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QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 02:23 PM) I get yelled at when I make the request that if you want to ask for public aid, women must get their tubes tied..People like this furhter prove how it is needed. :finger :finger :finger I had my first child when I was 17. My wife (we weren't married at the time) and I lived with my parents and did receive some public aid. Mostly WIC to help with the baby formula, milk, cereal, ect... Today I have three kids, a house of my own, a college education and a career. Hell, I had half of that before I turned 21. The government has no right to tell me my 2nd two kids shouldn't have been born just because I asked for a little assitance with my first one.

It really depends on your situation. To people who have to live with an oxygen machine, electricity is definitely a necessity. I doubt heat is much of a necessity in California to begin with. If I lost power for 40 hours around new years, I wouldn't need a refriderator. My whole house would be a refridgerator. I'm sure I could figure out how to live without heat, electricity, a phone or running water. But I sure wouldn't want to do it on purpose or on a permenant basis...

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 08:57 AM) :headshake http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_003162940.html San Ramon Boys Left Alone, Parents In Las Vegas Save It Email It Print It (CBS 5) SAN RAMON It's a real-life case of Home Alone, only in this instance it's no movie -- and no one is laughing. Police in San Ramon said two brothers, ages 5 and 9, were left home alone while their father and stepmother celebrated New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Officers found the children unharmed on Saturday after receiving a call from a concerned relative. "I would say it's an unusual case for any type of jurisdiction," said San Ramon Police Sgt. Brian Kalinowski. "It's clearly inappropriate for a 9-year-old and a 5-year-old under any circumstance to be left alone, much less for several days while the parents allegedly ring in the New Year in las vegas." The parents are expected to return to the Bay Area on Wednesday. Police plan to interview them. The district attorney will then decide of charges will be filed. The boys were placed in the custody of county Child Protective Services and later released to their grandmother, according to authorities. The laws on kids being home alone are very vague. I have a 9 and (just turned) 8-year-old that are sometimes home alone for an hour or so after they come home from school. It depends on my wife's work schedule. I've always thought it depends on the child. If they understand to lock the door, don't answer the phone or the door (unless it's mom, dad or grandma) and know how to dial 9-1-1 there shouldn't be a problem. I do agree that a 9-year-old is a little young to be taking care of a 5-year-old though. Especially for days at time...

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 1, 2006 -> 11:19 AM) Chicago Dogs has the meat rotating right there and cuts it off to order. Mmmmm. There's a restuarant near me that does the same thing. Soo much better than that pre-packaged/frozen stuff other places use...

QUOTE(Damen @ Dec 30, 2005 -> 04:02 PM) Opening night hasn't been available for any of the plans for at least 2 weeks. I wonder how many of those ticket holders will be disappointed to find out that the ring ceremony is before game 2...

QUOTE(WCSox @ Dec 30, 2005 -> 10:47 AM) I'd say that's about accurate. What did we draw this year? 2.2 or 2.3 million? A slight increase is about what I'd expect. They drew 2,342,834 according to my calculations from ESPN.com That's actually pretty amazing considering I had predicted before the season started a total of 2,329,000. I wasn't that far off. I think 3 million is a high goal but they can come pretty close. 2.7 or 2.8 might be more realistic. Opening night is no longer available via Ozzie Plans and the indiviual tickets haven't even gone on sale yet...

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 30, 2005 -> 10:48 AM) --Accident occurred in Lincolnwood, not Wilmette --I can't even imagine how fast they must have been going to have the car do that kind of damage --Whenever I see articles about accidents with teens like this, I always cringe at the way I drove as a 16-year old. I was a lucky SOB. --I hope these kids' friends learn something from it --I offer my condolences to the parents and surviving kids When I was 16 I was allowed to drive a 1978 camaro. The rear-wheel drive kinda sucked in the winter and the V8 engine sucked down a lot of gas (even though gas was under a dollar a gallon at the time) but man could that thing take a beating. I hit more things in that car (a telephone pole, buildings, bushes, mailboxes, street signs, other cars) and it never made a dent...

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 26, 2005 -> 08:13 PM) Heck, it's not even that as much...everyone these days in the medical industry knows that there's vastly more money available in drugs like Viagra than there is in vaccines, simpy because if you develop a vaccine/cure for a virus, people need to take it one time, but if you develop a drug like viagra, claritin, a heartburn drug, or something silly like that, the profit margins are massive because you need to take it hundreds of times, as each pill is necessary. That's the same reason why there are only like 1-2 flu vaccine makers available...the market favors drugs that you need to take many times. There is very little market value in actually curing any disease, only in treating a disease. This is one of those cases where the market is driving the wrong way, and the only solution is government investment. The Market would like nothing better than to develop a drug that you need to take for the rest of your life to control the symptoms of AIDS, but if you develop an actual cure, then the makers of all those drugs that you need to take to keep the disease under control would lose tons of money, and so the drug companies have very little impetus to actually develop a cure. Sometimes the government needs to intervene in the private market to force it in a direction it doesn't want to go. Drug research is a prime example (note, the Bush admin. is already doing something similar with avian flu - there is promising research into new techniques for creating flu vaccine but the drug companies don't want to pay for it because there's so little profit in flu vaccine, so the Bush Avian Flu plan included hundreds of millions to try to perfect those better methods to produce vaccine) Seems like it's that way with just about everything anymore. Mostly electronic stuff. Sure they could make something that lasts 50 years but instead make it last 1-5 years so you have to go out and buy another one when it breaks/quits working. Then they really get you with the warranties that cost extra $$$ and they always expire right before it quits working...

QUOTE(MurcieOne @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 03:39 PM) I'd like to excavate her cave.... Careful. People might want to go searching your hard drive for making comments like that...

I've been watching the Sox march through the playoffs on Comcast the past few nights.

QUOTE(TLAK @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 06:26 PM) No one has named a team that made changes on the scale of the White Sox and repeated. The 1992-1993 Toronto Blue Jays. Between championships they lost guys like David Cone, Jimmy Key, David Weathers, David Wells and Jeff Kent but gained guys like Carlos Delgado, Rickey Henderson, Paul Molitor, Shawn Green and Darrin Jackson. They lost and gained a bunch more but I'm not gonna type them all out. Their staring lineups from each opening day had a total of 4 different players. Compare the Sox 2005 lineup with the projected 2006 lineup and there's only 2 different players.

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 10:46 AM) Seven different Sox ones, five different bulls ones and the Cryptkeeper (Tales from the Crypt) dressed in a santa outfit. I checked last night. I have 11 different Sox ones and 6 Bulls. Plus two duplicate Sox ones. Swapmeet, here I come!

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 04:57 PM) Blueberry w/cream cheese. That should have been one of the choices.

I'm one of those weird people who can see both sides of the story. I've been on both sides (though the reason for the breakups weren't cheating) and know what it's like to not be able to eat, sleep, work, listen to the radio, etc... I've also been in the other position where you are angry at the person and want to hurt them as much as they hurt you. Never resorted to forwarding an email to 100 people though...

Seven different Sox ones, five different bulls ones and the Cryptkeeper (Tales from the Crypt) dressed in a santa outfit.

muenster slices american (Kraft slices are the best) cheddar curds cobly jack on tacos and quesidillas mozzarella (sticks or on lasagna) easy cheese (squeezed onto a trisquit cracker) velvetta (microwave with a can of chili and use for dip)

I don't think I've ever regifted anything. I usually don't know anyone that would like the stuff that I get. I'll just return it to Wal-Mart (they'll take back anything) and get somthing else that I do want.

QUOTE(mreye @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 12:37 PM) Ding ding ding! We have a winner. Well it certainly doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. What moron in their right mind would sell a $400 machine for $100 (plus a box full of coal) just to "punish" their kid? If they were serious about it they could take it back to the store and get their money back. Screw putting coal in the box. Or just sell it on Ebay for whatever they could get and replace/repair the broken stereo system... :rolly

QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 12:41 PM) I heard a snippit on Fox news that they are something called (or like) "rare earth" magnets. Those are the kind the manufacture supposedly uses (common for other toy makers as well). And they are apparently supposed to be that strong to hold the toy together. They did say they were not at all like the alpha magnets. I know what a 2 day olds intestines look like.. they are tiny. I've seen and played with the magnetix toys. The magnets are a little bit stronger than the alphabet letters. Still, they had to have been positioned just right and just close enough together for this to happen.

Let's put the X in Sex - Kiss I touch myself - (can never remember the group that sang this) The Humpty Dance

Wow. They've managed to update the old urban legend of a wife selling her husband's prized classic car for $100 when she found out he was cheating on her...

I my god! They killed Kenny! You bastards! OK, that was wrong. Anway... Wow. I don't think anyone in a million years could've dreamt up a scenario like this. It's just one of those freak accidents that occurs out of the blue. With all the magnets they have in toys these days, I wonder if they'll have to start putting more warning lables on them. Just a few years ago a local boy was riding his bike in a parking lot and tried to jump over a parking block with it. He fell off his bike, hit his head just right on the pavement and was killed. I can't count the number of times I've knocked my head on something...

Not necessarily a Christmas movie (even though the beginning and ending take place on Christmas eve) I've always liked Family Man. Nicholas Cage is a pretty good actor IMHO.

Chuck has a soft side too:

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 12:35 PM) YES!!! and if we wanted to play baseball...we went outside and got as many of us as we could and played baseball. We didn't pop in the newest MLB game on PS2 or Xbox or whatever, we got our mits and played!! Same goes for Football, Basketball, Soccer, etc... and the biggest thing missing from the list is cell phones. Every fricken kid has one of those now and I mean every one. Hell...most kids in high school have a blackberry or some kind of PDA. If we were out and wanted to make a call back in the day, it was pay phone time. If you wanted to talk in your car, you had to have a gas station with those phones you can pull up next to. good times and boy did it suck when you could only find three other kids to play baseball with. One pitcher and one infielder/outfielder just doesn't work... I think cell phones are almost a necessary evil anymore. It's a great way to keep track of someone and the new ICE (in case of emergency) idea is probably a big help in accidents and such...