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SS, Great post, that was worth my annual subscription fee. There is a lot of unskilled labor, close by, who would love to build homes and eventually buy one. Problem is, most American's do not want them here. So we need another plan. I was just listening to a NPR report that basically stated the government and its planners are trying to avoid a jack-o-latern development. That is, flying over at night one sees lights on here and over there and ong stretches of darkness in between. The two competiting factors here are A. The cities ability and resources to bring utilities to every neighborhood and B. People wanting to rebuild their home in their neighborhood. It seems that not only is New Orleans facing the problems you have just described, but there is no master redevelopment plan of which areas will be rebuilt and in what order. The idea of telling someone not to rebuild their home because the government wants them over there smacks of failed Russian social planning. But unplanned will result in slower, more expensive growth. This is unprecidented in our history. I wonder what Japan did after WW2?

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 02:08 PM) good point. those were the 2 things that came to mind first. I'm sure we drop billions in aid to other areas of the world too. its not that i'm against helping others, its just that our priorities are backwards. shouldnt we be spending us taxpayer dollars in the us first before giving it away to other areas of the world? i commend aids relief in Africa... but we have an Aids problem here in the US. Why not work on relieving/reducing this problem first before solving the rest of the worlds problems. (homelessness, education, public works, etc) We do spend the money here. As a percentage of our national budget, foreign aid isn't all that much. I have read through the years that we actually rank behind many countries as a percentage of our GNP. Here's some links, pick what you want to believe http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_...113/ai_18864338 http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_..._4/ai_n11832668 I dn't have time to vette this last one, it could be a very biased site, but I'be also heard a large percentage of our foreign aid is spent on Israel. http://www.washington-report.org/html/us_aid_to_israel.htm

The biggest adjustment I had to living in the deep south was no winter to kill off or kill back pests. Everyting from ferel cats to bugs live and thrive year round. Every once in a while we get some ants, but I grab some scary looking pump spray, dowse all the edges, and go to town.

^^^^^ sweet, thanks for the link

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 01:19 PM) Is it worth pointing out that 1 of the 2 examples you gave is an order of magnitude or two more expensive than the other? In 2004, the U.S. Gave about $3.4 billion in aid to Sub-Saharan Africa (there's some that goes to Egypt otherwise because of the Camp David agreement). That same year we spent what, about $100 billion on Iraq? But now we don't have to worry about terrorsists and WMD

Over budget for projects of this scope and scale? I'd be shocked if they got to within 15% either way. Too hard to project out 3-4 years. Currently cement is sky high, which pushes concrete prices high, then the trucks that haul to stuff are running on $3.50 per gallon fuel and not $2.50. Private projects run into the same problems. The US government (you and me and the people we hire to do the work) are no smarter or dumber than the private sector. The private sector also has a lot less rules that we have insisted that be followed for spending public funds.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 12:37 PM) I was stupid enough to spray raid in my room to kill some aunts Did it work?

Beane should also get credit for knowing which guys to keep. It isn't just being at the helm when a guy is drafted, but the longer development cycle as well. Frank? I am so glad to see him pounding baseballs. Not first ballot. He spent too much time as a DH. Not saying it's fair, accurate, or the right thing to do. Just saying that would be a breakthrough (DH) that Frank's media relations would not help happen.

QUOTE(mreye @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 11:04 AM) So people can say, "Look what this GOP candidate thinks..." I'm just laying the groundwork for when I say why the hell does it have to say DEM?

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 12:30 PM) (knock on wood). Is that a euphemism for bopping the balony?

QUOTE(BDavisFutureHOF @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 12:28 PM) Why is that in green? Cause I'd be doing that even without the alcohol

Linky Kap, was that you wating your time watching a web cam of a street in London?

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 12:24 PM) Yep so consider yourself very special right now. I've hit double figures on the amount of beers I've had tonight, and I also had some Jager Boms, and some other Vodka / Cocktail stuff mixed with Pepsi. So let's just say don;t expect to hear from me from at least another 12-18 hours from now. At my age, if I had that much to drink, I'd be surfing porn site and looking up entertainers in the yellow pages

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 12:21 PM) We are very likely the only Sox website around with a drunk Aussie right now. soxtalk.com #1 with drunk Aussies! That's the slogan we were looking for

I was looing through who posts in this thread and how can Nuke only have two posts? Of course it's obvious who the most prolific, everyone must want to read what I have to write, pain in the ass, poster is.

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 11:06 AM) I was clarifying for my own soul cleansing... And if you submit that in triplicate, with a $250 donation, you can be saved . . .

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 12:06 PM) I had an assorted greens salad with plum tomatoes, warmed goat cheese and a raspberry vinaigrette. that is just sooooo errr healthy bratwurst leftovers. No special Milwaukee County Stadium brat sauce, but I'm making do with some good Boar's Head spicy mustard. I wish I was having, and possibly enjoying, a nice salad like Rex. I have been trying to drop a few pounds.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Aug 24, 2006 -> 05:45 PM) Artery-clogging double with cheese from Wendy's today. They are a customer of miine, so I feel obliged to eat there once in a while. I'll pay for it later, but damn, it was good. Thay have quietly moved into my second fav. fast food burger/sandwich joint. I like the choice of sides, plus the frescata sandwiches are really good. I also see Quiznos passing Subway on my list because of the salads.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Aug 24, 2006 -> 06:48 PM) Dude, the worst part is that you might have to put your lips on another guy's! The hetero-nightmare is you'll enjoy it

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 08:10 AM) Me not part of that we. Someone who does that s*** is, regardless of their race or gender, an effing moron. I don't even hear what the reportd excuse is. Didn't need to imply a personal "we" more a societal "we".The reason, of course, was to prepare the children for God. Salvation through sex with a pervert.

First off, let's be clear she doesn't speak for the GOP party. She will finish 4th in a three way race. Why she isn't running as an Ind candidate, I can't begin to figure out.

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 07:58 AM) How about take the religion out of it and call it what it is. A bunch of sick f***s who abused children. Exactly, yet we can't seem to do that when some suicide bomber claims to do something in the name of his religion.

QUOTE(TLAK @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 06:32 AM) The Tigers are now in great shape, splitting with the White Sox just about iced it. At 81 wins with 34 to go, a .500 record puts them at 98 wins which should be plenty. And the majority of their remaining games are against the less successful teams. You can spin these numbers anyway you want but I see it as the division is Detroits unless they collapse. It's been months and months since a team leading the AL Central collapsed enough in Aug/Sep to make it a race . . .

Take the thoughts of many Christians when a zealot in the middle east kills someone and the moral outrage we use to paint that entire religion, now twist it to be all Christians abuse and molest children, and we have an understanding of what good decent members of some religions feel when s*** happens in their religion's name.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Aug 24, 2006 -> 06:10 PM) Here's the only place the article mentions younger kids being accomodated at the front: I'm not even sure it's the same bus. But there's no other suggestion that the black kids were moved to have young kids up front, so I thought you were talking about this. I didn't see where she said "her" bus driver, thanks for pointing that out.. It looks even worse for this woman.