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If both of these games result in losses, they might actually fire him.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 9, 2011 -> 05:13 PM) Here comes the bunt...puke Piranas.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jul 9, 2011 -> 05:11 PM) I wouldn't want to manage this team either. Playing the Twins is always a nightmare. Yea, for the Chicago White Sox.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jul 9, 2011 -> 05:09 PM) I can't see the game. How did the Twins get another run? Piranas.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 08:33 PM) I wish I could be a juror, but it would take a really stupid attorney to give me that opportunity.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 12:57 PM) Didn't know where to put this, but I figure it's "investment" related. So has anyone else been screwed by an escrow fund review? My wife and I bought a place last year. For some unknown reason (which i'm investigating) our property taxes went up by $500/installment (2nd of last year, and first of this year), and our house insurance went up by $500. My bank sees this and "projecting" into the future tells me that the escrow fund is gonna be like 800 bucks short next year. Thus, they're asking me for that plus an amount near double that so they can set up a "reserve" account. So at the end of the day my monthly payments are going up about $300 a month. For you long time home owners out there - do property taxes and insurance go up like that every year? I mean, i figured they'd go up some, but that seems a bit excessive. Oh yea, I got SCREWED the first year they did that to me, because the first year, they based my payment on land value only. So, woot! my payments were okay, then WHAM! It was almost $5000 in a year (welcome to Texas property taxes). I actually ended up messing myself up worse because I had no choice but to refinance and roll it back into my mortgage - sort of - I got a slightly lower rate but I had to start over again + 5k. Over the life it will end up being ok, but it was sad seeing my principle balance go back up. Then last year, my insurance went up bigtime, and I got hit but lukily I could absorb it this time. This year, I shopped my insurance around, and property taxes went down because the housing market sucks, so I got back to even instead of the + up plus regular payments. Moral of the story - make sure you're paying on the approximate appraisal value, and shop your insurance around because a lot of them like to play games with the replacement value to jack up rates.

Let's see, guilt is no doubt, the guy brutally raped a 16 year old, and then after he raped her and she fought him he took a 40 lb. piece of asphalt and beat the s*** out of her until she died. Boo f***ing hoo, he didn't get a phone call to the consolate, when the law didn't exist at the time. Someone should have beat his ass with a 40 lb. chunk of asphalt, and very slowly, so this piece of s*** could suffer, while his so called rights of "liberty and justice" that he f***ed up on his own were taken slowly away. The guy lived 17 years too long.

Go for it. While you're at it, keep handing out money that the Chinese have.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 4, 2011 -> 07:18 PM) So if I leave the cable box on and DVD recorder on, but tv off it will work? Is there a way to see what you're burning (or preview the signal) on the computer while you watch something else? I don't know if the switch box I have sort of tricks the system to make it think it's not on TV or not (interupts the signal to make it not be viewable except to what you're watching at the time, like your PC)/. Now you got me curious to see if it still works, I'll have to check. BRB.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 4, 2011 -> 06:34 PM) Anyway to get around UVERSE or HBO not allowing me to record shows to DVD? I had been able to in the past until recently. I just posted in the other thread... but now you have me wondering if what I posted works now. It did as of not that long ago.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 4, 2011 -> 05:30 PM) Seems UVerse has rigged their system where I can NOT record TV to my DVD recorder. ANyone know of a way around this? I record True Blood for people at work. Yes, actually, I have figured it out. But I'm not sure if I can explain it to you. Basically, you have only one signal feed, so you can't watch tv and record at the same time. I have a switch box so if I'm watching a DVD I can capture the signal on my capture card.

No, you're wrong. The only way it would have worked is if it were 2 to 3 times bigger then it was.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jul 4, 2011 -> 12:13 PM) What actions do you want to see that will not be popular? Goodbye to government entitlements. Safety nets are one thing, entitlements are another. You all would die if social security, government backed health care, etc. were changed to actually make it work instead of being a hand out.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 01:35 PM) There are plenty of real Mexican neighborhoods in Chicago. I don't know of a real Chicago neighborhood in LA however. Now, I'd say real mexican food is just about right, here.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 1, 2011 -> 07:50 PM) I think that's just about as Entertaining as kap's mark2market post. You mean this one?

IF this country is going to get out of this mess, it is going to take someone with some balls to do some things that are unpopular that does NOT (get that?), I repeat, does NOT put responsibility on government to take care of everything. Right now, there's no such leader.

Voting fraud. So explain again why having some sort of ID matters to you people again? OMG, PROVE you should be able to vote? TRAVESTY. Contrary to popular opinion, no one is taking rights away. That's like the black panthers standing there with baseball bats in hand, you know.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 05:06 PM) Bachmann isn't so much being an idiot as much as she's being phony. I bet she probably did a quick 45-second Google search before that speech was written and she saw the words "John Wayne." Also, holy s*** is the "57 states" thing a conservative comeback for everything? That was three years ago. He meant to say 47. Oh well. He's given hundreds of speeches and press conferences since then (many of them without a teleprompter!). Hello, CORPSEman, etc. Whatever. The point is, over and over again, Obama is protected class, if you know what I mean.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 01:34 PM) The guy pulling the lever for the other guy. I have met him on two occasions, and both times found him to be a very nice guy, not as plastic as he seems on TV. Once was at a Scouting event and I was impressed by the sincerity he showed. I don't dislike him nearly as much as Kap. But you know us Dems, we have a big tent. I actually applaud his fiscal conservancy, and if I could trust him to continue that at a national level, I probably wouldn't be too upset with him as President. I'd vote for Obama before Perry, but as a second choice, he isn't nearly as bad as Kap makes him out to be. I wonder if the flip flop label will come out? Perry is a career politician and will do whatever the polls tell him. He's a GOP Bill Clinton... think about that one for a minute.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 27, 2011 -> 05:30 PM) It was actually John Wayne Gacy from Bachmann's hometown, Waterloo Iowa. John Wayne Gacy. Slight difference. Just like there's 57 states, etc. etc. etc.

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110628/ap...mann_fact_check Nice. Now where was this "FACT CHECK" in big, bold headlines for Barack Obama? Oh, I forgot. Everything the man says is golden s***.

U would die, and then cry.

Nah.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 07:33 PM) I'm a CPA (well, almost officially, pending paperwork, haha) mothaf***a!!!!! meh, who the f*** cares.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 25, 2011 -> 09:18 PM) If it's a political move, the timing is foolish. Not really. 3q 2011, 4q 2011, is all anyone is going to care about before the "extra" stimulus (read: the bs that got set aside for 2012) kicks in. This will bump up things just enough to make it look like what he's doing is working, and coast him in. Of course, this is all predicated on the GOP continuing to be, well, the GOP.