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I don't think that he is as good as he was on WNSA but he is still very listenable. I hadn't thought that much of him when he was just on Empire, but I really liked his radio shows on WNSA. He is still 1000% better than D'ohopp and the Bullfrog. In an ideal world, he'd get moved from mornings to the afternoon and Riter would get moved to the morning drive time. The other 2 can get moved sometime to the evening after the signal strength goes down and I can't pick WGR up.

Thank you for the link. I downloaded the article. Won't be able to read it tonight or tomorrow, but plan to read it before the weekend.

With all the references to the tech bubble, one thing I have always been curious about is how much of the '90's boom was caused by the Y2K scare? Companies spent a ton of money and a lot of people were hired to deal with this "problem". After 1/1/2000, the Y2K issue was no longer an issue, and companies and individuals no longer had to pay for expensive upgrades and/or Y2K experts. I would expect that a fair number of people that had been hired to deal with that problem found themselves expendable after the 1st of the year and that companies that normally expect software / hardware to be used for 3+ years decided that they did not need to perform upgrades for at least that long. I haven't found any good studies about Y2K's effect on the tech bubble. Does anyone know of links to any studies to how much Y2K affected the '90's and present economies? Thanks in advance for any info.

IIRC (and it's been a long time since I was in a history course, so please someone with a much stronger history background than myself correct me if I am wrong) that when the Calvinists started out that is what their belief was - that all is predetermined by God. The way they got around the issue you bring up was by saying that not only had it been predetermined who would and would not make the cut, those that did make it would demonstrate in this life that they were going to Heaven by behaving better than everyone else. Kind of an olden days, let's rub the noses of the sinners in the fact that we're going up and they're going down sort of thing.

I'm in. I'm not sure what "right wing conspiracy" you would like to see investigated in addition to this one and for which this post is a setup, so I am reserving judgement on your next call for an independent investigation, but I definitely support this one. Heck, depending upon what it is, I might even support that next call for an independent investigation as well.

I'm sure there is at least 1 and probably several coach / GM combos out there that are convinced THEY can get TO to play to his full abilities AND not detract from their team. I'd say they are fooling themselves, but you don't get to that level without having an ego.

What French riots? I haven't seen anything about those on the front page of Rochester's D&C, but they did have a nice front page article titled "Rioters vent rage at Bush, U.S. at Americas summit" yesterday. I'm impressed.

Ah yes, the leak is merely a noble effort of a man (or woman) of extreme conscience and not the result of a disgruntled employee who doesn't like the new boss for trying to change the way things are done. Either way it does not explain why the righteous indignation we saw in the "Plame affair" is not emanating from the Democrats in this one.

What, you missed the media and Democratic cries for a special prosecutor to track the sources of these leaks?!? Oh, I guess we all did.

7 residences and 1 closed restaurant. Yep, when CBS got the AFC they relooked at the blackout zones. IIRC Syracuse, NY and Baton Rouge, LA were the only 2 markets nationwide that got hosed. The small sliver of land was officially switched from Syracuse to Rochester TV market the year after Syracuse was blacked out but the league did not remove Syracuse from the blackout zone.

The play that stood out in my mind was the Oilers kickoff right after they had gone up 35-3. Fail DelGreco shanked the kick and it ended up like an onsides attempt. The Bills recovered the kick and had good field position to start the next drive. I started jumping up and down and telling the wife (fiance at the time) that we were going to beat the $^##% %%^^#@ girl f*gs. (I had thought at 1st the Oilers intentionally tried an onsides kick to really rub Buffalo's nose in it.) I don't know if that helped fire the Bills up any, but it sure did fire me up!

Mickey it worked, you did not avoid confusion.

Hey, that's not fair. The French don't always lose / surrender. They did win the French Revolution when they were fighting the ... Oh, nevermind.

The tax reform panel made it's recommendations yesterday. Link Does anyone see this as even being a starter? My guess is that the recommendations are total non-starters as I expect they will cause far more more wailing and gnashing of teeth over lost deductions than they will gain fans from the AMT elimination. It also appears they fell into the "revenue neutrality" fallacy. Increased tax revenues tend to accompany lowered tax rates. This plan does very little lowering of rates as it tries to make up for "lost" AMT revenue.

Yes I do realize the CIA made the referral to Justice. I am no expert in these matters, but from what I have read, it appears that CIA refers a lot of matters such as this to the Justice Department. Who (apparently illegally) leaked the info about the referral? I also noticed that you did not embrace finding the source of the new leak. PS Not that it has anything to do with this new leak, but if Libby did in fact perjure himself, he should be in jail.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. MSNBC Story Link I'm sure the Democrats will be VERY concerned over finding the person(s) that leaked information about these classified sites to the paper. WSJ predicted in the aftermath of the Libby investigation that if politics become illegal then reporting politics becomes illegal as well. I guess we'll get a chance to find out if their prediction is correct.

I would definitely like to see #1 happen, but don't see Gray going along with it. I was surprised in the offseason when they just gave the starting job to JP and didn't make him compete with Holcomb for it. I know they had made the decision when Bledsoe was still here, but for some reason I thought they might allow it to be a competition.

Now that the Bills have reached the midpoint and bye week, what will their focus be during the last half of the season? They have no realistic chance at a wild card, but they still might believe they can win the division only being 1-1/2 games back. I don't see them being able to win the division, as they will probably need to go 6-2 to get there. I think it's still a reach if 8-8 is good enough to win. I expect and hope that they will play Losman at quarterback. I'd like for them to give him some more experience now that the playoffs are very unlikely. At the very least, they should have a better idea of what he might be able to do for them next year. If NE loses next week, does that sway the thinking at OBD and they go with Holcomb? What other changes do people see over the next 8 games? I hope Jerry Gray gets away from blitzing so much, but don't hold out much hope for that happening. Maybe Bennie finally gets to take a seat while Preston gets some action?

I don't know, on my 36 incher, it sure did look like the ball hit the ground. Maybe I needed the HDTV to have it go questionable.

Kelly, You're welcome. But, I think you have me confused with Jim Bob. I was not arguing with you about that issue.

Didn't you double count FCS? I think you have some more work to do young man.

1. As much as it pains me to say so, being a fan of the Naked Gun movies, YES. 2. Criminal law, no - I don't think a reasonable person could have voted him guilty with the evidence presented. Civil law, absolutely. The 2 are distinct, and if someone feels better knowing he lost the civil case, so be it. Me, I don't really give much of a rat's butt about him.

OK, I can understand wasting time on this board, TSW, or SR Center Ice, but Lonsberry? Bob Lamb, you have issues.

He was found (rightly in my opinion because the prosecution was incompetent and the defense did raise "reasonable doubt") not guilty of criminal charges. In the civil complaint by Goldstein's father, he was ordered to pay restitution (i.e., guilty by preponderence of evidence). So, I'd say he wasn't "innocent"; just "not-guilty" of criminal charges.