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And on the other hand, prepare to see your wages/salary take a dive. I'll admit that it's sometimes difficult to get by here, and for some people it's damn near impossible. I'm trying to eek it out. But one thing I'll never do is leave this kind of climate and nature. I could maybe see myself going to Memphis or Milawakee, but I think the only reason people live in the South is because they have jobs there.

That's a lot like going to France, Germany, etc. and not wearing an Old Navy U.S. flag T-shirt b/c they might say, "Yoooour grandmother smelled of eeeelderberrrries.... I faaaart in your gennnneraaal direeeectioon...." Don't be afraid of what might befall you for expressing who you are, your beliefs, likes, etc.

I'm not sure how real of a concern that is --- look at the Afghanistan model. At this point, reducing troop levels to ~75,000-50,000 at the end of the year or next spring wouldn't be viewed as caving to AQ. Well, they can think we're caving and they probably will say we are b/c that's what they do, kind of like a family pathetically insulting the fire that just destroyed their house. We've done some major damage to their networks. The thing is, after a big pullout of Iraq, there isn't any one area that receives the majority of the focus. We'll be left to dealing with more concentrated areas. Unless Pres. Bush goes to the next entry on his list (Iran? NK?). Another large-scale operation for this admin seems out of the question at this point (barring concrete developments, b/c our credibility is shot, with the world at large and among our own people). Trust that the govt is more or less telling the truth is the thing that's been most damaged by all of this. To go with the analogy, after spending $200B for something that's broken and wasn't our fault for breaking in the first place, who wants to shop at Pottery Barn again?!

Probably the best advice so far. Since you're familiar with the Bills, make a little bit of small talk with the homers around you, "I think Losman will turn out to be a great player" "The Bills really have an advantage on ST b/c no one else respects it. MM is really smart for recognizing that" "I'm ready for a good game." blah blah blah, so on and so forth. It'll do wonders if an obnoxious/inebriated Bills fan gives you sh-- for the Bills fans sitting around you to tell him to leave you alone.

This was one of the better eps of the season. And it blows a little bit of a hole in the everyone-had-a-bad-father theory, somewhat. Jin lies about his father being dead, even to Sun, b/c he's a poor fisherman. And when he goes to see him, and says, "I was so ashamed of you" what is the father's response? Does he tell Jin to get lost? No. He hugs his son and gives him the good advice to stay in America and build a new life for him and his wife. The theory does survive if you tack on an -in-law, tho. I saw it the first time around and Hurley's "Son of a B word!!" at the end when the CD player dies had me laughing ass over teakettle. Again. I gather they're going to be showing two eps each Wed.? Will that work so they can get the whole season in before S2 starts? There were more voiceover ads last night, one with Jack, one with Locke. They're really setting up the Fate vs. It Just Happened viewpoint for some reason.

I can't say there are no obnoxious Bills fans, but Buffalo is not NYC or Miami.

I think it's time to sell insurance, Travis.

It's a little less amazing given that they have multiple blueprints from which to steal ideas from, and all of the modern inconveniences such as electricity, computers, etc. But yes, these things do go slowly. Doesn't follow, tho, that going slowly will produce a document that means more than the roll on my bathroom wall when it comes to the rights of all of their people. When that administration apologist on Meet the Press said it's really not all that bad if women don't have many right, I puked in my mouth a little. There's the first chip away, with more to follow, from the honorable sacrifice of 1,800 soldiers.

You broke it, you bought it --> You bought it, you break it Yeah. That actually sounds about right....

Duke ran for the Republican presidential nomination in '92. Link. But to be fair, he's bounced b/w the two parties, making and breaking alliances like underwear in a dryer without Bounce sheets. His voice really doesn't matter, as shown earlier this week. Comparing the parties from Lincoln's time to our own will get you nowhere. They've changed and swapped platforms so much as to be completely unrecognizable.

Heard Matt Lauer interview the doctor this morning. Seems that since every other doctor she's been to had used the "It's not good for your health" line of reasoning, he used the argument that, "Your husband won't/doesn't like you like this." And this was the first thing he said to her. It is heresay for him to be saying what her husband likes (there are guys who go for this). And maybe it would have been more polite for him to have mentioned the health effects before, or instead, for the simple fact that he deals in the body's health and is not a fashion consultant. I really don't give a duece, tho. If she doesn't like what he said, she can go to yet another doctor. From the sounds of it, she's shopping around for one that'll say that being obese is good, nay, GREAT! for you. Sometimes the truth hurts.

"Oh come on now! I didn't mean 'assassinate.' I meant...... uhhhh.... uhhh...... 'assassinate???' Please, please, please don't stop giving me money!'

Which sounds a lot like when "moderate" Muslims are quoted as saying, "The 9/11 attacks on the U.S. were a tragedy, BUT...." that the far-righties here rightly regularly cite when it happens. Now comes the time when those same people here argue for and about something equally stupid. Robertson is an idiot and his followers are too. That's it; that's all that needs to be said; end of topic; end of thread.

And the Iraqi Supreme Court, or whatever it'll be called. They should bother cantankering about "lifetime appointments" phrases. I don't think those will much matter.....

Good, but not enough "obviously"s in the quotes. I only counted one.

Watch that apostrophe usage! As when they stand in for omitted letters in such titles as Guns 'N' Roses, someone might fill in an "asm" in there.

The fact that they think they can realistically reconcile these things is proof positive that their ancestors had sex with camels.

BTW, when did "because" *ahem* become *ahem* a verb and what does it mean? I would say that's accurate, only add in that it is conducted via a partisan half-truth smear campaign. Who's going to protect it as a certified Trademark, and therefore a noun in all cases? The Navy?

What about all of those Japanese businessmen that own a lot of U.S. commercial property, those damned capitalists! They aren't citizens, yet they own land here. And philburger, this was a civil court case. The judge set the damages to be paid as the guy's ranch. Last I looked they don't handle monetary, possession, etc. restitution in criminal court.... I guess we now know who's going to be the next right-wing whipping boy in the next election. Too bad you're gonna lose a lot of those western states!

"The state of American humor is Arkansas." -- ?

And there are people here who think Golisano will be the Bills' savior once Ralph goes to the big football game in the sky.... More like, he'll run the team into the ground by just maintaining the status quo like he's doing now with the Sabres.

New commercial last night during MNF with Sawyer leaning against a rock and reading from something. Like, "We were brought here for a reason!? 'Cha!!!" The creators before said he had just been winged, and this furthers that he came out okay.

The most I've heard is for a wave of both-ends flu to go through the WH. Believe it or not, most people who call themselves Dems actually respect the office enough not to call for an execution. For all the talk of the lunatic left, too bad the lunatic right has carried them out with frequency over the last 40 years. That, or the thought of "President Dick Cheney" would cause a body-wide version of brain freeze.

Well, it's the cost of keeping the inmates safe at the American prison system's crown jewel, as one president called it.

And the homos. Don't forget the homos.