Sammy Sofa
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Like I said before, intentionally designed to be a flexible and relatively vague (at times) document.
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A lot more sense. And even better would be a pervasive system of public hospitals, just like the roads. Very true. I keep looking to Germany as the model we should be attempting to emulate. The private coverage/care still does very well there because it is significantly better than the state care. This was the crux of the attempted health care reform under Clinton, and I still think it's the smartest way to go since it shows that both options can certainly exist.
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Which is why the "federal option" in regards to insurance/care makes so much more sense if you're going to require that people have to have it.
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It's not a very good analogy because nobody has to own a car.
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Depends on the context of the argument. If it's looking at how their careers actually played out to this point, yeah, Buerhle makes a lot more sense. If it's some kind of hypothetical where both are coming into the league at the same time and significant DL time is a complete question mark, you'd be a fool to not argue for Wood.
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Who are these other options? Marshall or Gorzelanny.
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NEVER FORGET. http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h273/IowaTD/soriano911.jpg
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Really? Seems like a dick move to to be "ticked off" at a player for playing hurt.
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Eh, it's not classic Dugout, but it'll do: http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2010/03/11/the-dugout-chicago-cubs-spring-training-2010/
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It's not like the only options are Shark and Silva.
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Plus it's a loaded question in that a lot of people who are "for" it are only for it in the sense that it's a platform for further reform, and not that this plan is the solution.
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Yeah, the polls out there over this are wildly back and forth. You'll see a lot of polls where the majority states they are against this specific plan or against "Obama's plan" or "the Democrats' plan," etc., but then there are also polls where people are asked their opinions about the main goals of the plan and how it's proposed they will be accomplished (minus the context that these are the specifics of the Democrats' proposed plans or the one that passed) and the majority is in favor of them.
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Not if we are to have a government of the people. That's unrealistically idealistic. At this point, I somewhat agree. That said, I think it's necessary stepping stone to better legislation and to force the issue to stay on the table.
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The government often has to enact legislation that at the time is technically "against the will of the majoroty" for the good of the country. It's unrealistic to think it should only take such steps when most of the population is for it.
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Since this this is just a tangent from the political thread I'll share this here, too: http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/obamas-moderate-health-care-plan http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5ieXw28ZUpg/SxyVY8X94lI/AAAAAAAABb4/qblR4eEhryA/s400/hc.png That said, opinion polls aren't some kind of end-all-be-all. The majority of Americans still think a conspiracy killed JFK, but that doesn't make it so. It more often than not just reflects uninformed, partisan opinions.
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I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT THESE ACTIVIST LAWMAKERS STICKING THEIR NOSE IN OUR BUSINESS IS MAKING ME MAD!
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Or it represents the will of the typically conservative state AG's.
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Hey, it's all relative. To the suck.
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But that's not what he said, he called it the golden age of Cubs baseball. Golden age is specifically defined as "a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak". Maybe I'm being too technical but like TT said, my biggest gripe is about the fact that he's assuming that even with the Cubs resources we are headed for a down decade and will wish we were back in the "golden age" of Cardinals and White Sox winning championships while the Cubs suffer epic collapses or whatever. I don't know, Leitch rarely has anything nice to say about the Cubs, and I read this as a passive agressive way to rip on the Cubs. I suppose, but I'd still agree with him that there were far more "good moments" in the last decade than the Cubs had in a long time.
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Rose makes life happy. VDN getting tossed was hilarious.
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Hah, really? What a bunch of morons.
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So at least 25 state AG's are preparing to try and take legal action?
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I don't think he's all that off. In terms of having their best (and most) chances to win a WS this has been the Cubs' best decade for the better part of a century.
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I would actually be curious as to why you're so sure he'd be fine out of the bullpen, given how hittable he was last year.
