Crap Throwing Monkey

That would be...the Mickey Mouse fake end-around bull sh-- reverse !@#$tard option pass. God, I hate this coaching staff. I now look back on Wade Phillips calling Chris Watson a "punt catcher" with a certain amount of respect and fondness. I'm almost to the point where I'd prefer Kay Stephenson over these jerk-offs.

Except receivers.

Although, if they'd run straight-up football plays and not Mickey Mouse fake end-around bull sh-- reverse !@#$tard option pass plays on third and short, Willis might make a difference...

Contrast that with Western news outlets, whose stores are basically truthful but present only one side of events and omit information that might reflect well on the US or Iraqi governments. I guess the uproar then is...because CNN just realized they're not getting kickbacks to be biased?

You know, I actually agree with you. And I still think you're an idiot.

I see your point...and I'd stipulate the only reason it seems like the Republicans are responsible is because they happen to be running things now. I recall most of the same sh-- during Clinton's reign, and I'm sure it'll go on well past Bush's. It's just non-partisan pork politics...your average senator or congressman isn't responsible for the troops, he's responsible for his state or district, so he's going to favor dumping a billion dollars into a project that gets manufactured in his state over a couple hundred million to increase soldier's health and retention rates. And it is, for the most part, a congressional issue. I read about some bloated program or another (DD(X), LCS, JSF, FCS) every other week in Defense News and cringe. Congress is actually forcing the Navy to buy ships the Navy doesn't want, to keep shipyards working.

Actually, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone here who believes the high-profile weapons programs are more important than the people.

No one ever said it was a constant, just that it was faster than light.

Okay, so it's not a "free" press. It, like damn near everything else in the world, has a price.

Never thought of that. Now I hate the !@#$er even more.

Why does everything on this stupid board have to be !@#$ing sarcasm?

And that's not how torpedoes destroy ships. The pressure wave from the explosion breaks the keel, not the absence of water below it. And as for the "Triangle"...just business as usual. Sometimes things go out and don't come back because they met with an accident no one witnessed. It's actually even more common in, of all places, the Great Lakes.

Actually, no... http://www.nmr.nl/deins815.htm

"Does" is kind of an exaggeration. But I could, and could do a capable job of it, if I had to. I can even do plumbing and electrical without too much risk of killing myself. Might have trouble pouring a foundation or installing ductwork, though.

Not BF, because he graduated in the bottom half of the top half of one of the top 50 high schools in East Sheepdip, Indiana, and still doesn't know how to cook pasta in less time than it takes me to frame a house... That's why it's such a pleasure tossing barbs at Debbie. I don't have to come up with new material every page for twenty-seven friggin' pages.

Funny, I was thinking as I typed that post how surprised you'd be to be banned from the board. "But...but...but...I'm not an idiot!"

Lots of officers in the US system today get MBA training; it's considered a valuable asset in high rank, apparently. Ergo, not all of the skills required of an officer are necessarily specialized to the military. And failing that, there's always the "Burygone's Revenge" of creating officers: find a bloodthirsty rich guy and sell him a commission. I'd be more worried about NCO's anyway. NCO's are the real backbone of any military...and you don't just create them out of thin air.

Actually, I disagree. As far as I could tell, her original message was "The war is bad and Bush is a criminal because my son's dead." While she has my sympathies as a grieving mother, I would not label her message of "Foreign policy should be dictated by my grief" as "fine".

And his nasty habit of staring at receivers. But mostly the yardwork thing.

I think it's more likely that there's just a relative surplus of liberal idiots here right now as opposed to conservative ones. Pasta Joe gets bashed because he's still posting...but it's tough to bash Rich in Ohio when he's banned. Problem is, if we got rid of all the idiots, there'd only be maybe three people posting here.

Well, there was the "pull the troops out of occupied New Orleans" message. Perhaps we should debate that?

Exactly...and no one felt compelled to defend Manning for even worse play. Probably because they knew he'd improve. Losman's about as good as he's going to get.

What, a dead soldier's mom can't be ugly? Wacka's post was stupid (not like that's anything of a surprise)...but we can't call someone ugly who's ugly, because of something completely unrelated to their looks?

Damn it, why don't I think of things like that?

The fact that people have to constantly defend his performance in his first season on the field shows how much of a first-round bust he is. No one felt compelled to defend Eli Manning his first season, for example...