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The issue with LSU is the fan base. Let's remember the region has lost a lot of fans who have left the area and probably not returning during this football season. Others in the area, are trying to rebuild homes, rebuild lives, hopefully have jobs. It makes sense to have the team playing in a stable area this season. The team owner has business and personal ties to San Antonio. The team would draw fans away from the Texans and some away from the Cowboys. My guess is neither team will be hurt too bad. Fans being fans, and the Cowboys being America's Team and such a huge following in the state, they will still sell a lot of tickets.

A couple blogs have him as safe, but they all could be quoting each other. I couldn't find any independent, journalism site that would confirm. Most reports have him in Houston.

Hello, I am running for President of the US. I cannot do anything. The government is too big and too spread out for me to actually have any effect in an emergency. The courts through activist judges, are making the laws now anyways, so I will not be able to do anything in that area. If I do try and do somethings and it turns out wrong, it's the liberal media or a vast right wing conspiracy out to get me. What I will do is give y'all a tax break so down the road someone else will pay those taxes plus the interest on the money we borrow from countries that hate us. Vote for me. BTW, I cannot picture Reagan doing nothing for a couple days, and I can't see Clinton not rushing to the area, holding some babies, and proclaiming he "feels our pain". Bush blew a chance to take his approval rating through the roof. I truly believed this would have been his finest hour. Looking tough in the cameras towards the lawlessness, and looking compassionate to the victims, and rallying the volunteers and workers. This played right into his strength.

Something about Hammerhead's Avatar got me thinking about this song . . .

^^^^^^^^^^^ like we have a chance in the world of it happening. One side will try to pin it on the Federal response (anti-GOP) and the other side will try and pin it on local (anti-Dem)

QUOTE(farmteam @ Sep 3, 2005 -> 09:48 PM) Where I come from, there's cornbread and chicken. Anyone has any clue what I'm referencing and they get a virtual cookie. QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 12:17 AM) Well, where I come from there's a lot of front porch sittin.' QUOTE(Goldmember @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 09:53 AM) and pickin' I'm guessing if everyone who knew, posted in this thread, it would be as empty as a Monday morning church.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Sep 5, 2005 -> 05:26 PM) Anyway closed the forum down and moved it into the archive section of the board. We'll probably re-open it during the off-season, unless people would prefer to keep all that discussion on the main board (whichever the masses prefer we'll do). I also moved over the two active threads that were in that forum (one made by tony and than the other on Furcal). And we are still up and running link

BMAC suddenly developes a left breast . . .

QUOTE(TheBigHurt @ Sep 5, 2005 -> 05:53 PM) "IT'S GOOD!" Took me a second, then LMAO, well played Mr. Hurt

You know what, if there is a commission, could we get some people from Mars to do it? I'm so burned out by frickin' political commissions whose first goal is to make it a DEM or GOP mistake. If we could somehow find a group of experts who have zero, nada, zip, no political leanings, aspirations, or axes to grind, it just might do something useful.

WHEN THE SAINTS COME MARCHING IN We are trav'ling in the footsteps Of those who've gone before And we'll all be reunited, On a new and sunlit shore, Oh, when the saints go marching in, Oh, when the saints go marching in Lord how I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in And when the sun begins to shine And when the sun begins to shine Lord, how I want to be in that number When the sun begins to shine Oh, when the saints go marching in, Oh, when the saints go marching in Lord how I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call Lord, how I want to be in that number When the trumpet sounds its call Oh, when the saints go marching in, Oh, when the saints go marching in Lord how I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in

From my dearest friends at Catholics for Faithful Citizenship. bold was my edit.

I am still thinking San Antonio is their first choice, but I'm guessing franchises in Dallas and Houston aren't keen on that idea.

currently 55 When I was running cross country in college I was as low as a 45 when I would wake up.

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what's he been throwing? What is he working on?

QUOTE(the southside tiger @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 07:29 PM) Ive been a northerner all my life, so Im not too familiar with that geography. But what about near major cities? El Paso and San Diego, in particular. At night couldnt they sneak across the border a few miles up from town and walk there by the next morning? The border cities round them up quickly and send them back across the river. The toughest areas to get across are 30-40 miles around any city. Most are looking for jobs up north in the fields or food processing plants. The unemployment rates on the river are usually double digits, so it will not do them any good to hang out here. There are interior checkpoints about 40-50 miles into the US along every road. 100% of northbound vehicles must stop, and many are inspected. You may be asked to provide documentation as to your right to be in the US. All of the roads are regularly patrolled. This forces the illegals onto private land, into the brush. There they must be able to carry a lot of water, in summer about 1 gallon per person, per day. Once they are past the checkpoints, some will rendezvous with friends, relatives, or "coyotes", smugglers of humans. They sometimes can relax a bit at this point. Usually they are on their own to survive for a week to 10 days. To reach a major city, here in Texas, they would need rendezvous 600 miles to Houston, 150 or so to San Antonio. It depends on where they cross. The current efforts have caused many illegals to try riskier and riskier routes that are longer, over worse terrain, and drier. All this to pick your lettuce, mow your lawn, or scrape the food off your restaurant plates.

QUOTE(soxhawks @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 06:59 PM) what teams have we clinhed overall? KC was out last weeked.

QUOTE(the southside tiger @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 07:13 PM) Every review Ive ever heard of Pittsburgh was rather unflattering. Youre the first Ive met to actually have liked that place. Which is it, s***hole or shan gri la? Its both, like Chicago.

QUOTE(the southside tiger @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 06:51 PM) Id rather be alive and s***ty than dead and good. Besides, I dont understand, other than trigger happy ranchers, whats down there thats so incredibly dangerous? The Rio Grande? 100 miles of desert. Rattlesnakes, dehydration, criminals, 100+ temperatures. Mostly they die of exposure and dehydration. There are Border Patrol agents to avoid, interior checkpoints to avoid. They will try and travel at night, but any water sources have been drying up. Which is why I laugh when someone thinks a major terrorist attack will come from someone walking across the border. Carrying a suitcase bomb through the desert is a silly thought. If you have the means to carry out a major attack, you can buy someone a plane ticket and a student or tourist visa.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 06:22 PM) Would anyone be adverse to me putting a Red Cross banner next to the FS one? I think it is a great idea.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 05:49 PM) Alright, I got a question. I'd prefer to send cash instead of a check. Did anyone else do that or would have any tips on what to do. At the minimum, I would get a money order.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 04:30 PM) I'll drink to that. If Nuke is buying, I'm drinking

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 03:06 PM) I completely agree. Thats why Ive been saying all along.........forget about politics, lets help these people. Too bad our administration didn't think that way. Always time for fund raising I guess.