PastaJoe

He's probably in Washington lobbying the Congress to allow oil drilling in his backyard.

I should have mentioned that I was also assuming they would be given life in prison with no possiblity of parole as opposed to the death penalty.

I don't support the death penalty but would support castration for such a case.

McCain doesn't like Romney, and unfortunately for Romney the recent Mormon sect underage marriage problem might make it tough for evangelicals to support him if they generalize about his faith.

I'd be interested, I run a league myself and play in 3 total. Is there any fee or is it a free league? Are the rules posted anywhere?

If you're into it, Legoland is an amusement park north of San Diego that has amazing dioramas of cities and national landmarks. Great place to take the kids.

Driving to Cape May, the southernmost town in New Jersey on the Atlantic Ocean for a week of lying on the beach.

You know there's going to be alot of jokes already about the convention being in Minnesota, the infamous site of the Larry Craig wide stance.

I'm not sure about Christ, there's some rumors floating around about him that I won't repeat, but let's just say it wouldn't make him a favorite of Republicans.

Gadaffi, there's a reliable source of intelligence. He'd say anything to get back in U.S. good graces after blowing up Pan Am 103.

The name that comes up the most among the political talking heads is Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota. He's a Republican governor in a traditionally Democrat state, and he has connections with the evangelicals.

They have now leased 41 million acres of offshore leases. They're only pumping in 10.2 million of those acres. Seventy-nine percent of all the offshore oil available off the coast of Florida, into the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Coast, the Pacific Coast, lies within those acres that they now have. There's estimated to be a total of 54 billion barrels of oil at their disposal right now. The offshore leases they have are in deeper water, and while they have the technology to drill there and have done it, it costs more than if they were to drill closer to shore where the new areas being discussed are. It's all about them trying to maximize their profits, it has nothing to do with available sites with oil to drill. Instead of spending billions of dollars of their profits in stock buybacks, they could be using the profits to cover the cost of drilling in the currently leased deep water sites. Let them commit to fully develop those currently leased sites, and then we can discuss whether they need additional leases.

I DVR all the shows I watch, so I can skip past the commercials. And the Soprano episodes they show on weekend nights has some of the swearing left in.

The intelligence community said it was possible he was working on WMD, but their evidence was not conclusive. The Bush administration took the possible and sold it to the public as a certainty, especially the inferrence that he would have nuclear capabilities soon. That's why they got paranoid whenever their assersions were challenged by people like Joe Wilson.

Now the politicians are getting into the act: BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A member of an Iraqi city council shot at U.S. forces Monday outside Baghdad, killing at least three soldiers, two Iraqi Interior Ministry officials said. But the U.S. military said one coalition soldier and an "enemy" were killed and five others were wounded. The military said it is investigating. The Iraqi official fired an AK-47 at U.S. troops after they entered the City Council building in al-Madaen, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, according to one Interior Ministry official. The councilman killed at least three people and wounded four, a ministry official said. U.S. forces returned fire, killing the councilman, according to two Interior Ministry officials. The shooting happened after U.S. soldiers and local officials had attended a ceremony to open a park in al-Madaen, also known as Salman Pak, an Interior Ministry official said. In other violence, a mortar attack killed at least 10 people Sunday evening in northern Iraq, according to a military operations command in Diyala province.

The show is repeated on A&E weekdays at 10am. I never get why people will pay for DVDs of shows that are on tv anyways. It's like buying the Seinfeld DVDs; there's about 4 episodes on various stations every day.

The war was over years ago, Saddam was defeated. This is now an occupation of a country with internal political factions that don't like each other.

It's reverse psychology, they want a continuation of Bush's policies that have allowed them to maintain and increase their influence on the world stage. They figure Obama will reestablish American prestige and partnerships and be more effective against them. In their view, why change what works for them.

The first time I saw him was on the Tonight Show when he was doing Al Sleet, the hippy dippy weatherman. It's tough seeing all the comics I loved as a kid dieing off. Dick Martin from Laugh In, Rodney Dangerfield, now Carlin. I suppose Don Rickles and Jerry Lewis will be going soon too.

The rule is it has to be a little bigger than the one her last friend to get engaged got. It's all about flashing the bling to her friends, and if her's has a smaller diamond than a friend who got engaged before her, it shows that you don't love her as much.

Given that the candidates had similar views on most policy issues, if Obama had been getting something like 40% of the woman vote at the start of the primaries, and then woman thought she had a real chance and switched to giving Hillary 90%+ of the woman vote, then it would be sexism. Hillary supporters could vote for McCain for a number of reasons; military and foreign policy experience, they don't believe Obama has enough overall experience, they may be moderates who are concerned that Obama may be too liberal, and given that they don't know alot about him they may be concerned about what influence the people who he's associated with at his church have had on him.

I said during the primaries that the Obama supporters were falsely accusing the Clinton campaign of racism, and that Obama was getting 90%+ of black support because he was black, which in itself was a form of racism against the white candidate, but in the end all it got me was being falsely accused of being racist myself for pointing out those facts, so good luck with your argument.

Cindy McCain is starting to act like a Stepford Wife, just parroting the same lines over and over. And this was after Laura Bush came to Michelle Obama's defense and said she understands that Obama was talking about being proud of the political system. You would think that Cindy would be more sensitive given how her family was attacked by Bush operatives in 2000.

In case you're interested, round 1 of the NHL draft is tonight at 7pm on Versus. The Sabres have the 13th and 26th picks in the first round. Rumor is the Sabres would like to move up into the top of the draft to get a premium defenseman, and are looking to trade Afiniganov as part of a deal.

How's your Ostrich Inc. buggywhip business doing? Are you getting alot of customer calls on the partyline on your dial phone? Keeping track of your sales on your abacus?