Texsox

Yesterday I joined with two platoons from a local High School ROTC program to pick up trash and rebuild a shoreline along South Padre Island's Southern tip. Four times a year I join with a McAllen Boy Scout Troop on an Adopt-A-Highway Clean up project. I have built and maintained miles of wilderness trails in National and State Parks. I have helped build and clean urban parks. I am presently growing mangroves to be used in a spoil bank erosion project along the intercoastal waterway in South Texas. Our ancestors have blessed us with a great network of open spaces. From small urban playgrounds to the vast vistas of Big Bend National Park, Americans have an opportunity to enjoy the great outdoors. I value these living museums the same way the curators at the Smithsonian value our collections there. We have been entrusted with these national treasures that need to be maintained for all future generations. We are also entrusted with the resources that these parks contain. Allowing the harvest of renewable resources in these parks is good land management. We must not dramatically alter the eco-system in the pursuit of monetary gain, and especially momentary monetary gain. However, we also must not ignore their value. Fishing, hunting, grazing, mineral, commercial guiding, and many other activities can be safely conducted with-in the parks. This is also a great time to renew our nation's commitment to the environment. In 1970 I was a 6th grader at Beach School in Illinois. I remember well the activities we did to promote the first Earth Day. We need to once again promote the stewardship which sparked that first Earth Day. We need to take pride in our open spaces.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 28, 2006 -> 07:08 AM) FEEEEEEEEEEEEVER DAWWWWWWWWWWWWG.... Scratchin' at my back doooooooooooor. Now bring us some friggin' pudding

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Nov 20, 2006 -> 05:25 PM) i don't think the government should have authoratitive power to forcefully mandate service to the coutry unless there is a relevant and immediate threat to the survival of the country. "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." I believe that with the benefits of living in this country should come a debt. Like others in this thread, as long as there is a non-military option, like Americorps, I would be in favor of it. We have too many people who believe they can take and take without giving back. One of the saddest changes in my lifetime is "community service" is no longer a noble thing, something to be proud of, instead it is a punishment handed out for misdemeanor crimes.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Nov 27, 2006 -> 11:03 PM) After reviewing the platforms several times, I am suprised at the many places I agree in part or whole with the lot of you. Especially Rex. However, in the areas I disagree, there is a wide gap. And I disagree with the whole group of you on rebuilding NO. Not going to get into thathere, justI don't think the government should be doing it. At the moment I am torm between Tex and Northside.If I can come up with something to differentiate between you two for me, I'llbe sure to let you know. If only our real elections were this 'clean', eh? It's all about marketing in the real world. Of course there are fundamental differences between the parties but there is far more natural overlap but it gets artificially beaten out by party politics. The best analogy is Coke and Pepsi. They use basically the same ingredients, in basically the same amounts, and then try to make it seem like they are totally different drinks. With politics in this country, and I find it amusing that tics are in the word, we start with an almost universal truth. Most humans want security, physical and financial. They want this for themselves and future generations. The difference really come in on how that is accomplished. For some, following a religious doctrine is important, others is a strong military. For me, I see financial as being the biggest worry. We have stopped thinking in terms of paying taxes to run the country and now think in terms of not paying taxes to stimulate the economy. The thinking is if we can just owe China and the rest of the world enough money, we will grow the economy and pay them back, plus interest, and have all this cool stuff. It's a politicians wet dream. Let me give you all these cool programs and, best of all, someone else will pay for it later. Evil, I doubt you run your company this way, and it's a poor way to run the country. If we need a new social program, expanded Social Security, or to fight a war, come to the American public and tell them we are raising taxes to pay for it. Then we'll really discover what is and isn't important. And back to your original comment, it would be this clean in the real world, if the elections were between two people, instead they are between two huge groups of people and in the process of creating a homogeneous message from those groups, and in creating campaign talking points, issues were divided up like cards in a Texas Hold 'Em Game.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 27, 2006 -> 11:31 PM) To be fair though, Michael Stipe is one hell of a mumbler. Hold me closer, Tony Danza

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 28, 2006 -> 06:03 AM) Happy Fists? I'll take a nice pop culture reference with a twist

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 27, 2006 -> 10:32 PM) wait... If I hopped a SW flight tomorrow I could just sit wherever? You will receive a boarding pass number based on when you arrive for your flight. When your number is called, board the flight and take any seat. My personal favorite is the second row (first facing forward) window, There will be a 6" ledge against the side for you to stretch out and put your feet. There will be someone facing you, but will be better looking, so it's all good.

Let's pee in the corner, Let's pee in the spotlight.

Getting in late,. Happy Birthday!!

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 26, 2006 -> 09:27 PM) my f***ing roommate snores like a pregnant walrus.... i cant wait to move. I thought you would have a non-f***ing roommate. BTW, how do you know what a pregnant walrus snores like?

I can see many places where Foxx would not be a hypocrite in this I can do it, but you can't scenario. Red can call Eric a dumbass, but would probably object if Bob called Eric a dumbass. In the throes of passion, you could possibly call your wife a slut but may have a problem if PA did. I have a friend that refers to himself as a dumb Pollock, but I am certain would be hurt if I did in a certain may. A certain way. Here is another factor, the same words can be used in many ways. As noted earlier, Richards was probably using those words to hurt. Foxx can use it and it's almost like a secret password with the people that share that same race. Someone outside the group uses the same word, it can have an entirely different meaning and an entirely different reaction. I don't see hypocrisy with Foxx. I see someone trying to gather some publicity, maybe a little "street cred" before jumping in his Mercedes, but not hypocrisy.

QUOTE(Rooftop Shots @ Nov 25, 2006 -> 07:45 PM) And little early Buehrle came to spring training very early, and said "Last year my pitches needed a guide!!" Another genius of rock poetry

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 25, 2006 -> 04:01 PM) Who puts up their dukes anymore? vs. I love the sweet jazz sounds myself . . .

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 24, 2006 -> 10:17 PM) He should have just tasered their asses. That would have been funny, he's not funny

interesting story.

I'm coming out, I'm a lesbian. I don't even need to ask. Seems kind of silly to me to care who someone is having sex with.

Sell Outs all over Texas. The McAllen High Bulldog game sold over 5,000 tickets in a couple hours.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....xml&src=rss In U.S., women go wild for hunting

Bonds to the A's it's all coming together and MLB is pulling the strings

Salaries are always going up. When 2010 rolls around and Pujols has a new contract he'll be far ahead of C-Lee. And in a couple seasons, someone with less stats than Lee will surpass him. Always happens.

QUOTE(Leonard Zelig @ Nov 23, 2006 -> 12:16 PM) Huh, I've never had a problem with it, to me it tastses much better than the stuff in the pan. It does but numerous agencies including the USDA warns against it.

QUOTE(Rooftop Shots @ Nov 24, 2006 -> 03:23 PM) If that is what he was writing about, and/or if there was any other source that it was related to, you've got to admit, it took one heck of an imagination to come up with some of those lyrics. This one is a doozy. And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather charts to see if it was safe outside And little Early-birdy came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride Actually, another theory was the record company demanded a Morrison look and feel and he just tossed together some random rhymes. Example: The soxtalk boxtop was walkin' pop the tether shots to see if it has beat upsides . . . I'm a f***in' music genius like Morrison, Dylan, and Springsteen.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Nov 24, 2006 -> 12:33 PM) I had no work and I slept in. It was great. Slept in? What time zone are you in? Unless it's East Coast, you're a slacker West coast it's 10:30, that isn't sleeping in.

War does not make anyplace more safe. More civilians are dying under our rule than the prior. Can we at least now realize why some, if not most, people in Iraq are not grateful for our presence? This kind of ties into Kap's thought. We are at war with all of Iraq. So we face a choice. Take the whole country over or get out. I do not see Iraq's history books ever thinking our invasion was good for their country. (Unless we write them)

Since this was on Springsteen's first album I always thought it was a critique of the music industry, the spinning your wheels emptiness of youth, and some drug references. For some reason I always thought of Springsteen as not a hard core drug user. Perhaps I heard that in some old interviews. I have come to liking his version more than MMs, but I also like Dylan's All Along the Watchtower as much as JHs