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Supreme Court tackles gun control: Justices signal support for individual ownership Umm, I'd say he's swinging in a certain direction....

Can't believe people continue to meet with this * and give his slander and grandstanding credence.

And you don't think that's not the very next step if this BS law is upheld? Way to dance around the concrete questions and focus on some or other inanity, as they teach at law school. AD, the 'Collectivists' love to pretend that the "(to) the people" phraseology throughout the BoR applies to each person individually rather than individuals-as-part-of-groups, until it gets to this. Funny me, I always thought the 2nd was written in plainly clear English. And to the asshat above who said that 'strict constructionist judges' are somehow in a pickle on this issue, please go to your elementary school of attendance and get your money back.

Word is that CBS will be showing the non-cliffhanger, wrap-up ending. Don't exactly know how they're going to do that in 1 hour. But if they can, then why the hell haven't they done more like that throughout the series? First of all, this is a show where American cities are nuked; not the most inviting topic for family viewing. Then, people are off-put by storylines that develop then get cut off --- so the story unfolding that you just spent an hour watching became moot and they were right back to where they started (to wit, the ep with the journalist this season --- you think 'Hey, the word might get out' and then bam, 'heart attack'). An 'inverted V' storyline sucks and it drives viewers away in droves. They took a series that had some potential and applied way too much brake and spent too much time into character dev and 'talk' in a show that needed action.

Picking Lieberman would be a death knell for McCain's bid. Conservatives are already leery of JMac; picking a guy who used to be a (and is currently caucused as a) Democrat as his VP would ensure the conservative vote stays home. Big mistake if he doesn't pick a running mate who's in line with the party core; as that is he'll have a hard time winning, if he picks across another liberal or RINO, he loses in a landslide. I wouldn't complain about losing Lieberman tho. Connecticut, in his time in the Senate, has routinely gotten back ~ 40 cents on the dollar from what we pay in federal taxes --- and for tony CT, that's no small figure. :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: Lieberman.

Dude, that happened in Season 2 on the raft. Simple solution: no like-y, no watch-y.

Yeah. Ask Rosen, he'll say the same thing. Almost like you rehearsed it.... [Coffee cup drops. Slow-motion frame shot of Lakesider looking down at the shards with a quizzical look / furrowed brow. Print on bottom of cup reveals: "Powered By IP.Board © 2008 IPS, Inc. Licensed to: Two Bills Drive" Lakesider looks around at the bulletin boards, seeing year-old names like Lynch, Patrick Willis, Adrian Peterson, McGahee... something about a free hot tub... Sabres in Round 1 of the NHL playoffs.... He realizes the story he'd been reading for the past 2 hours was entirely fabricated from events that happened almost a year before. Slow motion continues, as Lakesider starts yelling and moving toward phone.] [Focus on legs of ofiba/Kaiser Rosen on pavement, walking with noticeable limp. Gradually, the limp fades.] [Pan to ofiba/Kaiser Rosen's face, where he takes one last puff of a cigarette before tossing it to the street and entering a blue 1998 Ford Taurus registered to Ralph Wilson.] ofiba: "The greatest trick SDS ever pulled was making the world believe he didn't exist. *poof*" [ ♫♪ "Usual Suspects" theme music ♫♪ ]

Then... why would Jack tell Kate that they have to go back, if there's no way to get back if Ben's the only one who knows where it is? Logically, that doesn't make sense. I think it may be one of the Dharma/Widmore group that had a hand in rescuing the O6. Possibly Frank, who was supposed to be flying 815 and therefore had some connection with Los Angeles as the blurry article said. Highly doubtful it's one of the other Lostaways making it back covertly, one of the O6, or Ben. Or could it have some connection to the black lady that Miles visited to get rid of the ghost (the camera paused on the picture of the guy for too long not to mean something)?

Look at the Nielsen ratings.... Doesn't look good. Doing noticeably worse than it did last season. I just think it moves too slowly for most viewers. I watch Lost and that show moves slow. Jericho moves s...................l................o.......................w and it's only come on in actually interesting me the last two weeks with me wanting to see the J&R guy get his; even that should have been done in one ep. The writers knew they were under the gun and didn't tighten anything in the script. SciFi Channel may pick it up, as they had talked about it when Jericho was first slated for cancellation.

Not meaning to be so grim here, but the actuarials don't take into account individual health history. McCain has a long history of melanoma, prostate problems, whatever it is that swelled both of his cheeks (looks similar to Jerry Lewis), his Vietnam injuries --- difficult for him to raise his arms, and knee problem... to say nothing of what happened in his Hanoi Hilton stay. When he's on stage, on TeeVee, he looks pale and old. Not saying that's what people should base their vote on, but you'd be wrong if you think voters won't consider his age and health. Subsequently the issue of who he picks as a VP is pretty big. A lot of 'experts' say this is what doomed the Dole candidacy. Half of the battle for the presidency is fitting the image; then again, right now, we're narrowed down to three who break the mold.

Coke Classic or Vanilla Coke (don't know why they pulled it), back when I used to drink one every day. Pepsi-anything and diet-anything tastes like crap to me. Now, it's ~ once a month when I drink soda. Real test of willpower when you get addicted to the caffeine like I was. My dentist said she'd kick my ass if I didn't stop (she's my cousin). Just ruins the teeth. I try for cranberry juice, water, and tea.

Word from another LOST podcast is that after this week's ep (a Michael-centric ep titled "Meet Kevin Johnson," evidently filling us in on what's happened since the dock) the series will be on writer's-strike-induced hiatus until 24 April, and it will return to the 10 p.m. time slot. Wasn't exactly the plan, but at least we get a full season.

Not really. He told Claire that no one else must be allowed to raise Aaron and that it was her good influence alone that needed to be present, otherwise.... ?? We have been led to believe (by his own admission) that this guy is a fraud and not psychic, but that his daughter --- whose drowning/waking from the dead Eko was sent to investigate --- is. She might have related her visions to her father (she might have done this as part of his business) re: Claire & Aaron. We don't know what transpired that Kate has custody of him... if Claire gave him to her with instructions, if Claire is dead, if another pyschic (Miles) said it would be OK for her son to go with a murderer.... That's for a future chapter to answer.

Weekly Standard: Romney Is McCain's Best VP Option Pretty good argument made. I might actually support this ticket, as I think this country needs someone w/ Romney's economic and 'miracle turnaround' experience. McCain says the economy is his weak suit. Can't have that unfilled in the times we're now facing. But then, there is the acrimony built up b/w them during the campaign. That was so last month tho, and the axiom rings true that politics makes for short memories and strange bedfellows.

sloth, I think your LOST prediction tagline has been ruled out. When I think about it, I just flash back to that comic book with the glass-dome thing. As if that dome is really some kind of small time bend that occurs b/c of (per the Desmond ep) radiation or magnetic anomaly. Transportation with electrical systems, compasses, etc. on them that pass through the field at any point other than the safe coordinates (i.e. the one Daniel provided Frank) get FUBARed, crash or wash up onshore.

Cancer 0 Campy 1 I kept you in my thoughts/prayers when you were blogging about going thru the Rituxin. Awesome!

And also, now that we know all 6 official survivors... it sheds absolutely no light on who was in the casket during Jack's flash forward.

You can strike out that "I think," tgreg. Just to throw this out there... all the stories about women popping out babies they didn't know they were carrying. Or Kate could just say that she was preggers when she was on the run and therefore, on her own, so how could anyone know? No one's really left that can adamantly say or prove she was not pregnant, and the word of the other Oceanic 6 'confirmed' that Aaron was hers so I think it's moot.

The Bush Administration has all along operated under the premise that it's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission. B/c it is. <shrug>

I kind of caught me by surprise as well... tho I furrowed my brow and did an audible 'Hmm!' with the seeming return to Angry Jin (i.e. "I'll rip your head off!") after he had made so much progress toward being a better man on the island. Had an inkling that something was askew. You make assumptions and look where they lead. I tells ya, those LOST peoples are crafty. Before or after Kate's trial, she couldn't have visited... if the ep took place in Korea (vouchsafe, this most likely), but we don't really know for sure where it was. I'm liking the Frank character. He doesn't seem to be as gung-ho as the others in the Dharma?/Widmore group. He's there to do a job, is sympathetic with the Lostaways and has that connection with the 815 pilot and the plane (which he was supposed to have been flying), which they'll likely delve into deeper. As I heard, the 815 pilot will be making a reappearance via a flashback (didn't mark this as a spoiler b/c with the Frank flashback I think everyone including my dog knew it was coming). I, too, don't really get the vibe that Jin is dead (or rather, since they're out of communication, that Jin wasn't dead at the time they left the island). Just as Jack perjured himself, it's a charade the O6 have to go through as part of an agreement. Likewise, she was calling out for him during the birth (and I get that childbirth is not the pinnacle of lucidity, but to me it was a moment that Sun slipped from the contract). Seems natural that Jin's 'gravesite' is also a place they can go to connect with him. It's also a tool for the director to instantly show that they're thinking of Jin --- imagine if the scene were in her home or somewhere else. It'd make no sense, visually. The scene was about her going to Jin to show the baby and at the time, the false grave is all they have. Hurley (notice the suit BTW! Dark isn't his color scheme tho) and Sun didn't seem to be so grieved... just sad that Jin isn't there. Hurley is much more tuned to the personal relationships of the Lostaways; seems like he internalizes the guilt (and I think this is something the creators specifically hired JG for, as a physical representation of the character's psychological tendency) so much that it leads him to the mental hospital and telling Jack that they have to go back to the island.

The 1979 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records lists, "An unidentified middle-aged Latvian man was unconscious but stable after a blood test showed 7.22 parts per million (0.7%) of alcohol, police spokeswoman Ieva Zvidre said. 'An average person would vomit at around 1.2, lose consciousness at 3.0 and stop breathing at a level of about 4.0 parts per million.'" They've since omitted alcohol-related entries (1991) to avoid possible litigation. But I seem to remember several years ago where a guy from Russia blew higher and was still conscious.

But their anthem is, "God Save the Queen." Shame, tenny. Shame!

In some states you might be arrested for bestiality, and if you use a rubber seal, bukakke performers can eat your scat 50 years from now (under optimal preservation conditions).

That said, Jack Nickelson hangs out with Regis Philbin, who is a known multiple-kisser of Tony Danza.

It all goes toward furthering Franklin's precience with your first sig line; only, in place of 'people' insert 'politicians.'