Rob's House

Apple didn't make that happen; someone else (gator?) did. I agree with you. I'm just waiting for someone to come up with a better system. So far I've yet to hear one. It's easy to say x isn't fair. What's not so easy is to come up with a solution that actually works without causing more harm than good in the process.

He's fun to drink beer with. And he can't get over on me because I know who I'm dealing with, and he knows I know. Plus, he's a guy to go to the bar or river with, not someone you have over to a couples dinner party.

Why isn't Hillary held to the same standard as Bob McDonnell? http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/387154/mcdonnells-go-down-nearly-all-felony-counts-tim-cavanaugh

Not only that; you can call anyone who disagrees with you a brain dead !@#$ing retard and no one will mind (except maybe the guy you called a retard).

That's exactly what he does. If he were doing it as comedy I wouldn't have a problem with it, but he uses these misrepresentations (which is just a nicer word for lies) and uses them to advance a serious political agenda among his ignorant fan base.* Then when confronted with his irresponsible behavior he hides behind his "fake news" front. I do think he's more fair minded than most political commentators and that he has great stage presence and comedic talent. But despite his talent I'd say he's still wildly overrated (in fairness, I don't think anyone's ever been worthy of the hype he gets) and he's a dishonest political commentator.

I got you. I agree that it's futile to try to change the minds of others. Most of the time people don't even agree on a common goal before arguing how to get to it.

I don't have any problem with that. Your post seemed to impute the words of some (*^*&%^$^#you work with to conservatives generally, and seemed to imply that anyone right of center is Rick Santorum. It may not have been your intent, but I took your line about empathy to mean that fiscal conservatives who don't support liberal "solutions" do so out of a lack of empathy for their fellow man; which is the logical equivalent of saying if you don't support making EJ the starter that you don't care about the Bills.

Your political analysis sounds pretty shallow and stereotypical, which is unfortunate because your football analysis is usually pretty good. Perhaps your political beliefs have more to do with your identity than any objective observations or reasoning.

I don't see a guy of his size succeeding in the NFL. He should've stuck with basketball.

Actually you didn't. You've simply validated his initial assesrtion. Despite being a liberal you parade as a conservative, ostensibly because you lack the balls to argue from your true position.

WE are doing no such thing.

Whenever I hear a white person outraged by some unsubstantiated accusation of racism, all I hear is "I'm not racist! I'm just a douche bag!"

I agree that the cover up can make the situation as a whole worse, but I can think of very few examples where the cover up is actually worse than the underlying offense (and in the instances I can think of the cover up included criminal activity separate from the underlying act).

What's your rationale? Agreed. I think that's much worse than denying it after the fact or refusing to hand over his phone.

I know people are fond of saying "the cover up is worse than the crime." That's never made much sense to me. The crime is the issue.

I don't quite fit the profile, but I suppose I'm close enough to offer an answer. I've railed against Brady and the Pats* pretty hard for the last decade. Watching them lose SBs to the Giants was almost as good as watching the Bills win. The arrogance of those guys (particularly in 07) really turned my stomach. But despite all that, I think this "deflategate" thing has gotten blown way out of proportion. I'd probably feel a lot more stronly about it if it weren't the Pats*. If we lost a 1st & 4th because FJ was wearing longer cleats than the rules allow I'd be livid. I think it's important to keep things in perspective lest we one day find the show is on the other foot.

I don't care what the predictions say, but I am curious why there's so much hype around Miami. Maybe I'll look foolish by season's end but I think 8-8 would be good for them. I just don't see the massive improvement over last year.

We have a winner.

I would have thought you guys would have learned your lesson about jumping to conclusions the first time around.

Not with a name like Huckabee. Regardless of how you feel about an issue, when your argument is reduced to using euphemisms to obscure the reality of what you're discussing, it might be a good idea to consider why you have to do so.

I thought she looked ok back when Bill first ran for Prez. Time has been a merciless bastard since then.

And every poster has a right to be a self-righteous blow hard.

I just finished the series last night. I have mixed feelings about the show and some of it's turns, but overall I thought it was a good, but maybe a tad shy of great, series. I thought the brutality of the show was a but of a two edged sword. The torture, maiming, and anguish were intriguing, but in a very disturbing way. For example, the episode where we see Chucky with his fingers cut off bothered me for days. But it also pulled me back into a series I'd started to lose interest in. Either way, the violence was gratuitous enough that I do think that despite some quality storytelling it bordered on "gore porn". Over the final two seasons I really grew to hate Jax. I don't know if that was the writer's intent, but his arrogance got to the point of a serious God complex. He annointed himself the arbiter of justice and basically killed anyone who failed to live up to a standard he himself didn't live up to. And even though I thought Gemma deserved to die, it didn't sit well with me that Jax did it. She was still his mom. Jnowing he did it as revenge on her for Tara, (who I never cared for to begin with) just made it worse. It was just wrong on so many levels. By the end of the series the only character I still liked was Unser (the guy with the world's longest known case of terminal cancer) and Jax killed him for little more than convenience. That really cemented what a piece of **** he had become. How he did Juice was pretty !@#$ed up too. I'd have rather seen him summarily executed by SOA or handed over to the Chinese as a peace offering, but the ending was still preferable to him turning over a new leaf and living happily ever after, or going on the lam to start over. And they tied up all the loose ends Pretty nicely, so as a whole I thought it was a good end to a good series. And I appreciate them for ending it when they did and not trying to stretch another season out of it.

You have no idea what's in his phone. There are very good reasons why someone wouldn't hand over his phone regardless of whether it implicated him in the immediate investigation.

I don't know if they should hold themselves to beyond a reasonable doubt, but clear and convincing evidence at a minimum would be more appropriate IMO.