Texsox

Well we got to 100 posts

So many thoughts at once . . . That gives the GOP a chance Nah, the machine will win Daley picks the winner.

Sucks that the baseball season is over

Well excuse me but I'm surprised no one has mentioned Saturday Night Live. Perhaps it's because of Da Bears! or you are eating cheesebugers, cheeeeps, pepsi.

While risky, a Sox move to Arlington Heights might push them ahead of the Cubs finally. Or destroy them

David Lee "Why did I ever piss off Eddie"

I have to believe the master of this domain is Seinfeld.

jim around to continue?

Here's the one problem with the receipt, well at least the one that I see. That receipt has to be left at the polling place or you could easily have the buying of votes, this time with proof of who you voted for. I'm not liking the receipt leaving with the voter. It kind of breaks down the secret ballot.

A voter drive restriction would restrict my right to organize my neighborhood to go vote. When is giving a ride to someone too much help? Stuff like that. QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 27, 2010 -> 04:42 PM) I am not sure where I said anythgn about restricting people's rights, I was just stressing that I (as in me, my opinion) don't want you to vote if you can't even muster up enough energy to go register yourself and eductae yourself on at least one issue. Regardless of party.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 27, 2010 -> 02:43 PM) Actually, if people don't have enough interest to get up off their a$$es and register and vote on thier own, I don't want them voting. For either side. i want people to know enough about at least ONE thing in the election that they can talk about more than just spouting off Fox or CNN talking points. Although with the saturation of 'facts' from both sides, that is sometimes hard to happen. But if you need a third party to have to come to your door to get you to register, you should just stay home. if you are not interested enough to register, you are not interested enough to vote. And I don't cast it either way, but you can't deny that a majority of the stories about this sort of stuff happen going one way only. You don't hear about Wal-Mart organizing busses to take their employees to vote, but you hear of ACORN and UNIONS rounding up old people and members to go vote enmass. You don't hear about College Young Republicans registering Alex Keaton to vote, but there is alwasy some progressive-leaning group that seems to register Mickey Mouse. And why do Democrats scream the loudest when you try to remove dead people from voter rolls, but not seem to care about getting overseas military ballots on time? While I generally agree with what you said, I find it troubling when we start limiting the public's rights. To organize, protest, etc are bedrock, cornerstone priciples of our country. I wish there was an easy way to do both, protect our rights *and* get people to go vote on their own.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 27, 2010 -> 07:37 AM) Congrats, Tex! I used the Livestrong one for a while, which I enjoyed, because it had basically EVERYTHING you could possibly eat in their database, including brand name stuff and popular restaurants. I highly recommend it. How clean is the database? I mean will twenty different versions of the same thing pop up with some being more complete than another? That's what i'm starting to get annoyed with this ap.

Sad.

You remember last time we went over a month Zebra is a nice nickname for officials

After trying and trying to lose some weight, I downloaded an ap for my new phone that adds up the calories and I've lost 10 pends in a little over 2 weeks. I am down to 216, working on sub 200 as an early goal. I am a little more active, but it really is mostly counting the calories. 1815 per day.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 08:36 PM) I won't be told to "knock it off." You may wish to rethink that position. Everyone who posts here, everyone, has to play by the same rules. There are two groups of people here, those that have been told to knock it off (including myself and almost all the mods/admins), and those that will be told at some time to knock it off. Those that won't be told, aren't posting here.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 08:25 PM) agreed. that many false registrations would lend me to believe there could be an intention to commit voter fraud. merely ignoring something like this isn't a good idea. I look at some of the events that they set these up at and wonder if any signatures are legit. I've seen voter drives at concerts with half drunk people signing applications. I remember one time down in the city where they were getting signatures on some petition to get something on the ballot. You had to be a Cook County resident to sign but I got so pissed that every block someone was pushing the damn thing in my face, I started signing. I must have signed the damn thing twelve or fifteen times. I guess I should have been charged with fraud.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 07:32 PM) So should we throw out attempting anything charges? If a guy takes a gun into a bank and doesn't get away with any money, should he walk? No we shouldn't. They should be prosecuted. And, as I mentioned in a follow up post, perhaps we need to add some tougher checks before these people wind up on the voter rolls. Who to prosecute will be the challenge. We don't prosecute a store clerk for accepting a counterfeit bill, so why should we prosecute a volunteer voter registration clerk if someone misrepresents themselves?

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 07:23 PM) If they do that, the turn around between series would have to be really short because you're adding alot of extra days then. Maybe cut the wildcard to 3 Then Division 7, League 7, WS 7 games.

Alphabetical Begins

If any do, they will dive to the center like everyone else. They will have to vote with either the Dems or the Reps, so guess who they will vote with?

At the heart of our current system is the desire to remove as many barriers as possible to voting. Yet still, only half or less actually vote. After a hundred years of a system that turned away voters with poll taxes, and similar, perhaps we did swing the pendulum too far the other way.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 07:07 PM) Do you guys ever read the article? The SYSTEM didn't work, they were registered, it was an outside group looking at registrations that caught them all. The system failed. Just like the system has failed to remove dead people or people who have moved. Somehow there had to be an advantage, either real or perceived, to have all these extra people registered, andf to be in no hurry to remove the names that don't belong. I'm sorry, I missed where they actually voted?

Typhoon Mary Wilson

Of the Sox managers over the past 30 years, we're discussing the two best. Do you want old and experienced, or still rough around the edges? I don't believe Ozzie is built for the long haul. No way he's still managing in 25 years. I'd have to see who else is mentioned, but I'd like to see Tony on the short list.