Crap Throwing Monkey

Seriously...are Bumese Pythons dangerous pets? Or just ecologically dangerous ex-pets when idiots release them into the friggin' Everglades? I've never heard of any instance of a constrictor-type snake kept as a pet that posed any danger to humans, even big snakes. Awkward to keep? Sure. But actually dangerous? Not that I've ever heard. But then, I've also never delved that deeply into the habits of the pet 12-foot Burmese Python, either. Which makes me think it's not the snakes' fault, but the idiot owners, and we'd be better off banning idiots (I mean, what kind of a sh--head buys a pet snake not even knowing the thing's going to grow over 12 feet long? If you can't answer "How big is this thing going to get?", you have no business buying it.) But then, "banning idiots" is pretty much my answer to everything.

And then the problem will be solved, as people's pet Bushmasters take care of the pythons... Not for the first time today, I'm asking myself "What the !@#$ is wrong with people?" A Burmese python is an impulse buy???

I'm pretty sure it's "The other party sucks!" I've just taken to calling our government the "tyrrany of the two-party system."

The headline: "Iran Could Produce Nuclear Bomb in 16 Days, U.S. Says (Update2)" The story: "Using those 50,000 centrifuges they could produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon in 16 days,'' Those are not the same thing.

You don't have to die to be a Darwin winner, you just have to eliminate your ability to procreate. Setting one's pants on fire definitely has that potential.

Of course, the relevance of that could simply be that they're filming in Hawaii.

Walter O'Reily?

Thanks. My bad. I was looking at points and figuring the next tie breaker would be head-to-head, like in football. Never even noticed that the Sabres winning out and Sens losing out puts the Sabres one win ahead...

Ottawa's clinched the division already though, correct?

Unless the $6k audio system is in the $2k car, in which case there's very little to say outside of "What the !@#$ is wrong with you?"

http://boortz.com/more/funny/redneck_pics_handsfree.html How many things are wrong with THIS guy?

Could be he's just a cheap ticket out of the Ukraine...

But strap that thing to the bottom of a Predator drone, and watch out!

Depends on the contract. I know ours says (said, since we got the house), we had a working relationship with our agent for 90 days...but could sever the relationship before then if we were dissatisfied. Clutch, your business arrangement with your agent is just that: a business arrangement. It can be ended. If there's a written agreement between the two of you, and you can document his non-performance, you can kick him to the curb relatively easily. If everything was done with a smile and handshake, it'll be a lot harder (he can take you to arbitration, and although you'll still probably win, it'll piss you off)...but you can still kick him to the curb. Either way, if you're dissatisfied, ditch him. You're not required to put up with unsatisfactory service. Unless it's a cell phone company.

Seller's supposed to pay the buying agent's commission, anyway. If you're a buyer, and your agent's making YOU pay the commission...odds are he's trying to get paid by both ends, and ripping you off.

She probably thinks she's practicing, hence doesn't care what anyone thinks, as it's practice.

US plans already do account for culture: Iranians, like everyone else, are just misguided Americans who need to be shown the light. One of the reasons, I think, that Iranian population is so young is because so many of the older people were killed in human wave attacks in the Iran-Iraq war. There's probably not a lot of healthy 45 or 50-year old men in Iran.

And thus, not only do you reduce the definition of "rational" to "thinks like me", but you manage to create a nice circular argument whereby the Iranians are irrational because they think differently than you, hence you can ignore what they think because they're irrational. Typically, it's more useful to examine why people think what they do, and try to understand why they think it's rational, than just dismiss it because it's different. But it's easier to just dismiss people, I guess.

Because according to JSP, Israel = rational, Iran = irrational. Of course, if you're Iranian, it's the other way around. But that's just because Iranians are too irrational to realize they're irrational.

Honestly, I can't think of anything about that that isn't PR spin.

'73 was a war of territory, trying to recapture the lands conquered in '67. '58 and earlier, you may be right.

That's your measure of "rational"? Stop agreeing with me, Joe. Please. Go count your !@#$ing tupperware or something.

First, she's got a long way to go before she hits Kirstie Alley's "I look like a couch in this dress" look. Second...frankly, she looks...well, normal. Third...Someday, probably soon, it'll happen to Mandy.

Actually, they're rational by their standards. Just not ours. It's an important point...one of the reasons, for example, that western liberal democracy isn't likely to work out in the Arab states.

Dreams? Like my dream that a drunk-off-his-ass uninsured "no habla inglis" illegal alien who hits my brand new parked car twice actually gets punished for it, instead of being let go because charging his ass is "racist"? That's my dream... I guarantee you, too...if I were in his place, as a legal tax-paying citizen, I'd be behind bars getting ass-raped by Bubba Joe right this minute. Ain't America grand?