All_Pro_Bills

My poll question is which couple takes the Halloween costume contest? Don and Melania as the Orange Umpa Lumpa and a Zombie or Joe and Kamala as The Mummy and The Bride of Frankenstein?

To me a Biden victory will speak more to the stupidity and limited intellectual capacity of the voters. First in the Democratic primary where they nominated and then the Nov. 3 general election where they expect to elect Biden who is clearly too old and too feeble (both mentally and physically) to do the job. If he lasts 6 months it will be somewhat of a miracle. Enter President Harris who dominated the primary season with 2% of the vote before dropping out. She will have absolutely no mandate for anything despite general rhetoric that urges people to pull together and stand with the new President (most likely following the playbook by trying to brand any dissent as racist, sexist, or some other "ist"). Its going to be a disaster of epic proportions. I hope everyone is preparing for economic and social problems domestically and internationally at a level unseen in our lifetimes. Worse I say than Trump has been or likely could be. The left wanted chaos and they're going to get it but not in the way they wanted.

Its hard to describe the feeling of apprehension I have this morning before the game today. Something like driving to the Dentist for a first ever root canal appointment. You hope it goes well but there might be a lot of pain involved. This is the moment of truth. No excuses today. No excuses for a slow start, no excuses for not being prepared for what they'll do on both sides of the ball, no excuses for nothing. I see this as a must win not for the standings or the division lead but for burying the past and putting it firmly to rest. A win will do that. Based on what I saw last week I am nervous. After two straight convincing defeats the Bills came out flat against a terrible Jets team last week. If that game was against anyone else in the league it would have been a loss. The Patriots have no receiving group to speak of today. Their best DB is out. Their QB looks to be in some sort of slump. We all know what they are going to do. They're going to run the ball on offense and stack the box on D, bring pressure on Allen to keep him in the pocket and force quick throws, and force the Bills to win through the air on a windy day. The BIlls have guys coming back healthy and the line up is as close to full strength as its been all season. The coaches better have the players ready and playing start to finish with a game plan that addresses what everyone knows Belichik is going to do. And the players should be over the top motivated to take this today. Bills 24-13.

Without reading the study my first thought is that unless they performed accurate and measurable contact tracing they must be making big assumptions to draw that conclusion. My guess is something like identifying the location of the rally and then measuring the level of infection in that location over time and assigning causality to any increase in the numbers to the event. That doesn't prove anything. So count me skeptical as with all things lately the core objective is more political than scientific in nature. I expect its a statistical certainty the people doing the study are Biden supporters which establishes expectation bias from the start. I work in health care analytics and have access to billions of data records of all kinds. EHR, claims, Rx, providers, hospitals, labs, procedure and diagnosis records. You name it. And I say this with confidence, we have much more information and data than anyone at Stanford. We've performed numerous de-identified COVID studies, reports, and statistical analysis's for client companies and government agencies. And while general studies can illustrate distribution and spread patterns of the outbreak to date there is no validated study by anyone that has identified specific events that have traced forward to identify the pattern and level of the outbreak. To do this you need rigorous contact tracing data which I am certain is not available for the rally events. The lesson with studies is you can conclude most anything you want but when applying general statistical principals and testing the assumptions most fall flat on their backside.

This sounds like the same exact strategy I use for avoiding arguments with my wife. So as someone with a lot of experience at it I'm all-in for entering the 2024 race!

The weather looks to be rain with 20 mph wind. So passing may be difficult but I have to believe Allen will have a slight edge over Newton if for nothing else than being familiar and more comfortable playing in those conditions. No 300 yard day for either passer is a sure bet. With no credible WR group for Sunday NE should be even more run heavy. We all know stopping the run has been a major weakness for the Bills defense. So the Bills might be smart to go heavy on "D" with a 4-4-3 or a 5-3-3 defensive alignment but I'm likely asking for too much thinking and creativity. Bills run game must pull its weight. Allen needs to limit hero ball moments and absolutely protect the football. Felicano coming back should boost O-line play. In the end Bills 17, Patriots 9

You really don't get how things really work do you? The wealthy and elite that bankroll everything, buy off politicians, and direct everything from the background are not going to allow that.

The electoral college was established as a condition for smaller population states to ratify the Constitution. The concern was a few large population states would control the Federal government and dictate policy to the rest of the nation. That is no less of a concern today than it was in 1789. Hence the equal representation in the Senate and the proportional allotment of House members for the States.

Forgive my ignorance but I don't know a thing about Merrick or who that is. But they can have all the power they want as long as they stay out of my wallet and don't tell me what I can and cannot do or say or think or how I chose to live. Truth is the "majority" that foots the bill for all things agrees with my view of things.

In our Republic form of government checks and balances were put in place to deter the "majority" from running roughshod over the Constitutional and legal rights of any minority opinion or viewpoint. The fact progressives claiming to represent some majority view don't like it means it seems to be working well.

I like you enthusiasm but if everyone is entitled to $1K per week and they get free healthcare and free college then who will choose to work and produce the goods and services all this free money is going to get spent on? The $1k translates to $25/hr. So it seems reasonable to assume that anyone making less than that will quit their job.

Political pandering at its finest. I'm sure Joe and his followers are up all night weeping and morning his loss.

With or without Brady, the Patriots still stand in the Bills way to a division title. So I view this as a big game and a critical point in their journey back to being respectable. Go 6-2 at the halfway point and drop your biggest competition to 2-5. Anything short of a win is failure to take control of the division and put some hurt on the logo that's been beating you like a drum for almost 2 decades. Let's not make excuses or minimize the importance of this game. It time to man-up and play lights out football on Sunday. Nothing short of maximum effort and focus and preparedness is going to cut it. Time to slay the beast! Or punch the bully in the face! However it can be described. Get it done right here and right now on Sunday.

I recall this too and I have a big complaint about it! For 15 years I had to watch the Bills play Brady twice a year while he worked over and barked at the officials when he didn't get a call multiple times times during the games and not one single time did he ever draw a flag for unsportsmanlike conduct for abuse of an official. Allen gets horse-collared from behind (they said in the pocket is not a penalty), voices his dissatisfaction with the official over a non-call and gets flagged 15 for bringing it to his attention. I don't want to hear you got to earn those calls, abuse is abuse. The truth is the officials are too afraid to flag the GOAT and do their job.

There's always an excuse. Maybe the issue is the local and state health agencies should not be setting people with mental issues problems loose in the communities they serve? So the cops shoot knife wielding guy that comes at them. Queue the automatic conclusion the police acted improperly along with the standard looting and rioting. And then the likely blow back. My guess is this will impact enough voters that Pennsylvania will likely fall into the Trump win column next week. Well played BLM idiots, well played. Maybe they can start some riots in Michigan later this week?

If Poe can just maintain his position and tie up his man at the LOS while not getting pushed back 5 yards on every down then he'd be an improvement over the DT group's performance to date.

I have no opinion one way or the other on Ms. Harris but the contradiction here is that society has evolved to the point where women are to be treated equally but when somebody goes after them out comes the gender card and accusations against their adversary of bias or some character flaw. No more free passes for the ladies.

Having the benefit of knowing history makes that an easy conclusion. But pursuing a pre-emptive approach in the context of the time which was a world weary of war and the onset of the Great Depression and a U.S. not yet the Super Power it would become (and perhaps incapable at the time of pulling off such an action) would have been viewed much differently without the benefit of hindsight.

When I saw the title of this topic I wondered "how does this guy know my sister-in-law"?

The thing is and its the root of the matter in my view. its a long highway between a minority of Americans being "friendly" to suggesting that Americans or America itself supported systematic genocide of racial, ethic, and national groups, political opponents, mentally and physically disabled people, homosexuals, gypsies, and others the regime decided to exterminate. Anyone that believes that or pushes that narrative is full of crap. Would you agree with this statement?

Yes, climate change has been politicized and as such its an issue used by politicians to either gain support or opposition to specific issues. My assessment is that climate change is happening. Its always been happening on the planet. The planet is a dynamic system. It is always changing. There are periods when the average temperature rises and periods when it falls. Both occurring when humans existing and when they did not exist. And CO2 levels does not explain all those variations. The core questions here are: 1) Do CO2 emissions and the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere impact the direction and magnitude of the change? 2) Is this the only factor causing the climate to "change" or are there other variables? My contention is the climate change crowd endorses the first but ignores the second. My questions to the "science" crowd would be: 1) What's the perfect temperature and conditions you are looking for? 2) What if we cut CO2 concentrations and nothing happens? 3) Do you believe we as the human race have the ability to determine what the climate of the Earth should be? 4) What about things you can't control? Like geological activity such as earthquakes and volcanoes? Variations in the Sun's energy output. Periodic perturbations in the Earth's orbit and tilt.

"Today, Joe Biden thought he was running against George Bush... for real".

I hate to call this a "statement" game but that's what I think it is next Sunday. The Bills look to be the superior team although they haven't played up to their potential for the past 3 weeks. Chalk it up to a lot of issues, interruptions in the schedule, injuries, and such. Maybe the defense pulled out of their funk in the second half yesterday? And the offense needs to finish drives with TD's and not shoot themselves in the foot with penalties, some questionable play calls, and poor execution. But this is a game they should win against the Patriots. We know what NE is likely to do here. On offense focus on a running game with Newton and the RB's mixing in some short passing while running some clock. And on defense bringing pressure, a spy on Allen, and scheming to take away the over the top passes while making Josh take short and check down throws. The big thing is absolutely none of this should be a surprise or a secret. Much of it they've done for years against the Bills with great success. But this time the team has much more talent on offense than in the past. So there is absolutely no excuse for the coaching staff on both sides of the ball to not have a decent game plan ready to counter these strategies and the team ready to execute it.

Wow! A stop on 4th and 1. From what I've seen so far didn't see that coming. Now let's get 7..

I'm not sure what your point is other than to demonstrate you're more informed on the subject or smarter than me. That's okay, I don't claim expert status on the subject. My point was that NAZI Germany was a socialist society in form and function where the regime centralized total power and control and all decision making. Where citizens existed to serve the state. And it was a brutal dictatorial police state . Along with trying to dispel the myth held by a lot of people on the left that socialist regimes are democratic in nature. In practice they are not.