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I was just reading a little bit about the man in Iraq who was murdered (beheaded) by terrorists. He is a small business owner from Philadelphia, trying to make some money rebuilding the country. How does one get linked to a job like that? I cannot believe anyone would move over there and work but I guess some thrill seekers will. I just googled and found this link. Amazing

Could that be after meeting you

From one of the humor lists I subscribe:

OK, if you say he's a nice guy, how about he gets a ND today? And watches his pen give up 10 in the 7th?

Not that it in anyway excuses or justifies disrespecting corpses or murdering prisoners.

So I guess you do not agree with the old adage, it is better to give than receive

My understanding is that is was common knowledge inside the country. Detainees would tell their friends, etc. We just dismissed the allegations.

Hopefully by the 3rd Inning

Actually we were torturing before, we just didn't believe the accounts until we saw pictures.

I do like the guy.

I already plugged you SS Nice way to get an extra in for free. You both put in a lot of effort into those contests and I know later on this year when I do the 2004 Soxtalk Awards I'll be certain to mention it again.

Gee who could he be refering to?

Slip me a couple points for the Jays YNOT. I may not have gotten any. Has anyone ever scored a zero?

Does your school teach spelling? b-a-n-a-n-a Our food chain is very complex. For many people here they are too young to remember when we only had fruits and vegetables "in season". Now we can have strawberries in January. Some of our foreign aid dollars have gone to protecting our interests and upgrading conditions for our food production. When a rural farm in South America gets better sanitation they stop defecating in the fields were our tomatoes are being grown.

We're planning a party for you and Fan. Trying to find male dancers for y'all has been tuff. We know you're a fan so we are trying to find a Sidney Ponson look-a-like

For those of you playing, Kong has it open. For those of you not, why the hell not? Also, visit the PTC and play that also. I know some of you are just here for SL&P but this is a White Sox fan site and it is baseball season.

My understanding is the birth rates are determined by where the mother delivers. So to keep this easy at first. An Illinois mom is visiting Indiana and gives birth, it is in the Indiana stats because that is where the birth certificate will be issued. Same thing internationaly. Stella is in Chicago visiting from Poland and gives birth. A birth certificate is issued in Chicago, the birth is counted in Chicago's numbers, baby has (probably) dual citizenship. Some countries will not recognize dual citizenships. As far as looking for ways to immigrate and obtain US citizenship, it isn't quite that simple. Believe it or not, not many are that interested in moving to the US, let alone getting citizenship. Many are looking to earn money, send it home, and eventually move back home. Around here there are a lot of first, second, and third generation families. They grew up spending 5 or 6 months on the road, 7 days a week, in the fields from sun up to sun down for a couple dollars an hour. They would pay high prices for squalled living conditions close to the fields. Entire families would be out there picking. I won't even start discussing the scams and racism they faced. But even with all that, it was better than their opportunity in Mexico. For those that want US citizenship, marriage is a popular route. Google mail order brides and order up every shade of human from around the globe. Russians were popular for a while. Here on the border, I am far funnier and better looking as soon as I cross the river. At one place I was consulting, a very attractive 20 something kept hitting on me until she found out I was married. And in reply to another post. I've begun to lie about my age. I'm telling everyone I'm 55. I look damn good for 55. For 43 I look like hell

Hold the bun, I'm on a low carb diet

Thank you PA.

Any band that wants promotion is a sell out and unworthy of an Indie web site

CNN Link You will have to click the link to see what the prize is

Oh the glee you must have felt when you found that to post

I think further listening will mine more gold. I am trying to ID some of the voices. Like who was narrating Sgt. Peppers?

There was also stories circulating a year ago that the CIA and other agencies were sub contracting interrogations to countries whose laws allowed for more aggresive forms of interoggation (re: torture).

APU, Just one ray of light on the Texas stats. As everyone recalls from Junior High Civics by virtue of being born on US soil, a person becomes a US citizen. Not so surprisingly, many young mothers begin labor while visiting the US along the border. Poor, many times unwed mothers, can receive services and have their babies be US citizens if they are here. There are two areas of immigration. Both countries allow visists in a relatively barrow band along the border (about 20 miles). You can pretty much come and go for shopping, visiting friends, etc. You are not allowed to work or stay longer than X weeks or months. I'm not certain how long we allow Mexicans to stay, I do know it is much shorter than we allow Canadians (gee, why is that?). So birth stats are not so cut and dried when evaluating sex education and other programs in Texas. I would imagine New Mexico, Arizona, and California have similar issues.