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I put on about 22,000 miles a year. Luckily my car gets about 26-30 MPG, but still, prices are getting pretty ridiculous. Out here in SoCal almost every station is about 2.20. There are a few as low as 2.10, but thats as low as I've seen. Supposedly the problem in California is how in the winter to summer we use different fuel for efficiency. I think other states use it, but California is a little stricter. Anyway, OPEC did say if prices would stay up for the next week to two, that they would increase supply. I should add, that gas prices haven't really went up, its oil refiners like mobil, etc jacking up their prices. On top of this California is about to add an 8 cent increase per gallon on the gas tax. I wouldn't have a problem with this, but they have already started stealing money from the gas tax and putting it into other areas. The gas tax should be soley for building new roads. Its probably the fairest tax out there. Its a flat tax system where the more you drive the more you pay towards the roads. So if you don't drive much, you dont' pay for much of the roads. You do drive a lot, then you pay for the newer roads. If I get the job I want to out of college, then I'll likely not have to drive much. All the major accounting firms are within 10 minutes of where I live (driving distance) which would be really sweet

Supposedly the Chiefs GM a few days ago said they would resign Tait at basically all costs, so I wouldn't count it as a guarantee. Players usually are willing to restructure when they know it could bring back a probowler.

Yep, the cutter and your right, Cotts is also throwing the cutter now. The Sox also had Loaiza focus much more on throwing his changeup last season. The Sox taught Cotts the cutter in the AFL this year.

I wouldn't be at all shocked if the Bears found a way to move up or even pick up a 2nd draft pick, somehow working their way up to getting Andrews or even better...Gallery.

All parties basically have said RT. I think they may address LT in the draft or another signing. I also think they like Qasim Mitchell as a LT.

KC has about 5 mill freed up. My guess is the Bears will have to structure this deal to the opint that it would cost KC about 8 mill the first two years, meaning it would be very unlikely that they match it, because of what they would have to do to keep him. The nice thing is, the Bears are in good position the next couple years cap wise, so they can afford to do this. The other good part is, after the 1st two years, we have a guy at a pretty damn good rate, assuming he plays at a probowl level. He'd be a tremendous signing and I hope KC declines. But we'll have to wait the full week, I'm sure.

Happy 22nd Mario. Geeze, was it really this time last year when we were at spring training?? Anyway Mario, I'm sure you'll have a fun bday and remember, you get free tickets to the night game were saying next Friday And to Flashforshizzlemynizzle....Hope you have a great freaking bday too. You bring a lot of life to the board.

Thats awesome..now we got to hope the Chiefs don't match. And if they don't match, and the Bears somehow have the caproom, don't be shocked if they look towards another OT or go after Big Warren Sapp. PFT reported that if the Bears don't get Tait, then they will go after Sapp.

nterstate 5, between Los Angeles and San Diego. It was difficult to pick just one stretch of I-5, the 1,375-mile interstate highway that runs between Canada and Mexico. There were so many other contenders, especially in California and Washington. But in the end, Southern California's legendary traffic put it over the top. In portions of Los Angeles and Orange counties, I-5 is, at best, a dangerous parking lot. But once you start heading south, and the cars begin to pick up speed, the parking lot actually starts to move. Then it's as if all the pent-up aggression from sitting in hours of bumper-to-bumper traffic is suddenly released. The cars speed along the freeway at 85 miles an hour as tightly as Blue Angels until some bozo — don't be surprised if it is a convertible packed with college kids bound for Tijuana — decides to break ranks and pass on the right. (Believe me, I know. I used to be one of those kids.) Diane Scholfield, a Web site editor who lives in Oceanside, Calif., says it's difficult to get around this highway from hell — but not impossible. "There really is no good time of the day to avoid the traffic anymore," she says. "So I take the train." Yeaah...thats the freeway I'm on every single day

Well I care about lying under oath. The act itself, may not of been huge (Thats up to people's personal judgement) but lying under oath shouldn't be tolerated. Whether your some crack dealer or the president of the United States.

Plus, couldn't you bring up the fact that our military intelligene got so bad under the Clinton years and now under the Bush regime we've basically had to completely rebuild it. And Clinton lobbing a few missiles in the midst of his trial to draw the attention away from himself, wasn't the way to handle the situation. If Bill went out and said hey, these bastards went after our country and were going to get after them and destory this problem, then I would of supported it. I'd of supported going to Iraq no matter who was president. To me it was about getting a dictator out of their.

Anyone have a link of where I can listen to the game?

Hope everything goes well for ya tomorrow. And after the procedure, go get yourself a steak I'm sure everything will go well.

I got a 19. I f'd up on where they play.

Are they not doing spring training feeds for this year? Anyway, if someone wants to post the link to the feeds before the game, one of the mods will always pin them, that way people can easily find them during the preseason.

All I'm going to say is thank goodness Bush increased Tax Cuts. The economy didn't go the way he wanted to it, but he made the changes necessary to position the country for what followed and the big time economic strides made during the middle to late 90's.

9/11 is something that happened. Bush rallied the country to the ocassion and to me did an incredible job during a time of crisis.

I'm not. I'm going to school so I can become a partner for a CPA firm doing a service. I'm going to school so I can provide a service and help the economy be more efficient, because I believe thats where the future is. Like I said, I'm not willing to pay way more for products to be built by Americans. I should add, I do buy American cars or at least I try to. I'm driving a Honda right now, which I absolutely love, but before that I drove a Ford and was damn proud it was made in America. Everyone has differnet thresholds of what they are willing to pay more for, for an American good. Would I pay a buck more, probably, but 20 bucks more...hell of a lot less likely. When it comes to the corporate tax cuts, while we like them or not, lets also remember whose paying so much of these taxes. It is the corporations and the wealthy so they are going to save money. I know economic theory states that the best people to give the savings to is the middle class, because they are typically the people that have the highest savings rate (How much of a buck they save...basically) compared to upper class people and lower class people. Like I say, sometimes you have to really fight to keep an industry going in the US. For example, we have to subsidize for farmers, because we never want to be fully dependent on getting food from other countries. We always want to be able to trust our own food first. That is a basic need and one we shouldn't risk. With oil, which is one of the most limited resources, we rarely try to use our reserves or mines, imo, because we want to get it from elsewhere as long as we can, so when and if its necessary, we can tap into ours, but as long as we don't need to, we don't, we keep it in reserves and such. Its a hard issue, becasue there are so many things you have to look at. But like I've said all along, my theory is I find it absolutely impossible to do the things Kerry is saying because I don't think it works that way. Thats not to knock Kerry, but more to knock what I feel is the economic basis or theory of the democratic party. I simply don't agree with that theory.

If so, thats frankly AWESOME.

I should add, that I have no problem with immigrants coming over here. I respect those that come to this country, like my great great grandparents did, so they could have a better life. And a lot of the immigrants that come over here work there ass off and do exactly that. I don't respect those that come to this country and work here and take money, yet they don't pay taxes, welch free medicine, etc and it leads to good people who may not have the money getting hosed.

Ya, thats basically what I'm almost for in a sense. I know it sounds dick of me, but in respects to certain jobs, while some people don't want to say it, were better off outsourcing because it means we get the products we like for cheap and at a good quality. Now, if everyone out there is willing to pay a few bucks more for the things they buy at WallMart or Nordstroms or any other place that sells pretty much exlcusively foreign products then thats another story. I just think there are a lot of other aspects then simply keeping the companies from outsourcing in a sense. Sure you could impose fines or fees to countries that do those things and impose higher tarrifs on imports to force companies to keep certain manufacturing jobs within the US, but to be honest, the US has priced itself out of those type of jobs in many fields and now people are having to learn new skills and its kind of an on-going cycle. There should be a better mix between it and there are still plenty of manufacturing jobs within the US and such. I actually think engineers or computer programmers are probably one of the most outsourced jobs because the people in India are very educated and will do the work for a lot less and since its in the tech sector its really easy to have networks that basically connect ya to the US companies. To add to this whole theory, if companies didn't hire illegal immigrants and instead paid legal citizens a buck or two more, you probably wouldn't have near the problem of illegals having jobs while not paying taxes, etc, which goes on now. Or at least many believe it is a problem. I know a lot of people are worried that with a amnesty act, mexican laborers will come to the US and take more of those jobs because they would be willing to work for less then the Union workers or contractors make. Heck, I know quite a few of the democrats amnestie plans call to be much more leniant and long term then Bushes and this would almost create more of a flaw with people losing jobs then outsourcing. So to me I find it funny how they say we need to keep jobs within the US in a sense, yet amnesty would bring and reward people who were illegals with citizenship and they would now take jobs from some of the middle class people because they are willing to work for less. Of course the one difference is, I'm assuming they would for once force the people to pay taxes. Should I mention the fact that the US doesn't ever enforce its illegal immigrant laws. This will get me on another rant about how in California an illegal immigrant can go to school for less then I can, in fact, the state or should I say, we the taxpayers, end up paying for them. All this while the state is continually increasing its education fees for college. They are supposed to go up another 40% next year (This is after a 40% raise this past year). So because of having to fund and pay for so many illegals to go to school, it then forces some legal citizens to no longer be able to afford their tuition (luckily I'm not in this case and while state funding is alright, it doesn't help everyone and I for one think it blows that I have to pay more and others have to actually get forced out of school in a sense) all because people who came here illegally get a free education. I don't know if other states are screwed up like California is on this issue. Anyway, I think I went on a few tangents but, had to get those things off my chest

I'm talking about like an amateur draft so you can draft your future prospects.

On 2nd thought, EA should just hire Soxtalk...we could tell thier programmers so many things that it would be by far the best baseball game ever made...hell, it would really be the Madden of baseball.

All they need to add now is a draft...then it will be super complete. Don't your hire like a scouting department and stuff as well in the game?

And they give me 25 bucks just for signing up. Its deals like that, that usually end up getting me to open a minor account.