UConn James

From the sounds of it, and with the effect that he's talking to people who have no future in any of the negotiations. Whether that something is if he's going to sell or move the franchise or if he wants a big input of public monies down the road, and then whether it happens next week or 10 years from now is anyone's guess. But he's officially put everyone on notice that something's up. It's an old tactic to hint at something before you really say it, so as not to surprise anyone and be the evil owner who moved in the middle of the night ('course, he still would be to most of us). This story of him saying that it's not looking well for the NFL in Buffalo is catalogued in our heads and in the newspapers' morgues.

Not making this out to be a BUSHBAD thread, it's simply a case of you never know who it's going to be. But damn, this one-after-the-other stuff really is disheartening. It may not be a big story by itself, but it certainly contributes to the overall negative image, and serves as a distraction for the affairs of state. This is truly sickening, and to the topic this thread is being created about, one would hope that this case might make some in Washington wake up to the fact that online predation and sexual abuse of minors is epidemic. State laws up the ying-yang, most of them not nearly tough enough and centered around the joke that is 'rehabilitation.' For every one guy who's caught in one of these sting operations, there's many that are successful. Link. Think this might spur Congress and the SC on the broader issue of online law? Back when I was in school I read a piece that none of the justices regularly used the Internet and argued that the high court is going to be making laws based on something they personally know very little about. The addition of Roberts and Alito has probably changed that a little more for the better. These are going to be the biggest issues in the next 10-15 years.

Don't subscribe to any party. I vote all over the ballot. Read where the people stand on the issues they have a chance of facing, which one I most closely agree with and if it's not more than ~75 percent, I write in "None of the Above." Should be a national campaign to have "None of the Above" included on ballots, and have it count.

Wasn't so much responding tongue-in-cheek to Coli, as to The Hammer's video conferences. Who does this guy think he's kidding? As for your second paragraph, there's lots of people who say that, but 99% never do anything about it.

You forgot the liberal veternarians, the liberal squirrels, the liberal pencil-sharpeners and the liberal conservatives. I'm not one, but where does this guy get off blaming 'the liberals' for his grift. Did they put the money in his accounts, or am I missing something? Nevermind that with all the record amounts of pork pushed through on his watch, he's a CINO.

http://prestoagitato.typepad.com/presto_ag...down_in_vi.html 651436[/snapback] You know, when two guys in my brother's unit died in Iraq (he is heading to Afghanistan shortly), the state's then-NG commander (Now retired, due to a sex scandal w/ a subordinate, among other things) and then-Gov. Rowland (R-Retired/Disgraced) couldn't give a sh-- less. Quote from a SSG who was at a send-off party: "They went up to the podium and talked as if they knew the kid, shed a few crocidile tears and got back in their limos. Back in the office, the guy was going on and on about how big a so-and-so the guy's crying mother was." Is it any wonder then, that during the color-guard, it took *45 minutes* to fold the flag on a day when it was 10 degrees outside? Oooo, yeah. Gotta get those folds perfect, you know. Done just to make them have to stand at attention the whole time, the pricks. Did this make it to the press? No. There's sh--heads all over. And Moran will get what's coming to him.

I thought you were going to write, "Helluva player, but... he's got a face only a mother can love. And even she used to make him wear a Richard Nixon mask when he went out in public."

Oooo. Nice usage of "re-sign"!

No, it's just that the Dems, with their Super-Duper-Callafragilistic-Majority in both houses of Congress can quash any move against them by the ethics committees.

I picked up Buckley's "Sketches For My Sweetheart the Drunk" last year. At first, I was really put off by some of the songs and was like, "What were you thinking, Jeff? And why did I plunk down 19 bucks for this?" But in listening to it more, I've come to really enjoy Goldshot Glitter, You and I and some of the other tracks (but I can definitely see how he wanted to erase it all and start over with his producer from the 'Grace' CD). I think what really gets me with any artist is if they've got the stones to do something different and to experiment. And that can include going back and revisiting some of the classics. I wish someone would try to cover some Buddy Holly tunes, but maybe that's asking too much. If it's storytellers you're looking for, look up Stan Rogers, "Fogarty's Cove." As for Krall, I went with her competition b/c of the curls. And ajzepp, as for a new computer, Micro$oft is releasing Vista next year; I'm still running '98SE and in kind of the same boat, but I'm just going to wait. 'Course, if you bag on another os....

Ray LaMontagne -- "Trouble"

With the inclusion of 'lazy and inept,' most people who post here on PPP daily say that for any public-sector employee, (and for a lot of private-sector employees as well). O' course, they write many of said musings on their company's time.

Wow. Someone put a lot of time into that. At the bottom, in green, it lists three sets of numbers, likely dates, i.e. 01.06.06 would be 6 January 2006, and it says "Complete lockdown in effect." Don't know how long exactly the Lostaways have been on the island, but if it crashed in October, it's gotta be close, no? Also, did anyone notice the jet that flew over the motel as Locke was in the parking lot? Was that an Oceanic plane? Kind of looked like it had the light blue belly.

...unless they're not.

On one of those Inside Edition or whatever shows before I turned the TV off after the news, they were saying the 'racial tensions' this has caused at highbrow Duke and in the surrounding poor Raleigh were escalating. They played a 911 tape where a girl calls in to say that (mimiced in her rat-a-tat voice: she and her "black girl friend" were driving by somewhere and heard the N-word shouted, and that she was just calling 911 to report this, and she was so angry about it and didn't know whether calling 911 was the proper thing to do in this situation but she was just sooooooo angry. Guess that hearing the N-word is now a 911-worthy, life-threatening event. Raleigh PD will be forming a Thought Police division soon, honey. Let's lock up all the people who use bad words.

Desmond kept the pantries well stocked, and the Others generally occupy the other side of the island, so it would stand to reason that he got the food drops. It's not that he didn't go outside (in fact, he was moving pretty well when he was running away); simply that he couldn't go outside for very long.

Tgreg, merci beaucoup for the rundown. I saw the part where Locke tells 'Henry' the numbers, and the curiosity about and memorization was a little too much to expect. Do the Others want or need the number sequence for their own uses? The countdown did run out, and nothing really happened. Unanswerable for now I know, but could Henry have used the computer to talk to Walt or whoever's at the other terminal? Did Henry type in a different number sequence? As I was reading your description, I was thinking the same thing about Locke's father being Frank Sawyer. The timing would be w/in reason given James Ford/Saywer's age; i.e. that 25-30 years ago, Frank Sawyer wouldn't've been a white-haired colostomy-bag carrier, and would have been dashing enough to lure in a naive woman.. And also, the shrimp guy James Ford shot in Australia looked to be older too, so that tells us he knew the guy was older. I'd say this is a solid theory. Something that's a little disappointing about Locke's backstories is that as they've gone deeper back, they skipped over how Locke was paralyzed. But that is, generally speaking, how this season has been going into deeper flashbacks, as last season's were mostly what happened w/in a few days/hours of the flight. From what I saw, and what I'm reading, the creativity of the plot and the really good dialogue shows that this was a Lindelof/Cuse script, and not one of the absolutely horrible writers from last week.

Was helping my brother install some Pergo-type flooring and by the time I got home I missed the first half... Came in as Locke was getting Henry to climb through the vent and he fell from the shelf. Could someone describe a little of what happened in the first half? Need to see a screen capture of the design illuminated by the blue light(?). Was that over the mural that Desmond or whoever had made? What was the deal with Locke's backstory? His father got him to do a life insurance scam? So, it's settled that "Henry Gale" is an Other, or was at least sent by them? Said in the preview for next week that "He'll kill me." Could we take that to be Mr. Friendly/Zeke?

To be fair to KVO, as he was going down toward the turf, he was blocked right into Palmer by one of their OL.

Hmm. Royal, Tripplett and especially Reed have contracts that are really cap-friendly this year and then require a serious appraisal of "Do we keep this guy?" next offseason.

Some good stuff there. It's the little things of the campaign trail and on-the-road political life that are amusing. Lots of people don't like celery. Stringy and gets caught in the teeth. This would be especially bad for someone whose appearance matters. Me, I love 'Ants on a Log.' My 5-y.o. nephew doesn't like any of the three ingredients by themselves, but when you put them together.... Darin, we can only assume that he was against celery before he was for it? What the hell is Peanut Power Butter? I could only guess it's been blessed by George Washington Carver. Someone can't spell. "Beens"? "Prefereably organinc"? The 'No tomato products' bit is good for a chuckle, considering.

Kind of like arresting people at the wedding altar, b/c being married is one half of the problem of "spousal abuse." It's not enough that cops can sit outside of the bars and cherry-pick the drunks as they pull out of the lot?

I don't know about all of that, but Lieberman has seemed more and more cuckoo since the 2000 run (specifically an interview he did in the 2004 run when he got a basement apartment in NH. The very definition of senility right there on the teevee). Has gotten little to nothing done for Connecticut and representing what we want and need (Along with most of CT, I could really give a sh-- if you stray from the Dems as long as you make sense); almost always in Washington --- his own words --- and goes off on tangents. Yet he gets elected b/c of the incumbent advantage. If he's getting some heat, he deserves it. We've been getting back 60 cents on the dollar in federal taxes for the last 15-20 years. Maybe he could do something about that? No, 'course not. We need to save the children by putting 'MA' ratings on video games.

I don't know, but has a team with as much talent as UConn ever played as bad a game as against Washington, but still win? Half-court passes, 3/4-court passes that KEPT GETTING INTERCEPTED and Williams et al kept doing them all the more. Sloppiest game I've seen on offense in a while. I think the formula for beating UConn is right there. Move like banshees on the court, disrupt the passing (b/c it's like no one wants to take the shot. 'Here, you take it.' ' No, you take it...'). Foul Boone and Armstrong early and often, to put them on the line instead of letting our position guys get shots, and hope that your guys don't foul out by the end. Almost worked for UW. A UConn-LSU matchup would be interesting.