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Actually I did a little more research just to emphasize my point. In 2000 the same ticket plan cost $206. And don't forget that parking only cost $10 in 2000, so you can add another $65 for the extra two games of parking, plus the extra $5 a game.

I just got the brochure for the "Starting Nine" ticket plan in the mail. I had calmed down about ticket prices, but this got me all riled up again. Here it is in black and white. For the past 3 years through all of the ticket price increases my wife and I have always gotten the 7 game plan. We always would get openning day, the 3 Cubs games, fan appreciation day, and two other good match ups. (usually one NL team and a Twins game). Last year this cost me $290 for the two sets of tickets in the outfield reserved seats. 2 of the games I requested I didn't even get the seats I asked for. In order to get that same plan, plus the two extra games that you have to buy, it would cost me $472 or a 61% increase out of my pocket. And that is just 2003 vs 2004. I am sure it would be 125-150% increase if I went back to 2000. Any one out there gotten a 61% pay increase in the last year, or making double what they were in 2000? I know I haven't. This is one fan who has been priced out of the market.

Well at least now that PA has quit hanging out here we are...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4386697/

Bush sucks on the enviornment. But give someone like Al Gore 4 years in the white house along with a simpathetic congress and they will destroy our economy by making it so expensive to do business in the US, that overseas job flight will be inevitable to less restrictive and costly areas. There is a progressive middle ground that is ignored in all of the rhetoric. Wages for airport security have gone way up. As have the cost of traveling. Look at all of the extra taxes that we now pay to support all of the new and more expensive hires. But that being said, too much stuff still happens involving airport security. Too many things get through. I would say that from now on, with the airlines knowing what kind of enviornment we exsist in, let the airlines be sued if something else happens. If they don't take adequate steps to protect passengers, let them be responsible for it. The problem is once again the possibility exsists of bankrupting the airline system and grounding our air traffic system. No American citizen should be able to be held in the US without charges or a lawyer. Period. Why should Israelis foreign aid be any different than any of our other allies? Why single them out? Why wouldn't you take from everyone's aid? Doesn't everyone benefit from the destruction of WMD's? Why should Israel pay for it singularly? No arguements from me there. Rebuilding infrastructure is the most visable way to show that we are helping a country. Where does other countries responsibilities for their own borders come in? You would want to US to enforce laws in another country? That is not up to us as a government to decide. That decesion should be made by either the country that the sweatshops are in, or by the consumers not to buy that product.

This was a good well thought out post. Let me answer what I think to some of it. The problem with picking out one report is how much of that stuff really can be digested and acted upon. I have read that each intellegence report has a probablity of occurence or truth. I would be curious how high or low that was. Also so much of this info was left over from the last Admin, how seriously is this group supposed to take it, when the previous group obviously did nothing about it. Bascially I would say the same things as above, except even more skeptically, because Israel would have much more of a possible ulterior motive here. IMO improvements in airline plane safety should have been contingent upon the airlines accepting the post 9-11 security guarentees. With the extra costs of gasoline I don't know how much of this would have been possible without bankrupting more airlines and putting them out of business, but more precautions should have been taken to date. But there is a balance that has to be struck otherwise the extra costs cripple the nations travel infrastucture and unemploy many many more people. I don't like Ashcroft at all. Most of the Patriot Act is garbage. But the question becomes, how many lives are worth freedom? Would you be willing to let you or your family die, because info that could have stopped a terrorist act, isn't accessible to the government. Because of my view of the constitution, I believe that our freedom is more important. Who was the last President who didn't depend on committees of people for policy advice? Would you rather see just the President pouring through all that info all by himself and trying to form a cohesive policy? As for fossil fuels, that is a whole nother arguement. As long as the auto lobby is as strong as it is, we will never get anywhere. That doesn't matter who the President is.

OK here is the deal. I split out all of the BS off topic stuff, and put it on the OT board, where I am going to lock it. This is a good and relevant topic, so I am openning this part back up for everyone else.

This is pointless and over.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/03/01...live/index.html

Too bad there isn't a smilie of a guy gouging his eyes out... :puke :puke :puke :puke :puke :puke :headshake

http://www.baseballreference.com/b/benarma01.shtml These are his career numbers. He had been a Giant his whole career up until now.

And so it has begun. It will be interesting to see who the Bears go after.

A guy who is in camp with us trying to catch on as our 4th or 5th OFer.

I hope this team cares that their biggest rival doesn't take them seriously. Any extra motivation they can get helps.

I hope so too. The Bulls have really taken the classy high road by the way they have handled this situation. They could have just cut the kid and not given him a dime. Both sides deserve JWill to return to his potential as a reward for the way they handled themselves after this happened.

Go get em Heads!!!

Sully told this story right after he was traded. It is sad that it has taken this long to hit the mainstream Chicago media.

I was afraid you were going to say Joan Cusak :puke

To the REAL Sultan pimp of Soxtalk! Not to mention the best dressed...

This is the same guy who got all pissed off when people were talking about Kansas losing right? Just checking.

And let me ask you a question, how would a different president have done any better?

OH HELL NO. Hindlick with the dunk on Ilguaskus

Don't forget the draft it tommorrow!!!!