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QUOTE(Soxfest @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 10:11 PM) 71 dollars a barrel .......what a bunch if crap! Welcome to econ 101, supply and demand.

I think we all can agree that voicing dissent is one thing, to completely piss on the soldier and thier family is absolutely intolerable.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 07:08 PM) Couple things from that article. It's a pdf and I can't just cut and paste Americans are Mexico's biggest investors. This number is for all immigration, not just the illegals. I would imagine that legal migrants, who are generally better educated and earning more in the US, may be a bigger source. Interesting, regardless, that is a big number. BTW, a common phrase to describe how closely tied the two economies are is "When the US sneezes. Mexico catches a cold." Kap, the Kenyans you are working with, do you think they are sending money back to Kenya? You know, I don't know. I think they are saving it all so that they can get him back over here, which is quite expensive from what I understand.

How cute. Rolling blackouts hit the state of Texas because the electricity demand is too high for the early onset of 100+ degrees. Now I know it's not Laredo where it was 106 yesterday, but it was 102 here in D/FW. I guess the power plants are down for maintenance and the demand exceeded the supply, so they had to do rolling blackouts to keep the grid from collapsing. I don't want to live in CALIFORNIA! And right now, according to my little weatherbug, it's 101 out again.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 06:03 PM) Just a few? Well, that's how it is now. If you're caught, you're deported. Maybe it's more, which is part of what makes the idea of "catching" them all and deporting them ludicrous. But, my point is if a concentrated effort is made, and a bushel of these people are forced back and it's widely publicized, it would be quite effective until the "guest worker" program is put in place.

These kids are charged with kidnapping as well? WTF? Where did I miss that?

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 05:30 PM) You really want to mess with this guy? Stick him in a cell for the rest of his life and make him listen to Lee Greenwood's greatest hits 24/7 while a monitor displays a waving American flag. LOL! It's dang amazing how that cd got stuck on "God Bless America" and "I'm proud to be an American" back to back to back for the next 20 years.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 04:24 PM) Dear Bob and Mike, One general after another demanding Rumsfeld's resignation. More citizens every day joining in support of our May 15 deadline for Iraqi leaders to stop their squabbling and form a government......... You bastard.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 05:19 PM) If nothing else, let me say this: through the cowardice of our elected officials and the idiocy of our immigration laws, we've put ourselves into as bad of a situation as we could possibly be, and if nothing is done, it's going to just keep getting worse. In my opinion, the worst attempted fix for this mess is a gigantic, hugely expensive, massively disrupting deportation. A much better method would be to realize that this situation exists not because of the people looking for jobs, but instead because of the inadequate laws, and we should find a method of addressing the problem in a forward looking manner, not a backwards looking one. If we obsess over "These people broke the law and must be punished!", we're just going to wind up making the future worse. There are going to be costs associated with whatever choice we make, so we might as well try to find the best option and just deal with the costs as they ahppen. I can agree with that much - the thing is though, is that all the "proposals" currently on the table doesn't do that. If they correct the real problem, and that is the people hiring these people, and not the people themselves, then we're getting somewhere. No one wants to look at it like that. I realize that out of context, my posts are on the verge of saying "deport them all" - to which I say, yes, that's true it's a difficult premise. I stand by it, in a way, though, because it would take the deportation of just a few to stem the tide that is currently coming in. Another thing - if these people aren't counted, how do we know it's 12,000,000? That makes me laugh.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 04:49 PM) lol I've never stated that. ok, then, Enstien of the "immagration issue", what's your solution? ANY bill that legalizes or puts these people on the path to citizenship is amnesty. They are being rewarded for entering this country illegally. That's pretty cut and dried.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 04:50 PM) Wait, wait...could you please give us the real number? Wait, wait, I could pull any number out of my ass and quote it as "real".

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 04:24 PM) lol... Uh, so what? Some had to work. Some fear being arrested and sent away. Some probably don't give a s*** about protests. Expecting 100% of illegal immigrants to show up is just silly... Who said 100%? From the small sample size I have talked to, most didn't give a s***, and it was just a protest to protest and pretty much nothing more.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 04:45 PM) Estimates run from something like $200-$250 billion, over about 5 years, to round all of them up and send them off. No. That's a scare number.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 04:07 PM) Do you people advocating deporting 12 million plus people realize how logistically ridiculous that is? A more common sense approach would be much better. Common sense to you = amnesty. And it's wrong.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 02:48 PM) Kap, you are correct, they are illegal. The issue is, how badly do we want to punish ourselves in the process of punishing them? Shall we invest billions in rounding them all up and deporting them? After all that is the current law. Let's enforce the law. Who cares what that does to out agriculture industries, we can always buy more food from overseas. Who cares how many businesses go under, after all these people are here illegally and that's the law. Of course, we both know that will not happen. So we start with the premise we will ignore the current law and figure out what to do with all these law breakers. Why should we punish ourselves and weaken our countries security by destroying our agriculture industry? So Kap you can't have it both ways, you must be in favor of rounding them up at any cost and deporting them because " ILLEGAL is ILLEGAL. " It wouldn't cost that much. And yea, go back home, until a legal means can be found, then come back, and be welcomed with open arms. Gee, when they come back, they'd make EVEN MORE then now... because our minimum wage laws would actually be enforced at that point. It was a direct slap in the face 20 years ago when Reagan did it, and it's a direct slap in the face now for those who followed the law and came here legally. My boss, who is a director, is here on a work visa. She's going through the citizen process now, and I support her. She's doing it the "right way". Her husband lost his visa through a technicality and had to go back home to Kenya. You don't think it's hard for them? I'm sure it is. But they are going about the LEGAL way of getting here and staying here. I think it's a cold slap in the face for people like her who are doing it the right way to just "legalize whoever is here". You know what? These people don't mean a damn thing to these politicians. They have turned a blind eye to it for years. Until someone convinced them that these people are "future votes"... they didn't care. Furthermore, if it means so much to these people, why is it that I know PERSONALLY of cases which many of the "illegals" didn't even care enough to participate in their own "protests"? This comes directly from their family members who wanted to "support" their illegal brothers and sisters in these marches, but the illegals didn't care. I wonder why that is?

Why do people keep yelling and screaming and debating the issue but yet keep ignoring one single fact? ILLEGAL is ILLEGAL. Why does that FACT not bother people? If they come here LEGALLY, FINE!!! Oh, wait, then the paying under the table can't happen, wages get raised, etc. Oh, the very same people who b**** and fight and piss and moan that the minumum wage is too low and they want to "PROTECT THE WORKERS" - yet, it's ok for the "under the table" s*** for ILLEGAL aliens? You can't have it both ways.

LMFAO! That right there is the funniest banner we have ever had around here.

Thanks for sharing - this is very cool!

From top to bottom, this division is MUCH tougher then it was last year. KC is not a team that you can kick the s*** out of, they will battle you. Detroit is much improved. Cleveland may have regressed slightly, but they will battle you as well. Oh, and by the way, there's this team from Minnesota that will kick and claw their way through the division as well. Because of the imbalanced schedule, this division could EASILY see a 90 game division winner - because they are going to beat up on each other more then what happened last year.

QUOTE(Leonard Zelig @ Apr 15, 2006 -> 05:25 PM) I can't find the chat room, anybody know where it it? http://www.soxtalk.com/chat/

The Albion, PA one killed several people that my parents know - I wasn't old enough to remember them - but that tornado went RIGHT through where we used to live. Had we been in Pennsylvania and not moved to Indiana, we probably would have been dead. We went back and helped clean up after the tornado. I was 12, but I will never forget the damage, destruction, and all out power of that storm 20 days after it had hit. The trees were COMPLETELY dry - 100 year old trees had the sap clear sucked out of them. And you could see the rotation of the winds in the remaining trunks. The trees were down for 1.5 miles - just the same - and the storm was so powerful that it went up mountains and down valleys for 65 miles (most tornados in PA jump from hilltop to hilltop).

I love these "fat turds" comparisons in this thread.

QUOTE(Beastly @ Apr 14, 2006 -> 05:29 PM) So you dislike Scotty Podsednik, even though he's the best leadoff and only leadoff hitter we've had since Ray Durham? Yeah, okay, I see your logic, and that trade needed to happen if you wanted to win at all. I couldn't stand Caballo, who was a fat slow turd who could be replaced by Konerko and Everett easily.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Apr 14, 2006 -> 03:25 PM) Good Friday obviously has a different religious effect on different types of people. One of our esteemed Vice Presidents has been trolling porn sites since 7am this morning. Not too smart. Then again maybe he is just paying homage to Gods creation known as the 18-22 year old naked female. You're fired.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 14, 2006 -> 02:22 PM) poor Early. He seemed like such a nice guy She dumps 'em quick, don't she? I'm stuck at work today.