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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 6, 2012 -> 09:34 AM) Welcome to Rebuilding. Would you like fries with that? OMG we're still talking about him?? Sox PR, I feel your pain.

Don't look at the title of the laws he broke, look at what he actually did. That is what I based my opinion on.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Feb 3, 2012 -> 10:37 AM) That doesn't include the universities, and it was more list $45k, and was almost $10k MORE than the average resident of the state. Not a lot for say New York, but apparently in WI, it is. Just face the facts. The state saved jobs, and budgets. Everyone paid the price, INCLUDING TEACHERS. They can't be immune to the same realities that everyone else has to face. Keep twisting and changing the goalposts, you are good at that. First they are boned. Then I show that they are not. Then they are poor. Then I show they are not. Then they are poor compared to teachers elsewhere. Just keep on moving the posts, you never lose that way. When they allow the average person in the state to teach, it will be a fair comparison. If the state is going to require college degrees plus teaching certificates, then a better stat would be comparing teacher's salaries with other professions that require college degrees.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 3, 2012 -> 07:54 AM) Wow, $40k a year for a teacher. I mean, that's f***ing ridiculous. Greedy pigs. Let's look at what those poor GOP CEOs are earning, from USAToday http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/ma...2010/45634384/1 Of course one CEO is easily worth as much as four schools full of teachers (about 215).

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Feb 3, 2012 -> 07:12 AM) The whole country is a cesspool of corruption that makes our congress look like saints. Somehow the culture needs to change, and not sure our military is going to do that. They need their own 'mexican spring' to get rid of corrupt politicians, cops and soldiers, and find some good people willing to risk their lives to fight for their country. With the oil and tourism there, Mexico should be a thriving economy. Guess someone missed that memo. Yet almost weekly Mexico experiences judges and elected officials being assasinated or driven from office for not bending to the cartels. They have cops and soldiers getting killed trying to stop the cartels. It has been five years since I worked full time in Mexico but then I would not have termed it a cesspool. It is worse than the US, but not nearly as bad as many people believe.

How about Mexico? http://www.themonitor.com/articles/reporte...t-sullivan.html There is some evidence that both cartels are using the US side as a "seize fire zone". They know that any spill over violence would invite the US military to intervene. However, with an announced build up in the Pacific, just off Mexico's coast, and a nice border wall being built, and anti-Mexican sentiment higher than it has since the Mexican-American war, why not? ON a personal note, the toll this has taken along the border is palpable. International families no longer travel south for weekly dinners, maquilla workers travel in groups to return to the US each night. Our stores are struggling because middle class Mexican nationals from interior cities are afraid to drive across the the border area. Our few private airfields are full as wealthier Mexican nationals fly over the violence for their weekend shopping trips. Winter Texans are ordering their medicines from Canadian pharmacies instead of slipping across the border to buy in Mexico. Organized junkets to the leather and glass shops of Monterrey, Mexico have been replaced by gambling junkets to Louisiana and Eagle Pass, Texas. But with extra military coming home, why not send some "advisers" and "trainers" to Mexico to assist their military in stopping the drug cartels as the cartels do their best to supply American drug users with their products?

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 02:03 PM) The cops here have been in a feud with a local bar owner who owns a few of the more popular bars, which has led to the cops to raid pretty much only those bars for a period of time. That was the case at the bar I worked at. We would print up maps to where Illinois would have road blocks set up. When the Wisconsin cops would bust us, they usually tossed a couple of the maps into our hands.

QUOTE (whitesox901 @ Feb 3, 2012 -> 04:12 AM) None of our business. pisses me off this is in the media. Does the opposite bother you, players who have carefully crafted images, massaged by their PR firms, so that they can be better spokespersons and sell you s***?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 3, 2012 -> 04:37 AM) Another report that ignores education levels, awesome! Yeah but it's a part time job

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 2, 2012 -> 10:29 AM) I'm sure Trump is loving that. It amazes me that anyone gives a s*** what that jackass thinks. I do have to give Trump credit for one thing, he has worked the American system better than anyone. From real estate to entertainment. Divorce, bankruptcy, and still living the dream.

Will he have more of a problem with what he has done (or has happened under his watch) or what he has not done?

It was also mentioned he can play the corner outfield positions.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Feb 2, 2012 -> 12:31 PM) One thing has nothing to do with the other. The main reason 18 year olds are driving around drunk is because they cant legally hang out at a bar or drink at home a lot of the time because theyre underage. So instead if they want to drink, which a lot of 18-20 year olds do and will regardless of the law, they will drive around trying to find something to do or try to find some shady party. I was speaking to why we raised the age to 21 from 18 back in the 1970s and early 1980s. IIRC states would be denied federal road doallars if their drinking age was under 21. But you confirm my point. But to your point, are you suggesting that 18-20 year olds are forced into irrespossible behavior? If they are getting drunk and driving because they can't get into a bar they will then drink less at a bar and not drive drunk? They have to get home from the bar. The best argument I have heard from university presidents for a return to 18 is it drives the drinking underground where there is less supervision. They believe with a lower drinking age they can better monitor kids drinking and when they have a problem they will be more willing to seek out help.

I think it is time to annoint him the Messiah . . .

I was just thinking, is Johnson looking at Dunn thinking he can get past him in the lineup? And, I wonder what promises they made to Johnson. I still believe AAA is his destination, but that quote has me intrigued. Maybe there will be something interesting during spring training this year. Besides the Ventura watch.

Of all the entertainment events going on all over the world, at what event are you more likely to get killed? Concert? Baseball game? Soccer game? Play? Church Revival? and where are you most likely to get killed? US? Europe? Africa? Asia? We (US) like our violence in smaller numbers and with guns. We don't need no stinking sports event to kill some people.

So how to have a positive conversation about the negative facts that the candidates are bringing up? I tried three things with my favorite candidate, to bring up his positives, try to explain the negatives, and ah, ah, I can't remember the third (is lasting legacy).

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 01:09 PM) Man, they're really setting up Charlotte for a title run. The Knights are gonna be loaded with AAAA talent. I wonder how bad Dunn wants a championship?

That guy needs a new agent if he thinks the White Sox are a good chance for him to make the opening day 25 man roster. I keep humming to myself The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round . . .

And the two conversations I had in the restaurant "Hey Dad, don't go in there, it is too nasty to use" "You are just like your mother, can't stand a little dirt" two seconds later dad emerges gagging . . . "Welcome to the family dad" I head to the counter . . . "excuse me, but the men's bathroom needs attention" "Thank you sir, we're sending someone" "No, thank you" Dad" Why didn't you tell them how bad it was?" "I wanted them to have the same f***ing surprise I got" Five minutes later Cough cough gag gag There wasn't a person in the place that made enough to clean that s*** up.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 08:45 PM) I laughed for almost a full minute at the second part. Dude, I could not figure out how the hell it got on some of those places. It was like someone held the guy in the air and flung him around. And damn, it must have happened like five minutes before I opened the door. It nearly ruined my Hunger Buster and Blizzard

Mine was at the Aragon Brawl Room. The lines during an AC/DC concert were so long that guys lined up to go behind a door with the pee running out from under the door and down the aisles. Legitimate. meant for bathroom was in a Dairy Queen. Someone had diarrhea all over the bathroom. Sink, walls, floor, you name it. Then threw paper towels over it.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 11:02 AM) Well, yeah, there's a lot of stupid laws out there. An 18 year old can die for his country but can't drink alcohol in his country (mostly). We don't mind the 18 year old killing people in other countries, we do mind the 18 year old killing people in this country drunk driving.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 03:42 PM) If this thread were really about some honest discussion, I'd be fine with it. This thread has never been about an honest exchange of information, which as I have constantly said, defeats the purpose of this forum just as much, if not more. At this point it has come down to two candidate, both GOP standouts. Why don't we show the same level of honest discussion that the candidates are having? Seriously, I believe this forum is at least better than what the actual candidates are flinging. So if this forum merely discussed the crap that they are slinging, how will it ever be much better?