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QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Jan 16, 2008 -> 04:16 PM) http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/fur/540076210.html Sorta safe for work? I dunno. Somehow I don't think this would impress the ladies when you brought them home. Assuming you ever got any to bring home inthe first place. I wonder if he has a matching anus-shaped ottoman? Hmm, what did Alpha type into google to find this

QUOTE(SnB @ Jan 15, 2008 -> 04:27 PM) Last semester of college so I have 4 100 level classes, 1 200 level, and 1 400 level. Should be a breeze I wish I could have scheduled something like that. It looks like my last semester will consist of three 4000 level (Senior) and two 6000 level (Grad). The University allows Undergrads to take 6 hours of grad school classes. So I figure why not get a head start plus I'm still undecided between English and Psychology.

After spending a month with my son's Macbook I was impressed in some areas, and very disappointed in others. Overall, without the blind loyalty and fanaticism, I'm not certain there truly is an overall advantage with Apple. I'd venture to say, if I tossed prices in, I'm still happier with a PC. But I will say, the coolness and overall tactile "feel" was a real eye opener.

Big mistake, took a day class. I have shirts older than most all of the people in my Bio lecture, including the professor. Everyone was pre-this and pre-that. Pre-pharmacy Pre-med, I told them I was pre-nap, damn whomever thought of 7:45 am classes was an idiot without any social skills. Anyone who willingly signs up for one is worse. The lab on the other hand is run by a TA who I had no idea if it was a man or woman. She warned us she can be sarcastic. Yeah, like that's going to be a problem. I am really pumped for my linguistics class. The professor is currently guest lecturing in India and is conducting this class on-line from her apartment there. Skype, IM, message boards. She was concerned that, as an older student, I might not have any experience with message boards. I assured her I would struggle through some how, but if she could cut me a little slack, I would sincerely appreciate it. Then my killer night, Thursday. Three and a half hours of early English Lit from the age of FlaSoxxJim 400 AD to the last Cub world series 1746. Followed by three and a half hours of Beat Generation writers. From Paradise Lost to Road Trips with Kerouac and Cassady. What I ride that will be.

If you are preparing for a career in Social Work, wouldn't a class like this be important? It would seem to me that understanding different subcultures in America is important.

NOTE FROM CHRIS: With the U.S. population rapidly aging and fattening, the National Institutes of Health is attempting to remove the stigma of incontinence so more people will seek help, saying, "We as a society need to get over our discomfort with this subject so that incontinence sufferers receive the compassion, acceptance and care they need." THAT, my friends, is what is known in the comedy business as a slow, fat pitch right down the middle. The Top 14 Positive Incontinence Slogans (Part I) 14> Give yourself a warm feeling all over. 13> Urine good pants. 12> Keep going and going and going... and that's OK. 11> Was it in you? 10> If you're happy and you know it, wet your pants. 9> Hey, bladder, bladder... hey, bladder, bladder... spring! 8> Stink outside the buns.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jan 13, 2008 -> 09:36 PM) And they called it puppy love. And we'll call that a wrap and the end of a fine career.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Jan 12, 2008 -> 12:04 PM) uh...what exactly does the "initiation" entail? I guess if I have to ask, I'm not gay.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jan 12, 2008 -> 01:24 PM) I'm a little bit FlasoxxJim (and a little bit Rock and Roll), and certainly birds have a satiation ("I'm full") response. I think the bit about the animals "gorging" themselves in the story is a little misleading. In reading the story, I think the birds just got all gunked up in the soupy processing wastes and either sunk into the stuff or succumbed to cold because they couldn't fluff their feathers. I was leaving it all up to you

Excellent! I have no respect for a thief without imagination, who just sticks a gun in your face and says give me your money. These guys take some time, the affix labels and stuff. They work the deal. They show some initiative.

Ever notice how all the bad asses are on the swim team . . .

QUOTE(Markbilliards @ Jan 12, 2008 -> 03:19 PM) \And if they don't want to be socially shunned they can always just move to Texas. Or just be a moron.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 10, 2008 -> 05:20 PM) You gotta put it on a calendar somewhere or you won't remember. I hit 5 last year. Up again next Tuesday. The Red Cross, for a while, would send me reminders. They were showing up at many of our Scouting events, which was very convienent.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 10, 2008 -> 06:13 PM) And he gives you quarters when you lose a tooth!

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jan 10, 2008 -> 02:41 PM) Shorter and wider. That stance would kill him in the GOP

You also have to ask yourself who wants this new system and why? Obviously they probably want to pay less, which means someone has to pay more.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 10, 2008 -> 02:14 PM) Donate blood every 2 months or so. I'm trying to remember, I think I lonly donated twice last year, maybe three times. I will do better this year.

QUOTE(ChWRoCk2 @ Jan 10, 2008 -> 02:17 PM) Hmmm, and I would make fun of my parents for bringing along cups on vacation. Dad playing football?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 10, 2008 -> 02:12 PM) One of them, the element was old and got super-clogged, and just couldn't be cleaned enough to work well. The other, a part broke (and it was a fairly new one!). Colorado's high country is afoul with giardia - one of the worst areas for it. I was packing coffee filters and tying them onto my inlet. Slowed down the draw rate, but seemed to save my prefilter and thus my main filter. When I bought my Pur, I was mostly working with 12 and 13 year olds and the beefier handle seemed more durable than the MSR lever configuration. I understand the MSR pumps easier.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 10, 2008 -> 02:38 PM) The definition of a "recession" is two consecutive quarters of GNP shrinkage. In this event tax revenues fall, which means that the US budget would have to contract to meet that smaller tax receipt. This means less programs, jobs, funding ect for people who depend on the government for income. Either that or they have to raise taxes to meet the current budgetary levels, which again, takes more money out of the general economy, and exsaserbates the recession. You can have a balanced budget in good times, but you can't in bad times, unless you want big and long bad times. That makes sense, but shouldn't we look at income projections and spending projections to determine what is off? The little trick of just increasing the projected income and spend is dangerous. Would it make sense to perhaps broaden the window and be balanced over a two or three year period?

How would he look next to Obama?

Just got this

For most of my employees I bought "vouchers" from one of the night clinics here for routine office visits. They could use them to at least be seen an d hopefully keep small stuff from becoming big. By buying 100 passes at the start of the year, we negotiated a decent office business rate. I just noticed that clinic has moved. He was a new Doctor, had just opened his doors, and was willing to negotiate. I did have one employee complain he didn't have "choice" and it was geographically a bad deal for him, but most appreciated my attempt. Anyone in the family could use them.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 10, 2008 -> 02:29 PM) Beause of the forced reserves of banking and the higher savings rate of the rich, there is a lot of money taken out of circulation by the upper classes. Its not like giving money to the poor who have zero savings rates. The multipliers are MUCH different in these classes. Correct, which is why any large scale sales tax program is tough, even with serious luxury taxes. Currently that exec or baseball player with $21M is taxed on $21M, with a sales tax, how much is he really going to spend? And I'm using an extreme example, but even take a $500,000 salary. We'd only be collecting taxes on a smaller percentage of those earnings.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 10, 2008 -> 02:21 PM) You shouldn't. If we are indeed being talking into a recession, the LAST thing you want right now is a balanced budget. The spending cuts or tax increases to make it happen will turn a garden variety recession into a full blow depression. Is it because 1. We need to spend that exact amount and not a dime less? 2. We need to collect that exact amount and not a dime more? 3. It has to be a debt? It would seem that we tax and spend not to run the country, but to manipulate the economy. I agree that "free" money today is a nice thing for the economy, but that "free" dollar becomes more and more expensive as it needs to be repaid. It also gives politicians a free ride to just give us stuff with the promise that someone else will pay for it.