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The answer is #10 - Bon Jovi #9 - James Blunt #8 - Celine Dion #7 - Ashlee Simpson #6 - Bryan Adams #5 - Phil Collins #4 - Neil Diamond #3 - Paula Abdul #2 - Michael McDonald #1 - Barry Manilow What is The Top 10 Pop Artists for the Terminally Uncool

Ah, ah, We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands, To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming! On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. Ah, ah, We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. How soft your fields so green, can whisper tales of gore, Of how we calmed the tides of war. We are your overlords. On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins, For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing.

I guess if all that was on was spelling bees or NASCAR, I'd maybe watch it . . . I kid because, I care™

An Engineer in Hell An engineer died and reported to the pearly gates. An intern angel, filling in for St. Peter, checked his dossier and grimly said, "Ah, you're an engineer; you're in the wrong place." So the engineer was cast down to the gates of hell and was let in. Pretty soon, the engineer became gravely dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and began designing and building improvements. After a while, the underworld had air conditioning, flush toilets, and escalators, and the engineer was becoming a pretty popular guy among the demons. One day, God called Satan up on the telephone and asked with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?" Satan laughed and replied, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next." God's face clouded over and he exploded, "What? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake; he should never have gotten down there; send him up here." Satan shook his head, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him." God was as mad as he had ever been, "This is not the way things are supposed to work and you know it. Send him back up here or I'll sue." Satan laughed uproariously, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"

Here's the thing with these lists. Anyone of us could make a top 100 list. Seal it in an envelope and open it in three months and when it is opened, we would disagree with our own lists.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 01:54 PM) And cutting to the punch line [snip] . . . So then the rabbi says to Chomsky, "Well, how much did you expect a priest was going to know about cunning linguists anyway?!?" If it wasn't already in the QOTM, it would have been.

I have no problem with this.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 01:17 PM) We DESERVE this? What the **** planet are you from? We can't get any better because the corporations, etc. have bought the entire government. I'm on the planet where one party screams media bias whenever they f*** up and it gets reported. Then most of their supporters agree. Instead of them looking at the facts, they look at which newspapers are reporting it and look for ways to discredit the report. I'm on the planet where the other party will defend the President of the United States when he has an intern giving him a blow job outside the oval office. Where capturing Bin Laden is secondary to deciding which President f***ed up. We aren't demanding our own parties shape up, we are just looking for a chance to blow some mole hill into a mountain and "get" the other party. The planet I would like to be on is the one that demands from their own party good government. That when their party f***s up, they don't blame the reporter, they blame the douchebag politician. When loyal party members stand up and tell their guys to act like leaders or else they will vote someone in, things will change. I want to be on a planet where the politicians honor the other branches, not try and surplant the constitution by labeling anyone who disagrees as a "Activist Judge" or a liberal or conservative wacko.

The opposite is this headline Daley Drives Right Past Problem and Does Nothing!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 12:03 PM) You are missing my point. You would be adding them to the system. Right now they do not receive any federal benefits, whereas if legalize they would. And this is what gets so frustrating. First we hear they are costing us billions in benefits and bankrupting states, then we hear they aren't collecting benefits, but would if made legal. That seems like two different points. So how would you get someone to work these jobs and not receive benefits? And you already know my followup. if it means hgher wages, then why not increase all these low wage jobs, whether at WalMart or Purdue Farms? It would seem that rising wages are the answer, but we were told that business owners needed a tax cut to stimulate the economy, would cutting business profits hurt the ecoomy? My opinion, after reading way too much about this, most are using fraudulent social security numbers and paying taxes and collecting benefits. I see it as maintaining the current situation. No matter who is working these jobs, benefits will be paid. We can then decide if we should eliminate WIC, day care subsidies, medicade, etc. for poor people. Perhaps we are do for a tightening of our poverty programs. So we can deport all the undocumented workers, paying that cost, then increase wages in these jobs to the level that Americans will work these jobs. These workers will begin collecting more benefits, and what have we accomplished for our economy? With our current, and decades long low unemployment rate, we need to bring in workers. We can bring them in to fill the most desirable and high paying jobs, while pushing Americans to pick lettuce, but that seems like a mistake. I'd rather immigrants fill the least desirable jobs, and push Americans to the better jobs.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 11:44 AM) Short term, yes, it's "bad", but SOMETHING has to happen. Neither party stands for "mainstream America" anymore, they both have to suck the schlongs of their extremists to get the real money. It's freaking nausaiating. It's time for a REAL representation of what most of us think out here. (Special thanks to Iggy for the insight... ahem). They are reflecting mainstream America. Republicans and Democrats will defend anything their party does. We are getting what we deserve. Hear something anti-GOP? It's the liberal media. Hear something Anti-Democrat, it gets defended.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 11:49 AM) I haven't seen anything that would say anything else but... What non-partial studies are you looking at, that contradict any of my claims? Think about it. We have a country of just barely under 300 million people, that costs trillions of dollars a year to run and support. If we look at adding approximately 12 million more people, the vast majority of whom are well below median income, most even below poverty level. The exsisting poor population of the United States uses an inordinate amount of social services as compared to what it pays into the system. As I have documented on numerous occasions, the lower 2 quartiles of the US taxpayers pays a negative tax rate, meaning they don't actually pay a net dime into the federal tax system, in fact they actually profit from our progressive tax system. So the poorest people in the country have a negative net cashflow to the federal government BEFORE they EVER use a single social service. Now if we add millions upon millions of MORE people to these very groups, what other conclusions are there to reach? Common sense alone says it will cost way more. Do you have anything to back up what you are saying??? We're not adding, they are already here. And if they leave, we'll have to find millions more to take their place. Are you now proposing deporting them?

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 11:42 AM) Can someone tell me how the gov't is going to collect taxes from illegals when they do not even know who they are or how much they have been paid? Easy, most use someone else's social security number to get past employer checks, so they are paying income taxes. They also pay taxes when they buy food, etc. The tax avoidance issue is seperate and even more annoying, when you start to look at grandma and grandpa who is getting paid off the books to avoid problems with their social security or pensions. Companies that barter and don't report the income, and individuals that employ nannies, and other household help and don't report it. All the more reasons for a better controlled immigration progam tied to jobs that puts companies out of business who hire people without documentation or who pay people off the books. Even if it's grandpa Joe who fought in WW2 and Korea and whose parents came over on the Mayflower. Anyone in this country making less than the average is getting more than they pay for. The further down from the average, the more the disparity. But anyone working any minimum wage job will never pay as much as they receive. And once again Southsider makes a great argument for higher wages. But he fails to consider the unemplyment rate. How many unemployed professionals will abandon their job search to go pick fruit in Florida and potatoes in Idaho?

QUOTE(Soxy @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 11:38 AM) I said amuse, not horrify.

QUOTE(My Dixie Normus @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 11:28 AM) Agreed, keep Boras on the black list. Hopefully more players will see that greed is counter productive to championships. Teams are hopeless in front of Boras. They don't stand a chance. He would destroy Kenny if Kenny even was allowed to say hi. Teams will magically just agree with whatever Boras asks for. Far better if Kenny isn't allowed to talk to Boras. He could also negotiate world peace, solve our budet crisis, unite Muslim, Hindu, Christians, and Jews, and out kick Chuck Norris. I'm LMAO at all those players that cried all off season because they didn't sign with the Sox.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 08:23 AM) Amuse me. shall I strip naked?

I hadn't noticed it until I was looking through my health insurance companies web site how my of these Doctors are foreign trained. Up until then I assumed they were educated in American Universities and decided to stay. Most are educated outside the US and immigrate. LMAO at sweet job picking lettuce. Nice Jim.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 11:16 AM) the trifecta What channel is Comcast Sports on the Dish network cable system? What's with all the straight, young chicks makin' out with each other at the bars? If you're breakfast is a bag of hot pork skins, are you ghetto? #1 Don't know #2 Girls Gone Wild and etc. have created a mini industry and made it seem acceptable and cool #3 No. But if you're living in a 1975 Fleetwood, drinking a beer with your chicharrones breakfast, then you are ghetto.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 10:35 AM) Depends on what industries and wages we are talking about. In areas where there are unions you won't see much of a change, except for the companies who were using illegal labor. In areas where there is no wage protections, and lots of illegal labor used, you will see much more wage increases. Works for me as long as American business has access to a qualified, willing, labor pool. No bite on high end immigration? That is more fascinating to me. We fight for bottom jobs and ignore the better ones? Perhaps because these immigrants probably speak English and drive nice cars?

We would have to endure years of gridlock. Having a third party would increase the number of political deal making to get anything though Congress. Be careful what you wish for. I'm not a huge fan of either party, but it's better than a three way mess. Now if it would result in one of the parties folding their circus tent, then maybe we have something . . . What would be even better is if the voting public would shed the party labels and not defend asshattery just because it's from "their" party or have an all or nothing approach to their party.

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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 09:21 AM) There would be no need to change minimum wage if we eliminated the artificial caps on wages, such as illegal immigration. We still agree that illegal immigration has to stop. And you did say that you were not for ending all immigration. So we agree there. If I understand you, wages for these jobs must raise above the poverty level so the workers would not have to rely on so much government help. I assume that would mean all below poverty level jobs. You believe with illegals out of the job market, wages will rise above poverty level for the millions of people below that level. Would that also apply to companies like WalMart; and would the rise in part time labor as American students are attracted to these manual labor jobs hurt as they would not have benefits? Would the raise in wages happen with legal immigration, or would we have to curtail immigration all together? And getting back on topic, do you see immigrants taking desirable, better paying jobs as a bigger problem than immigrants taking low paying, less desirable jobs?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 08:49 AM) More in salary, less in unemployment, social security, welfare, health insurance... etc. I agree, and since it will be so good for America, why don't we raise the minimum wage to accomplish it? I wonder at what salary level people pay more in taxes than they receive? With the very wealthiest Americans paying so much, I think it may be a lot higher than we think. With a graduated income tax, at least half the people pay more than their share to cover the bottom half and that hits the average.

Link More at link Steve Wise is a friend of mine and one of the greatest men I have had the privilege to know. I knew him for a year before finding out he was one of the greatest all around motorcycle racers ever. I knew him for 30 minutes and saw his faith. He is in the Motorcycle Hall of Fame and walks the talk. His son Josh has stared in a couple TV series for the WB. He is also one of the most competitive SOBs I have ever played on the golf course.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 08:02 AM) I need a vacation. I kept waiting for the line where 'the families are suing". The world has me so jaded right now. Although the Cerak family does seem to have an attorney for a spokesman, who was unavailable for comment. Imagine the problems to undo. A second funeral for her "real" family, and who will pay for the first one? Can you get a refund on a grave site, casket, etc? Life and Health Insurance companies sorting out bills. Evil, you are correct, this will get uglier fast.