UConn James

Terrence!

Oh sh--! They put him in the overhead compartment and forgot to let him out!

If by that you mean slam the playbooks into the nearest garbage barrel and let JP just draw plays on the astroturf in the huddle.... well yeah, that might work better. Fairchild is not running this O well, at all. I won't be saddened when he gets tossed out of town for the second time.

Holy sh--. Almost one half of the game over in an hour.

Indy is doing now what our O had to do just to stay in it. Ball control, long drives. This game will be over, early.

Even with a great punt, we just lost a round in the field position battle.

I think A-Train is showing more in this game so far than Willis did in most of his.

From the point of view of John Q. Taxpayer.... How is any of that my problem, or my fault, to the tune that I have to contribute $16,000 per student who doesn't live w/in 75 miles of me? Cities don't have businesses to tax and rural areas do? How is tying property taxes to education funding "discriminatory"? It's not discrimanatory; that's just one of the bullsh-- words they say to justify dumping even more money when the more money they already have doesn't do anything.

Don't think it's quite right to be putting Whitner in that category. Being arrested for a low-level domestic disturbance (where even if it's simply raised voice, police pretty much have to make an arrest in the name of "zero-tolerence") is far and away from the 52 kinds of crazy the other two guys exhibited. Why should OSU's entire program be blamed for the actions of a few players? Sh--heads are all around in this world, and the number is growing rapidly. Donte's problem is, he found out who should not be his 'girlfriend' the hard way. Does Hallmark make a "Get the F--- Out of My Life, You Crazy C---" card?

Explain how doing what your first sentence suggests will help. In this state, one of the better education systems in the country, the budgets of the cities are (and I'm not drawing this number of of the air) over 5 times that of smaller towns, per student. Cities like Hartford, Bridgeport, etc. still rate poorly in test scores. There comes a point where continuing to pump money into them is a waste; and how is it fair to the kids in the smaller towns --- and no, not all of them affluent, especially here east of the river --- who get so much less and do so much better? No, it is not right to 'give up' on those kids, but keeping it structured like this is crap. I begin to side with those people who propose that education funding should come almost entirely from the city/town taxes rather than the larger state and federal pot, where it is disproportionately spent on schools where the problem is that the kids don't care, and no amount of money will make them do better. You see the stereotypical fat mothers on TV, screaming that the city doesn't spend enough and that's why their kids aren't doing well. That they need new computers and new books and this, that and the other, and you're like .... 'Well, what the f--- happened with all the money you already get?' Does the inner city have some kind of 10,000% markup on Roget's Thesauruses? P.S. I missed several pages, can someone tell me how an abortion thread got on the topic of school funding? Or should I not even ask?

So, tell us, how has this strategy worked for the Dey-twaa Lions? Three years, three picks in the high 1st.... And the only reason Matt Millen still has a job must be compromising photos of the entire Ford family.

Saw parts of Lehrer's speech on his show. Leh-h-har-rer-er / Little Bo Peep.

Like I said.... Jack, even tho he saw Sawyer out there in the post-coital moment, only demanded for the Others to let Kate go.

Seconded. If you follow or sing along with the lyrics, it's epic. The jangles, the drum.... Mick in full-yell "I shouted out 'Who killed the Kennedys?!' when after all, it was you and me."

"Hallelujah" -- Jeff Buckley

They determine that set overall number for every player that they then fill the various skill sets to reach. Haven't gotten Madden since 2003, so that's the latest I'm drawing on (older, different more practical interests, have little time and skill for the new video games that require real investment), but... part of it is a defect in how they program it. The game cannot distinguish that Albright might be a 97 on the long-snapping duties, yet a 56 if you would put him in on the normal OL. They put his number low across the board b/c they don't want him to come up as the best OL when he obviously is not. And LS is such a small # of plays that they just arbitrarily assign it to the best OL you have (in 2003, it was actually Fat Mike, who irl wouldn't be able to bend over even halfway in order to snap). In fact, that's the perfect word for how Madden decides the ratings --- it is absolutely arbitrary.

Outgoing senator considers move Chafee is now mulling changing party affiliation, whether that means becoming an independent or a Democrat. In my mind, as I stated above, the only thing that cost him the election was the ® next to his name --- that it would decide who controlled the senate rules, agenda, chairmanships, etc. He and Whitehouse did not differ so much in their policy ideas/stances. I don't know... There's the mindset that people simply voted, even across party lines, for a corrective change or counterbalance, but that this pendulum will swing back once the perceived problems (Iraq, chiefly) are expected to be resolved with this new congress. But does anyone think this was an indication of a larger-scale disaffection that might prompt a certain chunk of people to permanently shift parties? I think if the Dems can show America any sense that, with control they can bring an end to the Iraq situation and keep a very focused, narrow agenda, they could keep that control. Their problems have come when they try to be everywhere, do everything and get off on unpopular tangents like gun control (heartening that many of the Dems who won this time are pro-gun centrists, i.e. Heath Shuler, Webb, Tester, Casey). 1) Come to some resolution in Iraq. Whatever that is.... 2) Work out the kinks of, and provide more funding for NCLB, seeing if it can be gotten from shifting it from inside the bloated Dept of Educ budget. 3) Roll back the tax refunds in a time of mega-deficits. Cleaning up after the mess will never get you credit or make you friends, but for long-term fiscal stability, it has to be done. They need to reach people about the depth of the problem, which this admin's own GAO comptroller has been jumping up and down about. 4) Do something about health care in a baby-step toward universal coverage to see how it could work on a national scale. Say, nationalized prenatal screening, an adaptation of what Jim Kelly has pushed for in NY. The reason people are scared about Universal Health Care is they don't know if it can work, and hell, even the proponents don't know if it will work here. You can point to Canada's, but they don't have nearly the infrastructure we do, nor as big a problem with insurance companies raising the costs of health care exponentially. Trying it on a very small scale could determine the fiscal feasibility once and for all.

Ditto. I think he's got some good ideas to introduce in the primary. Just think it'll still be too soon for him to get the nod. And the Dems need to stop running senators. Could definitely see him as a VP choice.

True, that.

It's been posted before, and no, it's not real.

That's the only way they can catch up on the production; it takes something like 11 days to turnaround one episode. Would that they could snap their fingers and it's done, but it does take time and work to make the show. Also, it's the only way to appease the people who said that jumping back and forth w/ the repeats was annoying and made following the story difficult. This was the best situation/compromise that could happen in the real world. Can't have your cake and eat it too.

As I'm seeing it, Jack saw Kate and Sawyer together and, not knowing they're on a seperate island (his plan is so going to backfire), he's forcing them to let Kate go. Note that he didn't say anything on the walkie-talkie about letting Sawyer go free. The flashback was to show the similar situation... she loves a guy, thinks she's doing right and then realizes that she can't pretend to be the housewife and has to run. On the island, the circumstances are a little different: she's kind of being forced to run by Jack, who isn't aware of the whole situation. What I don't get is, how does he intend on getting away... or does he? Can't hide or go back to the deal Juliet tried to broker. I don't think the show is any worse in terms of quality. The novelty has worn off (it wore off before S2 started). Like sex with the wife, it gets boring when it mostly stays the same and when you have to wait so long for it to happen (which is the point that so many people are indeed just waiting for the DVDs, it's better all in one shot). I wouldn't say this is the writers' fault. This is the nature of episodic television. I do, however, think the time-change to 9 p.m. was bad for the show. Now when you start watching it, you're already a little drained/veg'ged. There was something so immediate when it was at 8. Well, they had to include some resolution to Eko's death, and how to tie it in to Locke's story. The last thing I remember of that was the 'Jesus Stick' writing telling Locke to go north. Was that how it left off? I was distracted cooking dinner last night so I'd need to watch it again.

So, you admit that you're guilty of having defended things you don't even believe in. Birds of a feather flock together... until they lose elections. You realize, of course, that the people who won in those same glory-year elections are the ones you are now calling fake conservatives? Oh wait, you didn't realize that b/c the Kool-Aid tastes good and you're trying to rewrite history. My bad.

Link.. From what I have read of him, I think he'd be a good candidate for the Dems. Centrist, from the mid-west, and has executive experience. You'd be surprised (or not) how much this counts, both in an understanding of executive matters/knowing how it works, and for the voters to trust a candidate, which go hand-in-hand. Dems haven't won with ex-senators; if the voters of the party are smart they would pass on Hillary and her baggage. I, as a registered-Indep. observer, don't think she will get the nomination. Two years is an eternity in politics, and being in the thick of things in the morass that is the Senate and the immense spotlight on her.... I think she chokes. Vilsack would also have the advantange of having the opening primary in his state, which is a helluva momentum-builder. With him and Wes Clark, there will be a couple of candidates I could actually see myself voting for in a general.

If you say it, it must be so. Doesn't matter who the candidate is or his/her positions. I'm glad you've cleared that up for all of us non-elites.