According to ESPN statistics, the Dodgers were third in overall and average attendance in 2008. So far this year, they are second. They are far from the bottom.

You can't pull out the 2008 season to prove your point--they went to the NLDS and NLCS for the first time since 1988...AND they had Manny Ramirez, who they've built a shrine to in the stands. Winning seasons tend to bring out the sunshine fans. But Manny's gone now. Also, you can't ignore the fact that while places like St. Louis and Boston have less attendance per game, both teams (per ESPN) routinely fill up their parks, meaning that there are fewer empty seats. And that translates into trouble for the owners. You'll notice the Yankees are still listed as #1 in attendance for 2009 but the NY press has spared no ink talking bemoaning the emptyness of the place. There is a big reason why the Red Sox ownership is generally content with the capacity of 37,373: they have sold the place out every game since May 15, 2003. Give me that scenario over a 20% empty ballpark every day.

As for the players, I'm not ruling out that there never would be a woman who couldn't hit home runs, or throw a wicked pitch; that's ludicrous. But a women will only get into the big leagues if they are in fact better than another man. That's what brought integration, first of blacks, then the acceptance of Latinos into MLB: the players happened to be better than another white guy. That's what drives change in sports, the desire to be better than the next team.

No, that's not NS. Speer's economic policies did not hurt investors at all--actually, the people who owned Bayer, VW, Thyssen, Krupp et al. were very happy with his policies. The NSDAP probably would never have risen from being a Pat Buchannan-like fringe movement to real power without the reconciliation between them and the industrialists, who didn't trust Hitler at first. By 1933 German big business knew it could count on the Nazis to break up unions, direct state funds into their production, and basically let them run things as they wanted.

So...is Obama ripping off investors of a viable business? No. Is Obama breaking up unions? LOL, no. Did Hitler bail out dying businesses? No.

But...the Nazis did give plenty of business to their big companies...but that's an American tradition too, going back to at least 1812 when Uncle Sam Wilson contracted to sell meat to the Army in bulk (becoming known as Uncle Sam).

So what's the problem?

Where do I start?

1. The bill passed into law was H.R. 1424, a House bill, not a Senate one. I got that by googling TARP. That was easy to find.

2. End-runs around the Constitution? Hardly, since it was passed legally by Congress. However, some very real examples of constitutional end runs include illegal wiretapping, illegal foreign imprisonment, illegal holding of American citizens without habeas corpus, and presidential "signing statements" indicating the executive branch will not enforce laws passed by the legislative branch, which from 1789 has been its one sole job. The Supremes aren't jumping over any of this stuff either.

3. Knock off that "papal stooge" crap. You essentially show yourself to be a prejudiced slob with smears like that.

Damn doncha hope that our boy from Chicago doesn't send Chrysler jobs to Fiat in Italy? The auto's and parts are cheapers there, OH what to do?

Thank you for posting here, Ms. Palin. Your concerns have been noted. Indiana's workers are some very fine people, from my personal experience. However, if you had used that elitist passport to actually go to Italy at some point, or simply read a book or two on the subject, you would know the following:

--nothing, absolutely NOTHING, is cheaper in Italy when it comes to industry.

--wages are HIGHER per capita. Per capita income is now higher there than in Britain. Turin and Milan are two of the wealthiest cities in Italy.

--worker's unions there make ours look like garden clubs. Workers almost cannot be fired or laid off for anything.

No, I don't think Chrysler's sending any jobs in that direction. Brazil, on the other hand...

The Executive branch is attempting to use the 363 sale to push through its own bankruptcy plan without going through the courts."

Every bankruptcy goes through the courts. They go through bankruptcy court. That's where the Chrysler sale went through, and where it should go through. If the Indiana pension fund concerned has a problem, they need to resolve it through proof of claim just like any other creditor. Assuming they did that, and did not just stampede to the SCOTUS hoping to get a better hearing from a conservative body, they have had their day in court. If the BK judge decides their claim is ludicrous because there are no assets to back the bonds, or that the only way to settle the debts is to break up the company and sell off the pieces (eliminating the potential for rebuilding Chrysler, and therefore Detroit), that's too bad.

The SCOTUS cannot be expected to intervene here. There is bankruptcy law at stake, perhaps, if you believe that; but there is no constitutional issue at all. There is no constitutional obligation to pay creditors back in a BK, and there is no right to demand the SCOTUS, or any appellate court for that matter, to hear any case it chooses not to.

Have you lived there...lately? I mean with the Euro, the socialist pension plans, etc? Because I lived there in 2007 in the Veneto, in the north. I lived there before in 1980. Big difference.

As to anything factual, Italy clearly has a higher standard of living overall:

http://nces.ed.gov/fastFacts/display.asp?id=71

So, believe what you want, I don't know where you lived, but nobody outsources labor to first-world Europe.

I was going to reply to Steele the First, but you did it better than I could. Bravo!

are up. Thank you for moving on now.