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QUOTE(knightni @ Jan 6, 2007 -> 12:51 PM) Sweet. What's better, Timo on Det or Ponson on Min? Yes.

Single game tickets are not on sale yet. Season ticket plans are always on sale.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 7, 2007 -> 03:41 PM) So, the Sunday Times (UK) had an article discussing a supposed plan drawn up and trained on by the Israeli Air Force to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities. So, three questions come to mind... 1. Do we believe that Israel would do something like this? 2. If so, what is the trigger? Do they wait until they have intel about weapons development? Or attack prior to that? 3. If this did happen, nuclear or conventional, what do people think would be the cascade of events after? QUOTE(NUKE @ Jan 7, 2007 -> 05:23 PM) Isreal didnt hesitate to destroy Saddams nuclear reactor so there's no reason to believe Isreal won't do the same thing if they feel threatened enough. Threatening and provoking Isreal as the Iranians have done is not a good idea. That's a perfect response to the first question. #2 will happen when they are on the verge of going live, much like when Israel destroyed Iraq's capabilities. #3 will be exactly what has happened for 60 years now. There will be some kind of conventional war with Israel getting invaded/and or attacked. Israel will viciously kick the s*** out of whoever tries to attack them, and then the invaders will give up, and claim victory, dispite their losses, all of the while calling for Israel's destruction. With history in the middle east as a guide here, this is going to be the same chapter we have seen over and over again.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 7, 2007 -> 11:28 AM) In the case of Katrina, the amazing thing is, we had all sorts of warning. Further, the warnings were clearly calling for something huge. And yet, look how many days it took before FEMA got really moving. Or in the case of the state of Louisiana, when you have a Cat 5 hurricane coming into NOLA where you've been TOLD there is a good chance the levees will break, why aren't you activating every single Guard unit in the state to help get people out of low-lying areas? Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see or read of these things happening. As for the details on equipment and manpower, and their location exactly, that is something every locality and state has or should have for common scenarios. And NOLA had one, but as I recall, they didn't follow all the guidelines set forth, and further, the plan itself was ridiculed by FEMA years prior as unrealistic. That one you can put on the local government and their poor planning. Budget? You can start by getting FEMA the heck out of DHS. When FEMA was placed under DHS, not only did they add unneeded layers of beauracracy, they also put them in a funding pool where they were guaranteed to be short-changed due to terror initiatives. And that is precisely what happened. And, oh yeah, small thing... maybe they shouldn't have put someone in charge of FEMA who had ZERO experience in emergency management. That was not only fatally stupid from an effectiveness point of view, it was also politically assinine. That's all nice , but really not what I asked. I am talking about manpower, supplies etc for the after the fact response that everyone is ridiculing. How many people should be dedicated to waiting for a disaster to happen, so that they are able to respond instantly? How much food, water, temporary shelter should we have stored up for disasters like this? How many meals should we be able to supply on a moments notice? Where should it be stored? Just taking LA's disaster, we are talking about around a million people. Even if we are just talking about month, where and how would we keep 30 million meals, and the technical ability to get them to a million people in less than 3 days? Or if you are talking about a place like LA, with a much greater metro area, how should we prepare for that? In this case we would be talking about something like 250-300 million meals if we are to feed the LA metro area for just a month in the case of a disaster which destroyed the infastructure (which is coming). If you want to get into keeping people out of the way of a disaster, should the government already be moving people out of cities like San Fransisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York City, etc where we know that huge disasters are going to happen? All of those places are more are not an "if?", they are a "when?". If you want to be technicial about it, we have had a little over 100 years notice that there will be a huge quake in California along the Pacific Coast, but no one seems to be leaving. In fact more people are moving in. How do we handle people who refuse to leave, or even enter disaster areas?

OK this I totally don't understand. Have you ever heard someone argue that in a crime infested neighborhood, that we should pull out all of the cops and it would make it better? Seriously, in a situation that is dangerous and volitile, why would you pull out the authority figures, or try to argue that more of them would only make the situation worse. When Nancy Pelosi wants to argue that we should withdraw all of the police officers out of LA, I might listen. Until then, this makes no sense to me.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 02:29 PM) No one argues that the response was small, the argument is that the response apparatus should have been there PRIOR, and therefore, during and right after. Not days after. This does nothing to debunk that reality, a reality caused by an inept and arrogant response from FEMA as well as state and local agencies. This is a question I have yet to seen answered. Exactly how should we have been prepared for the biggest natural disaster to hit the US in 99 years? How many people should we have standing by for an event like this? Where should they be stationed? How much equiptment should be sitting and waiting? How much in foot and temporary shelter should sit waiting for a natural disatster? What budgets should be taken from to make sure this never happens again, or should we just raise taxes for this just in case event?

Mark Buehrle said the perfect thing. He said if the Sox and another team offer me the same contract... well he is smart enough to realize that the Sox aren't going to match a one hundred million dollar contract, so he isn't going to have to ever stand up to those words. Get used to it folks, this is Mark's last year as a member of the Chicago White Sox.

Scrubs is dead to me if Braff leaves.

Oh s***. That isn't good.

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"Let she who is without pork cast the first stone!" or "The subway to nowhere." http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2007-01-03/news/smith_1.html

The key word being "dems" begin passing... because they have broken their promise of minority party discussion on bills.

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Speaking for the mod-staff, we can't wait to see this stuff. Also from all of us, take care, and be safe

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 09:11 AM) It's amazing to think that people were paying double and triple retail value just 2 weeks ago. Especially since the samething happens time and time again. You think people would figure this out.

QUOTE(mreye @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 07:53 AM) Joan Cusak! Damn I hate you. The only crush involving Joan Cusak, should be under a bus.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jan 4, 2007 -> 09:34 PM) Am I the only one who read the title? The starter is asking about a particular SPORT, not TEAM. Chicago Baseball = Cubs + White Sox + Cardinals Chicago Football = Bears + Packers If the whole Sox vs Cubs thing wasn't mention ad naseum, it probably wouldnt' keep going back there.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jan 4, 2007 -> 05:03 PM) I dont understand how they can do that. FWIW., they said ratings have crashed big time.

Big, BIG, huge key number right now is $55 a barrel. $55 is an old low from June of 05, and there is some solid resistance there, but if it can go through that number, there might not be much stopping it until $50. Also worth noting is that commodities in general are in a huge retreat across the board this week. Energies, softs, metals, and grains have all taken big losses. Now translated to everyday life, this could have a couple of effects. The first is that lots of everyday stuff should be cheaper. The second is that if this trend continues, it will take a lot of the inflationary pressures out of the general marketplace, and it might keep the fed on the sidelines for a while longer. The pressure to raise rates to contain inflation would be gone. This could also serve to stabilize the housing market through stopping the interest rate increases.

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I wish the kid well, but we don't have any room for him. I sure wouldn't keep one of the high end kids from getting a chance for him. I could see a minor league deal, but nothing else.

Yeah, we have had really bad problems with spam, so every single person who registers has to be approved manually by an admin. If you are a member here and register, it might help to post here that you did register so someone will know to check for the registration and approve it. If you register under a different name than you soxtalk name, post it here so we know who you are.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Jan 4, 2007 -> 12:26 PM) Sox/Cubs play 16, they'd get that too. Do they get that for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays or Pittsburgh Pirates? That is what really shows how faithful fans. People will show up for the big games, a town is defined by being behind a team all of the time.... The only thing the big games show is how big the bandwagon is.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 4, 2007 -> 12:55 PM) According to one Arab news source, the actual noose that hung Saddam has ended up in the hands of Muqtada al-Sadr. And a Kuwaiti businessman is trying to buy it from him. No offense, but that sounds like a load of crap. It sounds to me like something along the lines of all of the Jews were told right before 9-11 not to go into the Twins Towers kind type of BS.