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and he stayed at a holiday inn express last night.

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sounds like sullivan would make a great replacement for borges someday.

Boat, a number of the people arguing against you on this one either own their own company, have owned their own company or work in management and have personal experiences employing a lot of people. One of the best things any individual can do for their country / the economy is to start a business. My goal in starting businesses is absolutely to make money, and there is nothing I enjoy more than running a business. This doesn't mean that I don't pay well and treat people like crap. Your stereotyping of the corporate greed is no different than the stereotyping of the lazy inefficient unions. My personal experiences are what have shaped my opinions. Dealing with teachers who don't give a crap because they have tenure, dealing with lazy union workers at trade shows who are absolutely the most incompetent people I have ever met, and being told during a summer job not to work so hard because I was going to kill the job. I know I've dealt with thousands of pleasant, competent, hard working union workers without noticing them, as I'm sure you've dealt with thousands of business owners and corporate types who weren't out to get rich and light cigars with $100 bills.

Get this guy a Pulitzer!

you are trying to make an argument using ALL STAR GAME STATS???? have you ever watched an all star game in any sport? People have fun. They laugh, they don't hit each other, and they certainly don't try as hard or play the same game they do day in day out.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have found the dumbest post in the history of TSW!!!! Boat, I don't even know where to start. Don't want to buy Nikes? Don't, go to target and buy a $20 pair of sneakers. Guess where those sneakers will be made? To say companies will not pay what is fair unless forced to is pure idiocy. I guess you didn't read the article about the steel company in Ft. Wayne whose 1,600 employees have packages that average over $100,000 per year. Non union, btw (of course, if they were union 1,400 of them would be making $50k no matter how good or bad they were). so only 13% of the US workforce is paid fairly??

come on, are you kidding with this? Are you wearing a tinfoil hat?

and with the 85th pick of the 2005 draft, the Buffalo Bills select....

that is a bad argument. More kids play hockey today than before, and as someone just said, there are a ton of europeans and russians playing today. Also - dillution could potentially improve scoring - good forwards vs dilluted defensemen or goalies would increase scoring, right?

Actually, the hummer loophole is being closed this year so your post isn't 50% wrong as AD had speculated, it's 100% wrong. good one.

so $200 million for an area with about 1 million people is fine, but $500 or even $800 million for an area with 10 times that many people is no good?

Boat, I suggest you have a look at the WSJ from yesterday. Great article about a steel company in Ft. Wayne that is doing very well. The owners are making a killing. They are a non union shop. Average total compensation for the company's 1600 employees? Over $100,000.

there is a light rail system in trenton new jersey that costs somewhere around $45 per rider per ride. edit: the number is $77 per rider.

hey, nice to have you back on board. Are those black feathers I see sticking out of your mouth? Yes, the administration made a ton of mistakes and is obviously not coming totally clean about things. It sucks.

I can't believe it.

Buffalo Bills players do not use drugs. Don't you know that? Also, the refs are always out to get us, and Jim Kelly is a saint. seriously though, I'm sure the NFL has a much bigger flaxseed oil problem than MLB could even dream of.

I'm starting a new job and it is 100% internet related. I want to ask them to block tbd and a few other sites from me, but I don't think that's they way to start a new job "I'm a habitual time waster....please help me"

slamming the phone as hard as you can does wonders for an eardrum. My dad did it to some guy a few years ago. An hour later the phone rings. dad: "hello" telemarketer: "hello, is this mr. Gmac?" dad: "yes it is" telemarketer: "how do you like it ****!?" (PHONE SLAMS). we both thought it was pretty funny.

Sponge Candy is a WNY thing??? learn something new every day....

you will love the women in dallas. good tex mex at the blue goose in lower greenville.

The guy on the Jet Ski was wearing a parachute which he planned to open and fall to earth. things didn't work out so well for him.

never been arrested. This has the makings of a very good thread. Keep 'em coming boys....

They didn't publish a retraction for falling for the Bush WMD nonsense, they published a retraction apologizing for being duped by their own sources. You see, people do lie and people of all intelligence levels sometimes believe these people.

This coming from someone who had a picture of Jermaine O'neal as his avatar with the words "one punch" underneath it, less than 24 hours after O'Neil could have killed someone with a punch if he hadn't have slipped on the floor.