UConn James

Your avatar sucks.

Que? Selmon's health class book is his special bathroom reading material.

And something else, Juror.... this election is an exact copy of 2004? We haven't even got a nominee for one side and you're saying this? The 2004 election was about the liberal-left's (or for our purposes, a hard-core of the party ideology) influence in the primary, who nominated a guy who couldn't beat --- at the time --- the most unpopular president ever, according to polling. A Romney nomination, and this election has 1980 Redux written all over it. Santorum or Gingrich... might give you your 2004, but even then I doubt it just based on political realities of electoral college shift from the census and that there are states Obama has no prayer of winning again now that he has to run on a record.

The point was that you bandy about the charge that Romney is / business leaders are "automatons" as if they don't live in the real world and aren't impacted by very human problems. You can continue with the canard that these machines need to lube up, but it only means you're the one who has to go through life as a reductive * who has to looks through the lens of stereotype to be able to see anything. You are painting with so broad a brush (Academics vs. Businessmen) that you're discounting personhood. When you're dealing with a set of 44 examples, each of whom was a product of his time, from which to make inferences, what the !@#$ do you hope to prove? Because Hoover was a "businessman" but didn't live in a 24/7 CNN world, he made decisions based on day-to-day profits? That long-term thought and strategy isn't something 'non-academics' can get? He didn't realize the concept that the machination in any process takes time to produce something? Romney doesn't get this? Because you say so? Who the !@#$ do you think you are, pretending to know how these men thought/think and calling them automatons? you.

The standard reply from someone who's lost the argument.

And friends... that's saying something!!!

No stevestojan. Maybe you should come back when you have two brain cells to rub together. This may have some direction/basis in reality if Romney had no experience other than as a CEO. But as it stands, you don't acknowledge that he led an Olympic Games that was $800M in the hole from corruption and graft when he got there and which ended up making $300M in an era when almost EVERY Olympic endeavor has lost money hand over fist and any city and nation that bids for it looks upon it as a tourism advertising effort. You write your crap as if Romeny didn't have to deal with construction, budget, contracts / litigation, and security/terrorism issues a few months after 9/11. He then was elected governor of a state, and brought it back to fiscal sanity, wrapped up the Big Dig, responded to major flooding in 2005 when we in the northeast had 20 straight days of rain including dam breaks that threatened a 20,000-population city, he did the best he could with an 85% Democrat state legislature... and the place didn't turn into a Mormon Theocracy. Businessperson or not, Romney has had success at every increased-responsibility challenge he's ever faced. The Peter Principle hasn't hit him yet. Pres. Obama, on the other hand, has largely proven to be out of his depth. How has being an academic helped him? If he actually had a stevestojan-sliver of experience in the Real World where you actually have to produce a product, have to own fiscal responsibility and the realities that irresponsibility causes, and not just blame other people for every !@#$ing problem... this country might be able to go somewhere. I don't get your statement about having multiple places where he's lived/worked/owns a house. This is 2011. Obama used his moving around as an argument in his favor vis. that he could relate to different groups of people (Hawai'i, Indonesia, Kansas, Illinois, D.C.). How doesn't this apply to Romney as a positive, other than you & the Left saying the case is different for anyone with an R after their name? This point alone proves that you're a !@#$ing idiot who's just throwing stevestojan out there and basically created a RomneyBad thread so you could link a smarmy video.

Just wanted to mention Whaley said that, since many media outlets are reporting and fans are saying that it's 0% / completely off the table. Per the Ass't GM, it's not.

At the rate the women are going, I wouldn't be surprised to see a mixing via drawing buffs from a bag in two weeks at the earliest. Men vs. women is an interesting idea in the abstract, but when it comes down to it, the women can't compete given the immunity challenges that have been picked, where a team is only as good as its physically weakest player. There ought to be some that are not a matter of fastest, strongest. Blaming the loss on having boobs was... kind of cheap, but they may have a point. With some of them, that was an extra 4-5" to have to work around at a point that is highly disadvantageous WRT center of balance. Having to lean out that extra bit to accommodate the volume of two sets of ta-tas was marginally unfair.

You replaced Stupendous Man with a little infant? Really, gringo? REALLY?!!!?

In a chat session on BB.com, Doug Whaley just wrote that putting a franchise tag of SJ is still "a possibility" but that it would be "a short-term fix."

"Amelie" is not available on Netflix streaming. Doesn't bother me, as I bought it on DVD. That was a movie where you were just smiling throughout... at a time when everybody needed to smile. Loved the character of the 'glass man' artist and he spoke slowly and clearly enough for me to follow (with out captions) with my high school French. The lead was originally supposed to go to Emily Watson <shudder down James' spine> but she was committed to "Gosford Park". (Which is another nice little movie in its own right and available on streaming, last I checked.) "Midnight in Paris"... well, I did a little pre-Oscar write-up on my blog, but I'll paste it here:

Maybe Mike Mularky's buyin'.

A significant proportion of douche-bags live in New York. And it's nice to see this thread attract the attention of a former President! Classing up the place, huh?

Yup. It's going to save his butt, he'll get his core among the guys and if that follows through the merge... tonight's 'Go away, we can't have you here!' has a chance of peeving him. Talk about not good at communication skills. What they needed to say was: "Colton, you need to play with the guys right now. The time to be with us is after the merge. We gave you the idol to ensure that you have a good shot of lasting 'til then. You can't play 20 moves ahead and exclusively hang out with us or you will be voted out the first or second opportunity the guys get." For all that dude's quote about Colton "making Russell look like a schoolgirl" I don't know.... Colton has shown ZERO sophistication in how to play the game until now and I'm sure he'll find a way to screw it up. The women are in a friggin' shambles. I don't get it. When they talk, they just have to 'validate' each other so much. Like the black chick said, the guys don't talk like this. They say what they have to say and move on. If anyone has their feelings hurt if one guy says another didn't try as hard as he should have, well, it. Instead, the girls sit around and kvetch about how Kat jumped off the beam twice and athletic this / experience that. What the hell?!? Kat didn't get it done in the challenge because she doesn't seem very good at challenges. And they need to win challenges right soon or they're done. Just really craptastic that they voted by boot-the-old-people alliance rather than actual worth to the tribe. Looks like Monica and Christina are next unless someone has an epic fail or pisses off some of the other girls, and even then....

UConn James doesn't know how to drive stick shift.

In Minnesota, the age of consent is 16. The article does not explain this. Her sentence is likely under the guise of a "... by a person of authority" statute. Ninety days + 15 years probation + registered sex offender + losing her job = Was it worth it? Exactly what I was thinking. Same neck.

As to the Marine... well, when you're going somewhere, you've gotta check the laws. And if you don't like the laws, don't go there. As to the Texas article, yep. After what happened in Cheshire, criminals should not have any right to claim that deadly force wasn't required during a home invasion. If anyone breaks into my home while me and my family are there, I'm just going to assume that their intent is rape and murder because anything else means you're placing your family in jeopardy. I will never vote to convict anyone in such a situation after what happened to the Petits.

Well... you wanna partner up for AR:21 then? I'd have to learn to drive standard, too. (I know. I know. It just never happened.)

How Detroit's tax rates are too high and too low [Note: "too low" according to city officials, who want more $ to piss away] -- at the same time So, if my arithmetic is correct, that would be ~$19K in yearly fees and taxes?... for a home that is seriously undervalued WRT what it would cost anywhere else. Sounds like a retirement dreamland!!!! I mean, the mill rate here in CT which is one of the highest state+local tax burden rates in the country --- indeed a state directly to our north that is nicknamed Taxachusetts has lower rates than we do --- is 30 mills. Where the hell all that money is going to?

It's not just red tape. It's the ambiguity in much of the laws. D.C. is absolutely podunk in this, from the permit being a yellow piece of carbon-copy paper with two passport photos stapled to it, to an officer answering this woman's questions about the reality of transporting her gun with such things as she'll have to hope that the officer believes her when she says she's going to a range and that she should plan ahead so she doesn't have to stop anywhere (e.g. for gas) on her way. There seems to be a very real sense that if you cut too loud a fart while transporting you could get arrested at an officer's whim because the wording of regulations is so gray. Link

Despite the terminology, it's really not that advanced. Propagating basil by detaching a stem and putting it in water until roots form in 5-10 days probably has a fancy name too.

And these are the same people who want to give you a full rectal examination, need to know your life history and literally interrogate your family veternarian, and require you to put up a fence if you want to adopt a dog. We had had three GSPs each living 12+ years very happily, in a big yard in a fairly rural area and they were 100% on the leash or our enclosed deck when outside. About two years ago, I was looking at a standard poodle. And it was just a lot of bullstevestojan. I finally had enough of these groups and bought another GSP from a breeder. them. They will never get a red cent donation from me. I don't know what their angle is, but for sure they aren't in the business of actually finding good homes for pets. Stories like this don't surprise me a bit when they're so damned fussy about letting animals go.

He's here for attention. I probably shouldn't have responded in the first place even with what I wrote, but....

It's damned difficult to get a permit in D.C. Emily Miller wrote a series of articles in the WashTimes about her odyssey, starting last October and she finally got one on 8 Feb. after spending several hundred dollars in fees and "countless" hours dealing with the rigamarole designed to discourage citizens from legal ownership.