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Only the posters here would have predicted the kind of seasons that Dunn, Rios, and Peavy had. What Kenny has done every year, with the players available, is build a team capable of winning the division. I am amazed how many people think they could have predicted the collapse of three key players.

I just received notice from Homeland Security and Border Protection that the vehicle was seized at a border check point. I'm trying to make sense of the notice. I am but worrying also.

As we lift our heads from a disappointing and maddening baseball season and start to look around the 'net, here's what we find interesting . . . I'll kick it off with a link to The Rand Corp: The Think Tank That Controls America. From satellite communications, fail safe nuclear systems, to space stations, it all begins there.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 22, 2011 -> 02:45 PM) "Weird Al" Yankovic didn't attend a BCS school. nicely played

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 24, 2011 -> 02:29 AM) He can only imply. We infer. Your Language Art teachers would be proud.

I'm thinking with Ozzie gone, this same roster will win 100-102 games.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Sep 24, 2011 -> 01:09 AM) If you mean how your wife suddenly perceives you, then that is the truest thing ever. And then in about 15 years, same thing.

They arrive up to an hour early. This is before school in the hallways. If we allow them to stand, they start to run, push, shove other students. The best control for the time between the buses drop them off and the start of the school day is segregate by grade level. The 6th grade gets the large hallway by our gym. The 7th and 8th grades rotate between sitting in the cafeteria and the parallel hallway by our library and office.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 23, 2011 -> 09:01 PM) Oh absolutely.that's one reason theresa a racial disparity-minorities are more likely to end up with overworked public defenders. Actually, at least in Texas, there are laws to keep the over worked part from happening. The lead attorney must have had experience as a second in a capital trial. They also are not allowed to be working other cases. Usually the work is contracted to private attorneys at the state's rate of pay. In reality the top private attorneys are never forced into taking the work, it is usually the bottom scrapers. Your point is correct in results, just not exact in who is working these cases. (at least in Texas)

A few times a year we have an additional morning duty, mine this week was supervising the 6th grade waiting area. The main rule is they have to be sitting down. One kid kept standing up as soon as I turned my back. I went over to him and said, hey, I'm going to be reasonable and offer you a deal. There is ten minutes left until the bell rings if I let you stand five minutes, will you sit five minutes? He was suspicious because the day before I allowed one of the other 6th graders to stand, in the 8th grade area, on stage. He said he would only if I let him pick the location, I said fine, but he had to let me pick when he sat and when he stood. He agreed. I said, cool, you can stand now sit now stand now sit now stand now sit now stand now sit now stand now sit now stand now sit now stand now sit now stand now sit now stand As he is doing squats and his buddies are giggling he tells me I'm going to get tired before he will. Ok, we'll see now sit now stand now sit now stand now sit now stand now sit now stand

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Sadly Perry has the most experience with immigration issues and how they helped Texas. His immigration plans would actually play better to Dems than Reps. He hasn't really started spending money, plenty of time to get back on track.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 23, 2011 -> 08:20 PM) owned I wish I could find the study on-line, there is a nifty correlation between the rate and experience of the defendant's lawyer and the likelihood that the defendant will receive the death penalty.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 22, 2011 -> 07:57 AM) Congrats!!! This is the greatest day of your life. yeah, the next few kids being born will barely crack the top twenty Congrats dad. BTW in a very short time you will be an idiot who doesn't know anything about life.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 23, 2011 -> 03:56 PM) Which is why the death penalty, IMO, is being used far too liberally. It needs to be reserved not only for the most heinous of crimes, but also the cases where evidence is solid as a rock. Texas leads the nation in executing killers, and that has made Texas the safest state in the nation.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 23, 2011 -> 09:56 AM) Nor that there are serious racial disparities in the justice system. Not really OJ was found not guilty.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 23, 2011 -> 05:24 PM) BINGO! So when the city is negotiating wages with the union, at least part of the benefits are controlled by the city and not the union?

All I said was it has a great cover.

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So we had a parent come in to discuss her child's behavior. Of course this kid basically blamed everyone else and denied everything. We get back to class and I called out the kid and his best friend who he kept throwing under the bus. I looked at the other kid and explained that "Don's" mom was here to discuss his behavior and it seems we had the wrong kid. He's been behaving but *you* keep getting him in trouble. *You* keep talking when he's trying to do his work. *You* stop him in the halls and make him tardy. So we're going to be bringing in your dad to discuss this. The kid starts telling his friend how he was lying to get out of trouble. I let them both back into class. The first kid was pissed at me. He sat there all pissed off the rest of class. His friend kept looking at him all pissed off. LOL I love kids.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 20, 2011 -> 09:41 PM) It's not - and to be honest, the biggest issue is not one person I know around here has time to reskin/recalibrate everything it would take to upgrade to 3.x. It take a lot of work, and I don't have the time nor the desire to go through a humongous upgrade. The season is over, maybe we could get it gaged? We could be back up by spring training.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 22, 2011 -> 08:00 PM) It's mostly a celebration of baseball statistics and achievement. Tough to celebrate guys who achieved because of cheating, well for most people it is. So at the end of his career. and he'll need many more years of 12-15 wins, would you rather visit the hall and see a video of Mark's no hitters and him sliding on a tarp, pitching in a World Series, smiling, or Clemens, Bonds, Sosa, etc etc? Which promotes the game of baseball more? It should be a celebration, but is it when this era produced so many dark moments? That's also a reason why I believe the hall needs Frank in on the first ballot.

Bigger market and payroll teams don't need to rely on the draft. If Dunn played a 75% of his normal output, this season is vastly different. The chances of getting those stats out of Dunn versus someone you draft is usually far better. If you are a team looking for a pitcher to get you 12 wins in 2013 would you rather count on your 2010 draft or getting MB in free agency?

Unless something really weird happens, you'll have another chance.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 22, 2011 -> 04:44 PM) Sorry Balta, but this is beyond bulls***. MILLIONS of dollars and THOUSANDS of hours were spent by every level of the judicial and administrative system to make sure this guy was guilty. And how much was spent to see if he was innocent? On one hand you have the state of Georgia and their resources pushing for guilty and on the other you have a private individual and their ability to rally resources to work for free.