StrangeSox

BofA and Citi need capital as stress tests results loom

How does one end up with a lower OBP than AVG? Nix had that going last night. Canucks just scored again.

Specter's just a DINO anyway

Watching the sox this last week has been very frustrating.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 4, 2009 -> 02:11 PM) I was more so referring to an alternative to gas for cars and such. Electricity from said sources to power electric motors.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 4, 2009 -> 01:30 PM) Stock continue to rise: My 401k actually has a positive return year-to-date.

QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ May 4, 2009 -> 10:34 AM) The Sox have 3 starters, and a good bullpen. I think we all believe we are going to lose when Bartolo and Jose start. Bartolo's 2-1 with a 4.15 ERA. I think the Sox have a decent chance whenever he's pitching.

We can pull uranium out of the oceans. I'm not sure how renewable it is, but its an enormous source of fuel. Expensive, though. The Japanese and French have been reprocessing nuclear fuel for a while now, so that cuts down on wastes. Balta, what are your thoughts on Yucca? I might have asked in another thread, but don't remember seeing a reply.

Don't forget newquelar

Here's Glenn's paper via The Cato Institute http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 4, 2009 -> 10:46 AM) Sort of - and this is where the debate comes in. What you said is true, however, states cannot enact laws in contradiction of federal law (Constitutional law included). So now, really, the states can't do that. Well, they can, but its unconstitutional, and would be stricken down. then its a good thing I'm not a constitutional lawyer

I have a hard time distinguishing against the anti-drug propaganda of today and the stuff of the early 20th century: And just for the record, I don't smoke pot , I have never tried anything harder than pot/ alcohol and I have no desire to. I don't have a horse in this race as far as that goes.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 4, 2009 -> 10:33 AM) Here's my point...let's assume for a moment that the number of people high on goofballs goes up by 50% if it's made legal. At the same time though...the fact that it is suddenly legal means that the stuff can be grown, shipped, sold legally. And hell, taxed. Suddenly the Taliban loses their main source of funding. Suddenly the L.A. gangs and the Mexican cartels are broken because the money flowing through them is rapidly shifted to legal means of production. The Mexican government suddenly is more stable and the gangs are battered and gone. Maybe crime on the street drops. The number of people incarcerated drops dramatically, while maybe more people go in to treatment, but a ton of money is saved. Which one does more damage to society? There are a ton of indirect costs either way. I don't know the answer...I'm just trying to say that there are a lot of negatives not being taken in to account if you focus solely on the number of addicts. The problem is your opening assumption. People don't avoid heroin because its illegal; people avoid heroin because something in their brain says "hey, injecting myself is probably a bad idea." Usage rates do not go up when drugs are decriminalized or made legal. How many people on Soxtalk avoid using coke or meth only because its illegal? So you get all the benefits you listed with negligible costs. We have pretty solid emperical evidence from alcohol prohibition as to what happens--people still use, black markets are created, cartels flourish and violence increases. Repeal prohibition, and society doesn't burn to the ground as many would suggest. These drugs were legal and were widely available at one point, but we didn't have 30% of the country as coke-heads. Most of the backlash against even harder drugs like coke and heroin are based on decades of misinformation.

Basically, if an Amendment wasn't incorporated, those rights would apply only to Federal law. The US Government couldn't make a law restricting free speech, but the State of Illinois could if it wasn't against the state's constitution. When the Amendments are incorporated, it means that the federal laws supersede the states' rights. If the incorporation of the 2nd holds, you'll likely see things like the gun laws in Chicago struck down for violating the 2nd; until this court ruling, they could violate the 2nd (or any other non-incorporated Amendment) as much as their own state constitution allowed. At least that's how I understand it.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 4, 2009 -> 10:16 AM) IMO, there is a huge difference between legalizing marijuana, and legalizing hard drugs like coke and meth. This is for at least two reasons: 1. Cocaine, heroin, meth, etc. are much, much more addictive than mary jane could dream of being. This lures people into unhealthy lifestyles, and we all pay the bill. 2. Marijuana doesn't create the public safety issue the other drugs do. Simply put, does a guy stoned on a joint scare you? Of course not. Does a guy up on an 8 ball scare you? It probably does, and should. A person on hard drugs is a danger to others. A pot head really isn't. That's why I'm in favor of legalizing pot and decriminalizing everything else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_(Bill_of_Rights) The 9th Circuit just recently held that the 2nd Amendment is incorporated. First time any court has found that.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ May 4, 2009 -> 08:14 AM) Phillips and Morgan. Morgan is a complete idiot I thought it was him. The man is baseball-retarded.

Who was arguing on the broadcast last night that position players (Josh Hamilton) are more valuable than front-of-the-rotation starters (Volquez)?

My father works for the IRS, and they just had a few seminars on this stuff.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 4, 2009 -> 05:41 AM) There does need to be some sanity. Who knows what they were investigating. They may have been close to another, bigger, arrest, but could not get enough information or evidence. Unless someone really thinks this was what they were after. It is unfair to label the investigation a waste after the fact. My point was that all criminal marijuana investigations are a waste.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 3, 2009 -> 10:51 AM) And that should be the goal of law enforcement. They should have the freedom to pick and choose which laws they uphold and which laws they ignore. Yes. That is exactly what I implied.

Great. The should-have-been-out runner comes around to score.

Beautiful play by nix, Betemit couldn't grab it.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 3, 2009 -> 07:06 PM) I'm one of Fields' biggest critics, but the umpire screwed him there. Yeah, he calls a ball 2 inches off the plate, and the next pitch is another inch or two off and its a strike.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 3, 2009 -> 08:57 AM) It would save a lot of money on detectives. And prosecutions and incarcerations.