Balta1701

$35 an hour...for 1 button pusher...times 40 hours per week, times 52 weeks in a year....so you're telling me that GM's health plan costs $72,000 a worker? Um, something tells me you're just a wee bit off in that number.

QUOTE(samclemens @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 05:32 PM) if i was a member of the king family i would have been outraged. It's good to know that you are in such a position as to know the exact thoughts and feelings of the king family and lecture all of us about how we should feel from your position of knowledge. Or, alternatively, it's good of you to tell the King family how to feel. They're clearly fools if they feel anything else other than what you say they should feel, and your wise advice will certainly be welcome to them in their time of mourning.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 12:03 PM) It wont cost that much for a LF with only half a year left on his contract thats due a big payday..... But, if the Brewers are anywhere close to contention, or even around .500, they'll still be close enough to the wild card race that it'll take a lot to turn them into sellers. Remember, they know for a fact that they'll get draft picks from whoever grabs him, so they won't be walking away empty handed, even if they hold onto him and try to make a run. If Prince Fielder and the other young guys struggle to start the year...then maybe they dump him to a contender.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 05:08 PM) I hope he signs with Boston, would just prove what we knew all along, his "I want to go back to Texas to play and be with my kids" s*** was just that, a bunch of s***. What a loser, I can't wait to b**** slap him when we see him pitching for whatever team he ends up with. Well, at least for the first year, he signed for a ton less than he could have earned. Last year though...well...he likey the green.

Took the GRE a couple of years ago. 800 math, 680 english, 6/6 on the writing. My advice on the Kaplan book - the one I got was garbage. Absolute garbage. I believe a company called Barrons or something like that puts out one that's significantly better. Gigantic word list inside, practice exams, etc. Basically what I wound up doing was taking every word I didn't know from their gigantic list and putting them on flash cards. I believe it worked. The math part wasn't hugely difficult for me, but then again I was a math minor, so most of the random tricks they test you on I still remembered because I was using them. The writing part...well, just take a look at some practice writing portions. They'll show you pretty quick what's involved in making a good essay. I believe one other company put out a book that was 100% practice tests. I used that & it also worked well.

One of Exxon's execs told us today that the U.S. should stop trying to work towards energy independence, because it's both a bad idea and impossible. Thank God we have these non-partial observers to give us this sage advice. Reuters.

Um...Tlak...West Germany? South Vietnam? Um...yeah...it's been a while since those were countries...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

QUOTE(AirScott @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 03:18 PM) no doubt there were some bad calls, but two that weren't were Darrell Jackson's pass interference and Big Ben's TD. Jackson had his arms fully extended, to me that constitutes a push-off. Big Ben's TD was very close, but look at that picture that was put up here; it hurts my eyes and looks like a little of the ball still could have crossed the plane. now every other call people have brought up was a bad call, no question. I think I 1/2 agree with you. Those 2 calls fit my definition of "questionable". I can't see the ball on the Roethlisberger one, so I can't say for sure whether or not it slightly pierced the goal line at any point. If it did it was very slight, but I haven't seen evidence that convinces me either way (we should try putting GPS tags on those balls). Probably the right thing to do was just go with the ruling on the field. Problem is...I think the ref on the field ruled based on the fact that Ben stretched out after the play was several seconds past over and pushed the ball over the goal line...that's when he signaled, so the ref didn't signal anything based on the stop itself. So who knows. The Jackson one...I think that one's even more questionable...that depends on how tightly the game is being called. If you're calling that much of a push, then the odds are you could have called that same push off 4-5 other times during the game. Almost every receiver out there is saying "Yeah, it was a pushoff, but there's no way they ever call one that's so weak". So maybe it was a pushoff, but there's just no uniform standard for what constitutes a penalty for a pushoff. If I apply 1 newton of force, is it a pushoff? what about 10? etc. The others...yeah those were really bad. But the thing which probably bothers me the most is not that they were really bad, but that they all went against 1 team. Not only the questionable ones...the bad ones too.

QUOTE(G&T @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 03:13 PM) What I quoted was to show there was, in my opinion, political posturing. My point is I think that should have been saved for another time. It would appear that nobody there cared either The question should be...was that what Mrs. King, and her family, would have wanted? If the answer is yes, then I don't mind at all. If the answer is no, then to hell with the people who broke with their wishes.

And since I eat Multi-Grain cheerios...um...

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 02:35 PM) Where's Governor Bush Eating a live puppy.

By the way, anyone remember the dude who's actions started this thread off? The guy @ Nasa? Turns out he never actually got his degree from Texas A & M, despite the fact that's what the NYT article said

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 01:09 PM) So I am covering tree hugging AND immoral sex... Count me as two for two. Now are you going to join me or what? *Runs his chain saw through SS2k5 and his tree while reading the Bible into a loudspeaker*

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 01:00 PM) That's why we hate you. Yes, um, Damn you liberal admins! Trying to run this place like it's the New York Times!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 12:28 PM) AHHHHHHHHHHHHH its another right wing attack against the Clintons!!!! Man, I'm too sober for this. I need to go take a walk along the ceiling.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 12:23 PM) Hold on a second, how many L's are in Hillary? I have go write my check now... Oh great, we pick you up...and that's the first thing you do? Man, at least pick someone decent...

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 12:16 PM) HELL YEA!!!!!!! I'm a LIBERAL!!!! WOW!!! WELCOME TO THE LOSING TEAM SON!

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 7, 2006 -> 12:15 PM) And it ends up here. Imagine that. You know why I post these things? Very simple. The more people who see it...the more likely it is to change.

Americablog went and raised a ton of cash to pay this guy's bill.

So wait now...what's this about people wearing handcuffs in their pants?

Howie Kurtz is ripping on some of the cable networks, and explaining exactly why there will never be a full scale investigation into this matter. That damn liberal media's ignoring it.

Stalking? You consider a person replying to your posts to be stalking? You better have some actual evidence that she's following you around to other boards, sending you harrassing emails, and figuring out where you live before you start making accusations like that.

I find it more interesting that you claim to be ignoring Steff's posts and yet somehow you just responded to one.