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2) A mostly dreadful day for Moorman. If he didn't shank it, he outkicked the coverage which led to a longish 30+ return. It's one thing to win a competition in preseason for a 32 year old who's been in decline for three seasons. Not a good sign if he's getting a dead-leg and losing his touch this early in the season. 11) Nick Barnett. And yes.

FWIW, during halftime highlights in the late game, Cowher just said it was a shoulder sprain.

I think that may have been tongue-in-cheek. Would have been more effective if he said Keith Richards, tho. This is a long list: Roy Orbison Jim Croce Jeff Buckley Elvis Otis Redding

Also, wait until he hears that SJ jumped up in front of the screen, lifted his outer shirt up, and revealed an undershirt that read, "The Neighbor Killed Her!!" (Not an actual spoiler. I haven't seen that, and probably won't from the sound of it.)

You mean... that Jesus of Nazareth existed. Calling him Christ = the divinity part. And no, even for non-super-naturalists, atheists, etc., I'm hard pressed to name offhand a group that has serious backing that denies the existence of the man. They do quibble about his story as presented in the bible / the stories attributed to him. To me, it would be as if Socrates' students got together after his death and decided... this man was so smart and a great teacher, and yet his end so sad that we need to say he was the Son of God or Demi-god and go out and sell this story so no one will question his teachings, and you don't question even what Jesus DIDN'T say but what this or that one says he said or says this is what was meant, because you don't question God. (The Catholic Church later doubled --- no, tripled --- down in this and said Jesus WAS God as part of the Holy Trinity. The first order of it was for millenia to revert to the Old Testament view of women and try to demonize Mary M. because they were jealous of the power she had and they wanted a paternalist society where men decided everything. I'm not a raging women's studies' major guy who wears polyester and kicks himself in the nuts (in fact I'm quite a misogynist because most women are stupid and crazy) but the farce of male domination in most church societies is painfully obvious in creed and deed. The apostles and later writers really didn't have to go this route of divinity for the message of love and forgiveness to spread. Look at Socrates' influence in thought even today. But, that's what they either convinced themselves of or decided would sell best, and so that's what they did. PBS's Frontline had a nice little series a few years back titled "From Jesus to Christ." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/

AJ, agreed on the three-tribe note. It should make for a much "fairer" / less predictable merge. What has once been a given due to the numbers game (and even the order of the pick-off can be predicted), it's now probably going to be like a European-style parliment where there's going to have to be a coalition to get a majority... with the ever-present threat of a dissolution if something happens. I just can't wait for Angie to lose that shirt full-time. Holy moly!!

WRT Zane, the phrase "Ugly, fat and stupid is no way to go through life, son!" comes immediately to mind. Zero preparation for the physical game. Running around like a kid in a candy store who says he's going to buy EVERYTHING / making an alliance with EVERYONE on Day One and thinking that this alone is going to carry you for however long... and then telling someone??? And thinking that it won't get out that you've overextended yourself?? This is what's wrought by having only the first clue on how to play Survivor. Step One: Make alliances Step Two: ???? Step Three: Roll naked on a million $. (BTW, "The Amazing Race" upped their prize to $2M. Especially after taxes, a single million ain't what it was even 10 years ago.) Angie. WOW. :woot: Returning Russell is !@#$ing moron #2. Spouting off on how leadership = death in the game and then he goes all General Patton toute suite and flubs strategy to boot. An apology at tribal is not enough. There are people who don't know what their weaknesses are, and you can forgive that, but people who do know their weaknesses and then cogently jump right back into those weaknesses... BTW, Leadership does not necessarily kill in Survivor. STUUUUUPID leadership kills. The Peter Principle applies on the island as much as it does IRL. Russ reached his level of incompetence at the first immunity challenge. He is not long for this game. Fire Guy is just wrecking himself out there. The fire incident wasn't some fluke. This guy just can't avoid injuring himself because he just can't calm the !@#$ down. The two celebrities, who had hoped to keep their identities secret and blend in were both sussed out right away. I think Jeff Kent's would hurt him more than Facts of Life woman, especially given how she lost everything she got from that show. As Fire Guy said, I think pulling back her over shirt and revealing her true identity would likely help her a lot.

A phrase of the 2004 election was that "You don't switch horses midstream." The difference here in 2012 (just like in 1979) is that the horse we're riding has died in midstream. Stay on the dead horse, you drown.

The Jefferson Bible was constructed by him cutting out the lines that ascribe supernatural powers, etc. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/05/local/me-beliefs5 His penning law that details religious freedoms for people to worship as they will w/o reproach has literally -all to do with his personal religious beliefs. I think you're the one who needs to do some reading, dude.

Romney can't remember his effective tax rate for the last 10 years? Liberals scream bloody murder. The president can't remember that the national debt just passed $16 T while he was speaking at the DNC? No big.

I've always heard that this last bit involving "time travel" w/o aging involved orbiting a black hole (at such an orbit/distance/speed so as to avoid getting sucked in) and then eventually leaving that orbit. The argument holds that the orbiter wouldn't have aged much, but hundreds/thousands of years would have gone by on Earth. It's not time travel as some think of it, but it does get the gist accomplished and while it'd bedamn difficult, will fail with disastrous effect if some little thing goes wrong and is probably a technological impossibility even trying to think. about what kind of technology is yet to come, it is theoretically possible, according to Hawking et al.

I'm "all over the place on this"?!? I'm not the one who's engaging in this double-agent?/ triple-agent? stuff. That's all you. We've got two videos released on the same day from both candidates on the topic of wealth redistribution and getting the conversation back on the topic of the economy after it's been muddled in the Arab Autumn for the past week. I'm going to go out on a limb and say they're connected. My money says the Romney camp or surrogates released them both, and they have a plan on where they're going to direct the conversation, that is aimed at people who either think too many people are on these programs, that there ought to be a cut-off point for them, and also hold a hand out to people who don't want to be on these programs but have had to swallow their pride in the Obamaconomy and who would get right off of them when a guy who actually knows how the economy works and how jobs are created can get things going where Obama has utterly failed, and pissed away trillions doing it.

I think the OL is finally good. enough that if the Fitz of the last half of last year and the first game this year continues to show up, or even if Fitz simply does all right / not bad.... We could finally be in a position to draft a QB high and not get 'im killed and turned into a gunshy kitty. Don't get me wrong --- I want Fitz to be the guy. But we can't let the window close while waiting for him to become a QB who can make all the throws. Seriously, if he physically can't Throw a 20-yard spiral with any degree of accuracy, then what the hell are we doing?!!

Boludo --- Unless, of course, Vince Wilfork is on the other side and goes offsides, unabated, to get in one last cheap-shot.

Or what happens to Social Security in... when was it? The insolvency date keeps getting adjusted sonner and sooner... as Obama and the Democrats are content to kick the can down the road. The way they talk is as if the entitlement tsunami isn't going to hit.

How does anyone think that this video reached MJ without the Romney camp WANTING it to? Coincidence that it happens the SAME DAY that the video from 1998 where Obama says he "I actually believe in redistribution" was unearthed? And no, contrary to what duckrodgers above and the progressive left would like to sweep under the rug, it was NOT meant in the spirit of monetary circulation that happens in an economy. If Obama had meant circulation, he would and should have said circulation. He said redistribution, through taxes, from the earners and gifted by political vote-buyers to those who stick out their hands for living.

Better put than what I wrote. A 25-second rundown after plays --- oftentimes 5 times the amount of time that the play itself actually took. That's a lot of time for grown men Spandex to be standing around doing bupkiss. Maybe allow the 25 seconds, but don't take it all off the game clock. Games would take longer. Sure. But why have a game clock if that's how you're going to treat it? Reduce the game to 30 minutes total and have stoppage after every play. Time is arbitrary when you don't care how it's kept. This is one of the things that drives me nuts about soccer too. Guys being paid to model laundry for most of the game.

I've always hated the running of the clock after a running play or a completed pass. Time ticks while guys are standing around. Sure, give 'em the breather and use a play clock for that, but that nothingness should not be happening while the game clock is running.

Hence why, as I said, I don't believe in the divinity of Jesus.

As posted in another thread, well... what about the new video showing Obama in 1998 saying "I actually believe in redistribution." This is a conversation that Romney WANTS in the field. ANd it needs to be polished, sure. Move into that his economic policies are designed to get people back to work so they DON'T HAVE to collect from the federal govt to get by. But make no mistake --- there IS a sizable portion of this country's citizens whose families are in their fourth or fifth generation of food stamps, section 8, medicaid, et al., and beat feet to apply for whatever new free money there is, but won't do the same when it comes to getting a job. And this has been the case for far too long to blame it on this or that recession. It's a case of people being free riders and mooches on the system.

Written at least 250 years after his death? Not that I give a hoot either way. Like. Thomas Jefferson, I don't believe in the divinity of Jesus or the supernatural parts of the Bible. He was a teacher whose legend was majorly trumped up by his students, and then, like the game of Telephone, the passing of centuries have only added to the confusion.

New video surfaces. Obama at Loyola University in 1998: "I actually believe in redistribution." http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/325942/obama-1998-i-actually-believe-redistribution-katrina-trinko#

I think the funniest line I've ever heard was Steve talking about meeting Vince Lombardi back in the day. He was speaking of this man very reverently while relating their meeting and then said he asked for an autograph from the coach on a picture. Sabol said that Lombardi handed it back to him and it read: "To Steve, A schmuck if I ever met one. Vince Lombardi" So much of what's on teevee is just passing time that you forget within ~ 45 minutes. I saw that on one of his NFL Films presentations and, hey, it's still in the memory bank. RIP Mr. Sabol.

See, if you were asking for TBDers in the Albequerque area.... [cue "Crystal Blue Persuasion"] I still don't get why the dude can't package it for you himself, especially if it's someone you know. Do you not want him to know that you're buying from him? Present for him or someone he knows? My brow is just furrowed here....

And then you have to bear in mind that this was against the Kansas City Chiefs.