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Anybody consider that maybe Claire died in the explosion last week, the island is just creating a manifestation of her, and her father was calling her soul back to the dead side, thus the reason she's gone and the baby was left alone. Maybe that's why Miles kept staring at her, he knows she's supposed to be dead. From last week's episode: Sawyer continues to beat on the door and yell. Claire comes out with the baby and asks what's going on. "You alright, sweetheart?" Sawyer asks. "Yeah, a bit wobbly, but I'll live," she says. "Well I wouldn't be too sure about that," Miles says.

You can't evaluate Miller without looking at the whole team. A lack of consistant offense led to more opportunites in our zone and closer games. A lack of consistant defense allowed more quality shots and rebounds on Miller. Over time a lack of confidence in his teammates and fatigue from playing so much caught up with Miller, which affected his mental sharpness. I'd still take Miller over Biron, who would have done worse if he was the Sabres starter. Beside the obvious need to improve in front of Miller, I'd like to see them bring in a veteran who could play 20-30 games, like Olaf Kolzig who appears to have had a parting of the ways with Washington. Look at Detroit, they have 2 starting goalies and don't have a problem playing either.

I think this is the most likely scenario if the Bills move; a retractable roof stadium will be built in Canada somewhere between Buffalo and Toronto. Maybe in Niagara Falls, Ont. so it could be used year round for other events that would take advantage of the proximity of the casinos. The Niagara Frontier Bills.

Didn't she ever see any of those women's prison movies? She could have ran her operation inside the prison, like Caged Heat with Linda Blair.

Five QBs, and we'll be lucky if one of them can play well enough to score consistantly.

I'll never understand why some people are so greedy with their money, unwilling to sacrifice a percentage of their wealth to help others who may not have had the same opportunities or mentors as them. We just think differently about what the priorities of life are. The more I make, the more I'm willing to give to help others, including paying more taxes to better our community and country. To do otherwise for me would be selfish. But we all have different interpretations of What Would Jesus Do. You're entitled to vote your conscience, as I will mine.

Maybe Rev. Wright was spreading more than "the good news". (CNN) -- A woman who police believe to be Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the "D.C. Madam," was found dead in Florida Thursday, according to Tarpon Springs police. Deborah Jeane Palfrey was convicted of running a high-powered prostitution ring. The body has not been positively identified. "Detectives are investigating an apparent suicide of a (white female) that appears to be in her early 50s," Tarpon Springs police said in a news release. Suicide notes were found near the body in a small storage shed next to a mobile home, police said. Palfrey, 52, was reportedly staying at the home of her mother, who owns the property where the body was found, police said. The Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office will determine the cause of death, police said. The county sheriff's office and the FBI are participating in the investigation. Palfrey was convicted last month in connection with a high-end prostitution ring catering to Washington's elite. She was found guilty of money laundering, racketeering and mail fraud. She was awaiting sentencing with a potential of 50 years in jail. At least one lawmaker, Louisiana Sen. David Vitter, a Republican, turned up in the phone records of her business, Pamela Martin & Associates. State Department official Randall Tobias resigned in May 2007 after confirming he patronized Palfrey's business. She argued it was a legitimate, legal escort service.

They're not being penalized, they're giving back to the land of opportunity whose military protects their freedom of expression and capitalist enterprise, and whose abundant infrastructure gives them distribution networks to sell their products or services.

I wouldn't include diplomats, because unlike the military they do have a choice and can quit, so they aren't being forced, it's part of their job description. And the rule wasn't changed until after he was at West Point, so he didn't go in knowing he'd have this option. So again, I don't blame anyone for taking the better option, I blame the civilian leadership for putting our military in the situation they're in with stop-loss.

I'd be happy to applaud rich Republicans who are willing to pay a higher percentage of the tax burden, as soon as I find them.

Nice to know some wealthy people are willing to pay a greater portion of the tax burden. Being rich doesn't make someone elitist, it's what they're willing or not willing to do with their money, and how they perceive the working class that may have different cultural values then them that makes them elitist.

Sometimes the economic engine needs to be primed, and if the additional taxes revenues are used to stimulate job growth through investment in research in such things as green technology, and public work projects like rebuilding our infrastructure, that puts construction workers to work, which creates demand for the products and resources they use, and so forth. Now if we didn't have such a deficit and have to pay for the war in Iraq, then maybe more taxes wouldn't be necessary, but it is what it is, and what's being done now with the Bush tax breaks without spending cuts isn't working for the working class.

She admits that you have to be willing to adapt and change policies when they don't work as intended, or others in power don't follow through on the original plans.

The Dharma patch reminded me of the old tv show, Time Tunnel. Maybe they don't teleport, but they get suspended in time until the Earth rotates and they shift back into normal time when the opposite side catches up to them. So they don't move, the other side of the Earth moves to them.

"In response, the Clinton campaign said that Bill Clinton's administration had gotten assurances at the time it approved the deal that production would remain inside the United States, and that the shift of jobs to China didn't occur until under the Bush administration." She admits in retrospect that it was a bad decision given what occurred, and would make a different decision now. She's willing to say not all policies, like NAFTA, worked out as intended despite the best of intentions. Nothing wrong with learning from the past so it's not repeated.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The New York Daily News is reporting New York Ranger Sean Avery was rushed to a Manhattan hospital Wednesday in cardiac arrest just hours after the team's loss. Avery, 28, arrived at St. Vincent's Medical Center about 3 a.m., according to the report. The Rangers had just lost 5-3 a short time earlier in the Stanley Cup playoffs against the Pittsburgh Penguins at Madison Square Garden.

The funny thing was that even though he hasn't been actively part of the wack pack for years, other than an occasional appearance on the show, many of the media stories referred to him as Howard Stern's sidekick. They were talking about it on the show yesterday.

You have to show proof that you are actively seeking employment by submitting information about your job search.

That didn't bother me too much. It reminded me of a time when I let my dad handle the videocamera at the zoo while I pushed my son in the stroller. He hung it from his neck but left it on and we got 10 minutes of his feet and the ground. What I didn't like; the first 20 minutes of superficial yuppies, the stupidity of all of them going back for the girl, and how do you walk around without any weapons (at least an iron bar) after being attacked in the subway. And that girl got around pretty good after being impaled on rebarb. Even my son who liked it thought some of their behavior wasn't believable.

Bills are #1 in Syracuse, followed closely by the Giants, then the Jets, then Miami and Dallas bandwagonners from their Super Bowl days.

I rented Cloverfield last week. I thought it was OK, but the actors were annoying. I would have preferred a traditional Godzilla style movie. A sequel is rumored based on either the videocamera of someone else on the Brooklyn Bridge, or the military's version.

I read that there was a debate whether to cut a scene where the Joker is thought to be dead and is put in a body bag, and then he "comes back to life", because it might be too tasteless in light of his death.

This coming from a guy who was considering coming out of retirement to play with John Beck in Miami.

Hart is a good blitz pickup back with good hands who could have been used in 3rd down packages. Plus it would have created some regional interest since he's from Syracuse. How fast do you need to be inside the 5 yard line.

The starting point would have to be when they get a full-time job, not when they graduate. You're allowed to request to defer paying on your loan if you have difficultly finding permanent employment after graduation.