Fortunately, they do come out the other side, and with patience and lots of deep breathing on parents' part, emerge from it all as wonderful human beings.

And they let him roast.

Just on the basis of - gee - we have to have some credibility in these plea bargain scenarios ---

Seems to me that the good old supreme court has let some poor souls fry in similar circumstances - new evidence, but nobody filed in time... so pull the switch.

Now those shackles have fallen off and we are seeing the results.

Maybe your right and once things work themselves out, which means lots more killing and hopefully not with us involved, we can enter a Cold War type arrangement with that part of the world.

For good or bad though our state department and politicians never seem to see it that way so I predict unfortunately we'll be knee deep in it for years to come.

 But once he's got it then what do we do?   Once again our military will get an unclear mission, terrible rules of engagement and will just kill a bunch of people without achieving any objectives that mean anything.

The Daily Beast's Michael Daly posted an article in which he lectures his readers about physics of air pressure and temperature Yet he can't explain how Sunday's temperature in Foxboro mysteriously only affected the air pressure in the balls on the Patriots' sideline, and not on the Colts' side of the field -- so he simply ignored that inconvenient fact.

Joe Namath was "cocky," but, you saw what he did with the Colts.

Richard Sherman is "cocky," and, until someone shuts him up on the field, he has every right to his cockiness. (is that a word, lol?)

I know it can't be done, but I wish there was some way to rate quarterbacks by taking the quality, and, performance of their receivers into account. I mean, a quarterback can make a perfect throw, and hit his receivers in the hands with the ball, if the receivers drops it, the quarterback is nailed with an incomplete pass. And, yet, if the QB throws a "duck" that only Spiderman could catch, yet his receiver manages to come down with it, the QB is credited with a completion.

I've been hot like that before.  Obviously not on that level but in a game my senior year of HS I scored 48 points on 20-24 FG shots and was 8-8 from the FT line.  I did not shoot a single 3 pointer but made shots from uner the basket out to 18-20 feet.  Mostly a 15ft baseline shot that I kept getting because the opposing team stuck with a zone and that was the weak spot.

When you are hot your confidence and mind are in perfect harmony.  If compare it to a runners high.

You don't think about your shot motion, setting your feet, squaring your shoulders to the hoop or all the things a good shooter works on and focuses on in practice.

That first shot or two goes down and you feel like it was effortless, the next two go down just as easy and you tell your teammates to get you the ball because tonight is your night.  Then your teammates start showing signs that they sense it and will get you the ball and the opponent starts trying to be more aggressive with you and the confidence continues to build and each shot keeps falling and the ones that do miss do so just barely and feel as good as the rest.

What I think the statistics show is that kind of mental state is random and impossible to sustain.   Good shooters are good shooters because they've got both talent and work tirelessly on the fundamentals of their jump shot.  For a good shooter they are closer to that state more often but again it's just not achievable on a nightly basis.  You can't shoot 80-90% from the field for very long.  

But every once and a while it all comes together and you get a game like Clay had or I had or Christian Lattner had against UK when he didn't miss a shot from the floor or the line including the iconic game winner.

Organization Studies

What I find so amusing about this debate is those putting forth the theory of AGW get to decide who are qualified to discuss the findings.  

If you don't fall in line then you're either a shill for big oil or you're not qualified because you're not a certain kind of scientist.    And in some cases even if you were a former believer and a climate scientist your opinion still doesn't count.

Nonetheless AGW is passed a debate worth having.  You're either a believer or you're not. There is no convincing one to be the other.  

For me I have to do that when I watch Michael Moore films.  If I go into the film thinking this guys a crazy Commie with an agenda to push and I'm not going to be very open to his ideas and his points.  

Nobody can be wrong about everything. So if you go in with an open mind you're much more likely to pick out the rings of truth and the facts that will challenge your opinion if you do so with a blank slate.

Another example is why Slado continues to blog on the site. If I wanted to hear my own opinions talked back to me there are tons of different blogs I can go to and enjoy myself talking back to myself.

But I'd much rather read posts from people that have a totally different perspective than me and learn things that I would otherwise not learn and challenge my positions as they become more mature from experiencing a different point of view.

All that being said you don't have to do it,  you can do whatever you want.

If you don't want $hi$ like this happening, you don't commit the military.  Period.  

Last I heard, the architect of this $hit$torm, Dubya W. Dumbf***, was painting doggie pictures.

But Eastwood's film is first and foremost about the soldiers who fought in Iraq, and not about the war's underlying politics. If people want to actively engage me regarding the movie's subject matter, then they should please do me the courtesy of actually seeing it first.

And for what it's worth, I've read refs saying that it's not that they didn't notice, it's that there's so much else going on that they have to stay on top of that pretty much all they're doing is making sure the ball has the mark on it that the head ref put on it at the beginning of the game.

But look, are you really trying to tell us that as long as no one notices this or any other infraction that goes to the heart of the competition that, hey, no big deal?

So far, I've heard that it didn't matter because no one noticed, that it didn't matter because the Pats could have been throwing watermelons and they'd still have beaten the Colts, that it didn't matter because the QBs should be able to play with the footballs to the specifications they prefer.

Even Belichick, responding to a question about Spygate, summed up how he feels about that controversy by saying that, what, it was okay for 80,000 people in the stands to see the other team's signals, but he couldn't tape it?  What does that tell you about Belichick's dedication to playing the game fairly?  

And after you listen to or read Belichick's long and involved description of the testing the Patriots did on their own in the last week, and the emphasis on what changes in temperature can do to the pressure, maybe you should wonder why he failed to mention that the Patriots' balls were the only ones that seemed to be affected, which - call me crazy - would seem to eliminate the air temperature as the reason the balls were underinflated.

I think this was Brady.  I think Belichick's beside himself that his career is flashing in front of his eyes, and he's going out of his way to try to get people to STFU about the whole thing.

These are enormously talented athletes and coaches who don't need to cheat, so if they did, why did they do it - again?  Because they are arrogant, because they want to go out on top, because they can.  Because they didn't think anyone would notice.

Just do me a favor and make up your mind whether you want the sport to be played fairly, or if you're okay with cheating as long as no one gets caught, or no one notices.

All these things is why they're having an investigation. So, why isn't that good enough for anyone here?

Because Belichick and Brady keep coming to the microphone and saying the most ridiculous things that make us all laugh.

Today if we believe Belichick we have to believe that the cold weather in Foxborough only affects Patriot footballs, not Colt footballs, and only 11 of the 12 balls that Brady picks out.

There's got to be magic in that weather up there I tell ya that only affects half the field at a time.