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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 6, 2006 -> 06:40 AM) Umm, a guy losing twenty pounds in a week is usually pretty easy to figure out that he can't keep anything down him. If he lost twenty pounds over a winter, that would be different. Also you kinda have the timeline backwards because the Sox soured on Brian THEN he got sick and lost twenty pounds... but nice try anyway Jay just pointing out how theories change based on what color uniform they are wearing. He needs to fire his agent and hire Boras, he'd have some team offering him $35/4 money

There's an election? Who is running?

The Homestretch! Friends and neighbors, we're down to the last hours and minutes of the campaign. Everything we have worked so hard for for nearly 2 years comes down to this: if the voters turn out in force, Kinky Friedman will be our next governor! Get out and VOTE! This isn't going to be easy, but we can do it! We're not going to waltz to victory; we need to claw and scratch and fight for every single vote. If you have already voted, thank you! You've taken the most important step in electing Kinky, but there's still more you can do. Encourage everyone you know to get out and vote for Kinky on Tuesday. Offer to take someone to the polls who may not be able to get there on their own. Come by Austin HQ at 701 E. Ben White Blvd. and make some calls Monday or Tuesday between 10:00 AM and 8:00 PM. If you can't make it to HQ, call us at (512) 326-5465, and we'll set you up with some phone numbers to call on your own! You'll need access to a fax machine if you want to call remotely! If you have not yet voted, election day is this Tuesday, November 7th. If you are a registered Texas voter, there is no excuse for not getting to the polls on time. Take a friend or two with you to the polls. Vote early and get to work late. Take a long lunch. Leave work early if you have to. We can only win if Texas sees a massive turnout, so get out there early and vote Kinky! We've been saying all along that Kinky's voters are the 71% of Texans who didn't bother to vote in 2002. If we can bring a million new voters to the polls on Tuesday, we'll be making history as we install the first independent governor in nearly 150 years. Get ready for a Kinky administration! "The calvary ain't riding in to save us, folks. It's up to us to save Texas." -- Kinky Friedman You know the politicians are counting on apathy. You know they're in it for their own gain. The system is closed and both parties want to keep it that way. Disaster awaits us if we stay on their course. So reach down deep. It's not going to be easy, but nothing good ever is. Work the vote, get out the word. We have until the polls close Tuesday night. Texas needs you. The Kinky Friedman campaign -Go Kinky!

QUOTE(Soxy @ Nov 6, 2006 -> 08:48 AM) DING DING DING It will destroy out country when politicians have free reign to do whatever they want, and the public will actually believe them over the fourth estate.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Nov 5, 2006 -> 10:09 PM) I believe that it was reported because it was news. Its relevance to GWB had no bearing on the reporting of it. If he was aquitted, do you think they would be silent? The media only reports stories that fit with their devious bias, they hold secret meetings to decide which stories to run with and how to report it to make Republicans look bad. Republican's on the other hand are perfect, so the media has to make stuff up. I am so tired of any bad news for Republicans being portrayed as media bias. It is the most amazing political strategy of all time. Good news is the media finally getting it right and bad news is media bias.

There are short comings and failing, then there is something like this. He doesn't sell my brand of Christianity.

There is one more possible explaination, if a player on another team suddenly lost 20 pounds and his team soured on him, what would we be saying?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 5, 2006 -> 01:43 PM) I just love the fact that they captured, convicted, and sentenced the guy and all of the news shows were talking about this being purposefully arranged as a Republician plot to fall right before the election... Yup, that's the conservative media at work all right. They've reported everywhere the verdict, making the President look good. The only reason they would report that is because they have a conservative bias.

I believe that as a matter of public policy, the government should only recognize a legal entity that is available to any two individuals of legal age. If, in addition to this legal contract, a couple wishes to have a ceremony performed and wish to call this union a marriage, or whatever, I am happy for them. As the next Governor of Texas, the Jewish Cowboy, and humorist, Kinky Friedman says, "may the God of your choice, bless you". BTW, Rex, between the political campaigns, booking cruises, and posting here, when the hell would you have time to get married?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Nov 4, 2006 -> 10:49 PM) They should be worrying about their strike zone judgement and mastering offspeed pitches instead of about their old AAA coach and current 3B coach's part time job. He wasn't fired, he was promoted. I assume now that they do not want to be fired from AAA either.

Pants are for people without enough sense to move to a warm climate

QUOTE(GaelicSoxFan @ Nov 4, 2006 -> 01:39 AM) Sorry, wish I could help. I have a Mac. I have my computer set up so the wallpaper and screensaver are the same folder, so I just find a pic I like and drop it into the file. For the wallpaper feature, you can check a box and have it rotate through the pictures. Actually I need to be able to distribute the screensaver as a .exe, packaged with the pictures.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/02/...buse_Arrest.php for the victims and the police officers whose job it is to view this perversion and try and prevent it. More at link. Not being able to get there before the abuse started must be the most frustrating position to be in. This sick f*** should be locked up forever and ever.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 3, 2006 -> 06:13 AM) Yeah, I happened to mis-spell big technical words like "different" and "cool" in that post. You'd think my fingers were fat sausages the way I type. Somewhere there is a lady smiling at the thought . . .

QUOTE(Random @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 09:30 PM) are you doing a slideshow? I finished a couple slide shows for this. I have a huge one (over 250M) I use if I am making a presentation, I also have one I put together in PhotoStory that I can email, or include on a resource cd I produced. I also have it available on Youtube as a private and via a streaming file hosting service.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 09:16 PM) I just love wiki. I'm a complete outsider looking in, but I want to jump in in a big way. I just signed on for a year of freelance contract work through Smithsonian to take over a web-based estuary species inventory project where I have to knock out painfully detailed descriptions of 50 doofferent species to add to a slowly expanding database. I'm thankful for the gig and the money to do iy, but if it were me I'd go wiki and and try turning a bunch of bio-geeks and naturalists onto a cooll community build with an expert oversight panel. Probably get the whole database fleshed out in 1/10th the time. Maybe the Borg had it right and it's best just to plug into the collective after all. Could somebody translate?

Do the people that vote ever actually watch a f***ing game or care who actually played a full season? OMFG?? Now that was a fun 4 seconds of the off season, back to sleeping.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2048790,00.asp Very cool use of a private sector tool. I love it when people take something and run with it. Great idea. There are some obvious security issues, but I'm confident they can be managed.

Interesting note regarding the military and education. They created the GED, and now will no longer accept it for enlisting. (Oops, they didn't as of a couple years ago, that may have changed.)

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53979

The article states that he almost will certainly resign, it's just a salary issue. His option was at $3.25mil and their was $5.0mil. He'll sign something around $4-$4.5

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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 12:26 PM) I never have, and I never will. If I was thinking about voting along straight party lines, I would rather stay home. I have never gone into the booth intending on punching a straight party vote, although I have come close a couple times to voting for all candidates from the same party. This time around, In my big three races, I voted for a Dem I think does an outstanding job, (Congressman Ruben Hinojosa ), a Rep who I respect (Senator Hutchinson ) and an Ind who I think would do a nice job and partly as a vote of no confidence for the party's nominations (Kinky for Gov. ) I supported Rep. Gov. Perry in the last election, but I've been greatly disappointed on his leadership. So despite my liberal leanings, my voting doesn't always reflect that.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 09:07 AM) I'm gonna go with Rumsfeld, who himself was a graduate of New Trier. Rumsfeld and Jesse. Can we get further apart on the political scale? Not even close. But I am surprised that no one objected to anything in the quote. I am going to toss this thought out there and see how fast it comes flying back into my face. During a draft, the average new soldier probably comes from a more privileged background.(by privileged I am thinking social, economic, and IQ). Absent of a draft, the aberage drops as kids with choices opt for university and other careers. An all-volunteer Army will also see a fluctuation. During long stretces of peace, it probably increases and during wars, drops a bit. Some people like the benefits, education, three squares, health, etc. but don't like getting shot at. Of course there will be some exceptions, but for the average Juan coming in off the street, I think that holds true. And it has forever, and will continue forever.

I have some pictures that I would like to turn into screensavers and wallpapers. What are some of the software options I have available? The wallpapers will probably be done in Photoshop, what setting should I be concerned about? Is there screensaver making software included in Office or Windows XP?