Texsox

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 12, 2011 -> 04:37 PM) VOLUNTARY. Union dues deductions, NOT VOLUNTARY. The why should employers take out involuntary items like taxes and wage garnishments?

QUOTE (G&T @ Nov 13, 2011 -> 08:08 AM) I just pushed the larger mug button. I think that's 8 oz. There is no doubt that the K-cups are the best thing going for pods, but if I have time to make coffee, I rather the drip. I'm just a little surprised you find the taste weak. I kind of grew up on cowboy coffee, toss a cup of grounds in cold water and boil. Add a little cold water and swing the pot in an arc to settle the grounds. Sip and chew.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 13, 2011 -> 09:25 AM) Nothing replaces a french press for REAL coffee...nothing. In comparison to french press, if made properly, nothing comes close. As for variety, there is actually MORE variety with a french press than K-Cup, it's not even close. You can take ANY coffee bean and grind it to suit a french press. How could you possibly claim there is more variety in K-Cup when that's clearly not the case. I wouldn't keep 10 pounds of beans around, I do keep a couple hundred K-cups. When I order I usually pick eight different 24 packs. I do know ordering a minimum of a pound of each bean would be a little crazy, but much more economical. You must be sticking your tongue out at that bad coffee you just drank

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 13, 2011 -> 08:45 AM) Mediafly is f***ing awesome. Thanks, I just downloaded it to my iPad

QUOTE (The Baconator @ Nov 13, 2011 -> 08:31 AM) What is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell me about? My podcasts are NPR's This American Life and the Adam Corolla Show. And for fans of This American Life, there was apparently a show made out of it (lasted two seasons) and is definitely worth checking out if you can find it. Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me is a news quiz show, and usually good for four to five real good laughs. I originates from Chicago but has a national focus. There are some good reoccurring segments and usually good guests. I would call it a comedy about the news if that makes sense.

I only listen to a couple but one thing that frustrates me is not being able to fast forward or rewind while using my iPod. Are there better programs for listening to podcasts? Either for an iPad or Android phone? And, to keep this all things podcast, what podcasts are y'all listening to? I usually will download two NPR shows, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me and Cartalk.

Just wondering, how did Mark become indebted to the organization that he should give a hometown discount? Isn't that like the employee buying the owner a gold watch?

QUOTE (G&T @ Nov 10, 2011 -> 08:03 AM) I've used a Kuerig for about 5 years and recently went back to a traditional brewer. The amount of coffee in the K-cups is not enough to give proper flavor. I love the conveniece of the k-cups but if you compare the taste side by side, it isn't equal. How large of a mug are you trying to fill? I replaced my french press with the K-cups and love it. I especially love the variety. No way with a french press or traditional brewer I would have so many different coffees available. Currently I am choosing from Dunkin' Donuts, Folgers, Timothy's Donut House, Tree Hugger organic, Jet Fuel, Van Houte Colombian, Emeril's Big and Bold, and a Caribou Morning Blend. Some are much more mild than others, I enjoy the differences. I had one friend tell me the Keurig was too "thin". He was watching it brew and it looked too clear to him. But any liquid pushing in a small enough stream will look clear, even used motor oil. We put his regular coffee in a medicine squeeze thingy and it looked just as thin.

Margaritas and some damn delicious Mexican food at a favorite little joint.

BTW, based on what I have read so far and believing that at least 5 employees are involved, I would be in favor of no bowl games for five years, reductions in the number of scholarships, substantial payments to the victims and to child abuse prevention organizations.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 12, 2011 -> 04:11 PM) It's not a matter of punishment, Tex. It's a matter of responsibility. The first responsibility is to be certain no further abuse is happening. I believe that has happened. The victims are not Penn State students. Shutting down the program would not prevent one of the employees from further abusing a kid. Unless I missed something, it seems like the most attention should be on the foundation, not Penn State, to prevent further abuse. This was a former employee using a facility. Is it really much different than shutting down a hotel he might have used? Or did I miss how he was accessing 10 year-olds through a University? Now if new evidence uncovers additional abusers at the university, then they need to be prosecuted. I just do not see how firing secretaries, trainers, media liaisons, travel secretaries, ticket agents, grounds crew, all who had nothing to do with this will help anyone.

Gooooooooal!!!! No. No?? When the opposing goal keeper believes it is a goal, it probably is. But the ref said no, so a loss.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Nov 12, 2011 -> 03:15 PM) That's quite the difference. As I know it, the Duke lacrosse thing stemmed from a hooker lying. In this one, children were raped and the guy responsible was on the PSU campus as recently as last week and possibly still recruiting for the school this year. And I would think it'd take at least a year to set up an entirely new coaching staff and "front office", for lack of a better term. Teams replace coaching staffs all the time and do not take a year off. Universities replace Presidents frequently and keep operating. I'm not suggesting that a crime did not occur, this does seem pretty damn slam dunk. But these are poor kids and you know how poor people will make up anything for money, just read the Cain thread. I believe there needs to be a full investigation and all the guilty people punished. Rushing to punish, which is much different than rushing to protect, leads to mistakes.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Nov 12, 2011 -> 03:08 PM) And if a large number of people from the football program are guilty, that would all but necessitate the program being shut down for a while to replace all of them. Agreed. Although I don't think it would take a year to replace a coaching staff. All my comments are based on what we know today. I am trying to learn from the Duke lacrosse case. Many were screaming to close down their program.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 12, 2011 -> 11:13 AM) That would basically ruin all the class that was shown today before the game. Amen. I'm glad they lost.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 12, 2011 -> 06:35 AM) Come on, Tex. I'm not saying kill the program for good. But this thing is a mess. I'm saying IF it turns out that this has been some massive conspiracy where a pedophile has been allowed to use the football program as a vehicle to molest children, with the knowledge of the coaching staff, the AD, the President, etc., then the program needs to be shut down indefinitely, until it can be absolutely assured that everyone that had any knowledge or involvement with this has been weeded out and discarded. I don't care if every other sport at the University has to shut down for a year. No sporting event, no team, no athlete, no fan, no revenue stream is worth risking that anything like this can ever happen again at Penn State University or any other university, for that matter. And I believe punishing hundreds or thousands of innocent people is wrong. It will not help the victims, only create more. You kill the program for a couple years and you will kill the program for much, much longer. Plus do irreparable harm to innocent people. I want all the guilty people punished, so far we're talking four or five at Penn State, but not the innocent.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 12, 2011 -> 06:05 AM) Sometimes life just isn't fair, Tex. If this kind of thing was really being allowed to happen for the last 13 years with everyone's knowledge, it's a sacrifice the innocent are going to have to make. How many knew? Five? Five Hundred? Five Thousand? How many are you going to hurt and how many will be helped? Hurting thousands of innocent people without helping anyone isn't the solution.

Ask yourself why a university wants a division 1 football program. Is it just to allow the program to help itself and not anything else at the university? The D1 program enhances the curb appeal of the university. It enhances its prestige. When Dr. Barry Marshall accepted a position at Penn State, do you think people opened up their checkbooks and made a donation? Did thousands of students dream of one day attending Penn State? Did Marshall appear on TV every Saturday around the state in a three hour recruiting infomercial? When you build a case that the university should drop the football program, you are negating all the good an athletic program is for a university at large and agreeing with those that believe they serve no purpose except to themselves. If that is the case, then every university should drop athletics and focus solely on their academic mission. They gain nothing from an athletic program and risk losing. Why bother? To punish a music student or math major because of the failings of a few people, who are being punished, and who would not be punished any further by the closing of the program, a closing that would not help any of the victims, and extends the list of innocent victims is wrong.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 12, 2011 -> 05:51 AM) Plenty of schools do just fine without a football program. I'd imagine most of Penn State's players received scholarship offers from other schools. I suppose you probably are against jailing or firing any criminal who has to support a family considering the potential trickle down effect. Penn State football---Too Big To Fail. Sure schools do manage without football programs. But this one has built an organization built by the tens of millions of dollars that flows in. So we are talking about hundreds of innocent people losing their jobs and non revenue sports being dropped. Perhaps there is a limit to how many people should suffer because of this. And I won't even respond to the veiled insult Dick.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 11, 2011 -> 08:28 PM) I know you're being sarcastic here...but if this plays out like many think it may, there is no doubt that shutting the football program down for at least the remainder of this year, removing every vestige of the staff that had anything to do with this, and starting over from scratch either next year, or perhaps even in 2013, is certainly something that would not be overreacting. If you're talking about a conspiracy that goes up and down the entire staff of this program, which enabled a child molester to continue his predation both on campus at the PSU facilities, off campus with the support of PSU funding, and on behalf of PSU in an official capacity on recruiting trips, then yeah, some 9 years after it was clear this man was sodomizing boys in your facilities, this whole program should be shut down until the horror that has occurred there can be sucked out of every dark crevice and a new program can be restarted that is so f***ing clean, it makes BYU look like the SMU programs of the early 1980's. Would you say the same thing if it was the Boston Red Sox?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 11, 2011 -> 10:06 PM) And then take forced kickbacks to the Democratic Fundraising Organization. Oops, I mean to the SEIU. Oh yeah, same thing. WHY the f*ck is the STATE ever responsible for deducting dues for the union, THAT is bulls***, any way you look at it. They should have NO reason to do that. WHY the f*ck is the STATE ever responsible for deducting voluntary insurance premiums, charitable donations, etc., THAT is bulls***, any way you look at it. They should have NO reason to do that. Same thing or different? I have premiums for a voluntary short term disability and hospitalization automatically paid out, a donation to the United Way, and membership dues to a professional organization I belong to.

Couple of things Most people in this situation have kidnapping insurance. Which both helps them if they are kidnapped, but also makes them targets. So while he may not have been making the coin to pay any ransom directly, he was probably earning enough or the team paid, the premiums. There are beautiful places in Venezuela, and throughout Latin America that no one who has been there would describe as s*** holes. One of my retirement options is to Mexico to an area that has less crime than most small towns in America and far less than any American city.

QUOTE (SouthSideTeacher @ Nov 11, 2011 -> 07:06 PM) I'm sick. A kid getting raped in the showers ISN'T in immediate danger? f*** protocol. call the cops. NOW.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Nov 11, 2011 -> 07:27 PM) He's reaching. I wouldn't bother. Just reacting to the suggestion that PSU football be shut down for a long time. I think it is a great suggestion. Close the stadium, send the players out to find other universities, or better yet pay for their own degrees. There really isn't any value to the university at large in having a football program. Best part is once the revenue from the football program is gone, they can finally drop all those non revenue producing sports like baseball, tennis, fencing, and anything that has to do with women. Turn the facilities into something the student body can really use.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 11, 2011 -> 06:49 PM) If the NCAA had any balls, they would find a way to ban Penn State football for a long time. Exactly. The entire PSU should be punished. Every one of their students, the employees, the people who make money off the games being played, they all deserve to be punished. The hotels and restaurant employees, every last one of them will be forever tainted by being a part of this scandal.