Dr. K

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Sorry. I was responding to R. Rich, not you.

Dr. Z did not write this article. He is quoted in an article written by the D&C sports writer. He said this in passing in an interview, the way you or I might say something like it in a conversation. Also, as I said I don't KNOW that Dr. Z dislikes Manning for this reason. It's just something I seemed to remember.

I seem to remember Dr. Z saying last season he didn't like the way Manning said before last year's draft that he would refuse to play for San Diego, forcing the trade with the Giants for Philip Rivers.

Always a tragedy to see a child die. I feel for his parents.

It's good old Charlie Kane! (Citizen Kane, 1941)

A heart that's full up like a landfill, a job that slowly kills you, bruises that won't heal. You look so tired-unhappy, bring down the government, they don't, they don't speak for us. I'll take a quiet life, a handshake of carbon monoxide, with no alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises, Silent silence.

Yes, that's what I was referring to. Thanks.

Pathetic. Desperate. Laughable.

I know about Lindbergh and Hearst's support for Hitler. But they were both right-wingers, not liberals. Your attempt to put them on the left is laughable. You made a comparison of Bush to Lincoln by saying that those who complain about Bush's lies would have said the same thing to Lincoln during the Civil War. Is that too hard for you to figure out?

Can you explain to me what part of my post is BS? If my students weren't any better than you at defending their point of view they would flunk the class. The oil import figures are from www.census.gov/foreign-trade for 2001.

WTF are you talking about? I am not interested in making the Middle East a perfect place. I am interested in getting my country out of the mess this current administration has put it in. I thought you were smarter than that. Your comment doesn't even rise to the leve of a cheap shot--it's so wildly off the mark that it's moronic. I haven't been over to this board in eight or ten months because it turned into a right-wing echo chamber, and I can see that it hasn't gotten any better. C-Ya

You compare Bush to Lincoln, call William Randolph Hearst and Charles Lindbergh liberals, compare the Iraq War with WWII--and I'm the one who can't face reality. I have no sympathy for the Islamicists and Wahabi radicals. But they are not going to take over the world even if they take over Saudi Arabia. If we could wean outselves off arabian oil (we get 70 percent of our oil today from sources in the New World; if you throw in Africa and Indonesia, then less than 20% of our oil imports come from Arab countries) we wouldn't need troops in the Middle East, ahd the whole issue would be moot. We'd be better off spending the billions we're wasting on Iraq (to say nothing of the civilians and soldiers getting killed) working on alternative energy sources and energy independence.

This is brain dead. Where do you drop the nuke? Plus, at this point the resistance to the U.S. has nothing to do with Osama, and killing or capturing him would make little difference. All this tough guy rhetoric is idiotic. I don't know the answer, and this no help to the current mess, but we should never have gone into Iraq in the first place; It had nothing to do with 9/11 and anyone paying attention knew there were no WMD to be found. Many of us knew we were being lied to by the Bush administration and said so at the time. I'm sorry our soldiers have to be killed for the policy mistakes of a bunch of neocons with grandiose dreams of American hegemony. The men who started this war have been proven wrong repeatedly, about almost everything they said. Don't kid yourselves that the sacrifice of the men and women serving in Iraq is necessary for your freedom. This whole thing probably ought to go to the politics board.

Nick in England is really in Depew.

I'd have included a few Monty Python quotes: From Holy Grail: "She turned me into a newt! . . . . . . . . . . . It got better." "What's your favorite color?" From Life of Brian: "wrelease wroderick!" There ought to be some way to mention that great Roman leader Bigus Dickus, and his dear wife Incontinentia Buttocks.

I'm fifty-four years old and even I own three of these top ten. And "OK Computer" is indeed the best album I've listened to in the last ten years. It's hard to keep current, and I am in no way up on the latest, but if you dismiss all this stuff and clutch your Rolling Stones records to your breast, then you have little that's worth saying about such a list as this. It's a sure sign of artistic hardening of the arteries if you can only listen to the music you liked when you were 25 years old. YOu don't have to like new stuff, but don't dis it unless you know it.

He was a monster pass receiver--I mean Great--for NC State in college. I think his problem is character issues and work ethic, not lack of ability.

I can see Rian Lindell getting cut if any of these other kickers look good. If they don't, he stays by default, though I agree we could do a lot better. You assume Gates and Lee will be chosen ahead of Williams. I think Shaud showed enough that he makes it as one of the three backs on the squad, assuming Travis is gone. Just because they drafted Gates and signed Lee doesn't mean they make the team. You yourself say (I think) that Lee is not upgrade over Williams. Shaud is a change-of-pace from Willis. I think they have not given up on Reed. He makes it as number four or maybe number five. Granted, Reed has been a disappointment. But why would, based on their performance, the Bills prefer Aiken over Reed? Of course, I could easily be wrong about all of this. We'll see.

I appreciate the thought that went into this, but the Bills won't cut Shaud Williams. If they do, it will be a mistake. Doubtful about them cutting Lindell even though i don't really like him. I think you're probably right about standing pat on o-line and tight end. Reed or Aiken makes the squad. Probably Reed, maybe both.

He turned me into a newt ......................... .................................................. ................................................. ............................(it got better).

Yvel, I've argued along exactly these lines for months now, but the "dump Travis" contingent will not be persuaded by reason. It remains to be seen whether Travis will. I expect that, if TD can't get a decent offer for him before the season, TH will be the backup. And I for one will be glad to have the insurance.

Wrong game. That was in the year of the last Bills Super Bopwl team. The poster is talking about a year earlier playoff game, in Miami, the year the Bills made the Supoer Bowl as a Wild Card team, winning on the road in Pittsburgh (with Frank Reigh at QB) and then going down to Miami to face the Dolphins, who had won the eastern division. It was the year of the miracle comeback against Houston (which preceded the Pittsburgh game. (and the 51-17 shellacking by Dallas in the SB. Ouch.) It a sunny day and Thurman tore them up on screen passes, including one for a touchdown to break open the game.

GG's post is good, but I would only add taht there is another gauge of value than "market value" and that is what Henry can do on the football field. As someone above said, Henry is worth more to the Bills than to anyone else bidding right now. Let Mcgahee go down with an injury, and then how valuable would it be to have Henry on the roster? That's a value that isn't measured by Arizona's or other teams' unwillingness to give up much for him. He the kind of tough runner who could step in and play, and run well enough to keep the defenses honest if Willis goes down. It depends of course on Henry getting his head straight enough to play football for the Bills, and I suppose Donohoe could say some things that might help Henry save his self-respect (which is what his discontent is really about, not money, it seems to me). Whether Henry can be brought around, and whether Donohoe is willing to say those things, in an open quesiton.

You are obviously too rational to be a Buffalo Bills fan. You should be ranting about "drinking the koolaid" or rending your shirt in agony like Job in the old testament. My only area of possible dispute with you is whether this seventh-round RB is an improvement over Shaud Williams, who I think looked mighty good in his brief appearances last season. I'm curious to see how the O-line plays out, but I am not in despair because we didn't draft a LT in the first day, or trade Henry for someone nobody else wants.