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QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 06:44 AM) Economic growth. We've had this conversation before on soxtalk. Yeah, let's not go there. As long as someone else is paying my taxes for me, and countries are willing to fininace our debt, why worry That's my favorite bed time story. Borrow more money for me Mr. President.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 06:08 AM) ABSOLUTELY, the truth is somewhere in the middle. However, the main stream media, and the "liberals" that get the itch don't want to believe anything is good about the man at all. BushCo has absolutely screwed the pootch on many issues, and I have always said that if there were a Democrat that could be trusted to stand on national defense (and not smoke and mirrors bulls***) and was a fiscal conservative - meaning a Democrat that could or would admit tax cuts work and figure out another way to make the government more responsible (SPENDING CUTS) I'd vote for him in a minute. When you find any politician that will balance spending and income, I don't care what party they are from. Since when is the news about good? It's the stuff that doesn't work right that is news. This morning I turned on my shower and water came out. My neighbors also had the same thing happen. Call a reporter! Now if South Texas was without water, that's news. If we cut taxes, how come income is up?

Christian One-Liners Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited - until you try to sit in their pews. Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers. It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one. The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close. When you get to your wit's end, you'll find God lives there.

I had a wonderful conversation with a gentleman from the southside a few years ago who must have been in his 80s or 90s. He tells me back in his days, there wasn't a hated rivalry. The teams were so far away, it didn't matter. No one was going to travel all the way to the north side t watch a game and vice versa. He believes the rivalry thing came in during the 50s and 60s as a marketing tool to get more people out to the ballpark. Like YAS, I am not in prime White Sox territory. This area is probably 340% Astros, 30% Rangers, and 30% every other team in the bigs. I can see and here Ranger games and Astros games with ease. I follow the Astros and wish them well all last season, up until their last four games. What is nice, is I could pick and choose teams to root for. When I moved here, I was a huge Bulls fans, my buddies and I split season tickets. It was real easy to support the Spurs, my closest team, because of some very classy guys on the team. I still watch and see how the Bulls are doing, but I can't get as excited. A Spurs - Bulls series would really split my loyalties. It was easy to root for the Dallas Stars with a couple ex-Hawks, but it never felt as good as if the Hawks could get to .500 It would have been easy a couple years ago to switch sides and cheer for the Cubs, after all, who would know? I'm a Chicago guy. I knew that would never happen when I laughed so hard I cried when Bartman received his 15 minutes of fame.

QUOTE(DABearSoX @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 09:08 PM) If I find a wife that will let me have one.....I am all for it...... While that's a great goal, finding one that will let you have the boat, motorcycle, Friday night Poker game, season Sox, Bulls, and Bears tickets, and a "special friend" near work, that's a keeper!

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 11:32 PM) BTW, in tangentially related news, Arlen Specter is threatening to pull the plug on funding for the NSA's Domestic Spying program if the White House doesn't start cooperating and disclose to the Senate just what the program exactly does. Our system at work. balance meet check, or in this case, potentially no check.

While there is a bit of poetic justice in what is probably going to be there fate, I believe we have a moral obligation, once we lock someone up, for their welfare. The criminal assault of people in our care, is shameful. However, in this case, I'm not too worked up over it

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 11:07 PM) Tex is dated. Now she's single but too old . . .

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 10:58 PM) Man, I remember buying their Greatest Hits CD on the strength of "Runnin With The Devil". Tracks 2 through 17 on that disc are straight booty. The Sammy Hagar era produced some of the cheesiest love songs that I've ever heard in my life. I'll go with a Michael Bolton/Kenny G duet over 99.9% of Van Halen's catalog. I s*** you not. Van Halen?! f*** them, he stole Valerie Bertinelli from me, the bastard

Is the company a member of the BBB? Member companies are obligated, by their membership to act in an ethical manner and follow certain rules in resolving complaints. If they are not members, it may still matter, just not as much. The primary role for the BBB, is to mediate and keep stuff from going to court. Kind of like old school people's court only without Judge Wopner. Since you are not asking for any damages, I'm not certain what they will do. BTW, did you also contact the company directly? IMHO I think it is always a good idea to report to the offending business first, and give them a chance to fix the problem. Great letter, well worded, well structured, very business like.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 10:06 PM) ^^^ they're fun to watch, breaks up the day nicely. rally girls are easy . . .

Better link They seem to have dropped their web site.

Hair Bangers Ball All of them at once LOL My cousin's band

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 09:45 PM) ^^^^ And indeed many organizers are fearful of a backlash from white America. Its coming. Not just from white America. In fact Fox wasn't far off when he compared the role of Mexicans with other minorities. Those minorities have moved a step or two up the ladder and don't want to give that up as easy.

Nuke, a while back there was some initiative to change the law to instant citizenship for getting wounded, instead of having to die, did that ever get passed? I think my Congressman was one of the sponsors of the bill and I didn't see it on his web site.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 09:44 PM) My advice to you and anyone else that has to be downtown that day is take a train. Driving into that mess is not terribly smart. But if they ask you to wear a pin, for GOD SAKES, wear the pin . . .

Politics being poltics, if these leaks were happening during the Clinton years, they would have been blamed on the moral decay and cut backs, etc. You know, just saying :rolly

Something very right about Sweet Emotion, 80 degrees outside, windows down, at night, smell of salt air, and doing 85 mph* down a long, flat, straight, farm to market road, near the Gulf that just sets my spirits soaring. *professional driver on a closed road

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 03:34 PM) Don't take me out of context. These people (our current administration) ain't no saints, that's for sure, but no one in the government is. They all have their political motivation. So people against the administration take these so-called "patriotic whistleblowers" like Ms. McCarthy and Mr. Wilson (gee they worked together on some of the same projects, ain't that nice??????), and put these people on a pedistal like they are s***ting gold bricks or something for "upholding their duty to rat out the (current) administration". You know what? Their insides are made of fool's gold. Maybe that's why they s*** (fake) gold bricks. Wasn't trying to take you out of context and I think I will not take you literally. So far, any flap, every mistep, every embarassment in the past year has been met by about the same post as you just made. I also believe, you realize some of this s***, is actually f*** ups by Bush and Co. So some where between Bush as the devil and Bush as Saint, is the truth. I can say, I was a coin flip vote this past election, hoping for a strong second term when he was elected. Sadly, I think this term is worse than his first and his first wasn't exactly brilliant.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 03:59 PM) I love the fact that people call a demonstration intimidation yet a threat to make 12 million instant felons and put everyone that looks Latino subject to scrutiny over their papers is just a legislative agenda. QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 06:05 PM) I love it when people knowingly break our laws repeatedly, and expect to not only to be welcomed into the country, they are threatening to punish us if we don't give into their demands. I can easily agree with both of those statements. Which is probably why our poor parties can't come up with a "party line". OMFG, their members have to actually think, and vote, for themselves. If we're (those that are for helping illegals become legal) are going to help you, don't piss on me. But if we're going to admit that we have a sizable population with brown skin and accents, let's not round up everyone that doesn't look like a Swede.

:headshake A long prison term should be in these idiots futures. And no one at the party checked on the kid or tried to stop it? bastards:headshake

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 03:48 PM) IN Europe females use urinals in some places too. Iwould totally do it in a basement. isn't that a bidet and shaped and plumbed different? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work & life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen & returned with a large pot of coffee & an assortment of cups made of Porcelain, Plastic, Glass, Crystal, some ordinary looking, some expensive, some exquisite. He told them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap looking ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and worse, you were eyeing each other's cups. Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it." So folks, don't let the cups drive you..., enjoy the coffee instead!!

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 02:36 PM) Patriotic Duty. :rolly It always comes back to that - that something has to be diabolical or evil or whatever negative connotation with this administration. Yet, they keep doing stuff and doing stuff. We'll see how Jeb does next . . .