UConn James

Hey, all I know is that when they walked on the court at Gampel, they sure didn't have the air of cockiness. More like deer in the headlights. As for the two football games, they could've gone home at halftime and still beat us.

No, she's been Lost. I've seen in some short TVGuide-like previews that she makes an appearance before or in the finale. Not necessarily foreboding, as a lot of people are thinking the worst of Locke (not w/o reason). 'Not being what he seems' would suggest that he's not evil. I keep flashing on Walt's comic book where Green Lantern and Flash attack the benevolent alien. I don't know.... <shrug>

Department of Corrections: Matt Rodgers is 'white.' Selected in '92 out of Iowa. Wore #7. I still have a B&W photo from the RD&C in my archives. There is no biological basis for race. It is entirely sociological.

Ahem. Let's make the distinction of it being a 'Canes football thing.

And just like the debates, he shrugged off any notion that he's done anything wrong in fomenting the current level of partisanship. You're by far not the only one, Mr. President, but you're not virgin snow in this. Then there was: "Ten years ago, if we'd have had an energy strategy, we would be able to diversify away from foreign dependence." Basically passing the buck to the Clinton admin. You want to know why there was no effective energy policy 10 years ago? B/c Republicans at the time were busy trying to dismantle the Dept. of Energy. And hey, you get what you give. What we've got for ideas from him is the ANWR wet dream. How about nuclear power --> hydrogen economy? Instead, he has to pander to the clean coal, biodiesel, ethanol special interests (again, he's not the only one, but he's the highest profile one, who sets the course for the country) rather than technology that already exists and works.

The previews from before the ep where Boone died clearly said "No, we're the survivors...." There was probably enough unintended confusion that the producers decided to redub the audio. I wouldn't exactly trust CC. From that, I'd say there's definately another (probably much smaller) group of survivors, that includes Rose's husband. There's new eps each week all the way through the finale. Something I noted from the repeats. Locke's sister died from a broken neck (his golden retreiver story). Boone's nanny died from a broken neck, and Locke was clairvoyant to this. The summary episode for Lost was not as well done as the one for Desperate Housewives. Then again, DH only had 4 main characters to deal with. But it tied things together a lot better instead of jumping around so much.

I don't care, just as long as it dies a quick death. A lot of younger people who identify themselves as 'Dems' in the new generation hate SS, and not b/c they can't think ahead (I think on the whole they get really underestimated that way). It's just that while they're social Dems such that people can make their own choices for their own lives, they're fiscally conservative and realize that SS as it stands makes no economic sense. When I think what the Democratic Party will be in 20 years, when that way of thinking changes it from the inside....

Did they check to see if it was counterfeit? Saddam was in the printing business like that, don't you know. If a cop finds $400,000 that fell out of a getaway car, should he get to keep it? I don't think so.

AlGore ran w/ the "SS Lockbox" back in 2000. Criticize him if you want, but he saw the problem and wanted to address it back then. Probably pi--ed off a lot of his fellow Senators who liked to raid it. Would it have worked? Not by itself. Was it genuine? Who knows. But I don't think waking America up to the fact that their money was being stolen by the politicians was a bad thing. I'm w/ you on this one. Why have the gov't take my money so they can repay it to me in 40 years? Wanna know how much they make on interest in a day off of all that money in the macro? I don't really foresee living to retirement age. And basically, the gov't doesn't want you to live past retirement. Better to keep it in our pockets and if they need the money so badly, they can try their best ( ) to justify raising taxes. Keeping it as a silent tax is wrong, nevermind getting taxed on those earnings twice.

The theory behind the filibuster according to the founding fathers, was that one party that had simple majority power would not be able to control the whole shebang and thereby persecute the minority. It also prevents a tennis match situation where when one party has control and sets X rule, then when the other party gets a majority, they set it at Z. Cuts to the chase and they meet at Y, in theory. If the Repubs do get what they're looking for, do you think they'll shut up and take it when the pendulum swings the other way. Because what goes around comes around. Some things will not be settled like this tho, abortion and civil rights among them. There is one judgment for them. By and large, they only roll forward, not back. When Republicans got back in power in the '80s, they couldn't (overtly) re-enforce segregation.

So, is this a quasi-playoff system where the BCS games have input into who plays in the Championship, or just that they're going to delay the controversy of #1 vs. #2, according to the computer, by another week and piss off more fans? Sounds like the latter. But the three articles I've read about it aren't very clearly written. If they're extending the season by a week, I don't see the reason why they don't have a playoff. Then again, it's the BCS. Link Then, there's some news re: automatic bids. They will be opened up to every conference. Seems more fair in theory, but I'll reserve judgment until I see it in practice. Link 2.

Locke doesn't get shot. And if he does, as it looks like in that preview, he's "Unbreakable." No way do they off Terry O'Quinn. But another of the 14 is apparently going to die before or in the finale. As I'm guessing, the Carriers refer to the island possessing people and guiding them in what to do, like it is w/ Locke and was for Ethan. Pro'ly why Danielle had to pick everyone off one by one, and why she's so paranoid. I heard that this special would show all of the flashbacks in order. Well, that didn't happen.... That wire that leads out into the ocean still has me befuddled. What could it possibly run to in the ocean? And the more I think about it and hear it, the more I think the monster is a dinosaur.

Agreed about SD, if they fix their QB issues b/c it's been proven many times before that their current arrangement can't co-exist for long. After Butler, Smith has now fully righted the ship. They're going to dominate the AFC West for the next 5 years. But to say that Mike Brown "gets it"? Bengals don't even have a scouting department. They're one of those teams where every time they do OK and they're expected to take a step forward the next season, they take four steps back. I'm not convinced Marvin Lewis can beat the vortex.

What does he mean by "thing"? It's like trying to decipher Mad Libs. Does he have a -problem- learning the system? Is he -slow- learning the system? Is he -banana sundae- learning the system? What does "thing" mean?

The write-up reports that his only misses last year came on blocks that resulted from a protection breakdown. 2-2 on 50+. I wouldn't necessarily say he's camp fodder. A lot of people thought that about Moorman after he showed up from NFLE against a couple of fresh guys, and he won the job even w/ a "dead leg."

The line in Vegas says "Even."

Yep. Edited re: score. (I wasn't a math major ). ESPN: I had to take a hot shower after that game. The Fins had 15 guys on the field the whole day.

It was just inside of the final two minutes. Reed had a TD and the EP would have made it 24-21. Don't remember if the refs were calling him down at the 1/2-inch yard line or if he accidentally bumped the ref and they called it back in enforcing the penalty. And yes, he was ejected for it.

Mr. Carpio was in the news again this morning. He beat a correctional guard that was in his cell for a transfer, and broke a bone near his eye, broke his jaw, and cracked a vertabrae. Two other guards were treated for minor injuries. I'm sure the mother will say it's police brutality. :lol:

Hate to agree, after having read all the stuff about Flutie, but yeah. If not for the refs giving one last Dan Marino Sympathy F--- in Habana Norte, they might have gone to the Show.

How about if we did away with Congressional pensions and their own cushy private social security system and put them on the same Social Security plan as the rest of us? Might light a fire under their butts. And while we're at it, make those things as well as Congr. pay raises a national ballot issue rather than letting the foxes in the henhouse to do as they please? At the end of the day, Bush's Social Security initiative and failure will be his very own National Health Care. I'm not taking glee in this. SS is the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world. He saw a problem and tried to fix it. The problem is, no answer exists that a majority of the country will accept. It's just something he must've slept through in POLS: You don't touch the third rail.

Mmm, gotta love a lenient judge who's in the pockets of the Make-A-Wish people. There was a story on last night on a RI station where a girl with cancer wanted a swimming pool in her back yard. And the fight was that the neighborhood only allowed in-ground pools. And then they showed the houses --- $500,000 McMansions. I'm not against raising money to fly a kid out to practice w/ their favorite sports team or go to a ballgame, as those costs are nominal. This one drew my ire tho. There are kids w/ cancer who don't have FOOD and they have to give the girl a swimming pool that her parents will then be able to collect on when they sell the house? Uhh, I don't think I'm going to be making a donation to this charity from now on.

Except that this bill is under the auspices, and in the public mind, of being expressly to fund the wars. Probably b/c it doesn't exist yet. The funding is to create it, which of course, will later need more funding to operate it. Funny how the Southern Repubs always piss and moan about federal spending, but they're not shy about feeding at the trough or putting these rats on appropriation bills.

I don't think it'd take much to be as good as the Fuggin' SOLJA himself. All Everett will need to do is run his mouth off about how great he is and fracture his fibula in the second game.

Yeah, there's a lot of money in there for Iraq and Afghanistan, however you feel about them and the funding for such.... But: - $10M to repair a flooded library at the University of Hawaii, - $2 million to fund something called the Southeast Regional Cooling, Heating and Power and Bio-Fuel Application Center - $25 million for a fish hatchery in Montana. - $500,000 for the Oral History of the Negotiated Settlement project at the University of Nevada, Reno. - $4 million for capital debt service for the Fire Sciences Academy in Elko These are the "emergencies" that just need to be funded, now-now-now and don't ask any questions? And that even if you have the stones to vote against it, you're 'Soft on terror'? Whatever.