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The soonest they can go up now is July. http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/03/14/s...ttle/index.html

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/internatio...,405947,00.html Very Cool stuff.

Stevie Wonder week was not kind to the contestants. I fully agree with Simon when he said it was like watching two different shows between the first half of the show and the second. -Chicken Little needs to GO! -Melissa was terrible as well, except at the end. -I can't even listen to Kellie talk anymore. I thought he preformance was so so last night, but I wanted to smack her after she talked to Ryan. -The mediocres included Ace, Bucky, Elliot, and Lisa. -Chris was surprisingly good. -Katharine was somewhere in between the goods and the greats. -Paris, Mandisa, and Taylor were top notch.

From the thread about Mexico finding a huge new crude oil reserve... QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Mar 15, 2006 -> 10:10 AM) ".....and the kinfolk said, "Juan, move away from there!" They said, "California is the place you ought to be...."

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Mar 15, 2006 -> 10:10 AM) ".....and the kinfolk said, "Juan, move away from there!" They said, "California is the place you ought to be...."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060315/ap_on_...xico_oil_find_1

The Ides of March are upon us

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Mar 15, 2006 -> 12:54 AM) The domain is owned, but I think thats going to be one of our last ventures, simply because I think its going to take an established network to draw enough Blackhawk fans. That said if we think people want it, we'll do what we can to make it happen. Yeah as we looked at it and were deciding what order to do the teams in, we really felt the Bears were WAY underserved as to independant message boards. All were either part of an NFL network, or sucked really hard. Plus I think if you ask most Chicagoans, Chicago is a Bears town first and foremost. The Hawks will come, but a little later. We want to make sure the expansions are a good fit for us first, and then worry about other stuff as we grow.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Mar 13, 2006 -> 02:15 PM) Why not do a Big Ten forum with sub forums for each team? That's an interesting idea actually. It might be worth looking into eventually. Right now we have our hands full with the two new sites and getting them off of the ground, or seeing if they even take. Who knows if the Soxtalk formula can capture magic more than once? If it does, the Big Ten could be a very natural expansion point.

UAE is selling 10% of its dollar reserves and converting them into euros... Saudi Arabia is also pissed about this. Yeah for higher interest rates and higher gas prices http://news.independent.co.uk/business/new...ticle351127.ece

Saw the 4th Harry Potter movie, and its the best of the series so far IMO. They chopped a lot out of the book, and still got down to 2.5 hours. Good rental movie if you are into the series or the books at all.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 13, 2006 -> 03:17 PM) Ya, kind of like leaving a fridge full of beer with me for safekeeping. . . Well, if it was a fridge full of Miller Lite it *might* be OK.

Highway 30 is your best bet if you hit at rush hour. It'll be busy, but not nearly as bad as traffic on 80/94/90 will be. I would take 65 south to 30 and jump on it there, as the construction starts soon after I-65, and really continues for 10-15 miles between the work they are doing in IN and in IL. Also it is always a good idea to jump on AM 780 as you approach that areas for the traffic on the 8s to hear if any one route is messed up or not. That might save you some grief and headaches. And finally, good luck girl, you are going to need it.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Mar 13, 2006 -> 02:19 PM) Funny, that same person implied that people who oppose illegal immigration do so out of racism. Talk about a "negtative tone." :rolly I have a difficult time having a reasonable discussion when people do things like that. And he got called on it, just like you did. You can put the rolly eyes away now...

You might as well be leaving drug policy to the Medallin cartel if you are leaving ethics reform up to congres...

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Mar 13, 2006 -> 12:39 PM) Can you give me an example of how someone here used this "racism and stereotyping" in a post that lead you to make this comment. I read through the whole thread and I can't find one besides your post that states it. Please show me an example of this and why you had to bring this into the argument at all. Thank you. I agree 100%. Just like screaming racism, any attempt to bring in personal details, only serves to make the arugment personal. There is plenty to argue about just on the merits of the argument, without worrying about how old someone is etc.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Mar 13, 2006 -> 12:49 AM) Soxy, Where are you going exactly? ^ Depending on where exactly you are going, there might be bad news or even worse news... The traffic situation south of Chicago is HORRIBLE right now. They are literally working on EVERYTHING.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Mar 12, 2006 -> 09:05 PM) talkcyclones.com sounds solid. Kind of a nerdy site to talk about tornados? Excellent idea... maybe we could eventually expand into hurricanes and earthquakes as well if that takes off.

I also just wanted to throw in another two cents here... Realize that it takes something to get banned from here. We don't just throw people out for no reason, but at the sametime sometimes we have to take a stand for one reason or another. We also know that people change, grow up, mature etc. As a group, we the admins much prefer to talk to people directly about reinstating people, and recently we have also made the decesion to give Jabroni another chance on here as well. One way to make sure that you won't be allowed to post here is to inflame a suspension/banning, by making up a fake name and continuing to post anyway. Usually we figure it out quickly, and if not, someone on here always seems to figure it out and point out who the poster really is. All that does is ensure it will be a lot longer before we consider letting that poster return, vs just biding your time, being a man, and owning up to the punishment for your actions. What it comes down to is that we believe that both Jabs and TRU can be solid contributing posters to Soxtalk. We appreciate the way they both approached us as adults and we decided to give them another chance. We also would appreciate it if fellow posters respected them, and didn't drag them into senseless arguements based on prior histories. We as admins are trying to give them a clear slate with the understanding that this is a second chance, and we would appreciate it if everyone else would do the same courtesy to them. These guys also know if problems begin to arise of their own causation, that second chance will be over. But at the sametime, if we see people starting problems with them for no reason, we are going to stop those people from starting problems as well. My hope is that this is the last you ever hear of this, and these guys melt right back in like nothing ever happened. Thanks for your help and patience with this, and as always if you have any concerns, questions, or comments, feel free to either post them or PM/email any of us. Thanks again, Mike

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Mar 12, 2006 -> 08:16 PM) Because all 12 million are on welfare? What I meant was that there currently is no "illegal asylum." That's bulls***. Again, blame the American government for not taking the proper actions if they really want to fix the problem, not the good, hard-working people who just want to provide for themselves and their family. Such obvious, negative attitudes, the stereotyping, racism, etc., is unneccesary. Um, you were just the one arguing how low paying the jobs are they are working. Think about it. You take 12 million people who for the great majority are making less than the minimum wage and add them legally to our social services systems, and what do you think will happen? And personally I would love to see how you would explain to the LEGAL hard working people who just want to provide for themselves and their family, why they should be obligated and forced to support people whose very presense here is a violation of multiple American laws. And your damned right I blame the government for consistantly having two contradictary policies when it comes to immigration. On one hand we tell people to come here legally, but on the other the government looks the otherway when the opposite happens. This problem isn't going to get fixed by making 12 million new citizens, because the core of the problem still exsists and that the US government is a complicit aider in giving financial incentives to be an illegal alien in the USA. Everytime you take away a potential reward for illegally migrating into the US, you decrease the amount of people who are willing to do it. That isn't racism, it is pure economics. People won't do something they don't get a utility out of. You want to stop illegal immigration, stop rewarding people for doing it. And finally, keep the race card in your pocket. Its one thing if you want to argue the subject, but it is weak and narrowminded to throw that out everytime you can't refute an arguement.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Mar 12, 2006 -> 07:05 PM) asylum??? We tried that already in 1986. Granted that was before you were born, but we were fed the same lines of crap back then how it was supposed to fix things, and that all of these new tough immigration laws were going to take care of the problem... We now have an estimated 12 million illegal aliens here, with an additional 500,000 arriving every single year. That is the entire populations of NYC, Chicago, and Houston, combined, that are hear illegally. That is 12 million people who are burdening all of our vital welfare systems in place for our own poor people. They have the effect of increasing our people under the poverty line by about 50% when they are included into statistics. Asylum doesn't fix anything. All asylum does it reward 12 million people for breaking the law, stretching our basic services to the breaking point, endangering their own exsistances, and burdening the legally tax paying citizens of this country with a bill they should have no obligation to pay. And an obligation is exactly what it becomes. Welfare, healthcare, unemployment, education etc, all become our responsibility if we reward these people for their illegal actions. To an extent we are already supplying them with some of these things, and it all comes at the low, low price of dangerous border crossings, dangerous working conditions, enriching the fortunes of criminals who endager peoples lives to get them across the border, taking precious resources away from American poor and working poor, chaotic borders, and higher taxes. All granting asylum does is offer another reward for people who are willing to endanger the lives of themselves and their families, and enrich the people who are willing to take advantage of them. Its the equivilent of rewarding the 4 year old throwing a temper tantrum with a new Playstation, instead of making him earn it.

QUOTE(GASHWOUND @ Mar 12, 2006 -> 05:33 PM) You don't have HBO? Nope

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Mar 12, 2006 -> 05:32 PM) I CANT WAIT FOR TALKBLACKHAWKS.COM I can't wait for talkcubs.com. We could have thread threads about Woods simulated games, or Priors simulated games, or should Dusty be fired, or how tall should the Sosa statue be... It'll be awesome.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Mar 12, 2006 -> 05:27 PM) I wonder if Redding or Tracey would take Hermy's place if he is hurt? Call me silly, but as good as some of the lefties have been, we might leave camp with two of the guys in competition for the finaly lefty spot. We know Ozzie loves his match ups, so it isn't crazy.

Damn I can't wait to see this... And I have to wait until at least tomorrow to get the video tapes from the in-laws...