Texsox

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Sep 12, 2007 -> 01:12 PM) Not sure where else to put this: great advertisement as well.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 12, 2007 -> 11:24 AM) Less than a month ago, 7 soldiers from the 82nd airborne wrote a pessimistic op-ed piece about Iraq featured in the NYT, that I believe I linked here. It started with these words: It appears that 2 of those 7 soldiers were killed Monday in Baghdad.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Sep 12, 2007 -> 10:10 AM) Because the NBA is like prison and the MLB is like the Army? Don't ask, don't tell sweetie

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Sep 12, 2007 -> 10:20 AM) As a late contributor to this thread... Frank Thomas > Jim Thome, Frank Thomas less $$ Jim Thome, Frank Thomas older than Jim Thome, Frank Thomas more Soxy than Jim Thome. ^^ ^^

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Sep 12, 2007 -> 08:27 AM) She does work in a food factory. But not peanuts. tortillas in Brazil?

Coming up through the pen is almost a given. I'm not too worried about that option. You have to play your best available.

Draft picks are not that position sensitive in baseball as in say, basketball or football. I could give a rip if we drafted 1 or 6. Draft a bunch of guys and hope something pans out. Half the time they are trade bait before hitting the mlb roster.

There is a reason that the NBA drafts a handful of players and MLB drafts every healthy male from 18-22.

Hmm, has anyone seen both of them at the same time? Happy Birthday!

We should have done that with every country that is close to developing the bomb.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 01:40 PM) Instead, you should assume that all cops are bad. Right GP? Pretty much, starting with you

I like hearing that.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 11:03 AM) Right... Because the best way to receive more tax revenue is to cut taxes. By exploding, he's saying we need to cut taxes to pay for it.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 11:23 AM) not SOXTALK...he's talking about lyrics sites, Tex

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 11:12 AM) Can anybody tell me why websites with lyrics are probably the most corrupt sites on the internet? They seem to be riddled with ads and spyware. cheap easy content that people will search for. Clueless teenagers that will click on anything.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 10:48 AM) That becomes a part of the matching process. Obviously a person coming from Africa needs a more permanent solution than someone from Mexico who could just go home. If there are that many jobs out there that need filling, there are plenty of solutions. It's a great idea and I really don't want to pick it apart. The hurdles are big, but the worldwide benefit is even bigger. Education comes into play in finding more permanent jobs.

And there are enough incentives for illegals to go around. Better jobs and wages for the illegals then available to that individual in Mexico. Better employees, more employees, and sometimes better profits for the employer. Lower prices for the consumer. Arguably lower taxes when workers are "off the books"

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 10:24 AM) I wouldn't stop anyone from using their language if they ran into someone who also spoke it. I just don't want to pay for the expectations that someone SHOULD speak it. If an employee and a customer at the DMV both speak Spanish, good for them. If it helps them get their transaction finished, its fine with me. I just don't think everyone should have to pay for it. I could support that. If the normal employment pool mirrors the population, that should occur naturally.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 10:12 AM) That's the point of a program like this. You would be able to take people out of their situtions and match them with employment in the US before they ever get here. Think about it, an cotton grower in Texas needs 50 people to tend to his crop. He calls INS, or whoever runs the program, and tells them exactly what he needs. INS looks into the computers and sees that they have refugees in Darfur who used to be sustence farmers before the genocides started happening. INS handles processing the 50 new people, to whatever extend they need to be prepared (IDs, work visas, citizenship, however far you need to go), and then brings them into the country. The farmer in Texas knows he is getting people who want to be here, and people who will be here legally. The workers get to leave a refugee camp, or worse, and get a new life in the US. The US government gets to be hero's to the world. Its a win-win situation. I love the idea. Maybe not the government becoming an employment agency, but I see another spin off I will come back to. One flaw. Length of employment. Currently the Mexican worker goes back to Mexico after the 3 months of work are completed. How would you handle the person fleeing Darfur? Spin off I really like. INS looks at the database and sees there are 13 unemployed workers in Texas who match qualifications and would be available three days a week during that time. That would give them two days to continue searching for permanent, full time, positions. I'm voting SS for President until he runs up those trillion dollar debts

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 10:32 AM) Populations never grow exponentiall forever. They're limited by the very things you are worried about - food supply and water. Nature is very tough in enforcing that.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 10:12 AM) I understand why you and many people put the economy as a top priority but when it all comes down to being able to actually "live" comfortably in the future I can't stress how much more important the environment is to me. I'm always thinking worst case scenario so my vision of the future is quite bleak. I'm picturing an arid wasteland with scarce crops...another dust bowl, if you will. Water and air quality much worse than today's. Couple that with overpopulation and what kind of a world could that be? The economy at that point would be irrelevant. Just my 2 cents. Sqwert, Perhaps my age gives me a perspective that is much more optimistic. Take a look at standards in the 60s when rivers caught on fire and much of the drinking water was in peril, and today and you will see how well we have done. I don't see us returning to even 1960's levels. Just my .02 and I would encourage everyone to stay vigilant and be concerned.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 09:34 AM) So as the Hsu scandal grows by the day, instead of giving back just the $23,000 given directly by Hsu, Hillary thinks it is a good idea to give back the near $1 million that was bundled by this guy. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070911/D8RIVR8G0.html Simple formula* Number of Votes gained without HSU's $850,000 is > or = to the Number of Votes gained with Hsu's $850,000 *From my newly created Center For Bi-Partisan Cynicism

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 11, 2007 -> 09:57 AM) I do agree that the government should have an official language to conduct business in. I really think that the extra costs associated with all of the people necesary to add just a single language's worth of materials shouldn't have to be borne by the rest of the country. You don't have to speak English, but in order to conduct business with the government you should be able to. You are free to not learn English, but as in anything there are consequences for your actions. Excellent post. Here is a practical example and perhaps something the English Only will tolerate. Down here most of the population is bi-lingual. Especially the people who grew up here. If the customer (Post Office, City Hall, Congressman's Office, DMV) is standing there and more comfortable in Spanish or French, and the taxpayer supported employee speaks Spanish or French, why prohibit them from speaking in that language?

I don't think a poll is necessary for this. Too tough to pick three and too many issues.

Environment Immigration Federal Budget Undecided, still sorting out candidates with an open mind. Issue by issue I disagree with both parties. Briefly Environment. Dems will preserve it, but not let me use. GOP will let me use it, but not preserve it. Immigration. No one is tying immigration to jobs. No one is talking about our food supply and national security. Federal Budget. I use to respect both parties. GOP fought to contain costs and not spend more then was received. The Dems would be tax *and* spend. Now we have the worst of both words. Both parties want to spend spend spend and believe we have to borrow billions of dollars to make our economy work. You requested three, this isn't a hierarchy and there are other issues I am also concerned about and would use to evaluate a candidate. Iraq, Homeland Security, Personal freedoms and rights, etc.