UConn James

If you think that's just the second, or that the first was the first.... Farmers stood/stand to loose a lot even with the utterance of 'Mad Cow' and its symptoms. Swept under the rug, never happened, whistle a little ditty and they're Sgt. Schultz. Standards and tracking still aren't what they should be. I buy a 1/4 cow from a local farmer I trust and watch the butcher cut it while I Ziploc my hamburger and steaks.

I just made a batch of s-r jam from what's in my backyard. I make the pies from scratch from an old Amish recipe (tho I think Mrs. Lapp is on the Crisco payroll). Garrison Keillor says that the key to a good rhubarb pie is to add 6 cups more sugar than the amount you think you need to add to make it really, really sweet.

Cheney is now saying that Bush may now forgo private accounts. For people whining that Dems aren't doing anything, this has been the sticking point. Now that they're relaxing an idea that would require a $2T (read: $15T) govt kick-in to start them. If you've seen the Dem's "it'll still pay out 72 percent" argument, that's code for Make SS self-sufficient, which if there has to be SS, that's the best way to do it. So we may soon see some movement and some of the backroom ideas. That sounds like a great plan. Too bad it'd never happen b/c the Ponzi scheme would end.

I guess Eli Lilly wants more kids enrolled in their space program. AD, for as much as you and others spout about how great your third party is, it's pretty sad that this guy is basically a Libertarian. And this is the drivel we get from him.

Someone gave me a copy of "The Screwtape Letters" recently and I got to page 15. I hate allegory, and especially religious allegory. I don't know but his children's books don't seem much better to me.

This is the guy who was running around screaming that he's God? What's the harm in Wyatt repeating what Bowden's been drilling into his head all along?

So I read that Nader is calling for Bush's impeachment? Well, Ralph, I guess there was a difference b/w the candidates after all. Idiot. One of my older cousins, she's ~45 now, worked on one of his campaigns twenty-odd years back. My uncle, an avowed Maine Republican, voted for Nader twice on the premise that he didn't play grabass with her. If you read that expose of Nader on Salon at election time he makes John Bolton's management style look like Barney and Friends.

And all that yellow stuff on your car this time of year? I wonder if the oak trees feel ashamed because they masturbated. I had a botany and Shakespeare class in the same semester years ago. It's pretty cool how the Bard compares people's life cycles in terms of the planting season. Look at the process, and in the grand scale, the processes of Life really aren't very different.... In re: to the original subject, I always remember a scene from my youth at my grandparents' church in WNY (Palmyra?), a pretty big congregation. I excused myself to use the facilities downstairs shortly after the collection. There on the table was the biggest pile of money I'd ever seen and there were five guys sitting around smoking and counting it up and words can't describe the look in their eyes and faces, but it's probably a lot like Silas Marner when he was counting his gold pieces in his dark hovel. I visited them last week actually, and got the annual You're Going to Hell speech. Whatever. I don't like an entity that allows things to happen like He does and call it His Plan.

Just looking at her in those interview previews (and as I told my buds when she first went missing), you can tell she's 20 kinds of crazy.

I've been re-watching. It's good to have it each week w/o the 4-week gaps and such. I don't have Tivo so it's good to have a refresher. Very interesting article on Season 2 in the L.A. Times today. It includes a few spoilers, altho they're given freely by the writers and it's nothing that hasn't been said here.

If the only qualification for being a lesbian is liking females, then I guess I am a lesbian.

Perfect solution? I think you're laboring under misapprehension. Creating private accounts does nothing to allieviate the problem of 17 workers/collector --> 2. Actually, it will accelerate the need for govt borrowing trillions to implement the private accounts. Check out what Hagel had to say about it, combined with the detail that not even the hardcore Repubs are using this argument anymore, b/c it's not true. Private accounts are just a side wish to saving SS. The emporer is naked, JB. Don't compliment his clothes.

Since they're in G.B., I'd agree with the hot and add a 'spicy.' Habaneros to burn the mouth at every meal and then habaneros to burn the * after every meal. Burn the eggs, burn the toast, undercook the potatoes, apples that fell to the ground. Nothing in there about it having to be good food.

The Dems have said they won't debate until private accounts are taken off of the table, b/c implementing them will cost $2T, which in this admin means it will cost $10T. I don't know, on one level it's akin to a parent saying that a kid can't get a car unless he gets a job first. They are trying to get it through that there are other, more palatable ways to resolve the problems SS faces. The majority of Americans seem to agree with them. This is not to say I support their stance on SS, the biggest boondoggle money-shuffle of all time. I don't know why they won't go to the table and just not agree to anything that has private accounts, but then again it would just waste everyone's time as long as private accounts are the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 proposals from the other side. Just trying to point out that just b/c we're not hearing much in the mainstream establishment lapdog press, this isn't necessarily a case of nothing being done. I would wager there is a lot of preliminary backchannel talking going on.

Does Mark Gaughah, of the Buffalo News, get paid by the report or something? I think TD did his MO on drafting Teague's replacement this year. And with the salary cap increasing with the new TV money, Moulds will likely restructure to stay and there should be adequate room to sign Clements, if he wants to (that's the bigger question). The others just aren't much of a worry. The list is long every year and somehow, they manage to get 80 competitive guys in camp. Not much to wring the terrycloth about right now.

Well, that phrase was overly generic. but for example, in Providence there have been several severe attacks by pit bulls in the last few years. CDC reports that pit bulls and Rottweillers are "the most likely to kill and seriously maim." And in this report: So, I don't know; it's unfair to categorize an entire breed but take no action about Rotties or Shepards which are among the most frequent all-category biters, but the areas that have banned them felt the need to do so. I wouldn't hazard to say whether this is wrong or right.

I can see it now: Defense attorney: So, Mr. Grant, you saw my client in the Java Joint at the same time the murder was committed? Grant: Yes. He was wearing a grey cardigan sweater with a light blue oxford dress shirt underneath. DA: Don't you mean, a black Champion® hoodie with a white T-shirt? Grant: Yeah, same thing. (Just bustin' your ba--s Grant, but it's pretty easy to see the distinction from the Colts.)

What makes you think he did, contrary to all of the coverage? You know better? From the time he was drafted to the current incident showed Sr. to be just as big a schmuck as Jr. If there were any semblence that Sr. thought his son was being an ass, it would be out there. The reporters know a lot more information than what is put in their articles, but that perspective does resonate in how they write about the relationship. I know a lot of people who do publicly chastize family members for doing something stupid, while still making it apparent that they love said person and that hopefully, s/he'll learn from the experience. Doing what Sr. did makes him look stupid. The apple didn't fall far from the tree in this regard. The popular side of the argument is often popular b/c it's more or less true. Like I crapped a golden answer? I don't know who you think I am (nor, who you think you are speaking to me like that) but... whatever.

Have you ever raised puppies? We've done three litters of GSPs. Even for $500/puppy (with AKC papers and good hunting and excellent, mellow temperament bloodlines) with an average of 8 pups, I would be surprised if it came out to $4 an hour spent taking care of them and dealing with/instructing buyers after vet and food expenses. You don't do it to get rich, that's for sure. As for the original question, as with most questions that asks a cause b/w a) or b), the answer is, 'Both.' Dogs that have somewhat been bred for aggressiveness combined with sh--head owners. There are several cities around here that have banned them. Sucks for the good dogs that are being lumped in with the bad. But after so many incidents, especially stuff like this, what can you do but shrug and say, 'I dunno.'

Throwback Uniforms Get Alumni Approval

I don't think it's so much the NFL dictating jersey design, just that the current drawing-board fashionistas are engaging in pack designing. Even the word art logos are converging toward one similar font. Kudos to the people who applied the KISS method in "tweaking" the '65 unis to fix only what needed fixing re: placement of the shoulder numbers b/c today's sleeves are much shorter. Same thing I was thinking. The blue for these jerseys is a good kind of shocking and vibrant. The experiment in dark blue just hasn't worked; remove it from the current helmet and it would look nice on these jerseys. But if they were to keep the white helmet, I wouldn't mind either. The blue-on-blue in the throwback color does look sweet, too. I've done some similar mockups.

Did anyone think the Jets were going to change to their '60s jerseys when they wore them as an alternate? I guess it all depends on how popular they are, how the team plays when they wear them (there's a silver UConn women's jersey that will never be worn again b/c of a loss to Tenn. in its debut), if Ralph likes the nostalgia they create, etc.

I do prefer these throwbacks, minus the black hightops. Making a permanent switch, however, would mean that buffalo at the 50-yard line would need to be replaced (and the company that installed the turf no longer exists) as well as the signage, etc. Not that it couldn't be done.

Funny. I come from a family where if someone crashes in the bushes while being a jackass on their motorcycle, they would say, "We love you, but that was pretty fuggin' stupid." In a better world, people wouldn't out and out lie and grasp at every possible excuse in defense of a jackass just b/c s/he is family. Your earlier description of KW Sr being different in private? You've gotta be kidding.

I've asked questions several times about the parallels b/w the Roman use of military and ours. I never got a reply. I have become much less a critic of Bush's foreign and military policy in the past few months (his domestic policy has utterly, utterly sucked tho). Maybe after reading BiB's posts, or watching Frontline pieces or just the accumulated weight of what's going on in the Arab Street that's not going to change b/c they live in the 1300s by choice. Kill as many of the enemy as possible and then get out. The Afghanistan model was actually pretty good in this regard; I just hope the Iraq presence is similarly cut by next year and we don't have to rename them the InterNational Guard (see: Parallels w/ Roman use of military). I do agree that Americans' lack of knowledge/involvement in our homeland security (and I mean this in the broadest sense -- food supply, emergency medical services) is abyssmal. But I don't know; it's hard to blame people who come home from 60-80 hours a week and just have enough free time to hang our hard hats, sleep, eat and say hello to the family. BigAL, our troops are "expendable"? I lament at the loss of the :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: 'smilie.'