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Those numbers will improve this season with the weapons in Canales' arsenal!

Ok, I'll send out the first +1 from me to you, since you've eloquently taken a position which was so eloquently stated by a liberal justice (who had never been a judge), Louis Brandeis. Here's his Wikipedia link: Louis Brandeis bio: I find this quote to contain some real insight: Brandeis furthermore denied that large trusts were more efficient than the smaller firms which were generally driven out of business. He argued the opposite was often true, that monopolistic enterprises became "less innovative" because, he wrote, their "secure positions freed them from the necessity which has always been the mother of invention." To him there was no way an executive could learn all the details of running a huge and unwieldy company. "There is a limit to what one man can do well," he wrote. Brandeis was naturally aware of the economies of scale and initially lower prices offered by growing companies, but he emphasized the future by claiming that once a trust drove out its competition, "the quality of its products tended to decline while the prices charged for them tended to go up." Eventually, he felt, the trusts would be like "clumsy dinosaurs, which, if they ever had to face real competition, would collapse of their own weight." I have certainly felt that way about any of the large banks I've dealt with, who seem to feature that "clumsy dinosaur" effect, but maybe they're just not interested in providing customer service. Maybe you'll like it that he also positioned himself against FDR's "centralizing" at times. After a unanimous court declared the National Recovery Act unconstitutional, this is what he had to say: Speaking to aides of Roosevelt, Justice Louis Brandeis remarked that, “This is the end of this business of centralization, and I want you to go back and tell the president that we're not going to let this government centralize everything." I just thought you might find that interesting; I still consider myself a liberal, but maybe conservatives and liberals can find some problems with bigness, whether corporate or governmental.

Dead on right. ...Stebo, there are many things that can be done in reforming the system to help close the loopholes in the system you have lived through and witnessed that doesn't include the Government managing 1/6th of the American Economy. As we've come to find out if you've bothered to pay attention, all of the things that we were screaming to high heaven about this bill including a direct course to a one-payer system like in the bankrupt EU, rationing and "death panels" which make decisions about treatments based on their cost effectiveness, and what patients have the best percentage of such effectiveness are real. ...all of that, and the cost - oh, yeah, that's way higher than the CBO estimated too. All the stories about how the health care system screwed you or anyone else aside - this country is in debt that it can never repay. The social programs in place now that are a fraction of the cost of this thing are all failing, bankrupt or both. How, in the name of God, can anyone support this thing with the economic weight of it? ...the country can't afford the tax-payer provided health-care it provides today, how can we possibly take on more? We can't without ever higher taxes and rationing care, and even then, if Europe is any example, we still won't be able to afford it as the negative impact of a tax system to support this type of Health Care system on the Economy will be too great to overcome. 66% of Voters support a repeal of this law for a reason. It isn't because they don't all think we need health care reform - you'd have to be blind to see that the system doesn't need work - but this reform that is currently law is not the way to solve the problem, and the majority of the country can see that clearly.

If for no other reason at all, take a look at ESPN's list of conferences and their rankings. Notice anything peculiar?

I need one?

Um, I'm a little afraid to ask, but I will. What kind of football are they playing over on the hilltop?

F me?? F you! F all of us! These oil companies actually work very hard to ensure saftey for all of the rig workers, anyone living nearby, and protect the enviroment. Is it always perfect, no. Im always seeing scientists and environmentalists coming in and out of well sites long before they begin drilling. Accidents can always happen, and thats just what this was, an accident.

Yep, that "graciousness" has worked really swell with Iran and North Korea. Get real. The guy's foreign policy is a joke! He slams are allies (Britain and Israel, etc.) while he kisses the hind side of folks who would like to do us plenty of harm. Yep, the guy is a real diplomat. I guess he is if you consider Neville Chamberlain as your guide for what makes a great diplomat.

Where I was leading with that is...though he may not be so hot in the ratings here, this isn't American Idol. In most of the world, Obama is tops because of his graciousness (and yes, he's been tough in some foreign policy at times also, but still gracious). And if there are less crazy assholes wanting to blow up my babies because they think we have a badass diplomat as our country's leader...then that is the sign that his style of diplomacy is working. And again, please don't see this as a sign that I am 100% Obamaphile, because so far on domestic issues, I'm not digging much.

I agree. Lets first worry about getting more than 10k people to come watch the games in November.

The most accurate statement of the entire thread.

So funny. Do you not realize that the remedy for what is highlighted is an anti-trust lawsuit? Guess who makes the decision on those lawsuits? Your government. SO, if you want to blame someone for the "too big to fail" companies, look no further than... your government. Yet another example of something that the federal government is tasked to do, yet fails miserably.

I can. Profit is a motivation for all businesses, whether it is selling health care insurance, auto insurance, widgets, or cheeseburgers. Profit ensures efficiency. Profit ensures quality control. Profit creates incentive to serve and keep customers. Profit creates incentive to do things better. Without profit, we would not have the medical innovations that we have today. Without profit, life-saving drugs may have never been invented. Without profit, cancer research would be 50 years behind where we are today. In fact, one can argue that not-for-profit health care is worse, since the motivation is to minimize costs and offer the minimal services necessary. Profit is not evil - it is the purest good.

--- I think most people agree with you nuclear power is the way to go......but..... can you trust those people any more than we trusted BP and Halliburton [both are involved in this platform mess along with another company ] ???. The nuclear screw-up would be worse. That is the real problem and we still remember the also "supposedly" impossible accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl which wreaked the area so bad that it is still uninhabitable. ...that is the real problem... can we trust them to be careful and to follow the rules and plan for every possible accident which obviously BP and Halliburton didn't. ?? This accident is minor compared to what that could be. --- We also need to find better ways of disposing of the left over waste.. Eventually we will do exactly what you said.. --- Odd that the genius Palin has been very quiet about all of this...LOL

Point being?

I just heard that we were building an additional 20K seats for this new stadium. As part of the package we are borrowing an additional 20K people from the DFW area to fill those seats so it doesn't look so ridiculous.