Dan:

North Carolina officials say the same thing about the Appalachian Mtns. But I saw one when I hiked the trail in July. I've been in the woods my whole life and I know what a cougar looks like but they wouldn't believe me or the other guy who saw it. ok, so we have multiple states writing off reports of mountain lions. But why? What interest do they have in ignoring sightings?

very nice, Simon. Andrew, heal that wrist quickly, I am coming home again this weekend and I want to FEESH!

you obviously didn't watch the game. It wasn't the biggest game or the game with the highest ratings, but it was definitely the most exciting game

I don't understand why people always get excited about Clemson every preseason. They are chronic chokers that lose games they shouldn't and ruin their preseason high rankings.

I like the silver citica with the black/silver LTX, looks awesome and I'll bet it fishes awesome too.

That combo at the top is too sexy...

I've heard of the same thing in Pennsylvania --why wouldn't game departments want to admit the presence of predator animals? It seems like they have some sort of interest in covering it up but I can't figure out why that would be

X2 Making millions in the NFL < one gold medal Ok, you can take your gold medal, I'll take the millions of dollars

why would you leave a top notch football program to play a sport that pays next to nothing?

well you could also throw in Arkansas upsetting Auburn. That's what I thought you meant at first anyway.

The Washington beltway is ridiculous. I used to work down in Springfield and would have to take I-495 to get there. I got stuck behind a guy going 45mph in the Springfield "mixing bowl" (I was going the opposite way from rush hour traffic so traffic was flowing at about 65mph) on that big looping ramp exit from 95 to 495 Tyson's corner. I think that was more dangerous than a guy doing 90. The people are just stupid, plain and simple. We have terrible drivers in the DC metro area.

Missouri - OSU? Texas - OU? My vote goes to JMU - Richmond from the FCS' CAA conference. My very own Dukes of JMU went to Richmond to defend a #1 ranking in the FCS against #5 Richmond (who was #2 last week) in an in-state rivalry game. JMU pulls out a win in the most exciting possible way--this game ended with a late game TD drive, followed by a 2 pt conversion, a defensive stop, and a last second punt return for a game winning TD. Hard to beat that. Video of the final minutes: AND a feature on Sportscenter's Top 10 Plays:

I was wondering why no one had posted anything about the game. That was truly an amazing performance by Florida. I never would have thought that anybody's offense would be faster than the LSU defense, but Florida's is. They aren't big, but they score before you can even let them know it.

Nice Ron. I never figured a sunfish could get hooked on a big hook like a buzzbait

for cold water fishing, lots of people say that small and slow moving baits are the best bet.

I don't know much about the Big 12--do they ever play defense or does that come later in the season? ;D ;D ;D

It just went down under $3 last night here in Harrisonburg, VA.

yeah, he looked a lot bigger and stronger when I saw him on Sportscenter the other day. He looked very imposing

None of this matters because I do not believe the movie is portraying a false point. They wanted to show that the environments were racist, and I believe even if nobody yelled anything at that game, there were plenty of racists in the stands in each state. But legally this is no where close to censorship. There are plenty of cases where the court has determined free speech is limited in certain circumstances, especially if it's allegedly false statements against someone.

The purpose of the Constitution and the Amendments is to protect the people from the government. The 14th Amendment applied those protections from state governments in addition to the federal government. Slander or libel is NOT protected under the Amendments, and certainly a request for an apology from a movie studio for historical inaccuracy (whether real or perceived) does not infringe on free speech and is not an abuse of power by the state government.

It's not censorship though. He's arguing that the scene is fictitious. Asking to apologize for a false detail in a movie is more like accusing them of slander or just historical inaccuracy than anything else.

Great, I'll build a fire, and you bring the books : This is where censorship starts. I don't get it? I think it is a refrence to a novel called Fahrenheit 451 . A novel about how in the future state sanctioned censorship leads to the burning of books that the government deems offensive. The books are thrown into huge bonfires and the burning point of paper is 451f Sorry I had to go ge the date of Publication Bradbury wrote it in 1947, his intent was to warn people taking to the new invention of TV that society eventually would loose it's ability to read. In F451 it becomes illegal to read period and the books are burned. Many people since have taken this work to be about censorship I find it somewhat amusing that some people who are so staunchly in defense of our rights to bear arms are so fliipint about other guarenteed constitutional rights among them FREEDOM OF SPEECH No, I know about the burning book reference but I don't see how that applies in this case concerning whether a movie is accurate or not...

Great, I'll build a fire, and you bring the books : This is where censorship starts. I don't get it?

ok, I'll give the larger Superline hooks a shot and see how it works.

What are you planning for the 18th? I have a piece of the North Fork here at Woodstock, that can only be floated tooned or canoed into due to the low water then has about a 3 mile stretch that has a dam at the end and some deep 12ft areas. Oh did I mention no one fishes this area and have landed many hogs here. I'm gonna be up in the Fairfax area and on the 18th I only have free time in the evening so I won't be able to come back down that far. I would like to see that spot sometime, though- I saw the pic, it looked awesome.