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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 07:52 PM) Really Ozzie? Jason Kubel, from your favorite Twins team, DH'ed in 80 games; Joe Mauer DH'ed in 28 games; Justin Morneau DH'ed in 12 games. Why? Because they are GOOD. You want to DH Andruw Jones, Mark Kotsay, Omar Vizquel, and maybe giving an outfielder a rest (the only one who should ever be DH'ed in the first place is Quentin). It's like Ozzie has been given boxing gloves and now he wants to go play basketball with them on.

I wrote that in my status the other day, a lot more abrasively of course as that's my MO on my Facebook statuses if you're my friend. lol. Anyway it's not like the tourists are stopping in Port-au-Prince and chillin in hotels that could be used for relief efforts and what not... Labadee is nowhere near where the quake struck, it's on a completely different part of the island. It's basically just a beach with a zipline, some roller-coaster thingy, and some souvenir shops where Haitians work. Bypassing that stop wouldn't really make any sense at all... as was mentioned before the passengers have probably had their trip planned for years, and the ships are still on a schedule, there's really nowhere else for them to go. Not stopping can only hurt, not help.

The problem with calling this race was that there just wasn't enough reliable/updated polling data to use and everything swung so suddenly.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 07:52 PM) applied statistics are use to predict political races. as i already stated. The commentary there is obviously really biased, but it's otherwise pretty accurate.

Yeah 538 posts trends and odds, he doesn't actually "call" anything except for during the general election where he predicted the electoral vote.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 07:44 PM) I was reading 538 yesterday, he was predicting a Coakley win haha but i agree, Brown is not going to be a lock step GOP conservative. Huh? Silver predicted 3:1 odds for Brown the day before/day of

QUOTE (CryptviLL @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 07:10 PM) Ok: Anyone play any Red alert 3? The new one. Or any RTS players out there? Just curious. The RTS I play is Civilization 4 right now. Picked it up to start playing it and I'm hooked again.

That's pretty typical of MA Republicans

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 05:27 PM) Some of this has to do with the home mentality as well. I'm black & I speak proper, but I never thought of it as "talking like white people" until I heard someone refer it to as such. Ha... I just joined a Facebook group today called I'm Black And I Speak Proper English. Stop Saying I'm "Trying To Act White"

I heard there were also American flights that got turned around too.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 06:31 PM) Actually, Justice Thomas argued that having it in the open was unconstitutional today, and that it should be done in backroom deals. Quite literally. I seriously sometimes wonder how Thomas got accepted into law school, let alone making it through.

I don't think I'm being hyperbolic when I ask, how can we really call ourselves a democratic republic anymore? It couldn't be any more obvious that our votes don't matter.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 10:39 AM) It's official. Corporations will now run this country...even though they pretty much already have been. Free speech my ass, the price of free speech just went up by a few million.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 11:22 PM) A good 99% of me though thinks that of the things the CIA can f*** around with in Iran, manifesting civil protestations and popular upheaval isn't one of them. Coups? Sure...but this is far too democratic for the CIA. I was going to make a similar post last night but I forgot where I was going with it. This is way too complex for the CIA, they really aren't competent/advanced enough to pull off something like this IMO.

The CIA really has f***ed around a lot in Iran though.

I'm f***ing psyched for Mass Effect 2. Anyone else?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 08:38 PM) cut spending then lol you say that almost like it's my decision

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 07:07 PM) I'm glad we can always count on the French to be... well French. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/285993 Yeah, Sarkozy was pretty quick to smooth that one over.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 08:09 PM) Another debt ceiling increase http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100120/ap_on_...s_debt_limit_11 I'd rather the government not default on its debt though.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 07:21 PM) Really? So the size of the audience matters? Well it doesn't have anything to do with what a private company wants to put on in the middle of the night during a show with low ratings, either.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 05:00 PM) ok. Like I said I didn't realize people were pro abortion, I thought it was pro choice. I honestly felt the fight is about letting a woman choose and even pro-choicers are still happy when that choice ends up being life over abortion. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. That's for the most part true, and this really gets lost in translation, sometimes on purpose. If I'm trying to explain it and I'm not getting through or the person starts mocking/insulting me I'll just start dropping bait or deliberately trying to offend them, i.e. "don't you know, I can't even function without eating a burned fetus in the morning" just so I can get their attention.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 05:01 PM) I agree with our nation having issues. I remember when I graduated from high school, they had scholarships strictly for women or racial minorities. But that's not racist nor sexist. But it someone was to set up a scholarship strictly for white males, it could be called both. This idea of an all white league is beyond rediculous, but if they wanted me I'd probably play. I don't want to send this to the Filibuster (I'm the one that would do it since I mod both forums, lol), but there's never been a point in history where white males were denied rights or opportunity or were disadvantaged as a result of having been denied, like women and minorities. That's the origin of those kind of scholarships anyway. One could argue over whether that's still needed, but that would be a different argument.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 10:34 PM) Ok, then I'm wrong. Post me a linky, because I don't understand that as being the rules. I don't have a link but I'll vouch for Balta here, that's the rule. I think the senator in question is Coburn (god I hate that guy).

Holy s*** you guys are retarded

I don't think Brown being an ex-nude model has any relevance to anything whatsoever, but by all means we should still be allowed to make fun of him for it.