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So I wonder if the officer will show up to traffic court if Moats decides to challenge the ticket.

Sounds good on paper, but tying student debt to government service is a sure way to raise criticisms of classism and racism. Same thing is what got rid of the ole "You can go to jail or you can join the military." choice that was given to minor offenders back in the day.

Ice-T and N.W.A. are my heroes! Honestly, in my limited experience with police, I've met three types. 1) Good honest cops who want to serve, but eventually become detectives, and therefore get taken off the beat. 2) Good honest cops continuing a family tradition who stay on the beat for the duration of their careers (this type seems limited to the northeast). 3) Beat cops who are never gonna' move up because they love the power trip. Unfortunately, category three are the ones who make the news and create the negative perception. 3a) Los Angeles cops who are so grossly underfunded, understaffed, and overworked, that they have just stopped caring.

So what happens if it's a zero-zero tie?

The main deal with Los Angeles not having its own team is that LA lacks an NFL caliber stadium. Neither the Rose Bowl nor the Coliseum are willing to do the necessary renovations. Finding the real estate and cash to build a whole new stadium have proven to be a real problem. When Al Davis wanted to build a stadium in Inglewood, I believe it was either the Rose Bowl or Coliseum organization that blocked it, yet they refuse to improve their own digs. Now crazy Al is constantly suing the NFL claiming that Los Angeles is Raider territory. Meanwhile, USC has built a program that could probably beat most lower tier NFL teams (and they pay almost as well too!). The buzz when I left LA in 2004 was pretty much 'Screw the NFL, we've got other stuff to do.' The previous is from my memory and may be incorrect. Here's a link from the LA Times from February of this year on the matter. The City of Industry is a little east of downtown Los Angeles. The traffic in that area is pretty fricking horrific though. I can certainly see the point of the opposition. I don't know what time it is in Los Angeles right now, but I can tell you that the 10 through Industry is at a crawl right now. Let's add 75,000 people to that, even on Sunday, and it'll just come to a stop.

The CIT has reached its final four with one of those games completed. Quick! Without the aid of a search engine, who's left in the tournament?

Skip the speech schmip the speech. Don't care. He should, however, be removed from office, drug out to the street, tarred, feathered, and quartered for attending a Britney Spears concert.

Looks like that would be George Washington. From Wiki:

Just for clarity, 150,000,000,000 / 3,600,000,000,000 is 1/24, not 1/24000. ETA -- A little historical context on national debt: The national debt peaked at 128 percent of gnp in 1946. After the war, although the debt continued to rise, the gnp until the 1980s rose much faster, so that by 1979-1981 the debt/gnp ratio was only 33 percent. The real difference between that 128% then and whatever percentage its at now is that nearly all debt was domestically held then. A majority is still held domestically now, but only around 60% or so if my memory serves correctly.

I dusted off the ole infomercial juicer and tried vodka and fresh squeezed kiwi juice in the same vein. Needed something sweet in it. But hey! It was spirit spirits!

It's really hard to find any impartial accounts of where the ethics charges really stem from. I'm about as likely to take an article from redstate.com as being factual as I am something from the Huffington Post. Same style of overtly biased rhetoric, different sides of the spectrum.

Campaign lies? Massive spending? Pandering to the wants of his own party and supporters? Using a single party government to his advantage? Man. Never seen that before. I better start obsessing daily on it. You may even agree with the actions taken below, but they were still outright campaign lies. Somebody on here has said before that the country got through Nixon, Ford and Carter. We'll get through Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama as well. The world is not going to end, the sky is not going to fall, and the market will recover (Personally, I blame Obama for yesterday's 6.8% market jump. He's obviously toying with us by personally manipulating individual stock prices across the market spectrum). SPENDING RHETORIC "To restore confidence in government, [George W. Bush] will...attack pork-barrel spending." [source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website] SPENDING REALITY Since assuming office, President Bush has failed to veto a single bill, despite the enormous amount of pork that has crossed his desk. Even conservatives are getting frustrated. The Heritage Foundation recently wrote, "Budget discipline clearly isn't a priority of this administration, so why pretend it will get tough on frivolous measures like these?" [source: Heritage Foundation, 6/28/04] TAX RHETORIC "y far the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum." [source: George W. Bush, 2/15/00] "Governor Bush's income tax cuts will benefit all Americans, but they are especially focused on low and moderate income families." [source: Bush-Cheney 2000 – Taxes website] TAX REALITY The top 20 percent of earners received 69.8 percent of President Bush's tax cuts. [source: CBPP, 4/23/04, p. 17] Millionaires received an average tax cut of $123,000. Those in the bottom quintile of earners received an average tax cuts of $27. Those in the second to bottom quintile received an average cut of $317. [source: CBPP, 4/23/04, p. 17] DEFICIT RHETORIC "As President, Governor Bush will pay the debt down to a historically low level." [source: Bush-Cheney 2000 website] DEFICIT REALITY As of July 30, the national debt stood at $7,316,567,571,232.89, a record high. This year's budget will also create a record deficit: $445 billion, according to the White House. [source: Treasury Department, 8/3/04, Reuters, 7/31/04] SOCIAL SECURITY RHETORIC "The Social Security surplus must be locked away only for Social Security." [source: Bush-Cheney 2000 – Social Security website] SOCIAL SECURITY REALITY During 2002, the first fiscal year for which Bush was responsible, he spent $159 billion of the Social Security Trust Fund surplus. [source: CBO Historical Budget Data, ]

Forget about Jimmy Carter? Like many people, I don't even remember the 70s! Of course, my reason for that is that I was four years old when he was sworn in!

I blame Bush, Obama, and Bataille for that video!! I also hold them responsible for its overt absence of pie!

Hmm...Since he grew up in Britain, I'm guessing he liked minced meat and/or kidney pie.

I wonder what kind of pie Thomas Paine liked.

I remember that question coming up on a message board over here on the Collin/Denton county line. It wasn't related to the White House, but rather to weather you want your professionals going to church or not. I think the majority response may surprise you.

I didn't realize the spring game is so close upon us. I know it's April 4th, but what time is it and why the hell is there nary a mention of it on meangreensports.com?

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. The flat was the fault of the Republican rubber lobby. George W. Bush was at fault for your bracket falling apart with Wake Forest's loss.

If you can get into the Cuervo club, absolutely. But those are tough tickets to come by. Barring that, there are a few alcoves in the stadium with reasonably priced beer. As for drinking in the stands, it definitely does NOT lend itself to drunkeness. Between the sun beating down on you like a mutated easy bake oven, and the loan application process to get the necessary funds for a beer, the ballpark is not a great place to get drunk. For those kinds of shinanigins, I recommend getting a pair of Founders Club tickets for the Frisco Roughriders off Ebay. You can pick those up for about $35-40 a pop, and it's all you can eat (including the buffet behind home and the BBQ corner out in right field) and all you can drink including beer and wine. As a bonus, should you imbibe a little too much, there are a couple really nice hotels right next door that you can stumble on over to. I know no one who's ever tailgated with me will believe this, but I very rarely have more than 1 or 2 beers at a baseball game. As a fan of the college game, I rarely have any at all.

I am from neither the north nor the south. I live in Texas and have spent a great deal of time in Boston over the past ten years. My impartial judgment must favor pecan pie over Boston Creme pie. More texture to it. Of course, I stand by the blueberry sour cream as the best pie option. Edit -- As a consolation, Fenway dogs are head and shoulders above Arlington nachos. Not even a contest. Game over.

I would think if anything, a liberal legislator would deem a crime of passion as a hate crime and tack on extra penalties.

Seriously. In case there has been a misunderstanding, I'm not setting foot on the field. I'm happy to come down, cook some eats, and quaff some intoxicating elixir, but I ain't playing. I'll give you the $20/25 for a shirt, but I'm not playing. Riley will take a snap under center on 1st and 10 before I'll play another football game. Seriously. Don't draft me.

I have some friends who went to Illinois. You'd think they just lost to some third world middle school for the deaf and blind! I don't know if I love the fact that WKU can sneak up on people like that (thus giving me hope for UNT) or if I hate the fact that the Sunbelt conference is so woefully unknown that we could have the Harlem freaking Globetrotters on undetectable steroids in our conference and people would be surprised by a Sunbelt win in the tourney.

Not sure if you're calling me a negative poster or telling me to go ask some negative posters. In case of the former, I have seen a grand total of five UNT football games in my life. I didn't know who Todd Dodge was before September. I didn't know what the spread offense was before September. The first time I saw the team go for 4th and 1 from the shotgun, I thought it was some weird trick play. I came here with no bias for or against the current administration. So my apologies if I don't meet the minimum requirements to have a say on what I see on the field. Based on my admittedly limited data sample, given the scenario I described, it is a very high probability that the offensive coaching staff would do something with a minimal chance of success because they appear to refuse to adapt to their environment. That said, when you score 30 points a game and damn near go 0'fer on the year, maybe any criticism toward the spread offense is misdirected to the wrong side of the ball.