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QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 7, 2009 -> 11:29 PM) I remember flying at 300 baud modem rates. Well. God love that Commodore 64... Vic20 with a cassette tape storage drive.

By the time he retires, I suspect he will have passed Fisk as my all-time favorite Sox player.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 7, 2009 -> 06:33 PM) Instead we are going to bankrupt our social programs by making them all citizens, and giving them free retirement and social security. That's a pretty nice slap in the face to the generations who have actually followed our laws. Perhaps your plan gives them all that, but I doubt that will ever pass. If people working those jobs will bankrupt the system, who will work them without bankrupting the system? The reason the government has been turning a blind eye for generations is illegals do not take the same benefits a full citizen would take. The guest worker system I favor would allow US business, especially agriculture, to have the workers they need, while allowing the workers only limited benefits. The job, and the wages attached to the job, determine what benefits are paid.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 7, 2009 -> 07:32 PM) Yea. Millions have to come here to escape. OK, I get that. But, they make the choice. And I would argue, they make the choice to put up with the s*** that they do there. OH WAIT! I can blame America again! Us friggin druggies! If it weren't for us, Mexico would be alright. When the US catches a cold, Mexico gets pneumonia. We can destroy Mexico economically, or we can make them alright. We have benefited from having two countries surround us with peaceful relationships. The US drug habit does cause problems for Mexico. We force them to spend a huge part of their GNP on law enforcement to get between the South American suppliers and the US users. For a while the Maquila operations helped rebuild a middle class, but sadly those jobs are moving further south and further off shore.

The Top 5 MSNBC Headlines as Re-Interpreted by FOX News 5> MSNBC: George Stephanopoulos and Barney Frank Speak at Democratic Fundraiser FOX: Dems Caught Using Midget, Homosexual in Moneymaking Scheme 4> MSNBC: Gov. Sanford Admits Affair with Argentinean FOX: Gov. Sanford Brings International Affairs Expertise to Presidential Race 3> MSNBC: President Swats Fly During Interview FOX: Obama Savagely Murders Innocent Passerby 2> MSNBC: Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake Levels Hollywood FOX: Existence of God Proven! and Topfive.com's Number 1 MSNBC Headline as Re-Interpreted by FOX News... 1> MSNBC: First Lady Takes Public Bus to Area Mall FOX: Michelle Obama Uses Taxpayer-Funded 40-Passenger Vehicle for Private Shopping Boondoggle [ Copyright 2009 by Chris White/TopFive.com ]

My on-line history dialing in to boards ExecPC (Milwaukee), The Well (San Fran), etc. huge long distance bills even on a blazing fast 1200 baud modem > GEnie > Prodigy > CompuServe > AOL > Earthlink > ATT > Road Runner In some ways I really miss the pioneering feeling of dialing into modems.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 7, 2009 -> 06:32 PM) I spent three years in Houston, and the humidity was just outrageous. Those were HOT summers. Houston humidity is crazy. Almost as bad as St. Louis, Misery

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Jul 7, 2009 -> 05:05 PM) While that may be hot in the short term...it's not 100+ heat index for an entire summer. Kap? Tex? Wanna join me on this one. Today in McAllen, TX., where I live 10 months a year, it was 111 actual temperature. Here on South Padre Island, where I summer, it was low 90s. We have had streaks of 100 plus days of 100 plus heat. But we've also had 100 plus days in winter between 50 and 80.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 7, 2009 -> 08:01 PM) Do your job for free after 12 years of post high school education. I agree. However, that forces uninsured and working poor patients to the ER for non emergency treatments. A system overhaul that gets them out of the overburdened ER and into a lower cost alternative, would be an improvement.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 7, 2009 -> 09:11 PM) Ok, I'll try again. Every time Sarah Palin says anything, I think she gets more "press time" from the liberals trying to make her "more stupid" then she already was. Meanwhile, Obama can fart in the wind, and this same media will spend article after article talking about how rosy it smells. The Top 5 MSNBC Headlines as Re-Interpreted by FOX News 5> MSNBC: George Stephanopoulos and Barney Frank Speak at Democratic Fundraiser FOX: Dems Caught Using Midget, Homosexual in Moneymaking Scheme 4> MSNBC: Gov. Sanford Admits Affair with Argentinean FOX: Gov. Sanford Brings International Affairs Expertise to Presidential Race 3> MSNBC: President Swats Fly During Interview FOX: Obama Savagely Murders Innocent Passerby 2> MSNBC: Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake Levels Hollywood FOX: Existence of God Proven! and Topfive.com's Number 1 MSNBC Headline as Re-Interpreted by FOX News... 1> MSNBC: First Lady Takes Public Bus to Area Mall FOX: Michelle Obama Uses Taxpayer-Funded 40-Passenger Vehicle for Private Shopping Boondoggle [ Copyright 2009 by Chris White/TopFive.com ]

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 7, 2009 -> 09:31 AM) Once again, to where? Where the heck are all of these empty clinics and doctors offices that I keep hearing about that people are going to flock to? Here, they are the "won't treat you without payment first" Doctors.

At his above average skill level, he was one of the best big game pitchers I've seen.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Jul 7, 2009 -> 07:13 PM) What a shocker that would be... us overvaluing our spects... say it isn't so. QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 7, 2009 -> 07:41 PM) This is why you don't fall in love with prospects. The advantage of coming in late. I don't have to type much.

Happy Birthday!! Happy Birthday!!

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Jul 7, 2009 -> 11:37 AM) Jim Henson hit me pretty hard. The Muppets were such a huge and important part of my upbringing. And sorry Tex, PSFJ and Critic, I shed a tear. I never met Jim Henson but he was in my house everyday for many years teaching me and making me laugh. And still does to this day. I certainly understand that. And perhaps I will feel that connection to someone I never met. While not a celebrity, I know that a number of posters here would hit me very hard, even though I never "met" them. Hell, I've been crushed when someone here, who I really like and admired, felt I didn't like them. Perhaps silly schoolyard stuff, but that bothered me for weeks. I'm trying to think of a celeb that could bring that emotion. It would have to be someone who was known for philanthropic works in addition to what made them famous. Probably the closest I came was Paul Simon (D)

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 09:53 PM) There is absolutely no way that we do not have MASSIVE wait times. There's too much of a shortage CURRENTLY - let alone when we "flood the system" (right) with all these new people (which they admit ALREADY that they can't get insured until past 2012 anyway!!!!). So why are they doing this again? To get uninsured people on the insurance plans? Riiiiiiiiiiight. Oh, to control costs? Yea, because they've done SO well on Medicare. The only way they get costs in line to Medicare (again, they admit this) is to cut the s*** out of the services offered. But it doesn't matter, they're all old and going to die anyway, so f*** 'em, who needs 'em? The way seems to me to take people out of the ERs for non emergency procedures. I keep reading, at least here where a large percentage of the population is uninsured, wait times in ERs can reach 10 hours or more. How can it not be an advantage to get them out of the ERs and into lower cost, and more appropriate for their ailment, clinics?

QUOTE (The Critic @ Jul 7, 2009 -> 06:18 AM) I can't imagine getting that depressed over a celebrity death. I don't know any celebrities personally, so my feeling is never more than a general sadness for their families. What he said. And in a companion thought, never cry over something that can't cry for you.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 07:30 PM) Scale works when you have excess capacity. We in the United States are OVER capacity. I have yet to hear where we are getting all of these new facilities, doctors, nurses, and medications from for the 100 million, or whatever the number is this week, people that aren't covered. That seems like a great point. But I wonder if those uninsured are simply using the ER instead of a less costly clinic. Perhaps the system will see only a slight increase in patients, but a huge drop in uncollected treatments.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 10:13 AM) You guys are really over estimating the support she has. I would be shocked if she contends for the GOP nod in 2012. Just trying to help the GOP like they helped the Dems in supporting Hillary Palin 2012

I could not find anything before 2005.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 06:20 AM) I'd try like hell to let as few people know I'm rich as possible. I have a lot of dumbass friends and a massive family. I'd also like to add, I would throw a party for Lostfan and all of his facebook friends.

QUOTE (wilmot825 @ Jul 5, 2009 -> 10:41 PM) Where's the Sportscenter coverage of that??? Manny got coverage everytime he took a piss and wiped his ass. Sry I had to vent that. Good for Carlos. I know it is a circular thing, but Manny is much better known, and that gets viewers. He is a loud, outgoing personality. If your paycheck depended on viewers, who would you put on Sportscenter?

I hope he is helping sell a lot of tickets.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 12:43 AM) Imagine this - note the topic... We should have known then what kind of poster we had on our hands. Oh how enlightening it was... http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?s=...t&p=1271809 find mine, ooh find mine Mr. Wizard. On second thought, I think I'd rather you didn't

QUOTE (dbaho @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 05:30 AM) With the other $15M, I'd buy houses in London, Seattle, Phoenix, San Diego, Chicago and Manhattan. Are you buying the homes as investments? At some point I think I would rather rent short term in a few places.