Johnny Coli

I've known they were cooked since the Jets game, yet I still watch and enjoy the games. Just because someone isn't working themselves up into a deluded state thinking this team has a shot at anything other than a 7-9 season doesn't mean they can't also enjoy watching their team play. You see negative comments in the OP, I see reality. KC is bad. Really, really bad. And they still hung 31 points on the Bills, despite 5 turnovers. Its insanity to think this team is going to sweep the rest of their games, and the reality is they are probably going to end up 7-9, and 0-6 in divisional play. Doesn't mean I won't watch. Doesn't mean I won't enjoy the games. And it doesn't mean I think its a waste of my time watching them, once again, stagger to the finish line in garbage time.

I'll put one more up, because I didn't know this was on youtube. It's an entire live set by legendary queercore band Limp Wrist, recorded this past July. The singer, Martin, was the singer in the seminal latino hardcore band Los Crudos. The rest of the guys are in some other popular bands, but their names escape me. Anyway, if you're a fan of hardcore this is the sh--. Tight. Powerful. Great sound on this vid, too. Needs to be heard. Looks like they're touring again.

Here's some more culture. Punk rock from Serbia. This song has a great hook in its chorus and a really hot mix. The bass just leaps out of the speakers and kicks you right in the face. Here they are with a live instro, . Amazing.

Stumbled upon this smokin' Mexican surf punk. Mexican surf punk providing the soundtrack for Japanese anime (Cowboy Bebop)! Here they are .Has to be seen to be believed. Its an outdoor street show (packed), and when they pan out into a shot of the street the kids are going mental. Inspiring!

That's a lot of effort you people are expending to get a $1 bottle of soda.

There was a time when our older neighbors and family members were revered, a time when they were cherished for their wisdom and life experience, not ridiculed and elbowed out of the way for inconveniently paying with real money, using coupons clipped from the local Penny Saver, or heaven forbid paying for their comestibles with a check. Now they are trampled and herded through checkout lanes by caffeined-up simpletons hell-bent on dashing through express lanes and paying for their Entertainment Weeklys and Cheetoes with vitual money on the way to their next pointless errand or high-priced coffee fix.

Sad, that the days where one could go down to the local five and dime and converse, exchange pleasantries, and catch up on the local goings-on with one's neighbors while waiting in line to pay for their 3-in-1 oil or somesuch have been replaced by lines of rude and impatient know-it-alls, too antisocial to avert their gaze from their unshined shoes and in a mad rush to get home to watch what passes for entertainment on the idiot box. One can learn a lot from their fellow citizens, especially our older neighbors who through the benefit of time can be a font of knowledge to be accesssed for those who would only take the time to peel their lips from their can of Red Bull to ask.

I expect a loss every week now. The entertainment is the anticipation of finding out which new and exciting blunder will lead to their loss. I don't scream or throw things at the TV anymore. I chuckle, sometimes laugh out loud, and if they manage to somehow win I celebrate by opening another beer. I'll start putting the effort in when they do.

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But we've got Jauron who won't adjust his shorts if they're riding up on him, and another OC-in-training who's been a lifelong backup and QB coach. Until they find a way to beat or adjust to the radical and innovative defensive schemes (yes, that was sarcasm) the past four teams have used against them then they'll never win another game. You can almost make up the KC headlines for this week..."The much-maligned KC defense looks to turn it around at home this week against an offensively inept Buffalo Bills team."

The UAW hasn't screwed anybody over. They've done their job in negotiating a fair wage and benefit package for their members. Nobody held a gun to the heads of the guys representing management in those negotiations. The UAW made significant concessions last year. They'll make more concessions if need be this time. The UAW in no part is responsible for the state of the US economy. Not by any stretch. Sure, unions and minority homeowners are a convenient set of scapegoats to trot out there, but they're not at the root of this mess. One of us is arguing to try and save three million jobs, an industry and by doing so trying to avoid a devastating hit to the economy at the worst possible time. The other one of us is arguing for a scorched earth policy to stick it to the unions. Who's arguing using common sense, and who's being petty?

Well, you've blamed everything that's happened over the past eight years on Clinton, so I'm not surprised to see you're already ramping up to blame Obama 60 days before he even takes office.

Did you miss the 450 point nosedive in the Dow this afternoon right after the prospect of a loan disappeared? Its not just about closing dealerships, reorganizing and screwing the UAW.

The loan is coming from the package that was already given to the Treasury. Its already coming out of the taxpayer's pockets. How much money do you think will come out of our pockets if you add another couple million people to the unemployment rolls? Hey, who cares though. As long as we get to screw over the UAW.

Which is not nearly the same thing as the cash-strapped American consumer purchasing an automobile with what amounts to 50% of the typical workers' yearly salary.

Well, I'm a liberal so I have to agree with everything in the NYT, right? The reason so many free-market types want them to go into Ch 11 is right there: This is about crushing the UAW. The same thing that could be accomplished by filing Ch 11, minus letting them destroy the American worker, can be done via the bridge loan.

It was the defense, Lynch and a ST TD that kept the Bills in that game. Mostly in spite of Edwards. The Royal completion was an outlier. You can't look at how he played in that game, look at the only decent pass he made all night, and call that a trend. That's not heart. That's luck.

So? This was negotiated on between the union and management. Everybody was happy with the groundbreaking concessions the UAW made last October. Auto stocks rose. Everybody was high-fiving each other over the board room tables. What happened in the interm? The economy tanked. That's not a direct result of the UAW getting a decent wage, health insurance and a pension.

It's my understanding that Congress is asking them for a specific plan before even voting on loaning them the money. Yes, they have to change their business model and deal with the legacy benefits they've promised to the unions (a topic for another thread). But I don't see how letting them go into bankruptcy helps them right now. The $25B is a bridge loan to help them get through this crisis. The money is already there. We're throwing far more money to shore up Wall Street with zero oversight. And how is financing DIP any different than lending them money now with restrictions? The Fed is still going to pay for it, only they'd be one step closer to collapse. The only thing bankruptcy would do, IMO, is destroy the Union. The pessimist in me thinks that's really what certain people want to see happen.

Why even allow for the remote possibility if you could stave off both bankruptcy and possible liquidation with a loan? The money is already in the 700B package sent to the Treasury. Attach major restrictions as to how that money can be used. We're not talking about some textile company making placemats in Maine. Even the slimmest possiblity that one of the Big Three goes down in this economic environment would seem to me at least enough to take these measures. You seem to think the risk isn't there. I do.

Wow. Not taking anything away from Lori (nice job ), but if a person who isn't an NFL coach can work this out, what do you think an actual DC will do with these observations? They're going to take away everything deep (which in Edwards' case is everything past the LOS) and look for the checkdown to Lynch. Unreal.

Don't forget that an airline ticket didn't cost 20 grand and you didn't have to bring it in for an oil change every 5000 miles, or routine maintenance, or need to worry about getting parts for it, or reselling it.

I am absolutely all for major conditions being attached to any loan. If they go bankrupt we, the taxpayers via the Fed, would be financing it and attaching a ton of restrictions anyway. I don't see why a lot of those restrictions can't be contingent on them getting the loan. I don't give a rat's ass about the CEOs. And yes, the union will have to give a lot more as well (the pension should be taken over by the PBGC for starters). But the $25B is a drop in the bucket compared to what would happen if they fail.

Exactly. The economy sucks. No one is buying anyone's cars. Detroit's sales are down, but I read Toyota and Honda are also down 25-30%. That's not the UAW's fault. I'm astounded that people think losing 3 million more jobs can be absorbed when the US unemployment figures released today show we've already lost 1.2 million jobs this year. All because a bunch of free-market-till-death people want to crush the unions and teach Michigan a lesson? Forcing them into chapter 11 is not reasonable. Who is going to finance the DIP? It's going to have to be the Feds. These are the same people vehemently opposed to any form of socialism. What the hell is financing the auto industry's chapter 11, then? If the Big 3 file chapter 11 and no one buys cars because only a freaking idiot would purchase something for that much money from a bankrupt company, then what happens? All this angst over a $25B dollar loan. What's it going to cost us when the industry tanks?