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QUOTE(Soxy @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 12:53 PM) Um, people here are generally a lot nicer than this thread would suggest. Except me, I'm always heinous. Not true, we are not nicer than this thread suggests.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 10:19 AM) Because the '94 strike was the worst thing to happen to baseball since 1919. There was nothing but bitter contentiousness between the owners and the union and the fans were majorly pissed. They had to get back to playing baseball, not fighting anymore battles. QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 10:57 AM) Maybe Bud was protecting the existance of the game. As always in this forum, YAS and I are thinking about the same thing, and I would add, baseball may have been better off without the testing. Like it or not, the Mac / Sosa homerun derby, bodies juiced, caused people to loook at baseball again. It may be true that by ignoring steroids, Bud actually helped the sport. BTW, if there was a n all platoon doped league with 110 mph fastballs and 500 foot homeruns and a clean league, I'm not certain which league would have the bigger fan base in a generation. (YAS, how can you be so smart here, and so not smart in filibuster)

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 10:33 AM) Now from my personal perspective, this is bull. I do not have anything against Latino people. In fact, I respect the hell out of them because they are such hard workers. I'm against illegal immigration for one reason and one reason only. It's illegal. Then why such an outcry that anyone speak English? Why would it be necessary to speak at all? And Bush wants to change things so they aren't ilegal, and then we will both be happy. It has been illegal forever and every decade of two we dream up a program to document these workers. The economy needs it, there are no extra cogs. QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 12:34 PM) I hope you are not saying that a person entering a country illegally, using their services and allowing employers to discard employment laws, is in the same ballpark as having 4 beers instead of two in a bar, or going 5 mph over the speed limit. I am saying there are reasons to break a law. Some valid, some invalid. I business owner who is faced with closing his doors, or a farmer who can't get his crops picked, may have a valid reason to hire someone without documentation. A business who is just trying to exploit people, may not be on the same moral or ethical grounds. I am certain there are examples of both out there. Getting back to the terrorist angle. I'm not certain where the 90% mark comes in, but any terrorist that has invested money in their plot is not going to risk death in a desert march when they can arrive as tourists, or recruit someone already here.

LMAO I love a good Mariotti rant.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 09:24 AM) A dog? came back 5 years later, well fed, but not really groomed . . .

QUOTE(Steff @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 09:26 AM) That makes sense, and I have no idea, but do Dairy Queen workers work for tips...? I didn't read the entire thread and just pulled out that one comment. I wouldn't think they could work for less than the minimum, but they could withhold for uniforms, etc. They could work less than a 40 hour week and still be "full time". So $10,000 would be possible.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 09:21 AM) There is actually a fairly sizable movement out of the black community too. By and large because of lower general education levels it is black workers who have the most to lose with illegal immigration. And its not just white people fanning the flames of racism, some of them are mayors of formerly black cities who are on record as wanting to keep Mexicans out of his "chocolate" city. He was applauded for it, and never really met with any outrage both in the media and the public at large. But thanks for the racial generalizations, which do no more to help in this debate than Mexician students intentionally defaming the American flag... http://newsbusters.org/node/2147 Exactly right. I should have broken that sentance in two. Politicians and pundits (of all colors and religions) are fanning the flames, and many are using (white) unemployment as a device. It's a white US for the most part and that gets action faster. They are linking terrorism with illegal workers, which is such a thin link. It seems impossible for anyone is this to not see it as a racial thing. Mexicans vs. Americans, etc. The undercurrent I feel is that Latinos of all countries are exploding in population and becoming more political. Businesses are working overtime to sell to this market and advertising in Spanish, which makes people who do not speak Spanish uncomfortable. We are already the worst world power in terms of being mono-lingual, yet we want to further retreat. It isn't some obscure government document being in 12 languages that most people fear, it's walking into The Gap and hearing the clerk sell a pair of jeans in Spanish. It's being at lunch and the conversations around you are in Spanish. That's what people fear.

QUOTE(Steff @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 08:16 PM) Thanks Greasy. Now I am curious.. if someone pays under the federal wage.. can't they get into trouble...? There are certain exceptions to the minimum wage rules. I had to look them up once, but have forgotten most of them. Perhaps with the recent changes, those classifications were removed. It was things like waiters who received tips, seasonal jobs, etc. You could also deduct for uniforms, regardless of actual cost) and stuff like that.

Ahh a modern day Liz Taylor / Richard Burton pairing . . .

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 09:12 AM) Pig latin- it makes more sense Seize the day or make it over the long haul? Seize the Day, tomorrow may never come Look before you leap or he who hesitates is lost?

I had a girlfriend like that . . .

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 07:25 AM) The gel/liquid stuff. Celtic with a "K" or Celtic with a "S"? With a "K" for strikeout :-) Pig Latin or FlaSoxxJim's Latin?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 04:05 PM) It's an impossibility, however that the jaw morphology of a betta won't accomodate eating a goldfish. In the wild, B. splendens feeds on zooplankton mosquito larvae and the like - they are not piscivores. uhmm, exactly what I was thinking . . . I have for sale a FlaSoxxJim to English (with Latin subtitles) phrase book available on eBay.

Well I guess after checking off the Comedy Network as a future employer, he might think about the Red Sox. Dumb try at comedy. Too bad he couldn't speak in "green"

I don't think I ever saw a negative number.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 07:59 AM) I haven't lost sight of this fact. And I agree on the migrant worker program. And I think we need to change the Visa restrictions to be, in most cases, more lenient. But that is still no excuse, now or later, to evade the laws of this land. We evade laws all the time. People here argued that Texas should not enforce the drunk in public laws. Drive down 94 and see how many are holding to the speed limit. I imagine of you were freezing to death you would break into a home to get warm. Starving and you would steal food. So there are excuses for breaking the law, some valid, some not. Is it valid for a farmer to hire illegals when no one else would pick his crops? Is it wrong for a dairy farmer to hire an illegal to clean the feed yards when no one else will? Somehow our economy found jobs for 12,000,000 people. For the most part, and there are some exceptions, these people lead quiet lives, not wanting to get arrested for anything and being deported. They are far more likely to be a victim of a crime, and never report it, than to commit one. If not for the political battle that the parties have hoped for, this would not be an issue. Like Presidents before him, Bush would have quietly allowed the practice together. The great GOP President, someone that Republicans call the greatest ever, Reagan knew that these workers were necessary. What we have today are politicians and pundits fanning the flames of racism with cries of terrorism and widespread American (re white) unemployment. Watch out fot the boogey man, he's sneaking across the border tonight to steal your jobs and commit untold acts of terror.

Hey, f*** this guys inconvienence, if 1,000,000 guys get detained, but it saves one life, maybe your mom's, isn't it worth it?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 07:21 AM) Marti Gras Bosses Day or Sweetest Day? Sweetest Day, it's better to give than receive Bath Gel or Bar Soap?

doable isn't what you think . . . southsider is actually used by 13 individuals, no way one person could post that much. One of those is a genious, the one that agrees with me, the other twelve are dimwitted.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 06:35 AM) WLUP by default. I was deprived, my parents never took me to Old Chicago Kona coffee or Columbian coffee? Columbian Mardi Gras or Carnival?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 03:44 AM) Snickers Fruity Pebbles or Fruit Loops? Fruit Loops WLUP or Roller Coaster Loop?

QUOTE(Timoperezrulez @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 10:19 AM) Thats not a bad idea, but I think we have to wait a little longer because the contest is not very poplular right now as you can see, so once we get more members involved we can do that. Perhaps if we have the rules finalized, we will have more members involved. Did you like that variation? It is basically a variation on the football winners pool idea. If so, why not pick a start date, perhaps Monday vs. the Tigers, we'll promote it hard all weekend, and see who gets involved? I don't want to take over your idea, I think it is a good one.

QUOTE(My Dixie Normus @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 06:50 PM) My apologies. But I stand by what I wrote. That's fine, but please remember that standing on the other side are the mods and admins that are not going to let this season get out of hand with personal attacks. We understand that new posters sometimes take some time in getting comfortable and understanding what we will allow. There are boards that try to be all things to everyone and will allow anything by anyone, some people like that. There are boards that if you don't agree with the board owner and have perfect manners, you are gone. We're somewhere in the middle and we like it that way.

QUOTE(Felix @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 08:45 PM) Digital or analog? Digital (damn that is tough) Glasses or Contacts?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 08:08 AM) CHICAGO-style Italian beef chili dog or Chicago dog? Chicago Dog or