preach4bass

Sorry. My mistake again.

Game 7 was one of the sloppiest NBA games I've ever watched, but overall the series was great. Kobe didn't score 40 points, but his 15 rebounds were impressive, and he stepped up to hit some key shots to help the Lakers come from behind in the 4th quarter. I enjoyed this Finals.

Oh, my mistake. I thought you were stepping up to back up etommy's BOLD statement.

I would agree with this 100%. That's a nice endorsement.

I don't agree with her parents letting her try this, but I can still congratulate her. Congratulations! You might have failed at reaching your goal, but hey, at least you survived! (I would have probably capsized the boat before it got out of seeing distance of the dock, and drowned).

Are they a protected species?

Spoken like a sane man who actually has a daughter.

The name of this snake is whatever Micro says it is. No need for me to take a stab at it when we have a resident snakeologist here on BR.

Speechless.

No.

"SO lets see who this should be legal?" Please clarify.

I thought I heard you were spotted in Texas buying a bunch of white sheets. ;D

preach4bass I guess I'm kind of boring. :-[

Horrible slump! Absolutely horrible! Oh, wait, he's leading the tournament right now! ;D

I need a rules clarification: What if you both lose 10 pounds? :-? Oh, and good luck!

BP didn't own the well that blew up. Transocean did. I wonder why Transocean isn't getting the same publicity as BP is.... BP is easier to spell?

Is everyone else willing to pay for this? Incarcerating people is EXPENSIVE. We can't afford to fund our schools as we should and we're definately underfunded in the prison system. When you don't even have enough cells to hold the prisoners it's even more expensive to incarcerate more (build new prisons). Naturally, if we reform our judicial system, we would have to reform our prison system as well. There's a sheriff out in Arizona that has some pretty cost effective solutions to this problem.

Why? If someone wants to try it now finding it isn't all that difficult. So, what's stopping them now? There is no evidence to back up your statement. The evidence to back up my statement can be found in the nations who have made the mistake of legalizing drugs. The percentage of people using went up once the drugs were legalized. Here's just one link with some statistics: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/myths/myths4.htm

Oh, and how many died each year during prohibition due to the gang/mob violence directly attributable to prohibition? Probably not as many as die in DD accidents today. And, as far as violence goes, you can't possibly believe that the end of prohibition ended alcohol related violence. Have you never heard of a bar fight? How about a drunk beating his wife? No drunken women abusing their kids in your neck of the woods? Legalizing drugs would do the same thing to the violence level. Legalizing it is not the answer. 4Bizz was on to something though (even if we remove the death penalty from the conversation). If we actually enforced the laws that are currently in place, and the judicial system did their part to keep the dealers in prison, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion. Just yesterday our local newspaper had 16 people on the front cover who were busted for dealing the day before. Most of those 16 dealers looked familiar, because they have been on the front page of the paper for the same thing before (some of them several times). > We don't need legalization of drugs, we need a judicial system that will truly penalize dealers.

I'd vote for a man who ran on that platform. ;D

Yea, that's a great idea. Since the end of prohibition on alcohol, 16,000 people die each year from drunk drivers. Legalizing drugs would be much worse. More people would try some of the "harder" stuff while they were young and dumb. The more who tried it, the more who would be hooked. Even if they could walk into Wal-Mart and buy an ounce of crack, the'd be too doped up to keep a job, so they wouldn't have money to buy it, and would end up stealing/killing to get their fix. In other words, legalizing drugs is a stupid idea.

I'm cheering for the Lakers, and I think they'll take it in 5.

I'm not a baseball fan either, but when I saw that story on ESPN.com I felt like somebody kicked me in the gut. After something like this, I just don't understand why the "purists" don't want instant replay.

To cheat, don't you have to break a rule? :-? Just because you don't like it and wouldn't do it yourself dosn't make others who do cheaters. BTW, I don't like it either, but he wasn't cheating.

Sam, He was 74. I loved his character in Hoosiers.