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So, does that include resigning as head coach? I mean... he can still be our head sideline hand-clapper if he wants. Wouldn't want to take that away from him. Seriously, this is a last-ditch effort for a dude who's done the best he can for the Bills (and "the best he can" sucks). Unless DJ totally turns around his mannerism of offense in the NFL as not much more than getting good field position for the defense, gets some testicular fortitude and smarts re: play-calling, challenge flags, believing in/challenging his players on 4th & 1 rather than demurring, and demanding his players perform better or else, then at best, this is just going to be a lot of money pocketed by an aging receiver. At worst, it's going to get really ugly, really fast and DJ will have signed his own pink slip right c'here.

This is about the best link I'm coming up with for the Temple glyphs. Doesn't appear to be anything really definitive on what goes on in there, just some nebulous terms. But among the translations, the one by "breasts malone" is interesting... With the "lift up" phrase similar to what Desmond said to Jack at their meeting in the stadium: Des: You have to lift it up Jack: What? Des: Your foot. You have to lift it up. ... I'll see you in another life, brother. Des's ubiquitous phrase is not for nothing. And neither are certain other phrases that have resonance to the main characters. Many times it's kind of like Des after he turned the key; it's their first time either in replay or having a 'constant'-like experience of knowing in the past what happens in the future... but they just don't realize that it is a replay or a memory (of something that hasn't happened yet). And BTW.... I had three discrete-event nosebleeds today. Would anybody here mind being my constant?

IIRC, those ones said, "Death." Which would seem to go along with Charlotte's "This place is death!" don't you know. The glyphs on the Temple were scattered around, not in any real order. I'll have to check into it again, tho.

Nope. If I had to pick someone out as an arbitrator, I'd go with Eloise Hawking. As I wrote upthread, her role in the lighthouse seems to be to get everyone to where they need to be. Widmore knows her / has her address and some speculate that she is Penny's mother, in addition to Daniel (whom Widmore financed). At the same time, she worked with Ben to set him and the O6 up with a ride back to the island (tho, she did make some commentary on his character). She's kind of like a Time Cop, if you will. The glyphs we have seen (on the Temple wall) don't say much of anything.

That's sh--. They should be suing any of the participants in the brawl... but seeing as they probably can't be ID'ed the ambulance-chaser is going after the team. The same way they couldn't find security, security couldn't find them. And unless teams are supposed to spend huge dollars employing 6,000 guards per game just for outside of the stadium.... Very slippery slope to make the team accountable for all the collective actions of its fans. If some dude pissed on my suit in the bathroom at the stadium during the blackout, do I get to sue the concessions? The electric company? The makers of the mylan balloons? If my house gets robbed, do I get to sue the police or the store that's across the street? I mean, they obviously didn't do enough for me. They need to spend $400M to hire everyone in town as officers 24/7 to make sure I don't get robbed ever again! Yeah, that sounds good. And they should pay for my ADT... and a personal bodyguard... pepper spray and one of those big Maglites. I'm sorry that this dude and his wife were subjected to this and if I were there, I would've tried to help them. (And this incident is just another example of how personal security is self-help. If this guy was carrying (if NYS had concealed-carry laws, this likely would've been over in about 10 seconds with the great equalizer). But I just fail to see how the Bills should have to pay for the actions of a few sh--head people who were in the lots after the game. Find those people. Sue those people. They are responsible for your beat-down. Billy the Buffalo didn't punch you, and Ralph didn't drive over you with his Taurus. Instead, the lawyer goes after the faceless easily-identifiable organization that has money. B/c in this country, they have nothing to lose for filing this crap.

I've seen a few people posit guesses which it is based on traditional depictions in drawings/statues/etc.... We haven't seen the front yet, but that looks to be the closest fit. The others either had staffs where the statue seemed to be holding two ankhs, different hats / headresses, or slightly off physical appearance with ears or hair. In addition to the "full frontal" view, we have also to learn what destroyed it and when (and to what effect). My thoughts with 'conception and delivery on the island' (we have seen Claire and Sun who've done one or the other, but not both parts of pregnancy) are that something with the Lostaways-turned-DIs may do (see: Juliet) will cause the problem that she will later be brought in by the Others to solve. I don't specifically remember a quote like that either. Doesn't mean it hasn't happened, (if it did, it was likely in S3), but I don't remember hearing anything about how Jack is not 'supposed' to be on the island. And even if this has been said, by logic, you could say that Jack isn't on Jacob's list b/c he is Jacob.

Another good link: EW: 'Lost' recap: Settling into a groove

Some pretty good links... (esp. the first two) 'Lost' Aftergasm: The Many Faces of James Ford 'Lost': Brush up on your Egyptian Last night's 'Lost': Dharmistice From the first link, something that's tossed in at the end as an afterthought... For both of them, waking up on the couch is tantamount to coming to their senses after a spell of dumb behavior. For Sawyer, it's as Miles said, running b/w the Orchid, the beach camp, etc and waiting for something to happen was their only 'plan.' When Sawyer wakes up on the couch (and I was saying to myself, "Hey! My parents had curtains in the basement windows with almost that same corduroy-ish pattern!) he has a plan... unfortunately, the plan is to wait rather than run. Conduct searches for the other few remaining lostaways (e.g. Bernard & Rose --- my theory, as it's been since early on, is that they are "Adam and Eve" in the caves.... Explained that when Daniel goes into the DI construction site for the Orchid to presumably send them back to 2004, B&R get left behind either by choice or b/c they can't be found, which, also is a choice, per Bernard's promise to her not to leave.) and wait for Locke to return, if he's even going to come back. On the other side, Horace waking to his senses on the couch is a little less loaded. He got drunk and threw around some dynamite b/c he found the Paul's ankh necklace in Amy's drawer, got jealous and fought with her. But this awakening mostly reflected on Sawyer and him coming to terms with the Kate --> Juliet romances. Some touches in the Horace extrapolation and elsewhere.... Horace denied any knowledge of the Black Rock (connection with the dynamite?) and I'm pretty sure he was lying. We also learned that the sonar fence doesn't necessarily kill; in fact, it creates a sensation similar to the time flashes --- could it be tapped into the Orchid/donkey wheel to create a limited field of the temporal displacement (remember how Mickhal was bleeding from the nose and ears)? But we also learned from Richard that the sonar fence has no effect on the Others, and the obvious question of why not? As one of the links suggests, the Others/Richard taking Paul's body as reparation for Sawyer and Juliet killing the two men... it dmacks of something more than Richard presenting a body to his group and saying, 'We are revenged. Truce is back on.' No, Richard's word sh/would be enough. They want Paul's body for some other reason.

Hurley was also doing an Egyptian-themed watercolor painting (the Sphinx) at the mental hospital as Locke wheeled up to him in the repeat. Locke 'discovered' the mass grave prior to that. Ben showed it to him, then shot him. The above dream sequence came when Locke was trying to figure out what to do next / how to find Jacob's cabin. Locke went back to the pit and got a map and/or blueprints from Horace's pocket. For all his hippie-hug-a-tree appearance, Horace really seems to not like our xylem and phloem friends! Chopping them down, exploding them with dynamite... the monster seems to share this arbor-hate.

A-yep. We'll see if it sticks. So we find out that it looks like the Ajira plane crashed in 2007 on the smaller Hydra island, while at least some of the O6 (Kate, Jack, Sun) were transported to 1974 in a time flash right before the crash. Daniel was muttering at the start of the ep that he wouldn't tell, no matter what, he won't tell...? That he won't tell Charlotte not to come back. Which is why she disappears in the last flash; b/c when Daniel changes things, "whatever happens" didn't happen. But. Where did she go is the question. Is it her who was at Oxford, or in the bed in England? I also caught in the repeat that Locke's Helen died in 2006 of a "brain aneurysm." Abaddon was a little cryptic; with more of the 'what happens happens' stuff. That's gotta have something to do with the island. But I'm starting to get hip to the time stuff. And if you've read "Slaughterhouse Five" it probably makes a little more sense. As the Lostaways/O6 go back in time and act, these actions have already happened, so they're going to happen. Everyone just needs to play their parts, and wait until the right time comes. E.g. Richard --- that's gotta suck knowing that something's going to take 50 years to happen but in the meantime, you just need to live it all out. I mean, Desmond's time having to relive was nothing compared to Richard. But, I guess he is a 'long-term' kinda guy. Got a flash of the statue tonight. Who built it and when the hell was that? Have we seen Amy --- Horace's wife --- before? Or am I remembering her face from a different show? Was she in the car that came upon Ben being born? I've been thinking about it today, and the more I come to it, with the "Whatever happens happened" the more I'm thinking that Jack is Jacob. Similarity in name... the "Great man" descriptions for both of them... Christian's connection with Jacob... and the dramatic impact of the 'man of science' actually becoming the man/ghost who inspires such faith; the man who wanted to get off the island so badly, to be done with it all, being the one who lingers through death to 'save' it. The other stuff is working its way into tying up the ends. I'm just going to say it will really suck if the last scene of this season is Daniel going into the Orchid's construction. They really should not be following the same pattern as last season with the initial premiere scene being the same as the final finale scene. I hope things move a little faster than that.

If the Bills sign Vick, I will boycott this franchise for as long as whoever is involved with the signing is out of the organizational hierarchy. It's bad enough that that POS is going to breathe free air. I don't ordinarily wish harm on others, but I sincerely hope he gets his in a future "When Animals Attack [Humans]" video.

A sensible route is to get one and have your name put on the back with your favorite number. This is almost always scoffed at here by numerous posters, who apparently have money trees in their yards and like to spur fellow fans to dump cash into the team/NFL coffers every couple of years. But if you don't want it to be obsolete and an expensive closet decoration w/in 3 years.... Going this way, I'd probably go with the third-jersey throwbacks, for longevity purposes, b/c I have to believe the next owner will dump the navy blues, while the throwbacks are very popular b/c they look sharp (I think the throwbacks are TD's best move as GM. Which is kinda sad). Also kinda sad that I don't have anyone on the team that I cheer for like back in the day. I root for the laundry. In my mind, this makes it a little easier to put your own name. Or, as suggested, go with a retired vet (there are some nameplate rules depending where you order it e.g. someone tried to order a specific player on a specific style jersey and NFLstore said they couldn't fulfill the order due to legal restrictions). I'm past the stage of buying/wearing a jersey tho. Just seems like a waste of good money.

As much as I hate he Pats* they didn't do anything wrong. They could've gotten more? Well, that's their own business. Makes sense that they didn't want to do a trade with Denver/TB b/c they might've felt Cassell could be a good QB in the system that McDaniel sets up, with a history of good (tho dirty) OL play and many of the building blocks in place already. Or, rather, they don't want to take the risk that he might be, b/c Denver with a capable QB presents a big threat in the AFC. They traded him to KC, where the recovery program from Herm et al. is probably going to take a while even with Midas-touch Pioli and where Haley might be in over his head. Nothing against the rules in making a tactical move.

I said "to say nothing of" it. Doesn't mean I'm a conspiracy theorist. But, at the same time, I'm not prepared to put anything past that sleazy POS and his personal agenda / ambition. We'll never know the whole truth.

Losing Lee Atwater was a pretty big part, too. Bush the Elder was a decent president. I'd add LBJ to this list. To say nothing of any of his links to the assassination... his micromanagement of Vietnam did almost as much to kill our troops as the VC. My uncle --- who was 1/2 mile from the DMZ at the start of Tet --- has vowed that before he dies, he will eat several bowlfuls of five-alarm chili before sitting on LBJ's grave, and just let it ooze out all over the stone. He'll be arrested, of course, but he's on 100 percent mental disability with the VA, so the lawyer can plead insanity and vouchsafe, it won't be a lie.

Don't forget the 'Lookout' blocking scheme that they run on about 10 percent of the plays.

Where would they have gotten a gun? The shot on the Sawyer's paddle was a shotgun pattern. Which suggests 'My condolences' dude. When exactly that happened, we don't know. Also, I think that group was in the zodiac from the freighter that was transported thru the time flashes. Correct me if I'm wrong. Ehhh.... I'm waiting for what Sawyer's reaction is going to be when he learns that Jack and Kate were engaged and doing the hibbity-jibbity in the alternate time-string. As well as what it was that he asked Kate to do for him (I assume it has to do with Sawyer's daughter, Clementine Philips, in Phoenix).

I'm not going to say for sure that it's the case in this situation... But sometimes people facing legal action plead nolo contendere for relatively minor offenses in exchange for ultimately having any charges disappear. Sometimes it's easier to just "Dance for the Man" and have done with it than to have a cloud continuously hanging over you. With college classes and games (where it was maybe his most important year to perform in order to get to the NFL), why risk distractions like random court dates, having to pay an attorney, or the DA getting overly rambunctious or in a railroad state of mind (see: Nifong in the Duke case) to make you a example b/c you defy them... when you can go to a soft-touch class and do some community service over summer break and be done with it? Some people can do this, others fight doggedly to clear their name of any mark, and often make a bigger problem/scene that snowballs. Now, that the DA essentially dropped the charges, it kinda sounds like such a situation of dancing for the man. His taking a lie detector test also indicates that he wanted to prove to his teammates and everyone that racial slurs didn't happen; shows commitment to the team, his relationship with teammates to not have them see him differently b/c of what someone said he said, was his main priority. No other incidents seem to indicate he learned a lesson of avoiding putting himself in bad situations.

Why would the Bills want to do something like that? It would put Linda Bogdan (Ralph's daughter / chief OL scout) on a serious hot seat. No dice.

I'm considering the context, here. In the middle of a snowstorm, how many people can even see a crosswalk? And then, it was not he who jaywalked in the first place --- he was helping some elderly women who first jaywalked to get across the street b/c they were having trouble. Was he supposed to stay completely out of the road and only use the crosswalk and just let people get hit and say "But I couldn't jaywalk to save them! I just couldn't!"? This is along the lines of charging someone with indecent exposure if they have to use their swimming trunks as an emergency tourniquet. There are times when fast action to help those in need necessarily flouts a legal technicality, but for the much greater good. In such a time, also, it's on drivers to use common sense (which, isn't a common thing these days...) do everything they can to avoid an accident. Here, the guy saved people's lives and is getting ticketed (an update says the PD is now reconsidering the ticket). That the cop refused to grant any lenience given the real-life circumstances, is pretty stevestojanny.

Injured good Samaritan ticketed for jaywalking : Man helped push 3 people out of path of pickup truck before being struck Wow this cop is a prick.

I just find it funny that you think it's impossible for the military/govt to decide that they also need our First Amendment rights. Or, say, the Sixth Amendment rights just become inconvenient to them. What happens when the 48th POTUS decides he wants to become dictator-for-life and has the support of the military, and by that time with a liberal youth bent, guns have been outlawed? Better stock up on those kneepads, people. --- This is the start of the pendulum swinging back. Bush pushed it further to the right than it's been in a long time, now I suppose it's going to be going further to the left than ever on the momentum of the backswing.

I haven't gone back to look. In the Bernard & Rose episode, at that healing place... was there a well there? I seem to remember one when Bernard was bending down to talk to a little girl with crutches. But that could just be my mind playing tricks on me. BTW - what the hell ever happened to Bernard & Rose?

So, they're saying that in order to make Mexico safer, we need to !@#$ over our Constitution. Yeah, that sounds 'bout right. And it won't do a damn thing, there or here, except to take some guns out of law-abiding citizens' hands. And, for those clammoring 'who needs an assault rifle anyway?!?'... the laws are written intentionally broad so that traditional rifles will be included. If you think this is just for AKs, Uzis, you're wrong. They'll start arguing that since .30-06 or .22 rifles can potentially be modified in assault-weapon-like ways, those need to be banned too. There are bad things coming, people. Bad things.

The sh-tty thing is, I wasted my time and my money at the U. Graduated summa cum laude and I couldn't buy an unpaid internship, much less a job where people with 10+ years experience lined up in droves. Now, five years out I'm unemployable in it, even if anyone were hiring or will be hiring if a miracle takes place. I've been working construction (what I did during summers) ever since. Really am at the crossroads and it's like whatever direction I choose there's a 'Do Not Enter' sign. When people see "journalism" their eyes get all beady, and they grow dark and secretive like some kind of Tolkien character. I'm considering sending my diploma back to the registrar's office.