Crap Throwing Monkey

Disappointed? I'd have actually done better.

There does, however, seem to be cause to blame the guy for being a political shill...or even more, a party hack, who should be subject to the same fiscal restrictions as any other party hack. Tough to level the same charge against ABC...possible (I do it. ABC Family does, after all, air Pat Robertson's nonsense). But difficult.

No kidding? Did some minority Senators actually threaten ABC with that? Hadn't heard it. If so, it ought to be an impeachable offense. That's as clear-cut a First Amendment violation as you'll ever see.

Cheap shot...

I'll be hoisting a beer in Ghost of BiB's memory at kickoff (out of a long-neck bottle, of course). I'll miss watching games with that bastard.

Just thinking of it from Smith's point of view...what was he supposed to do, anyway? A team signs him off waivers, he goes to that team. Same team cuts him six days later...he leaves. Belichick - or any franchise, frankly - doesn't have any obligation to any player, really...and a player like Fast Freddie isn't going to get a Rosenhaus-type agent to look out for his interests. What in the NFL's system forbids Belichick from doing this? Some gentlemen's agreement that he won't be a bad, bad boy and treat players like disposable assets? Even though the system's designed to treat players like disposable assets?

It's all horseshit anyway. The biggest pile of it being that a network has been forced to change a fictional miniseries because a political party is afraid of the effect it'll have on mid-term elections. Nice to see the Democratic party is still focusing on the important issues...

More accurately: combat is controlled chaos. Chaos, by it's very nature, tends to be chaotic (thus, "chaos"). And when you have enough people shooting enough sh-- in a confused situation, some of it's going to hit the wrong people, whether it's "collateral damage" or "friendly fire". As much as the Pentagon likes to pretend it can be eliminated completely...it can't. It can be mitigated by training, training, and more training, but it'll never go away. It's a natural part of battlefield friction. In WWII, estimates of US friendly fire casualties were about 10% total casualties...in some theaters (Papua New Guinea, for example), as high as 30%.

No. But believing the Democratic Party's innocent of the same nonsense makes it conspiratorial. Fact is, all politicians - all marketers, really - appeal to the people's most current fears, simply because fear is a very powerful motivator. That's why we can't bicycle without a helmet, can't fly without being all but stripped-searched, and are only capable of electing total !@#$ing dumbasses to public office.

Oh, goody! Now I can be even less informed!

I liked the first line, too: "George Bush is fighting for his presidency..." Uhhh...no, he's not.

Because people like Rosen need lovin' too...

I "heard" that the prison grapevine told him that he wasn't going to be released after all, so he released himself. Got that from one of the Buffalo radio stations the morning after he shot the two officers.

Riiiiiight. Bucky shot two cops from ambush. He's not going to let himself be taken alive, no matter how much the police try to bring him in alive. And I don't think they'll try all that hard, frankly.

More particularly, he escaped from the Alden Correctional Facility by cutting through the ceiling with a can opener. Why don't they just leave the doors open instead? If a guy hadn't died in all this, it would be a farce.

Yeah. Bin Laden and the new Iraq-al Qaeda leader are stumping for the republicans.

Yesterday Bucky was the #3 search on MSN...as pointed out to me by a coworker from Minnesota who's following the story. So yes, it's getting wide coverage. And I still can't believe a career !@#$up like Bucky has managed to parley this whole thing into a death penalty rap.

Lee...Marvin?

You were funnier before you were banned. And now I have to change my avatar, dammit.

Like it's a small, select club...

Nope. Canada actually buys F/A-18s from Boeing. Maybe some Canadian company still makes light cargo jets, but the last premire military plane made in Canada was the Arrow, 40 years ago...good plane, would've succeeded if it were built in a country that could've afforded it.

You know...because they're persecuted...by liberal America...who's supporting Stalin...or something...

The people that beat them up, on the other hand, should be lauded... ...wait, we're still talking about Fox reporters, aren't we?

"Heeeeeeere's TOMMY!"

More likely it'll be a Mickey Mouse fake end-around bull sh-- reverse !@#$tard halfback option flea-flicker pass...for a loss. The complete antithesis of "awesome". Of course, with my luck as a Bills fan, that play will actually work for the damned Fins.