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QUOTE (G&T @ Feb 5, 2011 -> 06:45 AM) My brother drinks coke in the morning because he doesn't like coffee. Anyone else do that? I'll drink any kind of pop with caffeine in it rather than coffee. QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 5, 2011 -> 08:33 PM) All I know is, Five Hour Energy is a huge scam. I've had it a couple of times and it seemed to work OK. It works when you just want the caffeine without all the extra liquid.

People who don't know how to use the quote function when responding to a specific post.

Well I left work on Tuesday at 4:40 PM and got home around 8:15 PM. That included stopping at a truck stop on the way. So I only added about an extra 1.5 hours to my commute. There was surprisingly little traffic. The worst part was trying to figure out where the road was since I couldn’t see a single white or yellow line. Also the snow would pick up every so often and I couldn’t see more than a few feet in front of me for a few seconds. Tuesday night when they started pulling the plows off the roads and actually issuing citations for anyone that got stuck in Boone County I decided to just stay home on Wednesday. Wednesday afternoon I finally went out and dug out the giant drift of snow on my front sidewalk. Luckily I only had to shovel around my car and about 5 feet of driveway behind it. I actually made good time coming in this morning with the schools being closed.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Feb 1, 2011 -> 01:22 PM) Isn't that the main argument against this bill. The gov't is taxing people for not doing something. How is that legal? I thought it was explained pretty well here.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 08:27 PM) If you are putting in mortgage interest, you are itemizing. Therefore, If I were you, I'd check what else you could put in there, since from that point up, its all money for you. If you use a software or online tax program, go through each step in it, and you may be surprised what money you are leaving behind. I'm only putting in in there so Turbotax can compare the itemized vs. standard and see which one is better. I went through everything and don't come anywhere close to $11,600 which is what the standard deduction is.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 03:40 PM) You have mortgage interest, but take the standard deduction? I think you're leaving some money on the table. It automatically takes whichever one is better. We really don't have anything else that makes it worthwhile to itemize. No childcare expenses, no chariable donations, no medical expenses, no business expenses, no interest from anything, etc...

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 03:28 PM) Salt shaker from the kitchen table? It takes forever to cover my driveway.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 03:15 PM) My dogs feet with crack and bleed all over and she'll then lick the wound and ingest the salt. Think of how painful it would ne if you stuck your foot in salt until it cracked and bled. Ouch. I don't have a sidewalk in front of my house. Just a walk to my driveway. My dogs stay in the house and/or backyard. Regular salt for me.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 11:54 AM) I have a lot of crap to enter, along the lines of what Rock said. Takes me a solid half day. I've got 2-3 W-2's and mortgage interest. That's about it. I just take the standard deduction every year. We don't spend enough on anything else.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 11:38 AM) I should have all the data I need by end of this week, then its the annual ritual of finding a Saturday or Sunday to carve out most of the day (at least the afternoon anyway) to do this s***. Fun fun. I don't have that much to enter but I use TurboTax and it took me about 15 minutes. Would've taken 10 if I had paid the $20 to have it transfer over last years info.

I got mine and my wife's stuff already but I was on unemployment for about 2 months last year. Still waiting for that to come through. So far it looks like we'll be getting almost enough to get our roof fixed and get some new siding/soffits and gutters.

I think I got a bag of those once, tried a couple and threw them out. Worst chips I've ever had. I'll stick with Mrs. Fisher's.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 12:04 PM) It's an easy, indisputable revenue stream that doesn't require raising taxes. You can't beat it. That's really all it is. I hate the fact that they insist it's for "safety". I've seen a number of people slam on their brakes the second the light turns yellow so they don't get caught by the cameras.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 10:49 AM) This. I got a ticket for turning right on a red and not coming to a complete stop. I watched the video of it online, I was about a split second away from reaching a complete stop, but I was definitely moving the whole time. There went $100 to the citizens of Franklin Park from LittleHurt05. The website says something about not using the video in court. That's interesting.

QUOTE (Disco72 @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 10:18 AM) I just got one in the mail for the exact same thing. I'm leaning towards just paying it (its $50 here in Knoxville). In my case I think it's a case of not coming to a complete stop before turning right, which is against TN law, so I'm definitely in the wrong legally. Of course, there was a green right turn arrow that I apparently just missed, but I doubt I can win that argument. How can a camera tell that though?

I got 2 red-light tickets in the mail for turning right on a red light even though there are no signs saying I can't turn. How much of a pain in the ass are these things to fight?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 04:14 PM) If you make between $0 and about $35k, you should have seen a slight tax increase. If you make above that, you should see a slight to moderate tax decrease, with the amount of the decrease growing the more you make. My first check this year was about $30 more. But they hadn't started taking the 5% in state taxes yet. When they do that I'll end up with about $20 less per check than I was making last year. My wife is taking an even bigger hit because she makes less than $35K. Plus they will be taking a whole lot more out of her next check to make up for the fact that the tax is retro-active to Jan 1.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 11:07 AM) He's also quite dedicated, so I bet he slims down. I wonder what they'd have to do to get his eyes the right shade of blue.

I must be retarded or something because I can't find Colon's numbers against the Sox. I seem to remember them hitting him pretty hard when he was with the Indians.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 26, 2011 -> 05:45 PM) You're missing the other big money streams...and there's a lot of them at this point. Revenue Sharing dollars (i.e. DirecTV extra innings, merch sales) totaled over $13 million a team last year, and has been skyrocketing. Another big one is the TV and radio contracts...which by some reports run upwards of $400k a game, to the point that they'd total >$50 million a year. Then you have the advertising contracts...which are worth on the order of $5 million a year just for the naming rights, plus all the ads around the facilities. Also parking. IIRC, the Sox own the lots themselves. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 07:04 AM) The only time the White Sox had stacked crowds throughout April and May was 2006, and we know why. That's exactly why sustained success is necessary. Win the division 2 or 3 years in a row and you'll see the attendance rise.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Jan 25, 2011 -> 06:24 PM) I wouldnt give anyone my house address, find somewhere public to meet. I guess I’ve never really thought about it before but I’ve sold a few things on Craigslist and I’ve always had the person come to my house to look at what I was selling. A couple of times it just wasn’t practical to meet somewhere else. One was a 6’ X 5’ X 15’ dog kennel and the other was a 14’ pop-up trailer. I’ve certainly heard horror stories though. Especially if the item for sale is worth a lot of money.

QUOTE (scenario @ Jan 24, 2011 -> 11:08 AM) I think the economy has had a bigger impact on attendance the last few years than their record in a particular month or homestand/road-trip. I'm sure that's part of it. Even though the Cubs (being the anomaly they are) have topped 3 million the past 6 years. I'm just saying that most fans probably put more weight on the team record rather than the payroll when deciding whether or not to go to a game. I'm just guessing that more people would want to see a team that's 10 games over .500 and in first place that only spent 90 million over a team that's in last place and spent 150 million.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Jan 24, 2011 -> 10:45 AM) i dont think its all just about success. its kind of..wrong , i guess, that the sox say how more fans need to go or go when the team wins but its not exactly the cheapest thing to go to. i went to 6 games last year but its just me and my husband. but for a family of, say 4, its expensive. bleachers at 38 a person and parking, thats 175 dollars. and thats not including drinks,food,etc. so its not exactly that easy to say hey lets go to a sox game, especially not multiple times a year. There are really only 3 ways to have really good attendance. Win, build a new stadium, be owned by a large Chicago media corporation.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 03:32 PM) It is sure easy for people to say the Sox need to spend to get them to go to games... I don’t think it matters much if they spend 50 million or 150 million. If they win, the fans are more likely to show up. Just glancing at last years attendance it looks like for the first 2 months of the season they were averaging around 20,000 during the week and between 25,000 and 30,000 on weekends. The problem is they went 2-4 in their first homestand and them came back home after their first road trip in last place at 4-9. Compare that to Monday July 26 when they came home in first place and had a nearly sold-out crowd. The attendance peaked in 2006 and has been on a steady decrease ever since. Even with the division title in 2008 mostly because they haven’t had enough sustained success.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jan 21, 2011 -> 02:55 PM) We used to have soxtalk gatherings all the time at soxfest, they than doubled the prices and poof, game over. FIFY