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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.

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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.

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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.

I root for the Sox > AL Central > AL There are a couple NL teams I would cheer for Astros, maybe the Cards depending on who they were playing. I'd cheer for the Cubs to lose in 7, on a 3-2 walk off walk.

I'd be OK with adding two teams. Let the wildcard teams play each other in a 5 game series, giving the division teams a week off. Then each round should be 7 games from there.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 05:12 PM) But register 'Mary Jones', and have anyone show up saying they are 'Mary Jones' and vote (since we can't ask for ID because somehow that would be racist) and you have a vote that should not be. Or have nobody show up and vote but yet rig the voting machines for a few hundred extra votes, or a few thousand, and as long as you have less votes than registered voters, it usually gets ignored. Sometimes the reason people register these non-existent people is that they get paid per registration. With this group that wasn't the case, so can one of you who denies that this means anything tell me why the hell they do it? There has to be a reason, even if it is a stupid one. First off the system worked and the illegal registrations were thrown out. Secondly, people work for more than just money. Volunteers are sometimes "good feeling" whores. The attention they get from everyone when they bring in 500 names or whatever can be addicting. They may be trying to impress Jodie Foster, or the hot guy in the next cubical. The manager may be trying to pad his resume and get a paying gig with a major donor, or just use it to say he managed a voter registration drive that brought in 25,000 voters. There are so many reasons I'd get tired typing.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 05:15 PM) So they saw photos, not the real thing, and decided it was a hoax. OK. That happens all the time. Wounds heal, yet both sides have the right to an expert witness. So the second or third expert has to rely on the reports and the photos. That has been an established method for a hundred years.

QUOTE (Bighurt500Hrs @ Sep 24, 2010 -> 08:04 PM) Not being critical, but genuinely curious....how does it benefit an 8th grader to know who their senator or representative is? I know this is something we teach but why do we feel this is important knowledge at this age? If I was in 8th grade I would see no benefit to knowing this information outside of being able to pass a test. Good point. But can't we say that about every subject? Do they need algebra or to know where the planets are? In middle school, kids are beginning to understand there is a bigger world than just what they can see. They also are trying to figure out where they fit now and where they will be fitting as adults. Understanding the society in which they live is a big part of that. Knowing that there are people representing them, and who should be thinking of them, helps in that. I also want them to understand how to work within the system for their rights. It's about helping them discover the world.

The government puts policies in place to protect consumers from the insurance companies. What should the insurance companies do? hmmm Maybe jack up rates, cancel product offering, and blame it on the government so the regulations are dropped?!

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 24, 2010 -> 12:02 PM) So the media spent time on that, instead of the testimony from Coates about how the Justice Dept was told to not go after minority defendents, specificly the New Black Panther Party. I guess you have to have priorities in the news coverage, eh? What's going to get the ratings? $ucks, but that is America

Michael Jackson 5

Is sex a hobby?

Interesting, I never really minded the connections. Getting off the plane for an hour or three wasn't that bad. I'd rather do a 5 and a 2 than an 7. I always was able to allow for a full day, so why not use it?

QUOTE (Whitewashed in '05 @ Sep 22, 2010 -> 08:57 PM) Flying is such a pain in the ass and I can't sleep for more than 2 hours, if I'm lucky. A 4 hour flight has me aching everywhere and I'm not even a big guy. There was a few year span where I was on a plane every Tuesday and back on Friday. I lost the ability to fall asleep in the plane. I would have the sensation of *falling*. Not cool. I woke up a couple times thinking I screamed. Alcohol would make it worse.