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QUOTE(Steff @ Mar 30, 2005 -> 12:43 PM) Her and Paris are neck and neck in the brain department race.. Sounds like Queen Steff the Doable fears a coup. Seriously, though, I agree that low-IQ women are not sexy.

That's not nearly as striking as the amount of weight that she lost a few years ago. Wow...

I've seen the first season of the British version on BBC. No idea what the Americanized product is like, but the previous incarnation was pretty funny.

30/M 1. Yes 2. Ideally, the parents would do it but too many aren't terribly interested in raising their children. Therefore, I support a local (city or county) ordinance.

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 11:50 PM) There is something wrong with this country when people are relying on TV shows to depend on how they feel about our justice system. No kidding. While I have nothing against defense lawyers in general, Cochran made a fortune off of filing frivilous discrimination lawsuits against corporations. I don't have much respect for people like him.

QUOTE(winodj @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 06:40 PM) And what was he running for again? Oh yeah, nothing. Um, in case you forgot, Clinton ran for President in 1996. And, like both Bushes, did absolutely nothing to halt illegal immigration.

QUOTE(Steff @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 04:09 PM) I thought that .2 rendors someone nearly comotose...? The legal limit is .08 in Illinois IIRC. IIRC, most people go into a coma at .3. I used to own a breathalyzer back in grad school and have been measured at 0.21.

This guy has to be an alcoholic, as it'd take a SERIOUSLY high tolerance to be even be able to make it to one's car with a BAC of .27.

QUOTE(winodj @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 02:04 PM) So then why do you insist on reelecting the people who are falling down on the job? Like Clinton?

Agreed that some sort of guest worker program with Mexico should be implemented. As long as it's LEGAL and CONTROLLED, it's not a problem.

Is it just me, or has the highway driving gotten completely out of control over the past 5 years or so? I seem to remember most people going about 10 over on the highways about 15 years ago with maybe 10% going 15 over. Now it seems like about 1/3 of the highway drivers are going 15-20 over. Have the police just given up on enforcing speed limits in Illinois and Indiana recently?

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Mar 28, 2005 -> 10:26 PM) You make these people out to be racist redneck fascists etc, etc but that's OH so typical of the left's reaction anytime anyone wants to do something about the problem of illegal immigration. I'm so sick and tired of hearing people yell racism every time someone wants to do something about this problem. What these guys are are a bunch of concerned citizens who are tired of the federal governments inaction ( and LCR stole my thunder on this one ) on the border because of fear of alienating the latino vote. This problem has spanned many previous administrations and I think it's time Bush spent some of his "political capital" addressing this very real problem. The guest worker program is a start but there has to be some sort of a stick to go along with that carrot. You guys love to jump all over the right when we label left wing anti-war protestors "hippies" "commies" and the like but you are doing the very same thing yourself now that the shoe is on the other foot. This is, indeed, a form of protest whether you choose to believe it or not. Excellent post. QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:40 AM) I do think that *some* of the people engaging in this are ignorant racist twats just as some people who are involved in anti-war stuff etc. are ignorant slogan chanting twats that can't justify their position to save their lives. I do think border security is something that needs to be addressed -- especially in a time when borders/imports are porous as all Hell while we're being told we need to have our civil liberties curtailed to "stop terrorism". I do not support vigilantes patrolling our border, but I'd rather they do it than NOBODY. Our own government is (and has been) failing us miserably on this issue. I wonder how many al Qaeda operatives have already snuck into the country from Mexico. Unfortunately, it's going to take one of them to detonate a nuclear weapon in downtown LA before our government does a damn thing about this.

And we wonder why healthcare costs are so high... :rolly

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 28, 2005 -> 05:31 PM) Why not work towards universal coverage so that all Americans have access? Because it's going to be impractical to do so until health insurance costs go down. We can either have universal healthcare with substandard medical care and a lack of pharmaceutical innovation (like Canada and Europe) or the current system. Neither is perfect, but I'll take current system. I'd rather have the option of purchasing quality health care insurance on my own than to not have it available at all. FWIW, I know that some companies are including "domestic partner" healthcare insurance already. Whatever one thinks of gay marriage, I think that offering healthcare benefits to live-in partners is definitely a positive thing.

I'll go ahead and add my $0.02... My 89-year-old grandfather is in the late stages of Althezimer's and, in terms of functionality, isn't much better off than Terri. Yet, my father and aunts spend an extraordinary amount of time and money on assisted living care and visit him at least once a week. The thought of letting him slowly starve to death because he can't feed himself never crossed their minds. There is no reason why Michael Schiavo couldn't give up guardianship of Terri to her parents, who clearly want to put in the time and money it'll take to keep her alive. There's a special place in hell for people like him.

QUOTE(winodj @ Mar 23, 2005 -> 11:14 AM) The best part about work is that, there's 16 hours a day that doesn't involve it. That's only true if you don't like your job. I try to restrict my analysis to forethought rather than afterthought. If you've analyzed your situation extensively prior to your decision and have made what you think is the correct decision based on the given information, there's no need to second-guess yourself. Of course, that's a lot easier said than done. The good news is that people typically learn to deal with stress better as they get older, so this will likely be less of a problem for you in the future.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Mar 23, 2005 -> 04:26 PM) Can't wait to hear that they were Sox fans... No kidding. :rolly f*** the Tribune Company and their propaganda.

"Saddam loyalists" within the UN aided in the extortion of approximately $2 billion-$4.5 billion from the Oil-For-Food program. This whistleblower also estimates that 20-25% of the shipments to Iraq ($1 billion/year) were not distributed properly and ended up in the hands of the military/Baath Party. http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/17/...food/index.html

QUOTE(Pauly8509CWS @ Mar 16, 2005 -> 08:03 PM) "I have been a major league ballplayer for 15 years. Throughout my career, I have not used steroids. Ever." That is Beautiful... Take that Giambi :finger I remember hearing someone on AM 1000 about a month ago saying that Frank has admitted to using steroids for a month or so in high school, but quit because it screwed up his swing. I'm glad that he realized it was a bad idea.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Mar 17, 2005 -> 02:12 PM) Read that again, he's not lying. "Illegal", as in not allowed in baseball. He did not use anything that was illegal at the time. He didn't say "illegal according to MLB's rules" and steroids certainly have been illegal outside of baseball ever since he's been playing. In fact, I believe that steroid use has technically been illegal in MLB as well. MLB was simply not allowed to test for it under the terms of the CBA.

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Mar 17, 2005 -> 10:44 AM) Which is the one that had that little pink alien walking around? IIRC, that's PrimeCo.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 17, 2005 -> 06:47 AM) Cingular, and they suck. They drop all kinds of calls QUOTE(mreye @ Mar 17, 2005 -> 07:47 AM) Verizon. They were the absolute worst! I then went back to Cell One, which was called Cingular by then. I've been there ever since. I've never had any problems with dropped calls or bad cells. In my experience, I've noticed that different companies have their strengths in different areas. Cingular and Verizon are both much better in rural areas than Sprint, for example. And Sprint seems to be more reliable in urban areas, whereas they're worthless at times out in the country. The brand of phone is also a factor. I've had very good reception and very few dropped calls with Sanyo and Nokia phones. On the other hand, my experience with Samsung phones has been very poor.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 17, 2005 -> 03:15 AM) Seriously, there are all types of ways that the US can cut down on it's need for oil, but the powers that be ... regardless of who is in control in DC ... won't let it happen. 100 mpg carborators were available in WWII. The "Tucker" automobile was supposed to be very fuel effecient, and Tucker unded up dead. Ethanol? There's a chance that comes into play. They are using the oil profits to buy up American farmland. Hydrogen pwered vehicles? Nope, not till they can figure out away to make billions upon billions of dollars from them. And the band played on ... Agreed, although ethanol burns at a much lower temperature than the higher molecular weight hydrocarbons in gasoline. IIRC, engines do not operate as efficiently on ethanol, although I'm glad that they're using it as an additive. I was at a seminar a couple years ago where a guy from Cal Tech developed a paint that could harness energy from the sun and, theoretically, cars coated in this paint could run on solar power. The greatest drawback was that bright orange was the only color that worked and, of course, nobody is going to purchase a bright orange car. For right now, the wife and I are going to purchase a hybrid car and hope that science can catch up before our fossil fuel supply runs out.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 17, 2005 -> 03:07 AM) Selfish? Whatever. It's our oil and we can damn well do with it what we want to. What else are we to do with a state that's over twice the size of Texas, but barely contains 600,000 people? If the oil's there, why not take it? Does anybody actually live near ANWR? Drilling in a remote area of northern Alaska is going to result in a much lower public health risk than drilling pretty much anywhere else in America. It's been estimated that ANWR could produce 1 million barrels per day. That's half of Iraq's output prior to Saddam's overthrow. It's not going to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil by any stretch, but it's still a pretty significant number. And some is better than none, IMO. Nobody wants to see ANWR devastated (that's not going to happen anyway), but as I understand it, we're only drilling 8% of the refuge. Drilling 8% of a wildlife refuge to reduce our overall oil imports by 2.5%? That doesn't sound like a bad deal to me.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Mar 16, 2005 -> 06:53 PM) The DaVinci Code is fiction. The "nonfiction" book is Holy Blood Holy Grail (or some other crap pretentious title). Doh! That's what I meant. :banghead