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The American public should be screaming from the rooftops "NO MORE STIMULUS" and "DON'T PAUSE THE GAS TAX" but we won't. The idea to hand out fuel cost stimulus is so completely insane you really think they are trying to destroy the US economy on purpose via wildfire inflation. Pausing the gas tax just means the tolls you'll be paying on every single bridge in your state five years from now will be 50% higher than they would have been. States are absolutely aroused at the idea they can toll bridges and corridors in perpetuity.

Interesting question! As a complete aside, I've wondered why head coaches can't wear sharp tailored suits like they used to presuming they'd want to? I recall a number of years ago Jack Del Rio and another coach (Mike Nolan maybe) did for a game, but the suits were made by Nike *just* for that game, so it was a big deal. At the very least, I feel it's an untapped market for companies to sell clothing that's above the frumpy sweatshirt.

For starters, I'd fire that jackass who walks AROUND a person in pain to retrieve a ball. I'd want to know someone didn't run out there to render aid.

I appreciate your post on this. It's very helpful.

3 years for a 32 year old pass rusher? I'm happy that's Raiders money being spent.

Oh that's ok. There's no problem with your discussion poll. It's thorough. Was just adding to the discussion.

For me, this costly invasion is all about: 1) controlling energy into Europe, and eliminating the costly middle man. Ukraine is the pipeline crossroads and it has four nuclear plants, including the largest on the continent. 2) controlling the Black Sea, and its untold billions in gas and oil reserves below it. Turkey found 11 *trillion* cubic feet of natural gas in its part of the Black Sea alone in 2020. 3) doing its part to collapse the petrodollar. I think the larger goal of all of this is to remove the US petrodollar as the primary world currency, which would have devastating effect on the West, especially the US, especially now. If Russia can corner the energy supply and transmission into Europe, it can demand payment in something else besides the dollar. If you get the Saudis, Chinese, Indians, Iranians, Iraqis, etc. to join your bloc, where they will accept other currencies or an entirely different one, the US is in considerable trouble. You ask why Putin didn't do this during Trump? Trump would have flooded the market with US energy, and aggressively threaten oil producers to keep the dollar. Those countries are hedging their bets that Biden will do neither.

Same! I read an article about him that detailed why his appearance changed dramatically - weight loss initiative. My guess is he had a bariatric procedure + healthier eating + a lot more exercise. Probably HgH or HcG/Test too.

He lost it on purpose. I think he's probably going to run for President, and you can't look that fat and unhealthy.

I've always considered this particular blurb in the coverage of stadium negotiations as columnist "poetic license" with the truth to gin up some emotional response from the Bills fanbase. If reporters were fired for not writing factual information with bonafide sources, you wouldn't have read it.

Obama chaos=Trump chaos=Biden chaos. It's all the same. Biden's is just quieter. The similarity is that "middle management" - your DOD, State Dept., CIA, CDC, NIH, feel emboldened in the vacuum to do what they want and that's why there's sooo much inconsistent policy and so much chaos. Not much different from Trump. Or Obama. Or Bush. That's why the last 22 years feel like we just lurch from one crisis to the next, unable to catch our breath.

My impression is that the plaintiffs were looking to score a neat civil suit "pay it to go away" day from Watsin, and once other interested parties got involved with their own selfish reasons, it spiraled out of their control.

I agree. The tit for tat impeachments don't need to get started and become a thing the parties do. The last three were unnecessary political theater IMO. Nixon earned his. Reagan skated by on getting one of his own.

Yes, but he's throwing stones from a glass house. Every country in the world is playing with this crap, and that's why you'll never get a straight answer on the origins of Covid.

I'm not hysterical about an all of a sudden nuclear war if NATO went with a no-fly zone in Ukraine. Russia won't bomb airfields or anything like that either. They don't have the material, planes or pilots, and that opens up another front. They will shut off all their energy to Europe. They will nationalize all the US corporate property in the Russia, effectively confiscating it. They will cyber attack US natural gas and oil companies.

It's word salad. The US government didn't "own" or "operate" one in Wuhan either, but certainly funded programs and projects like the critter that got out and creates a pandemic. There's probably an EcoHealth type of organization funding projects there. The Ukraine bio labs is more evidence that there are hundreds of Wuhans operating around the world, with a lot of people keenly interested in you not knowing about what goes on in them. ...meanwhile we're all clutching pearls over nuclear weapons.

They needed Poland to do it so Russia could be baited to attack Poland, a NATO country, and thereby enacting Article 5 of NATO, where all of NATO could then could go to war with Russia.

Easy keys to Bills success IMO (alone): No expensive FAs over the age of 30. No FAs with just one great contract year of production to show you. No first round draftees, especially guys who rely on speed and twitch, with blown out knees, and who won't be ready to show you anything before draft day. No first round draftees with known chronic injuries or chronic health issues. No first round draftees you plan on playing out of their natural position. No first round draftees who have never been in shape or have a difficult time staying in football shape.

I don't know who they feel believes what they are selling. The gas prices and inflation hit everyone hard, but they especially hit seniors, lower income families and single parent households with sledgehammers. 61% of the US lives paycheck to paycheck, and that's nearly 2/3rds of our citizens just grinding it out daily, not really getting ahead. Go out and buy an electric car? Really??? I'm amazed at the lack of the doing absolutely anything about it either or offering a path forward, or offering any confidence that things will get better. The President for the most part shrugs his shoulders, mutters "eh, what are you going to do, right?", and goes on with his day.

Poland had no intention of starting a world war, regardless of US strong arming. The question is why the US is going out of its way to intensify, not de-escalate this conflict. See any ambassador meetings on the news? Nope. Any Biden-Putin calls? Nope.

No, for two reasons. 1. Pedestrian production. Bucs were using him as a blocker. With TB12 and his 5,000 passing yards at the helm. 2. Not many players come completely back from a full tear of the Achilles.

Russia will respond by shutting Nord Stream 1.

I think the government will find a "reason" to stop prosecuting this case. Quietly. One, the facts of the case will be lay bare that federal agents largely created the scenario. Two, it requires identifying agents. Three, it'll expose tactics and strategies, and they really don't want to do that.

The irony is that the US will likely use more coal to generate electricity in 2021 and 2022 than we did in the last decade, and I'll speculate that the four years in the Biden administration will see record coal consumption for generation. Coal companies here in PA can't find enough workers and can't fill the orders fast enough. Just like President Obama was the best salesperson a gun company could ever have, Biden will be the President that brings back the coal industry.

I think the Jags will trade that for the cornucopia of picks. There's no Bruce Smith there and I'd never take an OL #1 overall. They don't move the needle that much. I also wouldn't want to pay back to back #1 picks in the event they both turn out to be great. Hard to build a good team around them financially.