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It's your life, and it's the 21st century. Do what you want, dude. I'm just trying to give you some advice. I'm done with it.

This. Even after having her child, holy cow... Oh, the football team will go 8-4, good enough for 3rd in the SEC East.

I didn't like it because you made a ridiculously gross generalization that absurd at best and patently false at worst. If you actually, truly feel this way, you're going to look back when you're 40 and think about the opportunities you wasted. I'm trying to keep you from not living up to your own potential, but I see I'm fighting a losing game. Do what you wish. I've seen my grandfather work himself right into a stress-induced heart attack and disability by doing these sorts of jobs. I've seen my dad go out on the road in February and not come back until April. I've seen my neighbors bounce around from menial job to welfare to menial job to welfare to menial job... You're only selling yourself short.

Very few hills in the Cumberland and Susquehanna Valleys, sadly. :(

Well stated.

Your last sentence applies to his desire to federally fund Planned Parenthood, as well. And funding ACORN. Etc. It's positively crazy how he's pandering to the far left and the lobbyists. Of course, maybe 25% of Americans will see this. And the other 75% will tell them to "shut up" or "he's your president" or "we've had to deal with Bush for 8 years, this is what you get."

He traveled back in time 37 years to do it, I saw him. ;)

If he didn't have family, then sadly I'd have to agree. If he has any family though, and this action was in violation of a state mandate, they'd be crazy not to sue. Juries eat this sort of stuff up, and I've seen it with my own two eyes.

We had 4 inches of snow beneath an inch of solid ice up here in Central PA. No classes today for me. First time in 2 years that's happened up here.

My contention is that with $700B+ worth of stimulus and $250B+ of tax cuts, he's setting himself up to fall flat on his face. Stimulus is a good thing, but where's the money coming from? Unless Obama has the ability to synthesize it out of the air we breathe, he's heading down a historically-proven potholed road.

Never mind the numerous studies which say that college graduates earn an average of $500K-$1.5M over the course of their lives than those with just a high school degree. In today's marketplace, with 67% of 2000-2008 high school graduates seeking at least some post-secondary education, you have next to no chance in the job market. There are only two jobs where you have a prayer of making any sort of money without college, and that's truck driving and mine work. Having a father who was a miner for 16 years and who's driven a truck for 17, that's a great way to break yourself working. In modern society, you're almost certainly destined for a life of menial labor if you limit yourself like this. Most people who have to do this don't have a choice. It seems like you do, and to throw that chance away on a false assumption is positively mind-boggling. This could be one of the most ludicrous statements I've ever read, on this board or elsewhere. You have to have GREAT contacts to even get your foot in the door with AEP and NS nowadays. All the high-end jobs with Verizon require a B.S. engineering degree. And not that there's anything wrong with it, because it is an honest living and society must have these jobs to function, but these jobs are far closer to hard manual labor that a desk job.

So, so close last year... We won't be close to placing last year. Not enough bad eggs left, TBH.

It's hitting Lear in Lebanon, too. My aunt's lucky to have worked there for 15 years. She'll miss the layoffs by something like 19 people.

Absolutely pitiful. In most jurisdictions, there are laws restricting this in winter. If this is in violation of a law, I'd love to be the lawyer on the right end of this suit.

Nailed it.

What's Graham's record over the last 18 years? Two bad seasons is a trend, 18 bad seasons is a major flaw in the sports culture.

That, too. The same group that was an obvious red flag before the election and is reaping the benefit of its candidate's victory. It's like all my worst election-night fears are coming true.

I don't agree with closing down Guantanamo, either. The prisoners there are not American citizens and were caught as part of terrorist organizations openly hostile toward the United States. They are not in any way afforded the Constitutional protections guaranteed to American citizens, and have every right to be tried in a military tribunal. Of course, my views contradict with the majority of the Supreme Court in Hamdi and Hamdan, but these are my firm beliefs. Should it take the tribunals 6-7 years to try the detainees? Of course it shouldn't, and that's government oversight. But closing down Guantanamo isn't the answer, either. It's like trying to take down a rabbit with a deer rifle. I actually do agree with Obama at least talking with Iran. Not talking with Hamas/Hezbollah, because they deserve no claim to legitimacy, but talking with Iran perhaps. Give them a chance. If their goal is the "ultimate eradication of Israel" and to fund the terrorists who do, then we're not going to see eye-to-eye, and we should shun them. At least show out enemies that we'll at least give them the time of day. But outside of this, I have to thank you for giving me even more reason to bemoan the future. I honestly think Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He's sure acting like it.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The provision has emerged as a point of contention among Republicans, who criticize it as an example of wasteful spending that would neither create jobs nor otherwise improve the economy. While the debate surrounding the overall impact of the measure pits economists and their statistics against one another, Republicans quickly seized on the family planning money as evidence that the Democrats were advancing an agenda that went beyond the economy. "How you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives how does that stimulate the economy?" House Republican Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio said on Friday after congressional leaders met with Obama at the White House. "You can go through a whole host of issues that have nothing to do with growing jobs in America and helping people keep their jobs." By contrast, the White House-backed bill includes about $550 billion in spending and $250 billion in tax cuts. "I don't see how that's possible," said Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee. "They'll be just pouring money down on the ground if they achieve that goal." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is it so hard to see why I vote Republican 90% of the time, even if I don't like the candidate choice?

I'm afraid that this will turn into the Obama creed: "Give me your tired, your hungry, your weak. We'll pay to fix all their mistakes and support those who don't have the desire to support themselves." Frankly, I think Obama's started out his term in the worst possible way: a political move that panders to the rabidly liberal base (which didn't need pandering to, obviously, as he's in his honeymoon period) and a move that alienates the majority of conservatives. This aside from endorsing with MY tax dollars a political program directed not at the public good and at a political program I vehemently disagree with. Even Bush didn't make his mistakes in the first week...

This. And 400 feet tall is MASSIVE.

I grow increasingly more frustrated with Leitao as time progresses. I truly thought he could be the guy after that magical 2006-2007 season where we were a J.R. Reynolds ankle injury (22 points in the FIRST HALF against Tennessee) and a Sean Singletary rimmed-out 3 from making the Sweet 16. However, he won those games with Gillen's players, and I believe they benefited more from the change of philosophy from Gillen to Leitao than anything Leitao has ever taught them. This is evidenced to me in Leitao's increasing failure to develop his own players. There are only two holdovers of Gillen: Diane and Soroye. Diane has regressed, and Soroye's a waste of a scholarship, TBQH. The rest of the players are his. The only one from Leitao's first class that shows any flashes of being an ACC-caliber player is Jamil Tucker (and he's a classic 'tweener 3/4), and Leitao doesn't leave him in the game long enough to get warmed up. Mike Scott is the only consistent sophomore we have; Farrakhan and Jones can absolutely light it up, but at seemingly random/meaningless times (like when the game was decided against VT and he hit something like 4 3s in a row). Our three freshmen are the backbone of the team, and this is a sentence we NEVER want to hear. Sene is a physical presence who alters shots by just being 7'0'' and being active; Zeglinski is a point guard (same HS as Singletary) who has transitioned poorly to the ACC schedule; and Landesburg has been exposed a bit for a lack of a mid-range game. It's a sad time to be us. I think we're going to have to agree-to-disagree on Leitao's coaching ability, though. I think it's positively atrocious, and he shows it many different ways. Like not playing a player taller than 6'8'' in the loss to Liberty. Like not utilizing Mike Scott in the post at all in ACC play when he averaged a double-double in non-conference games. Like relying far too much on the 3-pointer in his motion-screen offense (27 against pitiful Maryland). Like yanking a player at the first sign of difficulty and screaming at them so loudly I can hear it across as crowded arena. Like constantly bringing up the rear in defense when that's EXACTLY what UVA hired him for. We've waited since 1976 for an ACC basketball title. Maybe we'll get one by the time I need a colostomy bag.

That's pretty much my thoughts. Stay classy, Pelosi. You should be pandering this upon the masses under the guise of compassion than spreading it as economic relief. Just when I think the Democratic leaders can't do anything else to surprise me, they use human life as virtual chattel. Party of compassion, my a**.

Haha, I barely have room. My team's so bad this year that it crosses my mind in a moment of weakness.

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