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No doubt. And I mean... no doubt.
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Gas prices up 83% under obama
UConn James replied to erynthered's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Haven't seen all those live "news" reports from gas pumps of people complaining tho, have you? Hmm. I wonder why? -
My 4-year-old niece eats little beyond mac&cheese, plain spaghetti with butter and parmesean, rice, corn, bread, yogurt, soy milk, and Jello. Sometimes she'll have bacon or ham if she's here. Doesn't eat anything that she doesn't like the look of and if it has flecks of parsley, pepper, whatever. Now, I think this has been wrought in large part because my brother's ex is a neurotic herself that can't be bothered to spend more than 10 minutes making a meal. But that's neither here nor there. Trying to instill adult eating habits on kids is a complete waste of time and $. They'll eat when they're hungry and they will try different things as they grow up (or, "grow older" for those people who fail to grow up) and discern their likes and dislikes in their own time. Forcing kids to eat and attempting to beat them over the head with rigid guidelines will only cement bad habits in an "I'll teach them!" kind of way.
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HBD to Jim Kelly & lighting a candle for Hunter.
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Since this is where the discussion of the contraception/insurance stuff is.... After ires have cooled a little bit, this would seem to be an important read by Andrew Sullivan, who thinks Obama is being dumb like a fox on the issue. How Obama Set a Contraception Trap for the Right And given the numbers he's citing, it probably was smart for Romney to not dive into it, other than to say that the White House's plan as originally crafted was stupid and obviously against the 1st Amendment. The "compromise" --- other than a financial focus of fairness/splitting-hairs-of-'direct'-vs.-'indirect'-coverage discussion WRT insurers being made to eat the cost of these services --- would seem to be where the majority of the country, and even the large majority of lay-Catholics are on the issue. The numbers are saying this move does appear to win approval among women and among indies. Not for nothing that Obama can so often appear to step in stevestojan and have it come out smelling like roses. This issue was presented by them, tactically, so Obama could offer the "compromise" and pick up some brownie points with groups he needs to win. That, and any time spent on this is time not being spent on Obama's biggest weakness --- the economy and the budget/debt.
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One party has members who use the phrase "Cut, Cap & Balance" a lot. This is one of Romney's major talking points, for those people too lazy to check out what he actually says and just figures 'Hey, he was governor of Massachusetts, so he must be a tax-and-spender.' And hey, they may not get it done. There's a lot of special interests that will beg, steal or borrow to get their crack fix. But they're the one major party who's at least saying there is a debt problem and X is what needs to be done about it, rather than wanting to put $1.2T more on the gov't credit card limit like Obama and the Democrats.
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Ahhh.... Crayonz, reelin' 'em in!
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Excuse those of us who don't think we ought to fete either of these people as role models. Excuse us if we comment how much of a waste she made of her life and squandered her talent via drugs.
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Yup. I hope he's up to it. The priorities in the next few years are likely going to be getting the academics back up to par, building a basketball practice facility on campus next to Gampel (where the old football field is), and probably finding a successor to Calhoun. (Altho I fully expect JC to coach at least another year, and if they're tourney-ineligible in 2013 then two more years; no way will he go out on a note like this. He's too proud, too Irish.) Anyway, Manuel's pedigree seems good. Anyone have anecdotes or anything to share?
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Hmm. I usually disrespectfully disagree with ...lybob.
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FW: [FW: e-mail:] The girl with the biggest...
UConn James replied to \GoBillsInDallas/'s topic in Off the Wall Archives
And that's not even the biggest douchebag statement that Mr. Collins made in the article. He took the opportunity to say that this is what you get with Republicans heading government. Because Democrats, Independents, Greens, Communists and Lyndon Larouche followers haven't ever made crass jokes or worse. -
Just like Michael Jackson, I get the sense that the proper mourning should be for what was lost a long time ago and what could have been, given their talent, but for a divergence down the wrong path(s). Rx abuse (sad to say, Dr. Feelgood is the state of the medical profession), illicit drugs, suicide, "natural causes" --- whatever it turns out to be it will be connected with the ravages of drug use. The tragedy in WH's life was the day she met Bobby Brown. Yesterday was just the final note of a dirge that started playing 20 years ago.
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The Official Mitt Romney thread
UConn James replied to Dave_In_Norfolk's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Specifically, Dave in Nor-ᵮ˅¢ƙ wants me to wipe his ass. Really, I'm flattered. I am. But A) I'm just not into that kind of thing and 2) Dave's boyfriend might get bent out of shape. I'm 96% sure he thinks there should be a Bureau of Ass-Wiping added to Health & Human Services available to provide free services and toilet paper for those earning up to 200% of the poverty level. -
Liberal Hypocrisy on Obama Vs Bush - Poll
UConn James replied to ....lybob's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
The naivete of Candidate Obama was galling. And I have no confidence that he's learned enough about reality to do much else than pray our military is competent enough to guide his hand. As for providing policy direction, what we have is an Afghanistan surge that he took longer to decide on a course and an arbitrary number of troops (a number that turned out to not be what brass said was needed to be effective) than letting the surge do its work before announcing that we'd be drawing it down. The failure of the Supercommittee showed he (as with all Democrats) sees the major way to more closely balance the budget in the short term and debt in the long term is by dismantling the military and screwing over our veterans. -
Other than the 'Halloween Surprise' storm that decimated oak branches and knocked out our power for 9 days, I cannot complain about the winter here in CT so far. Certainly not after last year.
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Age doesn't have much to do with it. When a person does heavy drugs like that for so long.... Official COD may not be drugs, but without a doubt, they played a big part b/c they just ravage your body.
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My alma mater has gone from champs to chumps, but they were down by 2 late... and then Cuse hit those two straight treys --- done.
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Ralph's opinion on the matter doesn't seem to have changed in 40 years. If he could black out every game, I'm about 89% sure he would do it. 'Let's put our sports entertainment product under a ing rock!' I don't get it.
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Well they did a 40* turn. Is that enough? This "compromise" of forcing insurers to take a $ hit on providing abortifacients to employees of religious institutions isn't a compromise. It's backhandedly forcing the institution to do something that violates its teachings, rather than forcing them to directly provide them. What's the real difference? Employees are still getting free services to prevent or destroy pregnancy, the insurers are getting that $ from somewhere (are Catholics' policy rates going to decrease? I hardly think so!), and this just smacks of a smoke and mirrors pre-election move. To say nothing of HHS Sec'y Sebilius's guidelines for what constitutes a religious institution. Which would seem to preclude Catholic charities. Per Krauthammer:
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The Saturday Essay : Foreign-policy pundits increasingly argue that democracy and free markets could thrive without U.S. predominance. If this sounds too good to be true, writes Robert Kagan, that's because it is. Some macrocosmic soup for everyone to enjoy this fine Saturday. For anyone wishing and hoping for a decline in American hegemony, or for those who think we should retract because we can't afford it anymore (cough Ron Paul cough), the continuation of world order as we've set it up is hardly guaranteed. And after we lose Superpower status either by volition or debt, it's pretty certain we'll be singing the geopolitical equivalent of "Big Yellow Taxi" (You Don't Know What You've Got 'Til It's Gone). Now, a small sliver of Ron Paul's arguments do have some resonance for me. Essentially, it is what Bill Gates told European powers on his farewell address there: those countries that by-and-large share American ideals must expect to stop getting a partial free ride with protection from the U.S. military's capabilities while they keep small armies that they've been hesitant to use, and when they do, usually only as token support to missions started by the UN or America. The Libyan campaign seemed the first major use of force from Europe for decades. Time for them to stop spending so much on social welfare, put it into their military and protect themselves so America can make some marginal cuts and use its resources more effectively. But let's get one thing straight, as it says here. If and when America is no longer the lead dog, there will be blood.
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ABC News: US Officials Say Kim Jong Un Assassination Rumors Untrue As Doonesbury's Roland Hedley says, "Twitter is the first rough draft of gossip."
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I've been de-friended a couple times. Women don't like being proved wrong in a public forum.
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Tomlin and Roethlisberger not happy
UConn James replied to Buffalo Barbarian's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I don't see where the contention is. Roethlisberger has gotten some input from people around the league from people who think that Haley is great and some that he's lousy. He'll be meeting with Haley and from there he'll decide for himself. In order for this to be a story, it would have to be something like BR refuses to work with Haley. How did people around the league view Kevin Gilbride after what he did in Buffalo and in his previous stops? What did they think of him? Everybody has fan-boys and haters. Two Super Bowl Championships later, KG's not looking too bad.... -
Liberal Hypocrisy on Obama Vs Bush - Poll
UConn James replied to ....lybob's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Obama found out that the theory of closing GITMO is a lot different from the reality of closing it. It's not just Republicans. NO ONE wants Al Quaeda members in their backyard. You look back at the naivete of the campaign and it's just galling. Couple that with the acceptance of the left under Obama of things that they blamed and burned Bush in effigy for. They really don't mind --- and in fact, they tout these things! --- as long as its their guy doing it. -
Dog bites reporters face on live TV.
UConn James replied to erynthered's topic in Off the Wall Archives
There is literally no one involved here who's not at fault. The owner for putting himself in this situation to begin with and not having adequately trained/socialized this dog. The fact that it's not current on its vaccinations tells me all I need to know about him. I hate people who get a dog because it makes them look tough and then can't handle them and don't take the time to do what it takes to properly keep them. I get that he didn't want to appear to be an * on live teevee, but how does the officer just sit there when it's pretty clear that things aren't going in the right direction? Nevermind an obligation to have done a check on the vaccinations after the incident or at least before you parade him around strange people and put him on camera. My father was an ACO for 20 years and that's basic due diligence. After the rescue situation, you don't have to be an * and issue a ticket for unvaccinated (I'm assuming this is rabies vaccination, as that's the only one any town or city I've ever heard of keeps track of) when you look at the records, but you do have to be like, "Uhh. Dude... Get your dog its shots. Now. And I'm going to follow up on this; if it's not done by tomorrow (unless there's a serious line-up at the vet), you're getting a ticket." And it may not be a police officer's job to do this, per se, but it would be his job to check things with the ACO and let them do their part. The reporter was way too aggressive, especially with an animal that had just recently been through a stressful situation, as KD wrote. I have worked to train my 2-year old GSP to take his tail being pulled and being up in his grill, even taking milkbones out of his mouth and not reacting. It's something we've done with every dog we've had, to cut out any aggression response. Even then, when you don't know a dog (and more importantly, when it doesn't know you), you can't act like this. Any dog, even the best-trained, can snap; it only takes the right set of circumstances. I was bitten this summer (my dog was as well) when I was walking down the road. Two fighting breed dogs just charged out of a house, crossed the road and lit into us. No sniffing of butts, no nothing. It does color my opinion that there are many people who own breeds they can't control and that they have no business owning. Why do you need a Cane Corso, a Rottweiler, or breeds that may not have higher incidences of bites, but that when the switch is flipped and they chase and bite, they are hard-wired to not let go?