BERIGAN

We must scare them off!!! But, we are soooo cool! Anyway, it's sad to see how long she's been off here, but in the small chance she does check in, hope you are having a very happy birthday, and will have 50+ more happy ones!!!!

I don't know, but if it is, somebody just got 1200 grains of rice. 2330, for me...guess I just have a bigger heart than you.... No really, I must!

So, when you can't see your lovely breasts, logic returns.....just like real life!

One thing about Lester pitching though. He hasn't pitched more than 4 1/3 innings since Sept 18th! Out of boredom, I looked up some of the Rockies starters. Interesting splits, IMHO.... Jeff Francis..... 4.20 ERA home, 4.24 on the road. Ubaldo Jimenez 3.81 ERA at Home (in 49 innings) 5.01 on the road, in 32 innings. Josh Fogg, 5.97 ERA home, 4.15 ERA on the road.

surprised it hasn't been mentioned here before....hope everyone is aok!

Interesting, actual interest in the WS without a NY or L.A. team???? One well known team, one basically unknown??? Thought that only happened in football.... Baseball scores for Fox Series lifts network to victory over ABC, NBC By RICK KISSELL, RICK KISSELL, JOHN DEMPSEY The Cleveland Indians-Boston Red Sox matchup garnered Fox the most-watched ALCS since 2004. Fox Sports is riding a wave of momentum -- and heightened advertiser interest -- into the World Series after the seventh and deciding game of the Red Sox-Indians series scored big numbers Sunday night. The Boston Red Sox will take on the Colorado Rockies in the Fall Classic beginning Wednesday night. Boston has a large national following while the Rockies are a great Cinderella story: Left for dead for most of summer, the young team rallied to become the last squad to qualify for the postseason and then swept the opening two rounds of the playoffs. The matchup has caught the attention of advertisers, who shell out big bucks to reach young adults for DVR-proof programming like live sports. Fox reported Monday that it has sold out the first five games of the World Series at a record rate of $400,000 a spot. "I've never seen a sales environment that's so hot for post-season baseball," said Ed Goren, president of Fox Sports, in a conference call with reporters. "Advertisers are lined up so deep to buy time that my sales guys are asking me if we could come up with a Game 8." Nielsen estimates that an average aud of 19 million viewers watched the Boston Red Sox cap their rally in the best-of-seven series with an 11-2 victory on Sunday. That made it the most-watched program of the night -- besting "Desperate Housewives" on ABC and "Sunday Night Football" on NBC -- and will help Fox win the week's primetime ratings race among young adults and total viewers. For the entire American League Championship Series, Fox averaged 11.6 million viewers -- 49% over last year (7.8 million for Detroit-Oakland). This makes it the most-watched ALCS since the boffo Red Sox-New York Yankees matchup in 2004, which also went seven games. From Fox's perspective, one of the big advantages this year is that the first game will take place on Wednesday instead of Saturday, as in previous years, Goren said. Viewing levels are higher on Wednesday than Saturday, and "we'll get more of a sports-page buildup to the Series because baseball is not competing directly with weekend college football and the NFL," he said. Also, the Wednesday start means that if the Series goes to a sixth and seventh game on Wednesday (Oct. 31) and Thursday (Nov. 1), Fox's sales staff will have two days to sell the time (Tuesday and Wednesday), not one day (Friday) when Game 6 takes place on a Saturday, as in previous years. Goren said that Fox exceeded its ad-revenue projections for the 26 regular-season Saturday-afternoon games, as well as for the All-Star Game and the American League Championship Series, which went seven games this year. TBS' ratings were subpar for the National League Championship Series, in which Colorado drubbed Phoenix in four games, but Goren said TBS will be able to sell next year's series off the Fox's American League ratings: TBS and Fox alternate the league games each season, so TBS gets the American League in 2008. Goren said Fox has come out ahead in relinquishing all of the primetime divisional playoffs and one of the two league championships to TBS for the first time. Move was made in part to avoid disrupting viewing patterns for Fox's primetime lineup of shows, which were sidelined for a few weeks when Fox aired all three rounds of the postseason. Instead of a problem, the World Series and one of the League Championships become a promotional vehicle for the Fox shows, which "come back stronger than ever on the back of baseball," Goren said. Sunday's Game 7, meanwhile, figures to come in with about a 6.7 rating/16 share in adults 18-49 and 19 million viewers overall. While ABC's "Desperate Housewives" scored a bigger demo rating (roughly 7.2/16), baseball drew more viewers than the sudser (17.9 million) as well as outdelivering the Denver Broncos-Pittsburgh Steelers nailbiter on NBC (roughly 13.3 million viewers). Boston led all metered-markets with a 52.9 rating/71 share, with WFXT's viewing peaking at a whopping 86 share at 11:45 p.m. when the game ended. Nearby Providence came in second with a 42.6/56, followed by Cleveland (37.9/53), Hartford (25.6/39), Columbus (18.7/29), St. Louis (15.7/22) and New York (14.9/23). Game also did a healthy 14.3/20 in the Rockies' hometown of Denver (vs. a 32.7/46 for the Broncos on NBC). If there's a fifth game of the best-of-seven World Series, Denver sports fans will be forced to choose between the Broncos and Rockies: Fox's baseball coverage would directly oppose ESPN's "Monday Night Football" matchup between the Broncos and Green Bay Packers -- with both games played in Denver. http://www.variety.com/VR1117974482.html

Well, I seem to recall Colorado coming into Fenway and the Sox losing 2 of 3 and being outscored 21 to 4....of course, Colorado isn't in there yet. Phils are now tied with the Mets for first place!!!!! If they had ANY pitching, they would be an amazing team in the playoffs!! Goodspeak, I was on the Colorado bandwagon before you were! Dan, IF Colorado hadn't had 8 days off, I'd say they could give the Red Sox a run for their money....but, that is a long time off. I don't know how'd they hit Becket with just 2 days off, but 8??? I say the Sox in 6.....

Have a great one!

A rational scheme? Not quite sure what you mean by that....Are you saying it's too cheap per gallon? I guess we could up the price some, but I feel that would be too little too late...Most people haven't been able to water their lawns for most of this year. Can't wash cars anymore, and probably won't be able to til next year at the very earliest. We can take shorter showers, but most people don't want to stop flushing toilets. For many a year all you can get is low flow shower heads, and toilets. Businesses on the other hand... at least up til a few weeks ago, I would see them running their sprinklers all the time to water a 2, 3 foot strip of grass We are a city growing faster than any other large city in the nation, and no one has been planning for what can/will happen with this kind of growth. Plus, Gatorade is the largest water user in Atlanta. And as I have mentioned a few times, the Army Corp of Engineers seem hell bent on draining the lake, or at least pumping it to a point water pressure will be non existent. For all the screw ups mentioned in the last article, they screwed up last year as well and dumped billions and billions of gallons of water to help some sturgeon, not realizing that they had measured the water level incorrectly! We are in a drought, a terrible one. We have been in and out of droughts for most of this century, and you just think that people at the state and Federal level would have a clue on how to handle this situation better. Beri, What I meant was... I know that in California and lots of other places, water is heavily subsidized to at least some users. (In Cal and Israel, farmers pay an tiny fraction of what others do.) I do not know if Atlanta residents pay the actual cost of the water they use, but yes, some sort of hike in the price of water would help alleviate some of the problems with the shortage and also potentially generate a market-driven solution to the water shortage. Guy Guy, It would be interesting to see a comparison of water usage per household vs. big cities in California. Also the price per gallon here vs. elsewhere. One just gets the feeling no matter what is done, it's going to be akin to Closing the barn door after the cows are gone. Conserving water will help, but it's kinda hard to convince people like my Dad to shut the water off while brushing your teeth, when you hear on the news that the Army Corp of Engineers is letting 1 billion gallons of water flow thru the dam a day, double what the lake takes in. Funny, when we visited my 86 year old uncle in L.A. in August, he and other folks were saying how very, very dry it was this year, no real rain last winter, very dire situation....but, like clockwork on went the sprinkers every day, middle of the day, his house, other neighbors houses....water running into the streets. It was much greener there, than it was here. And we haven't been able to water after 10 AM for a few years here(Or after 8 pm)

I double dog dare anyone to read all the crap I just wrote above! Or the page before....

Quincy, It's true he won't find that kind of money, but to cut a guy's salary by 25%, when likely no other manager could get a team to come back from as far down as they were(I am sure you remember, they lost almost all their starters early on, doesn't matter how big your budget is if you haven't any healthy guys) is an insult. Not like the team came in 3rd. Acting like he can make the same money, IF they get thru all rounds, nope...insulting. Hey, Andruw Jones thinks he is going to get a 5-6 Million dollar raise after hitting around .220....Torre had a much better year. Feel sorry for him, and I really hope that the Yankees have a .500 season next year after losing Jorge, A-Rod and Mariano...... You can't give a manager credit for bringing a team back, when it's the same manager that had the bad start. Why not? They had a bad start because every single starting pitcher out of spring training was on the DL at some point during the first half. Remember who their opening day pitcher was??? Carl Pavano! Just trying to remember some of the names, and time they were on the DL, found this article from April, about a game Mussina left with a hamstring injury..... Nineteen-game winner Chien-Ming Wang already is on the disabled list with a strained right hamstring, pitching prospects Jeff Karstens and Humberto Sanchez are also out, and fifth starter Darrell Rasner left his first outing early because of a blister. And left fielder Hideki Matsui has a strained left hamstring, too, which sent him to the DL on Sunday. All I know, is the last 2 years, stat freaks pulled out all their tricks to show how teams simply do not come back from as far behind as the Yankees were, even in June....but, they did come back, both years. Torre's players do not quit, even when common sense says, there's no way to win, even the Wildcard. After all, it's coming out of the AL central this year(Remember that talk?) Even Red Sox fans had to begrudgingly give credit to the way A-Rod and Jeter kept playing banged up, while Manny took a month off.... Do you think the Rockie's have great manager for winning 20 of the last 21 games? Is he now worth 5 million? If the Rockies win 4 of the next 5 WS, he sure is! It's the players. Really? Let me tell you about a certain team in the south, the braves. 3rd base, Chipper Jones. Battled injuring, but the future HOF'er just missed a batting title, hitting .337 with 29 HR's, and 105 RBI's Our SS Edgar Renteria missed some time as well, but hit .332. After missing all of the 2006 season, Kelly Johnson had a good year at 2nd, hitting .276 (.375 OBP) with 16 HR's and 68 RBI's. He would sit against some lefties for most of the 2nd half, so the second coming of Derek Jeter(Rookie Yunel Escobar) could play when not filling in for the injured Renteria. His .326 average in 312 AB's will be why the Braves will trade their .332 hitting SS this winter. 1st base was a black hole for much of the season, till Mark Texiera showed up, and all he did in 54 games was hit .317 with 17 HR's and 56 RBI's!!!! Behind the plate is one of the best young catchers(At least hitting wise) in the game, Brian McCann. Hit 270, but drove in 92 RBI's. In left, Willie Harris and Matt Diaz combined to hit around .300 for the year. Andruw Jones had a terrible, terrible year, hit only .222, but still managed to hit 26 HR's and drive in 94 RBI's. Right Field belongs to Jeff Francoeur "Frenchy" has about the best arm in RF, and at the tender age of 23, has had back to back seasons driving in 100 or more RBI's. Raised his average 33 points from 2006. And the team has some starting pitching as well. Tim Hudson finally looked like the great AL pitcher he was a few years back, 16-10 ERA 3.33. Still not the ace of this staff though. That is John Smoltz, who even at 40 struck out 197 in 205 innings, going 14-8 (Bullpen blew many games he left with a lead, and team scored 1 run or less in 7 of his losses) 3.11 ERA. The rest of the staff was kind of dicey, but with a pretty good bullpen, we had a team ERA of 4.11, 3rd best in the NL!!!!! So, what did this team do during the season??? They went 84-78, 3rd in the NL east. Why??? Those players look pretty good, don't they??? One reason. Booby Cox. Once a decent manager, now a complete nincompoop. He easily lost the team 10-12 games all by himself! How? By resting guys 2-3 at a time, just handing the other team a win. Usually on getaway day, nothing like starting a roadtrip after a loss! By batting Andruw Jones 4th for most of the year, only to briefly take him out of cleanup when his BA went below .200. But, after a few games, he was right back in there swinging at sliders 2 feet outside. By wearing out the pen bringing guys in for meaningless games , then having to use them the next 3 nights in the close ones! Using Wickman as a closer on the road, where his ERA was about 7 times higher than it was at home. (wait, 0.35 ERA at home, 7.03 away, someone do the math for me, I am sick as a dog and can't do math right now!) By forcing a trade of Macay McBride , our ONLY leftie in the bullpen, cuz he walked a few guys to start an inning off. A cardinal sin in Booby's eyes. Hack at a low outside pitch up 3-1 in the count, and hit into a dp? Hey, guy's just trying to get a hit! But walk a guy? To Detroit with you! At least we got a lefty Wilfredo Ledezma , who had a nice 7.71 ERA for us!!! And who lefties hit better than righties! Having losers like Chris Woodward get 137 AB's for the club, while hitting .199 for the year! And he sucked as a defensive replacement! But, he was our go to guy when we needed a Pinch hitter. Surely, any ol' Minor leaguer could do that or better! By bringing Former #1 pick Joey Divine up 6-7 times this season, but only letting him pitch 8 Innings! (1.02 ERA) He's the guy the genius Cox put into 2 games his rookie year, fresh out of college....with the bases loaded! he gave up grand slams in both games. That was 2005, so who knows if he is completely ruined. Has only pitched in 19 Innings in 3 years. Walks some guys, so most likely will stay at AAA. There are plenty, yes plenty of guys who would be willing to manage the Yankees. Girardi had a great year managing the Marlins and he was sacked the next year. I'm sure he'd take 2 million or less and coach the Yankees. I'm sure you are right, it will be a high paying job, with a chance to win. Unless Mo, Petitte, A-Rod, and Jorge chose to play elsewhere. Then, after a 24-32 start, the new manager will be the first guy fired in 2008. A 25% salary cut isn't much, when you consider he was making more than 100% more than any other coach. A 5 million offer was still alot more than other managers get in the same world. True enough, but let's say I was your boss, you got a tons of new accounts for me for several years, more than anyone else working for me, and I was paying you 100,000 a year for 3 years. (You started at 50 K 5 years earlier) Then you have a few decent years, but you don't have the highest number anymore within the company. So, I tell you I will give you one more year to reach the numbers you did a few years back, but you have to take a 33 % pay cut, with the chance thru bonuses to get back the salary you were at last year....you wouldn't feel insulted? Like you weren't really trying last year, so you need some financial motivation now? With an axe hanging over your head? Hey, it's not the end of the world, I'm not even a Yankee fan, but Torre is a class act, who has done nothing but win, with a bunch of players that don't always mix(Sheffield is a classic loser, great in the regular season, but always a strikeout victim with the playoff game on the line) Wow. Did I ever write a lot! Well, couldn't sleep with my lungs all constricted by a cold, but may be able to after this epic, pointless post of mine! Thanks!

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I first noticed this about 6 years ago on some cds from the tiny Swing Time Records label. A Ray Miller Cd, an Adrian Rollini cd as well, I think. A few later ones were not CD-r's....

are the beams made in China? Perhaps it just needed another coat of lead paint. All the advancements in technology, and bridges built 70-100 years ago are still better built than those of today.

Water shortages over the course of an entire century are not droughts. They're climate. You're overbuilt. We are overbuilt...but when I said this century, I meant THIS century, 21st... not the last 100 years. I guess I should have said most of this decade, or since the the 00's... since 20 ought 1, til ought 7!

So reassuring.... And the Corps of Engineers show again that to say they are dumber than dirt, is truly an insult to dirt.... No Backup if Atlanta's Faucets Run Dry Email this Story Oct 19, 5:14 PM (ET) By GREG BLUESTEIN (AP) An exposed lake bed is shown at Lake Lanier in Buford, Ga., Friday, Oct. 12, 2007. Rivers... ATLANTA (AP) - With the South in the grip of an epic drought and its largest city holding less than a 90-day supply of water, officials are scrambling to deal with the worst-case scenario: What if Atlanta's faucets really do go dry? So far, no real backup plan exists. And there are no quick fixes among suggested solutions, which include piping water in from rivers in neighboring states, building more regional reservoirs, setting up a statewide recycling system or even desalinating water from the Atlantic Ocean. "It's amazing that things have come to this," said Ray Wiedman, owner of an Atlanta landscaper business. "Everybody knew the growth was coming. We haven't had a plan for all the people coming here?" Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue seems to be pinning his hopes on a two-pronged approach: urging water conservation and reducing water flowing out of federally controlled lakes. (AP) Tony Davis uses a metal detector scan the exposed lake bed at West Bank Park on Lake Lanier in... Full Image Perdue's office on Friday asked a Florida federal judge to force the Army Corps of Engineers to curb the amount of water draining from Georgia reservoirs into Alabama and Florida. And Georgia's environmental protection director is drafting proposals for more water restrictions. But that may not be enough to stave off the water crisis. More than a quarter of the Southeast is covered by an "exceptional" drought - the National Weather Service's worst drought category. The Atlanta area, with a population of 5 million, is smack in the middle of the affected region, which extends like a dark cloud over most of Tennessee, Alabama and the northern half of Georgia, as well as parts of North and South Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia. State officials warn that Lake Lanier, a 38,000-acre north Georgia reservoir that supplies more than 3 million residents with water, is already less than three months from depletion. Smaller reservoirs are dropping even lower, forcing local governments to consider rationing. State water managers say there is more water available in the lake's reserves. But tapping into it would require the use of barges, emergency pumps and longer water lines. And some lawmakers fear if the lake is drained that low, it may be impossible to refill. The Corps, which manages the water in the region, stresses there's no reason to think Atlanta will soon run out of water. "We're so far away from that, nobody's doing a contingency plan," said Major Daren Payne, the deputy commander of the Corps' Mobile office. "Quite frankly, there's enough water left to last for months. We've got a serious drought, there's no doubt about it, anytime you deplete your entire storage pool and tap into the reserve." But, he said, any calls to stockpile bottled water would be "very premature." Still, some academics and politicians are proposing contingency plans in case the situation worsens. Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin said the region should explore piping in additional sources of water - possibly from the Tennessee or Savannah rivers. She even suggested desalinating sea water from Georgia's Atlantic coast. "We need to look beyond our borders," she said. (AP) Map shows drought conditions in U.S.; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101.6 mm Full Image Former Gov. Roy Barnes, a Democrat who was defeated in 2002, told reporters this week that he had planned to offer grants to fix leaks that waste millions of gallons of water each year. He also said he planned to build three new state reservoirs in north and west Georgia to help insulate the state from a future water crisis. But those plans died when he left office. "Los Angeles added 1 million people without increasing their water supply," he told reporters. "And if Los Angeles can do it, I'll tell you Georgia can." It seems the idea of building state reservoirs is gaining steam in the Legislature as Georgia's battle with the Corps over federal reservoirs heats up. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle said he favors building more regional reservoirs shared by multiple communities to harness the 50 trillion gallons of water that fall over Georgia each year. "You can see that if we can just manage the rainfall and utilize that and make sure that we have abundant storage for it, we can take care of our needs well into the future," said Cagle, a Republican from Gainesville, the largest city on Lake Lanier. Some academics say Georgia should start using more "purple water" - waste water that is partially treated and can be used for irrigation, fire fighting and uses other than drinking. That would conserve lake water and help replenish the water-supply system. Such measures could make Georgia "drought-proof," said Todd Rasmussen, a professor of hydrology and water resources at the University of Georgia. "People have got to start thinking in this direction," said Rasmussen. "You can't wear out water. It's clearly an opportunity that needs to be explored." The drought has led to extreme conservation measures. Virtually all outdoor watering across was banned across the northern half of the state, restaurants were asked to serve water only at a customer's request and the governor called on Georgians to take shorter showers. Carol Couch, the state's environmental director, said it's "very likely" new limits on water usage are needed. Scorching summer temperatures and a drier-than-normal hurricane season fueled the drought. State climatologist David Stooksbury said it will take months of above average rainfall to replenish the system. He is now predicting the drought could worsen if "La Nina" conditions develop and bring little winter rainfall. "I tell people we need 40 days and 40 nights," he said with a sigh. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071019/D8SCHTI00.html

Wouldn't even know of this, except for seeing this mentioned on the Turner Classic movie forum! I know, not a great singer by any stretch, Not a jazz singer in most of our minds, but still was quite famous in her day.....and you wouldn't confuse her voice with anyone else's! And, is it just me or does it seem that in the US these days, there is less and less interest in past entertainers??? Saw Entertainment tonight, last night, and expected Deborah Kerr's death to rate at the very least some mention(Even younger folks should be exposed to King and I, her rolling on the beach with Burt Lancaster) nope, none! A snapshot of Joey Bishop, and just mention of him being the last member of the rat pack...anywho, back to Teresa..... Teresa Brewer, 76; 1950s pop singer She later segued into jazz, recording with legends such as Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie. By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer October 19, 2007 Teresa Brewer, a singer who found fame as a novelty vocalist in 1950 with the chart-topping "Music! Music! Music!" but reinvented herself as a jazz stylist who performed with some of the genre's biggest names, has died. She was 76. Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease Wednesday at her home in New Rochelle, N.Y., said Bill Munroe, a family spokesman. Ed Sullivan introduced her as "the little girl with the big voice" when she was a regular on his television show, and the petite 100-pounder sang her way through the 1950s with a string of successful recordings that included another No. 1 hit, the sentimental ballad "Till I Waltz Again With You," which reportedly sold more than 1 million copies. With rock 'n' roll changing the pop landscape -- and four daughters to raise -- Brewer pulled back from performing in the 1960s to focus on her family. "One time she said her children were her biggest hits," Munroe told The Times on Thursday. "She was very down-to-earth, not pretentious at all, very charming and quick-witted." After marrying her second husband -- jazz producer Bob Thiele -- she segued into jazz in the 1970s and became known for recording with such legends as Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie. At her best, Brewer could "swing with a loose and easy fervor, aided greatly by the distinguished company" she kept, Richard S. Ginell wrote of her jazz performances in the All Music Internet database. She was born Theresa Breuer on May 7, 1931, in Toledo, Ohio, the eldest of five children of a glass inspector for the Libby Owens Co. and his homemaker wife. At 2, Brewer made her public debut singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" on a children's radio program in Toledo. She was paid in cupcakes and cookies from the show's sponsor. Three years later, she won a competition that led to appearances on the popular radio talent show "Major Bowes Amateur Hour." She spent the next seven years touring with a Bowes' troupe. When she was 12, her parents insisted that she return to Toledo to concentrate on school, but as a high school junior, Brewer dropped out. She headed to New York City and performed in several talent shows that led to her first recording contract. By then, she had slightly altered the spelling of her first and last names because "it was easier to read in marquee lights," according to a 1980 Toledo magazine story. She soon was married and recording such 1950s hits as "Jilted," "Ricochet" and the blues ballad "Pledging My Love." She once estimated that she had made 300 records by the mid-1960s. For decades, she also regularly performed in Las Vegas and on the national nightclub circuit. Cast in the 1953 film "Those Redheads From Seattle," Brewer dyed her blond hair but turned down Paramount's offer of a long-term contract, according to the biography on her website. She wanted to remain on the East Coast with her family and build a part-time singing career from there. In 1972, Brewer was divorced from Bill Monahan and married Thiele, who produced some of her early hits. He also wrote Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World," which Brewer recorded. Thiele died in 1996. Brewer continued performing and recording into the early 1990s. The high-pitched voice that could easily go from a squeak to a roar became smoother with age, and critics noted that Brewer embraced jazz with the same vocal exuberance she had displayed in the 1950s. "I always liked her because she had laughter and the sound of rippling water in her voice," said Jim Dawson, an author of pop music books. "Listening to Teresa Brewer, you couldn't be sad for long." Brewer is survived by four daughters, Kathleen, Susan, Megan and Michelle; a brother, Henry; four grandsons; and five great-grandchildren. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/c...s-pe-california

First, I'd spend about 50 K to get Tera Patrick, and Jenna Jameson together......to bake a cake for me! Oh yeah, I have quite the dirty mind!! Secondly, I'd get my penis enlarged by 2 inches, so that it would be a foot exactly. Thirdly, I'd donate 100k to Hillary's campaign IF she and Tipper would rub butter all over Rush Limbaugh's body. Dirty mind, remember? Dirty, sick mind.... Then, I'd do some frivolous things with the rest.

about the yellow line though....WTF is the reason for it, anyway??? The only other yellow on the field is the "Foul" poles, which of course should be called fair poles. Why paint the top of the fence yellow then??? to make the ball harder to see if it does hit the top of the fence??? I just don't get it at all.

Quincy, It's true he won't find that kind of money, but to cut a guy's salary by 25%, when likely no other manager could get a team to come back from as far down as they were(I am sure you remember, they lost almost all their starters early on, doesn't matter how big your budget is if you haven't any healthy guys) is an insult. Not like the team came in 3rd. Acting like he can make the same money, IF they get thru all rounds, nope...insulting. Hey, Andruw Jones thinks he is going to get a 5-6 Million dollar raise after hitting around .220....Torre had a much better year. Feel sorry for him, and I really hope that the Yankees have a .500 season next year after losing Jorge, A-Rod and Mariano......

A rational scheme? Not quite sure what you mean by that....Are you saying it's too cheap per gallon? I guess we could up the price some, but I feel that would be too little too late...Most people haven't been able to water their lawns for most of this year. Can't wash cars anymore, and probably won't be able to til next year at the very earliest. We can take shorter showers, but most people don't want to stop flushing toilets. For many a year all you can get is low flow shower heads, and toilets. Businesses on the other hand... at least up til a few weeks ago, I would see them running their sprinklers all the time to water a 2, 3 foot strip of grass We are a city growing faster than any other large city in the nation, and no one has been planning for what can/will happen with this kind of growth. Plus, Gatorade is the largest water user in Atlanta. And as I have mentioned a few times, the Army Corp of Engineers seem hell bent on draining the lake, or at least pumping it to a point water pressure will be non existent. For all the screw ups mentioned in the last article, they screwed up last year as well and dumped billions and billions of gallons of water to help some sturgeon, not realizing that they had measured the water level incorrectly! We are in a drought, a terrible one. We have been in and out of droughts for most of this century, and you just think that people at the state and Federal level would have a clue on how to handle this situation better.

The brilliant Army Corp of "engineers" are much closer to being the dumbest dumbfucks in the history of dumbfucks!!!! Water level really low???? increase flow of water out of the lake then!!! I laugh, but people are already losing jobs here, and that is just the beginning of problems for people in and around Atlanta...... New limits on water use 'very likely' By MATT KEMPNER , GAYLE WHITE The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 10/18/07 Responding to an ultimatum from Gov. Sonny Perdue, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday it is looking into releasing less water from Lake Lanier, just days after the Corps began sending billions more gallons downstream. But Perdue said time's up: The state will ask the courts this week to force the Corps to leave more water in Lanier, the main drinking water supply for drought-starved metro Atlanta. "Georgia is out of time," Perdue said in a news release. Meanwhile, the director of Georgia's Environmental Protection Division said "it's very likely" that even tighter watering restrictions will be needed in North Georgia, regardless of whether the Corps cuts its Lanier releases. The large releases are being made primarily to protect endangered mussels and support a power plant downstream in Florida. "Our water crisis will not be over," said Carol Couch, the director. Among the options that she said she may propose to Perdue early next week are restrictions on commercial and industrial users. She said local water utilities could be given mandates for percentage reductions but might be allowed to prioritize which categories of customers have to make the steepest cuts. She cautioned that the measures could result in job losses and other economic damage. She also said she will present Perdue with a plan to encourage voluntary conservation of indoor water use. The state has already imposed an outdoor watering ban in North Georgia. In addition, the state is preparing emergency response plans in case some communities face disruptions in their water supplies, Couch said. The possibilities include bringing emergency supplies of water to meet the needs of hospitals. "We do need to prepare for all options," she said. Late last week, Perdue gave the Corps until Wednesday evening to respond to his demand to cut the water releases from Lanier. Instead, with other reservoirs in the system depleted, the Corps this week sharply increased releases. But late Wednesday afternoon, the Corps sent an electronic letter to the state saying it is considering options to meet various needs in case "the drought conditions continue into 2008 as predicted." Col. Byron Jorns, the commander for the Corps' Mobile district, wrote that "due to the severe nature and predicted duration of the continuing drought" the Corps has begun discussions with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is responsible for protecting endangered species. Maj. Daren Payne, the Corps' deputy district commander, said in an interview that "it's a process that will take a while." Even if Fish and Wildlife agrees to smaller releases, he said, a nuclear power plant, industries and other municipalities downstream need water. "It's about more than just the mussels," Payne said. One of the main reasons for the Corps' large releases from Lanier is a small coal-fired plant downstream in Florida operated by Gulf Power, a sister company to Georgia Power. The utility said it is in discussion with the Corps about reducing its water needs. But the mussels have become a flashpoint for a metro area watching its water supply dissipate. Georgia's congressional delegation introduced legislation Tuesday that would amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to allow for emergency drought relief. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who held a news conference Wednesday, said the state must "move the Corps in the direction of understanding that the consumption of water for humans is far more important than a species downstream." Perdue called the Corps' response to the drought "nonsensical." "Litigation is never how I choose to deal with issues, but the Corps has left us no choice," he said in a news release. Perdue is in Asia on an economic development mission and expected to return to Georgia on Friday. Currently, the Corps projects Lanier's level will drop nearly a foot and a half each week, falling well below its historic low by the end of the year. The EPD's Couch said at that rate, Lanier's readily available supply of drinking water would be exhausted in 81 days, though emergency measures could allow water to be pumped at lower levels. But the Corps' Payne said that even if Lanier were to fall more than 20 feet from its current level, "we will still have a significant volume of water in the lake." Tom MacKenzie, a spokesman for the Southeast region of the Fish and Wildlife Service, said the service is "more than willing to respond" if the Corps comes up with a specific proposal for changing the flow. "It takes a huge amount of number crunching" to determine the impact of a change, MacKenzie said. "It's not like creating a spreadsheet and flipping a number and finding out how many mussels you kill." Meanwhile, state officials hope to rally public support for water austerity. "This crisis will not end any time soon," Couch said, "so now is the time for all Georgians to come together as families and communities, certainly to be good stewards but also to understand that we are in a crisis situation." Staff writer James Salzer contributed to this article. http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/sto...age_tab_newstab

Hey! I think it's great they met this way!!!! Oh wait, you mean the robbery....nevermind!

Jim makes a good point about leaving lights on. Some people just can't do it, but I ALWAYS knew when our next door neighbor left town, cuz it looked like no one lived there! A 60 watt light really doesn't cost much to leave burning.(We have a fluorescent light in the kitchen that is always on) Motion lights outside would freak out most criminals as well.

Joe, very sorry to hear about this! I did want to mention one thing.... One really weird part, and the first sign that something was amiss: he had carried a belt from my upstairs closet, as well as a bag of tealight candles from the upstairs computer room all the way downstairs, only to leave them at the back window. It made no sense at all, as these items had no value, and shouldn't have even caught his attention. Also thought it was strange that after he removed the money from the firesafe, he locked it back up, and took the key with him. Then he closed the window behind him when he left (the front door was still locked). This does seem pretty weird! Here in Atlanta, there have been folks broken into more than once, mainly by Meth addicts. Kind of sounds like someone who was messed up, robbed you, doesn' it? Not trying to unnecessarily worry you, just recall they know you had cash, and they may have thought about the other items for later robberies. So, get some system like those mentioned before, asap!!! And get lots of stickers from those folks to put on every window/door! IF they would come back, seeing you have ADT, or whathaveyou will make them look for an easier target.....