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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?

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 11:15 PM) why was that in green? ....the same reason THAT wasn't I kill myself. This is going to feel like a Republican budget plan. Here's the best plan. You have sex with Jim and pay him $5, he turns around and pays Mrs. PA $5 to have sex with her. You both could have all the sex you want, the budget will balance, you've helped education, and perhaps found some WMD.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 06:27 AM) OK the one thing that bugs me about this arguement is if John Kerry is traveling around the country speaking on behalf of the canditates why wouldn't we listen to him? Is he all of the sudden not a representative of his party? If that is the case, why doesn't he and anyone who isn't "running for office" just stay home, because their words don't matter anyway. I mean everyone was all but willing to jump all up into Rush's s*** when he said what he did about Michael J Fox, and I didn't hear anyone saying that it doesn't really matter, because even less then a Junior Senator and former Presidential canditate nominee, he is only a TV/radio personality, so what does it really matter? Now everyone wants to debate "the issues"? Please. SS. Excellent point. Goes to the heart of credibility. In an adjacent thought, I dislike the free pass candidates get on the campaign trail. "It's not what they *really* think." BTW, which party banner are you flying in your quest for world domination? Jim, no. Guess again.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 03:52 PM) and have sex with him for $5.... I don't know I just felt like running way over the line, for funsies. There's your honeymoon idea. Go to Florida and have sex with Jim 500 times.

If we are playing guess the speaker, who said that?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 01:03 PM) I had a can of spinach - cold, out of the can - and a 16 oz Rockstar Juiced energy drink. Nothing but the good life for this gentleman of leisure. Remember kids, stay in school, get your PhD, and you too can eat like Popeye

It is always tough on the egos when someone is being shopped. This becomes even bigger when the player is a superstar and bona fide HoF candidate.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 12:11 PM) I am impressed that the driver took the blame completely. The company he works for and their insurance company are probably impressed as well.