Texsox

Soxtalk agreement, I barely remember the cosmic convergence that must happen for that to occur. And Juggs was | .................................................................................................... ........................................................................... | this close to having it right

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 11, 2008 -> 02:32 PM) Maybe that's because he hasn't been doing his JOB all damn year? Showing up to cherry-pick which votes you take, and even then only taking ones that can't come back to bite you in the ass isn't representing Illinois, or doing his job. Hmm, so many ways to go with this Alpha . . . I said the same thing when Bush and Clinton ran for reelection. Amazing the POTUS has that much time to run for office. I believe the Presidential position is important enough to have people with jobs running, not just the unemployed who have the time off to run. Hell, simply, that's the way I've always heard it should be . . . we just accept it as a necessary evil of our system.

I believe there are a lot of voters who tell the pollsters the Obama PC line who will pull the switch for McCain. People vote for people that look like themselves. More Americans look like McCain / Palin than Obama / Biden.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Sep 11, 2008 -> 02:30 PM) Up until the very end, he was nothing but a class act and an MVP candidate. If it weren't for Boras, he still would be here. If it wasn't for the Tigers and their huge gamble, he would still be here. Boras doesn't have amazing mind meld powers. The Tigers took a gamble with a contract probably double what the Sox would and should have offered. Winners all around.

I'm a little surprised he isn't higher.

Just keep in mind, how well does your employer investigate employee paperwork for working? Now imagine if your employer is tricked and they have to pay a huge fine, will that seem fair? Not every company who has an illegal on their payroll is aware they are employing illegals. Is it really in our national's best interest to cripple our agriculture industry?

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 01:09 PM) At some point in the fence, there will be a gate. The gate will be patrolled by guards. The guards can be corrupted. Far more people than we think pass through the border because the people patrolling it look the other way. That's why building a wall is a waste of time/money. Actually, at least here, there will be lots of gates to allow property owners, most ranchers and farmers access to the river for water. And the gates will be locked, but not guarded 24/7. Basically patrols. And many property owners have found themselves cut off from most of their land, and the river front acreage is the most valuable. Imagine building a fence on Lake Michigan, Through Lake Forrest and cutting those home owners off from the lake. That pig would fly.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 08:58 AM) I have been and still am 100% in favor of punishing business that knowingly hire illegals. I agree. Swift was voluntarily participating in a government program to help them hire legals and avoid accepting fraudulent documentation. But that didn't stop a different arm of the government from raiding them. It's like punishing someone for accepting a counterfeit bill. And meat packing plants do pay well, but not enough people are willing to move to the middle of nowhere and still fewer want the volume of cattle that pass through in their own back yards. Bottom line, undesirable work in cold conditions at extremely fast pace to provide groceries to Americans at prices we can live with.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 10:35 AM) Holy crap that's a lot of water. In related news, The Texas Tech swim team will be holding meets in the football stadium . . .

Hurricane Dolly 2 nights in Michigan City, Indiana You do realize FlaSoxxJim will have ten pages and that was just 3 months.

The Border Fence is behind schedule and current projections have this boondoggle at $400,000,000 over budget. And it will not solve the biggest problem, American businesses need workers willing to do some pretty crappy jobs in agriculture. Migrant work just sucks, but we have hundreds of thousands of people willing to do that work, just to the south of us. During war time we were quick to implement the Bracero Program when we did not have enough young men to sustain our ag industry. Too bad the current political climate calls for US educated kids to work these jobs.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 07:44 AM) 81-65, +1 over MIN 13 games remain. We need breathing room. And we will not be getting any breathing room. Neither team has enough to deliver a knock out punch. I'm picturing a final weekend series with CQ, Joe, and Paulie all bandaged up with crutches, wheelchairs coming out like some Civil War fife and drum team.

Some will mock me, but I truly believe we have two good to excellent candidates. Both parties nominated the candidates I hoped they would. Both candidates have demonstrated a commitment to the public good throughout their careers. They both, IMNSHO, fumbled their VP selections in attempts to "balance". So I am, as Kap would say, /popping some corn / and waiting for the show.

Nature exposes our weaknesses. I was asked about the home we just placed at camp. Up on top of a raised slab, on a point jutting out into the Laguna Madre. I said basically we just flipped off mother nature and said come and get it.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 8, 2008 -> 03:08 PM) I don't think we established a government to bailout corporations that make bad business decisions Oh, by the way, the auto industry is now asking for a bailout. I don't think we should bail out businesses either. But I do believe when a "bail out" is in the best interest of America, we should consider it. Kind of like cutting off your nose to spite your face. To say we should never ever bail out a business ties our hands needlessly.

Plus a good old fashioned payment before an election is always a nice way to win votes. The economy is slowing right before an election OMG!! The other party may get in!! Quick buy the voters something and tell them someone else will be paying for it. So now we have all the spending and half the paying for it.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 11, 2008 -> 08:13 PM) So the National Weather Service, when you paraphrase, is saying "get the f*** out of Houston, seriously, if you stay you're going to die." CNN Breaking News

Did y'all hear her daughter is pregnant?

Kap, buy mosquito spray, like a case of the stuff. The damn things are still everywhere even after weeks of aerial spraying. Good luck to everyone.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 11, 2008 -> 03:58 PM) Oh yeah? And if we finish the season one game behind the Twins? Every game is the most important game of the season from today until the division is clinched. Yet every game since April will have the exact same value in the record.

Bottom line who is going to a September 11th vigil tonight? The Boy Scouts here were doing three across the area, one by one they stopped do to poor attendance. This year a couple people were upset that one was not being held, but no one wanted to do the work necessary to make it happen. So no, it just is not as moving as it was 6 years ago.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 11, 2008 -> 03:08 PM) Hmm, Bill Clinton's in the news again. . . I figured I'd better beat the wingnuts to it. beat what?

QUOTE (Steff @ Sep 11, 2008 -> 02:12 PM) Oh yea, you had the file not the scraper thing. I would guess that's like the stone. At my place they boil the stones and take a nice hot one out for each use. And they put the dirty ones in disinfectant before they are boiled. The razor thing they described sounds like a carrot or potato peeler. That blade thing sounds scary I can't even begin to think why they would want to cut when the file or stone works pretty quick. A hot stone sounds better than the file. Well I could not believe they used blades, so I did a little research and found http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/travel/globespotters/?p=258 Ahem, no thanks

QUOTE (Steff @ Sep 11, 2008 -> 01:57 PM) So I asked the ladies about these scraper things and they said they don't use them # 1. because they are not safe - because they can cut into the skin too deep - and # 2. that there is no way to appropriately sanatize the blade between customers. One of the techs said where she formerly worked at she was given 1 blade a day. Ick! They also said the that the pumice stone and some elbow grease is all that's needed to get dead skin off the bottom of the feet. Tex, I would not go back to that place. Thanks Steff, Interesting, everyone I spoke with down here reported either the file or an electric version. I'll have to check around. I will say the tool looked pretty clean to me. She scrubbed it periodically while doing my feet. It didn't seem that much different than manicure tools. The one blade a day thing is what confuses me. This wasn't cutting at all. I don't see how they could change any blades. Do they throw away the pumice stone after one use? The thing they used on me seemed more like that. A rough surface, not a cutting surface. More like if they cut the pumice stone thin and added a handle. God the more I think about it, if it is a blade, I'd get the hell out of there in an instant. Plus did I mention the massage chair?

This year's Distinguished Lecturer Series at my University was announced. Jeff Corwin, Judy Sheppard, Jehan Sadat, and Dr. Ballard. I'm thinking, isn't he dead? Why her, she will just yell about the Bush, who is she?, and what did he do? Oops, Jeff Corwin isn't Steve Irwin, Judy Sheppard is not the woman that camps outside The Crawford Ranch and chats with A-List Celebrity Dems, Jehan Sadat is pretty interesting, and he discovered the Titanic. D'Oh. Didn't they already kind of know it was at the bottom of the Atlantic? So three of four seem interesting. I'm probably most interested in what Judy Sheppard has to say.