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The size of the drop wouldn't have anything to do with the size of the spike up last month when BP shut down the pipeline in Alaska would it? And as GG mentioned, a reduction in the probability of disruptive events might also result in a decrease in the "speculative" premium.

Another thing to look at besides the S-Corp is going LLC. You actually can be either a sole proprietor or a corporation and be an LLC in NYS. You can find information about how the various business entities are treated in NYS by following the links at NY hearts Small Business. (Specifically, click on 'Starting Your Small Business' and then the 'Business Organization', 'Licenses and Regulations', and 'Taxes' links on the left menu.) You'd still be best off talking to a lawyer when you are serious about getting started, but that site links to some real good ones at NY IRS and NY DoS. Good luck with it.

It took a while, but glad you're finally seeing the light.

I won't give you advice on Bowie as you have received some excellent advice (Heros is incredible as is most of the rest of his stuff that isn't from ~'85). As far as The Smiths go, if you are looking for a "starter" album, the US version would be "Meat is Murder" and the UK version is "Hatful of Hollow". I'd go w/ MIM but both are excellent albums.

TFDHFMHAWSTY - The f'ing Dolfelons hired f'ing Meat Head and will s**k this year. IIRC, there was already a discussion in another thread about If I Recall Correctly.

You've gotta love the last sentence of the article. It won't result in penalties, but it could have. How sad.

Hopefully the revelation that the "outer" wasn't a "neo-Con" will diminish, if not outright halt, the calls for him to go to jail. Considering the "outing" never seemed to meet the criteria for outing that the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act contained (that according to authors of the Act), it would be good to see that call for action dropped. Of course, it would be interesting/entertaining to hear Pasta Joe call for Armitage's jail sentence.

I can't believe you are railing on them for their cheeseburgers when they bread their wings everywhere outside of WNY and include the tip on the 2 boners even in WNY. Wings are the easiest food in the world to do reasonably well. (You need skill and talent to perfect them, but it doesn't take a lot to do a good job.) Wings split at the joints boiled in peanut oil (can't find lard anymore ) until they sound right, drenched in Frank's/ butter. What could be easier?

Oh, no doubt they were full of bunk 1 year ago. But at least when they were actually exaggerating and making stuff up about, er I mean "covering", the event, they didn't know (I will give them credit they probably don't deserve and say they didn't know) just how wrong they were when they were congratulating themselves. Doing it a year after the fact when it's obvious that they screwed up nearly as bad as Mr. Nagin did, IMHO is worse. (Not saying it wasn't bad back then, (I'm pretty sure I was saying it was bad back then and) it was, just saying that I think this is worse.)

I don't know that this comment really responds directly to your post, but .... I was VERY impressed with Matthews ending his show this week by basically commending the media on the incredibly good job they did of reporting on Katrina. I must say, the man has chutzpah. Unfortunately.

When my 1st was still in diapers, we had the computer in his room. When the computer booted up, it played "Shout". He loved that song - he'd kind of bounce around to it and shout "yeah, yeah ... yeah, yeah, yeah ... yeah, yeah, yeah". So it became known as the "yeah, yeah" song. Around the time he was 9 or 10 months old he figured out how to get the computer to reboot to play the "yeah, yeah" song. (He'd hop out of his crib and start playing the song when he was supposed to be going to sleep.) Needless to say, we had to move the computer into the guest room. So, she didn't start "mousing" until she was 2? Why'd you wait so long to get her started?

Buon Compleanno.

What, Bubby Brister wasn't available?

I've been to the Netherlands and some other countries on the other side of the pond, including that bastion of America-love France. I have never had any problems with the locals. Sounds to me like there is more to the story than your buddy is letting on.

And if he was lucky won every fourth fight or so. I would probably go with Kocur, Williams, and Churla although the guy with St. Louis that broke Rob Ray's face (IIRC, it was Twist) gets an honorable mention. I'd also give honorable mentions to Magnuson, the Plager brothers, Nilan, and Bugsy Watson. Other than Magnuson, I didn't include any guys like Gillies who could actually play hockey as well as goon it up. I also didn't include any guys from way back, but Shore, Howe, and Ferguson probably should be included in the discussion.

Kurt's response back could be entertaining. I say post it. (So it's tied again, right?)

I wouldn't add Tasker to that list. The only reason Tasker was waived was the Oilers wanted to activate him from IR. The Oilers were NOT happy that the Bills "stole" him from them.

Happy birthday, AD. Same goes for you, dib.

Close. They played for the team when it was in the WHA, so they played for the New England Whalers. Steve Carlson and David Hanson played for the Whalers. Jack Carlson also played with the Whalers but wasn't in the movie. Jeff Carlson, who was also in the movie, didn't make it past the IHL. The 4 of them all played for the Johnstown Jets.

So, what, have you been going to your buddy Kurt's font of all knowledge to get your answer?

Natalie's going to be ticked.

Yep, sounds like he's happy with Drew starting and wants a "veteran" in there. Looks like Buftex's call will be right.

Maybe, but it's hard to get an ump to give you a time out when your runner is 40 ft off the base and the 3rd baseman still has the baseball.

Absolutely. But if a 10+ year veteran quarterback can forget that it's 4th down and throw the ball away, it's not terribly unimaginable that a 12 year old kid knowing that his team needs to score the "tying" runner ahead of him could forget that the play at 3rd was only the 2nd out. Hopefully, the kid has strong character because he'll definitely need it.

Short answer: because people are stupid. Slightly longer answer: because there are people that LOVE the idea of a conspiracy theory. There has to be a reason their own life isn't measuring up to what they had hoped it could / would be. If there's a conspiracy holding them down personally, it MUST be happening to others as well. Right? They watch "24" or "JFK" or whatever and instead of leaving with "that was entertaining" or "that was too far fetched to be entertaining" or something that indicates an understanding that what happens on TV and in movies is designed to be ENTERTAINING, not INFORMATIVE, they come away with "that could happen". Either that, or they are so full of a combination of hate and/or naivety and/or stupidity that they can't understand that George Bush wouldn't intentionally kill 1,000's of Americans and that Bill Clinton wouldn't intentionally kill 1,000's of Americans. FDR didn't intentionally let Pearl Harbor happen either, but I'm not positive you could convince the guy who started this thread.