easy. The majority does the work, and the minority sits and complains about it.

QUOTE(Damen @ Jan 25, 2007 -> 02:00 AM) Iran does not have nuclear weapons, and is years away. There is a long road ahead filled with plenty of opportunities to prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons. But even if they do, Israel has plenty of their own nukes to respond. I don't see why we need to keep fighting preventative wars for Israel on the far-off, what-if chance that a country decides to ensure its own destruction by launching a nuclear war with the two most heavily armed countries in the world. Respond to what? It'll take two, maybe three decent tacticle nuclear strikes to destroy all of Israel for eons. We can respond all we want after the fact, it won't change the fact that the largest genocide in our planet's history will probably have just taken place. Let me put it to you this way. Say that you and I have been fighting as long as we have known each other. We have gotten into fist fights and everything along the way, and I have said on more than one occasion that I would kill you if I got the chance. We get into yet another arguement, and I tell you that I am going to get a gun so that I can kill you and your entire family, are you going to do nothing about it, because it is a just a "what-if chance"? I don't buy that for a second.

I read a story the other day that said for any canditate to be vaible in this election cycle they are going to have to be able to raise $100 million by the end of 2007 because of the compacting of the primaries. Does anyone really think that there is $300, $400, $500 million or more to go around for just the democrats, in just the primaries? To put it in perspective that is almost $300,000 a day. Does Bill Richardson, John Edwards or anyone else besides the big two have that kind of ability? If they don't, they aren't going to be able to get their names out. Period.

90-1 All right, who voted for the Bears?

Unless Hillary or Barack does something incredibly stupid, or has something big in their closet, they are going to crowd out everyone else. There is only a finate amount of money to go around, and that is going to prohibit anyone else from getting their word out on the democratic side of things. The other guys in the race are just wasting their time if you ask me. Its sad, but money is the only way to get elected now adays.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 24, 2007 -> 01:12 PM) What was scary? They got up and left when it was time to leave. It must be weird not to be going. No free tickets this year. Sorry. The hordes of people stalking out every square inch of that hotel trying to get every single autograph possible no matter what. Hearing Bmac's story about people stuffing stuff into the john while he was going the bathroom summed it up nicely for me.

Well after last year, that was probably a pseduo-bribe to get the players to come back again. Yikes it was scary. It still does seeem strange to not be going. It has been years.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 24, 2007 -> 12:00 PM) I have a project that required a bunch of photos and decided to try one of the on-line photo printing services. Holding my breath that they won't f*** it up. It was nice not to have to go out in the cold and rain this morning. Living in Texas has really turned you into a sissy

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 24, 2007 -> 11:08 AM) It makes too much sense. He's almost the perfect fit and compliment to Wallace. Now the only thing left is getting Memphis to accept a fair offer. Read the latest update at Talkbulls.com http://www.talkbulls.com/forums/index.php?...ost&p=21983

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Jan 24, 2007 -> 08:37 AM) $18M a year for 6 or 7 years is what they want per Comcast last night. Yikes. The cubs better suck this deal up. To be honest, that is lower than they could be asking for.

And of course... they aren't trying to get nuclear weapons at all, their program is totally peaceful... http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2...vil_update.html

I'll give my thoughts more later, but I got a kick out of this...

I am surprised no one has really said anything yet. Thoughts? Opinions?

1 more point I missed on NK especially, which I have 100% confidence will happen again with Iran is that there are two distinct steps on the road to having a nuclear bomb, only one of which the UN actually has the ability to monitor. Just because you enrich uranium or plutonium, doesn't mean you have a nuclear bomb. It takes more to make a bomb than to strap enriched materials on a bomb. All that makes is a dirty bomb. If a country is able to get a nuclear bomb built, that means not only did they highly enrich nuclear material, but they went out and got the highly specialized materials need to turn that into a bomb. Not only was NK enriching uranium under the worlds nose for years, they were also aquiring bomb making materials, and no one bothered to stop either one. Guess what, now we have one of the worlds most unpredicatable and desparate men with a nuke. I'd be willing to be money we have the exact samething happen in Iran within 10-15 years after we appease them.

For 3/4 of a million, one year, and as a back up OF/1B, I have no problem with this deal. In todays market, I am surprised he didn't get a 5 year deal at about 20 million dispite his skill set.

20-0, that's close

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 01:11 PM) Well, if Weber isn't on the hot seat yet (which based on the chatter of the only people that matter in college athletics, the boosters, he is) he's certainly be after a loss tonight. A loss tonight to the team that outdid him for the only good recruit he ever had, on ESPN, on the home floor, eliminating the Illini from the tournament, officially starts a clock that may reach zero by the end of next season. I wouldn't mind it pesonally, I'd love to see a coach that can actually bring in players that can do something. Only guy worth a damn Bruce has brought in is Pruitt. I haven't posted in here much this year, because it has been kind of a cesspool this year, but Bruce Webber on the hot seat? Come on. The guy is going to get fired because of a mediocre half season, filled with injuries? I thought Sox fans were demanding. Also with that signature... I wonder how many people are saying the samething about recruits signing up by the boatload to be on Illinois's 2-9 football team?