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Can't divide loyalties in the locker room. I don't really care if Fitz says he's on board with whatever. This would be like Captain Hindsight trying to remain "just friends" with his ex even tho he still had "feelings" for her --- it can't be done in the real world with much degree of success. Symbolically and emotionally, you've gotta make a clean break. If we're going to draft a QB or get a FA to start fresh, then it needs to really be fresh. The next coach will have his offense, and his idea of a QB. And, hopefully, that idea doesn't include a guy who doesn't have much throwing strength, is erratic in accuracy and has turned gunshy by going to 2-yard options on 3rd and 14.

It's apparently $620B in tax increases, $15B in net spending cuts (net... b/c there's quite a bit of spending in this bill). [sound of one hand clapping] SMH. I hope the House doesn't pass this just to say they passed something. http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2013/01/01/senate-fiscal-proposal-620b-tax-hikes-15b-spending-cuts#ixzz2Gild5sSM I'm sorry, but it's time to get 99ers+ off the dole, by whatever means necessary. (And not just so they can apply for SSDI.)

It appears that a deal has been reached in the Senate to avoid the fiscal cliff's spending cuts for another two months, with a 50-50 mix of cuts and revenue increases to bridge that time period. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/01/us-usa-fiscal-deal-idUSBRE90001H20130101 A vote isn't expected to take place in the House until Tuesday, after the midnight deadline. So, technically, are we going over the cliff? I dunno. We'll see if the House passes this measure and kicks the can down the road... and in two months, we'll be right back to this point again.

In addition to the older defections, leaving are: SU, PITT, WV, Notre Dame (in non-football sports, football has always remained ind.), Rutgers and Louisville to the B10 and ACC, and the Catholic schools leaving the basketball conference.... Now, the ball has dropped that Boise State is pulling out of joining in 2013, and will remain in the Mountain West. http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-huskies/hc-big-east-boise-state-0101-20121231,0,5092038.story Lands a blow to the idea that the conference could weather the storm by simply signing replacement schools from all over the country in a bid to get a coast-to-coast league that could sell a network an entire day's slate of games. I would expect many of them to also drop out now (TCU also dropped out earlier this summer) that the gravitas of Boise State football is lost --- I think that was haymaker of the revamped conference. So... now... my alma mater is literally left twisting in the wind, pretty much just waiting until the ACC calls. This whole situation just royally, royally sucks. Feels like there aren't going to be any seats left when the music stops.

I'll drink to that.

Those are nothing to shrug off. She's getting good treatment and I hope she gets well soon.

FOIA does not inherently extend to ALL govt records. And it doesn't grant the release of information about private citizens. Go ask your local Animal Control officer to show you a complete list of all the dogs in your town, owners, vaccination records, etc. Go ask a govt funded AIDS clinic for a list of patients. This is a gross invasion of privacy.

I believe the intention would be for him to control his message and image, without a lot being lost in the disarray that is a real-time speaking event. Even for people far younger, smarter, more tactful, and telegenic than Ralph is, pulling off a good impression and getting out the exact message you want to have heard during a live presser is damned difficult. I make no guff in how Ralph decides to present his message, what format it's delivered in, how it's produced. What matters is its content. If rumors are to be believed, then this would likely be his final appearance where a lot of people are going to be watching. I would want strict control over that as well, if it were going to be the parting impression on a group of people that would in large part be determining my legacy. It's tantamount to how Pres. Reagan bade farewell to the nation on one of his good days.

You don't wear gloves all the time for that stuff?! What, because they're not tactile enough? I sometimes work with stone in various construction stuff, and that's a problem I have with ones like these http://www.lowes.com/pd_184240-76744-LO9131_4294763928__?productId=3111013&Ns=p_product_avg_rating%7C1&pl=1&currentURL=%3FNs%3Dp_product_avg_rating%7C1&facetInfo= . These regular leather gloves are very unwieldy... like trying to pluck a stray hair with a pair of kitchen tongs. Try a pair like these. I use 'em all the time. Tight fit, surprisingly durable, and the rubberized grips are really handy for even fine motor task stuff. http://www.constructiongear.com/dewalt-rubber-work-gloves.html?utm_source=googlepepla&utm_medium=adwords&id=54438971730&utm_content=pla&gclid=CNKNkYiGxLQCFYuZ4AodGSkAiA

I'd be all right with it. I would want to see Pete Metzelaars retained as TE coach. Chandler took another step this year and Lee Smith looked decent at times. This season wasn't Pete's fault.

This kind of evil has always existed in the world. Et ego in Arcadia vixi. = There was a serpent even in the Garden of Eden.

Remember this story from last week? The RPG turned in at a gun buy back program in Los Angeles? It was a non-functional prop from a film set. That was my first thought when I saw it, just by seeing the story's dateline location. You can see the labels in a different photo: https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/531851_10151254285122758_1230744598_n.jpg?dl=1 And the stevestojan of it is that the Law Enforcement people who held a press conference to showcase this KNEW it, lied bald-faced straight into the cameras, and were trying to sell this canard to further a political objective. In a just world, they would be fired. Not that it matters now. It's in the collective mindset. Just like the 1% tip for the waitress that was an OWS fake, the far left knows they only have to trigger an initial story where a sympathetic-cause reporter will swallow everything. In the resulting walk-back when the truth is revealed, only a certain percentage of the people who saw the original story on page A1 will see the correction on page G16, and the liberal cause is advanced.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/sean-payton-new-orleans-saints-contract-extension-bountygate-bounties-suspension-roger-goodell-122812 There's one domino out of the mix...

Whaley has been with the Bills forever?? Dude came here from Pittsburgh FO (remember the pornographic email that he mistakenly sent all around the league including to Goodell?) after John Guy was shown the door.

The judgement-call no-review is an issue I've written about many times here. It's shameful that a single play that can result in anywhere from 15 to 80 yards+ is not allowed to be looked at by the booth. I'd also say to remove the referee entirely from the review process. While it's quaint to believe that they will be noble and not simply back their crew every time, I've seen some doozies here just this year that make me fundamentally question the integrity of the game. Above all, there needs to be consistency. And especially in PI calls, there is none. One guy gets mauled, no flag. Another guy merely gets breathed on and it's 40 yards. In combination with all the other stuff going on WRT health effects / brain injuries / violence issues, the quality of officiating and the rules changes that give defenses little chance to compete only furthers the question of whether I want to keep supporting the game with my viewership and dollars. I can watch majors tennis and be sure that Hawkeye gets the line calls absolutely right, and know that it's highly unlikely that anybody is going to be concussed. The NFL has got to clean up its game.

Well, at least the undesirables aren't being deported to Dachau and Auschwitz this time.... That's progress, I suppose.

That's my reasoning. He (or, more likely, the BuffNews beat reporter who made the case for Reed) could know how many votes Andre had, who returning voters are, who new voters are and how they're going to vote from private conversation. Unless it is a radio or teevee show, this would be my best guess.

My guess is it's Hall of Fame news. Andre Reed finally has the votes.

Feinstein in Senate, Gov. Cuomo in NY are reportedly set to present bills making gun buy-back program participation cumpulsory & confiscation of semi-automatics. http://washingtonexaminer.com/sen.-feinstein-suggests-national-buyback-of-guns/article/2516648#.UNsSwrO9KSP Holy stevestojan.... These people know no bounds.

Like it or not, Belichick is on the fore of this. True dual-threat TEs that, more than just being an outlet / dump-off option, have all the skills of a WR only in a bigger body. LBs can't keep pace with them, CBs are too small to cover. It's not just this defense that Hernandez and Gronk have destroyed. It's a tactical advantage that many teams just can't handle. David Nelson is a de facto second TE. I'd say it can't hurt to pick up a guy like the ND TE, if he can be gotten in place or if he slips a bit into whatever round (I'm guessing early 2nd). Biggest part of it, tho, is going to be a QB who can throw them the ball. But that's in another thread....

Who do you think is going to deliver medical necessaries person to person in the case of a N/B/C attack? My father is a rural carrier and it's in the training guide stuff that he will be among the first wave group getting preventative care like potassium iodide or what have you, and that he CANNOT transfer this care to anyone. It very much IS a matter of national security to be able to reach everyone in the country.

Don't forget that Buddy signed off on Chan hiring Wannstache. Any GM has to give some leverage to his coach, but in "The Buck Stops Here" fashion, Nix owns that from-bad-to-worse move, too, to go along with the fatal-itself move of sticking with Fitz and not even bringing another guy in. This is a QB league and Nix went with a guy who physically can't throw more than 20 yards and whose accuracy is atrocious. I love Fitz's toughness, his durability, his heart, his intelligence, his quickness, his facile nature. But the man cannot throw a ball and that is Job #1, 2 and 3 for the QB. That Nix refused to do anything about it until about 2 weeks ago means he should get walking papers. If he is that glaringly blind about THE most important position on a team, what's his ignorance of minor areas? I'm not even on the Whaley wagon, either. This whole thing needs to be scoured, top to bottom.

They should've released him from prison earlier for beating his own grandmother to death. Then he wouldn't have been so angry. Sincerely, NYS liberal courts and parole system

Again... "The Price of Politics" by Bob Woodward. You know, of Woodward and Bernstein fame? The debt deal was SO tantalizingly close last year. Boehner had wrestled the votes among even the fresh Tea Party Repubs for an $800M tax increase on high earners, that he and Obama had discussed as a framework. Then Obama said by telephone that it would have to be $1.2T in taxes increases. It was at that point that the debt limit was raised at the last minute and the fiscal cliff stuff put in place so the whole nasty-ass stuff could be put off until after the election. Worst tactical move Boehner could have made, in kicking the can down the road. Now, instead of there having been a watershed moment where Democrats proved to be the profligate tax-and-spenders that they are before the election, the GOP is about to kill their sacred cow and the Democrats --- who want spending increases so they can tear through that pile of the rich's money --- are negotiating to eat it. If Boehner had any balls he would say to earmark the tax increase for the deficit/debt. But he's proved to be a pushover to this administration, rather than flexing the House's spending muscles. He should be saying, If you want Dime One, we're talking spending cuts or GTFO.

Did you not even read the highlights of Bob Woodward's book? There was a deal in hand --- Boehner had the votes at a $800M tax increase on the rich --- and then Obama killed it when he did a bait-and-switch and demanded a $1.2T tax increase. One of the worst things the Republicans have done under Boehner's leadership is let the Democrats punt things until after elections. It gave a free pass and enabled Democrats to not have to run on SCREAMING records of tax-and-spend. It has let Obama/Dems stay on offense and dictate play. It has let Dems define Republicans. You can't just push this stuff to a later date and assume that you're going to be in a better negotiating position post-election. Boehner has been the epitome of zero backbone and zero cojones and look what it's got him. Ryan is very popular in the Congress, he's the numbers guy, he's the nominal party leader right now in this vacuum period.