R8R- It was a fucking joke.

Then where is the punchline, Dice? In case you haven't noticed, "jokes" are accompanied by something remotely funny.

Of course, I was only joking too. I wouldn't really find joy in watching you take a beating from someone like Patrick Vieria.

Yeah, but nobody in France is built like a football player. They'll probably just get stuck in his spokes.
-Joe

Joe has never been to France; however that should in no way effect his ability to instinctively know everything he needs to know about French people.

"Buchannan, Harding and Pierce were worse.
-JJ

How about Madison? Declared war on Great Britain...got our butt's kicked, Washington was captured and the White House burned.
That's pretty darn awful.
-GreenDad

I nominate Wilson.
-Federal income tax
-Federal Reserve
-farm subsidies
-his Fourteen Points shaped Versailles and ensured WWII
-banned cannabis by calling it "marijuana", a term doctors had never heard of
-created the League of Nations which lead to the UN

And upon leaving office said:

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."

-Woodrow Wilson

..I wonder if GWB will be "unhappy" when he runs off to Paraguay?

Lucky them, they get to be BETA testers for the rest of the planet.

"...to monitor the disease" yeah, sure

This should help make a 60 minute game--that takes 4 hours to play--go by quicker.

If the NFL really wanted to make games more interesting on TV they would end quarter breaks, the 2 minute warnings, and instant replays. Games have ground to a halt in the last few years. The NFL is almost unwatchable because of all the TV time-outs, 10 minute reviews to spot the ball, and a constant barrage of stall tactics by the teams.

Ever notice that every time the defense gets a big stop on second down one of the players gets "hurt", flails around on the ground, gets treatment on the field, and is back two plays later fit as a fiddle? The "injured" party is always some down-and-distance specialists--a blitz linebacker or nickel-back--that isn't going to play the next down anyway. The DC just wants to get a read on the personal package, and once he sees it the guy writhing in pain pops up and limps over to the oxygen tank.

How can you look at the ratings for the past number of years and even think that FOX needs to make a change "to compete" with MSNBC and CNN? They trounce them. It isn't rightwing bias to say that... it is simply a matter of fact.

The ones that should be concerned with competing are CNN and MSNBC.

-Moo

There is more to TV revenue than the amount of people watching at a particular time. FOX gets 2 million people per night. The same 2 million will be there tomorrow, and next Tuesday, and a year from now. CNN gets a new set of viewers about every 40 minutes. It may not be 2 million viewers, but you can be sure it ain't the same people that watched the previous show. CNN viewers typically don't have the time to veg-out in front of the tube for four hours of "news" programs, and they don't want to.

I'm glad to know some of them are emotionally invested in the decision making process of how best to spend our money.

Perhaps the US could use this to our advantage. Offer a PPV subscription and produce betting lines for the punters.

I'll take the big guy from Provincial Military District 17, the one holding a cat-of-nine-tails.

Stories like this are what keep me coming back to here. I'd give the whole board FFs if Zarcade weren't so stingy on our per diem allotment.

Red and ignoramos, you're flagged.

When they die it may be that they are all dressed up with no place to go.

There are worse scenarios. If your personal beliefs come true, you'll be trapped with utstaff, niceville, and corky for "eternity".

God just may decide to add His own special touch to their day...

Chris, have you been attending services at the Church of Nanc?

""Oh spiteful and angry God, please rain down vengeance on people that don't think like me!! May they all suffer until they gravel at your feet like poor pitiful animals.""

Amen

I think the point may be that if the guy got AIDS through drug use, unprotected sex, etc then dumping marrow and organs in him at the expense of say a leukemia patient or somebody that had a need for an organ transplant due to reasons they didn't control, it may be wrong.

That is certainly part of my reasoning.

...

Bone marrow transplants are still listed as an experimental procedure. Most patients don't live more than 3 years. It is given to patients in the hope that they may live with some quality of life for just a little while longer. People with AIDS aren't candidates for transplant, and this man was not dying of AIDS, he lived with the disease for over a decade. He was given viable marrow to treat a disease that is really irrelevant considering his condition. Add to that they are giving immunosuppressants to an AIDS patient, so they can then waste bone marrow to "cure" his AIDS. To a layman like me that makes about as much sense medically as blood-letting.

by that logic, there should be a cutoff for medical interventions at, oh let's say 50 years old? Logan's Run anyone?

I'm not going to pick some abstract number, but yeah, certain treatments should (and are) limited based on age and lifestyle. There aren't enough hearts, lungs, kidneys,.....for everyone. Fat people shouldn't get new hearts after being obese their whole life, smokers don't get new lungs, no livers for acholics.

Good people pay their own money to get test kits, volunteer to have their pelvic bone punctured, all in the hope that they will give some poor sap a few more weeks with their family, not so a doctor can make a splash in the news with an unprovable gimmick.

nothing there 101

Before the transplant, the patient endured powerful drugs and radiation to kill off his own infected bone marrow cells and disable his immune system He was also taken off the potent drugs used to treat his AIDS.

"paging Dr. House, Dr. House you are wanted in Dr. Cuddy's office"

I wonder how many savable patients could have been helped with the marrow that was put into an AIDS patient with leukemia? 2? 3?

I'm all for medical research, but bone marrow is in short supply. Most normal people don't volunteer to have their pelvic bone punctured with a 10 inch needle. If you need marrow and don't have a sibling you're going on a list with thousands of other people to play a hybrid game of musical chairs X russian roulette.

Maybe this guy's AIDS is cured, but now he is on need of chemo. What if he needs a new liver? Why not, right? Let's just keep dumping good body parts into a broken system until he dies of old age in 20 years.

I guess the right wingers had the decency to leave the candidates' kids alone, whereas the left had to make fun of the republican's kids names.

Come on, Trig and Trac, you think those are acceptable names for humans, or along the same lines as Melia? People--not lefties or righties--made fun of the Palin's names because they were stupid, and rightly so. Willow? For Christ's sake! Where did she get that, from that 80's midget movie or did she name her daughter after a tree? Why not Cypress or Pecan?

"Meet my daughter, Yellow Pine, and her brother, Beechnut"

This I'm-above-partisian-behavior-
but-critize-and-label-one-
side-daily shtick gets old, goat. You were the first person on the thread to draw partisan comparisons. Per your usual it was an unprovoked attack against "the left". Yet you wonder why people doubt your 'I vote for more Democrats' line.

I grew up in the South too. If Texas politics resembles the Mississippi politics I remember, I'll bet local elections are chock-full of "Southern Democrats" running on the 'let's buy black people a bus ticket back to Africa' platform. Putting a D beside your name on a local ballot does not make one a Democrat, neither does voting for one.

From the bailout plan:

Subsection (b) of section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking out the dollar limitation contained in such subsection and inserting in lieu thereof $11,315,000,000,000.

read section 3101:

(b) The face amount of obligations issued under this chapter and the face amount of obligations whose principal and interest are guaranteed
by the United States Government (except guaranteed obligations held by the Secretary of the Treasury) may not be more than $8,184,000,000,000, outstanding at one time, subject to changes periodically made in that amount as provided by law through the congressional budget process
described in Rule XLIX 1 of the Rules of the House of Representatives or otherwise

So they added 3 trillion in circulation to pay for 700b?!?!?

Isn't that neat-o? Proof! 3 trillion from thin air. Magic.

I got 8 oz from one gangly mature plant

Outside sure. I got nearly a pound from a GHS Himalayan Gold a few summers ago. You won't get anywhere near that inside with soil though. 2 z's is about the max for a 6 week veg indoors. Go hydro and you can increase size and weight (sacrifice taste and quality) quite a bit. But HID lights only penetrate about 20 inches into the canopy so there is no use in growing big monsters under artificial light. Trimmed and trained to be short and bushy and flowered as soon as pre-sexed, you should get a little under 2 ounces per plant inside.

Less weight but no losses to mites, deer, raccoons, rippers, LEO, cold spells, bud rot and such. For a few square feet of Earth, you are God. You make it rain, you make the sun come up, you decide the temperature, humidity, CO2 concentration...pretty cool.

Now there's definitely a file with your name on it.

Yeah, probably so. Hell, there is most likely a file on you for something that happened in 1983. Hopefully in my FBI file there is a copy of my medical card, but if not, whatever.

The only ops that get pinched around here by the Feds are people growing outside the law, selling, and in possession of guns, fighting dogs, hard drugs and whatnot. I'm clear of that nonsense.

Plus, with any investigation they'd have to bust my partner in crime, my SO's mom. She has a card too and keeps the mothers and clones at her house (12 or less). Me and the SO take over for flowering, adding two and harvesting two about every three weeks in a perpetual cycle. I doubt the FBI wants the bad press that comes with making a 68 year old cancer survivor do the perp-walk for a state sanctioned grow.

I think I'm safe, well, as reasonably safe as a person can be in such a "free" country.

And with that, the FBI opens up a file on Retort posters.

I'm legal. My county allows 6 mature plants or 12 in a vegatative cycle (no flowers). Fuck the FBI.

The Government actually does grow some "kickass stuff" as its Tennessee research facility.

As far as I know the only government garden is at Ole Miss. It supplies 300 joints a month to 12 people who were grandfathered into a Carter pilot program. I went to school there and two prevailing rumors about the farm always circulated: that G-13, a superhigh-THC breeding male was developed to pump up existing phenotypes. Many of the best seed houses like Soma, Sugarmartha, Barneys, GHS advertise G-13 hybrids bread with classics like NYC Diesel, Blueberry, NL, WW.....but no one seems to know where the g-13 came from. Breeders usually want to know exactly what valley a particular landrace variety hails from, but with g-13 the country of origin isn't even known.
The other rumor was that the weed there was actually crap. I tend to believe this rumor. If cannabis is grown properly, organic, and absent your typical N-P-K-nuke-the-shit-out-of-it with chemicals and fertilizers, harvested correctly, and cured well there is no-fucking-way a person would need 300 joints a month.

If cannabis were legal the government would get very little tax revenue from smokers. Maybe a few coffeeshops and medical co-ops would get fleeced, but the majority of cannabis sales would take place among neighbors and friends who grow in their yards and closets. Now, the sale of HPS, worm castings, perlite, fox farm, rockwool, tea brewers, molasses, and the like would go through the roof!

Glad I'm not one of those.

FF

Obviously some people don't understand the "Drug War". It is going swimmingly. This move by Bolivia to protect coca farmers will help the drug war.

More coca=more cocaine=more cocaine users=more arrest=more prisoners=more private prisons=more money spent by the state to house the victimless criminals of imaginary crime.

The "war" on drugs is going exactly as planned. Drugs are cheap and available, jails are crowded, politicians have 18 billion a year to grease the wheels of the local political machinery, and all the money goes through Wall Street.

The US wants to eradicate coca growing about as much as it wants to eradicate poppy growing in Afghanistan.

Creatures which make the acorn an important part of their life include...

I think you missed someone ataxsuckle.

Hint 1: who is it that thinks ACORN is "important" again?

Hint 2: do you own a mirror?

the 7 horse in the last race at aqcueduct

LOL

Vote McCain and bet a cut-nut Florida horse on a cold NY track at 12-1.

A Magic 8-ball could make better picks.

doesn't indicate anything significant

Sure it does. It indicates the volatility of the market.