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My soon-to-be sister-in-law's mother was here from the West Coast and we all went to dinner tonight, so I only caught the last 15 minutes. But, this is a teevee show, and I'd rather have something of a life that's not scheduled around Wednesdays at 9.... And no, don't have tivo, don't even have cable. Came in at the point where Rose was at the healer Isaac (Was it just me, the accent, or do all Aussies look the same, but that wasn't the guy who turned Kate in, was it?). He said that there was something in the ground --- geological, magnetic, who knows --- there that could heal people. Didn't work for Rose. Do the link, the island has these things. And she knew that Locke had been in a wheelchair..... Question for people here --- how many of you would stay on the island if it meant you were healed? Is that why the Others stay? Is that why they Michael is back. Says the Others are relatively unarmed and that they can be beaten. Cue on Sawyer to get the guns..... Question: Is this CrazyBizarroMichael who's brokered a deal to get Walt back, ala Rousseau?

Go! Go! Go! Ole, Ole, Ole!!! ... Oh....

Forgive me if I don't feel moved by a throng of illegal immigrants demanding that they be allowed to break the law. The purpose of marches is to show political power behind some cause. Which, I guess is an improvement from Medieval times, when such marches included swords, bow and arrow, d--k-in-mouth atrocity, etc. And to the congresscritters voting on this, it might behoove them to remember that illegal immigrants don't (well.... in theory) have a vote in how our country is run. What exactly is their political power? The 'social contract' lawmakers operate under should apply to citizens, rather than giving away jobs and transfer payments to people who don't belong here.

Yeah, I noticed that it went to about 10:10. Looked at the clock and was wondering whether it was a 2-hour ep. Oh, well. I won't complain.

Which leaves one fewer team in the CFL not named the Roughriders.

Good friggin' luck on this score. Easier to find out where Martin Borman and Howard Hughes were hiding. No kidding. The guy who writes the uniform column for ESPN tried to find names, email address, a mailing address for Tags and the front office. Nothing. As for the whole idea, you can spend your time, resources and money to do it, but just be aware that it will have ZERO effect when the league and owners want something, and the CBA made it clear that they don't want (or at least want to make it really tough for) small-market teams. Fans tried the same thing in Hartford for the Whalers....

According to VA, "4 x 4 = 56." Newsflash! The Bible is history put through a synthesizer of parable, and with a background beat of moralists and political leaders claiming divine right to justify their words or actions. Discussing these things is a lot like a discussion of whether Huck Finn floated down the Mississippi in a wood or a metal raft.

Dude, I think $250 would buy the place. (And, yes, I have been there.)

W -- Sep 10 @New England L -- Sep 17 @Miami W -- Sep 24 N.Y. Jets L -- Oct 1 Minnesota L -- Oct 8 @Chicago W -- Oct 15 @Detroit L -- Oct 22 New England W -- Nov 5 Green Bay L -- Nov 12 @Indianapolis W -- Nov 19 @Houston L -- Nov 26 Jacksonville L -- Dec 3 San Diego W -- Dec 10 @N.Y. Jets L -- Dec 17 Miami W -- Dec 24 Tennessee L -- Dec 31 @Baltimore 7-9

Well, it is a decision in the Hamlet sense....

I get a stick and a paper bag. The stick is for hunting big game, the bag is for boiling tea. And if you lose either of them, they charge you for it.

Is that a play-calling chart sticking out of your pants or are you just happy to see the offense?

Hmm. They give all of the freshman laptops, but do they ALSO give them Soap on a Rope®?

Yep, it was a gem of a show. My batch of DVDs arrived a little fubar'ed. Heard that there's a new company that released all 3/4 seasons for cheap. CBS yanked it around very unfairly (at one time, it was the highest-rated show on its night) which caused its straits. A certain vindication that the creator of it has now won the Oscar for best screenplay two years in a row. As Harold Perrineau said in the DVD Extras, we find out in Season 2 that Michael really works for SD-6. Seriously, tho, they need to address what's happening to him. As the previews show that Jack will attempt a trade of Henry for Walt, I think it might happen next week. 1. I think Locke wants to check it out closely for himself before he tells anyone. I'd also speculate that he experiments with the countdown sequence. He's in a bit of a situation with his leg, tho. 2. Sawyer's got all the guns, don't you know. He headed off the formation of the army, b/c he (warily) accepts the Others' offer of a truce as long as the Lostaways stay on their side of the island. 3. Well, it's not exactly an organized, centralized govt that everyone who's going to do something needs to tell everyone else what they're doing. I'm flashing on the Seinfeld bit about telling the airplane pilot, "I'm gonna have the peanuts now!" Live Together/Die Alone has its limits. And, Kate did tell Jack about the journey to the medical hatch. Largely, these people are on their own; then again it's not all that different than our lives in 'civilization.'

The number I read in an article on it yesterday was ~$30B. Which, when you think about it in how finances are bandied about by our govt, isn't all that much. But, removed from the abstract that is Washington DC, it's a lot of effin' money. And then, it's done every year. All for sh-- like a teapot museum, $1M for research into weaponizing mosquitos, etc.

No need to apologize, the snarking was deserved. The St. Pauli Girl said so too. In the clearness of sobriety, I'll agree that the changing of the gametimes do create quite a burden on fans from out of town. If it's originally a 1 p.m. game and gets changed to 8:15 p.m., that puts the kibosh on someone being able to get to work on Monday morning, not to mention lodging and plane tickets --- 12 days is kind of short notice for either changing accomodations or selling the tickets. Another case of the NFL getting more and more geared toward the white-collar fan and not thinking about people who actually have to budget their time and money. An extension of the ethos behind the CBA. I guess they rationalize that the plebians are just watching on teevee anyway --- but, for those of us who do, it will be good.

This was something I was wonderin g about too. Has received ZERO attention from the media, even in the dolrums. How hard is it to ask Russ Brandon (I would assume it's he who's handling this, as Marv is all football) what's going on? Teams have to inform the league of a change a year in advance. I wonder whether the previous admin did that (TD wanted to use them the rest of the season after week 1, which may make it too late to do a switch this season). The yoke jerseys are TD's era, and I think we all want to just put that behind us. The throwbacks are sharp and harken back to some of the better days of Bills football. For those of us who have taken to "rooting for the laundry" rather than players that come and go in FA, it'd be nice to have good-looking laundry.

That'll teach me not to post while drinking.... Mea culpa.

Maybe they'll hire George Costanza as Assistant to the Traveling Secretary. I'm sure they have people who take care of that, and many teams charter their flights and book hotels. Might be a logistical problem but it's the NFL and I'd think they'll come up with some kind of strategem. Not exactly a 'Bob and Sons' enterprise, don't you know....

You know, why does everyone have this defeatist thing with him being gone? Are we only going to be allowed to field 10 players on offense next season? He took less money to play for a team that has just as many questions as the Bills. The stink of it, tho, is how Moulds said during his visit that he was looking forward to working out with the QB and WRs in the offseason.... Maybe if he'd done that last year, he wouldn't have been on a different page as Losman and Evans who really did connect. You only get out what you put in. Many of his recent problems have been of his own making. So, blue skies and green lights, Eric! All the more reason to simply "root for the laundry." Lastly, I refuse to take seriously the opinions of people who actually call him 'EMO.' Greg Johnson, is that you?

Yes, lots to chew on is right.... So, in another show I used to watch, called "due South" a ghost character was introduced, more or less to provide a surrogate to the main character's internal thoughts. Not sure what role Dave played (did anyone catch the Cheech and Chong "Dave's not here, man" reference early in? The actor (he's a comedian, right?) played that really well. Line of the night: "Way to go for the high-percentage shot!" when the guy placed the ball on the floor. ) . But it did allow us to see that Hurley internalized his problem through eating more food. This played out in the island/Dharma dropping more food when Hurley went destructo on his Dharma stash. And it follows a logical string that the (sub?)concious Hurley might be expected to follow. The island is composed of a bunch of stuff from the hospital, most notably the numbers. Therefore, Hurley's subconsiou is saying, 'If I kill myself, it'll all reset.' It's kind of a last refuge of someone who's got psychological problems and yet is cognizant of the possibility that all that's around him is a delusion/dream. So, while Dave is imaginary and it is evidence that Hurley was/is a little nutso, it can also be viewed as a reaction to the stuff happening around him. The ending was a Whoa moment, but had been hinted at when Hurley said he thought he remembered her from somewhere.. So.... is Libby pretending to be a psychologist on the island?... Did she get out of the ward and become one (I have heard of this happening, tho the timeframe is rather short, I believe, from when Hurley was in the hospital to when the plane crashed --- maybe 2 years?). Is she stalking Hurley? Was the hospital run by the Hanso or Dharma people? How's that for 'You better not screw with Hurley.' Did Sawyer not look very pathetic when faced with the prospect that he couldn't control everything? As for the 5 minutes they devoted to the Henry Gale story.... What I suspected from the start was true. Said that Mr. Friendly/Zeke was a virtual nobody in the Other's group. And that the code is a pschological experiment joke just to see how long someone will push the buttons. The map on the door last week seemed to suggest that (specifically the part about CVIII being inoperative) Wonder if we'll see Desmond again to get any more input.

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.