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Wouldn't the credit check determine that the Social Security number is fraudulent?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 28, 2007 -> 10:06 AM) This gives homosexuals a bad name. I know I am being naive here, but was he expecting the person to crawl under the stall? Plus, what was illegal about this incident? His foot touched and he reached under a stall? Shouldn't there be some offer like in prostitution arrests we see on COPS? What he did is known as cruising. This is basically the same thing that George Michael got busted for in LA. Here's my favorite part about this story so far. It doesn't involve the Senator at all, but his upcoming opponent in next year's election and a really poor word choice. (Emphasis mine)

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 28, 2007 -> 07:50 AM) On the other extreme, everything the White House does is a grand conspiracy... Clearly, because pointing out any impropriety over the last six years is painting an administration as a grand conspiracy.

There's no real reason for joy. People made that mistake about Ashcroft. And then we got Gonzales. The only saving grace to that is that Gonzales might have ended up on the supreme court if he hadn't been made AG.

QUOTE(OilCan @ Aug 26, 2007 -> 06:57 PM) Well, given the fact that KW actually put together the roster for '05, and Ozzie was managing all the right moves, who can blame them? Now you want to bail on them because the lineup can't hit, the bullpen can't put out any fires and the team is in a tailspin? Okay, go do so, but...given the fact that Kenny and Ozzie wants to taste success again, and would like to make the team into something the city can be proud of for years to come, don't expect KW to rest on his laurels. Now he's given notice by the fans, and you better believe that Jerry Riensdorf and the rest of the White Sox management are listening, as in lesser and lesser attendance = no money coming in. I won't give them a 5-yr grace period. You're only successful as what you do now. But to their credit, KW, Ozzie and the rest of the organization did do something that the prior 84 years before 2005 could not. Give them that at least. Just because the pieces were right for 2005 doesn't mean that those pieces are a long term solution. Just like players eventually no longer fit the needs of a team, neither do managers. Ozzie has always been a poor manager of his bullpen, IMO. He leaves some pitchers out way too long and gives others a strangely miniscule leash. What he was able to provide in 2004 and 2005 was a spark that made our team try to win. There was an intensity that he facilitated in a talented group of players that helped them get over that hump and grab that pennant. In 2006, the intensity wasn't there. There had always seemingly been a sense of resting on their laurels, always been a sense of entitlement to the playoffs that they weren't going to reach last year. Ozzie failed to provide the spark that the team needed last year, and when they started to falter down the stretch, Ozzie was either unwilling or unable to bring the team together enough to gut it out and make it happen. This year with a 100 million dollar payroll, he's unable to keep his team from Corpseball by June 15. Sure, there are a lot of holes in the makeup of this team this year. Crappy bullpen and a lackluster offense - BUT - we aren't a team that should be a 95 loss team. We should be at least an 80 win team. We showed some flashes of making that happen in July, but something snapped again. For the last half of last season, and all of this season, Ozzie has shown himself incapable of getting the best out of his players on a consistent basis. Unfortunately for White Sox fans, that is his job. So, it's time for Oz to go. Kenny Williams put together a high payroll team and didn't get the right pieces to compete. Although this is one bad year, my standards are higher for this team than they were in 1999. Or 1989. We were a championship team, and if we're actually gonna spend 100 million dollars to put a team on the field, it ought to be a halfway decent one, and not a hodgepodge of AAA+ players that we can't seem to develop into anything decent anyway. His job is to spend the White Sox budget to put a competitive team on the field. Kenny Williams didn't do that. So it's time for KW to go. Will we be competitive next year? Maybe. Maybe not. But if we're gonna go down the sinking ship route for years to come, let's at least develop a future to look forward to while we crash and burn out the rest of the decade. Unfortunately, I don't have confidence in the people the White Sox have to do just that.

Health care is not why we should drop the embargo on Cuba. We should drop the embargo on Cuba because it would mean the end of Castro's regime within two years.

I should be in bed on Saturday night 1. Rinocerose - Stop It 2. Antony and the Johnsons - River of Sorrow 3. Cut Chemist - Storm 4. Weezer - Pink Triangle 5. Love and Rockets - So Alive (great song, even if it was the remains of Bauhaus selling out) 6. Lambchop - The Decline of Country and Western Civilization 7. Railroad Jerk - One Step Forward 8. Serge Gainsbourg - Aeroplanes 9. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - The Lost Brigade 10. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Frownland Bonus 11: DAT Politics - Turn My Brain Off

Three years ago, a friend gave me a Mini Disc walkman. The software enabled you to fit up to 6 hours of music on your MD through compression. The battery life off a single AA battery was stunning. Over 60 hours of play off a single battery! I can routinely get 5-6 hours from my iPod though, which is good for a week and a half at the gym, or a couple days if im commuting by train.

The Doves are the band I always like but never remember. Another ten, because I love shuffling. 1. Weezer - Butterfly 2. Yoko Ono - Even When You're Far Away 3. bis - The Boy With A Thorn In His Side 4. Jamiroquai - Blow Your Mind (Instrumental) 5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California 6. Parry Gripp - You Need Our Cold Medicine 7. The Beach Boys - California Saga/California 8. Lambchop - The Distance from Her to There 9. Ween - The HIV Song 10. Cold War Kids - Passing The Hat Bonus 11. 11. Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds

1. Portishead - It Could Be Sweet 2. Nick Cave - Red Right Hand 3. The Sugarcubes - Coldsweat 4. Yoko Ono - Hell In Paradise 5. Ween - Freedom of '76 6. Placebo - In The Cold Light of the Morning 7. Nouvelle Vague - I'll Melt With You 8. James Brown - Say It Loud - I'm Black and Proud 9. Jurassic 5 - Turn It Out 10. X-Ray Spex - I Am A Poseur Good night Soxtalk, there will be no bonus track encore!

Is the discount rate the same as the prime rate?

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Aug 16, 2007 -> 05:57 PM) I'm sure they were toking papyrus cigarettes too. conveniently, you left out the CONTEXT which is that Jonathan just died in battle and David is speaking/lamenting this. I'm sure I'll say some nice things about my friends, especially if they die prematurely/unexpectedly. nice try though. There's other evidence too of David and Jonathan's love for each other. 1 Samuel 18: So, David slays Goliath and Saul's son is so pleased that he immediately strips naked in front of David and enters into a covenant with him. David than moves into Saul's house. Hmmm.... what does the bible say about the union of two people? Genesis 2:24 So they loved each other as they loved themselves and entered into a covenant with each other by getting naked. David then moved into Jonathan's parent's place. The language here seems oddly similar to the language used to describe marriage in Genesis. And there's no additional context in the surrounding passages of the bible. The story goes on to talk about David's conflict with Saul over the glory David acheived in Saul's service. Now you might also say that David was presented with a wife, Saul's daughter. This is true. But then again, Merv Griffin was married to women too.

Vandy, I have total respect for that. For whatever reason, plenty of churches have decided to view homosexuality as something other than what it turns out to be - for the most part, an innate part of the self. Although that approach saddens me, it makes me glad to know that there are people out there that can still understand that same sex couples deserve the same rights and responsibilities as heterosexual couples while still holding that religious view. My own personal experience tells me that being dishonest with myself is more wrong than being with someone I love or care for. Other people may disagree with that, but that gives them no right to persecute or discriminate based on that, IMO. Thanks for being honest, and thanks for trying to offer a clear viewpoint.

2 Samuel 1:26 (King David speaks)

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Aug 15, 2007 -> 08:48 AM) The Genesis 19 one, I was actually just reading the other day. Again, the text just puts what happened in black and white. Just because the Bible states what happened, it does not mean that it is condoned. Why didn't you go a little farther and talk about Lot's own daughters sleeping with him as it says in the script? It isn't condoning that either. It even states that the Moabites and Ammonites came as a result of that. Which were two nations that the Israelites seemed to constantly be at war with. I'm at a bit of a loss here. I'm no biblical scholar, but Lot's family was saved from the destruction of Sodom and Gommorah. These two cities were destroyed for not honoring God correctly, yes? So if that's the case - why did God spare a family who's father molested his daughters? How is that honoring God's law?

So, the bear market officially starts at 12,700 then roughly?

Isn't the correction going from 14,100?

On NPR last week, a Republican senatory said that Petraeus said that they have "tactical momentum." Military victories are great, but that's not going to signify a real victory in this theater. A stable government will. Iraq, sadly, has no real working government. Honestly, we need better focus on political objectives in Iraq. Without it, we have lost - no matter if our military wins.

Hey, I don't have any problem with someone being charged with a crime having their legal status checked. I do have a problem with that coming up every time someone calls the cops for help, or tries to get emergency medical care.

Anyone remember "Let's wait til September and hear what General Petraeus has to say about the Surge?" Turns out he'll be reading from a script written for him.

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Aug 14, 2007 -> 12:28 PM) What does that have to do with this story? They wouldn't be dead if the illegal sh**bag was not in the country would he? Tell the family that Tex. I'm sure they'll feel better. Actually, he was one of several people involved in the murders allegedly. The media is calling him the "ringleader" but details are still sketchy on that IMO. Would these kids be alive if he had been found to be illegal? Maybe, there were other legal residents involved. The truth is, it's not the job of Joe Patrolman to determine the legal status of every Jose, Pedro and Inez that they encounter in the street - that's up to the ICE and up to an Attorney's office, maybe prosecutors should examine that evidence when they're presented with someone charged for a crime.

Show cancelled after 15 episodes.

QUOTE(CrimsonWeltall @ Aug 14, 2007 -> 06:00 PM) I think one could argue that many of the "I'm spiritual, not religious" people are religious, but just don't like being labeled as such. Much like atheists who say "I'm an agnostic, not an atheist". I would disagree with that. An atheist generally believes that there is no higher power. An agnostic generally does not know. It's the opposite of a gnostic. The dictionary defines gnostic as

OK, enough with the personal back and forth already. If you want to discuss the topic, great. If you want to discuss who's an egomaniac, and who is out to get you on this board, please go and do it elsewhere - like a Private Message, or your myspace. K, thanks.

His stupid ass "far tax" program is what got him second place. Fairtax.org paid for and packed 30 buses to vote for him IIRC. I believe Romney paid some of his supporters to attend - beyond the usual "covering the cost of the ticket to vote" scheme.