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Gathered downtown at midnight for our street festival. It was 27 degrees in Chicago, 72 degrees here. Ah, life is wonderful.

I love it. Excellent work so far from what I am reading. Not nearly enough to fix the long term budget issues, but a nice step in the right direction. I also like how they gave political cover to some members.

Gain weight, start smoking, and call my mom less. Maybe do some recreational drugs (in a state where it is legal). Spend more time online and less with people I can actually see.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 31, 2012 -> 08:30 AM) A different spin on the "morality" clause. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillie...ame-voting.html Wow. Great article. The conclusion is 180 degrees against what I think should happen but what a great argument.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Dec 12, 2012 -> 01:10 AM) Youk filled the role he was acquired to fill for the time he was expected to fill it. Thanks Youk and good luck. We've had a parade of the one year or less wonders and he is clearly in the better half. Thanks for stopping by and playing hard.

We have a nice outdoor, downtown, festival in our entertainment district. I am planning on being there with my daughter and my fiancee/GF/wife/life partner/soul mate or whatever term I'm using that day.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Dec 30, 2012 -> 11:46 AM) Ugh. It so didn't work. Jackman and Tveit (Enjolras) were great. Hathaway and the girl playing Eponine were really good. Everyone else was just awful. Amanda Seyfried was disgustingly bad, and Crowe was working so hard to sing that he forgot he was also supposed to be acting. I also felt the cinematography and direction were just odd. Like he was trying to capture the "standing on stage and singing out to the audience" feeling in a more intimate way... it ended up with us just staring up their noses while they looked right past the camera... just felt weird to me. I liked it less than I liked the Phantom movie a few years back. And I felt Crowe brought to the movie a performance that made the plot important instead of the plot being just an excuse that links together a few songs. I was never a Crowe fan before this movie, but I see him in a more favorable light now.

Went to see Les Mis a couple days ago. I was skeptical that the intimacy of Broadway could translate to the screen and the casting had me scratching my head, but it all worked. The emotions seemed more understated to me that a live performance, but still a great was to spend three hours.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Dec 27, 2012 -> 11:20 PM) I think he killed his grandmother with a hammer. We really need a hammer ban. if it just saved one life, it would be worth it. Doesn't the argument "since A can kill people we should allow B" seem sophomoric to you? I am assuming that you are intelligent enough to realize that a gun is a far more efficient killing machine than a hammer.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Dec 27, 2012 -> 11:20 PM) I think he killed his grandmother with a hammer. We really need a hammer ban. if it just saved one life, it would be worth it. Doesn't the argument "since A can kill people we should allow B" seem sophomoric to you? I am assuming that you are intelligent enough to realize that a gun is a far more efficient killing machine than a hammer.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Dec 26, 2012 -> 02:36 PM) This is probably the #1 reason I dislike Fisk. Sanders wasn't on his team and Fisk should have minded his own business. Deion Sanders should have told him to GTFOH. I loved the comment. I like players who respect the game and how it should be played, no matter what team they are on.

The salaries for non profits and generally lower than at for profits. Great fundraising people command a great salary. Would you rather hire someone for $20,000 who can raise $50,000 ($30,000 extra) or a guy for $100,000 who can raise $500,000?

Since she sued and wanted her job back, suing for harassment would be nearly impossible.

He left a note he was going to do what he did best, kill people. Smh

I forgot about Salvation Army and Goodwill. I've seen some of the stuff I've donated in the stores, but yeah, I wonder if the employees get first crack at the stuff and how much of a discount they receive. As for the political donations, well, they are deductible. Obama received a couple extra donations during the final weeks. I loved their fundraising campaign ideas. I did feel robbed by Perry. I expected him to do much, much better. It confirmed in my mind that the staff is more important than the person. Perry was a much more skilled campaigner than Bush, yet bombed early.

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QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 24, 2012 -> 08:40 AM) black eyed peas on New Year's Day. Terlingua, Texas, just outside Big Bend National park has one of my all time favorite cooking events, the Pea Off on New Years Day. Nothing like sitting on the porch of the general store, eating black eyed peas and drinking beer with guys wearing shirts that cost more than the guy next to him will earn that year. They are also home to the original chili cook off and a spin off event the cookie chill off.

I was doing some early tax work. This year I cut back on the number of charities I contribute to. This year I gave to Boy Scouts of America Rio Grande Council (BSA) Troop 41 (BSA) Surfriders Barak Obama Rick Perry United Way American Cancer Society AARP Catholic Democrats

Tonight will be pasta. I have to pick up my daughter at the airport, so we're fixin' a big pot of sauce and leaving it in the crock pot. Tomorrow I have some beautiful looking, Texas raised, NY strip steaks for out on the grill.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Dec 24, 2012 -> 12:26 AM) I'll only say in reply to the 'dumbest s***' comments that I have seen what suicide does to those left behind. I stand by it. The argument is probably more about the word choice than what you meant. I'm not certain it is fair to label someone's motivation or actions based on how it affects other people. Certainly a suicide hurts the people around them and seemingly places the feelings of the person killing themselves above that of the people they leave behind. But as mentioned above, if the person committing suicide truly feels everyone would be better off without them, they are not feeling selfish when they commit the act. Here's an example. A person with a medical condition that requires round the clock care. The family member that provides that care loves the person and is willing to continue forever if necessary. It gives their life a sense of purpose and meaning. To the person needing the care, they may see dying as giving the caregiver life. Freeing them from the responsibility and a chance to "go out and live". After the person dies, the caregiver is crushed, believing they did not do enough for the person. Depending on point of view, this was either a terribly selfish act, or wonderfully altruistic. I can see both as being right. Picking an example that would be more in line with Yasny's comment, someone kills themselves because their wife leaves him. They want the survivors to feel guilty. Or the jackasses who shoot up a school then kill themselves.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 23, 2012 -> 05:13 PM) You can't be serious. 100%. Dead serious and probably the #1 reason I all but abandoned the Republican party. The GOP believes guns are our best defense against a tyrannical government, I believe a free press to watch over the government and courts to overturn any laws that are unconstitutional are much more effective. But the GOP has waged a three decade war against both the press and the courts trying to stop the watchdogs and the judges. They label any decisions they do not like as activist judges, regardless of the law. They want the public to dismiss any negative reporting by calling it liberal bias. So what happens when the press is ignored and the courts are powerless to stop unconstitutional laws? We hand over the keys to the country to the currently elected representatives and they can do whatever they wish. Willing to read a well reasoned and intelligent reply.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 23, 2012 -> 05:13 PM) You can't be serious. 100%. Dead serious and probably the #1 reason I all but abandoned the Republican party. The GOP believes guns are our best defense against a tyrannical government, I believe a free press to watch over the government and courts to overturn any laws that are unconstitutional are much more effective. But the GOP has waged a three decade war against both the press and the courts trying to stop the watchdogs and the judges. They label any decisions they do not like as activist judges, regardless of the law. They want the public to dismiss any negative reporting by calling it liberal bias. So what happens when the press is ignored and the courts are powerless to stop unconstitutional laws? We hand over the keys to the country to the currently elected representatives and they can do whatever they wish. Willing to read a well reasoned and intelligent reply.

And much like the real Mt. Rushmore towers over an Native American Reservation, the Sox Mt. Rushmore should tower over Wriggly.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 23, 2012 -> 10:41 AM) Employers in most states can already fire employees for any reason whatsoever, but I do understand the differences here. I think she'd have more of a case if this was a publicly traded company or even a company with more than a handful of employees. I can somewhat understand the predicament as this is a small privately owned family practice, which creates a different set of situational rules...at least, I think it does. As I understand it, she sued based a sex discrimination, that if she was male, she would not have been fired.

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