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the guy had a selective positron ratio that was -7.8 and it dropped to -8.3. that's like a -.5 swing. or, a positive .5, i can't recall how that math works. surely, though, he's trending in the wrong direction.

3rd...i was, indeed, joking. i thought that fairly obvious, and figure mr. frenkle knew that when he responded to my initial post. it's funny to me you saw it as a sword fight...i was just looking for a little break in an otherwise stressful couple of days. i thought the OC was joking, but figured out along the line that maybe he wasn't. i couldn't let the 'we'll rough you up or run you out' thing pass without comment...he might be just that good to have drawn me in. either way, i'm ok. my Dad told me a long time ago "Never let an anonymous poster make you feel bad about your online persona". rob, your choice of language was colorful and not necessarily how i would say it (i'd likely put out the fire with my urine), but i agree a zealot is a zealot. i'm good with my view of God, i respect your right to have your own views as well. In the interest of full disclosure: Penn Jillette will (probably) not burn in hell, but i do think he's sort of a dick.

I'm in trouble? I don't feel like I'm in trouble, but thanks for letting me know. What did I type that has you and your angry group of anonymites thinking I'm morally superior? Was it Satan, grill, or fatty pork loin? And who is the 'we' you keep referencing, and why do you feel the need to keep bringing them up? Do you find comfort in numbers? And...this is crazy, really, and difficult conceptually to follow when you have a pack mentality....but it doesn't even strike you as a teeny weeny bit poliburo-ish to type things like "We don't let "moral superiority" phonies on the left get away with it, why should we allow it from the right?'. Thank you, Komrad, just post the rules on the slate-gray wall for all of us to follow. I can't speak to all the frat boy hate you've picked up on in your life, but what makes you think I hate frat boys to begin with? Do you honestly think you're in a position to render an opinion on my hate of fraternities or lack thereof from my comment? If I had said someone was behaving like a drunken sailor, does that mean that I hate sailors? i think it's presumptuous of you, though i forgive you. I agree with you to a point on fraternity boys caring what others think. Then again, maybe a lot of them really care about what other people think. it's hard to say when you don't generalize. As for jealousy....I'll let you come to your own conclusions. After our correspondence, I can see how you would look at the comments I made and conclude the only logical explanation is that I'm jealous of fraternity members, most of whom you know being successful and all. It's as simple as A + B = Pineapple. Oh, yeah, and there's a lot of us out here who don't like your tone. We don't like it, not one bit.

i read way more than i post, obviously evidenced by my status. i like to peruse the various comments, generally football-related because i enjoy the jib-jab, but now and again i pop in the PPP forum for some fun. as a conservative, neo-con really, I can't think of any time i've ever agreed with something you've written. i don't post to get into confrontations, like to have a bit of fun and try and keep the name-calling out of it....but i have no choice but to look over my shoulder for a while because some group i know only as "we" is coming for me. or, maybe we're talking multiple personality disorder and there's only one 'we' but he so craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayzaaay. if anybody asks if you saw me, tell 'em i skipped town.

To quote Phil Hartman: "Incandescent blather.". Best I can tell, you want to play it off as towel-snapping yuks, but you're thin-skinned, like a drunken fraternity boy. No problem though, I'll move on to avoid being hazed like a rookie...of a message board.

Well...your silly little squirrel/nut/faux democrat party seal post was probably the hit of Mrs. Smith's 7th grade homeroom class...but strikes me as sort of the definition of "dopey" when you're trying to show up another poster on a message board. It makes you look like a little boy wearing his dad's big shoes to school. Oh... and thanks for the clarification on "Pretense", but it was unnecessary here--I read books, too.

Butt-hurt is a term the kids are using these days - didn't mean to make it wierd...lol. From a believer, your comments, while human, didn't seem very Christlike. That's all I'm saying. A guy says he denounces the holy spirit and you say he'll burn in hell for all eternity because of it, which doesn't seem to be a very measured response IMO. I'm really just trying to point out the apparent contradiction between what you seem to believe and how you choose show it. Do unto others and all that... and Stop getting all butthurt about some guy saying you're going to "burn in hell for all eternity". You don't believe in it, so what's the worry? Burning in hell only matters, if you believe it's possible, right? So what's going on here Frenkle? A little bit of apprehension? Perhaps not butthurt, rather, a sudden tightening of the sphincter? Geesh..."some guy"? I have a screen name for heaven's sake. To be fair, I never suggested that PJ nor the man we know as "Frenkle" would be burn in hell for all eterntiy. I said PJ would roast on a George Foreman grill. All this butt and sphincter talk has me on edge. Good day to you both.

Well, I Dream of Gene(y), I'm going to have to figure out a way to come to grips with how you feel about me and what I wrote. I do, in fact, feel comfortable with my statements, and thanks for asking. I also appreciate your concern over my "hurt butt', though on some level I find it a little bit creepy. The good news is that we were discussing Penn Jillette and his point of view, and I'd hazard a guess that he would be perfectly fine with my point of view. He might see an opportunity to show me the truth. I read your thoughts on his postings and thought your perspective was excellent. I'm not agnostic, but see a certain mean-spiritedness in the whole thing. Perhaps that influenced my response in kind. Perhaps what you see as arrogance on my part was simply the natural by-product of the human condition. I don't know, I'm only human.

They are doing the most offensive things they can think of to invoke the wrath of god. Maybe, but I'd edit that to suggest they are doing the most offensive things they can think of to invoke the wrath of those who believe in God. From my perspective, it's not particularly creative, inventive or interesting. I don't see the big fellow as brilliant or clever, but he is a hell of salesman for his schtick. 50 years ago, someone else was doing the same sort of rap somehwere, 50 years from now someone will take his place. Of course, by then, Penn will sizzling like a fatty pork loin on Satan's George Foreman grill, but such is (after)life.

he's a chump. all the other stuff aside--hard-scrabble kid from a tough neighborhood, charlie from charlie's angels stuff aside....i'm a fan of the buffalo bills, and my job is to complain about anything that gets in the way of success. i don't think he's any more chump-ish than any other agent, nor is he any less chump-ish. for what it's worth, my list of chumps is quite long, it started in 1970 or so.

Fyi, I'm not looking for trouble, to criticize, or to say I'm right. I try not to generalize generally, and certainly know very little about the life and times of a professional athlete. I certainly wouldn't hang 'spoiled' or 'entitled' on most of those guys, there are 1,700+ athletes in the NFL, not counting practice squads and whatnot, and even in a basic thugonomics world, while you hear aout some of them often, you don't hear about most of them all the time. i'm amazed at times by the amount(s) of money some of these guys make, but much past that don't think much about it. But here's the thing, the one word from SJBF that I take from all this is "special'. These are special people with special rules that live special lives. Some make a fortune, others make it and blow it, others never make it at all. I view it through the eyes of a football fan. I want to see JB playing for the Bills this season, and the rules in place say we can franchise, and we decided to franchise, and good for us. i fully agree that he takes risk in playing it out under the tag, and it improves the position of the club in some respects at this time. Still, it's a relative risk, and there's been plenty of time to plan for it. If he's surrounded himself with good people, they likely have a strategy to deal with this issue. $6.9 mill spends well in most places in the country, even after expenses and taxes. the rumor mill suggests he and the bills are $2 mill apart, which seems to imply he sees is value as X + $2m, while the Bills see his value as X. i guess we'll see. i'm hard-pressed to feel badly for anyone in the financial-negotiations-mix here, from the owners to players to agents to the players association.

He is indeed. He's 18 now, going to college in the fall and will be in Rhode Island. I'm certain he'll be surrounded by pats fans, but through it all he's a bills fan, as is my 14 year old son. That game locked him in, probably sadly, for the rest of his life. We go to a game a year, have a blast. Yeah, the bills can pick you up, too. great way to look at that!

Quick story about that game. I live in Albany, from wny originally. A buddy of mine won tickets to the game that Saturday afternoon, called me late sat and asked if I wanted the tickets (he's a pats fan). I decided to go and took my 10 year old son.I told him we were taking a road trip, with road trip rules so the backseat of the car was his place to hang. From the moment we left at 6am, to the rest area stop where a kindly hostess gave him a free donut for the trip, to the drew Bledsoe bobble head they gave us at..mcdonalds (?), to the tailgate/football toss before the game it was awesome. I wasn't hoping for a win, had a couple beers and tried to wait it out but finally had to use the bathroom and of course over his objections I made him come with me. Literally minutes later, Campbell scored and I realized i likely made him miss the only td of the game. From there, the rest is history, the wheels came off the rams bus and it was one of the great games of my life. A family of several guys (20s or so) were In the row In front of us with their dad and told my son he was the good luck charm, and they treated my son like a king the wholebgame. High fives, rubbing his head for good luck-----and making a major ruckus all the time....all the good things about football fans you hope to see at the stadium. After the game, we went to my brothers house in williamsville, again my son was treated like a king and ended the night watching starsky and hutch (Ben stiller version), still one of our all time favorite movies. It really was an awesome experience, one he (and obviously I) will never forget. Thanks for bringing it up!

We would generally work our way back to Hertel, Mighty Taco or a sub from John and Mary's. More often than not I'd get a chance to see it all again about an hour later after my bed started spinning like the house In the Wizard of Oz. Good stuff!

The things I used to see Cassidy's bouncers get away with was criminal. Those guys were aholes................But, that was the best bar ever invented, so we kept going! Ah, a blast from the past. One of my good friends back in the day ended up being a bouncer at Cassidy's. It instantly upped his status with the 11pm-4am weekend crowd, and while we didn't hang out much after that, he'd hook us up by having us skip the line like we was Rick James (or the poor white kid version of the disco'd one). On the other hand, some of those guys were indeed d-bags. But...nickle wings and... FREDDY'S... SPECIAL! FREDDY'S... SPECIAL Was aw'iiiiiiite.

I don't know anything about medical marijuana, but if you're telling me this is all hype, well buddy boy, I'm not buying it. It's pretty implausible to think someone would go to the trouble of making a documentary/movie about the dangers of marijuana and supposedly misrepresent the dangers of this quote-unquote harmless plant. next you'll tell me the documentary of the little old lady who spilled hot coffee on her secret garden somehow shared the blame with mcdonalds simply because of something as obviously non-threatening as balancing really really hot liquid on her bony legs in the passenger seat of an '87 K car in motion, or that the 3 hobos on the grassy knoll and tommy lee jones didn't actually shoot jfk. it says it right on the poster, so it must be true: Women cry for it. Men die for it.

the problem with it all coming down to one play and 'it should have been called' v. 'it should not have been called' is the same one you have as a team when you let it come down to one or two plays: the game is 60 minutes long and it's unreasoanble to look at one call-non-call without looking at the game as a whole. additionally, there are several elements all being looked at the same time---pushing off/holding/interference/catchable ball--and that's just on the players involved. how many calls were missed earlier in the game, a game where most acknowledge you can find a hold/penalty on every play in every game. how many of those missed calls might have tipped the game one way or the other? in the end, the niners lost in large part because they were cold early and got hot too late, and the hole that they dug required just about everything to go their way for the remainder of the game. complaining about the officiating in that case is understandable but shortsighted, especially in light of the fact that a call doesn't guarantee them the win anyway. and yes, if it's the bills of buffalo, i'm on the window ledge of a one story building if it goes against us, and typing exactly what i typed above if it goes for us.

wouldn't the mulligan come after he screwed the proverbial pooch? he's here, we'll know in a year. seems to be jumping the gun to chastise the guy at this point. also, in retrospect, wouldn't the wannstadt hiring have been something we'd agree with?

it's the football equivalent of second base (under sweater,maybe).

you're thinking of robitussin. silver spoons are used to kill vampires, from the old country, where people have names like....gulp....Count VAHV-rohv.

excellent word efficiency here. you painted a very colorful portrait in short order. one question though, in fairness to the guy, don't most high school kids live off their parents? i don't imagine he would have started a hedge fund by 11th grade (even in clarence).

Buddy Nx is correct. 100% correct answer from his perspective. Now whether or not he's the guys for the job we need done is another story.

i don't know, i may well deny that "mitt got smoked". certainly, he lost the election, but whether he got smoked or not remains to be seen. looking back over the past four years, a large number of american voters pretty clearly indicated that THEY got smoked by voting for romney. the end game for many supporters of obama has devolved into "he didn't have enough time..." and "it was way way way worse than he thought..." and "no one could have done a better job...". at this point, i'm in the camp that says we're all along for the ride, so like it or not, it all be what it will be. with luck, congress will hold the line on the key issues important to conservatives, and with luck, things get worked out. personally, i think the choices outlined by the president with respect to the looming crisis is the choice between going over the fiscal cliff, or sitting in the ford pinto looking over the edge while people are racing up behind you. it remains to be seen who got smoked, and the next few years will tell. as for the original poster, here's the only way to look at it. if your life is a perpetual cycle of "i got %$#@ed" offset by "wow i'm getting $#@^ed" interspersed with "*&^%ing rich guys always trying to &^%$ me", well, all you did was make romney's point clear. maybe someday your children will be lucky enough to break the cycle and marry a rich guy.

my bad--i took your response out of context and unrelated to the question you were replying to: The question you should be asking is why do Republicans policies make blacks, Latinos, women, gays and, well, anyone that's not an older white guy, want to vote for the Dems? i don't know what all blacks, latinos and women feel, and i assume you don't either. the danger in trying to figure out what "they" want lies in the fact that there is no "they". the balance is appealing to the broadest base possible without eroding your core values. i know that the numbers i saw earlier today indicate that 55% of women voted for obama, and 45% for romney. the original poster who claimed it was only old white men voting for him is clearly incorrect, and yes, i recognize he/she was trying to make a point. in response to this question, you stated, as fact, i assume, that republicans favor robber barren style government where all the dough stays with the guys at the top. i disagreed with that assessment. you went on to suggest that minorities view the republicans this way, thus republicans don't attract enough of them. i think that's too broad a brush to paint with. i do agree with you that democrats largely pay lip service to that particular voting block, and i suppose that if republicans would just tell 'em what they want to hear, they might be more successful. unfortunately, i also believe that a sizable portion of the obama 60m most definitely includes staunch democrats who will never change, as well as large clusters of entitlement-minded people, and i don't see a time where the republicans will reach them, or will want to. romney talked about them as the 47%, and regardless of the politics of spin, his point was accurate: some people wouldn't vote for hi if unemployment was 36%. i think the answer is inclusion, inviting more like-minded people to the republican table, and to continue outreach efforts outside normal media distribution outlets. i would agree the constant narrative, irregardless of the facts, is that republicans want to keep all the dough to themselves, consequently, it's an uphill climb. and, i'll submit that you are not alone in your thinking, nor am i alone in mine. so--to summarize, the economy continues to stall, obama continue to display incompetence as a leader and inability to bring the country together, unemployment continues at a very high level----does the next republican can get more votes from women et al? the first question would be...is he/she a candidate with broad appeal? All other things being equal, next time around-could a ticket including Rubio influence the latino vote? My goodness, an admittedly charismatic Obama certainly proved you don't need major political credentials to ascend to the presidency. as for those who favor a 'truly progressive system' of taxation, and the story of my friend, again, it was out of context to the question you were responding to. but to answer the question, i can't speak for everyone that believes in what you call a 'truly progressive system'. maybe there are a few Mother Theresa's in there. i do believe that most of the political leaders on the left are absolutely hypocritical on this issue, and i find the average Obama supporter on the street to be the same. Give them a chance to pass the bill along to the rich and then beat the tax man, they do.

what an arrogant point of view. it's not that conservatives 'don't like the answer', it's that we disagree with your premise. we understand fully your point of view, and we think you're wrong. we believe in compassion, we don't believe in being hoodwinked. i sat with a friend of mine not two weeks ago, his hot-button issues were catholics and their opposition to the health care mandate, along with the larger question of taxation. not 20 minutes later, he spoke of maneuvering/manipulating his income around to avoid taxation, as if the two discussions were unrelated. every time the president opened his mouth on the issue of taxation and panders to the middle class, i thought of the many tax strategies employed by people like him to beat the system. this president showed his stuff over the past 30-60 days or so. bitter, ugly, angry, petty. so be it, he won, and we have to live with it. if he can come toward the center, maybe he can salvage something reasonable from his second term that the other 57m Americans who wanted him out can look toward. unfortunately, i doubt that he can, and frankly doubt he really cares.