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http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8754128/?MSNHPHMA

Yep. Most teams grab an early-round one when it falls to them. B'gals picked Justin Smith #1 in 2001. 8.5 sacks his rookie year, after - averages 5 to 6. He was critizied for that average. But what he did, was contain his side, put pressure on the backfield, season after season. A consistent, 60 tackle+ per year stopper. Seldom out with injury. He has 40 tackles, 3 sacks at mid-season with a weak SF club this year. But some call him a bust because of the lack of big sack numbers. There's much more to the position than those numbers. http://www.nfl.com/players/justinsmith/profile?id=SMI446020

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07102008/news/..._job_119244.htm

Consider my post as a valuable public service. Consuming game may become more common in years to come. See Mao's "Cultural Revolution".

Road kill should never be eaten. Usually, organs are disrupted, and some nasty things ooze out and contaminate the meat. Hunters field-dress a deer: http://www.michigandnr.com/publications/pd...ld-dressing.pdf

SOLD!

My Rep, Steve Chabot -R, OH was defeated after 7 terms. A very fiscally responsible person. He started out in local politics many years ago...went door-to-door. He would stay in DC during Congressional breaks, continuing to work. During previous races, the opposition would complain that he wouldn't vote for pork for his district. He voted against the bail-out boondoggle. Every 3 weeks or so, he'd be on one of the morning radio shows, answering questions, expressing his positions, and taking calls from citizens. This year, there was a negative tv ad onslaught. Some PAC out west - they continually mispronounced his name. I'm saddened that he was defeated. A very decent, honest man.

Why aren't posters adding the * ? Poor form...

Does any patient get out of that hospital with less than a $500,000 bill? Go in with a hangnail, go out sliced and diced, lumbar punctured, brought near death several times, eventually dying of radiation over-exposure, and... bankrupt?

You miss the point, Mike.

I-crayonz would note, however, that the sidelines are clean and well-policed of debris.

WAR with who?

Rental property is a business endeavor. Taxes, depreciation, school taxes, upkeep, are deductible at all levels of government, partially or wholly. A renter seldom sees a rent increase based solely on increased taxation. An individual homeowner most assuredly does feel the bite - and their ability to deduct same is much less than a business. Apples and oranges...

Nice video!

A few hours without booming noise and video? - look at the big picture.

Crikkit.

Niagara Mohawk Power disrupted the flow of one game. They are included in the blame binder.

3 minutes in line on OH. 3 minutes coloring in the rectangles on the scan ballot (I already knew and learned about about the ballot amendment issues). That three minutes would have been reduced to one, back in the old days when people knew how to accurately punch a hole in a piece of paper.

Eh...cut some slack. Everybody goes loony now and again, then comes back to (fan) normalcy. From one of W. Somerset Maugham's many short stories... "We are a haphazard bundle of inconsistent qualities. In books on logic they will tell you that it is absurd to say that yellow is tubular or gratitude heavier than air; but in that mixture of incongruities that make up the self may very well be a horse and cart and gratitude the middle of next week. I shrug my shoulders when people tell me that their first impressions of people are always right. I think they must have small insight or great vanity." We are all pretty nutty. It just bubbles up at different times. Look at me - bubbly as they come.

Chewing out part-time multimillionaire workers with contracts and union skirts to hide behind, that work for a private enterprise that makes a tidy profit even if no customers show up and have a free place of business probably isn't very effective. He certainly can rip into the non-union staff, though.

If Obama wins, I'll welcome Babs and Alec Baldwin back. Didn't they vow to leave America if Bush won in 2000?

That car was manufactured by Mitsubishi at their Diamond Star works in Illinois. Mits subsequently got in deep doo-doo with the Japanese government for a long track record of lying about safety issues, shady supplier deals, kick-backs and the like.

People most always vote with an eye to whatever will enrich their own pocketbook. If it screws the other guy, saps ther nation in general...so what? It is truly the "It's All About Me" era. Whatever a mob thinks is right, it isn't necessarily so. Sad fact - a quarter of US high school students drop out, school attendance is horrible in the cities nationwide, parents stop raising their kids and demand that schools and governments do the job, a majority of citizens can name tv stars but are stymied if you ask them what their State capitol is, who their legislators are, wouldn't read a nutrition label to save their life, and so on. Please don't try to twist this into "you want to oppress the will of the majority" or "you are an elitist" or some such. We live in a time where actually taking a bit of time and registering to vote sometime in the year preceding an election has been pounded into many heads as an attempt to deny the right to vote - and unless you move, it's a one-time effort. When spending one hour in a day out of the year to go show up and vote is an intolerable hardship. And the exploitation of youth for political purposes. This weekend, my school district had the clout to close a major thoroughfare for a parade for a property tax increase levy. The last increase, they spent on a new football stadium after months of sob stories about better educating the students in their (poorly performing) school system. The teachers cry about their sad (civil service, paid health care, state pension plan, months off) life. But AFAIK, they never quit for better fields. I am sensitive to their concerns about getting beat up by students, and disrespect and sass from same, though. The little darlings, just 'spressin themselves, eh? That afternoon, my wife and me were doing some yard work, Twice, an organized motorcade of cars and trucks, orbited my street. Kids shouting "Give us money! Give us money!". How craven of these adults, using children as pawns. The kids are getting quite an education...

Teams with large numbers on the IR list tend to take it twice in the neck. It's bad to lose some starters, but as the list mounts, the special teams folks, the back-up players drop out. You raid the PS, perhaps they start to get injured. You start to pick up street FAs - problem is, you start backfilling with players foreign to your system, players without benefit of practicing with the team...sometime having to put them into the starting 22.