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QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 06:33 PM) Then they get a bus ticket to Harry Reid's house in NV. These are the real problems facing the people trying to solve the problem. These kids come from towns without a bus stop. Would you send the kid on a week long multiple bus trip, that will only get them possibly near the place they left from with no one waiting for him? Maybe you would. To me that sounds like not caring if the child lives or dies. The problem that we are facing are not easy ones. It will shape how America is known for possibly generations to come. Did we ignore tens of thousands of refugee children, or not? Are we really the country that our enemies claim we are?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 06:21 PM) I would give the kid a meal, maybe find him some new clothes and shoes, maybe even pay for a bus ticket back home, but I will NOT take him in, feed him until he is 18 and pay for his college when I can barely do that for my own kids. And when the kid doesn't know where home is or if there is a parent there to meet him/her?

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 06:12 PM) This would be true if the people were coming here to work. In the example here, I believe al lor most of them are children under the working age. These are not workers thus will not add much to the economy but will take from it. And just like our debate here, the children are caught up in this problem. I don't think Alpha would turn away an 8 year old on his doorstep asking for help. But it is easy to say no to a faceless illegal out to screw America.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 06:10 PM) Are you just ignoring the massive ID fraud that occurs with illegals? No.

Alpha, as a business owner, would you pay $100,000 (public education in the US) to train someone to wash dishes? And then offer them school reimbursement, retirement, etc? Or would you rather hire someone without any training, train them for $100 and have them leave when they are through washing the dishes and never pay them again? That's why we have this issue. (the rest is just politics)

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 06:05 PM) I think ILLEGAL immigrants take away from the pie. I have zero problems with legal immigration and even a guest worker program if it can be implemented correctly. Flooding us with illegals, whether they be 8, 38 or 88 does this country no good at all. It does Alpha, which is why we haven't changed anything, ever. No Social Security number and you do not receive all those benefits. It is better for the national budget to have a no public benefit person work those low income jobs than someone who has be given a public education valued at $$$$ and will continue to collect more benefits than they will even contribute to. Better (tax wise) for someone to sneak in, work the job, then go home.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 05:25 PM) More welfare recipients = more welfare benefits = more taxes needed to pay for the increase = increased cost of doing business to pay the taxes. I'd like to see some data that illegal immigrants become a net job producer. I find that incredibly illogical. It's pretty tough to open a business when you're an illegal alien. Or hell, maybe not given how this country has been the last decade about immigration. s***, we probably provide government grants for it. Or are you saying that more supply means more cheap labor, which again just screws people already here. Great, now all the poor Americans b****ing about not being paid $30/hr at McDonalds are out of work because immigrants are happy to make $7.50/hr. How does that system help anyone? You need a SS# to apply for benefits. So the American you hire at a low wage job applies for the benefits, the undocumented worker, does not. The illegal worker buys food, pays rent, buys clothes, etc. without receiving additional government benefits like SS, unemployment, child care, college tuition, etc. There is ample evidence that business owners prefer to pay legal workers and not risk getting caught. But, there are not enough workers to accept the worst jobs in our economy. Citizens do not want to follow the crops as migrants. They don't want to scrape dishes and mow lawns. Thankfully, our education system is creating workers that do not need to work these lowest level jobs. Instead we need to import workers to do that. The problem is our immigration program is not set up for $7.50 / hour jobs. Instead we can bring in $80,000 per year software engineers and doctors.

Interestingly Texas, with the most immigrants weathered the Great Recession better than most states. The lowest tax brackets actually receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes. When someone who is here illegally without a SS number works that job they do not apply for those benefits, do not file a tax return. When someone legal or who has a social security number works that job, they grab all those benefits. It is actually cheaper tax wise for an illegal to work the job than someone here legally. Which is why politicians haven't offered any meaningful solutions. Plus, our agriculture industry, already hurting, will close down. We already import more than half of our food. Do we want to be in a position that we can't feed ourselves with our own agriculture program? We need a guest worker program that allows workers to come or stay here with limited benefits, basically like the bracero program during WW2.

You do realize we're talking about young children. Jenks, you decide what happens to that 8 year old that shows up without anyone, what do you do? Send them where exactly? How do they get there?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 09:33 AM) The thing is, no company should be scheduling interviews if they are moving a position out of state, or even considering it. If the do that on a routine basis I agree. I can understand once in a decade a situation comes up that is unpredictable. In this case if they are utilizing an employee in a different location instead of laying him/her off, etc. it should be forgiven.

Lately the immigration issue that is receiving the most attention here on the border are the thousands of unaccompanied children that are arriving. I keep hearing some people say, send them back, but back where? These kids don't know where they are at or where they came from. How desperate are parents to send their pre-teen children thousands of miles, on a chance for a better life? We've seen refuge camps in other countries filled with people being displaced by famine, violence, and all sorts of evil. Maybe that's the solution. We sign blank checks to the Halliburtons of the world to solve problems half way across the globe, yet we reject children who have come thousands of miles asking for help? Why aren't celebrities lining up to adopt these kids?

Two apps / websites that may be helpful are Zillow and Trulia. I like using them to filter neighborhoods. I'm in the same boat, my wife and I are moving and we will be renting the first year or so. By putting in our search criteria I quickly new to look in the east and west sides of San Antonio and avoided wasting my time in the north central. I'm using a Realtor to set up visits to some properties he thinks will work. We're looking for single family homes and we do not have a lot of time so it works out best for us.

RexKickass was WinoDJ back in the day. It's in my coffee table book, Posters of Soxtalk.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 18, 2014 -> 03:25 PM) What do Moderaters do? buy beer for the admins, correct speling errors (hey, new guys, get that for me), pin stuff then get yelled at for pinning too much stuff, answer the endless he's hurting me messages, stuff like that. Welcome

I started looking for a high school coaching position and can't believe within two weeks I've been offered the head position at a really solid high school in San Antonio. As I was discussing the requirements for the job I was laughing how seemingly unrelated experiences helped me land the position. Networking for donations of resources? Boy Scouts of America. Dealing with private clubs? Men's Golf Association president and board of governors member at a private club. Previous coaching experience? Check. The school even needed a teacher for my subject. I can't wait to get started.

Here I was on soxtalk pledge day. Thanks, y'all.

President of the United States Yes sir, not on the same scale.

Nixon's secretary accidentally erased 5 minutes of a crucial tape and another 18 minutes were missing from another. Stuff like that happens all the time. It doesn't mean it was on purpose.

Once there is a change of administration and they fire all the employee things will change.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 02:36 PM) Do you have the expectation that he will dominate every start? Does he tend to? Can he still shut teams down when he's not on? Does he compare favorably to the top pitchers in the game? Is he a no-brainer to pitch game 1 of a playoff series? Does he consistently take the ball? Is he regularly going deep into games? Has he consistently achieved those criteria for three (five) or more full seasons? If you answer yes to all these questions then you have an ace on your hands. The only question with Sale is his durability and I'm not ready to knock him for that yet. You added durability, so adding a requirement that includes three, five, however many seasons seems fair. Just by adding one criteria and he's no longer an ace. Which is why I find the whole who is an ace debate almost meaningless. You can't even have a debate about whether or not a player is an "ace" until you agree on a definition of an "ace". I really like your list, it is about as good as anyone has offered, yet there are so many vague terms that are up to (mis)interpretation. "tend to" "compare favorably" "shut teams down" "No-brainer to start" (no one on those Atlanta Brave staffs would be an Ace), "consistently", "going deep". All those would need to be parsed. A lot of people here will disagree, but I would add an "ace" (which to me includes that something extra, beyond just great stats) puts his team in position to win. He may give up five runs in a blowout, but only one in a tight game. The guys that rise to the occasion. I'd use the term to describe those pitchers who seem to give the offense an extra boost. The guys the team feels confidence behind. Then I would balance it all, not needing to say yes to each and every criteria. And BTW, FWIW, based on how I would define the term, Sale has pitched like an ace the past 2+ seasons.

The Texas GOP platform includes "Reparative Therapy" for gays and a GOP candidate in Oklahoma wouldn't have a problem with a little Old Testament stoning. How will this play out nationally? Is this a good strategy for the GOP? Obviously of the GOP fringe groups I wish the Log Cabin Republicans were more influential than the Tea Party. I believe that either party pushing further to the extreme is bad for the country. I'd like to see both parties rushing to grab the middle ground instead of moving the other way.

It would probably make a better off season thread but removing money from the situation, what would baseball look like? I happen to be in favor of players wanting to make a lot of money. Without that motive, we would have way more Lebron situations with players flocking together in certain cities and the balance of competition would be even worse than it is now. But the original question does highlight that with a better contract Rios could have brought back some talent. There are some balance scales at work there.

Speaking of honey, as my wife and I travel each summer we pick up honey from local producers, you really can taste a difference.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 3, 2014 -> 01:19 PM) The conspiracy theorist in me thinks this was a ploy to get the VA mess out of the papers. I wish it would take something like that. The VA mess will be forgotten too soon regardless of what other news is out there.