UConn James

Don't you mean, gorilla-sh--? As I wrote, I think that may have been Phillip's strategy this week. Be the crazy dude that Rob (or whoever) wants to take to the final two. Then hope that the jury will have something else to consider by that time when they're making their votes. And speaking of the jury.... Anyone wonder what happens when players are in the limbo world of the jury? There's some video of David's first day at Ponderosa. I don't know about the Matt-Andrea connection. She voted against Matt; it was the one that sent him. That's probably a big part of why he was so shocked. How does he trust her again? At this point with all of the religion-talk --- Hey, we all get it. He's down with Jesus. That's cool. But why it literally have to be everything says? --- and when he said he doesn't really want to be in the game anymore, I'm really rooting for him to get his wish / God to deliver. Grant, above anyone else, will have the most to be pissed about if/when Rob's idol makes its appearance. That may be the tipping point. Unless Rob gives it to someone else, which would mitigate it a lot and buy some major loyalty, it's got the potential to be a albatross for him WRT the jury vote. Even if he lies flat-out, imagine Rob goes up to Grant and says, "Hey, I've been hearing your name being whispered. Now, don't get mad, but I've got something here...." And then he, Grant, and Natalie would, say, pick off Andrea. I think this would probably be the best use of it.

Touche. Like I've said, this is the first Survivor I've watched since its second season. I also watched one season until Rupert was axed. So it looks like, if it's played, it'll probably have to be at the first cut among the former Yellows, unless Steve or Ralph win an immunity or two. Definitely a possibility. They may go for Phillip first, just to get him out of there (or perhaps Andrea, if Rob can convince the others to do his bidding since he found out about her disloyalty), but once the remainder Purples are gone Rob has a big target on his back. His alliance with Natalie is going to be key; he needs to keep that strong. And one of them has to win immunities --- and so far since the merge, they've both been right there. Natalie has surprised me in that regard.

Or we could, you know, sign the actual Kevin Boss in free agency and not have to say "could be." (Despite the Giants' token tender, with four seasons, Boss will be an UFA when the new CBA is reached).

I think that final three may be what he's saving the immunity idol for.

What was Bashear trying to accomplish by showing a photo of Obama on a monkey, that was done by a person Breitbart, at least from his answer, has zero connection with? Ought they show pictures of Stalin's gulag when Obama is on and ask him about it? WTF? Besides that, Bashear can't conduct an interview to save his ass. He's supposed to be the moderator, and there he was talking over the dude half the time. One part especially, made some accusation, then told Breitbart to go ahead and answer, and then a second later Bashear starts in repeating the same accusation three times while the dude was trying to answer. Why the f--- does anyone on the right even bother going on MSNBC?

Not the Onion's best effort.... But really, I'm not sure why some Republicans are quite so rabid about it. The facts are that the Massachusetts legislature was going to pass a statewide near-universal health insurance bill with or without his input. His participation injected some fiscal stipulations that made it better. Not perfect, but better. He didn't agree with everything in it, nor does he wholly agree with how the administration of it has been tweaked under Deval Patrick, that has caused costs to increase. The system as originally designed was just about fiscally negligible. To reiterate, this was a state program, based on the conditions in Massachusetts. Romney never said this was a model for a national program. In fact, he said that it wouldn't work nationally, and that each other state should do what works for them based on their own conditions. I don't get how such a "state's rights" stance could be called un-Republican. He's called for a "repeal and replace" of the national system pushed through by the Democrats. If there is some blame in it, it's that Romney gave the left an inch and, predictably, they took an ell.

Well, I think Phillip is going to come back and have to start calling a lot of people racists for calling him crazy. Like many relationship issues, this all emanated from a small germ --- rice, in fact --- of miscommunication and the lack of communication. I sure as hell wouldn't want to mix good rice with questionable rice. I don't give a **** whether Ometepe members picked through that rice grain by grain, which they didn't. If the fungus/rot spreads, then all the rice is bad. Philip's own words: 'It's going bad on the blanket as we speak.' That was the time for Steve to say, "If it's going bad, then we're not putting it in with the good." That's not a chance you can take in a food scarcity situation. This was not Steve's argument, tho, at least from what was shown on camera; he said to wait until Ralph got back, then had the audacity to call Phillip crazy when Phillip was acting crazy and just wouldn't let it go. No one proposed to store the questionable rice in the cooking pots when they weren't being used. This could have been a practical argument, based in rationality, and it wasn't. Phillip claimed rationality, and well, I suppose he might have been if he had stopped at proposing to blend bad rice with good.... but he was also dead wrong. Then he took the "crazy" comment to its extreme and then injected the N word into it. Phillip's example of the WNY shopkeeper calling his father "boy" in 1968 is one thing --- clear racial disrespect that's meant to provoke. A grown man with a son is not a "boy." Steve's assessment isn't far off of the general consensus of Survivor watchers, and was a subjective and evidence-based valuation. Steve was in just about the most situation one can face.... Where everyone else doesn't want to call a spade a spade (e.g. Natalie: 'Well, I'm not a black man, so I couldn't say') lest they bring the spotlight on themselves. No one in an elimination game wants to do that. And the dude who's being called a racist now has to defend himself, usually with something like, "I have many black friends!' Nothing really settles once you're called a racist; it's like a fart waft that lingers around. Trying to prove a negative (in this case, that you aren't a racist) is an uphill climb. I can't say that I blame Steve here. It was a lack of communication, but against a person like Phillip, there's not much that arguing is going to do. Meanwhile, Rob again showed his puzzle prowess. Redemption's rules have changed with a triumvirate of competitors and eliminating one of the three each week, presumably until two are eliminated and the winner is merged back. Rob's gotta want to get rid of Matt and Mike in the worst way. Out of this week, tho, you have to think Rob might now be considering bringing Phillip to the final two. Phil just burned a lot of bridges tonight. He's unpopular among the remnants of Yellow, and he's now despised among the remnants of Purple. What's his angle? Maybe this is Phillip's strategy where he can get to the final three with Rob, then pick off Rob and hope that the third person becomes unpopular and this crazy episode is set aside.

As someone who just started watching "Doctor Who" last month and has loved every minute of it, I was really stunned by this yesterday. But... as a time traveler, her linear path has come to an end, but her story isn't over. She'll be fighting Daleks and Cybermen to save the universe in the 33rd century and a billion years from now. RIP. Cancer sucks! They really seemed to wrap up those characters' plotlines in the final David Tennant appearance, i.e. he saved Sarah Jane's son from being hit by a car, he bought Donna a winning lottery ticket. It seemed like they went for closure there. I'm still in the middle of last season, so I don't know if she made a cameo with Matt Smith's 11th Doctor.... But I'm sure there will be something done for the season premiere on Saturday. This close to airing, though, it might just be a note and a picture at the close of the ep.

Hmm. Looks like Andre got bumped. They now write that he will be announcing the 2nd round pick. No mention about the #3. Methinks Goodell probably wants the stage presence. Link

I'm antenna-only, but there's not a lot of congruence with the Patriettes* games this season, which the local carriers are contracted to show. So, while time-slots dictate that there is now a chance they'll show Bills games, there's also a very good chance the local broadcasters go with Ravens-Colts, etc. This may be the only way to see 'em outside of the pub for those of us without DTV, as the NFL and the govt have cracked down on streaming. But hey, if they're not on, I've got plenty of other things to do. I don't watch pre-game, and skipped probably 6 games last year, and you know what, I felt fine. Made it a little easier to let go of something that with players in headlines today is harder and harder to support. See, that's the thing with exclu$ivity. Make people not watch your product, and they won't watch your ads either. Or buy your clothing, or video games, or ....

... But there is the specter of being called "President The Donald." That second video is . Beyond telling OPEC that their "fun is over," what is he going to do? What is he going to do? Even with the U.S. military at your command, you can only deliver vagueries for so long before someone calls your bluff. And considering our position at the moment, that will be the second sentence from OPEC. Commandeering Libya's oil fields is such a colossally stupid idea I cringe just typing it --- and to "reimburse ourselves" for what? $1.5 trillion would rebuild our country? Uhm... no. Nevermind the fundamental question why the rebels that are tentatively being supported in Libya would just give us their oil to cover our costs for Iraq. That's like me helping someone carry a couch in their house down the street, and then expecting them to pay for the fridge, stove and dishwasher I bought for my my house four years ago. Who the hell is The Donald's adviser? Look, Obama's in over his head and out-Jimmy-Cartering Jimmy Carter. Most people can now see that. But Trump is just flailing here.

Uhm, that's a picture I first posted in this thread a little after the initial announcement. It is not a leaked photo of the design. It was created by someone on the Chris Creamer sports logos message board. That person does not have any affiliations and said so when they posted it; they simply made a mock-up based on the descriptors and hints in the Bills' announcement. Just looking at the graphic quality, one can tell that it is by no means professional. That said, the broader design isn't bad. And it is certainly 98.7 percent better than the current unis (then again, a 1/8" layer of dog poop would be a 77.9 percent improvement on the current unis).

The Super Bowl champs host opening night.

I don't get why Trump is talking about "success at building a company." Then relating that to the U.S.'s current problem and what it needs in a president --- someone who can build a company. The U.S. isn't a start-up. The structure's in place already. It's an old company that got royally f---ed up by politicians of the last 60 years. We need people who can come in, cut a lot of largesse and reset the course to profitability, remove some of the fear instilled by policies, and get citizens to want to do things (read: spend money) again. Right now, everyone with an ability to change the direction of the economy is on their back heels, waiting to see what the hell is going to happen. I don't think Trump's argument that Mitt Romney didn't "build" companies from the ground up hurts. It's rather a credit. Romney stepped in at the Salt Lake City Olympics that was besieged with graft, corruption, missed construction deadlines, etc. and pulled off a decent Games. He finally said something about getting the Mass DOT head removed for incompetence (which constitutionally had to be done by the legislature), and stepped in at the Big Dig with the tunnel collapse. He directed resources with the epic dam flooding in 2005 and got out of the way. This country doesn't need a leader who reinvents the wheel. It needs someone who realizes the wheel of the economy is pushed easier when it's on its edge than when its lying flat on the ground. Trump is all about bravado and balls. I'd rather have someone with a brain.

"I'm privately convinced that most of the really bad writing the world's ever seen has been done under the influence of what's called inspiration. Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time." -- Shelby Foote I would insert near the end, " --- and knowing the consequences of the ideas that you're writing --- ..."

I hardly think the Bills or any design firm would be using a plastic doll action figure to display their ware. First off, because that's not how it's done and second, I would imagine there are legal issues with using the doll action figure in such a manner (or at least invites lawyers to throw things up in an infringement case to see what sticks). You can tell by the facemask this is one of the Drew Bledsoe line from shortly after he signed with the Bills. There is a sect of people who paint McFarlane figures for their own amusement. Oftentimes, it's things like throwback uniform versions that haven't been released. Sometimes, it's someone doing their own take on things. This is just a higher level of the raster mock-ups fans/graphics junkies create. Even as those go, this is terribly designed. Personally, I'd rather focus my energy on different pursuits, but Thomas Jefferson's "pursuit of happiness" idea is as varied as the number of souls out there. I put zero stock in this. Zero.

There's a time and place. On the marble of the National Library of Switzerland in the middle of the day isn't either. My uncle always used to call out "Hey! Let go of that snake!!!" in situations of the like when we visited in Maine and after piling out of the car, found a tree that looked ammonia-deficient.

Yeah, that's it. Don't expect AR to get too far off cultural stereotypes. I could've done that, in a pinch. The eating challenges in the few seasons I've seen aren't to be taken lightly. Favorite part (and by favorite, I mean ) was when one of the Globetrotters (Flight Time? It was the smaller one) says he has to pee. And in the next scene, we see him standing next to the marble building as Kent and Vixen are running past. Seriously, dude couldn't think to ask where the toilet was when they were done with the couch? Just pisses against the side of the building in broad daylight? You stay classy, Globetrotters!!

Just a question Frostbelt... do you wake up every morning and kick yourself in the balls, too?

Dude on the right is a dead ringer for Wolf Blitzer, a known Jew. Guilt by doppelganger, sez Dexter!

+1. 1 - Oooooh! 2 - That make his tattoo a tramp stamp, right? Any dude who gets a tat in that spot should automatically have to send in his man card --- and not in standard mail; we're talking express overnight. It's just wrong.

What's wrong with that? WNY actually wants to attract businesses and jobs, right? The project is for $1.7M. I'm sure they'll make it back soon enough in myriad ways. I know a restaurateur here in CT who had to pay $800 for one 'dedicated handwashing sink.' Now, the sink and installation didn't cost that much, it was the $600 inspection fee for that sink and a tiny little sticker. A new business opening is like found money for govt entities. They're not going to be losing in this. If they have to do a small initial giveback as an incentive, what's the problem?

... unless the Chinese's answer to the most important question of our time is "Picard."

Just so! Nevertheless, 42 is the answer.

Actually... it's 42.