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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 09:55 AM) I would argue that losing your job has a more adverse affect than a paycut does. Sure. But we then get to my original thought, the pay cuts would be adverse. Certainly to the family and their creditors it is adverse. It would seem it is also adverse to their towns, counties, and cities. Are there any winners? If, for example, we cut autoworkers salaries 25%, is it a victory for anyone, or just a smaller defeat?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 08:02 AM) They will retire Thomas and Konerko's if he remains here a few more years, in addition to Buehrle's. But I think that's it from this era. And I think Kong is a marginal at this moment.

At least for the home loans, it doesn't feel much different than most other government home ownership programs.

Maybe a little reminder to K-Dubya that there's a hole left to fill?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 08:20 AM) Would it be better for you an an individual to have your net costs going up when your income is going down? Its not any different for coporations versus individuals. When net income is shrinking, you can't have your costs going up, and expect to be in business, well unless you are the government. You also can't have your costs remain the same and your income going down, which is what these wage cuts would do.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 08:11 AM) If the whole economy is growing, it can sustain rising costs. With the whole pie shrinking, all it does it make the snapback bigger. OK. But why take three steps back? Honest question(s). Did salaries rise too far? And it seems that everyone points to everyone else as making too much. It seems the ripple effect of salary cuts would make things worse, force more people into bankruptcy, foreclosures, less capital available for savings, investments, etc,

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 07:59 AM) I'm certainly not talking about the nasty stuff that passes for sausage at the chains andeverywhere else in the country. Real Chicago sausage is the only thing, and I miss it dearly. Exactly. There is no comparison between a true Chicago style sausage, and the sausage that is available nationwide from any chain. That stuff is too bland. The special seasoning blend and appearance is totally different. If it is uniform in shape, texture, and color, it is the wrong stuff. If it is hand shaped from a bulk mix, it is the correct stuff. And the real Chicago sausage. Jim, do you have a recipe? That would be worth mixing up.

Riddle me this, something I've been pondering for a while and have not reached a conclusion. It seems that over the past year there is a demand that most Americans, from autoworkers to CEOs, from government workers to baseball players, take huge pay and benefit cuts. Almost every time we read about salaries, some form of cutbacks seem to be called for. Even if this was possible, what does this do long term? It doesn't seem that long ago that rising wages were considered a good thing. So we magically cut back everyone's wages 10%, what is the benefit?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 07:50 AM) How is that wrong? If you want *REAL* sausage pizza, you do what I said, and then you get it. I think your joke went over my head. :/ The real sausage is what I ate in Chicago for 35 years, not the sliced stuff that is available anywhere. The true Chicago sausage blend, with the fennel, is almost unheard of anywhere else.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 07:13 AM) Don't ever order a "sausage pizza" in Chicago, UNLESS you say -- I want sliced Italian sausage. Otherwise they use that crap looking turd sausage. No matter where you order it from, just tell them you want sliced Italian sausage, and they'll do it, and THEN your pizza will taste like it's supposed too. I have to admit, however, I have never tried anchovies on my pizza...I do like ranch dressing with my pizza, though. Wrong. Oh how I miss real sausage on a pizza.

Yes, Maggs, as a public figure, has less rights than other people. I believe it is silly that many Americans believe the only way to run a country is our way, and then complain about what a s***ty government we have, how bad this or that is.

Baines was still active with another team when his number was retired. I could easily see Buerhle's number being retired, a few more seasons and it will be a no brainer. Are the Cubs still holding Jenkin's cocaine arrest against him?

I thought this was a Fleetwood Mac Thread /bye

Laguna by Michael Putengat

I doubt it would be anything like a ptbnl, but I couldn't find anything in a few minutes of research. But I am always intrigued when guys at this level get traded. It seems like there is always a personal angle, or something unique. Or perhaps the teams were discussing something from the mlb roster and had an oh, btw moment. Or maybe someone just gets bored and wants to do something

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 08:25 PM) That is correct. I thought they were extreme in their quest to destroy corg, even though he was a fraud. It did seem extreme, although, the story was, he was offered an opportunity to write his own mea culpa and declined. It was annoying to watch the younger posters especially slurp up his lies and thanking him so profusely for posting all that insider information.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 05:16 PM) Someone outted him on never being on the board for the sox. I also remember him claiming he was there when they voted down trading Thomas to the Red Sox for trot Nixon. He was outed in a huge way. People tracked down his ex-wife and really exposed him. The moment I *knew* he was a fraud was when he said that it was illegal for corporations to lend each other money or invest in other corporations. I was looking for his Ode du Colon a p[arody of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road IIRC

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 09:55 AM) Actually, the kids voted for you because you were DEFINITELY old enough to buy them beer. Nice. Thank you.

They flew her hours after the head injury, that seems wrong to me.

I now have had all the various methods of fusing skin back together and while each wound was different, the staples seemed to be the best overall. With glue, the tugging and discomfort seemed to last for weeks. With stitches, moving was far worse. The staples seemed to have some give. But Kap was right, it is much more comfortable with them gone. I am using the vicodin at night and Advil during the day to control pain. I get tired very easily, but hope to get some stuff done the next couple of days. I put a warranty claim in to my mother, it seems as if this was probably present from birth. A few years back, I thought my days were numbered. I've been reflecting on that and having the opportunity to feel this pain and discomfort is pretty cool.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 03:43 PM) I was at a bar the other night, and they were having this trivia game and one of the questions was what are the two most common types of beer. The answer was ale and lager. Well, one guy who apparently got the answer wrong protested very loudly and adamantly that, "Ale is not beer!" If I heard him say it once, I heard it fifteen times. Most of the people in the bar believed that ale is beer and the bartender was pretty apathetic about the whole topic. Everything that I have found online says that ale is beer. I know there are some beer experts on here, so can anybody confirm that ale is or is not beer. And if it is beer, do you have any idea what that guy was talking about? The confusion is pretty simple, he is thinking of them as completely different beverages and not as a subset. The family is beer, which is then made up of many different beverages. You mention the contest was at a bar. I always give my drinking companions, and I consider anyone within voice range a drinking companion, the benefit of the doubt and would never consider them retarded. In fact I would offer to buy him an ale and congratulate him on his higher level thinking skills. Of course it is that compassionate bar behavior that got me elected as "Soxtalk Drinking Buddy of The Year" I hate stupid drunks

IIRC LCR banned himself.

A couple minor pinches but overall, way better than stitches. I had a jumbo size repair, the wound is about 50% longer than what he expected to need.

I have some minor quibbles with a few of his choices, but overall it is a well researched piece.

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