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Your second thought was my first thought. IIRC, the typical Afghani (man, I presume) makes ~$300 a year.

IIRC, that was a season-ender vs. the Pats. Snow, strong wind and super-cold. Almost every play was a run. The goalposts were listing ~20 degrees off-angle. As I remember, they kept trying to straighten them during breaks through the early part of the game, and then the announcers said they would only be straightened out if either team were attempting a FG.

That was the absolute right decision. Respected the fans and tradition but also made it a controlled take-down to avoid injuries. That's several hundred pounds of metal, that once it has no support/grounding, falls very fast. And there is still no Edit -> Undo button in real life.

Per Joe Paletta CEO of Spotlight Theatres, in Screen Trade Magazine, he thinks 2-D movie prices will be rising and 3-D movie price declining next year. Yea for trying to force 3-D down society's throats. As if ticket sales weren't already down. Looks like the studios are putting the screws to the people who are still going. Like the Laffer Curve in tax-economics, you've gotta ask yourself at what price point they have diminishing returns than if they just charged marginally less, but tons more people went.

The GOP second-ran is usually the front-runner in the next round. Not so for Santorum now. The time for he and Newt to drop out came and went. Now they're lingering to make more of a name for themselves so they can bank on the lecture circuit and cable commentary. I will not forgive him if this self-aggrandizement campaign of his contributes to another four years of Obama. I want a president, not a preacher-in-chief.

I was surprised to not hear her say "I hope I don't catch it...." But that doesn't mean it wasn't edited out. Also, on Monica's husband, I went with what was said upthread and it didn't raise any red flags to me. Brad Culpepper, not Dante.

Some delegate math. Link

+1 WRT fewer game delays. But there's also a thing to be said of taking the referees out of the decision from a conflict of interest point. Regardless that most NFL refs want to get the calls right, there is an appearance of/chance for impropriety. As it stands, it's like asking a burglar to decide whether his break-in was legal. No matter what, that ref is going to have a certain level of defensiveness whenever a red flag is thrown against him or his crew. The league can try to use all the language and training they want, but that initial "You're telling me I don't know what I saw? This is my job!" is still there. Better to remove it from ever being a factor. And it would be nice to not have to see pathetic whining to the refs as they're headed to the booth. (Note: the whining for a ref to throw a flag will not stop). Like it or not, this lobbying has the ability to put a thought into a head. If the replay comes entirely from upstairs, there's NO player-judge contact to influence a decision. The IR rules are also something that should've been instituted a while ago. Guys with a slight injury are cut because a team needs bodies. I'd also throw in to raise the roster limit by 2-3 players, especially if/when the league goes to an 18-game schedule.

Well, if you like cottage cheese....

That was really stevestojanny what they were saying to Christina and how they were acting in not giving her room in the sleeping area. Really... telling someone they should just jump in the fire? Colton got a taste of his own advice shortly after. Instant Karma, B word! Colton was shouting and calling Christina a "stupid B word" for "not running" back to the group during the reward challenge. 1) !@#$ him. She may not have been in a full sprint, but she sure wasn't strolling. 2) His bellyaching (apt phrase) that she wasn't doing enough there holds little water seeing that Colton himself was !@#$ing useless. Tarzan was the only one showing any skill, and he was going up and down the stack of boxes like he was 90. If anyone was allowed to say anything about someone not giving their all, it would be him, not a dude who threw the coconut into the wood liner or got ~ 3 feet of bounce on his best throw. But even then, it was Christina who was there offering comfort to Colton and going to check up on him in the trees, while strategy was the first and only thing of concern for everyone else. Maybe now Jonas will be forced to grow a pair and it's nice to see Leif get basically a clean slate. Again, Colton shows his selfishness by keeping the idol as a souvenir. What a POS. I'm sure potential employers will be thrilled with his attitude of "If I don't like you, I'm not going to talk to you." This queen was so busy playing for after the merge that he didn't get that you have to have numbers post-merge and one idol will not necessarily save your ass. That said, is this not a very early merge? I think they saw the men-women thing wasn't working, mixed it up bit with the buff-down, and now that it's tied 6-6 again, they took this opportunity to bring the M-W thing back into play. I hate that Alicia might actually stick around in a woman alliance now. She is simply a disgusting human being. Nice Kim-Chelsea alliance after her idol find. Hot girls 'til the end, please!

I'll see that "in power" and raise you an "alive." Because at this point, two to three days after we're out of there, Karzai gets slowly beheaded with a dull machete. Which, with his attitude (particularly after the OBL raid when he said that if the U.S. and Pakistan went to war, he'd side with Pakistan), I am actually in favor of. When his head is being placed next to his belly, ask him who the demons are. But be quick about it. And what with not having a windpipe, have him blink once for one option, and twice for another.

How's that going to work? Unless they work on rotating shifts, the only thing that would matter is the top job. As it was famously described by someone in the office, the vice presidency isn't worth a bucket of warm stevestojan. Frankly, if you're relying on the people of the Internet to get a good choice, you are sadly mistaken. Have you read commentary under stories lately? I want to force these people to actually leave their beds/mother's basement before they get to vote. The two-party system pretty much sucks, and I've gotta say that splitting the difference won't make a difference. There needs to be different ideas, not just another re-combination of the same crap.

Buffett millionaires' tax would raise $31 billion over 10 years Even if "the rich" were taxed at 100% it wouldn't put a dent in the annual budget deficit, nevermind put anything toward the national debt. But still, it's just, "SOAK THE RICH!!!" from the left.

There is now video of a 2004 fundraiser event that shows Mr. Hanks onstage with a man in blackface, a stuffed gorilla being auctioned, and making some really crass jokes. Some groups are now demanding that this Obama campaign video be re-dubbed with another narrator. Tom Hanks, Glenn Frey in 2004: Blackface, Race Jokes at Fundraising Auction Wow. I can see the (lame) attempts at political/pundit humor, but some of this stuff crosses the line. All I can say is this isn't quite a Tom Cruise level of meltdown, but there's a reason why entertainers should be very careful about what they do and say WRT politics and weighty issues. Very easy to get caught up in something and then you've just pissed off ~30-35% of your possible viewers. I've always seen Hanks as a good actor, but after all this I've gotta say that I am seriously disinclined to pay to see any of his projects.

If you think the GOP base will just lie down for a dude who'll possibly nominate 2 more Sonia Sotomayor clones, will have little to stop him from instituting any and all gun restrictions he can, and has seriously overestimated the strength of this "recovery" (99ers falling off the roles is not recovery), you're off your head. I think many people at this point would be eager to vote for a business-savvy automaton, if that's what the left is intent on categorizing Romney as. Because compared to wanna-be 'Al Green Night' American Idol contestant who wants the government to pick up the check for everything for everybody....

WSJ | Alan Blinder: The U.S. Cruises Toward a 2013 Fiscal Cliff : As tax cuts expire and spending falls, the economy will be hit with a 3.5% decline in gross domestic demand ----- And just to note: a lot of governments have thought the the Laffer Curve doesn't apply to them. And then they got a rude awakening.

It was revealed on the news this weekend that among the plans in Osama bin Laden's compound room were an assassination of Obama. OBL's logic: Link The man may have been a hateful murderer, but he wasn't entirely stupid.

Because those studies about how to get Chinese prostitutes (in China) to drink alcohol responsibly... and literally countless other items/programs/unnecessaries. That's seriously important stevestojan that our federal government has to increase taxes to pay for, and which shouldn't be cut first.

These things really keep me from getting into soccer any more than rabidly watching the World Cup. When you've got like 10 "championship" games a season, what the hell does it mean? What is the importance? Why call things "championships" when it's not the end game? I mean, with the Super Bowl, that's it. You win it or you don't. Now, I get the MLS; there's a season, a playoffs, and there's a championship. It's self-contained. What happens in Europe with different schedules being played simultaneously (and with "friendlies" and nationals mixed in for EXTRA confusion) is like Calvinball. The closest correlation we have, I guess, is college football. And there's a reason why the vast majority of people want it to become a standardized playoff rather than the mish-mosh of agreements of the Big-10 #4 vs. SEC #6 and the free-for-all "invitations" and all that. We just want it fairer and simplified a bit, is all. And, AJ, just as a note... Before you go into an explanation of the different levels and all that, it's probably not worth your time, bro.

For mine, the runner-up was Parker (as in, Nosy Parker). Once when I was younger and we got a brother-sister German shorthaired pointers, my dad joked that he was going to call them Spot and Stain. Then, when he called out to them, he could bellow "Come spot, come stain!"

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This would be the place to ask! Oh. Wait. You mean the workout regimen?

There was a story in the Hartford Courant today that the state DEEP reported 7 dogs were killed in February by coyotes. It's a growing problem, and as jboy wrote, they have no natural predators. They are also not native to the northeast. So yes, the numbers of both need to be culled. (I'd add Canada geese to that category, too.)