StrangeSox

This is why some Democrats are against the payroll tax deduction--just like the Bush tax cuts that were supposed to expire, there will be a fight to make them permanent.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 15, 2010 -> 11:17 AM) I don't know if this is the right spot to put this, but I don't want to get flamed in that other thread. George W. Bush's book is a trainwreck. I try to read Presidential memoirs or what have you when they come out, but I've never read such a simple book. Seriously, these are the least complex sentences of all-time. If he even had a hand in writing this, it makes me truly sad. It's like a junior high school kid wrote it and used a thesaurus to replace some words. Also, I could punch him for the Stem Cell chapter and his reasoning behind decisions based on that. FYI there's a thread on it: http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=79880

I dunno why the ending is in spoiler tags, it was a national news story? Anyway, it'll probably be a Netflix rental for me, but I'll definitely check it out.

I thought it was going to be like "Open Water" (read: incredibly boring), but you guys are convincing me to check it out.

TSA was testing drinks near the gate in St. Louis last weekend. They were using something that looked like pH strips you use in your pool, but they just held it over the opening. Not sure what that was about, but the guy standing next to me gave the TSA guard the best look ever when he asked him for his drink.

Really, trades and signings being "fluid" isn't an excuse to carpet-bomb with whatever speculation you can think of and state it as fact. I would have thought the whole Lebron fiasco this summer would have taught everyone the problem with twitter "reporting"

QUOTE (Ranger @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 05:05 PM) It's unfair to place the success of a newspaper on one sports writer. That's staff-wide issue up to the highest ranks of the newspaper. Because of the history of his interaction with this website, I think very few people here would give him credit for anything. Usually that's what happens when things get adversarial. But I can assure you that he's been on top of things this offseason. How can you assure us of that when the written record is in direct contradiction?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 04:24 PM) Generally conservative/libertarian judicial commenter/scholar Eugene Volokh thinks that the judge's reasoning has a significant flaw. Edit: The judge also owns a share of a Republican consulting firm that worked to oppose the Health Care bill, among other things. In the last reporting years (2006-2007) he took home something on the order of $10,000 a year from that consulting firm. LOL, that seems like a pretty good reason to recuse yourself.

Video of the collapse: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4456215/snow-ca...aylist_id=87937 At least no one was in there.

Hey kap, not sure what I was talking about earlier, it wasn't about obstructionism but lobbyists. Anyway, how HCR was passed wasn't the "nuclear option". http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/j...LPP_article.pdf

QUOTE (kev211 @ Dec 11, 2010 -> 01:35 AM) How awesome is it that we are going to be able to watch Derrick Rose night in and night out for the next decade or so? I haven't watched much NBA in the last several years, maybe some of the playoff games but that's it. Man, has Rose gotten good. Some of those off-balance shots he was making were ridiculous.

QUOTE (Rex Hudler @ Dec 11, 2010 -> 07:08 AM) Catch is danman, they don't need the extra reason. It's 12 months a year like this regardless. Like nothing I've ever seen. Strange, where in Bama are you staying? Decatur. I'll be driving down to Birmingham to catch a flight in a couple of hours, hopefully Midway isn't shut down. I'll likely be back in the area next week. The guy I'm working with primarily has several family pictures on his desk. Everyone, even the babies, are wearing Alabama gear in every photo. You see a lot of Bears gear in Chicago year round, but nothing like this.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 10, 2010 -> 07:38 PM) mmmhmm, we have. And the conclusion always is the Republicans have the immoral lower ground then the Democrats, when in reality, wrong is wrong. The conclusion is always that the Republicans have been far, far worse since 2006 than any other minority Congressional party ever, and by a significant margin. If wrong=wrong, than doing it twice as much as anyone ever means you're twice as bad.

We've covered the false obstructionism equivalence countless times.

I can't find the post, but I know Balta commented on TVA having to significantly reduce the power output of some of their plants (Browns Ferry in particular). Here's a blog post recapping the issue. Anyway, TVA is going to be adding more cooling towers to help alleviate the problem in the future. SONGS, out in southern California, is facing similar issues, as are other plants, I'm sure. FWIW, a running reactor is worth about $1M/day in energy output. Reducing their three reactors to 50%, as they've had to do several times this year, costs them 1.5M/day.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 10, 2010 -> 05:40 PM) actually, upon further review of this article, it appears the BEARS are dragging their feet Ha, they threw it right back in the Bears lap. LOL Good info. Maybe the CPD is asking for the Bears to pay for a portion and they don't want to? I dunno, but it should be fixed either way. Their field is a national joke pretty much every year.

I'm in 'Bama for the week for work. Man, it's crazy how much more everyone is into college football down here. More than 50% of the people have Alabama or Auburn gear on.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 10, 2010 -> 02:18 PM) Gillette Stadium is field turf I remember them replacing it mid-season after a particularly bad week there. The last home game before they switched made Soldier Field look good. edit: Wiki says it was in 2006. The first game was against the Bears, which was the same game Brady embarrassed Urlacher. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 10, 2010 -> 03:50 PM) That is just crazy. You are a major league sport in the third biggest city in the country. Spend the money once and be done with it, instead of spending tons of money to get your half-assed job redone multiple times a year. The Bears don't own the stadium. It's up to the CPD.

Thankfully, a recent court case was a set back, but some medical companies were trying to patent identified human gene sequences.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 9, 2010 -> 08:59 PM) None at all, huh? Which piece of the cake and eat it too do you want to talk about here? You're missing the point of the estate tax and being happy with philanthropy. They're not in conflict.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 9, 2010 -> 09:00 PM) I haven't read this whole thread (but I will this weekend...) but I do have to say it's annoying that DADT and that stuff is all tied together with all of this. Ridiculous. I know, right? If only the Senate Republicans weren't such s***heads, maybe something could actually get done.

There's no irony.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 9, 2010 -> 02:57 PM) You know, I agree with them taking a stand on this, but the idea that they have done everything Obama has wanted is just silly. Things like the Health Care bill, the Stim bill, were massively different than what Obama had wanted. Definitely not because of the Progressive dem's who are the strongest opposition to this agreement.

I love votes that fail with 57 in favor. f***, time for the "nuclear option" just so the terrible Senator rules get fixed.

Suh was fined $15k for his hit on Cutler. I dunno, seemed like a good call in real time but questionable in the replays. Unless the NFL has another camera angle I'm not seeing, I don't see how that hit was fine-worthy.