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Have you delved into Shadowlands?
Interesting.
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No, not really! I just thought it would be a funny response...I was anticipating a slew of Doug Flutie, Thurman Thomas, Jim Kelly and Bruce Smith responses...
Actually, back in the 1990's, I got the idea, from my nephew, to get cards autogrpahed of all the Super Bowl team players who had cards, through the mail. Every single one of them responded (about 35 players) except for Mark Kelso and Keith McKellar. Bruce Smith took about a year to respond, everyone else responded within a month or two. I gave McKellar a pass, because he left the team shortly after I sent my letter, and then signed with the Broncos, before being cut. Kelso, however, I mailed to twice, and received no response. I don't seriously think that makes him an a-hole though.
I will say, over the years, having met many players in person, Joe Ferguson, Jerry Butler, Andre Reed, Kenneth Davis, Roosevelt Leaks and Leon Seals were all great guys...err, I mean not as-holes!
My story is of a Bill being a great guy.
My wife did something along that lines at the previous library she was at. When they got rid of the card catalog, they sent the cards out to the authors to sign and return... They then auctioned them off to the highest bidder, the proceeds went to build a new children's wing of the library... It was kinda cool. Children's authors/illustrators drew pictures on the cards. Eric Clapton sent his back signed. At that time, John Holechek was playing for the Bill's. He grew up in the town (Steger) I am living in and his mother was on the original founding board of trustees for the library district. He donated a singned team Bills' NFL football, $500 Bills leather jacket, signed upclose picture of him sacking Dan Marino
and other stuff for the auction. Being from Buffalo he even gave me a signed 2000 team photo.The big people here that never signed or returned the catalog cards were:
Michael Jordan
Oprah Winfrey (you'd think she would sign because she is a reading advocate)
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Serious question.
Anyone besides me ever had any turtle soup?
We used to catch big snapping turtles, and my grandmother would make a turtle soup that was a lot like Manhattan clam chowder. No canned additives. Good stuff. Buffalo area, as well. They used to have big turtles, fish and other stuff in the '50s and '60's. Still do? I really haven't been around in about 25 years.
Aren't they protected?
What about contamination?
Snapping turtles are the largest of freshwater turtles? We get a lot of here where I work. They will move from the wetlands behind here and to the river. Sometimes you will see them on the esplanade. One time a guy fishing at the dam caught a huge one... He was "gonna take it home and eat it."
Now, I don't know what is in the sediment here but, I know it isn't good? The same thing with the giant carp they pull from the river around here (30-40 plus pounds)... IT CAN'T BE SAFE! Yet, there are people that catch for subsistance in this area.The only time I had turtle soup was in a NO 15 years ago.
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Not busting on the workers. I don't know how long you've lived in Buffalo, but it doesn't turn into a ghost town overnight. It's been 50 years of a slow rape, accelerated when renewable $ left town because it was cheaper to do business elsewhere. Who do you think owns Masiello and Giambra? The government is the only game left in town, and now that their well is dried up the state convienently steps in to throw in the towel after the damage is done.
As for your bridge....why does it take 5 years? Because they've shelled out millions to "consulting groups" to come up with a viable plan. There's no bridge, there is no waterfront, but you just might get a fancy new Bass Pro!! I wonder who gets the job of accepting the $25 million county granted job of redoing the Aud?
Buffalo has ALWAYS been a worker town. A lot of businesses in Buffalo have had their home HQ's elswhere. Now that is a problem because where do businesses retract to during tough economic times? Back to their home city?
Buffalo has historically been an "outpost" for businesses in other cities. There is no loyalty to Buffalo.
How many businesses in the last 50 years pulled out of Buffalo that were based in Buffalo?
I can name two, I am sure there are more but, you can't deny that the big players came from other cities:
Curtiss
Trico
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Refining is the issue - as it has been for years. The oil that President Clinton released from the NPR never made it to market in the US and was actually sold overseas because there wasn't refining capacity to handle it.
According to one of industry buddies, gas prices would drop as much as a third if the oil companies simply stopped refining mid-grade gasoline and instead used that capacity to increase production of the lowest grade. They're definitely crooks and so is pretty much every large and too rich entity here in the US, starting with good ol' Uncle Sam.
Hey! My 1994 Chrysler recommends 89/mid-grade! You want me to get pings or pay extra for premium?
Actually they probably can start phasing it out... Since chip technology has gotten cheaper... Either recommend 87/regular or premium!
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So true... I am pretty sure they don't destroy the plate numbers in Illinois... They just reuse them.
People downstate that never stepped foot in the city were getting notices for not paying past tickets that were given in the city!
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I will bet you $100 right now that this insecure troll can not go without posting again on this thread. $100 dollars, right now. I gurarantee you that he is stomping his foot right now, trying desparately to craft a comeback that includes the either the word "hot pockets" or "ding".
Give that man a 100 bucks!
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You went into a whine about how nobody was talking about KBR and Haliburton during the Clinton years... That is untrue. The distain for KBR goes way back. Thanks to LBJ, wasn't KBR heavily innvolved in Vietnam?
Ya, the history that I posted doesn't include Clinton... But, he is equally to blame. KBR became notorious in Vietnam and now Iraq... That doesn't say past administrations get a free pass... They don't in my book!
It is the big scale actions that get people's attention.
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NBA ratings have been the 2nd worst ever , forget about the last 11 years.
I don't believe games are scripted or that the players are in on it (at least not yet anyway), but I believe they use refs and foul calling or lack thereof to steer a game as much as they can.
I agree... Basketball is probably the easiest to do it in?
Football might not be out of that realm with the way they handle replay challenges.
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Hey brother I joined this forum in 2002... You would have heard me screaming just the same!
I wish the internet took hold another ten years earlier... It would have put all this Clinton whining to rest.
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$80 + is not unrealistic. Gas prices, though are more a result of lack of refining capacity than the actual unit price per bbl of crude. Oil and gas commodities are hedged. Someone somewhere is getting their oil for $38 a bbl right now. The current price per bbl and the price of gasoline aren't synched.
True.
When there is a mishap at a refinery or what not, I take it that it puts crimp in production and certain areas might see a spike?
But, you can't deny it that they want us to pay at a certain level? Get it over 2 bucks, bring it down, now up a little, little higher, now lower, now higher, higher, still higher... Ease us into that 3 buck range and nobody screams. Call it scratching the back of big oil?
There are a lot of variables.
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I give the prisoners credit for not talking. I sometimes wonder how I would hold up to torture if "the enemy" was trying to get info out of me. I don't think I would last very long to be honest. All they would have to do is threaten harm to my genitals and I would sing.
ME: F U scumbag, I'm not telling you a thing.
ENEMY: If you do not talk, we will insert destructive phrase here your balls.
ME: What do you need to know?
Sing what?
Kinda of reminds me of my father telling me about the time he was in escape and evasion school. They asked him what is he gonna do if they start pulling his finger nails out? His reply: "Geneva Convention, name rank and serial #... What more do I know?... Anyway (to the higher up asking him the question) they aren't gonna capture me, they are going to capture you!"
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You mean Kill 'em Burn 'em and Run, right?
Let's remember, when we do our historical multiplication tables, that everything happening now began somewhere, some time. Take the construction and engineering company Kellogg, Brown & Root, now serving (and feeding) our troops in Iraq in so many overpriced ways. It was founded as Brown & Root in Texas in 1919; sponsored the political career of, and was then sponsored in its search for government contracts by Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson; after being swallowed up by Halliburton, a burgeoning oil-services firm, in 1962, it followed vice president, then president LBJ into Vietnam where it was deeply involved in constructing "infrastructure" - bases and the like - for the U.S. military. As Jane Mayer reminds us in her recent New Yorker article on Halliburton and its former CEO, our present vice president, in those rebellious and sardonic days Brown & Root was known to many American soldiers by the familiar nickname, "Burn and Loot."
And so it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut might say. And so it continues to go, as KBR, still part of Halliburton, supports the American effort in Iraq to the tune of multi-billions in support of another vice president with an even closer relationship to the company. What pet names our soldiers in Iraq have bestowed on KBR this time around I don't know, nor do I know who built the "infrastructure" for our first great offshore imperial venture, our annexation and conquest of the Philippines over a century ago, though Filipino columnist Renato Redentor Constantino might well.
The war in Vietnam we're re-imagining and arguing over in this presidential season is but a pale shadow of the grisly event itself, and our no less grisly military years in the Philippines, which paved the way for Vietnam, are long gone from American memory, though, as Constantino wants to remind us below, they shouldn't be.
And yet it would be incorrect to say that no one remembers this ancient history. Perhaps it's just that the wrong people remember it the wrong way. Take the following recent remarks by former general and would-be viceroy of Iraq Jay Garner, who was quickly replaced by L. Paul Bremer in the early days of our Iraqi debacle:
"'I think one of the most important things we can do right now is start getting basing rights' in both northern and southern Iraq, Garner said, adding that such bases could provide large areas for military training. 'I think we'd want to keep at least a brigade in the north, a self-sustaining brigade, which is larger than a regular brigade,' he added.
"Noting how establishing U.S. naval bases in the Philippines in the early 1900s allowed the United States to maintain a 'great presence in the Pacific,' Garner said, 'To me that's what Iraq is for the next few decades. We ought to have something there ... that gives us great presence in the Middle East. I think that's going to be necessary.'"
Back in the years between the conquest of the Philippines and the war in Vietnam, the Pacific was sometimes spoken of here as "America's lake" and in the World War II years there was even a tin-pan alley tune with the pop title, "To be specific, it's our Pacific." Somehow, "America's desert" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, and I don't think the title, "To be specific, they're our oil reserves" would fly.
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http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/0...5c876953692.txt
But, but, but...I thought we invaded Iraq for the oil!!
We did.
Now that we got it... We are gonna charge everybody more.
You are not gullible to think that gas prices were gonna go down? Exact opposite my friend?
That is like saying that since there is a salary cap, the owners will lower ticket prices!
Again, the opposite happens.
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That is how I understand it. I used to collect the Dairylea milk coupons also but I didn't have anyone to take me downtown as I was a kid so they went unused.
I didn't learn about the Knoxes hogging the best dates until I believe it got exposed in one of Rick Azar's final commentaries. I still remember that the Braves were wildly popular despite them not getting the best dates and they still sold the place out with crowds approximating 17,000.
We used to go to the games with the Daiylea (I still have our old Dairylea galvanized milk box) milk carton coupons... Sit in the oranges... I think that is were I first got vertigo!
Buffalo would be a great basketball town.
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And then the Zamboni doors flung open, allowing everybody and their brother onto the ice.
I liken it to the Immaculate Reception... It would have taken some serious nads to stop and say... "Hey, wait...It is a stupid rule but, it violates that rule and the goal shouldn't count." Balls the NHL never will have.
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Does that answer your question?
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The game is won at the line BF! Tim Duncan has shown nothing at the line. What is his free-throw %?
If SA wins it might be inspite of Tim Duncan. There is no way in hell I can see him as MVP, given his poor free-throws in the first 6 games! Something would be totally wrong! Tim Duncan could have won the series for SA if he would have made some more free-throws.
Robert Horry really saved his arse in game five, or SA would have been toast.
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I will be spending 4 days with the "Mass. Influence" when I pick up my in-laws at O'Hare on Thursday.
This is the same brother-in law/Pats fan that harbors ill will towards Bills' fans because my clueless mother-in-law said to him: "We won!" When a Jim Kelly led Bills team beat the Pats years ago. The only thing you gotta understand is that my mother-in-law is harmless and never meant any ill will by the statement, probably clueless in forgetting that he was a NE fan.
I should be able to give you a full critique on Monday after their visit is over.
Maybe I should just leave them on the North Side... I have no doubt they would fit right in...
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Exactly Mark...
On another note: Bill you are gonna love this one...
[sarcasm on]
I am all for raising BillInNYC's energy bill when they ship power from the falls to NYC. Give the locals on the Niagara Frontier a break and jack up the electric prices for NYC... Even know the falls isn't in Erie County, they can still help the local area.
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My guess is that blower assists the cold air to the second floor? Since cold air naturally wants to sink... The fan would make things more efficient?
How does your furnace work? Is it "twined" through the same duct work.
I thought you meant the compressor fan on the outside...
oops.
Another Gitmo Perspective
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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Wow! I never really thought about how scared some people must be until this post.
The wind just gets more formidable and daunting.
When the wind is blowing in your face straight down the bow... Nothing in the world is gonna make that boat go forward into the wind... Unless you TACK!
Unfortunately, terror will always be that wind in your face. No matter how hard you tell yourself and try, you are not going to stop the wind from blowing.
That doesn't mean you can't make the boat go forward.