Steff

On child safety seat laws...?

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 03:41 PM) Link? I'm curious to read more. www.yahoo.com U.S. Surgeon General's Reports (1988, 1990)

QUOTE(GoRowand33 @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 03:18 PM) I would say the person who smokes for 10 years has the dark black lung, tell me that doesn't have a significant risk over someone who has a normal lung Studies have shown that the lungs of a person who smokes for years then quits return to normal within 1 year. Cillia regenerate making this possible. Also within a year the risk of coronary disease is reduced dramatically, and within 5 years the risk of stroke is that of a person who has never smoked. "How Quickly Do the Benefits of Quitting Start?" * "Just 20 minutes after your last cigarette, your blood pressure and pulse rate drop to normal and the body temperature of your hands and feet increases to normal." * "A mere 8 hours after your last smoke, the carbon monoxide level decreases and the oxygen level in your blood increases to normal." * "Just 24 hours after your last cigarette, you substantially lessen your chances of having a heart attack." * "Two days after your last cigarette, you will notice that your ability to taste and smell is enhanced." * "Three days later, your breathing should be noticeably better because your lung capacity will be greater." * "Your circulation will improve and your lung functioning will increase up to 30% within two weeks to three months after quitting." * "Between one month and nine months, the cilia in your lungs will regenerate, allowing your body to clean your lungs and reduce infection." * "One year after quitting, your risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker." * "Five years after quitting, your risk of stroke is reduced to that of a nonsmoker." * "Ten years after quitting, the lung cancer death rate is about half that of a continuing smokers. The risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decreases." * "Fifteen years after quitting, your risk of coronary heart disease is that of a nonsmokers. (U.S. Surgeon General's Reports (1988, 1990) And please don't mistake my comments as a defense for lighting up anywhere.. it's not. But if you're going to make such strong statements you should have the right infomation to make them.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 01:32 PM) no Cook County is out of Chicago mostly made up of Shaumburg where I live.... and they just passed it as well but wont take effect for a year. Sorry, I wasn't very clear. It wasn't a question. Chicago is Cook County.

QUOTE(farmteam @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 12:13 PM) I find Coldstone tasty, but the one near me is severely mismanaged. Not unique to your neighborhood. The one on 59 in Naperville I am convinced is run by a 15 year old who had a premature growth spurt. The two times we've been in there he was hanging out front with a crowd of kids that couldn't have been a day over 14 checking out the "rims" on their mountian bikes.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 11:47 AM) LOL! I actually thought similar. That looks insane. Well, I have a $10 gift card so I will be trying it soon. But somebody told me that might get me a single scoop. Na. $10 will get you a couple visits there.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 11:45 AM) Wow, you left yourself WIDE OPEN for this one.... I'm in a good mood today.

QUOTE(Wanne @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 11:51 AM) And Steff...don't get me started on CS laws. Not all cases are the same...and probably 85% of the time the Dads get screwed in some way shape or form. I'm a single dad of 4 (3 full-time)...and have spent more $$$ TRYING to get more time with my youngest...but continually come up against systematic, going through the motion bullcrap system. It's kind of like an HMO rate plan paid to physicians. Ever try going against a headcase mother with rich parents?!? I finally just gave up and excepted what "the law" doled out. You don't have to tell me about them. I'm well aware from several friends Jim and I have. It's unreal, and IMO, unfair to the payer - regardless of gender. I fee for ya. And major props to you and all the others who "take care of their kids".

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 11:16 AM) Oh man you can't beat Candy Land for my money!! I love the cake batter ice cream!! Oh good Lord... I feel like heading home for a few miles on the treadmill after just looking at that.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 11:05 AM) Not all of us live by Howard Stern's standards of decency. This is waaaaaaaaaaaay below Stern standards. At the very least the slang for penis or vagina would have to be in there to even come close.

QUOTE(Cuck the Fubs @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 11:10 AM) 480,000 dollars since 1997!? That's plenty of money for 4 years of college at most expensive school you can think of, enough for a good-quality car, plenty left for graduate school, and still money for other things? Maybe she's been blowing off the money How about the 9 f***ing years this deadbeat didn't pay s***...??? How about the fact that she could have, ACCORDING TO THE LAW gotten THOUSANDS MORE per month, but DIDN'T...? Good grief. Atttack the law if you don't like it. Not the person just trying to get what is entitled to them.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 11:16 AM) I agree...everyone seems to love it, but its so freaking sweet I can't have but two bites. It's like they add so much sugar to try to make it not taste so bland.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 11:01 AM) Having said all this, I wonder what Wrigley is doing. Not that I go to more than two games there a year (both for work, ugh), but there you could, if I'm not mistaken, only smoke against the Sheffield Ave. fence in the bleachers (meaning: all the way back) or on the ramps against the fence on the Addison/Clark sides (and maybe on the outdoor patio up top at Clark/Addison side. I wonder if they've gotten tighter, too. Back when I was an ignorant b****... (have at it peanut gallery ) I smoked walking on the concourse there and waiting in lines for beers with the rest of the smoking lepers.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 10:58 AM) That seems a bit extreme. It's ice cream. What, do they poop in it first or something? It tastes fake to me. The strawberries (which is the only kind I have tried from there) were hard and plastic in texture, and Jim said the chocolate chunks tasted stale.

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 10:42 AM) Oberweis in any flavor is the best !!!!!!! Agree. And Cold Stone is gross, IMO.

QUOTE(JimH @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 10:22 AM) By the way I love the Bullpen Bar and I wonder how they'll handle it. From the way I read it, no smoking down there either ... just on the ramps and nowhere else I guess? From what I've heard they have not made a decision on the bar, nor the fan deck seating closest to the bar. At this point I believe the law reads that if you are within 15 feet of the bar you can smoke? (someone please correct me if I'm wrong on that as I have not read the details first hand).

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 09:43 AM) Haha here comes the "oh there's no proof 2nd hand smoke is harmful" people apparently!! You guys *waves to mmmmbeer* and your lack of knowledge make me laugh every time. Is there evidence that it causes lung cancer... or only that is possibly contributes to it.

QUOTE(mmmmmbeeer @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 09:41 AM) If they really wanted to get serious about reducing lung disease by improving air quality they'd place a filtered biodome over the park. This is nothing more than a political move by the city. There's not a doctor in this nation who can prove that brief brush with secondhand smoke in an open place, ie. concourse, is anymore harmful to someone's health than the toxins already floating around in the air. The argument is absolutely ludicrous. So, in all actuality, it really does come down to stopping a simple annoyance, much like declaring that farting in the park is not allowed except on ramps 2,5,6,7. ^^ It's true.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 09:32 AM) I would think that I have the legal right to breathe as well. Stop being so dramatic. No one is holding your nose and preventing you from doing so.

No surprise. The Sox doing what they do best off the field.

QUOTE(whitem0nkey @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 09:24 AM) I’m a smoker, and if there are TVs in the designated areas so I can keep on following the game then that should be fine. I will miss having a cigarette, on the concourse and watching the game live. No tv's out there. Smoke fast!

http://www.11alive.com/help/search/search_...x?storyid=77880 Reported By: Marc Pickard Last Modified: 3/28/2006 12:38:10 PM Americans have a knack for expressing opinions with bumper stickers, from pride for the military, to pride for a student, to pride for a university, to pride for a favorite baseball team. Denise Grier says she was not feeling pride when, last June, she affixed a sentiment (“I'm Tired of All the Bush--”) to her right rear bumper. “With the performance of Bush, I feel like, you know, he's not done what he was elected to do. I don't feel like he's telling us the truth, and those are my personal feelings," Grier said. Until this past June, it was the only bumper sticker Grier had on her car. On March 10, she was pulled over by a DeKalb police officer. “He said, ‘do you know why I stopped you?’ And I said, ‘no I have no idea.’ And he said, ‘you have a lewd decal on your car.’ And I said, ‘I do?’ My first thought was one of my children had put something obscene or filthy on my car,” said Grier. The officer said the offending bumper sticker violated a law against lewd, obscene and vulgar vehicle decals. The American Civil Liberties Union points to action by the Georgia Supreme Court 15 years ago that overturned that law. “A law, such as lewd bumper stickers is unenforceable. What’s lewd to one person is not lewd to another. And it allows officers to end up citing people just because they don’t like the views expressed,” said Gerry Webster of the Georgia ACLU. Despite the furor, Grier says she would do it all over again. “Each of us has a right to free speech", she said. "And if I don't speak out for it, who will?" Grier says she's not an activist, just a nurse who happens to have a court date in April over a controversial political bumper sticker. That cop would be out of tickets in 10 minutes in the city.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 07:02 AM) Thank God. Seriously. That video of her with the guys standing behind her was eerily similar to the Nick Berg video and I thought the worst would happen.

:headshake http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06040/652876.stm Parents of dead Mt. Lebanon boy warn of 'Choking Game' Thursday, February 09, 2006 By Laura Pace, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The parents of a 13-year-old Mt. Lebanon boy want school officials and parents to talk to children about "The Choking Game," in hopes of stopping behavior that they believe killed their son. "My son was taken away," said the boy's father, who asked that his son's name not be used. "They feel like nothing can happen to them." The boy died at his home on Monday, and his parents believe it was a result of "The Choking Game," where children deprive their brains of oxygen by wrapping their throats with belts or ropes to get a quick high when blood flow returns. "I think educating the kids about the terrors of it is what you need to do," the boy's father said today. If confirmed, it could be the first documented death in the county due to the game. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner has ruled the Mt. Lebanon boy's cause of death as "asphyxiation by hanging" but is waiting for results of the Mt. Lebanon police investigation and toxicology tests before ruling if it was an accident or suicide. The parents are adamant that their son did not kill himself. Mt. Lebanon Police Chief Thomas A. Ogden Jr. would not say if officers were investigating the game but said the department has ruled out foul play and there was no evidence of suicide. The boy's father said police took his son's cell phone and computer to see if there were clues to the death there.

QUOTE(mreye @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 07:57 AM) Can I pick U. Ass (That's U.S.!) Bates? OK, Sheriff Buford T. Justice. Comiskey or US Cellular? Comiskey! The Godfather or Goodfellas