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By Big Tent Democrat, Section Blog Related
Posted on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 12:44:14 PM EST
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Florida football coach Urban Meyer announced yesterday he was resigning due to health reasons. The shock in the Gator Nation is great.

The NFL is in action today. 3 wins yesterday got me back to .500 during the college bowl season.

As Jeralyn has documented, al Qaida related terrorism is back in the forefront of the news.

This is an Open Thread.

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    Another good one from THE ONE. (5.00 / 2) (#23)
    by lentinel on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 07:10:28 PM EST
    "The only bills that I voted for, for the most part, since I've been in the Senate were introduced by Republicans or George Bush."

    - Barack Obama on the campaign trail.

    Ewwwww........self proclaimed (5.00 / 1) (#31)
    by Militarytracy on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 09:33:47 PM EST
    feminist of the first house and proudly forever self acknowledged PhD'd Miss Laura, confesses that she loves "romance" novels and ripping bodices encasing weak women and rape fantasies.  That splains so much to me :)  Capt Howdy's movie was wonderful, exactly what a Joshua would order.  My husband will be home soon, I need to keep those silk scarves handy that I like to tie him up with :)

    Wow! Short deployment? (5.00 / 1) (#32)
    by Inspector Gadget on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 10:34:44 PM EST
    I thought all deployments were at least a year. Really glad he gets to return while his newest granddaughter is still so new. Josh must be really eager to have his dad back home. Little man took on a lot of big information while his dad was gone.

    Oh, who's Miss Laura?

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    He's a schpooky schpook now (none / 0) (#34)
    by Militarytracy on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 10:55:54 PM EST
    Different deployments and lengths and stuff :) Miss Laura outted herself and she is Laura Clawson now.  We disagree on "feminist" issues, and rolling over and taking it how you don't want it simply to empower an Orange blog's desire to win an election :) I still have a couple of months left before my husband gets home but I was just reading and commenting in Eugene's diary about freeing your inner liberal and never putting it in the closet again.  Then Miss Laura's diary comes up on the front page....ewwww!  Once again I could not be further from accepting Miss Laura's standards, and then my freed inner liberal said that my husband has been a very very bad boy.

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    Okay BTD (none / 0) (#1)
    by Militarytracy on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 12:50:32 PM EST
    I need you or someone who understands the college football scene to splain something to me.  Say you have a football athlete coming out of the West.  Not a populated state, but he appears so to maybe have amazing talent, really amazing talent!  He has met with all the local state colleges in the West and they tell him that they are broke and they are afraid of what the "upkeep" on him could be (I thought college ball was nonprofit for the players outside of scholarship) so they think they will pass.  What does that mean, what is going on?

    Depends (none / 0) (#7)
    by Socraticsilence on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 01:59:02 PM EST
    if he actively wants money (or indirect benefits like housing and employment for family/posse) or if he thinks the training facilites are crap

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    Hmmmm (none / 0) (#12)
    by Militarytracy on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 02:24:26 PM EST
    Sounds like his parents have injected themselves heavily into things then.  Sad, I figured as much.  I couldn't figure out why the state college wasn't jumping all over themselves with joy.  His mother......well, I could go on and on all day

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    Did the WH really say this? (none / 0) (#2)
    by oculus on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 12:55:27 PM EST
    The Connecticut senator said that an administration official told him that "Iraq was yesterday's war, Afghanistan is today's war. If we don't act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow's war."

    The Hill

    Somebody should tell him (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by cawaltz on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 01:33:09 PM EST
    that there are onlyt so many people serving in the US military. Unless he and Congress truly want to jump off a precipice with a draft I don't see how we keep up the pace.

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    The problems in Yemen are being (none / 0) (#33)
    by Militarytracy on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 10:47:37 PM EST
    addressed.  Nobody needs to worry about that too much.......but please, don't notice how bad your life sucks and notice that we are keeping you safe from the unnamed terrors that made Hitchcock famous.

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    Here's a post (none / 0) (#36)
    by Militarytracy on Mon Dec 28, 2009 at 09:26:33 AM EST
    about a "Yemen Party".

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    It's about time! (none / 0) (#4)
    by ChiTownDenny on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 01:35:00 PM EST
    Sen. Tom Harkin to (re)introduce filibuster reform.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/14/tom-harkin-to-introduce-l_n_391188.html

    That's absurd (none / 0) (#6)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 01:48:13 PM EST
    Stupidest thing I have ever heard.

    It is absurd. (none / 0) (#8)
    by Tony on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 02:02:13 PM EST
    But I can't say it is all that exciting.  When I heard last night that Meyer would be taking a non-coaching job with the school, I wondered if this would be the eventual outcome.  What coach in their right mind would have wanted to take the job with the uber-popular Urban Meyer looking over their shoulder?

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    And by "exciting..." (none / 0) (#9)
    by Tony on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 02:02:48 PM EST
    I mean "surprising."  Don't know what is wrong with me.

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    I've been hearing he (none / 0) (#10)
    by Socraticsilence on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 02:08:38 PM EST
    could pull a Coach K and take a year off to rejuvenate his health.

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    Ok crazy idea (none / 0) (#11)
    by Socraticsilence on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 02:14:02 PM EST
    Spurrier's on his legs at USC, offer him a 3 year deal in Gainesville, a repair/cement the legacy gig in which Meyer gets time to recover.

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    Stupid... (none / 0) (#20)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 06:13:18 PM EST
    ...but true.

    Oh, and Tewbow cried again.

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    It's time to face up to the upopular facts. (none / 0) (#13)
    by ChiTownDenny on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 02:25:16 PM EST
    Blue haired old ladies don't strap explosive material to their bodies.  Why do they need to remove their shoes?
    (twopeat)

    It's (none / 0) (#25)
    by lentinel on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 07:13:57 PM EST
    not a good idea to challenge the blue-haired among us.

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    Deja vu all over again (none / 0) (#14)
    by jbindc on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 03:17:55 PM EST
    Same Amsterdam-Detroit flight had another problem.  This time - a "verbally disruptive; passenger who spent over an hour in the bathroom.

    Just landed in FL (none / 0) (#15)
    by andgarden on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 03:33:33 PM EST
    No more than usual TSA hell.

    Welcome! Enjoy FL - spend lots of money here! (none / 0) (#16)
    by ruffian on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 04:59:14 PM EST


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    heh (none / 0) (#17)
    by andgarden on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 05:07:47 PM EST


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    Good to hear! (none / 0) (#27)
    by Militarytracy on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 07:18:08 PM EST
    Have fun

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    Ivana Trump was removed from her flight for (none / 0) (#18)
    by Inspector Gadget on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 05:42:54 PM EST
    complaining and swearing at some kids running up and down the aisle on an airplane, too.
    If I spoke my mind in the air (none / 0) (#19)
    by andgarden on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 05:50:55 PM EST
    I would expect the same result.

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    It's a bit different than recent events (none / 0) (#21)
    by Inspector Gadget on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 06:22:27 PM EST
    on flights, though. Trend was that mothers with unruly children were the ones taken off the flight.


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    How on earth are they going to deal with (5.00 / 1) (#22)
    by nycstray on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 07:04:48 PM EST
    these kids during the last hour lock down?!

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    Not to mention... (none / 0) (#24)
    by lentinel on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 07:12:25 PM EST
    nature's calls do not necessarily correspond to a predetermined schedule.

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    For those of us that like to sleep (none / 0) (#28)
    by nycstray on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 07:38:20 PM EST
    on long flights, waking up usually is followed by a trip to the restroom, for nature and to freshen up.

    I'm going to be one heck of a B*tch the next time someone greets me at the airport {grin}

    I wonder if you're sleeping with a blanket, if they will wake you up and make you remove the blanket?

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    They will. (none / 0) (#29)
    by shoephone on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 08:42:12 PM EST
    A man interviewed at an airport last night (by CBS News I believe) said they took away his blanket during the flight.

    These new rules are going to backfire very quickly.

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    Oops wrong open thread first (none / 0) (#26)
    by Militarytracy on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 07:16:54 PM EST
    I'll try again.  We are watching Capt Howdy's movie now, and making baked ravioli.

    Wouldn't be the first team Meyer left in a hole (none / 0) (#30)
    by rdandrea on Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 09:14:19 PM EST
    But his health is most important.

    Sex offender laws (none / 0) (#35)
    by jbindc on Mon Dec 28, 2009 at 08:29:35 AM EST
    Apparently too weak in yet another case. Very sad, especially as this could have been prevented.

    Not even a full day after police found the body of an 11-year-old girl who was kidnapped, authorities say, by a registered sex offender, the Salisbury tragedy was spotlighted by Maryland activists who consider the state's child protection laws inadequate.

    Jerry Norton, who heads Citizens for Jessica's Law in Maryland, a group that for years has fought to fortify laws against pedophiles, was calling lawmakers Saturday, underscoring his position.

    "My heart goes out to the friends and family of this 11-year-old child," he said. "We need to make it clear to citizens of Maryland that we are not going to let these pedophiles molest our children with just a slap on wrist. We're tired of these watered-down sentences -- they come out and do it again."

    On Christmas, police found the body of Sarah Haley Foxwell after a search that brought 3,000 of her Wicomico County neighbors together to comb fields and forests.

    Police said the girl had been taken from her bedroom Tuesday night by a registered sex offender, Thomas James Leggs Jr., who has been held since Wednesday in the abduction. Leggs briefly dated the girl's aunt, who had custody of her and her two siblings.

    SNIP

    Leggs, 30, is listed in the Maryland registry because of a third-degree sex offense conviction in 1998.

    In Delaware, he is listed as a "high-risk" sex offender in connection with the rape of a minor in 2001.

    And yet, he was out.

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