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That was really stevestojanny what they were saying to Christina and how they were acting in not giving her room in the sleeping area. Really... telling someone they should just jump in the fire? Colton got a taste of his own advice shortly after. Instant Karma, B word! Colton was shouting and calling Christina a "stupid B word" for "not running" back to the group during the reward challenge. 1) !@#$ him. She may not have been in a full sprint, but she sure wasn't strolling. 2) His bellyaching (apt phrase) that she wasn't doing enough there holds little water seeing that Colton himself was !@#$ing useless. Tarzan was the only one showing any skill, and he was going up and down the stack of boxes like he was 90. If anyone was allowed to say anything about someone not giving their all, it would be him, not a dude who threw the coconut into the wood liner or got ~ 3 feet of bounce on his best throw. But even then, it was Christina who was there offering comfort to Colton and going to check up on him in the trees, while strategy was the first and only thing of concern for everyone else. Maybe now Jonas will be forced to grow a pair and it's nice to see Leif get basically a clean slate. Again, Colton shows his selfishness by keeping the idol as a souvenir. What a POS. I'm sure potential employers will be thrilled with his attitude of "If I don't like you, I'm not going to talk to you." This queen was so busy playing for after the merge that he didn't get that you have to have numbers post-merge and one idol will not necessarily save your ass. That said, is this not a very early merge? I think they saw the men-women thing wasn't working, mixed it up bit with the buff-down, and now that it's tied 6-6 again, they took this opportunity to bring the M-W thing back into play. I hate that Alicia might actually stick around in a woman alliance now. She is simply a disgusting human being. Nice Kim-Chelsea alliance after her idol find. Hot girls 'til the end, please!

I'll see that "in power" and raise you an "alive." Because at this point, two to three days after we're out of there, Karzai gets slowly beheaded with a dull machete. Which, with his attitude (particularly after the OBL raid when he said that if the U.S. and Pakistan went to war, he'd side with Pakistan), I am actually in favor of. When his head is being placed next to his belly, ask him who the demons are. But be quick about it. And what with not having a windpipe, have him blink once for one option, and twice for another.

How's that going to work? Unless they work on rotating shifts, the only thing that would matter is the top job. As it was famously described by someone in the office, the vice presidency isn't worth a bucket of warm stevestojan. Frankly, if you're relying on the people of the Internet to get a good choice, you are sadly mistaken. Have you read commentary under stories lately? I want to force these people to actually leave their beds/mother's basement before they get to vote. The two-party system pretty much sucks, and I've gotta say that splitting the difference won't make a difference. There needs to be different ideas, not just another re-combination of the same crap.

Buffett millionaires' tax would raise $31 billion over 10 years Even if "the rich" were taxed at 100% it wouldn't put a dent in the annual budget deficit, nevermind put anything toward the national debt. But still, it's just, "SOAK THE RICH!!!" from the left.

There is now video of a 2004 fundraiser event that shows Mr. Hanks onstage with a man in blackface, a stuffed gorilla being auctioned, and making some really crass jokes. Some groups are now demanding that this Obama campaign video be re-dubbed with another narrator. Tom Hanks, Glenn Frey in 2004: Blackface, Race Jokes at Fundraising Auction Wow. I can see the (lame) attempts at political/pundit humor, but some of this stuff crosses the line. All I can say is this isn't quite a Tom Cruise level of meltdown, but there's a reason why entertainers should be very careful about what they do and say WRT politics and weighty issues. Very easy to get caught up in something and then you've just pissed off ~30-35% of your possible viewers. I've always seen Hanks as a good actor, but after all this I've gotta say that I am seriously disinclined to pay to see any of his projects.

If you think the GOP base will just lie down for a dude who'll possibly nominate 2 more Sonia Sotomayor clones, will have little to stop him from instituting any and all gun restrictions he can, and has seriously overestimated the strength of this "recovery" (99ers falling off the roles is not recovery), you're off your head. I think many people at this point would be eager to vote for a business-savvy automaton, if that's what the left is intent on categorizing Romney as. Because compared to wanna-be 'Al Green Night' American Idol contestant who wants the government to pick up the check for everything for everybody....

WSJ | Alan Blinder: The U.S. Cruises Toward a 2013 Fiscal Cliff : As tax cuts expire and spending falls, the economy will be hit with a 3.5% decline in gross domestic demand ----- And just to note: a lot of governments have thought the the Laffer Curve doesn't apply to them. And then they got a rude awakening.

It was revealed on the news this weekend that among the plans in Osama bin Laden's compound room were an assassination of Obama. OBL's logic: Link The man may have been a hateful murderer, but he wasn't entirely stupid.

Because those studies about how to get Chinese prostitutes (in China) to drink alcohol responsibly... and literally countless other items/programs/unnecessaries. That's seriously important stevestojan that our federal government has to increase taxes to pay for, and which shouldn't be cut first.

These things really keep me from getting into soccer any more than rabidly watching the World Cup. When you've got like 10 "championship" games a season, what the hell does it mean? What is the importance? Why call things "championships" when it's not the end game? I mean, with the Super Bowl, that's it. You win it or you don't. Now, I get the MLS; there's a season, a playoffs, and there's a championship. It's self-contained. What happens in Europe with different schedules being played simultaneously (and with "friendlies" and nationals mixed in for EXTRA confusion) is like Calvinball. The closest correlation we have, I guess, is college football. And there's a reason why the vast majority of people want it to become a standardized playoff rather than the mish-mosh of agreements of the Big-10 #4 vs. SEC #6 and the free-for-all "invitations" and all that. We just want it fairer and simplified a bit, is all. And, AJ, just as a note... Before you go into an explanation of the different levels and all that, it's probably not worth your time, bro.

For mine, the runner-up was Parker (as in, Nosy Parker). Once when I was younger and we got a brother-sister German shorthaired pointers, my dad joked that he was going to call them Spot and Stain. Then, when he called out to them, he could bellow "Come spot, come stain!"

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This would be the place to ask! Oh. Wait. You mean the workout regimen?

There was a story in the Hartford Courant today that the state DEEP reported 7 dogs were killed in February by coyotes. It's a growing problem, and as jboy wrote, they have no natural predators. They are also not native to the northeast. So yes, the numbers of both need to be culled. (I'd add Canada geese to that category, too.)

Well, devoting an entire hour to the retraction for what was a 39-minute piece is MUCH more than one can say for so many other outfits that print/air material that is inaccurate or outright false. Case in point: the 1% tip story on the restaurant bill with 'Get a real job' written on it. Three days later, the restaurant confirmed that it was a fake bill and that this didn't happen. It was a story fabricated by the "Occupy Movement" run without any names, interviews or corroboration... that any credible news organization shouldn't have run, and wouldn't have run if it were many other topics. But tellingly about the state of the media, so many did. And then, by the time it was revealed to be a hoax, there was nary a correction to be seen. And so, PR / operations hacks are further bolstered that they can inflict their message with that initial item, almost without consequence because that first piece is what people will remember. As Mark Twain wrote, "A lie can travel halfway 'round the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." Have to give TAL some credit for bending over backwards to provide a correction and not remaining quiet that they were duped, as far too many outlets will do these days.

Yeah, this is kind of like a loss leader for them. And even then, it's not that big a one because these things probably cost $15-20 to make, tops. And then they get people in the habit of using and buying on i-tunes.

Hit it right on the nail on a lot of your points. I think a lot of women could see the Limbaugh-Fluke spat for what it was (hypocrites) when the left refused to equally denounce Maher. As such, the only polling I've seen is that Obama and generic Democrats have ticked back several points since that time. It obviously didn't have the impact they thought it might. On Martinez, I absolutely love what she's done in New Mexico not backing down on issues re: fair re-districting (She and NM Repubs agreed with a plan that a Democrat-appointed federal judge proposed, but which was blocked by the NM Supremes), passing a law denying illegal immigrants drivers licenses, turning around the NM budget and line-item-vetoing earmarks from both sides, bi-partisanship on numerous issues, tax reductions.... I consider her a lot like Palin, only with tact, a lot more brains, and experience in actually getting things done rather than grandstanding or quitting when the going gets tough. The only thing where she might have trouble is that she was a registered Democrat until 1995. I don't know what her particular beliefs were that caused this, but perhaps most importantly she is Catholic and pro-life. The social stances from the 2010 race are very mainstream Republican. I'm not sure if it was a thing of when she was younger that 'Oh, I'm Latino, so I should be a Dem' until when she got involved in politics (she was a DA prior). Now, I'm one who's of the mind that like a lost sheep, some of the strongest adherents are people who've seen the workings of the other side and come to believe by looking at the facts/searching their hearts that what they were hearing there just wasn't right. But for some in the GOP who demand absolute purity, that detail might not be looked at kindly. (There was some mention of it WRT Perry being a Dem until '88.) Especially with Romney's situation, she might be the best pick from a hypothetical 'She'd be a good VP and attract Latinos and maybe help win NM' but she not be the best pick. Then again, if Romney's aim is to go after Independents in the general and rely on the hardcore base to show up in good numbers because they're willing to hold their noses and they primarily want Obama out, then I think it could definitely work.

IIRC, an arm of one of the players was copied and pasted onto another player's. I don't remember where/who it was in the picture. Might've been an issue of an errant 'bird' or a tat or something.

Monica is married to Daunte Culpepper. And yikes. That's a horrible 41, even with her fakes. Watching huge-forehead dude pick up Leif last night during the immunity challenge and just midget-toss him was . But hey, Probst said everything was legal. Christina was like at the vote. I would've voted off Tarzan just to get rid of having to see his grapefruit-sized prostate while he was in the water. Jesus, why didn't they digitally scramble that??? Still don't quite get Colton's strategy. Once he hits the merge and has to use the idol, the next vote, he's gone.

Well, they already have the 15-yard "Touching the Brady" penalty.

If Romney were anything other than Mormon, he would've wrapped this thing up back in Iowa. He would've won in '08. The South wants an evangelical Minister-in-Chief more than they want a president. Nothing new about that. Like Alan Alda said as Republican nominee Arnold Vinick in the West Wing, "From now until the end of the campaign, ask me anything you want about government. But if you want to talk about religion, please go to church." Many other people in other areas of the country really don't give a wit because first and foremost, we need someone who's going to lead the military/foreign policy, get out of the way of the economy and get the deficit & debt into check. I don't think it really matters how long the nomination goes. The rest of the country that isn't insistent on having the Ten Commandments as the only laws on the books will have the ultimate say and it will be Romney. Obama's goose is already cooked, and it'll be burnt once we have $5 gas this summer (and an accompanying jobs slide due to the rising costs of doing business) because of historic Democrat no-drill and now no-pipeline policies. We're not going to have green-tech tomorrow, next year, five years from now but this president wants to price things as if there is an alternative.

He lost states he was expected to lose. And yet, on the night, he was competitive with the Southern candidate and still picked up [on edit: MORE] delegates [than] Sweater Vest. He can run the race out an alienate a lot of Repubs from the GOP notion that the previous round's runner-up becomes the favored candidate next time, as Reagan did in '76 and as Romney did after Super Tuesday in '08 rather than fight to the bitter end. What Santorum is trying to accomplish is to get Romney to lose so Sweater Vest can run in 2016 against a clean slate (assuming Biden won't run, because he'll be... how old?... and he'll still be Joe Biden). What Santorum's doing is not what's good for the party and he would happily put Obama in office for the next four years for his own purposes. Once we get to the 24 April primaries, it'll likely be done. And if not, June 5th will put the final nail in Santorum's coffin and thoroughly f--- over any chance he has at a future in the party if he takes it that far.

Wash. Examiner link I'd say it, but, really... who's fooled by "Whoops!"?

Well, they'd better sign someone of consequence. After the collapse last season combined with the results of the last 12, it's going to take a lot more than freezing ticket prices to put asses in the seats. As I've written before, I'll start caring about this team and buying merch again once I get an indication that someone at OBD actually gives a crap beyond skimping so the owner can pocket the extra $30M.

Nevermind that half of those were Iraq. ...lybob is under the impression that during war, everything is supposed to go smoothly. Those were military mistakes in identification of targets from the NATO forces. All evidence says this appears to be a case of an outright murder spree by someone who just lost it. But, you know, they haven't responded in 3 days now. After the accidental Quran burning, Afghan soldiers turned their guns on Americans who were working with them. Obama formally apologized for that but none such here. So it begs the question... do they actually revere pieces of paper more than human life?