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My favorite.

I'm a Christian and have attended Bible study for years. The Book of Revelations is impossible to interpret, offers no life guidance, and is a "vision." It is the one portion of the Bible I never look to for anything other than passing interest. To each his own.

The answer to that question depends on what changes are made after the bid. Our's were about 15% higher than the original bid, but that was our doing. It is not realistic to guess at a figure, because it depends on so many variable. This house, I was travelling to South America the entire time, so I had arranged for all the hardwood flooring and interior doors to be imported from there. The original bid had standard US supplied oak flooring and hollow core doors, but I had that stuff shipped up, so maybe I'm not the guy to ask. Additionally, I did a fair amount of work myself, intercoms. sound and ceiling fans etc.

For what it's worth, which is probably nothing, we have had our last three houses built. New construction. I am an energy geek and follow the industry and technology closely. Our last house had geothermal. Loved it. The pricing eliminated that consideration on the one we live in now. Prices for geothermal in no way are justified. This house is perfect for solar. We have a three car garage roof that faces true south. I had the roof of the garage framed to handle solar, which I wanted to have the option to do later on when efficiencies made sense. They still don't.

Butch Byrd's Utica Club commercial with Van Miller should be in the Hall.

Ya. they do.

After quite a few outages over the years, and getting by with small but powerful generators, we installed a 23kw whole house generator a couple years ago. Total cost was a bit less than $10K, which included the generator, lp hookup and electrical service transfer panel. I used different guys for the lp hookup and service panel work, and total cost was considerably less than going with a generator company for the entire project. Happy wife happy life. By the way, having your home service underground, as our is, is no insurance against the grid that supplies the power to the underground point.

I'll trust a poster named Shaw66 to comment on right guard play.

Beat them twice in the past two years regular season in Kansas City. Took them to an overtime coin toss in Kansas City in the playoffs. Not sure how you could be closer. I'm not saying the Bills are better. They certainly were a franchise hurting at the end of last season, but to suggest that they "don't belong in the conversation," is not valid. Miami absolutely has improved, and I have no problem acknowledging that.

Ya. We used to live near Napa in our early years, which is what got me interested in viticulture. I'm more a fan of Spanish, Italian and South American vintages, but to each his own.

What year? Could be friends of mine. My best buddy in the Pacific Fleet Adversary Squadron was Curt Watson, who joined the Blues along with others from that pipeline. He was the guy who flew Tom Cruise, at the behest of Paramount studios, on an indoc flight that Cruise liked so much he agreed to do Topgun 1. Curt also spent a year with the Green Bay Packers, which I found out about under under surprising circumstances. On a WNY note, Mike Gershon, the Blue that died in a midair at the Niagara Falls 1985 airshow was a friend. Video available on youtube.

Sourdough bread. Cioppino. Cliff House. USS Enterprise under the Golden Gate. My two sons. Such a damned shame.

Not to cast stones here, but I don't think that region can produce top quality wines compared to other regions with longer growing seasons. I am not criticizing them, I just don't think it is possible, but being familiar with the work, I am happy they are successful. For bona fides. I have run a commercial vineyard on my property for seventeen years, and our 2017 grapes won a silver medal in the 2021 Virginia Governor's Cup. I have ultimate respect for the folks in that region who do what I do here. The whites require less growing season than the Bordeaux red I grow here, the odds are so stacked against them, and I would take a Virginia white at every choice.

Was Diggs seen gesturing wildly towards Allen screaming he was open? That's what's important.

You will not be disappointed if you read it. I read it because I wanted to go over the physics of the issue, and it was a subject I had forgotten. It is a fabulous book, complete with all the characters and a real time addressing of the issues; a novel with a huge scientific vein. No fiction.

If anyone is interested in filling in the holes, the book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," by Richard Rhodes will fill in all the blanks. A tremendous work, winner of the 1987 National Book Award. Incredibly interesting and well researched.

That wasn't in Trump's power to do. It would have required Congressional approval, which was never in the cards.

The "usual level of piss poor intelligence" predicted this with uncanny accuracy prior to the invasion. The proposal you suggest of "shock and awe" assumes the capability to do so, which didn't exist at the time, the result of years of NATO "allies" not living up to their promises/obligations. Of course the regality of facing a nuclear conflagration is not expressed in your suggestion, but certainly a reasonable assumption that has been thankfully avoided.

Dated and married my wife in "The City." Two of three kids born there before we moved out. Met Mr. Bennett doing my other career and he gave me a hand note wishing my wife a happy anniversary. Impossible for me to hear that song and not think about what that city has become in the last ten years.

I was at the Sherkston Quarry, (older WNY'ers will know), when they landed. Home for the TV coverage of the walk.

Fifty four years ago today, at slightly after 4pm eastern, man landed on the moon. Neil Armstrong uttered one of the most famous quotes ever recorded: "Houston...Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Still the most watched news event in US history. Plagued by system warnings in the descent, the 1202 and 1201 alarms, and repeated com breakups, some twenty something year old kid at mission control gave to go signal to continue with the alarms. Landed with about twenty seconds of fuel remaining. Simply amazing, and all done with total international exposure in real time, unlike the Soviet space program.

It is simply inconceivable that any rational individual would consider this man capable of the office. We are in for an interesting 18 months, and not in a good way.

No specifically related to this incident, bit the time between last OTA's and mandatory minicamp and then actual training camp is always a Crimestoppers period in the NFL. Its almost like they tell them to go out and do what you're going to do, and we'll sort it out at training camp.

Which is why I posted the second sentence, stating that I don't support that. It's not only a bad idea, it's impossible if we ever hope to maintain any level of readiness that we are accustomed to. Our level of readiness is significantly diminished from where it was, but we absolutely have to have those volunteers.