Texsox

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 08:18 PM) I think it is HIGHLY unfortunate that the deep south is still so racist. It's staggering the Black/White divide in the south. I am glad to see Obama win these mostly white states, but it kinda hurts to see him win these southern states with such a divide. Just goes to show that after nearly 143 years, there is still such rampid if not secret racism. I saw way more racism in Chicago than I do in Texas. Boston is in a class(less) by themselves.

They have to get to work, shop, take the kids to baseball practice, and hookers have to drive to the Mayflower to meet the Governor . . . If I was living in an area that was paying $.60 more per gallon than other areas of the country, I'd be pushing for a temporary reduction in the taxes.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 12:33 PM) Ummm, but we are all posters on a message board, and that is it. Mariotti is a professional journalist for one of the two biggest papers in Chicago. Objectivity should be a part of his job. Nope, he writes an opinion piece, not a news article.

no, those poll numbers are for his health care plan. Kap posted in the past day or two that Hispanics are still supporting Clinton in a big way in Texas, and I posted that Obama won areas with sizable Black populations. Anyone that has been reading for more than a month should know that neither Kap or I are racist. It is a damn shame when someone can point to something like this, comment in it, and then be called a racist. And the obvious retort is that Clinton is doing really well with women, so that cuts both ways. And there are a lot of white males voting for McCain. Duh The majority of people are most comfortable with people who look, talk, and act like they do. That is a huge edge in any popularity contest. And people are not studying the issues and carefully coming to a conclusion.

What sometimes is forgotten is those foreign cars are sold by Americans, are delivered via trains and trucks by Americans, are serviced by Americans. It isn't like a total loss. And, if you live on the border, hookers are legal in Mexico, I like imported beer, so I guess I have to start smoking.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 06:24 PM) Actually, I for one would argue that it is too low. But there is sort of an artificial equilibrium that will establish itself no matter what tax rate you set that will hold the price the consumer pays roughly constant. If you raise the gas tax, then the price of oil drops somewhat as demand drops, bringing the price at the pump back to where it currently is. If you lower the gas tax, the price of oil will go up as demand increases. I'd argue that the drop in demand associated with an increase is desirable on its own, but that's sort of how the market works. There's a feedback either way that is going to push the system back towards the current point. Constant? Then why are gas prices ranging, today, in the US, from under $3 to over $3.50? I paid $3.05 today, I imagine your price is higher. The taxes are different in every city in America. So what you are saying is if California lowers their tax on gas, people in Mississippi will be paying more for gas? So if Mississippi raises their tax, then California will pay less? So looking at the current prices across the nation, http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 06:15 PM) What that would be likely to do is drive U.S. gas demand sharply downwards...so hypothetically, that would drive the price of a barrel of oil downwards...but the problem is, we're up against a monopoly, so they'd simply cut production to make up the difference, thus keeping the price of oil high. Of course, there may be other benefits to that sort of tax (i.e. significant decrease in greenhouse gas emissions ) worth thinking about in the process as well. So we magically have the perfect tax level on fuel, not too high and not too low. /faints

So what we need is to increase taxes on gas so they can't raise our prices too much. Perhaps slap a $1.00 per gallon tax on and what OPEC drop prices like a rock?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 12:26 PM) In exchange for a couple hours of verbally taunting you...I bet we could come up with that from this site. screw that, it's free every day

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 12:08 PM) Yes, it is the same family. Then I would never vote for him, his daughter, or one of the family ladies, kicked my ass in a tournament in Aurora Rep I assume?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 12:03 PM) On a side bar, I could hardly believe my eyes for the endorsements in the special election for Hasterts seat. The ST endorsed Oberweis, and the Trib endorsed Foster. Is Obereis from the dairy family? If so, he was a huge supporter or chess in the area. Nice man IIRC.

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")