BigSqwert

I just want to get this thread back on track with a more positive vibe.

Gosling's will be mine now so forget about it.

Erase any thoughts of me sending you exotic rums for a holiday gift.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 02:47 PM) BigSqwert, you were criticized for lack of creativity. Could you stop berating me?

Zillions of pharmaceutical words with x were used and now I'm criticized for creativity?

xBOOSTx is a Soxtalk member known for killing off threads.

Tell us how you really feel.

Quite right. I apologize.

Oh quit your b****in.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 01:16 PM) Are you serious? Are you married or in any serious relationship? He only works with mail order brides.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 12:30 PM) LOL. No, although thats the way it should have ended. I met a girl that might have me change my ways for atleast today Hope it's not this chick.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 12:21 PM) Its more than enough information to identify the people in smaller, rural towns. It's already being challenged on technical grounds. http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/featur.../okla_abortion/ Digby's take:

Good point Balta.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 11:52 AM) You are really missing the big picture here. You're missing my point. The company could care less about their employee's health, in many cases providing subpar health insurance, if any at all, but they are profiting off their employees deaths.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 11:50 AM) I agree. That's why I said its questionable ethically. But, it doesn't appear anyone is actually hurt by this. As long as Walmart isn't then trying to knock their employees off, what's the harm? I'm just waiting to hear about a case where a low wage/skill worker dies because their crappy insurance offered by their work won't cover a life-saving procedure with the company then making a windfall on that person's death.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 11:46 AM) I think you are making it out to be less than it is. We're talking about the bakery at Walmart not a designer yuppie bakery charging $600 per cake.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 11:42 AM) So you are telling me that anywhere in the country, that in any Wal-Mart you could fill a position for someone to be decorating cakes, guarenteed, in one day? LOL You're really making the position of cake decorator out to be way more important than it really is.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 11:34 AM) It seems ethically bizarre, but who is really hurt by that policy? There just doesn't seem to be a point to it other than to profit off someone's death. There would be no loss of revenue streams if a cake decorator were to die since they can hire anyone off the street to fill in the very next day and not miss a beat.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 11:27 AM) How much business you do think the bakery at a Wal-mart does? At least in the tens of trillions. It would be difficult to find someone off the street to write "Happy Birthday Timmy" on a cake. I can see the big risk they have if somehow the local cake decorator were to die.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 11:20 AM) I would imagine you would have a pretty hard time not only making the payments, but finding a company that would be willing to underwrite a million dollars worth of risk based on the value of your yard being mowed. What exactly is your household worth? So explain to me how a cake decorator at a local Walmart would get underwrited. What risk is there to Walmart if she died? Seems like a minimum wage job.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 11:07 AM) If you want to pay the premiums, what's the problem? If it's allowed maybe I will.

I have to do something to drown my sorrows over this economy.

Grain alcohol is all that I drink.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 09:41 AM) How much are you paying your neighbor a year? So if I pay my neighbor's kid $5 to mow my lawn I should be able to take out a million dollar policy on that kid.

After looking like crap against a lousy Browns team, I bench Benson against the stingy Ravens D that hasn't given up a 100 yds rushing or a rushing TD in forever. Ugh I know you're not supposed to bench your studs but I really didn't think of Benson as a stud. Although I do now.