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AP: Woman alleges long affair with Cain If the 'Cain Train' wasn't derailed before, this is just about sure to. As I heard on the news, she's got years of phone records. How are we supposed to trust a guy to tell us the truth as president if he can't even come clean here. Cain flatly denies an affair happened, and then his lawyer walks it back to saying it was consensual. Yet another pol undone b/c he can't keep it in his pants. Like Jon Edwards, how the f--- does anyone these days think they'll be able to keep this stuff from coming out? And if not during the campaign, they have the audacity to bring this kind of stink to the presidency. I just don't get it.

I've written all of this in several threads and yet here it is again... Peoples' views on abortion can change in the course of 10+ years. What does this prove other than that Romney is human and that his opinion, whether from facts, soul-searching, or what have you changed since '94. Now, you can say it's a craven political move and that's your opinion but I'll give Romney the benefit of the doubt. There's a lot of issues that I see very differently just from 4 years ago. He can point to the As governor of MA, he opposed underage abortion non-reporting such that clinics would have to inform a teen's parents before any procedure could take place. (And for full measure to hardliners, he also opposed and vetoed the Mass. gay marriage law). The stuff on the Mass. health care law --- as I've written many times, occurred with a Democrat supermajority in the Mass. legislature that was going to pass this with or without Romney. He decided that it was a better idea to have the few Republicans and himself work with the Democrats and inject some measure of fiscal responsibility into what would otherwise have stuck the Mass. taxpayers with a large new entitlement spending item in the general fund. Massachusetts' demographics with 4% uninsured, a vast and geographically spread out health care network is far different than stats and resources that other states face. Romney stated then and now that given state-to-state differences, it was NOT a model for a national plan. How about that for good ol' GOP-style STATE'S RIGHTS?!? You know, where each state ought to size up their own situation and craft their own law if they wish. Romney has stated that the federal concentration should have been limited and centered around cutting costs of health care by such things as opening insurance competition across state lines, and enacting tort reform to reduce provider costs, which would then not have to be passed along for patients to pay for. Romney has said he will make it his first act of office to issue waivers for Obamacare to all 50 states and to repeal and replace it with those limited cost-cutting measures. I don't know what the f--- you were alluding to when you mumbled Kennedy something-or-other and you give no more here, so... [shrug] If that's what you have, then you have nothing new... only you act like you do, you pretend to know something and you've wrapped your same pile of poo up in new paper and a bow. You're a !@#$ing idiot.

So, yet again, you make these vague intimations. You say you've read some of the op research, and when pressed you've given more vaguery and about stevestojan that everybody already knows about --- abortion stance from '94 Senate run, the MA health care law (of which Romney was a late, small part), and some other mumble about Kennedy something or other.... Specifically, what've you got to offer? Put up or shut up.

Yep and yep. A cut'n'paste: Even if the annual income !@#$ing doubled (making just federal taxes close to 50% of total income) this shell game cannot continue. The cuts need to be made with zeal and Dems want to keep spending... or, continuing the household budget meme, take most of the money allocated for housing for the next 20 years and make a payment on the credit card with that, rather than giving up things like Starbucks, DirecTv and saffron-flaked escargot with a side of lobster and new potatoes and asparagus, and giving Juan and Steve down the street a hundred bucks each, because they're down on their luck and can't afford Starbucks. Entirely absent from the Democrat mindset is the connection that the family is not going to have anywhere to live. It's a complete divorce from reality.

Given the givens, it looks like the league is not interested in letting teams play defense. What is it... five guys currently on pace to break Marino's record? That's ing ridiculous. Why invest heavily in defense if they just get neutered by the rules committee, and every 40-yard pass attempt there's a 50-50 chance of unreviewable PI so it's like CBs don't know whether to stevestojan or turn purple? This is an offense league now. Put up or shut up. Gotta invest a couple early picks to OL depth. Wouldn't be displeased with a good TE to backup or complement Chandler. With Fred Jackson having a knee injury, and Spiller being Spiller, it looks like a RB is in order as well. Should pick up some LBs and a CB in the later rounds. But I wouldn't knock getting another monster DT/DE similar to how Dey-twaa picked up Suh and Fairley in successive years that has helped revitalize that team. Because we have no pass rush. Nothing. Even blitzing, they can't breathe on a QB unless they're facing a stevestojan OL like Washington's.

And that whole thing involving man flying machines in the air and from that, into outer space --- that took millenia to accomplish. Bullstevestojan, Adam. All it takes is the proper motivation, some elbow grease and good-for-nothing people & tax-men/regulation-monkeys to get the f--- out of the way. Now, for universal/single-payer health care specifically, it won't happen quickly or at all b/c trusting a bureaucracy to make decisions for individuals, or even to insure/pay for treatment (and let's be certain here --- the payer determines treatment, directly or indirectly) is retarded. And it'll be retarded 300 years from now too.

AJ, if you have the time, even if it's just listening while you're doing the dishes or something, I would HIGHLY recommend watching Damon Lindelof's chat on Kevin Pollack's webcast. It's long but it's worth it. There's some talk about the so-called feud with George R.R. Martin, but some detail on his upcoming projects and LOST. For instance, for as big a fan of the show I was, I didn't know Damon's own father had passed away only several months before he started work on it with Abrams. I just see the character of Christian Shepard so much differently now. And I hope DL got as much as I did from the show vis-a-vis helping his healing process --- which I imagine it can be difficult to feel the emotion when you've worked on the thing from concept to finish roll. Sometimes for the creator it takes a long break from the work to be able to go back and see it as a viewer rather than a creator. (Pollack does a spot-on Larry King impression. And Lindelof's go at the end is just ing brilliant how it comes together.) I would guess "no idea" = many possibilities, with the ability to choose just one path.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmyXTOHC3w8&feature=related Click on the video to bring up Youtube and a link to Part 2.

He played a pawn broker. Not a major character. For a guy who's mostly in dramas, he had pretty good delivery.

Well, yes AD. According to BigGovernment.com, the United States government may well be the biggest supplier of guns to the Mexican drug cartels.

Nice touch of subtle Obama-logic. How anyone thought that a group of 12 could do what two couldn't is beyond me. So, if the Congresscritters turn the tap back on and cancel out the $1.2T in across-the-boards, what we got was a debt ceiling increase and a lot of non-consequential huff on how & who should pay off the federal credit card. The GOP House was ready and willing to cut, cap and balance. The Democrat Senate stopped this attempt at fiscal sanity in its tracks. It may be a narrative for 2012, but the people who will decide the election now know exactly what Obama's goals are. Namely, bankrupt America and make the people servile/dependent on gov't handouts that Democrats will promise with zeal. TAX & SPEND, railroad job-killing mandates through Congress, then TAX & SPEND MORE.

That's my suspicion. I also suspect that Sandy and Justin(?) passing the fitness posing competition on the first try was entirely due to Sandy having very nice ta-tas.

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.