UConn James

God protects drunks and fools. He qualifies on both counts. We don't convict celebrities in this country, don't you know.

Fifteen-year-old kids read?

Yeah, I have flashbacks to Jeff Burris when I watch punt returns, but that's like always using the bad china while the new set is in the attic. What's the point of having a guy like that if you're not going to use him where he can make a big impact? He can't get hurt on any given play at CB? Can't keep him preserved in amber, yaknow, and if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen.

Just shows how much of an impact can be made when you devote some resources to the ST rather than leaving the backups to learn and fend for themselves. I mean this especially for London Fletcher's blocking and having Clements returning punts, which he did awesomely in college, iirc. DeHaven always seemed to rely heavily on Tasker and Pike to take care of things and it all fell apart when they were declining and retired. Wouldn't mind seeing a 2nd devoted to one particular further upgrade....

Other than possible exchanging the salary of Henry and Shelton, and restructurings to make that do-able, I'd say the Bills are done w/ signings until the draft, which w/o a 1st, most of which won't break the bank and won't count toward the cap. I think it was a very productive and rationally-approached signing period. For all the guff TD gets in the media and on this and other boards, he did a very good job.

At least it's salad dressing and pies instead of bullets. Part of the left's problem is that some of their better leaders have a propensity of getting shot by the right. If you can't win the war of ideas.... My Nostradamus prediction is this gets sent to PPP inside the half-hour.

Went to a match shoot last night for the first time in about 5 years and scored a 205/300. My slow fire was nice but rapid fire was almost laughable.... Any advice to get a steadier hand w/ the High Standard or is your main expertise in shooting cats instead of targets?

Maurice Clarett's 4.8 40. --- Photoshoppage

Sweet. Take her out for some ice cream!

There are many ways it could be explained. People cross the borders every day and every way. Also bear in mind that drug trafficers don't always follow how everyone else does things. Just like there's many countries where the importer will only accept their home country's money. Not out of the question, esp. w/ the reach of this show. All of the nature maps say there's no way that water mocassin snakes come into this area of CT, but I've g'dam well seen them. Like nature, commerce finds a way to cross borders that some say it can't. But for the plane to go all the way from Africa to the middle of the Pacific!?? That's kind of odd and there's definitely something weird going on there. Funny, I thought the ep would answer some questions when all it did was raise more. Have the feeling that it'll do this up until the series finale. But I'm game as long as Kate keeps dropping trou to go swimming or bathe.

Locke just said the money was Nigerian. Not necessarily that the plane's point of origin was Nigeria. Kind of how the US Dollar is used in Mexico and a lot of other countries.

That's the concept of centralized power. He's the King of Pyongyang, but as you get out into the rural parts of the country where people are starving and the state isn't as omnipresent, there is less control. Until control is moved there in the form of ThoughtPolice, etc. KJI is very good at doing this, but the govt is going to implode sooner rather than later. Things Fall Apart. I concede that it's not exactly the same as Saddam's control of Baghdad and vicinity and tribal outside of that, but it's correlative.

Nevermind that if Iraq indeed had the WMD that the admin said they had, it certainly would not have been "bloodless." That they counted on Saddam using chemical/biological weapons but it didn't happen isn't reason to jump up and down clapping about the decision after the fact.

I looked at Saddam the same way as Kim Jong Il. A guy who has a strong amount of control over a small region of the country and less to none the further you got from the main city. The good thing about it was he was basically isolated, until the invasion which drew together the nation (much as it did ours after 9/11). The inspections were thorough and were working. The idea that we had to attack NOW never sat right with me b/c that's the argument someone uses when they want you to make a decision based on less than the facts. I didn't advocate involvement w/ Iraq much as I didn't advocate being World Cop in Somalia and Bosnia. And how I don't advocate attacking NK and causing a tide of nationalism that would make the daily parades seem like standard maneuvers. It's actually sad to see the Repubs who once said Live and Let Die (But If You So Much As Come Near Us, You're Effin' Toast) change places with the bleeding heart Liberals. Saddam killed his own people. Wah. Finland doesn't attack us b/c the BTK serial killer was a Town Dog Catcher. The humanitarian reasons were the only ones I ever actually bought as being the truth, and they stunk.

Ken, that's a great analysis of what needs to happen, especially removing politicization and preconceived notions. Operate on facts and rational responses to them rather than feelings and the Risk board mentality of "Iraq info was wrong, but hey, it's all good...."

When we don't have all of the information, or we can't KNOW for SURE, then the best thing to do is be conservative and let Terri live. When we don't have all of the information, can't KNOW for SURE, but can overfund what has become a bleeding heart mission b/c of the lack of other purpose, then the best thing is to be conservative. And KILL, KILL, KILL some schmoes b/c they wear an Iraqi uniform and want their country to be sovereign no matter who wears the funny hats.

Hmm.

I erred by saying "sees the future" versus sees what happens tho it's impossible for him to know it in real life. You could well be right whether it was a choice. I'd almost be accepting of it, b/c as I said before I'm no Locke Apologist. The scene where Locke arrives early-early in the morning to go to the hatch (darkness=evil) has me open to the suggestion. Something that would make it easier that I can't remember b/c I wasn't looking for it and I hope someone has Tivo or remembers... In Locke's dream scene, did it flash repeatedly back and forth b/w Boone being bloody and not? I'm not even sure whether I saw this.

And whatever the hatch/pod is. I don't know from the outside, but from what you'd imagine the inside would look like, did it look like the inside of Rousseau's dwelling where she took Sayid? My whole yellow spoiler portion comes to mind. A Pacific Bermuda Triangle w/ weird magnetic forces (the Black Rock from the writings?) that pulls in passing craft.... This could be a minor spoiler: The writers have said that part of the season finale will be looking back into the boarding of the plane and perhaps the cause of the crash. Some speculation that one ep will have scenes from the cargo hold through Vincent's (the dog) perspective.

I think you might be hung up on the issues of choice and having flashes of premonition. Boone can't be put in Tupperware for preservation. The visions are what happens. There's no way to change it, no matter how much Locke could piece together what it might mean. The plane had been there for a long time and Locke saw it flying in the air; how was Locke to know when exactly Boone's injuries would come? I think he started to realize that the time was now when the plane started moving and he started yelling for him to get out. And who says that Locke won't be in that chair in the time to come? If he saw it, then from the other things being true, I would think it happens. It's not a choice that Locke has, it's just the curse of being able to see the future w/o knowing the whole story of how, why or when the things happen.

Point taken. My contention, tho, is that while he knew it would happen he's powerless to stop it. If it didn't happen, then his vision of the future wouldn't have been true. It's like if Claire's psychic guy told her not to go on the flight b/c she was going to wind up on the island, and she didn't go, then his premonition would be moot. I'm probably not explaining it well enough, but it's hard to describe.

Actually, the writers have been saying that a major character's going to die toward the end of the season (not necessarily the finale) all along to anyone who'll listen. It doesn't give away anything. Just makes you wonder who it is and gets you asking yourself lots of questions to keep it in your head, and that's a great thing about the show. There's been a lot of smaller clues as to who it is and why they die, but I'd say it's not necessarily Boone. Jack looked determined in the preview for next week, and we all know what Jack can do when he's determined. Part of the whole Jack Shepard=looking after his flock=Christ reading I've been getting is that he raised Charlie from the dead = Lazarus. I suppose that the supposition that Locke sacrificed Boone might be Abraham and Isaac, if I recall (I dare not pick up a Bible b/c I'd burst into flame )?

Meh.... The rep was responding that Red Sox players were getting big coin while alienating kids from having great memories of the time they met X and got an autograph. Doesn't do much for the hardcore collecter types who are big on COA, etc. They'll still have official deals w/ players to commercialize a friggin' pen scribble. I don't quite get the fascination w/ buying an autograph. The whole point is to show that you've met that person. When I waited in line for 2 hours in Rochacha to see Jim Kelly, that's burned in my head when I asked how his knee was doing and he said "Feels good," and then handed me back the jersey and said "Here you go, bud!" Someone who charges just doesn't have that personable, boatloads of goodwill, legend-status. Not enough that they make millions and that these things help market their job, players who charge = RJ. Did it need to be legislated? Prol'y not. Whatever.

Yeah, I totally missed the aisle, row thing. And the game being named "Mouse Trap." Another dude on the island w/ serious father issues. "Teresa falls up the stairs, Teresa falls down the stairs." Question: How does one fall up the stairs?