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Not much of a Harrison fan, eh? Who is, outside New England?

Coke - The "deliverance" gang, and I don't mean Reynolds & company.

And that is somehow solely the fault of government managed health care? A system that allows people access to the health system regardless of their socio-economic status? Their problems are far deeper than that. I guess reigning in an Industry (yes an Industry) whose costs have so outpaced inflation, and any sensical modicum of self restraint, coupled with greedy and far too numerous personal injury attornies and you've got a mess. Which is exactly what we have. Some sort of reform is long overdue. Tort reform, while I fear corporate been counters would saddle us with unacceptable exposure to harm if caps were too low, needs serious work. Insurance companies who sit on Mount Olympus making life and death decisions, based on numbers ($$$) not saving or bettering a human life. I'm afraid the answer to our Health Care system isn't "flexible spending accounts". We need far more visionary thinking than that or we will have a two tiered society. Those that can afford health care, and those (growing every year) that can't.

"Sect" in and of itself carries a highly negative connotation. I'd say I'm anything but right-wing, but would you call Protestants (any flavor) "sects"? What about liberals, conservatives, socialists, etc? I was baptised Episcopal, my wife is a faithful Catholic, and before you call me a Catholic light (one third the guilt), we have many differences of opinion, yet my wife's heart is in the right place, far more often than most. Personally, if I was you, I'd fear Chiroc far more than a Catholic. Those obsessed with "bad sex" extends far beyond the Catholic realm. Have you looked at your Moslem neighbors lately?

One could surmise that the lack of a popular majority for Clinton had more to do with a third party candidate (Perot) than any great love of George did in getting him the majority. So to claim that as some sort of moral victory is nonsensical. Yet, the spin around here seems to be.....

Firefox is now up to 1.0 and works great for me (except occasionally those sites that are optimized for IE). As for cache, cookies, etc., do you have Tools/Options? 1.0 does.

That's great. Nice job...

Yes, but there's still the element of how much more he can take, or more so, that's he's willing to take. I say I agree with the overall assessment, just not so sure about his future. I've always admired his ability to play hurt and still be successful.

Back to an earlier question, how are the power line internet transmision tests going? If they can pull it off, watch out. I'm all for anything that drives prices down and still provides a quality product (sometimes even superior...).

10-4 and I'm very pleased overall. Cable here (TW) is simply an inferior choice PQ wise and costs a bit more. Sadly, DirecTV also wised up to the benefits of having an RF remote and modulation so they no longer sell DirecTV units with an RF remote.....but there still are other ways to skin the same cat. We're now running 3 receivers though (up from 2) to satisfy my daughter. P.S. We have 8 TV's hooked up to our home TV distribution system. Room to room and I never miss a play.....Go Bills

Ah common ground. Drew's lack of touch with the short game is almost comical except I'm not laughing. It's cost us plenty.

Since I was too cheap to ever try the cable route, I'm not a good judge regarding speed differences between cable & DSL. My first few weeks with Verizon DSL were a bit touchy in that it would disconnect itself 1, 2 or 3 times a day and sometimes it took me up to about 30 minutes to reconnect. Verizon tested my lines and never found anything abnormal but they did say they "tweeked" (??) a few things back at "central". Then finally one of their techs suggested a change on my router settings and bingo, rock solid service service since. $29.95/mo plus a couple bucks in taxes, fees. [Changed from "connect on demand" to "keep alive" (linksys)] Two of my neighbors recently dumped TW (RoadRunner) for Verizon DSL stating there were semi-frequent outages and they they now feel the speed is normally better with DSL since they're online during peak hours (when every kid in America is online or so it seems). and we're rated for a max of 768 (or thereabouts). We don't have the 1.5 MB service available (due to our circuit type - FEZ help out here a bit !!!). Use Firefox, add the tweeks suggested by SDS, and you'll be in business. Cable may be superior relative to speed overall, but DSL has been A-OK for me. I wonder how the power line "test" has done in Cincinnati. If they could get that running........competition, a good thing for consumers.

Explain????

Wow, with a few exceptions, I guess no one is coming over for a few here. Currently have about three cases of Bud light (two cases of bottles and one of cans - I hate the cans, but drink them when out of bottled beer). When I want something a bit more tasty, I'll have a few Gillians Irish Red. Sam Adams Light is very good too. PIZZZZT, now how did that Bud light can open itself......

My God, that's sacreligious, but......LMAO

But what does that have to do with a health issue that could arise after conception? The point was that later term abortions were not supported and that the exception sought was for the mothers health. I'm obviously not a doctor, but I'm sure one could advise of a number of serious health issues that could arise, after the pregnacy began and developed over time. To ask for the right for late term abortion to save the mother's life is anything but extreme, and this has nothing to do with prevention of any kind. Pretty smug response there. I surely hope no one you know will ever be in that position. Short of saving the mother's life, I would say that I'm pro-life, but if saving the mother's life means I'm the devil, so be it.

Reed did not have the catches, yards per catch, the yards, or the TD's which is what it's all about. Bad analogy. Reed also had the advantage of being the third WR, going against safties, or LB's. Evans was covered by legit CB's and we all know what Reed showed against DB's. You just managed to compare apples to cinder blocks.

Evans? From what we saw down the stretch, save the Pitt finale, he was developing very fast. I see no reason this guy won't be light years better than Peerless Price. He showed toughness, and strong hands, neither of which were PP traits. Couple this with even better speed and Evans can easily become a number 1. Here's some stats from "another" receiver's rookie year: Year | G | Rec Yards Y/R TD | +----------+-----+------------------------ | 1985 | 16 | 49 927 18.9 3 Here's Evans rookie year: | 2004 | 16 | 48 843 17.6 9 And here's Moulds 1st two years: |1996 | 16 | 20 279 13.9 2 |1997 | 16 | 29 294 10.1 0 Note: The other receiver's name was Jerry Rice. Now Who's numbers does Evans' more closely resemble? Now I'm not saying that Evans is the second coming of Jerry Rice, but he's easily been the best looking young WR we've had since Jerry Butler who would have been an all time great hadn't he been hit with two serious injuiries to end his career. Lee has a chance, a very good chance, to be a great one.

Ah, those light hearted Germans.......that's just sick.

Certainly RJ didn't help matters, but the truth is that prior to coming to the Bills, Mauch coached the O-line with the AZ Cardinals, and during his tenure there, they were the worst in the league as well (IIRC). That anyone would hire him is amazing in and of itself.

"Getting it"? Get what? Our young men serving our country with great distinction? You bet, and they deserve all our prayers, support, thanks, and aid. As a former enlisted man myself who served back in a day when this kind of support did not exist from the general population (my service began in February 1975 a few months before the fall of Siagon), this is a wonderful change in attitude. Yet, supporting our troops has little to do with arguing whether this action taken by our current administration was right or wrong. It's not a right or left issue either. I saw neither the right or left elitists serving. They both stayed home. Who served back then (probably the same now, with few exceptions), were the middle class, the poor, but the wealthy and those of privilege were very poorly represented. We all know all too well what history has shown and said about the Viet Nam war and I wonder how history will look back upon the Iraqi action 10, 15, 20 years down the road. Yet so not as to make this a political argument, and even though I have considerable trouble backing the current administration regarding the Iraqi action, lets all stand tall, as Americans, and not turn over backs on our young men when they return home. Let us remember their bravery and service. They deserve all of our love and support, now and especially when they come home.

I would tend to agree that employees who use "sick days" as if they are somehow thiers to use for whatever they deem appropriate (long weekend, etc) are displaying less than desirable character. As a manager I can also say that every review I've ever written (company forms), have ALWAYS had a grade for attendance. An outstanding review cannot be obtained if an employee has bad attendance. Just for the record, the grades are determined by the company as to what constitutes excellent to poor attendance. So that everyone understands, a multiple day illness (hospital stay, servere flu, etc) are not weighted severely on your attendance record by the company that employs me. A day here, a day there until they're gone is heavy weighted against the employee, but even then the reason does come into play. There are some factors that can mitigate this, but in general, that's how this would be viewed. For those who argued the "productivity" thing yesterday relative to smoke breaks, etc, is this not lost productivity of the worst kind (100%) when an employee just decides to blow off a day for "just because I can"? In my business (Transportation - Import/Export) every day is a new battle. There isn't any tomorrow when your customer needs their product today. Absenteeism is the largest blow to our productivity. No my friends, sick days are not just extensions of your vacation allotment, nor were they ever intended to be. Only those who are able to rationalize away their own actions find that they are. They are for pay continuation in the event that you are truely sick. We have 7 days (called "discretionary days") available to our employees to use. Every January 1st you get a new allotment of 7. They cannot be carried over to the next year. You're truely sick? Use them as needed. Have a dentist appointment for a root canal, medical tests, etc., let us know when the tests or procedures are and use them. They are not to make a long weekend. Yet, as we all know, some will use them just for that so there's a bit of an incentive offered not to. If you don't use the "discretionary" days then at the end of the year, you get paid for any unused ones. Lastly, in every employment interview we give, we stress right up front that attendance is a MAJOR issue. There are no secrets going into our Employer/Employee relationship in this respect.

Gotcha....love the Beatles, didn't care for the rremix though...Thanks.

Page wouldn't open but I did get lost in the Suicide Girls link (SG)...ouch...

Affirmative actions? They suck as written. One should never be forced to accept inferior, less qualified candidates just for the sake of racial, ethnic, or other, equality. To be truely equal, protected classes can never be part of the equation. Yet, I won't hold my breath for that day to come. But to deny discrimmination doesn't exist purely on racial, ethnic, etc., grounds is to be living in a fantasy world.