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QUOTE(Be Good @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 05:38 PM) Ghost Riders- Outlaws Attractive and Dumb Girl/Boyfriend or Ugly and Smart Girl/Boyfriend Ugly and smart zippers or buttons

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 08:24 PM) why would it cost a "s***load" of money? It shouldn't and it won't. Running background checks are cheap, running employment information would be fairly easy and inexpensive. I believe most cynics would say the thought of a government program being easy and inexpensive would be a first.

It is still to early this season, but I'll admit hearing C-Lee rob a home run with his defense and then hitting a game winner today, has me wondering who did better in the trade.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 08:21 PM) Bingo. Why would a small restaurant spend a s***load of money to find out if their busboy's paperwork is legit. It'll never happen. They would of they faced jail or huge fines, but then they would also have to raise prices and cause other problems.

The system has to be inexpensive for the employer to use. It can't take weeks or even days in most cases. At the low end of the employment process spending hundreds or thousands of dollars per employee, to hire 100 temporary workers, doesn't work.

This case is getting weaker and weaker.

The coach angle is a wildcard in all this. By resigning, didn't it seem like he believed her as well? Over his players? Or now, what seems more plausible to me, is the University forced him out.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 03:51 PM) Materials still require vehicles and/or people. I wish I could find that darn article now, but the amount of money Border Patrol has spent on detection technologies is staggeringly small. And you are right about the North Woods. I pointed that out too, a while ago, that one can boat across the very long border into MN without anyone ever knowing. But I sure as heck don't want to see a giant battlement of a wall put up across this county's largest roadless wilderness area (BWCAW and Quetico combine to be over 6 million acres). Vehicles can be bought here and people brought in legally as tourists and students. And I agree with Nuke and Rex, but knowingly is a hard term to prosecute.

I love this thread. Cub fans would be sipping a nice brew and discussing the power surge and all the runs. Sox fans take a moment and see the s***. At least Jenks looked good today. Shirt was nice and clean, no sweat stains, no cookie crumbs.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 03:44 PM) As I pointed out earlier in this thread, we don't need to spend billions or put up a 1400 mile wall to protect our borders. There are more efficient technological methods, just as there are at our ports. We are already using many of thosr technologies, and by most acounts they have not achieved the desired success. Ut will take much more, which will be very expensive. I fear materials being imported more than people walking across the desert or north woods.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 12:58 PM) I agree with that. It still is pretty shocking to see a consensus #1 ranked team to cancel the season though. Duke B-ball could have been ranked 64 and they wouldn't have cancelled. If this is so,mehow proven to be a lie, it will be one of the worse things to happen in college sports. Actually, I wonder if at this thought they are considering allowing the team to compete? As much as I sided with the girl, the lack of DNA casts enough of a shadow of doubt that I would consider it. I would also tell Duke to shove it if I was the ex-coach

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 03:31 PM) Oh so making sure our borders are secure is a "waste of money" huh? I guess screening all those containers coming into our ports is a "waste of money" too huh? There's so many and they're all carrying toys. dvd players and televisions, nothing could ever happen there! Sometimes you really amaze me. :rolly Fences and patrols away from are ports is what I'm objecting to. Proposals like 1,400 mile long fences. Measures to stop illegals crossing, looking for jobs, while Canada and the US flush shipping lanes during heavy traffic periods by not checking at all. (see the It Would be Different if it was Mexico) I am all for securing the ports, but not for spending billions to patrol thousands of square miles of desert.

A've been assuming that everyone has a working knowledge of how illegals get employed. I am thinking now that most people here are thinking the majority of illegals are working off the books, for cash. At least here in Texas, and I suspect most places, that isn't accurate. Many illegals are paying taxes, just not to "accurate" social security numbers. If we are discussing workers who are being paid cash by employers who knowingly have hired undocumented workers, then I agree, both parties should be in serious trouble. What happens more often, is the worker will borrow the proper documentation either from a relative, or pay for a fake identity. The employer is sending in the withholdings, but the account that is being credited, isn't the one doing the working. The obvious downside is someone gets credited for benefits they did not earn and the person working receives no benefits. But taxes are being paid. I am certain we all have been employed here. When you are employed you furnish a copy of your driver's license and social security cards. There is an undergroud market for these items. Identity theft doesn't just mean someone racking up credit card bills, it also means working and using someone elses SS#.

QUOTE(Steff @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 03:16 PM) Bad dad. This would not have happened if you did her homework for her.. She would have gotten that first B a looooong time ago. She is heading to the International Baccalaureate programnext year, so I hope she learns to adjust her thinking on grades.

She just received her first B. After 9 years of all As, she ran into a teacher from hell, and pulled a B. It is mostly her fault, but can dad tell her that? Noooooooo. I tried talking to her bedroom door, but the door doesn't seem to be to receptive right now. I also know she received a high A the first 6 weeks and will finish the semester with an A, but she doesn't want to hear that either. Ahhh over achieving, type A, personalities.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 02:23 PM) you keep insisting that is what the GOP wants, but you're wrong. what does the president want? what do most of the GOP want? Well from here and elsewhere, it is the most conservative that have spouted off ideas like expelling them. The conservative talk show hosts have spoken that Bush is wrong. It certainly isn't the Dems who are talking expulsion. Does anyone have any idea how remote and long our borders are? How are we going to pay for the ultra tight border? To stop undocumented workers? What a waste of money. But of course the usual GOP plan would be to cut taxes and then we'd be able to pay for that.

QUOTE(Steff @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 02:16 PM) Hooker heals and all. :headshake :puke

QUOTE(Steff @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 02:11 PM) Oh lovely. The annual complaining about capri paints has started... STFU and get out of my office!!! That was like soooo 2003, the pig is back?

I could use the lefty giving up one in my YNOT Blame it on Kalapse

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 02:08 PM) Why the green? 13 should be enough to win. They need to score exactly 13, I hate rooting against, but I think you are correct, 13 should win it.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 02:07 PM) update please? score? inning? who's on the hill? thx 13-9 Good Guys 9 was b-mac should be a change

I just looked, I have the Sox this week in my 13 run pool. Come on, strike out

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 01:23 PM) Theres one important difference between American poor people and illegal immigrants. American poor people actually belong here. Well go ahead and expell all of them, I'm certain we will find 12,000,000 people to take their place. Dumb and short sighted, but if that's what the GOP wants. :headshake

Dammit, I needed a walk

Walk him, I need it for my YNOT