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I love 1-3, no thanks on 4, 5 needs a little work but is good in principle.

Thats the problem, too many people don't know what X flag really is and would not recognize the real one if it fell on them. Heck i nearly got into a fight once because I told a guy (redneck type) that the flag in his truck window was not the real thing.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09251/99628...?cmpid=cook.xml I think the Pirates are now where the Rays were in 2004.

Excerpt, rest is here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=4978568&page=1 I'm curious what everyone here thinks. I expect the non-US types here will find the whole controversy a little silly (and they would be right) but I've never met an American who did not have an opinion on this issue. Does anyone actually find the "Confederate Flag" offensive? Personally, they bought the land and built the pole, they can fly whatever flag they please but I'm curious about one thing, if you want to fly the Confederate flag, why are they not doing it? Thats right, the St. Andrews Cross flag was never the flag of the CSA. This was: If you want to honor history, be historical. I have a feeling these guys are just trying to get a rise out of everyone. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Nuff said!

No kidding Gfted. A plurality of Americans have stood up an said "NO!" to a government run health plan. And the best part is most folks recognized Obamacare was step towards full government control of health care, and that is just a step to nationalization of property, which is just another step to socialisim. Not in my country, no way. Congress may ram it down our throats anyway, we need to keep the pressure on. I read somewhere that there are over 1600 seperate individual health plans being sold in this country but federal law prohibits insurance companies from selling to just anyone any where. If they want to reform healthcare, how about starting there?

The coolest thing about those golden orb spiders is their web, bloody strong and everything sticks to it. So you take a Black Cat fire cracker with a long fuse, light it and toss in in their web, right about the time the spider gets there to see what it caught...POW! Two nights no Coyotes. I still hear them near by but they are leaving my stuff alone. I guess that validates the saying that there are no problems that cannot be solved by proper use of firepower.

Last night they started up again. I slid my shotgun out the window and fired twice into the air. Dead silence after that. We'll find out tonight if that persuaded them to go elsewhere.

Cuba is not totalitarian huh. Obviously you have never actually met someone from Cuba. Even if you did you would probably dismiss them as a liar once what they told you did not conform to your narrow little ill informed world view. http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/estoria.presidio.html http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/bofill111197.html http://stonecuban.com/atrocities/ Isn't it amazing the communist regimes are only created at gunpoint, and the first thing they ALL do is kill everyone who opposed them and try to kill everyone who leaves. You know that Berlin Wall was built to keep people in, not out.

Bucs trade McCown to Jags. Looks like we are stuck with left foot Leftwich. For better or worse. Let's hope for better. This is gonna be a loooong season.

Agreed. I'm pretty sure Garcia will be starting for the Raiders by week 5. They're not giving up on Russel aready are they? Well, if they go 1-3, it will be a little hard to justify not going with a proven NFL QB like Garcia. And they will go 1-3, it's the Raiders after all. Well, you might be half right. They cut Garcia.

Thats it. They Rays are done. Stick a fork in them and turn out the lights at Tropicana, it's over. No, they are not mathematicly eliminated. Far from it. But over the past three nights we have taken full measure of their heart and found it wanting. The Tigers are cruising, they have nothing to play hard for, and they barely broke a sweat beating the Rays twice already. The Rays again watched a mediocre starter give way to a horrible bullpen and once again a late game lead evaporated into a heartbreaking loss. At least for fans it was heartbreaking. The Twins, White Sox, and Rangers all are fighting to get in, and playing well. Playing with heart. The Red Sox are playing well. They are playing like a team that knows how to win. The Rays.... they're done. The fire from last year is gone. The Rays of sun are hidden and the Devil has come back to Tampa. They might just as well break out the old green uniforms for the rest of the season. Now the Fish, that is a whole different story. There is a hungry team that is fighing to win games. Just four games behind the Giants & Rockies and nine of their next twelve are against the Mets and the Nationals. I'm liking this!

It doesn't matter. Also reminding him the the Vincennes was protecting US flagged oil tankers that had been attacked several times by Iranian gun boats (as had the Vincennes) and buzzed by Iranian F-14s. It also would not help to point out to Junai that Iran Air 655 had switched off it's IFF (deliberate or not, ordered too or not we'll never know) so there was no way the cruiser could identify it was a civilian aircraft. Junai has this whole thing set in his mind US=bad, everything else=good.

I have a pest problem. At first it was not a problem. When I first moved in it was actually kinda cool. Now it's a damned nuisance. Now it's an infestation. It's not bugs or mice. It's coyotes. Yep, honest to God coyotes right here in West Tennessee. The northern edge of my property borders the Hatchie Management Area and the coyotes have taken a special interest in my garbage cans and now my grill. At first they would knock the cans over so I started chaining them. They still try to get in though. Then Friday night they actually came up on my porch and knocked my grill over. It made a hell of a ruckus, woke me up. I thought someone was breaking in, the dogs were going nuts. I ran outside with a ****ed and loaded .45 in my hands only to see two coyotes high-tailing it across my yard. Then last night they came back, but there were more of them. They started yiping and howling near the shed, the dogs went nuts, they were barking at the coyotes, coyotes were yipping at the dogs. Jeez, I don't want to shoot these critters (although it is perfectly legal to do so) but I do want them gone. Does anyone know of a coyote repellent? I wonder if the sporting goods store sells shotgun shells with rock salt?

Now reading Haunted Baseball. It's an entertaining little book about curses, eerie coincidences and just plain unexplainable happenings around the majors and minors of the years. It's a fun read.

I remember reading an interview with Warren Sapp after he retired, he said Al Davis would script plays and send them to Lane Kiffin with the names of players that had not been on the team for years. He was once found in the head coaches office looking for Art, he couldn't find Art. Apparently he was looking for Art Schell whom he fired back in the 90s. Davis is like a west coast George Steinbrenner without smart sons and staffers to keep him out of trouble.

You never know what Rays team is going to show up every night. After that seires agains the Sox you would not know they were even in the playoff hunt. Just miserable.

Agreed. I'm pretty sure Garcia will be starting for the Raiders by week 5. They're not giving up on Russel aready are they?

ouch... you're right, that is strange. and by eery coincidence, that was the year i got married. what really puzzles me, however, is that it has only been 10 years for me (our 10th anniversary is in septemer). your time and my time are passing differently! sorry, couldn't resist... taks Time passes much... much slower when you're married. But it was 10, Sheba just turned 11. You know, since I got divorced no one has since yelled at me or cussed me out in public.

Out of the Park Baseball 8 is now available for free. I've been absolutely hooked on this title since #8 came out. They are up to 10 now. If you like baseball, or like sports sims give this one a look. It don't cost nothin. http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/joomla/

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8...mp;confirm=true Bucs fire their offensive coordiantor just a week before the season. I'm really trying to buy into what Coach Morris is doing here, the problem is I have no idea what that might be. And worse still, I think neither does he. I do know that after watching Leftwich's passes sail over his recievers heads all preseason any argument against him being the starter should not be dismissed by firing someone.

Well, I've got a story that is not supernatural but it is certainly unexplained. In fact twelve years later I'm still scratching my head. In 1999 I was still married and we lived in a small house in Fort Lauderdale. We had two dogs, a four year old Lab named Kramer (from Seinfeld) and a six month old yellow lab pup named Sheba (from the .38 Special song Little Sheba). Anyway, I got home from school at 10 pm, my wife was out with her friend so it was just me and the dogs in the house. Kramer had run of the house but Sheba was not house broken yet so we kept her in a crate in our bedroom when she could not be supervised. Anyway, my wife had only been gone a few hours so I figured Kramer could wait so I walked Sheba first. She did her thing and we went back inside and I put her back in her crate and I latched the crate door, then took Kramer. We walked all the way around the block, roughly 1/2 a mile and were gone about 20 min. When we got home I heard Sheba barking... from inside the garage. I opened the door and sure enough she was in there. I looked at her crate and it was still latched shut! I looked that whole thing over and could not for the life of me figure out how she got out. Which raised and even bigger question, how did she get in the garage? The door had a round doorknob, there is no way she could have opened it. My wife got home two hours later, she did not believe me. Heck, I'm still wondering how that happened. The only one who knows can't tell me.

Not to derail this thread but it seems terminally ill terrorists are sent home to a hero's welcome and terminally ill citizens are "put to sleep". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthne...on-the-NHS.html

I'm grilling a steak and drinking a beer. The Rays-Red Sox game is on and TB is winning. All in all a very good night!

Thats not it at all. Some key player losses and some key injuries disrupted the teams chemistry from lat year. If you are taking the Kasmir trade as indication they are giving up then you are dead wrong. Besides, they are hardly out of the mix and they just hung four runs on the Sox tonight including two homers in the first two innings.