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What do you know... they really were spying on Trump: http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/03/susan-rice-ordered-spy-agencies-to-produce-detailed-spreadsheets-involving-trump/ That's the thing about the Democrats. Expect nothing but dirt and corruption from them and you'll never be disappointed. Ditto for the elephants.

The big takeaway from opening day is no lead was safe! Except the Dodgers. The Padre's would be hard put to overcome a two touchdown lead.

Totally agree. There were many games with bad officiating but the finals, particularly the 2nd half was awful.

You have a framed picture of Aribeth on your wall don't you? Admit it!

NWN had one thing going for it: mods. It was a modders paradise and we ended up with hundreds of hours of high quality gaming time because of it. We also had thousands of hours of nit so good gaming time because only one in every ten was any good. If you only played the boxed campaign you were likely disappointed because it was terrible. The two expansions were better though. NWN2 was an improvement in that the story was much better and the game looked nicer. But it was still bound hand and foot to the D&D canon and therein lies the problem. THAT isn't that good. When a company makes a game based on their own IP the result is usually much better. I though PoE was simply outstanding as far as the quality of the story goes. But the Obsidian guys usually crank out the best dialogue and story-lines. If KOTOR II had been made thy way they wanted to make it is would have been the best SW game ever. FONV was the best FO title since FO2 I think. I'd rather play an original IP than another continuation of someone else's license.

Rays were strong against NY todat. Arch got in trouble a few times but battled. It's a nice way to start the season. The Giants have to be feeling that loss. They gave it away twice. Of course all it means it they won't go 162-0.

I'm sure the other branches have similar rules, but in the Navy there are Time In Rate requirements that must be met prior to advancing to the next higher rank. These of course can be waived for superior performance. In the marines it's called time in grade. It's the same thing. When I was in to go from Lance Corporal to Corporal you needed at least 9 months in grade and then your composite score (made up of your proficiency and conduct ratings, rifle range score and PFT score) had to exceed the established cutting score. That was the hardest rank to make because there can be as many E1-E3 as there are but there are only so many billets for E-4 and above.

Amen on that one. They were doing so good and just couldn't figure out what to so with it. Once the GF got out of the elevator it was downhill from there. It's like flying a plane. They got it in the air and had a great flight but just couldn't bring it in for a landing. You know where horror movies screw up? They think everything needs to have an explanation. And it is usually handled with a clumsy, even absurd exposition in the last scene that just screws up a all the great buildup they've done. Take the original Blair Witch Project. The reason why it was so good is because none of it was ever explained. You never saw what was chasing them. You never found out where the screams were coming from. The worst of it even happened off screen so it was left to the imagination. That was brilliant. Paranormal Activity (the first one, the rest were predictably awful) was another one that set the stage and managed to not screw it up by just staying out if their own way.

Congrats... Doctor (almost)!

This is it. One day to go. Tomorrow at 1PM Eastern in St. Petersburg the games count. So here is number 1 for 1 day to go. A man who never played an inning in the MLB but whose impact on the game of baseball cannot be denied, Sadharu Oh. Oh has hit more career home runs than any other player in any league. His Yomiuri Giants (in Tokyo) won the NPB's Japan Series 11 of their 22 times in his 22 years at First Base. His single season record of 55 HR stood from 1964 all the way to 2013 when Wladimir Balentien, a Dutch born player, of the Yakult Swallows hit 60. (Oh's 55 was tied a few times but not beaten until Balentien). Oh is still the NPB's record holder in RBIs, OPS, and he's third in hits. 1 day to go with Sadaharu Oh

Heresy! I couldn't disagree with you more. Yes his decline in his last threee seasons was remarkable but in his prime he was the best SS in the game considering total value (hitting and fielding). It's really rare these days to see a guy play as long as he did and finish +.300 in BA.

Now reading The North Water by Ian McGuire. Holy Crap is this good! It's like Cormac McCarthy and Jack London collaborated on a book.

Gromnir is right, Silence is a beautifully filmed movie that has an intense if slow moving plot. But while it is certainly about faith it is not a triumph of faith by any means. And if you are even a little religious it will haunt you for a time after watching it. I haven't been sighted near a church in many years but for all that I am in my way a very religious man. I wonder if placed in the same situation as the main protagonist what I would have done. One of the books they made us read in school was Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Well, it was a play not a book. I call Shakespeare's stuff books too I guess. Anyway I thoroughly enjoyed it. The made a decent movie cover of it a few years ago with Daniel Day Lewis as John Proctor. Silence reminded me a bit of Proctor's monologue at the end of the Crucible: "I have three children—how may I teach them to walk like men in the world and I sold my friends? I blacken all of them when this is nailed to the church the very day they hang for silence! You are the high court, your word is good enough! Tell them I confessed myself; say Proctor broke his knees and wept like a woman; say what you will, but my name cannot… I mean to deny nothing. Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life. Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang!"

I watched Martin Scorsese's Silence last night. Simply outstanding movie. I don't normally think much about a movie after watching them but this one had me mind working long into the night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcNKM4TI41E

Woo hoo! Only 1313 to go until we pick Trump again or a Democrat that will be just as bad if not worse. Unless voters finally say enough is enough and do something different. Not holding out much hope but you never know.

Two days to go. And although I hate to have to pick another Yankee there is just no denying this one; Derek Sanderson Jeter. His accomplishments on the field are well known, lifetime .310 hitter, 3465 hits, 260 HR. One of those is the last HR ever hit in the old Yankee Stadium, the House that Ruth Built. He holds the Yankee record for most games with a hit, most PA as a Yankee. And off the field he has been a huge help for youth charities in New York and elsewhere and founded the Turn 2 organization to help focus teens on athletics rather than drugs. He was a 14 time all star, 5 gold gloves, 5 World Series and was awarded both the Roberto Clemente Award and the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award for his off-field work. A class act all around. One interesting side note, in 1992 he was rated as one of the top picks in the MLB Draft. Houston had the #1 over all pick. Their lead scout was pushing them hard to take Jeter. They selected Phil Nevin instead. Nevin went on to bounce around the majors for 12 seasons without accomplishing much and the Yankees took Jeter with the 6th pick. Houston's scout quit over the selection. Talk about being vindicated.

The better question should be who is dumb enough to buy a product (or candidate) based solely on an ad? Billions of people True enough I guess. But at the end of the day the only actions or decisions we can account for is our own. The people who think critically and make smart decisions with their votes, money, etc don't owe an apology for the ones that don't.

The better question should be who is dumb enough to buy a product (or candidate) based solely on an ad?

I'm with WoD on this one. Those "misguided children" would have killed him dead had he not been armed. I have weapons in every room of my home and a firm policy of shooting first and asking questions later. If I catch someone on my property I'll ask them to leave nicely. If someone forces their way into my home that will be all for them.

That 100 acres in Wyoming with no utilities and no TV/Internet/etc is sounding better every day.

IIRC the Yankees wanted him to manage of of their minor league teams but Ruth was hoping for the Yankees or the Red Sox. In '34 he signed with the Braves to be a player manager (according to what they told him). But by June it was clear that wasn't going to be the case and he retired. He never worked in baseball again. The saddest thing about sports is seeing age take the truly great ones. I remember watching Micheal Jordan miss a dunk during his last year with Washington.

How do you figure? I though as long as the court remain 5-4 I figure the 2nd Amendment is a settled issue for a time. DC v Heller was pretty definitive IMO. Prohibition = no, reasonable restrictions on caliber, action, and transport = OK. If the balance tilts to the left there are folks champing at the bit to race a case up the pole to see Heller overturned or mitigated but even if they started today it would take years.

Number three is.... c'mon you knew this was coming. You know who this is... used to pitch for the Red Sox

OK, I was going to go with Gehrig here but Leferd gave me a different idea by bringing up the "ol' 3 run home run in his post at te top of the page. So let's go with the only man on the list who never played in the majors, #4 Earl Weaver. He literally wrote the book (four of them) on managing baseball and coined some of the best quotes about the game. He managed the Baltimore Orioles from 1968 to 1986. 2540 games and his Birds won 1480 of them including a World Series Championship in '70. The umpires all hated him and the feelings were mutual. He was ejected an AL record 98 times in his career. Four days to go with #4 Earl Weaver, the "sorest loser who ever lived"