Gavin in Va Beach

Dead on. He's the Republican party's version of Bill Clinton. I wouldn't vote for McCain for dogcatcher.

The bird is the word...

It's all a matter of perspective... "When Losman came to talk with me, he came alone. When Holcomb came by, he was with Willis McGahee. Everything counts in this battle, and developing relationships with your teammates is always a factor." Impressive that Losman has the self-confidence to go chat with someone by himself. What's with Holcomb bringing along McGahee, as if he was his wooby or binkie? Does Kelly let Willis bang his wife too? I mean, it's good to have friends on the team, but man-up and give your interviews solo you big pansy. "McGahee can play, but I never get the feeling he embraces the concept of being a team leader of the Buffalo Bills. He reminds me more of a veteran free agent signed to play well but never part of the "family." There's nothing wrong with his style, but it's hard not to get the feeling he will finish his career somewhere else down the road." Oh noes! Willis is more introverted than extroverted! Someone get him in to Dale Carnegie 'How to Make Friends and Influence People' seminar immediately, before he mopes off to some other team!

As much as I love college ball, I gotta go with the NFL for the simple reason that losing one game, let alone two, won't keep a team from being able to make the playoffs and compete for the Super Bowl. In college one loss hurts your chances and two pretty much eliminates a team from competing for the National Championship...

Damn straight. Every time I watch it the non-Burton Batman movies fade more and more from memory...ahhhhhh. But every time I watch I'm also reminded that Michael Keaton was horribly miscast...

Jack? Jack is dead, my friend. You can call me... Joker. And as you can see, I'm a lot happier!

I agree, Mel really stepped in it big time. Course his father is on record as denying the Holocaust, so I guess the apple isn't falling far from the tree. I'd still watch a movie of his if the story and everything else looked good, but I've lost a lot of respect for him as well. Now he's just another Hollywood Stu Pidasoe... Edit: Oh and yes the story is newsworthy. He gained more of a soapbox with the whole 'Passion of the Christ' flick and I'd say some of the criticism that the movie was anti-semitic, which seemed far fetched at the time, now may have a bit more credibility...

Hate to see anyone get injured in camp

Look at his eyes, that dude is so wasted!

There has been a clip from the movie 'Zero Day' circulating that claims to be Columbine footage, but obviously it isn't. I've heard though that the shooting scenes have been based on Columbine and are rumored to be similar to what happened.

I dunno if it was better than the flick but it's certainly one of the best movie soundtracks out there. There probably hasn't been as good a movie soundtrack since Repo Man...

Ditto that, absolutely brilliant film. By the way, it says BALLS on your face. Sam: Hey, I recognize you. Andrew Largeman: Oh, did you go to Columbia High? Sam: No, not from high school, from TV. Didn't you play the retarded quarterback? Andrew Largeman: Yeah. Sam: Are you really retarded? Andrew Largeman: No. Sam: Ooh, great job man! I really thought you were retarded. I mean, you're better than that Corky kid and he's actually retarded. If there was a retarded Oscar you would win, hands down, kick his ass!

Uhhh...your audience is preschoolers. If a spoof on teenage abstinence undermines your credibility with three year olds, I'm not sure firing the host is going to fix that... 728767[/snapback] Little kids aren't really tuning in these shows though, their parents are. So the reality is these shows need only be credible with the parents. If the producers of the show feel that this will cause parents to tune in something else, bye-bye host.

Depends. If she hid this from the company during her interview process when I'm sure they asked her about past work, or made it while she was employed with them and violated some morals clause, then she should probably get canned. If her company knew about this and have just now decided to fire her then that's b.s.

This keeps up and they'll have to change the name to the Cincinnati Dolphins...

I think I've seen this movie already, wasn't it called Indecent Proposal or something? It's hard to feel bad for the dipschiat husband though, this guy basically pimped out his wife as a whore for Belichick and it drove him insane. The wife sounds like a real winner too... You gotta feel for the kids though...

Common man, the whole show was pretty good. "That'll be 53,000 dollars mon" "What're you talking about? The sign says 8 bucks!" "Dat was the old price, dis here da new price."

Why do you have to assume it has to be one extreme or the other? There's no frickin' way I want government to be in control of income redistribution. I didn't let my marxist professor get away with any of his wildass assertions unchallenged. His argument usually devolved into something along the lines of 'well, pure marxism has never really been tried'... Duh, that's because it's impossible. I'm not fighting for the poor, I'm fighting for the middle class!

Big business does not necessarily mean big corporations, but can also describe an industry. The agricultural industry can be described as big business. The building industry is big business. Both industries benefit from illegal immigration. Further, what little money the illegals do have that they don't send home gets spent in places like Walmart or McDonalds or some other 'Big Business'. But likewise, don't let common sense get in the way of your splitting hairs. Why don't you post some links educating us on the impact to USA GDP, since the WSJ fails to do so in the editorial. Also factor in your analysis the percentage of the budget social services comprised at each 'historical impact' please. Also how about including figures on the middle class at each time. Thanks! From what I understand, employment figures should be taken with a grain of salt. People filing for unemployment can drop while the total number of unemployed can go up, because an x amount of people who were filing have their benefits expire and then fall off the grid. Again, link to the data. Should we all just accept your numbers because you say so? And I smirk at their reference's to human dignity because they're full of bull sh-- and you know it. Further, does the human dignity of the illegal immigrant automatically trump the human dignity of the taxpaying citizen? Pardon me for thinking charity starts at home. Nice ad hominem at Sowell, BTW. Exactly what are the scare tactics he is using and why are they wrong? One year Mexico gives us 1,000,000 illegal immigrants and let's say, Chile, gives us 75,000. 5 years later, Mexico gives us 1,500,000 illegal immigrants and Chile gives us 250,000. Who had the biggest surge as a percentage and why should I care when the vast majority come from one certain country anyway? Since you have now confirmed that the CIS cite is credible, how's about this little factoid- This study is one of the first to estimate the total impact of illegal immigration on the federal budget. Most previous studies have focused on the state and local level and have examined only costs or tax payments, but not both. Based on Census Bureau data, this study finds that, when all taxes paid (direct and indirect) and all costs are considered, illegal households created a net fiscal deficit at the federal level of more than $10 billion in 2002. We also estimate that, if there was an amnesty for illegal aliens, the net fiscal deficit would grow to nearly $29 billion. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html If you don't think Mexicans are a significant factor in the illegal immigration problem then there really isn't much then I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Hell, I'm not even sure what you mean with 'spawn of the agri workers'. Is that some new movie coming out? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomass...l/archive.shtml After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University (1958), he went on to receive his master's in economics from Columbia University (1959) and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago (1968). In the early '60s, Sowell held jobs as an economist with the Department of Labor and AT&T. But his real interest was in teaching and scholarship. In 1965, at Cornell University, he began the first of many professorships. His other teaching assignments include Rutgers University, Amherst University, Brandeis University and the University of California at Los Angeles, where he taught in the early '70s and also from 1984 to 1989. Uhh, where did you get your MBA? What you and the other uber capitalists miss, as well as the WSJ, is that nothing lasts forever, nor are all the conditions the same with each passing era. You really think your growth models are set in stone? I'm all for people improving their lot in life...legally. If your really all suzy sunshine on this issue then is it reasonable to assume you're a One-Worlder? Shouldn't someone run the whole show so that no one even has the unfortunate circumstance to be born in the wrong place? Surely the United States of Earth sounds appealing, no? What's that disclaimer, 'Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Earnings'? Something like that. Are you sure that your growth model with regards to immigration, illegal and otherwise, will hold true forever and ever amen? And what do your models say about all this with regards to the middle class? More from the CIS- http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/hispanicmc/toc.html Most studies do find a decline in the size of the middle class. Levy (1998) used a general income category of $30,000 to $80,000 for ages 25-54 to capture prime earning years and showed that between 1973 and 1996 white non-Hispanic middle income families decreased from 66 to 55 percent. Hispanic middle income families declined from 51 to 39 percent. At the same time, the groups in poverty and at the upper income levels increased. Overall, Levy finds that the income distribution is more spread out, the middle class is “squeezed” and that there is an increasing gap between rich and poor. An outcome of this gap is a decreasing ability to enter the homeowner market. Both anecdotal and census data on incomes suggest that the upward trend in incomes and wealth may be far less certain than just two decades ago. The ingrained view that new entrants to the labor market would improve on their parent’s position may no longer be true. Newman (1994) describes the anxiety of the baby-boomers who are having more difficulty moving up the economic ladder and in turn are now concerned about whether they will be able to provide more for their children than their parents did for them. There is concern that the children of the baby boomers will have to settle for less, for poorer schools and residence in less affluent communities. Some baby boomers with good jobs and often two incomes are worrying about whether they can support the life style they grew up with. Overall, the consumption package that we associate with the middle class is becoming less affordable. Housing, health care, and education are increasingly expensive (private school costs are now a significant part of the middle class life style in metropolitan areas where the public schools have declined in prestige and quality). A major part of the increased cost of the middle class package is the costs of housing. Younger households are having difficulty in entering the owner market. There has been an approximately 7 to 8 percent drop in the ownership rate, and overall the age profile of homeowners moved up during the 1970s and 1980s. Married couples entering the housing market in the 1990s are older than those who entered the market three decades ago, a further indication that it takes longer to achieve the financial security that makes ownership feasible. It is in this context of a squeeze on middle incomes that we are experiencing the largest immigration flows since the turn of the last century and that we are about to assimilate the newest and largest wave of immigrants since that time. But that assimilation will occur in a very different social milieu than even three decades ago. While the American myth of hard work and successful outcomes, rising with merit from humble beginnings is still a central part of the American ethos, the emphasis on individualism and the move to less government has created a changed political and social climate. The rise in inequality, reduced welfare benefits and less social support services will undoubtedly influence the process of assimilation, but in just what way is not at all clear. In addition, the last wave of immigrants was assimilated over a three-decade period of expanding social intervention. The context is different at the beginning of the 21st century. Historically, wealth concentration has never been good for a nation and has almost always led to social breakdown and tyranny. I'm not saying we're in danger of that happening here in short term necessarily, but that if we don't start thinking about things in the long term then we could in trouble. If we disagree so be it, you vote your way and I mine.

5. God bless

I've got frickin' quicktime. I've updated it every time it's asked me to, yet I still get that error.

I can't get it to play. All I see is the quicktime 'Q' logo with a question mark in it. Any ideas on how to get it to play Mr Computer Fix-It Man?

It is to laugh. First, since they know that everyone will know that they are schilling for big business, they just state it up front and then weakly try to deny that's the only reason and throw in some emotional blather about 'human dignity' to further deflect the criticism. Nice try, but try and sell that schit to the tourists. Second, play the 'Ronald Reagan Ace-In-The-Hole' card to further make conservatives ashamed to be against illegal-immigration/amnesty. They fail to mention that the 1986 Immigration plan Reagan signed was a disasterous failure. Reagan was if anything a pragmatist and would likely be rethinking his stance on illegal immigration today. From the link- ***Amnesties clearly do not solve the problem of illegal immigration. About 2.7 million people received lawful permanent residence ("green cards") in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a result of the amnesties contained in the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986. But these new INS figures show that by the beginning of 1997 those former illegal aliens had been entirely replaced by new illegal aliens, and that the unauthorized population again stood at more than 5 million, just as before the amnesty. In fact, the new INS estimates show that the 1986 amnesty almost certainly increased illegal immigration, as the relatives of newly legalized illegals came to the United States to join their family members. The flow of illegals grew dramatically during the years of the amnesty to more than 800,000 a year, before dropping back down to around 500,000 a year. While it might be supposed that the increase in illegal immigration was caused only by the Special Agricultural Worker (SAW) provisions of the 1986 amnesty, the INS report indicates that this was not the case. Figures in the report itself show that illegal immigration surged more dramatically from countries other than Mexico. Since the vast majority of those amnestied under SAW were from Mexico, the increase should have been mostly Mexican if the SAW provision had been responsible for the surge. *** Then they try to minimize the concerns people have about the strain illegals place on public services, that secretly we love having these workers that drive down labor costs so that lettuce remains cheap, citing polling done by the Tarrance Group. From their 'Who We Are' page- Founded in 1977, The Tarrance Group is one of the most successful full-service polling and strategic research firms in the United States. Our clients include political candidates, trade associations, and major corporations. No conflict of interest here. Even more funny from their 'Why We Are Different' page- What sets The Tarrance Group apart from other firms is our commitment to make research findings "actionable." Translation- tell us what you want the facts to say so you can justify your 'actions'and we'll make sure to get you your desired results. IMO Thomas Sowell is worth 5 WSJ editorials, and Dr. Sowell states in clear language what many of us are thinking: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column....l&comments=true

Emily tries but misunderstands...

First- 'Rocky V never happened. NEVER. We shall never speak of it again. Second- Adrian dead? The movie might have a chance. She should have croaked after the second one, all she did was suck the life out of the films.