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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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It was so easy to ban water bottles and tiny pocket knives after 9/11. It was so easy to write laws to require tamper resistant packaging after the Tylenol Murders. It was so easy to restrict certain sales of OTC medicines that are used to manufacture meth.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 22, 2012 -> 05:11 PM) Whatever dude. It's not a cut if it stays the same. Quit lying... oh wait, Barackus Droids don't realize that it's all been a big lie from the beginning anyway. Are you saying staying at the same level as before the Bush cuts or after the Bush era cuts? And speaking of Barakus Droids, is that a new phrase that "Dittoheads" are suppose to use or something you made up?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 22, 2012 -> 05:11 PM) Whatever dude. It's not a cut if it stays the same. Quit lying... oh wait, Barackus Droids don't realize that it's all been a big lie from the beginning anyway. Are you saying staying at the same level as before the Bush cuts or after the Bush era cuts? And speaking of Barakus Droids, is that a new phrase that "Dittoheads" are suppose to use or something you made up?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 22, 2012 -> 05:10 PM) Abolish it all... because your side already has. If the Constitution has issues and needs to be modified, there's mechanisms in place to do so. No one cares anymore that there is a legitimate process to change it... so it is "morphed" into whatever you want it to be? Messed up. Do you mean the Patriot Act? That was not exactly a liberal policy. Do you mean rendering a free press worthless? That would be conservatives trying that one. Do you mean trying to take away the role of judges as defined by the constitution? That would be the GOP as well.

Too bad they couldn't get that catcher the Rangers signed . . . He would have made a nice veteran backup to Flowers. Maybe next season. Every time I read the topic title I keep thinking, hey guys, bats are not like gloves or They won't need too many LH bats. About 90% of the team uses RH bats.

J. MICHAEL LAFERTY HOT SUN-COOL WATER-SANDY BOOTS I have been wearing this one out.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 22, 2012 -> 02:45 AM) Guys I saw play: Thomas, Baines, Fisk, Buehrle Leaving Baines off was tough for me. I think I was kind of choosing a representative from the pre 1970s.

Gee, it was so popular before.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Dec 22, 2012 -> 06:04 AM) I am not sure if this is the kind of discussion you meant, but I believe the Constitution is a living and breathing document and should be interpreted as such. The Framers of the Constitution could not have possibly imagined what society would look like today and interpreting the Constitution with a strictly originalist view is, to me, kind of asinine. Perhaps on some issues, looking at the Framers' intent is helpful to discern underlying values in the our society at the time, but to use 18th values in shaping the fabric of society in 21st Century America just doesn't make much sense to me. ^^ ^^ Saved me from typing it.

I'd have Fisk, Buehrle, Appling, and Thomas

For a compromise to work in the best interest of our country, it probably will not be one that either party can call a win. It would be so nice, that instead of headlines saying someone caved in, lost, etc. that we applauded their meager efforts to find a compromise.

Christmas is almost here.