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Sorry, late and I was tired- http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/45.pdf

The U.S. expected to have another atomic bomb ready for use in the third week of August, with three more in September and a further three in October .[80] On August 10, Major General Leslie Groves, military director of the Manhattan Project, sent a memorandum to General of the Army George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, in which he wrote that "the next bomb . . should be ready for delivery on the first suitable weather after 17 or August 18." On the same day, Marshall endorsed the memo with the comment, "It is not to be released over Japan without express authority from the President."

I don't think G.W.Bush deserves to rank so low, after all for six years and six months it was Dick Cheney's presidency.

Osi Umenyiora might be a player I'd consider if he can play OLB in the 3-4

The United States Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2010, titled A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise,[1] is a spending request by President Barack Obama to fund government operations for October 2009–September 2010. Figures shown in the spending request do not reflect the actual appropriations for Fiscal Year 2010, which must be authorized by Congress. Estimated receipts for fiscal year 2010 are $2.381 trillion, an estimated decrease of 11% from 2009. $1.061 trillion – Individual income taxes $940 billion – Social Security and other payroll tax $222 billion – Corporation income taxes $77 billion – Excise taxes $23 billion – Customs duties $20 billion – Estate and gift taxes $22 billion – Deposits of earnings $16 billion – Other The President's budget for 2010 totals $3.55 trillion. Percentages in parentheses indicate percentage change compared to 2009. This budget request is broken down by the following expenditures: Mandatory spending: $2.184 trillion (+15.6%) $695 billion (+4.9%) – Social Security $453 billion (+6.6%) – Medicare $290 billion (+12.0%) – Medicaid $0 billion (−100%) – Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) $0 billion (−100%) – Financial stabilization efforts $11 billion (+275%) – Potential disaster costs $571 billion (−15.2%) – Other mandatory programs $164 billion (+18.0%) – Interest on National Debt US receipt and expenditure estimates for fiscal year 2010. Discretionary spending: $1.368 trillion (+13.1%) $663.7 billion (+12.7%) – Department of Defense (including Overseas Contingency Operations) $78.7 billion (−1.7%) – Department of Health and Human Services $72.5 billion (+2.8%) – Department of Transportation $52.5 billion (+10.3%) – Department of Veterans Affairs $51.7 billion (+40.9%) – Department of State and Other International Programs $47.5 billion (+18.5%) – Department of Housing and Urban Development $46.7 billion (+12.8%) – Department of Education $42.7 billion (+1.2%) – Department of Homeland Security $26.3 billion (−0.4%) – Department of Energy $26.0 billion (+8.8%) – Department of Agriculture $23.9 billion (−6.3%) – Department of Justice $18.7 billion (+5.1%) – National Aeronautics and Space Administration $13.8 billion (+48.4%) – Department of Commerce $13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of Labor $13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of the Treasury $12.0 billion (+6.2%) – Department of the Interior $10.5 billion (+34.6%) – Environmental Protection Agency $9.7 billion (+10.2%) – Social Security Administration $7.0 billion (+1.4%) – National Science Foundation $5.1 billion (−3.8%) – Corps of Engineers $5.0 billion (+100%) – National Infrastructure Bank $1.1 billion (+22.2%) – Corporation for National and Community Service $0.7 billion (0.0%) – Small Business Administration $0.6 billion (−14.3%) – General Services Administration $19.8 billion (+3.7%) – Other Agencies $105 billion – Other

Bills, worst team of all time- what a mean thing to say

Edwards, Losman, Bledsoe three QBs with some strengths and some major weaknesses- It's a coaches job to accentuate the strengths and disguise the weaknesses- our coaches failed at this in a huge way in fact I thought it looked like they were intentionally screwing with the QBs- Bledsoe who is a pocket QB who loves to throw the deep ball and to the TE in the intermediate routes, has pretty good season but combination of poor OL and Bledsoe's immobility leads to too many sacks, what a normal team would do is try to up grade the OL, what the Bills do is trade or let go of WR Price our deep threat, TE Jay Riemersma and pass catching FB Larry Centers and didn't really replace them with anyone comparable- tried to make Bledsoe a roll out short pass QB and go to a power running game (remember smash mouth except it was more like mush mouth). JP who has a strong arm and decent mobility but is not overly accurate make him stay in the pocket and throw short- and because he's not too tall and doesn't have the greatest field vision give him guards who are 6,6 or 6,7 Edwards with his less than mighty arm -give him T.O. who's best going deep and has sloppy hands on the short stuff not someone like Boldin who could have sucked up a ton of short and medium passes- T.O. would have looked good with J.P. or Bledsoe. So while we haven't any franchise type QBs since Jim Kelly the last time I've seen our coaching staff make a game plan that was a good fit with our QB is Flutie - JP is not the Idea guy but a good coach and OC will probably get a lot more out of him than Buffalo did.

If the Bills start Brohm it probably won't be because the are sure that he can be a quality starter but because they are sure Edwards and Fitz can't.

You mean like competing? like being able to import our drugs from anywhere? or making insurance companies compete over state lines? It's not "Libs" who oppose that.

I am optimistic that the pessimistic thread will get more whines from optimists than the optimistic thread will get from pessimists-.

Joe Biden is a loose cannon but still much smarter than Palin and GW Bush - Cheney is probably the smartest guy running the country in the last ten years, too bad he's a sociopath.

yeah he talks the talks he just doesn't walk the walk- he scolds, shows his indignation and out of that comes nothing at the end of the day- either he's bought or he is tremendously weak and has no balls- Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, Ben Bernanke, Rahm Emanuel, when I saw who he surrounded himself with I knew that meaningful change was a long shot - but I gave him a year before I started to be critical, probably waited too long - so sorry you are wrong on this one.

I'm pretty sure that was Steven Seagal.

ok I'm kind of old - but I don't remember anyone getting anything from little league, I think the coach us took across the street for pop once- If you could play well you batted higher up in the lineup, got more playing time, got less abuse from your teammates or fielded where there was more action- everyone got a game ball? maybe the coach wanted everyone to have a ball to practice with- what did you expect the coffee is for closers speech from Glengarry Glen Ross

I'm a progressive and I am profoundly disappointed in Obama and the Democrats, doesn't really leave me many options politically speaking - Republicans who are about 99% (just about everyone except Ron Paul) owned by special interests and Democrats who are about 80% owned - tea baggers, greenies, commies, libertarians all seem a little nuts but that's who I'm voting for from now on - too bad there aren't any Libs like Nixon or Eisenhower out there - yeah in their time they were conservatives but now they'd be center left.

For people afraid that this bill represents major change of any kind 1. no reform of the credit rating agencies 2. no reform of stockholders rights vis a vis CEO's 3. no obligation for stockbrokers to pursue their customers best interests 4. no reform on bank leverage 5. consumer protection agency will be run by Fed 6. no reform on credit lending 7. no meaningful reform on derivatives Like the Health Bill a huge corporate hand job pretending to be something for the people. I really wish Obama was 1/20th the socialist that people on this board paint him as instead of the corporate flunky he is.

Afghanistan has been making military geniuses frustrated and cranky for thousands of years- maybe China will take a crack at it next, they have about 40 million excess males who have no chance at getting married and raising a family.

Are you sure it's not just a trick to get illegals to bust themselves and their employers.

People scream market forces unless they don't like where the market forces are taking things- I understand that, what I don't quite understand is the player hating over ridiculous salaries but no owner hating over their ridiculous profits- but if you really hate it there is something you can do, stop going and stop watching.

There's the fan in me that fantasizes about Bell improving his strength and technique to take his athleticism to a new level , Levitre stepping up, Wood becoming a nasty dominate center, Calloway becoming a bigger better Brad Butler at RG, and Meredith becoming a revelation at RT- "and I say woe unto all the prognosticators who belittled and undervalued the Bills Oline for thy day of reckoning is at hand" but of course there someone in Oakland right now saying that Langston Walker is in the best shape of his Life, and that Bruce Campbell is a super stud, Gallery may have bombed as a tackle but he's all-pro as a guard, Samson Satele is a great center and so underrated, that Khalif Barnes is a great run blocker and is perfect to move inside at guard - and right now this guy is ranting and raving about his Oakland Oline being rated below the Bills.

He certainly looks athletic, strong and fast - but it all boils down to, can he get separation, can he get to the right spot and can he catch the ball - liked him in the Bills highlights but we will know a lot more in pre-season.

Empires collapse, that's what happens - they overreach and overspend - they have hubris and try to control the uncontrollably- the costs and benefits from empire are unequally distributed, eventually there is internal strife and the empire withdraws from the foreign to deal with the domestic -and at this time other countries think about expansion because no one really thinks the lessons of history applies to them.

Agreed it's about the OL first, QB second and WR third- when I look at them with my fan eyes I think of all the young players who could step up (Bell, Woods, Levitre, Meredith, Brohm, Hardy, Easley, Johnson) - but when you think dispassionately about it you realize that using this criteria there are 32 NFL teams excited about play-off runs.

1. take it up with your professional peers, I did not create the word 2. The disingenuous personal attack was about my ability to speak English, not my knowledge of economics. 3. I never claimed any formal education in Economics - what I claim is that schools of economic theory like religions have many branches each claiming to be the one true way and like religions seem very hit and miss in prophecy and improving the lives of their adherents.

Your previous post would suggest that you were not aware or if you were aware then you were making a disingenuous personal attack.