Texsox

Each of us doing this individually is nice, but is it possible for those of us with web pages included with out ISP accounts to "bulk move" some of the pics to our sites? For example I have 15 gigs just sitting there, not being used. I could host a bunch of pics on that.

With all the talk about Ozzie's first game, lets' look at some of the greats in WS history. Whose the best?

17th All-Time in Win percentage.

We also fail when a solitary child is "accidentaly" killed in a gang related drive by. We fail when a youngster in the US fails to be vaccinated, or doesn't have adequate food or shelter. We fail when a grandmother cannot walk to her bank without fear of crime. We fail when our schools do not provide equal education for all. Why just the west? Where was China, Russia, etc. in all this?

Because almost no one manufacturers textiles in the US. The textile industry went from the northeast down to the border regions, then overseas. When was the last time you spent more money to buy US? To be competitive, I know of one manufacturer who cuts the cloth in the US, sends the materials to Honduras for sewing, then re-imports them to the US. It is the only way they can remain competitive and sell to Victoria Secrets. They use to cut here and truck it 18 miles away to Mexico for sewing, but that became too expensive. The key to clothing manufacturing is the Gerber cutters. A great cutter can make you a lot of money. So that remains in the US, also, where they can maintain properly some very complex pieces of equipment. I have seen estimates that clothing prices would almost double is they were sewn fully in the US. The reality for my geographical area was this. We lost some manufacturing jobs in the process, we picked up fewer, but higher paying logistical and supply chain jobs, along with transportation and warehousing jobs. Sewing is about the most basic of skill used in the manufacturing process. Almost anyone can be trained in a matter of hours to run a sewing machine. If WalMart suddenly only stocked made in the US clothing, people would beat a path to Target, Penny's, K-Mart, etc. We all want lower prices. I was part of a group that worked to find jobs for the sewers who were out of work when Levi's, Dickies, Converse, Hagger, and a few others left the area. What we found was people with 20 years experience, zero to limited English speaking skills, who had sewn the same pocket on the same jeans for 20 years. They did not have 20 years experience, they had 1 year experience repeated 20 times. These are not jobs we necessarily want in the US. These people are toast if the plant closes. And they will when their Levi is selling for $40 and Wrangler is selling for $30.

Bigger than Jesus? Oh no, could that be a Beatles message?

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All I know is Ozzie has the lowest all time winning percentage of any White Sox manager. A win Wednesday will jump him past quite a few guys

It sure seems that way

I am going to hell for this one but if they could swim they would have been on the US side I am joking people

At what point did he think f***! He missed, I have to steaaaaal this base

On one hand WalMart does help you "stretch a dollar" in small communities where the local hardware store also sold three baseball gloves and "dress shirts". But like any business in town it isn't always a net gain in jobs. You gain the Wally World and lose the local grocer, pharmacist, sporting good store, music shop, etc. Downtowns slip to nothing, etc. But will people continue to pay more to shop at the downtown store? No.

I was thinking to really save bandwidth we could vote some people off the island. Then I realized it would be me

hmmm, television cameras

L.A. Suburb to Vote on Wal-Mart Building Tue Apr 6,10:56 AM ET Add Business - AP to My Yahoo! By GARY GENTILE, AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES - Wal-Mart wants to offer its bargains in Inglewood, but many residents aren't buying the pitch. Voters in this working class city were to decide Tuesday whether to allow the nation's largest company to open a shopping development despite opponents who say it will skirt zoning, traffic and environmental reviews. Wal-Mart has argued in Inglewood and elsewhere that its stores create jobs and said residents should be able to decide for themselves whether or not they want the stores in their community. Last year the Inglewood City Council blocked the proposed shopping center that would include a traditional Wal-Mart as well as other stores. That prompted Wal-Mart to collect more than 10,000 signatures to force Tuesday's ballot initiative. Religious leaders and community activists, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson (news - web sites), rallied Monday to urge voters in the city of 117,000 to defeat the ballot measure, which is backed by Wal-Mart. The initiative's opponents argue it would give Wal-Mart the right to build without having to go through the usual array of public zoning, traffic and environmental hearings or reviews. "You don't get to get around all of the environmental impacts accepted in this country," Rep. Maxine Waters said Monday. "You don't get to bypass the city and their building and safety and their planning departments. What they have done is they have gone over the top." Wal-Mart has faced strident opposition from unions, resident groups and some municipalities who say the company's gargantuan shopping centers hurt independent businesses, drive out higher-paying blue-collar jobs and worsen traffic congestion. Wal-Mart has spent more than $1 million in its Inglewood campaign, according to campaign finance records, while opponents have spent a fraction of that amount. Objections to the Bentonville, Ark.-based Walt-Mart Stores Inc. have surfaced around the country, including Chicago, where the City Council recently stalled a measure to approve the first Wal-Mart inside Chicago's city limits because of concerns about the company's labor practices. Wal-Mart officials defends the number and quality of jobs its stores create. "They are nonunion jobs, but they are not low-paying jobs," company spokesman Bob McAdam said. "Wal-Mart pays competitive wages with other retailer and we offer health benefits to every employee."

That's the worse HMO I've heard of.

I am glad you took it in the spirit it was intended

I just thought of something. No wonder this team was so messed up last year. They have to be told to go get drunk!? Man, they are worse off than I thought.

AFter the loss yesterday, I had to switch from green to yellow, but the yellow was too much. I expect to switch to green before long. It's by avatar that really bugs me. I haven't found one I really like, and that is how I scan most threads. What is funny is over time, I expect people to look like their avatars, I swear cwsox must look like Eminem or I'll be confused Of course that is not true in your case I heard the story on the radio and knew I had to share it. It tok a few minutes to find the link. Amazing, a woman in Mexico gives birth this way and a Journal in London reports about it. Would that have been possible 25, 50, 100 years ago?

Link here

That is a couple hundred miles, two dams, and a corps of engineers flood control plain northwest of me. We have been through so many years of drought that any rain has the potential to be deadly. In some areas the ground is so dried out it effectivly acts like concrete. Very sad for the loss of life. Part of the problem is in these colonias the roads are so poor that after even a small rain, they are impassable. So people get trapped who cannot run.

And these cases started long before that cow as discovered.

Much of it comes in the way of incentives to move to a new location (enterprise zones), to employ certain groups of people (welfare to work programs), being aggressive in taking write offs, etc. Corporations pay on profits. If you are able to shield you profits from Uncle Sam, you win. Take for example a company with operations in the US and Ecuador. They do most or all of their manufacturing in Ecuador. Were should they report their profits? For example, does the Ecuador company sell the item to their US entity for the actual price to manufacture, effectivly showing zero Ecuador profit or do they take a markup when it goes to the US, lowering the US profit? Teams of accountants determine the best ratio to use to maximize the corporate bottom line profits. If you happen to be a shareholder in that company you applaud their results.

Scary to be a soldier in Iraq This seems to be getting worse. And we are there to help them?!