The Goat Pen

AugustWest wrote:I was joking. that was funny.

Thank you

On the other hand thats what is so magical about College basketball. Everyone has a chance, if not to win the tournament, then at least do well. In CFB only the tradtional powers have real chance to win big. Everyone gets craped on. Support a team like Kentucky for thirty years and you'll see who's...

IB, is right. The game of CFB is set up to dominated by the traditional powers. If you look who dominated the game 50-75 years ago, its the same teams as today. The exceptions are the Florida schools, which have come on in more recent years. Everyone else is their whipping boys. It is not about dom...

if they do sell out, no one wants to watch them on TV since they are just a bunch of inbred hooligans appealing to the lowest common denominator of college football fandom. you tell 'em. hey. What?! Sadly Auggie, I'm going to have to include your Raleigh Community College with West Virgina. Truthfu...

Well, at least UCONN gets to tell recruits that they played in a Fiesta Bowl...and I'm sure all of the players got fancy rings (from the school budget) for the appearance, too. You can thank Coach Calhoun for the coffers. Thank whoever you want. Fact is there are only about 20 or maybe 21 universit...

The BCS is a six league system, shutting out teams outside of it even if they deserve it. since most of us are fans of the SEC, ACC, Big 12 or Big 10, why do we give a shit? Freaking Auburn went undefeated in the SEC and got shut out because there were two other undefeated teams. In other years, th...

I said this weeks ago....

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/sports/co ... r-1039880/

Saint wrote:I can't imagine having a daughter. that would be a nightmare.

No, not at all. Daughters are great, a dream. You just have to have open lines of communication with them.

I tell you, there's not enough money in the world... I keep thinking of that scene in Big Daddy where Adam Sandler looks at his former girlfriend with her new "boy"-friend and he keeps saying " ...are you kidding me, you are going to lay down underneath someone old enough to be your ...

I think an episode of Growing Pains sums the disconnect that Gen-X (born 1965 to 1978) has with the Boomers (born 1946 to 1964) regarding retirement, Social Security, and Responsibility. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Growing_Pains_episodes "Be a Man" March 11, 1986 Mike stays home a...

Chris Christie applauds Mitt Romney....

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/05 ... l#comments

Christie wrote:“While folks may not agree with what he said, that type of candor is what Americans expect from a serious presidential candidate today.”

Professor Tiger wrote:That worked for previous generations, but we'll see if it works for the next. After SS dies, who will elders move in with? The second child of their third ex-spouse? The adopted same sex couple of their preferred sperm donor?

They are going to have to...

Do you want your kids to work for 30 or 40 years just paying taxes to cover the interest payments on all the government bond debt in the SSI fund, just so you can sit back, and collect that $1800 check each month until you are dead? You think your kids wouldn't resent you for being part of this inf...

SS is a pyramid scheme. Everyone knows it, but nobody will address it. In its current state it is NOT a welfare program as all who pay in are eligible for benefits. If you means test and tell those that paid in, but who have money that they can't collect benifits then it becomes a welfare program. ...

You conveniently ignored my last line - about how my generation is going to get screwed out of our promised full benefits, and I'm planning for that sad fact (and assume others are as well). I hope your planning does not include a Roth. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/05/roth-iras-...

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I guess she's with him now. I suppose that is what Anna wanted anyway since she LOVED her husband so much.

bluetick wrote:just so you can sit back, and collect that $1800 check each month until you are dead

21k a year...pfft. You probably made that much last week.

I wish.

bluetick wrote:But yeah - your parents don't deserve those pennies from socialist heaven, do they? Have you explained it to them yet? heh

We've talked.

You conveniently ignored my last line - about how my generation is going to get screwed out of our promised full benefits, and I'm planning for that sad fact (and assume others are as well). Because there'll no doubt be "adjustments" made to the program similar to what you wish for. The w...

When the door opens, do we really want to see our children.. presenting us with that check? The children that we centered our whole lives around and who we gave the very best of everthing we could give to? And who stand to make out like bandits when we kick? Those children? Goodness no.. I've alrea...

Finally... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576314802790577650.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop Many of the million-dollar couples believe they rightfully deserve the benefits they have been promised. They have, after all, spent all of their working years paying into Social Securit...