UConn James

On my ipad, you have to click where it says 'Shout Box' on the title bar. That will take you to a full screen of the shoutbox, so you lose access to the rest of the page, but just open it in another tab.

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Mark Steyn : An Act of War, Not a Movie Protest

Do they not have Post Office delivery there? Get on the horn and ask him to put it in a box. What's the prob? Or... is this "item" cut up leaves with a high THC content?

Gailey ought to be feeling some heat. But it's probably too soon to be BBQing him. This roster still has major holes. If Fitzpatrick plays all year the way he played at the end of last season and last week, it's time to cut bait and if Gailey / Nix are STILL adamant that Fitz, Pretty much everyone here would be on board with blowing it up. But especially if they go in another direction at QB and stop bitching and moaning about not being in the right spot to draft/get a true Franchise QB and just !@#$ing do it already, I would be satisfied enough to give them another year or two. As quickly as he canned Trentative Edwards, it's hard to fathom how he's going to stick with Fitz at this rate. And yet he has. Fitz is a GREAT guy; but it's becoming clear that he can't even be a mediocre serviceman QB. Assuming the Bills have a terrible year.... We're left with the same situation --- who the hell would want to come here? No established, experienced coach who has ANY other option at a job in the NFL will touch Buffalo with a ten foot pole. You can argue one-of-only-32-jobs-in-the-world and you'd be wrong. Like it or not, Chan was the best we could get last time. Another few years on an owner who has one foot in the grave isn't likely to help here. No one wants to go into a situation like that. Super Mario or not, we are the dregs of the league. Don't expect a Reggie-White-signing-in-Green-Bay-like turnaround. Wannstache would not be taking over at HC. One, he and Chan are friends. And two, I don't want him at HC. It would probably be a talented OC/DC hire again. And then he'll blow the whole thing up making it "his" team and we'll be right back at square negative five.

Yep, yocash old do depreciation research on the MacBook, but on the face of it, I'd say that it's probably a good swap (you'll also stay out of paying taxes, as if Malloy needs more of our money to piss away). The prices on teevees have come down LOTS. For what I paid 900 clams for a 40" in 2009 you can now get better specs for like 600. We cut the cord for cable/sat ~20 years ago now and do antenna-only free teevee, heavily PBS, and since we upgraded with the HDTV, Netflix.

Followed by breaking news that Coach Calhoun is retiring from UConn. Wow.

You don't have to *believe* it. They were. I don't have the article offhand, but I remember well thinking what a nice, forgiving, and friendly Catholic Church administration they have at BC.... !@#$ing bastards! But the ACC desperately wants a presence in the NYC-and-environs market, and UConn offers that. Our games are on the SNY network, have the track record at MSG in the Big East tourneys, we recruit HEAVILY in that market, and there are LOT$ of UConn fans in Fairfield County.

Well, BC would be one of their ACC conference games.... So this essentially makes it 15 in the ACC. Uconn's really gotta push NOW to be that magic 16th. Gotta get out of the Big East. It's dying.

Wow. Stop posting in this thread unless you've got something that's even remotely on the topic of Bob Woodward's book and/or the debt deal. Word is that Moody's has a negative outlook and will join S&P's decision to downgrade America's credit rating if no debt deal is in place by the time of the so-called "fiscal cliff" on 2 January. Link. At this point, the sides seem to be dug in. Boehner said he had the votes at spending cuts and $800B in tax increases, but who knows about that now. Will Obama keep his new goalpost at $1.2T or move it even further?

Yeah... how 'bout this thread.... If you wanted to tempt Fate a little more, why didn't you ask how much the Bills would win by?

Why don't you just save a lot of eye strain and cut to the part where you mouth a shotgun barrel or take a bunch of pills? This is what we're stuck with. !@#$ing deal with it!

Ohhh... you had to do it, right? You had to tempt Fate! There's now an 83 percent chance that we lose directly owing to the Wildcat. Don't tempt Fate!

You are truly divine, Bill!! (Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised for LMc to get like 6-8 INTs this year as a nickel DB, sign with someone for huge coin to be a starter, and then go back to simply being able to "stay with" WRs. We'll see if he's one such of those "contract year players" that plague so many teams --- our Bills not the least of all!

PPP101 --- When ya don't like the implications of a discussion, start a tangent and maybe the whole conversation just drifts away and no one will see the dookie that Obama left on the floor....

There's now confirmation that Obama got 100% of what he wanted. And then he wanted more. Bait-and-switch isn't a very good negotiating tactic. In fact, it's virtually guaranteed to fail. Which is what Obama wanted so he could have a re-election narrative of a 'do-nothing Congress.' The reported $800B in new taxes wasn't enough to ask from Tea Party freshmen who had been elected on this core of cutting spending and reducing taxes?? For this president to come out and try to demonize congress / Republicans / Tea Party, saying they wouldn't budge or weren't willing to compromise to get a deal and avoid default is beyond the pale. Just further cements that Obama and the WH wear the blame for the credit downgrade.

Woodward Book: Debt Deal Collapse Led to 'Pure Fury' From President Obama In accordance with what was written in the NYT story some months after the breakdown --- that a deal was essentially in place and Boehner had the begrudging votes of the freshman Tea Partiers to a mix of new taxes to go along with spending cuts / entitlement reform --- Bob Woodward's latest book is painting the picture of a White House and president who 1) Didn't know what the hell they were doing and 2) When the administration's original objectives were reached and Boehner had the votes, Obama moved the goalposts and wanted more --- 150% more --- taxes. This just further underpins the notion that this WH is rudderless and completely engaged in ideological, divisive power plays rather than having any sense or willingness to address the debt ($16T now) and what is coming down the pike in the form of the entitlement tsunami. Would've loved to be a fly on the wall when the Democrat congressional staffer rebuked Obama to his face in the Oval about the WH not having a Plan B to avoid default.

I wonder if Obama is again going to promise to close GITMO....

Not in the BB world. It's been less than a year. I'm sure there's enough for Hank to suss up. He accepted things over the past six years because he didn't think Walt as the type i.e. the "gambling" money that paid for his physical therapy treatment, Skyler's behavior.... No doubt, Hank will play it cool and build his case. But he's gonna be thinking back and really kicking himself in the ass about everything. Not as great a finale as half of Gus Fring's face getting blown off, but hey, it was a great set-up for what should be an awesome final mini-season.

That doesn't mean you get to post it here. IIRC, SDS or one of the admins had a pinned thread on this on the main board for awhile because people were doing exactly what you're doing. Quote a few pertinent paragraphs, and then provide a link. You'd better learn this.

So, whoever sussed out from the 'shooting crew member' that Walt kills Skyler as the final scene was either full of stevestojan, an intentional misdirection for the fans that never happened, or an intentional misdirection by Gilligan and crew to shoot numerous scenes to throw off any leaks or find out leaks. [tangent] In much the same way, the LOST production team filmed scenes of the S5 finale 'Jeremy Bentham' casket opening with Locke, Sawyer, Desmond, and I believe there was one other. Like a football coach with his playbook, you never reveal the ENTIRE story to any one of the players (except maybe the QB), because that information can then be used. Shakespeare would give his actors individually-produced scripts with only the last few words of the lead-in dialogue; giving actors the entire play would mean any one of them could go off on their own and exactly reproduce Shakepeare's play and keep all ticket money for himself. [/tangent] Even after the reconnect and talking about the old RV (usually, there's laughter in reminiscences like this. Even in dark war recounts, there's moments of laughter at how absurd it was. There was no laughter here; it was like a completely soulless account), Jesse was probably half-sure that he was going to be whacked. I mean... once the 10 in prison were offed, he could probably put the pieces together that Mike was dead. Great use of music in this ep. "Crystal Blue Persuasion" was a song that made me think of BB when I've heard in on the oldies station since I started, and it was used perfectly in the time-advance. What do you want to bet that we see the next scene of this season's opener as the opener for next season?... and then go back and pick up the story from Hank sitting on the can. I predict the rest of the "52" and M-60 line won't be used until the series finale. Indeed, I think "52" is probably going to be the finale's title. And yes, that inscription was something Hank had seen in Gayle's notebook, and that scene was when he showed it and asked Walt about the chemical equations. Why Walt would leave that there... when the first scenes from this season besides the flash-forward were of Walt cleaning up after the Fring thing, tossing everything in a black garbage bag, including him suddenly remembering the lily-of-the-valley. The fatal flaw. He forgot one little thing. And Walt knows this. He knows that it's always that one little thing that you don't expect could be a problem that eventually becomes the thing that nails you. For as much as some here hate it, that's why he was so obsessive about that fly.

This confirms it. MDP is FakeFatSunny. 1) This is copyright infringement to the Nth degree. If you're going to use someone else's writing, you can quote a few paragraphs at most, but certainly not more than 10 percent of the work. And provide a link. (I'm thinking you didn't because the source is known batshit crazy loony, even among batshit crazy loonies.) In no uncertain terms, this violates the Terms of Service of TBD. You can't just shrug this off and keep doing it under your many screen names. Copyright infringement is a crime and TBD can't be party to it. 2) You're quoting anarchist writings about risk/reward? Anarchists? The same people who throw Molotov cocktails every time there's a G-whatever summit? "We're going to argue that...." blah blah blah. So, investors who would be left paying the bills and going into serious debt if a business fails deserve jackshit versus the workers who simply move on to another job? Risk demands no reward? I reject that out of hand. Investors are supposed to just risk their assets because it's the 'right thing to do' to throw their money into ventures that create jobs for the proletariat and then give all the money to the workers and/government? Seriously, go !@#$ yourself, bringing that **** here. Economics at heart has little or nothing to do with human nature or philosophy. If that's what you're basing a system of monetary circulation around, you're doing it wrong.

Actually, the proper term is "lay down" a case of wine to the winner.

In the vein of the thread title, magician David Blaine wrote on his Facebook wall that he just started watching and that, "Can't believe this exists. My mind is blown" and for no one to spoil any details.

Uhmmm, no. No, they didn't.