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A bikini...? Touche'! Where's my gremlin for 'stepping in one'?

Substantial tax revenue? I'm highly suspicious of that compared to the overall costs of the loan + interest + secondary costs. Why is it you never get to see a decent cost/benefit analysis of sports teams? Probably because vested interests don't want you to. Sports teams aren't lucrative cash-cows for cities. They're entertainment and matters of pride for politicians and owners. How long has that one guys been fighting to get the details of the last stadium deal? Why can't they just fork over the numbers? Why did he have to go to court for years and years? Probably because the deal was an embarrassment.

I think you found a new t-shirt slogan for Gary. Hell, I could have used one in college too. :-)

Peter Punter? That's a new one. Don't be stupid. Bad news for America = Bad news for America. Spinning bad news into seeming good news = politics = bad for America.

If building/refurbing it the last time didn't help, why should it help them win now by throwing more money (ours) at them? Personally, I don't give a shite about pro sports, but I won't deny anyone else the 'pleasure'. Just don't be throwing good money after bad. Admittedly, part of me would derive a perverse pleasure from having the city tell one of these sports teams owners, 'You want to leave? Right, off with you then.' Hmm. Let me see. Schools or new basketball stadium? Hmm....

Do we have any third party verification of that?

PP, you might have missed a few of these precious articles on your favored web site: http://www.cato.org/current/federalspending/

Just remember friends: Behind every silver lining, there's a dark cloud! -- George Carlin

I don't believe it's pro sports, per se, that upsets him. I think rather it's the blatant corporate welfare that does. I liked what the Sonics owner said about the Seahawks. Something like 'see how a winning sports team can pull a community together'. I couldn't help but thinking a) if that were true, you wouldn't be threatening to leave unless we build you a shiny new venue with OUR money and b) you suck and you aren't winning (when you start winning consistently, talk to us about a new venue).

There was that possibility. :-)

Notice no citations for this insane figure.

I know!! Shouldn't she be at home making brownies and having babies 'n' shit? Jeez. The nerve of some women. Some people don't appreciate Cobra_Commander's finely honed sense of sarcasm, as well as his bitchin' James Earl Jones impersonation.

Hey! You're supposed to continue living in fear of terrorists and not worry about domestic policy.

Picked up some Alti Gloves for 30% off. They also have some Alti Mitts for 30% off but none in medium. Lots of other good gloves as well. Beats REI's crappy sale. + no tax

hey, one of the pleasures of getting older is having the right to bitch about how things used to be in the goold ole days. don't take that from me. ;-)

I was just being facetious with the acorn slippers comment. I'd vote for anyone who shook up the current crop of philistines running the place.

I would, but one of you would probably convict me of spamming your mail box. Besides, you wouldn't listen. You like your acorn slippers, don't ya?

It's just sad. I remember the days when they used to give some competition to Alaska Mountaineering and Hiking. Fortunately, like Feathered Friends and PMS, AMH is still there. Haven't been for several months of Sundays though.

ALL YOUR TEXT ARE BELONG TO US!

No, it's just denial. I can list a number of domestic policy things about the Bush administration that should be truly disturbing to just about anyone and I can never get die-hard Republicans to talk about them seriously. They're always go off on some tangent about terrorism or immigrants or Clinton or some such diversionary topic.

So, REI may have a rockin' return policy but they should stop selling themselves as anything like a climber's store. Was in the flagship store on Sunday killing time and wanted to look at some mountaineering boots to replace my 10 year old Scarpas. They had NOTHING ON DISPLAY. Nada. They didn't even have any in stock. That's just sad. Yeah I know...I can order it and return it if I don't like it but that's just shite. They give some crap about how it's 'expensive' to carry. BS. Can't spare a few square feet for some boots but we can have the WorldWraps and the Art Wolfe photogasm and the fake climbing penis and the empty cathedral ceilings. That they can afford.

Eh. Effin' modified reproduction.

C'mon. He's just exercising that ethos of 'personal responsibility' that the right is always making such a big stink about. He's going to be personally responsible for making sure he gets paid, whether he deserves it or not, and who the fcuk cares if anyone else does? I mean, if you're a senator and you can wield the big stick, what's the point?

25%, isn't that about the current obesity rate in America? The 9% must be the part that's on it's way there.