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Exactly. Insurance companies/HMOs have nothing to do with it. </sarcasm> I want to agree with you in principle. When you can't afford something, you shouldn't buy it. But to have the dollar outcome of human institutions of economics determine whether you get to procreate.... I'd rather live in a cave and be able to live unobstructed by any social rule than wear a McDonald's shirt & tie and essentially be a slave to the system. And I don't think I'd be alone in that.

Yeah, that Pitt playoff game where IIRC he threw two picks on consecutive ill-advised cross-field throws. ----- If JP is pulled, he goes into Ryan Leaf/Tim Couch mode, I don't care what the kid says about his confidence level. It is an admission that the team has no faith in him to be our starting QB presently or if he falters next year. You stick with him and hope he can learn something from this season in the same manner Carson Palmer learned last year. And if he continues to play horribly with no hope of improvement, that'll be the tough choice to make in the offseason. You don't pull him four games in tho.

Maybe next week you and the other BlueCoats could do a civic service by kidnapping Tom Clements for the duration of the game. You could feed him some Argyle Street Chili from the recipe book that will still have him in the bathroom for next week too. And then, you can play a subliminal casette tape until the phrase "Run the ball" is imprinted on his mind.

In the preseason, he was the Patriots call-guy for the local channel in Boston. After a while, when you really listen to it, his voice is annoying, especially while verbally fellating Tom Brady et al. But I'd say that the only thing worse is him having Rwandy Crwoss as his color guy, (doubly so, as in true Not-that-there's-anything-wrong-with-that mode, he was sporting a new full moustache) doing the same thing. I turned the sound down 42 notches while I was scouting the enemy.

As Garrison Keillor says, paraphrasing here, Freedom of speech is like the freedom to jump off the roof and fly --- you can try it, but there'll be consequences. FoS is about no prior restraint from and no jail time for people speaking their minds. It says nothing about what might happen as a result of what you say. You can be fired, ostracized, given detention, fined by the NFL, etc.... Especially when you say something as stupid as this guy. With all of his (and I would add Pat Robertson in the same vein) blunders over the years, why hasn't he crawled off to a cave yet, and why does he still have any semblence of influence in the Repub. party and society in general? Good on the Dems for exercising their own freedom of speech.

I have a lady friend who works up at a yoga center in Mass. Says EH's been there and she's not anything special. Take away the makeup and she's got a lot of pock marks, etc. I also have a supermodel's actual email from forward emails I get.

That was more of an addendum to your post replying to JSP, not directed at you.

I should've asterisk'ed that. Read: hardline social conservative. He sure ain't no fiscal conservative (My opinion of him would be 1000 times greater if he were).

Meant in the way that if you're a hardline Bush conservative, you want to see piss and vinegar and a Give-em-hell-Harry. But for the other 70 percent of the country, on the left and in the middle, his engagement slash incitement of political rancor puts them off. I can see why he is this way, but I don't necessarily agree with it. Thanks for your interpretive commentary. You get 1 1/2 out of 4 stars. Half a star for an attack I didn't deserve, but one star for the use of !

You're asking why people get pissed after drinking whiskey? Have you ever tasted that stuff? It's like biting into a delicious-looking apple and tasting dogsh--. There's that dark amber drink that looks cold and smooth but tastes like a firestorm. Back in the '60s my dad was in basic training with a guy who'd give him all but $9 of his check, he'd go to Denver and buy a jug of wine for $8.99 (my dad contends that it was the kind of wine where you got $8 back when you redeemed the bottle ) and got just as drunk as someone spending $40.

You think Pres. Bush is going to set himself up to fail on the first try? Somehow, I think that's a complete 180* from his demonstrated personality. For all of his talk about trying to not be a partisan and to tone down the conflicts in Washington, Mr. Bush enjoys picking fights. I'm not trying say that's a bad thing... or maybe I am. But one thing's for certain; he's going to nominate who his staff, the RNC and his own gut (just as good as a brain, if you ask him) tell him to nominate. Given that he waited until after Roberts' confirmation to announce his second, I would guess we're going to see a hard-liner. And where the sh-- flies when he does, it's going to be "hasta lasagna hope ya don't get any on ya."

What you can't really tell is what manner of "illness" was/is being talked about by Danielle, Desmond, et al. When Rousseau captured Sayid, I got the impression that it was more of a mental illness that caused her co-survivors to go crazy (basically, the classification that a lot of us were/are putting Locke in), so she was forced to shoot them. You're talking about a physical manifestation. Which would certainly fit in with Desmond injecting himself. Which one is it? And why would Danielle shoot someone just b/c they're sick? Do we go around shooting everyone with AIDS rationalizing that this will now make everyone who's not infected, safe? What kind of an illness is it? Which I'm assuming that no one here should be expected to have an answer to.

I suppose it's good warm-up stretching for later in the season when they move on to the reach-around.

From Mr. Clutch's blog: So I guess it can be said that Desmond is waiting for Walt, who would be the one who'd know the riddle (He read the cards w/ Michael). I totally missed Desmond at the goodbye scene. This is a show specifically designed for TiVo. Leaves those of us w/ antique over-air antennas out of the loop on the fine details until the DVDs come out.

And she stuffed a whole bunch in her back pockets. Apparently she wasn't thinking of what chocolate does against body, as these are not M&Ms. And she put them in the worst of spots for that occurance and subsequent public opinion. And moreso when she was almost shot by Desmond when she was in the vent. That's something how after 2 eps, we're at the same point in time as the end of the first. I guess that's how they're going to slow this series down so it can last for a couple more seasons.

More like Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil. And then we'll be shocked --- SHOCKED! --- when that evil bites us in the ass in the form of avian flu, etc. when someone who's uninsured doesn't go to the hospital, infects 20 people, those people infect 400 people,.... Health care is a public concern and I would argue it is a national security concern.

How about when the poison oak is weepy pustules over 50 percent of your body including the uhhh... nether regions? For an $18 face value steroid Rx, it started to reduce them in two days. Too bad the office visit of the two minutes it took to write on a piece of paper cost $150.

I had one of those that I got for 6 months after I graduated, with a $250 deductible. Had a moderately serious situation and it covered about $100 of a $1,500 bill at a time when I was really stretched thin. All of the news stories and people make all of these claims about 40 million w/o health insurance. I ask What about those likely 50 million others with insurance-in-name-only? Do you want to sit on the toilet seat at Wal-Mart right after Harry Strangeass and think that one-ply seat cover is going to protect you from his bacterial-infection ass sores, and one or both you go untreated b/c you don't have health insurance?

Katrina was my fault. I saved up until I achoo'ed the mother of all sneezes. Sorry 'bout that.

Didn't mean to imply anything about Desmond being connected with the space program, just that his living situation is reminicent of someone in the ISS. Interesting stuff with the logo. I'm sure someone will come up with a screen capture.... I didn't get a very good look at it.

What always gets me is how some people take their position in the microcosm and apply it to the macrocosm. In the big picture, does it really matter who pays for it? Our country is a collection of things being done, decisions being made that all add up to whatever equation you're looking into... GDP, GNP, etc. Say what you want about the evils of a nationalized health care system (and I'm not talking about the Hilary plan b/c that was a lot of kak), but I've talked with lots of doctors who say it would make the system much easier and cut out the middleman insurance companies that drive their costs ever skyward (they say it can't keep going on like this, and that the supposed fixes proposed by the administration about capping lawsuits haven't fixed anything). And it would also make our country stronger. Whatever the answers are, no one in Congress is coming up with anything. When I had to go to a clinic this past summer w/ poison oak/sumac to get an Rx.... the problem of 40 million people hits home. Add into that all of the people who have bare-bones, in-name-only health coverage. Add into that that health care is becoming more and more an issue of public importance. AIDS, airborne viruses, SARS, West Nile, weird bacterial infections that are happening at an exponential rate now, etc., etc. All of these with easy transmission and getting it isn't always your own fault, but Bill K. Public is left to pay for it or go without and infect everyone else.

Hmm. But if the survivors from the tail section were captured by the Others, how could they have answered Boone's radio call?... But they could have been captured after that. Oh. And does anyone have the exact words that Desmond used as a code? That and the style of injection gun got me thinking Soviet espianage/listening post (Soviets were big on codes, and the fall of the USSR the reason why Desmond's relief never came?), but the writing on the food boxes was English. I was asking about the Apollo bars in terms of pop culture references. It also had me thinking how similar Desmond's existance is to someone on the ISS.

I didn't notice the logo on the shark. Is that serious? What does that logo say? I could make out 'CH...' but I don't have the greatest of reception. A line of thought on what Desmond is doing there depends on this. The "Are you him?" line and then the spy code sentence that Locke had no clue about.... sounds like Desmond was waiting on his relief who never came. The boots were Locke's. Any significance to the Apollo candy bars? Tonight, my dislike for Ms. Bovine Eyes was renewed. She could give Walt "anything he wants." Great. How about Michael getting to see his friggin' kid, b/c you sure didn't reproduce asexually, B word. Some people can only think of what fits into their own definition of what's best... for them (And guys, let me tell you, when you meet these people, stay away from them, and for damn sure don't marry them).

I don't know if anyone has the answer to that. Artificial lights apparently. But like Danielle said, you're asking 'Why' on this island? In the ER flashback scene, was the delay by Jack meant to show a conscious decision on his part to not treat the man b/c he thought it was the guy's fault? That confused hell out of me when Sarah says that she hit him.

Someone deserving of it? Hmm.... The groundskeepers? Actually, on second blush, I don't think that's such a bad idea. Maybe give those hardworking guys a little love too. There's more to the Bills organization than the players and coaches. I always like your wallpapers.