Texsox

McCain Looking on the GOP side, it has looked so obvious to me that McCain is their best candidate. I was thinking that Edwards could slip in as everyone's #2 choice, but now I'm starting to soften on that stance. Perhaps the big two will eat everyone.

Some editors work their whole lives and never have that opportunity

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 7, 2008 -> 11:24 PM) So I guess in excess of being Mexico's unemployment and social security plans, we are their health care plan too? Actually major employers in Mexico provide Doctors in the workplace. When I worked in Mexico, the quality of routine health care the employees and families received was very good. Of course, I never saw the rest of the story. We also were required by law to provide a meal. People forget that when they ask what our employees were paid. What is a shame with our system is the very poor and those with greater resources have coverage. The working poor, the small business owner, the people who work for the small business, are squeezed. My ex father-in-law worked his ass off for 40 years. At 58 years old he was released from his job. Both he and my ex mother in law had medical issues. Facing over $1000 a month for insurance, plus co-pays, plus out of pocket, ruined them quickly. There is room for improvements. Workers earning $30,000 per year shouldn't be faced with 20% or more of their net being taken up with routine health care.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 01:24 PM) It's a f***ing joke that Tim Raines didn't get in. Best leadoff hitter in NL history. What I think is the f***ing joke is he will get in, but in another year or two. The voters play this stupid first ballot thing. It's like Rock is going to go out and get a couple more hits, score a few more runs.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 06:59 PM) One possibility is that he was getting B-12 injections and was using the lidocaine to numb the soreness from the B-12 injection (or at least this is what the nurses at the hospital I am working at now told me)... That was my understanding, but I could not find the link. You use the lidocaine topically, then ram the needle in. Commonly used with children, I believe it is what Dentists use as well before jamming that damn needle into your gums. Sad. I was a big Clemens fan and this really makes me feel bad.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 06:35 PM) Where have you been, ya old fart? Avoiding the 'buster and feeling happier, chipper, and liking my fellow man.

We need an oil man in the White House, that would fix it.

I don't want them telling me what food are safe, and inspecting the food, and all that crap. I don't want them to force me to use their police and fire protection. I don't want them making certain my water is safe. I don't want them making certain the products I use are safe. I don't want them building schools all over the damn place. Y'all are right, get them out of our lives.

I'm a little surprised it is in the English Department, I was thinking Sociology, Anthropology, or even Psychology. By the way this course was offered in 2003, I'm not certain it is still current

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 03:08 PM) Conservative BS? Oh hell, haha, nice joke. We both know there is no such thing.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 02:39 PM) You know ... it's not that at all. It's just I hate them getting into my personal life. You use your sarcarstic demeaning cracks all you want. I could care less. I have my outlook on things and no liberal BS is gonna change any of it. Would conservative b.s. change your outlook? By specifying liberal b.s., it appears you are leaving the door open for conservative b.s.

Deserved.

Anybody have one? Linked XM sat and MP3 radio in one. $200. Home and Car kits.

Within the last couple weeks American Treasure, decent. About what I expected. Worth the price of admission. P.S. I Love You, good. My expectations were very low, expecting a tear jerking, too sweet, beyond belief, and was pleasently surprised.

QUOTE(max power @ Jan 8, 2008 -> 11:40 AM) I really want to eat some human flesh before I die. I don't see what is so weird about that. I imagine taking a nice fillet out of yourself and roasting it wouldn't be too strange.

If I am reading their site correctly, they have received more people willing to lend than applicants for the money. Amazing.

Did he forget the nice Chianti?

The loan I was in on seems to continue to receive regular repayments. He is scheduled to repay $50 per month for one year.

Spears' Attorney "Hey honey, order that new car, Brittney is in a standoff with police ha ha ha"

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Dec 26, 2007 -> 08:21 AM) Tex, every time an immigration post comes up, you throw this same stuff out. I, along with just about everyone else who has posted about immigration, is in favor of some sort of a guest worker program. Just because we don't genuflect to it every time we mention that we want the lawbreakers to go home doesn't mean in some small part we aren't on the same page. Yes, the government needs to get its head out of its ass and find a way to make a workable program for workers to fill those jobs. However the 'other' jobs that illegals do, like meat packing plants, warehouse jobs, etc, there are plenty of Americans who can, and will, do those jobs if available. I seem to recall when the Swift plants were raided and 30%+ of their workforce was arrested or disappeared, there was a huge line of people waiting to take those jobs, who were not from Mexico. As for sending you our unemployed IT professionals, etc, how about I trade you the Mexican working the drive thru at my local McDonalds who can barely seem to understand "I would like 1 large vanilla shake please", and I will have the unemployed IT guy work the drive thru for the $8 per hour they are paying. yes, the same posts always come up. Is the IT guy really going to work at $8 per hour instead of finding a job in his field? You know how expensive turnover is. And how expensive having employees who do not want to be there. But I keep posting because we keep missing the bigger issues in this debate. We have to protect the ag industry. We can live longer without oil than food.

That's where a couple experts can really pay off. Concentrating on the one that went well, they brought in a sucession mediator and in turn the mediator brought in a couple experts on the various investements and properties. This was a wide spread ranching operation with land here and there, large and small tracts. They also had various natural resource issues. By the time they finished, there was four neet little bundles waiting to be picked. With very small trading, I always liked that area, how about we swap this for that, the deal was done. A couple experts will really earn their money and hopefully keep the family peace.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22493399/ This guy is an idiot.

Best of luck with this and from a situation I witnesses a dozen or so years ago, there will not be any easy answers. An attorney and his staff will spend a lot of time on painstakingly researched ever transaction that may or may not have implications. They may have to track down every interested party. Then a couple more attorneys will get involved who are representing one or a few of the parties. All this will result in legal fees, and I will be the first to say, they earn every cent. Then after each point is litigated, the profits that some people hoped to gain will be lost. Couple possible solutions. If the majority can buy the minorities land, do so. And even offering sub market may be fair, based on the above. The minority may find someone willing to buy a share. You may be able to subdivide, and those that wish to sell could sell the land they received in the subdivide. The subdivide will be hell. Prime frontage land is worth more than an interior. Land with water or water access may be more valuable. So one acre there may not equal one acre over there. Good luck. My only suggestion is starting with a licensed mediator who has done this sort of estate planning. I watched as a huge South Texas ranch was divided up for the kids and it went fairly well. I also watched as a small Wisconsin farm, worth one tenth, was sold and it took years and years, families not speaking to each other, and just a shame.

I'll take major league starter ready for two prospects in a heart beat, three is a stretch, but in this case it doesn't look that bad to me. One gem that caught my eye Let's not toss out the baby with the bathwater in that article.

Cooking away. Sorry Soxy, but that huge hunk of beef going in the oven looks yummy