Texsox

OK, you did warn me

How about a concert moment? I walked up to Popular Creek around 1983 or so, the day of an Elton John concert expecting to get lawn tickets and bought 15 row center. Seems the band turned some tix back in I was never a "Burn Down the Mission" fan until I saw it performed live. The song blew me away. From a movie? Otis "He loves us" Day and Shout until I saw him live at SnugFest on Lake Beverly. And finally Kansas Wayward Son from the closing scenes in a damn movie I can't remember, and can't find via google

I'm going to hell for laughing or did you mean igniter?

I think what some people are trying to prove is Republicans cannot read a report. They needed Clinton to read it to them and tell them what to do. Just like some Democrates seem to think that Bush needs to tell them what is right and wrong and how to read. :headshake Politics 101 If it turns out good, get on the bandwagon and have your picture taken. If you are on the bandwagon, kick off the other party If it turns out bad, blame it on the other party And the rhetoric goes round and round, round and round, round and round.

But hey, were trying to help them . . . Is life better today than a year ago for the average Iraqi? Let's toss aside the "we are here to help you" and adopt a "your country f***ed with us and we're taking over" stance. We are there, let's just steamroll and get the hell out. Put in a puppet government. We are trying to be cops, be liberators, be friends, be everything. We could replace the Troops with nuclear winter

I've been waiting 18 months to say this I agree 100% with Nuke_Cleveland I think he was the best big game guy we had last year.

Republicans would have known about it also, they get briefed on world events. They do not wait to be told things by the President. One of the problems I see is we are too quick to blame one party or the other. Thay all need to share the blame or the credit.

I caught John Rush in concert last night. Excellent show. Nice mix of covers, original material, and humor.johnrush.com

Every action we take collectively is judged against political gain or loss by each party. It is a sad fact of our democracy.

I am guessing that a setting in IE was blocking java scripts. Firefox is a cool little browser also. It does cause one agravation on these boards. If you highlight some text to make green and then try to pull down the menu, it drops the highlighted text.

How about that ncorgbl guy, I really miss him

Anything to get my mind off of yesterday. We have had steady ownership through the years. I believe CW has some insight about the Allyn regime.

Shoot, the system I am on will not allow me to see how to check the Java controlls in IE. You may have Java blocked in your browser. Which version of IE is it? If you are interested here's a link to a cool little browser, if you like, try downloading it and using it to browse. I believe Jas is using it now. Firefox 0.8

What browser are you using?

I knew you like Bevington

A little White Sox history until we can even our record for 2004 I've always had a soft spot for Veeck. I wonder how life as a Sox fan would have been if DeBartola had been allowed to buy the team. I have a gut feeling, it would have been good.

Let's go to tech support 101 Turn off your system fully and if you are on a broadband connection disconnect as well. Make certain you shut down "Hard reboot" not just restart. Then try it. Tech support says this while jumping in the manuals trying to figure out what to tell you next. Also, sometimes to everyone's amazement, it works after a hard reboot.

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?