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QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 10:35 AM) When was the last time America didn't have the highest medal count? 1932 was the last time that the US HAD the highest medal count in the winter games...

So when do the Eygptian embassies get torched?

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 10:25 AM) What's the difference between Mod and Admin? The ability to ban and suspend is the big one.

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 10:06 AM) Disecting is great! Pointing fingers and accusing people of racism is not! FEMA was overwelmed. Something this big had never happened before. I don't fault them for be overwelmed. I do. The "E" in their names said it all. This is the whole reason for their exsistance. If they can't handle something big, they need to shut down FEMA and just let every fen for themselves because the taxpayers are wasting their money. That being said, the primary response in the first 72 hours isn't thier fault. That falls on the mayor and governor and whoever they put in charge of emergency responses. Everything after that falls on FEMA. That being said as well, the state and local officials need to know that IF there is going to be a federal response, the rest of the authorities HAVE to yield their authority and resources to the feds to make sure the job gets done as effeciently as possible. You can't have the governor in a power struggle, and the mayor spreading rumors on TV either. This whole thing was the worst possible FUBAR I could imagine. It was screwed up from the beginning all of the way to the top.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 9, 2006 -> 05:03 PM) Link So this doesn't show up at all in the AP piece. They spend a long time talking about how Abramoff's partners had arranged for repeated contacts between Reid's folks and Abramoff's clients, in particular on the Marianas minimum wage/slave labor issue, in an attempt to make Reid look bad. The kicker? Reid never actually supported Abramoff's position that the minimum wage bill was bad. He supported the bill, while Abramoff's clients, the people supposedly doing nasty things by Lobbying Reid...wanted the minimum wage opposed (so they coud keep paying workers $2 an hour or so on U.S. territory). The AP casually leaves that detail out. Oops. Damn liberal media. So wait a minute. You are trying to tell us that in 2001 the Republicians knew that Abramoff would somehow become a politicial liablity so while keeping in business contact with him themselves, and exposing themselves to further political liability, they set up Reid? Put away the tin foil hat dude.

My only b**** is that they should have only done the early sale for people who were already registered at chisox.com. Now all of the f***ing brokers can register and jam the system up with their requests anyway. It was a good idea, but most fans are already registered for the free updates and emails anyway.

QUOTE(Steff @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 09:27 AM) I can't even begin to imagine a childhood dream such as performing at the Grammy's, much less winning one, coming true. I probably would have cried like a baby also. Kenny and Ozzie would testify to that

This thread ought to be fun...

QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 07:29 AM) Little Dick needs to stop worrying about Ozzie and start worrying about the 8,000 scandals in his administration. That's exactly what I was thinking. The guy probably shouldn't be throwing stones...

QUOTE(MarkBuehrle_TheAce @ Feb 9, 2006 -> 09:50 PM) all you guys do is f***ing rip on me. knock it off, fighting on a f***ing message bored is retarded. that said, i have no problem with anderson, its just that owens fits the mold that ozzie seems to like, fast, and more fast. i think he has a solid chance at the starting job, but if we go with anderson, i have no problem OK guy, I am going to play the roll of the friendly administrator here... [removes banning hat, places on free advice hat] Breaking into a specialized fan board isn't easy. Especially one that is run by fans, for the fans. The people who post here are the most knowledgible fans you will ever run into. There are a lot of opinions, and they have the ability to back it up with a wealth of experience, knowledge, wisdom, observations, and facts. If you are going to get mad everytime someone disagrees with you, people are going to mess with you on purpose because they know you will freak out. Especially if you get confrontational with people, the staff here won't keep you around too long. Instead of getting nasty with people, try to learn something from them. There is more knowledge of the White Sox and baseball in general in one thread here, more than most fans have in their lifetimes. With the style of posting you have adapted early in your posting history here, you are missing out and hurting no one but yourself.

Well thank god taking money from people for influence isn't a crime for the President and Vice President... If they have Bush doing anything illegal for Abramhof, then they need to charge him. Period.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=2325068

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 01:27 AM) Looks damn good. The incorporated the skyline into the view from most of the ballpark. Not doing so is one huge mistake they made when the Cell was built. this is my biggest complaint of all of them. The Cell would have been awesome sunk into the ground so you came in at the top of the 100 level, and somewhere in the south loop (which was dirt cheap in 1988) looking north at the impressive Chicago skyline.

QUOTE(TLAK @ Feb 9, 2006 -> 08:44 PM) were? If people are buying tickets again, their grudge is pretty much hollow at this point... And I have yet to hear ONE PERSON who said they aren't going to games still.

Yes, my plan to slowly Hoosierize Soxtalk is working.... Congrats Zach!!! First thing you need to know is that the newest admin always buys at the tailgates

That might be the funniest site I have seen a while...

I agree 100% as well.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Feb 9, 2006 -> 03:30 PM) did they finally get another type of bread other than that pale, hard, bland s***?? Pale, hard, and bland... that reminds me of... nevermind.

Hence why I don't put too much faith into the reports that Al Qaeda has plans to attack X. I am sure the government has intelligence that has AQ attacking basically every major city, tourist trap, nuclear power plant, port, utility, energy hub, etc in the country. I am sure they have made plans to try all of that. Now the question is whether they get to a stage where they are immenent attacks, and when exactly they disrupted them. Disrupting an attack could mean something as simple as hiring an extra security guard which just happened to cover the hole that AQ thought they had found in a nuclear power plants security, or it could mean they arrested someone with the bomb strapped on them ready to go to blow themselves up. Technically both would have disrupted an attack. I don't buy into much of this at all.

QUOTE(Cuck the Fubs @ Feb 9, 2006 -> 02:27 PM) This is old news. They announced this before the 2004 Olympics. If MLB had an Olympic break for this like the NHL does, then the MLB players would go and this wouldn't happen. Did you read the article? They lost an appeal to try to get it REinstated. Hence the title that the sports are STILL out of the olympics

I use a keyboard if at all possible. Most of the time I print for work, and cursive for anything that no one else has to read.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Feb 9, 2006 -> 01:38 PM) Has he leveraged all of his assets for this 270 million dollar loan? I'm sure the only thing he has worth that much is the Beatles catelog he owns. I would rather see it owned by a greedy ass record company than to see that bastard Jackson own it anymore.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 9, 2006 -> 01:04 PM) Every month when the BLS puts out its labor numbers, it includes 1 item in the table for "Not in the labor force", including all sorts of things, like long-term unemployed, people who have stopped looking for work, people who have gone to school, people placed on disability, people who have gone in for other job training, etc. There's lots of ways to fall out. Here's their raw numbers. I don't care as much about the overall number...whether it's 70 million or 10 million isn't the important part...the important part is the fact that in the last 10 years, as the "Unemployment percentage" numbers have dropped...a very significant portion of that drop is due to the dramatic increase in that number. Not sure what you were linking, but I got this message Sorry, survey does not exist. If you need to contact someone about the program or its data, please send a message to the data questions e-mail address below or call the phone number below.

QUOTE(kevin57 @ Feb 9, 2006 -> 11:46 AM) I like the new look. The newspaper article about the seat replacement project not being finished for the upcoming season gave two reasons: 1) post-season play that ate into time, and 2) cold weather. Now #1 is certainly a valid factor, but #2? This has been one of the mildest winters on record. So, it was doubtful from the beginning that this project would have been completed for the 2006 season. That's okay...but just admit it. Just because it has been warm for a Chicago winter, doesn't mean it has been warm enough http://www.leeric.lsu.edu/energy/caulking/