Steff

QUOTE(bmags @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 10:34 AM) I think uniforms should be enforced for public schools. Kids aren't expressing themselves in high school, they are expressing MTV. Make school their job. As at that age, it should be. As for uniforms, I don't support them, but I do support respecting the rules set. Like Mike said, they aren't asking them to wear suits & ties. They are asking them to keep their boxers covered. Not too much to ask, and if it is, then send 'em home and let mommy and daddy teach them how to respect rules. That's where the lack of respect started so it's only fair they get to clean up the mess. QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 10:44 AM) Doesn't every generation say exactly that about the generation coming up behind them? This country more to fear from people who aren't taught how to do math and are taught that the earth is 6000 years old than we do from people wearing pants too low. Sorry. To be clear it's the attitude I find more frightening than the topic, regardless of how silly, being discussed. It's not about being able to wear baggy pants. It's about following rules.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 10:06 AM) These kids are very far from your "real world." They are kids. Baggy pants? Tank tops? Come on, why dont we make everyone march in a line and wear a uniform while we are at it. Baggy pants and tank tops could, and do, mean very different things to each individual. Just as shorts to one kid could mean to the knees, and to the other... daisy dukes. If you set, and enforce, a dress code then there is no question about what is and isn't allowed and there can be no argument or accusation of special treatment. QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 10:10 AM) these kids are being forced to go to school. we shouldnt force them to wear or not wear certain clothes at the same time. the business analogy sounds good and all, but you aren't forced to work at a particular business. you choose to work there and thus choose to accept their dress code. Some businesses have a suit-only dress code, others go business casual, others say anything is fine. if we dont treat high school students like adults, how are we supposed to expect them to act like adults? This is the future... yikes.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 08:59 AM) what a joke. very poor move on the administrations side. these kids are going to shut down for a while and the learning process will be impeded because of it. Far more that a T-shirt that says "Buck Fush" They should have followed the dress code rule in the first place.

QUOTE(Brian @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 06:28 PM) Sad. Just heard on the radio that a Joliet Jackhammer pitcher and his wife, WHO GOT MARRIED YESTERDAY, were killed on the plane. Awful. Wow.. I just met this guy and his fiance (at the time) 2 Sunday's ago at the Jackhammer's game. How incredibly sad. Prayers for all the victims and their families.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 04:03 PM) Tiger claims his fourth straight and 52nd victory. Tiger won the WGC-NEC Invitational after defeating Stewart Cink in four playoff holes. That weather the last 4 holes was crazy.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 11:03 AM) Pretty pathetic that we couldn't sell out a Friday night game against a division rival late in the season, during a pennant race. The game should have been sold out weeks in advance. Bears game?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 02:42 PM) And I have to say, I find it bizarre and kind of sad that property values and housing costs are indeed so high in New Orleans. Price and value should be influenced by demand. You'd have to be pretty stupid to "demand" to have a house in a city that sits on a hurricane-prone below-sea level flood plain, and which has some of the highest crimes rates and worst schools in the country. Previously didn't they have a pretty diverse mix? I recall seeing s***holes as well as mansions all within a 5 mile radius.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 01:32 PM) Ya had to make me go do some diggin steff. According to this, sleepover started in 2002. Unless they haven't done it every year, but I thought they had. And it actually does say in that article that they were the first MLB team to do it, which I wasn't sure of...so rock on Sox!! Dog Day; Friday, April 21, 7:35 vs. Minnesota Fans can enjoy the game side-by-side with their four-legged friends on the 11th Annual Dog Day. I found here that the Giants just had their 10th annual dog day, but that doesn't beat the sox 11th. So maybe the Sox were the first to do that too. They have not done a sleepover the last 2 years. I had no idea dog day was 10 years old, but since I've had Ginger for 6 and she's been to all but this past one I don't know what I was thinking.

Dog day isn't that old, and they only did 2 sleepovers. The go-cart races I would not call a promotion sine you have to pay mucho dinero to participate.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 10:47 AM) Didn't need to imply a personal "we" more a societal "we".The reason, of course, was to prepare the children for God. Salvation through sex with a pervert. I was clarifying for my own soul cleansing...

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 10:30 AM) I'm just saying he's an inept leader and his words should be construed as such Put away your hate. He has a point. You'd have to be a complete idiot to think NO would be all cleaned up and on the way back to normal this soon.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 09:50 AM) This guy is a piece of work. He reminds me of that other racist black wanna-be-politician, Jesse Jackson. "I'm not responsible, blame the white folks." While I reserve my angelic view of FEMA and it's response to the Katrina debacle, the majority of the blame should go to the crooked New Orleans politicians, whom Nagin is a part of. The guy had hundreds and hundreds of school buses sitting in a big parking lot and decided not to use them. A day after the hurricane he shrugged his shoulders and said "we did all we could." A week after that, the fact that people were stranded in the city was the federal governments fault. GMAFB What happened with Katrina has been hashed and rehashed. Would you mind keeping this thread on the topic above. TIA.

If you split, just be sure you have all the rules set. We have a friend who has 6 "partners"... and you know they are all looking for playoff tickets now. Some of them aint gonna be friends much longer.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14510763/ "During the “60 minutes” interview, a correspondent pointed out flood-damaged cars still on the streets of New Orleans’ devastated Ninth Ward. Nagin replied, “You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed, and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair,” according to CBS."

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 08:29 AM) I can't wait for people to completely ignore the sentence you put in bold red. Howard Stern played a clip from the View where Hasselbeck went insane about this, and started weeping and interupting people, and finally Walters had to basically yell at her like she was an 8 year old having a fit. This is not an abortion pill, but people will just ignore that and continue to be up in arms. Hasselback IS an 8 year old.

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 08:25 AM) I don't need 81 games a year. I have to say, Jim and I are struggling with the 61 home games this year. The # goes up every year it seems and we are never home over the summer. We are thinking about scaling it back next year.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 08:09 AM) Could you fit me in your suitcase? Sure. Right next to the kitchen sink.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 08:04 AM) Exactly, yet we can't seem to do that when some suicide bomber claims to do something in the name of his religion. Me not part of that we. Someone who does that s*** is, regardless of their race or gender, an effing moron. I don't even hear what the reportd excuse is.

QUOTE(CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Aug 24, 2006 -> 07:56 PM) I'd have to root for Oakland just to see Big Frank get some AB's in the World Series . He's been kicking sum serious butt for the last few months . Ditto. If they made the series I would go to see him play.

LMAO. That is hysterical!

How about take the religion out of it and call it what it is. A bunch of sick f***s who abused children.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 12:53 AM) I dont think Im the one being ignorant in this situation... but im just going to leave the argument at that and not respond to anything more on this thread. And I have asked why I continually get pulled to the side everytime I travel and the lady said just coincidence.... so... You're being ignorant as in uninformed and assuming. If in your shoes, I wouldn't settle for playing the race card.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Aug 24, 2006 -> 05:39 PM) Im not on any list.... And you people are blind if you dont think people whose skin is brown dont get looked at more cautiosly(I know I didnt spell right) at airports than people who are white. How do you know you aren't on any list? She didn't know she was on one until the 5th time she was stopped and asked. It's random. Ask. It's better to be informed than to be ignorant.

"The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also is considering filing a formal charge with the U.S. Department of Justice. NAACP District Vice President James Panell, of Shreveport, said he would apprise Justice attorneys of the situation this week. He's considering asking for an investigation into the bus incident and other aspects of the school system's operations, including pupil-teacher ratio as it relates to the numbers of white and black children, along with a breakdown of the numbers of black and white teachers employed." Umm... it's Shreveport, Louisiana. Ya don't need to be a rocket scientist to know that there are going to be more AA's accross the board. This bus driver needs a boot up her rear.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 24, 2006 -> 04:04 PM) Reopened and being cleaned up. DiegoTony was a gentleman and nicely changed his screen name. Thanks Tony..