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I don't hate the Bills, the football team; I do often question the whole deal with some vehemence. You may choose to interpret that as "hate." I had season tickets for over a decade when I lived in the area and I still watch every game. My beef is not with the players as a group, it's with the administration of the team and with the NFL in general. Tell me of another business, or general category of businesses, that can continually offer for sale a mediocre to just plain bad product [team] yet continually build new plants [stadia] raise prices for the product [tickets] and still do sell out business [crowds]. How many of us would repeatedly buy sour milk because it was bottled in [ insert name of NFL franchise city here ]?

Yeah, same here, but then I had trust in [ fill in the blank ] when he was here too.

1 hour ago, Tiberius said: I won't tell you about the evidence, because you should know about it already. I will just insult your ignorance when you say there is no evidence. Do some reading, you can learn something, unless, of course, you are afraid to learn. _____________________________________ This from Captain Imperious. What a joke, this guy is at least as bad as Trump with his major in obfuscation, innuendo and plain ignorance. Finally, he lays on us that he is the keeper of all knowledge, a Delphic syndrome if ever there was one.

Why bother? Given the OP's proclivity to focus only on his own points of view and to ignore widely accepted facts; he most assuredly wouldn't accept anything Trump said. OK, most of us wouldn't either, but OP would just drag out his disdain to a degree even he hasn't yet approached.

Actually, we "sneak over there" because the young un's are true CA fruit, twigs, and nuts proponents.

Actually, another CA burger enterprise offers the true great burger: Tha Habit, founded in Goleta with branches around SoCal, turns out the Charburger a burger without peer. A char burger, chocolate shake (with whipped cream) and an order of fries draws me from Fairport, NY to Santa Barbara, CA every year. (Oh yeah, my son and his wife live there too.)

Biut she doesn't, and she isn't, and they didn't play their way in. They played their way to a point where another team's actions put the Bills in the playoffs.

Yes they did. If the Bengals had lost, would the Bills have been in the playoffs with those nine wins?

Might be more accurate to say we fell into the playoffs; we were in the right place at the right time. No way do I accept we played our way in.

Are you describing Sheila Jackson Lee, Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters? You are, aren't you; you sly fox, you.

Hands in the air and an "Amen" to DC Tom!

Augie's posts above say it for me.

Same here; I see it as $#!ts and giggles. I just can't get lathered up over comments made in an offshoot segment of a football forum.

I think the Commander in Chief should grant the Admiral's request.

My car story is a bit different. My Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited is five + years old. I'm in the market for a new SUV, but difficulty arises in that we have to have a passenger assist handle on the A pilar for my wife's use. The only SUV in my $ range is the Toyota 4Runner. It seems that all the major manufacturers of SUV's also make pickup trucks; none of their SUV's have assist handles, ALL of their pickups do have them. Not sure why, but that's the case. (The "assist handle" tucked over the door is of no use in entering or exiting the truck.} After market shops won't even consider adding an assist handle to an SUV because of the air bag wiring in the A pilar and the attached liability possibility. So, I'm giving the 4runner a hard look. Help: Does anyone know of an SUV out there with a passenger assist handle on the A pilar? Anyone care to share experience of having a 4Runner?

Never seen a Star Wars movie. Never read a Harry Potter book. Never understood politicians.

The descriptor "chick" is the kindest thing to be said of the video.

Suddenly there's a cry from the cellar, "Don't let Gator get me!"

I don't look at the media as a moral compass nor any other kind of compass. I read or listen occasionally to what's in the media and make personal judgements. Most often I just take the information with a heavy dose of salt and leave it at that. The weight of the continuing sensationalism is tiring to be sure. I think one unintended consequence of Trump's election is to "out" the media for what it truly is: First and foremost a business that carefully selects the "products it puts on the shelf for sale." Caveat emptor

'zackly right .

Not sure about the propriety of the level of the charge, but some charge should be levied to assure that the young man gets treatment/custodial confinement/etc. appropriate to the crime.

Yes, I taught in two upstate NY public school districts and each local was a NYSUT affiliate. Once I moved out of the classroom, the two administrator locals were affiliated with SAANYS. The latter was much more education attuned than the former. After the Ass't Sup't level there's no union as the Superintendent is hired by, and serves at the pleasure of the school board as it should be. AFT was too "radical" for small upstate districts. I'm not anti-union in terms of philosophical grounding because I can see the promise held out by the original concept of unionization; I am anti-union to the extent that I understand what unions have become and the political power they wield.

Actually I helped write the very first teachers' union contract for the Corning school district in 1965. We were excited because we were laboring under the impression (later proven false) that a union would be good for us. We quickly found out the union was good for the union, not necessarily its members. As the years passed, I was a member of an administrators union, but it was mainly an in-house group with little influence from the NYS-level officials. As a Superintendent I had good relationships with the teachers and administrators unions, but marveled at the teachers union's ability to change stances between private and public agreements. For example, If I was recommending to the school board that they deny tenure to a probationary teacher, the union might agree with me in private that the teacher wasn't worthy of tenure, but then explain to me that publically they had a duty to support the teacher and oppose my recommendation to the school board by rallying parents, teachers, etc. Many teachers will silently cheer the recent SCOTUS decision regarding non-member payments to teacher unions to support "negotiations activities." And so it goes....

As a former teacher, assistant high school principal, high school principal, ass't superintendent, and finally public school district superintendent, I support school choice and home schooling 100%. There is no one way to educate young people; for many families public school is the way to go, for others, not so much.

Then your answer would be, "No."