UConn James

Wait... what?!!? Maybe you ought to go back and read my previous post vis-a-vis Romney's stance on the chicanery that is Obamacare. You're laboring in misapprehension. Romney isn't running on the Mass. health care plan, which he admits isn't perfect but it's much better for the taxpayers than it would've been without his input. What was Romney supposed to do? Leave the supermajority Mass. Democrat legislature to its own devices and let Jon Q. Taxpayer pick up the whole tab... just to be able to say that he stood on principle? He believes that in combination with repeal and replace of Obamacare & limited federal legislation that will cut costs (e.g. opening up health insurance across state lines, enacting tort reform that would reduce malpractice insurance and is driving doctors out of practice). This is an opposition to the Obamacare plan of enrolling everybody in the entire country, and then see if the rainbow-farting-unicorn can magically cut costs. Romney has said that every state should be allowed to do (or not do) what it wants and what is best for that state's citizens given its own specific givens/demographics/resources/etc, and following the laws of each state's/commonwealth's constitution.

Not quite in the area, but I can say that generally speakin' incomes are higher (I believe MA has the highest in the nation) but likewise, the cost of living is higher. And Levi, New England living is not easy sometimes....

What are the other options for troops? When I was in, the fathers (and a couple of single mothers) did the lion's share.... I'm not sure it's absolutely necessary to learn from older scouts as long as you think your son is or can assume the responsibility. If there is a gung-ho pack leader who was an Eagle Scout, you can use your judgment on whether or how he will be able to show your son the ropes if/when he does get to be a patrol leader. In my experience, people who've gotten Eagle usually have their stevestojan together and are easier to work with than most people --- either that or they are completely anal-retentive perfectionists. I would think it's less important to find and place your son in the perfectly-tailored situation. In life, he's going to have to jump feet-first into many situations that aren't perfect, and he's going to have to put work into establishing relationships and make the best of the situation. Now is as good a time as any.

You write that in such a way as to imply that those posters are different people.

That's the first thing I was thinkin' when I read Cynical's post.... Being around smoke always gave me severe headaches ever since I can remember. That by itself was a very powerful reason to never try. I, too, wish JiA and anyone else good luck toward kicking the habit. That money pile sure sounds like a great motivational weapon.

Uhmm, anyway.... Ginger White's phone bill has 61 calls or texts from Herman Cain Sixty-one phone calls in 4 months? Now tell me he wasn't boinking her. C'mon. In your heart of hearts you know Herman likes the strange.

AP: Cain telling aides he's reassessing his campaign His "guilt" is not certain, but with all this, the year's salary payouts to the women, plus his own lawyers' words in reacting to this latest affair allegation that is backed with phone records, I'm leaning toward very probable.... If you like to !@#$ around, don't lie about it and it's probably best to just admit that you like to !@#$ around. The issue of sexual fidelity wasn't a problem for Trump; people actually admire the dude for trading in for newer models every 10,000 miles. Looks like Mark Block was too busy chain-smoking. As I wrote upthread, if your candidate has sexual harassment settlements in his past, you need to do a full-court press on it and try to dismantle it early, not wait for it to explode in your face.

AP: Woman alleges long affair with Cain If the 'Cain Train' wasn't derailed before, this is just about sure to. As I heard on the news, she's got years of phone records. How are we supposed to trust a guy to tell us the truth as president if he can't even come clean here. Cain flatly denies an affair happened, and then his lawyer walks it back to saying it was consensual. Yet another pol undone b/c he can't keep it in his pants. Like Jon Edwards, how the f--- does anyone these days think they'll be able to keep this stuff from coming out? And if not during the campaign, they have the audacity to bring this kind of stink to the presidency. I just don't get it.

I've written all of this in several threads and yet here it is again... Peoples' views on abortion can change in the course of 10+ years. What does this prove other than that Romney is human and that his opinion, whether from facts, soul-searching, or what have you changed since '94. Now, you can say it's a craven political move and that's your opinion but I'll give Romney the benefit of the doubt. There's a lot of issues that I see very differently just from 4 years ago. He can point to the As governor of MA, he opposed underage abortion non-reporting such that clinics would have to inform a teen's parents before any procedure could take place. (And for full measure to hardliners, he also opposed and vetoed the Mass. gay marriage law). The stuff on the Mass. health care law --- as I've written many times, occurred with a Democrat supermajority in the Mass. legislature that was going to pass this with or without Romney. He decided that it was a better idea to have the few Republicans and himself work with the Democrats and inject some measure of fiscal responsibility into what would otherwise have stuck the Mass. taxpayers with a large new entitlement spending item in the general fund. Massachusetts' demographics with 4% uninsured, a vast and geographically spread out health care network is far different than stats and resources that other states face. Romney stated then and now that given state-to-state differences, it was NOT a model for a national plan. How about that for good ol' GOP-style STATE'S RIGHTS?!? You know, where each state ought to size up their own situation and craft their own law if they wish. Romney has stated that the federal concentration should have been limited and centered around cutting costs of health care by such things as opening insurance competition across state lines, and enacting tort reform to reduce provider costs, which would then not have to be passed along for patients to pay for. Romney has said he will make it his first act of office to issue waivers for Obamacare to all 50 states and to repeal and replace it with those limited cost-cutting measures. I don't know what the f--- you were alluding to when you mumbled Kennedy something-or-other and you give no more here, so... [shrug] If that's what you have, then you have nothing new... only you act like you do, you pretend to know something and you've wrapped your same pile of poo up in new paper and a bow. You're a !@#$ing idiot.

So, yet again, you make these vague intimations. You say you've read some of the op research, and when pressed you've given more vaguery and about stevestojan that everybody already knows about --- abortion stance from '94 Senate run, the MA health care law (of which Romney was a late, small part), and some other mumble about Kennedy something or other.... Specifically, what've you got to offer? Put up or shut up.

Yep and yep. A cut'n'paste: Even if the annual income !@#$ing doubled (making just federal taxes close to 50% of total income) this shell game cannot continue. The cuts need to be made with zeal and Dems want to keep spending... or, continuing the household budget meme, take most of the money allocated for housing for the next 20 years and make a payment on the credit card with that, rather than giving up things like Starbucks, DirecTv and saffron-flaked escargot with a side of lobster and new potatoes and asparagus, and giving Juan and Steve down the street a hundred bucks each, because they're down on their luck and can't afford Starbucks. Entirely absent from the Democrat mindset is the connection that the family is not going to have anywhere to live. It's a complete divorce from reality.

Given the givens, it looks like the league is not interested in letting teams play defense. What is it... five guys currently on pace to break Marino's record? That's ing ridiculous. Why invest heavily in defense if they just get neutered by the rules committee, and every 40-yard pass attempt there's a 50-50 chance of unreviewable PI so it's like CBs don't know whether to stevestojan or turn purple? This is an offense league now. Put up or shut up. Gotta invest a couple early picks to OL depth. Wouldn't be displeased with a good TE to backup or complement Chandler. With Fred Jackson having a knee injury, and Spiller being Spiller, it looks like a RB is in order as well. Should pick up some LBs and a CB in the later rounds. But I wouldn't knock getting another monster DT/DE similar to how Dey-twaa picked up Suh and Fairley in successive years that has helped revitalize that team. Because we have no pass rush. Nothing. Even blitzing, they can't breathe on a QB unless they're facing a stevestojan OL like Washington's.

And that whole thing involving man flying machines in the air and from that, into outer space --- that took millenia to accomplish. Bullstevestojan, Adam. All it takes is the proper motivation, some elbow grease and good-for-nothing people & tax-men/regulation-monkeys to get the f--- out of the way. Now, for universal/single-payer health care specifically, it won't happen quickly or at all b/c trusting a bureaucracy to make decisions for individuals, or even to insure/pay for treatment (and let's be certain here --- the payer determines treatment, directly or indirectly) is retarded. And it'll be retarded 300 years from now too.

AJ, if you have the time, even if it's just listening while you're doing the dishes or something, I would HIGHLY recommend watching Damon Lindelof's chat on Kevin Pollack's webcast. It's long but it's worth it. There's some talk about the so-called feud with George R.R. Martin, but some detail on his upcoming projects and LOST. For instance, for as big a fan of the show I was, I didn't know Damon's own father had passed away only several months before he started work on it with Abrams. I just see the character of Christian Shepard so much differently now. And I hope DL got as much as I did from the show vis-a-vis helping his healing process --- which I imagine it can be difficult to feel the emotion when you've worked on the thing from concept to finish roll. Sometimes for the creator it takes a long break from the work to be able to go back and see it as a viewer rather than a creator. (Pollack does a spot-on Larry King impression. And Lindelof's go at the end is just ing brilliant how it comes together.) I would guess "no idea" = many possibilities, with the ability to choose just one path.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmyXTOHC3w8&feature=related Click on the video to bring up Youtube and a link to Part 2.

He played a pawn broker. Not a major character. For a guy who's mostly in dramas, he had pretty good delivery.

Well, yes AD. According to BigGovernment.com, the United States government may well be the biggest supplier of guns to the Mexican drug cartels.

Nice touch of subtle Obama-logic. How anyone thought that a group of 12 could do what two couldn't is beyond me. So, if the Congresscritters turn the tap back on and cancel out the $1.2T in across-the-boards, what we got was a debt ceiling increase and a lot of non-consequential huff on how & who should pay off the federal credit card. The GOP House was ready and willing to cut, cap and balance. The Democrat Senate stopped this attempt at fiscal sanity in its tracks. It may be a narrative for 2012, but the people who will decide the election now know exactly what Obama's goals are. Namely, bankrupt America and make the people servile/dependent on gov't handouts that Democrats will promise with zeal. TAX & SPEND, railroad job-killing mandates through Congress, then TAX & SPEND MORE.

That's my suspicion. I also suspect that Sandy and Justin(?) passing the fitness posing competition on the first try was entirely due to Sandy having very nice ta-tas.

It means when the guy who has similar political stripes as oneself is in there, we all should demur and make nice. When it's someone from the other side of the aisle, we all should call him a war criminal and hang him in effigy.

And, friends, that's saying something!!! Interesting simile.... I swear to God, if we throw deep on a 4th & 1 or 3rd & 2 today, I'm going to go ape-stevestojan.

It's a testament of the restraint and tolerance of our society that this !@#$er hasn't gotten a bullet through the head yet.

Screw that. Agent Orange. The government said it was perfectly safe.

I've used LastPass via Firefox for a couple-few years. It's been great so far [knock on wood]. But my Hotmail account, that I don't use LastPass on, was hacked and used to send some spam a few months ago. Got messages from some friends and saw it all in the Sent folder. But I heard that happened to several people I know who use Hotmail.... Whoever/Whatever it was didn't change the password, thankfully. I did... to something much harder and with numbers.

Still no good. You can quote 1-2 paragraphs from shorter stories, or generally 5%-10% from a longer feature piece. You CANNOT post the full text. That nulls any reason for a reader here to click on the link and support the source's website... which is what allows them to stay in business and provide future news/articles. As Tom alluded to, IIRC I'm pretty sure there was a copyright incident here, which is why the mods police this. But in the interest of keeping this a place where they come for enjoyment rather than more work (mods are humans too), how hard is it to just police yourself? Not just "frowned upon." It is against the Terms of Service. If you're a serial offender, you risk suspension or termination of your account. What does that matter? All it takes is a first time to screw over TBD in an infringement case. Just follow the accepted rules of fair usage.