UConn James

In the manner of Mel Brooks saying you have to laugh at Hitler.... "Ten wives, and I still have to answer the door?!!?"

After Jack closed to the other thread (not without cause) there was a local biopic article I would've posted there, but alas I can't find her now.... Your loss, gentlemen!

"I need my hair to be pretty!!!" No, Rachel, you're ugly either way --- inside (you know... beyond perishable looks) and outside. Spoiled to the core.

After she won that reward challenge, Kat was bouncing around and displaying more testosterone than any of the men in the game. Seriously, what was the hell was that gibberish with her cousin? Are they, perchance, kissing cousins? Anyway, she wins reward and then makes it so obvious that she wants to form/solidify an alliance with Kim and Alicia. "I've wanted to get alone with these girls from Day 1. We're gonna go get drunk!!" Well... either an alliance or a scene that Rico would pay good money to watch tape --- that's for you, SDS --- of. It's just comical how many bitched think they "control" the game. At least Christina and Tarzan recognize that they are getting by via flying under the radar and hoping to win immunity at a crucial time to slip into the final 3. Did I get it right that initially, Kim told her sister that she wanted to take Kat and Alicia to the final because Kat is dumb and Alicia is "not well liked, but she doesn't realize that"? Wonder how it changes now. For sure, if I'm Kim-with-an-idol it's no Chelsea, no Sabrina because if either of them are there, they win. And those are going to be some real backstabs --- smile in your face while putting the knife in full hilt backstabs. But for the people who find those fun, I just don't think they're going to be that kind of fun this season. There just doesn't seem to be any kind of intensity or wits with this group. It lacks an edge, let's say. And I'll note that even when Rob had the game in his back pocket it was fun to watch it, almost like a comedy. This group is just BLAH. I'm watching just to watch, not because it's interesting. If Kat were smarter than a pile of bricks, I would be laughing over her 'Backstabs are fun! They're cool because the person being backstabbed doesn't realize it and then there's that look on their face when it actually happens.' And yes, Chelsea's point rings true --- 22 is old enough that you can't really blame your stupidity on youth and entirely laugh it away. I also had a hard time believing that Kim is 28, as one of them said. Seriously, I would've pegged her as mid-30s....

FJ is currently under contract (if memory serves he has two years left). He is not a Free Agent so why would the Bills be franchising him and then letting him walk, when those aren't even the parameters? Maybe you should know what you're talking about before you hit The reply button and let loose the clichés. This is an extension or new contract and rip up the old one type deal.

Except on point 2) I would add a "But pay for it through your own means. It's not the federal government's responsibility to give you free contraception or require insurers to do the same." And just to be sure, this view applies to a lot of other things besides contraception. It's about the $ only, not a social agenda.

Yeah. There's a difference b/w being frugal, being cheap, and then being disrespectful.e Three years and $15-17M likely already is skirting the line of frugality. And for a guy who was on Freddy's pace, what he meant to the team which was evident when he went down, you pay the man his due. Just b/c the Bills had all the levers on their side every time a contract came up doesn't mean that how they handled his deal was right. The waters aren't necessarily poisoned, but there's less leeway for Overdorf to come to them with a lowball without it being taken personally.

Also, since the Bills save a spot by having Brad Smith as the 3rd QB.

To be sure, ANYONE who is the president makes that call for someone like OBL. Otherwise, his own Joint Chiefs would probably seriously consider the possibility of assassinating the president and instituting a military junta. The military does what it does and if a president isn't on board with what the rank and file want, that's dangerous ground to be on... even here. And Romney never said he wouldn't authorize attacks across the border into Pak. What he said was that it was stupid to discuss invading another sovereign country so nonchalantly in public debate. You know, like what all of the posters here who have the first ing clue about the military and geopolitics, especially in that region, said at the time. There's no doubt he would've authorized it. And for Obama to make hay on this as if he was holding an M-16 himself is an argument Bourne of desperation. Yes, Obama is the current president and he's the only one who constitutionally can make these calls; that doesn't mean he's entitled to remain president, and it's cheap to use incumbency in this way.

I was saying it from the moment of seeing "Pack in a Box" that they picked the WRONG DAMN ONE. Their little bit at the end of mimicking Dave and Rachel (Army and wife) was really petty. I'm sure everyone does it and it simply depends on the edit a team gets. I suppose it was just a few seconds of entertainment while they suspected they were falling way, way behind, but still. And while it was fairly accurate of earlier legs, that team has been absolutely killing this Race for the last several episodes. If Rachel had simply cut her hair, they would have had a few-hour lead. Wow. Just wow. And I don't get how Green woman can be all pissed at Vanessa for certain comments when they've been true. That said, the acrimony there... I can't say I understand why it happens b/w two women, but I understand it happens. Even the Indian guy at the pit stop was rolling his eyes and saying "Oy!" and I was like, 'Phil, you need to step in here.' Maybe now the air has cleared a little.... To add to my note from last week, I hope CBS does something. And it makes sense to announce something next week at the finale event. It would be really stevestojanny for us all to hear that Mark's daughter is sick and he was playing for her treatment then it gets dropped. Even on that CBS Undercover CEO show, they shell out for that. It's only good PR for the show --- that all of these people except one pair will go away empty-handed, but they made the show how much $ by being a part of it? --- but in a case like this, you do the right thing. I'd say that's a big reason why I watch the show; it's almost all about this being a positive experience, about teamwork and faith and not ever quitting. I will be very disappointed if they do nothing there for Mark's daughter and perhaps share some of her story and where viewers can donate. Yeah, Kentucky has gotta be a fan favorite and it would be nice to see them get a second chance --- one where Bopper learns beforehand about motion sickness treatments and/or has his ears checked.

It's no longer a case of "Two out of three things that can happen when you throw the ball are bad." It can go incomplete, it can be intercepted, it can be caught.... but now, because of rules changes, there's a higher-than-ever chance you get a 50-yard pass interference penalty. Those kind of contact rules have effectively made this a throwing league.

Yeah, that's one thing about this free agency and now the top of the draft... Wannstache is getting a lot of toys to play with!

It's gotta be true. Joe sneaks peeks at O's big stick while they're in the sauna. Seriously, tho, they're trying to set up the farce that Obama is the only one who could or would have ordered the bin Laden strike. As many here commented at the time, Obama was far from the pointy end of the spear and yet here his campaign is, beating their chests on it. The truth is, the CIA, alphabet soups, and the military do what they do and come to the president with several options. Any president's hands are basically tied in 95% of military matters. Wonder why GITMO is still open? Because the military rank and file wants it open. Guaranteed that if they had come to the Oval with actionable intel on Obl and a president said, 'Nah' .... that's dangerous territory for a CIC to be in, even here. If the military doesn't have your confidence and vice versa, you're basically toast. And you'll be lucky if they don't JFK your ass.

Unless Tarzan, with his plastic surgery skills ( ) slices and dices it before his torch is extinguished, I don't see bacon in the castaways' future. The women seem content to keep it as a kind of pet. But to be honest, I don't think I could do that up close and personal unless I was literally starving and didn't know it was a game that would be over in ~ two weeks (and, strategically, know that the protein would help others more than me). I'm a meat-eater and I realize more than you know how that pork loin or burger gets in the little Styrofoam package with plastic shrink-wrap. And just to clarify, I don't have a problem deer-hunting (and I've been deer hunting) as that doesn't require closeness to the death. I don't have a problem with it after the fact. I'd be in there cutting it up and putting it in the pan. Is that weird?

To be more precise, O's promising to keep federal Stafford Loan interest rates at 0.36% rather than doubling(?) when some bill expires. Wow, a whopping ZERO POINT 6 PERCENT interest!!! (I'm getting this number from my own stub receipt, not pulling it out of the air. I don't imagine my own loan can be on dissimilar terms to anyone else's.) One of two grads will be unemployed or underemployed --- Read that again 50%. But here we are in full distraction bullstevestojan mode where we're talking maybe $5 a month that O is trying to raise a stink about. If it were me graduating college, I'd be more concerned about getting a job in the Obama economy and being able to pay the ing principle. Honestly, I haven't looked up what the Rs are proposing. But when credit cards are ~20% and last I knew bank loans are in the 7%s for people with good credit, how is 0.6% egregious? Don't college grads have to "pay their fair share" too?

Probst is going to be putting out Kat's torch in two weeks, and 10-to-1 she'll start heading out the way toward camp. Reality just doesn't register with this useful idiot.

Now breaking that ATF also facilitated the transfer of grenades and grenade parts. ATF's mysterious grenade smuggler case: new photos, documents turned over to Congress And just to remind you in case you haven't followed along, the concoctors of this program either are in or were promoted to D.C. in the DOJ/ATF/ICE.

Do you get pissed when you hear Elvis sing "You ain't a-nothing but a hound dog-a / cryin' all the time" or when Seal sings about cigafettes? This instance appears to be adding an extra syllable to balance the chord. Gotta say, in my long experience of hearing about Sorry-Ass-Little-First-World-Problems, this makes the top five.

I'm fairly certain Kim starts picking off some women next. Namely, Christina. I think she wants to keep Tarzan around for the Final Three so she can point to a token man who nobody liked and lamely say, 'I didn't target the men. Are you caaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraazzaaaaaaay?!?!? Look... Tarzan is still here! The game is afoot!' After Christina, who has played this game without being an * at any time, there is no one left who is the least bit likeable, for me. Tarzan for reasons previously pointed out. Sabrina tonight trying to circle the wagons for the women and glue Kat back together during the Kim-Chelsea-Alicia reward. "They left behind the two strongest players!" WHAAATTTT?! Kat is a vacuole. Alicia, who'd better hope she wins the million b/c if I'm a sp-ed parent, I don't want her anywhere near my kid. Did you hear that... she considers Christina to be a sp-ed student who does what she's told and is devoid of personhood. Seriously, YOU, Alicia! This game has exposed a lot of people for what they really are, but this See You Next Tuesday takes the cake. She is a self-centered, fat-assed, wanna-be gangstabitch. Kim, as others have said here, is simply the smartest doofus left. If anyone else had the slightest clue about how to play the game.... In reality, this wasn't a fair deck of cards from the start, what with Colton on the men's team. And then the women used and played him like a fiddle, combined with some simply staggering game choices that I needn't repeat. But the thing about these women, but Chelsea and Kim most of all, is that they expect you to stay quiet and just take it while they cut your head off. That may be the thing that pisses me off most. Chelsea's pretty hot, but now it's like that Northern Pikes song, .

Fez, you get that as soon as you sign the sales receipt, the car loses ~ half of its value, right? Besides people who make a ton and have to think of ways to spend it, I have a bit of a hard time understanding why anyone buys a brand new car. Maybe it's just me....

I meant that as in, how many times has a team been last, gotten the non-elimination, and the following leg with time to make up and a speed bump, they weren't eliminated. Is it quite common? I can't imagine so.

I believe it's been mentioned in this thread, but just a note that the Will Ferrell drama "Everything Must Go" (based on a Raymond Carver story) is new to Netflix streaming. I think he does his best work when he gets out of the goofy characters. "Stranger Than Fiction" was a pearl. It's also interesting to note how much harder it seems for drama actors to do comedy well than for comedy actors to hit some performances out of the park when they go serious e.g. Sandler in Punch Drunk Love and Reign Over Me.

That, and the non-elimination leg is basically a one-week extension. They've gotta make up all that time --- what was it... 3-4 hours? --- and they have the speed bump. From first place to dead last, that's gotta hurt. I sympathize with Bopper on the motion sickness thing, but didn't they look into the pills or patches for that? Damn. What's the record for teams coming back from the brink? Mark and Bopper did it this season, the Cowboys in the Second Chances season.... For all of Jamie and Nary's belly-aching, that was a challenge that clearly favored teams with a woman. It evens out in the end. Gotta say that the Army guy and wife (I still don't have names down) are hitting their stride at the right time. From not being *s on the U-turn (and/or saving it if there's another) and then just killing challenges, I've gotta say that they're probably who I'm rooting for most next to Kentucky. They've sniped at each other earlier when things didn't go well, but that's in the heat of the moment and while it's not an advisable relationship strengthener or anything, it doesn't seem to last too long. But contrast their style with Mark and Bopper's --- that was heartening to see them work through it. I can't remember one time of them arguing or putting the other down like the other teams will shout at each other when it gets tough. What's the deal if Mark's knee is really hurt? The medic said the brace was enough, but.... I would really hope that if they do get bounced next week, that CBS will kick them some funds to treat the daughter's illness. And for as much as the BP guys are denounced here, and how some have tried to cheapen everything they do by saying it was only because they thought Mark and Bopper were getting eliminated... they did donate their 1st place prize to that. Just because they're cocky, brusk, holding a grudge on people who lie/don't keep their word on strategy, whatever, it doesn't mean they don't have hearts.

I'm fairly certain it's not "Sorry for what he did" as opposed to 'Sorry that the events transpired in such a way that he was forced to do what what he did.' My dog and I were attacked and bitten by a pit bull last summer. If I had a gun I would've shot it (as it was, it was put down a few weeks later). And while I'm sorry that a dog had to die, because I truly love dogs... if it's down to me and mine versus ending something that has the potential to kill me quickly, that's an easy decision. Not one that won't stay with you for the rest of your life... as Mr. Zimmerman's odd-ish recent behavior attests to. IMO he acted in the right, but it can steal your sleep and your life can still unravel. It was the happenstance of checking out a suspiciously-behaving person in your community that led to an altercation reportedly of the victim's initiation (as I've heard it, Mr. Zimmerman lost track and was returning home and then Mr. Martin doubled back behind a house and attacked). One properly-laid blow to the head can cripple or kill, as we well know from a game where players have the luxury of helmets.

That was "As Good As It Gets" for the quote. And yes, Chelsea's quip of "That's just the game" is applicable to so many marriages/pregnancies these days. I'm not going to say all women do it/would do it or that all men are angels, but a good number of women have it instilled in them to trap a guy into working his ass off for her for the rest of his life because they've got the court system in their favor. See: Jim Nantz's divorce settlement as only one egregious example. There is NO way I will ever be getting married without a rock-solid pre-nup. And I wouldn't trust any birth control of unknown provenance. While they were *s with the stuff stripped from the truck in the first episode (I consider possession of stuff to be an honor/Golden Rule/Mutually Assured Destruction thing), the men broke many of the most important rules of the game. And then the producers got antsy and bailed on the men/women thing when the ladies struggled at the outset. A tribe shake-up has been a possibility once it was introduced, but to do it for One World where it was set up to be a man tribe versus a woman tribe was very cheap.