joemturner

Robertson's statement was dumb, insensitive, and an unwarranted extrapolation from a documented historical event... something that actually happened. (An "inconvenient truth?") It is clear from the reaction across the entire spectrum of religious and political thought that his remark does not even represent the beliefs of a majority of his own audience, much less most conservatives or most Americans. Glover's statement was dumb, insensitive, and an unwarranted extrapolation from what we now know to be not just incomplete, but in fact provably (and intentionally) falsified data. Sadly, I

BTW - I think this commit happened several days ago... did something new on this happen today?

Yes, that is huge. I respect Brett Favre's talent, if nothing else, and this kid seems to be all that and a bag of chips. I hope that this is just a further indication that the Mississippi State football program is (finally) turning the corner... Thanks for the shout out!

I remember when that was announced - sounded like an interesting topic!

Ditto.

And these were the girls that had on tops! The topless ones were all painted with flags and designs from the different countries where this company has offices. It was amazing - you really couldn't tell at first that they were bare -- it looked like they were wearing some kind of weird bodysuit. Then you realized that this was an amazing painting on their skin! It wasn't a "dirty stripper" thing -- it was truly amazing artwork and the designs were built around the curvature of their bodies.

"The Feminine Front" -- How the Civil War affected the lives of women on the home front. She focused specifically on Southern women. She did a lot of research about women who were nurses, spies, etc.! And her backboard looks just fantastic! (Not that I'm biased. I'm just going on what the judge said! )

My DD, Little Miss JMT, got first place on her social studies project and we went to the awards ceremony tonight. After all the medals were handed out, there were some special awards. It seems that a judge from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association comes in each year to review the projects and chooses the "Best in Fair" award. They give that student a nice check and invite them to a luncheon. The judge choose a very impressive high school science project for "Best in Fair" honors in that division. But... they said that he saw one middle school social science proje

I enjoyed Conan on Late Night. I haven't watched him on Tonight that much... part of his problem, I suppose. I understand he's changed it up a bit. I think he is more than capable and would probably be a different host in 2 years... just as Leno was, and as Carson was...

Don't know where to send you in Hiram, but congrats on the anniversary!

I saw Jay live a couple of times and met him once. Still, I'm on Team Conan as a result of this.

That's my "I'm really trying not to look but not succeeding at all" face.

Conan is odd. Jay is probably my preference between the two, but after this I can't watch him. It's like Brett Favre retiring and Barbra Streisand on a farewell tour... I have a classic Carson 3-dvd set... good stuff! He is one of my inspirations!

There seems to be a loophole -- Conan's contract didn't specify an airtime. So if he refuses to let them push "Tonight" to 12:05 and squeeze in Leno at 11:30, then they'll consider him in breach of contract. Leno and Letterman always specify time slots in their contracts; apparently Conan let this slip. It will probably make it all nice and legal for NBC, but the horrible PR they are getting... Honestly, I already can't stand the Today show anymore for all its blatant politics. NBC News has lost a lot of credibility. When Tim Russert died and that put that hack on Meet the Press, it w

TMZ and the NY Daily News are reporting a deal to put Leno back on the Tonight Show at 11:30. I liked Leno and Conan. Don't care for Letterman (an insufferable boor) even though I like some of his humor. But with the way this thing is playing out, my brand loyalty to the Tonight Show is going to suffer. I've tried to find the silver lining at NBC -- my favorite network as a kid -- for a long time. This is a horrible scar on the house that Carson built. I'll be following Conan, wherever he lands. He's getting a raw deal, imho.

I wondered what those little blue dots were... then I zoomed in and found that they were the street names! Holy smokes. Very user-unfriendly.

Yes, looks like the colors for Hiram and South are reversed. Distance from a school is no guarantee of district. The trick, as I understand it, is to try to create contiguous districts that divide the population by number, not by distance. Districting is really a function of the population of neighborhoods between schools, not just the distance from a school. We live near the stop sign off Ivey Gulledge. We'll be going to the new Abney next fall, and we are still in the North Paulding HS district even though I drive past East almost every day. I'm fine if we end up either place and

Here you go: http://bit.ly/67YCID

Talk about a place with NO infrastructure... even when help is given, it will be difficult to get it to the people who need it. Honestly - it makes Katrina look like a day in the park. Many of the poorest people in America would be considered well-to-do in Haiti. There are people in the US on government assistance who have cellular phones and cable. This is a wake up call about what poverty and tragedy really are. That photo is haunting me. Just a massive, massive disaster.

I've been on my knees today about this awful natural disaster. The photo on the front page of foxnews.com has had me specifically praying for parents who have lost children and/or a spouse.

I disagree with the idea that the use of the ignore feature is equivalent to a lack of maturity or the ability to walk away. It's just one nice way to clean up your own environment to a degree. An instant "you're invisible" ray is a nice way to spruce up the place when you don't have the technical power to actually take out the garbage.

I'm game. Age 3, in "Johnny Carson" mode Ages 1 and 2, at the piano

One other great function would be to ignore a topic once it's created.

I believe you can still search them via Google. But you can't search them directly on Facebook.

They cannot tell that their posts are being ignored. Except by the fact that they aren't getting responses. A lot of people have me on ignore -- maybe not on their technical ignore LIST, but at least casually ignored! If you ignore a person's private messages, it would become more obvious. Note that there are a couple of things about the ignore feature that are kind of nit-picky: 1. Topics started by people you ignore still appear in topic lists. I'd love to see that changed so that I could completely ignore some nonsense. 2. When other people include quotes from your ignored us