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Serious question. How much intelligence do people think there is in regards to different types of terror attacks in different specific areas, targeting specific places sitting on these peoples desks right now? Especially after all of the interogating we have done, I'll bet there are reams of info on just about every target and method imaginable. Nuke plants, bio facilities, water supplies, landmarks, buildings, harbors, airports, hospitals, infrastructure etc... I'll bet it is all out there. How would you prepare for all of that? If we had 52 warnings before something happens, how many 10's of thousands of things are we sitting on now? I would be curious to see in these 52 warnings, were specific airlines/airports targeted? How many different ones were described if any? Was it just the east coast, or did they have wind of the full plot involving west coast airlines as well. And most importantly if we had a near blueprint of their plan, and had gone before Congress with it to request funding to protect against it, would it have ever even gotten out of committee? Somehow I doubt it The article states that no where in the warnings was a 9-11 style attack described, so what were the suicide attacks that were described? And what were the airport/airline warnings regarding? And if the airlines were given warnings, which this seems to indicate, and the airlines did nothing with the warnings, how should the government have responded? What recourse did they have? Could they have demanded more inspections and checkpoints? Could they have required closer passenger screening? This article raises a lot more questions than it answers for me.

Until Frank gets back, I would like to see it be Aaron. It will probably be Dye though.

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 05:32 PM) One: Take it easy buddy. Steff has every right to express her opinion..and might I add not in an insulting way like you. Two: Where's my Thread Police badge?!? Its in the mail

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 06:27 PM) We should try and get the leagues registered early and make them all live drafts That's what we did last year.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 06:04 PM) f***ing sickening. And it begs the question of "why the f*** is a 26-year-old hanging around with a 16-year-old in a 'punk clique' anyhow??????" I hope that nutty b**** gets the justice that she deserves. Good question, what would make a much older person want to hang out with teenagers in a group like that???

I'm taking UNC. I think Dukes wussy scheduling catches up with them as they have to face another real team after taking the fall off Kansas-style.

All right guys this ends here... Back on topic.

Ah yes, Fox television... the Detroit Tigers of the networks.

SPOILER!!!! ANSWERS BELOW!! 1. The third. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead. 2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it and hung it up to dry. 3. Charcoal. 4. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. 5. The letter "e" -- which is the most common letter in the English language -- does not appear once in the long paragraph.

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in three years. Which room is safest for him? 2. A woman shoots her husband, then she holds him under water for over five minutes. Finally, she hangs him. Five minutes later they go out and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be? 3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away? 4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday? 5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching! I'll post the answers below, with a spoiler warning...

QUOTE(Steff @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 08:50 AM) She's divorcing her husband - who is the HS basketball coach. His self esteem must be soaring at the thought he was replaced by a 13 year old. he left her...

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 09:02 AM) Remembering past Lent incidents, didn't Be Good give up SoxTalk for a month? Yes he did. And IIRC he was back on here Easter Sunday.

http://www.financegates.com/news/world_new...e_09022005.html

QUOTE(JimH @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 02:27 PM) Agree. White Sox should do more of this, not sure why they're not. They usually do. They had plenty of them the last few years. This year with the roster pretty well set, there really isn't much incentive to come here on one of those type of contracts. There just aren't many opportunities to be had here. They did get invites out to some of our not as deep spots behind the plate and at SS, but that is about it.

QUOTE(sox-r-us @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 01:22 PM) You cannot count Maggs as 9 since he was injured. We lost 30 HRs with Maggs. That is the correct way to analyze it. Actually his analysis is spot on. We lost Maggs HRs from 2003 to 2004, not 2004 to 2005. Maggs loss will only be felt as what we aren't getting from his 2004 numbers. This year we won't even notice Maggs is gone, because we essentially lost him last year anyway.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 12:30 PM) Please excuse my ignorance here, but did you ever feel comfortable when Jason was on the mound? He seemed like a great guy, but I don't think he ever showed major league stuff. IMHO, I'd rather test out some minor leauge arms anywho. Who knows, maybe one of the fellas from the minors comes up and impresses. I think we're better with a Hermanson/minor leauger combo than Grilli. Just asking. As a starter, I would rather give Grilli a run and see if his arm comes back or not. Diaz just doesn't have the stuff or pitches to make it as a starter. There is no doubt in my mind his future is in the pen as a set up guy.

QUOTE(JimH @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 12:21 PM) Yup, the new article on the main White Sox site confirms that Grilli did not accept a minor league invite from the Sox, and now news he's accepted the same type of contract with the Tigers. Grilli must've thought he'd get a better opportunity there. Also in this article, it's said that Williams will not invite Campos to spring traning as a non roster invitee. http://whitesox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/cws/new...s_cws&fext=.jsp I wonder if this means that Adkins will go back to starting at AAA? The Knight rotation should look something like Diaz Munoz Yofu Stewart Campos Right? This could also open up a spot for Bull at Charlotte.

Damn, that means two pitch Diaz is our 6th starter right now. Ouch. Hopefully BMac keeps on his quick path to the majors.

QUOTE(Man Of Steel @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 11:49 AM) I dont agree with that.. Illinois jumped out to HUGE leads against both of them and then their shooting went ice cold.. The thing that jumped out to me the most was when they started using the Zone defense.. I dont think it was Michigan making the game boring last night holding the ball till 5 on the shot clock.. man that was annoying.. Anyways, I dont think holding the ball and using the shot clock caused Illinois to go on an 11 minute scoring drought.. I think the zone D was the main factor, we were working it around trying to get a shot and then ended up chucking up a 3 as SC ran down.. thats why we were like 7 - 23 from 3pt I honestly believe you are identifing symptoms and not the root cause there. WHY did their shooting go cold? They couldn't get into anykind of a rythm on offense because Michigan juiced the shot clock everytime they got the ball. They forced the Illini to play defense for 25-30 seconds everytime, which anyone will tell you is much harder than running offense. After a while it tires you out and takes your legs out from under your jumpshot if you aren't concentrating harder on O. It can also change the pace of the game in your mind and makes you want to run up the floor and rush shots you wouldn't usually take. I think the Illini have been a victim of the first part of that their last two games.

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 11:58 AM) And you're not?

I'll move it later... as soon as I would move it, someone else will post it anew. I'll leave it here for now, with the notation that the main thread is here... http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=29676

But nothing tops... "Excuse me while I whip this out..."

I am pretty sure that it all stays tax free. But I am sure one of the resident CPA (ie-nerds) can help you more.

What's Hendry doing, hell what are the Tigers doing??? So they have a closer whose mom has been kidnapped, and should play-but who knows, a $12 closer with a bad arm, and a headcase for a bullpen. Then they have a injury prone catcher and a RFer with a cronic knee problem signed to huge contracts... Like I said before Tom Hicks>Mike Illitch

It is so embarassing that this assclown has "ex-Sox" attached to his name. Canseco was one of the few White Sox I booed while they still were with the southsiders.