The Frankish Reich

And while we're talking about government employees, take a look at the Eric Adams case. A career prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, was fired/resigned for refusing to dismiss a righteous indictment. What's this government loser's history? - Harvard A.B., Yale law - clerked for leading Republican appellate judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, then (on his recommendation) for Justice Scalia - worked at big private firm for a couple years, then joined the government as an Assistant U.S. Attorney - convicted, among many others, Sam Bankman-Fried. Do you have any idea how many unpaid "overtime" hours a case of that magnitude involves? Superb lawyer, superb litigator. She could've made partner at a big firm years ago. Could've made millions per year without working anywhere near as hard. You know what an Assistant U.S. Attorney makes (and in Manhattan)? Maybe $200k a year. She did it out of a sense of service to the American people.

Too soon.

I just checked in on the NTSB briefing on the crash. These investigators are superb. Excellent, comprehensive briefing on the investigation so far, avoiding anything speculative. Just the facts. Guess what? They're government employees too.

Come on. This is the Mayor of the largest city in the country. It is an extremely well documented indictment in a public corruption case. As everyone knows, Adams is a Democrat (maybe not anymore, but that's for purely selfish reasons). The prosecution was set up by a Democratic administration. Trump could've just preemptively pardoned him, but then he'd have no leverage over him. So he did what prosecutors do when they want to have leverage over, say, a "cooperating witness"/informant - he directed the Acting US Attorney to dismiss "without prejudice," meaning they could fire up the charges again if Adams doesn't play ball with them. I've largely avoided the so-called discussion of most of Trump's law-stretching/law-breaking actions over these first few weeks. But he always comes up with a new and even more outrageous one. This one is it. Disgusting.

True. There are what's called federal "record retention schedules" that require these retired (haha) files to be maintained ... somewhere. So that's where they put them when the paperwork is done. So fine, change the record retention laws. Appropriate more money to digitize things (they already do this, but as you can imagine it's a huge task). There are people who work at the caves - Lee's Summit, MO is another one - but they're not actually processing the retirement paperwork. They're just filing it away. Yes, they will believe anything.

Understatement of the millennium. I'm sure there are thousands of bureaucrats with such net worths. Why do people listen to this crap?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Report_from_Iron_Mountain

I suppose you could start trading away draft picks willy-nilly to go "all in" for 2025, but what you get back for those draft picks is usually a veteran player with a big salary. Which only makes you move on from some other good established player. I guess I'd be willing to trade multiple picks to move up in the draft to get a true playmaker at a rookie salary, but we haven't gone that route since Josh.

Would this help? https://www.buffalobills.com/video/buffalo-bills-wr-keon-coleman-2024-nfl-season-highlights Thought not.

Broncos-Packers? Why would you remember that? Party city. Lots of hotel rooms. Popular place to visit. Reliably ok (no snowstorms) weather. It's a city that I feel I should love, but I'm kinda ... meh

Last time we called him Diggs. Last time he answered to Von. Worth a try, since Rasul Douglas doesn't really count.

The plan: tune in just in time for the kickoff. Watch one drive from each team. Come back in two hours. Fast forward thru halftime show to see if Kendrick Lamar does Not Like Us. Go away again. Check score at the end of 3. Watch if it's close. Get on with life.

I'm pretty sure the over/under on Bills wins back in his 3 years was something like 5.5. And he delivered those thrilling 7-9s. Three in a row! If the Bills were going to sneak into the playoffs with that roster it was probably by playing the exact type of boring football he specialized in, and getting a few lucky bounces to steal another win or two. In retrospect, I'd take Jauronball over Chan, Marrone, and Rex any day.

I feel like we've been all-in every since we traded for Diggs and followed it up with Von. Not sure how much more all-in we can get.

A strange mix of "he was better than I thought he'd be" yet the Jets were far worse than I thought they'd be. Maybe that says it all.

As Brady says, it's what made him, Peyton Manning, and Drew Brees HOFers. I heard a similar interview with DT Gerald McCoy (Bucs). They asked him, "Which QB was toughest to play against?" His answer: Peyton Manning. He said one week vs. the Colts they tried a brand new stunt they'd never run before. He was lined up over center. Peyton comes up to the line yelling "93 (McCoy) has the B gap." McCoy couldn't believe he knew it was coming. They'd never, ever run that stunt before. But somehow Peyton just ... knew.

His defense/foreign policy team. Engineering a coordinated NATO response to Russian aggression was no mean feat. Other countries did things I never thought they'd be willing to do, including Sweden's accession.

Nothing so ridiculous at all. It was titled Two Cheers for the Deep State. In other words, I recognized that the so-called Deep State is not without it's problems, as it creates an inertia resistant to change, even when change is needed. But it also suggested that - in my more traditional Chestertonian conservative viewpoint - that a man does not tear down a fence until he understands why it was put there, that radical change is often not a good thing. I suggest you read it. It may provide you and your ilk some needed, umm, maturity.

It seems as if Big Balls has deleted his Twitter account, suggesting that perhaps his balls aren't quite so big after all. Oh, and this is also proof to the contrary: Ladies and Gentlemen, The New Masculinity!

Sometimes even a damn fool says something sensible. In obviously fire-prone areas, why not change the building code to take that risk into account? Isn't that what building codes are for?

Just for the record, David: I was racist before racist was cool. And oh yeah: I would not mind at all if Israel and Palestine were wiped off the face of the earth. I work late on Fridays, so all is forgiven! Added bonus: It was a youthful indiscretion, meaning that I said it last summer.

We should definitely not know the names or histories of Musk's DOGE minions. They should be allowed to remain completely anonymous. It is completely irrelevant if they are, say, 19 years old and were fired from an internship - an INTERNSHIP, which you basically can't be fired from because, you know, it's an unpaid internship - for disclosing internal company information. It is also irrelevant that you wanted to normalize Indian hate. Or that you don't have a clearance, because, well, you have demonstrated that you are utterly unqualified to get a clearance, and that you nonetheless access classified information. In fact, anyone trying to "doxx" you for doing a public job ought to be herself outed as a raging lefty liberal who is so un-American as to reveal the name of a public employee. - Trump supporters. You want edgy. Try this one on for size: NORMALIZE INDIAN HATE That's edgy all right! At least @Doc thought it was funny as hell!

QBs who started more than a couple games for Dick Jauron with the Bears, Lions (briefly) and Bills: - Cade McNown - Jim Miller - Shane Matthews - Chris Chandler - Kordell Stewart (at age 31) - Rex Grossman - Joey Harrington - JP Losman - Trent Edwards - Ryan Fitzpatrick Imagine what we'd think of Sean McD if we'd drafted Darnold and then had a revolving door of Trubiskys and Case Keenums as starting QBs ... some coaches get lucky, some don't.

Right. The headline should be something like: "Dick Jauron, who took teams with the likes of J.P. Losman and Trent Edwards at QB to back-to-back-to-back 7-9 seasons, dead at the age of 74."