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I was informed of a new policy at my company about a year ago. Any employee who is charged with a violent or drug related offense will be automatically suspended without pay until he or she is cleared of those charges. A conviction brings termination and an acquittal brings reinstatement. As someone who is not even remotely considered a public representative for my company, I think professional athletes should be held to *at least* as stringent a standard by their employers. If I were the Cowboys, I'd have fired TO for the spitting thing (though that presents a paradox because I wouldn't have hired him in the first place due to his little dance on the star a few years ago). If I were the Bears, I'd fire Tank Johnson for simply having a bunch of drugs and unregistered guns in his house. I don't care if they were his or a friend's or he didn't even know they were there, especially after his previous problem was due to a valet seeing a gun in his car! Conviction one - *major* problem. Probation violation one - he'd have been fired now if not before, thus probation violation two wouldn't be my problem. Then again I don't own the Chicago Bears so I can't make their decisions...all I can do is root against them for what I consider poor judgement. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

That's a well thought out post, and Newt Gingrich's name sprang to my mind before I read he'd also come to your's. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

There is no correlation to your claim of "flip floping" and the approval rating. I pretty much agree. It's just the diverging approval/disapproval rating reminded me of him saying how he was a uniter not a divider. Honestly the only way they couldn't diverge is if both were around 50%, which still wouldn't say much of anything. Saying he would be a uniter, not a divider, and then being so absurdly divisive....THAT was the flip-flop. Of course now that I think of it, I suppose the country is uniting in thinking he's a total fucktard, so maybe it wasn't. My bad, feel free to ignore this meaningless thread. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I have and continue to hope Dallas gets blown out of every single game in which they have TO on their roster. Edit to add: It's my personal opinion that TO is largely responsible for Dallas just losing one of the best coaches in the game. I was surprised that Jerry Jones saddled Bill Parcells with that fucktard and didn't think Parcells would stand for it. One season later, he's had enough of it. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

The Bears will be starting a guy, Tank Johnson, who just got a judge to give him permission to go out of state to play in the Superbowl, after his second probation violation. He's been arrested 3 times in the last 18 months, including once for a scuffle with a cop, and twice for weapons charges. In one of the raids on his house, cops found "wholesale" quantities of pot that apparently belonged to his bodyguard...who was shot to death while out at a club with Tank two days later. The Bears response to all this? They suspended him for one game for going out to a club the night his bodyguard was killed. I'd root against the Bears solely for not firing him (plus the Colts are kinda due) Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

There have been so many times over the last 6 years that we've been able to look at our President's actions, compare them to a campaign that included being "a uniter, not a divider", and laugh (or cry) at the about face that's made Kerry look unwavering by comparison. This chart, while not totally germane to that flip-flop, still shows a divergence so acute as to be absurd. Just thought you'd all like to enjoy it with me. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Do you believe that if America just brought home all of it's troops from other parts of the world and no longer exerted influence outside our own borders, that our enemies would no longer want to kill us? What do you suppose would happen elsewhere in the world where our influence is the only thing preventing chaos and mayhem? Who said anything about that? Japan's forces are allowed on peacekeeping missions, and I wouldn't call their government particularly isolationist. I'm sure that if we adopted a similar stance involving more diplomacy and less arrogance, there'd be plenty who held a grudge for some time after...but at least we'd stop making enemies faster than we can kill them. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

So how do you feel about the limited sharing of insider information (regarding publicly held companies)? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I wonder how many terrorist attacks have targeted the Japanese over the last 20 years... Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Cool, but it will not change the fact that three very top Dems thought SH had WMD's. And that tons of others also felt the same way. Most people also think they got a great deal on the last car they purchased. Facts be damned, it's the salesman's job to convince them of that. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Repo-men? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

GiaKrembs' ideal job is topless model...a much more honorable profession. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Why do you need to? You shouldn't NEED to be with someone...find out who you are on your own. Far too many people, in my humble opinion, rush out spear hunting for the next 'Significant Other', as if to be without one means the end of their life...and in doing so, become 'the hunter', and end up in train wreck after train wreck romance. (just what I've seen; your results may vary, blah blah blah...) I doubt he's interested in turning little suzie rottencrotch undergrad into his next 'Significant Other'. It's much more likely that he just wants to grudge-fuck her. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Don't think of it as being dumped...think of it as a cessation of nagging to be followed by an upgrade. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Yes, yes it is.

Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

220 miles Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I may be a blonde, but I'm pretty sure my score of 28 is higher than your score of 27. My score was in hex. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I haven't heard anyone slam Bush for being Christian. I have heard people slam him for saying God speaks to him and tells him what to do (or something similar to that). The former is a state of religiosity, the latter a state of idiocy. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I absolutely agree. Be it 18 or 21, with responsibility should come privileges and vice versa. And no more of this bullshit of trying minors as adults. If we don't think the sentencing guidelines allow strict enough sentencing for minors convicted of particularly abhorrent crimes, we should change the sentencing standards rather than redefining the word adult on a case-by-case basis. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Who decided he had this psychological need? How's that? So now our war is against Islam rather than terrorists? And on what foundation does she base the question of his loyalties, other than her amazingly brilliant conjecture above? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Anyone notice the Debbie Schlussel excerpt does not mention his middle name. Ironic. Did you not see the very last word of the text you quoted? Hint: It's in ALL CAPS. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Get out of my head...I was going to comment on the bureaucrat thing. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

So? If its that big of a deal go make the listing yourself. If a DZ doesn't care enough to post its own information on the largest skydiving website in the world, then that's their own problem. HH has made it straight forward in terms of listing a DZ and has left it up to DZOs and jumpers to make the listings. Seems simple enough to me and hundreds of DZs have been able to accomplish this without having their hand held. Unfortunately, when a DZ folds there's nobody charged with deleting the dz.com listing. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

We made the plutonium that ended WW2. In tribute, the mascot for the local high school is the Richland Bombers, and their "logo" is a mushroom cloud. How's that for politically correct? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)