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I wasn't following any weather reports, was busy working (yes, around the yard before the sky opened up), but am wondering if there was any warning of the high winds (64 mph?) preceding this roof collapse. It seemed fairly obvious to me that some severe storms would hit here in Euless, and there was lots of rain. It would seem wise to evacuate any building that has an "inflatable roof" just based on the sky being that dark at midafternoon.

Less government interference in business? Sorry, Eagle, couldn't resist.

About 10% of Egyptians are Coptic (similar to "Orthodox") Christians. One thing I've noticed as an identifying characteristic of Christians from Arab countries is that they drink alcohol. Euless, where I live, has numerous immigrant groups (this can be a blessing when it's time for Greek Food Fest). Many of the various immigrant groups have their own churches; one of which, I've noticed, is Coptic.

Maybe it's a good thing that the legislature's amendment to our sports/stadium fee portends to put us in perpetual football construction mode. We can build a better indoor practice facility than the cowboys!

For a cheeseburger on Saturday, he would gladly repay you on Tuesday.

Yes, he's done a fantastic job at Kansas, but I don't see any reason to think the head coach for a successful Big 12 football team would become head football coach of UNT. But if he comes here with his football team for a home and home series sometime in the next few years, yes we should welcome him here.

Dang, it will take at least 2 beers to remove the memory of having seen that picture, and I HAD given up drinking beer. Paranoid? That guy has no fear of heart disease.

I think the broadcast media will eventually tell the BCS what to do. Of course, this is just part of my theory about media: it's not about them being liberal or not, it's about what brings them money.

Then we really need a 32 team system, so that some conferences can have more than one team in the playoff. Conferences which presently have a playoff could use that as part of an overall system; those without would need to realign in order to have a conference championship game. Of the sixteen in the second round, some could be nonchampions or those who for whatever reason are deemed worthy of continued play, plus the occasional independent.

I have; my sister has lived in San Francisco for about 40 years. When the extended family was in Dallas for my brother-in-law's surgery last June, my sister and my brother-in-law's brother represented opposite ends of the political spectrum. Unfortunately, I missed an argument between them on immigration. I thought it was interesting that he asked someone afterwards, "do you think Donna is a liberal?". I just wish I'd been there to tell him that I don't think liberal is sufficient to describe someone as far left as she is. Honestly though, the assumedly Democratic folks I met when I last visited her and her husband in SF did not strike me as "liberal" in some ways I think of that word, such as being willing to consider diverse points of view. One guest would not believe me when I mentioned Larry McMurtrey being from a small town in Texas, in so many words, he said that nobody who obviously conducted research the way that McMurtrey did could be from a small town. I thought that was kind of small minded.

Another reason you've got to love democracy; the best system, however imperfect.

Sounds like the single guys in our office talking about their dates!

People could follow the advice posted on bulletin boards around Dallas City Hall where I work, after 9-11, which stated in part "REMAIN CLAM". I think they meant "REMAIN CALM", but nobody ever corrected it, so we've been "CLAM" ever since.

I'm hoping gets his ass kicked in the other primary.

Some of us Democrats also hate it.

And it matters little at this point. I really don't think Arlen Specter's party switch has anything to do with Democrats or Republicans; it's all about Specter staying in the senate.

That was the first thing I thought about; with everything else we democrats will get heat about, the proud author of that theory is now among us. Hey, I know: He got that idea while he was a Republican!

No, because no matter how his attorneys tried to finesse it, he was involved in a gambling operation. Sports leagues never forgive that; perhaps they know something that many of us can ignore: gambling is a very difficult addiction to break, and always draws unwanted attention to teams from league executives. Just as a person, I wouldn't, because I love animals and it would always be in the back of my mind that this is one sick individual who has only shown remorse for being caught. Also, I view him as more of a running than passing quarterback, the reverse of what I want in the NFL.

I was kinda wondering about that. Props to them if they beat ECU!

Dang, I better take that European vacation soon. In the next five minutes, I'm leaving to get a passport photo. One step at a time.

He made a good straight man for SNL's "White Trash Bed and Breakfast" segments.

Wow! Now that my employer has a new dress code which specifically bans "blue jeans", I want to wear them all the time (which is what I did before the dress code, unless I was leaving work later in the day to attend a funeral). I must call attention to his concluding paragraph, as it has a UNT connection: "(A confession: The author owns one pair of jeans. Wore them once. Had to. Such was the dress code for former senator Jack Danforth's 70th birthday party, where Jerry Jeff Walker sang his classic "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother." Music for a jeans-wearing crowd.)" Ray Wylie Hubbard, who attended North Texas, wrote "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother". I went to a concert back when I was in school at then NTSU, where (I can't remember if it was Ray Wylie or Jerry Jeff) it was performed. My "girlfriend" at the time insisted on leaving after it was played, saying in so many words that it was an ethnic slur against rural Americans (unfortunately, it wasn't enough to get her to leave me, or me her...yet). A couple of years ago, the women's group at my church sponsored a concert by Ray Wylie. At the break, I mentioned that incident to him; at the start of the second half of his show, he introduced that song by saying that I had "twisted his arm...told him that he HAD to play that song". It was an honor being used as a straight man by Ray Wylie Hubbard. I like a lot of what George Will writes, but this is an indication of humorlessness on his part. He needs a major dose of listening to music by Ray Wylie Hubbard, including "Conversation with the Devil". Still, "Up Against the Wall" was a simple song, with a self destructive message. Ray Wylie Hubbard has since become so much more than that since then, but his change isn't in outward appearance, but inner triumph over his own devils: A good internet piece on Ray Wylie Hubbard A great quote from the above: "The well-told story is that Robert Johnson met the devil at the crossroads and sold his soul for the blues. That story could apply to Ray Wylie Hubbard, except that in the modern re-telling, the devil may get the man’s soul, but Hubbard would walk away with at least twenty bucks from the fiery one’s pocket … the devil would definitely want to listen to this new album while driving down the dark, blue highway and Ray ain’t givin’ em away for free."

Why does this have to be seen as anti-Obama? Yes socialism is bad, although American leaders of all parties and philosophies have engaged in in at various times. Even the classroom Stebo mentioned was more likely a public school than a private one. I just see public schools as a public expense than serves the greater good, including strengthening of free enterprise. When I was in the Army, I considered it a socialist organization created to defend capitalism. Even though I'm a democrat, I admire former President Bush in many ways, although I had policy differerences with him that led me not to vote for him. He was certainly nice to me in a brief conversation I had with him, although I mentioned that I was a Democrat. However, I guess I was as surprised as anyone when he took the approach he did to the financial problems last year. As the Democrat I am now, or the conservative Republican I once was, I'd find it hard to see the measures taken after passage of the $700 billion dollar bailout as other than socialism. I'm sure many of us can remember this statement: Bush on free markets, government intervention

Hmmm, Richland isn't all that far from Euless, and I doubt it takes me more than an hour to drive to Denton around 7 p.m. on a Friday night. But it's almost like the joke in response to a study showing that married men live longer than single ones: "maybe it just seems longer".

Why did Vito even mention spring training? Did he mean spring training 2009? I didn't see anything that recent being mentioned.