The Senator

Meanwhile, Al Gore is jet-setting all over the place and gobbling up fossil fuel faster than you can say, "Enrich Mahmoud Ahmadinijad!"

HAPPY NATAL ANNIVERSARIES!!!! Cheers

Holy arachnophobia, Batman!

You forgot 3 games... Jan 15/16 - Divisional Playoff W Jan 23 - AFC Championship Game W Feb 6 - Superbowl 45 - W 19 and 0 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! PosLUSZny!!!!!

HAPPY NATAL ANNIVERSARIES!!! Cheers

On the subject of global warming, I defer to... Mike Leach

"The Mad Bomber" himself, Daryle Lamonica... Lamonica played with Buffalo for four seasons, backing up Jack Kemp on a team that won back-to-back AFL championships in 1964 and 1965. He was known as "The Fireman", coming into games if Kemp was hurt or ineffective, and pulling out victories. In 1967, Lamonica was traded to the Oakland Raiders with Glenn Bass for Art Powell and Tom Flores. In his first year with the Raiders, under head coach John Rauch, he threw for 30 touchdowns and ran for four more... Daryle Lamonica went 66-16-4 as a starter, good for a 78.4% winning percentage, second best in NFL history (Otto Graham is the highest at 81.0%). In the American Football League, Lamonica's winning percentage as a starter was 90.0%, on 40 wins, 4 losses and 1 tie in 45 games, the best ever in the AFL. Period. Hic finis est.

PERFECT SEASON 19 and 0 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! PosLUSZny!!!!!

19 and 0 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! PosLUSZny!!!!!

Yes, there will...this year... 19 and 0 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! PosLUSZny!!!!!

I don't either, seeing as he's dead and all...

I expect Trent will be an extremely successful marketing intern at Synopsys, while doing a bang-up job as President of the Dakota Fanning Fan Club/Los Gatos Chapter in his spare time! 19 and 0 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! PosLUSZny!!!!!

I don't know why anyone is surprised at Barry Obama's incompetence and failure - folks fell for his opportunistic con and elected a dolt whose sole experience/qualification for the Presidency was 2 years in the US Senate (serving mainly as proof-reader of IL senior Sen. Dick Durbin's transportation bill before launching his own presidential campaign) all just to get the monkey off our backs and elect an African American President, regardless of his complete lack of qualifications and experience. They got what they deserved. (Retired Gen. Colin Powell would have been a much better and far more qualified candidate.) Oh well - the economy was gonna tank anyway, so best we put a liberal dem in the WH to preside over the biggest recession and highest unemployment since the Great Depression, the worst environmental disaster in US history, the nationalization of the automotive, financial, and healthcare industries, trillion-dollar deficits that our grandchildren's grandchildren will still be paying down (assuming the planet survives), and the ever-worsening situation in Afghanistan. This way, the Republican party can retake the WH and Congress for the next several elections, as the country will long remember the price we paid for Obama-supporters' well-meaning but misguided political altruism.

I know Newport pretty well from my days in New England, when I used to spend my summers there. It's a GREAT party town by night, with beautiful beaches/sailing/golf by day and an interesting glimpse of how America's wealthiest families once lived. Things have changed a bit since the America's Cup days - sadly, Sabina Doyle's (on Thames St.) is no more - but the best things to do in Newport are still biking, beaching, sailing, drinking, and chasing big-breasted beauties at Christie's and even more so at The Candy Store And, while there on Bannister's Wharf, be sure to sample the chowder at The Black Pearl (casual dress is fine on the patio, but it's 'jackets-required' in The Commodore Room). Also, on Thames St. (the 'main drag' in town), One Pelham East is a fantastic bar. Middletown, where you're staying, is just down Memorial Blvd. from downtown Newport - Second Beach is great for swimming, 'sight-seeing', and tanning your fat, but The Atlantic Beach Club is the place to combine beach/bar/dining activities and is right smack on the Middletown/Newport 'town line', and right at the beginning of Cliff Walk Besides the Cliff Walk, an activity I enjoyed almost daily was biking the Ten Mile Drive and a stop at Fort Adams State Park - site of the Newport Jazz Festival (where I was lucky enough to see Miles Davis, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, the Count Basie Orchestra, George Benson, McCoy Tyner, Harry Connick, Jr., etc., etc.) There is also the occasional concert at the International Tennis Hall of Fame on the corner of Memorial Blvd. and Bellevue Avenue... ...will be playing there this month. Of course, no trip to 'America's First Summer Resort' would be complete without touring the summer 'cottages' of America's 'captains' of industry/robber barons of the days before labor laws, the SEC, and income taxes - if you only tour one, it should be... The Breakers ...although my other favorites are Marble House, The Elms, and Rosecliff (where 'The Great Gatsby' was filmed). You can no longer visit Hammersmith Farm, Jackie Kennedy's childhood home and JFK's 'Summer White House', but you can visit the church in which they were married - St. Mary's - and, while on the subject of 'houses of worship', the oldest synagogue in America... Touro Synagogue Don't know if they still do this, but it was practically a required ritual to end your Newport weekend watching the sunset at Sunday Happy Hour at Castle Hill (Without fail, anyone and everyone - literally everyone - that you met during the week or out on the town at night could be found once more at Sunday HH @ Castle Hill.) That's about all I got - except there was this bar on Bellevue in a little plaza across from 'Vicker's Liquors' that was definitely a Bills bar - they always were showing replays of Bills playoff games - I can't remember the name, but I'll PM you if I can revive that section of my brain. (I wouldn't worry too much about showing your Bills colors in Newport - most Cheatriettes* fags, er, uh, I mean fans* are too low-brow for Newport and tend to head to the Cape (Dennis, Yarmouth, etc.) to swill Budweiser at Pufferbellies or The Improper Bostonian - you'll probably find as many or more New Yorkers in Newport than you will Bostonians.) 19 and 0 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! PosLUSZny!!!!!

19 and 0 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! PosLUSZny!!!!!

Sold out? A vile canard, to be sure. As of right now there are plenty of seats for those games - just call the Bills ticket office (or get online) and tell them you'd like to buy season tickets, and you'll find out how many good seats are still available.

This is the season Da Billsss finally 'reverse the curse' of Pete Gogolak... 19 and 0 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! PosLUSZny!!!!!

How far below the cap has the Bills' payroll been for the last few seasons?

Since Warren Zevon & Frank Zappa have already been mentioned, I'll go with... followed closely by Duke Ellington, Oscar Petersen, Louis Armstrong, & Frank Sinatra.

I'll have to TiVo all you guys - meeting The Dean for a beer. However, be sure to tune in to vh1 Sunday and check out my new reality series and the 17 gorgeous ladies in the running for 'Senatorius Maximus: The Ultimate Catch' (Not sure who's the bigger POS this week - Lebrun James or Ochocinco! ) GO BILLSSS!!!! 19 and 0 baby!!!!!

"Fact We Know nothing of the aliens or their intentions. Fact I am responsible for the lives of 430 crewmen. And, fact I can't afford to take any chances. Fire main phasers...I said, Fire main phasers!!!" (Sorry, dog, but Brohm's our QB. TE's next gig is President, Dakota Fanning Fan Club/Los Gatos Chapter. Sad thing is, we coulda had Graham Harrell before he signed with the Green Bay Packers )

They coulda had Graham Harrell, but now he's a Packer

19 and 0 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! PosLUSZny!!!!!

Yeah, I saw that - very clever - but I don't know that I want all that Berg, Webern, and Schoenberg crap, and Gould's renditions of the Mozart and Beethoven are 'unconventional', to put it kindly. Still, your solution saves me one more place - I can throw some Oscar Petersen or Sinatra in that spot, so I guess I can put up with the Gould moaning and Schoenberg atonality.

While neither has any real prowess as a guitarist, they are both good if you enjoy listening to utter crap.