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My first reaction is every sports program up to high school schould be about skill development, sportsmanship, and learning how to be a team mate. Keep score if you like, but winning and losing should not be the goal until high school. Fortunately my school district shares this philosophy.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 30, 2012 -> 10:36 PM) I concur. Only PK & Mark, anything more than that and you are just getting ridiculous. Frank Thomas says Yo! We forget he was on that team.

QUOTE (mumbles3k @ Jan 31, 2012 -> 04:58 AM) Sure, but my point is that the 1972 season wasn't really anything special. What is it that they're celebrating? Not being in Florida?

His Serbian friends hate him for cheering for the Sox I'll never cheer for a country without nukes. I don't want to get attached in case we have to save them from an evil dictator.

Ukrainian women know how to protest. The Occupy movement could learn a lesson or two about getting world wide attention.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jan 30, 2012 -> 05:00 PM) Seems every year since '05 the Sox have guys planning retirements or looking to move on. Guillen, Buehrle, Williams, Konerko. There's something not right about that. It seems to me it means we've managed to keep a core group for more than a couple years.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 30, 2012 -> 03:37 PM) The only issue is whether we give M-56 his statue before he retires. We retired Baines uniform while he was an active player with another team.

PK statue worthy? That seems like an easy one. I'd also like to see MB and possibly AJ.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jan 30, 2012 -> 01:26 PM) Except the State of Illinois took that back. I almost forgot about state income taxes. We don't do that in Texas.

Personally, it seems like such a minor issue and the punishment doesn't seem like it fits the offense. I'm glad it would be a Republican appointing a Republican, I've never like political party switches during these times.

I would like to see AJ retire with the Sox, but I doubt it will happen. The team will need him in the back up role and someone will need him full time. He exceeded my expectations in achievement and time with the club.

I was surprised how quickly I received statements. The last I was waiting for was the 1098-E for my son.

Tis the season, and the earliest I have ever filed.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 27, 2012 -> 01:24 PM) So if they shot and killed her, should we replace her, or would that be a 'win' for the terrorists? Perhaps it is time to have some kind of stand-in for when someone can't do the job due to an illness or injury. A person absent form congress for an extended period of time is simply NOT doing the job they were elected to do, which is represent. Not saying it is their fault, but still if you can't do the job, why should the voters get shorted because you can't vote? I wish I had not used the word "win". How about this, I am defining a win as the terrorists getting what they want. So yes, if she was killed, they would get what they wanted and I would call that a win for them. Not that we are terrorists, but didn't we consider it a win when Bin Laden was killed? When Hussein was removed from office and hanged, wasn't that a win? The choice is between two bad situations. I just hate giving criminals what they want. I balance that higher than the district being without representation while the person recovers or their term expires. You value the representation higher than giving criminals what they want. I don't disagree that you have a very valid point. Again, this isn't right versus wrong to me, it is bad versus bad. No good came out of this, and never could, no matter what decision she made. It isn't a 100-0 kind of balance, more of a 55-45 balance to me. I am sympathetic to the notion that the district deserves representation, which is why I believe she did the correct thing in resigning. But again, I would respect her decision to hold onto office while she recovers or her term expires and take solace in the fact the criminal/nutjob/terrorist did not get what he wanted. In my mind the only way this guy doesn't get what he wanted (wins) is if she stays in office *and* recovers from her injuries to the point she can effectively represent her district.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 27, 2012 -> 01:07 PM) So is there any reasonable situation where a person survives this attack but then departs congress which you'd count as being forced out? It seems like if the person doesn't die, then there's nothing that can happen you'd regard as being forced out. Perhaps not. Thank you for pointing that out.

I believe there is a differnce between being voted out of office and being forced out.

I always assumed after wrapping up a war the military would become smaller. We ramp up during a war. From what I have heard of the new plans, they seem solid.

Wow. I would have thought they had an endowment that would have carried them forever. Was there ever any scandal? It always seemed like a really solid charity.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 27, 2012 -> 12:44 PM) She was forced to retire because someone shot her in her brain, severely impacting her ability to perform her job. She made a voluntary decision to resign while recovering from her injuries. No one forced her to resign. If I knew y'all would define forced in that manner I would have rephrased my original statement. If we demand, forcibly remove, cause to be removed, or in some manner beyond their own voluntary decision, have someone resign because they are taking too long to heal from a terrorist attack, we are allowing the terrorist what they wanted, the person removed from office. That to me feels like they won. The terrorists got what they wanted, the voters did not.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 22, 2012 -> 05:26 PM) If this isn't her being "Forced from office as a direct result of a terrorist act", I don't know what is. Let's look at the word forced and see if it applies forced Obtained or imposed by coercion or physical power: "the brutal regime of forced labor".I do not believe she was forced, at least by my understanding of the word forced. I believe she voluntarily resigned. vol·un·tar·y Adjective:Done, given, or acting of one's own free will: "voluntary contributions I believe there is a huge difference here. How long of a recovery time should we allow? Six months? A year? and who should decide? So again, what I believe is if we started forcing people from office if it will take too long for them to heal, then the terrorists win. I would hope this never happens again, but if it does, I would rather the office holder is allowed to voluntarily make that decision, and not to be forced to resign. As I said initially, I would respect a person's decision to stay in office while recovering from their illness or injuries.

After my divorce I was opening a checking account and was refused because of a bounced check my ex wrote. Once I covered that with the store, life was good and it never appeared anywhere on my credit report. I'm not certain if fees would be the same, but the amount was more that double what you're talking about.

Isn't there a little Ned Beatty in all of us?

Come on, the man just died let the body cool before making accusations like that ;-)

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 26, 2012 -> 03:10 PM) What? Give me a break. You're comparing a high-profile case about potential child rape to a local story about a dog being shot by a drunken hillrod and expecting the same amount of evidence gathering. What kind of evidence gathering would you suggest we collect before it is safe in your opinion to commentate (which by the way, I find f***ing ironic as hell since that sure as hell doesn't hold you back from commenting or speculating on any other matter)? I don't believe he brought up the PSU case to compare. That was done for him.

QUOTE (scenario @ Jan 26, 2012 -> 02:58 PM) Not sure I understand what story a guy could tell that would justify shooting somebody's pet Labrador. Makes absolutely no sense to me. The dog had attacked his child before. Fought with his dog. Chased his cat. Caused his horse to bolt. Appeared rabid. I am not saying it happened in this case, but we have one side of the story. I promised after the Duke Lacross case I would not rush to judgement again. Based on what we know the guy is a sadistic scumbag. But we only know one side of the story.