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QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 05:29 PM) Brandon Williams is going to be good. Id say a less polished Lee Evans, and depending on what he runs in the 40, he may be a 1st round pick. If the Bears could get him in the 2nd, I think he would be a very nice slot receiver, and he can return. SB I am going to go out on a limb and say with Bradley coming back, and with Gage and Berrian showing nice flashes late, the Bears aren't going to draft a WR early on... Maybe on the 2nd day of the draft, if at all.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 01:03 PM) Stealing another writer's words out of laziness... Are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't believe that Iran is pursuing a nuclear bomb? There is no doubt in my mind at all that they are just continuing something they have been doing since the 1960's in trying to find a way into the atomic club. What evidence does anyone have that they have all of the sudden changed their behavior and are now only looking for something for energy purposes? Heck having the "Great Satan" next door in Iraq only serves to convince me more that Iran is full of s*** when it saids it is only looking for more energy sources with its nuclear program.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 12:23 PM) "Scrubs" is "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" all growns up. PLCL was definately a favorite of mine back in the day... good call on the similarities.

http://www.onthefencefilms.com/commentary/...rt/krugman.html

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 11:05 AM) Yet, I think that some people - and I don't mean on this board - are. I'm getting the impression that fake outrage is so often misdirecting the outrage that we should righteously feel towards people who genuinely do us wrong. Don't get me wrong... I am mad as hell about the reporting. Someone needs to be held responsible for this, but at the sametime, the mining company who let this stuff happen, needs to be sued into liquidation. They need to make sure this stuff can't happen again, even if that means driving the cost of insurance so high, that these companies have to make huge safety adjustments to keep in business. Granted a lot of people could lose their jobs as companies go under from the added costs, but it will be worth it in human cost in the long run.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 10:42 AM) And I work late on Thursdays. s***! They moved that along with Earl to Thursday nites at 8/8:30. Will and grace moved to 7pm and some new show is on at 730.... Sounds like they are trying to make Thursday a decent TV night again.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 10:28 AM) And you can blow it out your ass, honey, because I don't really care what goes on in your family. Fair enough. Women are whiners and whores and I won't bother trying to justify that generalization. IMO, it would be more fair to blame the paltry percentage of the guilty parties than throw the entire organization under the bus. At the very least, it would avoid insulting the vast majority of Catholics all over the world. But, hey, that's just my opinion. Wonderful. Into another fight already I see... It deja vu all over again. Thread closed, congratulations.

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 09:28 AM) This is true ^^^ True story. Steff takes food from babies mouths.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 10:16 AM) I'd rather him have done exactly what he did and not say anything versus giving out wrong information like the moron Gov did. Exactly. And we aren't talking about a normal workplace here, this is a mine shaft 2 miles across and 200 feet down. its not like you can take a casual stroll over there to find out what is going on. 3 hours doesn't sound too bad to me for getting correct info out of that chaos. It sounds like the CEO was one of the few who went out of his way to get things right.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 09:48 AM) Thanks Mike. BTW... the Gov is an asshole. "But late Tuesday night, families began streaming out of the church, yelling "They're alive!" The church's bells began ringing and families embraced, as politicians proclaimed word of the apparent rescue a miracle. As an ambulance drove away from the mine carrying what families believed was the first survivor, they applauded, not yet knowing there were no others. Though the governor announced that there were 12 survivors, he later indicated he was uncertain about the news. As word buzzed through the church of survivors, he tried to find out what was going on, he said." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060104/ap_on_.../mine_explosion Fry him. He needs to be held responsible for what he said, unlike Mayor Nagin. I want to know who gave him the info, and why he felt that he should be spreading it as fact, when indeed he didn't know that for sure.

Melt this team down, they are done. Deal the vets for something to grow on for next season.

I thought this was a thread about Jason's playoff beard

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 09:42 AM) very wierd. But once you get the gist of everything thats going on, its tremendously funny. Quirky is a word I would use. QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 09:43 AM) Jinx! Funny stuff GMTA

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 09:41 AM) Where are you getting 3 hours..?? The timeline that CNN is reporting shows a 3 hour gap (almost) between the families thinking their loved ones were alive, and them being informed with the real truth. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/04/mine.expl....wed/index.html

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 09:38 AM) That was it.. Weird show. Its quirky. Its one that you can't just jump into... You either had to watch it from the beginning or give it time to grow on you. The humor is different, but I love the characters.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 09:37 AM) FWIW, the CEO knew 20 minutes after the first reports came out that 12 of the 13 people had died and didn't even tell the family for another 2+ hours. And what did he do? He went and verified the information before releasing it.

I watch the show often... It was something to the effect of what would be more embarassing, being a life-long Cubs fan or a man with no lips smoking a cigarette.

I do blame the media. It is their job to make sure what they are reporting is the truth. It takes two minutes to call someone in a position of authority and say "can you confirm..." Problem averted. It doesn't even sound like they tried to contact an official with the company or government to me, they just overheard this stuff and ran to the presses with it. Plus this hasn't been a one time occurance, when in fact it has practically become an epidemic of sorts with the media... Truth be damned, get the story out. How many times in the last couple of years have we seen horribly wrong information being passed off as fact, only to be quietly retracted in the coming days and weeks? This is just horribly irresponsible.

Iran, surprising no one, is trying to put together a nuclear bomb. http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/...1677541,00.html

Wow. You would think after all of the misinformation that got passed off as fact after Katrina the media and officials would have learned a lesson, I guess not. More info on the timeline of things. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/04/mine.expl....wed/index.html

What an unbelievable screw up. I can't imagine a worse scenario actually unfolding here... Someone has a lot of explaining to do. As for the one survivor, he is in critical condition and needs lots of prayers.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 04:19 PM) The lawsuits can put that company out of business, but they can't necessarily make the government increase the scale of its fines or make the government stop giving mines 24 hours warning before inspections (as is currently the law I believe). Let's just say that the lawsuits put the company out of business for this mine accident...if the government doesn't increase its enforcement and fines, what will happen? Another company will come along, start up mining, and will do so without paying enough attention to the inspections again, will pay the fines (miniscule compared with the cost of actually running a safe mine), and we'll wind up with exactly the same thing happening. If the government is fining mines that could explode $3600 or so based on conditions that could explode, but the cost of fixing those problems is several orders of magnitude higher, you can be safe in guessing that this isn't the only mine where these problems exist, it's just the one which was unlucky. Those companies have costs related to doing business that have a lot to do with their safety. you can't tell me something like insurance won't go up a lot for these companies if they don't meet the regulations that the insurance companies set forth. There also could be a big exodus of employees who refuse to work with a company because of their safety problems, which always have the spotlight shown on them a little brighter after a disaster like this, which makes it either more expensive to hire employees or makes the company put more tangible effort into safety, which translates to more costs as well. There are plenty of ways to regulate business, they don't all have to be governmental.

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 04:24 PM) Why would you jump on somebody for saying 23K. That's only 15% off. I don't know about jumping on someone, but that is a difference of 250,000 people over the course of a season. really that a is a big difference, no matter what the percentage is.

QUOTE(Drew @ Jan 2, 2006 -> 01:45 AM) The Grandstand or MLB.com shop. Grandstand is about $40 cheaper. Grandstand is the best. Also the guy who does them at Soxfest is really good as well.