UConn James

Nice. I think its premise and where the story needs to go from where it left is actually more suitable for a film vs. TeeVee. It might also put a fire under the writers butts to get to the action and pay attention to the plot rather than the at-times weepy character development that went on.

You hear anecdotes that in the Gore campaign, the media's coverage of him was directly influenced by the fact that they did not provide the press 'nice' bathrooms (made to use the porta-johns like the rest of the plebians) or their every catering whim... while Bush's campaign did. ('Course, once they got the WH, that manner of treatment stopped pretty quickly).

You know how they say 'Give a monkey a typewriter...?' Well, in Smerlas' case, he had to have help from Vic Carucci. "By a Nose"

Very nice idea, Pete. And it won't go out of wear. As someone else mentioned, the number 72 he got when he got a commemorative one from the team. Saw the number 6 on the Sabres jerseys he received. I think it might be more fitting with 58.

I posted this over in PPP, but as many don't go there, I wanted to share it here... I wanted to make note about his books. Saw part of a C-SPAN special last night where he extorts the role of our fathers... how they teach us, how they mould us, and how (even tho it can be a hard for them to express, even through the imperfection of our humanity, or circumstances clashing with beliefs that sometimes make it difficult) they love us. It was such a great thing for him to write about this subject, about his own father and other peoples'. Others in his station have written about the Greatest Generation or the Red-Blue divide, Searching for the meaning of America or presidential campaigning. He wrote a book about love. It shows the measure of the man. (Sh--. I'm now. I almost never cry.) And God, ain't it something almost poetic that tomorrow is Father's Day?

After a day of it sinking in, you just have to wonder how will this affect the network? TR was a big part of their news-political coverage division. They lost the go-to guy for moderating debates, election-night coverage, and deciphering work-a-day politics. Remember when ABC lost Peter Jennings, they're still trying to recover from that, tho I think the figurehead of Charles Gibson has started to re-establish the organization there. CBS is in a freefall with Katie Couric (she was a downgrade from Bob Schieffer). Brian Williams pretty much skated into Brokaw's spot with not much changing. Do they go with David Gregory for Washington chief or to host MTP? That would be a friggin disgrace. Chris Matthews? Meh. Just about everyone I think of cannot live up to what Tim Russert delivered... which was usually... straight answers. ----- Also wanted to make note about his books. Saw part of a C-SPAN special last night where he extorts the role of our fathers... how they teach us, how they mould us, and how (even tho it can be a hard for them to express, even through the imperfection of our humanity, or circumstances clashing with beliefs that sometimes make it difficult) they love us. It was such a great thing for him to write about this subject, about his own father and other peoples'. Others in his station have written about the Greatest Generation or the Red-Blue divide, Searching for the meaning of America or presidential campaigning. He wrote a book about love. It shows the measure of the man. (Sh--. I'm now. I almost never cry.) And God, ain't it something almost poetic that tomorrow is Father's Day?

Last of his kind. Guy knew his sh-- and whether you were Dem or Repub you had to watch out when Little Russ asked you a question... and they were usually questions that any thinking matter-of-fact common-sense American would ask. No small thing in an era when pols regularly get softballs and are allowed to skirt, evade and outmaneuver most other people who try to put their feet to the fire. Also, just a small thing I noticed over the years, he always read exactly what was on the screen when he put up an excerpt that he was basing questions on. Every other person I've ever seen try that would always inject things or their numbers would be way off from what was shown, and you're sitting there like . TR was a careful journalist who didn't shoot from the hip --- a rarity. Sunday mornings'll never be the same. How in the world can they fill his shoes?

Agreed 100%. This laundry list is all just intimation and intimidation on the DA's part. Subpoena the big bosses, and it puts some serious pressure on ML to talk first to avoid involving the employer who's giving him millions of dollars. The DA's primary job is to get cases resolved, and in this case he's using the NFL's prestige/visibility as leverage to get ML to want to come forward. It might be lowdown or below the belt, whatever you may, but in dealing with someone who has shown no morality, it's tit for tat. Subpoena power is in his toolbox, and since they've tried most of the other tools with no result, now they're pulling it out. The Constitution was written in a time when men feared for their mortal soul if they committed a crime/sin. The protections written into it were meant to prevent the state from scurrying up false charges and putting the burden of proof on the defendant to show they were innocent. But it assumed some sense of decency, morality and acceptance of responsibility that has now been totally lost since the NYTimes said God is dead.

... And his lisp isn't really conducive to such a career. Then again, Shannon Sharpe's been on the CBS show for a while now and I can only understand ~ every 8th word out of his marblemouth.

So was his attempt to link Gitmo detainees with the Geneva Convention and saying that they haven't gotten hearings, are incommunicado, despite evidence to the contrary (in the news recently... KSM and many others had hearings a year ago and trials/tribunals are progressing). He knows he's wrong and will continue to close his ears and keep shouting his BS. I suspect that Steely is another iteration of molson, mickey, et al. Just registers new names and does some posts awhile in advance of when he either plans to go apesh-- with one account, or when the inevitable banning occurs for cumulative malfeasance. We all know these usual suspects b/c they keep showing up here to joust at windmills and Tom, AD, KRC. It's a little hard to believe that each one shows up as a fresh newcomer considering the similarity in viewpoints, the baggage they bring in the banter, and the replay of actions that get him/them banned. Some people just want to come here to instigate rather than discuss and, hopefully, learn something about all the things politics dips its fickle finger into.

We got 2 free "Firecracker Jr." popsicles from the Indian guy behind the register yesterday with a $150 fill-up (several gas cans). Yes sir, the marginal perks are what make it all worth it.

When Bruce used to have that mindset, the reaction was pretty much, "OK. " Coughlin is a hardass, tho. We'll see.

Steely: Aw-www-w!!! Do I have to?!!?!?

So we're given a choice b/w 'Damn near everyone's a silent racist' and 'No problem at all.' This is almost exactly like the junk mail I get from so-called Second Amendment organizations, with such scientific surveys asking, 'Do you want to support Nancy Pelosi's gun-grabbing agenda? Y / N' and 'Liberals' efforts to take our guns away is A-OK! Y /N' At least their efforts are pretty thinly veiled, with loaded questions, and then their main objective of getting some stupid sucker to give them $20, $50, $100, whatever for an organization that may or may not just be Wilber Bumf--k operating out of the back of his garage. The fact that we keep getting this trash in the mail suggests that some people are dumb enough to fall for such BS tactics. Steely, I expect nothing less from someone like you who, along with molson, can't buy a clue.

Wow, the 'It's-all-good' nature of that article really shows how that reporter is 3,000 miles removed from the situation. If ML was driving... and the reported evidence is stacking up that he was.... If he had come forward the next day or two, there was maybe a 10% chance that he could have gotten by with an "I'm so sorry" some tickets and covering the medical charges (the woman would also have to be a fervent believer in forgiveness being divine). But, like the subject of this/your thread says, it's his silence that is really going to screw him over 1) in the court of public opinion, and as an effect, markedly sour his relationship with the team --- how are they supposed to market someone in ML's shoes? 2) by angering the police and DA, such that any breaks he may have been able to get like a plea deal for community service, etc. might go off the table 3) the woman is now, for sure, going to sue his ass for everything she can get (probably would have done this anyway tho). If he had stepped forward --- he may still have time to do this --- and accepted responsibility, said it was an accident and that he didn't know he'd hit someone, that he's sorry, he might be able to mitigate some of the damage his silence has produced in points 1 and 2. The advice of his attorney is missing the much bigger picture from point 1. What he looks like now is a child hiding behind his momma.

This confirms something I've suspected for a while. Tho, it's probably to prevent ever seeing another man's peepee, b/c it would instantly mean they're homos. And you know what they do with homos over there. But wait. They don't have any homos over there. Ask Ahmadinejad --- he'll tell you. Of the little TeeVee I watch, ~80% is PBS and I do enjoy his show. Usually has interesting historical factoids and shows artistry that you don't normally get to see, or see in a larger context. When they had one Italy trip, they showed how the Last Supper is actually fresco'ed over a door. I had never known that.

Chevy, that's the same way I've felt about this for the past few days. Whatever respect ML had earned is gone. How do you cheer for someone like this? If you're innocent or if it can be proved that you're guilty, it's in your best interest to talk; much of the time, people who don't talk have something to hide and are hoping to skate away. As I posted in the main thread, that if he was the driver it was/is in his best interest to turn himself in and make a statement, say that he hadn't realized he hit someone, plea bargain and beg for the mercy of the court (and would probably receive it, being who he is), then pay in a likely civil court case. People who own up to their actions and ask for forgiveness ofttimes get it --- we live in a society that's eager to give second chances to those who admit they've fouled up. Instead, ML has remained silent for almost a week now, and that works to pi-- off police and justice system and it shows no willingness to cooperate to resolve this accident and no remorse (now, it'll just be remorse that he got caught) and he will not get any breaks, by just desserts. Technically, passengers who do not come forward could be charged with aiding and abetting. Real world, this is unusual. But they could if the DA wanted to push for it. Someone mentioned it here... ML's rather distinctive hairstyle (red tip dreads, yeah?) might do him in re: eyewitnesses.

Legally, he may not have to talk to the police other than to say "I invoke the 5th amendment" and make them try to prove who was driving. That's a pretty strong argument not to say anything until/unless evidence rises. But there's legality and then there's morality (karma, if-you-will). If he does not talk, does ML have even more to lose? I'd say that most fans certainly don't like this situation. I'm sure the Bills do not like it. Could factor into future contract negotiations as the club, in the papers at least, values 'character' players. There will always be this cloud over his head if he doesn't come forward with any info he has. Whether it passes over...? Almost five days on, I'm disappointed in and have lost respect for ML as a man. I was taught to own responsibility for your actions and to do the right thing. It's crap like this that has me always saying that I 'root for the laundry' rather than the individuals on a team I follow. And it's getting harder to even do that anymore.

because it's true.

I believe that would be the righteous indignation. You saying that a blood-alcohol test three days later would be scientifically unable to prove anything = You want ML executed for drunk driving and willful murder. The leaps and bounds of inference that people take here based on anything someone writes is astonishing. ----- Seriously, it would behoove ML and his lawyer to make a statement to the police post haste. The longer he goes, the worse this all looks. From a real-world perspective, even if he is perfectly innocent, complete radio silence makes police start to think you have something to hide. And if ML was driving or a party to the incident, noncooperation/nontimely manner makes them and the judiciary less likely to offer leniency.

Ehhh. Yes and no. If this is one of the shiny JD's that you see in front of Home Depot or Lowe's, etc., these are not built de facto by JD. Those are pretty generic ones that JD gets paid to put their name on and use their colors. Usually B&S engine. Not bad machines per se, but they're not "John Deere"s. We got an old JD 210 model and the mower deck is sh--, but we're using it to drag timber on a wood lot. Could be nicer looking, but it's got some balls.

Well, my TeeVee was on. Too bad I was ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ until I woke up ~ a minute before the Pens won. The games are on too f---ing late (West Coast bias) and the multiple intermissions go too long. I know it's the SC and it was 3OT, but the games really drag with watching talking heads three times for 20-25 mins.

Oooo. That's probably what she meant when she said to her father that two people killed Jin. Locke probably told her how flippant Ben was when he knew that killing Keamy would kill everyone on the boat. Christian is an odd character in this regard and I'd think twice before pinning him to science. Remember in totality in his flashbacks... when Jack was young, after a surgery where a boy died, he said 'How can I... blah blah/move on with his life like nothing happened. How can I do that?!?' Well, one part was with alcohol, for sure. But at the same time, he was moving on the same way Locke --- the Man of Faith --- moved right on after Boone died at his behest, among other things in his search for Signs from the Island. I would contrast Christian's drinking as relief/comfort from his plight (per the bar scene with Sawyer, he's a fun drunk even tho he's a kind of bad father ) with Widmore's expensive highbrow cold-hearted You're-Not-Worthy McClutcheon. Mehh. He really tempers anything in those comments here.

I think this is very possible as well.

I don't think Ben shooting Locke in the pit has anything to do with "Jeremy Bentham"'s death. Locke recovered from that in short order due to the island's healing powers/universe 'course correcting.' Even Ben said he should have known better that it wouldn't have killed Locke. I'm not sold that all of this healing that has been done magically goes away once they leave the island, as Rose has intimated. Being on the island can heal wounds/conditions that they had previously or that they experienced on the island. It's some property that hasn't been explained. But note that the Others have likely been the source for people off the island getting miraculously cured --- Juliet's sister, Locke as a newborn recovering from severe infection, just off the top of my head (this may also include Claire's mother who we now know woke from her coma sometime after the crash)... as well as Dharma/Other representatives being present at the time of death or critical junctures. Locke's death seems to coincide with the Sayid flashforward storyline where people are after Ben and the Others and questioning the Oceanic 6. The spy girl that Sayid shot worked for someone that he was trying to assassinate (Widmore, whom we've previously seen beating up on someone from Ben's archive). I would guess that this same person got Locke, as he was trying to recruit the Oceanic 6 and Walt to come back three years after they left (note that Locke/JB had time to visit with all of them off the island and he did not die). This probably conflicted with someone's plans and they killed him.