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Actually, that stuff (programming) is my "side job" - I have my own business for which I do those types of things (web hosting,web page development, databases, etc). My "day job" is a financial analyst (controller, basically). ... But isn't it amazing that I am working on a data conversion for a system, and I'm a financial (business) analyst? How do I get roped into all this IT crap? Just lucky I guess.

wow. that's very sad... and it definitely shows you can't take postbaby depression for granted.

I sure hope you're right Tex. And the answer will be evident soon enough.

Damn... I have been away too long... What is the name of that restaurant, Fort Wayne has three of them IIRC, one by Times Corners in a shopping Center across from the new "mall" - it's right on Jefferson... one by Georgetown Square... can't remember where the other one is... Anyway they serve guiness draft beer, it was goood stuff. is this enough to know what I'm talking about?

Carlos... Santana... Evil... Ways... lala lala lala ... ok, I'm bored and don't want to work. But I better. I have a mountain project due. /back to original thread programming

Hence my reference to "corpseball.." Seriously... it's a mindset... and that's what I meant by it. He HAS to purge this stuff out of them.

One of the things in cw's last post that I agree with, and it's NOT just GWB that has made this country this way... We are so much like the Roman Empire was, it's frightening. (Yea, that's a generalization... but think about it...) And cw, YEA! You won't be swayed by eloquence of a speaker, ahem, like Al Gore, who "brought tears to your eyes...". *sigh* Unfortunately, we are all swayed by it. Says alot about our culture, doesn't it? And, our culture seems to be really swayed by one certain "F. 9/11" film out there... hmmmm.....

I don't disagree that the Sox are firing blanks right now because of those injuries... BUT... to lose is one thing, to lose like they're losing... UGH. That's why I said that. I don't mind when a team loses, but scrap, make the plays you can... it seems like the Sox aren't thinking too well right now. Maybe, just maybe, though, this does say how much this team needs Frank and/or Maggs... you think mamagement realizes this?

I hate to say it, but Corpseball is BACK....................

No, the Democrats poop gold, smellyless s***. The Republicans are scam artist f***ups looking to hold America back. That's what this election is about. I get sick of the spin machines, for both parties. Who frickin' cares about this NASA pic? It means nothing. But, some will take it as "OMG those REPUBLICANS"... it's a pathetic stretch of the imagination if you're actually scared enough to think that this picture will somehow effect the election - which means the Dems have more problems then anyone can imagine...

EXACTLY. John Kerry is the richest US Senator, but he feels our pain, to coin a phrase. PURE BULLs***.

This is no big deal AT ALL. Who cares?

Cool... Thanks for sharing...

I meant that it's sad that the Trib will do what you suggest, not that it's sad that it go away.

I hear what you're saying. But consider, person A making $28,000 a year pays FIT of $2200 in taxes roughly. Person B, making $100,000 pays FIT of $31,320 in taxes roughly. So, person A pays 7.8% in FIT, person B pays 31.3% in FIT. (Above are rough estimates, and FIT based on gross wages and SSI, etc not figured in). So how is this so unfair again? And how is it that person B gets a "nice little tax break"? Yea, they get more opportunities to use deductions, etc. but overall, the richest 5% pays about 50% of the taxes in this country, while lower income people pay very little. It's a screwed up system, but for those that cry for a flat tax, I say, really watch what you're doing because it can really jack with the lower income folks who currently pay NOTHING.

This started with FDR. The government HAD to bail this country out. 65 years later, the Dems still feel like they have to bail the country out. To me, that's the fundamental crossroad we are at with this election. Do we want the government to handle the redistribution of wealth, or do we want to let the market place grow and take it naturally? Example: My dad is out of work. He can't find a job ANYWHERE, but part of that is the LOCAL government is so friggin' stupid in the town I grew up in, that they can't land a major employer to save their city/county. Oh... so how about they pick up stakes and move to where there is a job? Wrong. They can't, because that part of the state isn't selling but about 10 - 15 houses a MONTH... holy s***, you do the math in a county of about 50,000. That's horrible. Does my dad look to the government to bail his ass out? Nope. Unemployment ran out a long time ago. (I view unemployment as a means to prop people back up, not to be dependant on). He knows, as hard as it is, that things are going to have to taken into his own hands. These last 4 years have been the hardest on my parents in their life. But they are not so blind to think that daddy government is going to take care of it. These are the kind of people that usually Dems clean up - because those friggin' rich people get richer and the have nots get nothing when the republicans are in the White House... or so the stereotype goes. My point is that the Democratic party can stop trying to solve the problems of America by taking control of everything with the government (ie Health Care, Medicare, Social Security, etc) and just start representing .... then maybe I would vote for them more... and so would many "conservatives".

ding ding ding......... 100% agree. Tonight, we will see what this team is made of, I sure hope.

And the dirty little secret of our government is that they have to show a profit too, well sort of. That's why we have deficits. Oh wait... that sounds nuts, but buckle in for the next couple of sentances. If it were as simple as every senator and congressmen not having to bring back money for their own districts or be a failure or worse, not get re-elected, we wouldn't be quite so happy to not balance the budget every year. There are other reasons, but spending is horrid. Everyone has to get a slice of the pie, and it's disgusting. Trim out this fat for studying the poppy suckle purple headed monster flower in central Kansas, and the federal river study of the DorkemFlowless River (on Mapsco known as a "dry river") in Central Utah as to why there is not any water, we might not have this problem.

oh yea. Good point. Are/Were are interchangeable parts in this case. Speaking of cheap, air tickets up there are $139 round trip. I wish I could get away.

LMAO. But you were a cheap ass in college too...

Sad. And true.

Boy, now there's an idea. Obsessed bunch we have here.

I was going to post the same thing. Jeckle thinks we should fire Ozzie, say, about September of last year. Oh wait, different manager...

Yea, tell me about it. The IHL rocked.