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Obama's children aren't placed on center stage by their father as national poster children for failed abstinence programs, early marriage, and the pro-life movement. Whatever it was that Palin's kid got herself into, it wasn't the business of the rest of the country. I found it as tasteless for her to try to exploit the situation as I did for the press to blow it all up in tabloid form.

Been my experience that no matter what race you are, if you start popping off to a cop, even if it's your own residence, it's a challenge to their authority and an invitation to a fitting for a new pair of handcuffs. I was listening to a black man on the radio talking about how he was raised to always say, "Yes sir," when speaking to a policeman and always make the officer aware if he was reaching for his wallet. White, black, yellow, brown, purple, these are good rules to live by when dealing with the police.

For the stats geeks in here, if trying to compare perfect games vs unassisted triple plays, would you state the frequency of unassisted triple plays per play, inning or game? I remember Randy Velarde pulling that off. That was crazy! Now hitting for the home run cycle, I think gets disqualified from my original post because I explicitly excluded things that had happened only once.

I've looked at the map, and I drove to the Little Elm side a couple days ago to check it out. Coming from West Frisco, is it really faster than just going up to 380?

They lack the medical coverage to get their suburban perma-grins surgically implanted.

I understand what you're saying in your post, really, I do. But creating connections from that to firing off missiles without getting all the facts is a pretty long stretch that takes lots of poetic license. Besides, it's not like firing off missiles without getting all the facts has never happened before.

What about MulliKims?

A little part of me dies each day, so could you send me on my journey in increments?

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As far as individual achievement? Let's try to quantify it. Since 1900, (rough estimates on numbers here. I'm not researching the specifics!), lets say an average 158 games a season times and average of 22 teams / 2 times 108 years. That's 187,704 games in that time span. 16 of those have been perfect games (2 recognized perfect games are pre-1900). So the chances of throwing a perfect game would be roughly 16/187,704 or .008%. Excluding events that have a frequency of 1, such as Wilt Chamberlain scoring a 100 in a game, I'm hard pressed to come up with another individual achievement that is this rare.

It's been explained already that it's 27 batters and 27 outs with no base runners, but your interpretation takes it to another level where a perfect game could be either 81 pitches for 81 strikes (hence 27 consecutive 3-pitch strike-outs) or 27 pitches for 27 consecutive outs (Wherein all 27 batters swing at and make contact the first pitch, but either fly or ground out as a result). Either one of those scenarios would be absolutely once in an eon events.

KPMG suddenly looks a little more attractive!

Yup. Just me and God. I can't see him moving over to that atrocity in Arlington. In fact, I don't know if God could even afford a seat license there.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium was hands down the best in the country until it got overrun by illegals, hippies, potheads, unionized workers, activist judges, and librels.

Texas Stadium on a Sunday afternoon?

Who even uses that much? I got up to the coveted three-week level, but it was still an unwritten rule that you never took more than one. Even taking the one, in the dead of July, when 100% of your customers were off the grid, and no sales had been made since the invention of the printing press, would get the off handed comments from management upon return to work. Other than that one dead week in July, we pretty much weren't allowed to take vacation because it was this selling season or that conference season or the editors/marketer/managers were all out for years at a time having babies and we sales staff needed to pick up their slack. The best one could do was to chip away at the vacation by taking an occasional extended holiday weekend. Oh, and let's not forget that compensation was calculated on a 35-hour work week when that amount got racked up by Wednesday for most people, and they weren't stopping until Saturday afternoon. Of course, you could only accrue three, so it saved the company lots and lots of money on payouts when the mass exodus came. I chalk it all up as an illegitimate love child of Protestant work ethic and Hyper profit motivated capitalism.

I love #9 on that list. There's Keynes defined right there!

That actually is true though. My premiums have risen on average 11% annually since 2000. According to the rule of 72, that doubles every 6 1/2 years or so. I seem to be the only person in the world who sees that an 11% annual increase in premiums vs a 3-4% annual increase in pay is a long term losing proposition. I suppose the argument is to better yourself and get promotions and whatnot, which is what I'm doing for myself, but I don't see a huge portion of society doing so. Now maybe past performance is not an indication of continued future trend, but I fail to see where the scare tactics are in this particular statement. It's probably the most factual thing he's said. Disclaimer: I didn't watch his speech tonight, so I don't know what preceded or followed this statement. I'm taking it at face value with no other context.

Well, maybe YOUR babies can't eat pie.

It occurs to me that the record low temp is because of all the Al Gore light bulbs being installed. Those things don't emit any heat! If they would simply used good ole' red blooded American incandescent bulbs, the temps would be right on schedule.

Yeah, they got a little over the top with the whole meter thing in the second season. Once I became cognizant of it, I couldn't watch it anymore.

All I know about that place is that they've got some fantastic airport micro-brews.

In which quarter does Ball St. bring out the third string and reserves? Impossible to bet against a line without this knowledge. LSU case in point. If Rice racked up 77, LSU could have racked up 177 with their starters.

Cold temps in Tennessee? So you're saying Hell has frozen over?