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Fixed it for you.

Won't disagree with you at all on that point.

I'm sorry, I forget which one was convicted of getting a hummer and which was convicted of outing a CIA agent? Oh, that's right, neither one. From my reading of the law about outing field agents and understanding of the circumstances of Plame's assignments back in '03 and a few years prior, it doesn't appear that giving her name to a reporter was illegal. (Whether it was or wasn't is a debate that was waged in depth here several months back, and not one I am looking to reopen.) The investigation became a witch hunt when Fitzgerald continued the investigation after learning that Dick Armitage was Novak's source.

Apparently you were looking in the mirror when typing this last post, I see.

Not necessarily. As an example, if you measure someone's height with an 11" ruler, believing it to be 12", and measure that person's height with the incorrect ruler 100 times; you can get the exact same result every single time. The correlation would be 1 (perfect) and yet every single measurement has error in it.

He also kind of fought Phil Sykes of the Kings but Jari Kurri was jumping on top of the 2 of them so there weren't (m)any real shots thrown. It was actually pretty hilarious.

Suter nailed him in the '91 Canada Cup. It's probably on Youtube somewhere.

Wow, you are showing your age with that comment. With the exception of the rare breed of cat like Pronger, shifts haven't been 3 minutes long since they started requiring rookies to wear helmets.

NYS can't get additional transmission lines from upstate to downstate installed due to NIMBY. Much less anyone even think about building a new generation plant. But I'm sure it's much easier in the other 49 states.

How are questions dealing with the actual implementation of ideas not "helpful to moving this discussion forward"? If you think you have a solution to a problem but absolutely no idea how to implement the solution nor how much the solution will cost, that implies directly that you don't know whether or not the solution is feasible nor what unintended consequences follow. In other words, there is no reason to believe it's a solution, it's merely throwing ideas out at a wall and seeing if any of them will stick. There are pros and cons to maintaining current energy sourcing and the use of alternatives. Not being able and/or willing to discuss any of these is what prevents a discussion from moving forward. Go cold fusion! What do you mean it doesn't really exist? People have spent a lot of money studying it, it must exist. I had a contractor in just the other day. I'm going to use it to heat my house.

Yeah, but wasn't it taking the other kids 30-40 minutes per night? Sorry, it was too good a setup to let it slide by.

Oh, I don't disagree at all that there are different levels of justice for guys like Ovie and Cyndie, and no I don't think that is right. But, with mere mortal stars/players, I think that the likelihood that the NHLPA argued that the Drury hit was technically legal and the case could not be made that the Kaberle hit was technically legal was the difference. I also am interested in hearing / reading the TO media's take on these hits because I think the Janssen hit was less dirty than the one that Farcy tried to throw on Jochen last year. They didn't seem to see anything wrong with a guy skating past the guy that hit him cleanly to try to throw an elbow at a smaller player's head but miss and take out his knee. (The foot's on the other hand now.)

The puck was in the corner when Drury got creamed. Had Colaiacovo not touched the puck, for whatever reason, Kaberle would have been the player "in possession" of the puck and when Jannsen hit Kaberle he'd have been hitting the player "in possession" of the puck. Had Stafford tipped Drury's shot, then he'd have been the player in possession and Neil's hit would have been interference as Janssen's hit was (although there was no call at the time). Janssen didn't get suspended because of Kaberle hitting the boards, he got suspended because the hit was "late". Colaiacovo possessing the puck being what made this one late and Drury "possessing" the puck apparently being what kept the other hit from being "late". Both hits were shoulders to the jaw after the puck was already on the other side of the ice. Had Kaberle not taken a shoulder to the head he most likely wouldn't have spun head first into the boards. Had Drury not taken a shoulder to the head he most likely wouldn't have face planted into the ice.

He should have been suspended. I'm glad to see the league followed through. I also hope the league addresses high shots to the head (as opposed to the Schaefer hit on Connolly) as they are pretty much intentional attempts to injure the opponent. The only significant difference that I see between the Kaberle and Drury hits is that the puck ended up on somebody else's stick before Kaberle was hit. The hit was a fraction later than the one on Drury, but had the puck not gone to Colaiacovo would have been technically legal (and still dirty) like the other hit.

I've got Zubrus and Roy swapped because Roy worked very well with Drury in the playoffs last year, Zubrus appears to be a bit better on faceoffs than Derek, and part of the reason the Sabres pulled the trigger on the deal was the endorsement from Max. I'd expect they'd give the 2 former Soviets a chance to play together. I also went w/ Paille and Stafford as L&R wings respectively on 4th line because that is their natural positions.

Considering the lines could look something like this (if all are healthy) Hecht - Briere - Pominville Roy - Drury - Kotalik Vanek - Zubrus - Afinogenov Paille (Paetsch) - Connolly - Mair (Stafford) with Tallinder - Lydman Spacek - Campbell Kalinen - Numminen and MacArthur ready to be called up if necessary, I am pretty happy with the way this team looks. And Lindy isn't completely resigned to losing Gaustad for the entire playoffs; I think he's HOPING for a mid-May return. I'd love to throw him into the mix, that is a really strong lineup.

When you look at the trades overall they were Marty and Novotny for Zubrus, Conklin, and cap space (aka Connolly); and the other trades amounted to a 4th and a 5th for 2 depth defensemen (#8 and 9 on depth chart; considering the Sabres went to #10 in the playoffs last year and #8 this morning was an AHL rookie, they were pieces this team needs). The draft pick exchange could be as little as the Sabres dropping 1 slot, in a worst case it will be dropping about 5 slots. The Sabres didn't "fleece" the Caps, but they did make fair trades overall, improved the team, and didn't mortgage the future. All in all, a pretty good day.

But going back to your original point, which is what I questioned, that is relevant to the original question. If it is 0, or more realistically a VERY small percentage (which, lacking the census data on their scholarship recipients, I will assume for sake of argument; if you have data contradicting this assumption I will gladly include it in the evaluation), then their scholarships (at least those given to students attending non-HBCU's) would appear to be open to the general public and excluding people based upon their race. This meets your definition of racist/sexist and as such is apparently wrong.

I have not commented at all on whether what the kids at FSU are doing is racist or not. You seem to have made some assumptions, but whatever. The UNCF bills itself as a "minority higher education assistance organization ... and has distributed more funds to help minorities attend school" than anyone but the government. I had not been aware of UNCF awarding scholarships to persons not of African descent. According to their website they do, but it would be interesting to know whether any of the individual scholarships awarded do have racial criteria. I would expect that some do as they appear to be started by individual/private donors, but don't know that. If so, it would appear that they are racists by your definition. It would also be interesting to see how small the percentage of non-African descended students that are awarded scholarships are.

So the UNCF isn't open to the general public but this other one is? It would appear that I am not as familiar with the UNCF as I thought. How is the UNCF NOT open to the general public (excepting that the recipients need to be Negroes to qualify)?

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

Yeah, they cut that part out of the rest of that episode on Discovery. Too bad, that was pretty funny.

I think he reads them, comprehension appears to be the issue.

Thanks for the link. I also checked Amazon. It looks like most of the music will be original but not all of it. For $25, I'll take a chance on it.

Grant, Thanks for the heads up. I followed the link but it didn't state whether they will have the original versions of the shows or the Nick-at-nighted versions (albeit full length). Do you know whether they are the "real thing" or the evil ones? If they are the real ones that is great news.