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QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 08:33 PM) "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." ^^^^^ It's the new "We Don't Torture."

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 07:59 PM) no one is saying that the federal government did a good job with this disaster but the local government did even worse, so you might want to place some blame on those "not my fault!" democrats in Louisiana don't worry, i won't hold my breath for an admission of fault Plenty of fault to go around, yes. But focusing on this current revelation for a moment. . . GWB was fully briefed on the possibility of the levees being breached and New Orleans flooding, even as as the storm approached. Yet he said straight-faced a week later "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." Well, obviously somebody - los of credentialed expert somebodys - did anticipate it. And they told Bush. And afterwards when the s*** hit the fan he publicly states that the levee failures were completely unforseen. 'I don't think anybody could have forseen that terrorists would hijack a plane and fly it into our buildings. . . ' Wrong. Such and attack was envisioned and spelled out for the President in the August 2001 PDB. 'I don't think anybody could have conceived that we wouldn't find WMDs in Iraq. . . ' Wrong. Inspectors were coming to that precise conclusion when they were stopped from doing their jobb in the runup to the war. 'I don't think anybody could have forseen. . . : . . . the extent of the Iraqi insurgency. . . . . . the possibility of secttarian violence in a post-Saddam Iraq. . . Do you see a pattern here? And in every case, not only did people forsee these things but they shared their findings and insights with the administration, despite their predictable litany of claims to the contrary.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 06:27 PM) Is the Kevin Bacon movie "Sleepers"? It is not.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 06:25 PM) Creepshow. That was a good "episode" of the movie Yep.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 06:25 PM) Flatliners? No sir.

What about this one?

QUOTE(DePloderer @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 06:16 PM) How about this one? One of my all time favourite films. Rumblefish

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 05:15 PM) Copland Great flick. Next one: Time After Time! How about this one:

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 02:50 PM) It's not nearly as cool as all that. It's a customer appreciation thing for Maker's Mark. Yup, my name's somewhere on there. Eh, that's still kind of cool. So how much Maker's Mark do yu have to drink before they start putting your name on the casks? j/k, I recall you are in the bar biz, and I assume this is one of the perks? Along with all the beer from the drip trays I mean. . .

As usual, well reasoned opinions issued from the shores of good old Lake Woebegone.

Party like you mean it!

The "everyone forgets stuff" defense is pretty pathetic, Kap, and you know that. We're not talking about whether Scooter can solve quadratic equations or recite The Raven from memory 40 years out of high school. We are talking about a specific important act - sharing clasified information with uncleared individials - which he would have known was a Bozo no-no at the time he was doing it and which he was repeatedly pressed on while testifying. He would also know if he had the authority to commit such an act and who the authority would have been granted by. No matter how many other things he does in the course of fulfilling his job duties, its unreasonable to believe that he would take compromising the identity of an undercover agent so lightly that now it just escapes his mind. The "I didn't know the information was classified" seems like it would be the stronger bucket of bull to draw from, They tried that and it didn't stick. The "Cheney declassified it so it's no biggie" defense is frightening and fits perfectly wih the broad interpretation of executive power taken by the administration. They are throwing everything out there.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 02:10 AM) I thought that "Plan B" only worked to prevent conception which is why it was way less than 50% effective after 36 hours. There is a dramatic drop in effectiveness after 36 hours if conception has occurred, but the 72 hour window advertized includes another 36 hours where the double dose of hormones is supposed to be enough to make the uterus somewhat hostile to implantation. FDA: The original papers describing its mode of action probably overstated the effectiveness in preventing implantation, but that was touted as one of the advantages.

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 01:13 AM) I have a barrel of Bourbon with my name on it in Loretto KY. I don't watch it on webcam, but I hav a picture of it somewhere. You might be able to command a good price for that barrel if it was crafted by a good small batch distillery. I don't know anything about the vintage craft bourbon world, but in cotland there is an outfit called Cadenhead that has found quite a niche market hunting down individual casks of single malt that were laid down to represent important personal events like weddings and birthdays and such. They buy casks for up to a couple of thousand dollars each, depending on the reputation of the distiller and the region of origin. Then they bottle the scotch in their own label and resell as super-premium authentic single malt Scotch from verions endemic regions. My wife bought me a bottle of Cadenhead 12 year old Invergordon single malt for my birthday a couple of yars ago and it was wonderful. Sad to know there will never be any more of that exact ingle malt ever again, but also kind of cool to think abou it that way. I've tasted a couple Highland and Islay malts from Cadenhad as well, and all have been very distinct and quite nice.

I loves me some Islay single malts. They usually have a smoked peat and seasalt/seaweed earthiness to them that makes them unmistakable. 92% abv certainly sounds a bit extreme, but I'd like to try it.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 28, 2006 -> 08:48 PM) Nope, this is the "Morning after pill" I'm talking about. In only prevents conception, which is why it must be taken within 72 hours of the, um, ya know. But it's approval as an over the counter drug has been hung up in the FDA for years now for absolutely no medical reason, to the point that the states are taking action against the FDA. No, it doesn't always work by preventing conception. At the long end of the 72 hour window it most often works by preventing implantation of a fertilized egg. If the timing is right, though, the big dose of hormone will also prevent ovulation or conception, but that timing would occur on the short end of the 72 hour window.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Feb 28, 2006 -> 09:30 PM) I am offended. What do the Serbs do to celebrate the day? You need to add it to Wikipedia so I can Googlemonkey it next time.

Well what do ya know? I'm a chaotic good marine biologist. (With a +2 wet suit and Elfin dive booties!)

Any guesses? OK, maybe I'm going back a little too far before they were stars. . .

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 06:27 PM) Nautilus weight lifting machines would add a nice marine component to the discussion. Would the rally crede count That they would, and ultimately the piece is a discussion of marine biomimetics. Cool stuff about taking the design of brittlestar eyes and using it to improve fiber optic transmission, making artificial bone out of a carbonate wafer matrix inspired by the form/function of the nacre (mother of pearl) of mollusk shells, barnacle adhesives, etc. . .

Happy Shrove Tuesday to all, especially the Gulf Coasters who could use a bit of partying. And Happy Pancake Day to yoy crazy Soxtalkers of Limey, Aussie, or Canuck persuasions. Here's wishing SoxFaninPA and everybody else in the great state of Pennsylvania go easy on the fastnacht cakes. Happy Fettisdagen to all our Sweedish friends, and don't eat too much semla cake yourselves. Splendid Sprengidagur to all you Icelanders, and a Merry Tusty Czwartek to those of Polish extraction. Of course, Ultimate Užgavn well-wishes go out to all our Lithuanian friends. A shout out to all my peeps in Estonia on this Rockin' Vastlapäev. And of course, a Lovely Laskiainen to all in Finland. Don't know what I'm giving up for Lent, but it sure as hell won't be Goggle-Monkeying. . .

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 28, 2006 -> 10:41 AM) The Iraqi government is saying that number is almost 1000 people too high. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/28/...main/index.html There's also still a big discrepancy (sp?) over the number of Sunni mosques attacked. Is it dozens or more than 100? I don't know what to believe yet, but the numbers are all over the place.

Yeah, these Dubai Ports World guys shouldn't have anybody concerned, they send all the right messages. . . From today's Jerusalem Post: So, instead of turning down their request to operate here or fining them if we were in a position to do so, we're really playing hardball by handing them a $6.8 billion contract. Nope. No mixed signals here. :rolly

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 02:37 PM) really, I thought he was dead. BTW, MTV had a great game show a couple decades ago, Remote Control, one of their catagories was celbrity, dead or alive. They also had Brady Physics. Yessirree, and that show was initial big break for Adam Sandler, Colin Quinn, and Dennis Leary. Which prompts the question, 'what the hell ever became of Ken Ober?!?'

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 02:06 PM) RIP, always in threes it seems Sure enough. I wondered who number 3 was going to be. And somehow, Old Abe keeps on ticking. . .