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LMAO

Glad to have you on board and Sex, Lies, and Politics (SL&P) is always a great place to post.

If we made having kids as difficult as getting a driver's license or a gun, much of this heart ache would never start. I was aproached last night to buy some crap to support a "say no to drugs" program. I asked the kid, who was maybe 15, what the organization actually did to help keep kids off drugs. He said something about printing up flyers, etc. I asked him if they ever had meetings? He said yes. I asked him where, he asked me what town he was in As I suspected, he's part of a group that exploits kids by offering them travel and jobs, sends them in 15 passenger vans far from home and has them selling stuff all day and into the night. I asked him when the last time he spoke to his parents, do they know he is safe? He started to say something about running away and at that point his crew chief appeared and grabbed the kid and quickly took him away. I will be keeping that boy and S in my prayers. I believe societies should be judged not by how the wealthy and priveledged live, but how the least among us live. That is the gauge on how just, moral, and compassionate we are.

Anytime at the beach is better than on-line.

Back in my day, we had vinyl records. You listened to one side and then flipped it over and listened to the other. Along came 8-Track tape and you had 4 program breaks, cassettes were introduced and again you had a program break while the cassette either auto-reversed or you turned it over. Artists took great pains to determine play order and how they wanted the music listened to. This was also the day of "concept albums" starting most famously with Sgt. Peppers, songs played off each other and were meant to be listened to together and in a certain order. Or Tommy. Listen to the singles and they all sound very good. Listen to the story unfold and you come to a whole different understanding and experience. For many artists, the songs were meant to be listened to as an album, not a collection of singles. CDs, MP3, and downloading singles has changed all that. Perhaps for the better, but maybe not. What we have created is a more personalized listening experience. If I like this group of songs by various artists and various subjects, I can create my own experience, my own moods. I am no longer manipulated by the artist. But isn't being manipulated by the artist why we enjoy music? So what do you think? Is music better as a collection of singles? Is it better to dismiss an album project from an artist and just pick and choose what you want to buy? Are we missing out on "b-sides" and little known tracks that may touch you more than the hit singles?

Dammit Fan, big boys don't cry

I think that is fair for Colon. Since draft picks in baseball have about the lowest rate of success of any sport, I like having lots if picks. As always going after arms, then maybe a 1st baseman, cf, and depending on contract discussions, looking at the OF corners.

Yeah, you must smell terrible after that

:fthecubs

I watch the reruns when there isn't anything else on. I don't care one way or the other. I was more bummed when M*A*S*H went off the air.

is it your hands? Do you need to toughen them up?

it was some variation on jimmybw or jimbow or something like that. I haven't logged into that one since coming over here.

Sorry, I meant ESPN.

"Rumsfeld will stay in my Cabinet" Bush

I believe your doubly in trouble, I thought you sent me an email also. Damn you really suck at this recruiting stuff.

I see we have some pockets of people. I know I was recruited off the MLB boards and will protect the anonymity of the person who sent the email to protect him from an avalanch maybe 2k4 PMs asking him WTF

Maybe we could give tham back Kessinger, I hear he's staying in shape. I really don't like trading with the Cubs.

I think I am tracking with you. Include morality and ethics as it occures in other academic areas, not creating a separate class? Are we talking beginning in elementary school?

So you reject any chain of command, buck stops here, type of arguments? I think I have a problem with the generality of that comment. The CEO or President would never be responsible for the actions of their employees unless they specifically told them to do somethign. Creating an atmosphere or allowing it to happen without stopping it would be ok?

How about we let them wither on the vine? :fthecubs

Isn't it also misleading that some people who are not actively looking for, or wanting employment, are listed as unemployed? Or is this a different statistic?

Of course he used that money to improve the Sox

What are you going to teach and stay within the rights of US citizens? How about the morality of food? Kosher? Vegetarian? Vegan? Morality is not a one size fits all. Are cows and rats sacred? Is premarital sex moral? Death Penalty? Abortion? Assasinations? Non Violence vs. Violence? There is one standard of unnacceptable behavior in the US. Morality manifests itself as behavior. Until someone acts, society cannot take action. So what is the common set of behaviors that we, as Americans, believe in? Our civil code. I still am interested in why you feel we should train hundreds of thousands of people to teach morality (teachers).

You talked about parents being unqualified to teach morality. I think it is each parents decision on how they teach their children. If you do not feel qualified to teach morality, let someone else. Even if it is being taught in the schools, it is still the parent's responsibility to be certain the child understands, etc. If not the parents, who should be responsible? The teachers? Johnny just got busted for drugs, send the teacher to jail? Sue the school for failure to instill the US moral code? Society already determines what behavior is acceptable and the relative severity of the infraction. These are called laws and punishments. Roll through a stop sign and you may get a warning, steal a bicycle and maybe get arrested and pay a fine, kill someone and spend the rest of your life behind bars. Violate copyright laws by illegally burning a CD and pay a fine. That is the US moral code. Are we now going to establish what to do when you see a homeless person begging for money? How much of your income you should give to charity? What are you covering that isn't already covered by laws?

House Democrats Seek Rumsfeld's Ouster WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday accused Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of a cover-up in the scandal over abused Iraqi prisoners and said he should resign. "I think that Mr. Rumsfeld should step down," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California told reporters. "Mr. Rumsfeld has been engaged in a cover-up from the start on this issue," she said. Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, echoed her call. "For the good of our country, the safety of our troops and our image around the globe, Secretary Rumsfeld should resign. If he does not resign forthwith, the president should fire him," he said. Top Republicans in the House dismissed the resignation calls, and most lawmakers said it was too early to fix blame for the abuses. Rumsfeld was to testify on Friday before the Senate Armed Services Committee in an appearance at which some lawmakers said his job could be in the balance. Asked if Rumsfeld should resign, Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, said: "I think it will be determined on his testimony. We ought to listen to him." "I think the overall issues, obviously, are the issues of accountability and responsibility and the extent of all of this," Kennedy said. "Is this the tip of the iceberg or the whole thing?" A Senate Republican aide said Rumsfeld must "give the performance of his life," and show contrition. "He needs to have full disclosure of the facts, no parsing of words or displaying the usual convoluted testimony that the Senate Armed Services Committee has been accustomed to," the Republican aide said. House Majority leader Tom Delay, a Texas Republican, and several other House Republicans defended Rumsfeld and accused the Democrats of trying to politicize the war. "Calling for Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation is as bad a signal as saying the war in unwinnable," DeLay told reporters. Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stopped just short of calling for Rumsfeld's dismissal on Wednesday. "If it goes all the way to Rumsfeld then he should resign," Biden told NBC's "Today" show. At a news conference Pelosi criticized the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq military campaign and discussed the international furor after photographs emerged last week showing sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in a jail outside Baghdad.