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TD and MM taking full advantage of the rules change. Imagine that! And I've always wondered: What color do Smurfs turn when they hold their breath?

I've heard that's only good insofar as it makes vomit aftertaste taste like banana.

Why is the media being blamed for following a story that is newsworthy? Or should all stories about (possible) abduction be censored? Shoot the messenger, I guess. The woman faked her abduction! She cut her own hair off at the scene to somehow (a weird somehow, mind you) make people think she was kidnapped. She didn't just take off for a few days. Vera Wang wedding dress: $5,000. Fiskers Scissors: $2. Setting off a nationwide manhunt, employing local, state and federal agencies all just so you don't have to see the look on your fiance's face when you tell him you're 'Just Not That Into Him,' and getting off Scot free b/c you're a pretty, wide-eyed suburban white girl: Priceless.

He changed his facemask and went to the more open Jim Kelly-style mask. Used to have the one with three vertical bars and a slim field of view piece that's usually worn by FBs or power RBs. I tried one once and it really segments your view. You know it's the offseason when this seems to be the biggest news of the week....

Bills 2005 Schedule W Sep 11 Houston L Sep 18 @Tampa Bay W Sep 25 Atlanta W Oct 2 @New Orleans W Oct 9 Miami L Oct 16 N.Y. Jets W Oct 23 @Oakland L Oct 30 @New England Week 9 BYE W Nov 13 Kansas City L Nov 20 @San Diego W Nov 27 Carolina L Dec 4 @Miami L Dec 11 New England W Dec 17 Denver W Dec 24 @Cincinnati L Jan 1 @N.Y. Jets

Kinda got that feeling from the first, and the Georgia-to-New Mexico trek in three days was a little weird (doesn't it take like 5 days to drive that? And that's if you're not trying to fly under the radar). Guess that she saw all the media picking up on the story and figured she couldn't escape it. Classic passive-aggressive woman. It's amazing the lengths chicks go to like this. Can't just tell fiance to his face that she doesn't want to marry him. The sh-- of it is that if she weren't found, the husband would've had a reputation just slightly better than OJ or Peterson. How much tax-payer-funded manpower was spent on this crap? She should be charged with something, and it won't be nearly enough.

Did 'Locks For Love' go rogue or something? Great news.

Hey, all I know is that when they walked on the court at Gampel, they sure didn't have the air of cockiness. More like deer in the headlights. As for the two football games, they could've gone home at halftime and still beat us.

No, she's been Lost. I've seen in some short TVGuide-like previews that she makes an appearance before or in the finale. Not necessarily foreboding, as a lot of people are thinking the worst of Locke (not w/o reason). 'Not being what he seems' would suggest that he's not evil. I keep flashing on Walt's comic book where Green Lantern and Flash attack the benevolent alien. I don't know.... <shrug>

Department of Corrections: Matt Rodgers is 'white.' Selected in '92 out of Iowa. Wore #7. I still have a B&W photo from the RD&C in my archives. There is no biological basis for race. It is entirely sociological.

Ahem. Let's make the distinction of it being a 'Canes football thing.

And just like the debates, he shrugged off any notion that he's done anything wrong in fomenting the current level of partisanship. You're by far not the only one, Mr. President, but you're not virgin snow in this. Then there was: "Ten years ago, if we'd have had an energy strategy, we would be able to diversify away from foreign dependence." Basically passing the buck to the Clinton admin. You want to know why there was no effective energy policy 10 years ago? B/c Republicans at the time were busy trying to dismantle the Dept. of Energy. And hey, you get what you give. What we've got for ideas from him is the ANWR wet dream. How about nuclear power --> hydrogen economy? Instead, he has to pander to the clean coal, biodiesel, ethanol special interests (again, he's not the only one, but he's the highest profile one, who sets the course for the country) rather than technology that already exists and works.

The previews from before the ep where Boone died clearly said "No, we're the survivors...." There was probably enough unintended confusion that the producers decided to redub the audio. I wouldn't exactly trust CC. From that, I'd say there's definately another (probably much smaller) group of survivors, that includes Rose's husband. There's new eps each week all the way through the finale. Something I noted from the repeats. Locke's sister died from a broken neck (his golden retreiver story). Boone's nanny died from a broken neck, and Locke was clairvoyant to this. The summary episode for Lost was not as well done as the one for Desperate Housewives. Then again, DH only had 4 main characters to deal with. But it tied things together a lot better instead of jumping around so much.

I don't care, just as long as it dies a quick death. A lot of younger people who identify themselves as 'Dems' in the new generation hate SS, and not b/c they can't think ahead (I think on the whole they get really underestimated that way). It's just that while they're social Dems such that people can make their own choices for their own lives, they're fiscally conservative and realize that SS as it stands makes no economic sense. When I think what the Democratic Party will be in 20 years, when that way of thinking changes it from the inside....

Did they check to see if it was counterfeit? Saddam was in the printing business like that, don't you know. If a cop finds $400,000 that fell out of a getaway car, should he get to keep it? I don't think so.

AlGore ran w/ the "SS Lockbox" back in 2000. Criticize him if you want, but he saw the problem and wanted to address it back then. Probably pi--ed off a lot of his fellow Senators who liked to raid it. Would it have worked? Not by itself. Was it genuine? Who knows. But I don't think waking America up to the fact that their money was being stolen by the politicians was a bad thing. I'm w/ you on this one. Why have the gov't take my money so they can repay it to me in 40 years? Wanna know how much they make on interest in a day off of all that money in the macro? I don't really foresee living to retirement age. And basically, the gov't doesn't want you to live past retirement. Better to keep it in our pockets and if they need the money so badly, they can try their best ( ) to justify raising taxes. Keeping it as a silent tax is wrong, nevermind getting taxed on those earnings twice.

The theory behind the filibuster according to the founding fathers, was that one party that had simple majority power would not be able to control the whole shebang and thereby persecute the minority. It also prevents a tennis match situation where when one party has control and sets X rule, then when the other party gets a majority, they set it at Z. Cuts to the chase and they meet at Y, in theory. If the Repubs do get what they're looking for, do you think they'll shut up and take it when the pendulum swings the other way. Because what goes around comes around. Some things will not be settled like this tho, abortion and civil rights among them. There is one judgment for them. By and large, they only roll forward, not back. When Republicans got back in power in the '80s, they couldn't (overtly) re-enforce segregation.

So, is this a quasi-playoff system where the BCS games have input into who plays in the Championship, or just that they're going to delay the controversy of #1 vs. #2, according to the computer, by another week and piss off more fans? Sounds like the latter. But the three articles I've read about it aren't very clearly written. If they're extending the season by a week, I don't see the reason why they don't have a playoff. Then again, it's the BCS. Link Then, there's some news re: automatic bids. They will be opened up to every conference. Seems more fair in theory, but I'll reserve judgment until I see it in practice. Link 2.

Locke doesn't get shot. And if he does, as it looks like in that preview, he's "Unbreakable." No way do they off Terry O'Quinn. But another of the 14 is apparently going to die before or in the finale. As I'm guessing, the Carriers refer to the island possessing people and guiding them in what to do, like it is w/ Locke and was for Ethan. Pro'ly why Danielle had to pick everyone off one by one, and why she's so paranoid. I heard that this special would show all of the flashbacks in order. Well, that didn't happen.... That wire that leads out into the ocean still has me befuddled. What could it possibly run to in the ocean? And the more I think about it and hear it, the more I think the monster is a dinosaur.

Agreed about SD, if they fix their QB issues b/c it's been proven many times before that their current arrangement can't co-exist for long. After Butler, Smith has now fully righted the ship. They're going to dominate the AFC West for the next 5 years. But to say that Mike Brown "gets it"? Bengals don't even have a scouting department. They're one of those teams where every time they do OK and they're expected to take a step forward the next season, they take four steps back. I'm not convinced Marvin Lewis can beat the vortex.

What does he mean by "thing"? It's like trying to decipher Mad Libs. Does he have a -problem- learning the system? Is he -slow- learning the system? Is he -banana sundae- learning the system? What does "thing" mean?

The write-up reports that his only misses last year came on blocks that resulted from a protection breakdown. 2-2 on 50+. I wouldn't necessarily say he's camp fodder. A lot of people thought that about Moorman after he showed up from NFLE against a couple of fresh guys, and he won the job even w/ a "dead leg."

The line in Vegas says "Even."

Yep. Edited re: score. (I wasn't a math major ). ESPN: I had to take a hot shower after that game. The Fins had 15 guys on the field the whole day.

It was just inside of the final two minutes. Reed had a TD and the EP would have made it 24-21. Don't remember if the refs were calling him down at the 1/2-inch yard line or if he accidentally bumped the ref and they called it back in enforcing the penalty. And yes, he was ejected for it.