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QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Jan 8, 2006 -> 03:01 PM) haha, I'll give you my cell phone records: 1-3-06 7:30 AM From Miss PA 1-3-06 8:31 AM From Miss PA 1-3-06 9:37 AM From Miss PA 1-3-06 10:23 AM From Miss PA 1-3-06 11:53 AM From Miss PA 1-3-06 12:10 PM To Miss PA 1-3-06 1:15 PM From Miss PA 1-3-06 5:44 PM From Miss PA 1-3-06 7:45 PM From Miss PA 1-3-06 10:31 PM To Miss PA 1-4-06 7:30 AM From Miss PA 1-4-06 8:31 AM From Miss PA 1-4-06 9:37 AM From Miss PA 1-4-06 10:23 AM From Miss PA Why did you leave out all of the 900 numbers?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 9, 2006 -> 08:23 AM) Thinks ... occasionally Part of the Kentucky Soxtalk crew

QUOTE(S720 @ Jan 8, 2006 -> 09:36 AM) It's not the matter of how much money he had raised in that campaign. It's the fact that everytime this administration gets caught on something negative, it seems like Bush always doesn't know anyone involved. If it's something positive for his administration, he WILL be the first person who will come out and acknowledge it. He's the President of course he is "invovled" in everything. Eight years ago we were told that wasn't enough to tie him to anything... Remember when Bill Clinton was photographed with key players in the Chinese fund raising scandal, and met with people like Johnny Chung almost 50 times, but that wasn't enough to implicate him in anything. Now Bush meets with the guy a couple of times, and that IS enough to tie him to it? Laughable. Like I said, I almost hope that a democrat is elected to the Presidency just so I can watch the criticism of the President go back to being a "vast right wing conspiracy" instead of "Patriotic". The hypocracy knows no bounds.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Jan 7, 2006 -> 06:30 PM) pricks? :headshake nice moderating... I didn't think it needed green because of the OBVIOUSNESS

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Jan 7, 2006 -> 06:22 PM) what's going on?? Thanks to you and Flash for making this REAL easy, pricks It was Santo=Dorf. I counted back the deleted posts and compared that with the last code#.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jan 7, 2006 -> 06:19 PM) So did I, and Ranger had the post. f*** it. Let's give it to Mr. Eye cause of the people messing around. Damn it now I have to go back to the code and count posts.... hold on.

Flash quit deleting posts you smart ass!!!!

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jan 7, 2006 -> 06:14 PM) Rangercal got it. With this. I know I would not want that pos on the bears I watched the screen. When it hit one million, Santo had the newest post.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jan 7, 2006 -> 06:13 PM) Did I get it? That was the millionth post

Just to add my bit to Soxtalk history I just wanted to underscore how huge of a site this has become. In the about 4 years of Soxtalk exsistance, the site has signed up 2836 official members. To show how many people have contributed to this site, the following shows how many people have made at least so many posts 10,000- 15 5,000- 54 2,000- 124 1,000- 180 500- 256 1 post- 1487 people! So for each person that has registered here they have made an average of 353 posts, and if you take just the people that have posted that average becomes 673 posts per person. A lot of people have taken a lot of time here, and we want to thank each and everyone of you. Congrats to Soxtalk and everyone here who has put so much love into this place.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jan 7, 2006 -> 06:05 PM) "I haven't been this excited in a long time, John." Now back to the Cubs...

I'd like to see Frank end up somewhere a little more homer friendly, not to mention that draws a few fans, but I hope he heals enough to be effective and get his 500 homers.

Congrats to Lovie, now bring home a title!

I get the feeling the Sox are leaning on some of these guys not to go. Plus this tourney is proving itself illegitimate without Cuba and the MLBers picking what country they want to represent.

22 more posts to go... Too bad it will happen on a Saturday in January... This place is empty.

It would be so nice if the NFL turned its back on this kid and he actually had to work for a living with that degree he got... Oops.

I work on the floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange, and I fancy myself as knowing a little something about stocks...

QUOTE(S720 @ Jan 7, 2006 -> 02:05 PM) BigSqwert, the Bush supporters are completely right. There is no way Bush can remember, since Bush is so STUPID to remember anything that he ever did wrong! That's the fact. Abramoff is only a friend of Karl Rove who donated $100,000.00 to Bush's campaign. There is no way he can remember. He got no brain! Sometimes, supporting can be so blind! How much money did the Bush campaign raise in that election?

Welcome to Soxtalk to a fellow Hoosier

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 09:44 PM) With all of these posts saying "Oh, those people should have bought insurance" or "Those people should have been required to buy insurance", I'm left wondering...what would happen to this country if we forced people or didn't help people who didn't buy insurance against some possible but unpredictable catastrophe? Seriously, if the Federal Government plans without expecting a category 3+ storm to hit New Orleans, why should people in that city plan for the government to fail them? They weren't exactly the ones building the levees, and somehow I doubt that the feds went and handed them a brochure 10 years ago saying "you should buy insurance because we didn't build the levees strong enough." If a tsunami devastates New York city, should we tell the people they're SOL because the federal government didn't plan for an island in the Azores to collapse, and they should just get on with their lives and feel lucky they survived? If a Lahar buries Seattle, should we just say "Sorry, you should have bought insurance against Mt. Rainier." Should we expect every single American to purchase insurance to protect him or herself from situations which should have been considered very unlikely, like the complete failure of the levees around New Orleans? Hell, should people who work in high-rise buildings or in government buildings buy terrorist insurance, and be told they're out of luck if they didn't buy it and a terrorist does hit that building? One HUGE difference is your analogies that goes all of the way back to the framers of the constitution and that is one is an act of God, and the other is an act of War. Take a guess which one the government is consititutionally charged to protect us against, and which one has come about in the 20th century for all practicaly purposes?

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 04:23 PM) Horriable Idea..When is there going to be a Polish, German, French show? Why are they catering to just people who speak spanish? because the spanish community in Chicago is HUGE, and a vastly untapped market.

Happy Birthday All!!!

The CNN version of the story. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/06/bush.ap/index.html

The housing boom would not have happened without the tax cuts. The tax cuts stopped way more people from getting laid off than actually happened. To post the figures of the money that was interjected from the tax cuts isn't the full story. The full story includes the jobs that DIDN'T get cut, the wages that DIDN'T get lost etc. If people don't have jobs, they don't buy houses. I'd love to see just one of those articles include some quantitative analysis that actually included how many jobs never were lost because of the tax cuts. The economy never fully crashed like it would have because of the tax cuts and then the interest rate cuts that came afterwords.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 03:16 PM) Well, that seriously depends on where you look. The GDP is growing, but the median income has fallen 5 straight years. The job market is improving, but health care costs are rising. Consumer spending is up, but consumer debt is also through the roof and savings are through the floor. We're in a Goldilocks economy in the technical sense - low inflation at the same time as economic growth. But there has been something fundamentally different about this Goldilocks time as compared to the last time, which makes me very nervous about its future. It's been sustained in such a large part by the low-mortgage rate, high home-equity situation that it just doesn't seem as solid as the last one. Then again, maybe that's just my impression because I don't own a house. The irony is that this isn't any different than the stock market driven bubble that was allowed to go on for years too long. Much of the good times in the 90's were driven by equities that put tons of money in peoples pockets just like housing prices have. People also ran up tons of debt in the 90's, and the savings rates haven't changed at all. Not without coincidence, when the stock market burst, so did the economy. The one thing that saved things from being WAY worse and us feeling the full effects of the burst, were the tax cuts saving many jobs.