Everything posted by Texsox
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Study on election news coverage bias
It didn't mention how they determined what was positive and negative. For example, during the Monica Lewinsky craze, did the press have a responsibility to find positive things to write about to balance all the negative? Should Woodward and Bernstein been required to fill half their stories with happy news about what Nixon was engaged in? Some stories are negative and that is what makes news. Fox News is reporting that no one died from Tsunamis today. We go on location around the Pacific for this breaking news Elected officials are much more likely to receive negative press than the challengers. The candidate isn't doing much but delivering carefully scripted campaign speeches, while the elected official has to actually work and can not hide. Of course if you drink the GOPer Kool Aid this is all a conspiracy by Americans to only allow the GOP to have 24 hours of opinion and not 55 seconds of news coverage.
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What's your favorite movie
In order Top 5 Ordinary People Blues Brothers Wayne's World Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Risky Business Movies filmed in Chicago Link
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Catch-All Anything Thread
I love the runner ups especially #1 Losers: Have baby bears on their uniforms. (Bill Muse, Seattle, WA) Winners: Mobbed by ardent fans after every game. Losers: Mobbed by defense attorneys after every game. (William Wickart, Hillsboro, OR) Winner: Girlfriend looks like Jessica Simpson. Loser: Girlfriend looks like Marge Simpson. (William Wickart, Hillsboro, OR) Winner: Grass stains on uniform. Loser: Gravy stains on uniform. (Larry Hollister, Concord, CA) Winners: Have three groupies each. Losers: Keep throwing hands in top shape. (Mark Weiss, Austin, TX) Winners: Swagger to first with confidence. Losers: Stumble to first from heat exhaustion. (Vic Vitek, Hopewell Junction, NY)
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Nice day for a white wedding...
QUOTE(knightni @ Mar 13, 2005 -> 09:12 PM) Um, she has no shirt on. LMAO Wife of Wedding Guest "why all of a sudden are you interested in video taping a wedding? You've been filming all evening, I want to see that tape, and what is voyeurweb?
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Catch-All Anything Thread
Pimp The New and Improved Pimp
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Nice day for a white wedding...
Jolly Good Mate, you're marrying a hooker, oops I meant looker Come on, that's the bachelor party
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Dave Allen is no longer at large.
QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Mar 12, 2005 -> 08:38 PM) Sunday nights, 10:30. Just after Monty Python and just before Dr. Who. That line-up was the only great thing on TV on Sundays, and it was what I looked forward to most next to Creature Features and Son Of Svenghoolie. Misty, water colored memories . . .
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Catch-All Anything Thread
QUOTE(Goldmember @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 11:31 PM) gw's pimpier... He's pimperrific!
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Taco Bell Boycott Ends
QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Mar 10, 2005 -> 11:23 PM) While that is truly the point, no amout of explaining will get that thru the heads of the resident liberals here. It doesn't matter what kind of person they are, or how hard they work or how amazing they are, THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALLY. Bush supporters have pointed out that $2 gas crushed the Bush recovery, imagine what a 15-20% spike in food prices would do. People can cut back on driving, not on eating. Yes they are because we do not want to pay $5.00 for a tomato. Americans will not pick crops for 8 hours a day for $5.15 or even more per hour. Then move to the next town. Take 40 hours a week at $6 per hour. How are you going to live, on the road, for $200 a week? How many hours are you willing to spend in the fields? These jobs are the absolute lowest jobs anywhere. They take almost zero skills, no decision making beyond, this is a tomato, I have to pick it. Eliminate the Mexican farm worker, and you will have to pay $10 or more per hour to get our food picked. We need some guest worker program so we can face the reality that A. The American workers and economy has moved beyond these jobs. B. There are millions of people on this continent that are happy to work. Alternate scenario: Growing food is too expensive in the US, so we import more and more of our foods from South America and other spots around the globe. Think being dependent on foreign oil sucks? How about being dependent for our food?
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Neck tattoos
QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 08:49 AM) And the " This IS a coffee table" tatoo around the other side.
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Catch-All Anything Thread
QUOTE(qwerty @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 02:31 AM) Grant roberts. He must be so proud
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More Ethics troubles in Congress.
QUOTE(winodj @ Mar 11, 2005 -> 08:41 AM) I think there oughta be an investigation - and if the ignorance defense is true, the dozen other congresspeople oughta get some sort of censure.... But DeLay is facing his fourth ethics violation within a 12 month time span. That's just ridiculous. And he's under investigation for a possible felony indictment too. That's nothing by society's bias against Texas :rolly What I find distressing is someone proposes to fly you to Korea for a couple day junket and it is such a routine act, there is nothing but either an internal vetting or a "hey, there are other people going so it must be ok?"
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Neck tattoos
I just realized, I should probably add to my tattoo This is *not* a coffee table
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Funniest Mime Ever
QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 10, 2005 -> 10:29 PM) I think he was separated at birth from This guy we ran into earlier: I knew something was fishy with this link, then I realized it's the marine biologist dude!
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Funniest Mime Ever
I thought funniest mime was an oxymoron If a mime get's arrested, do we have to remind him he has the right to remain silent? OK, of all the mimes on the face of the earth, you found one who is actually funny
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More Ethics troubles in Congress.
When stuff like this happens, the DEM and GOP labels should be tossed out the window and let them face the music. Partisan politics being what it is, some peole feel compelled to defend "their" guy.
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More Ethics troubles in Congress.
QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 10, 2005 -> 06:18 PM) Everyone else is using the Barry Bonds defense. LOL Barry is gonna be famous
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More Ethics troubles in Congress.
DeLay has a huge target on his back after the mid decade redistricting strategy he pushed through. I feel bad for the big guy. However, I don't think the press will be able to bring down a tower of a Texan. I'll bet they are just making this stuff up.
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Taco Bell Boycott Ends
Cesar Chavez is one of the greatest men to walk this or any planet. Not much education, never owned a house or made more than $4,000 in one year, but sweated blood to found the United Farm Workers. A great America hero. My town is filled with hundreds, no thousands, of citizens whose families started as migrant farmworkers and more than likely were here illegally. Most farm picking jobs are seasonal. How many people want to constantly move from town to town, staying a month or two, then moving on? When the window of opportunity for picking these crops are here, the farmers need lots and lots of workers. It's a hard life, back breaking, and the workers are treated like crap, even by the best of employers. Crime? With the exception of being here illegally, this group is the last among us to commit crimes. They don't want to be deported and lose what will amount to their annual income. Report a crime? No way. So they fall prey to farmers that don't make that last payroll. Paying $$$ for shelter that isn't fit for livestock. I know I couldn't hack the migrant workers life for a day, and they know they are doomed to a lifetime. Some of the most amazing people I have met in my life were illegals at one time in their lives. They have raised their kids with a work ethic second to none. I will gladly move over and give them a seat at the bounty that is America's harvest.
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Music for Sex, Lies, and Politics
Sex = Barry White Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up (Deeper and Deeper) Lies = Joe Cocker Feeling Alright Politics = Fleetwood Mac, Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
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Is there a doctor in the house?
QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Mar 10, 2005 -> 04:22 PM) I'm not a Dr. but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Diagnosis? A Shifted Uterus. Is that a manual or automatic shift Uterus? I heard they are great on gas milage.
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Breaking News
QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 10, 2005 -> 01:41 PM) Too bad the media will never apoligize to Hale for assuming that he had this done. The guy might be a scumbag, but they had him all over the news for this, and he looks to have had zero connection to it. Media, and the FBI, and the police, the Judge, her friends, and everyone else involved.
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Is there a doctor in the house?
I remember in college the trainer telling us to stretch after the run. I thought he was crazy. After 2 weeks, I was sold on the idea. Warm up, work out, cool down, stretch. It becomes a habit.
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Is there a doctor in the house?
Sorry, I can't diagnose the injury, but can offer some tips on the stretching. 1. Warm up gradually by walking, to a slow jog, then running. 2. Stretch before, during, and after. The after can be the most critical. This is presumably when you are the most limber. Stretching then will actually help to increase your overall flexibility by going beyond your usual range. 3. When feeling sore or tired, prop your feet, take a rest, and live to run another day.
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Breaking News
I believe this is caused by a rush to judgement.