Texsox

There are articles everywhere, so I won't link or quote. Seems like a solid citizen. I don't believe being a conservative or liberal should factor in the debate. Is he fair and honest? Has he himself committed any crimes (Nannygate)? Does he have legal experience? All seem to fall in his favor. Our Constitution allows for the President and Legistlative branches to decide this. With the current political climate, a conservative will be nominated, and I am fine with that. Just as long as he is a solid citizen, of high moral and ethical behavior.

I wonder how often we blame a religion for the acts of criminals. Pick up the Tribune or Sun-Times and look at the crime stories, if we started reporting their religion, would it be accurate? Christian drug dealer arrested. Jewish City Official Indited. We are assuming that all of these crimes are done for religious reasons. Could it be that they are criminals? We toss around these labels and accept them as fact. If Gacy was baptized, would we call him a Christian serial murderer? I don't think religion had anything to do with Gacy's crimes, and I wonder if religion has anything to do with some of these.

Damn, I just saw the video, I'd love to ride that one.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 30, 2005 -> 01:14 PM) Its funny how you allude to the 3 strikes laws in your post as the 3 strikes for more minor felonies have been a huge factor in the dramatic drop in crime which has occured since the early 1990's. Indeed locking up people for a long period for multiple minor offenses has the effect of serving as a strong deterrent from committing more of those offenses, but in getting them off the streets it keeps them from graduating to far more serious crimes as happens so often with repeat offenders. Tex. With reference to the death penalty. If it was imposed in a uniform manner ( say everyone guilty of Murder 1, Rape and Child Molestation ) and the sentences were carried out swiftly ( lets say within a year at the very most ) then there would be a true deterrent effect on serious crimes. Again, please describe someone who isn't murdering someone because of the punishment? There are no differences in the murder rates in states and even countries that have the death penalty and those that don't. We cannot turn back death. We can release someone from a cell down the road if our justice system makes a mistake. Can anyone here honestly say our justice system is so perfect we should use it to put someone to death? Money buys great defense. A lack of money buys a public defender who is willing to work for relatively low wages. We all know that justice can be bought. One year Nuke? Are you elminating appeals? Shouldn't we be absolutely certain we haven't made a mistake?

Too bad he wasn't Peter Pumpkin Eater, he wouldn't have been nearly in the same trouble.

And he's in the gene pool :headshake

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 30, 2005 -> 01:44 PM) You can make jokes all you want to but the fact remains that people in those jobs get paid what they do for a reason. Its called supply and demand. There are far too much unskilled labor in this country to support high wages for them. But why let something like economic reality get in the way of a good emotional liberal cry-fest about the poor. Who sets your wages? Isn't your job like a union job, everyone at a given pay scale gets paid the same regardless of individual performance? How does supply and demand fit into your job? What skills does the average recruit need to have? From the articles I've read a HS diploma, minimum amount of tatoos, and a relatively clean criminal record gets you a job in the US military. I know we are spending way more than minimum wage there. Trusting supply and demand and eliminating the minimum wage low would make it easier for companies to pay far less for menial labor that currently is being done by illegals. It would help the economy if restaurants, farm labor, etc. could get down to $3 or $4 per hour for loading a dishwasher or picking lettuce.

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Happy Birthday Y'all

Go ahead idiot, close your first thread :finger

RIP Al.

Is always great when a team is winning. It's all Barney videos and huggy feely when the team is winning. I think we may over emphasize how well this team got along. It may be 50% the great regular season start and 50% the actual players involved. Early on, if some of those bounces go another way, and the team doesn't get off to a lead in 37 straight games, we may not be talking so much about chemistry. In other words, it's a cycle that feeds itself.

When I was living in Wildwood, my neighbor and I would ride our motorcycles over to Six Flags and hit all the coasters after work. I love most roller coasters, but that one would have me seriously considering staying on the ground and holding everyone's cell phones and glasses.

Just for fun, make up a budget for living on minimum wage. $5.15 per hour for 2080 hours per year (no vacation, no unpaid sick days) $10,712 per year. After taxes, let's say $850 per month. I can't believe anyone can't live on $850 per month. And with the retail and service sectors growing the quickest, and higher paying, higher skill jobs, being outsourced around the globe, we'll have more and more Americans living at this standard of living.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Oct 29, 2005 -> 09:27 PM) *stupid ass computer question* How do I put stuff on a blank CD-RW When I try and open the CD through 'My Computer' it says to put a disc in. How do I format it or whatever you have to do. What are you trying to put on there? If it is music/video and you want to be able to play it on a CD-player etc. that gets burned one way, and a stand alone program like Roxio, iTunes, etc. works nicely. If you are archiving etc. that's a little different.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 30, 2005 -> 03:06 AM) You know why it isin't a deterrent? Its a joke in its current form. It takes at least 7-8 years to kill someone after they've been sentenced. Thats rediculous. The appeals process needs to be drastically curtailed so vermin like the one this thread is originally about dont get to live off the taxpayers dime for all those years. Could it be that drug dealers and similar already have a death sentence, gangs are a violent world and they already have gotten over the fear of dying. A rival dealer or gang could kill them at anytime as they walk down the street or sleep in their beds. Could it be that people who commit crimes of passion, killing wives, husbands, rivals etc. aren't thinking straight? Who here isn't killing someone because of the punishment? Describe to me the person who would kill someone, but they are worried about the death penalty? Gee, I'd would murder someone if it meant life in prison, but not if it meant the death penalty? As far as cost, it costs about the same to house a murderer as an embezzler. If cost is such an issue, why build prisons? Our society has decided that we would punish criminals by locking them up and punish the tax payers by making them pay for it. I feel a lot better about housing a murderer than housing a 3-time car thief for life or a hooker for 60 days. We are spending way more tax dollars housing low level drug related criminals than murderers. Murderer are a tiny drop in the bucket in the total expenses for our prison system. Once our government devalues life, the citizens do to. Texas puts to death more people than any other state, in some years, more than all the others combined. Y'all think of Texas as the safest state to live? Why hasn't the murder rate in Texas declined when once a week Ol' Sparky is fired up and frying someone?

About time we got rid of her. Rex, if you are really nice to her, she might allow you to wear the tiara. I'll bet you would look great with that and the bullhorn at a rally

QUOTE(TLAK @ Oct 29, 2005 -> 11:11 AM) Reading the post mortems on the season, or listening to the radio, would lead you to think that NOBODY expected anything out of this team after the off season moves. Actually the core fans were pretty optimistic, and had sound reasons for it. Read this thread that Beck started 8 months ago. Many of the posts are absolutely prescient. Several ones about players and the style of play came true. Texsox called Shingo’s departure months before it happened. Juggernaut predicted 128 SB, they came in with 137. Nuke’s comments about the top of the order, starting pitching and fundamentals sound as if they were written today. There are some smart baseball guys on this message board. IIRC, Shingo was the only player I was really down on. I always love seeing these old threads and how wrong I am most of the time. I was shocked when so many people had this team figured out so well.

Wait, when I said he's make a great mod, I was thinking of someone else. I kid because I care™* *Used by permission of MLB and FlaSoxxJim

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Oct 29, 2005 -> 08:47 AM) Congrats Queen!!!! Hope this is the first of many happy days for you and Brian. . . Soxy, I hope they had many happy days leading up to this. But then again, marrying someone you don't like saves a lot of time later Congratulations

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ Oct 28, 2005 -> 11:38 PM) I let my girlfriend lead the way with her ass

Now that we have the WS and Victory Parade behind us, can everyone go back to the bitter, sarcastic, the sky will fall, you are an idiot, gloom and doom, ways? Damn, I hate all this happy talk. I remember posting earlier in the year, perhaps before he season started that trends happen in sports, and the Sox were very similar to the Patriots and the Spurs. Good citizens, not an obvious HoF in the starting line-up, but having great balance.

QUOTE(DePloderer @ Oct 29, 2005 -> 04:49 AM) Southsider2k5 sent me here. My car is festooned with the stuff, only one in England? festooned, damn I love that word. I also like accoutrements, or as we say in the south cootermints.

QUOTE(YahtzeeSox @ Oct 29, 2005 -> 12:31 AM) People die in war. People die in necessary and unnecessary wars. The difference is whether or not this is a necessary war.