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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 12, 2010 -> 12:38 PM) Pain In The Ass. That is usually abreviated t-e-x Thought I'd do it before someone else.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 12, 2010 -> 12:37 PM) Those three things shouldn't be true. Those sort of things becoming "assumptions" is a big part of the problem which leads to the mentality that governments never have to cut back. Remember governments don't exist on their own. They exist at my expense, which means that they are assumed to be taking more and more of my money, every year, and people don't seem to see a problem with that. That line of thinking just blows my mind. Times are tough, so while I cut back, the popular opinion is that the government is OBLIGATED to take more. Wow, just wow. No, you maintain if the government cuts taxes, they will have more income. So as long as we follow sound GOP tax practices, the government will grow. They aren't taking more, yet they still grow.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 12, 2010 -> 12:33 PM) Wow. Just wow. This is the problem with you and people like you. Government doesn't have to be this way, yet, we've made them this way. It's EXPECTED that our government grows and grows and grows, thus by default, taking away from the private sector. As long as we have tax cuts the government will grow. You told me that.

One of the key diferences between steroids and spit balls is steroids cannot be caught on the field. Our first line to catching cheaters are the umpires. We can look at the pimples, the bulging muscles, and ornery personality and say, yep, he's on steroids, but that isn't proof. We can check a pitcher for foreign substences. And anyone that thinks this didn't make a huge impact on player's performances is kidding themselves, why else did they take them. And they knew it was wrong, why else did no one admit usage while they were doing it? "Hey, I'm Barry Bonds for Balco. The Clear™ has helped me to extraordinary results and they can for you to . . . "

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 08:47 AM) I'm Blacker Then Barack Obama LMAO! This is hysterical. If Blago was a REP, imagine how much he would have been attacked for this article. The newspapers would be calling for his exile. But he's a DEM and gets a pass.

I can't believe anyone is thinking Palin won't be the REP nominee.

The GOP gets so much mileage out of activist judges, liberal media, and oh poor me. They have no real power left in this country. The damn press has taken it all away along with motherhood and apple pie. It is an awesome strategy, I wish the dems had thought of it first. Every problem with the party, and any wrong doing by a REP is explained by media bias. It is a beautiful thing. The media has proped up the Dem party for years. I'm not certain why, that has never been explained. Kudos to the GOP. I'm not certain who came up with that strategy but it has been brilliantly used to the point where this generation will argue the point forever.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 03:35 PM) How did cheaters of today make the HOF irrelevant when it has been accepting cheaters for years? Who cheated first: Gaylord Perry Big Mac Barry Bonds Which of them is in the HOF? The saddest chapter in baseball is the current chapter where people have evolved this "holier than thou" attitude, and forget that the Hall is filed with cheaters from all eras, and that baseball needed a few scapegoats to cover up the fact that everyone was cheating. Either ban all cheaters, or ban no cheaters. It would be nice of they could go back and remove those players from the HoF, but it is impractical. Yes, mistakes have been made in the past, cheaters have been allowed in. Now we learn from those mistakes and move on without continuing to make the same mistakes. Why would anyone advocate for continuing to make the same mistake over and over again? And standing up for rules is "holier than thou"? Wow.

I really doubt he said it. LOL He may have thought it, but I doubt he said it.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Jan 11, 2010 -> 12:45 PM) Not really, we're friends back from grammar school that recently reconnected. We had a few beers recently and shot the s*** a little. Great guy and worked his way up from nothing. I don't live in his district so I can't even vote for him, but it still makes me sick how Chicago politics works. Which is why I have a ton of respect for anyone who runs for office. Including SS2k5.

Have you thought about where they will be placed, who will refill them, who will repair them?

Are you helping him with his campaign? That is great experience.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 10, 2010 -> 10:14 PM) +1 +2

Great Cowboy playoff game yesterday

QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Jan 10, 2010 -> 04:27 PM) Actually, we had to come down in price so we can sell the house quick before we lost it to foreclosure. So after paying off the difference in the rest of the mortgage, we were left with only a few grand and we were still left in a bad position where we couldn't afford anything above 150k. That's a s***ty thing to have to go through. I suspect that your parents probably had a couple home equity loans out as well which ate into the equity. But if the values did not skyrocket they would have been forced to sell their home *and* still owed money. Not a silver lining, but not so bad. And you are correct, there are a wide range of people living in manufactured homes. We have many retirees that live here part of the year and they fill hundreds of these parks. I knew a guy who wanted to retire when he was 40, so he lived on 1/3 of his income and saved the rest. He lived in a nice trailer along the Fox River. And Rock is correct also. Some are in a state of ruin with poorly maintained homes and facilities.

QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Jan 10, 2010 -> 02:54 PM) Well, here's an example: my family moved to Tinley Park in 1987 when it was still cheap and affordable. But by the time we had to sell the house in 1999, everything in Tinley Park was too expensive for us, including the rediculous property taxes, because too many rich people came to Tinley Park and built ridiculously big homes (especially along 179th street behind Andrew High School, and the Bristol Park subdivision along 80th ave near 179th). Those big homes caused the prices of small dumpier homes to skyrocket to the point where poor people like me and my family can't afford it. So basically my family were here first, but ended up "forced out of the neighborhood" because of how expensive it got. There seriously needs to be more advocacy for the erection of affordable housing such as modestly-sized single family homes, condos, townhomes, apartments, and even land set aside for a mobile home park in every suburb instead of letting developers run amok and build all these obnoxiously-big homes in a socially-irresponsible fashion that would cause the eventual displacement of those who are less fortunate. Wasn't it a good thing that your family's house went up in value? You buy a cheap house and watch it double or triple in value. Seems like a good thing to me.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 10, 2010 -> 10:11 AM) I would too if I were you guys. He's the male, black Sarah Palin. Yea, I said it. See y'all are building a big tent!

be careful, I happen to like ELO's sound and own a few CDs.

The Dems have all the money and influence which comes with success in this country. Being the party of the disadvantaged is tough, but the GOP keeps trying, and we're a better country for it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 9, 2010 -> 03:12 PM) Who was it, Alpha, who would really like this? H. Christ, 100+ dead people in custody over 5 years? Not that hard to believe. Some may even turn themselves in when they need major medical care. A little trick you hear now and then. The biggest issue becomes money. Holding someone in our jails is expensive. We generally like to release the "innocent until proven guilty". The real problem is if the offensive is being here illegally, there is zero reason for them to return for trial. With the high rate of people not appearing, we start holding more and more while they await a hearing. And many of these cases are not clear cut. I read about cases here where the person was born at home with a mid wife presiding. Those records are easily faked and many do not appear real. But the majority are real. It is a tough area of law to practice and adjudicate.

It's tough to be a Republican, no doubt about it.You would never hear about a Dem saying something like that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 9, 2010 -> 03:21 PM) Well that is how you build a big tent! What would Republicans have done?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 9, 2010 -> 03:16 PM) WTF? So, what kind of person thinks in those phrases? Someone that looked at what it would take for a black man to get elected and speaking with a strong dialect would not help his cause. Why do people get so upset when they hear Spanish being spoken?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 9, 2010 -> 11:43 AM) I am going to crawl waaaaay out on limb and say that Pods doesn't scare me nearly as much as Maggs, Crede, Frank, or Cameron... forget the green?

Terrific memories