UConn James

She managed to stay on despite really bad dancing, and won for two reasons -- T and A. That, and a lot of eyeshadow. If you really look at her, she's not that beautiful. I thought the girl who danced with the former NKOTB was much hotter. O'Hurley was great throughout, and he was funny as hell.

Tom Ridge is on record saying that the color-codes are very ineffective for relaying any useful information for citizens about the extent of what is going on and what will be happening. There aren't enough levels, and there needs to be more specific info. What will happen at Red? Will everyone be forced to stay inside or be shot? Evacuate to Minnesota? Saying "Extreme Risk" is really passive information/instruction for citizens.

Where did I advocate doing a Bledsoe-accordian Take-the-sack mentality? Or that we don't need to go on no-holds O to get these people? Point that out to me. I simply said that we should expect these things to happen, and to be prepared for them, mentally and in our physical response. You're ready to promise on your honor that in the future, there will be no attacks? It's called being a realist and realizing these #$%ers aren't going to stop, and that, yes, they will get through sometimes. I don't know what other context the prof was speaking in, but he was right on the point quoted above. People around here really need to stop filling in gaps and omissions (omitted for the reason that every post can't be 75 paragraphs long, unless you're FFS) for themselves while reading.

What's incorrect about that? You think the Islamists are magically going to stop? They'll succeed in their aims every now and then. We need to get used to that, and be prepared for it. Are you unfamiliar with how WWI started? Do that and get ready for more warfare with weapons (this time, goading a war with WMD) that severely outpace the knowledge of how to use them effectively and in a way that won't bite you in the bippy. We don't need a repeat of WWI with WMD mixed in. I like living on the surface of the Earth.

Like how every Republican tried to 'reign in' Delay and Santorum when they were foaming at the mouths? So every Senator is supposed to book air time and do press releases when one of their own says somrthing stupid? How about the ones who just don't care enough about a few idiots to respond? Man, there's not enough time in the day!

Each attack only confirms that hunkering down in defense cannot work entirely, and anything that would be effective would chop away at our liberties. I don't accept this. I've been coming around the past few months on the need for an effective no-holds offense. The Western world can't just sit back and say, 'Oh well, more are coming anyway.' It makes some difference, at least.

Here, there's Sec. 2385 in the criminal code "Advocating the Overthrow of the Government By Force or Violence." Minimum 20 years on top of any other charges.

Are you including a section for 'issue ads' paid for by special interests (and who they were wink-wink-hint-hint supporting)?

I wouldn't be able to say, as I've only been to UConn games in the college milieu. And that was during the past several years as they moved into D-I A. Sad to say, but that game day atmosphere of which you speak was much better before they moved to the new 40,000-seat stadium off-campus, about 30 minutes away, two years ago. At the old Memorial Stadium on-campus here were the old traditions of floats, parades to the stadium, students getting just rowdy enough, lots of tailgating and the smells of barbeque smoke all around on a warm October day, a really close and cozy view of the field.... these things are pretty much gone. The scene at the new stadium is pretty sedate. Some of it caused by fiat. No gas-grilling tailgating allowed (I think they allow electric grills, whoopdeedoo), no throwing footballs allowed, etc., etc. Maybe it's just like a wife who won't let anyone eat in the living room with the new white rug.... Maybe in several years it will be better as more people become bigger fans and improvise in the tailgating strategem. The U is really trying to push Tradition, and they don't seem to understand that tradition doesn't come forcefully, it just happens by itself.

ABC is saying that the time of the attack from a cell phone recovered in an unexploded bomb was 8:49 a.m. Familiar number? NYC and Madrid. Hang in there, Nick. Our thoughts are with you 'English types' today.

Spot on. We're in the era of many outlets being either administrative/establishment lapdogs (this is pretty inherent, as most quotes come from some kind of Officialdom), some that are attack dogs, and some that reasonably balance the two. I think the last sentence is the most telling. Words just fly by people in this era. Previously, people actually sought out information and actively participated. That continues to change as a smaller percentage (but actually, hard numbers of subscribers are up) of people read their news. Big difference in the quality of TV and print, too.

I would argue that not knowing is sometimes/often preferable.

Ooooo.... Low blow.

Am I missing something, or didn't W&B make their bones by protecting their source's name 'til the end? They denied that it was Felt for several hours after the VF article leaked, until they confirmed that he did approve release of his name. If you promise anonymity as a reporter and don't honor it, even if that means you spend time in the clink, you pack up your things at your desk and turn in your reporter's notebook at the door. Your fellow reporters will hate you for doing in their newspaper and craft, and no one will talk to you again. Seriously, man, you don't need to go to J-school to know that.

In a related story, three Vietnamese families ate dog on the same day.

I was getting a little worried that everyone is just fine with checkpoints. You took the words out of my mouth. If someone's driving erratically, etc. then by all rights, pull them over. But there is zero probable cause for DWI checkpoints.

On the radio while I was doing the Bataan Death March with shovel and sand: "Gov. Mitt Romney today signed a bill banning gay marriage. Unfortunately, he didn't sign a bill banning gay names.... Mitttttt Rommmmney."

Most Respected: SDS Most likely to become president: Rueben Grant, I'd agree. Most Conservative: Joe Six Pack (any more, and he'd loop back and be a flaming lib) Most Liberal: EII. Most Artistic: Moose Best personality: Hmm. Toss-up b/w Rockpile and R.Rich Our Einstein: CTM Board Dreamboat: Do the ticket girls count? Most likely to read poetry: Me Most likely to design a bills helmet using crayons: BF Mr. Doom: Haven't seen him in a while but, JP-Era did a good Chicken Little impression Perfect couple: R.Rich & PsychoWard86, o' course. Most likely to start a LAMP: stevestojan Most likely to be buried in Bills garb: Rosen

I call on Day 2. Just enough so you don't seem Day 1 Desperate; all of the chicks know about the call on Day 3 (don't ask me how they found out. We've got to pummel the squealer by hitting him copies of the Book of Guys), so that equals Desperate, too. I've only strayed from it once, when I called right after I dropped her at the door. But this was for a girl who had the body of a young C. Zeta-Jones, the brains/creativity of Elizabeth Bishop, and the sense of humor of Redd Fox. Damn, I shoulda asked her to marry me! Here's another hint of advice to the single guy who reads way too much Maxim/Stuff/etc. Don't go around the bar or wherever proclaiming how you like to give oral. I knew a guy who would do that (hey, he wasn't a buddy, so why give him good advice?) and it would just freak (most) girls out.

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Yup.

You know, people should spend as much time discussing the very real problem of actual sex offenders and them repeating their crime multiple fuggin' times but still being let out, much like only the most recent one in Idaho. Instead of debating the threshhold requirements of assaultdom, maybe legislatures should wake up to the fact that sex offenders do not rehabilitate and make some laws around that. Maybe then everybody would be a little less paranoid and reactive.

Yeah. Hence, "We build, we fight" and the logo of the bee with a machine gun and monkey wrnech and hammer. They often landed just after the initial assault troops. As I understood, they were like SEALS and had that training (I could be wrong about this tho), only much of the time they built stuff in the midst of hell coming down on them. Kind of similar to how my brother is an Air Force Raven, and in doing so, he also automatically has the qualfication to be an Air Marshal.

My father's uncle Oscar was a SEABEE back b/w the end of WW2 and through Vietnam. There were a lot of missions either where he was the only one who came back or there was one other guy. To the men and women who did and do this kind of work, we owe a debt of gratitude. He always put some kind of alcohol, usually Scotch, into everything he drank. He did this to "kill the germs." He died a few years ago, but he lived a good life.

I hit a deer on a back road when I was learning to drive w/ my dad, who is probably the best driver I've ever known, who learned from my grandfather, who drove for a well-known commercial trucking co. back in the '40s-'60s (he brought all of the houses to Mystic Village w/o a problem when none of the other guys would even try it). Anywho, I was doing about 45 mph and it just jumped out right in front of me. No time to do anything. Radiator damage and a busted headlight on an old Tempo. Several squirrels, when they went for it after darting hither and yon trying to make up their minds. A few chipmunks. I always try to brake or put them under the middle, but I'm not going to swerve and hit a tree so a rodent can live. Hit a porcupine about 10 miles past Freeport, Maine, several years ago. It was about midnight. From the size of the thump, at first I thought it was a bear cub. I stopped, in the same manner, saying "What the !@#$ over!" flashed the Mag Lite over the road - nothing. Looked underneath and there was a friggin' quill sticking out of a rubber gasket. Just had to get the wheels aligned when I got back b/c there was a little shimmy. On my next trip to Maine, we came upon a moose flopping in the road, ass end covered in blood and a leg missing (that's a sight you just don't forget.) A couple from California in a gold van had hit it just a couple of minutes previous; good thing they just clipped it, b/c quite a few people have been crushed when the moose buckles and tips onto the front end. You know, I had the idea a while ago to make up those little stickers like on the back of the Ohio State helmets that you can put on your bumper as a record of your kills.... My gf at the time thought that was gross.