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Maybe go out on the deck and scream "Let's go Buffalo!!!! WOOOOOO!!!" But otherwise, I'd act like I've been there before.

The perfect summation of the president's mindset.

As I understood it, Mike was calling to confirm whether they'd searched and seized yet. He was pretending to be a postal regulator and inquiring about a postage meter that was ostensibly in Gus's office at Pollos Hermanos, where the laptop was. He got confirmation that APD did have a meter, so they know the office has been searched and the laptop is sure to have been taken into evidence. It was also a mechanism of finding out which law enforcement agency had possession of it. If they followed up... well... do you really think a government desk jockey is going to be that curious and actually show that kind of initiative that means they have to do more work? That would be a first, to my recollection. Even if they did call back, could also easily chalk it up to being a wrong number, etc. and that's the end of that.

I would add that the first few years of Two and a Half Men before it became a kind of meme of itself. Jon Cryer is an excellent straight-man with the physical comedy. Another that I just thought of is Ed --- the bowling alley lawyer --- that starred Tom Cavanaugh and Julie Bowen. It wasn't everyone's cup of tea, but I have to admit I enjoyed its quirkiness.

The Olympics are ostensibly about each country collecting the best of its country and showcasing their own. I suppose you can chalk this up as akin to the IOC loosening standards of citizenship of the athletes, say, from the US being allowed to compete for another country because their grandparents were born there. There was a girl I went to high school with who played for Greece in the Athens games under these terms. I get that it happens. But that doesn't mean people have to like it. And again, a number of people who have a hand in supporting the US team don't like the symbolism of this. I wasn't under the impression of anyone/very many advocating burning them at this point. That's highly impractical, if not impossible to re-purpose with less than a week until the opening ceremonies. And as much as I'm upset about it (and at how much we import crappy wares and counterfeit materials from China in general), burning them might be quite offensive to the Chinese. The overriding opinions seem to be to wear them for this games b/c the news broke way too late to do anything feasible, but for there to be rules in place for these to be made in the USA for all future Olympics.

Surprised no one has mentioned it. Frasier. What, it didn't win enough Emmys? It was many times better than it's offshoot source. Ten years ago this would've been sacrilege, but Seinfeld has NOT aged well. Not at all. M*A*S*H is eminently watchable still. A few people thought they were bigger than the show, but Alan Alda's Hawkeye made it what it was. He was a perfect match for that kind of character. I loved the British series Yes, Minister / Yes, Prime Minister. Comedy gold. I was a little young to get everything, but I remember Night Court pretty fondly. The reverse of Seinfeld, I think The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air has aged well, for what it was.

The safety and legal implications inherent in that sentence are just... wow. I get that you and others think it's fairly innocuous, but Rx drugs like class-2 narcotics shouldn't be given out by non-professionals like candy, even to someone who rationally might have use for them. You don't give Rxs to anyone who isn't named on the bottle. Also, I believe there are old/expired/unused medication collection efforts every now and then to try to keep these substances out of the water system. You might look online or call your local health dept.

Well, it always was e.g. the dinner with Hank where Walt started drinking and flapping his gums. He thinks he's so much smarter than everyone. As Walt Jr. says that "Uncle Hank was just toying with [Gus Fring] the whole time" the coming build-up and face-off between them is going to get good. Advantage Hank, tho. Walt at this point is believing his own bullstevestojan. I just wonder when the intro scene will be picking up. I'm not sure it's going to be this mini-season, even. But it looks like Walt's cancer is back in it.

They think they can save their seats if they say this and don't go to the Democrat convention next month. They think they can change their constituents' impressions of them bu distancing themselves from Obama. What they can't change is their voting records and party affiliations that give the Democrats control of the Senate Rules, which means that whatever Harry and Obama don't like, they push to the side. Not to mention that it'll just remain for the Senate to ratify the UN Arms ban treaty that would underminethe Second Amendment, which is all being discussed very quietly --- or at least the MSM here isn't going to say Boo until it's right on top of us --- on the Old Continent.

Fixed.

Agree with a lot of the points made. Liked the realistic feel that departs from the campy-ness of the earlier series and from every pre-Batman Begins superhero movie. It's going to be very hard for anything of this genre to go back to the way things were before. Nolan's touch took it to a higher level, similar to how Burton's Batman at the time seemed like such a fresh departure from the Adam West teevee series. It was accomplished, by going back to the best of the source material comics, which was a lot darker than studios had dared to go. Similarly, TAS got much more serious. Sage, WRT the part about how to breathe new life into a series that's still fresh in the mind, I was thinking about the Tobey McGuire / Andrew Garfield comparison kind of like Noomi Rapace / Rooney Mara for the "The Girl..." series. Only there, the remake was.... how do you say.... not as good. Rapace really defined that role and provided the template that Ms. Mara took to an Oscar nod. Here we kind of have the opposite situation, as I saw it. My only quibble was the whole Dickens-like too-intricately-weaved sortline of Gwen being an advanced intern slash docent slash scientist at Oscorp. I can understand why they wrote it that way for the sake of condensing the plot. It stretched the imagination with how many things they had her involved in --- much like reading about super-accomplished kids in the paper it leaves you a little exhausted just listening to it all. Minor kvetch. Mark, I enjoyed the teenage attitude the writers and Garfield brought to it as well. I hope they portray JJJ the way he ought to be as well. The Raimi series had Peter Parker as if he came out of the womb at 40 years old and made JJJ into such a stupid caricature. Bring on Batman!

Sure, the pols can STFU about their personal feelings unless they donated. But when dealing with a widespread fraud, it often falls on elected representatives to speak for their constituents. It is what it is. The important thing is that a LOT of people who donated to the USOC --- who tend to be red-meat Americans --- have become very upset about this news. They trusted the organization they gave to, to represent their ideals. It's not that they blame the sport they support or the athletes, who had nothing to do with the decision. But it still makes them less likely to donate or to donate as much in the future. USOC is doing and has to do major damage control here to keep that private funding coming in. My family has donated for a long time to the target shooting sports through the NRA. It's not a huge amount, but it's not nothing and it's part of a collective effort. It's something we support because we want it to remain competitive and to promote the sport. My father read that in the news and the look on his face was a little deflated. It would be like Rockpile raising money for MS, and then discovering that the charity he walks for every year spent most of it properly, but then to discover that 10% of it went to hookers and blow.

Because encouraging filling out a census form doesn't involve saying, 'Hey, you. Yeah, you. Over there. All y'all can sidle right up here and get free money! Does it matter if you have a good diet already and this will practically force you into the over-adulterated food cycle so you can join the rest of America in being obese? Hell no. Sign up for continual benefits so you can spend your other money on DVDs, beer, and porn! Good thing you're listening to soap operas in the middle of the day rather than working, huh?!!?'

Was he in the military? No. Why are you bringing the military into this? Plenty of people off themselves who have nothing to do with the military. And plenty of people in the military who do off themselves for reasons not directly connected to the war. The suicide rate has increased in all sectors. The crappy economy has much more to do with this rise than the fact that there's an ongoing war. The rate has traditionally spiked in bad economies and declined in prosperity. Stress is up all over --- money/taxes, relationships and the breakdown of the family unit, religious institutions that has lost moral authority as more people see what's really going on, there's more anger brewing just beneath the surface of everybody today than I've ever seen. Combine that with the sad state of actual communication in a world where everyone is talking at each other and no one is listening. It's very easy to feel alienated and alone / not good enough / have no hope these days. Was this suicide, was it leaning toward accidental as we've seen so much of in the past several years with the abuse / oversuse / mixing of Rx medications? That'll be determined.

Dude, like three out of the five are under age 16. One of them is 14.

A lesbian trapped in a man's body, perhaps. I became one of these when I saw the Adrianne Palicki - Emmanuelle Chiriqui striptease dream sequence in Elektra Luxx.

FYI: It is only for DISH customers. But it's very cool that AMC is doing this for the fans. Link

At this point, he's not even trying to disguise it.

I'm thinking it's either Portman to help with a crucial Ohio, or my personal favorite current guv, Susanna Martinez, even tho in the media she's sworn off any hope or desire to be veep (those things are always subject to change if / when the nominee calls). Highly doubt Condi. I don't think Romney wants such a direct connection as that. I'm not sure he really needs a veep to lend foreign policy cred... just one that has a history of talk AND action re: certain of the red-meat issues. To wit, Romney has a Europe jaunt scheduled for later this month to flex the FP muscles. Not sure this would be necessary if he were planning on running with Condi. Important for him to have these introductions and re-introductions, no doubt tho, to show and remind Americans that it's not just Obama who can speak with other countries. (And gosh, would be nice after four years to not have a leader apologizing, bowing and kissing *).

I saw on BB's Facebook page that with the DISHNetwork satellite service and AMC negotiations broken down, the channel is doing a livestream of the episode on their website on Sunday night.

To clarify, the role of conner is being filled by conner. Just... under the latest moniker of "fjl2nd." Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

That's different!!!

AJ, I don't get where you're hating on Federer for the post-match comments. The interviewer asked him WRT the Slam titles and regaining #1. It did not come from out of the blue. She asked him. And even if she hadn't, I think he's well within rights to say that he was proud of these accomplishments. I'm not a fan of his, but you've got to respect that Roger worked his ing ass off playing tourneys everywhere to get back #1 when a guy his age would normally be taking it slower and resting b/w majors. If there was anything, I think Murray put a little dig about Federer's age, and Federer said that Murray would "probably win at least one" major. That was a little backhanded, I thought. It would've been a nice bone to throw to the Brit crowd and a Murray who was very emotional to say something like 'I really hope Andy can finally deliver a home win for you. I think he has an excellent chance to. Just... not as long as it's me he's playing against for it.' (The last part would have to be delivered right, with obvious good spirits). I think that would have gone over with a crowd amd a player that was very disappointed having waited so long for this chance. Anyway, I'm not going to hate on him. RF became the first father to win a major in a very long time (or is it, ever? I forget). Thirty years old in a sport that's very unforgiving when the next gen of younger, faster and stronger comes up all too quickly. And I'm not sure how you could look at those twin girls and hate on him. That kinda melted my heart a little bit. What will be his legacy? Will he be considered the best ever? I don't know. If he can play a few more years and deliver some more against the likes of Djokovich and Nadal, yes. That'll be very difficult, tho. How do you determine eras in a sport with turnover like this? I think it's more of an overlapping Venn-diagram-like thing more than lineal determination. RF and Nadal will be two of the best ever who've kind of had a draw in the time that they've competed against each other. Nadal will have a lot to do post-Roger to draw even. Just my $0.02.

Try filehippo.com. I've been having lots of crashing with the lastest 11.3. I'll live with it until the next update, I guess. Should come along soon enough. A quick primer for those using Firefox... Link.

Seems so. People (read: Independents who haven't made up their minds) don't really start paying attention until the kids go back to school. Until that time, until the debates, until the calenders flip to November and people have to look themselves in the mirror and ask whether they really want to re-elect a profligate spender who is in over his head on how to get the economy moving again.