Texsox

I might not make my wife take the pill, but I know in my heart I would support that decision. For that reason alone, I cannot join the Pro-Life movement. I also know if my daughter was raped and said nothing, and 6 or 7 months down the line, we could tell, I would support her decision there.

I have a conflict of conviction with that one. While I agree that firing someone for being gay is wrong, I also believe we have made it too hard to hire and fire workers. Business owners shouldn't have to live in fear of letting someone go. It is also so damn hard to check any sort of references for the same reason. So when a person is hired there is almost no info coming from their previous employers. You hire someone who isn't quite perfect for the job and decide to let them go. Then they charge it was because they are in a special class. That troubles me. As one HR manager mentioned to me, firing a 30 year old white, hetrosexual male, is the easiest thing to do. Anything that sways from that, is problematic. So if it is harder to fire, who would you hire? Some of these anti-firing laws may actually harm the very groups they are suppose to protect by cutting down their chances to get hired.

Wow, we are onto something here. The secret life of Kap. Should that be wives or wife's??

I'd have the illiterate homeless guy use a spell check before making your posts.

With the exception of John Rocker, every player says nice things about any city that will have him. When the ink dries, be confident.

Wrong end of the wage scale. The Dems are on the losing side of the save American jobs battle. Those manufacturing jobs are going away. I hope they come to Mexico and I think Bush has been correct in trying to get companies to consider Mexico instead of China. The Unions keep thinking they can save the jobs by donating to the Dems. Democratic supported Incentives keep the jobs up north work for a while but eventually they fail. Bush and the GOP know that and instead have worked to keep at least some on the US side. Bush has been good to Texas. Halliburton is a Texas Company.

Why not both!

Using 21st Century Technology to support 19th Century views . . .

I am voting for Bush because he will help my local economy. We thrive on businesses moving to Mexico. Situated along the US-Mexico border, McAllen and Reynosa, Tamps. Mexico are nice strategic partners. The US managers and their Mexican hourly employees both spend money in McAllen, and their companies have a source of cheaper labor. Democrates take a dim view of businesses locating off shore. Mostly because of all that Union money that they take. So Clinton was a huge pain in the ass to those companies (Maquillas). Bush, who takes his contributions from the owners and top execuitives, understand that companies cannot compete and keep manufactuing jobs in high wage states. He has been a wonderful President for helping companies reagain being competitive by moving to Mexico. So despite my objecting to some of his social policies, I'm voting for the guy that can help my economy. Say Si to Mexico, Say Si to Bush. Say Si to the Rio Grande Valley! I know CWSox would shoot me for this, but Michigan's loss was a gain for the border economy. The jobs that are lost in the northern areas are "found" here.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...t_teacher_fight Cat Fight Cat Fight!

Linked here? Gamers forum which added a RPG, which uses your post totals to establish points. Interesting tie in between content and forum.

OMG, that kid is in so much s***. I had a similar, but reverse thing happen to me in a 10K at Illinois Beach State Park. They ran a 5K before the 10K. I was leading the 10K when I came to a fork in the roads. A race official (stupid b**** young girl) was standing there and I asked her which way? She pointed one way, the wrong way. About 5 or 6 of us hit the finish line in 15 minutes or so. Some race official started b****ing at me for cheating. I didn't know what happened until another guy started screaming at the official about not marking the course.

What is this NHL that you speak of? Go Killer Bees!

I told you not to read it . . .

Or any Democrat President.

http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html I was a slightly left leaning centralist.

Speaking of hype, how many consider Hannity, Rush, et. al. as political hype? Add up their hours and hours of political commentary and it far out weighs Moore.

Have you read the story in this month's Texas Monthly about Texas leadership style? Pretty good article. Nice issue except for the 200 pages of lawyer ads again.

I think we are both saying the same thing, but from a different angle. I would feel lost in that Church, while others may thrive on some anonimity. I know one lady who leaves a Church as soon as "the Pastor and three members know my name and invite me to be on a committee". Some people love the Mega-Church environment, I find it hard to understand. I personally believe they may be trying to find salvation in the Thursday night building committee meeting. But their path is different than mine. One of my favorite Churches was Saint Mary of Freemont. I loved it from the first mass. I drove past 6 other Catholic Churches to attend but the then country Church without an AV department, without air conditioning, and a hand dug basement felt like home. There is a powerful pull in my life with the United Methodist Church that sponsors my Scout Troop. I have many close friends in the congregation and they consider me a part of their Church Family, yet I rarely attend services there. When they honored me with the God and Service Award for my work with the youth of their Church, I was deeply moved.

Did you have the same respect when he was your commander in chief?

Sadly, the Catholic Church probably did more than turn it's back on you. Have you tried Catholic Lite, the Episcopal Church. I've enjoyed a couple contacts I've had with the local congregation here. Many of the same traditions. I also have become very comfortable with the United Methodist.

Not to pick a fight, but to offer another point of view regarding buildings and other outward appearances. Father Michael Sparrow and I, when he was at Bellermine Jesuit Retreat House in Barrington (awesome silent retreats for Catholics) and I discussed body position in prayer. Out of that conversation came a big change in how I view the physical in my spiritual life. I believe one needs to be in a comfortable position when praying. Clearing to me is that distractions, quieting the mind, body, and soul is important. Some people are able to enter a prayfull state anywhere and I envy them. I have a couple quiet corners of the house that work for me. I enjoy the moments on campouts with my Scouts, before anyone else wakes up, to sit and quietly contemplate that morning's service. At those times I feel closer to God. I also know I love old Churches and stained glass. Perhaps it is rooted in my childhood, perhaps it was rooted in a "modern" Church where I didn't feel a part of the congregation. I love the traditions and Traditions of the Catholic Church ( hard core Catholics will understand the t and T). I love when traveling to seek out the 150 year old country Church that was hand built by early settlers. If you agree that there is a meditative state of mind that is important to your spiritual life, you should also agree that certain sights, sounds, smells, and sites, will trigger that meditative response. Search those out. The point I am rambling to is the building may make a difference. The music may make a difference. The greeter at the door may make a difference. I believe God uses all these things and more to shepard his flock. Find a place you feel comfortable and grow in his blessings. [/off pulpit]

IMHO, this wasn't about Texas being a GOP or DEM state, it is more about how wide a margin for the GOP. Texas is a Republican state at this time and moving steadily more and more to the right. BTW, did everyone know Bush bought the Crawford Ranch shortly before running for President? The media makes it seem like the ancestoral home of the Bush Dynasty.

Dick Morris is the media darling of the new-conservatives. He falls out with the Dems and all of a sudden, when he has zero opportunities with the Dems, he re-invented himself as a conservative and is now making big money on that side of the isle. Funniest damn thing I've ever seen. If Bush saw the threat so clearly, why did he do zero in his 9 months in office to stop it? Why aren't we hearing about his efforts prior to 9/11?