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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?

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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?!

I thought getting government out of the private sector and letting them grow was a republican idea? Didn't businesses hire more people with those tax savings? Didn't that spark the economic boom of the Clinton years?

PLus all these people were hanging out at a bad race track.

I was wondering who would follow the link. I wonder if the brothers had a conversation about this?

OMG, isn't that part of doomsday prediction I liked the new order. Frank got the 2nd inning rally going. Kong Sandy Mark Lotsa good from the offense, too bad the pen was equally offensive

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