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QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 12:11 PM) Not his political affiliation? "I hear Iraq is nice this time of year", sounded like a shot at his very anti war stance to me. I was thinking it was more that there are far worse jobs and places to work.

You may wish to consider the traditional geographic divide between Cub and Sox fans, then bring into play Chicago history, the stockyards, where immigrants settled, etc. It should make your research easier.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 11:57 AM) The pre-Prohibition beers were all generally in the 5-9% range, so they were roughly double what the standard American megas run today. For the most part, the drop in alcohol has little to do with any post-Prohibition temperance inclinations and everything to do with the bottom line. Bigger beers (more alcohol) cost more money to make because they require more grain and take longer to ferment and lager. Some authorities trace a good bit of the grain scrimping to WWII rationing, which makes a lot of sense. This is also where over-reliance on adjunct cereal grains (corn and rice) started to take hold, although adjuncts were part of most American pre-Prohibition lagers as well. Pound for pound, the adjuncts are cheaper than the malted barley, but the real reason for adjunct use was because American 6-row barley produces a much coarser tasting beer than 2-row European counterparts so the grain bill had to be cut enough to lose that coarse flavor. With the dropping of the malt % in the grain bill did come a cost savings, however, and so the trend has continued to be to go for less and less malt and more and more cheap adjunct. A couple of style profile problems have been the result. First, corn and rice don't contribute to the beer body to the same degree as barley, so American beer developed its characteristically thin body and mouthfeel. Second, thin-bodied, light colored beers (color comes from the % of malt and the degree of kilning of the malt) don't stand up well to the power of the hop, and so hopping rates and corresponding bitterness values also were reduced in time. For a hophead like me, this of course sucks ass. Finally, you can add substantially to the megabrewer win-win (less barley AND less hops = low production costs) by factoring in the greatly expanded beer drinker demographic all of these changes offered. Women and beer wimps who couldn't tolerate the strength/flavor/bitterness of pre-Prohibition Americal lager now had a watered down, weak, and underhopped product custom-made for them. Thank you. Why didn't US producers just grow 2-row barley? When the wine industry was threatened with vine disease, they imported European vines and grafted.

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 11:27 AM) Going to work everyday and getting pampered. Having an assistant do most of your work. Getting paid millions of dollars to repeat lines. Wow. he should take a break. We should be so lucky. Maybe he can pick up a sense of humor during his "retirement." I was thinking WTF a couple years to recuperate?? Who does he think he is, Michael Jordan? How about a couple weeks and get back to being a productive member of society? I like SS idea, how aout some time in Iraq to sooth those nerves, or maybe working a 9-5 and worrying about $4 per gallon gas by summer. cry me a river

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 10:18 AM) What you are leaving out of the equation here is pitching. Comparing Maggs to Dye and Lee to Pods does not go far enough. I was comparing offenses. We did not go from a A+ power team to a A+ speed, small ball offense. We went to a B or C+ small ball offense, because we needed to spend that money on pitching. I should have been clearer. Of course that also supports one of Mariotti's complaints, that of the role of money in all this.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 11:17 AM) Plus, you have to have 2-3 beers for lunch to get the % alcohol of a pre-Prohibition brew. Start drinkin! Really? What is the history of alcohol content and why has it changed?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 11:15 AM) You're scaring me Tex. :-) So did the Texas bring out the gun-toter in you, or were you born for life in the Lone Star State? How do you score on this checklist? http://www.kimdutoit.com/forum/threadsny.p...d=6786_0_41_0_C LOL at the link. Violent criminals get no mercy from me. Anyone that would break into someone's home deserves everything they get. I have a great deal of respect for law enforcement and the men and women who risk their lives to protect ours. I give them credit for being able to tell the difference between what helps and what hurts their efforts. My biggest concern with the Florida law, as it appears, is some trigger happy person decides to use it as an excuse to shoot someone, or worse, some gang banger tries to hide behind it. We may think of a retiree stopping a thug, but if a rival gang breaks into your home to steal your stash, conceivably the homeowner could shoot without fear of prosecution. That would be protecting the wrong people. Get that kid off your grass and make him buy his own. Damn kids.

Don't be coming after my guns. I have three pretty good shots around the casa and my daughter ain't half bad and getting better. The biggest worry is the way my house is designed, any intruder in my dining room, living room, or sun room would be between my kid's bedrooms and mine. We potentially would be shooting towards each other. We've worked out some signals and strategies for that situation. But we all agree protecting our home and lives is worth the risk. I also have a security system so I would hope the sirens would chase them away. If they stay, they die.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 10:37 AM) As long as what he did was legal, I agree. And so far it's all been petty stuff. Notice none of the people who donated to the campaign have been complaining. So he asked a FAA to track an airplane. How would he know it was some abuse of power? He was just trying to get the Texas Legislature working again instead of hiding in Oklahoma. Let the voters in Sugarland take care of it. I am certain the Dem party up that way will find a good candidate and give the voters in the 22nd District a chance, not leaving it up to some Yankees to come down and tell them what to do.

There is some criticism of the change in style and how well that style change was carried out that would be interesting and informative. Dropping someone like Jose for a higher average would fit a get on base, move runners, approach. But Lee has a higher average than Pods and Maggs had a higher average than Dye. Dropping average and power doesn't seem to fit. If he wants to criticism why the team changed focus, it seems kind of a non issue. Money, chances of winning, etc. doesn't make a difference to most of his readers. If he wants to debate if they did a good job of changing to a small ball team, more people will be interested. Unfortunately, by now, when he does hit a home run with his analysis, it isn't taken seriously. This is probably his weakest effort to date. Reads as very petty and childish. And this is coming from someone who actually enjoys some of his columns.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 09:46 AM) I thought that Tex was being sarcastic on this issue yesterday, but I guess not. From what I understand about this, what Delay did is perfectly legal. One can argue that it's unethical (I think it is), but I agree that tossing him out of office for legally handling PAC money may not be a fair course of action. It shouldn't be a surprise that the (mostly) liberal media is anti-Texas. I'd take that as a compliment. Lastly, O'Reilly's comments show beyond the shadow of a doubt that he is ceratinly not a tool of the G.O.P., as many have claimed. I put sarcasm in green. For twenty years voters in his district have been sending him to Washington. Shouldn't they be the ones to send him home?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 09:39 AM) You can use your sarcasm to twist and spin all you want. Doesn't bother me in the least. I know what I've seen from the media over the last 30 years. No sarcasm. Delay single handedly engineered mid decade redistricting resulting in 6 additional GOP seats in Texas, and all of a sudden everyone is out to get him. Doh! And I have always been a strong pro-gun guy. And a big supporter of law enforcement. I'm backing the Border Patrol and our President in the sitruation in Arizona, while some people seek to undermine the President and our law enforcement. Weak people seek to coddle violent criminals. I think Americans should be on equal footing with the criminals. They come in our homes through a window, they leave in a body bag. Break into my house and threaten my kids and it will be f***ing lead, not sarcasm, that comes your way. Funny how liberal bias doesn't extend to Texans. When it's a Texan of course it's right. :headshake

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QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 09:25 AM) It's more a case of the liberal media twisting things because the Governor's last name is Bush. Just like they are going after Delay. Shameful. Wait until the media circus when an innocent homeowner blows away some punk who walks on his property. They'll be all in a tizzy. The only place that will have the guts to print the honest to God truth on this is the http://nra.org/

Typical and nothing surprising. Sometimes he's right on, this time he appears very whiny. I think he's been writing this one in his mind for months and looked for any opportunity to publish it.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 09:06 AM) When I first read of this, before this thread was started, the AP article said the Florida law would be in line with most other states if enacted. I spent 30 minutes looking for that article last night, with no luck. I know some states have taken away the right for someone who breaks into your home to sue if they get injured either by accident or by the owners use of force to defend his property. Which seems like a Doh to me. I wonder of Florida is trying to enact something like that and it just appears to apply to more circumstances?

Dodge 3500 1 ton pickup for work. Pontiac Sunfire and a Mini-Van for personal and whenever I can leave the 7 mile per gallon behemoth at home.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 6, 2005 -> 10:30 PM) The maximum effective range of a beretta 9mm pistol is 50 meters or so. Tack on 25-50 meters for more powerful handguns. At distances greater than that even a trained pistol marksman is going to have trouble hitting a stationary target let alone a moving one. After that you're really not going to get much in the way of accuracy. Most of the people in your scenario would be wasting bullets or worse.........hitting the wrong people. That all being said, I agree with this new law. I dont want just any Tom, Dick or Harry packing heat and running around but people who recieve proper training and prove they are good citizens through a background check can be a force multiplier to the local police and I think that's the whole point of this law. It appears that the law changes the way the shooter is treated. Currently in Florida, the shooter would be guilty until he can prove his innocence. Like any other shooting. Here's the person with the gun, here's the person shot, the person who shot him is the criminal. Now if the shooter feels threatened, it would be up to the person shot to prove they were innocent. What is unclear to me, and using a Chicago example (substitute Florida landmarks to be accurate). You leave the United Center after a game and are cutting through the industrial area to the north and appear threatening to a local street gang member who then shoots you. Is he protected by this same law if he says it looked like you were going to run him over with your car and he felt threatened? Americans have the right to bear arms. I'm surprised Nuke that you would agree with the government picking and choosing who gets that right and who doesn't. It doesn't say just the people the government approves of. Turn in your NRA card. Armed Americans can help our already overworked police departments. When honest citizens are free to shoot these violent criminals, we'll have safer streets. Rapists, robbers, murderers will think twice before committing violent crimes in Florida. If I was a state near Florida, I would inact that same law and fast before you are over run by violent criminals fleeing Florida.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 08:23 AM) Why are you always so over-the-top and melodramatic? Its not always all-or-nothing, yet you act like it is. Chill out a bit, my fellow Sox fan, have a beer. Relax. It's just one thing after another and nothing is sticking and the stuff is getting weaker and weaker, older and older. I'm not a big fan of his, but this is ridiculous. Let the voters in his district decide if he needs to go. With the mid decade redistricting he added a half dozen house seats for the GOP. I know that has ticked some people off, me included, but bouncing him from office doesn't seem fair. Let his constituents do that. Answer to part 1, it makes for better theater. With Delay, they want him out. So it is kind of all or nothing. Let the voters decide, not some 8 year old campaign payments. Defending the President on Schiavo? Yes Defending the President on Immigration? Yes Defending Delay? Yes I am turning into such a great Republican

I heard an interesting interview with a Professor at Notre Dame. There are three basic physical needs that all humans have. 1. Air to breath 2. Temperate climate (natural or man made) 3. Food and Water If a terminal patient asked to freeze to death, or be strangled, we would not allow that. Why would we allow them to dehydrate or starve? I think the Pope was following that same line of reasoning.

If it was me, I'd be glad I was in water when the head bobbed out of the water. I'd be cleaning my underwear.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 6, 2005 -> 11:54 PM) Minutemen are having an effect. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152702,00.html As was pointed out to me last night by a Border Patrol officer Captured illegals increase: Minutemen helped to spot them Captured illegals decrease: Minutemen helped deter them Beautiful situation. They cannot lose the PR battle with the people, usually reporters, that do not think. What we need is a huge tax cut so we can hire 1,000,000 more law enforcement officers to patrol the borders.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 6, 2005 -> 10:22 AM) From what I'm hearing, the rank & file of the Border Patrol are appreciativfe of these guys bringing attention to the fact that they NEED MORE HELP. What is being said in the media is the "official" stance of the Border Patrol. The rank and file won't say any different because of fear of repercussions. The Border Patrol that are stationed in the McAllen sector I spoke with last night at my Boy Scout Troop meeting are saying this brave volunteers are causing the guys in Arozona grief. Who knows.

O'Reill is part of the anti-Texas media. America needs Delay. I'm not certain why the anti-Texas media have targeted this man for extermination. I'll bet there are campaigns all over this country where the candidate has family that are savvy and can help and are getting paid. I don't see what is wrong with that.