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I'm a huge Pacers fan. And Artest should never see the hardwood EVER again. PERIOD. What he did was beyond reproach. The Pacer organization can :fyou off for this one - I think it's a terrible example of the way to conduct yourself as a professional athlete. Jermaine O'Neal is in hot ass water too, because he scuffed up an off duty police officer from what I understand. I worked at the American Airline Center here in Dallas for a while. Security at the Palace myst be an absolute joke, because there's no way that would have happened at the AAC - they train for that kind of circumstance. Probably rehashing what has already been said as I didn't read the entire thread, but there's my two cents worth - being a Pacer fan and all, I'm sickened by this whole thing.

LMAO. That should have been Indiana's quarter, no doubt.

SNOB!

shhhh, dammit, you weren't supposed to go look at the forecast for Friday.

Tex, I've used them before to build my "monster" machine that I do video captures, etc. They are good, and competetive price wise.

Watching the weather now... it's going to cool down today - to 74. What are these "snowballs" you speak of?

ahhh... just off a back-to-back-to-back 80 degree not a cloud in the sky, no wind, beeeeeaaaaautiful days in Texas. We didn't get all that snow that the panhandle did. Must not really be in Texas.

S-O has created a whole new level of competency that is required. I know this, and it's too bad my company can't see the value of having a CPA in an analyst's role. But whatever. I was just kidding about the tax thing and CPA's.

As a licensed CPA, if they get rid of the tax code, us accounting people won't have a job! Seriously, a flat tax is a BAAAAAAAAD idea. I don't have a lot of time and I'm sure southsider will have a post fest on this tomorrow... him and I see pretty much eye to eye on this one. (seeing as how we had the same profs in college... what an edumacation we got.)

Ted Rall's opinion on the election - yahoo link will disappear NEW YORK--How interesting, Democrats watching the election results at a high-rise hotel in midtown Manhattan commented, that the rest of America thinks it understands terrorism better than we do. New York bore the brunt of 9/11 yet CNN's exit poll found that New Yorkers considered Iraq (news - web sites) a bigger issue than terrorism when casting their votes for president. Midwesterners and southerners felt the opposite, motivated by fear of the unknown--literally, as they are neither likely targets of terrorism, nor did they feel or smell the horrors of that terrible day. Ranking terrorism their number one concern, they nevertheless supported an incumbent for whom the war on terrorism is nothing more than a marketing slogan. Such astonishing gall! Only women are affected by the abortion debate; only women ought to be allowed to vote on it. The same goes for war--only the young who fight and die in war enjoy the moral right to declare it. Terrorism? Please, if you live in Mississippi or Colorado or Alaska, don't presume to talk about, much less cast your vote based upon, your "views" of Islamist terrorism. New Yorkers don't lecture you about hunting. Butt out of our business. Or at least have the grace to follow the lead of New York City voters if, contrary to history or logic, terrorism is your number one concern. "Some New Yorkers, reported the New York Times, said they didn't even know any people who had voted for President Bush (news - web sites). (In both Manhattan and the Bronx, Mr. Bush received 16.7 percent of the vote.)" A few minutes before midnight, a young woman took the microphone where Hillary Clinton (news - web sites), who hilariously believes she has a date with presidential destiny, had tried to pump up the crowd. "Of course they send me up here to deliver bad news," she began. Ohio was still in play, but the Democratic Party had rented the ballroom and its big projection televisions for only a few hours. Disenfranchised and disinvited, Kerry Victory Party attendees aimlessly scattered along East 42nd Street in search of alcohol and cable news coverage. Kicked out into the cold. It was a grand night for metaphor. The morning after, life went on. It was disgusting. Guided by a list of chores, I made my way through the subway station at Times Square and came across a man with silver skin, standing perfectly still, who entertained a crowd by doing nothing. People stared at him, fascinated, smiling. A few clapped. How dare they stand there and grin? Days after the British medical journal The Lancet had published a study showing that American taxpayers had financed the bombs that murdered more than 100,000 innocent Iraqis in just one year, the morning after a majority of their fellow citizens re-hired the butchers who ordered the genocide, how dare they enjoy their lives? More approving smiles, more applause. The guy still hadn't made a move. Oddly, that was the point. Someday the silver guy will become president. I found a quiet spot and fired up my laptop. Many people have wireless connections in Manhattan. Not all of them are password-protected. I skimmed e-mail from gloating scum. "I drive by the Manzanar Internment Camp Memorial when I go to Mammoth in the Sierras," wrote one person. "I hope to see you behind the gates in shackles when drive up to ski in Mammoth this winter." In any other country, people would take to the streets. A dictator had put himself up for "reelection" and declared war on gays and pregnant teenagers. An Administration whose principals built concentration camps, lied us into two wars and fleeced the treasury to further enrich themselves and their campaign contributors is getting four more years rather than the forty to life they deserve. Florida 2000 became Ohio 2004, complete with its own Katherine Harris, discarded voter registrations and Jim Crow-style assaults on blacks. Most of all, the whole thing stunk. "Successive waves of the national exit poll in the afternoon and evening reported that Kerry had a two- or three-percentage-point lead over Bush nationally and in several key states, including Ohio," wrote the Washington Post. On ABC, Charles Gibson said: "The exit polls got it flat wrong." If so, that would be a first. That's what they said back in 2000, when exit pollsters called Florida for Gore. We later learned that Gore had won Florida, by at least several thousand votes. The exit polls were right last time. This year, I trust them more than Ohio's Secretary of State. The day after a shady election handed to a maniacal buffoon, New Yorkers whose dead remain scandalously unavenged were in the streets. Civil strife, rage, the fight for decency and democracy--they were nowhere to be found. People looked up at the sky, taking in the sun on a crisp fall day. They streamed in and out of the Disney store. They lived their lives. I lived mine. Half a world away, meanwhile, AC-130 planes and tanks bought by American citizens and dispatched on the orders of criminal goons busily declaring themselves a mandate dropped bombs and shot shells into a city called Fallujah. "Marine Expeditionary Forces will continue to conduct operations and will not cease until Fallujah is free of foreign terrorists and insurgents," read an official military statement. Issam Mohammad, spokesman for the Fallujah hospital, said that a woman was "badly wounded." A young girl lost her leg.

Let's see now. Gone to hockey games since 1980. Got southsider hooked. Let's just say that I have a few ties with some folks in the hockey world. I might realy like baseball, but hockey is the best sport, IMO.

No, in this particular case I did not have a nice neat graph or chart that said 998,997.25634863 :rolly jobs were lost because of 9/11. I can just tell you that the industry that I was in, ahd the correlated industries to it (motels, ground handlers at airports, fuelers, pilots, flight attendants, travel agents, etc etc etc) lost their jobs. That was just one industry and correlated industries to it. I know that there were several industries (a guy I am business partners with) lost his job because of it in another state - his industry was telecom and they had offices in Tower I - he said that his entire company shed about 25,000 jobs and it was tied to reorganizing their business to meet their needs after 9/11. The point is I can see where at least 500,000 jobs were directly tied to it, and it's not a stretch to see 1,000,000 jobs being lost to what was a major shockwave in the economy. And I guaran-fricken-tee you that Binnie saw that effect, and there will be another attack to disrupt the economy somehow again. His goal is to bankrupt the US. Good luck with that and all, but as large as the deficits are now, he's on his way.

Have you heard of airline corporations, and the businesses associated with those? I know, I was working for a bankrupt airline at the time and a hell of a lot of people I worked with lost their jobs. What about financial institutions? What about etc etc etc... It did indeed shockwave the economy. Binnie couldn't have planned it better if he tried.

Zimm's contract was up at the end of this year with the Rangers, no options. He's a straight up free agent. And... let's just say if Jeff Zimmerman's going anywhere, I would know it just about the same time Jeff knows it... I'll get an update, um, straight from the horse's mouth, on how he's doing and his availability. Maybe I could influence him that Chicago is not such a bad city...

That will work every time.

Clinton was LIKEABLE, despite the Bull s***. I couldn't find anyone that really liked Kerry. I said this before the election ... a vote for Kerry was emotion (I hate Bush) and Bush was about idealogy. Idealogy wins out damn near every time. THAT was the Dems problem with this election - they were running on emotion and not idealogy. What's wrong with the Democratic party? Look no further then what I am saying here. Edit: I also thought this last week that Kerry would pull it out in Ohio... so on that I was wrong. But Ideology does win out way more then emotion. Edit #2: THAT IS WHAT THE TERRORISTS DO NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT AMERICA! Think about it. It all ties in together if you think about it. We do not give in to fear.

As Nuke said, we may not agree on things but I really respect you and your viewpoints.

in the late 90's interest rates were around 5% IIRC. I'm sure there is a chart out there. I know that when the recession hit the funds rate went down about 4% over 18 months.

Oooops.

Seriously, you do realize that there are usually two sides to every story, right? Go see the other side, and the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle. You are too extreme for your own good. /off my soapbox

LMAO

Jeckle, if you really feel that way, go jump off a bridge, mmmm kay?

More details... Fox news is reporting basically that all precincts outstanding that are left Kerry can't make up 140,000 votes.

OHIO IS BUSH'S! Game.Set.Match. Fox is reporting this.