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QUOTE (lostfan @ Feb 14, 2010 -> 08:16 PM) /shrug I don't know, you have to ask the 25% of Texans that would support it LOL not certain where you got that number, but I don't know anyone that would seriously support it. Now I would be with the 87% who support the proposal to give everyone $3,000 in direct stimulus money. Y'all need to look up sarcasm and false bravado. Texans are a proud bunch and pretty independent. You may hear that sort of bragging, but it is about as serious as saying you'd move out of the country if "fill in the blank" is elected President.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Feb 14, 2010 -> 12:53 PM) I used to keep the link that Soxbadger posted that showed the Supreme Court ruling saying this to show people. The answer is usually "do you really think we would listen to the Supreme Court if it came to that" well yeah, but you can use that logic to justify breaking any law if you wanted I guess. How can anyone take this seriously? A state is not going to leave the union.

I want to, but summer gets tough with my sea base schedule.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 13, 2010 -> 10:53 PM) There's no logic in your argument. The "legal right to secede" as Texans like to claim is false under current law. Now, if Texas wants to break the laws of the United States, I guess they're free to do so. Next. I know it ain't going to happen, it's silly to even discuss. But you know them activist judges, they could just say f*** the law and make up a new one like they always do.

QUOTE (bighurt4life @ Feb 13, 2010 -> 02:16 AM) I can't think of anything more positive that a Sox player hanging out with the fans, having a good time, taking pictures and saying F*** the cubs. It's one way to get the casual fan to spend their money on the Southside. It also helps to stop that whole Sox fans are drunken losers who run on the field and attack coaches image.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 13, 2010 -> 12:02 PM) And the court has already ruled on this issue - Texas cannot secede. That loophole was closed after the civil war. As they have on capital punishment, separate but equal, abortion, . . . You forgot to take a shot at activist judges, you are turning into a lib after only one day in Canada!

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Feb 12, 2010 -> 09:48 PM) do you think that Rick Perry, or the 20% odd percentage of the GOP voters who want to secede from the US knows that they can't secede? In deciding the merits of the bond issue, the Supreme Court further held that the Constitution did not permit states to secede from the United States, and that the ordinances of secession, and all the acts of the legislatures within seceding states intended to give effect to such ordinances, were "absolutely null". The difference with Texas' ordinance is that it was included as a condition of entering the Union. Texas was an Independent Country, fully recognized by the US as a Independent Country. As with all matters like this, it would take an actual court case, to determine if it would be legal. And really, Perry was not serious and 20% of GOP voters really do not want to secede.

See Sig . . .

I was hoping for an Emmit Smith kind of one day symbolic signing. The greatest batter I've watched.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 12, 2010 -> 11:52 AM) Red Robin has a weird ass vibe, but there burgers have always been real good, imo. Love the burger with the fried egg. Down here there is this awesome hole in the wall place called Gonzalez Grocery. No sign. Zero, nada to ID the place. They are an old neighborhood grocery, the nearest major road is 4 or 5 blocks away. Quiet residential neighborhood. Open from 11 to 3 each day. The menu is Hamburger, Cheeseburger, Double Hamburger, Double Cheeseburger, Fries, Onion Rings, and for drinks, whatever cans they have in the cooler, usually RC. The burgers are cooked on a 100 year old flattop. I've never seen anyone even order the double. The single is about 3/4 pound of fresh ground beef, hand made. The wait is usually 30 to 45 minutes in winter when the winter Texans are here. Cash only. The tables are family style, 8 foot banquet tables. Total bill is usually $7.

I truly hope the baseball writers honor his clean career and vote him in on the first ballot. Yes, he was a a s***ty interview a lot of times, which some of these guys may hold against him, but he was actually loyal to the Sox. And my favorite memories are bars going quiet while Frank was at the plate. Didn't matter the score, the inning, or if anyone was on base. You stfu and watched.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 10:42 PM) I don't look at any of the old photos/videos — I can't do it — and I will do all I can to avoid seeing these as well. After about the first 72 hours when I was glued to the TV with the rest of the world I realized that I'd seen all I could bear, and I still am not fre enough removed to take in those visuals. I understand what you are saying, and of course it is your choice. I just looked at these, and they do offer a view that has not been viewed before. Same sick event, but fascinating pictures.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 10:40 PM) Oh, no i full support my statement that the southern people offer nothing productive to this country besides anti-muslim, anti-mexican rhetoric. And, yeah so where do the republicans disagree on torture? Show me where they don't want to torture? Anti-Mexican from the south!? Yeah right. For a couple seconds I thought you were serious in this thread.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 08:07 PM) as long as poor, subsidized, welfare southern and mid-mountain west states get representation in our society, we are going to be worse off. What does geography have to do with it?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 8, 2010 -> 05:35 PM) The best players in the game today, the finest human beings, the greatest humanitarians, could ask Bud Selig if they could "un-retire" 42 for a season, to pay tribute to Jackie Robinson. The answer would be no. A retired number is a retired number. The only person who should wear 11 in a White Sox uniform is Luis Aparicio. Do you mean like dozens of players wearing his number? http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/news/artic...sp&c_id=sea

QUOTE (lostfan @ Feb 10, 2010 -> 12:46 PM) I burn through toilet paper 5x as fast because there are 2 females in the house, Maybe you should switch to ahem in the shower . . .

Quick, we need a massive food drive! Call in the reserves! Stop the toursist cruise ships from docking . . .

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 9, 2010 -> 10:01 PM) I'm going to the Galapagos Islands in October. Yay me!!! Congrats QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 9, 2010 -> 10:05 PM) I'm fairly confident I've logged more time using a Cooter Counter than anyone else here. And that makes me cool, right? Wow, you need a special instrument for that?

That sucks.

I knew I wouldn't win.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 9, 2010 -> 04:53 PM) That was faster than I expected. Really? I am thinking once wide spread here, the Enquirer would have a photo in their next edition.

This may go down as one of the greatest Super Bowl commercials of all time. Next to the Macintosh. I can't beleive that Focus on the Family winds up looking normal and the rest look like radical crazies. I never saw that coming.

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Feb 7, 2010 -> 11:33 PM) I've never seen Titanic. Does that count?

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ Feb 8, 2010 -> 07:04 PM) Edward Norton's character in Fight Club. We used him in a Film and Lit class. It paired well with Jekyll and Hyde. A character we used in a literary class regarding monsters was from I am Legend. I did not go seethe movie, but if it stayed reasonably close to the book, it should be argued that DZ's character is actually the monster, not the zombies. Context makes the difference.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 8, 2010 -> 07:17 PM) Honestly, I ate my crow already, but to all of you rubbing it in, you have to admit that the commercial was so incredibly tame that it didn't even get a message across. It isn't as if they pulled it off in a respectful way such as some here apparently envisioned. It actually got the tougher message across in the weeks leading up and now. Pick another ad and let's try to have 100 posts about it. I was actually surprised that Focus on the Family was so low key. They are not a group I would have expected that from.