Texsox

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 22, 2009 -> 01:14 PM) It's always nice to compare apples to scientific calculators. The point I was trying to make is there are some things where there just has to be a national reciprocal agreement. As a society we are too mobile. Plus, would anyone really support a cash strapped state implementing a special driver's permit for visitors? That would be ridiculous. But in other things we do accept a state by state difference. We buy fishing and hunting licenses by state. So a blanket statement that a state can make laws for everything and not be forced to honor another states laws is unworkable and a detriment to the national picture. We are supposedly *united* states.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Jul 22, 2009 -> 10:55 AM) Then call them what they are. Arrancini. Pronounced: ahh-rahn-CHEE-nee. If you want to be cool roll the R. They are awesome! He feels weird in that good way

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 22, 2009 -> 11:14 AM) I'm all about concealed carry but this is flagrantly taking a s*** on states' rights. If, for a relatively extreme example, I choose to live in a state with liberal laws that include more gun control measures, why should Texas or Arizona be able to override my state's laws? I'm all about allowing teenagers to drive but this is flagrantly taking a s*** on states' rights. If, for a relatively extreme example, I choose to live in a state with strict laws that include more driver's education and probation periods, why should Illinois or Ohio be able to override my state's laws?

There are some things that can be decided on a state by state basis, others it just is not practical. Ask anyone who has travelled with guns, keeping up with each state's laws is a pain in the ass. Same with motorcycle helmets. The RV example was perfect. Crossing seven or eight states and being in compliance in all states must be a pain.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jul 22, 2009 -> 10:38 AM) Well, thank you Tex. I do too. It's all about the White Sox and I love White Sox history. And maybe that's why I like the historic but not the current and recent. Pants Rowland also comes to mind.

Next step, a national standard for concealed weapon training and one license. Be careful what you wish for NRA.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 22, 2009 -> 10:12 AM) It just makes me giggle inside every time I see the name flashed across the screen. And I appreciate the spelling of yours. Well thought out and executed

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jul 22, 2009 -> 10:05 AM) Can't agree on that one. It conjures up a not-pretty picture. I also like some of the old player names, like yours.

I'd have to say Soxy, Southsider2k5, YASNY, and RibbieRubarb are my favorite screen names around here. As posters they all suck, but I like their screen names.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jul 21, 2009 -> 03:54 PM) Can we sticky this and make it the catch all thread for any food topics? I can't wait for SHIPPS to see this, another one of his threads almost hijacked.

Is this what us Texans call chicken fried steak? And better served with a white gravy? rice balls hehehe

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 20, 2009 -> 10:28 PM) Wow, because it was interracial. I didn't think twice about it, than again, i'm dating someone that isn't my own race. She's human

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 20, 2009 -> 09:23 PM) They are if they're done poorly, because they can be abused by businesses. Like Walmart does. And how does Walmart abuse the system? The only thing I have ever read that WalMart does is publicize the programs that their employees qualify for.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 21, 2009 -> 12:28 PM) I'm pretty sure I used the logic path in a number of my previous dating relationships.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2009 -> 09:58 PM) Of course, the bill as written excludes legit small businesses. Probably more generously than it should. But here's the real small business counterpoint; small businesses already can't afford health care costs anyway, and they get charged more than a big company because they're small and have less negotiating power. This prevents small businesses from being able to hire the best people because they can't offer health care benefits, and also prevents people from starting up small businesses because they can't afford to lose their own personal health care or afford to go out and buy insurance on the individual market. But at the core, are the programs that offer health benefits to working poor bad?

I Like My Sprite In You In Section: NY comPRESSed » Posted By: Joseph Alexiou It was the cumshot heard ‘round the world! The internet has been blowing up over a recent Sprite ad that was banned for its orally offensive content. New York Press has the inside scoop, thanks to John Jones IV, 23, the ab-tastic young model whose bubbles were featured at the end of the commercial. "The funny thing is, it's a spec commercial—it's not even real," he said today over the phone from his home in Williamsburg. "I moved [to New York] to break into the music industry," said the classically trained musician and a producer of electronic R&B. Currently he DJs weekly at the Cock and Sugarland. "But anything that'll pay my bills, I go with," he said Directed by Max Isaacson, a video "genius" who's done work for MTV, the ad was produced by Greencard Pictures in Brooklyn—not in Germany as previously reported. The parties involved claim that they didn't necessarily intend for the spec commercial to actually air. "These kinds are really in-your-face," Jones said, explaining that risqué spec ads are usually created to catch the eyes of executives for exposure. “The controversy is it’s the fact that she’s a white girl blowing me and I’m black. That role reversal freaks people out.” Jones is also a NYC nightlife fixture who goes by the name J4 and is often recognized thanks to his striking wigs and outfits—which sometimes feature a lot more cloth than the wardrobe he wears in the video.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/20/s...d_n_240851.html

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Jul 20, 2009 -> 04:24 PM) yeah, but stats can get influenced by those nuances too. That's a major booooo. NBA rims are all 10 feet off the floor, imagine if they weren't. I prefer the nuances. Unless they are all domes, there are always variables.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2009 -> 09:37 PM) Have them pay a tax if they're going to have the government providing health care services to their employees. Just Walmart or the thousands of small, medium, and large businesses whose employees qualify? Basically you are asking employers to pay an additional tax on wages beyond what they are already spending. Which IMHO, will hurt small business a lot more than Walmart and the other large companies that employ minimum wage employees.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2009 -> 06:26 PM) Certainly do. We just want Walmart paying their fair share. The programs that Walmart employees use are the same programs available to the working poor of other companies. Which is a more humane company policy: Alerting employees to government programs they qualify for Ignoring those programs and not helping employees find them or suggesting employees call

Walmart was the ultimate display of capitalism. They showed what an almost free market can produce. Amazing. But the human costs, as Soxy mentioned, are high. The lunar landing was a triumph of human knowledge and accomplishment that paid dividends throughout the next forty years, with the cost being almost strictly in dollars and sense. So, I believe the biggest positive impact was the lunar landing.

The events he covered is just amazing.

One of the great journalists of all time. RIP, the world is a better place for him having been here.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 17, 2009 -> 06:26 PM) professional wrestling is the pointless, and I can't believe people pay lots of money to watch something completely fake. Movies say hello

Besides the movies we watch with our kids, I've seen Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day about 200 times, what movie have you watched the most?