Texsox

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 06:10 PM) Also I still don't understand why you don't like bringing alcohol into the argument. I mean, if you're seriously against alcohol being available, then ok. If not, alcohol is used as the base of comparison as its the only "legal" drug in the class we're talking about. Because that comparison works both ways. As others have noticed, we allow alcohol, which is way worse than pot, so therefor we should also ban alcohol. It isn't logically more valid than buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut Johnny's mom is letting him go. For a wide range of reasons we have allowed certain things and banned others, do you really think they all fall in a nice neat hierarchy? Once we start placing them on some scale and making it fair, we need to throw out our entire system.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 05:55 PM) A 42 year old woman I used to work with died a couple of days ago from liver and kidney disease brought on by alchollism. I really don't know what the real long-term health ramifications are for smoking weed, but it can't be worse than that. Another reason why we should bring back prohibition.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 05:39 PM) Oh, so you are talking about drinking rubbing alcohol? IN that case we should ban Sterno as well since thats the same chemical formula, and homeless people melt THAT down and drink it, true story. I hadn't really considered just how bad alcohol is, and use to think dry counties were kind of stupid, but you have opened my eyes. Thank you.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 05:34 PM) Alcohol has zero medicinal value and has not only horrifically higher impairment, but also can kill you in a short period of time. Alcohol kills people by stupidity and also by its chemical makeup. Alcohol is used to sterlize instruments. But you are right, alcohol should be banned.

I did not state my point very well. A very small percentage of cough syrup users are trying to get high, and a very small percentage of pot smokers are helping their Glaucoma. Most smokers will be partying, and this should be a bigger priority then worrying about cough syrup abusers.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 04:02 PM) Too bad the REPs don't have a candidate that can win How embarrassing to lose to a convicted felon?

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 03:44 PM) So are you suggesting like Clemens, Bonds, McGwire, etc, are Hall of Fame deserving, but some players, such as Ruth, Aaron, Mays (and from this era, Pedro, Maddux, Henderson, perhaps Griffey) are more deserving of like a Hall of Immortality or something such as that? Basically, yes. Cy Young, Mays, Ruth, Williams, Aaron, etc.

Delta voters re-elect felon Bazan by wide margin Jeremy Roebuck March 4, 2008 - 11:41PM ELSA — Walo Bazan has done it again. For the second time this decade, Hidalgo County’s Precinct 5 constable has won the Democratic primary under a cloud of legal problems and accusations of criminal wrongdoing. Now, with no Republican challenger, the five-term incumbent is slated to become the only elected peace officer in the state to take office with a felony record, no license and a legal restriction barring him from carrying a weapon. As election returns came in Tuesday night, challengers Mario Leal and Juan Diaz Alemán gracefully conceded. “If that’s what the people want, then that’s fine,” Leal said. “I’m not disappointed.” But for Bazan, who has retained much of his support in the Delta despite his conviction on theft charges in 2006, Tuesday’s results hardly came as a surprise. He won re-election in 2004 by more than 1,000 votes over his closest competitor — even while Bazan was under criminal indictment. Now convicted of those charges, his popularity among voters has only grown. His policies of patrolling the streets around area schools and providing free escort services for funerals have endeared him to his Delta constituents. And on Tuesday, voters swept him back into office with almost 2,000 votes over Leal and more than 63 percent of the total vote — in a race in which nearly 5,900 votes were cast. A state licensing board revoked Bazan’s peace officer’s license in 2006 after a jury found him guilty of getting personal use of a car his deputies seized. The constable is currently appealing that conviction and has maintained his office despite Hidalgo County District Attorney Rene Guerra’s attempts to remove him. The Texas attorney general bolstered Bazan’s claim to elected office last year in a legal opinion that suggested constables do not necessarily need a law enforcement license to hold their office. But Bazan’s re-election Tuesday may not mean he will serve a full sixth term. The constable previously said he will consider stepping down should the state’s courts deny his appeals. Bazan could not be reached for comment after his victory was declared.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 03:30 PM) Security surveillance doesn't count. Speaking of surveillance cameras, how are the ones that America's Funniest Home Videos installed in your bedroom working out? I kid, because I can™

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Mar 12, 2008 -> 01:01 PM) No, you totally avoided the whole point. Why can't they just state the affiliation up front, all the time, and eliminate any b****ing by one side or the other? Are all their 'D' keys broken? And what is the advantage to the newspapers in this nationwide plot?

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 02:49 PM) Baseball should implement a Hall of Shame; I mean, atleast you get your own wing and a plaque and all that stuff I was avoiding that term, because it would not really be what I am thinking. I believe it should be more elevating some players to an even higher status. Perhaps a hundred players, maybe less. 2% of the Hall maybe?

QUOTE(max power @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 02:26 PM) Not sure why you think I care so much. I just think he is terribly over paid, you don't, and your argument wasn't logical to me, so I thought I'd try to understand it through discourse. I think he will get better, and I think contracts will increase over the next few seasons.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 02:45 PM) Put the same warning on the pack/bag of pot. Lots and lots of things can make you too messed up to drive. Can they do breathalyser tests for sleeping pills? pain killers? cough medicine? Step back for a moment. Why are people taking cough medicine and why are they smoking pot? There is a difference in application which is probably relevant. Not too many are texting all their friends to take some Nyquil, but they are making invitations to get baked.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 02:53 PM) I am STILL shocked that states are "surprised" by high turn out. Iowa should ahve been the early clue that this election is like none before. It's been over 2 months since Iowa and Texas wasnt prepared. And there are still two steps before the state convention.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 02:41 PM) Tex, makes you wonder... why would they stop? Seems to help Hillary. You are complaining about a system that allowed Obama to LOSE the popular vote and GAIN more delegates? GMAB They stopped bacause they were overrun and no one knew the results. At my precint, it was chaos. Everyone that wanted to get in could not. And this area went 75-25 for Clinton. So it would seem this did not help her. Statewide over 800,000 people showed up when they were expecting 100,000. No one was ready for that.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 02:00 PM) Talk about a slippery slope. If we're going at it with that angle, lets get rid of 90% of prescription drugs. 90% of prescription drugs? Seems like we always need new antibiotics, cancers drugs, etc.

I think there is time to adjust how the HoF is run. I have not worked out the details in my mind, so of anyone really wants to take my halfbaked idea and poke holes in it, it would be easy so I'm not even going to bother defending. but There needs to be a space for Rose, Bonds, Mark, while keeping the rest of the HoF "clean".

QUOTE(max power @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 04:44 AM) So every contract in baseball that is long term is a spectacular deal because 'they always go up'? That's the only argument you've presented. Well Max, you seem to care waaay more about this issue then I. Without hardly any deep analysis of the upcoming free agents, without spending hours pouring over the upcoming financial situation for MLB owners. Without checking in with Rowand, I took a wild guess that he was going to continue to get better, and contracts would continue to increase. And I totally forgot about Mathews Jr. Would you mind if I ran all my posts by you before I post so I don't make such ridiculous predictions again?

Crap my 30th High School reunion is next year.

I was just thinking that if pot was legal and alcohol was illegal, that the alcohol drinkers would be making similar arguments and comparisons to pot. But may be we do not need to make available every escapism mood elevator in our society.

BTW, I hope in relating these stories and debating this issue, we all can agree that racism is alive and well throughout America. Sadly, we seem to minor in the major issues involved and major in the minor. The slightest slip of the tongue, or poorly phrased statement ruins a person's career while bigger issues are ignored.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 12:10 PM) what is your definition of an American Car? GM where the HQ is in Detroit, but most of the assembly takes place in Mexico or Toyota where the HQ is in Japan but most of the assembly takes place in the US? North America content. From the wheel to the antennas, where are the components coming from and where are they being put together.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 12:10 PM) I wouldn't compare Indy to most places. It seems like a really big small town to me. I didn't really like it there much at all. What is all of them? Correct, please select . . . I'll take boring Indiana Cities for $400 Alex . . .

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 11:40 AM) So THAT'S how that big tub of goo Ruben beat my boy Clay on American Idol, huh? Proud to say I am the only person in America that has never watched a moment of American Idol.