UConn James

I don't know if it was just a bad day (or a bad month) for JP. But the more these things happen.... As much as I want him to succeed, JP seems to have that fart waft of failure around him as far as dealing with pressure, handling the game and handling the football. He's got 'til the end of the season to show something.

Wow. Nate makes his first Big Play of the year.

Anyone see the graphic that we have 22 penalties before the snap this season? Second most in the league.

Poor clock management there on JP. NE would give him that 10-yard cushion any day when it takes 20 seconds off the clock. A smart QB doesn't take it. Throw it away, save time, try again.

Sigh.

We need to score a TD here to have any realistic shot at winning.

That was a designed roll-out block, like we used to have the Counter-Tre. CV's job was to pick up the blitzer; he put in a weak block w/ his right shoulder.

Nope. Villareal.

OK, then. How about we call it Nate's pu$$y-meter. What a waste of good money.

On the TD, Schoebel whiffed in the backfield. Clements pulled up and started a 'Oh well!'-hopping when Dillon was at the 5. No heart.

CTM/BJ can continue to say this stems from "victimhood." But I don't think KT considers himself a "victim." He and Pat knew full well what it meant when they signed their names and that what happened cannot be changed. The point is the litany of things this admin has done in a piece-by-piece powergrab that threaten our civil rights. It's not unlike as the Declaration states: "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, invariably pursuing the same object, evinces a design to reduce then under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." We all can make these statements from our living rooms about our Iraq theories --- 'If we do X, they'll do Y' like this is all some kind of science experiment --- and calling this one an idiot, that one an idiot, everyone but the guy in the mirror an idiot.... All of this talk doesn't mean Jack sh--. Many people who physically go to Iraq come back with a changed attitude of the purpose and outlook of this war. I prefer to listen to people who've actually experienced it to the crap-throwing monkeys who verbally masturbate into their keyboards as if they know what they're talking about b/c they read Jane's. This admin walked into Pottery Barn and broke the $600 serving platter. In a better world, the people who work in Pottery Barn would let us sweep it up and pay for the platter. What's happening, tho, is we're getting charged for everything in the store, and the employees are pelting us with salad bowls and stabbing us with forks and serviettes, while doing the same to each other. At what point do we say '!@#$ it!' and leave the building?

Why not? A guy cutting a guy's hair sounds better? Not that there's anything wrong with that....

Yeah, you were right, if what tgreg typed was accurate. I'm merely suggesting what might have been intended from a poor or non-speaker who is just piecing it together from a dictionary. If it's a hot girl in the balance, I'd want to know this if I were tgreg!

I'm in pretty much the same boat as /dev/null. Took 4 years in high school.... Couldn't speak it worth much, but was much better at the written word (then again, that's how I am in English, too). Haven't had much of an opportunity to use it much since. tgreg, it would mean a lot if you'd share who said this and what their level of French is, as well as if you're inaccurate in transcribing it. Lots of people who piece words together from F-E dictionaries so it literally translates but means gobbledegook in French. As you typed the sentence, it would be as said: 'I have seen all.' But with slight differences, it could be an unpolished speaker saying 'Je veux tu' meaning 'I want you' (It should be "Je te veux," for proper syntax, in that case). Uhh... In the first case for politeness, it would be "Je vous ai vu." In your second case, it would be "Je t'aime" for "I like you." The direct object goes before the verb in cases like that. And introducing the conditional "may" in that opens up a linguistic can of worms that anyone who knows French knows isn't there.

I think the man has earned the right to speak. Regardless of other people --- who don't serve --- castigating Mr. Tillman for making an assessment of what has occurred in the admin. And combining it with what I hear from returning soldiers I meet, it doesn't speak highly of the trust of our troops in our elected officials. Woe is anyone who crosses the FREEDOM® smear machine. Their arguments can't possibly be rational! The thought of holding people accountable so this doesn't happen again is treasonous! They must be speaking out of grief and viseral hatred!

If I want to know how construction project XYZ is moving along, in detail, I'd rather talk to the site foreman than the company president. Same concept that if you want to know what's happening in a war, listen to the higher-ranking sergeants (from a variety of areas). Michael Herr described this phenonmenon in "Dispatches"; some of the sheer crap that came out of the generals' mouths made you go .

Note Eddie's 'Geronimo Jackson' T-shirt? That was one of the records Hurley and Charlie were guffawing about in the hatch in S2.

I'm having a brain fart. Who are the "two new castaways"? Agreed about the plot complexity. But as an explanation for the drop in viewership, I think there's a fair number of people who are just waiting for the DVDs to come out so they can watch it all at once rather than week-to-week. Same thing happened with me re: Alias. Watched casually the first 2 seasons, and I was lost in the third, especially after I missed a few episodes. None of it made sense. Started to watch it again in the final season. It got way too complex and there were too many pieces of the puzzle that, by design, you couldn't put together. I hope Lost doesn't get that bad.

Right. And Ken Crippen is qualified to discuss Iraq b/c of all the time he personally spent there... and he got 300 votes when he ran for President.

I see your Schwartz is as big as mine!

It cut away when Locke put the gun down, exasperated. Not to say he raised it and shot (and I don't think he did), but then again, last season left us thinking Sun didn't have an affair with Jae Lee.... What was up w/ him not being able to speak? I like that Locke now has a mission. When he says he's going to do something, he does it. Action is a good thing. Rather than have Charlie repeat his "You don't call, you don't write..." line and all of the Lostaways being so UNcurious about what happened to the hatch and if anyone was hurt. WTF is that? W/o Jack physically being there, 'Live Together/Die Alone' goes out the window? Desmond seemed to be in a world of his own at the end there. Skipping stones in the ocean, not a care in the world? Strange about his being naked after the pulse; the electromagnet just pulled metal toward it, not cotton. And so, I would surmise that the power is now off in the hatch. After watching that link from slothrop, what kind of "signal" was it that those research guys called Penny Widmore about? The story goes that they were on the island trying to change a value in the 4 8 15 16 23 42 code. Could that shutdown be a signal of a success or a failure in this change, and a message for the receiver to start some process (perhaps using the 'vaccine' --- and did I catch that right, the 'vaccine' is intended to kill 30% of humanity?) in the outside world?

Ain't that the truth for anything you try to do by yourself?

I believe the writers and director took the same sh-- Locke stuffed in his mouth. Holy acid trip, man! Lots of trippy dialogue b/w Charlie and Hurley. They're all walking around like there wasn't a ginormous explosion. After two weeks of discovering the darker side of people we first came to like, we now find out that Locke, when faced with making that same Big Decision (whether to shoot Eddie to conceal the commune/family's marijuana op), he seems to have done the right thing... We did not see this, but you'd think it would have shown up in his character before if he had. Also, this flashback seems to have taken place after last season's flashback of his father's 'death' and the wiseguys looking for the money; so it doesn't seem that's how he became paralyzed as some people thought. Anyone w/ Tivo want to detail what was in that sweatlodge dream? Imagery of him back in the wheelchair, grabbing at his feet that seem paralyzed again. Boone bloody. And the stage is set for Charlie to be his next lackey; which was the logical connection from the heroin plane which Locke totally missed. Desmond knows the future. After-effects from the accident? Or does he have a deeper knowledge of what will happen? Is he in on it all? And why didn't Hurley tell anyone anything when he got back? F--ktard.

Hmm!

Congrats, mead! My brother got married on Saturday as well. Blog No photos yet....