Texsox

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 17, 2008 -> 01:28 PM) And... the attempted thread hijack begins. Just placing the earlier comments in context. Alpha believes the reason they are not invited by other Arab countries is no one cares about them and they are not liked. I believe there are other reasons that are probably higher on the list. Using a familiar analogy usually makes that point easier and better.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 17, 2008 -> 01:40 PM) convert it to Quicktime. Found a program to convert to mpg which worked, except I could not find the opening to Family Guy in a format I could grab. Only as part of a longer piece on familyguy.com

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 17, 2008 -> 11:53 AM) If the other arab countries in the area cared one bit for the Pali's, there would be no refugees. Israel isn't the only one that has a wall to keep them out. Egypt doesn't want them, Jordan doesn't want them, and so on. I would go that far. Is that also why we are putting up a wall against Mexicans? We just don't care about them?

QUOTE (NUKE @ Apr 17, 2008 -> 09:54 AM) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...id=opinionsbox1 Even the Washington Post, that bastion of conservative thought thinks Carter is wrong. Just how are we supposed to get anything sone in the middle east when we have this guy running around lending legitimacy to a known terrorist leader? Seems Mr Carter is getting a little senile in his old age and now he's every bit as bad of an EX-president as he was an actual one. Is this like tossing a flag on the floor?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 17, 2008 -> 09:42 AM) Tex, you are not burning the flags as an expression of your free speech, or in an attempt to win an NEA grant. Totally different concept there, so lets move on. Why is there a need for such an experiment? Don't you already know what the reactions will be? So all you do when you do that is push buttons hoping for a reaction. WOuld you and others be so ho-hum about it were the flags Iranian or Palastinian? I guess we won't know, since the moment those flags were to hit the floor, the PC police would be all over them. Oh, and the usual beheading statements would come out, and CAIR would issue press releases, and the principal would say the school is sorry, and arrange for CAIR to give a speech at the school. What we could use is a line from the Filibuster standards in real life. 4. I will not post statements for the purpose of angering others. Apply that to 'experiments', or 'art'. This so-called experiment was pointless, and only served to piss off a bunch of people to varying degrees. While you and Jim might think some people get worked up over the flag for disingenuous reasons, for others, like the vet in the video, that flag means alot, and doing what was done is just like a personal insult to him. Political and social discourse is already at an all-time low, why push this button? The fear of loss is a great motivator. Seeing the flag, belly exposed, and vulnerable is a great metaphor for your rights that are also being made vulnerable. BTW, look around at all the worn and tattered flags being displayed. Look at the flags being displayed at night without a light. Out of order, etc. Cotton flags in the rain. Giant flags that are really being used as advertisements for gas stations and auto dealers. If you really want to express outrage, there are plenty of opportunties to do that. And no, I am not burning the flag as an expression of my free speech. We are retiring those tattered flags I see everywhere. Funny, some folks were too cheap to take down their old flag and buy a new one.

Doesn't seem to apply to Powerpoint 2007

Anybodt have one they can just send him?

Economic impact of new stadiums Attendance at sporting events v. world events (increase decrease etc.) Sports as a classroom (mathematics and stats, history, science of a curveball, sports jounalism and literacy, economics, supply and demand, war strategy, social studies referencing Jackie Robinson and the latin explosion in baseball, architecture, )

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 17, 2008 -> 09:11 AM) It's not a matter that they talked about the "insignificant" issues. It's how much time they gave to them and how they handled the MAJOR issues. This was not a debate for America. most Americans have already voted! This should have been a debate about issues that matter to Penn. It wasnt. The bitter thing needed to be addressed, but a lapel flag pin? William Ayers? Bosnia? Those are old or "loose connections" stories being pushed by the far right and George Stepenopolus fell right into Hannity's hands. This was a debate for the people of Penn. They BEARLY talked about the economy. They never addressed NAFTA, free trade, the mortgage crisis. Due to time, they rushed through Iraq, the economy and taxes. Heck, at the very end they said "ok, 1 minute response.... the price of gas...". So Rev Wright gets 5-10 minutes, but gas gets 1 minute? This was a shame of a debate. As I mentioned, *they* may have done it poorly, but certainly they have already talked about the mortgage crisis, I can't believe NAFTA is still an issue; Iraq, economy, etc, again covered many times over. I guess then in your opinion, debaters should keep hammering away at the economy, Iraq, etc. and BARELY touch on anything else? Ican understand that, but one debate for an hour or so, out of the tens of thousands of hours they will speak, seem trivial enough to allow for minor subjects and characters. In fact, if anything, I think there has been aterrible job done of expanding beyond the top four or five positions. We certainly have the time and resources.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 16, 2008 -> 10:51 AM) As I understand it, the uniform is up to the starting pitcher that day. Or so I thought. No confirmation that it is still tradition for the SP to pick the jersey?

Worse? Seems like am awkward adjective to use, I would say it is stranger to root for both the Bears and Packers, you might as well toss in a couple other teams and root for the entire division. Now when I was living in Chicago I did root for more than one football team, and now that I think about it, they were also in the division. I cheered for the Bears and whomever was playing the Packers.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 17, 2008 -> 07:12 AM) This from the guy who uses his convenient fued with Sox front office to fill his columns up on a daily basis. Hypocrasy knows no end with Kotex-boy. Face it, you haven't been a good columnist that I have ever seen, and you deserve to be fired. Yet he is the most quoted columnist regarding the Sox. Dusty, here is the booing scorecard: Bigots, racists, etc. about 2% of the crowd, bood because they knew a black guy couldn't be a manger. Sorry, I, along with a lot of other people, wish we could wave a wand and have that disappear. BTW the people who controlled you paycheck and got you hired and fired are not in this group, maybe the next group, or at least you hope they are in the next group. Knowledgeable Cub and baseball fans with understanding of the game, who can rationally analyze your moves and concluded you mismanaged a WS caliber team, 0%, there are none, I said Cub fans. Cub fans, without an attention span beyond you and Bartman, were 98% of the boos.

Pledge Alliegance? Sox Bears? A little, I switch to the Cowboys when I moved Hawks? Still a bit, but love the Stars Bulls? I got the Spurs It's just too much effort to really stay in tune. College? I skip around, but all things being equal I cheer for UT Longhorns, Notre Dame, Rice, Aggies,

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Apr 17, 2008 -> 04:50 AM) It was pretty interesting that 95-98 percent of students avoided stepping on the flags. Which, interesting enough was about the same number I got when back in college a new mascot was painted on the lobby floor. We counted during the first week how many people avoided stepping on it, and it was about 99%

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 16, 2008 -> 08:51 PM) I no where implied that they didn't. And the idiot who planned this deserves to be scorned by her fellow students, most of whom honored the flag and at least walked around. However, I want to know how this can be considered 'art'. And how come it took all day for the fire marshall to have it removed. Would you feel better if he didn't call it art, but an experiment? Jim's comments ring true to me. I'm planning a flag burning for the 4th of July during the fireworks display. I guess I could call it art, but didn't really think of that, perhaps it would attract a few more people if I did. The event should attract close to 400 people. I currently have about two dozen kids and several adults, from 11-65, planning on burning flags. I have had no shortage of people willling to dionate flags to be burned. At first we had to ask people but after word got around we were receiving calls and people just dropping them off. I have notified the Fire Marshall and it appears we will be well within our rights and will not endanger anyone. We also have at least two tv stations agreeing to cover the event. The coverage will probably not be that wide and you would not have even known about it if I did not tell you. A youtube vid seems like a great idea.

I did not see it, and do not want to seek to defend or attack it, but I have one thought as I read the accounts. Does every debate have to be over the same stuff? Perhaps these guys did it poorly, but going away from the stuff that they are repeating for the 3,000 time, may be a great way to offer something new. Again, it seems by all accounts that they did it poorly but it would seem we have all the sound bites we need on Iraq etc.

Cool! Thank you, that is really interesting. I would like to see an overall, this was the final 6 weeks. As we all know, the campaign runs for over a year, countring the primaries. Just counting the general, we have a lengthy run.

Well, if we did go by popular vote, it would cut way down on travel. Hell, visit NY, Chicago, LA, Dallas, Houston maybe San Francisco, Detroit, Orlando, Atlanta, and a few others, maybe 12-15 states and you have a campaign. At least 25 states would drop off the Presidential map and another 10 states would only be convered if it was strategic for a candidate. A REP could not just write off California and a DEM would have to come to Texas. But no body would have to got to Idaho or Vermont.

I think the CRDE Sect is far better today, but agree the FLDS sect has the potential to be much better.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 15, 2008 -> 02:45 PM) Ugh. I really dislike it when people keep animals like that as pets. Yeah, same here

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 15, 2008 -> 01:02 PM) Yea, i dunno. I completely understand the whole "states rights" thing. And I am very respectful of it. But, it is REALLY democratic when one person receives 500,000 more votes than the other and looses? I think it's still fair to let them have their own regional issues that states take care of. but this is a NATIONAL president, not a state governor. I dont think it's fair that a person in Idaho has twice the voting power as a person in CA or IL. Remember at the time, we had states getting together and forming a national government, not the other way around. So it is natural they figured out a way were each state would pick the President, not as individuals. Perhaps we have outgrown the need. But using your example. someone in a small state is totally screwed by whatever the large states want to do. Since the Federal government makes decsiions that effect the states, each state would want equal, or close to equal representation. Again, we are made up of states united together to form a federal government.

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 15, 2008 -> 01:33 PM) I had a near-encounter with what was "either a jaguar or an unusually large mountain lion" in the Big Hatchets in New Mexico. That according to the experts I sent the track pics to. Fresh track in the snow that hadn't softened at the edges yet in the NM sun - couldn't have been more than a few minutes that I missed it by. The thing was probably watching me from the brush nearby while I was checking the tracks. For reference, an "unusually large mountain lion" would be about 7 feet long and weigh 250 pounds. Wow, my hair was standing up on the back of my neck thinking about your encounter. I was going to ask what the prints looked like, I forgot you would know fresh from hours or days old.

I'm not certain of the range of a panther (my h.s. mascot) but I suspect these are different animals. I'd even go out on a limb and guess that there is a common breeder somewhere selling exotics. On the wild side, we have some in Texas the closest I came was across a gap at Big Bend. I much prefer to see a bear at 50 yards then a cougar at 800 yards. Those damn cats will stalk, whereas a bear will be big and noisy and easier to scare away.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Apr 15, 2008 -> 12:33 PM) The older I get, the less I care about what "famous" people think. Maybe I would care more if I wrote songs, acted in movies, played some sort of professional sport or was a born "celebrity" (I'm looking at you Paris). I like to call it cynicism. She is entitled to her opinion, no matter how crazy it is...and I am entitled to think she is bats*** crazy...no matter how famous or how much money she has. And by the way, life is waaaaay to short to find fault any way you can. But, that's just my opinion, I might be wrong. I don't see how you can be wrong. Your opinion is your opinion. I feel about the same way regardiung anyone's opinion. Only after they have built up some credibility do I even bother. For example there are a few posters here that I will really try to learn from, and a whole bunch that just annoy.