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QUOTE (juddling @ Feb 24, 2011 -> 12:28 AM) Ok...I've been searching Netflix streaming trying to find a show to take up my time. I watched the first two episodes of Dead Like Me. (i think it was on Showtime....dead girl becomes a Reaper). Anyways....after two shows....i'm kind of on the fence if it's worth continuing. Any opinions???? I suggest HBO's Rome and Starz's Spartacus. I just recently started The Wire, as I never watched it back in the day when it was on HBO. Finished season 1 last night. It was definitely solid. Starting season 2 tonight.

I third the notion!

I've seen enough of the nonsense that goes on on college campuses to know that the fewer guns present, the better.

Well, I like Wite as much as the next guy, but we have no idea who has done what in their relationship. There is no need for names or fault...just that Wite needs to move on and do that without her being a part of the picture. The two of you will bump into one another again down the road though, Wite... Get your s*** together for your own sake now though.

Happy Birthday Steve! Enjoy your day!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 22, 2011 -> 04:16 PM) It really started to worry me when I started taking pills as a 26 year old that when I opened them up, had pictures of senior citizens in the package. I would do as much research into holistic remedies as possible...eat foods that are good sources of omegas, rather than just popping the pills. Look into exercises and activities that improve your joints, or else you're probably just stuck with staying away from those that are tough on joints.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 22, 2011 -> 04:02 PM) Taking that for years now, have I been. Perhaps the 800 years old are you, it has to do with more?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 22, 2011 -> 03:13 PM) Voting underway. Found these tidbits on the Trib election blog, thought they were funny enough to share... If this wasn't from today, I would have thought it from 1885 or something...too funny.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 22, 2011 -> 08:30 AM) Anyone have tips for preventing arthritic joints from getting worse? I'm not a doctor, but wouldn't glucosamine help?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 22, 2011 -> 11:28 AM) I hope they focus on a solid base of long toss before he cranks it up on the mound. Not only has this been the focus since November, but I believe there will be a lot more of this happening in his pre-start routine...

I've heard of businessmen getting manicures, as it pays to have nice manicured hands when shaking hands often I suppose. Pedicures seems to be something females like to do to their male partners, much like men seem to get a kick out of bringing their female partners to a strip club for some reason. Personally, I like a woman to stick with her pedicure and I'll stick with my own things...seems like some things should be kept separate and apart. But I would never judge anyone who felt differently.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Feb 19, 2011 -> 08:44 AM) Like you just said... his stuff has always been mediocre by some standards and we all have seen him get absolutely pounded on the mound. I just think that those bad games will be more frequent as he gets older and that it might be coming up on the right time for the Sox to rid themselves of MB before he becomes terrible. You do realize that Jamie Moyer has pitched until his late forties...he and Mark have very similar pitching styles, and the fact that Mark is a southpaw will always make him reasonably effective. Mark is going to be able to pitch as long as he wants to, and as long as he manages to stay healthy. The question of whether he will be effective enough to merit a spot in a major league rotation is not something that should be an issue for him for many, many years.

Nothing like getting that workout in first thing Saturday morning....sets up the weekend well.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 16, 2011 -> 01:49 AM) Seriously, f*** you, Andy Roddick. She was in the February issue of Esquire and I was cursing his name then, too. Add to it the fact that she comes off as completely unassuming and normal, and I say double f*** you, Andy Roddick.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 18, 2011 -> 03:33 PM) not us. well, define sex. lol I'm just going to leave this to everyone's imagination...

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 18, 2011 -> 03:14 PM) After I got married, people would ask "how was the wedding night"? *nudge wink* My response: "She relaxed in the hot tub, and I watched Sports Center" It was a long day, we were exhausted! Well, considering 99% of couples have premarital sex (with one another) these days, the wedding night is not quite what it used to be in that regard.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 07:44 PM) Bleep Mark Buehrle Hmnn....seems like that would be BMB....I think he means f*** Mark Buehrle

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 05:09 PM) Which is why he should just stop talking about the issue, instead of trying to defend himself further. No matter what he says it will just be digging a bigger hole at this point. Any way he tries to defend himself, will just give people easier ways to attack him for hypocrisy. Thus he should just let it go. Some people think hes a hero some people think hes a dick. That wont change, so why not just let it go? And none of this is even touching on the fact that a professional athlete should probably never wish injury on another professional athlete. That just seems tacky in and of itself. Even if Mark was a vegan who never had killed an animal, I still wouldnt want him getting involved in this situation. It just serves no purpose. If Mark is so pissed about what happened, donate money to save dogs from dog fighting. That will do more than any amount of interviews knocking Vick ever will. (And yes I know he has a shelter, but Im just saying instead of wishing harm on Vick, maybe he should just go about his life.) It makes some one who I always thought of as a good guy, come off as a douche. So maybe the reason Im bent out of shape is because I hate thinking that Mark's image is going to be tarnished over something stupid like this. I think he's trying to let it go, thus the reason for his comments. I also think he's not going to shy away from his statements like people have done in the past, such as Maurice Jones-Drew did in the whole Cutler fiasco.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 04:57 PM) iamshack, And that is fine, and all he has to do is admit that he is acting subjectively. But he is trying to imply that he is right objectively, which is just not true. An animal is an animal is an animal. I have 2 cats, they are like my children. If anyone did anything to them, I would want to murder them. That does not mean that law should protect my cats any greater than it should protect a cow, dog or other animal. Under the eyes of the law all animals are property, including dogs. I have dealt with dog abuse lawsuits. I have successfully settled cases with Comed for one of their meter men abusing a dog. But the law is clear, that dog was nothing more than property and recovery was limited to the value of the animal. Just like property. So if we want to have a subjective argument, sure cats/dogs are the beloved companions of humans and get better protection than a deer. If we want to have an objective argument, cats/dogs are animals, so if murdering a cat/dog deserves jail time, than murdering a deer/animal deserves jail time. Im looking at this objectively, and objectively I dont see much difference in killing one animal versus killing another. I dont care if the law says its okay, I wouldnt care if the law said that a person from Illinois could kill some one from Indiana. Once again, we can all be as hypocritical as we want, he has a right to his opinion. I just would have preferred he kept it to himself as its an amazingly simplistic view of the world. I follow your line of thinking...I think you're just asking a bit much of him...he's a baseball player, and you're an attorney. That's a pretty basic indicator of the difference in the level of analysis taking place by each of you.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 05:35 PM) Hes trying to say that because his family thinks "hunting is a sport" its okay to kill animals. Whereas because his family thinks dogs deserve special treatment he thinks "sports that kill dogs" are wrong. Its horrific reasoning, unless we just get to the simplest answer, "We believe one thing and I dont care if its hypocritical because thats my belief". If he said that, Ive got no argument. We are all entitled to be as hypocritical and nonsensical as we want on any given topic. Just dont demean my intelligence by trying to say that killing an animal with modern weapon is so honorable. Dog fighting (or animal fighting because isnt that really just the same thing) and hunting for sport trace their roots to the same historical time periods. Animal fighting and animal sport hunting have been going on hand and hand before the year O. So to insult my intelligence and act like dog fighting has never been as accepted as sport hunting is annoying. Once again, he should just man up and say that its his opinion and hes entitled to it. Instead of making absurd arguments. I'm all for analysis and what not, but come on. There is clearly much reverence in this culture towards domesticated dogs, and a vast, vast majority of Americans find the abuse of dogs majorly offputting. There's not really anything else to say about it.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 05:23 PM) Well biathlon combines something that is definitely sport, cross-country skiing. Whether shooting is a sport or skill depends on how you define it. I used to teach Archery and (in my opinion) I could teach anyone to hit reasonable targets as long as they did not have some sort of disability. Using a compound bow (or rifle) imo takes the sport out of it. If youre going to use a non-compound recurve bow, where you actually need to produce the force necessary to pull the arrow back and then hold it, yeah that is a challenge. But if your only challenge is to hold the bow still and point, thats no harder then playing duck hunt in my basement, which is definitely not a sport. As for what Mark said, its once again nonsensical. http://www.aspca.org/fight-animal-cruelty/...g-fighting.aspx Dog fighting can be even further traced back to Roman times, which I assume was before Grandpa Buerhle was born. I guess what Mark just doesnt understand is that one culture may look at dog fighting the same way as he looks at hunting. This is just a subject that most people argue based on where they sit. I agree his reasoning isn't articulated very well, but I think everyone pretty much understands what he is trying to say.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 05:00 PM) M-56 was asked about this again today. Slacker.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 04:24 PM) Amazon.com. I use a linksys wireless N router. It cost me like 45 bucks. I bought this one for my parents, as they have an old, big house with walls made of plaster and other materials that seem to frustrate cell and other wireless signals. The linksys wireless N router is faster and stronger than most.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 12:28 PM) How the utility views things though is very different from what is best for society and best for public policy. The utility doesn't care how much it drives up health care costs for people living downstream of its generating sites except in the small increase in its insurance rates. You just gave a good argument, to my eyes, about why we shouldn't be setting policy based on what is best for utilities. Oh I wasn't disagreeing with you. The utility doesn't give a crap about the hidden costs. The utility cares about it's rate cases and revenues, just like any other company. Keep in mind though that the mandated renewable portfolio targets are basically causing a lot of utilities to gobble up any reasonable renewable projects they can, so the issue of renewable costs versus conventional costs isn't really in play yet. It's not a matter of cost as much as it is of integration.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 07:43 AM) Ok, but you did the math wrong. It's only doubling or tripling the cost if the cost is $.10/kWh. If you're using a cost of $.02/kwh, that means the hidden costs are 15x as much as the up-front costs. And anyway, I'm not making stuff up when I quote a $.10/kwh price for electricity. Oh, I know your retail cost is correct. But they are comparing the wholesale market to the retail market. And I am not disputing the fact that there are a lot of hidden costs...that is very interesting. But there are a lot of hidden costs with all sorts of things. It doesn't really change how a utility is going to view things. One thing I can tell you though is that these projections for renewables that you are seeing are very low for what we are experiencing in practice as of the present.