StrangeSox

QUOTE(iamshack @ Mar 5, 2008 -> 12:07 PM) Once again, and I am tired of having to remind people of this. You'd deal all the quality veterans you have for young kids, and you could have one of the best systems in baseball. As Kenny has said, he could build a great farm system in 2 weeks if that was the goal. You can build a decent farm system while still having a top-tier ball club with the payroll KW has. Right now it looks like we have neither.

I have lost interest in election 2008 again. Wake me up after the infighting.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Mar 5, 2008 -> 10:06 AM) Well, why don't you read the article again before you spew your fake outrage over this. Again, this is one gym, the least used in the university. That is available to women only for 6 out of 70 hours a week. You don't have to be a muslim woman to work out during those hours. You just have to be a woman. So why would a University spend thousands, if not millions of dollars to build a new gym for women to work out by themselves when they could just change the operating hours for a gym that isn't used very often in their system? Why should I not be allowed to use a gym I'm paying for equally because of someone else's religious beliefs?

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Mar 5, 2008 -> 09:51 AM) I think I just did. We posted at the same time

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 5, 2008 -> 09:50 AM) B.S. what do you think of the tactic? For me, that has been what has made Obama more appealing is that he has stayed away from the smear machine. If he does it, I think it far outweighs his strengths. Like the saying is, you play in the mud with pigs you become a pig, and the Clintons are FAR better at it then Obama, and he will lose badly if he "takes the gloves off". I agree 100%.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Mar 5, 2008 -> 09:36 AM) Are you serious? You compare women wanting to work out without men around to white supremacists and you tell me that my example of separating bathrooms by sex is extreme? Seriously? Can we all just agree that they're both poor analogies?

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Mar 5, 2008 -> 09:12 AM) CDS" on all brokers are blowing out, especially LEH and BSC. LEH reportedly has two times the capital in CMBS and nearly five times the capital in "Hard to Price" securities, i.e. hard to sell. BSC is in even worse shape. CDS on LEH is now approximately 250 basis points and 350 basis points on BSC, out nearly 100 basis points in a month. These firms are basically insolvent. If they are forced to sell, look out below. I understood about 5% of that post. I like my cartoons better.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10398317/3/...debit-card.html

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 5, 2008 -> 08:56 AM) Really there was no better scenario for John McCain than what unfolded tonight. I cannot believe those stupid 3 am ads actually convinced anyone to not vote for Obama. Its classic Clintonian scare tactics. Personally I would have loved to see Obama fire back at Hillary after the Canadian memo problem, with these simple words "Shame on you Hillary Clinton!" What happened not not attacking a fellow Democrat? Yeah, the best possible case for the Republicans is for Hillary to keep up the effort to torpedo Obama by whatever means possible so that whoever wins the nomination emerges weakened and spent after a brutal primary, while McCain comes out after basically a couple/few months to fundraise and relax. Was it the 3 AM ads or the NAFTA thing?

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QUOTE(Markbilliards @ Mar 4, 2008 -> 10:56 PM) Jimbo, don't worry it'll come eventually! Coming right out of college I was looking for a job from May 2007 to January 08 with a degree that would get me no where specific, but I finally found a position in January. The key is looking for jobs that aren't listed on sites like careerbuilder, craigslist, etc. Those site will get you no where, which I'm sure you've seen by now. You need to look up random companies and either go to their website or make cold calls asking them if they have open positions. Its frustrating but something will come. Keep your head up! Eh, I found my current job through career builder and had several other interviews through them. You might want to check in with your university to see if you can still use their career center.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Mar 5, 2008 -> 07:30 AM) I couldn't care less about how the church says men can't be nuns and women can't be priests. That's a private organization not funded by the public's tax dollars. So is Harvard.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Mar 5, 2008 -> 07:00 AM) So by your logic, all bathrooms should now be unisex everywhere? That we should make no accommodation whatsoever for religion or sex anywhere? I wasn't aware of anyone who works out with their underwear around their ankles. Little different, don't you think?

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Mar 4, 2008 -> 01:43 PM) 2 more superdelegates declared endorsements for Obama today. I can't remember the last time Hillary received one. Got a link on those?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 3, 2008 -> 05:49 PM) I have seen before that idea, that having more condensed urban populations and more open space is better for the environment. But I'd suggest that shouldn't be taken to an extreme, nor does it paint the whole picture. Housing in high-density areas have severe limitations of how green they can be, and how easily they can dissipate discharge of all sorts. Housing that is more spread out can more easily do that. In any case, of all the sins against the environment, building some houses out in the country doesn't begin to crack the top 100 as far as I am concerned. Not that it even matters, really - there is no justification for what they did. I think the issue is that these are large homes. It takes a lot more energy to light, heat, cool, etc. a 5000 sq. ft. home, with two furnaces and two or three AC units, than it does a modest 1200 sq ft. home. More building materials are also used, etc. That said, these people are nuts and I personally have no desire to live in a high-density/ urban area. I enjoy having a yard and space.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Mar 3, 2008 -> 12:45 PM) Unless Goolsbee isn't on the payroll. In which case, this is a controversy about what a volunteer said. Goolsbee is Obama's chief economics advisor.

More nutty-ness from ELF: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008...et_ablaze/9905/ I wonder how much carbon burning all those buildings release?!?!!? Those eco-terrorists are polluting monsters!

So what about that whole Obama NAFTA flap? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080303/ap_on_...dZDMKPltAGs0NUE