Texsox

One trip through the NL and thanks for playing in the US, hope you had a nice time. We have a couple million parting gifts for you to take back home. His smile after his first save is a Sox highlight I will not forget. I'm glad he had a season with us as strong as that. I'm waiting to see who will carry on the E-Lo - Zero tradition of one season wonders.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 03:44 PM) Thanks. Maybe that explains the viagra-like effects? Everytime he sneezes he gets a hard on?

QUOTE(winodj @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 10:42 PM) Why do my friends decide to only call me when I'm extremely lonely and talk about all the friends that they hang out with that I don't know and never will? How can you be extremely lonely when you have all of us to keep you company? Peace buddy. Go volunteer somewhere. Find some people worse off than you and help them.

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 11:44 PM) And your point is? The President can do anything necessary to run this country from anywhere. The Oval Office does not give him special powers that he can't use elsewhere. I've been saying that for a week, then thought, wait a minute, I could run my company from a cell phone and a laptop, but I am far more productive from my office. All the resources are there in Washington. There is no way the White House set up is duplicated on the run from the Crawford Ranch. It's about effeciency. He would have been more efficient from Washington and hasn't effeciency been the biggest problem in this cluster f***? This is one way he shows how important he thinks the problem is. The President sets the tone for the nation. When he thinks so casually of the problem, he heads west to a fund raiser, how are the people suppose to feel? A strong leader takes charge, the buck stops here.

We're #1!! Hidalgo County Texas. My home county. This doesn't tell the full story. Our wealthiest residents report their incomes south of the border and live here on the weekends. Our best communities are almost ghost towns until Friday afternoon. We support three private country clubs. Have the largest grossing sales per square foot mall in the US. But most of this starts out as pesos before reaching the border.

The most pathetic personal appearance I've ever seen was about 15 years ago in some bar in Elmhurst. Bob, sitting at a table in full Gilligan gear and no one really giving a s***. The woman sitting two tables down was getting more attention. We went over and started talking Maynard, and he said he was contractually obligated to only be Gilligan. RIP, you gave many hours of entertainment my after school wouldn't have been the same.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 01:26 PM) Condoms, I vaguely remember those. I vaguely remember needing them

Damn, I knew today was your birthday and forgot to start the thread. Sorry. Congratulations to your mom and Happy Birthday to You!

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 01:29 PM) I'm Chevy Chase. And you're not. Well excuuuuuuuse me!

Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 12:50 PM) Sometimes I see them getting baked too. there's probably some woman to blame . . .

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 12:55 PM) I use condoms that are expired all the time. Kind of explains the three kids. I use my looks and personality. Works every time.

QUOTE(TheDybber @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 12:30 PM) alert ALLERGY SUFFERERS!!! Don't move to Austin. Allergy capital of the country. My poor fiancee is in her lull for the year...two weeks between the summer allergies and ragweed. There is no freeze (usually) here so it just keeps coming and coming. And now, I have Cedar fever from the juniper spores. FANTASTIC. Although that doesn't happen until December. But you have 6th Street, Austin City Limits, hill country, UT, shall I go on? Lucky dog.

Every time I read the thread title I keep thinking IQ

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 12:46 PM) I hear they taste like chicken. What's nice is they cover themselves in oil first . . .

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 12:28 PM) Very soon the tide will turn, and the deer will have their day my friend. There is a tourist season . . .

If God had a name, what would it be And would you call it to his face If you were faced with him in all his glory What would you ask if you had just one question And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah What if God was one of us Just a slob like one of us Just a stranger on the bus Trying to make his way home

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 11:42 AM) Just remember this about Richard Nixon...he personally extended the Vietnam war by 5 years. Johnson had an agreement for a framework of a peace settlement in October 1968, but Nixon arranged for it to be sabotaged so that there wouldn't be an "October Surprise" that could defeat him in the election. Do you have a source? This is the first I've ever heard that theory.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 10:53 AM) I would tend to disagree with the notion that the poor have a lower ability to reason and problem solve. The biggest problem and failure in this case was that the government (local and national) did not have an adequate evacuation plan and alert system in place. Think of the logistics. How would people move from inner city of New Orleans to a safer place? Was there transportation ordered by the governing bodies? Are these people expected to walk miles and miles to safety? How far? Where do they stay? How do they get back to their homes when the storm passes (assuming it passes without major damage)? If were told to leave your home, and you didn't have transportation, some members of your family were sickly or very young and unable to walk for miles at a time, and had no idea where you were supposed to go, what would you do? Probably stay put and hope like heck the threat passed without harm. I agree with your second paragraph. Why I say that the poor have lower abilities to reason and problem solve, is based on having a wider range of experiences and solutions to draw on. The ability to apply a solution from problem A to problem B is more evident in higher IQs. The poor, who generally don't travel much, do not cruise the internet much, do not watch Discovery channel as much, and who did not attain higher levels of education, do not have those experiences to draw upon. The mechanics of problem solving may be the same, but shifting through 3 answers vs. shifting through 3,000 answers may be the difference. We could get into the nature vs. nuture debate in all this, but I don't think it would make a difference.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 10:19 AM) Two years so far me and all the family (and all of the wifes extended family totally 25 people) go up to some cabins in Wisconsin and seriously disconnect from the world for the entire week. We didn't do it this year, but we go back to it next year. It's a wonderful thing really. That describes my families vacations all the time I was growing up. 20-25 of us in Eagle River / St. Germain Oh how I miss seing the indian across from "town" in St. Germain.

Yes it is the halve nots that pay the highest price to live in America. They work for the rich, fight wars for the rich, clean up after the rich, build railroads, stare at atomic blasts to study the effects, and a thousand other things that we could probably think of. I imagine that's the same in every society, but probably better here. I cannot envision a working society where that isn't going to happen. I also believe, we should realize that the poor are probably less educate and probably, as a group, with less mental resources and skills in reasoning, problem solving, etc. Mix in a little mental disease and defect, and you got a nightmare we've been seeing. They have jobs where a supervisor tells them to do this, that, and this other thing. Then follows them around and asks them if they did this, that, and the other thing. Many have lived in their neighborhoods all their lives, and have never been outside the city. It's not like they vacationed at Sea World and think, hey, let's go there. They can survive in neighborhoods that would kill most of us without the "street smarts", but they have an equally difficult time trying to survive the evacuation. I can understand the strong urge to stay and pray. Sadly, it killed a lot of them. I'm not certain, short of arresting them and sending them away, what anyone could have done. The poor are the most at risk group in our nation. We see what a natural disaster did. They are also most likely to die younger and in almost every disease category. Without the financial resources for better health care, minor stuff becomes major. Their diets are high in fats and cholesterol. They get less exercise. They live in dirtier surroundings. They are much more likely to be a crime victim. Those are cold, sobering, realities. But should we be made to feel guilty because we won the biggest lottery? We won the "my sperm was the fastest and hit the egg lottery" and we came up (for the most part here) white, middle class, suburbanites. What I believe we do owe, and many here have done, is share. Share our time, share our prayers, share our talents, share our resources, share our love.

One of my Assistant Scoutmasters is a board member with the local Red Cross, he's been busy non stop, another Assistant Scoutmaster is in his RV with friends from Church and heading north to help. The rest of the Troop has been collecting needed items to send with. I know that workers getting shot at, and the resulting deaths, are more newsworthy. But we all the know the depths of charity that Americans have always displayed to suffering. Sadly, most Red Cross corporate donations were down in the months leading up to this. Many corporations mentioned the Tsunami Relief efforts that they donated to.

I was alive during Watergate, fell in love with journalism during that era, and with time to reflect, have come to the conclusion that Nixon was a far better President than given credit for. His handling of Watergate destroyed what would have been considered a better than average to very good tenure. JMO.

frickin' Red Cross they'll use any tragedy to raise money God Bless them and all the volunteers.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 08:48 AM) Instead, he jokes about how huge Trent Lott's new Gulf Coast house is going to be and how he's looking forward to sitting on his big porch when it's finished. :headshake Hope nobody's still hholding their breath waiting for the 'bullhorn moment' this time around. I hope this isn't second term, I don't give a rip, setting in. And I don't find it that objectionable telling jokes at a time like this. It's how I cope in similar situations. Too bad he couldn't preface it with and speak in green.