All_Pro_Bills

So the "plan" is to ignore all potential catastrophic consequences and risks up to and including the extinction of all life on Earth to "show them" you mean business?

That's an objective, not a plan. We agree on the objective but I expect we might disagree on the "plan". The original "plan" was to impose sanctions on Russia and seize and freeze central bank assets and those of key confidants of Putin in order to squeeze them into submission. Win the conflict economically, cause political trouble for Putin at home, and allow Ukrainian forces to prevail on the battlefield. That didn't work. Sanctions had little impact. Russian planners had prepared them for those actions. They can effectively execute trade and commerce outside the dollar based financial system. And are teaching others to do the same. Right now I'm not sure what the plan is other than to continue this dance of increasing escalations between Russia and US/NATO/Ukraine in the belief that both sides think at some point the other side is going to back down. You seem to believe there will be some point where Ukraine will achieve victory on the battlefield or the Russians will conclude the war is not winnable and will retreat back to within their borders. I disagree. I don't see Ukraine achieving a military victory or Russia and Putin backing down. And right now, although there are discussions within NATO countries about the logistics of armaments, I don't see any signs the US side will back down either. Or any mutual recognition that the only path to a solution and outcome is negotiating some settlement between the parties. So for me that escalation path points to the ultimate escalation. Someplace nobody wants to go. But here we are racing down that path. That's my concern. Their "plan" is nothing short of taking the risk of nuclear annihilation and killing every living thing on Earth to achieve "victory" nobody will be around the celebrate. That's not being an isolationist or appeasing Putin. That's a perspective of logic and sanity in the face of the insanity of those in charge taking us all down a dark path.

That's something useful idiots say when they want to shut down free thinking citizens and avoid any reasoned discussion.

That's what people brainwashed by government war propaganda have said about others questioning the merits of every war. Unless you are 100 percent obedient then you're helping the enemy. In a word that's stupid.

That's why I cringe when some official claims the science is settled or claims everyone agrees with the consensus view on one thing or another. Rarely is anything ever settled, as you state science is evolving with new information, discoveries, and ideas. Just this week I read a Op/Ed from a doctor claiming the mRNA vaccines were "completely" safe for young children. And vaccination would prevent them from getting sick and transmitting the virus to adults. That statement is false on both counts. As for safety, how can he know that without long term health data? How can any medical professional be so negligent? Nobody can be certain because there is no data to support that conclusion.

Rather than a few $1 bullets from the planes gun use a $400K missile to take down a $12 mylar balloon. That's likely representative of how efficiently the $800 billion defense budget is spent. Migrating bird flocks and ballooning festivals and events beware. The Biden administration is on the job.

The idea that Washington's support of Ukraine going to facilitate regime change in Moscow by replacing Putin with some compliant leader willing to do the bidding of the US and the West is a neocon fantasy at this point in the conflict. The biggest danger to the world from this point forward will come when it's obviously and unavoidably clear that one side or the other has a clear advantage and path to victory. At that point, the risk is what might the "losing" side do to avoid or delay defeat? In the case of Russia, a potential to deploy and use nuclear weapons and in the case of the US/NATO any decision to directly enter the conflict. Which would then eventually lead to the risk of the nuclear option. Either way I find it amazing how officials and media everywhere are whistling past the graveyard downplaying and dismissing these risks as the propose and commit to escalations. Where else do they think this is going to lead?

There are plenty of examples. But I am 100% certain you have absolutely no intention to agree with any of it or alter your view no matter how many valid examples I cite or how compelling an argument I might make. But for giggles. Failing education of urban children and poverty. I cite test scores in Chicago and Baltimore where most kids can't read or do math at grade level. 60+ years and going. And I'm not making an either/or argument say liberals don't but conservatives do so please don't go there either. Thx.

Willful negligence in service of some undisclosed interest and objective.

The problem with the reform theory is they really do describe the country and employ messaging exactly as I state above.

I agree with you, but your statement sounds eerily similar to what could be expressed by what might be the average conservative populist. Because the liberal democrats of today are employing messaging that America is a white supremacist, racist, hell hole where people are systematically oppressed, police hunt down and kill people of color in the streets, extremist Nazi's plan attacks on the Capitol and roam the countryside looking for somebody to pick on, and the country was established for the purposes of enabling slavery. And demand every issue be addressed by some form of an identity politics driven solution. I can only assume your renouncing those beliefs by your statement.

Liberals don't want to solve social problems because solving problems will make people independent. And once a problem is solved the organizations and activists that exist solely to address a "problem" while making a wonderful living criticizing and pointing out problems will be out of work. Lots of them make a decent living off the taxpayers through government grants and programs while producing nothing of value. Staying on the gravy train is goal number one. Solving the real problems, not so much. And there's nothing wrong with employing people from the neighborhood with the necessary skills and experience at the job but when color becomes the only requirement for the job while skills and experience in the specific craft become unimportant quality will suffer.

If I was one of the students I'd respond to the system imposed by the teacher by bringing a crappy lunch to school every day. There's no incentive to bring anything good because you won't get to eat it. And that's a demonstration of the fatal flaw of communism in practice. The focus on some equitable or equal distribution of production or output while ignoring the actual effort and inputs to produce them. Simply, why should anyone work hard to produce 10 units of output when the "system" imposes rules that grant them only 2 units of consumption? People will learn to dial back their output to 2 units or less which will force a response from the authority to apply coercion, threats, and violence to increase output. That's why people given the choice and opportunity will flee these authoritarian arrangements.

Leftists that at one time distrusted and opposed anything and everything about the establishment until recently when they took over the establishment and they suddenly started to believe and support anything and everything about the establishment. Because the liberal left and the establishment are now the same entity.

In some ways I think it might have been better if the Bills lost that KC game because I can't stop thinking that after that the team started playing like it was "mission accomplished" after an off season spent and focused on making moves to beat KC. As for the learning on the job and getting experience view Dorsey in 2022. If that's what the expectation was at the beginning of the season then he was the wrong guy for the job because the Bills were peaking for a win now season and the team and organization were past the learning on the job point in the "process". The job requirements demanded full competency and experience rather than an OC that was a couple steps behind everyone else in the team lifecycle, The front office took the easy path and accepted a developmental situation.

That's a tough question. In my view this adventure was destined to be a disaster from the beginning. You just need to look at the DC team's party neutral record of consistent foreign policy failures and blunders to understand that expectation. So anyone that reflexively buys into the story lines peddled by our government is going to end up disappointed more often than not. Whether they can reconcile their unquestioned obedience and belief with the reality of that outcome is doubtful. They'll go down swinging insisting it was the right thing to do regardless of the result. Any foreign leader that jumps into bed with the DC establishment like the Ukrainian leadership has under Zelensky to engage your country in a proxy war of attrition with one of Washington's adversaries should understand from the start that a happy ending in these situations is a rarity. Over time administrations change, policies change, priorities change, arrangements and alliances change too. Eventually, they'll sell you out like they do everyone else they have in the past.

Some serious re-evaluation of consistently neglecting key positions on offense is required. What I fear more than anything is that Josh Allen's legacy is going to end up being similar to what Domink Hasek was for the Sabres. An all-world, once in a generation type player they failed to build around that had his career more or less wasted here by a management team that just couldn't get the job done. A common theme, neglect of the offense. Fix the line, improve the pass and run blocking, get a true no. 2 receiver. No and's, if's, or but's. Get it done.

Now you're resorting to a demand I prove something? I could demand the same. But I didn't say Biden controls the media. I don't believe Biden is in control of his personal thoughts and mental abilities. I think its clear he suffers from one or more of a class of neurological diseases that attack and degrade a person's mental abilities over the course of the illness. Its a horrible condition and I take no pleasure in his situation or wish it on anyone. I've had the unfortunate experience of helping to care for a family member experiencing this terrible condition until their eventual death so I can spot it a mile away. Just the President's physical posture, gait, and movement is a clear tell of the condition. And I expect others having had similar experiences as mine can spot it too. The fact almost every media outlet across the board ignores the obvious while flying cover should at a minimum provide some clues and perhaps lead to some questioning of their motivations.

That's a very weak counter argument, equivalent to capitulation, to my conclusion that Biden's party and Putin's party both control their domestic media.

You have it backwards. The Democrats and Putin share the common trait. They both control and love the media.

That is funny. Funnier is how the CCP and Democrats employ the same tactics and strategies that use mainstream and social media to spread disinformation and propaganda while censoring dissenting views. It's almost like they attended the same Ivy League universities and took the same classes taught by the same professors. Oh, wait. They did!

I think Josh's biggest problem is his biggest asset which is the ability to make the "hero ball" play. He's so confident in that ability I think it causes him to believe he can do almost the impossible so he holds onto the ball too long and take too many hits and pass up the easy play or short gain to move the chains or get some positive yardage. With most other QB's, the thought of attempting to make some sort of out of this world play doesn't even go through their minds. They just instinctively dump it off or take the sure thing. The first couple games of the season he was doing the little things but he regressed during the season and the coaches never settled him back into it or reined in those plays. The Bills problems are the talent level of the players that surround Allen and if you put Mahomes (or Burrow or any other top QB) on the Bills offense the result isn't going to be better, It would probably be worse. You take the starting 10 of the offense excluding the QB position of the Bills, Chiefs, and Bengals and choose the best starter at each of the 10 other positions and how many Bills do you pick? Maybe Diggs. The 3 of the other 10 Chase, Kelsey, Higgins. How about the offensive line and the RB position?

Is it me or do these quotes from Chinese official sound a lot like Democrats? 😲

Social activists make bad administrators because being good at criticizing others isn't a core competency for a job requiring the skills and experience to actually getting things done.

My anonymous sources are telling me the NYT anonymous sources are full of crap.