Texsox

My students today were the same age when the Towers fell as I was when JFK was assassinated, two. Interesting thoughts they have.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 10, 2013 -> 10:01 AM) I got the opposite read because of his personality. He will literally do anything to win. Stomp on a guys head as he rounds third base, knock a guy down in the baseline, etc. How thick is the line between something like that and steroids? I will preface that by saying I have no evidence or anything one way or the other, but more his personality is as competitive as anyone in the history of baseball. That is what I am going off of. I don't know the guy at all, and don't pretend to. I had not thought of AJ that way, but you make a nice argument. We could also add a "guilt by association" argument. However, I would be surprised if he did.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2013 -> 01:19 PM) Bad things only happened between 2001 and 2009. Somewhere between that statement and nothing happened is the truth.

So did the world stop when Bush left office and started over? Or perhaps the world continued on, just like it will continue after Obama leaves office.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 6, 2013 -> 03:21 PM) Just read an article about the Samsung smartwatch. Am I the only one who thinks this is the dumbest f***ing idea ever? Other than a select few hipsters, who is buying this thing? Who needs ANOTHER smart device on their person? I don't get it at all. When it replaces my phone, it will be a huge hit. Why have a huge phone in your pocket when you can have a sleek watch on your wrist? It needs to be paired with some form of screen and in-ear wireless bud. I'll take it a step further, I'm hoping to be alive when you insert a small device in your ear, slip on glasses, and that's all you need.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 8, 2013 -> 02:09 PM) Tex, when i get off this netbook, I will find you at least 2 links where urrent admin offials and Dem politicians have said that events in Syria are a result of Bush era policies and his fault. And of course they are wrong because everything was completed and the world restarts when a new US President is elected. The GOP position is once a new President is elected, everything starts new. That just doesn't reflect reality. World issues, especially in that region, go back years, decades, even centuries. Solutions have to take in the history. Suggesting that we not learn from history, not look past the start of a current presidency, is dangerous. It doesn't matter who the President is. Just like the next president will be tasked with carrying on what every President since Washington has started. The only guy who didn't have to worry about that was Washington and he talked about what had happened under the Articles of Confederation.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 7, 2013 -> 01:27 PM) Those are the first sane, sensible things I have ever heard come from him mouth. I am just surprised that he didn't find a way to make it Bush's fault. But give him time...... Still trying to keep Bush's name in the news? I like the technique of complaining about something that isn't happening in hopes that people will think it is. Nicely played sir or shall we say Mission Accomplished!

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 6, 2013 -> 10:27 PM) OK, we have to stop thinking of war in terms of easy outcomes. Dropping $10m bombs out of $1b airplanes is always going to be expensive. I don't even know what it costs to empty the Sixth Fleet out of Naples into a holding pattern in the Med, much less start using it for war, but I cannot imagine it being cheap. America's business is war. The military industrial complex is a huge part of our economy. We have to start depleting our inventories of disposable weapons. I do not believe our economy can do well if we ain't dropping those $10m bombs and losing a few $10b planes. Eisenhower nailed it in 1959.

Two scenarios 1) Two bat ass crazy m-fers getting together. Rodman getting back in the news, K-J jock sniffing. 2) The State Department is using the one guy on the planet that K-J seems to like, Rodman, as an unofficial diplomat. Wierd. Rodman did tweet a couple months ago asking K-J to "Do him a solid and release Bae".

With Ozzie I am more inclined to believe a change is legit. I can't see him pulling off an insincere change like that. Still if I was a GM, and interested in Ozzie, I wouldn't give him the keys to the MLB club first. Bench coach, AA, etc would be my try. That would be a test of being humble.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 3, 2013 -> 03:44 PM) McCain would have been a good VP He should have been Pres in Bush's place. The push attack that Bush's campaign pulled was a very low blow.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 3, 2013 -> 01:43 PM) I hated the way he seemed to think 'reaching across the aisle' was to go like gangbusters at your own side. If he went after Obama half as hard as he does his supposed fellow Republicans on some issues, it could have been an interesting contest. I wish more politicians had the opportunity to "go like gangbusters" at their own side. That's how change comes about. Republicans yelling at Dems doesn't work. Dems yelling at Dems works better. And vice versa of course. What we have today is defend your team, right or wrong, and attack the other team, right or wrong.

I agree with Alpha on this one. I'll also add, what is said in open meetings like this is window dressing. The real debate is behind the scenes, it is one on one. I doubt any veteran Washington politico was surprised by any of the Q&A. It's a formula they are going through. At the worse, in my book, it shows that McCain, like many, has already made up his mind.

I am convinced, without any hard evidence, that Ozzie has drinking, thinking, and parenting problems. He could have been the most popular baseball person in the history of Chicago, yet he pissed it away. He wasn't as bad as we think, and not nearly as good as some think. He got too much credit for 2005 and too much blame for, well everything on the field after that. He has a drinking problem. Did I mention that before?

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 2, 2013 -> 08:54 PM) Use something like Connectify to turn your laptop into a hotspot. Basic college student stuff, man Even us old guys can handle that.

On the surface the Palin pick looked desperate and pandering. The majority of voters never leave the surface. I have always been a McCain fan. I've respected his abilities to work across the aisle without giving up too much of his principles.

BTW there is debate whether Machiavelli typed that book in green, or if it was to be taken literally. It does seem that it is taken literally in NK.

Just read chapter 3 of "The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli and you will understand the genius of how NK is ruled.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 31, 2013 -> 04:20 PM) Here is the national security team meeting today to discuss bombing Syria: The question...do you ignore everyone else and only listen to what Hagel says or do you ignore everything Hagel says based on his attire? s***, and I was having a hard time deciding what to have for dinner. I truly do not believe I would want to be at that table.

Duke, you assert they are an inferior culture. In what areas are they inferior? From your argument it seems you are replying they are somehow less human than Americans. Are we smarter than them? Stronger? And is that just naturally born Americans or are our immigrants included? I can think of so many questions, is this evolutionary? Selected breeding? How did humans in America become superior to humans in other parts of the world?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 29, 2013 -> 01:20 PM) Obviously very creepy, but probably the best first-person narrative I've ever read. One of the things we are exploring is what does a person get out of reading. The discussion for any of these books will be interesting, but how to explain Lolita?

As I work towards my MA in Lierature, which is hopefully a step towards piling it high and deep, I have a Literature and Culture class that will focus on the Kennedy assasination. My first assignmnet is a book written by one of JFK's mistresses called Mafia Moll. Judith Campbell Exner is the author. My other class is a Comparative Lit class centering around "unlikable characters". Required reading include Jude the Obscure, Lolita, Madam Bovary, and a few others. I am liking my choices this semester.

And how many players use their sport (employees work) to get their mind off their troubles? Yeah, I have some compassion and empathy, but sucking is sucking and at some level players and employees are responsible for their work. The comparison is kind of unfair between "regular jobs" and athletes. There are not that many people on the planet that can do the things that Ramirez and Dunn were hired to do and there are severe restrictions on their employer's ability to hire a replacement, even part time. With great compensation comes greater expectations. These aren't hourly Joe Sixpacks.

We may be thinking of two different situations. Yes, under the scenario that a team claims him. But if he clears waivers the Sox can work out any trade, which could include the Sox eating the deferred money. After I posted again I reread the earlier posts. Damn, it's too early and I haven't finished my first cup of coffee