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UConn James

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  1. It says that it was planned in response to a 3 July shooting of a man who had a knife. I'm going to have to fundamentally disagree with the extent of the "logic" of the protestors and the ACLU. They have the right to personally protest, hold signs, make noise, etc. But when you're conspiring to shut down metro service and f--- up every commuter's day... that's not protest. Just like students protesting the early start of classes do not have the right to drain the fuel tanks of buses. Interfering with the normal functioning of a quasi-public utility/transportation service is not protest, it's a mild form of terrorism.
  2. Actually, the Romans used to use urine as a cleaning agent. In laundry, in toothpastes/teeth whitener, etc. It is sterile when fresh, as it's largely ammonia. Then, of course, humanity developed soap and bleach.... I guess some people refuse to move on from the old ways. It just says he was an attendant. That usually means a bathroom attendant, right? I guess the dude really liked piss.
  3. And yet, especially with her being a large girl, that last bit is a little . Diana Taurasi did a spread for that series IIRC with her hair down and... Yowza!
  4. There ain't. They've been told to believe that CCTV cameras and mostly unarmed bobbies provide security. I guess the rioters didn't get that memo. Maybe this changes some attitudes. Probably not. But make no mistake, those images are what an unarmed society looks like --- people hiding in their homes and hoping they're not set on fire while the police are over-matched and afraid to give punks what for. Off topic, but Canada is likely to legalize long guns in the fall.
  5. Not to mention that everyone who's in a particular trade is FORCED to be part of the union. There's no choice; a part of their govt paycheck is garnished to fund the union bosses. The part of the bill that Pee is decrying actually provides a modicum of democracy where if a majority of workers feel they aren't being represented by the union, they can elect to dissolve it rather than be forced to support it. Now, a vote won't save money. But it does give a check/balance to workers. What the hell is so wrong with that?
  6. They're where they are because they're politicians, not because they want to or can get anything done. With this slate, Reid just sent an overt message that Dems aren't going to give an inch. They'll want tax increases and any cuts they'll agree to will be heavily DoD (in a time of 4 wars) or phantom cuts. Talk about holding talks back. In other words, there will be no deal. Anyone with a brain who saw the news last week that part of the deal was to form a commission to see if they could possibly think about where to maybe cut government spending knew it's going to be just another blue ribbon panel.
  7. Well, that's the particular straw that Pee has been grasping for the past week.... It only has to make sense in his/her own mind --- which is a cripple-fight between his/her last two brain cells.
  8. Maybe this will be the final outrage necessary for law-abiding Britons to vote to get their guns back and for bobbies to actually be armed. They let immigration ruin their country.
  9. 1) I'm not sure how much I want to trust dialogue that can't even form the plural of "worker" correctly. 2) One stipulation of the bill doesn't save money, which the governor volunteers. Wow! That must mean the whole bill doesn't save money.
  10. Awww, why would you go and say something like that!? "Jump! Jump! Jump!"
  11. I had been wondering what exactly Mike did for Gus.... dev/null, do you now see the problem with putting spoiler tags on discussion of episodes that have aired? In the first post of this page, that's what it is --- discussion about "Bullet Points" wrapped in spoilers on Monday morning about an episode that aired 12 hours earlier. Then in your post, you put in spoiler quotes (correctly) details about the next episode. I actually opened that expecting more "Bullet Points" discussion, as that's kind of the norm. And then I got to read snippets about next week. We need to come to an agreement on this.
  12. FYI - we're playing the 3-4 now, and Chan is keen on saving a roster spot by using Brad Smith as the 3rd QB. What does that spot get used as? My vote is LB (and not Dead Weight Maybin) because in the 3-4, you go through a lot of them.
  13. Don't have to convince me. If Reid Forrest can boot it and hold on FGs, it may be time to say thank you and show Moorman the door. The Bills ought not be in the business of giving out jobs to every guy who has a foundation and signs autographs. The next guy'll do that too. I'm not really interested in what he did from 2001-2009 or that if Buffalo were Oakland blah blah blah. We all know Jerry Glanville's quote. Moorman's production peaked in 2006 and last year was terrible. I don't know if he's got a dead leg or just lost his touch or both. I'm pleased that Nix brought in someone who would be a real challenge at the spot. The camp and preseason will give both a chance to show what they've got. I'm not quite sure why the thing about new unis got thrown in there, or why some otherwise good posters here are getting hung up on this odd linkage.... But from my vantage, this is all about production.
  14. It has a lot of industrial uses... not just decorative.
  15. If acrimony w/in a government were anything more than, say, 5% of a reason for a credit downgrade, England would have had a FFF- rating since 1066. The reason for the downgrade is because: 1) We're ing broke. 2) The federal government is continuing to spend more than it takes in and its version of a credit card (borrowing from China) is maxing out. 3) Alexis de Tocqueville's point about democracy* c. 1840 was pin-point accurate. 4) It's going to take major austerity to get through this. 5) Few of the current pols will even admit to No. 4. * - "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." When do we start getting foreign aid and debt forgiveness?
  16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcaCi4uhyHc&feature=related
  17. I'm a "perennial optimist" most years during camp... so we'll go with this. At least until September, when it turns out they were referencing explosive diarrhea.
  18. You might think that... until the starter rope breaks.
  19. So, what does this prove? That England must give HDTVs and McDonalds foodstuffs to gang-affiliated minorities to keep them from committing arson and theft, and that bobbies must not be able to defend themselves. BTW, it appears that Mr. Duggan just wasn't aware of England's handgun ban. Or... wait.... Is this yet more evidence that if guns are banned (and this includes many police there, who aren't allowed to carry a firearm), only criminals will have guns?
  20. You know how Norfolk got its name (pronunciation-wise)? "We don't drink. Nor f---."
  21. Huge fan of David Tennant here, so I'll probably be giving "Fright Night" a whirl, tho it's seriously not my genre.
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