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IMHO, Paul is the key to keeping AJ in line. If AJ and Paul emerge as strong leaders, they balance each other nicely. Spring training is too damn long. Let's count em soon.

Link Here Oh great, the guy learned his knot tying as a Scout leader. How creepy is knowing the guy that took you camping and taught you all that stuff happened to kill people on the side

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WDJ, Money doesn't buy happiness, but the lack of money certainly buys stress and unhappiness. Be certain to make enough to cover the living expenses. Is this the same job where you couldn't be who you are? That would be the biggest no way Jose to me. Rex mentioned something about the job isn't the be all in this. I remember playing a Chess tournament at Northwestern a dozen or so years ago. Beautiful building on the lake, great views, so I at least enjoyed getting trounced in my bracket. I lost in the first round to the eventual winner. As we were sitting in the kibitz room, playing over the game, we talked about what we did for a living. This guy was brilliant, very high IQ, active writer of obscure topics in equally obscure magazines, perpetual student, top flight Chess and Bridge player, and worked on an assembly line doing mindless, routine labor where he could use his brain for things he felt were important. He earned enough to pay his basic expenses. He loved his life. He commented how everyone around him hated that same job. When they asked him why he loved the job, he said love it while you have it, then love the next one. To that I would add, fake it until you make it. Go into work today and pretend it is your lifelong passion and you are excited and happy to be there. Peace my friend.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 28, 2005 -> 11:10 PM) Did you bring me back some scrapple? P.S. What the f*** is scrapple?? The original term was crapple, but the marketing guys got ahold of it and added the "s" after one of the interns that was hired to taste it said "This tastes like sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssh"

Is anyone familiar with scheduling software that will interface with Quickbooks? I am purchasing a service company that has some regularly scheduled customers and a bunch of 1 time only jobs. I want to be able to see the schedule at a glance for the next 6 months and be certain that all jobs get billed accurately.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 27, 2005 -> 05:06 PM) Since you didn't answer my question from the government thread I'll ask it again here. If SS is a "saftey net" program that is supposed to "put food on the table" of the poor then why is it that those totally dependent on it for income are all living in poverty? The same reason that a worker making minimum wage is also living below the poverty level and eligible for help. We never promised you a rose garden. Those that were able to invest in their government through social security *and* invested and saved elsewhere, are living better. But hasn't America always been about some people do better than others. I would rather have a system that millionaire Mike and Fast Food Frank both get about the same SS check each month. Mike could and probably did save and accumulated more assets. Compounding interest is a beautiful thing.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 11:04 PM) According to John Edwards, there sure as hell is. So which is it? I'd like to think it isn't, but when people that take the stance that the government has to do it all for us, from provide our retirement to provide our health care to provide us a place to live to protecting the environment, it sure gets to be a point it's us versus them, and frankly it's pathetic. This has nothing to do with profit. It has to do with keeping more and more money out of the government. Let me use lotteries as an example. I think lotteries suck, because it's the easiest form of a tax against the middle and lower class there is, you know why, because rich people don't play the lottery. And the government counts on it and preys on people. It's bull s***. Is profit involved in that? No. It's the government taking what they can in a legalized form of gambling. Watching the Dems disenfranchise voters by scaring all the old people that the GOP will steal your money is maddening. GMAFB. I am not even going to dignify that with an answer. Just call him King John I. :rolly I disagree with the patriot act, at least parts of it. But I'll leave that alone for right now. There is not two Americans, John Edwards is wrong. Am I suppose to agree with every Dem thought? The only people I know like that, are the Ditto Heads who blindly mimic someone. Since we we are bringing political quotes into this Pat is a charismatic, Pentecostal Christian and believes that you must be "born-again." This means that all Catholics and most Protestant denominations are not Christian. So which is it? See how silly the Edwards quote was? There are things that only the government can and should do. There are things that the government is the best at doing. There are things the government has no business doing. Knowing which is which, is the key. I believe there is no limit to what Americans can achieve when we pool our resources and work together. And I still believe it is a crock that we are telling our citizens that Social Security is in peril while we have unlimited money to rebuild Iraq. How about telling the Iraqi people that the Iraqi rebuilding fund will be bankrupt in 2006 unless they cut loose some $25 a barrel oil for Uncle Sam?

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Feb 28, 2005 -> 03:33 PM) I just learned I have to go pick up someone at the Philly airport.... for my safe travels. Rocker couldn't catch a limo Just kidding buddy. I hope she's worth the trip into Philly and that airport. PIA always has backups everywhere.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 09:16 PM) I'm glad you want the government to figure it out for us. God forbid that WE THE PEOPLE figure it out and think for ourselves. After all that's why we elect these assclowns, so they can think for us. God forbid GOPers realize WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE GOVERNMENT. There isn't two Americas. Who the hell is the government? Aliens from space?? So we have Americans and we have the other group called government?? Wow. Is it really us versus them? The government is all of us getting together. Dems think by all of us getting together we can solve problems and make life better. GOPers don't think we can do anything unless profit is involved. I am damn proud and love of our country and our government. We have been successful because we have taken all the best ideas from everyone. Dems and Gopers, gays and straights, blacks and whites, Christians and Jew, Muslim and Nation of Islam, atheists and agnostics. Watching the GOP systematically try and wage a civil war and disenfranchise half the population is maddening. When all Americans come together we can cure disease, we can move mountains, clean up our air and water. There isn't anything Americans cannot do together. Saddly the right doesn't want that. What was Ashcrofts roll in the Patriot act? Was that ever signed into law?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 09:43 AM) As opposed to all of those socialist democrats who would rather have every decesion ever made at the government level vs taking away all private control of everything and we can tax the crap out of all behaviors that "we" decide are unpleasant and we can all have government insurance and wait 6 months to see a doctor Yeah, we couldn't possibly come up with a better system than Canada. I love GOPers confidence in America's abilities. :puke

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 01:25 PM) I thought it was clear that I was referring to a bunch of leftist commentators who write drivel every day for what used to be a respectable newspaper. The mindless nonsense written by their EDITORIAL pages is indeed propaganda so dont try to twist around what I said to say I despise all media. It's the left that embraces a Soviet style media. They run slanted stories, slanted polls, slanted editorials and when a network like Fox News comes on the air and presents things in a different perspective you on the left wet your pants and cry CONSPIRACY! Spare me. Like I often say about you and your ilk: "You can say anything you want just so long as you dont dare to disagree with them." Dont whine to me about talk radio either. The only reason that right wing talk dominates the airwaves is because there is no market for leftist drivel out there and whenever it has been tried it has failed miserably costing the radio stations lots of money in lost advertising. Leftist drivel?? Only a f***ing idiot would dismiss half the population. Only a f***ing moron would believe that only conservatives have half a brain. This country has thrived because of balances. Taking the best of all groups. Conservative and Liberal. Don't through away any groups ideas and input. The right has been crying liberal bias and doing it's best to get slow brained morons to only believe what is favorable to the GOP. Nice deal when the suckers believe it. If GOPers look good, it's fair and balanced. If GOPers look bad, it's biased reporting. Spare me. Almost half the population voted for the Democrat in the last election, and in the previous three elections, more voted for a Dem than the GOP. Maybe they don't own radios, but I think they do. You tell me there is no market for moderate or liberal talk radio? Amazing, the propaganda is working. How about the GOP controlled media conglomerates are trying to keep moderates off the air so the skin heads can listen to Savage and Rush? Why not cut out the middleman and just believe whatever Tom Delay tells you? :headshake It's a shame you cannot respect any opinion not your own. When I talk with DEMs about my views on abortion, balancing the budget, cutting programs, which are very conservative, they listen. As soon as any GOPers sniff I'm not 100% conservative they immediately stop listening. And PA, thank God none of those pictures happened in *YOUR* America.

QUOTE(soxhawks @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 08:03 PM) id like see how good this yankees/red sox rivalry is if there was a cap and they werent guranteed 100 win seasons every year It may increase. Now they always have "no big deal losing to them now, we'll beat them in the playoffs when it really counts." Imagine how it would be if only one could make the playoffs, or of both were going to miss the playoffs and all they had was beating up on each other?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 25, 2005 -> 09:38 PM) I closed on a house today! Now it's paint. paint, paint, so we can get moved in. The $#*&%$! property taxes are going to be TRIPLE what the MLS and the tax appraisers office suggested they were going to be, because of a newly enacted way of screwing new homeowners and making the initial taxable value assessment at essentially 100% of the selling price. Time to get that part-time pizza delivery job I guess... News out of Florida today. A teacher has been arrested, not on child molestation charges, but on an elaborate plan where his students were deliveriing pizzas and all the tips went to him. Yes, he was pimping pizza delivery drivers to the local pizzarias. In an attempt to fit in and disguise his well know appearance he wore a hat

:headshake Nice to see conservatives still trying to define news into their own definition. If it makes fun of liberals and says they're right, THAT'S NEWS! Everything else is just propaganda. The Soviet Union had that style news. I guess Conservatives do like some Communist things, like a press they can control and the weak minded public that results. Conservative wet dream. No one believes the press, only the GOP network. Judges cannot overturn any law. Just all Gop all the time. No ethics questions about Delay, no Watergate, no arms for hostages problems. Conservatives think they need to their guns to protect them from the government, yet they are destroying the real things that prevent the government from turning on its citizens. The press and the checks and balances in our system. Conservatives live in a country that they believe is half filled with pussy liberals as Nuke has said. Isn't that sad?

A Cub fan suspects her boyfriend of cheating on her, so she goes out and buys a gun. She goes to his apartment unexpectedly and when she opens the door, she finds him in the arms of a redhead. Well, the Cub fan is really angry. She opens her purse to take out the gun, and as she does so, she is overcome with grief. She takes the gun and puts it to her head. The boyfriend yells, "No, honey, don't do it!" The Cub fan replies, "Shut up, you're next!" just saying . . .

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Feb 25, 2005 -> 10:23 AM) Maybe, but he is right. That Canseco's life is in jeopardy and someone could kill him? I really do not think that is the case. Who would order the hit? Selig? McGwire? Jason? Bush? OK drop the last one. Balco employees? Hell Grisom would have that one unraveled in 30 minutes and then we could watch 30 minutes of gratuitous cleavage shots of Catherine.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 25, 2005 -> 12:35 PM) Damn. I didn't mean to start any s*** here. I just thought it was funny. No s*** started. Seriously, name a bigger rivalry in baseball? I thought it was funny too.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 25, 2005 -> 01:27 PM) Nice to see Syria is willing to whore themselves out to the US. Isn't that how we want the whole world to act towards us? We give you money, you agree and do what we say? As this guy mentioned. He would say anything and sign anything to make the torture end. How reliable is this information?

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Feb 25, 2005 -> 01:10 PM) Of course, but there's no need to imply that Protestants exist only to denounce the Pope. I understand the history behind the schism, but the idea that the entire presmise of being Protestant is to denounce the Pope and the beliefs of the Catholic Church is antiquated and misleading. Most Protestants I know don't feel strongly one way or another about the Catholic Church. I agree. The point I poorly made was Protestant Churches all have doctrine that disagrees with the Catholic Church in this area. I certainly did not want to suggest that was the only reason those Churches exist. I did want to point out the two belief systems cannot co-exist.

I was thinking about songwriters and wondered if some of the greatest lines in music would be slightly different. How about The words of the prophets are written on the bloggers screen . . . or . . . just take those old MP3s off the drive . . .

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Feb 25, 2005 -> 08:37 AM) Some real good advice being shared around in this thread, I've definitely taken something out of it. My two cents. As it's been pointed out, practise makes perfect. Any tips on spelling and making a professional appearance??

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Feb 25, 2005 -> 01:06 PM) At my last job, I wanted to design a smoke detector that plays either "Burnin' Down the House" or "Put Out the Fire" - Queen with the buzzing sound (UL mandates smoke detectors to have this). They wouldn't let me. LOL. A father noticed that his son was spending way too much time playing computer games. In an effort to motivate the boy into focusing more attention on his schoolwork, the father said to his son, ''When Abe Lincoln was your age, he was studying books by the light of the fireplace.'' The son replied, ''When Lincoln was your age, he was The President of The United States.''