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100%! Actually, 50%. Unless Joe Klecko reproduces asexually.

... in the back seat of a limo. Every day. No joke.

I hadn't heard about it. People could definitely get the wrong impression. In the common logic, ski mask + liquor store = robbery. Why the guy got arrested for it is just beyond me. It's a lot like the guy (in Ohio, I think) who actually got put on the sex offender roll b/c he grabbed a girl's arm to say 'WTH?!' after she still wasn't paying attention after he almost hit her w/ his car when she stepped in the road. The only reasoning might be that in times like these, we can't have police responding to bogus calls (read: a waste of tax $) that were prompted by the actions of idiots. But then, you'd have to jail everyone who calls 911 b/c they have a fuggin' headache. To me, there was no crime, and there certainly shouldn't have been a punishment, even CS. Jokes, freedom of expression, fashion and cold weather gear are evidently illegal in CT, don't you know.

Which is why, except in rare cases, all the cool kids DON'T sign RBs for bigtime $. Cheap, adequate (or better) replacements can be found in the draft.

"Reign Over Me" looks like a very good movie from what I've seen from the preview and read a little bit about. Good to see Sandler get away from the Billy Madison-type movie; if he could put in a half-way decent performance (and I think he has that potential, playing someone who is just completely... lost) Cheadle can carry the rest. Hopefully not too much psychobabble, but there are a lot of people still recovering from and trying to reconcile what happened on 9/11, in varying degrees. Could be a great movie. This is from someone who's actually gone to the theatre once in ~ the past 10 years b/c Hollywood has mostly put out crap.

From the preview, that looks like an enormous Invisible Fence system. Tho, I don't know how the 'monster' c/would be connected to it.... Perhaps when it's tripped, the black cloud appears. We shall see. But yes, for all the people bitching about not getting any answers ("Wah! We want all of our storylines wrapped up in 30 minutes like 'Leave It To Beaver'! Wah!"), they're coming. As Lindelof said, the answers are going on a downhill-speed trajectory now. And frankly, I won't really mind if they don't end up explaining everything. Part of what makes the show great is trying to figure it out for yourself what the hell happened. Yep, I believe that's the course they were given by Ben. Who knows if it was legit. I fully expect to see Michael and Walt again; perhaps as early as the end of this season. No idea what language the two guys were speaking in the finale last season. But it does appear that's what was being referenced. Weird thing is... it was during the Cold War that Sam Toomy and Leonard were there and now there are people from the Russian area. Perhaps all along it was some sort of secret co-op monitoring program. I have read that we will be seeing more of that station with the two guys in an shortly-upcoming ep.

Yep. Great ep, and it should get things moving at a faster pace, one would hope. Nice mappage Sayid got toward this purpose, but I also think he's keeping the patch guy alive for a reason (not just the whole conscience thing). They were obviously inviting comparison b/w Sayid-as-captive to the ep from S1 where he interrogated Nadia.... shoe on the other foot kind of thing. I don't think he did torture the woman, but it is entirely possible he did. Weird about that cat. Stupid for Locke to blow the place up w/ all the comm. equipment there; Sayid might have been able to use it. Patch guy shot Ms. Clew(?) b/c she told him to. Looked like she also told him to kill himself, which he was going to do. This would obviously be to keep them from giving up information about the Others in any interrogation. Sure shows the devotion to keeping the secrets.

Well, as someone posted upthread, BUSH BAD! The admin has really pissed off a lot of farmers with this, and sent IT depts into a bit of a tizzy spending countless hours for something that will have minimal-to-no impact. I could more easily forgive them if they didn't actually go out of their way to create problems.

So, for those of us still on Win98 (still good as a browsing computer), I guess we have to do it manually?

What Would Jesus Drive?

Perhaps with any (late) comp picks coming our way.... tho I don't know if there are. I think they'll be announced pretty soon. Next year will likely be a bonanza for them. Losing Clements, Fletcher, et al.

Agree with the timeslot. If they're so afraid of Idol, put LOST on a different night. How'd that 'staying away from the competition' work for "Grey's Anatomy"? They went up against CSI:Vegas and they're wiping the floor with Grissom's 'stache. --- So, last night was filler. But it was a nice comedic filler. Good to see Cheech. And for as much as Hurley said he hated his father for leaving, he kept the Camero... which was their link. And it's kind of a turn for bad-things-happen-to-me Hurley. Hope. And... someone told me that Hurley was in a light-blue VW mini-bus when the weird-looking kid found out he won the lotto (don't know about that; I'd have to check). Roger the workman died on a beer run.

I'd definitely reserve a porcelin throne for thineself and stock the room with reading material suiting your particular interests. When my dad got his, they did an up-periscope and a down-periscope (he joked that he hoped they changed cameras ). And yeah, the doctor told me if I ever wanted to punch him in the face, that was the time b/c even tho he was upright and talking and everything, he wouldn't remember a damn thing. Then, the doc gave him a certificate for being "A Perfect A--hole."

Yup. Last time I bought a jersey of any kind was ~10 years ago when I was a stupid kid with a little disposable income (and back then, it was ~$100). It doesn't make much sense to me now to spend a month of grocery bills on something you'll probably wear 4 times a year. The coup de grace for me came when, at a family party, a distant cousin's husband showed in full Cleveland Browns regalia. I thought, "Is that really what I look like when I wear that sh--?" If you go to a game, all right. But I'd rather get a simple retro T-shirt for a few bucks, slip on some sunglasses and go casual-cool.

I don't have a problem w/ retaining Shaud. Capable enough backup w/ experience in the system. If Marv&Dick blow up the entire backfield by dealing Willis, it might be prudent to have someone in the RB/FB meetings who isn't learning it all for the first time and can teach the other guys. Then again, he may not even make the cut in camp. Just, if Joe Burns is signed again, it will prove he has nekkid pictures (possibly involving a goat, bovine or equine) of someone important. I've been saying it for a couple of years now that Shelton has outlasted his usefulness. I think he was originally a stop-gap (he'd spent an entire season watching football on his couch), and then come offseason it just became a deal of 'We have badder fish to fry' and staying with a known-commodity slightly-below-average player than cutting him and having to sign someone else.

Way too much player movement in sports (and in hockey, WAY too much) and the risk of career-ending injury to be plunking down $250 just to have an authentic jersey w/ a 40 percent chance of being irrelevant w/in a year, and near 95 percent w/in 5 years. If you're going to go the full monty for any sport's jersey, for Pete sakes, put your name and favorite number or go with a revered retired player. It will always be relevant, barring jersey changes (and even at that, old jerseys retain their character), episodes of amnesia, or if you're a team-swapping whore like T-Bone.

It is silly and I don't know what exactly it would accomplish. If Dems want to do something about the war, they should do it with more than a token. Instead, they're tiptoeing around the edges and afraid they're going to be accused of 'not supporting the troops.' Always astride the horse, and never riding, but to be honest, I'd rather have that than people who actively start stupid crap then whistle past the graveyard. At this point, it's been drilled into her so much that Condi actually believes and will further try to defend what she said. I think she needs to go to bed and sleep for about two months.

So, on a FOXSNOOZE Sunday morning show, she says the rumblings of revoking/revising the authorization of force in Iraq "would be like saying that after Adolf Hitler was overthrown, we needed to change then, the resolution that allowed the United States to do that, so that we could deal with creating a stable environment in Europe after he was overthrown." Nevermind that the sentence structure makes my head hurt.... But WTF? 1) Germany's diplomats walked into the State Department and said 'Hey, we're at war with you.' 2) There was a change in the resolution to deal with the post-war environment. It was called the Marshall Plan. Condi, please get a refund for your B.A., M.A., and PhD degrees in Poli-Sci. And stop using analogies to link the current bullsh-- to the nostalgic epic heroism of WWII.

It's time for a lot of people to realize that the Bible is filled with allegory, and was never meant to be wholly taken as literal truth. Perhaps 'rose from the dead' meant that his message was picked up and carried on (kind of how Walt Whitman wrote in "Leaves of Grass" that anyone who touches that book, touches him) by his followers. Or perhaps that he 'rose from the dead' by his lineage continuing by offspring (as Shakespeare's sonnet 18 makes note that we live on through them), as claimed to be found. It's like in 24, we've never seen Jack Bauer on the toilet. Lots of things are left out when you tell a story about someone. Did Jesus shake after he peed and wipe after he pooped or did an angel come down from heaven with a roll of Bounty? He was a minister who preached that we need to be the change we want to see. He angered the wrong people. After he was killed, he was deified and the entire control of his message went into a lot of different hands, over a lot of generations, each with their own agenda. Why is it so hard for Christians to accept the possibility that Jesus was just a man with a world-changing message? The rub comes that church leaders wanted something that couldn't be explained, so it couldn't be questioned.

The same Pat Kirwin who during training camp, went just short of getting down on his hands and knees begging that Kelly Holcomb "had(!) to" win the starting job. 1) He was there as a purported 'journalist' for NFL.com. 2) What was wrong with JP at the point? That he was young, that he was green, or was Pat in "No-good Mexican halfbreed" frame of mind? I think JP's development and success this season was enough to have me disregard most anything Kirwin thinks he thinks. Buffalo/WNY/Canada region can support the franchise; it would help if they won and the league didn't schedule so many home late-season games. Buffalo can and is starting to rebound economically, albeit slowly. I'd rather root for Bailey Savings and Loan than Old Man Potter.

I know it wasn't under Marv, but TD brought in the farm league mentality i.e. Washington, Winfield, Rueben, Pat.... He had some name-signings but what we lost and what we got in place have us where we are today. A number of older, expensive UFAs who are gone or not much longer for this team, and we're weak vs. the run. Marv was absolutely right that you have to build through the draft, but the add-on is you need to keep them on your team (try the utmost, but not always possible). Marv not being able/not choosing to re-sign our own core is just a continuation of the farm phenomenon. Like above, I would classify it as losing our core, not our "league stars." Say, over a few seasons, teams can lure away 5-10 of our better players which are better than their starters; what we will be able to plug in won't be much. Development will not coincide at every spot, so you get holes. You don't have to lose 'stars' (and I would argue that a team can lose a star and recover); losing several of your 'above average' core over several years can break your team.

Oh, I wasn't so much talking about that re: this past game, where it was simple revenge stuff --- just as we go forward and the guys start growing their beards, if they have to change style wily-nily (and clubs getting an inclination that targeting certain players and lots of fighting disrupts said style)... that would make me uncomfortable if I'm Lindy.

Peters put in that good righter early, but McGratten got the best of him there. Those stealth ones he put in right at the end after pretending to be bracing himself against the wall --- that seemed a little cheap, but then again if it were Peters, I'd pro'ly cheer. The Mair-Neil fight last night... Neil, I guess, wants a reputation as a goon. But he then took it to Mair. I agree that it's good to put everyone on notice that the Sabres will not be afraid to fight and protect our stars. OTOH, can't let other teams dictate the style of play, away from what's gotten our guys to 85 points thus far.

Look forward to us being the football equivalent of MLB's Royals and Brewers. As soon as our young players develop, they hit FA, sign with other teams, and we bring in more young players to repeat the process and hold on to the hope that we can spin gold out of straw.

He was playing at his brother's charity game (his brother had a heart transplant not long ago). In situations like this coming w/o warning when someone had just been doing something physical beforehand, it often seems to be heart-related.... The Broncos organization has been hit hard. Look at the Vikings with Korey Stringer's death --- it really collapsed what had been a team most people thought would compete for the SB. So sad.