UConn James

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.

Memo: When people are so full of it to call themselves "mastermind," they usually aren't.

Well, for starters, we pay taxes to support the military gravy train. We pave the roads they use for transport. We produce the foodstuff the military eats. We build the housing the military and their families live in. We sanitize the water they drink. We process their paychecks and gather information for them to make investments (information is expensive, you know). We put up the phone lines and develop the network technology that allow them to communicate easily. And on and on for every other service. Go ahead and tell everyone to !@#$ off at 7 in the morning. But when you try to take away people's vote, be prepared for a 'civil' war where veterans and soldiers will find out they depend just as much on everyone else as we depend on them, and that they're not the end-all be-all. Dream on, Ghengis Khan. And yeah, that was a guess on your part. Read the part in bold and apply it to yourself.

Why would a rumor about a degenerative knee condition ever be planted by his agent? Unless he hired one of his sped classmates.... It was by another team who wants to cheapen trade value, and it's bogus.

I liked Miss Albania. Linky.

Hmm. I'm of the school that even if you do learn history, you're doomed to repeat it.

If it weren't for all the queer-ass musical numbers and a pretty weak actor for Charlie in the original, I would say it's one of the best movie adaptations of a children's book. Gene Wilder was perfect for Wonka. I'll wait to see what they do for the sets, but I don't think Depp playing him as a Michael Jackson wannabe (as he said he based the character on) will make it better. I rarely did before, but I don't go to see movies at the cinema anymore. Netflix it, or for a few bucks more you can buy the DVD, 6 months later.

Well, since one legislator is offended, that means everyone else has to become offended as well. NOW! COME ON, PEOPLE! People? <echo> Peo-ple? Hey, I don't like how Gateway uses that cow. They need to change that. And Travelers with that red umbrella? Nope, that's just not gonna do it for me. How is this different from Al-Sadr or the Taliban blowing up those rockwall statues five years ago? This is why people who sit in the pulpit on Sundays should stop trying to legislate morality and keep out of politics.

15 to go. Hope it runs on fumes, tho....

Saw that last week. An old high school pal played the waiter in the scene where *ahem* someone punches someone. He had some funny lines. Dan was an old-school man. No surprise he'd have a picture of Fergie. It was a different kind of movie; real-world dialogue/story. Poke at the new-business era where people who have no idea what they're doing or saying are put in charge. I liked it.

The thing I'm having trouble believing about the story is that a bunch of teens/twenty year-olds were actually aware of and driving the speed limit.

This is simply a 20-question written driving test, not in how people actually drive.

So, watching it again tonight on the re-run. -The scene with Jin and Michael on the raft.... Jin has a handcuff on the hand most people wear their watch; kind of symbolic of how his life as a slave to his f-i-l (probably not a coincidence that the Black Rock had slaves in shackles too). He gives Michael the watch; a gift of time.... I don't know, but ever since I read The Sound and The Fury, that passage runs through my mind every time I put my watch on. Faulkner was probably the greatest American writer. - I listened to what the bird screached again, and I couldn't make out 'Hurley!' but my hearing is going.... - "Boone was a scrifice that the island demanded." Locke is evil. - The scene with the three women was a little Shakespearian; I reference particularly Richard III and the "litany of curses" that all of the queens launch against the title villian. Each of those women have/had a family member on the island, which makes them unique in that regard. Given that, this scene had a purpose. Shannon's brother "died heroically," Jin is risking his life on the raft on the chance he can hail a rescue for everyone else, Aaron (or is it Erin?)... you fill in the blank.

Or a Mercedes 500s.... My pal took a picture of the tachometer at 245kph (~125mph?). That was meant generally, which was pretty apparent. Or not. This is an Internet message board. Some, all, many, more, lots, few... Did you major in Rhetoric or something? And I would respectfully submit that Europeans take driving way more seriously than we do. That, and those silly zigzag lines marking the edge of the road. Do they expect people to drive in lightning-bolt pattern?

Huh? I'm just pointing out a fact in the different ways things are done. If you think American drivers are courteous, you either don't drive or you're one of the a-hole drivers. I have a dozen relatives across the country who drive as a job -- big rigs, trucks, mail trucks, and I'm regaled by stories of people who blow through stop signs and flip them off. Happens to me too. Where's the link of the story yesterday where most people would fail their driver's test if they take it again? People here don't know how to drive, and combine that with road rage. Uhp! Saying people need to calm down and drive responsibly = America sucks? Nice logic.

I don't think it's a "young man thing" as much as it is an American thing. I was talking about this last night over dinner at a friends'. No one in this country wants to be passed by -- we're too egotistical. On the autobahn, people don't take it as a personal affront that someone is going faster; they just move over and let the other person pass. What should you have done? All that so you could be one car in front of them at the next stop light? You could have been patient and driven the speed limit. You'll get to your destination, what, 2 minutes later?

And that skeptic/cynic attitude is the same reason why there's very little inside information. The boo birds here once drove away a woman who was likely related to Dwight Adams.

Yep. That's what the doctor said I had. Basically, a staph infection.

And if they ask him next week, he'll say it did happen. There's enough blame to go around for a lot of groups involved. Who cares, except the guy who gets rich by printing the Quran on rolls of toilet paper? (I'm claiming a copyright for this idea.) A three-sentence story didn't make people go out and kill; they were doing it before, they'll do it again. Melville isn't responsible for putting whale species on the endangered list.

No, just that a large number of them either won't vote, as in Clinton/Dole, or will vote for a third party anti-everything candidate who in reality doesn't have a snowball's chance. JimBob, There are conservatives. There are liberals. There are Republicans. There are Democrats. The first two are about fiscal matters and tax philosophy, the second pair are about social matters. I'm a conservative Democrat. I realize it's a force of habit, but the labels are not interchangable. I know a lot of Repubs and right-leaning types who say that McCain doesn't impress them. As I hear, he's got some explaining to do about his time as a POW.

Click on the "Track Flight" tab at the top. Under Flight Number type in '815' and press 'Track.' Click on 815 in the first column (there's no arrow that shows up but just click it). A seating chart is shown. At the immediate bottom of it, click on the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 in that order and wait. Is this a fan-site that put this together as a red herring or is this something actually sanctioned by the producers/creators?

It seemed like an awful lot of blood spewage on the cockpit glass to be talons. Some places are saying that in the scene with the bird, that it was shrieking out "Hurley!" as it was flying off. Weird stuff, man. Weird stuff. I'll have to pay attention to all of these little things on Saturday night's re-run.

Am I the only one who thinks the ® sign after a name on lists like that is an entirely apt decription?