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This may be the best homework thread since a father was helping his daughter I'm guessing as a group we could never, ever, write a thesis as a group.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Apr 21, 2006 -> 12:46 AM) Shak 80s or 90s? 80s great body or great imagination?

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:24 PM) By Ninja he means Malt45 and by family he means his liver and by Kung Fu he means more Malt45 . . . I like the smiley faces on the bottom. Think Goldy could put together a seminar on cardboard sign making for personal fund raising entrepreneurs?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:00 AM) They have already begun trying to figure out how to fit the ego down the Dan Ryan for delivery. He's in the greedy bastard section as a reminder about accepting less to play for the Sox and being rewarded for it.

One of the potential joys of asking for help is learning that some people will have a differing opinion. Usually it is offered not to offend or to hurt, but it is sometimes fun to look and understand and possibly even use it. But I was always cursed and it never worked out

I know I shouldn't make fun of someone being assaulted like this, but my God, how stupid can someone be?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 05:44 PM) Stoned!! QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 06:01 PM) That is how rumors get started. Just say No

but he stayed at a Holiday Inn last night . . .

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 05:44 PM) Miller!! There we go, that was easy :rolly

Of everyone that responded with congratulations to my son for earning Eagle Scout, the White Sox and the Cowboys were the best. Oh, and EA games came through big also.

I was planning an extensive road trip to Dallas, but the Ranger series was a week that I can't be away from the beach. It looks like a trip to Chicago will be in the cards in late July or early August, then we'll see how good our ticket area is to me.

Members helping Members, it's a beautiful thing. Now if y'all don't mind, this will be moved to SL&M, where it belonged. The thread was cursed form the beginning and via a supernatural occurance, it is flying through cyberspace and landing a couple departments over.

Perhaps Brian Anderson wasn't ready?

Community service should be viewed as a positive thing and people should give freely instead of being "sentenced" to it.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/miller-...cans-next-year/ With links to other cool beer tech

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 02:06 PM) Some cities have retained character better than others. Phoenix, aside from the adobe house look, looks just like a suburb of LA, so I don't think it has done much that way. This is one of the reasons I am so proud to be a Chicagoan - the city still has a great local flavor, literally and figuratively. That's a great point. It is the suburbs that have become The United States of Generica.

Somehow we've been neutering Presidents for a couple decades. I think Katrina did him in. This should have been a (no pun intended) high water mark of his second term, and he totally fumbled the PR and then the government fumbled the response. I was expecting another "bull horn" moment. An alter speech for the ages. A rallying of the American spirit in the face of a natural disaster. Perhaps I was expecting too much, but he seriously missed the PR moment of his second term. If he had rode in on his horse, comforted the masses, he'd have seized the momentum to carry him through. This also would have given him more political capital to spend on some of his policies. But we've cut off the last two presidents at the nuts.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 10:16 AM) Mustnotmakejokemustnotmakejoke. . . I don't get it :rolly

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:56 AM) At the same time, there is something exciting about the synthesis of very different cuisines into something new. Creole and cajun cuisines, tapas, even so-called New American cuisine are all more than the sum of their parts. Not that indiginous cuisines shoudl not be respected and preserved. But being catch-as-can by nature, they may not have all the right components to make them world class. Comfort food versus high epicurean culture, I guess. Agreed. When I was travelling weekly for work, it became "this is Wednesday and I'm hot, it must be Phoenix" who could tell by the Friday's next to the Applebees next to the Starbuck next to the Denny's all next to the LaQuinta.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 12:00 PM) Phrases you don't expect to hear from your Congressperson: "I think you're an ass hole" I was thinking no big deal, someone on her staff is in trouble, then got to this I guess she'll be reading those things before sending them

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:43 AM) It's not about whether or not they can screw up. I'll admit right here that they can. I'm talking about the cartoon portrayal of Bush as a dunce. With the liberal media, he's either a dunce or he's so diabolical as to be Hitleresque. And with the conservative media he's god-like, omniscient, with the ability to see WMD where there are none, and Clinton was a walking hard-on who didn't predict the future and stop Bin Laden.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:32 AM) Wait. Are suggesting that Bush should select someone that doesn't have the same political point of view? I mean ... Come On! How did he find someone with all the media bias

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 01:25 PM) Free education. Free health care. Why have your baby in Mexico when you can sneak over here and have it in a good hospital and have your child be a US citizen? There will always be incentives to come to the US. I am against that policy. It is crippling hospitals on the border. That, and so many uninsured people. But you don't have to sneak. You can be a student, you can schedule a vacation, you can be on a shopping trip, you can join our military. (Most people don't know you do not have to be a citizen to serve in our military). If you die, you receive immediate citizenship, but not if you just have your legs blown off or something like that. Both countries actually enforce two borders. To allow a free ecnomic exchange, both countries allow access to the border region. For example, you can take a trip about 20 miles into Mexico without any paperwork. Jump across, go to dinner, do some shopping, get a haircut, and then tell the customs or immigration agent you are an American and back you go. It is almost as easy for Mexicans in the US. North of me, about 30 miles is the Falfurrias Checkpoint. There non US Citizens will have to have papers showing they are allowed into the US. Between here and there, Mexican Nationals are legal to shop, visit museums, etc. And if you should happen to have a baby when you are here, instant dual citizenship. But so far initiatives to change that US Law and not have automatic citizenship has stalled. I pray there is always in incentive to come to America. We are the greatest country on this planet. There isn't much of an incentive to move to Tanzania, but let's all hope there is always in incentive to move to the US.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 01:09 PM) We will always need border security. Be it fence, high tech, or personel. Believing that Mexicans won't try to come here illegally cause they can get on a guest worker waiting list is a pipe dream. But if no jobs are waiting for them because businesses can hire all the legal workers they need, there will be less of an incentive to sneak across. Currently, if the reports are to be believed, most of the workers have jobs waiting for them. I don't think anyone is saying throw open the border and let anyone across. But spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a 3,000 mile 5 stage fence, with all the electronic surveillance equipment isn't worth it for the problem it solves. Workers need jobs, our companies needed workers, the government's role is to make certain that doesn't happen at any cost? Nope, doesn't work for me. Workers need jobs, our companies needed workers, the government's role is to make certain those workers that enter this country are not criminals, have means of supporting themselves once they are here, disease free, and I'm certain a couple other things I'm forgetting. That works for me. To think that Americans will not rob banks because they could get jobs is a pipe dream also, but we wouldn't put up with barbed wire around all our banks. So say no to the fence and say yes to better port security, better identity verification systems for everyone from employers to creditors, citizenship programs that reward good behavior and hard work. And against most Democrat's opinion also say yes to a National ID card.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 12:59 PM) The fact that we have to import people in here to work high tech jobs is our own fault and the fault of our crappy education system. Tex we totally agree on the need for a guest worker system. Got it. But there are still going to be people who try to get in here illegally and that is what has to be addressed. That would be true if unemployment was at a much higher level. We are importing workers across the board and outsourcing. So I don't think it is a crappy education system. Plus, if the system was that crappy, we'd have all the lawnmen and farm hands we'd need. Yes, there will still be some that try and sneak in. Then we have to address how much it is worth to stop them. $100 billion to stop 1,000 people? Maybe not. And can we remember tourism, medical, and educational systems bring in so many people that terrorists don't need to sneak in. They can buy their way in the front door. We are talking about stopping desperate, mostly illiterate, workers, with this fence. Too much money for too little benefit.