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Yeah...I hate the mindset that took us to four Super Bowls! 281358[/snapback] Every hear of Bill Polian?

There are few people beyond Bills message boards who don't believe that TD has brought in a very good group of players. There were a couple of major needs, and he pursued and signed some of the best in the league in at their respective positions (Adams, TKO, Milloy). All that being said, the guys on the field are the people to blame for not making the playoffs. Fumbles, trips and stumbles, INTs, dropped balls, dumb holding penalties when we have a chance to put Jax away, et al, are the player's fault, not the GMs, aren't they?

I wanted DeMulling to join the Bills based upon what I read about him, but like you, I'm glad they didn't throw too much money at him. That type of mindset is what got us into some serious cap trouble in the Butler era.

Freakin' hillarious post!!! Yellow Journalism was used to get America INTO a war, not out of one. Yellow Journalism came about some 100 years ago to get Americans to see the atrocities the Spanish colonialists committed against the Cubans (while ignoring the atrocities the Cubans committed against the Spanish). Cartoons, printed against a yellow background, were used to sell public opinion on sending American soldiers to war against Spain in Cuba and the Phillipines.

Good question, she's a bowling chick from CHEEKtowaga afterall.

Because curious minds want to know: -flying or driving? -family in the area? -the fastest land animal?

My immediate response to the above was that it makes about as much sense as saying that extreme-right philosophies such as fascism - which severely impairs property rights, free enterprise, religious freedom and individual liberties, and the role of free enterprise - makes the founding fathers a rather liberal bunch. It's a slippery slope you're using, and the truth is that the founding fathers were in that grey area between fascist and socialist ideals. As someone who regularly refers to the founding fathers and the Constitution, I also think we should tread carefully in using your interpretation of their beliefs in certain aspects, namely, free enterprise and the role of government in regulating it. In early America, there was little need for regulation. Barter was still being used as a means of trade, particulary in rural areas, and slavery was recognized as a viable method of devoloping a profitable agriarian society. Fast forward to the mid-nineteenth century and we have the railroads begining their exploitation of "western" farmers and the mining concerns using hydro-mining techniques to wash away mountain sides with little concern for enviromental impact. The government had little choice but to take action by way of regulation. As the industrial revolution took hold, proletariats exploited labor. To avoid regulation (and taxation), men like Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan hatched schemes to formulate trusts as they weren't subject to the same regulation as corporations were. Adam Smith's invisible hand is a wonderful idea on paper, but in industrial and post-industrial societies, the pursuit of the dollar isn't neccesarily concerned with the well-being of labor, the environment, ethics, or society at large. That truth is acknowledged across political parties, which is why the first president to use the Sherman Anti-Trust Act as it was intended - to go after the industrialists of the day (as opposed to going after labor unions as previous presidents had done) - was Republican Teddy Roosevelt. Unfortunately, the current administration IMO fails to recognize today that which TR did 100 years ago. Ironies regarding individual freedoms preached by men who were slave-holders aside, the founding fathers were wiser than most men, but not infallible. To hold them as some sort of gold standard may not always be the most prudent argument to fall back upon, and branding modern conservatism as the embodiment of the founding fathers' ideals is not entirely accurate at best, and patently wrong at worst.

I'll keep you in mind Mike.

Actually, he won't see any of that, according to his attorney. Yesterday or the day before he (the attorney) said that all of that money is gone as soon as it hits because of medical bills.

That's not entirely accurate.

Like 99.9% of the people here, I've never been in combat. That said, I've studied enough history to know that in "modern" warfare, innocent people get killed. Is it unique to this conflict? Of course not, but innocent people being killed is an atrocity all the same, and yes, it's compounded by the fact that one side is using guerilla tactics, I get all that. But just because her job is to report on the deathes of civilians, she is a liar? I doubt that she (or any war reporter) would have to fabricate much to find atrocities. I also doubt that a war reporter would blatantly lie about her vehicle coming under friendly fire. Like KRC said, the truth may very well lie somewhere in the middle, but it sure as hell wouldn't be the first time a group of 19 and 20 year-old kids lied to keep their asses out of the fire.

Is dissension really the "blasting away" that means a person deserves to be branded as being less patriotic? If memory serves, there was (and occasionaly still is) a generous amount of nastiness on PPP directed at Clinton. Where those posters being un-American? Or is it only acceptable to dissent when a Dem is in the White House? I get the feeling that the vast (and vocal) majority of those on the right prefer that all citizens line up like good little boys and girls and get with the party line. And honestly, is that not one of the means to an end that was used by the nazis?

Perhaps it has something to do with that she wouldn't really have much motivation for fabricating her story, while there would be some serious motivation (legal and PR) for a US soldier to fabricate his (or theirs). Unless it just doesn't support your POV, got it?

Hmm, if I had to guess, it was in the late 19-teens and 20's, right after WWI.

That's some post. To answer the question buried within all of that, I believe people liken the current administration to nazism in only that individual rights have been eroded and descension is not allowed, lest one be labelled unpatriotic. According to pretty much all history books, that is what happened in Nazi Germany (among other things).

Well, nobody's perfect.

I heard about this auction, but couldn't find it. Turns out it expired a few days ago, but webwasteland.com had it up on their site... http://www.webwasteland.com/time-machine.htm EDIT: Here's eBay's page- http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=5563490518

I really like GuitarNoise.com, I hope you get as much out of it as I do.

Well then, thanks for narrowing it down some.

And just for good measure: I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums do beat And the loving English feet they tramped all over us, And each and every night when me father'd come home tight He'd invite the neighbors outside with this chorus: Oh, come out you black and tans, Come out and fight me like a man Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away, From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra. Come let me hear you tell How you slammed the great Pernell, When you fought them well and truly persecuted, Where are the smears and jeers That you bravely let us hear When our heroes of sixteen were executed. Come tell us how you slew Those brave Arabs two by two Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows, How you bravely slew each one With your sixteen pounder gun And you frightened them poor natives to their marrow. The day is coming fast And the time is here at last, When each yeoman will be cast aside before us, And if there be a need Sure my kids wil sing, "Godspeed!" With a verse or two of Steven Beehan's chorus. Oh, come out you black and tans, Come out and fight me like a man Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away, From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra.

Give him a break, afterall, by then it was St. Paddy's Day in Guam...

Should I go out this evening or just stay at home and read TSW?

It still is - when other people do it!

Which is why it ain't gonna' happen. We are talkin' about Arizona, afterall!

As we now know much Detroit's paying for DeMulling, you and I agree that Detroit isn't overpaying him, so we can put that aside. Where I see a problem with your argument is that the only way one could have an opinion about TD's offer being too low would be if one knew exactly what the offer was. It's safe to say that neither one of us knows that. If, then, your opinion is not based upon knowing exactly what the offer was and THEN deciding it was too low, what, exactly, is it based upon? My guess is that you've jumped to a conclusion about TD making a lowball offer because that coincides with your opinion of him. If that's the case, cool. We're all guilty of it from time to time, but without knowing the amount offered, it's impossible to have an opinion as to whether it was too low, and therefore, impossible to blame the offer (or TD) as the reason he didn't sign with Bflo.