Texsox

Amazing.

Ozzie has to be the best interview in baseball. Funny stuff. He could post here, if he wasn't so damn optimistic.

From the Web museum http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/munch...cream.small.jpg

Wow. He's a bit out of step with the rest of the world, including much of his party. Wow. He's a bit out of step with the rest of the world, including much of his party.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 11:38 AM) What power can you have in a six person relief group? My premise was a smaller relief agency, close to the people in need, would be better than a large, multinational, out of touch agency. The smaller agency would be less likely to have resources and more likely to be corrupt.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 11:34 AM) I gotta go with Balta on this one... absolute power corrupts absolutely. There are more likely to be the tempations that would cause corruption in a bigger organization, vs a smaller one. There is also probably a more intimate connection to the cause, which would lead to being less likely to steal from it. I agree with you on the premise but wouldn't absolute power be more likely in a six person relief organization?

I am thnking of something like the Balta-Tex charity with a half dozen employees in some third world backwoods. I'd trust Catholic Charities, Heart Association, United Way, and those types before I'd trust the likes of you and me.

I was a huge Who fan in high school and college. One of my favorite memories was SIU, Halloween, someone playing Baba O'Reilly at full volume outside a dorm building. About 200 people singing along in between chugs of Bush beer. OK, the beer sucked, but the rest of the moment was cool.

What does she look like? Maybe I'd do her.

I'd be thinking the same thing. Now if the allegations are true, she may have been raped *and* her daddy may be in jail.

It would seem that smaller organizations, that can get closer to the problem, would have a better understanding of what is needed. But those are more likely to not have large resources and more likely to be corrupt.

Thinking about it, The Who were more an album band than a singles band. BTW, easily my favorite band.

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 12:46 PM) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060830/ap_on_...gamist_arrested This guy is sick and his followers are freaks. Understatement of the year . . .

Looks like the Padres are the front runners, hometown thing. Is this the Red Sox giving up? It sure seems like it.

QUOTE(spawn @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 09:22 AM) I'm a 39 year-old black man...and you guys are right. I'm a minority in the real world...but the ratio here is quite disheartening. Of course, that's through no fault of anyone here. I'm a member of 5 different forums, either sports or political related, and this ration holds true to the other forums as well. One of those forums, I'm the only black member. I have learned something living in an area where statistically I am a minority as a white male. Minority has nothing to do with statistics. I have also learned that people will subdivide themselves when given the chance.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 08:34 AM) The Who's most successful US single was "I Can See For Miles." Wouldn't have guessed that. No way? Not Who Are You or Baba O'Reilly?? from wiki

Just sayin', if I was Jimbo, and let's say I was getting close to retirement age, and wanting to get out. This would be the best possible scenario.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....also_on_reuters PORT BLAIR, India (Reuters) - A group of children clamber curiously over their new toy, a power tiller that sits otherwise unused by the side of a dirt road in a coconut palm-fringed village. Hundreds of power tillers, sometimes known as walking tractors, have been sent to India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands in the wake of the 2004 Asian tsunami. But tribal leaders, farmers and activists say the Indian government has simply been wasting its money as they don't know what to do with the machines, including the one that has become a plaything in Malacca village in Car Nicobar. In the southern Nicobar group of islands, which lie much closer to Indonesia than to India, tribes have maintained coconut plantations for generations and have no tradition of cultivation. "This relief package for agriculture is a surprise for us, as most of our people don't know how to use a power tiller or how to do cultivation," said Martin Luther, a member of the tribal council on Car Nicobar island, who lives by Malacca village. "Very few of us are making use of it, and in most cases in Car Nicobar these tillers are either used for carrying goods or simply kept unused," he said. More than 300 tillers, each costing nearly 100,000 Indian rupees ($2,150) were sent to the Nicobar islands. Thomas Philip, secretary of the tribal council on Car Nicobar, says 106 were sent to his island when just one or two would have been enough. It does not surprise Samir Acharya of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology, who says he has seen tsunami relief often mis-spent in the archipelago, some 1,200 km (750 miles) off India's eastern coast. "It seems there were funds available for tsunami relief and there was pressure to invest them, so without proper survey of tsunami-hit farmers these power tillers were purchased," he said. "They are now laying unused in the Nicobar islands." more at link These types of stories seem all too familar. The UN sucks at this. People get nervous about donating to private charities. There has to be a better way so people are helped and money isn't wasted, thoughts??

Sounds like a great deal. I've stopped taking out extended warranties a long time ago, and IIRC, I've probably saved a couple thousand dollars and haven't had a consumer electronics item that failed where the extended warranty would have helped. Laptops would be the one exception I can think of. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/persona...ranty/index.htm

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 02:14 PM) I before E except after C. E before I except after Y Spring back, Fall forward Feed a fever, starve a cold

All of our food is unsafe to some degree. The more we process it, the more we manufacture meat, the less safe it is. I've just read the mercury warnings, and don't forget aluminum cookware may be linked to Alzheimers.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 07:42 AM) Not to mention their employees act like comissioned scumbags That's because they are commisioned employees.

I keep forgetting the city is above that now. The trucking fiasco was probably the final straw.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/sox/cst-spt-sside31.html some great Oz quotes

Damn, damn, damn. On the other hand, it is hard to argue with a property owner that wishes to use his property in a legal manner. Unless the owner is looking to sell the building as condos, I think it's a bad business decision. But, like others have said, another place will have a hard time of it for the first year. I use to believe places like this can not be replaced, but time has proven they can be. Dye takes over for Maggs, Thome takes over for Thomas, Another bar takes over for Jimbo's. Time marches on. Another thought, Chicago being Chicago and the city I love, Jimbo's friends downtown could mention the difficulties in passing inspections that *could* happen if Jimbo's wasn't there. Not that anything like that would ever happen in the city.