UConn James
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Hymn music playing in the background of the 911 call while she waited calmly.
Just like the Christian-cult sickos in RI who starved their babies to death.
"Tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said?
Man, It sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead"
On Edit: BTW, what can Child Services really do about this stuff? Other than times when a husband, neighbors, etc call to report there might be a problem (which happens very rarely, they can't be bothered to get involved, and hey, she's Christian so I guess that means it'll be all right
) they are reactive agencies. Something has to precipitate action on their part and those are the cases that constitute the job. Blaming them for not protecting the child is like blaming the Army occupying the street corners of Iraq for the CIA's failed pre-war intelligence. They can't just barge in on anyone and inspect whether its an adeqate situation. Often it's only after some serious harm like this case. There's no way to be pre-emptive unless you start violating the Constitution and breaking down doors. -
Read a small excerpt for a class and the reaction was, 'Wow!' Had to go to Amazon b/c I couldn't find it in any bookstores. I've since mentioned it to a couple of English profs (damn gen-eds, but they were good guys) I had as a companion reading to "The Things They Carried."
My uncle who did two tours would never talk about it. I left that on his porch once (not entirely by accident) and he called me a couple of days later....
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Cooking stuffing inside of the turkey is considered a bad idea. The stuffing heats up at a slower rate than the bird (you want 170 deg. F internal temp.) The salmonella et al can migrate into the stuffing - the bird reaches 170 but the stuffing can be 130, 140 or so. not good. To get the stuffing at 170, you end up drying out the bird.
If baking, instead of frying, stuff the bird with quartered apples, onions, oranges, celery etc to provide moisture and flavor - and discard those after the turkey is out of the oven. There are gazillions of out-of-the-bird recipes out there.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Having taken a food safety class, I'll second this.
Mix the stuffing in a seperate dish. I chop up carrots, celery and onion, mix in some chicken flavoring with corn bread stuffing mix and douse with some of the turkey dripoff. Then put it in the oven until the veggies are softened. I get a lot of compliments on it.
Or you can follow the directions if it's Stovetop (blehh!).
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Just make sure to have an angioplasty machine set up on the table, Nick.
Connecticut is the Land of Steady Habits. We'll be roasting this year, like every other.
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Don't know if you guys have seen this. I thought it was interesting.
NBC war reporter Kevin Site's "Letter To The Devil Dogs Of 3.1"
When the smoke clears, I can see through my viewfinder that the fire is burning beside a large pile of anti-aircraft rounds.I yell to the lieutenant that we need to move. Almost immediately after clearing out of the house, small explosions begin as the rounds cook off in the fire.
If he were a truly objective journalist, literally just being a witness, he would have said nothing and let the Marines die.
But you guys can keep telling yourselves that journalists hate the soldiers and America....
(BTW -- I really recommend "Dispatches" by Michael Herr if you can find it. It's basically one long, run-on sentence, but it's a great chronicle.)
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Actually, the kids who listen to this crap are so impressionable and eager to readily go along with whatever anyone tells them, the big ones would have been Hitler's bodyguards, while the smaller ones would have been chained to the machine guns off Normandy.
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I think most have them slated to play Boston College, so I'll be rooting for the Utes. Even more now after reading that article. BCS sucks.
The BC administration, along with VT and Miami, is a bunch of liars, cheaters and defectors. It figures, they're Catholic priests. Nice of them to pull out of the Big East after committing to it, after UConn spent $90M on a new stadium and upgrading to D-I. So here we sit with a weak conference next year.
We're gonna kick all of their a$$es w/o mercy in basketball.
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And I'm sure that when the kids start getting erect penii, "Abstinence only" is going to make them keep their pants on. Or reduce teen pregnancies and the transmission of AIDS and other STDs.
F$#k all of the studies to the contrary. They're all wrong.
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What about the Aussie punter for the Chargers a while back? Darren Bennet, was it? That guy ran down the field and made some nice tackles. And he was big.
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It's also probably an issue with feasibility (they are doing this in 7 days!) and permits, etc.
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I didn't even realize it was CA. It was. Couldn't even tell. I assumed b/c they had Randy Travis that it was in the Midwest. And that ABC would go the campy route. Does this blunder further the contention that the so-called red/blue divide is WAAAY overblown?
60,000 sq. ft. That's not bad, and not cheap. ~200ft x 300ft. It was simply for storing hay, so maybe just doing a roof (and they did have sides going down a little ways, and the possibility for tarping, etc.) was all they needed. It didn't look like an area that got a lot of rain....
On Edit: The barn
And may I just chime in that Constance Ramos is STACKED!
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Some people are probably taking it in an Uncle Tom way. He does state that black players should do what the white audience wants them to do....
I'd be the last to say his observations are wrong, these are my thoughts on the NBA for years. Just how he's presenting it is a little stupid. It's not only white people who want to see the NBA clean up its act. It's people in general.
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We, black people, begged for integration. We demanded the right to play in the major leagues, the NBA, the NFL, the NHL. These leagues accommodate a white audience. As long as the customer base is white, the standard for appropriate sportsmanship, style of play and appearance should be set by white people.
.I think it's more a problem of promoting the self rather than the team. And that has stemmed from the Slam Dunk. Raise the hoop height and I think a lot of the problems people have with the NBA are solved. Would drive contracts down, reduces the show-boating, etc. The NBA was fully exposed by the Olympics that it is not team-oriented.
I don't think the influx of foreign players is a detriment, or caused by the gangsterization. Maybe this guy needs to open his eyes but the NBA isn't an All-Black league. It's for whoever plays basketball the best.
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Expect to get a few rejections for requests to hunt on someone's land.
A bad incident that casts an undeserved pall on every hunter....
BTW, on this topic, have any of you read articles on "canned hunts"? There was one in the Hartford Courant a couple of weeks ago. The description of how they're run is pretty non-sporting.
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Nice reminder of the tradition....
But why don't they have the creamsicle pirate for Tampa Bay? Do they want to be [i[that[/i] rid of that hideous thing?
Do we wear throwback uniforms vs. the SeaGulls? I don't think they switched the past couple of years on throwback weekend, just wore the new ones. Maybe they could get with the program this year?
Anybody also notice that all of our wins happened with the blue on blue? If it works....
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It'd be nice for it to happen legitimately. But it's hard to beat them when they have 15 players on the field at all times, and one up in the replay booth.
Ninety percent of this has to do with the marketability of Tom Brady.
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Oh, those pesky Framers who included the language "certain inalienable rights" that were further defined in the BoR.... And that pesky stuff about prior restraint too....
Freedom is something our gov't, at any contemporary time, chooses to give us? Gov't needs the people's permission to operate. Not the other way around.
Way to hijack a thread about a single POS video game to broaden the scope to the fundamental nature of gov't.
Again, the market will take care of this really bad idea. Actually, that's how most bad ideas get rooted out. Likewise, if the MAJORITY OF people want to buy it after quasi-govt/oversight agencies put ratings on them, I guess that makes it morally acceptable in our democracy. Doesn't mean I'll buy it but if other people want to, who am I to stop them?
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We really need a sarcasm button....
The market (or rather lack thereof) will hopefully put this crap out of commission before it starts. And the creators lose their jobs b/c it doesn't sell and the negative publicity.
I don't think we need the government to be dictating what we watch, etc. Before you know it, that TV screen will be two-way.
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I think we've had enough video and computer re-creations that it wouldn't warrant yet another, only adding in that you can now shoot the President.
The entire concept of this "game" is sickening.
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No stevestojan.
Neither are barns; what was the square footage on that? My uncle had to rebuild after a fire and it was beaucoup bucks.
There are families with sadder stories out there, I suppose, but how do you pick b/w them? Add in that the house was literally about to fall down. Did you see the stuff by the tub (what was that?) and the rotted-out 2x4s that served as the "foundation"?
Also, ABC probably wanted to reach out to a "red state"/Heartland. A family that needed a leg up got a new start.
Much better than spending $5M producing a sitcom/reality crap. Kudos to ABC and Sears for making a semblance of a difference.
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Have we been so spoiled over the years by the likes of Nick Lowry, Gary and Morten Anderson, and Steve Christie that we're expecting too much from the average kicker?
Misses have abounded this year more than others, it seems. Left and right and boinging off the post for the Auburn kicker today (I've done recreational kicking and I hit the post way more often than you'd think). There was a UConn game against Duke earlier this year and there were like 6 missed FGs, including Duke for a game winner, 26 yards. Chip shots all.
This is what makes a Mike Nugent all the more desirable for a team in need. 8/9 from 50+. Saw that his brother plays for the OSU soccer team and scored to advance their team in the NCAA tourney. Sounds like he comes from a good family.
TD, I've got your second round pick penciled in right here!
What is w/ the complete dearth of kickers?
in College Football
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Point given. This has been disputed on the other board, what is 13-15 when MM is afraid to have Lindell try from over 45? If it comes down to a 47-yarder in the Super Bowl (and the trend is that, like regular season games, they've come down to long field goals), do you really feel comfortable with Lindell lining up? I agree there are other holes that need to be addressed, (Vincent will move to FS, McGee at 2nd CB) but none of them are an entire area that can be solidified in one pick.
My wishes for TD's pick aside, the question I was asking is why are there so few kickers like Nugent coming up who can actually hit from 50 yards+ consistently? Were we spoiled by that good crop in the 80s-90s who could make everything?
In my recreational kicking at Memorial Stadium, they have a portable trailer that's about 10 feet over from and ten feet behind the netting. The window in it has been broken (not by me, but there've been a couple of close calls
) and replaced so many times it's not funny. This is backed up on the field. And this seems like an NCAA-wide problem. Is it a lack of good coaching? The growing popularity of soccer, it being a fall sport as well? What's the deal?