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rofl just read a hilarious rumor, not sure if its true but apparently the Raiders coaches gave JaMarcus Russell a DVD and told him to check out the new plays/schemes/whatever on it. Later they asked him what he thought, he said he liked it but didn't have any input. The DVD was blank.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 11, 2010 -> 08:35 PM) Totally disagree. But I'm not going to get all uberstatty here. He's going in the HOF. idk, you never hear buzz about his name, ever. It's funny though because Griffey Sr. was a pretty decent player but when you compare his stats to his son's, he looks so average.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 11, 2010 -> 08:31 PM) Ken Griffey was a good player and all but he was no where near hall of fame caliber. Yeah I don't know why I said that, lol. In my head I was thinking "All-Star" and I started thinking about Griffey Jr. and wrote "Hall of Famer"

I remember someone started a thread like this last year, I said Regulate by Nate Dogg/Warren G

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Mar 11, 2010 -> 04:56 PM) Great interview. Thanks for reminding bschmaranz. Franks' son is going to college next year to play ball. Some prospect geeks like myself can't possibly wait to see how he develops. He's got a long way to go though like Frank said as he picked up baseball late. Trey Griffey is a couple of years younger than Frank's son but he doesn't seem to be interested in baseball. That'd be awesome if he played but that's also a s***-ton of pressure, I mean, your dad and granddad are both HOFs?

Normally we tend to do this kind of coordination for our conspiracy in private away from you guys.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Mar 11, 2010 -> 06:44 PM) Torii is pretty dumb for this and I like him less. First about the whole white team wearing #42 for Jackie Robinson. That's more a celebration of a breaking down of barriers. They're celebrating equality for all colors. What Torii said then sounds like "Yeah, only good black players should be wearing that number. White players shouldn't. I don't support white people supporting a black historical moment." And yes, it's pretty much that simple. Now as far as the Latino's not being black. What color are they? You're telling me Alexei Ramirez isn't black? He's toastier than you are Mr. Hunter. David Ortiz is black. What makes a player Latino and what makes a player black? Is he saying black people can only be from certain places like Jamaica, Africa and America because they act different? Torrii is a very short-sighted person. He was clumsy as hell in how he said it but it's true, they are the same color and probably descended from near the same place, but an Afro-Cuban or black Dominican is totally different culturally than a black person that grew up in the United States. Juan Uribe might look like he grew up in Englewood, but he wouldn't identify with them at all.

The major points that are intended to be put in the bill (except the public option) and the intended effects of each one have pretty much been public knowledge for months. There is the Senate bill and the House bill that have been both on house.gov and senate.gov since at least December with various other versions before that, and there've been studies of each one on various websites, and yes, the Republicans have even proposed bills although not as thorough as the Democrats. It's not like at this point they are going to spring a surprise on everybody and try something new. So to be 100% honest, if someone claims to not know what's in the bill and they're acting like it's some super-secret plan, it's not even really worth arguing about it because it's really not and they should've read about it themselves because in many cases I see people emphatically claiming there is or is not something in the bill and they'd find out they were wrong if they actually had bothered to look. One guy at work was ranting about "this monstrosity of a bill" and something that was in it (I forget what) and I asked him "out of curiosity, which one are you referring to? H.R. 3200?" He wasn't ready for that, his response was something like "eh... uh, yes." I actually wasn't trying to put him on the spot but I knew that H.R. 3200 didn't have whatever he was talking about in it and I could tell he never looked it up for himself.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 11, 2010 -> 10:39 AM) Woot! Glad my wife works in that building. Perks! I used to work there in the 90s.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 11, 2010 -> 09:44 AM) Federal line goes up a lot. State line goes down a lot. Top graph = sum of the 2, which winds up flat. Expansionist policy would be the top graph moving up, contractionary policy would be the top graph moving down. I think I get your explanation but I look at the graph and try to interpret it for myself and I'm all WTF.

lol, I can't read that s***, those graphs may as well be written in Russian.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Mar 11, 2010 -> 08:41 AM) It's always "different." minor fix

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 11:43 PM) did he really? what an ass Yeah I'm not actually sure it was Hunter, but he (or whoever said it) said something to the effect that all the white players jumping on the bandwagon diminishes the meaning of the black players doing it. I tried to re-type it in a way that didn't sound dumb, but I can't because the statement was, well, dumb.

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 05:36 PM) There are many stupid ways of putting things; but, Hunter has been getting away with his comments for years with no public backlash, until now. Imagine if someone like Ozzie or Quentin had said that just once in reverse (black hispanics aren't real hispanics). They would have been burned at the stake of public opinion in 2 seconds flat and would have had to given a public apology. /'buster'd Yeah, can't really disagree with that. Wasn't it Hunter who complained that white players wore #42 on April 15th and said it cheapens it?

Well it was a pretty stupid way of putting it, but yeah, he's right, black Latinos and black Americans are 2 different cultures and blacks here tend to not want to play baseball - at least for kids growing up in the 90s and earlier this decade, anyway.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 03:35 PM) No, it was incest with his 15 year old sister. I dont consider that to be much better I kind of don't really care, tbh, and I don't know anything besides that anyway. I mean since she was 15 and he was 16 wouldn't that make her a sex offender too?

Also go look at Google Earth or Google Maps, and go to Chernobyl, Ukraine and see the nearby inhabited areas - if you zoom down with the satellite view you can see where the trees and other vegetation starting to overtake the roads, and you can see where clumps of trees are starting to crowd out uninhabited houses in certain places. edit: better yet type in "chernobyl atomic energy station" and it'll take you right to it and you can look around in the exclusion zone to see what I was talking about

They didn't give near enough detail in that article for me to judge his character, plus, well he was 16 and it's not like it was rape, sexual assault, pedophilia etc.

I read somewhere that the areas where the Berlin Wall used to be ended up being nature refuges since no humans ever went there.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 03:03 PM) Not complaining. Already filled out and returned. ^^what GoSox said. I was browsing some blogs before I made my original comment and not talking about anyone here. I didn't know whether I was supposed to laugh or cry though. It's like some people think that Obama invented the Census as another step to turn us into Communist Nazis.

The Census is important, and it's one of the first thing the new government did when the Constitution was adopted, and I haven't looked it up but I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court said the government was allowed to ask all those demographic questions that came later. A protest against the Census is a protest against yourself

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 02:07 PM) Honestly, between as many things as we've seen demonized in this bill and as many lectures as we've heard about it being 2000 pages of government takeovers, do you actually think it would be possible to write and pass a bill that directly reformed every single thing on your list all at the same time? There's a reason why this one is aimed at reforming insurance companies. Because there's only so many lobbies you can take on at once. If this bill makes things better, then it's worth passing. The phrase "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" applies here. Not without creating a national healthcare system which in this country is a non-starter.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 01:50 PM) Unfortunately, every time someone listens to you, we spend on average $25 in tax dollars to send a person to ask them to fill it out in person Which is just one more reason to believe these people are hypocrites and morons.

The people who are predictably making a fuss out of the Census and turning it into a political issue (again) amuse me. Fine, don't fill the f***ing thing out, throw it in the trash and ignore the interviewer when they come to find you. Seriously. Do that. Then encourage all your like-minded friends that live near you to do it too.

Insurance companies haven't really been helping but they aren't the problem all by themselves, it's probably the way we practice medicine in this country, and the fact that it's just bogged down by so much inefficiency.