Texsox

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 09:02 AM) I find it hard to have sympathy. BP was a transparently awful company, and investing in inherently risky. I look at it similar to Enron in that a lot of innocent people's lives are ruined. I find it easy to have empathy for that.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 08:56 AM) Way to deflect the main point. That's all you guys can do. This guy cannot lead. Period. It shows every day he has a concert, plays basketball, goes to 20 fundraisers, all while screaming about "who's ass to kick" and "it's the most important thing I deal with every second of every day" (oh, was that jobs, or oil, or health care, or ...) This man cannot lead. He's extremely imcompetent. And we're all seeing it right now. So you believe he should be on a ship in the gulf until this is finished?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 08:39 AM) Secretary Chu has actually done a decent job. There's a great anecdote in the Post a few days ago about Secretary Chu joining the BP team for a while and suggesting they use gamma ray imaging to get a better picture of inside the BOP, the BP guys being dumbfounded for a bit, trying it, and discovering that it worked Which kind of makes me wonder, shouldn't this be a world wide response, not just a BP / US response?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 08:17 AM) As was highlighted numerous times before this incompetent boob was elected. He has no real world experience, management skills, organization (OMG the irony there...) abilities, etc. to lead and get things done. He's too busy trying to figure out how to cover his ass (or figure out who's ass to kick) instead of actually dealing with the problem itself. This is what happens when you elect someone who is an idealist, utopian dreaming idiot instead of someone who can actually be an executive. You forgot to add Democrat

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 11:48 PM) Hey, a guy's gotta work at work sometime. I got a chuckle out of it. We've all taken a turn as the drunk poster getting f***ed with.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 08:20 AM) Okay, there's two different things going on here. Anchor baby law, vs. the law that's already passed. The law that's already passed is constitutional and that is what I am talking about. Are you still giving Arizona a Duh for trying to make their own laws about US citizenship?

There is a huge difference in appropriate behavior when you are Partying in private with your friends Partying in public with your friends Representing your employer in front of 2,000,000 of their customers You have convinced me that someone at twentyone can't figure that out. It is too advanced of a social skill. Here is a tip, when at a work function, if you are clueless as to appropriate behavior, look to management and your peers. Perhaps look to other people at similar functions to see how they handled themselves. Obviously there are some posters here that think they can act like it is a private party while at work. Best of luck to you.

Are you suggesting that kids shouldn't be at a hockey party? Doesn't that hurt the future of the franchise? It would seem like building the base from the kids on up would be a great idea. There is a lot worse he could have done, but he did step over the line, maybe not far, but he was over the line.

Why is it I can agree that something should be done about the automatic citizenship and still think these guys are crazy?

From the post quoted a few up . . . http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_t...1993872,00.html

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 10:15 PM) You had more of that bulls*** going on today...Nancy Pelosi slobbering and blinking herself getting out about how much of a f***er George W. Bush is for causing all of this worldwide calamity.

Texas "fits" better in the Big 10. Either coast just isn't feeling right.

Those beers probably cost him thousands of dollars in sponsorships. Here was a golden chance to build a fan base. There are worse things he could have done, but wow, what a disappointment. And btw, I did laugh.

Did it feel stable? Does Illinois require a license for those? QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 07:03 PM) I have the 150. Got it up to 70 on rt 83 on my way home from elmhurst yesterday.

Sell. I'm not certain what cost is used to determine your tax liability. Zero would suck because it was a gift. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 07:08 PM) From previous high. I haven't a clue what the purchase price was, I didn't pay for it. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 07:09 PM) Well then you didn't take a loss on it.

Which model did you get? The 50cc one looks great for around the city.

Are you talking loss from purchase price or loss from a previous high? QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 09:02 AM) So basically, I'm probably better off figuring out how to take the $600 loss rather than having it all worthless.

Two for one: This might me a surprise, but there does need to be a change to our current citizenship laws. Too many Mexican nationals walk over as "tourists" and give birth here. The hospitals here deliver an amazing number of "tourist" babies. Hundreds of years ago, when citizenship was determined by birth, people were not as mobile. 2010 calls for laws from this century, not the 1700s. My son just received his new Social Security card, it says you should not carry this with you, but keep it secured at home. Should they add an asterix for Arizona. And a bonus. Of course states should not be the ones to decide who is a citizen of the US.

I was claiming that there are people who have been out of work for months, even years, who cannot take those jobs. Either the kjobs are seasonal and the unemplyed person has a family and can't "follow the crops" or the job doesn't pay enough to support their current bills. If they are willing to accept the job, the employer knows they will quit as soon as they can find something closer to their old salary. You do understand having someone leave after a few weeks of months is very costly to an employer. So again I disagree that jobs are jobs. There is a reason that immigrants have been filing these jobs since before WW1. QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 02:39 PM) You knew what I meant. You were claiming that people wouldn't take those jobs and that business might get hurt. My point was and is that someone will fill those jobs because they are jobs and people need them. There is no law out there that says only illegals will work those jobs.

You said jobs are jobs. I showed that all jobs are not equal. We've steadily better jobs overseas than we have created here. We have allowed legal immigrants to work high dollar jobs and complain about someone taking a minimum wage job. A job is NOT a job. There are huge differences between jobs. QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 12:14 PM) What does this have to do with anything? So because a lawyer doesn't want to become a McDonalds cashier we should allow people to act illegally? SOMEONE will fill those jobs. And if those employers can't find workers, guess what, they'll have to give more incentives. That's how the system works (and should work).

CanofCorn, great points about rivalries.

The point is, an out of work financial planner who was earning $75,000 annually is not switching careers and working in a nursery for 20 years. Those are not equal jobs. Replacing $50,000 jobs with $20,000 isn't equal at all.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 11:58 AM) SOME people might feel too high and mighty for those jobs, but not EVERYONE. Isn't that what I said? Only without the caps?

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 11:47 AM) They said Pronger grabbed it and threw it into the crowd.....it was on Mully and Hanley...TIFWIW And that is about as close as Pronger should ever get to a winning puck