Texsox

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 21, 2008 -> 08:11 AM) How many of the nearly 3 million government employees are you looking to fire? As many as we cannot afford, or raise taxes to pay for them. How many trillions of dollars in debt are you willing to take on? But I'm a conservative and this spend spend spend stuff and have someone else pay for it just doesn't sit well.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Jul 21, 2008 -> 05:49 AM) I hope you either own a franchise or that was supposed to be in green. I thought their bacon pizza (not Canadian) was very good. But that was 15 years ago and in Schaumburg. Things change.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 20, 2008 -> 09:25 PM) You CANNOT have an economy sustained on money chasing money, and that is what we've seen for a while now. Eventually, it has to collapse. How about an economy sustained by the government borrowing money and giving it to the citizens?

So I have a potential hurricane heading my way. How s***ty will it be if I get nailed by "Dolly"? As in "Dolly" really kicked my ass, Dolly destroyed everything. Dammit, I want names like Terminator, Darth Vader, names like that. Then, maybe, people will take them seriously. I'm hearing that "Dolly" is coming our way and we may need to evacuate South Padre Island, I'm thinking, Dolly!? I may take my chances. If they say Hurricane Rex Kickass is heading my way, I'm getting the hell out now. The last one to seriously screw with South Texas was Beuhla. I'm just guessing a barrier island sucks during a hurricane.

800 meters on up to the marathon.

Tony Mandarich

There will be a shortage of moving vans in a few days. But winning IS everything But onw word before we pass judgement -- DUKE

^^^^^ wait, is that a bad thing?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 10:05 AM) There are really 3 primary types of "Chicago" pizza. The famous deep dish pie of course... the south side, buttery thin crust... and the cracker crust Chicago thin. For those three, the best, IMO: Deep Dish: Lou Malnati's (Due's and Girodano's get silver and bronze) South Side: Home Run Inn (nothing else I've had comes close - and don't tell me Connie's) Cracker: Barnaby's (Jake's gets a silver) I can't argue with your list. I'd add Rosati's for a thin crust bacon. Devil's Revenge at Pat's Pizza in Grayslake because I ate so much of it when I worked for him in college like almost 30 years ago. I have skipped over DaPizza Joint on South Padre Island for years. I just never placed the beach and pizza in the same breath. Last night a co-worker asked if I wanted to have dinner with her. I wasn't hungry and agreed to have a beer while she ate. Bottom line, she learned that for a Chicago guy, if you put pizza in front of us, and it's good to very good, hungery or not, it will be eaten. Think northwoods of Wisconsin, meets Barnaby's piano playing, with a pretty damn good pie. So I now have two pretty damn good pizza places here in South Texas. I can be happy. Now if I found a gyro place . . .

I quickly changed use guys with y'all when I moved, I also notice I call it soda almost 100% of the time now. I've had a couple groups from Iowa in camp and a few of them said pop and my trading post clerk was confused, I said I speak yankee and asked use guys want some snickers with that? lol

Election year pandering and a bunch of noise ZZZZzzzzz

Y'all notice how many are in Kap's neck of the woods? It seems that the Greater Dallas area must be pretty awesome.

They lost today, I hate every f***ing one of them

Kind of reminds me of Jordan in a Washington Wizards uniform.

Somewhere William Clinton eating breakfast and hears they lifted the Presidential ban on offshore drilling . . . . . . honey now that the primary is over, the University invited me to take a cruise with their coeds, I think I'll go . . .

Election fodder. Zzzzzzzzzzzz

There are guys in the hall that were spectacular for 5 or 6 seasons. There are guys that were excellent for many, many years. I see him having a chance based on the mood of the hall voters and the fact he's a good guy to the media. They will, barring changes, be looking for reason to open the door. I also see him as being a veterans committee selection.

QUOTE (OilCan @ Jul 16, 2008 -> 11:05 AM) $3.89 at the Valero Gas Station in Luling TX. $3.99 @ Hwy 183 and FM 812 in Austin, SE side. A friend of mine is the Methodist Pastor in Schulenberg, just up the road.

I paid $3.89 yesterday on South Padre Island, TX.

I think we are overlooking that Congressmen have staffs of very well qualified individuals who can help them to understand. Looking over the personal wealth of most of our elected officials, I believe they have the resources and intelligence to understand. We ask our officials to govern on *everything*. I am not saying they are the most approriate or not, I do not have the background to say, but I have worked with several Senators and Congressmen staffs and they hire the resources they need. I have not been to impressed with self regulation. Especially if the reason is the subject is just too complex for anyone outside of the group to understand. If they cannot explain it in a manner that intelligent college grads with economic degrees who work as staffers, and the officials we are very successful in their careers can understand, then the so called experts probably do not understand it either. Again, I'm not disagreeing that congress is or is not the best tool to use, I just happen to disagree with this reason. /carry on.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 16, 2008 -> 10:22 AM) Recognizing bad fundamentals and a failing business = predicting outcome of the Dow? I think both have their accurate point. Some of the biggest advances have come from what would have been considered, or where considered, bad fundementals. IIRC, when ISPs went to "all you can consume for $19.95, they were expected to fail, and fail quickly. They didn't. But it is true, I cannot recall a business model that involves taking on poor credit risks, and charging enough interest to cover the bad, that has worked (legally). When proper business tries to cut in on loan sharking, they do so without some of the benefits that the non regulation, neighborhood loan shark has. Your need for knee caps. As far as elected leaders speaking out. If they yell from the beginning, they are alarmists, trying to score political points, etc. When they wait too long, they are in the pockets of certain groups. This is not an exact science, and I cannot be too worried about his entire history of comments on this subject. It certainly seems as if his interest and rhetoric has matched the general populations. Whether or not he is setting the pace, or following, is unclear. But no doubt we have a problem. People living beyond their means, and not properly planning for the future has been a societal problem for decades. Dating back to at least Reagan. (and I use him as an historical yardstick). We had a terrible economy and people could not have the things that Madison Avenue was selling on TV. Once the economy improved, consumption felt good, we were raised to believe success was a Lincoln, a larger and larger home, bigger vacations, silver, gold, and platinum cards. It was never having enough saved for a comfortable retirement, a rainy day.

I guess this is where I am confused, if everyone knew about it, then what did he report that was so damaging? And if everyone didn't know, where is his greater responsibility? To the individual investors and voters who elected him, or the banks which contributed (assumption) to his campaign?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 14, 2008 -> 04:09 PM) Sure, after the press conference people will know who you are, but if you move a few states away, nooone will remember you. Unless you buy that $100 million mansion on the hill, etc. And there are ways to hide yourself legally that cost less than sharing $60 million with other people. As for the relatives, you set up the ones you want right away, and then disappear. I CAN say no, and WILL say no, if the opportunity ever arises. And I'll be there every step of the way to help make that happen for you, buddy.

7 3/8 Is it Christmas?

I'm not totally clear, if he had not blown the whistle so to speak, is it possible people would have continued to invest and possibly lost money? It would seem a Senator would have an ethical obligation to point this out. From only a couple articles I read, IndyMac was in serious trouble and if the Senator didn't say something, and it was known he knew and kept quiet, the same author would have slammed him for being in cahoots with IndyMac. I'd like to read a slightly less biased report.