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Yeah, that isn't Baj. he is Man_Hands... Maggsmaggs is someone else.

baahahhahahahahahahahahahaha Sorry I have to laugh while I can.

Umm I am sure that you remember "irrational exuberance" don't you? He trashed the overvaluations of the stock markets repeatedly as the tech bubble grew out of control in 99-00. He has made plenty of public statements over the years that disagreed with important tenants of Presidental platforms.

Hypothetical question. Suppose you find out one of the lock HOFers playing right now, was on steroids, granted with the hatred of Sammy and Barry around here, I know what people would say, BUT hypothetically speaking-You found out Frank Thomas was on steroids, would that change your mind on a Hall of Fame vote?

Don't kid yourself with that Howard Dean-speak. Greenspan isn't politically motivated. The Bush's hated him for a long time for what they believed was his inaction that prolonged the 90-91 recession. Greenspan has also been a vocal opponent of the spending habits of this particular congress, which is republican dominated. He also was very clear on supporting the tax cuts only with the contingency that spending be accordingly cut. And that is off the top of my head. I know the guy is no ones puppet.

Merged...

One of the highlights of today's testimony is that Alan thinks the tax cuts should be made permanent and we should instead look at spending cuts. http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle....storyID=4347576

This is going to be the most incredible baseball game ever.

Say it aint so http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/12/offbeat.b...p.ap/index.html

The price of sugar has trended way down... And would be a lot less if a powerful Washington PAC hadn't pigeonholed congress into keeping a bunch of unnecesary subsidies into the tiny US sugar market.... But then again this discussion wasn't about sugar was it?

I totally agree with you. If the MLB got a 5-7% positive rate, after telling players this was coming AND not testing for the designer drugs, I would bet that the 30% figure quoted by Ken Caminitti years back isn't too far away from being true.

Honestly the physical play is one of my personal favorite parts of the game. Not just the fighting, but the checking, the shot blocking, and things like that are just awesome to watch.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4246377/

No but Wyoming is part of the union.

That's right William Hung has an internet site She Bangs!

I thought that $40 voicemail charge on my bill was a little high...

After 8 years of Clinton, no one cares. This will be a nonissue.

The problem is that is cannot go on indefinately because the productivity of such work cannot be sustained. People breakdown, feel they are underpaid, pout, find higher paying work that pays them what they are due, etc. I am sure much of the short term productivity gains are due to that, but long term technology is the pusher of gains. More and more companies are turning to machines, computers, robots, etc to do human jobs. Those productivity gains are constant and sustainable, putting twice as much work on a human isn't.

Honestly I think they need to ditch the instigator rule, and allow the fighting to take care of business legimately, instead of through cheap shots. That way justice is fair instead of injuring people.

According to Greeny it is the rises in productivity outpacing production, making it unnecesary for hiring to take place. According to me, the focus on stock price has led to hiring to be less and less of an investment priority because you want to keep costs as low and flexible as possible to keep good earnings reports flowing out. I wish one of these pretencious assholes would ask Greenspan an intelligent question like my theory so that I could hear what he thinks, instead of putting on a show for their constituents. You have the premier economic mind of the 20th century sitting and answering questions, and they are too busy trying to trash/reelect Bush to ask an insightful question.

Looks like Johan pitched in winterball according to this profile http://excite.rototimes.com/index.php?spor...ofile&name=3768

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4244988/

I'd hardly call it leftist hysteria. When it comes to economy I am about as conservative as they come, and this jobless recovery has really had me worried. This has been one of the slowest coming recoveries since the great derpression. It just seems the phsycology of recovery has taken hold enough, that investment and hiring might actually be starting to happen.

These are his prepared remarks, I can't find a transcript that you don't have to pay for. Greenspan prepared remarks

When the puck goes into the offensive zone and someone is offsides the puck physically has to come out of the zone, as do all of the players, and then it gets reentered. Where as if it is just tag up, the player(s) that were offsides only have to exit the zone, (tag up in effect) and then reenter the zone for the play to be considered onsides.