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It looks a lot better in pads than it seemed it was going to be from the replicas. The sleeve rings take up the whole side and the shoulder numbers look bigger than the replicas (which is good). This is a jersey that has the distinctiveness that's been lacking for so long. Wouldn't mind it as a a full-time switch (haven't seen the pants tho). No confusing it with the Giants as the JK-era uni often was, or the current Pats/Broncos/Titans ambomination that is the dark blue Drew Bledsoe era. Just not the white helmet -- too many teams in the division with it, and it loses the charging buffalo history.

Coming attractions for when some punk he represents loses millions b/c of his schtick and goes all Rae Carruth on him. Rosenass, STFU already. I know to most people, he's invisible but for the future #3 or #4, but... TH.

Also, b/c teams can only wear an alternate uniform twice a season, per NFL rules.

I don't know why anyone would defend the Pentagon based on their press releases. You know, ten years from now, it will come out that one was indeed flushed down the toilet and the response will be, 'Oh. Really? Newsweek was right then? Well, whatever.' Not that I really care what they do to that book of hate anyway. Riot b/c of a fuggin' piece of paper going through the sewerage? Any excuse for violence in that part of the world. And I'm still waiting for someone to print the Quran on rolls of toilet paper.

In the linked story: "And though criticism of government is growing among all Democrats, they express far less frustration and cynicism about the political system than Republicans and independents did in 1994." So-called 'bitterness' loses elections? Says who? To respond to BlueFire's assertion, I think #2 follows from #1. Dems need to place quality candidates in every race and not just run Joe Schmoe b/c they think they have no chance in that district. That line of thought is self-fulfilling and the reason why the re-election rate is so high. Candidates aren't made from a cookie-cutter; who knows where the next really good leader will come from (tho it would help if the Right wouldn't shoot them b/c they can't compete). The way you view what a party is doing is colored from where you sit on your own spectrum. Ken, I think it's safe to say you're right of center. For a lot of Dems, not taking drastic action on SS is an appropriate solution. Not legislating morality is an appropriate thing. Making the tax code on a progressive scale in who uses the things that federal funding pays for (ie, IBM has more of a stake in interstate highways, national security, etc. than Joe Schmoe) is something that should be done. I don't go along with some of this, but the alternative is worse.... You're not going to vote for the Dem candidate. Why would they tailor their goals to the right to attract a few independents when it would altogether alienate their core? Fund-raising will come when it's crunch time. And if it doesn't come, that doesn't mean much. Dems won a lot of elections when they were out-banked 2-1. Raising money doesn't do much when people disagree with your policy. The thing is getting out the vote.

I guess the strategy is to make the opposing players puke in their mouths.

So, he might be getting a cut of the profits when W&B write a book about it. Whoop-di-do. Other people have ghostwritten books (only in Felt's case, his input happened 30 years ago). George "41" Bush and Stumphumper Clinton both wrote a book after he left office; does that mean he wasn't the President? Damn capitalists, forcing people to buy their books!

Todd Maranovich & father as well. Taking his key from Barry Bonds. Just as how he denies taking steroids, KW and KWII would have denied the motorcycle stunts until the cows come home. Until the surveillance tape proved otherwise; then they were forced to admit it. The thing with PR today is to lie straight-faced until, when the truth is found out 10 years later, there's nothing that can be done about it, the story is out of the public conciousness, and he's too rich to care. Reporting the truth is no longer a protection.

Yeah, I meant that in the sense that we spend more on our military than the next 40 countries combined. $600 toilets. $50 hammers. $80 per diem for six SSgts in one office to stare at a cadet's pee-pee from a foot away as he unloads Vitamin P in a cup (I don't know; sounds kinda gay to me) when they could very well go through a private contractor for a lot less. $80,000 to fill up a C-130 in Turkey; they were being extorted but they didn't bat an eyelash. My brother stared at receipts his one Raven squad accrued on one mission -- 5 star hotels in Italy (well, that is b/c only 5-stars offer adequate security) and per diem pay to fish and float in the Mediterranean while their plane was "broke," read: landing gears manual backup crank wouldn't work --> crash. They love to spend it, that's for sure.

Or until DT identified himself, I thought. Which he now seems to have done through his personal attorney. There's the possibility of senility or whatever, but I doubt it. The lawyer says there are enough links and paper evidence out there to prove it. On edit: Woodward is telling ABC he will not identify DT until his death. I guess he doesn't want to let go his claim to fame.

Being reported on ABC. Haven't seen it on any internet sites yet, but they showed a picture of an advance copy of the magazine layout. I'll wait until it's confirmed by Woodward. He was the No. 2 guy at the FBI at the time. Chose to remain unidentified b/c he thought being a leak was dishonorable. Now, at 91, after telling his family in '03, they've told him it was not and they're proud of him. Yaknow, Mr. Felt, it was the Truth, inscrutable and immutable.

Memo: When people are so full of it to call themselves "mastermind," they usually aren't.

Well, for starters, we pay taxes to support the military gravy train. We pave the roads they use for transport. We produce the foodstuff the military eats. We build the housing the military and their families live in. We sanitize the water they drink. We process their paychecks and gather information for them to make investments (information is expensive, you know). We put up the phone lines and develop the network technology that allow them to communicate easily. And on and on for every other service. Go ahead and tell everyone to !@#$ off at 7 in the morning. But when you try to take away people's vote, be prepared for a 'civil' war where veterans and soldiers will find out they depend just as much on everyone else as we depend on them, and that they're not the end-all be-all. Dream on, Ghengis Khan. And yeah, that was a guess on your part. Read the part in bold and apply it to yourself.

Why would a rumor about a degenerative knee condition ever be planted by his agent? Unless he hired one of his sped classmates.... It was by another team who wants to cheapen trade value, and it's bogus.

I liked Miss Albania. Linky.

Hmm. I'm of the school that even if you do learn history, you're doomed to repeat it.

If it weren't for all the queer-ass musical numbers and a pretty weak actor for Charlie in the original, I would say it's one of the best movie adaptations of a children's book. Gene Wilder was perfect for Wonka. I'll wait to see what they do for the sets, but I don't think Depp playing him as a Michael Jackson wannabe (as he said he based the character on) will make it better. I rarely did before, but I don't go to see movies at the cinema anymore. Netflix it, or for a few bucks more you can buy the DVD, 6 months later.

Well, since one legislator is offended, that means everyone else has to become offended as well. NOW! COME ON, PEOPLE! People? <echo> Peo-ple? Hey, I don't like how Gateway uses that cow. They need to change that. And Travelers with that red umbrella? Nope, that's just not gonna do it for me. How is this different from Al-Sadr or the Taliban blowing up those rockwall statues five years ago? This is why people who sit in the pulpit on Sundays should stop trying to legislate morality and keep out of politics.

15 to go. Hope it runs on fumes, tho....

Saw that last week. An old high school pal played the waiter in the scene where *ahem* someone punches someone. He had some funny lines. Dan was an old-school man. No surprise he'd have a picture of Fergie. It was a different kind of movie; real-world dialogue/story. Poke at the new-business era where people who have no idea what they're doing or saying are put in charge. I liked it.

The thing I'm having trouble believing about the story is that a bunch of teens/twenty year-olds were actually aware of and driving the speed limit.

This is simply a 20-question written driving test, not in how people actually drive.

So, watching it again tonight on the re-run. -The scene with Jin and Michael on the raft.... Jin has a handcuff on the hand most people wear their watch; kind of symbolic of how his life as a slave to his f-i-l (probably not a coincidence that the Black Rock had slaves in shackles too). He gives Michael the watch; a gift of time.... I don't know, but ever since I read The Sound and The Fury, that passage runs through my mind every time I put my watch on. Faulkner was probably the greatest American writer. - I listened to what the bird screached again, and I couldn't make out 'Hurley!' but my hearing is going.... - "Boone was a scrifice that the island demanded." Locke is evil. - The scene with the three women was a little Shakespearian; I reference particularly Richard III and the "litany of curses" that all of the queens launch against the title villian. Each of those women have/had a family member on the island, which makes them unique in that regard. Given that, this scene had a purpose. Shannon's brother "died heroically," Jin is risking his life on the raft on the chance he can hail a rescue for everyone else, Aaron (or is it Erin?)... you fill in the blank.

Or a Mercedes 500s.... My pal took a picture of the tachometer at 245kph (~125mph?). That was meant generally, which was pretty apparent. Or not. This is an Internet message board. Some, all, many, more, lots, few... Did you major in Rhetoric or something? And I would respectfully submit that Europeans take driving way more seriously than we do. That, and those silly zigzag lines marking the edge of the road. Do they expect people to drive in lightning-bolt pattern?

Huh? I'm just pointing out a fact in the different ways things are done. If you think American drivers are courteous, you either don't drive or you're one of the a-hole drivers. I have a dozen relatives across the country who drive as a job -- big rigs, trucks, mail trucks, and I'm regaled by stories of people who blow through stop signs and flip them off. Happens to me too. Where's the link of the story yesterday where most people would fail their driver's test if they take it again? People here don't know how to drive, and combine that with road rage. Uhp! Saying people need to calm down and drive responsibly = America sucks? Nice logic.