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JW Black is one of the more solid bang for your buck scotches out there. If you like that, you should try Talisker, as it's the primary scotch used in the JW Black blend. I'm personally a fan of the really smoky, peaty Islay scotches. Laphroaig, Caol Isla, etc...

Did you read the rest of Flop's sentence there? The "and it won't stop as long as the motivation is there" part?

I can feel the sarcasm radiating out of my screen. I'm guessing that LB's story ends with them stopping the arrestee from spitting in some way (gag, tape, etc...) and get him to jail, or calling in another more secure vehicle for transport. I'm cool with all of those solutions. I think the underlying point he was trying to make though, is that this is why cops lose their shit sometimes. And that makes sense. Most people wouldn't be calm, collected, and restrained in that situation either. But cops are held to a higher standard, as they should be. I think you need an incredible amount of patience and restraint to do that job, and if one doesn't possess those qualities, they need to find a new profession.

This is a big part of it too. I'm sure there are a ton of fans who will look at the Final Vote ballot, and say to themselves, "Who the hell is Garret Richards?" Now, if Richards wins 15-20 games for the next three years that will change. As for Aybar, I feel bad for him, but I don't think he was "snubbed". Jeter is getting the "Career Achievement" vote, which I'm cool with. And Ramirez is having a slightly better season than Aybar offensively, IMO. Their OPS is almost identical, and Ramirez has shown a bit more power (8 HRs) and speed (14 SBs). I'd love to see Aybar make it, but Ramirez over Aybar isn't a bad choice.

It's really just a function of population dynamics, geography, and time zones. If you live anywhere east of the Rocky Mountains, over half of the Angels' games end around midnight or 1AM (I'm factoring in the away games in Oakland and Seattle too). If you factor in the large population of Florida, along with the "Megalopolis" of the D.C. to Boston portion of the east coast, there's just a huge chunk of the population that are in bed before most of the Angels' games end. Exposure creates popularity, and the Angels, simply because of geography and not because of intentional bias, don't get enough of it.

It sucks that Sale and Richards are both on the final vote ballot. They should both be on the roster already, and they'll likely split the vote.

I would have loved to see Aybar make it, but Alexei Ramirez is having a solid year. You could make a pretty compelling argument for either one of them, so I'm not really bothered by Aybar being the odd man out. Richards, on the other hand, got screwed. He's pretty easily been a top five starter in the AL this year, and none of the other SPs that made it deserve the "Respect the Career" treatment.

I didn't realize Valvoline and Clorox made burritos.

The thing is that "bush meat" isn't a rural thing in West Africa. It's commonly sold at markets in major cities.It's a little long (18 min), but this shows pretty clearly that "bush meat" is an urban normality. http://www.vice.com/vice-news/liberias-new-ebola-outbreak

Vice did a video on this last week. They talked to a bunch of people in Liberia who all responded to news of an Ebola outbreak with a hearty "bullshit", then continued eating bush meat, which is how this happens in the first place.

I just had my second interview this morning for a job in a place I'd really like to move to. It's a young, but successful, tech company. I'd be working as a proposal writer, which is something I've done in the past. What I really like about this interview process is that they include a sample project as part of the qualification process. Basically, you go through two interviews, then they decide if you're crazy or not, then they let you show whether or not you can do the job well. I'm a fan of meritocracies, so I'm really liking this approach.

One must remember that's it's a two (or more) sided process though. I used to rent a studio in Redlands from a Romanian dude. One of the best people I've ever met. He explained his process of immigration to me and it was crazy. He had to save for years in order to bribe the proper people in Romania to get nominated for immigration to Germany. He worked there for a while and entered himself into a lottery for immigration to the US. He said it was about a one in ten chance yearly, and he got accepted after three years. He's now a home owner, a business owner, and he speaks better English than 90% of the Americans I know. My point in this: for a hard working, single guy, it's a multi-year process requiring bribery and luck to make it here legally. For desperate families, I'm not sure they'd all have the necessary patience or means.

Game... Blouses.

I think he was speaking about the neighbor to neighbor sort of fighting in the region. There's just not an off switch there. We've done some dumb things too, but we generally resolve our conflicts in decades instead of centuries or millennia.

Had a German Shepherd mix (likely Akita) growing up. Just an awesome dog. Incredibly perceptive and sweet, while also defensive of her people. When I left for college, the dog would sleep by my bedroom door every night, then search it in the morning for any sign of me.

Oops. I've got the correct link now. I'm just glad I haven't copied any more... nefarious... URLs in the past few days.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2674736/ISIS-militants-declare-formation-caliphate-Syria-Iraq-demand-Muslims-world-swear-allegiance.html Well, ISIS has a five year plan at least. A few things do become abundantly clear thanks to this map though. 1. ISIS sucks at cartography. That's a weak ass map. 2. ISIS has an extremely selective view of the history of the Ottoman Empire. 3. ISIS is terrible at creating realistically achievable five year plans. Something tells me the Balkans, Spain, and India aren't cool with this plan.

Doesn't look good. Round one is about to hit Chicago and round two should show up in a few hours.

I just assumed it would devolve into a gun debate.

That would take far too long to explain.

BTW. Not a random shooting. A dumb one? Yes. But definitely a hit gone wrong.

http://www.jrn.com/kmtv/news/3-People-Shot-at-a-Bar-264709031.html?lc=Tablet If you read the above story, I was about 6 feet away from the people that were hit by the gunfire. Didn't even realize it was gunfire at the time. This bar patio sits about five feet below the parking lot above it with a wood fence separating the lot from the patio. Somebody threw a string of firecrackers over the fence, then began firing through the fence. At the time I thought it was only firecrackers and that the people that fell over were just reacting to firecrackers going off behind their heads and hitting the ground instinctively. The bar was quickly closed afterward as police and EMTs rolled in. I thought it was just an over reaction to the fireworks as I left. Turns out, three people were shot (none of them life threatening). These people were roughly six feet in front of me, and I'd estimate the fence that was shot through at 12-15 feet in front of me. I went to watch the Angel game there today (in a KC TV market), and that's when the bartender showed me the bullet holes in the fence from that night, then showed me the news story. Six holes through the fence, likely .22 or .25 going by size.

It may not be a constitutional right, but it seems like there should be reasonable cause for restricting a person from flying. The system you're arguing for allows people to be placed on the list for no reason at all. Piss of your neighbor that works for DHS, and you can no longer fly because it's not a constitutional right?

The reason recourse is necessary is that some people end up on the list by mistake. And it's extremely difficult to get off the list. There was a case several years back of some young child that somehow got on the list and the family didn't find out until they tried to fly with the child.

I'd hate to give up Morin. I just don't like trading a positive from a position of weakness to make it only slightly better. We've had some dealings with the Padres before, and I hope we can ship them a couple prospects for Street. I watched him throw from behind home plate while he was in college... Some of the most deceptive, cartoon-like stuff I've ever seen.