Crap Throwing Monkey

Where's the "I'm not dumb enough to believe everything I read on the internet" choice?

Please, please explain to us how Marv has set Juron up to fail. This ought to be good...

I don't know about cruise missiles. Ballistic missiles...yes, they have them. And yes, they have nukes. And not even the Israelis are dumb enough to execute an unprovoked strike with nuclear weapons.

I don't assume a glass is half-empty or half-full. I wait until I see the glass. Regardless, I've seen Jauron coach. With the Bears. While I think he's an improvement over Mularkey (which isn't saying much; I think my cats would be an improvement over Mularkey, simply because they'll never call a Mickey Mouse bull sh-- end-around fake reverse !@#$tard WR option pass), I was unimpressed. But I'll wait until he actually !@#$s something up before I burn him in effigy...because until he does, excatly what am I supposed to burn him in effigy for? Being "Dick Jauron"? There'll be plenty of time to worry about it in September...

I'm not a Bills fan because nine months before the season begins I'm not panicking and wetting my pants over a coaching decision isn't yet official?

The hijackers also leveraged the then-existing practices for responding to a hijacking...namely, give them what they want but get the plane down as quickly as possible. People forget that every hijacking to that point pretty much involved holding the plane for ransom, in which case it made sense to give the hijackers control of the plane, as it was in their interest to keep it safe and whole as well (crash the plane, don't get what you want). If the pilots keep the cockpit doors closed and locked, odds are 9/11 doesn't happen. Instead, operating in their well-etablished and proven paradigm, they give the hijackers control of the plane, not realizing that the hijackers were operating under a completely new and different paradigm designed to take advantage of their entirely predictable response. Airport security doesn't make a damned bit of difference, not when paradigms shift so drastically. The real security comes from the things we don't hear about - the standing order to airline pilots to get the plane down as quick as possible, and regardless of how many passengers' throats the hijackers slit do not open the cockpit door no matter what, which I'm sure is in place. Knives are allowed on planes now because a knife isn't going to bring down a plane again.

Not really. F-15s and F-16s, both then and now. The -15s, of which they have about 25 that are strike-capable, can just reach western Iran. The -16s...probably not practical. Look at it this way: in the Gulf War, the USAF required tanker support for aircraft from Riyahd to reach the Baghdad region, a shorter distance than Israel to Iran. Why should the the IAF, which operates under doctrine and logistical practices significantly different from the USAF, accomplish anything better? Except the IAF doesn't have any tankers (that I know of...but again, different doctrine and logistics. They don't really need them like the US does.) They'd have to refuel from US ones...which again, proves your point that an Israeli attack on Iran is a de facto US attack.

They have very few strike planes with the range. I have some numbers around here somewhere (I have an analysis of the Osirak strike somewhere here too, if you really want to know - I don't think they were at the edge of their range, off the top of my head)...maybe I'll find them tomorrow. But it would be a major undertaking. If we learned anything from Iraq war coverage (the actual invasion coverage, not the following "peace"), it should be that the experts have an amazing capacity to be wrong on such things. If an "expert" says it would take three weeks, I expect it'll take the US Air Force a few days. Knowing something of US capabilities (e.g. the B-2 software upgrades, which weren't secret, albiet weren't widely reported...because no one outside the Air Force really cares except oddballs like me), three weeks would be a long time. Three days is more like it. And yes, Iran's program is more dispersed. Iraq's, when the Irsaelis bombed it, was relatively young and overly relied on one major component (the Osirak reactor) which made it vulnerable to a precision strike. Iran...just guessing, but maybe a dozen sites, probably two or three critical, but none so much that it would delay things for years like Osirak did. Iran's had a lot of time to learn from Iraq's mistakes, and are relatively paranoid about US interference as well.

Admit it. Now you just want the attention.

It can always be worse. Always. I for one...don't mind Jauron. Really, I just don't care much. It's Jamuary; the Bills' head coach isn't a concern for me for another seven months or so...and even then, I have family, friends, work, hobbies...basically, a full and satisfying enough life that I won't live or die by who coaches the Bills.

Hair. Christ, you people are idiots. You're already talking like you want to run a guy out of town who's not even in town yet. This team survived true blockheads like Kay Stephenson and Hank Bullough. It'll survive a relative non-entity like Dick Jauron.

Don't feel too bad. There's lots of reasons you're an idiot.

So whose bandwagon are you going to ride next season? I understand the Patriots' has some vacancies.

Which is, of course, the quintessential definition of a bandwagon fan.

Agreement in principle. Provisional hire. A handshake. Verbal contract/agreement.

Depends...is it in space or not? Whose laws? Meazza's, or the real world's?

Usually insanity preceeds rooting for Dallas.

Did you get your axe back?

Not that I've heard...but I can check my library. Which isn't why their carriers aren't capable power projection platforms, anyway. The carriers themselves don't have the capacity, and the French Navy lacks the logistical support, to prosecute a sustained overseas campaign on their own hook.

Well, there's military action, then there's military action. Maybe they intend to use them in the post-"Mission Accomplished" pacification phase of a campaign? Or...maybe they intend to nuke Greenpeace next time around.

And despite that...the executive branch has done it anyway. The FBI had warrantless wiretaps on "domestic terrorist organizations" (i.e. "militias" in Montana and the Michigan upper peninsula) after Oklahoma City. Abuse of power or not, it's been going on for at LEAST a decade. So let's all keep pretending it's a partisan issue.

Actually, the case law routinely supports the interpretation of FISA as covering wiretaps. The courts routinely rule that electronic surveillence and physical searches are indistinguishable from the point of view of the Fourth Amendment. There is absolutely no legal basis for assuming Gorelick's statement applies to one in exclusion of the other. And there is also the practical matter that the Clinton Administration used warrantless wiretaps to gather evidence that was accepted in court in criminal cases against American citizens. Not that I'm saying anything like "Clinton bad, therefore Bush good"...neither administration should be so wantonly violating the Fourth Amendment. But: 1) Both the judicial and legislative systems have already accepted the expansion of executive powers in this regard. 2) Al Gore should shut the !@#$ up and stop complaining that the sitting administration is engaging in the same illegal activity his administration set the precedent for. And the reason I know all this is...because I've been digging in to the subject for the past two weeks and gone beyond "talking points". You should try it.

Some people might call that being a coward. However, it could just as easily be explained by his realization that aside from physical talent he brings nothing to the game, and he thus is basically "hiding" the fact he doesn't belong in the league.

"Feared missing"? Either they're missing...or they're not. How do you "fear" someone is missing? "Well...we're not sure. We haven't seen them, so they might be missing...or they might be at Starbucks. We're looking into it."

Yeah, that seems like a useless gesture...but how many people in the government (and the country in general) don't do anything they're paid to do?