stuckincincy

I've had a Discover card for decades. You're right about cashing out. I've never used the retail discount feature, though. I will say, they are a pretty upstanding outfit. I also have a Citibank (nee AT&T) MC that I use only for medical co-pays, and they have played the quick billing game for years. I pay mine off every month - after having been taught a costly lesson years ago. But 6 months or so ago, I neglected opening up the envelope and ended up having to pay by phone. For a fee. They recently - I assume because of lawsuit - have made big changes in their billing paperwork. I laugh when folks rail against oil companies - banks wrote the book...

Off-topic, but it does have money implications. # of starts is often an item in a contract. Starters who miss the first few plays because of some infraction like missing a meeting lose cash. It can be leverage for management. Also, contract money for earning starter status is a good incentive for a player to try harder, play better. On the flip side, there are owners like CIN's Brown, who used to demand this or that starter sit so he could avoid the pay-out.

Pretty hefty...burgers are. Here's a McD's Quarter Pounder w/cheese and bun: http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/fast-foods-generic/8051/2 That's a very informative site, for those who are interested in such. I don't eat many hamburgers (the indignities of old age apply), but I do have concerns about grocery store frozen and fresh uncooked ground beef - the salmonella, e. coli thing. So I buy beef cuts that are on sale, reserve some for a roast, and grind and freeze some of it for burgers. I confess to buying a couple of those McD dollar value double cheeseburgers when my wife is away on business...

FWIW, I heard on the radio this morning that they have 15 players on IR.

Fwapp!

These people are marketing idiots. Witness the "No more free peanuts and biscuits" garbage. What does that cost them? 5, 20, 30, 50 bucks a flight depending on passenger count? Their customers are already hopping mad - why get rid of a low-cost thing that can at least assuage some of that ill will? They remind me of the US Postal Service - reducing the number of letterboxes through the years because they somehow think its' an inefficiency. While any private business claws as much as they can, for the opportunity to make themselves available to the buying public...

It's an epidemic! Kevin Faulk, of the Pats*... http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/10892124

That would be a bit much. I do like ABBA, though - toe-tapping music. I guess disco was the last, or next-to-last dance craze, followed by that C&W line dancing. I guess it's all pretty much variations on a dry hump these days.

Yep - the radio ratings would be interesting. I agree about BB on radio...I think the games lends itself well. Also agree about tv BB.

Arcane beer story: Witch's garb. I heard this on a PBS radio station a while back. Beer can be bewitching. Women brewed much of the beer through the centuries. They sold the excess, and the sign of beer for sale was an upside down broom. When they took it to a crowded marketplace to sell, they couldn't carry the vessel and also hoist a broom, so they wore a tall pointed hat so they could be picked out among the crowd. Also - the kettle, the cauldron...witch's brew.

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Summer school? Does that still exist?

Happy B'Day, Mountie!

It depends. The rich hire obsequious folks to give them heavily worked and barely identifiable food, such as cuttlefish cannelonli with morel and asparagus puree, lobster bisque with carmelized truffles, terrine of baby lamb, roasted fois gras and the like. Mere chicken, mere alligator - sniffed at by chef and patron alike. Even though the hired hands and the dainty crowd served know that a deep-fried chicken drumstick or alligator drumstick with 13 herbs and spices is...Heaven on Earth.

Never bet a horse at a trotter track. Bet the favorite jockey that year!

"Out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican girl. Night-time would find me in Rosa's cantina; Music would play and Felina would whirl. Blacker than night were the eyes of Felina, Wicked and evil while casting a spell. My love was deep for this Mexican maiden; I was in love but in vain, I could tell." Actually, Odessa TX would be my destination.

The 28 nays must have safe seats. Or they correctly played the odds of passage, comfortable in their No vote. My guess is that it must have been an unusually "clean" bill, not loaded up with the usual ton of pork and earmarks. Either way, a win for them. The Yeas get to say how they voted to protect America. The number of Nays get to say that they fought against onerous add-ons (i.e - not their own). I despise the 17th Amendment. These curs should have been confined to what the Founding Fathers advocated, instead of sticking their noses into the national scene. A 100 patricians, powerful beyond sense, perpetuated by an electorate that is currently well-displayed on Leno's ""Jay Walking".

Bump. ...

Yep - a criminal bunch no doubt.

See what happens when local governments feed at the Federal trough? What about those people in Texas who had money peeled off their hides so that certain TN people could travel to their entertainment on the cheap? It's the Volunteer State...they can walk if they choose to spend $ at a private enterprise!

Ancient topic, known 50 years ago. Another "journalist" hoping for a hit...

Ask Nancy and Harry.

But...but... "One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line." --President Bill Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998 "If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." --President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998 "Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face." --Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998 "He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983." --Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998 "[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." Letter to President Clinton, signed by: -- Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998" ...and so on and so forth. In case for some reason..you have forgotten these strong, assured statements and others... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1051684/posts We hates these Inconvenient Truths. Or I suppose you could blame Pres. Bush for trusting the the words and the intelligence gathering of the 8 years of the previous Administration. Oh - Don't forget the Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998... http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/Legislation/ILA.htm

Jamal Lewis, CLE - 2007: 1,304 yards, 4.4 ave, 66 yard long run, 9 rush TD's, 30 catches for 248 yards and 2 TD. All-Time has-been?

Well - if I were - I would begin to re-populate Texas!