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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 12:01 PM) For a guy who gets paid $40,000 to show up and talk, he isn't very bright thinking he was going to get off scott free... I think he knew how his act would play on most college campusus. I doubt he lost any sleep over it. Victory rallies are fun, but protests really get people excited. I viewed this more as a one act play. Almost like him agreeing to be in the campus dunk tank.

I love student discounts on software /loading Office 2007 Enterprise for less than dinner for two.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 11:56 AM) Right, sorry if that wasn't clear. The market has set gasoline at $3.25 a gallon today. People are going to pay that regardless of whether or not .30 of that goes to the government. Sorry, but it is $3.05 here. So I guess we'll be buying more.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 10:55 AM) I just realized I went over 10,000 posts. And I'm just not sure whether or not to be proud of that. Think of all the time wasted reading your posts! congrats, you add a lot to soxtalk

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 10:57 AM) Of course, economically, this is a terrible idea. If you have a commodity that is only available in a limited amount, and you lower the price of it, then all that is going to happen is you're going to watch demand try to surge to make up for the price decrease, and things will come right back in to balance. So you might lower prices by a few tens of cents initially, but they'd go right back up as people bought more, and all that would happen would be that the Saudis would make more money on each barrel while the governments in the U.S. would make less. And then your property taxes would have to go up, or your sales taxes would double, or something like that. Except we already have a variable tax on gas. There are city, county, state, and federal taxes. For your statement to be true, the sales tax on gas would have to be the same nationwide which it isn't.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 11:18 AM) Chicago is so pro-Obama it isn't even funny. Everyday there are articles in the papers, but the whole Chicago media is in love with the guy. You hardly hear anything for Hillary or McCain. Naturally, they did elect him as Senator. Unless Obama's campaign was radically different, every statewide dem has to pull in huge Chicago numbers, break even in the collar counties and pray downstate doesn't turn out. If I was McCain, I would not spend a lot of time in Illinois, but I would not ignore it either.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 11:02 AM) I guess if they can't refute whatever he has to say, they can just be loud. It doesn't seem as if the format allowed for rebuttals. So yes, all they could be is loud. It would be equally accurate to say: I guess if they agree with whatever he has to say, they can just be loud. And it doesn't seem they agreed.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Mar 10, 2008 -> 01:48 PM) The problem is that Jay has lost all sense of objectivity towards the Sox, Shall we start to list the posters here we could make that very same statement about, who also are negative constantly about the team?

QUOTE(lvjeremylv @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 09:24 AM) I'm not saying trade your old guys. I'm saying trade your old guys WHEN it's relatively clear you are not a legitimate contender and can still get some return for them to help you in the future. What good will it do the Sox to keep the same core of players if they're going to most likely finish 3rd at best? What good will it do to play the games with the best talent you can field? Keep your fan base. Grow your fan base. Catch lightening and perhaps win. google White Flag Trade to see what giving up does. Currently, using that logic, 8-10 teams in all of baseball should be keeping their players and the rest should be trading their highest value players. Anyone in the AL East, outside Boston and NY, should never keep any player with decent value. At some point you have to complete. Just this century, our best ranked teams leaving spring training failed and we won with a team that was not that respected.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 10:27 AM) http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/...ersity-of-iowa/ How STUPID is the University of Iowa? A liberal school hires the spinmaster and hatchet man of the Bush administration for $40,000 and expects everything to go well???? Some would say it went very well and Rove was the stupid one for accepting the speaking gig and expecting anything more pleasant. He knew what he was in for and accepted the challenge and the $40,000. I wonder if that is his usual University fee. BTW, "worse than the person who introduced aluminum baseball bats." that is perhaps the first thing he has ever said I could wholeheartedly agree with.

If you took all the GOP voters from my counties' primary, they would fit inside a High School football stadium with room for the band, cheerleaders, pom pom squad, and their parents. One voting location reported one person taking a GOP ballot.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 10:22 AM) Just a thought... Anyone check to see if Bill was a "client" (Mostly green text) /when I read about the Clinton connection that was my first thought I viewed her campaign's ties to questionable fund raising individuals to be more of an issue. With all the delegates and super delegates out there, every candidate has some problems. I was thinking my Mayor, Joe Ochoa, endorsed Obama and has campaigned for him. This area is solidly Clinton territory, so this was a courageous endorsement by Ochoa. We also had a state rep or two that weakly came out for Obama and then fell back in line for Clinton. This was big news here, but I doubt it was covered in your media. Was it because he's a Dem, or because politics is local?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 10:22 AM) Go solar/wind/geo/hydro/hydrogen and you have no waste whatsoever, not to mention much lower risks to public health and a lot less expense to run. or wave and a couple more. There are trade offs. Some of the best areas to generate that electricity is also some of the most beautiful. That needs to be balanced also.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 10:18 AM) That's much more realistic than some form of rapid charging. I was looking at the power connector on my son's Mac, the magnetic style and thinking that could work. Really fast connection so you could "fill up" in under five minutes. However the easier and more convenient you make the system, the easier it would be for someone to steal (siphon your "gas")

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 09:56 AM) Those plants are many times over more efficient at producing energy than gas-engine cars though, so its still a significant net drop in energy. Plus, you are assuming these will all be pure plug-in powered electrics. They will also, I'd guess, employ regenerative braking and other internal electrical regeneration methods, which are basically "free". Absolutely, it also seems easier to keep one power plant running at peak efficiency and with peak environmental controls than thousands of cars. I just see people call them non-polluting in other venues and we forget that electricity needs to be generated somehow. The infrastructure that SS mentioned is also key. It seems daunting to place cords everywhere, but imagine if we were switching to gas and needed all the gas stations we have now. On many street corners there are three or four. What I see instead of some technology that will charge "fill" in five minutes, is smaller, lighter, power sources that could be swapped out like propane tanks. At least here, more people just trade tanks at our local convienence stores than have our own tanks filled.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 09:55 AM) Where ya been? getting hookers for governors, working out in front of Muslim women, smuggling illegals, and trying to kill Tex.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Mar 5, 2008 -> 09:05 AM) That is a bulls***, Tex-like analogy, Nice, I don't post for two weeks and someone still can rip me There must be lots of Muslim women working out because the http://www.curves.com/about_curves/ Seems like perhaps more then just Muslim women favor that environment.

Random thoughts. Something I learned from the concrete industry that carries over to oil. We're using both faster than the earth can resupply. Therefor, the folks that own cement and oil, own as much as they ever will. It is just a matter of how fast they want to sell it. Why bust your ass in production just to lower prices? Work 8-5 M-F and not worry about it. Electric cars move the point of pollution from the cars to the electric plant. I know no one was touting the environmental impact but wanted to toss it out there. Anyone know if the taxes on fuel are percentages or exact cost per gallon? Perhaps consumers should be talking to our elected representatives to lower them taxes.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 09:14 AM) How about a governor who has really close ties to one of the leading Presidential candidates? Then again even without the connections to Hillary, the affect is still more than the preachers that are taken down publically for the same kind of stuff. Hillary would have to have known he was soliciting prostitutes for it to change my opinion of her. Perhaps the effect is great, but less widespread. The preachers that have been involved in these sorts of things generally have a national following. I could not even name five Governors, so I just don't see it as being that important outside of his state. Except to score some little political points or, as mentioned, for the entertainment angle.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Mar 10, 2008 -> 03:09 PM) powerful men like to feel powerful. QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 10, 2008 -> 03:10 PM) What's the power in paying for sex? Anyone can do that. They feel they can get away with it. It's the same sort of hubris that allows you to run for office. It takes a real strong ego to run for office. I sometimes believe the very act of wanting to run for office should automatically make you ineligible to hold office. QUOTE(mr_genius @ Mar 10, 2008 -> 04:01 PM) This should be a big time story, we'll see if the media covers it like they did Larry Craig. I should be a big time story in his state, but really, how much does the Governor of another state resigning change in your life? Is it really of national importance? It will get covered for the entertainment value.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 05:40 AM) And once again I am the last man standing. Could it be there's like 6 women standing, but you're the last man?

QUOTE(SoxWS05 @ Mar 10, 2008 -> 10:40 AM) What a skumbag. This guy will never miss a chance to bad mouth the Sox. We could pick up A-rod and Johan and he would say how the Sox made a bad move and don't know how run the organization. What a joke this guy is. If the Sox did pick up those guys, half of this board would be saying the same thing. And have plenty of stats and financial projections to prove it. Then when Jay says it, it will be because he hates the Sox.

QUOTE(Felix @ Mar 9, 2008 -> 06:27 PM) None of those teams have really traded their highest value players while holding onto their lowest value players (unless you're talking about Miguel Tejada being traded when his value was probably the lowest possible, barring a suspension due to 'roids) I also don't disagree that the ownership in Baltimore is absolutely terrible, but Tampa Bay and KC are pretty well stocked for the upcoming years. I'm also not saying that Florida's plan is the best plan for everyone, but you can't deny their results. 2 World Series rings in 14 years of existence? Not going to get much better than that. So do you win without your most valuable players? Like Bad News Bears?

He also never really spent any time on the market.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 9, 2008 -> 10:30 AM) We could have championships in Charlotte and Birmingham! Wouldn't that be great? exactly. But I was actually thinking about something even more important, perhaps, *the* most important thing of all. Would it result in more profits? That's #1