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Question: Sex = Riding scale

2009-03-03T08:54:00.000-08:00

So if doing a fast group ride or being competitive in a race = hot love making with positions you rarely do or has a touch of freakishness that rarely occurs

A normal ride = sex

Riding the trainer = masturbating (gets the job done not as good as the real thing)

riding the trainer with a cycling video = masturbating to a porno

What is spin class?

I know..deep.

stimulus debate starts at 2:00

2009-01-29T08:16:00.000-08:00

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

DZNUTS

2008-12-12T08:29:00.000-08:00

2 years

2008-11-29T21:04:00.000-08:00

Ago today I gained a new meaning of "life"

2008-11-25T09:23:00.001-08:00

What a pimp!

2008-11-14T09:54:00.000-08:00

I hope I got game like this dude when I'm 90!

90 Year-Old Giant Tortoise Mates
Ninety years old and considered one of the world's rarest organisms, the giant tortoise from the Galapagos Islands known as "Lonesome George" stunned conservationists when he mated with two females earlier this summer. To the dismay of scientists studying the eggs however, 80 percent of the eggs appear to be duds.

Originating from Pinta Island, once home to thousands of saddleback tortoises, George (Geochelone nigra abingdoni) is the last of his kind to be found and was taken into captivity in 1971. The females were from a different subspecies of giant tortoise on a neighbouring island.

But Ecuadorean scientists in charge of the tortoise re-population plan on Pinta are not about to give up. In spite of his lack of libido for the last decades and various attempts at artificial insemination and "tabloid-like rumours the 90-kilogram creature preferred other males," George is in his reproductive prime, and his keepers hope that the remaining eggs could still yield offspring.

Help a grad student out

2008-11-11T09:57:00.000-08:00

As some of you know I am a full time graduate student with a focus on Marketing. I am currently conducting a market research project for a solar installation firm in L.A. Your assistance in sharing your beliefs and opinions about solar energy and solar panels would be of great help! I have set up an online survey that should take about 10 minutes of your time.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228EWFXTYWD

Thank you for your time and assistance and remember to keep the rubber side down!

Why I race CX...

2008-11-07T18:44:00.000-08:00

Yeah cause it's cool like this...

From the Onion...kinda puts it all into place

2008-11-06T19:16:00.000-08:00

Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job

WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break."

Mr. Greenspan...

2008-10-28T14:47:00.000-07:00

The Daily Show says most of it.

But to your model...you based it on that boards would act in the best interest of shareholders....then why did you ignore the evidence of board rooms giving out golden parachutes to executives that tank the firm and diminish shareholder value? Doesn't that go against your core belief? Shouldn't that have been regulated?

This makes me happy

2008-10-27T12:39:00.000-07:00

You go Mike!

Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin

2008-10-03T08:27:00.000-07:00

So I read this to my wife...teh sad part its true...so it's pretty funny if you think about it...I knew this crap in HS/ College. This is taken from Time.

By BELINDA LUSCOMBE Fri Oct 3, 5:55 AM ET

Some polls are suggesting that after gaining an initial bump, McCain's campaign is being hobbled by Sarah Palin's vice-presidential candidacy. The voters who are deserting her fastest, some of whom are even calling on her to withdraw, are mostly women.
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Ah, women, the consistently, tragically underestimated constituency. What the Democrats learned during the primaries and the Republicans might now be finding out the hard way, I learned at my very academic, well-regarded all-girls high school: that is never to discount the ability of women to open a robust, committed, well-thought-out vat of hatred for another girl.

Women are weapons-grade haters. Hillary Clinton knows it. Palin knows it too. When women get their hate on, they don't just dislike, or find disfavor with, or sort of not really appreciate. They loathe - deeply, richly, sustainingly. I do not say this to disparage my gender; women also love in more or less the same way.

When men disagree, the steps to resolution are reasonably clear and unsophisticated. Acts of physical violence are visited upon one another's person or property, and the whole thing blows over. Women? Nu-unh. We savor the discord. We draw it out. We share our contempt with our friends, like a useful stock tip, or really good salsa. And then we all go hate together: a mutually encouraging group activity for when the book group gets quiet.

The hatred women have for Sarah Palin, and others had for Hillary before her, is not necessarily about politics. Anybody can run the numbers on how many people Palin's pro-life, pro-gun, socially conservative policies will seduce and how many they will alienate. Rather, the test that the McCain campaign failed to put her through was the Abbotsleigh Ladies College test. (Named after my high school. Go, green and gold!). It's a simple three-point pass-fail exam: Will the other girls like her?

Here's why Palin doesn't make the grade:

1. She's too pretty. This is very bad news. At school, pretty girls tend to be liked only by other pretty girls. The rest of us, whose looks hover somewhere around underwhelming, resent them and whisper archly of their "unearned attention." So, if everyone calls your candidate "hot," you're in a whole mess of trouble. If the Pakistani head-of-state more or less hits on her, well, yes, she'll get a sympathy vote, but we're in Dukakis-in-the-tank territory. It's an admiration vaporizer. (Of course a candidate can't be too ugly, or it will scare the men, who are clearly shallow as a gender.)

2. She's too confident. This also bodes ill. Women have self-esteem issues. But they also have other-women's-esteem issues. As almost any woman - from the head of the Budgerigar Breeders association to Queen Elizabeth - can attest, it's almost impossible to get confidence right. Too timid and you're a pushover. Too self-aggrandizing and you're a bad word unless it's about a dog, or Project Runway's Kenley. Or Michelle, my best friend until 9th grade, after she won that debating prize and got cocky.

3. She could embarrass us. History is not on Palin's side. Every time a woman gets a plum job, be she Hewlett-Packard's ex-boss, Carly Fiorina, or CBS's Katie Couric, there's always that whispery fear that people will think she got the job just because she's a woman. So if things don't go well - and a couple of YouTube clips have suggested that they're certainly not going well for Palin - women are the first to turn on her for making it harder for the rest of us to louse up at work.

The fact of the matter is once a female decides it's over with another female, it's like an end-stage marriage. No matter how seemingly benign, every attribute becomes an affront: the hair, the voice, the husband, the moose-shooting, the glasses, the big family, the making rape victims pay for their own rape test kits.

I know, I know. With all this extra baggage a female candidate has to bear, the chances of finding a woman whom other women won't hate seem skinnier than last year's jeans. But don't despair, if all else fails, we could just do what we always do and just vote in some guy. It's worked so well for us in the past.

Cycling about to get really fast

2008-09-21T20:44:00.000-07:00

See if anyone will bite.
It occurred to me while busting my fat butt up Redwood road, but I think professional cycling is about to get even faster, without doping.
2 factors for this:
1. Youth training with power. U-23 riders now have access to power training and tools. A much more efficient and informative way to train in aggregate.
2. Bike technology will only get lighter and stiffer. The 30 BB is one case in point. As manufactures adopt technology that allows for greater options in design we will see bike weights drop yet be stiffer than current bike. At some points UCI will have to adopt the current technology.

Give it 5 -7 years and we will see some really faster Tour times without doping.

Mighty Metallica!

2008-09-18T14:20:00.000-07:00

Yeah its cool. Its been a very pleasant surprise. Its like all the good stuff rolled into one with a touch of Load. But you can go through each song and pretty much place it in such classics as Kill'm All or Ride the Lighting, Master of puppets etc. The cover art even gives you a clue that they want old school, as the logo is from Killm all.

The riffs are big again, a lot of arrangement and movement in each song with classic Hetfield lyrics. Bottom line I knew I'd dig it after "the day that never comes" final riffs, made me want to f*cking destroy something...ah the mightly Metallica I know and love.

Oh top songs, Suicide and Redemption, Unforgiven 3 and All nightmare long. Like any Metallica tune...you'll want to destory something and pound your chest screaming at the top of your lungs showing your brood of your awsesome kill.

I agree with Keith. 9/11 tm

2008-09-11T16:55:00.000-07:00

SOUL!

2008-09-09T16:28:00.000-07:00

To all my brothers and sisters that have fallen and have gotten or are getting back up...you got SOUL!

Ghost...

2008-08-24T09:43:00.001-07:00

Texas...really this isn't a good image

2008-08-21T09:52:00.000-07:00

That's right even if you are mentally ill and didn't even take part of the crime...you still get to visit death row...

Texas to execute mentally ill man in controversial case
Aug 21 05:43 AM US/Eastern

Texas To Execute Mentally Ill Man Who Was Accomplice In Murder

Texas is scheduled Thursday to execute a mentally ill man for conspiracy to murder in a case that death penalty opponents say illustrates why the practice is deeply flawed.

Jeffery Lee Wood, 35, "has never taken a human life by his own hands," and "was outside the building in a car at the time of the murder," his attorneys said in a statement.

Wood's partner in crime, Daniel Reneau, was executed in 2002 for killing a store manager during a robbery.

"At Reneau's trial, the prosecution had argued that Reneau was the person chiefly responsible for the crime and that Wood's role was secondary," the Death Penalty Information Center said.

"Wood was involved in the robbery in this case because of his longstanding mental illness that allowed him to be easily manipulated by the principal actor, Daniel Reneau," his lawyers argued.

Texas is the top executioner in the United States, having conducted 413 executions over the last 30 years, out of a national total of 1,119 for that period.

It is also one of the few US states that permit capital punishment in a case involving conspiracy to murder, not murder itself.

Seven people were executed for conspiracy after 1976, when the death penalty was re-authorized in the United States, but Wood will be the first to die since 1996.

"Executing someone who didn't kill violates the most basic principles of justice," David Fathi, US program director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

In right-leaning Texas, support for the death penalty and the state's tough "law-and-order" approach remains high, with advocates arguing the punishment is just, deters crime and provides comfort to victims' families.

Ambiguity surrounding mental illness also makes Wood's case controversial.

Wood's lawyers asked the governor of Texas to delay Wood's execution by one month, after he had been in solitary confinement on Death Row for ten years, 23 hours a day, to evaluate his mental health.

In 1986, the Supreme Court effectively banned executing anyone too mentally ill to understand what was to happen to them and why. But it did not establish criteria for evaluating mental competency.

"If a person is only mentally ill and not incompetent, the decisions are less clear and are up to individual judgments by the governor or the jury," Richard Dieter, director of the Death Penalty Information center, told AFP.

In March 2008, Richard Taylor, condemned to death for murdering a prison guard 27 years earlier when he was gravely afflicted with schizophrenia, saw his death penalty commuted to life in prison in the southern state of Tennessee.

But Kelsey Patterson was executed in Texas in May 2004 despite having been diagnosed with paranoia and schizophrenia prior to his criminal act.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently authorized the state penal system to administer, by force if necessary, psychotropic medicine to two convicts on Death Row, to render them mentally competent and subject to execution.

"It is awkward and quite strange to see states force inmates to take medication so they can be killed, but this is the hateful nature of our capital punishment system," Rick Halperin of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty told AFP.

"It has very little to do with logic, and certainly nothing to do with compassion."

The case of Raymond Riles, on death row since April 2, 1976 -- more than 32 years -- is emblematic of the ambiguity surrounding mentally ill inmates.

His execution was delayed three times, and after 1986 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice never set a new date for it. But he is still on Death Row.

He gets it!

2008-08-12T00:55:00.000-07:00

The WSJ writer gets it...the Jets screwed up.
Is Brett a Bad Bet for the Jets?
By ALLEN BARRA
August 12, 2008; Page D7

Arriving in New York last Friday, Brett Favre sounded as if he had taken a page from Bull Durham's Nuke LaLoosh. "I'm here for one reason," he told reporters. "I'm here to help the Jets win."

It would have been refreshing if at least one of the worshipful media folk at the press conference had replied, "Well, actually, Brett, you're here because after months of vacillating on your retirement and putting the Packers through hell -- and forcing them into using a valuable draft pick on an extra quarterback because they didn't know whether you'd be playing for them this season -- you tried to bully them into either making you the starter or trading you to a team of your choice. Like a prima donna, you put your own desires ahead of the welfare of the organization to which you professed loyalty. Now you've been dumped on one of the NFL's most desperate franchises because no one else wanted you."
[Brett Farve]
Associated Press
Brett Favre

Instead, we're getting gush from a New York media that really ought to know better. Here's the Daily News's Mike Lupica on August 8: "The Jets became a viable franchise [by signing Favre], made you finally notice and talk about them and care about them." As if talking and caring translates into winning football games. And here's CBS's Phil Simms, former New York Giants quarterback and Super Bowl winner: "This is bigger than when Joe Montana left the Forty-Niners to go to Kansas City in 1993."

It would be if Brett Favre were as good as Joe Montana. Mr. Montana won four Super Bowls and was arguably the greatest quarterback in football history; Mr. Favre has won just one Super Bowl and is probably the most overrated, or at the very least overhyped, quarterback in the modern NFL.

Let's strip the Brett-to-the-Jets deal of the illusions the media has wrapped it in. What we have is a 4-12 team that has signed a 38-year-old quarterback who, though he made something of a comeback last season, hasn't otherwise finished in the top five of the league's passers since 2001. (In 2006 he was ranked 25th; in 2005, 31st.).

From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Favre has thrown 66 touchdown passes and 62 interceptions. If any other NFL quarterback had put up those numbers, his job would be on the line; instead, the New York Jets have chosen to delay the inevitable process of breaking in a new young quarterback -- and in fact have released Chad Pennington, who, according to Kerry Byrne of the Web site Cold Hard Football Facts, is "maybe the most underrated quarterback in the NFL."

Brett Favre is one of the most exciting pro quarterbacks ever -- "gun slinger" is the description most often associated with his go-for-broke style of passing. For the most part, the style has been successful: He has guided the Packers to the postseason 11 times in 16 seasons, and he is the NFL's all-time leader in passing attempts, completions, yards and touchdowns. There is no argument that he is a future Hall of Famer.

But there is also considerable evidence that he is nowhere near, as his admirers claim, the greatest passer ever to play the game or that he even ranks in the top 25. Mr. Favre's trademark has always been productivity over quality. He's been remarkably durable with the daring to throw the ball more than any other passer, but he hasn't always thrown it better. He has never, for instance, led the NFL in the league's passer-rating system, which measures effectiveness with various statistics. (In comparison, Joe Montana led the league twice; Mr. Montana's successor at San Francisco, Steve Young, was first six times, and Peyton Manning three times.)

Mr. Favre has probably been excused by fans for not winning a passer-rating title because its formula is so complex most fans don't understand it. However, in the single most important passing stat, yards per attempt (YPA), he has also never led the league and finished as high as second only once (in 1995 with a 7.7 average). Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger currently leads the league in active players at over 8.1 yards per throw.

It's true that Mr. Favre holds the all-time record for TD passes (442), but what isn't as well known is that he also holds the record for most interceptions (288). Perhaps the best way of understanding Mr. Favre's effectiveness is to compare him to baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan, who holds the all-time record for strikeouts but also for walks. Everyone concedes that Mr. Ryan was a legitimate Hall of Famer, but with a lifetime winning percentage of .526, no one argues that he was the best ever or even among his own contemporaries.

Nor, it must be admitted, has Mr. Favre been a particularly good big game performer. His career postseason is a mediocre 12-10, including an embarrassing 23-20 loss to the underdog New York Giants in the NFC conference championship this past January. On his own home field Mr. Favre was outdueled by the previously unheralded Eli Manning. In fact, as a postseason passer Mr. Favre has never approached the record of the Packers' Bart Starr, who won five NFL championships from 1961 to 1967.

Football historian T.J. Troup feels that Mr. Favre's place among the all-time greats is difficult to assess: "In the modern NFL, the rules favor passing over defense, so statistics alone can't tell the story. Put it this way: Favre has won three MVP awards, but except maybe in 1995, he has never really been the best and not as good as many passers from 'the dead ball era,' like Otto Graham, Johnny Unitas, Bart Starr and Roger Staubach were in theirs."

However good Mr. Favre was, though, is beside the point to the 2008 New York Jets, who may have bet their future on a Hail Mary pass.

Credit...where credit is due

2008-08-07T13:34:00.000-07:00

I have to give props to her. This is good. I might even vote for her cause she's like totally hot.

Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Adfunny videosFunnyOrDie.com

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4 my hommies in lycra

2008-08-03T21:05:00.000-07:00

Keeps it real...every pimp needs a horn section...and my hommies in lycra need their horn section

Tired of You!

2008-07-18T15:20:00.001-07:00

Dick

2008-07-11T19:04:00.000-07:00

Stay retired. It was fitting your last pass was an INT. You were the most over rated QB in history. You gave the other team the ball by throwing 288 times by fumbling 64 times for a grand total of 352 times. That means you gave the other team's offense 352 times to score. Now the fans will hate Aaron Rodgers. A good QB from Chico that just needs the chance to play. A QB you could have taught and trained to be good at his job, heck even give him some playing time. But no, you are Bret Farve...the dumb ass that hasn't realized he's lost zip on his throw. . I hope Rodgers kicks your ass....dick. I hope you spend a lot of time looking up from your back.

The Green Bay Packers want to do the right thing in response to Brett Favre's latest round of flip-flopping on his future in football.

And as far as the team is concerned, that might mean showing No. 4 the door — although working out a trade might be more palatable to the Packers than granting Favre the release he has requested.

Favre asked the Packers to release him so he can return to the NFL with another team after apparently being told his latest retirement reversal wasn't welcome news in Green Bay. The team said it would do "what's right" in response to Favre's request, which was first reported by ESPN on Friday.

"Brett earned and exercised the right to retire on his terms," the team's statement said.

"We wanted him to return and welcomed him back on more than one occasion. Brett's press conference and subsequent conversations in the following weeks illustrated his commitment to retirement. The finality of his decision to retire was accepted by the organization. At that point, the Green Bay Packers made the commitment to move forward with our football team."

The 38-year-old Favre retired March 6 after a 17-year career, openly sobbing as he contemplated a future without football. But almost immediately, he began dropping hints that he was having second thoughts.

The most recent and intense round came Friday, when ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported that sources close to Favre and the team told him agent James "Bus" Cook asked the Packers for Favre's release in a letter because the Packers were not receptive to the idea of Favre wanting to play again.

The Packers' front office has spent the past several offseasons dealing with weeks and months worth of speculation about the three-time MVP's future plans. But this time, they're apparently not biting.

The Packers' statement said Favre, who was placed on the reserve/retired list, has the right to petition NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to be reinstated — a request the league would grant automatically. After that, Favre would return to the team's active roster.

But the statement did not specify what the Packers would do after that, beyond doing "what's right and in the best interest of the team."

If the team has committed to moving forward without Favre, their options once he was reinstated would include trading him to another team or releasing him so he would be free to sign with the team of his choice.

The Packers have made it clear they're committed to going with quarterback Aaron Rodgers, a first-round pick in 2005 who has been sitting behind Favre for his first three seasons in the NFL.

Releasing Favre presents the possibility that he will sign with NFC North rivals Minnesota or Chicago, where he would be an upgrade over the incumbent QBs.

If the Packers traded him, there would be teams outside the division such as Baltimore or Tampa Bay, and perhaps Washington, that would be interested. There also has been speculation he could go to Miami for disgruntled defensive end Jason Taylor, the 2006 defensive player of the year.

Either way, it would be an ugly end to what has been one of the most celebrated partnerships in recent NFL history.

"As with all Packers greats, Brett's legacy will always be celebrated by our fans and the organization, regardless of any change in his personal intentions," the statement said. "Brett and Deanna will always be a part of the Packers family."

Even if that family is looking awfully dysfunctional these days.

Those Wacky SFer's.

2008-07-07T22:40:00.000-07:00

This is some funny sh*t

I'll sign for it!

2 and 3....I don't have time for this

2008-06-29T10:25:00.000-07:00

Dear people at Blizzard, aka the greatest game designers ever....
First you bring me the greatest news. StarCraft 2. The squeal that needed to be made years ago. The greatest game you ever made. I was and am so excited and happy. Enough that my wife has given me two weeks to play the game without any guilt or crap. She knows my addiction and love for this great franchise.

But today you did something that just did me over. You are going to release Diablo 3!
This is both awesome and really heart breaking... Blizzard...I have grown up since I last enjoyed the thrills you brought. I don't have time for 2 new games! I purposely did not join World of Warcraft because of my life now... I simply don't have the time. Now you do this??!! You put me in a pickle...I just don't know if I can do it again...I mean two awesome games...crap...