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I'm going to love it SO much when some NFL linebacker breaks this kid's legs next year...

"As for me, four simple words: I HAVE MOB TIES." One of my all-time favorite SNL skits. Keifer as Lloyd Bentsen was gold: "Folks, I'm old. And senile. And it's only going to get worse. Hell, I don't even know the names of half of the people up here" "Tipper, where's your husband, Senator Gore?" "He's with our kids at a gay porn theater" -=Mike That's one of my favorite skits ever... I also liked how Kevin Nealon attempted to compare Benson (Kiefer) to JFK and Benson started talking about how he was no Jack Kennedy.

They should apologize for not smiling while announcing it. -=Mike They should run a CSI special in which they do an autopsy on the body to determine the true cause of death. QUITE a few people overseas won't be happy if it comes out that the old bastard died of AIDS.

1. "Hillary-care", the failed movement to nationalized healthcare under Bill Clinton in 1993. Hillary was THE person in charge of this experiment which never got off the drawing board. 2. Whitewater- Hillary was the lawyer for the MacDougals when they defrauded the Federal Government, which was at the same time Bill Clinton was the Attorney General of Arkansas, IIRC. (He was either the AG or the Governor.) Either way, it was a serious conflict of interest and should have gotten her censured at the least. 3. "File-gate"- Missing Rose Law Firm files and FBI files were "found" in the White House living quarters. 4. According to military people I know, Hillary had a "friend" who was promoted well over her talents because of her connection to the Clintons. 5. The scandal surrounding pardons given by Bill Clinton to people who had given heavily to Hillary's campaign for the Senate in 2000 The list just keeps on going and most of this has already been reported, so it won't be dirty tricks.

I'd agree that Hillary would lose big-time... She has more baggage than just about anyone they could run and every Dem candidate for 2008 will know that. There will be leaks galore leading up to the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary in an attempt to knock her out early. If she does make it as the DNC candidate, the RNC could run almost anybody and win because she's so divisive. She energizes the Dem base but completely repulses the Republicans and many independants.

I'd say that the brutality of the Van Gogh murder (shot several times then nearly beheaded and had a note stabbed into his chest) as well as the threat of future attacks on perceived enemies of Islam will be a big turning point for the Dutch and the Belgians. In addition to all the problems the Dutch are having, the Belgian anti-immigrant party (the largest party in the country) was just dissolved by court order and the Flemish majority (who are ethnically Dutch) appear to be responding by cracking down on Islamic extremist groups. Stories are coming out about police raids in The Hague by their versions of Delta Force, so they aren't fucking around. What this may come down to is not only a battle with the Islamic fundamentalists but also the power brokers of the EU, including France and Germany, because they're both complicit in the Islamic fundamentalist agenda.

He's...glowing. That gives me an idea... can they get the Ukraine on the horn and see if they can bury Arafat at Chernobyl?

Maybe they should break out the Mennorah and light another wax terrorist on fire each day of the holiday until they're all lit on the last day.

Looks like November 11 gets celebrated as a new Jewish holiday, in addition to being Armistice Day (Veteran's Day) to begin with. (I'm treating Nov. 11 as the day due to the 6-7 hour time difference, although the rat bastard's probably been dead for a week now and they're just now admitting it.)

Yes and no... They shouldn't be paid per-hour wages because that would take many small programs completely out of sports. However, they should be eligible for profit-sharing if a program does well enough to make money, such as a well-run football program which goes to a BCS bowl and gets $15 million. They should also be eligible to take some forms of jobs or MINOR compensation in order to head off many of the NCAA bullshit calls, such as suspending a student for going to a free seminar on credit management or accepting a gift of sports tickets from a teammate. (Both of the above are real examples. The first was a case in which a HS teammate of mine and another player at Vanderbilt were suspended for 2 games each for attending a presentation on credit management, which was seen as an athlete perk. The second was a case in which an Arizona basketball player was suspended for several games because they accepted tickets to an NBA game from teammate Adam Walton, whose father works for the NBA.)

This has only been reported on Drudge so far, so it's purely rumor for now. President Bush has asked for a report that will review the pros and cons of naming Clarence Thomas to be the new Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court once William Rehnquist retires or dies. Thomas, in his 50s, is one of the youngest and most conservative judges on the court and his Senate approval in the early 90s was ugly due to allegations of sexual harassment by a former employee. If Thomas becomes Cheif Justice, he'll be the first minority to hold that position in the history of the court. Current thinking says that Rehnquist, currently being treated for thyroid cancer, will be off of the bench within a year. The big question is how much of Bush's political capital does he want to spend on appointing Thomas to be the Chief Justice instead of bringing a newcomer onto the court and directly into the Chief Justice position. The Chief Justice must be approved by the Senate even if they're already a member of the court and past precedent is that an outsider will be brought in to be the Chief Justice rather than promoting someone from within. (All three elevations within the court have been since 1910, with Rehnquist being the most recent to do so. The last person before him to do so was Harlan Stone, who was elevated in 1941 by FDR)

74 and she's already had cancer. Considering the age of the current court, the new Chief Justice will be Thomas or someone new to the court. David Souter has an outside shot, but he's a dark-horse choice. 1. John Paul Stevens, the most liberal justice, is 84 and on the way out 2. Antonin Scalia is further to the right of Thomas and is over 70. If Thomas won't get appointed, Scalia has no hope of getting appointed. 3. Kennedy is over 70 and wouldn't be chosen because a bunch of people are pissed at him for not overturning Rowe Vs. Wade in 1992. (He was the swing vote that kept Rowe from being overturned.) 4. Sandra Day O'Connor is over 70 and has survived cancer once already. 5. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a Clinton appointee, over 70, and has survived cancer. 6. Steven Breyer is a Clinton appointee. He is probably in his 60s or 70s but Bush wouldn't make him the Chief Justice unless he was dealing with a Democrat-controlled Senate. 7. David Souter is either in his 60s or 70s and is a centrist. His saving grace is that he's acceptable to both sides, although people on the right would prefer to keep a constructionalist like Rehnquist in the Chief Justice spot. Wikipedia has writeups on the court, its history, and the current justices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court

Which makes one ignore that Bush TRIED to get them involved, but due to some nice bribery on the part of Saddam, they refused. Saying "I'll get them involved" without explaining HOW is not a plan. So is there any actual proof behind that claim of bribery? Seems a little far-fetched to me.. Considering that we captured former Iraqi Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and he's told us that the Iraqis paid off the French, Russians, and Chinese, I'd say that it's real evidence. We're also investigating the financials of the Oil For Food fund and finding a lot of irregularities.

Ralph missed the boat... I think the operative words in his argument are that the exit polls didn't reflect the actual results, which is what everyone's been saying. If it was connected to one or two states, it could have been voter fraud. However, the fact that exit polls put Kerry 50-50 with Bush in Mississippi should be a good example of how skewed they were and that they were not reliable.

Story This is going to be a must-read issue, even for a piece of biased crap like Newsweek.

Woohoo! I finally crack the top 10!

One term of six years... Of which, he was running for other offices at least 1/3 of the time.

Wyoming pulled it out in triple OT, so Virginia (Ed) wins again.

Anyone who talks about how Bush "barely won a slim majority" needs to remember that the press were all over him and that various members of the press have said that they were worth 15% to Kerry's effort.

God my record in this might be as bad as Penn State's actual record this year. At least you didn't have any weeks where you only scored 4 points, unlike the REAL Penn State.

"In one segment, correspondent Ed Helms jokingly gushed over his favorite, the "Troops-Fog" ad that had featured Kerry's "$87 billion" gaffe. Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" had just won top prize at the Cannes Film Festival—the Palme d'Or—and Helms used the award as a pun. "I award this ad my highest praise," he simpered. "The coveted Palme de Bitch-Slap." For McKinnon's birthday on May 5, his colleagues presented him with a small golden "Palme de Bitch-Slap" statuette. McKinnon stuck it on top of his TV."

CONTEST Games decided so far: #6 Syracuse (Canadian Chris) over Miami (Spaceman Spiff) Alabama (AllPissedOff) over Oklahoma (Damaramu) (Bama's up 2-1 in differing games and holds the tiebreaker)

Winners so far out of games in the contest- Louisville North Texas Akron Kansas State Ohio State Georgia Tech South Carolina Pitt-Syracuse is in the 2nd OT right now. Air Force is up over Army 28-22 in the 4th quarter Colorado is up over Kansas 24-21 in the 4th quarter Indiana is up 19-14 over Illinois at the half Iowa State is up over Nebraska 24-7 at the half

Baldwin was supposed to move into France along with Barbara Streisand after 2000... Robert Altman had made that claim back then as well but he was already living there before the election.

1. Find some way to ally with or co-op enough Dem senators from red states to keep the remaining Dems from fillabustering judicial appointments. Suggestions include Sen. Mary Landrieu of LA, Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado, and the Dem senators of Montana, North Dakota, etc. 2. Fill the remaining judicial appointments, including the new ones opened by splitting the Ninth Circuit into three separate circuits 3. Simplify the tax code WITHOUT raising taxes. This will probably involve simplifying the processes and forms used for income tax, rather than something more radical like a Flat Tax or a National Sales Tax. (I expect freshman senator Jim DeMint to push for the latter though.)