UConn James

Why don't you just save a lot of eye strain and cut to the part where you mouth a shotgun barrel or take a bunch of pills? This is what we're stuck with. !@#$ing deal with it!

Ohhh... you had to do it, right? You had to tempt Fate! There's now an 83 percent chance that we lose directly owing to the Wildcat. Don't tempt Fate!

You are truly divine, Bill!! (Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised for LMc to get like 6-8 INTs this year as a nickel DB, sign with someone for huge coin to be a starter, and then go back to simply being able to "stay with" WRs. We'll see if he's one such of those "contract year players" that plague so many teams --- our Bills not the least of all!

PPP101 --- When ya don't like the implications of a discussion, start a tangent and maybe the whole conversation just drifts away and no one will see the dookie that Obama left on the floor....

There's now confirmation that Obama got 100% of what he wanted. And then he wanted more. Bait-and-switch isn't a very good negotiating tactic. In fact, it's virtually guaranteed to fail. Which is what Obama wanted so he could have a re-election narrative of a 'do-nothing Congress.' The reported $800B in new taxes wasn't enough to ask from Tea Party freshmen who had been elected on this core of cutting spending and reducing taxes?? For this president to come out and try to demonize congress / Republicans / Tea Party, saying they wouldn't budge or weren't willing to compromise to get a deal and avoid default is beyond the pale. Just further cements that Obama and the WH wear the blame for the credit downgrade.

Woodward Book: Debt Deal Collapse Led to 'Pure Fury' From President Obama In accordance with what was written in the NYT story some months after the breakdown --- that a deal was essentially in place and Boehner had the begrudging votes of the freshman Tea Partiers to a mix of new taxes to go along with spending cuts / entitlement reform --- Bob Woodward's latest book is painting the picture of a White House and president who 1) Didn't know what the hell they were doing and 2) When the administration's original objectives were reached and Boehner had the votes, Obama moved the goalposts and wanted more --- 150% more --- taxes. This just further underpins the notion that this WH is rudderless and completely engaged in ideological, divisive power plays rather than having any sense or willingness to address the debt ($16T now) and what is coming down the pike in the form of the entitlement tsunami. Would've loved to be a fly on the wall when the Democrat congressional staffer rebuked Obama to his face in the Oval about the WH not having a Plan B to avoid default.

I wonder if Obama is again going to promise to close GITMO....

Not in the BB world. It's been less than a year. I'm sure there's enough for Hank to suss up. He accepted things over the past six years because he didn't think Walt as the type i.e. the "gambling" money that paid for his physical therapy treatment, Skyler's behavior.... No doubt, Hank will play it cool and build his case. But he's gonna be thinking back and really kicking himself in the ass about everything. Not as great a finale as half of Gus Fring's face getting blown off, but hey, it was a great set-up for what should be an awesome final mini-season.

That doesn't mean you get to post it here. IIRC, SDS or one of the admins had a pinned thread on this on the main board for awhile because people were doing exactly what you're doing. Quote a few pertinent paragraphs, and then provide a link. You'd better learn this.

So, whoever sussed out from the 'shooting crew member' that Walt kills Skyler as the final scene was either full of stevestojan, an intentional misdirection for the fans that never happened, or an intentional misdirection by Gilligan and crew to shoot numerous scenes to throw off any leaks or find out leaks. [tangent] In much the same way, the LOST production team filmed scenes of the S5 finale 'Jeremy Bentham' casket opening with Locke, Sawyer, Desmond, and I believe there was one other. Like a football coach with his playbook, you never reveal the ENTIRE story to any one of the players (except maybe the QB), because that information can then be used. Shakespeare would give his actors individually-produced scripts with only the last few words of the lead-in dialogue; giving actors the entire play would mean any one of them could go off on their own and exactly reproduce Shakepeare's play and keep all ticket money for himself. [/tangent] Even after the reconnect and talking about the old RV (usually, there's laughter in reminiscences like this. Even in dark war recounts, there's moments of laughter at how absurd it was. There was no laughter here; it was like a completely soulless account), Jesse was probably half-sure that he was going to be whacked. I mean... once the 10 in prison were offed, he could probably put the pieces together that Mike was dead. Great use of music in this ep. "Crystal Blue Persuasion" was a song that made me think of BB when I've heard in on the oldies station since I started, and it was used perfectly in the time-advance. What do you want to bet that we see the next scene of this season's opener as the opener for next season?... and then go back and pick up the story from Hank sitting on the can. I predict the rest of the "52" and M-60 line won't be used until the series finale. Indeed, I think "52" is probably going to be the finale's title. And yes, that inscription was something Hank had seen in Gayle's notebook, and that scene was when he showed it and asked Walt about the chemical equations. Why Walt would leave that there... when the first scenes from this season besides the flash-forward were of Walt cleaning up after the Fring thing, tossing everything in a black garbage bag, including him suddenly remembering the lily-of-the-valley. The fatal flaw. He forgot one little thing. And Walt knows this. He knows that it's always that one little thing that you don't expect could be a problem that eventually becomes the thing that nails you. For as much as some here hate it, that's why he was so obsessive about that fly.

This confirms it. MDP is FakeFatSunny. 1) This is copyright infringement to the Nth degree. If you're going to use someone else's writing, you can quote a few paragraphs at most, but certainly not more than 10 percent of the work. And provide a link. (I'm thinking you didn't because the source is known batshit crazy loony, even among batshit crazy loonies.) In no uncertain terms, this violates the Terms of Service of TBD. You can't just shrug this off and keep doing it under your many screen names. Copyright infringement is a crime and TBD can't be party to it. 2) You're quoting anarchist writings about risk/reward? Anarchists? The same people who throw Molotov cocktails every time there's a G-whatever summit? "We're going to argue that...." blah blah blah. So, investors who would be left paying the bills and going into serious debt if a business fails deserve jackshit versus the workers who simply move on to another job? Risk demands no reward? I reject that out of hand. Investors are supposed to just risk their assets because it's the 'right thing to do' to throw their money into ventures that create jobs for the proletariat and then give all the money to the workers and/government? Seriously, go !@#$ yourself, bringing that **** here. Economics at heart has little or nothing to do with human nature or philosophy. If that's what you're basing a system of monetary circulation around, you're doing it wrong.

Actually, the proper term is "lay down" a case of wine to the winner.

In the vein of the thread title, magician David Blaine wrote on his Facebook wall that he just started watching and that, "Can't believe this exists. My mind is blown" and for no one to spoil any details.

Uhmmm, no. No, they didn't.

Are you seriously suggesting that Obama is tantamount to an '80s Republican?!? Seriously?! No tax increases? What is Obamacare? Whatever you try to call it, it's forcing people to spend money on something, or you'll have to pay the IRS. Increased the defense budget...? Before blowing off the debt deal at the 11th hour when Boehner had wrangled up Republican votes on EVERYTHING Obama wanted going into it, which is now scheduled to cave DoD spending by $1.2T. I have no doubt this was done intentionally and at the sacrifice of whatever entitlement doomsday cut was in that compact, just because Democrats for time immemorial hate the military and want to reduce our ability to conduct ourselves militarily abroad in a warped vision of appeasement bringing about peace. GITMO is open as a testament to the naivity of Candidate Obama and a Commander in Chief who will never really understand the military and what they have to do, just because, and this is especially with a nod to the reporting that's come out about putting off the OBL raid numerous times until Hillary B word-slapped him. The bank bailout and bending over for the auto unions to the tune of $25B in losses that will never be recovered... that's right-wing? Wait a minute.... Mickey? FFS? Conner? MDP another one of your many screen names?

I wouldn't have a problem with this system. Winner-take-all / 50%+1 seems more like a system created to make results easier to tabulate back when communication was slow. Red states and blue states, whatever. It's a more nearly accurate allocation that closer reflects the proportion of a vote. Sucks when a guy wins 49% of a state and has NOTHING to show for it, and small but densely-populated geographic areas can drown out the voices and concerns of less dense areas. So, if Cities X, Y and Z want to dump their garbage in Towns H, I, J, K, L and M... well, there's nothing the small towns can do about this tyranny via vote if it's 50+1 winner take all. The system where it gets decided by a national cumulative vote is interesting as well. Some states have already passed legislation signed on to that and are waiting for there to be 270 EC votes of signees to trigger its implementation. Lots of things to sort out in a deal like that, tho. Voting systems would have to be standardized. There would probably have to be a national voter ID card (and perhaps using the indelible ink) for this to gain any kind of traction and to ENSURE there's no multiple voting, and probably a federal department to weed out convicted-felon voting, and to guard against gerry-mandering, etc. I don't see how this happens in our lifetimes. A state congressional-district allocation system would be easier to swallow, at least as a transition.

To note: CBS's "The Amazing Race" has increased its payout to a possible $2 million. One million ain't what it was even 12 years ago... after Quantitative Easing (the Fed printing more money ---> inflation) Parts I, II & III, after taxes and all that....

Yeah, I picked up a couple of Maddens back when they did releases for PC. Those days are gone, I guess. I don't "game" otherwise besides some old-school stuff on the iPad that doesn't require four hands, being double-jointed, and cat-like reflexes --- think Galaga, Wolfenstein, Pac-Man, etc. that I can play for a few minutes of downtime, in the car (when I'm a passenger), waiting rooms.... So there's no way in he!! I'll be plinking down to buy a system for one thing. And then, in the end, I'll probably be happier that I walked 2-3 miles a day with my dog. Life goes on.

Because people who have a clutch of money are EVIL!!! (Mind you that off the top of my head, I can name 20 baseball players who make more in one contract --- just the club contract, not sponsorship or anything else --- that make more coin in 10 years than Romney did in, what, 30 years as a CEO in business.) I was going to say something like "Fair?!? Balanced?!?" and then I saw you qualifier that it only pertains to what you yourself have read recently. Considering that this includes the Communist Manifesto and whatever magazine the Black Panthers put out.... Otherwise, you're still a !@#$ing tool. Really, go to hell.

Yeah, I've got it on the iPad. By the by, tap Homer... I believe it was 10 times... but... just keep tapping him. You get a statue of Jedidiah Springfield and 10 donuts. I, too, was the last curmugdeon in the house... but rather than keep paying $50/mo. to Ma Bell, we changed the landline # over into a basic cell ~ 6 months ago for a tack-on $10/mo. on a family plan. Admittedly, it's got its conveniences and it's nice to have when I'm not at home / when driving / on trips. It also makes it a lot easier to just ignore numbers that aren't programmed or that I don't recognize, which are usually politician robo-calls, surveys or solicitors even tho this # is on the No-Call Registry. Most of the inconvenience is having to run to the one cell rather than having phones around the house (tho, as a neat-nick/anti-knickknack/minimalist/Felix Unger, this doesn't bother me very much).

Not to mention that the real refs need a game or two to work the kinks out. They need to be calling this week's games just to get back into rhythm. The league is GOING to have a mess with blown calls (especially on big-yardage "judgment" calls like pass interference). All for a little clutch of $. Stupid.

The more Walt keeps making promisesthat this is the last death on his watch, the faster the bodycount ticks up. If it had been a headshot, Walt could've made it look like a suicide. I mean, dude had just lost $5M aft losing $2M and was facing the DEA giving him a full rectal. Jesse wouldn't have bought it, but.... It's just kind of sad and a foreshadow to Walt's own end, I think. Here was a guy who went into it all for the $ and provide a boatload of cash to his granddaughter. But it just never works that way. Something always happens --- no matter HOW careful or badass you are --- and it just takes ONE f-----up for all the dominos to fall. The only way you truly "get out" of the business is to throw out everything you've ever touched and walk away, or you die. A while it may pain some people here to admit it, in that, Skyler is right.

When my father went for an initial visit to a doctor ~30 years ago now... the patient before him was being escorted out of the exam room by the doctor by the belt and back of his shirt. The doctor said, 'I told you to quit smoking. You don't want to listen to me and do what I say, then get the [eff] out and the next time I see you, it'll be at your funeral. And it'll be soon!" And then he threw the patient file at the guy. Literally. Paper went everywhere. Some people would probably be offput. My father loved this approach. He was our family doc until he died of ... either stomach or brain cancer.

The phrase is actually irresistible force versus immovable object... but I'm going to have to give in to your mash-up in this instance. Ted Washington was a freak of nature on the field. Would eat two or three OL-men every play. Those #1 defenses were only possible because of what having him allowed Wade's scheme to do. Gotta say that I'm looking forward to when the games start to count and everyone's going 100%. If this current DL can be half as good as it looks on paper.... Different animal from Ted, and basically we're getting two guys to tie up 3 or 4 OL and hoping the DEs can scoop in/around fast enough to clean up.

It's astonishing how many people, even here, believe that the police should be able to prevent crime before it happens. By and large, they're there after the fact as the first step of our "justice" system, and to file reports that insurance companies use.