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I won't be the only Bills fan from Syracuse in attendance wearing a bright orange SU football shirt, hoping that it plants some seed in the coaches head that the Bills should actually draft someone from here.

http://www.syracuse.com/forums/nfl/ CORTLAND, NEW YORK WELCOMES THE 2010 NEW JERSEY JETS TRAINING CAMP The Buffalo Bills fans of central New York State welcome the New Jersey Jets and their out-of-state fans to New York State. We want you to spend as much money as possible in Cortland, New York before training camp ends and you all return to the State of New Jersey. On your trip up to Cortland, you’ll pass through Pennsylvania and eventually cross the border into New York State. When you enter New York State, around Binghamton, you’ll begin to notice that you’re “not in New Jersey anymore.” New York State has one NFL team and that team is the Four-Time AFC Champions Buffalo Bills!!!! ...more in link.

I hate ultra-conservative Republicans and I hate ultra-liberal Democrats but I hate Hillary Clinton 1000000 times more than I hate ultra-conservative Republicans and ultra-liberal Democrats combined!!

And November, perhaps even November of 2012, can't get here soon enough! http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/business...tml?_r=1&hp Bernanke Sees No Quick End to High Rate of Joblessness By SEWELL CHAN Published: July 21, 2010 WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate in the United States is likely to remain well above 7 percent through the end of 2012 and the duration of President Obama’s current term, according to the Federal Reserve. Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernanke struck a more cautious tone than he did when he last submitted the report, in February. Ben S. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, told Congress on Wednesday that it would take “a significant amount of time” to restore the 8.5 million jobs lost in the United States in 2008 and 2009, and warned that “the economic outlook remains unusually uncertain.” He also warned that financial conditions, particularly the European sovereign debt crisis, had “become less supportive of economic growth in recent months.” In presenting the Fed’s semiannual monetary policy report to Congress, Mr. Bernanke struck a more cautious tone than he did when he last submitted the report, in February. In written testimony to be delivered to the Senate Banking Committee, Mr. Bernanke said that the economic expansion that began in mid-2009 was “proceeding at a moderate pace,” though with substantial help from “stimulative monetary and fiscal policies,” in the form of easy credit from the Fed and substantial federal spending. He projected that rising demand from households and businesses should help sustain growth, although fiscal measures by the government and inventory restocking by businesses would account for less stimulus than they had in recent months. And he warned that the housing market “remains weak, with the overhang of vacant or foreclosed houses weighing on home prices and construction.” Mr. Bernanke described the slow recovery of the job market as “an important drag on household spending.” Private payrolls grew by about 100,000 jobs a month in the first half of the year — a pace that Mr. Bernanke called “insufficient to reduce the unemployment rate materially.” And nearly half of the unemployed have been out of work for more than six months, with serious consequences for their long-term earnings and employment prospects. Inflation has trended downward in the last two years, Mr. Bernanke said. That development has caused some Fed officials to worry that the economy could be threatened by the prospect of deflation, a fear that Mr. Bernanke did not explicitly address in his written remarks. At its latest meeting, in June, the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed’s top policy-making arm, slightly lowered its growth forecast for the rest of this year, to a range of 3 to 3.5 percent. It expects growth of 3.5 to 4.5 percent in 2011 and 2012, and the unemployment rate to drop to 7 to 7.5 percent by the end of 2012. “Most participants viewed uncertainty about the outlook for growth and unemployment as greater than normal, and the majority saw the risks to growth as weighted to the downside,” Mr. Bernanke said. “Most participants projected that inflation will average only about 1 percent in 2010 and that it will remain low during 2011 and 2012, with the risks to the inflation outlook roughly balanced.” Mr. Bernanke’s testimony came hours after President Obama signed into law a far-reaching overhaul of the financial regulatory architecture. The Fed chief said that “much work remains to be done” to install the legislation through regulations, but added: “I believe the legislation, together with stronger regulatory standards for bank capital and liquidity now being developed, will place our financial system on a sounder foundation and minimize the risk of a repetition of the devastating events of the past three years.” Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and the chairman of the Banking Committee, said in a prepared statement that “it looks like our economy is in need of additional help.” He added that he intended to ask Mr. Bernanke “whether the Fed can do more to help expand output and employment.” A different view was offered by Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the top Republican on the committee. “There are questions about whether the Fed has changed its focus from executing an exit strategy to lowering interest rates on reserves and possibly further ballooning its balance sheet with more asset purchases,” Mr. Shelby said. “This is especially concerning because the purchase of even more long-term assets may channel credit to favored segments of the markets at the expense of others.” Mr. Bernanke also discussed several steps the Fed could take to use monetary policy to further stimulate the economy, having held short-term interest rates to nearly zero since December 2008 and having amassed a portfolio of mortgage-backed securities and Treasury debt to place downward pressure on long-term interest rates. First, the Fed could signal to the markets that it intended to keep its benchmark federal funds rate, at which banks lend to one another overnight, at zero to 0.25 percent for even longer than the “extended period” the Fed currently cites. Second, the Fed could lower the interest rate it pays on excess reserves — that is, deposits that banks keep at the Fed in excess of what they are required to keep — from its current level of 0.25 percent. Third — and the mostly widely discussed option — the Fed could again expand the size of its balance sheet, which stands at about $2.3 trillion, by buying additional Treasury debt or mortgage-backed securities, or even other classes of assets like municipal bonds. “We have not come to the point where we can tell you precisely what the leading options are,” Mr. Bernanke told Mr. Shelby. “Clearly each of these options has got drawbacks, potential costs. So we’re going to continue to monitor the economy closely and continue to evaluate the alternatives that we have, recognizing, as I said, that policy is already quite stimulative.”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/ot...ountry-902.html The only national poll worth monitoring is the Right Track/Wrong Track opinion poll. Current poll reveals: Right Track - 32% Wrong Track - 61.6% Democrats are in trouble.

The Bills are NOT moving to Los Angeles!

We finish 4th in the AFC East. Or at least tied for 3rd.

Please summarize. Or at the very least, copy a few paragraphs from the article and paste in your post.

Between this non-prosecuted Black Panther issue and the challenge to the AZ illegal immigration law coupled with the non-prosecution of Sanctuary Cities, the Obama DOJ is just getting worse. Probably a good reason why Obama is losing the Independent voters in droves.

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’” First, Herbert Hoover was president when the stock market crashed, in 1929. Roosevelt did not take office until March of 1933. When he did, Roosevelt communicated to the people over radio, not television. But the main stream media tells us that Sarah Palin is the idiot?

The only reason that Obama won the 2008 Democratic party presidential nomination is because of the anti-Hillary animus out there. There's plenty of Democrats who still hate her. Additionally, Bill Clinton looks HORRIBLE. The man looks like he's about to die. He'd never make it through a campaign.

Prayer: "Dear God in Heaven, we have an unprecedented disastrous oil leak nearby in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil continues to flow, the clean up of the oil is nearly non-existent but worse of all we have a DITHERER in the White House who's making thing worse. Please, God, send us a LEADER."

If you believe that then you simply have no brain. The Republican party has more than it's share of nut cases but Steele (for the most part) has a sensible, calm message. The reason that liberals label anyone a racist if they criticize Obama is because they know that the criticism is right but they'd rather not see the criticism for what it is so they take the low, convenient road to racism. Nice that Obama and Biden were golfing yesterday. The oil still continues to flow into the Gulf of Mexico and clean up operations there are incompetent. "Change We Can Believe In"

Side Note: While channel surfing last night I came across a cable news channel that had candidate Andrew Cuomo on it. I'm tellin' ya - the guy is BRUTALLY UGLY! The lighting combined with no make up for Cuomo and it's apparent that his face is becoming disfigured and he's looking more-and-more like Harpo Marx. I'm telling you this because if you're ever up close to Cuomo make sure you avert your attention to the sky or the ground. DON'T LOOK AT HIM!

Most sensible post in this thread, LABillzFan. Bravo! 1. The oil is still spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. 2. It's going to be on the beaches of the Gulf states pretty soon. 3. Obama handles the office paperwork end of the problem. $20 billion is by no means trivial but as usual, Obama's priorities are completely backward. 4. Senate and/or Congress hearings will review Obama's performance. Not just post-spill but ever since he came into office where he perpetuated the practices of George Bush despite Obama's claim to be "Change We Can Believe In." Democrats are just complete idiots who can't see beyond the $20 Billion paperwork. Oh, yeah. While we were all focused on the Gulf the economy continues to tank.

School is closed during the summer (except summer school), every holiday off, many vacations during the school year. Tenure. Retirement at age 55. = Made in the shade.

Another (protracted) "Present" vote by Barack H. Obama.

That's exactly what I mean. Look at today's New York Times editorial advising President Obama to finally show some leadership regarding the Gulf oil spill. The last line says that it's time for Obama to decisively show leadership and competence. We're at week eight (8). If Obama can't show leadership and competence by now, he never will. Why isn't the New York Times beating the living s**t out of Obama instead of encouraging him to be something that he is not nor ever will be? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/opinion/13sun1.html?hp The President’s Moment Published: June 11, 2010 If ever there was a test of President Obama’s vision of government — one that cannot solve all problems, but does what people cannot do for themselves — it is this nerve-racking early summer of 2010, with oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico and far too many Americans out of work for far too long. [skip to last line] These are matters of competence and leadership. This is a time for Mr. Obama to decisively show both.

Actually, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is one of the few bright spots of the Obama administration. ...and that ain't saying much.

To see if he would be a worthwhile addition to the team? AND he's a semi-local.

Perhaps you "have heard of" Greg Paulus way back there in eastern New York (western MA) but in Syracuse and Rochester (and maybe even Buffalo) he's a lot more than that. It's a common lament of SU football fans that the Buffalo Bills never sign any former Orangemen players.

I'm from Syracuse and SU football SUCKED! Paulus' gig there was short term. There is a future upside to Paulus. If he's in a potential long term situation I think he'll improve greatly. It should be with the Buffalo Bills. That's what we're counting on here in CNY. SB Champion coach Sean Payton was impressed with Paulus!

http://blog.syracuse.com/orangefootball/20...ond_workou.html Metairie, La. — If nothing else, Greg Paulus’ tryout with the New Orleans Saints gave him a chance to reminisce about his college basketball days with a former foe from the Atlantic Coast Conference. Although Paulus is focusing on football now, the first NFL team to give him a look was the same one that drafted Miami tight end Jimmy Graham, a converted basketball player himself whose four years as a Hurricanes power forward coincided with Paulus’ four seasons playing point guard at Duke. “We’d have a good basketball team,” Paulus joked after practice this weekend. “We could run the pick-and-roll. We could have some fun.” Paulus and Graham were rivals in the ACC from the 2005-06 through 2008-09 college basketball seasons. This weekend, they’ve been working on the same football field in suburban New Orleans and carpooling to practice. “It’s a little bit different, but it’s fun,” Paulus said. “To switch sports, it’s a very difficult thing, so to have this type of opportunity, it’s something we were hoping for when we made the decision to play football a year ago.” Graham said it was “weird” to see Paulus joining him at Saints practice, “because I played him four years in basketball and threw his layups — or him — out of bounds a couple times.” “He’s a smart player, obviously going to Duke,” Graham continued. “He hasn’t necessarily had as much time as the rest of us with the offense, but he catches on quick and is definitely a good football player. Anybody that gets him, or if he stays here, has a smart quarterback.” Paulus used his fifth and final year of NCAA eligibility playing quarterback at Syracuse last fall while getting his master’s degree in communications. In his lone season, he completed 68 percent of his passes for 2,024 yards and 13 touchdowns against 14 interceptions. His head coach with the Orangemen, Doug Marrone, was the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach on Sean Payton’s Saints staff from 2006-2008. Although Paulus was not drafted, he received a tryout at Saints rookie camp in May. He left without a contract, but got an invitation for a second tryout at Saints minicamp this weekend and has been working behind Drew Brees, Chase Daniel and seventh-round draft choice Sean Canfield. “We wanted to look at him,” Payton said. “He was here for the rookie camp and did a good job. He’s a pretty good decision maker.” Paulus stopped short of saying he expects to return for training camp. The Saints have been talking with several veterans, including Josh McCown and Patrick Ramsey, who could come in and compete with Daniel, a second-year pro, for the backup role behind Brees. If that happened, Paulus could be out of the picture in New Orleans. “There are a lot of different scenarios that could help or hurt you and you’ve got to control the things that you can control, which is your performance and what you do on the field and how you carry yourself,” Paulus said. “My primary focus is to be me, do what I do and hopefully there’s a chance here because this is a special organization.” Paulus, who grew up in Syracuse, was a high school standout in both football and basketball. In the winter of 2005, he was selected for the Army All-American high school football game along with other top college recruits such as current Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez. After that, however, he didn’t play organized football for another four years. If he wants to make it in the NFL, he’ll need to learn fast. Even if he fails to catch on in New Orleans, he figured his time working under an innovative offensive play-caller like Payton and a Super Bowl MVP like Brees could only help. “Having those type of mentors and things that you can learn from, if you were to dream of a situation, that’s the type of situation that you dream about,” Paulus said. Payton’s offenses have led the NFL three of the past four seasons. Brees routinely stays after practice to work on routes with receivers, and Paulus, like the other quarterbacks on the squad, has joined him. “All I’ve heard is great things about Greg,” Brees said. “Had he had three more years of college football, who knows what the possibilities are? From everyone I talk to, it seems like this guy has a lot of great leadership abilities and some natural talent. “Unfortunately in this league, coming in like he has, with the nature of the position, you get so few opportunities, so you hope that somebody can stick with you,” Brees said. “It might be here. It might not be here. But I think if he can get a chance ... who knows?”

I just discovered this aspect of The Holocaust recently: Jewish hostility towards Germany (quotes) http://www.whale.to/b/jewish_hostility_q.html

President Barack H. Obama is a ditherer - just like Dick Cheney said he is.