John Adams

Suddenly started working. I've been clicking the login button for 45 minutes and it just clicked into the game.

Thanks for the confirmation. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't me. FWIW, alst year there were huge weeks 1 and 2 problems. By week 3, it was working OK

Anyone else having ALL SORTS of problems? I'm getting bad password, followed by HTTP request timeouts, followed by many others.

Seriously? SERIOUSLY? ARE YOU !@#$ING KIDDING ME? S.E.R.I.O.U.S.L.Y?

All the re-shuffling of the line in the next 2-3 weeks is going to wreak havoc. Thanks a lot Jason.

Mods: please ban me before I break all the rules.

Nationalizing Freddie and Fannie will render the shares valueless. It's a good step, as long as the next steps are to break them up and put them out on the market for bidding, letting the government get out of the mortgage business. We'll see. Not sure what the plan is but Paulson likes the government's involvement in the Macs.

When the difference was between McCain's "stay 100 years if necessary" and Obama's "timetable," I preferred Obama's position. In the interim, Obama slid and started saying that he'd trust his commanders and leave when stability allowed or some mealy-mouthed thing. But now that there is a rough timetable and the Iraqis want us out, both candidates have about the same position: leave when the Iraqis ask us to. That's about 2010, which is fine with me. Since there's little difference in the candidate's position now, it's not a convincing issue for me.

As that issue slid off the table, so did my potential vote for Obama. His aggressiveness on withdrawing from Iraq was one of the few important issues I agreed with him on.

StupidNation is in here too. If Molson and Wacka enter, can we lock them in and throw away the key?

The Seahawks are a good defensive team, especially the line. They will get after Edwards.

RIP Bill.

How did you ever get "employees" with that substandard education?

You sound like a total stupid head.

Not "my" candidate Ahab. I could care less about someone's academic history.

Nuh uh. It's about how many years it took to graduate. That's the measure of intellect. Or how many colleges attended. What's Palin's Wonderlic? [My Bud Abbot voice asks that question.]

Then she is dumb. QED.

Defining people as smart by the colleges they attend is almost (but not quite) as dumb as defining people as dumb for taking more than 4 years to get an undergrad degree. So you get silver to JK's gold in this thread.

I worked with a restaurant that got a notice from ASCAP regarding playing music in their restaurant. They had to sign up to get a license to publicly play the music in the restaurant. I don't remember the terms exactly but it was pretty straightforward and no significant limitations, as long as they paid the fee, which struck me as high. The restaurant just decided not to play music. It's been a few years since that came up. Regarding Barracuda, I don't think Heart has done anything except to ask the RNC not to play the music. As long as the RNC has paid for the right to publicly play the song, Heart doesn't have much juice. I don't know any of the specifics. Some 170 possible ASCAP licenses you can sign up for are here. http://www.ascap.com/licensing/generallicensing.html

What a pressing presidential issue. THIS is important to you. Besides being unbelievably ignorant of science, you are charged up about teaching ID in science. Fine, I hope public schools spend 10 years teaching ID. People like you why public schools are disgrace.

Guess I missed the "punished with a baby" line. I don't think the pro-life crowd is nuts.

Way to focus on things that matter. Keep it up.

The real story here is that you're back. How awesome.

So you think he counted all the towns, or was just making the point that there are a lot of small towns? Ever heard someone say, "There are a zillion___s in the world." Maybe he was making a point. Or maybe he's a guy who can't count. Or maybe he's an evil Republican shill who lied to overexaggerate a point that will help him take over the world.

Lots of creationist evangelicals are happy nuts. She will give an awesome underdog speech tonight. The crowd will go wild. It will be all over the news tomorrow.