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now in all fairness the only reason Brandon Marshall dropped to waivers is because yours truly wasn't paying attention when dropping his 8th string WR and clicked the wrong box, you may have been sick missing him on waivers, but given my perf last week imagine how sick I was feeling...

I'm not sure about locking the teams Friday, would seem fairer to lock before the first game sunday and re-open Tuesday. If you're keeping an eye on injury reports prior to the game it at least gives you a chance to bring someone in if your guy goes down in practice. I think thats a completely different case to someone going down in a game...

there is a little bit of urine extraction occurring re the giraffe pic

who is posting unauthorised pics?

http://www.videosift.com/video/Matt-Damon-Actually-Sounding-Smart-On-Palin

Matt Damon calls it like he sees it

dont go to newark

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As for McCain's speech, sleep worthy and all as you believe it was, he enjoyed bigger numbers tuning in than Obama did

do you think this has anything to do with the fact that it was broadcast during half time of the first game of the new NFL season featuring the super bowl champions and their oldest rivals?

Unfortunately with the two party system that's in place in the US, we are pretty much stuck with more of the same. The only shot of having any change here is if Obama is pulling a fast one by toeing party line until he gets into office and then proceeding with his big promises of the early campaign. I also think that whatever way you slice it the VP choice is very important as I believe there is a fair shot that no matter which one wins the VP could get the top job before the end of the first term.

Sarah Palin scares the crap out of me- If McCain dies in his first term I'm moving

Sorry heganboy, if i didnt get him some1 else would have and i couldnt play him against you this week, thus saving you the aggravation of gettin 2tds against ya next week...

no consolation...

looks like brady is gone for the season

god dammit- i was in the process of dropping my crappy wide receiver and I manage to drop Brandon Marshall to waivers- nicely picked up Declan...(you bastard)

don't forget you could use a semi colon...

the guardian's version of events:
from    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/03/northernireland.northernireland


IRA has disbanded as underground army, report says


The Northern Ireland secretary, Shaun Woodward, said the IRA no longer posed any threat. Photograph: Clara Molden

The IRA has effectively disbanded as an underground army and no longer meets for any terrorist purposes, the group charged with overseeing paramilitary ceasefires in Northern Ireland said today.

The International Monitoring Commission (IMC) said the Provisionals' ruling body, the army council, had fallen into "disuse" but there would be no formal announcement of it being disbanded.

The Northern Ireland secretary, Shaun Woodward, said the findings meant there was now "no rational reason" for Northern Ireland political parties not to continue negotiations, including on the devolution of policing and justice powers – a key Sinn Féin demand.

In its 19th report (PDF), the IMC says: "The mechanism which they (the IRA) have chosen to bring the armed conflict to a complete end has been the standing down of the structures which engaged in the armed campaign and the conscious decision to fall into disuse."

The first minister and Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader, Peter Robinson, had called on the army council of the republican group to disband to enable unionists to have full confidence in the political process.

However, the IMC report says: "We do not see that there will be formal announcements about the disbandment of all or parts of the structure."

This absence of a formal process will pose problems for Robinson and the DUP.

The report's authors exonerate the IRA over non-terrorist crimes, although they accept that some of its individual members or ex-members could be engaged in "ordinary" criminal activity.

Overall, the ceasefire monitoring commission says the IRA poses no threat to the peaceful or democratic process, adding that it sees "no grounds" for evidence that the IRA and its membership could return to "war".

The report is important given the current pressures on the Northern Ireland power-sharing government.

Sinn Féin has sent out thinly veiled warnings that unless policing and justice powers are transferred from London to Belfast, it might pull out of the devolved government.

Woodward pointed to the importance of the IMC conclusion that all the military departments, including the IRA army council, have fallen into disuse.

"I would go further and say this: is there an army for the army council to direct? It now seems, according to this report, there is not," he said.

"We have arrived. The time has come to move on. It's not a statement that is important - after all, the loyalists have made plenty of statements about decommissioning but they haven't decommissioned.

"By their actions, rather than any statement, the IRA is at a situation where it no longer poses any threat."

I'm also going to go with none of the above...

Tony,
its all about where you get it done, a bad towel shave is terrible (and scary) however next time you're on one of your freebie trips in London or somewhere you can find an old fashioned barber, its a great experience...

looking like pawlenty is the mccain vp...

oops or maybe not:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-CVN-Veepstakes.html