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OK, I'll bite. How is the marginal tax rate on the top 25% of earners 0%?

I do not agree with either of these statements. A great number of scientists believe in God; in Christian leaning nations this tends to be the Christian God. And actually, evolution states that man and apes evolved from common ancestors, not that man evolved directly from apes. Based on the overwhelming complexity inherent in our world and the substructures therein, I have an extremely difficult time imagining that God did not have a hand in our getting here (and keeping us here).

How do you figure they'll have only retired 5 numbers? After 16 and 18 go up, there'll be 6 numbers in the rafters and #39 will go up sometime in the next few years.

It doesn't seem to be based on home / away for which broadcast is shown on CI. On Friday, the TO/Atlanta game was in TO and used Atlanta's feed. The Pens/Flyers was in Philly and used Pittsburgh feed. Vancouver/Minny was in Minny and used the Canucks feed.

I think the team can still win the division, but I don't expect them to. If they beat the Jest on Sunday; they'll be 3-3. With all the Patriots injuries and coaching losses and injuries / team quality on the other 2 teams; 9-7 can win the division. The Bills COULD sweep miami and the Jest and split with the Pats. That gets them to 6 wins and most likely any tie breakers. If they can beat Oakland and either KC or Denver at home (a split is possible, either team would kill the Bills if Buffalo had to travel) then they need to scrape out one more win. Didn't Carolina lose at miami. If so, why can't they lose in Buffalo as well? Maybe Cincy will be locked into a wild card when the Bills go there. My gut feel at this point is 7-9 assuming they win this week, but I haven't totally ruled the playoffs out (wild card yes, playoffs no).

I don't think the NFL teams are picking up the tabs at most stadiums. In Cincy they don't do the searches because the City/County was paying for the stadium workers and they refused to pay people to conduct the searches. I know in Buffalo, the County picks up the maintenance costs of the Ralph; I always assumed the security was included in that cost.

I'm sure that I would listen to GR a lot more often if they'd move HS to afternoons and let him do the show the way it was on NSA and moved BR to mornings. I can't listen to MS more than about 5 minutes. When I can pick it up, I listen to Fan 590 out of TO.

Considering that Ralph has tried many times in the past to ban people bringing in food to the games unsuccessfully, the pat downs are rather half arsed, and it didn't appear that anyone was being patted down at the Club Seats / Luxury Box entrances; it sure does appear that the whole point of this (in Buffalo and league-wide) is to increase concession stand revenues. I'm sure the reasoning for no patdowns at the high fallutin entrance is something along the lines of "a terrorist wouldn't buy an expensive ticket".

No doubt.

You will some of the time. No data on how the NHL choses which feed to provide to CI. Over on the Sabres board they were saying that depending upon which provider you had you got either the TSN feed or the Tampa Bay feed last night (MSG feed only in WNY for that one). As for go/no go. I say GO. At a minimum, you get to watch nearly all the Sabres games for about what it would cost to take a date to one game (much less if airline tickets & hotel room are included). Best case scenario, watching Sabres, Ottawa, and other high flying teams' games, your roommates get hooked and chip in next year.

I've got it up to 0-20 (0-7 Sens, 0-5 Pens, 0-8 Bolts). They scored on their last pp vs Boston. For the record - Home 4-23 (14th) Road 0-16 (Tied for last w/ 4 others).

Don't people normally go up that creek without the paddle?

The thing about Mensa is: if you really are that smart, why do you have to tell people you are? Shouldn't your words and actions let the people around you know whether or not you are intelligent? Oh, silly me. I forgot that saying "I'm in Mensa" provide the words that let people know you're smart and that holding up a piece of paper that says "I'm smart" is the action that lets people around you know you're smart.

I guess I'm missing something here. Why would he automatically be a traitor for signing on with a media organization that has traditionally been unfriendly to US causes? Perhaps he is there to provide a different perspective on things. You know, kind of like the "Counter-point" in "Point/Counter-Point". Until and unless he is giving "aid & comfort to the enemy", I think this is or will be blown way out of proportion. It isn't like he joined the other Al...

LMFAO! Still, not one of the recipes called for the secret ingredient of pickle juice. I think they're holding out! But imagine how good retatta would be wrapped in raw bacon. Ummm, bacon.

You think they make that much? Wow, you must be counting the value of the free buffets at the Bills and Sabres games that those guys obviously partake in waaaaaay too heartily.

Well, yeah, if you're using 4,000 year old noodles; I can see it taking an hour to cook. F'ing hilarious!!!!

So you don't like ties. I have no problem with that. My questions are: why not have them play overtime to decide tie games like most every other sport? Do you think football should be decided by fieldgoal contests or baseball by homerun derbys? If not, why should a hockey game be decided by a single subsidiary individual skill? It is a team sport, shouldn't the game be decided by the teams?

As long as we are on absurd hypotheicals, how about one more? Suppose a liberal, while trying to make a point, stayed on topic and didn't resort to the sophistry of using absurd hypotheticals to make his point? Nah, too absurd and hypothetical. Sorry, my bad.

Agreed.

Why make the hypothetical something absurd? If the coach was Muslim and wanted the primarily MUSLIM team to face Mecca and pray to Allah to give them fortitude and the grace to win with sportsmanship and dignity, I would have no problem with it at all. If the coach is calling the other team infidels and asking Allah to smite them, shouldn't that be a hate crime? Oh, my bad, only white Christians can commit hate crimes. Your hypothetical has little or nothing to do with the present situation. The coach has said grace at the pregame meal and a pregame prayer for 23 years. Over 50 members of the team support him. (How many kids are on a highschool football team anyway?) There are a handful of parents/students that "feel uncomfortable". They get their way because the religion of Atheism is the only one acceptable to secularists. I don't know the prayers the coach was saying, but considering he's done it for nearly a quarter of a century with NO ONE complaining, I have to assume that they were probably rather nondenominational (this is New Jersey, not somewhere in the heart of the Bible belt). How do I know no one ever complained before? Because the pinheads on the school board didn't stop him in the past!

I came home from a meeting last night and the wife had the Flyers-Leafs game on. How cool is that? (Would have been the Sabres if they were playing.) I got her hooked on Sabres. She hasn't been able to get me hooked on college football (maybe if Buffalo had A college team).

What about playoff tickets? Or should that go without saying...

You run Willis on 1st 2 downs, behind Preston then behind Anderson. Try Kelly on keeper on 3rd, he only had to pick up about one foot. If somehow this hasn't worked, send Willis up the middle again on 4th.