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My daughter needs a little homework help. She needs your age, gender, and the answers to these two questions: 1. Should minors have curfews? 2. If yes, who should create the curfew? Thank you.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 07:55 PM) Cool! But who in the heck gave it a thumbs down? Jason when he tried to give it a thumbs up

I've have to go and find my teethbrush

I was panting after the Leanne Rimes thread

Happy Birthday!! As long as you personally know someone twice your age, you are still middle aged. It will be really easy to remember for next year, it's my daughters birthday today. She's younger than you

Obviously more than the sports reporters come here for article ideas

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 05:14 PM) Having trouble getting this reported from a more reputable source but Drudge is carrying it as at least reported. cause of death an "extended illness". Was not aware of said illness. It's on a local station here, but I know the news people read Drudge, so who knows. Punching my ticket to hell but If you don't get fed, you must be dead . . .

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 02:45 PM) jesse sure is coming to the aid of a lot of white people lately... First it was Michael jackson, now it's Shiavo...

What an incredible life this remarkable man has led. Most of it has been spent on a worldwide stage, sheparding a huge flock. I am certain he wishes to teach the world about death and dying.

There was a companion piece in the paper that interviewed the mom. OMG, it is the most heartbreaking thing I have ever read. She lost 4 of her children. I know someone who was close to this and the driver really had no idea what happened until later. His remorse was severe and genuine, but I am certain not enough for the parents. Ana Verley the local MADD head is a friend of mine, her son is one of my Scouts, and she sees so much of this. I am amazed she can be so nice and upbeat. There is a picture of the van with her babies Easter dress laying on the back seat. Today is my daughter's 14th birthday, she's presiding over thye National Juniior Honor Society inductions at her school. As I see her getting ready, I think what a single careless, or worse, driver could do to my life.

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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 02:19 PM) How much can they produce? The scale that the US produces on is unmatched in the world. I doubt they would be able to pick up THAT much of the slack as to keep price increases that low. Not many countries have the wide open expanses AND the technology to utilize it, like the US does. I think we are talking about two different increases. I'm talking about the total food bill increase, not the increase on individual items. I think that is probably the difference. Individual crops that require much hand cultivating, and harvesting would go up a lot. We would not see double digit increases in crops that lend themselves to mechanical processes. Farming is an amazingly simple process. We have produced so much based largely on economics. We were the largest car manufacturer. The largest TV manufacturer. Keep going down the list of industries that have gone away. We already are importing an insane amount of food, what's a few trillion pounds more? It wouldn't happen over night, but it would. People already pass over the expensive vine ripened tomatoes (GOP spelling) for the symmetrical and flat tasting cheaper varieties.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 02:08 PM) This sounds like a dumb question, but I have an old fossil watch that has gone dead and I need to change the battery. I was talking to Krush and he said I should "soxtalk it" so here I am. Any advice on how to change the battery? Go to a watch place and smooze the girl behind the counter or Gently pry open the back and see which battery it requries. (Check to see if your style is held together by a screw). Either make two trips to Walgreens for the replacement battery or write down the model number. Gently pry the clip that is probably holding the battery in place. Be certain the battery is orientated correctly (Positive up or down depending on model). Fossil will do this for $15 and 4 weeks by sending it to their repair facility.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 02:01 PM) Economically something would have to give way. If wages went from way less than minimum wage, to say $10 an hour, the costs have to be absorbed somewhere. Either prices have to go up, or farmers would quit producing. If farmers were to quit producing prices would go up anyway, as there would be no change in basic demand. Food is an inelastic item in general. You HAVE to eat. Price increases would be passed on. Heck if wages went up 4X, we would probably be lucky to only see a 2X increase in prices. Like all other manufacturing jobs, we would go overseas. Like shirts, tvs, computers and everything else, foreign production is cheaper and when US producers cannot compete we will see more and more food items from places like Nicaragua.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:53 PM) You believe that everyone could afford to pay double for the same amount of food? Most estimates are in the 10-20% range, the prediction is we would start importing more food from Mexico and South America where the labor would be cheaper. Some rural farmers would go bankrupt, others would see homes being build on their land. Americans have never shown a willingness to spend more money for Made in America. We recently relaxed our laws to allow ground beef into this country. Thank you fast food burgers. BTW, my favorite fast food burger only uses 100% American raised beef. What-A-Burger We think dependency on foreign oil is problematic, imagine dependency on Argentina and El Salvador for our food?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:40 PM) I doubt the industry could support $10.50 an hour for a prevailing wage. But definately something needs to be done. Exactly my point. To get Americans to take the jobs, would require those kind of wages. Which is why this is a difficult problem to solve. These are third world jobs that our economy has passed over. It is manual labor in the simplest form. Nomadic. Why would someone do that when McDonalds and WalMart are hiring? Add up the costs to live on the road for a week. Where would you stay? $40 per night for a hotel room? Split 4 ways, is $1.50 per day per person. How about food, when you have no real home? Another $10 per day? Clothes, Gas, savings for the winter, etc.

Wow, Jesse, Hannity, and Rush all agree.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:23 PM) Making a living, supporting themselves and their families...it just doesn't seem very criminal to me. And they are preyed on by landlords, farmers, ranchers, shop keepers. No one likes the system. Not the people who risk their lives crossing wilderness areas with little water for $5.00 per hour, the people who employ them, or the people who buy the cheap food that the illegals produce. The system needs to be fixed, but the fix is not paying field labor $21,000 per year. Which is the median income that most agriculture experts pick as the salary needed to get Americans to take these jobs. McDonalds pays close to that for indoor, year round work.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:20 PM) All of them. Being in the USA illegally is a felony. BTW, anyone want to guess how much we spend flying people back to their home countries when they are deported? Families that get stranded up north late in the season will just turn themselves in and take the US supplied transportation back home. :headshake

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:16 PM) If you actually go back and read what I posted, I am very much in favor of streamlined immigration and/or a big expanded guest worker program. I have no problem with legal means being utilized. I do have a problem going for my tax dollars supporting felonious activity. Why should we reward illegal activity, that doesn't make any sense. Especially when the jobs they are taking are most likely being taken away from from new immigrants who have historically worked the least desirable jobs. What kind of reward is following the law then? What kind of message are we sending? The difference with the traditional jobs that the illegals take is that these are largely seasonal and temporary in nature. A guest worker program that allows them to return to their country of origin is better for our economy. These nomadic, temporary jobs, are really almost third world in nature. We should be thankful we have people so close and so willing. The VISA programs also need to be changed. Two different issues, and ones I am so accustomed to, I apologize for not being clearer. As far as rewarding the behavior, see above. No one wants to send dad back who is here illegally and leaving behind mom and the babies with no means of support. That's a drain as well. Never an easy issue. The Family Values party especially has to struggle with that.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:11 PM) I hope you mean that illegal immigrants should be able to work jobs they are most qualified for and not just relegated to the manual labor than most people want... I'll assume you did. The last time we placed people into field work while only providing the bare essentials... Actually a guest worker program could target only industries with a verified need for the labor. It is similar to our H1A technical visa program that limits the number of tech visa offered. Currently we only protect the higher wage jobs with this type of program. So we could have our cake and protect jobs at the same time. And I agree with Southsider, some of the GOP Amnesty programs beginning with Reagan and on up with Bush seem to reward the wrong behavior. I guess we don't have the stomaches to split fathers from their children, moms from their babies, brothers from their sisters. I guess the GOP is family friendly

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 11:32 AM) The whole thing looks really nice and classy. I *loved* the bridesmaid dresses--it's such a nice cut that it looks like it'll be very flattering on anyone... you are such a girrrl

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 10:50 AM) Thanks! We haven't picked his out yet, but because he would only be wearing it now and then (working on presses and cars with a wedding ring in't a good idea lol), he wants a simple band with a celtic design. Not certain why he would want a wedding ring like this to each his own, I guess . . .

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 11:19 AM) Have you seen him lately? He has a receding hairline, BIGTIME. matches his record sales . . .

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 12:52 PM) Its not just someONE. If it were someONE, no one would really care. How many MILLIONS of people are here illegally from Mexico and the rest of Central and South America? How many Canadians are here illegally. You can't discount the problem by minimizing it. And is it really costing the US tax dollars? If you want to be technical about it, the loss of income taxes not paid by undocumented workers has to be a huge drain on our economy, not to mention the social services that are being provided to people while committing an illegal activity. Those monies could easily be going to US citizens to provide them better health care, education, social security, better roads, heck anything you want. Australia, Europe and the rest aren't struggling with illegal immigrants from Mexico, so they are much more apt to let them in their country. Try being an African of some sort and getting into Europe, and you'll find just as much zenophobia exsists. You are missing my point. Canadians wanting to take an extended vacation in the US are treated different than Mexicans. That doesn't seem fair. Which will harm the economy more, $2.00 gas or a 15% increase in the food bills? Like it or not, or agricultural economy is running strong because of illegal labor. We need to find a way to utilize this labor pool in a legal manner, not try and just cut off the border and do without. That it terribly short sided.