UConn James

I can't speak for BFBF, but for me, it's the word "LESBIAN" that's stamped across her forehead. Not that there's anything wrong with that. (And I really mean that.)

The ref's name is Shannon Eastin. And this already has a thread.

Oh, right. Rebeka(? She uses a weird spelling) Brooks. Then again she's not hot. And I think she may be in jail. Both of those facts probably wouldn't be enough to scare off Pooj, tho.

Oh, and Poojer, was it Karen Gillan or Rose Leslie? That's pretty much my knowledge of British isle redheads....

Holy moly!!

From the step forward they took with re-design last year, that took it a step back. The collars look like stevestojan. Nike can think they're an avante-garde but time and time again has proved they're not. 'Oh, the wide collar will be mostly hidden once the uniforms are on the field,' they said. I'm going to live with the mentality that it's a tribute to Kent Hull's neck-roll. If I were to get a jersey now, it would be a throwback.

From Sage's write-up: It would be at this point that, if I were Walt, I would have said something like... You've now shown that you have a propensity toward a suicidal state with rock-solid witness Hank. with me and I will end you with a few dozen sleeping pills. I come home from the car-wash and... Oh my... you're dead on the couch. with me just once. Walt's problem here is his sentimentality in the face of this threat and that he's still trying to play out that he's doing all of this for his family and the $ and that everything can be hidden/lied about/explained/rationalized and on the outside, at least, be the same as it ever was. But yeah, points of parallel with the pilot. Among them are Walt's and now Skyler's naivete on how the game of chess is played. Her level of scheming is right up there with "fugue state." One thing I don't get is... what is Walt's cover now for where he is all the time? Count me as another who's a little disappointed so far. I seriously hope it gets better than covering the last tracks from the Fring operation, tinkering with a new meth set-up, a weak-streamed pissing match between Walt and Mike, and dealing with a stupid/psycho wife.

When 1,099 felons vote in race won by 312 ballots

And if justice actually were served, this POS would have been permanetnly off the streets after the first rape. Sex offenders do not rehabilitate.

Who should he pick? Gov. Susanna Martinez from NM. She was on the record early this year that she will absolutely not accept a VP nod no matter who is the nominee. Sucks, b/c I really think she makes a great executive in terms of actually getting things done where there is agreement, working with anyone who shows up, but not abandoning her positions to do it. She will be speaking at the GOP convention. I hope it's a springboard for national politics in her future, as it's been for others. She will be a great voice for the party whenever she decides it's time. Who will he pick? My thought was on Portman up until yesterday, just based on electoral college reasoning and what I've seen. And then McDonnell came out with a hell of an op-ed on the White House's changes to welfare that gut the work requirement and provide another pipeline for public dollars to go to Obama's core constituency where they don't have to lift a finger. So the question becomes partly Ohio or Virgina? Then it becomes who's going to bring the baseball bat when it's time to go behind the woodshed? I dunno. Either one or even another candidate might do fine. But I like that McDonnell is showing some chops and is not afraid to lay it on in the national media already.

Kinda sucks that after the brilliant 2001 and 2010 were done, nobody's touched these other works for film. Tgreg? C'mon!!! Tom Hanks wanted it all those years ago... and with what they can do now, these could be pretty awesome given the right treatment.

I believe he's refering to the NYT's machinations. Link Altho, seeing that they weight their own/CBS and PPP with the highest regard and discount Purple Strategies and a Rasmussen that IIRC hit it all along in the Wisconsin recall and in most of the primary voting states... this tells me that they think their own stevestojan doesn't stink. One thing they do have right is Ohio being perhaps the most important state in this election. Which makes Romney's selection of Rob Portman very likely both from a standpoint of getting the best person for a running mate and lending some help in the electoral college, given that Portman won there with ~60%. Whether it can boost the numbers is one thing. The VP announcement is when an opposition candidates' campaign really starts. Romney hasn't spent terribly much yet considering his challenger position and Obama has blown a wad.

Four weeks after getting bounced by Federer in the Wimbeldon final, Murray trounces King Roger in straight sets: 6-2 6-1 6-4. Link Wow. If it were up to you, which would you rather have? A Wimbeldon title or an Olympic gold? (Disregarding the money... or then again, what the hell, if it's because the money, say so.)

Where are the protests? Where is Al Sharpton? (Oh, that's right. Making $ by squaking gibberish on MSNBC.) JUSTICE FOR GABBY!!!!!

Yeah, that's what was on the schedule and that's what Costas said it would be on last night. The men's final --- a re-match of the Wimbeldon final of Federer-Murray --- is tomorrow at 9 a.m. eastern on NBC broadcast. Doesn't look like the women's final was worth watching anyway: 6-0 6-1.

It's really hard for me to get interested and watch events where the winner isn't determined by clear goals, electronically / photo- or videographically proved times or finish-place. Add humanity to the judgement mix and watch everything go to stevestojan, either by corruption or incompetence. In diving, for example, when you see a score of 6.5 next to a score of 9.5... something's wrong with the human system. And my unease isn't mollified by "throwing out" the two highest and two lowest scores --- that's just an admission from the IOC that judges' scores are either corrupt or incompetent. What I don't get is... they have computer programs that analyze each movement, the arcs, can measure feet coming apart, etc. In international sport, money talks even easier than in league sports around the world because it adds a whole new dimension to the corruption. Vote-buying scandals for host-nation committees, kickbacks, referee-bribery are rife. To go along with the general corruption in European society, FIFA is among the worst.

Tom Brady is the legend, Marv and NC are the greta fellas and I'm the homo. Wait....

Not just that, EII also thinks that Congress has/should have the right to publicly release those tax returns without permission. (I'm assuming that by "to that person's prospective employer" EII means the American voters.) Wow. Just.... Wow. Romney's reason.... it just brings on more "But... but... but... Don't vote for him! He's RICH!!! When he was a CEO, he earned money!!! And then, he had it paid to him in such a way that he didn't have to pay as much tax. EVILLLLLL!!" Truth be told, from the top of my head, I can name a string ing BASEBALL PLAYERS who made more money in ONE contract (not including endorsements or anything else) than Romney did in 20 years in business.

Merci beaucoup. ... and to Mr. Marv Levy! What's he, approaching 90 now? (Tom Brady, too. But she gets no well-wishes from me.)

Looks like someone didn't know enough to call Winston Wolfe.

Chan went to the pass at some very inopportune situations last season. Like 3rd/4th-and-1 situations. I don't get why you do that with the kind of backfield we had/have. It's nice to hear that there's some emphasis on the run here in camp, but I still need to see that Chan gets this during the season rather than getting caught up in using the WRs so damn much.

I did a couple of weeks ago. Wow, that was terrible. On every level.

~30 seconds in... a probably unintentional/non-double-entendre Slavic-accented "New balls, please!" Yeah, that's what I'd be saying too.

As in the South Park meme, a 350-pound Sally Strothers making the case for these kids just smacked you in the face. Either that, or the reality that a % of donations went to feed/support militaries or gets sold on the black market and goes into pockets, at which point that donated food simply crowds out whatever local food production there is by being able to undercut its price. It seems like this has gotten less of a problem with more recent efforts e.g. micro-lending, but no doubt that it still happens. We live in the land of plenty where 60%+ of the population is now overweight or obese (and yet, we've got hunger in our own backyard). We don't need all the food we eat; we could do with shipping it overseas... but why should this be done for free? Another point is our inherent food production failures --- there are a good number of obese kids that are, by definition, undernourished. Should we really be fobbing a foreign carbohydrate/HFCS/junk diet on people? Does that help them? As to the second point, it is now simply called "The Children's Fund." That name-change rubbed me the wrong way tho, as if they need to hide the fact that they're doing this as a tenet of their beliefs. I guess it has to do with perceptions in certain parts of the world and even here, as you give question to. Just seems stupid that they have to change the label and defeat part of the original purpose, which was to show that 'Hey, I'm a Christian and you're a Muslim. That doesn't matter. I want to help you. Accepting that help doesn't mean you need to adopt my beliefs. I just hope that you'll respect them, and don't want/try to kill me just because we believe in different ghost stories religions.' I guess with all the foreign apology tours of the last four years, that this way of conducting oneself in the world just went out vogue. (Sorry, that's the only light political comment I'm going to make.)

True. The above was looking at it from a lower-power magnification / macrocosm / one-generation-blends-into-another. Animals are completely wanton; People have some degree of free will. Should we/others have to enable a people into complacency or is it 'better' for them to make their own choices and, to quote Goethe, be forced to "sweep their own doorstep"?