UConn James

We got 2 free "Firecracker Jr." popsicles from the Indian guy behind the register yesterday with a $150 fill-up (several gas cans). Yes sir, the marginal perks are what make it all worth it.

When Bruce used to have that mindset, the reaction was pretty much, "OK. " Coughlin is a hardass, tho. We'll see.

Steely: Aw-www-w!!! Do I have to?!!?!?

So we're given a choice b/w 'Damn near everyone's a silent racist' and 'No problem at all.' This is almost exactly like the junk mail I get from so-called Second Amendment organizations, with such scientific surveys asking, 'Do you want to support Nancy Pelosi's gun-grabbing agenda? Y / N' and 'Liberals' efforts to take our guns away is A-OK! Y /N' At least their efforts are pretty thinly veiled, with loaded questions, and then their main objective of getting some stupid sucker to give them $20, $50, $100, whatever for an organization that may or may not just be Wilber Bumf--k operating out of the back of his garage. The fact that we keep getting this trash in the mail suggests that some people are dumb enough to fall for such BS tactics. Steely, I expect nothing less from someone like you who, along with molson, can't buy a clue.

Wow, the 'It's-all-good' nature of that article really shows how that reporter is 3,000 miles removed from the situation. If ML was driving... and the reported evidence is stacking up that he was.... If he had come forward the next day or two, there was maybe a 10% chance that he could have gotten by with an "I'm so sorry" some tickets and covering the medical charges (the woman would also have to be a fervent believer in forgiveness being divine). But, like the subject of this/your thread says, it's his silence that is really going to screw him over 1) in the court of public opinion, and as an effect, markedly sour his relationship with the team --- how are they supposed to market someone in ML's shoes? 2) by angering the police and DA, such that any breaks he may have been able to get like a plea deal for community service, etc. might go off the table 3) the woman is now, for sure, going to sue his ass for everything she can get (probably would have done this anyway tho). If he had stepped forward --- he may still have time to do this --- and accepted responsibility, said it was an accident and that he didn't know he'd hit someone, that he's sorry, he might be able to mitigate some of the damage his silence has produced in points 1 and 2. The advice of his attorney is missing the much bigger picture from point 1. What he looks like now is a child hiding behind his momma.

This confirms something I've suspected for a while. Tho, it's probably to prevent ever seeing another man's peepee, b/c it would instantly mean they're homos. And you know what they do with homos over there. But wait. They don't have any homos over there. Ask Ahmadinejad --- he'll tell you. Of the little TeeVee I watch, ~80% is PBS and I do enjoy his show. Usually has interesting historical factoids and shows artistry that you don't normally get to see, or see in a larger context. When they had one Italy trip, they showed how the Last Supper is actually fresco'ed over a door. I had never known that.

Chevy, that's the same way I've felt about this for the past few days. Whatever respect ML had earned is gone. How do you cheer for someone like this? If you're innocent or if it can be proved that you're guilty, it's in your best interest to talk; much of the time, people who don't talk have something to hide and are hoping to skate away. As I posted in the main thread, that if he was the driver it was/is in his best interest to turn himself in and make a statement, say that he hadn't realized he hit someone, plea bargain and beg for the mercy of the court (and would probably receive it, being who he is), then pay in a likely civil court case. People who own up to their actions and ask for forgiveness ofttimes get it --- we live in a society that's eager to give second chances to those who admit they've fouled up. Instead, ML has remained silent for almost a week now, and that works to pi-- off police and justice system and it shows no willingness to cooperate to resolve this accident and no remorse (now, it'll just be remorse that he got caught) and he will not get any breaks, by just desserts. Technically, passengers who do not come forward could be charged with aiding and abetting. Real world, this is unusual. But they could if the DA wanted to push for it. Someone mentioned it here... ML's rather distinctive hairstyle (red tip dreads, yeah?) might do him in re: eyewitnesses.

Legally, he may not have to talk to the police other than to say "I invoke the 5th amendment" and make them try to prove who was driving. That's a pretty strong argument not to say anything until/unless evidence rises. But there's legality and then there's morality (karma, if-you-will). If he does not talk, does ML have even more to lose? I'd say that most fans certainly don't like this situation. I'm sure the Bills do not like it. Could factor into future contract negotiations as the club, in the papers at least, values 'character' players. There will always be this cloud over his head if he doesn't come forward with any info he has. Whether it passes over...? Almost five days on, I'm disappointed in and have lost respect for ML as a man. I was taught to own responsibility for your actions and to do the right thing. It's crap like this that has me always saying that I 'root for the laundry' rather than the individuals on a team I follow. And it's getting harder to even do that anymore.

because it's true.

I believe that would be the righteous indignation. You saying that a blood-alcohol test three days later would be scientifically unable to prove anything = You want ML executed for drunk driving and willful murder. The leaps and bounds of inference that people take here based on anything someone writes is astonishing. ----- Seriously, it would behoove ML and his lawyer to make a statement to the police post haste. The longer he goes, the worse this all looks. From a real-world perspective, even if he is perfectly innocent, complete radio silence makes police start to think you have something to hide. And if ML was driving or a party to the incident, noncooperation/nontimely manner makes them and the judiciary less likely to offer leniency.

Ehhh. Yes and no. If this is one of the shiny JD's that you see in front of Home Depot or Lowe's, etc., these are not built de facto by JD. Those are pretty generic ones that JD gets paid to put their name on and use their colors. Usually B&S engine. Not bad machines per se, but they're not "John Deere"s. We got an old JD 210 model and the mower deck is sh--, but we're using it to drag timber on a wood lot. Could be nicer looking, but it's got some balls.

Well, my TeeVee was on. Too bad I was ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ until I woke up ~ a minute before the Pens won. The games are on too f---ing late (West Coast bias) and the multiple intermissions go too long. I know it's the SC and it was 3OT, but the games really drag with watching talking heads three times for 20-25 mins.

Oooo. That's probably what she meant when she said to her father that two people killed Jin. Locke probably told her how flippant Ben was when he knew that killing Keamy would kill everyone on the boat. Christian is an odd character in this regard and I'd think twice before pinning him to science. Remember in totality in his flashbacks... when Jack was young, after a surgery where a boy died, he said 'How can I... blah blah/move on with his life like nothing happened. How can I do that?!?' Well, one part was with alcohol, for sure. But at the same time, he was moving on the same way Locke --- the Man of Faith --- moved right on after Boone died at his behest, among other things in his search for Signs from the Island. I would contrast Christian's drinking as relief/comfort from his plight (per the bar scene with Sawyer, he's a fun drunk even tho he's a kind of bad father ) with Widmore's expensive highbrow cold-hearted You're-Not-Worthy McClutcheon. Mehh. He really tempers anything in those comments here.

I think this is very possible as well.

I don't think Ben shooting Locke in the pit has anything to do with "Jeremy Bentham"'s death. Locke recovered from that in short order due to the island's healing powers/universe 'course correcting.' Even Ben said he should have known better that it wouldn't have killed Locke. I'm not sold that all of this healing that has been done magically goes away once they leave the island, as Rose has intimated. Being on the island can heal wounds/conditions that they had previously or that they experienced on the island. It's some property that hasn't been explained. But note that the Others have likely been the source for people off the island getting miraculously cured --- Juliet's sister, Locke as a newborn recovering from severe infection, just off the top of my head (this may also include Claire's mother who we now know woke from her coma sometime after the crash)... as well as Dharma/Other representatives being present at the time of death or critical junctures. Locke's death seems to coincide with the Sayid flashforward storyline where people are after Ben and the Others and questioning the Oceanic 6. The spy girl that Sayid shot worked for someone that he was trying to assassinate (Widmore, whom we've previously seen beating up on someone from Ben's archive). I would guess that this same person got Locke, as he was trying to recruit the Oceanic 6 and Walt to come back three years after they left (note that Locke/JB had time to visit with all of them off the island and he did not die). This probably conflicted with someone's plans and they killed him.

I don't think it's a given that he will revive. Remember, it's taken a year for them to even show us that it was Locke in the coffin. His story of the preceding 3 years on the island as well as some details of what he discussed with Jack, Kate, Sun, et al, as well as the circumstances of his demise are yet to be shown. He is a major character, so I would expect this kind of extended treatment for what happens to him --- it would have been so shi--y to just have an episode where Locke dies and that's it. That said, per Ben's telling, I think they have to bring Locke/Jeremy Bentham's body back with them when they go back to the island. And when that happens, it's anybody's guess. I definitely don't get the sense that Jin is dead, or that Faraday's story is finished. Sun may be operating on that assumption , either b/c she's not entirely sure or it's just the official story front that Jack said they needed to do to protect the other Lostaways. Seemed like she knew he wasn't dead in the birth flashforward this season. She said that 2 people are responsible for Jin's death, her father and ...? And, we know that Mr. Paik is friends with Widmore. More things connect. Jack also told Desmond to take care of Penny b/c someone will be after her. Who? Ben? How would he know this (that was from the flashforward that Ben says he's going to kill Widmore's daughter as a tit-for-tat for Alex. How much of the island was moved? Is it's sphere of influence extended into the ocean like that glass dome in the comic book? Also, how did the island move? Did it really sink underwater like was shown and everything submerged and we're led to believe it's going to re-emerge somewhere else? Are structures still intact? Well, the plane crashed on 22 Sept 2004 and the Oceanic 6 were stranded for ~ 4 months. Then, Kate said in the extended airport meeting with Jack that it had been 3 years since their rescue (vaguery here, for sure) so that would likely place it at early 2008. --- Some other observations... It really struck me how much Sawyer's character has changed even from the start of this season where everything he did was him "survivin'" and now he's trying to protect everyone else by putting himself in danger. Ran toward the house to save Claire, trekked off to get Hurley at the Orchid station, jumped from the helicopter (anybody see Hurley's eyes go when Frank said he'd feel more comfortable if they dumped about 300 more pounds). With Claire appearing in Kate's dream combined with being in the cabin, I'm nonplussed to say whether she is alive or not. Others say that the scene where Ben moves the island was 'high-school-theatre-ish.' Dude, it was awesome. I would seriously put this show in the top 5 all-time, so far. It's about the only thing I watch on non-PBS TeeVee besides news and Jeopardy.

Mmm hmm. On a similar tack, I marvel at the entertainment shows showing celebrities driving away in a throng of paparazzi that they don't hit anyone more frequently. Seriously, the car is moving. Don't go near it, or you're probably going to get bumped/hit. The cluelessness of many people today is remarkable. Especially when talking on their cellphones. We were pouring concrete for a mall sidewalk during a summer job many moons ago, and a lady stepped through three layers of bright orange construction cones, right into the wet concrete as we were floating and edging it. !@#$ oblivious!

We don't know much yet. But the fact that nigh two days have passed and ML hasn't said boo to anyone and is waiting on his lawyer speaks volumes. If he wasn't in the car or driving at the time, he and the team likely would have said so post haste in today's PR world. If he was driving, I'm having a hard time seeing ML missing much time. He'll likely deny realizing that he had hit someone (the non-serious nature of the injury may help in this regard), cop a plea to lesser charges and beg for the mercy of the court for an honest mistake, which odds are he'll receive, then make this woman independently wealthy in civil court. Again, we don't know exactly what happened, and the details will hopefully be released soon, but if ML was driving, this movie has been shown before. Well, actually, it looks like they're any old football team despite the 'character' mantra that's been spewed out of TBD --- usually, people who say they're of higher character than others are sooner or later shown to be mere hypocrites. And you may be wrong. Limited bad-boy-ism has been a hallmark for many playoff and SB teams in the past several years.

All the brew-ha-ha of which, being Wright, Hagee, Robertson, et al, has me wondering once again why churches are not taxed as quasi-political organizations. Church used to be about Jesus-God. Now it's abortion-this, stem cells-that, illegal-immigration-the-other... It's not even subtle these days. I hope seeing this downward spiral of fundamental discussion in the church is why Obama quit this parish, rather than it being politically expedient. But I know that if my minister started talking for me as if he were my puppetmaster, I'd be right pissed and it wouldn't have taken me this long to officially part ways. Those listed above and many more are political animals dressed in frocks.

And on top of that, how can they afford soda? Seriously, tho, I know people who pick up redeemables while they're walking their doggies. It's a little $ (very little) and it beautifies the roads from asshats who can't be bothered to use refuse bins. They also pick up many more of the plastic water bottles; there should really be a deposit on those f--kers too. FWIW, people who do that in bulk can make some coin. For an intro journalism class, I interviewed a guy who collected cans after football games at the U, and he said he collected ~ $200 worth after each game from the ground, in the garbage, etc. The low-rider-like sag in his beater sedan convinced me he was telling the truth. These are the times we live in.

And more than most that are.

She can't coordinate friggin' campaign messages, yet she says she's the best qualified to coordinate the free world. The fact that she's brought it up... well, it's always a present reality (Obama was the first to receive Secret Service protection, and you'd think that was b/c of perceived or actual threats) but for pols to actively bring it up in almost any context --- especially to broadly explain why she's staying in the race despite it being all but over --- is a pretty big faux pas. Any chance she had of being the VP selection --- and it was b/w slim and none before --- just went out the window. Everyone, including RFK Jr., is backing away from criticizing her for this b/c they don't want to diminish hold on a Dem Senate seat, but what she said was just.... Assassination is like Fight Club. First rule is you don't talk about Fight Club.

You can get digital teevee most anywhere. You need either an HDTV or a set-top box digital tuner for a standard old television. With antenna configurations, some locations require more work than others. I've got a thread in the Consumer forum on this subject... should update it with what I've done.

Johnny Coli, where are ye?

Oprah says to vote for him. Case closed! EVERYBODY GETS A CAR!!!!!! EVERYBODY GETS A CAR!!!!!! EVERYBODY GETS A CAR!!!!!! EVERYBODY GETS A CAR!!!!!!