Texsox

Public transportation in this country has never been a prioroty, never been world class, never been respected.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Sep 12, 2007 -> 02:58 PM) oh damn...she left.... BUT NOW SHE'S BACK...RIGHT NEXT TO ME!!!! Isn't it crazy how those voices seem so real?

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Sep 12, 2007 -> 01:05 PM) My entire right leg is on fire. Note to self, don't ever dive and than slide onto concrete (I was going after a play in softball and there were a bunch of runners on so I was going all out and didn't realize I was coming up onto concrete) Now I am sitting at work and I swear my entire hammy is red...leg, knee..everything. Each time I spray bactine on it I have to run around cursing for a minute till the pain subsides (than I put myself through more torture with Pydroxide or whatever its called). But that's how you get those multi million dollar softball contracts An early understanding of growing up was missing a week of work after hurting myself in a Thanksgiving day football game where losers bought the beer.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Sep 12, 2007 -> 02:06 PM) Well, if you want top talent to stay then you have to pay them. Why would they want to stay on a sinking ship when they can quit and join a company that is actually doing well? Or, why would you want the folks who put the hole in the sinking ship to begin with, to stay, and give them a nice bonus? They should clean up their won mess and not expect a pat on the ass when they do. And who is the customer most familiar with? Who does the customers have the most contact with? The very employees you are asking to take a cut while you are expecting a bonus.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 12, 2007 -> 02:57 PM) Would you feel better as an employee in the unemployment line as the company went through a court-ordered liquidation sale? Would you feel better as an employee who took a slightly smaller pay cut and watched as the CEO also took a cut and not a raise? I think we all would. And I'll differentiate between a CEO and an owner.

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.