UConn James

That's exactly the type of rationale the city used to take people's homes in New London, Conn. in order to sell the land to build a shopping mall. Which you (and most everyone else in this country) regularly bemoan.

As long as a dwelling is sturdily constructed and safe to inhabit, and YOURS, what damn right does anyone else have to say how it looks? Land of the Free (as long as you have a Green Lawn© (or, it's your ass. Because your land doesn't belong to you. The government just lets you inhabit it for a while.)) And yes, I'm not one who uses this term loosely, but this kind of stuff smacks of racism.

The town where my brother and s-i-l built their house wouldn't give them an occupancy permit until they planted a row of 4' hedges along their driveway. Which turned into a Saturday killed by yours truly digging holes (I have a PhD in shoveling from my construction days). What do hedges have to do with occupancy of a building? Flipping bureaucrats who get their jollies by telling people where they can and can not plant their rhodedendrons and what square footage they need to build their homes in such-and-such a residential area. By what ^%$&ing authority does a town deny someone the right to live in a house that has been paid for by a private person? And people shrug, and say, What can you do? You know what? I'd put up yellow tape and a "Occupancy Denied" sign on the town hall. All of those people working together and they're not all married to each one of the others. I would make it my mission in life to $%^& over these people's work lives, if only as a deterant to other said bureaucrats. Too many good, hard-working people are at the mercy of town halls.

No hooks. But there's the Anchor Bar. Like Vinny Testaverde said when he was switching teams back when, it's nice to be close to the family, but being back in the same city can be a little too close. Maybe this would work in our favor, but like you, I have serious doubts about our ability to attract FAs right now. Bentley is like the hot girl in high school who breaks up with her bf. And, hate to break it to everyone, but she doesn't usually ask the short, tubby kid with glasses to go to the prom. Unless she's slumming. Or if said kid buys her a diamond ring and gets a limo.

And this is in PPP.... why, exactly?

I attend things at several gun clubs, and the only hunting mishaps I've heard from people I know have been a heart attack and one guy who scared away a 12-point buck (by his estimation, which means it was really a 2-pointer) by the click when he failed to remember to take the safety off. Sure, there've been second-hand stories of guys who tried to go over a fence/wall while carrying the gun (stupid, stupid, stupid). But shooting a hunting partner, no. But there was a time I was at my grandparents' farm in WNY, and some guys in blaze orange come up the driveway, went over to the silo and three shots rang out. Seems that they'd shot the deer elsewhere and tracked it there. When my uncle went out to confront them (mainly in a 'WTF are you doing on MY LAND?!!?) they huffed and puffed, then ended up dragging the deer with four bullet holes in it, through the liquid-sh---fertilized field. Would it have counted as a hunting accident if those fecking morons were shot with my Marlin? Darwin probably would have approved....

Fair warning, dude.... Just wait until Coli gets here. He's going to own you.

All of those *ahem* "sticky substances" probably cemented his caps lock button. Having to make a choice.... mehhh.... I go with Plant.

I watch the speed-skating. And I think that's only b/c I'm half Dutch, so I'm hard-wired to watch ice skating. Ireen Wust was just awesome in the 3,000. And she's not bad looking. Bi-athalon is on now (that's cross-country skiing mixed with rifle shooting) and it is something to watch. As it is, riflery is difficult, and then there's an added challenge of having to slow your heartrate and breathing in such a short time to be able to shoot accurately. That is true fitness and having ultimate control over your body. Also, there's something to it that it was in this same geographic area that the 10th Mountain Division opened up Italy/S. Europe from Hitler, doing pretty much this same exercise.

That hit often being on one of our guys. I remember a game at the Colts (may have been the one where we knocked out all of their QBs -- Harbaugh, Justin, and the third stringer got beat up too but stayed in), when KS came into the pile a good 2-3 seconds after the play was over and plowed his helmet right into Phil Hansen's back. Hansen turned around with a look of hellfire like he was going to punch the Colt who did it.... then he saw that it was Schultz and did a WTF!?! face.

The flashbacks in this ep occurred in 1991, during the Allied/UN rebuffing of Saddam. Proven when the CIA guy said something about not going to Baghdad, but having driven Saddam out of Kuwait. It could easily be that Kate's dad was there in '91 for a tour, then came back and the video was being played at that later date in the office.

I would think that the NFLPA would look at what happened to MLB and the NHL in the most recent strikes in major sports. They both took a SERIOUS blow in revenues b/c people find it hard to relate to a guy who stays home from work b/c $12M/year isn't enough for him. MLB is only now getting to about 70-75 percent level; NHL is playing their games of on the friggin' OLN. I would think that. But considering how everything about the NFL and NFLPA is "ME!ME!ME!"-oriented, making an assumption of common sense is skating on thin ice.

Switch in "car" and there's Teddy Kennedy's thoughts, to a T. Goes to show that even 40 years removed, you get what you give. And that is why we talk about flight suits, bulgies in suits during presidential debates, et cetera instead of sitting down over a nice glass of 20-year-old Scotch and finally coming to the conclusion that Social Security needs some drastic overhaul, that veterans aren't getting the care they need from the VA, why asbestos compensation legislation that won't use taxpayer dollars has been wisping like a ghost through the halls of Congress for decades.....

1) Never been this bad? I suggest you do some further research and base your argument less on off-the-cuff emotion of MEDIA BAD! Can anyone say 'idealized past'? If you don't like it, you are well within your rights to turn off the radio, disconnect the Internet, unsubscribe from your newspaper, dismantle your satelite dish and live in a cave. Save for some classic rock stations and the Internet (which is getting harder and harder to justify spending $15/month), I'm almost there myself. 2) You think it was just meant to bust up conspiracies. Well, hell, let's just go ahead and change the Constitution then! 3) Whether they are "worthy of those freedoms"? WTF is this crap? Let me don the headgear of Karnak the Magnificent.... You believe that certain of media outlets are worthy, while certain of others are not. 4) Just like the Islamics burning, killing, rioting over a fecking cartoon, YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO NOT BE OFFENDED!!!!!!!

True, that. But I would hopethat the majority of owners are wise enough to value the long-term success it will bring (look at how much the NFL's market share and earnings have jumped just since the cap was imposed) rather than the short-term ability to fix one's cap situation b/c you gave several players more money than they were worth.. You can, of course, cross Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones off this list out of hand.

Reads pretty high on the bullsh-- meter to me. 'Henry' knew exactly what was happening. Notice how he kept asking Sayid personal questions, trying to connect with him? The idea behind that is if you establish a personal rapport with someone, it's harder to hurt them, or whatever. But that line... "My name is Sayid, and I am a torturer!" And yes, for someone who remembers what the exact weights and percentages of gases in his balloon, that he stuttered/didn't respond to how deep the grave was means he didn't ever dig one. That's not a question the Others would probably prepare for, and he got caught right there. The closing scene with Sayid talking to Charlie was interesting too. Sayid was doing much the same as the CIA guy was when he showed the video of the sarin attack. That time has lessened fear that the Lostaways should have for the Others. He was talking to Charlie, perhaps, b/c he'd been a near-victim and in how he shot Ethan, is most likely be an ally to Sayid. But also, people are talking to Charlie again (tho, those who are have something gain by doing so); they sure have short memories on who's supposed to be ostracized.....

Nope. 'Zeke' is not Clancy Brown. And that's something pretty major that they wouldn't do on this show. ----- Also, the captive's name is 'Henry Gale.' On a balloon. Wizard of Oz, anyone?

They kind of looked like hyroglyphics(?). I remember the bird and the feather-shaped one. I don't have the deciphering book anymore, nor any way to rewatch the ep. So, we know that the countdown, or for ~5 seconds after the countdown, nothing happens and you can still enter the code. Some of them were red drawing on black background, some were vice versa; different from the white/black imagery used so far in it. We'll see if they start experimenting with this. Sure looked like Kate. This is the time period where they had the video of Sayid being led in handcuffs that was playing in the recruiting office. I didn't recognize her 'father' but he's only had about 2 minutes of screen time and he was in the Kevlar helmet here. And so, we can establish this time period as 1991, which for some reason, despite all evidence showing this back in the What Kate Did ep, some people were contesting that it was 2003. It's now fact that Kate was on the run for more than 10 years! ----- To run down, I'd first say this was the best episode this season. It was back to that feeling of 'Where did the time go; that felt like 15 minutes!' First off, in the side-story, Sawyer getting worked up by the tree frog's noises. It's weird how they write him, and this does go back to last season. One week he's the bad man, and the next he's kind of pathetic, asking, "Will you help me?" Hurley gets caught chowing on a private stash.... Not cool to hoard food, dude. Some tree frog species are poisonous. Sayid joins the Jack vs. Locke power struggle. Saw that same Jack-ness return when he was holding Locke back from going to the computer. I keep wanting to get a slow-mo of what numbers are flashed one by one when that ticker is going all out, but I have neither the time nor the means to do it. Sayid's backstory. Again, he says to the captive guy (I forget his name already) that before he learned to torture he was a "good man" --- there's that phrase again --- but that deep w/in there was always a part of him that could become that torturer. Clancy Brown as the CIA-type guy; he was really good in "The Shawshank Redemption." Anywho, I'm trying to think about what the parallels are b/w the main story and the flashback, b/c there's always parallels for each character. I'll have to sleep on it. That final look the guy gave, you know he's an Other. And Sayid is right --- sometimes you just know something is true; w/o any evidence or anything, you just know. There's a part that does want to believe the captive, like when he was describing the balloon, but that's the thing about the Others; they have detailed preset stories, just like Goodwin with the Peace Corps....

Satellite or over-the air antenna. ANYTHING but cable!!

Depends even then. After my uncle got divorced the third time, he told us that if he ever went to get married again, to take him out in the middle of the woods with some rope and a shotgun. He went in for the fourth about five years later, and we showed up at his door (this is several states away) with said materials. He laughed his ass off. And, to note, he just divorced the fourth after ~15 years.

Ooooo! That's a pretty cool theory with the numbers providing for power generation in the hatch(es). I was thinking exactly that, and that if the numbers stop, the power unit stops working. But tractor beam magnetism every time someone misses the countdown clock? That's inspired! I like it. I'm anxious to hear what the guy they catch has to say. But how can Zeke and the Others have gotten there on the pirate ship? That thing's like 200 years old, at least. Unless you're implying that people live forever on the island....

Get your facts straight, you lemming! They break to 2-hour high-speed car and motorcycle chases, too!!! To the topic, this is like news that I won't have to pay taxes to support a diddler who molests my children. What the eff is the problem?

I've got a Jeep too. '93, so I'm even less worried than most about getting crap all over it. <low whistle> Are they not the perfect vehicle?

What time Joe and Tom will meet in Chicago if Joe is on a train leaving Kansas City that goes 50 mph and Tom is on a bus from Boston that goes 70 mph is an abstract on a piece of paper. A 300-pound DLman coming across the line is a jolt. Maybe Peters had to pee during the Wonderlic just like Losman. Maybe he's not good at book learnin' but is great at hands-on instruction/football prodigy like the guy in that movie "The Program." Most of us walk a narrow path in life, and we're all good at certain things and not others. JP showed some good stuff in his time, against some good DEs. That said, he could always turn into a Robert Hicks. I'd say we sign him to a pretty safe contract, 2 or 3 years and a middle-of-the-road $ figure.