UConn James

Perfect solution? I think you're laboring under misapprehension. Creating private accounts does nothing to allieviate the problem of 17 workers/collector --> 2. Actually, it will accelerate the need for govt borrowing trillions to implement the private accounts. Check out what Hagel had to say about it, combined with the detail that not even the hardcore Repubs are using this argument anymore, b/c it's not true. Private accounts are just a side wish to saving SS. The emporer is naked, JB. Don't compliment his clothes.

Since they're in G.B., I'd agree with the hot and add a 'spicy.' Habaneros to burn the mouth at every meal and then habaneros to burn the * after every meal. Burn the eggs, burn the toast, undercook the potatoes, apples that fell to the ground. Nothing in there about it having to be good food.

The Dems have said they won't debate until private accounts are taken off of the table, b/c implementing them will cost $2T, which in this admin means it will cost $10T. I don't know, on one level it's akin to a parent saying that a kid can't get a car unless he gets a job first. They are trying to get it through that there are other, more palatable ways to resolve the problems SS faces. The majority of Americans seem to agree with them. This is not to say I support their stance on SS, the biggest boondoggle money-shuffle of all time. I don't know why they won't go to the table and just not agree to anything that has private accounts, but then again it would just waste everyone's time as long as private accounts are the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 proposals from the other side. Just trying to point out that just b/c we're not hearing much in the mainstream establishment lapdog press, this isn't necessarily a case of nothing being done. I would wager there is a lot of preliminary backchannel talking going on.

Does Mark Gaughah, of the Buffalo News, get paid by the report or something? I think TD did his MO on drafting Teague's replacement this year. And with the salary cap increasing with the new TV money, Moulds will likely restructure to stay and there should be adequate room to sign Clements, if he wants to (that's the bigger question). The others just aren't much of a worry. The list is long every year and somehow, they manage to get 80 competitive guys in camp. Not much to wring the terrycloth about right now.

Well, that phrase was overly generic. but for example, in Providence there have been several severe attacks by pit bulls in the last few years. CDC reports that pit bulls and Rottweillers are "the most likely to kill and seriously maim." And in this report: So, I don't know; it's unfair to categorize an entire breed but take no action about Rotties or Shepards which are among the most frequent all-category biters, but the areas that have banned them felt the need to do so. I wouldn't hazard to say whether this is wrong or right.

I can see it now: Defense attorney: So, Mr. Grant, you saw my client in the Java Joint at the same time the murder was committed? Grant: Yes. He was wearing a grey cardigan sweater with a light blue oxford dress shirt underneath. DA: Don't you mean, a black Champion® hoodie with a white T-shirt? Grant: Yeah, same thing. (Just bustin' your ba--s Grant, but it's pretty easy to see the distinction from the Colts.)

What makes you think he did, contrary to all of the coverage? You know better? From the time he was drafted to the current incident showed Sr. to be just as big a schmuck as Jr. If there were any semblence that Sr. thought his son was being an ass, it would be out there. The reporters know a lot more information than what is put in their articles, but that perspective does resonate in how they write about the relationship. I know a lot of people who do publicly chastize family members for doing something stupid, while still making it apparent that they love said person and that hopefully, s/he'll learn from the experience. Doing what Sr. did makes him look stupid. The apple didn't fall far from the tree in this regard. The popular side of the argument is often popular b/c it's more or less true. Like I crapped a golden answer? I don't know who you think I am (nor, who you think you are speaking to me like that) but... whatever.

Have you ever raised puppies? We've done three litters of GSPs. Even for $500/puppy (with AKC papers and good hunting and excellent, mellow temperament bloodlines) with an average of 8 pups, I would be surprised if it came out to $4 an hour spent taking care of them and dealing with/instructing buyers after vet and food expenses. You don't do it to get rich, that's for sure. As for the original question, as with most questions that asks a cause b/w a) or b), the answer is, 'Both.' Dogs that have somewhat been bred for aggressiveness combined with sh--head owners. There are several cities around here that have banned them. Sucks for the good dogs that are being lumped in with the bad. But after so many incidents, especially stuff like this, what can you do but shrug and say, 'I dunno.'

Throwback Uniforms Get Alumni Approval

I don't think it's so much the NFL dictating jersey design, just that the current drawing-board fashionistas are engaging in pack designing. Even the word art logos are converging toward one similar font. Kudos to the people who applied the KISS method in "tweaking" the '65 unis to fix only what needed fixing re: placement of the shoulder numbers b/c today's sleeves are much shorter. Same thing I was thinking. The blue for these jerseys is a good kind of shocking and vibrant. The experiment in dark blue just hasn't worked; remove it from the current helmet and it would look nice on these jerseys. But if they were to keep the white helmet, I wouldn't mind either. The blue-on-blue in the throwback color does look sweet, too. I've done some similar mockups.

Did anyone think the Jets were going to change to their '60s jerseys when they wore them as an alternate? I guess it all depends on how popular they are, how the team plays when they wear them (there's a silver UConn women's jersey that will never be worn again b/c of a loss to Tenn. in its debut), if Ralph likes the nostalgia they create, etc.

I do prefer these throwbacks, minus the black hightops. Making a permanent switch, however, would mean that buffalo at the 50-yard line would need to be replaced (and the company that installed the turf no longer exists) as well as the signage, etc. Not that it couldn't be done.

Funny. I come from a family where if someone crashes in the bushes while being a jackass on their motorcycle, they would say, "We love you, but that was pretty fuggin' stupid." In a better world, people wouldn't out and out lie and grasp at every possible excuse in defense of a jackass just b/c s/he is family. Your earlier description of KW Sr being different in private? You've gotta be kidding.

I've asked questions several times about the parallels b/w the Roman use of military and ours. I never got a reply. I have become much less a critic of Bush's foreign and military policy in the past few months (his domestic policy has utterly, utterly sucked tho). Maybe after reading BiB's posts, or watching Frontline pieces or just the accumulated weight of what's going on in the Arab Street that's not going to change b/c they live in the 1300s by choice. Kill as many of the enemy as possible and then get out. The Afghanistan model was actually pretty good in this regard; I just hope the Iraq presence is similarly cut by next year and we don't have to rename them the InterNational Guard (see: Parallels w/ Roman use of military). I do agree that Americans' lack of knowledge/involvement in our homeland security (and I mean this in the broadest sense -- food supply, emergency medical services) is abyssmal. But I don't know; it's hard to blame people who come home from 60-80 hours a week and just have enough free time to hang our hard hats, sleep, eat and say hello to the family. BigAL, our troops are "expendable"? I lament at the loss of the :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: 'smilie.'

It looks a lot better in pads than it seemed it was going to be from the replicas. The sleeve rings take up the whole side and the shoulder numbers look bigger than the replicas (which is good). This is a jersey that has the distinctiveness that's been lacking for so long. Wouldn't mind it as a a full-time switch (haven't seen the pants tho). No confusing it with the Giants as the JK-era uni often was, or the current Pats/Broncos/Titans ambomination that is the dark blue Drew Bledsoe era. Just not the white helmet -- too many teams in the division with it, and it loses the charging buffalo history.

Coming attractions for when some punk he represents loses millions b/c of his schtick and goes all Rae Carruth on him. Rosenass, STFU already. I know to most people, he's invisible but for the future #3 or #4, but... TH.

Also, b/c teams can only wear an alternate uniform twice a season, per NFL rules.

I don't know why anyone would defend the Pentagon based on their press releases. You know, ten years from now, it will come out that one was indeed flushed down the toilet and the response will be, 'Oh. Really? Newsweek was right then? Well, whatever.' Not that I really care what they do to that book of hate anyway. Riot b/c of a fuggin' piece of paper going through the sewerage? Any excuse for violence in that part of the world. And I'm still waiting for someone to print the Quran on rolls of toilet paper.

In the linked story: "And though criticism of government is growing among all Democrats, they express far less frustration and cynicism about the political system than Republicans and independents did in 1994." So-called 'bitterness' loses elections? Says who? To respond to BlueFire's assertion, I think #2 follows from #1. Dems need to place quality candidates in every race and not just run Joe Schmoe b/c they think they have no chance in that district. That line of thought is self-fulfilling and the reason why the re-election rate is so high. Candidates aren't made from a cookie-cutter; who knows where the next really good leader will come from (tho it would help if the Right wouldn't shoot them b/c they can't compete). The way you view what a party is doing is colored from where you sit on your own spectrum. Ken, I think it's safe to say you're right of center. For a lot of Dems, not taking drastic action on SS is an appropriate solution. Not legislating morality is an appropriate thing. Making the tax code on a progressive scale in who uses the things that federal funding pays for (ie, IBM has more of a stake in interstate highways, national security, etc. than Joe Schmoe) is something that should be done. I don't go along with some of this, but the alternative is worse.... You're not going to vote for the Dem candidate. Why would they tailor their goals to the right to attract a few independents when it would altogether alienate their core? Fund-raising will come when it's crunch time. And if it doesn't come, that doesn't mean much. Dems won a lot of elections when they were out-banked 2-1. Raising money doesn't do much when people disagree with your policy. The thing is getting out the vote.

I guess the strategy is to make the opposing players puke in their mouths.

So, he might be getting a cut of the profits when W&B write a book about it. Whoop-di-do. Other people have ghostwritten books (only in Felt's case, his input happened 30 years ago). George "41" Bush and Stumphumper Clinton both wrote a book after he left office; does that mean he wasn't the President? Damn capitalists, forcing people to buy their books!

Todd Maranovich & father as well. Taking his key from Barry Bonds. Just as how he denies taking steroids, KW and KWII would have denied the motorcycle stunts until the cows come home. Until the surveillance tape proved otherwise; then they were forced to admit it. The thing with PR today is to lie straight-faced until, when the truth is found out 10 years later, there's nothing that can be done about it, the story is out of the public conciousness, and he's too rich to care. Reporting the truth is no longer a protection.

Yeah, I meant that in the sense that we spend more on our military than the next 40 countries combined. $600 toilets. $50 hammers. $80 per diem for six SSgts in one office to stare at a cadet's pee-pee from a foot away as he unloads Vitamin P in a cup (I don't know; sounds kinda gay to me) when they could very well go through a private contractor for a lot less. $80,000 to fill up a C-130 in Turkey; they were being extorted but they didn't bat an eyelash. My brother stared at receipts his one Raven squad accrued on one mission -- 5 star hotels in Italy (well, that is b/c only 5-stars offer adequate security) and per diem pay to fish and float in the Mediterranean while their plane was "broke," read: landing gears manual backup crank wouldn't work --> crash. They love to spend it, that's for sure.

Or until DT identified himself, I thought. Which he now seems to have done through his personal attorney. There's the possibility of senility or whatever, but I doubt it. The lawyer says there are enough links and paper evidence out there to prove it. On edit: Woodward is telling ABC he will not identify DT until his death. I guess he doesn't want to let go his claim to fame.

Being reported on ABC. Haven't seen it on any internet sites yet, but they showed a picture of an advance copy of the magazine layout. I'll wait until it's confirmed by Woodward. He was the No. 2 guy at the FBI at the time. Chose to remain unidentified b/c he thought being a leak was dishonorable. Now, at 91, after telling his family in '03, they've told him it was not and they're proud of him. Yaknow, Mr. Felt, it was the Truth, inscrutable and immutable.