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Sometimes, the person is guilty, and just did a better than average job at murder.

Again, I thought you stopped having birthdays!? Happy Birthday!! Tell momma FlaSoxx she done good

It really is so much easier to believe the President of the United States ordered thousands of Americans murdered, than an admitted terrorist who hates America and all we stand for.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ May 29, 2006 -> 04:51 AM) What you're basically telling me is that you are in favor of importing a permanent under-underclass of people who we can exploit to do our dirty work for us because we're too lazy to do it ourselves. That's all you're telling me with your point of view. When I was growing up, neighborhood kids mowed the lawn, bussed tables at the local restaurant and such. They did it to earn a few extra bucks on the side and to learn the value of a days work before moving on to bigger and better things. Unfortunately, nowadays American kids are spoiled and lazy and would rather plug their eyeballs into a TV screen or computer monitor than get out there and work. As I've been saying for weeks and just a couple posts ago, US - highly skilled workforce, low unemployment, no desire for manual labor. Mexico - unskilled workforce, high unemployment, strong desire to improve life for themselves and their children Mexicans help themselves by finding work. They use this helping hand to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and create a better life for themselves and their children. With legal status, which comes after a careful screening and time in this country, they do not have to remain a permanent underclass. Wow, and it benefits both countries. Immigration levels are set by US employment needs. After systems are in place, illegals receive a lifetime ban, first time is a quick trip home, second time involves jail, third strike and welcome to a federal prison. Employers are heavily fined for employing undocumented workers or employing workers off the books. The world is now 24/7. Kids aren't mowing the local office complex, they aren't bussing tables at noon, and they aren't picking crops from Florida to Maine. You think the agriculture industry can supports itself on high school kids? Or some high school kids walks up to Allstate Insurance and asks if he can mow the lawn? These aren't part time jobs. Immigrants have been taking these jobs for many decades. Remember Reagan and amnesty? We are just now waking up and seeing what is going on. Nice high school memories, but they aren't accurate of the total job market. I'm for traditional American values, like any good conservative. Not the liberal new fangled, Americans can do these jobs, solution you propose So your solution is millions of high school kids start taking these jobs? I belive mine is better for America.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ May 29, 2006 -> 04:24 AM) I sort of agree with you. Mexico is defenitely acting in its own best interest. Its in their interest to export their poverty problem to the United States. It's in their interest to push as many people across the border as they can because the money they send back is their second greatest revenue source. The U.S. on the other hand, does not act in its own interest. We allow Mexico to export its poverty problem to us. We allow these people to get services they dont deserve. We allow them to cost us billions of dollars a year. We allow them to come here illegally and then start making demands against our government. It's really sickening to me how we allow a s***bag like Vicente Fox and these border jumpers to screw this country over the way they're doing. Easy enough to stop it. Train our children to be laborers. Imagine if a couple million Americans every year would say "After college, I'm going to work for Del Monte picking crops." Describe for me how America will raise a generation to pick crops, be bus boys, yard workers, work in a chicken processing plants, etc.? Will they be drop outs? Will we encourage high school kids to set their sights lower? Will we begin paying people $40k a year to mow lawns? Immigrants have been doing these jobs for hundreds of years, now we'll change all that?

Hey! Look at Thome!! BA needs some AAA time to be ready for the pennant run.

Ricky Williams CFL league has no drug policy. Ricky needs to do a Cheech and Chong movie.

Hammer '08

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I still find it amusing that people think America and Mexico should have the same laws. Why don't we do what is best for America and let Mexico do what is best for Mexico? I really don't think we need to look to Mexico for a solution in this. Mexico is struggling to create a middle class, something that was wiped out in the 1994 with the peso devaluation known as the December Mistake. They have a 40% illiteracy rate. Their country and the US is so different and faces such different struggles. Look at the unemployment rates and underemployment rates between the two countries. Mexico has high unemployment and high underemployment. Thet have a surplus of unskilled labor and a shortage of jobs for semi and skilled workers. The US has low unemployment rates, and a skilled workforce looking for skilled and highly skilled jobs. Further the US economy has a high demand for unskilled labor and a workforce that does not desire those jobs. Doesn't it make sense that the US would want to import that labor and that Mexico would not want additional immigrants when their workforce is already over capacity? Call it hypocricy if you like, but it seems like both countries are acting in their own best interest.

I trust the oil companies in all environmental issues. I am certain thay are looking out for our best interests. After all, they live on the planet also, and wouldn't put personal profit ahead of protecting our environment for future generations. Would they? of course they would, and would spend what it took to keep business as usual.

QUOTE(IggyD @ May 25, 2006 -> 10:35 PM) I am moving to Libertarian...Back to Constitional Rule...WE THE PEOPLE...no more free money to any country...lower taxes...all our Military returns home to protect this great Country and they can spend all Holidays with their families...No Income tax on laborers..only on Big Corporate ....that is how it was until 1913... See The Lawsuit To Restore Constitutional Order they had hearing today which is currently under appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals in DC and have gotten decisions against the IRS in our favor already...I am still waiting to hear what happened today. Here is a quick little video of the IRS not being able to answer.."Is there a law that requires you to pay Income Tax" and they could not do it!!! The country needs money to run the government, income tax is the best method. Take the tin foil off your head.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ May 27, 2006 -> 10:31 AM) No, it wouldn't. The Minutemen are on private property, where the borders are well marked, Evil, the border is not well marked except for in cities. Out across the deserts and other areas, it is impossible to tell. I have camped along many border areas, and once the Rio Grande swings north, there is no line in the sand. There are thousand of miles, can you tell the exact border between Illinois and Wisconsin in the woods? A couple of links Tunnel Mexican Drug Forces There was one instance a couple years back when US forces accidentaly entered into Mexico while on Patrol. Both sides tried to arrest the other. Usually our side, using GPS, has managed to always be on the correct side, but occassionaly we have strayed as well. QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ May 27, 2006 -> 10:31 AM) No, it wouldn't. The Minutemen are on private property, where the borders are well marked, Evil, the border is not well marked except for in cities. Out across the deserts and other areas, it is impossible to tell. I have camped along many border areas, and once the Rio Grande swings north, there is no line in the sand. There are thousand of miles, can you tell the exact border between Illinois and Wisconsin in the woods? A couple of links Tunnel Mexican Drug Forces There was one instance a couple years back when US forces accidentaly entered into Mexico while on Patrol. Both sides tried to arrest the other. Usually our side, using GPS, has managed to always be on the correct side, but occassionaly we have strayed as well.

I'm a believer, but one thing that Detroit hasn't been is pennant closing tested. Experience will be a factor, and like Cleveland last year, Detroit will finish second, and possibly pick up a wildcard.

He'd be back in a month or sooner.

Whatcha got at home?

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ May 27, 2006 -> 04:33 PM) It's very odd for me to talk on my house phone now a days. Two months ago our house phone rang and we all looked at each other and asked whose phone is that? The next day I cancelled my home phone and went all-cellular, all the time.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ May 27, 2006 -> 10:55 AM) Funny that this comes out about the same time as the Enron verdicts. One step forward, two steps back. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflas...opStories_ssi_5 I don't have a problem with Bush officially delegating this as long as he's willing to accept responsibility as well. You can delegate authority, you cannot delegate responsibility. It will also be public record which companies are exempted, and I am certain there will be some excellent digging by the liberal media, which should go a long ways to protect our interests.

I was looking for an un-official band of Laguna Station, the Boy Scout Camp I manage on South Padre Island. Found them! Dread Zeppelin, who can resist a reggae band that plays Led Zepplin covers with a lead singer that thinks he's Elvis Presley

1996 was one of the worse in Everest history and many books were written. There was a huge examination and blame tossed around and behaviors examined. One of the amazing stories involved Beck Wethers who was left for dead a couple times and survived. His rescue was the highest recorded flight by a helicopter. He is an amazing speaker and it is a great story. A great read is Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. The Nepal government issues permits for climbing Everest. The permits are given to guides who charge big bucks to guide people up the mountain. They build as close to a road as possible to get people up and down, but it is still a dangerous game.

I spent last week in that area, I was out in Hunt, Texas. I've made the drive out there a number of times and it is so straight, flat, and beautiful. 'Cause remember, God blessed Texas with his own hand . . .

QUOTE(soxman352000 @ May 26, 2006 -> 08:52 AM) Exactly, this is our country. We elected our congressman to decide on how policies would affect the United States. I could give a flying f*** what Fox thinks. The fact that he is being critical of our country is a joke. He should worry about his own country. High unemployment, massive poverty, and a population that is out of control. He's just another corrupt pawn in that mess they call a governemt in Mexico The United States is Mexico's closest ally. Tourism from the US is huge part of their economy. Maquillas, many owned by American corporations, are a big industry. Mexico exports a huge portion of their oil and gas to the US. Mexicans are migrating in huge numbers to the US. And Fox shouldn't be interested, concerned, and involved in American politics? The US is #1 in trying to solve the world's problems. Fox may be speaking out, but in reverse we would be sending in the CIA, and really getting after it. I think we can stand a little rhetoric from the President of Mexico.

YAS, great thread idea.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 25, 2006 -> 07:10 PM) What has AJ ever done in the past to warrant a short leash? The guy has never had anger issues or any problems with the league office. Just because the man is an irritant to opponents does not mean he should serve a suspension for doing absolutely nothing. If you really want someone to have a short leesh you should take a look at Barrett who has had serious anger issues in the past. It's bulls*** that people continue to bring up AJ's "past" as a reason why he should serve a suspension when he's never had any issues that are relevant to this incident. I should have been clearer, I don't believe AJ's behavior should, but in general, I believe the league should look at history in determining suspensions. If that means any Sox player receives an extra something, I'd have to agree with it, because I damn sure would argue the reverse.

QUOTE(samclemens @ May 25, 2006 -> 07:46 PM) im afraid you are wrong. i mean the current mexican government and the administration in place at the time. are you honestly going to deny that vincente fox is trying to keep the border porous? You've called him dishonest and corrupt several times and I don't believe that to be the case, and what is even funnier is, Fox is the first Conservative elected in Mexico nationally in decades. PAN, Fox's party, is the Christian, conservative party which ousted the liberal PRI party. PRI had absolute power for a very long time and corruption was a way of life.