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I've seen Perry a bit more than most of you. I have sat near him at a couple Scouting events, met him at the Boy Scout Report to State, (I have the picture somewhere), met him again when my daughter was awarded a Say No To Drugs writing award. He doesn't fit exactly into the current GOP mold. His immigration stance, especially when it comes to education is downright liberal. His balanced budget approach harkens back to pre-Reagan Republican platforms. Bottom line, for a Republican, he's about as close to my views as a Republican can get. I agree his campaign just sucked, I am stunned by how unprepared he was. I'm basing my opinion on the past 12 years of watching him not just the past six months. I have asked several times for anyone to outline why I would prefer Romney, Newt, and Rick over Perry and no one has taken up the project. He's the governor from my state, his is the only immigration policy that would not destroy the economy of the Rio Grande Valley where I live. No over the top hyperbole, I have posted several times why, from the GOP group, Perry was my favorite. I can't do anything more if you think it is an act.

A lot of my students (8th graders) have the Jordan or James or Kobe. When they try to get me involved I tell them that to give them a chance I'll take Scottie Pippen against James or Kobe. What's fun is at some point I can toss out 6 rings baby

Hmm, he used young and frisky in a sports article. Charming

He did appear that way, plus he didn't fit into a nice GOP mold. Too moderate on immigration, too conservative on some social issues, to liberal on other social issues, and too traditional on budgets.

Ah, yeah, Ed, that sounds damn good

I would start with your local police department and see which ones they are familiar with.

White bread, chunky, and either grape or strawberry. I wind up eating enough of those during the summer at camp I can't even look at one for 10 months.

Campaign have so many moving parts and there is so much prep work the candidate is only the tip of the iceberg. So I stand by my statement that is campaign was inept. One only has to look at Dubya to see that it is the entire campaign. Perry also went in too high and too late. Expectations placed him as a front runner even before he officially announced. Once he did enter the race, Romney zeroed on him for a quick KO which worked. And yes, a couple of really bad debate performances killed him. The Perry y'all saw was not the guy that is the longest serving governor in Texas state history.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Mar 8, 2012 -> 10:04 AM) This will sound greedy, but I just refuse to accept that it has to be "once in a lifetime" Anyone under 30 better believe that, for anyone older than YASNY, well it just might be. I wonder how many people lived long, long, lives thinking I can't believe the Cubs will not win a championship in my lifetime?

My concern will be how much the campaign as the GOP VP candidate will take out of him.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 28, 2012 -> 08:11 PM) Today is exactly why I f***ing hate with a passion Rmoney. The asshole and his own politcal operatives set up the Michigan open primary after the last election so he could get an easy win, and now, after NH's open primary (where he benefited or at least was left untouched by the fiasco), screams how "unfair" he's being treated? Rmoney's a spineless p****. Only Richard Perry would stoop about as low. The more I see of these guys the more I think Perry blew a great chance. I am still stunned how inept his campaign was. He picked the wrong superhero costume out of the closet.

I agree with y'all, one reason could be to conduct a more complete autopsy. Dissect his brain, etc.

For the record, I never fully believed the buried at sea story.

If enough people turn in top 20 lists you should be able to produce a top 50 list. All time would be more interesting to me. It is difficult to compare across eras. I keep having the scene from Bad Teacher running through my head, "Six rings! Is that all ya got?" "It's ALL I NEED!"

If Dunn hit .310 with 50 home runs, there will be probes sticking in him places we don't want think about.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 8, 2012 -> 01:13 AM) .210? Hell, this mofo is going to hit .310 with 50 homers, 50 steals, 30 saves, and 5 TD receptions. I don't think you realize quite how talented Adam Dunn is.

When dues the world series move to a warm weather or dome site?

Every team but the White Sox

The struggle was had was some of the changes required our suppliers to make changed in how they serviced us. Some could not make the change and we switched to ones that claimed they could. Our purchasing department was in chaos for a year. Anytime you swap a long term supplier for someone new, there will be glitches.

I think I am going to like this. I would also like to see the regular season schedule be cut back.

I posted a review in the book thread. I'm intrigued by the notion that he arguably did more in charity for his country than the corrupt government did. Now obviously he also caused the death of many people, but he built schools, hospitals, etc.

I'm guessing another season like this, or worse, and he is out of baseball.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 7, 2012 -> 09:57 AM) Wait, the guy had three trillion dollars? Sorry, I was in a rush. First it is Pablo and he was worth three billion, not certain how much US currency actually passed through his hands. He had warehouses full of US currency. He spent $30,000 a year on rubber bands to hold the $100 bills together. There were issues with getting it into banks. I ordered the book written by his brother who was his accountant.

I was reading a book review about Carlos Escobar and it talked about the millions and millions of dollars he had stored in a warehouse and how rats hade eaten about 10% of his money. Which if estimates are correct that would have been close to three hundred million dollars. How does large quantities of U.S. greenbacks landing aboard, outside of banks, some being lost, affect our economy here?