UConn James

Maybe Takeo should add him to his 'List.'

No. He sits at his computer and creates 11 threads about it on TBD. Everything from how it's affecting his sleep patterns to whether he should go outside and ask the bombers if they're horrible people to how he hopes none of the shrapnel hits his Fit.

That was a trumpet? Sounded like he was blowing/whistling through a straw.

Good. They need some shock therapy. W/o a doubt, they pay attention to what the (football) topics are. Glean article ideas. Absorb some info/history. Etc. I too am just happy to be here among people who know the team and the game. And when I can contribute (usu. in stuff about kicking and ST), I try.

Just like they would never let Sammy Morris go b/c he was the ST captain. Oh.... wait. This writer has also been fooled into the conclusion that Wire is *integral* to the ST unit. Wire had 10 ST tackles. Aiken had 24. Haggan was the ST tackle leader, and if Wire goes (and even if he doesn't) he should be named captain.

Diagnosed mental illness is a laughing matter, don't you know? Or has People magazine's Hot or Not changed it again?

I don't know if that's "throwing JP under the bus." You're going to make an argument that JP didn't sometimes looked lost? That he had the full support of the team? JM is stating the obvious about a rookie who was given the job w/o competition. It's how things shook down last season. And thing is, if you ask JP, he'd probably agree; in fact I think he has admitted that in his interviews.

Now I'm hearing that the FCC is scouring tapes of past sports events to find if any obscenities got on the air in the background. Does it comfort you that they're spending time and money to make sure some drunk Braves fan's words to the ref don't go unpunished? Does one have an expectation of privacy in the nosebleed section? Apparently not. Yet the Current Occupant can let 'em fly. Bono can let out an f-bomb at the Golden Globes.... Oh wait.... No, we changed our minds. No. No, he can't. BTW, the fine for an obscenity just went from $32,500 to $325,000 in the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act that Bush signed last month. Where else can one more easily simulatenously legislate morality and display one's hypocracy?

I second the motion. Leinart isn't the Buffalo type. In terms of being able to hack/throw in the winds and weather, and in terms of he needs an OL or else he's Bledsoe2.

He should be fired b/c he doesn't live up to some columnists' prediction that he's the second coming? Duke Preston, a 4th rounder, and Jason Peters, an undrafted rookie, came along pretty well last season. But I'm sure JM had nothing to do with that. You can't make bricks without clay.

Drifting away? Drifting away? They were watching penguins dive in the Antarctic about 20 years ago!

Way to be all over that, Ed.

How was that a personal attack? Just like the guy last month on the main board who suggested that we "CUT RIAN LINDELL RIGHT NOW!!!" my problem is with the strength of your arguments and how you express them. (Maybe that first post in this thread is clear in your head, but for others here it was written in Greek). You can't get past the standard classifications. And that's all right I guess; 100M other Americans can't either. Some of us are hip to the idea that any state can have fiscal problems no matter who its leaders are or what the letter is in parenthases after their names. When defecits arise, wise pols cut spending to balance the budget. It happens in CT, it happens in Iowa, it happens in Alaska. Usually, social services are the first to go sometimes its not enough and other areas are explored. I simply believe that releasing prisoners early is a bad idea and if it were up to me, I'd first close DMVs to make sure all sex offenders and violent criminals would rot if they can't be executed. What we need to rid ourselves of is the idea that Republicans are somehow more trustworthy with the public purse. They are just as bad as Dems, only they want to spend the tax money in different areas. Make no mistake. A $150 tax rebate is next to nothing --- and from a certain economic viewpoint, when you're running a defecit during a war, it's foolish --- but some people see that as them doing us a big G-D favor, and they get away with stealing thousands from each person to fund crap like teacup museums and a military that's too bloated and disorganized for its own good. So there you go. It's not an ad hom attack. It's an ad Wacka-approach attack.

Oh, I forgot. Democrats=soft on crime. Republicans=want to fry everyone. Democrats=liberal. Republicans=conservative. Democrats=want to kill all the babies. Republicans=want to sew all vaginas closed. These are all so easy to see and set in stone. And the people killed the fatted calf and they did eat. Sigh.... I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

The FCC rules follow that old standard of "I know it when I see it." Some cases, it's ruled to be accidental (e.g. when an anchor (Lester Holt, iirc) let one fly when a monkey unexpectedly jumped on him during a segment), other times not. Combine this with the "major league a--hole" and the "Go F--- yourself" that caught open mics and the old axiom 'Do as we say, not as we do' is alive and well. One could argue for the expectation of privacy b/w Bush and Blair (I personally think this open mic incident was done on purpose to send that message to Syria). Then again, there's this story where the weather guy had an expectation that the tape wouldn't air and he was fired for it. No FCC fine expected, but that's not b/c one couldn't be issued, but rather that no one called in other than to laugh. So the solution is we need to add a Ned Flanders-ese to high school core curriculms....

Yes you did. It's right there in between the part where you make a point to single out "liberal states" as the ones who do this. Don't try to tell me you're heading east into the setting sun. Yep, in recent years there's been some in Calif. and Washington. But do you mean such liberal states as Kentucky? Maine (Family owns property there; they may be blue, but don't even try to tell me that's a 'liberal' state)? And I'm sure Darin will be here to scoff at that last paragraph. The only time conservative pols are conservative is in the election speeches. In a few minutes time, you can find out that it's tough all over:

This is how it generally is when the Bills sign their rookies. Who knows the level of talks beforehand, but they usually sign pretty fast when they get into town for camp. Whitner, who was picked at 8 seems to have a level head and knows the importance of being there. Plus, looking at Reed and Price's contracts, Overdorf seems to be plenty generous. I don't remember the last holdout.... Was it Wiley?

At the G8. The feed for that press conference-type thing was broadcast. Probably on something akin to C-SPAN. Then again, that gets into a whole argument of, "If no one is watching, is it really a 'broadcast'?" In my perview, soldiers talking about a war should be allowed to say whatever they want on a documentary about it, FCC, Michael Powell, and the Religious Right be damned. What do they think the TV-14 L,D stands for? The "Safe Harbor" zone of 6am-10pm goes a little too far into the pm. If your 12-year old is still up at 10pm, kids hearing swears isn't the biggest parenting problem in your house.

- That ain't a phenomenon exclusive to "liberal states," junior. But you go ahead and pretend there's a difference. Remember the guy who led the girl away on videotape in Florida? What was only his most recent crime before that was committed with a handgun. Mandatory 5-year sentence for that charge alone, yet he was out in 3. Congress this week passed legislation that creates a national database and harsher fed punishments for child sexual assault including the death penalty when the victim is murdered. This, b/c some states fail to do more than catch and release. - As for "human dignity"... I wouldn't really cite this as a reason for the death penalty, but the rest of the statement I can agree with. For those who think it's somehow more civilized to keep someone in an 8x8 for the duration of their life, I call BS. The only difference is how fast it happens, and that when someone dies of a heart attack 30 years later, we don't have to read about it in the newspaper and have our weak sensibilities shocked --- shocked I say! As Darin said upthread about locking people up with nothing left to lose... Case in point is Esteban Carpio in Providence. Killed a cop in the interrogation room and there've been many incidents in holding, one that sent two guards to the hospital. These people do not become choir boys in prison and spend their free time feeling remorse just because society wants them to. I believe this methodology is also called, "Swatting at flies."

Well, you have the royal blue, scarlet red, and the silver. But you forgot the white, the navy blue, the slightly metallicized red on the helmet, and black (for the shoes). Is that all the colors in the Bills scheme or am I missing one... or twenty? Looks good. I'm a reductionist by nature so I'm waiting for the pro-shop site to have a throwback red standing buffalo on one of those small white oval bumper stickers. Might be waiting for a while....

I'd imagine they're pretty loose in determining that. Remember that this is the Gavin Newsom admin. Maybe through homeless shelters or the social services. The Massachussetts statewide health care plan looks like it'll work, but there's a long list of reasons why it's feasible, when trying the same thing in SF or Nebraska or anywhere else would not be. I think Romney & the Dem sponsors really got sick of how the insurance companies operate -- they've had to switch govt-employee providers a few times -- to the point where a Tylenol pill in the hospital costs $10. I could go on about how the insurance companies utterly $%^& the health care situation in this country, but I'm not FFS/Pyrite Gal. I am of the opinion that health care needs to be more accessible than it is. One person or a small group not seeking treatment b/c they can't afford it can result in epidemics where everyone in the community gets sick. You can see this on a small scale with one inconsiderate person who comes to work with the flu, all the way up to how AIDS spread through, how avian flu could potentially become airborne.... etc. But there also can't be an incentive to be a free rider.

Maybe she wanted him to build her some shelves.

Olivier, In quite a dichotomy; it's home to the largest number of millionaires in the US per capita. But SF also has a sizable homeless population. My brother was walking with his fiance there and they were approached by a really raggy-looking woman, who asked said fiance, "Where did you find such a handsome man? .... Can I borrow him for 30 minutes?"

Yet, one could understand the the tie-in of a fisherman to a team called the Islanders. That wasn't a bad logo in and of itself. Fans wanted tradition, tho. The prudent question is, has anyone ever seen a bright yellow horizontally vivified buffalo? Then again, maybe that's how the sabre was used, and Quinn et al. had to take it off the jersey to go wipe the blade.