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Color this one a victory.

I'd settle for any of them... or all in a package deal. I like a great body that comes with an engaged mind too.

I certainly would enjoy having Taylor over for dinner.

Actually all commercial packaged beers sold in the US have a pull date on them. On bottle labels look along the edge and you will see a very small legend or line near the edge and a tiny cut in the label paper next to one of the legend markings. Specifies the month or day of year to pull the product. It is usually coded. They are usually pulled after six to eight weeks of bottling, never more than ten weeks. Not only does light do a job on beer but the caps permit an imperceptible leak of CO2 which causes the beer eventually to go flat. I do not recall where it is marked on the can although I suspect it is easy enough to find. So if a beer tastes shitty it is because of the basic ingredients or the brewing expertise. One reason Budweiser tastes shitty is because it is brewed from more rice than malt. It's brand-leader status over decades shows the power of advertising on the marketplace.

I think you have taken one of their better qualities to trash. Yes, there is a 'look'. It is Duroy's signature style. It is common with most studios to have a 'look'. As for the faces running together... well, I would concede that they almost all share a common character, few if any would stop a clock. He picks good looking wholesome guys. If you want more neighborhood looking guys go next door to Wm. Higgins Hungarian boys -- not so pretty, lots of hair, variations in muscle, sketchier complexions, probably more hetero in character but gay enough for pay enough. Most every studio has a type. The issue is whether it is my type or not.

The NFL is full hot hotties. Even the pads cannot hide the sex that oozes out of them as they practice their athletic endeavors.

I grew up on Schlitz and loved it until they changed their recipe in the late sixties/early seventies to appeal to whom I have no idea. It was never the same after that. They were always chasing Budweiser which I couldn't stand -- the original soda pop beer. I took to Miller Genuine Draft when it came out. I thought it was the best tasting 'regular beer' which was all I had known up to then. I later tried some specialty beers off and on, one I recall went by the name Maximus Super, I think, out of Utica NY. It was quite a flavorful beer and packed 6.7% alcohol. A couple of those would tune you up quite nicely. Eventually the Society Nannies got it removed from the shelves in the area I lived in at the time. With weight problems setting in I vascillated between Genuine Draft and Miller Lite -- the only light beer that didn't taste like Yak piss. It wasn't Genuine Draft but it wasn't 225 calories either. Once the microbrewery phenom hit I moved on to darker rounder beers. The best bottled equivalent I found was Boston Lager which is still one of my favs. However there are numerous boutique breweries that put out competitive brews whether one is looking for lagers or ales.

Nine Beers Americans No Longer Drink By Michael B. Sauter and Alexander E.M. Hess | 24/7 Wall St – Fri, Dec 7, 2012 3:17 PM EST After three years of declining sales, shipments of domestically sold beer are up by more than 1% in the United States this year. Sales of light beer and specialty beer, such as Budweiser Light Platinum, Shock Top, and Blue Moon, have been the driving force in the resurgence of U.S. breweries. While sales of specialty, craft, and small-market beers have improved dramatically, many of the traditional, full-calorie beers that were once the staples of most breweries have fallen behind. In the five years ending in 2011, sales of Budweiser, which was once the top-selling beer in the country for years, have fallen by 7 million barrels. Sales of Michelob are down more than 70%. Based on data provided by Beer Marketer’s INSIGHTS, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the nine large — or once-large — beer brands with a five-year decline in sales of 30% or more. While regular, full-calorie beer was once the mainstream, now light has become the primary beer of choice. Budweiser, once by far the most popular beer, has now fallen to third place in domestic sales, with 17.2 million barrels shipped in 2011, compared to Coors Light’s 17.4 million. The U.S. beer leader is, by a long shot, Bud Light, with 39.15 million barrels sold last year. Budweiser did not quite make the 30% decline in sales cutoff for our list, but many other traditional brews did. Old Milwaukee, Milwaukee’s Best and Miller Genuine Draft have all lost 50% of their sales since 2006. Michelob shipped 500,000 barrels domestically in 2006, but sold just 140,000 in 2011. While light beer has supplanted full-calorie beer in popularity, sales of most leading light brands have been flat over the past several years. In fact, many of the beers on our list with the biggest declines are light beers that either didn’t catch on or faded out of popularity. In an interview with 24/7 Wall St., Beer Marketer’s INSIGHTS executive editor Eric Shepard explained that it is specialty beers and craft beers — not light beer — that have eaten into sales of traditional full-calorie beer in the past year. Shepard explained that like most major brand-centered industries, the beer industry has entered a period of aggressively marketing new brands and flavors. “I think that part of the reason that brewers felt we had three down years was primarily the economy… but it was also a lack of innovation, and so now you’re seeing [the beer industry] rev up these things,” he said. “The buzzword for this year was innovation.” To combat the growing popularity of craft brews, major breweries such as Anheuser-Busch Inbev (NYSE: BUD) and MillerCoors have aggressively marketed their own specialty beer. Bud Light Platinum, which debuted during the Super Bowl, has been very successful, beating most expectations. Shock Top, also produced by Anheuser-Busch, sold 600,000 barrels last year, more than double the previous year’s sales. Another Belgian white beer, Blue Moon, which is sold by MillerCoors, was the 18th-most popular beer sold last year. Shepard expects the focus on nontraditional brews to continue at least through next year. This will likely further reduce sales of the declining brands on our list. [More from 24/7 Wall St.: Most Educated Countries in the World] 24/7 Wall St. identified the nine beers Americans no longer drink based on INSIGHTS top 50 beer brands with at least 500,000 barrels in sales in either 2006 or 2011 with sales declines of 30% or more over the same period. Sales for flavored malt beverages and craft beers were excluded from the analysis. These are the nine beers Americans no longer drink.... See the remainder of the article at: http://finance.yahoo...-183045945.html

DOMA will be overturned and the PROP 8 overturn will be upheld on narrow grounds that apply to CA only. The Court will await more states accepting gay marriage before cramming it down the red state throats -- maybe another decade, maybe less. The march forward is inevitable unless the GOP wins the next Presidential race and most of the liberal wing of the court strokes out in that term.

I had it bad for Tony Danza back in his 'Taxi' days. I wanted to be all over him like white on rice. I still remember an episode where he entered a boxing tournament. He was smokin' in those trunks with nothing else but shoes. WOW!!

Couldn't happen to two nicer guys. Rove is Machiavelli's darker cousin and Morris is just an idiot buffoon passing yack piss for Kool Aide to the base. One is dangerous the other a charleton making his living telling losers what they want to hear. Guess the guys became too big of an embarrassment for Ailes which says something considering who he has on the payroll.

Fox News Pushing Karl Rove, Dick Morris Off The Air The Huffington Post | By Chris Gentilviso Posted: 12/04/2012 7:42 pm EST Updated: 12/04/2012 10:35 pm EST Karl Rove's familiar 2012 presence on Fox News appears to be coming to a halt. New York Magazine reports that President Roger Ailes is limiting Rove and fellow contributor Dick Morris' presences for the time being. A Fox News representative affirmed the situation to NYMag, adding that programming chief Bill Shine conveyed "the election's over." Rove turned heads with an Election-night meltdown on Fox News, where he questioned the network's "premature" decision to call Ohio and, subsequently, the race for President Barack Obama. Fox News Executive Vice President of News Editorial Michael Clemente told the Associated Press the morning after that Rove's argument proved his value. The following day, Rove appeared on Fox News, charging that Obama's victory was a product of the president's ability to suppress the vote. A week later, Ailes admitted in an interview with TVNewser that he had a "what the?" reaction to Rove's Election-night antics. "Rove was wrong," Ailes said. "He backed down. Our guys were right." Morris drew similar attention for his prediction that GOP candidate Mitt Romney was headed to a landslide victory. New York Magazine's report notes that Shine is requiring producers to ask for approval before lining up any Rove or Morris appearances. See original article at: http://www.huffingto..._n_2240883.html

Maybe this has been fixed because I just tried it and it worked ok.

In a Congress full of dullards Barney truly was one of the shining intellects whether you agreed with his policies or not. He will be missed.

I've said it many times and I'll say it once more (at least), unbridled (unregulated) capitalism is corrupt. That is the long and the short of it. It has one goal which is to accumulate wealth. Sometimes that involves creating wealth. More often it involves getting it from other people. Capitalism has the capability to do great good and to do great harm. It all depends how it is used and for the benefit of whom.

We have waited four years for the Republicans to cooperate. That's enough. They have burned the bridge not the Dems. It is time to move ahead, not without the filibuster but with a restructuring of it to limit it's use only to issues of national significance. Dems do not want to give up the filibuster either. It is an important tool for highlighting serious policy issues. However, it cannot be tolerated to disrupt normal operations of the Senate. I see no reason why limiting the number cannot work. If there is no cost to spending a filibuster then they can be dispensed like Mardi Gras beads. That is exactly what we have seen the last six years. If everybody has only one they will be saved for truly significant purposes. Give each of the leaders two. The goal is to actually vote on bills eventually. If on rare occasion a bill cannot muster 60 votes to invoke cloture then so be it, but it should be a rare occasion, not common practice.

Finally!! Somebody tells it like it is and to Fox's face too. Three cheers for Tom Ricks. I've grown more than weary of the likes of Brokaw and others playing like these guys are authentic journalists. It's guys like Brokaw who give journalism a bad name, not Fox, because these guys cannot be objective and truthful about calling out their own institutions. It's like one has to catch Ailes, Krystol, McConnell and Behner pants down in a circle jerk in the closet before one can infer there is some mutual glad-handing going on between those fellows. (Pun intended.) Truthfully that is only half the problem with journalism. The other issue is these guys are confused about the purpose of journalism. Many, probably most if one gauges by observation, believe it is limited to purveying propaganda to the people from all sources about issues rather seeking to determine the facts and veracity of views before informing the people. And when that veracity is unsettled, they leave it to the readers to ferret out the facts rather than present them in a cogent form for the people and provide independent information that bears on the issues. Most of the time journalists leave the issues as a 'he said - she said' argument which does nothing for informing the people. It is not that good journalism is never done, just done too infrequently by too few. The reasons are several: some 'reporters' (eg. Brokaw) feel they should not put a thumb on the scales, even if that thumb consists of verified facts or an independent assessment of the issue. Of course that takes effort and sometimes guile to accomplish. So some are just lazy. Some are incompetent -- too stupid or clueless to ferret out the information. Some worry that it will offend guests to call into question their views with countervailing facts. Journalism management does certainly. They want talking heads to attract viewers which garner ratings which increase advertising rates. (Thou shalt not offend guests by too deeply dissecting their positions.) Of course this does happen on occasion but is more the exception than the rule. One sees very few journalists of the caliber of Edward R Murrow, Huntley and Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, Eric Severeid, Harry Reasoner, etc. who thought they were there to inform the people and to hold government and institutions accountable. To be honest, these people frequently were a pain in the ass to their management. They stepped on some powerful toes in their pursuit of the profession but... they were first class journalists. I'm not even sure they could exist in today's environment.

That's bullshit. McConnell and Reid struck a deal about a more reserved use of the filibuster for this Senate session which McConnell then promptly ignored. He is an unreliable partner when it comes to mutual understandings about the filibuster. Once bitten, twice shy. First time shame on you, second time shame on me. There should be no second time. 1. Filibusters should be reserved exclusively for final voting on a bill. No more filibusters allowed for motions to bring up bills for discussion. 2. The filibuster should be made more exceptional to prohibit its flagrant use. The number of filibusters per year or per session should be limited -- like timeouts in a football game. Each senator should be free to use it whenever he wanted knowing that it will be his only filibuster for the year. If he wishes to piss it away on a frivolous choice that is his call. I suspect most will choose to 'keep their powder dry' for a rainy day.

Gawd! That must have made for a very long day. That would drive me to search for the local chapter of the Hemlock Society.

It figures. LIfetime is always ripping off 'life and lives' for its sappy presentations. One troubled diva plays another. One might think that casting a stroke of genius but for one exception. ET was a tour-de-force acting talent. LL is just an insipid celeb-for-all-the-wrong-reasons acting wannabe. So I have to leave the choice as simply a stroke of the brain kind. I'll pass.

Would love to have known him in his 'Genie' days, in the biblical sense. Never was into his JR character. He will be missed.

Turns out that Management seems to be the culprit here. Not only was the original Hostess Management malfeasant but the savior they got in bed with to heal them was a .... guess what? -- a vulture capital company! Another one of those job creators (like Bain) that seems to makes millions dismantling other companies. No wonder mediation went nowhere.

Thought I'd mention that there are still 30,000 without power and many tens of thousands or more still coping with temporary housing situations as well as food and other personal needs. I know some are skeptical of the effectiveness of the Red Cross and I wanted to share a couple of local organizations with good reps that are on the frontline in the communities every day. They came with high recommendations, one from Chris Matthews and the other from another cable talking head that eludes me at this moment. I checked both out to my own satisfaction and share with those who are able to offer some support to the hardest hit communities. DrAtlasFoundation.org works in Staten Island CFBNJ.org The Community FoodBank Of New Jersey

Gosh, you guys are young. I was in tenth grade English class when the announcement over the intercom was made that he had been shot. The teacher broke down, hearing the announcement. I can still see her tears today. Having left school midday to get an early start on a hunting weekend, I was home to see Walter Cronkite announce his death at or about 1:30 pm, . Needless to say we got a late start. It was a very somber weekend hunting trip.

We'll keep a candle lit for you. Hope to see you soon.