Ghost of BiB

There is a good chance I will not be in DC September 11th. I had planned on Grevey's, or my DTV, but might have to hang out in CS. Any help on a Bills Bar or a decent sports bar that will have the game? Thanks. I'd hate to miss game one.

With April's schemes, what effect does introducing a new kicker have this late in the game, if any?

I don't want to go into doom mode, but starting an untested quarterback without a good kicker is iffy at best. Yeah, me and 2,000 other people have said it before. Norwood won a few games for us, back in the day. Wide...(never mind, the unspeakable...) be damned, he was pretty well all of our scoring in more than one game.

Which brings up an important point...does anyone reading this know of a Bills bar, or a decent place to watch the opener in Colorado Springs? I plan on being back in DC about midnight Saturday, but I can't be sure.

Rueben?

We'll airdrop you some squirrels. Get on that, Nervous Guy, will you? FWIW, around Thanksgiving time we would clean out the closets and make a trip to the SA. Kind of a tradition. I need to remember to do that this year.

At this point, who is out there? any chance Vinateri gets cut? Elam? Akers?

NORTHCOM For those interested, this is the NORTHCOM link. The lead article speaks for itself. Without going into the details as to the why's, but a LAMP never the less, I'm flying out to Peterson AFB Monday morning to work in the NC Operations Center with the Joint Interagency Coordination Group. That is the place where the Defense effort intersects with those of FEMA, Justice, Treasury, State (lots of foreign tourists affected) CDC, COE, state governments, etc. I'll be out there for a week, maybe more. I told Scott and a couple others that if it is at all possible, I'll try to blog my observations and perspectives. I don't know that I can, or even that what I'm doing would even be of any interest or even releasable. What I thought I might try doing is posting my daily sitrep that I will be sending back to the people I work for, at the end of my shift. Edited for board use, a lot of crap no one would care about and is layered with acronyms. For those who have interest, and can keep it from becoming a political flaming, I look forward to whatever I can provide. Whatever I can write, I promise it will be totally devoid of spin. I try to explain, not inflame (even though I have my moments). Like I said, LAMP I suppose, but this is a big deal beyond the physical damage. There is right now a lot of damage to our sense of security in many ways. I'll do what I can to pass on what I can.

We have a Katrina forum to keep visibility without getting in the way of football.

Thanks

Yo, Scooter, you out there?

Perhaps a temporary forum of it's own? There's a lot of people who won't go near PPP that might want to read or have input. Is this possible, Scott? Could always delete or archive it later.

Emotions may be the X-factor, but have to be shed by the operations planners. People who deal with these types of scenarios are well aware going in that they can't save everyone. Micky Mouse, Lincoln, or Jesus Christ could be President, and it wouldn't make one bit of difference. They plan to save as many as they can to help everyone they can. It's impossible to be 100% successful. There is also more at stake than the direct people costs. The federal government has a responsibility to maintain continuity of the national infrastructure. As for this administration lying down on the job, someone Google NORTHCOM, which was created to undertake the Homeland Defense mission. A section of NORTHCOM is called Joint Task Force Civil Support. JTF-CS's main purpose in life is to provide the military response for consequence management. Anyone want to take a wild guess as to who is running things now? If this system had not been in place, those people wouldn't have what they got, and are going to get. Again, as we speak, there are some very, very, very busy people working some awfully long hours in an operations center in Colorado Springs.

By the way... Why you don't drop pallets on top of people into a city.

I understand why people are upset. A lot of people are upset because they are reacting from emotion and a lack of information, glued to a media less interested with explaining than scooping. A lot of things conspired to make the NO situation much, much worse than it needed to be. I'm not appologizing for Bush when I say that the Federal response effort is just about all anyone could possibly, realistically expect. What was NOT made clear in the actual mandatory evacuation order (issued way too late, BTW, has anyone read it?) but was made very clear in the National Weather Service warnings was that many people who stayed would likely die, and those who survived could expect to be on their own for a minimum of a week. It sounds and seems cold, but a response and recovery effort takes into acount poor decisions and mistakes made by those prior to the event, but it's impossible to stage forces, supplies, equipment and other support in the very path of the storm they have to help out with in the numbers large enough to accomodate those several thousands who shouldn't have been there anyway. It took time to assess what roads were passable enough to even get into the area. Huge sections were under water. Airports were destroyed, runways buried in debris and navigational aids were put out of commission. Want to be the guy flying the transport plane blind through the clouds? A relief effort has to be supported itself before it can help someone else, or it becomes another problem to be taken care of. The government is as we speak moving heaven and earth to try to take care of these people. Taking care of these people is going to take a long, long time and millions of manhours, not to mention dollars. Thousands of people are involved. Been a lot of sleepless nights. Many relief and rescue people are probably going to die. Military Civil Support packages have been designed and planned for with the idea that something like a nuclear bomb detonating in the superdome could be one of the worst scenarios they'd face. Because of a cascading series of events, this is actually much worse and covers a much, much larger footprint. Don't forget that there are people in Alabama, Mississippi and other parts of LA that need help too. Many people are caught up in the emotion of the moment. No matter what happens, there will be finger pointing and complaining. But to sit here and bash the people doing it without any knowledge whatsoever of the conditions or what has/needs to be done - from a practical standpoint, is really not helping anything. Only serves to flame up more emotion. Time for everyone to get a grip, and let people do the work.

That is pretty damn disgusting, unless you are just trying to be sarcastic.

Pretty good. The only reason I brought it up was because it factors into insurance premiums and zoning controls, and also as you say that events like this render them moot. You aren't supposed to build landfills on one, for example.

Haven't seen but a few plays. You never know who will step up. I'd never heard of him before. But Denver made out there.

Deja vu all over again. I remember the "if you could have any player currently playing" thread from a couple weeks back. I think I was the only one who said Vinateri.

Hasn't stopped you, has it? Why should I let it go? Because I have to deal with it professionaly real world, real life while you cry Bad Bush in every post and since you're clueless fellow poster (among many) runts up something you agree with I should shut up? If you have a plan, let someone know.

Well, you are a large part of it, bucko. I'm still waiting for your explanations and organization charts for the things you listed as facts. Or, did you forget that part? You, as usual don't have an answer when you get called out on your BS, you got called on it and now you want to do a Bills Kumbaya. Go Bills. Rah team. Back your crap up, or shut up and stay out of the way.

Do you have any idea what a hundred year flood plain is or means?

It's hard, I know.

No, I don't. He's a carpetbagging mercenary.

The world responds. I'm so choked with emotion.