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USN '77-81.

Yeah, what the heck would some stupid football player know about the game of football anyhow- better to check with the fans and the media to get the real low down!

There's no doubt Clements/McNally like some skills in space from their linemen and Smith just doesn't have the feet to do it, although as a pure pass blocker in the middle he performed far better than what we were used to starting the season at LG. Teague is so good on the move that it shouldn't be any surprise that they want to keep him in the middle where he can quickly get outside blocks to either side for Willis (the thing he was doing so well prior to getting dinged up). While the quality of our line players is being upgraded in most fan's minds right now, I'm more inclined to credit the staff with teaching a whole new system to a decent talent base, finally finding the right pegs for the appropriate holes, and as important as either of those factors accepting that the very deliberative running style of Willis McGahee makes our run blocking appear to be much more effective (when in fact it's no different than the blocking they provide for Travis). The promise in all this is that we've suffered through recent seasons when the coaching staff didn't seem able to think on their feet during the season to make the types of adjustments Mularkey and staff have begun to undertake. Now I just need to convince them to let someone other than Nate return punts ;-)

I had Ginger (Peter) in a seminar I gave maybe a dozen years ago and he couldn't even carry on a conversation at that time without reading lips. I'd think it could be somewhat of a challenge for him to do a live gig today with any precision.

I was there also. That guy was set up for the stunt with gloves and the right clothing for negotiating the wire. I beelive he got thumped pretty good when they finally got him on the edge and pulled him over.

Simply based upon the fact that the station employs Chuck Dickerson- not a chance. We've got a blowhard columnist in LA (TJ Simers) who subscribes to the same school of journalism and it's pathetic. It's possible to lose all credibility with one single, yet IMO catastrophic, decision.

You might take a look at Kwajalein, one of 7 major beach invasions my father landed on during WWII. Not only was it basically the Chicamuaga of the Pacific theatre, it was also possibly the most dramatic example during that war of a battle we had little or no reason to engage in.

It's impossible for me to imagine anyone thinking it is reasonable to call for an absentee ballot ONE WEEK prior to an election and then becoming aggravated when it doesn't arrive? Is this your first experience dealing with the union employees of a State in our Union? Have you ever, under any cricumstances either state or nationally had something done by State or Federal workers with the efficiency we are used to from 7-11 employees? Not me, not in Florida or New York or Texas or Georgia or Illinois or California. Good god man, there's union mandated coffee breaks and rules to keep complete slackers from being fired, not to mention special sick days given whether you're sick or not and of course family leave! This is NOT a free enterprise system, it's the wonders of government! I am flabergasted that an adult in our society could honestly believe that with 7 days before an election billed as the Mother of All Elections you could "place a call" to a state agency and have an absentee ballot appear in time for you to complete it and THEN get it back in time for it to be counted. Perhaps I'm missing a key component of your experience, if so please fill me in.

Expanded voting windows increase the temptation of irregularities. The Illinois Democratic Party is already famous for getting multiple votes from the same voter, whether they be alive or dead. Addiitonal days will prove to invite far more in the way of cheating, and in some states like CA this year, where you merely give your name when you show up to vote with no identification of any kind required, thousands of cases of multiple voting will likely be discovered if an investigation is performed. I wouldn't wait though for the Los Angeles Times to undertake it. In States like Ohio wehre Dems were trading crack cocaine for registrations it's safe to assume the same is true.

I must have become disoriented by those buckets of water in your hands with the Jack-Asses painted on them ;-)

The new ballot technologies are a direct result of the Democratic tactic of dividing Americans in the last ( and other previous ) elections by suggesting minorities were "disenfranchised" by using paper ballots. The resultant overreaction to an incredibly reliable system, possibly the most reliable ever devised, is the absolutely idiotic reaction we take to other hypocritical garbage from the left- we changed them out for electronic devices. Because, of course, nothing bad can happen with electronics! Stop whining, bitching, crying, getting your way and then whining, bitching a crying about THAT! Talk about the skunks who cried wolf! Enough with your hypocrisy, you're a member of a diminishing group of crybabys who obviously have learned nothing from the repeated ass-whippings your candidates are taking on a national level. Your base is diminishing because your garbage of scaring minorities and old people through your cronies in the MSM is being supplanted by the new information age offering news alternatives on the internet and talk radio. The elderly, with an understandable resistance to technology, are the last people you can still scare without there being a counterpoint- but that base is diminishing. Your lies and distortions and crybaby garbage about "they're attacking us" after you spent a full year and nearly 1 billion dollars calling Bush a liar and an idiot is beyond hypocrisy. Hopefully the new leftists who replace your tired, sorry and losing agenda will be a bit more genuine with the American people down the road. That might even lead to the left winning an occasional election.

Massachusetts Pride: John and Teddy until Death do they Part! I'm feeling better about California already! Thanks!

This elections losers' continued attacks on President Bush show a fundamental lack of understanding why the left continues it's quest for political obscurity. Let me help you: With over 500 million dollars spent proclaiming Bush a knucklehead and a liar, polls consistently show 60 to 65 pecent of Americans believe he's an honest, capable and decent guy. Might the left have better spent that 500 mil? If you need time to think about it you're a true knucklehead. Now, even after Americans have spoken on the issue, the whiners from the left CONTINUE with their failed campaign to paint Bush as an idiot. Your attempts to disprove the old adage about putting your hands in the fire are humorous but to some degree quite pathetic. But maybe we can get behind some government proposal to get you some asbstos mitts- well, maybe not. I beleive you've had those done away with ;-)

Possibly the reason he refuesed to file the 180: Kerry's Military Record Problem

Uncomfortable in his own skin Kerry made a run for it with the shameless and illegal help in some cases of a media that will never IMO recover from the bias they showed this time. CBS has already paid a major price and the circulation of the worst of the print media continues to decline. Many Americans who want to actually discuss issues with others opinions considered have chosen the AM radio dial and the internet. For some reason the base of the left does not appear to have the stomach to actually debate issues with some content, instead their "talk radio" shows require funding from people like Soros just to stay on the air because frankly advertisers prefer someone with an audience. The yearning for something more than a CBS soundblight or a CNN 20 second spot, the desire to discuss the differing sides of a subject apparently is nearly wholly a concept that either attracts more right-leaning persons or at the least leads them to vote that way after that consideration. It might get back to the same thing I mentioned in another topic- the answers from the left have become the same for all questions- spend more money and get that money by taxing the rich. Americans are no longer buying it.

Maybe I've overestimated the likelihood that the libs will make some comeback because that's one of the stupidest and most arrogant assumptions I've ever heard. Not to mention that it's false- the fact is that college-educated voters split 52-47 for Bush in this cycle. Maybe there is a divide, a divide between decent people and arrogant, pompous jack-asses who seem determined to let that pomposity stand between themselves and any shot at political relevance. But hey, it's a free country ;-)

I typically will give the benefit of the doubt as far as intelligence goes to Yale graduates who go on to get their MBAs at Harvard. As far as elocution is concerned I've heard Ruth Bader Ginsberg babbling like a 9-month old baby so I'll assume both sides offer some acknowledgement that we're not gifted with Will Roger's linguistic artistry.

It seems like the people saying the country is divided are the same people who are grasping onto the slide into insignificance the Democratic Party has been on for at minimum the last 12 years. Does not the fact that the the citizens of the United States ( through our constitutionally protected voting process ) electing the Republicans to control EVERYTHING prove that there's no divide? Would not a Dem run White House with a Republican House and Senate indicate more of a "divided" country? Or a Republican White House and Senate with a Dem House? The evidence appears to say that the Country has never been so UNITED since 1936, the last time we had circumstances similar to this year when one party so historically reinforced their power. Some try to characterize a regional type of divide, something that might also be seen as a divide between those who reside in big cities and demand the government spend lots of money to provide them services/members of Labor Unions versus all the rest of the citizens of the country. IMO that appears to be more of a choice than some type of division to this resident of the second largest city in the United States. I can't support the word "divide" when it comes only from the people who are losing election after election. Perhaps going back the the drawing board and deciding whether there has been too much of a drift away from the mainstream American set of ideals and trying to recover from some self-inflicted sense of entitlement might be a better way to recover than this embarrassing public display of denial about their diminished influence.

It's the essence of the two party system to have the choices in most instances come out close- it's what protects us from either of those parties going too far with ideas that are unpopular. It's another of our checks and balances that don't happen in a parliamentary system where radicals can get into the govenment and make deals to forward their radical agendas through power sharing coalitions. It's effect keeps our government more mainstream. The divide in the country is only the declining significance of the Democrat message, and if the Dems would like to get back in the race they'll have to make adjustments. Pondering why the public is rejecting them while they "own the issues" isn't going to do it IMO.

I don't buy that "divided country" theory. It seems to me if you truly believe it you would also have to accept that the election results prove it's "less divided" than it was 4 years ago. More and more citizens are choosing the message of the right, and the right has been rewarded with control of EVERYTHING in return for the populations adoption of their message. Another huge factor in this "divide" is the last gasps of the liberal media. War is difficult and controversial yes, but imagine this election with a truly unbiased media- imagine the Los Angeles and New York Times NOT for all intents and purposes running their own free, full time campaigns for Kerry for the months leading up to the election. Imagine Networks like CBS NOT brainwashing citizens with their biased tripe, fabricated evidence and reckless reporting. Imagine a level playing field from the media standpoint and I believe you'd see even more historic numbers in retrospect. I'm with Brandon as I said before on the "issues"- I believe it's exactly the thing that is killing the left. Here's my test- do you have a new idea of improving America or is does your answer to every challenge include the need to spend more money? Because it seems every hot issue today: Education, Health Care, Social Security, etc. is answered in the same way by the Democrats- we'll spend more money. And the next question is "where do we get that money" with the answer "We'll tax the rich". That isn't an answer that is resonating with our populace anymore. Tired message, stale answer: I think the left needs a whole new attitude. Check out the opening of this column: One Perspective

If the issues were in any way on their side I can't find a logical explantion for the current state of our politics. Yesterday the electorate in the United States followed the trend over the past 25 years of growing the power of the right. To me the only chance the left has of a swift recovery is to immediately abandon exactly what you are suggesting- that they have the issues on their side. Gay Marriage. I'm sure I don't need to elaborate. Health Care is a red herring- for some reason the left keeps thumping on an issue they don't actually own because a large number of voters realize all their proposals are astronomically unaffordable. So they spend time and money on pursuing it while by the time voters enter the ballot booth it doesn't end up cutting their way- even in our granola-eating 5-second attention span home State the "government" health care plan on our ballot yesterday was voted down. By the same people who voted Gray Davis into power ;-) Education. This is my biggest gripe with the left. Only a monster would stand in the way of children getting the best education possible. And the Teacher's Union and their political beneficiaries in the Democratic Party are exactly that- monsters- for obstructing competitive experiments like vouchers. The argument that "they might choose a religious school" is insane- the choice is between an awful public school education or the kids get 45 minutes of Cain and Abel every day makes that choice incredibly clear. Dems only THINK they own the education issue- if education was the #1 topic of the '08 election the public is plenty smart enough to see that Dems and the Teacher's Unions are far more interested in self-preservation than the quality of eduction our children get, and I don't see the issue playing out as "favorable" to them if the spotlight were put on the type of monsters they are for denying it just to pad Democratic coffers and keep a system that is beyond repair fully greased with money. It's proven that private schools can offer children BETTER education with LESS money per student, and standing in the way of that is hardly being on the right side of the education issue. If the left is to halt their continuing slide into insignificance they must either admit who they are (like conservatives did starting with Reagan), stand up and say "I'm liberal and proud of it", or they must move to the middle. The little smoke and mirror job Schrum and McCullum tried to pull with the very liberal Kerry fooled very few centrist Americans in the end.

I haven't gone to the Westminster Bill's Bar but I've heard good things- maybe you can clarify MVP Sports Grill 14160 Beach Boulevard, Westminster, CA 92683

You might find the Lion's Den to your liking. It's close to John Wayne Airport.

Tell me, honestly- does your babysitter know you're still awake?

Still waiting- I'm sure if you sit there long enough you can coax one out! If not there's plenty of products that will assist you in your venture, let me recommend starting simply with some added fiber?