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Fair enough. Couldn't read the 2nd article (I pretty much refuse to click on popup ads to remove them), from the discussion here it doesn't seem to make it that clear that the mother has been forcing the kid to eat far too much. Maybe it did, like I said, I couldn't read it. Until I have more data, I'll stick with the opinion that the social workers overstepped their bounds - significantly.

Joe, Just out of curiosity, do you have children of your own? It doesn't appear that you do.

You're right, it was the Patsies. Went to all 3 games that weekend (Friday started well with a romp over the Blackhawks, final was 2-0 but the game wasn't that close), the last 2 stunk. The Jest game that year was in September. Was getting my roadtrips mixed up.

D'oh, maybe 5 beers ago I'd've figured out that you were referring to Queen's drummer. (Who I have also not heard speak in an interview; but it makes more sense than the other drummer Roger Taylor. ) Sorry, but when I think of Queen, it's always Freddie and Brian May; Roger Taylor and John Deacon get short shrift. And like I said, I love 'pumped up kicks;' it is so inappropriate for EVERYWHERE it's played.

Pumped up kicks cracks me up, because 'everyone' in this country is sooooo worried about their kids' wellbeing but I've heard that song played at high school soccer and football games, pro hockey, and on the telly, pro football and several college sports. And EVERY time I hear it, I start laughing because of how inappropriate it is for the setting it's played in. It has to be my favorite song of the past 5 years, minimum. And I'm not certain that I've ever heard Roger Taylor speak. (Duran Duran drummer, right?)

D*mn, somebody remade 'I'm in love w/ my car?' I am now convinced that you really are several years younger than me, as I had no idea that anyone remade that (or more technically that anyone had remade it and got radio / Itunes play for it). Of course, I am still hoping that one of my in-laws get me 'pumped up kicks' for Christmas. So I'm apparently still not accepting just how old I really am.

1st off, SHOCKED that you are 6 years younger than me. From your posts, I was certain you were 3-5 years older than me. 2nd, sorry but AOBtD was '80. You can try to blame that on the '70's disco craze but it just missed it. 3rd. I was driving back to Buffalo after a Bills - Jest game that the Bills actually won (way back when) when the DJ told us that Freddie had passed away from AIDS and he chose 'Someone To Love' as the song to commemorate it. Sorry, but I think that was what got Freddie into that mess in the first place. There were so many great Queen songs to choose to play upon his passing, why did the DJ choose THAT to commemorate him? I am still bitter about that 20 years later.

Funny, I would have said it was either Batgirl painted green or the Drill Thrall Shanah.

But they couldn't help him because he didn't start running the Enterprise until AFTER he stopped leaping and as everyone knows they could only help him when/where he leaped and he could ONLY leap to dates that were earlier within his own lifetime.

Based on the precedents of what hits Chara is allowed to get a pass on, I don't see how Myers could have gotten a suspension for any reason other than Shanny being in a snit over Miller's comments and the Sabres' reactions to the non-action on Lucic. From what has been historically considered to be legal, I don't see how Myers' play was suspendable.

Typically, you can c&p a paragraph or 2 provided you cite the source and then post a link back to the original article. As previously mentioned, posting the full text is frowned upon here.

Has anybody even remotely tried to imply that they don't? The criticism hasn't been that they don't have the right to protest. The criticism has been that they have no !@#$ing idea what it is they're protesting, many of them are breaking the law while protesting whatever it is that they're protesting, and the closest thing to a coherent message that they have espoused is either 'we don't like the "1%" getting special treatment, but give us special treatment and let us camp out in the park overnight and **** wherever we want' or 'we want free stuff.' Either of which, while catchy doesn't quite rise up to the level of 'we shall overcome.'

For the most part, they do take it really personally, but that just seems to be a part of the personality of most of the people that self-select themselves to be contestants on a show like this. The snowboarders don't seem to be the typical contestants and barring something major getting screwed up, I'd expect to see them in the finals and probably winning it. I also don't see them getting severely ticked if they do get U-ed. They clearly aren't in the 'let's not hurt anyones feelings' camp; if they were foolish enough to be there, they wouldn't have the $15k from the previous leg. Like you, I have a hard time understanding the 'I won't U-turn anyone for fear of repercussions' attitude. I wouldn't do it unless it made tactical sense (and winning A leg of the race doesn't rise to that level, IMHO) but if it does make sense to live to see another leg, then game on. Didn't they have a rule a few seasons ago that you could only use a U-turn once in a race? Do you know if they still have that rule (if they did in fact have it in the past)? If so, they it was doubly-dumb to U-turn Bill & Cathi, as that may be an important tool to have in the next couple of legs.

If you're referring to fans of the show, I'd agree. If you're referring to contestants on the show, I think there's a fairly rational explanation to getting ticked off by getting U-turned. Bill and Cathi (and dad & Zach) had a roughly 1-in-6 chance of winning $1MM prior to getting u-turned. While the other teams odds remained at 1-in-6, their odds of winning fell (temporarily in the case of B&C, permanently for the other pair) significantly. There has to be a huge amount of frustration when somebody sees their picture at that signpost. It's only natural to feel some anger towards the individuals that were DIRECTLY responsible for them being in that situation. These people went from thinking 'hey, we're still in the mix for $1MM' to 'we've got to bust our butts and hope somebody else screws up and if we get REAAAAALLLLLY lucky, we may live to fight another day.' One thing I thought was interesting was that Bill and Cathi could use the U-turn without having completed that leg that they got U-turned on. (Because they'd been U-turned, they'd only completed 1/2 of that leg.) The dating couple got reeeaaal lucky on that leg, and I wouldn't be surprised to see them out next.

Yes, clearly, it must be one of two options. It must be that American society provides non-whites less opportunities than whites because of their skin color, or non-whites are inherently less capable. There can be no other factors involved in how outcomes in the aggregate are disparate.

Seriously!?!?!? Haven't you ever seen those artificial trees clogging every aisleway in the Walmarts and Targets of the world as soon as Halloween is past? Good grief, how can a hardworking X-mas tree rancher possibly keep up with the Godless Commie plastic made-in-China trees? Speaking of 'good grief,' they've stemmed the attack of the aluminum trees that Lucy wanted poor Charlie Brown to drag back to the elementary school musical, but if Michelle Obama has her way and gets kids to stop drinking soda pop the price of aluminum that formerly went into cans will go down and the aluminum trees become competitive again. Throw in the competition from NAFTA-inspired Canadian douglas fir imports (Ross was right about the 'giant sucking sound,' he just misplaced its direction) and the X-mas tree rancher simply has little to no chance without government provided marketing.

One good thing about the announcement happening so quickly is that there don't seem to be as many "the government secretly is holding Bin Laden at _____ which is why they claim to have buried him at sea" or "he's actually been dead for x years (3.5 perhaps?) and they've been sitting on the info" or "this proves he was actually working w/ the Zionists in an elaborate plot to keep the Arab down" theories getting floated as widely as I expect they would have had they said he died 1 month ago in a Navy Seal raid. Not that that should trump military / strategic considerations, and don't know if the decision did trump them, overlook them, or consider them. But it appears to be one small benefit of the announcement happening as his body was being dumped.

Well, Polian has set up a team to support Luck fairly well and has set up a team that should be able to get him as well (come on Miami, win 1 friggin' game (but not against us, preferably against the Cheatriots or the J-E-S-T, Jest, Jest, Jest)). If that ain't long range planning, I'm not sure what is.

True, you never said 300k, you said 837k. And you gave me **** for stating that 300k and 100k were exaggerated in BOSNIA. Except, now you agree that they weren't. Make up your !@#$ing mind. Or are you now claiming 80k is greater than 300k or maybe you are claiming it's pretty close to 300k? I notice you still aren't concerned w/ the Arab League's lack of giving a **** about Bosnia. Sweet. And you wonder why you and your friend catch some flack here? Really?

Hopefully it's just a high ankle sprain. It looked very nasty when it happened. He slid into the goalpost square with his skate and instead of the peg giving way, his ankle did.

It's ill advised because it's unfeasible in any reasonably self-sustaining form in well over 95% of this country as has been pointed out many times previously. If it could be profitable, it would make sense to issue bonds to get it built. High speed rail has very few places in the US where it could be anything but a boondoggle.

And who was it that halted those attrocities? I don't recall the Arab League leading the charge there. EDIT: Above reply should not be construed to be notwithstanding your exaggeration of quantities of dead & raped.

Classics, all. But couldn't Conner's gems be called Molson's Golden nuggets?

Never knew Beth was married to Scott P. I wonder if this means that they're keeping Chet in the morning. For some reason I figured that she'd out last him in that gig. Guess not.

Shula did it as well.