Texsox

We do treat different animals differently. If we ate dogs, like we do cows, pigs, and chickens, we wouldn't be nearly as upset over Vick. BTW, interesting side note. As humans, we have not domesticated a new species on thousands of years. Cows, pigs, dogs, cats, etc. were all done a long time ago.

QUOTE(Whitewashed in '05 @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 10:18 PM) Baltimore pitching allowed 30 runs to go along with 11 K's... How the hell did they K 11? Couple Ideas: 1. Exhaustion from running all those wind sprints around the bases . . . 2. Laughing too much 3. Sympathy

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Aug 23, 2007 -> 10:14 AM) from foxnews.com give me a friggin' break. Why don't you believe him?

QUOTE(Beastly @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 06:03 PM) EIU, my university, rents books to the students. My bill for books is a whopping...$152.00! I have one Psy text that would cost that new.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 23, 2007 -> 10:42 AM) I would retort some of this, but of course it would be a COMPLETE waste of time. However, one I will comment on. The "knowing about 9/11 before it happened" bit is just pure bulls***. I get so tired of seeing how Bush knew about 9/11 and it's a conspiracy and he allowed it to happen, yet read in the next sentence about how stupid Bush is. You can't have it both ways, and it just feeds the hate mongering that goes on every single day in this country. Thanks for playing, and have a nice day. Of course President Clinton should have known and stopped Binny years before. Ahhh, how we protect "our players" Thanks for playing . . .

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?