Texsox

How soon until someone claims that Obama paid the student to take it out of the wall and send it to newspapers? Wait, I guess that is me. 10:53 PM Central I'm cynical all the time. Too good of a prayer. He is at least smart enough to know it may be published. Notice he didn't say pray for my illegitimate children or rid me of my cocain addiction.

I am ashamed and embarrassed for us. There is one, and only one, song that anyone on this board would want played. It was done by a studio group, thrown together for the recording and rose to the top of the charts. It was immortalized in the late 70s by a Hall of Fame organist. Steam, Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye /end of thread

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 25, 2008 -> 07:20 PM) Why would Edwards take a chance of being caught? Doesn't he have friends? Everyone knows you meet your mistress at a trusted friends house, not a hotel. Also, I'm more inclined to believe this story, as the Enquirer "broke" it months and months ago. This is the follow-up that "proves" it. Maybe not, didn't Gary Hart get caught on a friend's boat?

To be fair to the police, the story only highlights all the unproductive leads they did chase down. While it may have taken 3 weeks for this or a week for that, they may have pursued 100 other leads. I started the story thinking Condit was involved, slam dunk, and got away with murder. (Hey, he's from California) I came away from the story thinking he didn't do it and the police were kind of in a bad place. If they looked elsewhere, it would seem like political pressure, even if there were other, credible suspects. Thanks SS for posting the link. Great read and I would have missed it.

Feelin' Alright ~ Joe Cocker

We can start with school funding. Pegging it to property taxes assures the haves have and the have nots, have not. In a small border community here, the Social Studies text book still showed the Soviet Union. They were teaching Social Studies with 20 year old text books. Up near where Kap lives, Highland Park Texas, the minimum requirement to be a Science teacher is a PhD. Money ain't everything in education. Hidalgo, TX is a poor community but the school works like hell to get opportunities for their kids. But money certainly evens up the playing field. And that is where preferential admittance standards at college fails. To move the pre college finish line is wrong. We have to move the starting line.

So much of public debate, and campaigns, seems to be find a slight misstep, start screaming, and see if the story has legs. And I do not blame the candidates as much as I blame the public. It seems to happen more in forums like this then from press releases, etc. I know the campaign staffs do it as well, but we demand it, for some strange reason.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 25, 2008 -> 01:10 PM) I could be wrong, but when Kap said "outclassed", I think he had a different definition than you. Not class, as in, classy. Class, as in, rank. Outclassed, in that connotation, meaning the opponent is beating the pants off you at whatever game you are playing. After rereading, I agree.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jul 25, 2008 -> 01:50 PM) Again this from the Enquirer, but they claim the baby is an infant because of the car seat in Rielle Hunter's car. In some states car seats are manditory until a given height. But, the cancer was 4 years ago, so you are correct, it does seem as if it was post cancer.

Much would also depend on the age of the baby. If the baby was pre-cancer, he's still a scum bag, but I would not expect him to turn his back on mom and his baby. If the baby was post cancer, he's a scum bag of the highest order and should never show his face in public again. Not even for a public blood letting or shamful apology. But, I am willing to wait until better proof is presented. But, there seems to be no shortage of women for these guys.

Is this the same woman who had McCain's bi-racial baby I'm to the point where I can't respect a candidate who hasn't done drugs and has a few women on the side, or an extra wide stance. As long as they are not Diamond escorts. That would be worng.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 24, 2008 -> 03:38 PM) That much I agree with. McCain is a bumbling idiot, sort of like our current president. He's being outclassed badly. If he would just take a stance on what Obama's policies really means to the average American's pocketbook, he'd win. But, I'm not sure he has that in him. I totally disagree that the man is a bumbling idiot. He would have have accomplished all he has if he was truly bumbling and an idiot. I also disagree, although with slightly less enthusiasm, that he is being out"classed" badly. I think once the post convention campaign kicks off, he'll kick ass. This is just idling time. And depending on your definition of class, I believe he has led his life with a lot more class then most politicians. He was royally screwed in 2000 and stayed loyal to his party and the President. Even though he could have returned the screw job in 2004 and won the office for the Dems by joining Kerry's ticket. He may be a lot of things, but an idiot and someone who could be outclassed, no way.

Sidebar: How many rules and regulations do Presidential campaigns have to keep straight? The logistics of a Presidential campaign is mond boggling to me. Just getting all the bills paid takes a huge organization.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Jul 25, 2008 -> 10:56 AM) ...and hopefully one day it will be that again, our Vegas Island. I've alwys believed trade is our best ally. A couple McDonalds and we'll destroy them and their health care system

Cuba was a grand vacation destination for Americans before the enbargo. Thanks for the cigars

Yes, that is part of the problem. Child care benefits is one area I am most familiar with. Shameful that a family has to give up those benefits when they earn more. The decrease in benefits swallows up more then the raise, yet child care is one of the single biggest hurdles that poor people face. Basically, if you were a parent and your child was currently in a safe day care and "moving up" meant placing your child in an unlicensed, unregulated, daycare which usually is over crowded and does not offer the same meals, etc. What would you do? And the jumble of agencies that are in place is daunting even for an educated person. I sat through a presentation and lost track of the number of agencies where someone can turn to for help. And the companies that try and untangle it for their employees, are routinely criticized for those efforts. We need to fix the system where a family doing the right thing is not penalized as they move up and those that stay the same or decline lose out. The problem is always punishing the adults and not their children. We have little stomach for starving kids in poor environments. We could just eliminate programs for the working poor, or work out the incentives for staying in place.

Tragic, and complicated. Humans, even police make mistakes. BTW, did Condit run and lose or not run?

QUOTE (OilCan @ Jul 25, 2008 -> 08:06 AM) Texsox, Glad to hear you guys down the street are "OK"... We got plenty of rain here in Luling, about an inch and a half. Most of my family's 3 acres were flooded but those have now been absorbed in our dry soil... San Antonio received plenty of rain, as did the Hill Country. It didn't really come down in Austin until around 1pm yesterday. Glad to hear that. We have plenty of fields under water, but the irrigation methods we use actually help to contain and channel the water. I was just thinking I have been through Luling, what is the BBQ joint that is Texas Famous?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 25, 2008 -> 08:20 AM) http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?i...8351&page=1 I'm just not liking Obama's short list. I do like a couple names on McCain's list. The more and more I see, the more I like McCain's chances. He seems to be running a tighter, more professional campaign and making better decisions.

How did Bush handled his cocaine use? I think he denied it, much like Clinton. Both lied and we know it. Seriously, how many candidates in this age range have not used drugs at some point in their lives? McCain was in Vietnam, it would be amazing if he didn't smoke pot. And how many voters in this age range also did illegal drugs? Sorry, I just can't get excited over this issue. I've always given every candidate a free pass on most misstatements. They say so much in the course of a campaign, and damn near every word is recorded and dissected. It's amazing they don't trip up more often. So when I give a pass to my man McCain, it will not be hypocritical.

Wow. I was about 60 miles inland, but the eye wall passed very close by. The winds and rain were impressive. I noticed that Mother Nature finds the weak link in everything. We were without electricity for about 20 hours, other areas are still without and it may take a week to ten days to get it back. Being an avid backpacker, I had plenty of odds and ends and a couple camp stoves if necessary. I never lost water, which was very nice. My car port was half ripped out where it was attached to the house, but it remained in place. I did reach South Padre Island. The usualy 90 minute drive to close to four hours as I negotiated around flooded roadways. Imagine the largest wooden power poles you have ever seen, and splinter them in sections like a toothpick. About 10' of beach was eroded away at my camp. Some items were destroyed, other, more fragile, remained undamaged. Fences and signs were down everywhere. My detours took me thorugh some really poor neighborhoods. Sadly, we could not tell what was normal conditions and what may have been storm damage. Remembering what Jim went through a couple years ago and am very grateful we had it relatively easy.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 06:07 PM) the exact same argument the FOX news defender used The just of it was that the media is slanted so far to the left that anything in the middle would be considered right wing biased in comparison. When in reality both the MSM and FOX are slanted. FOX is basically a retaliation network to the pro-Democrat bias in the MSM. But when some people see things on TV that they agree with, they automatically assume it's non-biased and true reporting, when that may not be the case. and this is really beating a dead horse now, as this is like the 1 millionth 'liberal media' debate in the filibuster Whether the media is biased or not, the GOP has won the battle. I'm not certain if it is more amazing they won over an unbiased or biased media.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 04:52 PM) He'd be dumb not to do it, but that is me. Just hope there would be security around. He's turned down more, which is pretty stupid IMHO. And Rodriguez should kiss Bartman's ass every day. He's the one that really cost the Cubs their chances.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 05:54 PM) Well, I think having CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and most of the nations news papers filled with pro-Democrat journalists is a win for the Dems. The coverage is totally pro-Dem. I had a similar debate with someone, but she was convinced that FOX news is completely unbiased; nothing could convince her otherwise. Oh well. And this will be studied and the analysis of the MSM will be obvious; a strong pro-Democrat bias in the news media. As The Gorace would say, "The debate is over". At this point, totally unbiased would appear as liberal biased because the GOP has made the public super sensitive to anything that is negative towards them or positive for the Dems. Look back at the letter that GOP leaders sent to the NYT, if you believe their numbers, and I do, the majority of Americans believe the media is biased against the GOP. So I cannot agree that having pro-dem journalists is a win for the Dems. The GOP has turned it into a big victory for themselves.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 05:29 PM) 'k. I'll be around. I have an aircard, too. They work pretty well. technically it is not an aircard. My Sailing Director had the Verizon version and he was 10X faster then my cell phone using Edge technology from T-mobile. Basically I was using it along with a Java application to access my gmail account.