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I know it's helped the three biggest posters here. And you have to like a player that will take a needle in the ass to help his team

I was 24 when the Bears won so I was a big fan for both. The chances of the Bears winning a Super Bowl seemed within grasp. The chaces for the Sox seemed to hinge on revenue sharing in baseball and a long wait. So the Sox were a much bigger win. I had resigned myself to never seeing a Sox WS win, like my grandfather and his Cubs.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 03:46 PM) Ummm....I don't even know what to say to this one, but I'd read that last sentence awfully carefully and think about it. Nooooooooooooooooooo! Say it ain't so Billllllllllllllly

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 03:56 PM) Maybe see if there are any independent trucking associations around that will let you access or email their members lists (or maybe a message board? Not sure how tech savy most truckers are). if you can find someone running empty from east coast back home, maybe you can work out a deal for cost+. More and more drivers are very tech savvy. Most Truck stops now have wireless internet in their lots. I'm trying to track down a firm.

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 03:17 PM) OK, I tried looking this up myself but I got confused. I know there are people here that can explain it more clearly. I think I understand home equity loans considering we just got one not too long ago. Just throwing some numbers out, correct me if this is wrong: Your home is worth 100,000 and you have 80,000 left to pay on it. You get a loan for 90,000 and have 10,000 to spend on whatever. Then you just make the payments like a normal mortgage. I don't understand how a second mortgage works or how it differs exactly. Someone care to explain it to me in terms I can understand? The terms get tossed around and misused so much. There are two ways to go. One is to basically sell your house to yourself and pocket the profit and pay your new mortgage. (What you described) The second is to create a home equity line of credit which allows you to borrow against the equity in your house. Either way you could end up losing your house if you can't make the payments. Linked

Glad she found an old Don Rickles show.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 03:42 PM) So many books to read..........so little time. Even though I have 2 more on the way Id like to take a look at this one too. No, you read? I didn't know Rush had an Oprah like reading club.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 03:43 PM) Neither side lived up to the obligations in that treaty. The U.S. was obligated to begin construction of 2 light water (hard to use for weapons production) nuclear reactors in North Korea that they could use for power instead of their older, better for weapons production reactors, and the Congress scuttled funding for that in 1995. That is out prerogative. We can break any treaty but the other side must live up to theirs.

I warned them not to click on the link. I thought one place here to sink or swim together would be a nice thing. I don't think I looked in the conservative thread in months. Kap is #5 in the other thread, no wonder he's always in a Krappy™ Mood

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 03:32 PM) Contreras should have been the starter last year on opening day, but the Sox rewarded MB for being here the longest. No more Mr Niceteam I guess. You know MB would be out there opening day if he had a nice contract sticking out of his back pocket. Got to showcase the face of the organization then.

I have someone who is interested in donating two small sailboat hulls to me. I have to get them from Palo Alto CA. to South Padre Island, TX for as close to free as possible. Any ideas?

Boo the results, but it was impossible to boo the man or the effort. Koch has more character than we are use to seeing in an athlete. I really disliked seeing his career crater like that. Far more satisfying to have seen a 'roid player crater like that.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 03:06 PM) in case you missed it... White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said Jose Contreras would be his Opening Day starter. He'll be followed in the rotation by Mark Buehrle, Jon Garland and Javier Vazquez. Garland remains in the middle despite winning eight more games than either Contreras or Buehrle over the last two seasons. Gavin Floyd is the early favorite to take the fifth spot. Source: Chicago Tribune Nice spot for Garland. It stops becoming an issue for matchups around the third week, or a couple rain outs, etc. What is important, some people believe, is the look we give other teams. Lefty, righty. Power, finess. I believe at this point in their careers, hitters can adjust from day to day. The great ones adjust from AB to AB.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 10:11 AM) I don't think it's even debatable. Four strong teams will be beating the crud out of each other all season. Gotta feel bed for the Royals and the clobbering they are going to get again this year. And feel bad for them . . . must be that mec you are using.

The question becomes do you want to be the Florida Marlins with a couple World Series trophies sandwiching years as the worst team around, or a string of better than .500 seasons and no more World Series trophies?

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 02:32 PM) Which is what they as human beings are supposed to do. God bless 'em! The guy that makes minimum wage claims he'd be loyal to anyone that would pay him $25K. The guy making $25K claims he'd be forever loyal to anyone paying him $100K, the guy making $100K claims he'd be forever loyal for $500K. They all are telling the truth, at that moment. Plus, the drive to be #1 includes salary time. Every player I have ever known, knew what the salaries were around him and at his position. There are players that would be happy as hell to be making $300,000 instead of $3,000,000 if the highest salary was $275,000. As Steff points out, that's human nature. If you have better "stats" at work, you'd be pissed to know the guy in the Boise office makes more than you, and the first chance you have to renegotiate you'll be in asking to top that guy's salary.

BTW, I think Newt would make a fine Rebublican President. I would not agree with his agenda, but I think he would be good. There are those ethics violations that were plea bargained away, but over all I agree he is a very well read, intelligent, politician and could sit in the highest office and not screw it up too much.

And your point? Right now the most important thing in my life is an awards program I am putting on next weekend, and I am working on the graphics. Well, that and posting here. Hard core Republicans will tell you everything hinges in the front pages. The world revolves around the front page. This is the media trying to make conservatives look bad.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 01:59 PM) I'm working on a 3.5 year old laptop, and I'm due for an upgrade if I can ever afford it, so that'll presumably be a Vista machine if I ever get that far. The one I just replaced was at least that old, maybe a little older. I just hit a spot where the hard drive was full (all 30 gig ) the touch pad was barely usable, the battery was shot, etc. I am thinking of other uses for it. I have to run a little closed broadcast radio station this summer and am researching ways to make it the brains of the operation.

From the Barbaro put down thread come these gems . . . QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 12:17 PM) It's been up on Deadspin for a while now, they are your unofficial Barbaro Headquarters you know. It's already on ESPN now and will soon consume your sports world. I really couldn't care less about some damn race horse but I'm ready for it to be jammed down my throat by every major sports media source. QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 12:23 PM) QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 01:48 PM) look what I found QUOTE(Jimbo @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 01:48 PM) Headline ESPN, Payton Manning visits Barabaro grave, the colts are heroes. Lovie Smith orders horse meat for villanous bears.

I'm sitting here looking at a new Dell e1705 that is juts begging to be upgraded. I will be the crash test dummy. I have a couple of programs that Microsoft flagged as potentially a problem, one if my Norton Antivirus which has me slightly concerned, the other is a program I don't usually use. I like some of the user interface enhancements I've seen.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned it.

QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 12:44 PM) oh it's a joke. I get it. It may not be.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 12:28 PM) The difference is, we are talking about their exisitance of the GOVERNMENT, while they are talking about the existance of a NATION. BIG difference. existence? How is it different? Either way people die, regimes change. Perhaps in one case you get to put a cool new name on the country. Nukes are a nice way to say, stay the f*** out of my way and off my doorstep you capitalistic pigs.

Somebody has CNN alerts I was just getting ready to post this. Tough luck.