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QUOTE(samclemens @ May 14, 2006 -> 08:51 AM) http://www.nysun.com/article/32651 "It was President Clinton who signed into law the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994, after it was passed in both the House and Senate by a voice vote. That law is an act "to make clear a telecommunications carrier's duty to cooperate in the interception of communications for law enforcement purposes, and for other purposes." The act made clear that a court order isn't the only lawful way of obtaining call information, saying, "A telecommunications carrier shall ensure that any interception of communications or access to call-identifying information effected within its switching premises can be activated only in accordance with a court order or other lawful authorization." liberal hypocrisy, straight up. Do conservatives support everything Republicans have ever done?

The only way we can keep terrorists from taking out freedoms, is if we voluntarily give them up The rights are only there to protect guilty people. We don't need freedom of speech if we don't say things the government doesn't like. We don't need legal protection from the government searching our homes anytime they like, if we don't have anything in our homes that the government doesn't like. We don't need our guns, the government has plenty. If the government telle me I don't need rights to stay alive, then let's give them up.

Since this fence will never be erected this is pointless. Y'all keep swatting mosquitos with elephant rifles. A guest worker program makes these people legal, which viola eliminate the need for us to live in a prison, because in your words, their first act wouldn't violate our laws. But since it's what Bush wants to do, and y'all are always anti-Bush, I guess you just have to fight everything he proposes. Support the President

greedy bastard

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 13, 2006 -> 09:55 PM) WOOHOOOO! ONE STEP CLOSER TO IMPEACHMENT!

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ May 13, 2006 -> 07:17 PM) My cousin worked there about 10 years ago and said it was perhaps the funnest job he ever held. Mentioned several times how his friends and him would typically steal hundreds of dollars from their post every week. As well as hitting on women all day while not doing much work at all. Guess things changed from the time he worked and you did. It can be the department. I was in ride operations and had a blast, a buddy worked food ops and hated it. I opened and hit the golf course every afternoon.

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 13, 2006 -> 09:27 AM) Whatever it takes to secure our border. Secure from what? You honestly don't think that erecting a 2000 mile wall, costing hundreds of billions of dollars, is an over reaction? Are we so afraid of illiterate Mexican peasants we need a wall to protect us?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 12, 2006 -> 04:28 PM) Texas to get nation's largest wind farm. I thought Rush was moving to Texas. Seriously that is right where I live and creates an interesting dilema. The area is moving away from agriculture and towards tourism, especially eco-tourism and birders are the #1 growth industry. The World Birding Headquarters is located here. It is the spot in North America for birding. My understanding is the turbines will be in an area that isn't visited much, so visually it shouldn't be much of a problem, but promoting the area as the center of the birding universe and having a bird shop-o-matic spinning, seems to be at odds.

Welcome to fatherhood, the coolest thing in the world.

Please keep the following people in your prayers Rowand44 and his family especially his mom John Rivera and his family Kap and his new baby, what a blessing

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ May 13, 2006 -> 03:21 AM) My mom has breast cancer. My parents have known for about a month but they didn't tell me cause they didn't want me to get freaked out with finals and s*** coming up. It was such a weird feeling when she told me, I didn't know what to do. Sorry to hear that.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ May 12, 2006 -> 05:01 PM) Agree on the guest workers........then put up a nice high wall to keep those who still want to break the law out. Do you want to do the entire 2,000 miles?

I believe it is fitting that one American was able to spare his life. One, what a powerful testimony to our society and way of life. Around the world, and especially in the Middle East, a common citizen would never weild that kind of life or death power in their hands.

QUOTE(Steff @ May 12, 2006 -> 08:37 PM) Yikes.. talk about making more of something. Kinda sorta but not really related... when are the Soxtalk awards and I was dared to ask if Post Whore of the Year be added? Classic. No one makes that maneuver better. In fact it should be known as getting "steffed on". Awesome. Kinda sorta but not really related . . . the upgrade changed slightly the ignore function. To use the feature, go to Enter the screen name of the person you wish to ignore. If you do it properly, it should look like this

I made it through the Memorial service and Rosary. As you can imagine, being young and popular there was a huge, over flowing crowd. I've been asked to speak tomorrow at the funeral and have been wrestling with words for the past couple hours. Here's what I came up with. The family asked for a Scouting theme. He is being buried in his Scout uniform.

QUOTE(Steff @ May 12, 2006 -> 05:11 PM) Some men shouldn't be such stupid assholes... one can hope can't they. :rolly ETA the word "some". I know plenty of men that do support their children without being forced. God bless 'em. By quoting me, you are leaving an impression that I somehow disagree with him supporting, that is not the case. I believe he is a pathetic loser for not offering monetary support and having to have his wages withheld. I didn't intend to suggest that accepting responsibility for a child is somehow determined by the curcumstances of the conception. It is probably more an issue of the individual. I also believe the odds are better when the child is a result of a long time committed relationship. I believe men and women should be equally responsible in reproduction and sexual rights. Everyone should be careful. Some more than others. You are correct the years together shouldn't matter, but it does. Notice how you pointed out I think we all would agree that in that situation, having sex with someone you just met, you should be extra careful. Even more so in our society when the principle child care falls on the mother much more than the father.

20 gig First one the battery failed Warrenty replacement HD failed 2nd warrenty replacement failed two weeks outside of warrenty. They did zero, zip, nothing for him. Said too bad, the 20 gig had problems, buy a new one. QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 12, 2006 -> 04:18 PM) My mini has been nothing short of stellar.

QUOTE(Steff @ May 12, 2006 -> 03:35 PM) :rolly Rich. My response was specific to this comment "Why can't all people be more careful who they decide to make babies with?" Rich :rolly Women shouldn't be careful :headshake My comment was specific to your statement below. She just met, she also chose to have unprotected sex. I believe they are both adult humans with the same ability to think. I hold her equally responsible. QUOTE(Steff @ May 10, 2006 -> 04:06 PM) OK asshole... here's a reality check for you. YOU chose to have sex with someone you just met and YOU chose not to wear a condom... YOU also chose to support that child... so, get your sorry ass away from the payroll department and take your pathetic threats to someone who gives a s***. If your SORRY ASS had paid your child support - a measly $57.00 a week - like you agreed, we wouldn't have to GARNISH your paycheck. Loser!

People dying just to find work. How desperate does someone have to be to endure that kind of a journey? It is also why I laugh when someone talks about terrorists sneaking in this way, far too risky when they can get a tourist visa. We have to speed up the process, allow more guest workers, and take away this avenue.

My son had three that failed. iPod sucks.

We're surprised that some guy would nail a chick no matter what she looed like? Maybe they were drunk

In the middle of March he began presenting signs of some brain abnormality. At first epilepsy was looked into because of a family history. He was wobbling, collapsing, and having trouble speaking clearly. He was in and out of hospitals and doctors offices until about 2 weeks ago when he was admitted to a top children's hospital about 100 miles from here in Corpus Cristi. He was making small progress with his encephelytis, they never discovered the source. He had spinal taps, MRIs, the works. Anyhow, yesterday afternoon, with his dad at his bedside, he had another seizure, this time he also vomited and aspirated the vomit. The nurses and Doctors were right there, but they couldn't save him. The last time I saw him was two weeks ago. He wanted to come to the meeting. He is normally very soft spoken, polite, and quiet. As they were wheeling him in, he yelled to me, "Mr. Welton, I'm on a loooooot of drugs!" Later he said "I want to beat you up" and turned to one of the ladies and asked "what are you looking at?" It was so out of character we all were LOL for days afterwards. I just left the Funeral Home, his family asked me to bring over some pictures of John on campouts. Adding it up, I've probably spent 50 weekends, four, week-long summer camps, a couple hundred meetings on Wednesday nights, 25 all day service projects, and watched Roger Clemens pitch a masterpiece against the Blue Jays with him. Those pictures brough back a lot of memories. And thank you to those that sent a donation to his campership fund. I mentioned it to a couple of the Troop families and they were really touched at the generosity.

We are working on that, thank you. Until then, my paypal is jimwelton@gmail.com and I will forward it to the Troop's account in your name.

QUOTE(Steff @ May 11, 2006 -> 05:53 AM) There are assholes who were in marraiges and relationships for years who don't take care of their responsibility. Weak argument. Encouraged to see others not falling back on it. What argument? He should pay, and I believe I said f***ing loser for not supporting his child. I also hope he is visiting the child and plans to make a lifelong emotional commitment as well. Please don't try and make something out of this that isn't there. I have a ton of empathy for the child. My heart goes out to any child in this situation. I work with kids all day long and all my volunteer stuff is with kids. I have a lot less empathy, in fact zero, for the adults in the situation who, between the two of them, didn't take precautions and produced a child. And she should take him back to court and work the commission into the equation. The courts in most states do not like floating dollar amounts, but if she can show a reasonable expectation that those commissions will continue, the courts are usually willing to increase. I've been down that road with a number of salesmen and once had to offer a friend of the court statement on what I projected his earnings to be. She wanted to base it on his last two commission checks, he wanted to base it on the previous years. The judge used the previous 3 years, I think it was. In the end I think they both lost money on the deal, after paying their attorneys to litigate.