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My Christmas Story:My younger brother just bought a house with his girlfriend and invited my family and my Dad/Step-Mom over on Christmas Eve for dinner at their new place. A few days before Thursday, my Dad calls me and tells me that they went over to the new place and saw some Buddhas in the house. They did not feel that they could go over since they are very fundamental Christians and this being Christmas Eve and all and wanted us to go over to their place on Chrismas Eve instead.Me: So this is ok with my brother and his GF?Dad: Well, could you talk to them?Me: The song "Stuck in the M

I've seen the change - I think that many posters in this forum (like you) are able to see the arguments for the other side and can come to conclusions that are not part of their party's objectives. Originally, I was for the idea of universal health care, but at this point, I don't like the plan that Congress has approved. I still think that the goal is laudable (especially to ensure that all children are covered) but there has to be a better way.As for the Franken article that Strat posted, I find it funny that posters have to come on here to immediately demonize Franken - it's as if they ca

O Rly? Congrats - same long time gf?

Nice try by one of the defendants below though - I can hear the pitch "who's going to marry a girl with no ears and no nose besides me?"The woman and her family had rejected an offer of marriage from Sher Mohammed,

My youngest daughter loved Up - how old is Nick? I'm trying to remember the scary scenes - most of the violence was mild I thought.As an aside, I was a big fan of the Buffy and Angel TV series, it's nice that Whedon has continued the plot lines thru comic book form. Some of the images are quite gruesome in the comic books so I always like to ask my oldest daughters if they want to see a really scary image. They don't want to but then say yes and then always scream...As for the Pixar filmsFinding Nemo #5Up #2WALL-E #1Monsters, Inc. #3Toy Story #4Didn't see the others. Wall-E is by far the

Should be interesting since none of the participants will have caught all or any of Russel's act in the just finished Survivor since they were filming during the same time. No Yao-Man? I'm disappointed.

I heard seven so even though Jaison said that Nathalie did fine as a sales rep, there's no way the jury would figure that she made that much. Also, she was unemployed.Another factor might have been Shambo forcefully putting her vote with Russel. Her former Galu teammates hate her so why give Shambo the satisfaction of backing the right horse? Like everyone has said, the power resides with the Jury and they don't have to reward the best player, they can reward the person they like the best and Nathalie was extremely likable. Mick's answers during tribal made him seem pretty weak so if you'r

Nice backstage recap at EOnline. The last part makes it sound like they haven't shot Heroes vs Villains yet. Survivor ShockerBoth Mick Trimming and Jaison Robinson told us they first learned the true extent of their tribemate's deviousness by watching the show on TV. "Honestly, I had nothing against Russell, I wasn't mad at him until I saw the episodes where he was sabotaging us," Jaison revealed before complaining: "I think it's one thing to be in control of this game and form alliances, but it's another thing to pour out water and do the things he did. People were passing out all over the

Buying DBA (Ag ETF play) per Grail ETF recommendation. Next 15-30 days are seasonally strong for Ag.

Got bored sitting on an all cash position.Bought AMSC, Shorted CYH

So we had a visit from Animal Services last night. One of our neighbors complained about our Dog's howling in the backyard. We keep him indoors at night but we leave him outside during the day when my wife has stuff to do. He must howl during the day in the yard. Unless it was during those couple of weeks when I was away on business when he was left outside at night. Guess I won't know since we didn't hear directly from the neighbor.Of course as I'm walking him last night, I hear other dogs barking all over the neighborhood in their backyards.....As a first time dog owner, I was also unaw

My goalies saved last week - managed to scrape out a tie with youGot an offer of a goalie in a precarious timeshare + a guy who's scored eleven points so far for Bryz+Gilroy. Uh No.

Thursday just stinks like Brv said. I record Survivor & Flash Foward but I run into the same problem one hour later when I watch Fringe, CSI and the Office. I'll just have to catch up with the Office when it comes out on DVD since I don't have OnDemand. On the other hand, Tuesday and Wednesday are wide open as I don't watch anything during that time. Both Flash Forward and Fringe have had their ratings hurt by putting them against the other Networks' tough Thursday night shows.Hey network geniuses, MOVE THEM to Tuesday or Wednesday and you'll get better ratings than the dreck you have

Yeah, pretty much there could be no guarantee that each conference champion gets a spot. If your teams in the conference don't schedule a strong enough out of conference schedule, then too bad. Who cares if your one loss conference champion gets left out.16 would be tough as that would be a lot of extra games for the top teams. How many teams make the smaller Division football tournaments?

The man who was killed Wednesday morning in a single-vehicle crash on northbound Interstate 680 just before Capitol Expressway has been identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner's Office as Leap Ouch, 48, of San Jose.First user comment on the story: Now, before we jump to rip this guy a new one his wife Ooh and his child Ahh could not be reached for comment

Jaison had a good point about not pissing off Shambo - let her think that she's running the show. I loved her expression when she found out her clairvoyant powers had failed her. Since I have no horse left, I'm pulling for Nathalie. She came in 3rd in the immunity challenge as only Jaison (who had the advantage) and Dave outlasted her. If she can get rid of Russell, then she'd have quite a few votes at the final tribal council if she gets that far.

Congrats! Old School FCP!

I like the Eight team playoff system - yes, you'd have arguments from the 9th place team about why they should be in there but you'd pick up all the unbeatens at least.

Slowly over the years, I've lost interest in college football except for my Cal Bears. The fact that there isn't a playoff system just irks me.This year, we could have five unbeaten teams (Fla or Ala, Texas, Cincy, Boise St. TCU); not sure if I'm missing anyone but it'd be great to see Cincy/Boise St/TCU play for the National Championship.

It's been awhile but here's our latest dog story So this morning as I'm about to leave for work, our dog shows signs of throwing up so my wife herds him out the front door so he won't mess up the floor. Of course, he takes off as he spies his freedom so I go after him. Two blocks away is the park which he heads for, then he goes thru the park, runs alongside a stream and into an area with some houses and a large hill. I'm barely keeping up with him.So inside the house, he listens to my commands but outside with no leash is obviously a different story. I actually lost him a few times but ma

Since this has been discussed in the other thread (Obama's scorecard) already - that would explain the lack of posts in this thread.

Yeah - a friend swears by this technique.On the other hand, I've crumpled away and haven't won anything so I obviously don't have the right crumple technique

Link below points out that the % of Obama's cabinet with private experience is higher than indicated by the above chart. In looking at the cabinet members, it looks like many of Obama's cabinet were attorneys in the private sector. Since the study only gives 33% credit for attorneys, that affects the chart.Also, he only considers: Secretaries of State; Commerce; Treasury; Agriculture; Interior; Labor; Transportation; Energy; and Housing & Urban Development. He excludes Postmaster General; Navy; War; Health, Education & Welfare; Veterans Affairs; and Homeland Security. So if I only l