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Even an exceptional Sherpa will find it impossible to guide a climber who buys his gear at Walmart. This is the cold truth of Everest.

Ah crap, they got the guy from ACDC now. Game over.

Good stuff--thanks for sharing that. LS was one of the first bands I really paid attention to and to this day virtually every Skynyrd song carries with it some good memories. The "how do you listen to that?!" crowd never really interested me all that much, and the irony of a kid from 1970's Buffalo listening to southern rock was never really lost on me. I just liked the sound and the music. One of the cool things bout music is the ability to connect people. The fact that you feel close to your Dad when Tuesday's Gone is actually pretty amazing, given that his Dad may at one time have walked into his room and told him to shut that $#@! off, or turn that &^%$ down, or the obligatory cut your ^%$# hair. I always tried to connect with my kids through their music, and tried to connect through their music while dropping a bit of mine on them. As a result, I can pop on DMB, Angels and Airwaves, Drake, Eminen, Taking Back Sunday and some more hardcore rap (not a huge fan, but I only strongly recommend that my kids 'turn that volume down to a 6 will ya, you're going to go deaf!") and be pretty happy. Still, it was only a few days ago when I pulled up "Curtis Lowe" and sang along as I always did. So, to summarize: 1. Music connects if you let it; 2. The plane crash was 100% avoidable and what a shame; 3. Don't let someone else define your music. "Sweet Home Alabama" was no more about racial bias than was "Southern Man" by Neil Young, "That Smell" wasn't celebrating drunk/drugged driving and hitting Oak Trees, and "What's Your name" wasn't about the band hooking up with girls on the road and promising to look them up the next time they were in town. 4. Simple Man is as honest a song as ever been written; 5. Very cool story about your Dad. LS wouldn't be one with mine, but I have others and that's a precious gift. Oh, and 6...after watching the documentary that's been on recently, "If I leave here tomorrow" and considering the totality of the life those band members lived before and after the crash, any of them making it to 55 had to be a miracle.

Well if we're admitting stuff, she's an individual who aspired to greatness and saw it through. The odds of a poor girl from a Jewish family, born along the Appalachian trail, raised in poverty with scoliosis that was left untreated, her father a raging alcoholic and her mother a barker in a traveling show becoming a Supreme Court justice were astronomical.

The problem for decent, hard-working, well-intentioned centrists not all that dialed into the political landscape is they just don't understand this person, and other crazy people like her, is coming for them too. She hates....everybody NOT a transgendered or non-white female survivor of sexual assault that is HIV positive.

I apparently missed the point you were making regarding the defense and how they will fare moving forward. I was just responding about this game. I still hold that its impossible to say what might have happened had we made a touchdown, because after all, the titans were as unlikely to score the td othe drop based on the other 55 minutes of ball. It was absolutely fortunate that he dropped it, and as I said earlier I thought the d played very well on Sunday. Moving forward your cautious approach is warranted of course. Have a good night.

I don't think it's obvious at all. Plenty of time to drive the field and score. Assuming the d keeps it all underneath, the movement up the field is very doable and it comes down to whether or not the Bills can push it in. I'm also not sure why you would take away the turnover differential as turnovers are part of the game, and the turnovers are often a result of disciplined defense and aggressive tackling. To me, that's like saying if you take away the winning field goal we lose. Or, if you take away the pass rush perhaps Mariotta has a better day. The defense played well. Who knows, maybe they got in William's head in the first 55 minutes of the game and he was concerned about securing the ball if he was hit from a crazy angle.

Buddy of mine is a lifelong resident of San Francisco, lives in Morin county but works in the city. The house he grew up in was on the opening credits of the old "streets of san fran" as the cars drove by. Loves it, and most definitely skews left. He said certain areas are just horrible today, homeless people, drug needles and people literally $#@@ing on the sidewalk. Interestingly, he doesn't see it as a political problem. You're correct, bad things tend to follow when you use the streets as your toilet. I thought we figured that out in the period spanning roughly 1500-1950.

Unfortunately, the SC debacle and the post-election antics against Trump tell us that "taking the high road" simply means that other than publicly jabbing an ice pick in the eye of your enemy, pretty much anything goes. It's sad, but true.

He's the healer in chief, just delivered with a bit of tough love.

But as libs like to point out, a prior liberal President really did the heavy lifting that got the economy rolling. Thank you Woodrow Wilson!

Disagree. He's not just "holding him" as Mariotta is scrambling to keep the play alive, a competitor himself. To boot, they are not the only two guys on the field, and there is organized chaos all around them. On top of that, Hughes can only be 50% sure that there is a 75% chance that continuation of the play would or would not result in a penalty and/or fine (the odds move to 100%/100% certainty of penalty & fine if Brady is in the grasp), not to mention the rule has morphed from where it started to where it is now, allowing a bit more judgement on the part of the official. Absent the official blowing the whistle, Hughes should have finished the play and tackled Mariotta. Imo that was squarely on the official given the logical end to that scenario was the QB suplexed or at a minimum, full weight of Hughes on the ab with QBs arms above Hughes shoulder and injury a realistic outcome. Everyone watching the game feels the Qb rule impacts the outcome of games. We were lucky to have dodged that particular bullet.

The libs had a moment of clarity when they suggested their base "barrack the vote". It was catchy and easy to follow when the progs hit the ballot box. The concern with the new buzz phrase "Swarm Vote" is that many underachieving liberal voters will be looking to cast their ballot for presidential fellatrix and current porn star Swarmy Daniels.

I read about the Murphy Brown reboot, but are you saying there is a movie called Grandmama Mia?

Excellent point. I wonder if the senator, back when she was shiny, new and freshly elected from a land where hard work and self-sufficiency is prized above all, ever thought to herself "Some day, I may get pushed around by the old lady from Driving Miss Daisy.".

This photo reflects such a violation of personal space as to be creepy. I think the appropriate response would be "Listen, you need to back the %$#@ up and cool down, creeper.".

I see Ford as at best, a liberal operative who set this up in 2012, making vague accusations at between 1-4 white men to set the table for that which was to come. This would explain why the recent accusations could morph into whatever she needed later.

Honestly, it amazes me to see people suggest things like that. Decades of experience. Impeccable resume. Scores of people from across the political landscape speak of his demeanor and nature on the court. Not a controversy to discuss until, almost magically, a "controversy" without time, date or place rocks arises. After an unprecedented delay and additional hearings and FBI investigation....demanded by the accuser, her attornies and the opposition party and agreed to by the White House....no credibility to the accusations. Old Alf walks away with the thought that the President was the problem. Might as well just say "Trump should have nominated a liberal that everyone approved of.".

"Calling All Men"??? I think Skolnik can rest comfortably knowing that regardless of whether many or few men show, there will absolutely be no women in attendance.

One of the consistent characteristics of weak-minded people is to throw haymakers, verbally in this case, from the cover of darkness as a person of higher character walks by. One of the consistent qualities of a person of strength is the ability to recognize the weak for what they are and simply get on with her day.

On the contrary, he has been described by those who worked with him as thoughtful, deliberate and even-keeled. He surely must have known the opposition would try to destroy him, there is precedent for that. I think he is now the perfect judge to seek out justice for all Americans who have been tread upon and abused by the powerful.

The problem with declarations that start with "This is the reason that...." is that where human beings are concerned, there are an infinite number of reasons and rationales to explain why people choose to handle things a certain way. You're oversimplifying an incredibly complex issue to the extent that you're arguing against using logic and reason to analyze the veracity of one individuals claims v another. To suggest that your commentary has nothing to do with these hearings, while on a message board specifically discussing this hearing seems a bit shallow. Here's the reason my thoughts on Ford's allegations are not "the problem" ..my thoughts on Ford v Kavanaugh have nothing to do with my thoughts on any other case involving allegations of sexual assault. I do maintain that people unwilling to consider the totality of the information available at the click of a button and defer to "everyone should be believed every time" are a much bigger problem than what I post on a message board. The good news is you are consistent. There are many, many powerful people in government and beyond that are hoping that a large number of people think that health insurance can be boiled down to "we are all one pool of healthy and sick" which then obviously and definitively means lower cost. Seriously, read a book or two about actuarial science, risk management and human behavior.

I don't resent anyone, I simply pointed out the facts as I see them. But I'm not a dimwit, either, and I will tell you that I don't wrap myself in a cloak of emotions when considering the difference between "actual survivors of sexual assault" and a political operative/pawn who resets the narrative du juor. I'd also argue that it's perfectly reasonable to call bull sh6t on a bull sh6t story....and if somehow you or anyone else sees that as a reflection on personsally held beliefs on actual victims of sexual assault, that's really your issue, not mine. Btw, news has leaked that the FBI found no corroboration of the esteemed dr's story, not surprising anyone as there were several versions. Shocking.

With respect, I say to you that the people you described, who have drawn inferences from bits and pieces of testimony carefully culled from the entirety of the testimony, with questions and statements rehearsed and chorepgraphed like a Broadway extravaganza...are part of the problem. In fact, they are a large part of the problem and why this clusterf@!$ was allowed to play out. The basic premise is that anything that Ford did or said, and any conflicts that arise, are all explained away by her status as a victim. Meanwhile, shes retained top political operatives to carry her flag, shes experienced in the field of human psychology and she's operating at a time when victim status is a badge of honor in our society. Trump, for all his bluster is painted as a bully here, defending a guy who until 2 weeks ago was a pretty vanilla dude, all while vultures in the Senate, Congress and media figuratively take turns bashing the nominee in the skull with a brick and get praise from their supporters.

I dont know, I think the book needs to be written on him. He's been out there for 3.5 games straight and only looked good in one of them. I'd scuttle the whole experiment.