NorthSideSox72

Alaska is awesome. Profoundly. There is just no place in the lower 48 that can prepare you for the immensity of it all. I hope to go back many times.

I have no tolerance for drunk drivers - its an incredibly selfish and idiotic act. But that phrase there in bold bothers the heck out of me. Its too derivative. DUI is a derivative law anyway, assuming that harm could be done. This is now a derivative of a derivative. Its not acceptable to me. You want to stop DUIs, patrol the parking lots and the streets instead of the bars. Stop the drivers as they get into the cars, and send them back into the bar to call a cab.

SS2K5- I just want to say that I agree with most of your post, and that you are not alone in your feelings on this. All the points you made were made, individually, by someone else somewhere on this board. I share many of your frustrations. I would point out that there is a negative economic toll for sending trespassers back to their native countries - especially at first. But the positives that would come from an immigration policy which protects all citiziens and LEGAL aliens, including a guest worker program that would allow those jobs to be refilled at still-low wages, would far outweigh those negatives. I'll end by saying that, in agreement with the theme of your post, I am tired of people here referring to illegal crossers as "immigrants". Immigrant connotates people who followed an immigration process (even a broken one) to enter this country, much like many of our ancestors have (of whom we should be proud). People who enter this country illegally are TRESPASSERS, not immigrants. They deserve no quarter and should receive none. We'll take the huddled masses, but we'll take them in some semblence of order, to protect the people already here.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 14, 2006 -> 01:06 PM) The Albion, PA one killed several people that my parents know - I wasn't old enough to remember them - but that tornado went RIGHT through where we used to live. Had we been in Pennsylvania and not moved to Indiana, we probably would have been dead. We went back and helped clean up after the tornado. I was 12, but I will never forget the damage, destruction, and all out power of that storm 20 days after it had hit. The trees were COMPLETELY dry - 100 year old trees had the sap clear sucked out of them. And you could see the rotation of the winds in the remaining trunks. The trees were down for 1.5 miles - just the same - and the storm was so powerful that it went up mountains and down valleys for 65 miles (most tornados in PA jump from hilltop to hilltop). I am honestly very surprised that list doesn't include what was, as far as I know, the deadliest tornado ever recorded - the Tri-State tornado. Ripped through MO, IL and IN in the 50's I think, killed hundreds of people, wiped numerous entire towns off the map.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Apr 14, 2006 -> 10:09 AM) Again, I look at something like this and how it messed up the place, and then I remember my hometown was hit by an F5 in '68. If this is amazing, then that would have had to be beyond words. A tornado is a pretty amazing thing. I got a really good look at one once - almost too good. That was an F1, and it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. An F5 is unfathomable.

Shyamalan's Sixth Sense is #50. I like his screenplays a lot, but I think that his Signs was a better written screenplay than any of his other movies.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 11:35 PM) http://www.kcrg.com F3 is the rating I saw on the NWS site, could be wrong, but the campus got hit. Town looks f***ed up. What is sort of amusing in this (nothing amusing about the damage at all), is that I saw these reports this morning when I was getting ready for work, and the first thing that popped into my head was, "Heads will have a thread up on this by the time I get to work." I certainly hope everyone is OK. Looks like IC got it pretty bad, but I haven't heard of any fatalities yet.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 14, 2006 -> 07:29 AM) ^ Yup, that's me, in my monkey suit. Workin' for the man. And stuck inside while its 80 degrees out!

QUOTE(iWiN4PreP @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 05:50 PM) A little duckstourt (sp?). Unless I was reading too much into Steff's post, I don't think that is what she meant (even if it were spelled correctly).

QUOTE(Steff @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 04:11 PM) Maybe he just needs a slump buster.. LOL

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 03:47 PM) If we find a way to remove the reason for people to cross that border illegally...there will be no reason to spend all that money to prevent people from crossing illegally. I agree, to an extent. The demand side needs to be addressed as well. But not exclusively.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 03:48 PM) We are already using many of thosr technologies, and by most acounts they have not achieved the desired success. Ut will take much more, which will be very expensive. I fear materials being imported more than people walking across the desert or north woods. Materials still require vehicles and/or people. I wish I could find that darn article now, but the amount of money Border Patrol has spent on detection technologies is staggeringly small. And you are right about the North Woods. I pointed that out too, a while ago, that one can boat across the very long border into MN without anyone ever knowing. But I sure as heck don't want to see a giant battlement of a wall put up across this county's largest roadless wilderness area (BWCAW and Quetico combine to be over 6 million acres).

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 03:43 PM) If nothing else...at least box cutters are illegal on planes now. That's TSA. I was referring to the intelligence mechanisms, like FBI/CIA/NSA. FBI in particular is still in shambles.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 03:40 PM) Fences and patrols away from are ports is what I'm objecting to. Proposals like 1,400 mile long fences. Measures to stop illegals crossing, looking for jobs, while Canada and the US flush shipping lanes during heavy traffic periods by not checking at all. (see the It Would be Different if it was Mexico) I am all for securing the ports, but not for spending billions to patrol thousands of square miles of desert. As I pointed out earlier in this thread, we don't need to spend billions or put up a 1400 mile wall to protect our borders. There are more efficient technological methods, just as there are at our ports.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 03:36 PM) I disagree that we haven't made things better. Even despite a lot of high level bungling we're still in a lot better shape security wise than we were before 9-11. Under the current scheme of things I don't believe a similar attack could be carried out here. Hopefully time will prove me right. I sincerely hope you are. But I don't see it.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 03:12 PM) Why don't we just put a bullet in this guy's head and be done with it. Every day he rants during his trial is another day he mocks America. What scares me about this, more than anything else, is that the institutional idiocy that allowed him and his cohorts to plan this thing is still in place. The FBI stil hasn't materially improved their processes, and the Department of Homeland Red Tape has made things worse. If this same scenario happened today, where a guy like Moussaui was out there and the FBI wanted to get him (like they did in his case, months before 9/11), they'd still not be able to. That is the worst part of all of this trial nonsense and aftermat, in my opinion. We didn't learn from it and make things better.

QUOTE(Cerbaho-WG @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 02:51 PM) Let's try thinking here: -Illegal immigrants are taking many jobs that people don't want and getting paid ridiculously low wages to do so -To mobilize the unemployed to take these jobs, you'd probably have to double the wage at least. You'd have to expect an agricultural job to pay 12+ up. Because this isn't a service based job, the higher the wage, the lower the employment level. You'd experience a real high spike of unemployment in the short-run and a lot less quanity supplied. Again, you'd have to raise wages substantially to compensate for this. If you're going to b**** that they're not paying taxes and what not, the amount is amazingly small. Maybe if you wanted to increase tax revenue, you could, I don't know, stop pissing it away to spur short run consumption via tax cuts. I'm failing why to see Republicans are getting all huffy about this. They'll protect corporations at any cost to maximize profit and advocate outsourcing jobs to East Asia where wages are lower, but when they have lower wages sitting right in front of them, they just want to boot them out. What some people here are failing to see is that if these immigrants were here legally, they'd still do those jobs. The fact that they have them illegally is not the positive aspect - its the fact that the jobs are filled at all. So, if people have to get into an actual system of some kind, nothing is lost. Therefore, doing what Nuke suggests, and making them essentially stop skipping and get in line, is not going to permanently drain those jobs. But at least in that case, we'd get the tax revenue and the security that goes with knowing they are here, and they'd get the protections that go with being a documented alien. So you see, their presence here illegally isn't justifiable by the jobs they hold. That argument would only fly if some buffoon (Tancredo perhaps) was saying no to a guest worker program and no to any increas in visas, and yes to kicking them out, thus permanently removing these people from the job scene. Enforce where you can, tighten the borders, and get a guest worker program going (along with increased visa volume). That is the best of both worlds.

Sports or a good workout. Anything that transfers the stress energy from mind to body, and then expels it.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Apr 12, 2006 -> 03:05 PM) The skyline is strait north of the park. At best, they could have gotten some of it in the left field corner view. The Sox also wanted to keep part of the original Comiskey (now the footprint for Gates 5&6) and they would have blocked any view of the skyline. It's nice of you to come up with that idea 15 years later though. Wasn't my idea. I was responding to your post, because it seemed confusing.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060412/ap_on_...uted_election_2 Ah, California.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Apr 10, 2006 -> 04:10 PM) Ever heard the term southpaw? Baseball stadiums are supposed to point E to NE in CF. And US Cell faces SE to CF. So if they had followed the rule, then indeed the skyline would have been in CF.

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ Apr 12, 2006 -> 10:43 AM) Tarp is on field. Anyone know if the game will start on time? I see the infield - no tarp.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 12, 2006 -> 09:46 AM) BTW, in the business of politics side of things, imagine how different both sides positions would be if Hispanics voted overwhelmingly for Republicans and not Democrats. Both sides would have some philosophy changes of directions I am certain. Actually, in the 2004 Prez elections, Hispanics voted for Bush almost as much as for Kerry. Its one of the reasons Bush won. The hispanic population is no longer a gimme for the Dems, which I think is one reason why this issue seems to cut across party lines (yes, there are others of course).

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 12, 2006 -> 08:39 AM) Hitting has become way to valued in the Golden Glove. I think it has become almost 70/30 in favor or hitting. If I was picking the bext thrid baseman in baseball, I'd take A-Rod everytime. But I'd love to platoon them, and take Crede on D and let Alex hit for him. Take a little off the top of A-Rod hitting and Crede fielding and viola! you have Chavez. Hitting should have zero to do with the Gold Glove. That Raffy GG when he barely played 1B was embarrassing. How anyone could look themselves in the mirror and call themselves a "Sports Journalist" after making that vote is beyond me.

QUOTE(Soxfest @ Apr 12, 2006 -> 07:56 AM) Crede could but I would be suprised, he not the media guys pick not glamorous enough for them :rolly I don't know. I think the long hair, the small town guy thing... he might become a media darling, assuming the Sox are in contention all year and in the media's foreground.