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I think it's a given that some Raider fans are stupid...but Raider fan in general is simply just scary. Years ago I went to a Monday night game in San Diego with Raiders visiting, and the old rule that Rome did for years of not looking "Raider Fan" directly in the eye was a good tip! I've ...

Ang

Wow, I've never heard that Genesis verse as an explanation of discord in families and the discipline of kids. I've usually heard it as a prophecy that the seed of a woman (Jesus) will hurt the serpent and finally kill his power, or at the very least go against the bloodlines that are usually along t...

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I knew there had to be a reason that I like this board besides the annual March madness thing... In one simple thread, we have respect for Ann Richards, Molly Ivans, Kinky Friedman, and a fan of "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me", which is my favorite show on the radio. And I usually vote Republic...

Ang

I just thought that if so many people were interested in the drama beforehand that someone would have actually caught the show...silly me :)

Ang

Did anyone watch it?

The first installment was set for tonight, and we were busy with other things and didn't watch tv at all after the tennis match. Any comments from folks that caught it?

Ang

Even sicker is how loose he strings his racquet. I was looking into obscure tennis facts the other day and found that Federer strings his at 52 lbs., Roddick at 64 and Blake at a bit higher. Thing is the fewer the lb. pressure, the more power generated by the raquet but most players lose control the...

Ang

My recreational reading goes all over the map, mostly I like humor (anything by Merrill Markoe cracks me up) and mysteries, but last week on a whim I went for a halfway serious rec read and picked up 'Blink', and would recommend it to anyone that likes anything dealing with social behavior. It's fun...

Ang

Any ideas on how to connect all that to the fact that we have millions of undocumented workers in this country? It's real easy to say that the illegal population is taking jobs that Americans don't want, but the fact remains that entry jobs lead to higher pay...and if our legal population doesn't ha...

Ang

poptart, I hear ya. No one looks ready to beat Federer, although Nadal has had pretty good success at it so far. Federer is just a tennis machine, the whole deal of perfection in all the shots and shot selection. When folks hang with him for one set or two, it always seems like he's just tuning up f...

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Weird route the thread took. But the whole idea of tennis being a sport for wusses just needs a reset on how freaking fast they hit the ball. Tell me a guy whose on his last legs and can still return a 130 mph serve in the court, and then get back and return again and again is a wuss? I don't think ...

Ang

Sports news, like other news, sometimes goes immediatley to the disaster scenario...like the Baghdadis cramping or Agassi's bad back. The match, all 3 hours and almost 4, was more great tennis than the disaster stuff. You either like it or you don't, but if you like tennis you would love that match....

Ang

Since my son is 14 and just recently started to play guitar....this is his post from here on. Since she is a girl, I would suggest starting off on an electric guitar. If she doesn't know if she is dedicated or not, I would get a cheapo guitar. But make sure it works. I have an Epihone Les Paul, it's...

Ang

Guided hunting? Is this a hunting trip for ADHD folks? If they aren't getting funding from the Disabilities Act arm of the gov, they are missing a major gravy train opportunity :).

Ang

and your point is that someone who has basically won everything in tennis had a good coach? well....Doh!

Ang

We could all go on about Agassi's wives, but the fact remains.... Agassi is the only player in the open era to have won every Grand Slam singles title, the Masters, the Davis Cup, and an Olympic gold medal. Other mens singles players (4 others) have won as many majors, but this guy has also gone eve...

Ang

Questioning is a bad thing? You just keep on believing that. It seems like your excuse that you are comfy with.

My experience is that people who are believers, no matter the flavor, are much more comfortable with questioning than non-believers.

Ang

Agassi was f-ing nails! Down 4-0 in the third set and fought for every single point. Plus he still looked fresh at the end. Incredible match, guts on the court tennis about as good as it comes. Great play by Pavel also, but he wasn't the news. Gotta feel halfway bad for the guy playing a first round...

Ang

The idea that God allows people to do horrible things is sometimes promoted as some sort of proof that there is not God. What I would like to see from anyone who promotes that argument is an alternative. If you think that free will, and its sometimes disastrous results, is some sort of proof that Go...

Ang

Mike, I never said I was "lowering the bar", just that the miracles were in somewhat regular situations where anyone could say they were misinterpreted or miswritten. And I do believe, because of some study in it, that miracles have always been very specific to near natural causes because ...

Ang

The beauty of all the miracles in both the old and the new testament is that they work with natural happenings. So, everyone has the choice...call it faith...to believe in them or not. The parting of the waters, the wine from water, the walking on water, even the resurrection of Christ...can all be ...

Ang

Well, DOH! Of course he liked it. Would you say the same if it was a 14 year old girl? I think not. And as a parent of a 14 year old boy who has girls calling constantly on his cell and on the home phone...I don't worry about it because they are all kids and can work it out in their own way. If his ...

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If you doubt that there are modern miracles, please take some time to read The Miracle Detective by Randall Sullivan. It's a really good book written by a skeptic who lived closely with the kids who were having visions of Mary and did a good bunch of research on the historical Mary visions to be abl...

Ang

I like the idea of just showing kids how little they make for working hard. My kid, who has wonderful checks for huge amounts of money show up for no other reason than that he lived another year, decided to actually work for something. He is only 14, with the attitude that comes with it, but threw h...

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Bushy and Mike, Thanks for the well thought out replies. We have had many talks here in our house on the way to go, and most of them included the things you have brought up. No "one" right way to go (like Bushy said), and it looks like we have a way that fits our kid that we support and th...

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When I posted this, I had some misgivings about the kid, and said so in the the post...but I still thought he had some good ideas out there for his age. My first thought was that he was kind of naive as we all were at that age, but had some good thoughts...albeit some half-assed thoughts. One thing ...

Ang

Just another view on the educational system, this time by a valedictorian who was yanked off the stage by his principal. The reason that I’m posting this is that there have been some good discussions here on education, and I think this is a neat window into the mind of a young man who decided that t...

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tongue in cheek, had to post it because my sis in law sent it and it actually makes a little sense :) "Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in this country lately. Illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, wild animals attacking humans in Florida. Not me. I concentrate on solutions...

Ang

Trex, What's with all the bitter crap? Seems like a waste of energy to be all bitter about a flurry of NBA posters on a previously dead board because it is kind of interesting all year but then we all get blown up about it for a week. What...did we invade your space and wake you up or something? And...

Ang

I applaud Cuban for a lot of things, for putting together the team he has and for getting Dallas behind an NBA team in a great way when it was never a basketball town. And his efforts to get the officiating better have been heard even before this last series. His team will be right in there for a lo...

Ang

We know the biggest moron for open borders isn't going away until 2008, so don't hold your breath for a change anytime soon.

Ang

Sswiiiinng! Hillary set herself up on Coulter's tee for that one. First thought after reading that is that I would never play a game of pool with Anne Coulter...girl is thinking at least three steps ahead of everyone else as far as media moves, which is her game that she does so well. Coulter doesn'...

Ang

You know, I hate to come into this so late and so far after anyone has said anything, but... I just came in and got caught up and just can't let anyone call Martin Luther a Nazi. It was way back in the discussion, and totally unwarranted. Luther fought for the common person to have mass in their own...

Ang

So much bullshit, so little time. Why not just have a clearing house for employers to check if a SSN is good or not? Or a bar code or a thumbprint...we all do that on drivers licenses as citizens anyway. I can't believe I am on the side of having the illegals paid as well as anyone else, being the R...

Ang

Gotta agree on the niceness thing. We had a partner in a design firm that I worked for years ago that was a devout Mormon, and we called him "Mr. Valium". He could call you in and tell you that you had to work overtime for 3 weeks because we had deadlines and you would walk out and and jus...

Ang

B, That was my point. I don't agree with my students. Most folks I know pay in and then pay more, getting nothing back. Plus I don't have any faith that I will ever see a penny paid into Social Security. When you add in all the public education and public health care costs, and a lot of people inclu...

Ang

Best thing I heard lately was on a radio show where there was a fake commercial for insurance for illegal immigrants...just go to the van behind the taco stand and they will be happy to help you, and don't worry that "urance" is not a part of the insurance company name on the van. Another ...

Ang

When I went to see my parents today, my dad (who is a huge OU basketball fan) was saying that he heard some talk that one of the "built in advantages" as you say for getting Blake Griffin was that as soon as Tommy Griffin gets his kids through OCS he will go on as an assistant coach at OU....

Ang

I guess it depends on where you are in the country, but there are some very good vocational high school programs here, and some pretty good community colleges. I teach at one. I see the kids who, mainly for math reasons, did not attend a major college and are working one step at a time to go further...

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I don't think it is the result of lowered expectations as a whole, but lowered expectations for those who are not the AP students. What we see here in Oklahoma is a really clear emphasis in the two major cities for schools to cultivate their AP programs and then the rest of the students who are not ...

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Thing is, whether or not the sky is really falling...Bush is just working within the means of the Executive Branch. There is a lot of lee way there. Someone earlier mentioned that there was some imperilistic thing that Bush had introduced. He didn't do that, that's why I brought up the McKinley exam...

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