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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 10:31 PM) I once heard of a guy who had to go to the hospital as a result of smoking marijuana. Turns out the dude ate an entire pound of cheese and it was hemorrhaging his stomach.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 10:17 AM) magic. What does the former Laker point guard have to do with it?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 05:40 PM) Do you have statistics on that? I'd like to know how many people did that. Outliers and extreme circumstances do not make an argument. I'm not going to debate you on this, we've done this before. You are correct that you will OD on water before you will on marijuana. But that is a misleading statement. People do stupid, and fatal things while high. To ignore those deaths is silly. Driving high and various other marijuana influences lapses in judgement do cause deaths. As do many other things. You make it seem as if nothing will ever happen to you if you are high. from http://wctu.org/marijuana_update.html how many from Tylenol?

yage, the ultimate spiritual high.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 03:09 PM) Stupid how? Like how more people die from tylenol each year than marijuana? Which is the only purpose of Tylenol Are you including people who are, for example, high and fall off a balcony during Spring break?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 02:23 PM) I'd say that voter apathy, or apathy generally, is an American problem - not a liberal or conservative problem. But the solutions offered by both sides is very different. Liberals try to remove all the barriers and make it as simple and easy as possible. Conservatives say f*** 'em if they don't want to vote, stay home. Both sides are right, and both sides are wrong. Somewhere there is a balance that works.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 01:10 PM) f*** 'em. Nice speech. You managed to very well sum up brain dead conservatives attitudes towards voters.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 01:54 PM) what the f***'s a newspaper?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 11:19 AM) If it so bothers people that the drinking age is 21, then why don't you make use of a real, actual RIGHT - and get involved in the political process to elect officials who agree with you? They need a picture ID

I made pretty patterns with my answers. On-line surveys are so accurate. You may wish to discount the Hispanic Native American with the $100,000 income.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 12:19 PM) You assume that everyone currently without an ID will suddenly be unable to get one. If they are UNWILLING to get one, then they are disenfranchising themselves. As for the number that will really be UNABLE to get one, I think that will be a very small number indeed. There are groups, charities, and more partisan groups that are more than willing to help people register to vote, I am sure there will be efforts made to help those truely in need of an ID get one. I would wager that a vast majority of those who need an ID, and really want to vote, would get one. There seems to be this concept that spending an hour or two of your life once every 6+ years to get an ID is somehow an excessive burden to many (poor and minorities hit hardest!). That's bull. And quit lumping absentee balloting with THIS issue. Different problems. You are assuming the only people not voting because of this will be those without picture ID. I worry more that some voters with a photo ID will not tolerate the longer lines and possible denial if their picture doesn't match. How much time off do you allow your employees to go vote? And doesn't it seem a little silly to put a bandaid on a minor cut while the person is having a heart attack? This is all about access to the ballot, and absentee ballots and in person should be treated the same, both votes will count the same.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 12:25 PM) Then by your logic you should be campaigning to ban all polling places and making it absolutely easy as possible to vote (I imagine the government contacting every single person in the country to ask their vote would be the easist thing?) , and getting rid of all forms of security, because they all disenfranchise people. I think the trend has been towards making the process simpler, which I agree with. Polling places near people's homes, early voting options, machines that are less confusing and faster. So if we could make it as easy as answering the phone or logging into a site, I can't see where that would be a bad thing. As far as security, it becomes where we draw the line. Currently they match signatures and check off when you vote. That seems to have worked for a long time. Certainly fingerprints and DNA testing would be far more secure, but I would think that no one would take that seriously. I see long lines, and voters being denied because they do not look like their old picture. The longer lines can be countered by more machines. and who doesn't like a bigger government program :-)

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 10:45 AM) The issue is that there's simply not enough oil coming out of the ground to keep up with the growing demand. And no urgency to refine even faster. For all practical purposes, there is a finite amount of oil. What is the incentive to pump faster for less?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 08:28 AM) That's the fun part... Everyone seems to want more refining capacity, but no one wants it built next to them. The NIMBY factor is huge here. Not to mention with all of the emphasis towards getting off of oil, why would any company look at putting up billions of dollars into technology that everyone is talking about phasing out? You've been to Houston. NIMBY Great thought on capacity and investment.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:23 AM) ...until Microsoft decides to stop supporting them and force you to upgrade to Hanging Balls v2.0 Then Mac comes out with HB3 which are so mesmerizing the drivers are hypnotized into thinking their truck is now perfect, runs forever without any maintenance, has the best features, and only cool people can drive it.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:49 AM) Provisional ballots. That only get counted if it "matters". Works for me as long as it is *your* ballot that doesn't matter And how will they check absentee ballots? Why should there be less stringent requirements for those? Almost all of the fraud allegations here concern absentee ballots, not in person. And having photo ID will not stop the "paid to vote" fraud.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:47 AM) In Computer Prgramming class, would they make you recite the Pledge in binary? 10010001001100010011... There are 10 kinds of people in this world Those that got that joke and those that didn't

Interesting that the GOP folks here want *more* government intervention in our lives. They want every US voter to head to a government agency to be photographed. Everyone pull out their photo ID and see how close they resemble the picture. Now imagine that election judge denying you the opportunity to vote because you gained/lost weight, grew/shaved a beard, changed hair styles, went bald, had a weave etc. You walk in with the birth certificate, utility bills, signatures match exactly, but the election judge decides that picture doesn't match you. And it is really going to be fun when one precinct has the majority of problems. If that area is predominately one party, I can already hear the cries of bias. Now imagine longer lines to vote while people fumble for their IDs, clerks stare intently at the pictures to see if they match. But perhaps Indiana does have corruption on such a widespread basis they need this. I wonder how many elections have been decided by fraud in Indiana.

http://www.esquire.com/the-side/video/loca...=enl&kw=ist

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 07:37 AM) You'd be surprised how untrue that actually is. It takes a very small movement in supply or demand in energies to create wild price fluxuations. The oil crisis of the 70's was brought about by only a 15% reduction in supply, which led to a tripling/quadrupling of prices. If supply had only fallen by say 10%, what is to say that prices would have only doubled? Its not a big leap a faith to think that a very small supply increase from anywhere (not just Alaska) could have moderated price increases greatly. Wouldn't that also depend on the cost of that oil? As I understood it, even industry execs said the cost per barrel would be higher than what was on the market.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 11:17 PM) Oooh, I like this. I'll have to dissent from you on most of them, however. Belushi - Animal House Chase - Vacation (barely beating out Fletch) Martin - Man With Two Brains (narrowly beating out The Jerk) Murray - The Life Aquatic )(a flawed gem, but he was great as Zissou) Williams - Fisher King (narrowly beating out Good morning Viet Nam, and with an honorable mention to Toys, another flawed gem that I have a soft spot for) Pryor - Stir Crazy I felt Belushi had a better role in Blues Brothers. He really didn't have many scenes in Animal House and they were all basically the same. If this is which was the best movie they were in, I would say AH, if it is which movie they performed the best, I'd say Blues Brothers. Martin, The Jerk came in second for me. Williams had a few choices, perhaps because RV was the freshest in my mind, and I hyperventilated at the dump station scene.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 12:16 AM) If you can be 18 and get recruited to fight in the army and are trusted with automatic weapons while drinking, then you should be able to have a beer or 25 too. /thread. And I don't give a s*** what anyone else says. fixed. There are a lot of things an 18 year old can do when not drinking, that become a problem when they start drinking. Shooting automatic weapons is a great example. The military doesn't trust you to shoot automatic weapons or drive a tank after a few drinks. It's all about ages and stages. There are sixteen year olds that would do a better job voting then 18 or 21 year olds, but as a society we do not believe that the majority of 16 year olds would be. But I agree, if you are in the military, you should be allowed to drink.

Country would be bankrupt.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 09:32 PM) WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! That Texas heat's gittin' to yer hed boy. Chase - Fletch Martin - Parenthood Murray - Rushmore Williams - The Fisher King Are we talking comedies or ROTFLMAO? Fletch I could agree with. Parenthood is close, but I really loved DRS. But I'm sticking with my choices on the other two.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 10:19 PM) I didn't call Balta a brain deal liberal. Are you denying that there are brain dead liberals out there? I know that there are brain dead conservatives out there somewhere. I did not say you did call him one, feeling guilty? LOL Once they are brain dead, they cease to be liberal or conservative. I do know the phrase is used to insult people. We are getting closer and closer to a national ID card. Pictures, fingerprints, DNA samples, all kept on a nice government data base which will never get hacked or used against us. With a rf chip embedded in the card, and requiring everyone to keep on themselves at all times, the government can protect us.