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It means when the guy who has similar political stripes as oneself is in there, we all should demur and make nice. When it's someone from the other side of the aisle, we all should call him a war criminal and hang him in effigy.

And, friends, that's saying something!!! Interesting simile.... I swear to God, if we throw deep on a 4th & 1 or 3rd & 2 today, I'm going to go ape-stevestojan.

It's a testament of the restraint and tolerance of our society that this !@#$er hasn't gotten a bullet through the head yet.

Screw that. Agent Orange. The government said it was perfectly safe.

I've used LastPass via Firefox for a couple-few years. It's been great so far [knock on wood]. But my Hotmail account, that I don't use LastPass on, was hacked and used to send some spam a few months ago. Got messages from some friends and saw it all in the Sent folder. But I heard that happened to several people I know who use Hotmail.... Whoever/Whatever it was didn't change the password, thankfully. I did... to something much harder and with numbers.

Still no good. You can quote 1-2 paragraphs from shorter stories, or generally 5%-10% from a longer feature piece. You CANNOT post the full text. That nulls any reason for a reader here to click on the link and support the source's website... which is what allows them to stay in business and provide future news/articles. As Tom alluded to, IIRC I'm pretty sure there was a copyright incident here, which is why the mods police this. But in the interest of keeping this a place where they come for enjoyment rather than more work (mods are humans too), how hard is it to just police yourself? Not just "frowned upon." It is against the Terms of Service. If you're a serial offender, you risk suspension or termination of your account. What does that matter? All it takes is a first time to screw over TBD in an infringement case. Just follow the accepted rules of fair usage.

Only, it's gonna start to get messy once Cochran is gone next week. For someone who claims he's such a student of the game, he f---ed up BIGTIME. This was Woody Allen meets Survivor. There's a reason his type should and usually do get voted off early. If Edna lasts after the following week, I think I'll puke. That woman is a useless robot. What got her this far is that she said hello to Coach on Day 1, and then said the random wooden 'I like you. You're a good player.' Who actually has the individual idol in that trio of Albert, Sophie and Coach? I believe it's Coach... right? Because there's one thing of him saying that it's going to be them 'til the end, it's totally another for him to actually want to be up against them in the final vote. No way that happens. If I'm Coach, I want Edna and Brandon there with me at the end --- someone who won't be able to say they deserve anything and another who no doubt --- NO doubt --- will shoot himself in the foot and start foaming at the mouth if Mikeala is mentioned. Coach's denial that he's de facto in charge of the group... Will the rest have the stones to possibly take out the biggest threat and send 'im to Redemption to probably make it a duke-out of the Survivor alums?

+1. I want the NBA to die quickly so I don't have to see it in passing. It's been so nice so far to not have to watch news replays revolving around this bunch of hoop-grabbing thugs. Basketball changed irrevocably when they refused to raise the rim. Guys don't have to be good shooters now. For MLB (Red Sox) and the NHL (Sabres) I assert the notion that I am a fan of these teams. But w/o cable and enough time in the day, I just rarely get to watch the games. And with one-hundred-sixty-something and 80-something games, respectively, missing each game doesn't mean so much like it is to miss a football game. So, I'm a fan, but I'm a fan by proxy --- browsing the ticker the next morning. I am a fan of the tennis major events, especially as they broadcast Wimbledon and US Open during the week. I hate the rare scoring, the jumble of teams/conferences and the low meaning of league soccer matches. It seems like there's 60 'X Cup' matches a year; it's like every team wins a championship for participation. The $ politics of FIFA and the state of officiating leave me with the impression that it's all fixed. But when World Cup rolls around, I watch the hell out of it. Men's and women's. Internet broadcasting of any/every match on ESPN3.com has really increased my fandom of these two sports --- gone are the days when you only get to watch what's scheduled on the teevee.

He says that like there's any other alternative. Well, I guess one could argue for underground....

Geez, they hadn't even built the in' thing yet and it's like it already gets a $100M redesign....

U-turns are part of the show, it's part of the game. But to me there is a bit of honor and a lot of strategy that goes into not using it. But let's not make any bones here, this is not like Sorry! where the rules of the game are that you have to play the card you get. U-turns in AR are personal. Cindi and kitty-whipped Ernie are going to get theirs. I think after seeing the surfers get $15K, Cindi just decided that she'd rather get one 1st place prize and risk having another team gunning for retribution than go home empty-handed. (Kinda like the people on Millionaire who blow their lifelines early and take the $1,000.) Whatever lead they got from using it will eventually be lost with a late-night arrival and an "X opens at 9 a.m." sign on a door. It kills any goodwill a team has, and until a few more teams get eliminated, goodwill is still important at this point.

Tonight's episode is titled "Price on Your Head." I guess when the Red team was/is getting picked off in succession, I agree with the production decision to have two vote-offs per show. And a situation like this is where Redemption Island offers a nice little twist to the gameplay. Getting rid of/consolidating the reward challenge with immunity was a good move for the show and I hope they keep it. Less fluff, more strategy.

The quote from the dancing challenge: 'I would have gotten us through quicker... but this is my forte.' Really? Dancing is your forte? Then why the hell didn't you claim this challenge, you f---!? Dude is an arrogant POS who thinks he's better than everyone and I hope his kid, his family and the father himself might finally see what a prick he is. They had a huge lead from their flight gamble and they blew it. BTW - what the hell was that at the scheduling desk b/w he and Cindy? She asked what they were taking and the father was like, 'We're doing something different. So, yeah. Uh... yeah. Yeah. Yeah.' I mean, this is a race where you have to take your advantages where you can get them like in any other game but you don't have to be a weirdo-douche about it. Just say flat out, "Hey, it looks like we're doing something different, it's a big gamble, and we've decided that we can't share our plans with anyone else. Good luck." This game's karma hit them a little late for the father's level of ass-douchery, but it got them nonetheless. Which is a shame for the kid, because he seemed fairly smart and cool amid such a hectic pace. It's too bad he has an * for a father. For as far behind as Amani (one of the surfers keeps calling her Armani) and Marcus were, they did an awesome job of keeping on keeping on and they ended up in 4th ahead of one team that didn't even get U-turned. That move to get them a first-place finish at the pit stop is really going to come back to bite Cindy and Ernie in the asses. It's like Cindy just decided that she wants a prize out of this race, rather than a good shot at the million dollars. My philosophy on seeing only the last few seasons of this show is that you only use the U-turn as a measure of last resort if you know you're one of the last teams and it's probably an elimination leg. As mentioned above, karma eventually gets you. Not to mention, it's amazing how many times people have gotten U'ed and finish the other challenge lickety-split like Bill and Cathi. It's like the slap in the face really concentrates their focus. About the only time I remember it really screwing a team over was in that WWI re-enactment code deciphering challenge from a couple-few seasons ago where an Asian couple (I can see their faces still, but names totally escape me) were out there until day turned into night and Phil finally just went to them to break the news... which is rare.

I'm a big fan of the job Susanna Martinez is doing as governor of NM. I'd say she's as energizing as Sarah Palin + 120 IQ points, and puts NM & Colorado into play and locks up Florida. Also, Juror 8... WTF'd with the cloak and dagger crap? You say you've read the opp research. Well, what's in it? Give us a taste. I seriously doubt it's fouler than Obama Soup. There's an article out today about how Bain Capital bought out a company, boosted profits, broke them apart to core competencies and people were laid off. Yeah. So what? That was the '90s. That was the age of "Pretty Woman." Forcing companies to concentrate on what they do best and remove dead weight probably helped businesses become what they were by the late '90s when the American economy was booming. Having companies that make everything from paperclips to jet engines doesn't strike me as efficient.... You talkin' about this, or what? Saying you know something and then not even dropping a morsel is disingenuous. As far as I'm concerned, you've got/know nothing unless you prove it.

And shortly behind that, the ratio of men to women will be getting severely disproportionate due to infanticide of girls during said One Child policy. Which is going to make for a lot of horny Chinks, who will be virtually flooding the US's burgeoned online porn and sex toy market! As I've posited for years, by 2050, there's going to be 290 million people in the US who get paid to !@#$ each other and maybe 60 million people to feed, clothe, house and otherwise pamper them.

Sounds pretty f---in' great! When do you move?

Wait.... Why aren't there 3.5!?

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This guy is a workhorse who loves to play the game and will do anything he can to help his team. Still can't comprehend how Gailey abandoned using Freddie on runs and screens that had been working great through the season. You can't allow the other team to intimidate you away from what you do best, to something that you do worst (Fitz's deep throws, esp. the ones on two 3rd and shorts and one on a 4th and short iirc (and no, it was a different 4th than the failed delay run when we needed like 2 inches).

It's his personality and a bantering conversation. He was a little loud on the mic, yes. As they suggested, he should switch to decaf. But no one was threatened. Even as the woman was asking him to not yell, she was smiling. They wanted to be there or else they would have gotten up and left. I had professors at the U who were ten times worse than this.

Hammer ---> Nail It will definitely not be Republican dominance for "the next 20 years" though. That doesn't happen anymore if it ever really did. It's four years at a time, and I'm sure if the Republicans get in power something will happen that might make people pinch their noses and vote for the Not-Republicans, and after that, the Not-Democrats.... What that means is that beyond the mundane bureaucracy that is the cogs and wheels of the federal system, there is almost no cohesive, long-term strategy for the functioning of this country.

There is now a voice out there saying that the "New Yorker" article by Nicholas Schmidle detailing the attack and OBL's demise was not accurate. It has apparently come to light that he did not talk to a single SEAL TEAM 6 member who was actually on the mission. Correcting the ‘fairy tale’: A SEAL’s account of how Osama bin Laden really died A new book written by a former SEAL who said he has talked with men who were part of the assault says that: 1) the helicopter did not crash before the attack, but rather, happened as they were leaving. (And in this regard, I wonder if there's something going very unsaid that is behind the level of acrimony b/w the US and Pakistan. Was it mechanical or...?) 2) The SEAL team did not approach exclusively from the ground and work their way up to the third story. One team lined onto the roof, one team lined onto the ground. 3) OBL was not shot shortly after he popped over a stairway like a Whack-a-Mole. He had about 90 seconds after the SEALs were on the roof and he was shot in the chest and head as he was scampering over his bed toward an AK he kept above the headboard. 4) Reports of a CIA interpreter telling Pakistanis the equivalent of "Move along. Nothing to see here!" were wrong. The interpreter could not do the "fast rope" and was not even on the ground. 4) Contrary to Obama Administration figures who say this was exclusively a kill mission, including then-CIA Director Leon Panetta, Pfarrer argues that OBL would have been taken prisoner if he hadn't posed an immediate threat (reaching toward a gun) or put his hands up. He takes a little umbrage with the notion that the SEALs are the president's hit squad. To be sure, much of the time, they do visit death on their targets, but that's because their targets are fighting back. 5) It is Pfarrer's belief that Obama's near-immediate press conference announcing OBL's death was the wrong tactical move, given the amount of hard intel discovered in the room that became almost instantly inactive once the announcement was made. There were also phoney statements made by political and administration officials who didn't know stevestojan from Shinola, but knew they had to flap their gums and make it sound interesting in order to get their faces on the teevee. ----- That still doesn't make him any better than Carter, for as much as the president has to do with things. Carter didn't make a bad call; his military thought they could do the mission and it went badly. Just the same, if they hadn't gotten OBL, Obama's wouldn't have been a bad call, IMO. About the only decision on the presidential level there would be to do nothing. And if a president wants to maintain his/her standing with the military (especially when they have no military experience themselves), their hand is pretty much forced.

1) Wow. The sister in the brother-sister losing team simply had a couple-hour brain fart combined with the fact that she just didn't want to do any physical activity. She just stood there, propped against the bicycle saying she didn't know what to do and decided to wait until she saw another team. If I were the brother in that team, I would not be talking to my sister for a while. It would've been one thing to have gotten lost or gone in the wrong direction or gotten bad information from someone (did anyone in that village know their ass from their elbow!??), but she just ing stood there, more useless than the inanimate object she was leaning against. 2) What was with Cindy and ahhh crap I don't know his name (I told you I only remember names until there's like 6 people left unless it's a hot girl... like Sandy. I knew her name week 1.) asking the surfers to let them win as they were in the mad dash? It's a race, dude. That was for $15K! How can you have the gall to ask that of someone?

The explanation Hoculi(?) gave yesterday left a lot to be desired. As Simms/Nance said, the ball can touch the ground as long as it's under control by the receiver/interceptor. Hoculi's words were "The ruling on the field is reversed. The ball touched the ground." I think it's abundantly clear from the last 10+ years and from the two situations this year that the Bills will NOT get the benefit of the doubt. We need to catch it cleaner than any other team.

Link I can't speak for Politico's reporting since this from last week, but I've seen it widely reported that two of the incidents concretely involved 1) inviting a 24-year-old intern/employee back to his hotel room. 2) that while standing in a very close position to a woman, who worked in the communications dept of the restaurant association, he said that she was about the same height of his wife. In at least one of these, a settlement was reached for a year's pay and the woman now works as a spokesperson in a high-level govt dept. A year's pay tells me that the association's legal dept found that there was some fire to go along with the smoke of the allegations. The thing of it is, as I wrote upthread, Cain should have volunteered this info months ago. It's always going to come out. But if you're the one who came out with it, it gives people the impression that you're being honest with them about it. Say, "You know, there were a couple of settlements reached while I was president. I would've preferred to fight them, but this is just the age we live in where people throw things at you and see what they can convince other people has stuck. These were incidents where I made innocuous remarks about someone's height. I've moved on. I'm happily married." He didn't do that. He's still claiming a vague memory of these women. Sorry. If someone accuses me of sexual harassment, I would remember those details forever. That's the personal-life equivalent to forgetting that OBL/AQ was behind 9/11. It doesn't ring true and it sounds like he knows he's in the stevestojan and is just hoping for something like Tom Hanks getting busted for child pornography to put this story on page A26. You can't allow people to be surprised by something like this when you're running for president. Take Donald Trump, for instance --- when he was still running/thinking about running, he could've gotten a divorce and instantly married a 20-year-old model and people wouldn't have flinched. That's his style, people aren't surprised, he announces this stuff from a rooftop himself to any and all. His popularity probably would've soared, actually. Like I wrote: This is America. You can screw tigers as long as you admit to any and all that, "Hey, I like to screw tigers."