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This right here is the point everyone should read, think about, and then re-read. Some of you should spend the entire day thinking about this, and then reading the Constitution. PBills, Hedd, Dave in Norfolk? Rinse and repeat, until you get it and do not post here until you are sure you understand. What do you suppose the defense lawyer will be saying from day one of jury selection? This...by any chance? What kind of jury could possibly be considered "peers" of these people? Could we put Micheal Moore on that jury? No. Why? He has a bias against religion, and, he has a bias against law enforcement. So, technically both sides would object to Moore. So who could we put on that jury, really? The fact is, that you cannot find "peers" of these people, and the Defense Lawyers would use that fact to pick a jury of also-nuts. Then what do we have? An acquittal, an appeal, or a mistrial. Waste of time, waste of money, they get a huge propaganda boost and literally months of free air time...and what do we get? Crap. These aren't US citizens, therefore, F them. The Constitution isn't a suicide pact, but more importantly, it also isn't a never-ending contract that allows non-citizens a free platform to espouse their evil at our eternal, massive expense.

This comes down to fighting chance vs. no chance. When you add up the EPA, OSHA, lawyers gone wild...like Peace, lawyers to defend against scumbag lawyers...like Peace, Unions, taxes, regulations, tax laws, tax preparation costs, tax lawyers to fight off government lawyers, (basically, 80% of the campaign $ constituency of the Democratic party)manufacturers have no chance. They cannot "manage" their way out of it. Not with paying extortion money to all these people, pay their own people, and try to make a profit. I am not thinking/expecting that they should have anything other than a fighting chance. Currently they have no chance. If we continue to allow the above to leech off of them, they will continue to have no chance. We can talk markets all we want, if you don't curtail the leeches, the blood can't move, the system can't heal. Where do they move production to? Which states? Right to work or not? High tax or low? Even within NYS, how come the new manufacturing is built in the suburbs/out in the sticks, and not the cities? The cities have the "infrastructure" we keep hearing is the only way business can succeed, yet, most of your new, small/medium manufacturing outfits are being built 45 minutes away? How can this be? You know how, and so do I. The people who will build businesses, I mean real ones, not flower shops, will only do it as far away from concentrations of Democrats as possible, because, they are not stupid. Now, you can tell me all you want about cost of living: and I will simply say, "who the F keeps driving those costs up in the cities? and who keeps driving them down in the sticks?" If I have to pay $5 for a gallon of milk because the store in the city has to pay assclown levels of taxes...whose fault is that? The guy who creates the milk? Again, the markets dictate nothing. Without the threats created by manufacturing being squeezed at both ends = higher taxes cutting into revenues, and, higher costs derived from non-market-based wage/benefit demands, a whole set of options never makes it to the table for managers, and, a whole set of responses never become feasible for traders/mutual fund guys, etc. The worst part is: those threats directly attacked the strengths of our manufacturers, making it difficult to overcome weaknesses, and, even more difficult to capitalize on opportunity. I have news: you can't create these conditions, and expect every manager to be Jack Welch, with 0 tolerance for deviations and 0 contingencies. Yes, this is the single most retarded SWOT I have ever...well....except for this one thing in Ohio...it's the worst possible set of circumstances...and apparently voters in the North East aren't able to connect the dots.

Bump 2....Fire!

Killer article. Somebody needs to send that to ESPN, etc. and call it "doing it right".

Again, who are you talking to? We had an incredible passing attack, that beat you 51-3 btw, with our terrible weather. Elite/Good QBs/WRs aren't effected by rain. 2 feet of snow with 6 inches on the field? OK. If your QB/WR are slowed by rain, then by definition, they aren't elite/good. You didn't watch that game. The chiefs committed, and then re-committed to running the ball even when we were beating them 20-0. We stopped them. They got off a few big runs, but, those were directly due to us being in "stop the big pass first" defense, and only after they were forced to start passing. If we get a big lead on you, like we did with the Chiefs...you won't "run it enough" either. Yes, you are different than the Chiefs. They had the #1 rushing offense in the league last year...you didn't. Do you understand that screen passes/slants/quick outs are thrown at least 10 yards away from the D line? Again, I ask: how good are your #3-5 DBs? They will be on the field. They will be exposed. And again, good luck trying to get a DL/LB out in coverage against Rosce Parrish. If your pass rushers aren't disciplined, and all indications are that they are not, we will punish them repeatedly. Hey, like I said above: please do go after Chandler. That will do a fine job opening up space for Fred Jackson, CJ Spiller, and Roscoe Parrish. Buddy, nobody has seen this Bills offense, certainly not you. So, you are comparing something you have seen, to something you haven't. Sorry, but you really don't know anything about our team....just like the Chiefs fans didn't know anything about our team last week. Example: They kept talking about CJ Spiller. Yeah, good plan guys....as Fred Jackson put 114 yards rushing on you. Fred Jackson is every bit an elite RB in this league, but nobody knows him. You're not understanding me: ALL of those guys will be on the field on Sunday. As will ALL of your DBs. Huff sucks in coverage? Then that's where the ball will go. Your 3rd CB against Roscoe? That's where the ball will go. Nickel coverage? We go 5 wide. Which of your DL/LBs can cover any of our RBs or WRs? You really want to rush 4 guys against that? Good luck! No. You will be forced to rush 3, and then try to cover all of our guys. Or, we will light you up. Again, I am basing what I said mostly on what I saw Monday night. Is your passing game really better than that? I don't know, and neither do you. Are your DBs as good as last year without Nandi? I don't know, and neither do you. Can you guys stop an offense that nobody has any real tape on? What will Campbell do without a good TE, especially with Merriman knowing that, and blitzing every down(my expectation, we didn't blitz last game...because we didn't need it...and, we were watching the screen/draw/outlet to the RBs). We rushed 4 guys the whole game, sometimes we only rushed 3. If Jason Campbell doesn't play way over his head, I don't see how you can win this game. The only way I can see it: our offense turns the ball over...just like Denver.

Jesus...the weather? Where do you think you are playing this weekend? What happens if Lake Erie decides to start pissing on you? Are you trying to build in an excuse for when Jason Campbell inevitably sucks this weekend? Sorry. Buddy, nobody is buying your "secret weapon" theory. Nobody is buying that Taiwan Jones is a stealth fighter. Ok, and we have Williams, Merriman and Dareus, who not only shut down the #1 Run Game last year, but also stopped the pass without making themselves vulnerable to draws and screens. So, it's only going to be worse for you this week. The only place we aren't clearly better than Denver is the secondary....so, let's see what Campbell and your WRs can do. Based on last week? You lose. Based on last week? We will have a lot of interceptions. So, what is that? 1500 words to finally stumble onto something that can actually be considered a reasonable criticism of the Bills? The problem for you is: we aren't Denver. We don't do 7 step drops/max protect against soft zone, because our coach and QB aren't blatant f'ing idiots. You will see 2 second plays from us, especially early on, with only the occasional deep pass, and also: a whole lot of trickery. Therefore, your pass rush, while certainly good, is mostly irrelevant. Watch the replay from last game, and count off 2 seconds every time Denver snaps. Fitz has the ball out after those 2 seconds. That's what you will see this weekend. Two words: Bubble Screen. Good luck trying to cover Roscoe Parrish with a D lineman on that. Good luck trying to cover our RBs with your LBs. Two words: Bubble Screen. Good luck trying to cover Roscoe Parrish with a D lineman on that. Good luck trying to cover our RBs with your LBs. And, good luck when you start rotating towards stopping that, and leave Steve Johnson 1v1. Donald Jones, Chandler, Parrish, same thing. Too many weapons to cover with 2 CBs. You can talk all day about your 1st and 2nd best CB. My question is: how good is your 4th best CB? How about your 5th best guy? Why? Because those guys are going to be on the field, all day. And #3-5 is where the ball is going. Think about that. (EDIT: and, those of you who want to draft O line all the time? You can think about it too ) Also, Micheal Huff better have the coverage game of his life, or, Chandler abuses him just like he was abusing Berry before Berry got hurt. No. This is the second time I have gone through this game and analyzed it, and now, it looks even worse for you. Again, based on what I have seen so far this year. IF you had a bad game last time around...OK. But, if that game is what you are, if that game is who you are...then this will not be a close game. We will blow you out. It will be over in the first 20 minutes, just like it was with the Chiefs. Again, nobody's buying the "secret weapon plan". I let you slide before, but, I am telling you: If you say it again, prepare to take a beating on this board.

Jesus Bill....what's with the chunky cheerleader? Figure she's feeling a little insecure, and might respond to some behavior conditioning?

Wouldn't it be amazing if somebody could create a core architecture, but, make it extensible to the point of appearing to be custom software, that could deal with each care user as individuals, so that we get usage rates at 98%, which therefore gives us highly accurate data in general, that in turn allows us to produce highly accurate cost of doing business information in health care? How awesome would the guy be who could do that for us?

The reality is: we cannot make it more difficult to manufacture things here, by adding significant, non-value adding costs to the production line...and then turn around and cry because there's no manufacturing. That is by far the biggest problem here. I acknowledge your problem, but it is far smaller, and is also dependent on the problem I have identified. In all cases, the short term focus doesn't happen without US manufacturers already well on their way towards leaving. I can't tell if you have your cause and effect screwed up here: the finance people were reacting to the problems created by the unions/gov't/regulators, and, the solutions chosen(move to China) by the manufacturing companies. Markets react, they are not proactive. You made the weather, now you complain that it's raining? China wouldn't be in the position to do F all if it wasn't for the stupid choices WRT manufacturing that Democrats have been making since 1965. But, now? Now that we have established the root cause of our problems? Sure, I agree that we also need to do something about currency. That something does not include a tariff. Or, that something can include a tariff, provided you can prove that there will be no unintended consequences, and/or will not negatively effect other economies that we rely on. I am fine with talking about the currency manipulation, right after we pass a law that pegs the total non-value added costs imposed by government to 10% of the total cost of any manufactured unit. And, that cost is calculated from the local government up. This way the states and Feds eat last, and the schools and the local government can compete for manufacturing unhindered. We cannot talk about peripheral problems, or downstream problems, but not be willing to talk about the root cause.

Clearly, you either aren't aware, or don't understand, the effect losing this seat has on redistricting. In addition to what I said above, it's now possible that this seat is retained...and the Democrats are forced to choose another seat to remove. The results of this election will be felt by the NYS Democratic House delegation for the next 10 years. So, maybe, in ten years, it will all go away.

You Fools! I know that part of the city quite well. I have worked extensively with a lot of Orthodox Jews from that area, and I can tell you in no uncertain terms: This is about Obama's treatment of Israel. This is a direct refutation of his treatment of Netanyahu, his 1967 borders nonsense, basically everything he has said about Iran, how he treated the Saudis, all of it. This district is where you find Orthodox Jews. Try finding them anywhere else. They are like Waldo. Orthodox Jews...whose dream vacation is going to Israel...where they can get shot at. So, while I agree that it may not be a referendum on Obama on the whole, or Democratic policies, or the party.... ....you are lying to yourself if you think this is all about the candidate, and has nothing to do with Obama. No excuses either. The DCCC threw $600k at this race in the last 2 weeks. They wanted to win this one. Mostly because, this now means they could lose 2-3 seats instead of one. They were going to lose this seat in redistricting, now, that activity will effect other seats, making some of them more Republican friendly...2 of them to the point where they can be lost/are now in swing status. Weiner set it up to be sure, but Obama's boneheaded Israel policy knocked it down just as surely. EDIT: Also, I find it interesting that they called it already. There are still a lot of votes out there...and as I write this, over 100 precincts still not reporting, with only a 3k lead. EDIT#2: Now it's up to an 8 point win...OK, if it gets up to 10? I'd be more willing to consider that this is also about economics to a degree....but based on what I heard earlier today, it's 80% about Israel. We are talking about a District of life-long Democrats that voted for Obama by 11%, returning a 19 point swing so far....that's no small thing. EDIT#3 Specifically, look at Brooklyn AP results here. These precincts are 2 to 1 against. These are your main Orthodox neighborhoods. The Queens precincts went mostly for the Democrat....but they cannot outweigh these Brooklyn Orthodox Districts. Obama may have a Jewish defection problem on his hands, that made the Bush pickups look like nothing. And for what? Talking. This is all about what he said, and nothing to do with actually doing something. He could have said the exact opposite of what he did, and lost nothing. What a maroon!

Not if you're Canadian. Since both of you are physicians, I have a question: how much time do you devote to ADs with your patients? How much time do you think the average doc does? The reason I ask is: you may know I am well-acquainted with the requirements for ADs in terms of data collected and the intended process to create it. However, I rarely see either executed properly in code, and I see even less data. In most systems, it amounts to a dead feature, meaning nobody uses it, or, what little use it did have died out after the first 6 months the system was deployed. 2 times out of 100s I have seen it done right, and those were direct responses to surveyor deficiencies. Most of the time, DNR amounts to a friggin checkbox , with no link to the supporting document, not even a place/contact person for where the doc/and or specifics can be obtained. In terms of real world use, a checkbox may be practical, but not for all users, all the time. Certainly not when specifics are required, immediately. ADs are even worse. Most of the time I see just a few more check boxes. I have news: check boxes '= flexibility. Giving the user the ability to create more checkboxes doesn't create "flexibility" either. Not the kind of flexibility you are talking about BillsFan. It just creates more checkboxes. Is this because doctors/nurses don't spend any time on DNRs/ADs? And finally: both of you put this in terms of "you can go get a form/lawyer/DIY". Why? I'm curious only: isn't this a service that a doctor should provide, rather than a lawyer?

You didn't watch the video, did you? The number of people that "cheered" in the crowd is directly proportional to the number of US citizens that think Obama's new "jobs plan" will pass the Senate without amendments, never mind the House. But they didn't cheer. Dave's thread is based on an article that is based on either a baldfaced lie or a distortion from someone who's brain obviously suffers from affectation, and, the assumption people wouldn't watch the video.

Wouldn't it be cool if we could design our own religion? I don't mean the God and faith part, you either have that, or you don't. No amount of stand up, sit down, stand up, kneel, sit down changes that. I mean all the ritualistic stuff. Pogo stick day would be awesome. I mostly hate our pagan traditions as well. F the easter bunny. That whole thing is queer. Go around looking for a hidden basket that my idiot uncle put in the air conditioning vent, screws back in and all? Yeah, I didn't find it Bob(fake name), what a shocker...Maybe next year you can attach it to f'ing weather balloon 3 miles away and 10k ft up. I bet you'll get a major award! Why does this: sound like what the Jehovah's witness/LDS/Scientologists say to me when I am on my way home? Why does this sound like a Horoscope...or...better yet...a Personality TestTM (Scientology trade marked that, btw, and now you will be sued for reading it without paying them). Why does this: sound like the start of what goes on in my head as I walk by...that I should stay with because it would be funny....but instead, devolves into some sadistic fantasy involving variations on a theme of me shooting a paint gun at them/hosing them with water/dropping stink bombs near them so the people they try to harass think that they just crapped themselves? Perhaps I have an immature nature, wiseass tendencies, and are prone to obsessing over fun ways to humiliate those who claim to "know better". I may have often felt smart and unafraid as a child.

Ok...now you have changed the topic from "innocence" to "public foreign policy". Did the second one change? Yes. I assure you that the grown ups in this country have never fooled themselves, or allowed others to fool them, into thinking: that we didn't have deadly serious enemies, and don't have them right now. Especially the ones we don't hear about much, like Russia, Venezuela, etc. that we don't need our elite military. These enemies would do anything they could to attack us, and would be, at home, right now, without it. that this country cannot be invaded. We have the Maginot line, the Great Wall of China, Constantinople, and about 50 other examples of the fact that anybody can be invaded, and anybody can be taken out with a decisive blow. that war will end, or that war doesn't exist anymore, or that we can wish war away, talk it away, or simply "not attend", like the clowns in the 60s-->clowns of today think passes for a rational response to the reality we live in, that all humans have lived in since forever. OTOH, the "children" in this country? The ones who weren't aware of the above? Well, they got a rude awakening didn't they? But that wasn't "loss of innocence" that was "confrontation of stupidity and/or ignorance".

How about we replace the word "think" with the word "wish"? Campbell scares no one. He's consistent: at having a passer rating of 80-85 = not going to win you the game. He may not lose it, like Orton did, but he won't win it. Your WRs looked horrible last night. And, I noticed you left out Jacoby Ford, of "Catch and fumble on the first offensive play of the game" fame. Is he part of the depth you are talking about? Yes, Denver has some stud CBs, but still, I keep seeing Heyward-Bay falling down on a slant pattern and having the ball hit him in the face on a bounce-pass. That pretty much defined your QB/WR play. That wasn't Denver's CBs. Perhaps they are better than they showed? OK. First game, jitters, young players, etc. OK. But, to beat our DBs, they have to be much better. You don't have a TE to speak of. If you did, I might be more worried about your passing game, because of your running game, but you don't, so I refuse. Your running game looked good....because Denver's offensive FAILs gift-wrapped it the game for it. Giving the ball away, which meant an early lead that Denver blew multiple chances to remove, meant more running from you. It isn't indicative of anything other than Kyle Orton Sucks. Being 5-14 on third down...does not mean you have a good running game. Show me 10-14 and I would agree. Instead, you guys kept getting short fields, and running the ball to kill clock. Your longest scoring drive started at your 46 yard line(for a FG). That awesome kick at halftime thing wasn't "down the field". You did not drive the ball "down the field" once. The longest "down the field" drive you had was from your 20...to your 46 yard line....so please....how about you actually prove that you can "drive the ball down the field" 1(one) time...before telling us you are going to "drive it up and down the field all day"? Denver forgot the saying: Never wrestle with a pig, all you get is dirty, and the pig likes it. I can assure you that we will not make the same mistake WRT penalties.. You really want to give Fitz 15 free yards in penalties every drive, especially on 3rd down? Knock yourself out, buddy, don't let us stop you: perhaps this week we'll score 50. Now let's talk our WRs. We know how good they are, we don't have to wish. We've seen them make play after play, both last year and this year. That's all there is to say. We'll see if Huff can stop Chandler(actually I am praying that you overreact to him...so that Roscoe can tear it up). Oh, and you might want to watch our running game this weekend. You may be surprised. Especially if we get up by 2 scores, because Campbell turns it over and/or you give us half as many free penalty yards as you gave Denver. Bottom line: if the performances I saw in both games were reversed....I wouldn't be talking about beating the Raiders. I'd be hoping my team would escape getting blown out by 21 in the first quarter.

You had me right up until the bold. Also, there's no doubt that the financial sector and their assclownery caused the tech bubble, and also caused it to burst. (But, you conveniently forgot to blame the regulators, the unions, and the politicians for taxing/regulating/demanding insane benefits and wages/legislating manufacturing business away...come on man...if you want less of something, tax/regulate/demonize = legislate against it. To quote Billy Joel: "you oughta know by now") Perhaps we should sink $500 million into reanimating Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley, so they can tell you passing tariffs - MORE regulation? , in a time of economic downturn, is a stoopid choice. EDIT: We'll call it "zombie economics".

I don't know what's funnier: The fact that I knew this was coming.... or The fact that I knew this was coming....from you. I was holding out a glimmer of hope for GG or KD....but honestly, what was I thinking?

I heard that when he said it...then, I spent 3 minutes telling myself I didn't hear it, because of course they would have caught it with the delay, and simply bleeped it, or dropped it out of the sound....right? Then, I reminded myself that I was watching ESPN, and that, just like with everything else that they and I disagree about: I am probably right, and they are most likely incompetent.

Cognitive dissonance is the perception of incompatibility between two cognitions, which can be defined as any element of knowledge, including attitude, emotion, belief, or behavior. The theory of cognitive dissonance holds that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions. Experiments have attempted to quantify this hypothetical drive." Wikipedia (2006) When they say that this theory is so predictable...that's because it is. But, for the record...I was screaming for them to stay in bounds/no throws/run the football...when there was 5 minutes left in the game.

Let me guess, something bad about Canadians? You know I'm part Canadian, right? Should I be having my own little "Cool, I get to be offended" party? Can I invite the media and Bush's daughter to speak on behalf of my "plight"? How about Oprah? Can somebody haul out the soft piano tracks, and get a narrator that can speak in a low, monotone voice that describes this terrible assault on my identity?

I don't get this innocence thing...because I thought Viet Nam woke everybody up to the fact that we sometimes have to do things we detest, to avoid doing things we detest even more, because we are now dealing with enemies that are truly detestable themselves. We hadn't faced these kind of enemies as a country, until the Japanese, Communists, and now these Islamic Fascist types. But, that doesn't mean that enemies like this haven't existed in history. I am fairly certain that the Japanese throwing our POWs into air raid shelters and immolating them, cost us a lot more innocence than 9/11. And, likewise, Viet Nam proved to the world just how serious we take our freedoms. Few people understand that we were going to fight that war someplace, where it ended up being was simply a dice roll. The Russians didn't think we had the sack to lose troops on that scale. They wanted to test us, and they learned that we would not be the push over they thought. So, for me, 9/11 simply boils down to: every 20 years or so some assclown chooses to test our resolve...and they always get hammered. We always hear the same thing from them: we are decadent, we have no heart, we aren't willing to do this or that....they are better, they aren't decadent, they are "super soldiers" because they have some external leader/ideology that makes it so, blah, blah...f'ing bomb on your head, and you're dead. I don't see 9/11 as some particularly profound change for the country as a whole, in the context of our entire history.

Again, we see the one-size-fits-all mentality failing miserably. Instead doing that...why don't we do what we have been doing since the beginning of the transportation business? Create a 1st class, 2nd, and so on, and have the people who want special privileges pay for them. Learn the lesson liberals/tight-asses: The free market will always find a way, if one exists, even with government employees. This will not be the last example of this lesson in your lifetime. The only question is: how many more will it take for you to learn it? In this case, we have people doing something illegal, or at least, highly suspect. But, it doesn't have to be. If a smart manager at TSA was allowed to think this through, who knows? Maybe the TSA employees get a commission for selling and providing the "special service"? Maybe...TSA gets infused with some honest to God customer service values? Perish the thought, right? God-forbid we expect to be treated like the people that pay their salaries. Nah, much better to treat us like cattle.

Good. Then I am being effective in my role here. You can only be a sanctimonious know it all for so many posts...25 k...and not mess something up sooner or later yourself. Sorry you're aren't perfect. Carry on.