John Adams

I withdraw my earlier request. I thought you above that crowd. Please, by all means, feed the bottomfeeders.

Assuming it's even Obama, everyone in the picture is looking at something. Obama, being the tallest, is hunched over the most. Come on man: Make some attempt to keep this place clear of trash threads like this. Leave this crap to the Wacka/conner/Rkfast/pBills of the world.

As a novel, I agree that it's overrated because it's 30% a good story, 70% a lecture. As a book that has had a lot of influence on the way people look at the world, I vehemently disagree. It sparked then--and now--a lot of thought.

I read a writeup about Obama in a fitness article that said he was 6-1, 180lbs. The reason I remember is because my wife told me before then that BO and I had an identical build.

Ditto but I think the teen girls will get to Allison before long. It makes no sense that she's ever been bottom 3 but she was almost out just a few weeks ago. I predict Lambert over Gokey in the finals and hope for Lambert of Allison. Either way, if correctly packaged, Lambert could be a helluva front man and the 3rd Idol to make it big (after Clarkson and Underwood).

Scott butchered that song. Butchered. He was awful. Kris did well but he has no star power.

(References to multimedia can be seen at link in the sig) The theme for this week's Idol is iTunes downloads. Or iTunes top downloads. Or hits. Compounding the lack of clear theme, the contestants visit Ryan Seacrest at the American Top 40 studios in Burbank where he plays some totally awesome sound drops and they laugh and laugh because Ryan is so !@#$ing "The man." Now, after a brief interlude from the master, on with the countdown... (So many Kasey clips to choose from; this one is more current.) Anoop Desai. Some Usher song. The snare drum is so damn loud that he’s hard to hear throughout the song. Not sure if his vocals are low or he's not loud. We know he can dance but he picked some awful non-dance Usher song. Terrible song choice and for once, I agree with Kara. (Kill me now.) Give me a funnel and some sticky floors because that was a fraternity party performance. Pretty lame. Megan Corkery. Or Joy? Maybe she’ll be like the Bills terrible cornerback JD Williams who changed his number mid-season, then later switched his name to James (I stick with analogies I know people). Will I forget sh------- Megan Corkery and be amazed by Megan Joy? Umm, no. She sings some Bob Marley song. Her island affect in the middle of the song might be her most painful work yet. Even her appearance, which can sometimes be almost OK, wasn’t on this week. Could she please string together all the blingy chains and hang herself? America: please be rid of her. Speaking of crazy people, could Paula look any more frightening? Danny Gokey. What hurts the most. I love this song and predict he’ll WAY oversing it. It’s a better song sung without power—letting the words leak in. And here it goes. My first tip: In a slow ballad, DO NOT move about. He's a good dancer on stage and it pains him to be locked to the mic. This is apparent as his hands are up and down non-stop in Tin-Man like fashion. Clothes, look, and overdone vocals CLASH with the song choice. He sang well but it was not what it should have been. Judges loved it. Randy said he should rock around on stage—terrible advice for that particular song. Wrong. Here's what that song is supposed to sound like (with a Kelly Clarkson guest appearance.) Allison Iraheta. Don’t Speak. Cyndi Lauper look in full effect—odd, but only if you don't appreciate Cyndi, which I do. She changed the song up…very slow at the beginning. The early chorus didn’t grab me but !@#$ she can sing and got me again. I love this girl. Judges spent way too long on look—teen girls will pan her tonight, overlooking her stellar vocals. She could be in trouble because the judges were so !@#$ing dumb. Scott McIntyre. Just the way you are. This is one of the most beautiful songs. Scott said he’s stripping it down? Since the original is just a piano and voice, could we be so lucky that he's stripping out the vocals tonight? For !@#$’s sake, what has he done with his hair? Between that and the collarless black leather jacket, someone’s been hassling the ‘Hoff. Also he’s unshaven and has a caterpillar ‘stache. Probably his best effort so far—vocal riffing and oversinging is anything but stripping down the song but it was OK, which for him is amazing. Matt Giraud. You found me by the Fray. I hate the Fray so much. They suffer from "every song sounds the same" disease, or as DSM-IV calls it: Loverboy Syndrome. (One of the worst Bandstand performances ever? Between the lip-syncing and guitar-syncing, it would be hard to be suck more.) He’s going to have to sing his nuts off to overcome my bias. Doesn’t do it. Performance was not great but not terrible. He tried to sing like a superstar with fawning teens all around him. He looked like a pedophile DJ (redundant). On a positive note (dog), he’s the 2nd best musician on the show, following Scott. No judge ever gives him props for the piano. Judges crammed it up his ass. Lil Rounds. I Surrender by Celine Dion. It is a pretty good song choice for her—she can blow out a Celine song and she does it. Judges basically tell her to not sing white people songs, which is obnoxious and borderline racist. The dress is not flattering and it actually distractingly bad—showing off her junk in the trunk. That, my readers, is obnoxious and borderline racist. (Though I like junk in the trunk so if anything, I’m an anti-racist.) Actually, the probalme isn't the junk as much as there's material bunching in the junk so her trunk looks particularly unattractive. Her tears and daughter giving Randy a big hug is really cute—she’ll make it through an unfair judge panning. Adam Lambert. Play That Funky Music White Boy. Couldn’t be a bigger dance hit. At every wedding. Risky to pick kind of a cheesy classic. If he doesn’t win it all, it will be a C.R.I.M.E. That’s really all there is left at this point. The look is 70s and goes great with a rearranged version of the song. Even though it’s self-indulgent, he’s earned the right to be self-indulgent. That’s how talented he is. The rest of the field has been and continues to be playing for second. It’s not even close. He’s touched every kind of music and been the best of the night every time. Just like last week, I can’t wait to see him again next week. STAR. Kris Allen. Ain’t no sunshine. I haven’t liked this Archuletta wannabe for a while but I liked this. It’s distracting that his feet barely reach the pedals. Is he shorter than Seacrest? He did well until the final falsetto, which was off. Some member of his support team is !@#$ing frightening looking. Wish I could show the video. Top: Lambert, (country mile), Allen, Iraheta. Bottom. Like Thunderdome, there can be only one: Megan.

I think it's tanking because this is a stark reminder that auto is still in deep sh-- and the new 30-60 day deadlines are soon and things are going to be uncertain for a while. I am torn on Obama firing Wagoner. Is it really that bad? When GM agreed to take the money instead of going into bankruptcy, this is the sh-- they agreed to. It's a good lesson for the next company that comes begging for money.

My favorite part of the below column is the Nickalus quotes--I'm sure Reilly has a full inbox this week after forecasting Tiger's decline. http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3992192

That looks nightmare-inducing creepy ala Mike Myers in the Cat in the Hat. And my version of Wild Things is cracked from all the times I read it so I'm no hater.

Go hire a financial adviser now, or just end up living off the public dole in 40 years like every other person who "thinks" like you. Your hourly WAGE that your employer pays is in no way diminished by participating in your 401K. If I had an employee come to me and say that they wanted more salary and would give up their ability to deposit their wages into their 401K, I would not laugh (on the outside), but I would sit them down and explain that the 401K costs me nothing (or so little to administer that it's close enough to nothing). I offer my employees the option of participating in a 401K--I think it costs about $200/year per employee to administer and I pay for it. So the 401K benefit is peanuts. Who is going to rescue you when you have saved nothing? My employees get a wage; out of that wage, they can save whatever the !@#$ out of that they want. The 401K is merely a savings vehicle like an investment account or savings account or CD or bond. It has certain tax advantages that make it appealing. That's it. The wealth you create now can be deposited into a 401K tax free (up to limits). That's all it is. I know you have no idea what I'm talking about because your post makes no sense. What you need, desperately, is a financial adviser. I don't recommend them for everyone but for someone like you, who has no idea what you're doing, you need one yesterday. That's too bad. It happens. Are you saying you don't want the free money because there's less of it now? Even if it was 0%, saving what you can in a 401K probably makes sense for you. Unless you are looking forward to a future on the public's nickel.

So what? We don't get to blame people when they are wrong now? The evidence Powell took to the UN (and was made public) was a joke and the only hting supporting the attack on Iraq was the premise that they couldn't show more because it was confidential. That was either BS or they were wrong. Either way, shouldn't someone be held accountable? (This is my probalme with the AIG crap BTW. Who in the SEC is being fired for not catching this. There were TONS of people watching AIG--what? No one noticed? If if no one did, the people who should have caught this should be on their ass.)

You just leapfrogged Wacka, RkFast, Molson, Stupid Nation, Big Cat. I admire that. In case you don't get the point, I had a 401K when I was 21 and made $8/hour. The least paid people I employ make 40K/year and have 401Ks. edit. Add pBills.

And Obama bowls like a retard.

To the emphasized, where'd you get this?

If you're against the strip search, then you are for giving drugs to children. You can't have it both ways.

I am going to a talkie tonight.

Are you the same Russian predicting the US is going to splinter into 6 separate countries this year? It's April now right Dwight Drane? I'm sure one of your predictions will come true soon. Maybe even this one.

Today, King of All Blacks said the only market he invests in is Shoprite.

TE is a luxury. Most TEs suck. Bills biggest needs are pass-rusher and LB. Not sure the O-line holes are filled yet either. All of those are more important than TE unless there's some stud available.

It's not the plan driving it. It's that there IS a plan, that is at least in theory predictable, that is driving it.

I watched all the shows. It had problems throughout and episodes that often sucked. I still liked it and was happy that they wrapped it up, even with its flaws. Beats the hell out of a cancellation.

Tensions that lead to a shooting in a traffic stop? No excuses for this kind of thing.

The ownership change concerns me still but as a long time WSJ reader, I haven't seen much change. The Opinion page has hammered Obama/Geiner/Bernake consistently on their economic plans but that's deserved and would be the case no matter who owned it. Anyone who proposes that NPR is non-biased is on crack. I listen because they often have interesting stories but they are painfully, ear-bleedingly biased. Listening to NPR on election night 2004, my wife and I thought Kerry was pulling the upset. Then we switched to CNN's radio feed and CNN had already called the election for Bush. Just one example (of many).

WHY. IS. THE. POTUS. ON. LENO? Get to !@#$ing work you self-loving narcissist. Or maybe there's another on-air NCAA bracket to fill out? Jesus H. He probably J/Os in the mirror.