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I've lost all interest in the primaries. I can't support either one of the front runners and just when I think I can warm up to Paul, I read something he said and that feeling goes away. Obama 2012

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Feb 8, 2012 -> 08:51 AM) He was found guilty of fraud and theft. He moved out of the town he lived in as an elected official, lied about where he lived - took a paycheck he wasn't entitled to and voted in a district he wasn't entitled to. I'll be honest, if this was any other statewide position OTHER than the one responsible for enforcing election laws, I probably wouldn't have as big of a problem with using an address in another voting district - but the paycheck thing? That's egregious and corrupt and politicians who violate the public trust in this way should get everything that's coming to them. As he was between marriages, I am cutting him some slack on the address. Anyone that can get an ex-wife to cover for him, or allow him to crash there, deserves a break. I like your point about positions matter. I was not taking that into account enough.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 8, 2012 -> 08:53 AM) Usually? Personal political gain. Your boards are way better than ours

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Feb 7, 2012 -> 08:36 PM) I will believe it when I see it................he is media whore who craves attention! He is a media members dream. In a world of safe, means nothing quotes, Ozzie will give you something to write about. Take it one game at a time gets boring after the 1,000,000 utterance by a coach.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 7, 2012 -> 11:38 AM) That kind of reinforces my point actually. Obama gets "Change of position", Romney gets "Flip-flopper". I know which I would rather have. The media needs to have one term that they always use.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Feb 7, 2012 -> 03:14 PM) At my place of employment, about once a month somebody decides it is a good idea to spread feces on the wall and on the inside of the stall. It literally looks like they are trying to paint the walls with feces. Now mind you, I work for a company where every person working there is atleast 25+ and making a rather decent wage. I can never understand what would make a full grown adult do that kind of thing. Looking at your hometown, perhaps it comes from being a Dick? Sorry, but I have to ask, what is the High School mascot?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 7, 2012 -> 01:24 PM) Honestly it happens way too often. I've personally seen it locally where a person from outside of City limits was listed as the same address as an important non-political figure. I've seen another that ended up being a factory which closed before I was born. All to run for City Council and to serve on local boards. Why? Personal financial gain? Volunteerism?

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Feb 7, 2012 -> 12:21 PM) He had due process. And was found guilty on five counts. I thought you posted somewhere there was an appeal process that may knock those down to misdemeanors. It seems like a fair plan to appoint an interim and once any and all appeals are exhausted, then replace him. I would hope at some point he would resign. Maybe if I lived there I could work up a little more venom. But it wasn't like he stole an election, had he filed properly he still would have won.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Feb 7, 2012 -> 08:17 AM) Violated election laws while running to be the arbiter of election law? Yeah, that's what he did. He violated a law that seems about to me as bad as a cop speeding five miles over the limit. Not certain I would punish it that severely. And I support allowing him due process before removing him from office.

I am picturing a dog wandering the woods, skipping over an easy meal because they do not "enjoy" rabbit or ground squirrel. The same animals that smell each other crotches suddenly are gourmets at dinner.

Every time I read rebuild I think no, for the love of God, no. Build something different, the original kind of sucked.

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.