Texsox

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 5, 2007 -> 08:06 AM) Welcome to Soxtalk Welcome to Soxtalk maybe . . . be good.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 3, 2007 -> 11:50 AM) If he is that good, he won't get to us anyway. That's what I was thinking.

RIP

People, he's just going to work

QUOTE(NUKE @ Feb 5, 2007 -> 12:40 AM) Don't have an address yet. Will post something when I get that info. Thank you. You can PM me if you don't want to post it publicly.

QUOTE(CrimsonWeltall @ Feb 4, 2007 -> 11:18 PM) Just curious, Tex. What would your opinion be on forced vaccinations in a public health situation where an easily communicable disease broke out? As I stated in an earlier post, public health concerns are different than private health concerns. Polio, for example, can be transmitted casually. Same for measles, mumps, TB, etc. Look at flu shots. Clearly they can help a lot of people, but we allow each person to make that decision. For most young females it is the correct decision and like all preventative medicine, should be made available to anyone and everyone who chooses to take it. Both documented and undocumented. And laws are only valid if society is willing, able, and equipped to enforce the law. Are we going to lock up parents who refuse? Hold down the child and force the needle in? What if the parents want to wait until more kids have been vaccinated instead of being part of the first wave? If we are so willing to legislate what goes into the body to prevent this, why not legislate what doesn't go into the body to prevent this? How many would be lined up to defend the Governor if he spoke of the tragic nature of this cancer and issued a decree that made all pre and extra-marital sex illegal? After all think of the pain and deaths that could be saved.

My family, friends, and Scouts are praying for you and all involved in wars worldwide. Nuke, what is your mailing list and can kids send letters?

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Feb 4, 2007 -> 02:12 PM) My wife is an oncology nurse and she has seen and has talked about the pain and suffering of cancer patients at the hospital. 70% of cervical cancers are caused by HPV. A couple of months ago they did a special on the HPV vaccine, and then about the outcry of how people were upset about giving it to girls. My wife turned to me and said, our daughter is going to get that shot. I looked at her stomach and said, well she has to be born first I said with a smile. No, this is not up for discussion, our daughter will get the shot when she is old enough. The funny thing is that even though I am pretty conservative this wasn't something I was even contemplating keeping from her. Our daughter will be born sometime in the late March/early April time frame. My wife said that they have discussed this at work and that its no different then men over a certain age getting their PSA test. Anything and everything that can be done to prevent cancer. So when my daughter can, she will get that shot. As a father, I want her to have everything, and that includes a healthy happy life. The logic not to get this shot doesn't even make sense. So let me get this straight, people are worried that if you get a shot to protect you against one, count them one STD, that immediately the morality of their children will be compromised. Come one now. If they want to scare morality into their children, there are plenty of horrible diseases out there that are totally incurable, painful and deadly that can keep their kids in check. The upbringing and the environment and the love I give my children will present them a blueprint of morality. This is all a parent can do. Scaring your children into morality doesn't work, well strike that it works until they get into high school. A shot is not going to change your childs morality. You are missing the point. It's not the decision to get or not get the shot. It is who should make that decision. Your wife and you *decided*. In Texas you have no right to decide that. Only the Governor has that obsolute right. The Governor will tell you what must be injected in your daughter and when. How dare you presume to make this decision? What makes you think you are even capable of making a health decision involving your own daughter? That is what is being crammed down our throats. Health decisions should be made between the patient and their Doctor. For minors, their parents should also be involved. For the government to force drugs into someone's system is wrong.

QUOTE(Steff @ Feb 4, 2007 -> 11:46 AM) I called people who are screaming about it idiots - aka "those with a penis who don't know s*** about what a female with cancer feels" I didn't say one word about the Gov and his ruling. Go measure pp's with someone else. No one is screaming, the opposition are the ones that think the Governor shouldn't have made it a law. So I guess you are complaining about people who don't exist. Don't bother answering who should make the decision , the Governor or the individual. It was rhetorical.

QUOTE(Steff @ Feb 4, 2007 -> 11:16 AM) I said nothing of the sort thus proving that some with a penis can't read. I can read and you called people idiots who opposed the idea. So which is it Steff, women should decide for themselves or the Governor should diecide for them?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 4, 2007 -> 08:22 AM) That's my position as well. Allowing universal access to a drug that really seems like it can save many lives is the right course, and making sure that personal economics don't stop someone who wants the drug from getting it is an ethical emperitive. Even launching a huge state-funded public awareness campaign would be great. But legislating that every girl be forced to take the drug is the wrong approach. But you always side with the religous groups. Now that women in Texas can't decide what goes on with their bodies, maybe conservatives can revisit Roe v. Wade. After all, you know how terrible a botched abortion is. In fact, at least half of the people involved die from the procedure.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 3, 2007 -> 11:53 PM) Good more deliciousness for the rest of us, White Castle after midnight is probably the greatest idea in fast food history. Yum. They are also better than donuts for a quick breakfast.

Nuke, you mentioned the body armor, how has that changed since your first trip? What are the pros and cons for the new design? It seems that there is a balance between being safe when hit and avoiding getting hit in the first place. For example, heavy cumbersome stuff that makes you an easier target versus lighter more maneuverable types that allow you to get out of the way easier. I've read comments that some guys will not wear it because of comfort and a belief that it causes the enemy to aim for their heads.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Feb 3, 2007 -> 06:35 PM) you should make them burn an American flag in homeroom everyday. if you did that you could probably get a guest appearance on the "O'reilly Factor" and maybe even "Hannity and Combs". imagine how sweet that would be I teach kids how to burn the flag all the time. I organize a weekly flag burning down on South Padre Island each week during the summer. I've been saving up American flags to burn. You wouuldn't believe how many people will give them to me to burn. I probably have close to a hundred.

QUOTE(Steff @ Feb 3, 2007 -> 04:17 PM) As is almost anyone with a cervix and uterus. I like how those with a penis are hootin and hollerin' about it being a bad, bad thing... I wonder how those dolts would deal with 1/100th of the pain that comes with cervical or uterin cancer. Idiots. Are you saying that women can't decide what to do with their bodies, that the Governor has the right to make the decision on what must be injected into them? Is it because women can not understand the risks and benefits of the vaccination, so a Governor with a penis must decide?

QUOTE(CrimsonWeltall @ Feb 3, 2007 -> 10:38 AM) ? Does anyone here say the pledge of allegiance or something similar to the flag every day? Yes

The appropriate course was for the state to make the drug available to every female in the state. Those that can't afford it, should receive it for free or a reduced cost. For the Governor to decide what should be injected into any person's body is wrong. I believe medical decisions ought to be made by the patient along with their Doctor, not the Governor. With minors, the parents should also be involved, especially an eleven year old. But here we have the Governor, with heavy ties to the one company that will receive huge financial gains, deciding that every eleven year old in the state should be injected with that company's vaccine. What other medical decisions do you want your Governor making for you and everyone else in the state? Do you not trust yourself and your Doctor, so you need the Governor to make the decision? And before someone points out polio, mumps, measles, TB, etc. Those are communicable diseases and a clear public health danger. This is a private health danger. I agree that most every woman should receive this vaccination, I just disagree that the Governor should be making the decision. Interesting that the majority here would not risk upgrading to Vista because it is too new, but a brand new drug should be forced into every eleven year old female in the state. FDA approval hasn't been a 100% assurance of safety. Waiting until the vaccination has been rolled out on a wide scale and injecting your daughter in a couple years, when she is fourteen, may be wise for some children. But that decision has been taken away.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Feb 2, 2007 -> 08:26 PM) What? I was thinking of a thread of small essays, almost a mini-blog thing.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 2, 2007 -> 06:04 AM) I think the problem is more along the lines of the complaints about GWB not sending enough troops to 'get the job done' and then as soon as he proposes a surge, at that very moment it becomes a bad idea. Check my bolded text. It seems, no matter what the reason, changing your mind is now a mistake in American politics. That is dangerous.

I can't believe we haven't done this one before . . .

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Feb 3, 2007 -> 03:33 AM) People value their faith over health? Serious question here... In some cases yes, in most it is a medical belief that all vaccinations and inoculations are bad. They point to the number of people who have tragic side effects to the shots. What is most troubling to many in Texas that have been watching this Basically you have a drug company, with a proprietary drug, getting it passed as state law that you have to use their product. There are proiviusions for free vaccinations for the poor and under insured.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Feb 2, 2007 -> 10:17 AM) I get to go to Philly again next week, joy lol. Have you been back to Mexico?

It seems that the humble floppy disc has died, and is leaving without any fanfare or notice. Ah the joy, the freedom of the 5 1/4 inch massive storage device. 640K of information could be stored on one. Entire programs, unzipped, fit on them. I large, bloated, program might occupy a half a dozen. Then the nearly indestructibility of the hard plastic 3 1/2 inch appeared. Double the capacity, half the space. A person could actually stick on of these in your pocket. Take entire documents home. Operating systems would fit on a few. Apple ones didn't talk to PC ones, but they all loked the same. The sound of the floppy thunking into the drive, the electronic whirl and dance, the light popping on. It is now going the way of a true modem. The device that actually modulated and demodulated signals allowing a digital signal to be transmitted over an analog phone line. Now it's a flash drive or cd. It's blue toothing a file, a wireless home network. The sneakernet, putting on your sneakers and running a floppy to a coworker, is gone. I have an external floppy drive buried in my notebook bag. It's gathering dust, but I hate to throw it away. Maybe it reminds me of old timers. We don't want to throw them away.

I'd go a WS game regardless of who was playing. I would also cheer for whatever team the person who I was with was cheering for, assuming they bought the tickets. I once went to a Cubs game and pretended to be a Cubs fan. It was great. I could make comments like "this is the worts team in history. No wonder it's been 100 years, it will be another 100 before we win.