southsider2k5

Interesting to note that they are putting some blame on the minimum wage increase... http://www.wbbm780.com/Bennigan-s-Goes-Bust/2685636

Hopefully Jose and Lexi put in a good word for us

59-46 +0.5 games over MN

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2008...bama-world-tour

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 01:44 PM) House, at its best, is very near the top, if not at the top. At it's average, it falls way down. Some episodes are just so gawd awful. But I think their willingness to risk a crappy show keeps them away from the warm and comfortable puke that clogs the airwaves. I will say that I like House a lot, but I can't watch the reruns. Once you have seen it, there is no point in seeing it again.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 28, 2008 -> 02:28 PM) Meh, not as good a once was IMO. Man you must like 'em bullemic if you have a problem with that.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 12:58 PM) The earthquake is making national news. How bad was it? What's it like to be in an earthquake? On paper, today's game is a massive blowout for the Twins. Hopefully that means we'll win. If they keep kicking our ass, this is a bad sign. The Yankees beat the s*** out of Minnesota just last week. The Twins are not THAT good. If they sweep us or win 3-4 it does say something negative about our team. 5.8 according to the USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recent.../ci14383980.php

Baseball field.. Either that or a strip club.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 11:55 AM) I have given all 3 a real shot. I can't stand Hugh Lawire(or whatever it is), 24 is slow as s***, and Scrubs is just a little too goofy for me. I have watched probably 6-7 Scrubs episodes, and while I laugh occasionally, it doesn't really make me want to watch another one. I never really cared for it at first, but after you watch a cycle of the re-runs and learn some of the jokes and characters, it gets funnier everytime you watch it. Seinfeld was the same way for me.

Hopefully they convict him. The more of these people that get taken down, the better chance we have of cleaning up the system.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 08:15 AM) Where will the money come from? The harsh reality is we need a leveling of the system. As noted in the article, parents can move to a neighborhood with better schools, which generally means higher property values and higher housing prices. When we start looking at school funding on a state wide basis, and fund the schools that way, we begin to offer the kinds of services that Winnetka takes for granted and a poor inner city school can only dream. There are pros and cons on both sides, what worries me the most about vouchers and some of these plans is it will take money out of the public system where most of the poor children will be. Their parents will not be able to make up the difference between the voucher and the private school. Also, the whole he believes this because they donate stuff is crap. If, for example, Southsider, Kap, and AlphaDog where offering an endorsement, wouldn't the candidate be a conservative who supports most of what they believe in? Would it then be fair to say that the candidate only supports a given issue because Southsider, Kap, and AlphaDog gave him an endorsement? It's a two way street. Most endorsements are a shared vision or philosophy. They travel in the same circles, attend the same benefits and fundraisers, visit the same churhces. Having been involved as a candidate for school board in a heavily poor and minority district I have some opinions on the matter. First of all IF the federal government is going to be involved in education funding, then the property tax system we have now is socio-economic distrimination. I don't know if vouchers are the answer or not, but why is it that education is the one thing we have no choice in? Think about it, if you get a bad haircut, you go to another barber. If you have a bad experience on the car lot, you go to a different dealer. If your bank charges high fees and gives you bad service you close your account and go somewhere else. But if you kid goes to a crappy school system, the only thing you can do is move. We worry about taking money from bad schools, but in reality, it usually isn't money that is going to solve the problems. Usually there is a poverty cycle that has inbred expectations of failure into students from day one. They enter the school system with no expectations or hope of doing anything better than their parent/s did. School is looked at by the kids as a place to hang out and get a meal, the parents look at it as a babysitter and a free meal for the kid. The parents got nothing out of school, so why should they expect their kids to? These parents usually also fall into one of two groups, either they are working a ton of hours at a horrible job and don't have time to help the kids prepare for school, or they are into drugs or something, and don't care about their kids. It starts way before the kids get into schools. For kids that really want to do well, they are stuck in rooms with all of these kids, and it makes learning next to impossible. Those are the kids that need a choice. The kids that don't care, won't care no matter what their school options are. Now throw in social promotion and keep pushing those same kids who don't read into middle school and guess how hard it is to teach a math or science class? There is more than meets the untrained eye here.

Chicago Cubs baseball.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 08:59 AM) I liked them. Oh well. Houlihan's is better anyway. I agree 100%.

Microsoft

Today is one of those days where the offense is going to have to slug it out for us. This is a big game.

The two home runs on two strike pitches really took the air out of the Sox yesterday. It just wasn't going to be their day, and you could tell early.

59-45 +1.5 games over MN

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1217200684...emEditorialPage

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/wh...soxnt28.article

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 28, 2008 -> 02:08 PM) TEAM OBAMA is now saying that the Pentagon prevent the trip. http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/pos...2Y3MGQzNDRiZTU= And from Barack himself... http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/20...a-explains.html

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 25, 2008 -> 02:08 PM) tpm: Pentagon Confirms That It Told Obama He Couldn't Visit Army Base With Campaign Staff By Greg Sargent - July 25, 2008, 11:13AM I've just gotten clarification from the Pentagon on what really happened with regard to Barack Obama's canceled visit to an Army base in Germany, something the McCain campaign has been using to hit Obama since yesterday. A Pentagon spokesperson confirms to me that because of longstanding Department of Defense regulations, Pentagon officials told Obama aides that he couldn't visit the base with campaign staff. This left Obama with little choice but to cancel the trip, since the plan to visit with campaign aides had been in the works for weeks. The Obama campaign yesterday announced that it had decided to cancel the visit to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, saying that it would be "inappropriate" to make such a visit as part of a campaign trip. The McCain camp has nonetheless been using Obama's canceled trip to insinuate that he's anti-troops. "Barack Obama is wrong," McCain spokesperson Brian Rogers said in a statement yesterday. "It is never 'inappropriate' to visit our men and women in the military." But it turns out that the Pentagon did in fact tell Obama that in this case, it was not only "inappropriate," but against DOD rules, for him to conduct the visit with campaign staff. "We have longstanding Department of Defense policy in regards to political campaigns and elections," Pentagon spokesperson Elizabeth Hibner told me. "We informed the Obama staff that he was more than welcome to visit as Senator Obama, with Senate staff. However, he could not conduct the visit with campaign staff." After being told this, the Obama campaign announced yesterday that it had decided it was "inappropriate" to make the visit as part of a campaign trip. It's unclear how Obama could have made the visit at all, given the Pentagon's directives. No Senate staff was on the trip, and the Obama camp says they received the Pentagon's directives on Wednesday, after they were already abroad. TEAM OBAMA is now saying that the Pentagon prevent the trip. http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/pos...2Y3MGQzNDRiZTU=

"A wide stance we can believe in" http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/453127.html

Well I might have to take back my Obama-backing on the published prayer issue if this report is true. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1005882.html

QUOTE (DBAH0 @ Jul 28, 2008 -> 01:45 PM) Apologies if posted somewhere else, but there was a deadline article, saying he thought we would get Burnett for Jack Egbert and Brandon Allen. Thoughts if that actually happened? Would you want A.J to opt out after this season? I'd make that deal twice, which means it probably won't happen.