Texsox

My son has had three iPods crash and burn, but decided when he went off to college he needed a Mac Book. I'll admit I liked the packaging and the look and feel, and I imagine after a learning curve I could grow to love a Mac, until today. His "D" key stopped working. Less than a month old and a keyboard failure. damn them. Of course he didn't take the packaging with him, and now I'm trying to help from a few hundred miles away.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 03:37 PM) I was thinking he could remove his daughter's name if he is able to show the bank that she is unable/unwilling to pay, and that he will make the payments until he can sell the vehicle. There is no reason for the bank to remove her name. They lose one potential, albeit, poor chance at payment. I doubt the state would alter the title without a court order or bill of sale. Unless she is cooperating, that probably isn't going to happen. This is a classic case of why you should think twice before co-signing for anyone.

Don't make the same mistake I made, this isn't about Bea Arthur, they want to take you out of the US

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 02:13 PM) It's perfectly legal. Twenty "lawers in training" on this site and the MBA answers

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 21, 2007 -> 01:06 PM) It appears someone is finally going after the Thompson campaign's dirty little secret: it's a campaign. The issue/benefit for Thompson here? He has a few months after he declares to begin meeting disclosure requirements for his campaign donors. Supposedly, if he goes past Sept. 6th without officially announcing, he won't have to meet disclosure requirements until Jan 31st of next year, and thus he won't have to do so until after Iowa, NH, Michigan, South Carolina, Florida, etc. I don't have a problem with a candidate working the rules as hard as he can. In fact, I don't have a problem with a President doing the same. He's surrounded, no doubt, by attorneys helping in. Bottom line for me, small procedural thing that does not matter.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Aug 21, 2007 -> 02:23 PM) What do you do with all the insurance company people that will be out of work? Do they now become government employees? I would imagine that many would, in fact, they could compete for government contracts for case management, etc. I also think we have a much too low opinions of government workers and too high an opinion of private sector employees. Unions are in both the private and public sector, as are good and bad employees. I've had many more poor experiences with clerks in stores than postal employees, for example. I've met many more good cops than bad. Then there is Nuke, so maybe our opinion of government workers sucking off the public teat is valid

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 21, 2007 -> 04:23 PM) How drunk would they have to be before they'd want to hook up with Tex?? [Not that there's anything wrong with it. . . ] I Kid, I Care, So There® Mexico is too close. Kind of like when WI was 18 and IL 21. Road trip.

Happy Birthday!! Always thought provoking.

At the root of this, is a very pleasant fact. We have such a complecated system and soooo many attorneys, because we have soooo many rights as citizens. And that is a damn good thing. BTW, I am a big fan of attorneys who work on both sides of the aisle. The system works best when the defendant is able to mount a vigorous defense.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 18, 2007 -> 09:17 PM) I don't see his hip (contract, trade likely) allowing him to play 8 more seasons with the White Sox. I don't expect anyone to sign a second contract with the Sox, so a third would be amazing. Edit: Then again, maybe with Bonds trainer he could do it in three years

When I was growing up in Chicago, I wondered how people could be caught by a hurricane. People talk about them for days leading up. How could you not be prepared? Then I moved to the Gulf Coast. This is about the tenth hurricane that *may* hit me. So far, we've had two big rains, but for the most part nothing. So once again I'm not doing anything to prepare, until last night. Driving back from San Antonio I passed over 100 Military Humvees and support equipment. Once I arrived in McAllen, I discovered about 500 buses, from school buses to nice coaches, lined up at our civic center and filling an old walmart parking lot. And I'm 80 miles from the coast! I guess we've learned some lessons. Hey Kap, room at your house? I'll bring the beer

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 19, 2007 -> 11:57 PM) There are a lot of online places to buy textbooks for cheap, like half.com, valorebooks.com, bookbyte.com, etc. Personally, I keep my textbook costs down by thoroughly abusing the system and requesting preview copies from the publishers. telling them I'm considering adopting their text for use in a course. When they think it might lead to a sale of 10-20 copies, they are very quick to get a preview copy out to me. In truth, I have adopted a half-dozen different texts for various classes over the years, so I guess I'm not such a bad abuser of the system after all. How would you like to teach a few Psychology course?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 20, 2007 -> 05:45 PM) You lost me right about here... There have been plenty of people who have picked and choosed the good things about Cuba as reasons we should drop the embargo, and their health care system is always one of them. I have heard plenty of univeral health care advocates point to Cuba, Canada, and lots of the Scandanavian countries as well sited examples. Commie lover I'm not certain how dropping the embargo ties into a Cuban style health care system in the US. I also believe we can put together a single payer system that allows for patient choice. Actually, I see that as the only way for any changes to move forward.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 20, 2007 -> 08:22 AM) If there are no small passages in the Bible, how do you square the omission and or subordination of the Deuterocanonicals and the so-called Biblical Apocrypha (including Tobit, Judith, Esdras portions of Esthera nd Daniel, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom, Baruch, Maccabees and others) from various versions of the Bible? I'm, obviously, less suited to discuss the living, practicing, heeding-the-calling, aspects of faith. But I think you're assessment is quite good. I think PA responded better than I can on this subject. My hunch is also, too small for the Bible? I think we all walk our faith, even those without faith. Of course, we all have faith. The simplest example I give is we have faith that that driver in the oncoming traffic will not swerve and hit us.

Here is the danger as I see it when attorneys are the first line of defense. If the case isn't profitable, it will probably have a lower chance of making it to court than an equally uphill battle without money. I prefer a system where attorneys and clients have a clear path to a judge, and that judge has an easy and cheap way to dismiss it. "Mr. Brown, I just don't see that you could win this case against the Topeka School Board".

Besides lining up like lemmings at the campus bookstore, what are other venues? Between my son and I we are looking at a sweet $1,000 next week in text books.

I'm drinking Bud Lite (left by a friend of mine) right now and texting. Maybe I'll find that bottle of sake I was hording and enjoy a sake bomb. Anything will help this Bud.

OK, less sarcasm and snark. Of the thousands of issues that possible can come up, this is so far down my radar, it just doesn't compute. I would never ask any candidate for such detail. Like debates, these things don't come up in real life. What matters is his thought out opinions and the direction he wants to go. I think Moore's stuff is suspect at best and can't even begin to think that his work could be the basis of anything except Dem bashing. Moore is the GOPs wet dream.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz wake me up when Spring training begins.

In researching health care systems around the globe, Cuba would be waaaay down my list. I see you are a big fan and it is a big issue. So which candidate has the best grasp of commie, third world, health care?

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Aug 19, 2007 -> 09:38 PM) You also left out if the MSM doesn't break its back trying to help Moore portray the Cuban paradise as the mecca of healthcare, noone would give a s***. But that strawman won't work. He DID make the movie, the MSM DID hype the Cuban system, Edwards SAW the movie and said it was 'great', then proved that he DIDN'T know s***. whatever. I'm more interested in Iraq, Social Security, Homeland Security and the environment. So please pay attention to each candidates' knowledge of Cuba and keep us posted. I'm certain we can't live without a President with a thorough working knowledge of Cuba going in. perhaps watching that documentary would make you an expert and able to make policy decisions, but I would be frightened by someone who watched that and felt competent enough to make up policy. That's like watching an episode of the Simpsons and deciding on Nuclear Plant Operations.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Aug 19, 2007 -> 09:24 PM) Oh please. If Mitt Romney said that he had no idea whether Cuba's healthcare system is government run, YOU would be all over him. That is something simple that he should know. Healthcare in general is a huge issue. Edwards is an empty suit. If Moore doesn't make that film, no one would give two s***s about their health care system. What other third world s*** holes should candidates know about in regards to their health care systems? Peru? Guatemala? Find another thing, this one ain't got legs.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Aug 19, 2007 -> 09:19 PM) The fact that he knows as little about Cuba as he does is alarming in itself. I guess Cuba is a hot button topic for you. Which candidate has the best grasp of Cuba?

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Aug 19, 2007 -> 07:50 PM) How clueless can he be? http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/20...ko-twister.html Seriously, how can you watch Sicko, and not know that Cuba's healthcare is government run? This guy is such an empty suit. So in the last week he got into name calling with Ann Coulter, got caught as a hypocrit with his direct involvement with sub-prime lending and now that he has no grasp on foreign affairs. I wonder if he even knows where Cuba is? And if he believed a Moore documentary, you would feel better about him? Can't win in this could he? If he said all he knows is what he saw in that film, you'd attack.

Pet camel kills Australian woman while apparently trying to have sex BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - An Australian woman was killed by a pet camel given to her as a 60th birthday present after the animal apparently tried to have sex, police said Sunday. The woman, whose name was not released, was killed Saturday at her family's sheep and cattle ranch near Mitchell, 600 kilometres west of the Queensland state capital Brisbane, state police Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory said. The 10-month-old male camel - weighing about 150 kilograms - knocked the woman to the ground, lay on top of her, then exhibited what police suspect was mating behaviour, Gregory said.