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I know of the quote to which you are referring. I don't have any particular knowledge of this guy, but I have to believe he was employing a metaphor to describe the impact on the islands economy, environment, etc. If he wasn't then there might actually be someone dumber than Palin or Bachman out there at the moment.

They've become convinced that gays are the bigger threat. That being the case, maybe we could airdrop the casts of Rent and La Cage a Faux into enemy territory.

First, I didn't mean to be so snotty. But basically, the deterrence was needed for countries with nukes, primarily the USSR.

You've missed something.

You know he could change his mind right? Or we could bomb the holy hell out of them using conventional weapons without irradiating everyone in Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Would that make you happy? This is about as silly as when we "pointed" our nukes away from Russia, as if there wasn't someone poised to load in the coordinates at a moments notice. We can change our posture at any time. But even with such a meaningless gesture, I can't believe people are so up in arms about it. It's like we turned into a bunch of surrender monkeys with only a few thousand nuclear weapons that we will try our hardest not to use. USA = p*ssies!

Seriously - wtf? Buffalo has to be one of their biggest per capita fan bases in the states.

I think he meant the infrastructure bits like phone lines, etc. Like I mentioned earlier, if I recall correctly (and I could be mistaken) many of the mechanisms that bring connectivity to our homes were in part subsidized by public funding.

It's called 'regulation' and we have all sorts of it in place for companies on which the public relies. As I mentioned, 'finding another' may not be an option for some people. Starting your own is probably not either. And I'm inclined to believe that when our taxes help fund things like phone lines, cable lines, and fiber optic lines that carry the signals, then yeah, we ought to get some say (mind you not all lines were subsidized by taxes but IIRC many were). edit: And I want to be clear I don't care if a company limits your bandwidth, puts on caps, etc. I'm talking specifically about limiting your abililty to access sites/servers based upon their particular interests.

I agree with some of what you are saying, but the flip side could protect consumers could it not? What if your area only has 1 viable option for ISP? While that may be less of a concern down the road, it's very real now, at least in terms of broadband availability in some areas. Net neutrality would make sure your ISP can't block traffic from Google if it has some sweetheart deal with MS for example.

Ended up going to Irish Carbonic on Clinton. They were open before 9. What can I say - I was thirsty!

Ding! I have a 5lb tank and was hoping someone might know of a welding supply place that's open on Saturday and does refill's.

Anyone know of a place that does CO2 refills and might be open on a Saturday?

Too funny. Actually my sister told me her part was cut, so I wasn't watching for her. I'm gonna check the DVR later to her if I can spot her.

My niece had a bit part in that episode. She played Bucky's granddaughter. edit: LOL - just spoke with my sister. I guess she was in it too. I didn't even notice.

Wow - very sorry to hear that. I hope your family is able to pull through these trying times.

Seriously. I think he just regurgitated every possible sports cliche and platitude he could think of while in front of the mic.

I was hoping AD would answer, but I assumed that's what he meant. I was stationed there in 91-92, but never took the tour. They said it was a pain in the ass and boring.

In NK? Care to elaborate? edit: I'm assuming you meant Panmumjom, no?

You know what I hate? Redundancy.

I would guess 'Tebow' is some Americanized bastardization of 'Thibault' and he is actually French.

The Chinese would disagree...

So long as you don't teach your kids how to spell...

That's mighty white of you.

I'm not being cruel because of your race, but rather your blatant stupidity.