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QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 05:43 PM) I have to admit it, I love this kind of thing. It's like the fine art thiefs, you almost like rooting for them just for the smarts that goes into it and how they pull this stuff off without anybody being physically hurt. We too. I hope the cops cracked up when they saw all those guys around. Hell, add the few thousand he stole to the $700,000,000,000.00 we're coughing up to the banks, at least this guy was amusing.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 02:22 PM) My first thought was "damn, that's creative. He kinda deserves the money for creativity."

Btw, it is stuff like this that makes me proud to be an American and of our process.

Couple late thoughts on the Texas game, the only one I caught this weekend in its entirety. The way Colt McCoy is playing, I'm not certain what college team can stop him. Imagine going into the game with a 79.5% completion rate and improving it against what was a pretty decent team. I mentioned during the game that Texas would receive more respect for winning 35-21 then blowing Missouri out. I was right. Ironic that by totally handling Missouri for a half, with the most impressive offensive performance I've seen in years, they lost respect in some eyes. Blow them out, they sucked, win by 10 or so and they are for real just walked into back to back juggernauts. That Texas Tech game is shaping up to be something special.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 01:35 PM) While I think we can all agree that is a problem...it's a problem without a solution. Because it's a much, much worse idea to let organizations on their own, rather than the government, decide which registration forms they're going to send in. Something tells me it wouldn't be that hard to find an awful lot of typos on people who registered for one specific party, for example, if you really wanted to. A little more work checking and fixing databases, and thus a little more money spent, seems like the much better option here. You can't stop people from filling out forms incorrectly if they're trying to reach some sort of quota, it happens whether people are paid or not. Agreed. I am assuming, without evidence, that the incorrect application rate is much higher for these drives than for applications that are either filled out in person or mailed in individually by the voters themselves. So these drives create more "garbage" work. That is about the biggest issue I see with them.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 12:59 PM) When you said "partisan drives" a few posts ago it made it sound as if you were referring to ACORN but reading it again it sounds like you were talking about something else. I am thinking those with a ® and (D) firmly and closely attached.

Out of stupid ideas comes teflon and post-it-notes. No harm in exploring crazy ideas to see what might be there. I noticed that there aren't too many household names attached anywhere.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 11:51 AM) This means that you support ACORN in principle then. In principle. I don't believe I ever said I was against them. Basically I view all of these groups as merely conduits for information to get to the election officials. Much like the US Postal Service. If the USPS delivered voter registration forms for Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse no one would blame them for delivering the obviously false applications. So I fail to see why these gorups should be treated any differently. Where I do see a problem is they are creating an enormous work load for election officials sifting through garbage. But as I mentioned, it is far more dangerous to have them not send in everything.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 10:14 AM) So, in other words, you'd like to see voter registration carried out in part by community organizers. Perhaps even an association of community organizers? Works for me. I've always supported that grass roots type movement.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 20, 2008 -> 10:41 PM) By the way, let's just ABSOLUTELY cut to the chase here. Colin Powell has NEVER really been a Republican, from a social standpoint. So, him endorseing Obama is not race, it's issues, and reality is, he never really stood for anything the GOP ever did anyway, except the military. Period. Bottom line, his endorsment shouldn't mean a damn thing, nor should it be a surprise to anyone who listens to him speak. Interesting, I'm with you here, I never thought of him as a Republican. But I also never thought of him as a Dem either. As a VP candidate my comment was game.set.match if McCain or Obama could have gotten him. As an endorsement, I think some people dismissed it along obvious lines, not ideology. I believe it means even more if you believe it is issues not race.

A post got me to thinking. In my organization, supervisors have an obligation to help every employee to be promoted. Even if this happens to be detrimental to a specific location when someone moves. Should the White Sox, as an organization, have as a goal, every player reaching the 25 man roster, even if it is with another team? I hate to use this example in fear of this getting thread jacked, but it's the best I have as I sit here. IF Crede was resigned to say a 5 year deal, should the Sox feel a moral or ethical calling to trade Fields to where he would have a true MLB roster shot?

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 09:23 AM) Yes I know I'm ridicously early, but hell I never celebrate Halloween down under, and I'm trying to figure out what a good costume to wear would be for this year. Any ideas? I'd avoid any cliches like Crocodile Dundee. How about one of the baseball gang members from Warriors? Has a nice New York tie in.

Link And yes, the story isn't that important, I just loved the headline potential

I was in a waiting room this morning and only saw the scrolling, is Dubya considering another round of free money to stimulate the economy?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 08:41 AM) Or the guy who was traded for a PTBNL, then after the season, he went back to the original team AS the PTBNL. He was traded for himself. I forgot about that guy. Priceless. Henry Chiati I believe was his name.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Oct 20, 2008 -> 02:38 PM) It may already have been, it's such an unimportant deal that it probably won't even be reported. Some nothing minor leaguer of ours will show up in the Pirates system next year. I remember reading a story about a player who was the ptbnl in three deals. It was hilarious. I wish I had saved it.

QUOTE (mreye @ Oct 21, 2008 -> 08:13 AM) I don't like these registration drives by third parties. You should only be able to register at a government entity - state building, county courthouse, DMV, etc. It opens it up to too many questions. I wouldn't have a problem with a third party like ACORN renting a bus and driving these people to a place to get registered. Who knows if actual election fraud is behind this or if it really was people that were too shy to talk to others. And will they know the true answer before the election and will the electorate be happy with the result of the investigation, regardless of the victor? See? Too many questions. I was agreeing with you all the way, then we got to the conclusion and it feels wrong to me. It takes the process another step towards the parties and away from the people and that just isn't a goal I can support. This isn't perfect by any stretch but I would like to see neighbors registering neighbors. Community groups getting involved, etc.

Allow me to translate since the usual translator is away: Next chance I get, I'm going to register AlphaDog and AHB in Texas Seriously, the process sucks when we have these voter drives, no matter how clean you try and make them. Partisan drives in the past have caused these laws to be written where ever registration is turned in.

They will die like all fashions, people tire of them. They move onto something else. For example, people will always wear pants, and these were really comfortable, and showed your support of your team, yet I haven't seen anyone wearing them in a long time. At some point people will get tired of dressing on Tuesday like their heroes dress on Sunday. But hey, I could be wrong. Jerseys may be the only fashion trend that is forever. I can't name another one, can anyone? The best I can come up with are blue jeans. But the styles have changed a lot. High wasted bell bottoms are hard to find. But for now jerseys are pretty cool, and I really like the cross sport, like a Sox hockey jersey. Although, IMNSHO the regular Blackhawks is the coolest jersey in all sports.

From the (color)-out Game thread QUOTE (The Critic @ Oct 18, 2008 -> 09:24 AM) A better version of this joke follows: The Cubs could have a Blue-Out Day because the Dodgers blew them out 3 times in a row.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Oct 18, 2008 -> 09:24 AM) A better version of this joke follows: The Cubs could have a Blue-Out Day because the Dodgers blew them out 3 times in a row.

QUOTE (Felix @ Oct 17, 2008 -> 11:49 PM) Penn State did a white out years ago for a game against Ohio State, and have continued with it for other games. It looks awesome. That looks like the Republican National Convention It does look pretty cool, no matter the color.

Imagine the fun if ACORN could decide who is real and which are frauds. Start bouncing them Republicans and keeping the fraud and Dems That's what we want