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Catcher in the Rye Rocks. Holden is great and the book was just a good read.

Isn't that the whole damn book. That book sucked some serious ass.

Damn Gash...thats list is pretty much identical to mine. However, I like Rescue Me and have yet to see Dead Like Me. I may have to check it out though, cause a lot of people have been mentioning it. In no particular order: OC 24 The Shield Nip/Tuck Rescue Me Sopranos (even if I have to wait another 2 years or some crap)

Thats a badass idea. Of course I'm sure the internet providers will be b****ing up a storm. If one city does that, just wait till more and more cities do it. However, the wireless component companies should be doing all they can to get this through. It will definately keep them busy for a while. Wireless internet is way badass. Oh ya, Laptop sales would probably skyrocket as well. I bet a few speculators could make some good money on stocks if they predicted it right and Philly was just the first in a long list of cities to do something like this. However, they better do it right, cause its not too hard to set up this type of network, imo, as long as the proper equipment is used. Just get great equipment and spend money to have good security people in charge of it.

Hey Jim, happy bday. Hope its a good one and hopefully the professors go easy on ya...U OLD MAN Have a good one

Ya, Cheney had a few good one liners. Everyday I seem to be looking forward to Newt being on Fox News. I hope he's on again sometime tonight. I don't know if anyone caught him last night, but I thought he was right on the money when it came to education. He mentioned all the money being poured into education, yet in a lot of areas it doesn't do much. He feels that it isn't just, this school sucks, here lets give them some more money. He says the poor schools are the ones getting all the money (by poor I mean the ones with poor test results) yet it does nothing. It has everything to do with setting up the policy and creating a more strict adminstrative body. By strict, just in terms of setting down the goals and guidlines for the students as well as the teachers. He did a lot better job saying it then I did, but it made a lot of sense to me. I kind of agree with it. I think teachers could get paid more, but what matters is getting quality people to teach, and pouring money into new facilities may help recroute better teachers, but bottomline, it doesn't make teachers smarter. All schools should have good facilities, but schools need to set standards, and not bs standards, high standards and they need to set out steps to ensure students, teachers, and the school meet those standards. Its a hard thing to do, but if each district just pounded and hammered on making not only the students, but the teachers, school and the school administration more accountable then things would improve, imo.

Saw him pitch this weekend in Anahiem, holy crap he shows you why he's so good. His fastball just jumps out of his hands and no one can touch his offspeed stuff. He's still got to work on his command, and if he does that, he'll win multiple cy young awards. He now joins Mulder, Unit and Buehrle as some of my favorite pitchers to watch (notice how I really like watching the lefties, lol).

The Sox still have Contreras for another two years, I want to see him keep getting better and live up to his potential before I call the Sox a winner. Unlike the Yanks, the Sox will be on the tab for Conteras the next two years (Ya, the Yanks may owe a little of his contract, but the Sox pay the bulk of it) so It will be very important for him to pitch well these next two years for this deal to truly be called a winner. Its a winning move for the Yanks regardless caus they freed up payroll next year and the following year, because Conteras wasn't gonna suceed in New York.

Nice to see he got hit, but buckled back down and got in a groove.

Well when I'm in Iowa in October for my pops wedding, I promise to say it with bad grammar

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Been on for a bit, Cheney is on the stage right now, and prior to that was an absolutely terrific speach by Democrat (From Georgia) Zell Miller. Miller had a lot of fire in his speach and to me it was probably the best speach of the convention thus far. The fact that it was a democrat giving it, made it even more effective, imo. I'll say one thing, and it continues with Cheney's speach and that is that the Republicans are on the offensive right here and they are going to go after Kerry's record. However, Cheney didn't once mention anything about Kerry's military record, other then the fact he was in Vietnam and you have to honor that. I thought Zell did an oustanding job talking about Kerry and all the things he voted against. Tomorrow is when some of their national policies are expected to be discussed about by Bush and the plans they have. Its quite obvious that tort reform is going to be a big issue and I for one and excited that this is finally going to happen. Specifically Cheney mentioned the litigation reform for Medicine and how they want to clean up trial lawyers. The lawyers in this country are freaking driving costs up in so many different businesses and I'd say 80% of the time its for the wrong reasons. Its a serious problem and fixing it will definately be a bigger step then a lot of people would think in regards to this country, imo. One thing I really didn't like was the crowd chanting flip flop all the time. I don't know if I was the only one, but I wanted them to shut the hell up. Just let Cheney speak.

Just remember, I've long been a Majew backer.

I'll take your color type by type, instead of those announcers Randy, lol.

s***, reading up on this, I remember how much homework I didn't do during high school. God was high school an assload of work, thank god I'm not in it anymore.

I go Monday through Thursday 8:30 - 11:15 and on Monday's I also have a night class from 4 to 6:45, but I usually get out about an hour early. Way better than that bs 8:00 to 3 everyday of high school.

Most Definately.

Alex, nice job on the writeup

I don't know if I mentioned this, but I'm so in

Ya, but things may be different in 4 years if that act is passed. I have no idea if it will (I forget the name of the act), but if it does he'll be eligible. I think it says you have to be a citizen for 25 years. I've also heard mention of a democract in Michigan that would be eligible as well and he's supposed to be a pretty strong candidate from the democratic perspective. That being said, I'm sure Hilary will do whatever she can to make sure that doesn't happen.

To be honest, I wouldn't even know if my high school had an exchange student. Our graduating class was more then 1000 students, so between the four grades we had 4500 students or so.

On the whole homosexual issue, I must be one of the rare republicans that could give two cents about the whole thing. I just don't consider it an issue. I really don't pay attention to what my neighbor is doing, nor do I care. As long as he isn't murdering people, molesting children, selling drugs, etc. Imo, being gay isn't in that category, therefor I don't care. People have been gay probably since the cave days. Their were homosexuals in the roman empire and prior to that. Hell, back then it wasn't even looked at as a big deal. Just because god says its wrong, doesn't mean I'm going to buy into it. Hell, if thats the theory, then a hell of a lot of christians would be screwed already because they had premarital sex. Here's a question, whats worse...premarital sex or being gay? (I hope everyone sees the sarcasm in it). I guess I consider myself a christian, but I'm not a virgin and I don't think I'm going to hell because of it. So why should some parts of christianity be looked at more heavily then others. As far as I'm concerned, life is different now then it was when the bible was created. I think the bible sets up some good values and the world would be better if it followed the main rules of almost every religion (if you look, all religions essentially are based on some good morals), but the far out whackos just go way overboard. *end rant*

Well in 2008 their will be a pro choice republican running for office, imo. Whether its Arnold, McCain, or Rudy.

When has John Kerry laid forth any sort of plan. Hell, one of the only plans I've heard him talk about is his college educational plan, which was on MTV's rock the vote special on him. He went on to mention he wants to make college free to all Americans who are willing to join this group. Its kind of like beinga reservist, except you are basically set to help out your community for like 2 to 4 years and you get free school. The thing is, this makes no freaking sense. Sure it would be tremendous to have people help out the community, but so many young americans would be doing this. I don't know about you, but I don't know how the hell they could afford to do something like this, unless he plans on replacing all the city employees with volunteer students, but I'm sure that would piss off a hell of a lot of people. Although Im sure with all the bs city/government jobs their are, it wouldn't be much of a problem when it comes to efficiency. Sorry if someone works in the govt, but its just my opinion that there are a whole lot of bs jobs out there but I'm not implying that yours is one.