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QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 21, 2006 -> 03:04 PM) wow. Great article. I realize after reading the article that PA is probably right, it was the kids fault.

Subject: Jeff Foxworthy on Chicago[/font] Forget Rednecks .....here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about .Chicago If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in Chicago If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in Chicago If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Chicago. If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in Chicago If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of I - 80 for the weekend, you live in Chicago. If you measure distance in hours, you live in Chicago. If you have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again, you live in Chicago If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Chicago. If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you live in Chicago. If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in Chicago. If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80 and everybody is passing you, you live in Chicago If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in Chicago. If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you live in Chicago. If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in Chicago If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly", you live in Chicago . If you actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all your friends & others, you live in Chicago.

Right - UCLA asking for IDs after 11 when the library is closed to the public. Wrong - kid not producing the ID Wrong - security police tasering the guy So we have two wrongs. Which one is worse? Look at the potential problems. A non student in the library after hours could . . .?? The taser, is an extreme case, could cause death. I see the threat being much, much, lower than the response. Verdict to the idiot kid over the equally idiotic security cop.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Nov 21, 2006 -> 08:26 AM) I have a question for all of you running that posted your platforms. To a person, you all put down that you support stem cell research. Support it how? By allowing private research, or by using taxpayer dollars to fund it? Short answer, the term stem cell research is a bit misleading, what is really being researched are applications for cures for various human ailments that may be found in stem cells. I think each of those ailments is where the question of funding and private versus public research. Are we funding research to cure Parkinson's, Leukemia, or something more obscure. Example, where there are huge applications for cures, like some common cancers, there is such a huge profit potential, that I do not believe public funding is necessary. Public funding should be limited towards those areas that private enterprise will not fund. I am also an advocate of the government selling any advances they have discovered with stipulations that the drug companies set aside a portion of the profits into drug plans for the poor.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 17, 2006 -> 09:30 AM) Anyone? I thought that was being saved for the debates??

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 17, 2006 -> 09:59 AM) If the Dems put one of Edwards/Kerry/Clinton out there as the candidate for Prez in 2008, there is a good chance I will be voting GOP (unless they can find someone even worse). My early favs were both Reps. One almost certainly will not run. The other has my early support, that could change.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 16, 2006 -> 02:06 PM) they're taking debit cards in the red light district now? That's pay for the pump . . .

With the front 4 in this rotation, the team would be competitive for years. Great pitching trumps great hitting over a season. I don't think we need to make major overhauls, taking the Twins, Tigers, and Sox lineups last year, 8 or 9 times out of 10, the Sox would make the playoffs over one or both of those teams. Making major changes over a slight aberration, isn't sound mid range strategy.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 17, 2006 -> 07:45 AM) Holy crap, back from the dead?!?!?! True to Chicago roots, an election is nearing, it always wakes the dead . . .

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 17, 2006 -> 07:44 AM) How about throwing the Senators name around to try to get to the front of the line over people who actually stood in the lines for a chance at the systems, or should that have been a murky issue as well? BINGO! Ding Ding Ding. I think that is much more distasteful than not supervising what store she called. Of course we should now indict every Dem worldwide over the actions of a junior staff member.

Of course we are also assuming that he directly told that staffer to go to WalMart. If anything, it highlights a communications problem in the former Senator's office. His values have not been adequately communicated to all staff members. I am all for nailing hypocrisy, but having some staff member contact the wrong store isn't one.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1116061deer1.html Wisconsin motion argues sex with animal carcass not a crime

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/14/0...3.5hvb8xln.html A couple's ill-concealed sexual play aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles got them charged with violating the Patriot Act, intended for terrorist acts, and could land them in jail for 20 years. According to their indictment, Carl Persing and Dawn Sewell were allegedly snuggling and kissing inappropriately, "making other passengers uncomfortable," when a flight attendant asked them to stop. "Persing was observed nuzzling or kissing Sewell on the neck, and ... with his face pressed against Sewell's vaginal area. During these actions, Sewell was observed smiling," reads the indictment filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. On a second warning from the flight attendant, Persing snapped back threatening the flight attendant with "serious consequences" if he did not leave them alone. The comment was enough to have the couple, both in their early 40s, arrested when the plane reached its destination in Raleigh, North Carolina, and charged with obstructing a flight attendant and with criminal association. They have been placed under legal surveillance until their trial on February 5. If found guilty, they both could be sent to jail for up to 20 years. Persing's lawyer William Peregoy said his client was not feeling well when he placed his head on his companion's lap, and that he only threatened the flight attendant with reporting him to his superiors on landing.

God doesn't miss twice

QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 16, 2006 -> 05:28 PM) I don't know, let us feel you and find out....

QUOTE(bmags @ Nov 16, 2006 -> 04:38 PM) i'd like to think i'd be your secretary of partying down. And their will be plenty of that. I would also decriminalize marijuana and use the money saved in the enforcement of marijuana laws and use it to increase drug awareness and treatment programs. I would place the same restrictions as we do on liquor. I have never smoked, but from all the information I've seen, taking marijuana away from the dealers is a good idea.

After watching so many of my son's iPods crash and burn, warranty replacement after warranty replacement,I'd never own one if there was another product, from another reputable manufacturer.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Nov 15, 2006 -> 06:17 PM) I'm ashamed to be white after watching that. sad, very sad.

I don't think parties will come into this, no matter how we trim down. I think thousands of posts by the candidates and the opinions that people already have, will be the basis. I really doubt, even the most hardcore party faithful, would vote for a candidate because they call themselves a Dem/Rep/Ind

If, for example, the three remaining were all liberals or conservatives, you will have a lot of similar opinions. By culling along self identifying labels, we could reasonably be assured some diversity of opinions in the final debates. That was one of the factors that killed the debate thread.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Nov 16, 2006 -> 02:24 PM) How would that work? Would we only get to vote in one primary? Or could we vote in all of them? Depends on how realistic we want. I believe the new software would allow a scheme for one vote, but we probably should allow people to vote in each primary.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 16, 2006 -> 02:19 PM) That's a great idea. You must have a brilliant advisor that would be you

I would like to make a proposal. Since we have a plethora of candidates, why not have primaries and then have a Dem, a Rep, and a Ind for a ticket and run? We could use the platforms and these threads and vote by this weekend. Then run the main campaigns.

Dear ONE Member, Next Thursday, chances are you'll be sitting down to a large Thanksgiving meal. Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, and if you’re like millions of Americans, maybe you'll finish it all off with a slice of pie. Today, thousands of Americans are participating in a different kind of meal. One of the biggest challenges to building the will to end extreme poverty is communicating the reality of a problem that is so far away. Over the course of the last 35 years Oxfam America, a founding partner of ONE, has worked to develop a yearly tradition the Thursday before Thanksgiving called the "Oxfam Hunger Banquet" to help everyday Americans relate to the problems people face in the world's poorest countries. Learn more about Oxfam Hunger Banquets and how to share this simple idea with your family The idea is pretty simple. If 20 people sit down at your table, representing the world's population, three would get a gourmet meal, five would get rice and beans, and 12 would receive a small portion of rice. The true power of a Hunger Banquet is that as you eat your meal, unlike the real world, you see what's on everyone else's plate. Harry Truman said, "Give Americans the facts and they'll do the right thing." In the real world 850 million people go to sleep hungry every night, but the problem isn't a lack of food. We have more than enough to go around. The problem is the distribution, something we, with other countries around the world, can be the first generation to fix. As you give thanks next week, share the idea of an Oxfam Hunger Banquet with your family and friends. Learn more about Oxfam Hunger Banquets and how to share this simple idea with your family Each and every American that becomes part of the fight strengthens the political will to help the world's poorest people.The Oxfam Hunger Banquet is meant to illustrate the scope of the problem and remind us of the special role we play in fixing it. This Thanksgiving we are lucky not just to have food on our table, but to live in a time and place when we have the power to end extreme poverty. Thank you, Josh Peck, ONE.org

Once he owns a media company he will become a liberal, they always do