Texsox

Hey Tea Partyers, he balanced the Texas budget through spending cuts! Folks, y'all are going to really enjoy Governor Goodhair, some of y'all in Illinois will especially appreciate the tresses.

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/preside...90-71fa1bbd3cd9

Perhaps the hardest thing in baseball is evaluating a hot pitcher. And after watching so many come and go, I am the most pessimistic person when it comes to long range predictions.

Take a look at Div 1 schools before making statements like all. There are more than 300 D1 schools. I'll bet the kind of violations we read about do not occur at a couple hundred of those schools.

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/gain-51143-seats-gop.html I've been paying attention to the new congressional map and from a political standpoint it is just amazing how well the GOP has drawn this map. My area is the fastest growing area of the state and we managed to hold onto our three seats. We'll see what the courts say. I believe by the time this is settled it will be a textbook example for learning the process of drawing maps. With the new census, Texas picks up four new house seats. The vast, vast majority of Texas growth is Hispanic. So the GOP had to draw a map that would keep those new seats out of the Dems (Hispanic) hands. Somehow, they managed to do just that. Keep nibbling at the corners of areas that are solidly Hispanic and s t r e t c h it out to grab enough rural GOP to win elections. The GOP btw, imho, is doing exactly what they should do. They have the majority of the statewide offices and should draw a map that is within the law and benefits them the most. And the Dems should challenge the map every which way they can. /pops some corn

A few years back the biggest problem was a 5th starter, now we have three . . . So now it's the 'pen. Welcome to baseball in the 21st century.

You have to look above the highest problem to assign blame. JR, when will you shake up the organization? Williams = Pulford

Why bunt when you high a potent, high average, offense? We're f***ed either way.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 30, 2011 -> 09:40 PM) Whichever one is male. /over

Hey Rock, when you were there, were there any whispers of the program being dirty? It seems like, at least over here in Big 12 land, that he ran as honest of a top 25 program as could be run.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 30, 2011 -> 02:56 PM) It would still be trillions cheaper than legalization Which is why the government has allowed this issue to exist for a hundred years. The only way for it to cost less is to create a guest worker program with a smaller benefit list than currently offered to legal workers.

Working today, my vacation starts Thursday until August 2nd so no complaints from me. We have our annual awards ceremony today. It makes it easier for most parents to attend.

There are somewhere close to 10,000,000 undocumented workers in America. How many different companies are they working for? Are you really going to spend all the time and money to bring those employers to justice? And my analogy is valid. Illegals walk in with real social security cards and (usually) counterfeit birth certificate. Do you really think someone can be an expert on every local, county, and state birth certificate? Do you really think Walmart knows someone is here illegally and hires them anyway?

So if you accept a counterfeit birth certificate or a social security card for someone other than who it was issued for, you should be charged and your business closed? Come on. How is it any different than accepting a counterfeit bill? There are thousands of different birth certificates issues by towns, counties, and states. There is only one twenty dollar bill. Yet a business should be an expert on birth certificates but not American currency?

We certainly can invest tens of millions of dollars in enforcement, perhaps collect millions in fees, force closed hundreds of businesses, putting millions of Americans, illegal and legal, out of work. I wonder if that will really be in our best interest. Or we could put together a guest worker program, allowing for unskilled immigrants to work here legally.

You are ignoring the fact that most illegals that are caught are working for more than minimum wage, they were working for the prevailing wages. Convenience stores that get robbed repeatedly should be put out of business, they obviously have no clue how to run a business. Just having illegals on the payroll should not be the criteria, prosecution should hinge on "knowingly" which will be very expensive to prove. Yes, we allow in accountants, doctors, and all sorts of professionals, but dammit, their gardeners and nannies better be US citizens.

That's an old picture of the laptop before I hooked up the really sweet 400 baud modem.

X-Men around here is usually Balta

Happy Birthday!! :snr

Yes, they are sol on the money but we also do not then arrest the owner for counterfeiting or the clerk for engaging in counterfeiting activities. The difference is "knowingly hiring". Of course there are some companies that are knowingly hiring illegals, but there are many thousands more that are not knowingly hiring them. The workers arrive with driver's licenses and social security cards. Some are fake, some are borrowed. That is the majority of the workers. Are we going to shut down a farm because they were fooled by a counterfeit birth certificate? Shut down a Title company because a guy in the mail room used someone else's driver's license and social security card? Once we start litigating "knowingly" we're going to be spending a lot of time and money. Again, the reason this has gotten huge again, even after that great GOP President Reagan granted amnesty, is money. For the government, it is less low income workers collecting benefits, for the companies, it is a ready pool or workers willing to work jobs that Americans do not want to work. Imagine at a commencement address the speaker saying, we've educated you for 12 years, kid here's your diploma now follow the crops like nomads, living in shacks and picking crops as they come into season. Grab that dish towel and get into that kitchen and wash some dishes. Grab the handle of that rake and start landscaping that legal immigrant's home. Grab a knife and start processing carcasses in that slaughterhouse. Immigrants sowed the tobacco fields of Jamestown, creating the first boomtown in America. Immigrants planted, tended, and picked cotton in the south, creating a second boomtown in our history. Immigrants built the Erie Canal, linking the great lakes with New York, Immigrants died by the thousands building the transcontinental railroad. Immigrants have fought our wars and built our skylines. We have taught for generations the immigrant story through the eyes of Europeans who arrived through New York. Perhaps if generations of kids learned our immigration heritage by studying the Asians that arrived through San Francisco or the Hispanics that walked here or who became Americans when the border suddenly moved through war or treaty we would have a better collective memory of the American story.

I keep thinking this thread was a joke.

My biggest concerns about the harsher penalties for companies. You don't prosecute a retail store for accepting a counterfeit bill, so prosecuting a company for accepting a counterfeit social security card or birth certificate seems wrong also. Putting innocent people out of work because the guy in the mail room and six guys on the factory floor turned out to be illegal doesn't seem right. Illegals pay thousands of dollars to arrive here to work. There is money to be made getting them the documents to get these jobs. The enforcement. It's easy to target a huge processing plant like Swift, but how do you investigate the tens of thousands of small companies that hire less than 10 employees? We need to have a guest worker program, tied to jobs, where businesses can hire immigrants for low paying jobs. Currently it is too expensive to hire immigrants legally for entry level jobs. So we have a system where it makes sense for an accountant from India, a doctor from the Philippians, or an Italian tool and die maker to immigrate here and take a job paying $$$$ but they have to hire an American to take care of their landscaping and be their nanny.

From purely an economic standpoint, what is the difference between legal and illegal immigration?

When I was looking, what I liked was getting down quickly to WIFM as in What's In It For Me? What will I *really* be doing, what is your program. I hated wading through all the hype about what a great company you are.

Pave over the field, toss on some astroturf and save money. Use that money to shore up the bullpen.