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QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 11:17 AM) If you trade your above average players that are locked up to team-friendly, sub-market, pre-free agency extensions, you will ALWAYS be rebuilding. :notworthy

There's a near-zero chance that I'd ever vote for somebody who has never held public office to be President. I think being the CEO of a large business is an especially rotten preparation for knowing how to govern if you haven't been on the other side.

lol, I am very disturbed by the fact that Greg has found Infowars

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 22, 2015 -> 04:05 PM) I want the media looking into the possibility the kid's family had him disassemble a clock (not make his own clock), put it in a box with wires sticking out, pretend it's his own invention, act like a little jerk when questioned about it, now trying to raise money for himself over his 'mistreatment,' have the kid admit to a Dallas reporter he 'didn't want it to look like a bomb.' Why would a kid excited about his making of a clock even think about it being a bomb if he was merely excited about building a clock? I applaud Bill Maher and his panel for questioning this! Kudos to Mark Cuban as well! Please buy the White sox Mr. Cuban! Another article on the likely hoax http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/09/21/judg...purposeful-hoax If it's so easy to disassemble things and put them back together, I challenge you to disassemble and reassemble your computer. We will wait for your posts

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 21, 2015 -> 06:35 PM) It was kind of weird watching us switch to the spread with Claussen, when we started out with 2 TE set with Cutler. I'm guessing it had to do with which parts of the playbook Clausen had reps using

For the record, I live in Ohio and very much dislike Kasich. I've seen his corrupt little jobs-building programs and his pouring of funds into backer-owned voucher schools that consistently rank among the worst in the state. I also saw him refuse to debate his opponent in the last election and act like a big baby when he had to be interviewed in that candidate's presence because he didn't think the other candidate should exist. But, you know, there are worse guys on the ticket and while I don't like how corrupt and immature he can be, his firm policy positions tend to shade moderate. If someone would promise that Lindsey Graham couldn't control the military, I'd probably vote for him in a Republican primary

Kasich–he's basically George Bush, I know what to expect. Jeb Bush–he's basically a slightly more moderate George Bush, I know what to expect. Donald Trump–he's probably the most liberal in the field on issues he'd have a snowball's chance of effecting. In the worst case, he helps lead my party to an upswing in the mid-term. Rubio–I have a hunch that he might be a reasonable person deep down inside. Lindsey Graham–he'd by my top choice if it weren't for the POTUS's ability to more or less singlehandedly decide to wage war. Outside of his Muslim paranoia, he's the most reasonable and moderate of the rest of the field and is someone who I know knows how to make legislation happen in Congress.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 20, 2015 -> 09:36 PM) Don't count "losing" based on polls 4 months before the first vote is cast. Here's October 2007: Howard Dean was leading in Iowa at this point in 2003. While I'm at it, 9iu11ani would eventually spend about $50 million to win 2 delegates. And that doesn't even mention the roller coaster ride of the Republican 2012 race. I think we're almost to the 4th year anniversary of the Herman Cain boomlet. I didn't say that she has lost them, but there is good reason to believe that if those states held elections today, she'd lose. Chances are she isn't intentionally allowing this to happen just because she knows the race is a ways away. Considering Sanders's issues with name recognition, time could arguably be Hillary's enemy. Of course, you might say that she'll ramp up the contrast advertising and rhetoric nearer to the race; that might be right and that might work. The presence and non-presence of Biden in the race is pretty meaningful as well.

Dayan wasn't a miserable MLB player, he just wasn't good enough to make plans to start him. The fact that he can't play good defense was both his downfall as a starter and the reason he's in the minor leagues. If he wasn't a bottom-tier OF and more of just a DH, he'd get a chance because even his offensive disappointments weren't horrible in terms of overall production. But you can't give too many chances to a guy who has to hit way above average just to cover his poor defense. I'd call him up if I needed him, but I wouldn't ever enter a season trying to a find a place for him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 20, 2015 -> 03:40 PM) For a person who is "entitled" to the spot, she's sure been working hard at earning it. A number of writers have been impressed at her campaign organization, she's taking the "Obama" route of getting strong campaigns established in Iowa, NH, and in as many states as possible and ignoring the stupid daily talking points in favor of fundraising, policy proposal release, and organization building. I was particularly intrigued by her proposals on controlling college costs by tying the availability of federal education funding to the performance of graduates and ability of individual colleges to limit cost increases that came out a few weeks ago. Must be demoralizing to her that she's still losing in those states. Of course, her vast resources are clearly paying off elsewhere. I do wonder if she has the ability to people truly excited for her candidacy a la Obama, Sanders, etc. Of course, there is no prerequisite that says your average supporter must be incredibly enthusiastic since most presidents win without that type of support.

The WSJ armed people with a powerful advertising weapon by publishing that, that is for sure. I wonder if Hillary would actually do that, though, since she doesn't want to turn people off to the entire idea of spending.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 17, 2015 -> 03:37 PM) Because in both cases you are asking THEM to take responsibility for someone else's choices. Either abortion or welfare, you still digging into their pockets to pay for it. No, nobody is being asked to pay for somebody's abortion

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Sep 17, 2015 -> 04:22 PM) His bat doesn't play at third, either. He needs to get better, simple as that. If he doesn't we don't want him ANYWHERE on the diamond. His bat would be fine if you gave it to a player that contributed average defense. The problem, if you think of it in WAR terms, is that he can have a ~1.5 WAR bat and still be a 0 WAR player because of his defense.

This is a great conversation

I just can't believe how little talk there is about how Fiorina out and out lied about what is in those videos. I saw George Stephanopoulos interview her this morning and he told her that those images are not in any of those videos. She just said anyone who claims that hasn't seen the videos and that George needed to go check his facts. But there are plenty of reliable people who have sat through all of those "unedited" videos and have seen no graphic full-formed fetuses wiggling around, etc.

While the USA can largely be described as a country of immigrants, a lot of places in Europe are not historically diverse. And what little diversity there has been in many central and northern European countries has not typically included a great deal of Muslims or non-Europeans. It has been a real challenge there, particularly in terms of how many of these peaceful, supposedly highly progressive areas are now looking at themselves and seeing that being a "melting pot" is hard and it takes a lot of support from the citizen to the government for it to work. It's worth mentioning that not all Muslim countries feel obligated to look out for one another. Saudi Arabia is pretty friendly with the USA, after all. Gulf Arabs tend to feel superior to inland Arabs and to some extent the inverse is true as well. They are not all the same.

Yeah, I don't see why the PD would feel the need to cover up an officer's suicide. And isn't there some decent evidence that the officer did indeed phone in some info about following some guys at that time and place? Can't that be verified? It wouldn't completely rule out a cover-up, but it would be enough for me to assume there's nothing weird going on

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Aug 31, 2015 -> 03:59 PM) Is pedophilia just something you are born with? It's an interesting question. While there is far from any known, conclusive cause just yet, researchers do see pretty good evidence that the primary causes are genetic/prenatal. It is generally thought that pedophiles cannot change their desires towards pre-pubescent children. After years of failure in these conversion therapies, now treatment focuses mainly on stopping offending. It is also worth mentioning that not all child molesters are pedophiles. Pedophiles have a near-exclusive or exclusive attraction to pre-pubescent children. Other child molesters may act for very different reasons.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 3, 2015 -> 05:05 PM) That's not the worst label he's got. "Bush" That's exactly what I was thinking. QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 5, 2015 -> 05:16 PM) Trump beats all of the main Dem options head to head according to this poll, including Clinton: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presid...ry-head-to-head I wouldn't read too terribly much into it, given all the recent results that basically flip the numbers. SurveyUSA is a good firm, though.

If you believe that Goodell is unable/unwilling to be fair—which isn't crazy to think—then destroying your phone isn't suspicious, it's keeping you from getting framed.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 3, 2015 -> 05:49 PM) I despise Hillary. That's a fact. So I guess I need to know the limits. Am I allowed to continue blasting her while praising Ben and Trump? But I love women. Like I said my daughters will be surgeons and wife is pharmacist. I believe in women. As far as Hilly though I have a problem with her personality and entitlement. Women are fiction! I'm a womatheist

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 3, 2015 -> 12:23 PM) A first base coach was killed by a line drive foul ball. Was it his fault for not paying attention? Fans have about the same amount of time to react as he did. Great point. And in the case of fans (at least at non-Sox ballparks), it is almost guaranteed to hit somebody even if it whizzes past one particular person

If the perps have been on the run, then someone is going to notice that 1-3 people from their social group are not around. More dangerous might be if they knew that they wouldn't be identified and are therefore just going about their days like usual.

Here's how the NY Times reported on this over a month ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/world/eu...ngham.html?_r=0

I feel like that's a really minor error in that he almost certainly attended the game and thus came when it ended and she probably didn't know or care whether he was playing.