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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 02:36 PM) I think its different when its a company doing the leasing. In this particular case I live in chicago but found a great leasing deal in michigan if I title the car at my vacation cabin in Benton Harbor. I just dont know if thats legal. I believe it would depend on how your vacation cabin is titled. If you are the owner, and it isn't a time share kind of thing, I could see it working. Think about who would want to catch you. The cops really are not that interested. The biggest issue may be insurance. Your insurance company would care if you are paying Michigan rates and incurring Chicago risks.

of course that was the next thing I did

Happy Birthday!!

cliche time! If anyone can do it, he can.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 12:42 PM) I'm always a fan of Pepperoni, Mushrooms and Green Peppers Who asked you California boy

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 10:04 AM) Think about this, Konerko has more homers as a White Sox, a higher OBP, a higher slugging pct. than Harold Baines as a White Sox, was an ALCS MVP and a WS hero and he's marginal getting his # retired. Baines even accumulated more stats AFTER his number was retired. There obviously is no criteria for getting the number retired. Its more than just stats. I think coming up through the organization, like Baines did with the Sox and Maddux did with the Cubs should mean something in the decision, even if a lot of career totals were accumulated elsewhere. Its not like Maddux was a Cub for 2 or 3 years. It's a tough bar to set. The AJP stats were an eye opener. I'm with Yas, SJP has been a rock for this team. Which is why he is probably my favorite position player on the team. Buerhle would be #1 overall. And SS has it right as well, Ozzie, barring something well "oz-like" is a shoe in.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 12:15 PM) So I have a specific legal question regarding leasing/buying a car. SO the Chicago taxes are ridiculous when it comes to leasing and adds a couple of hundred bucks to the monthly payment over what you would pay in another state like Michigan. So heres the question: If I lease a car in Michigan, and title it at a Michigan address that is not my permanent residence, is it legal? I save almost 200 dollars a month on a payment. Not certain if this helps or not but years ago, when I was still in Illinois, the company I worked for leased all our vehicles from Selig Leasing in Milwaukee (our headquarters) and at least two of them went to employees living in Illinois and Indiana.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Mar 22, 2009 -> 07:53 AM) Soxtalk.com needs a drug testing policy. We have one, no experimenting with drugs and alcohol . . . If you don't know what the hell you are doing, do not post unto you do.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 11:47 AM) Two faced about coming here and having no problems getting rich while supporting a system that wouldn't have allowed him the same freedoms that allowed anyone to even know who he is. Good point. He would certainly be more American if he embraced whichever system would benefit him personally over all others.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 11:30 AM) I have no idea what you are even arguing anymore. Who is criticizing all of Venzuela? I am calling Maggs a two face, I don't believe I have ever mentioned the entire country, or even anyone else in it. Two faced about embracing his home country and living here?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 11:33 AM) The US has embraced the 'race to the bottom'. Bingo, maybe that is the nagging feeling I could not put my finger on.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 11:21 AM) Yup. Thank you.

So there are no winners, all that would be happening is spreading out the losses.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 10:09 AM) I've never tried to approximate Chicago sausage for fear of suffering an Icarus-like fate and flying too close to the sun in a foolhardy quest to recreate the Food of the Gods. Does that make Lou Malnatti King Minos?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 09:55 AM) I would argue that losing your job has a more adverse affect than a paycut does. Sure. But we then get to my original thought, the pay cuts would be adverse. Certainly to the family and their creditors it is adverse. It would seem it is also adverse to their towns, counties, and cities. Are there any winners? If, for example, we cut autoworkers salaries 25%, is it a victory for anyone, or just a smaller defeat?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 08:02 AM) They will retire Thomas and Konerko's if he remains here a few more years, in addition to Buehrle's. But I think that's it from this era. And I think Kong is a marginal at this moment.

At least for the home loans, it doesn't feel much different than most other government home ownership programs.

Maybe a little reminder to K-Dubya that there's a hole left to fill?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 08:20 AM) Would it be better for you an an individual to have your net costs going up when your income is going down? Its not any different for coporations versus individuals. When net income is shrinking, you can't have your costs going up, and expect to be in business, well unless you are the government. You also can't have your costs remain the same and your income going down, which is what these wage cuts would do.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 08:11 AM) If the whole economy is growing, it can sustain rising costs. With the whole pie shrinking, all it does it make the snapback bigger. OK. But why take three steps back? Honest question(s). Did salaries rise too far? And it seems that everyone points to everyone else as making too much. It seems the ripple effect of salary cuts would make things worse, force more people into bankruptcy, foreclosures, less capital available for savings, investments, etc,

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 07:59 AM) I'm certainly not talking about the nasty stuff that passes for sausage at the chains andeverywhere else in the country. Real Chicago sausage is the only thing, and I miss it dearly. Exactly. There is no comparison between a true Chicago style sausage, and the sausage that is available nationwide from any chain. That stuff is too bland. The special seasoning blend and appearance is totally different. If it is uniform in shape, texture, and color, it is the wrong stuff. If it is hand shaped from a bulk mix, it is the correct stuff. And the real Chicago sausage. Jim, do you have a recipe? That would be worth mixing up.

Riddle me this, something I've been pondering for a while and have not reached a conclusion. It seems that over the past year there is a demand that most Americans, from autoworkers to CEOs, from government workers to baseball players, take huge pay and benefit cuts. Almost every time we read about salaries, some form of cutbacks seem to be called for. Even if this was possible, what does this do long term? It doesn't seem that long ago that rising wages were considered a good thing. So we magically cut back everyone's wages 10%, what is the benefit?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 07:50 AM) How is that wrong? If you want *REAL* sausage pizza, you do what I said, and then you get it. I think your joke went over my head. :/ The real sausage is what I ate in Chicago for 35 years, not the sliced stuff that is available anywhere. The true Chicago sausage blend, with the fennel, is almost unheard of anywhere else.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 07:13 AM) Don't ever order a "sausage pizza" in Chicago, UNLESS you say -- I want sliced Italian sausage. Otherwise they use that crap looking turd sausage. No matter where you order it from, just tell them you want sliced Italian sausage, and they'll do it, and THEN your pizza will taste like it's supposed too. I have to admit, however, I have never tried anchovies on my pizza...I do like ranch dressing with my pizza, though. Wrong. Oh how I miss real sausage on a pizza.

Yes, Maggs, as a public figure, has less rights than other people. I believe it is silly that many Americans believe the only way to run a country is our way, and then complain about what a s***ty government we have, how bad this or that is.