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Every subsequent failed attempt to get a WR1 in the draft are honest mistakes compared to passing on AJ Brown, DK Metcalf and Terry McCLaurin in the 2019 draft and choosing Cody Ford instead. They've been chasing ever since. Beane has struggled to find an elite pass rushing DE but at least in that instance he has the excuse of having to deal with the rigidity of McDermott's scheme. The amount of DE's who check all of the boxes to satisfy the wants of the McDefense are limited. If you insist on 6'6" 270 pound DE's with 34" arms you gotta' be willing to keep throwing numbers at it and take on day 3 risks like they did in Carolina with Greg Hardy. And perhaps McDermott hasn't been willing to allow Beane to go that far. But you aren't getting an Aidan Hutchinson with the 28th pick. Beane has no such excuse at WR. Those are unmitigated whiffs.

$40,000 SALT deduction. AYFKM? Subsidy for California and NY residents. And who pays $40,000 in state and local taxes? People with a lot of income. We call them "rich."

Well, he didn't say "where".

The guy definitely had a big personality. And seemed to be quite the character. (Can’t say the same for Pegula who I could not imagine being any blander) The Colts have always been a pretty solid franchise. Except for their GM Ballard who pretty much sucks. As for 65 being too young to go. You live fast and hard your whole life, you are very lucky to get near 65. Opioid addiction will mess you up.

Your mental approach and belief is more impactful than "reality". Being proven by advanced neuroscience.

Here's the law in asylum cases: to be granted asylum or refugee status (they're the same thing, it just depends where you apply) you have to show that there's a good chance you'd be persecuted (think: killed, beaten, thrown in jail and severely mistreated without process) based on your race. There's always a question here: are they trying to drive you off your land so they can benefit from having the land? Or are they trying to throw you off the land because you're white? This is typically a case-by-case thing. Sometimes they just want the land or your stuff, and they'd do the same thing if you were, say, a South Asian/Indian ancestry land owner. The offensive thing here is that Trump has declared that basically every Boer farmer is being persecuted because he's white. He shortcut the analysis, but only for white people.

Correct. He’s not very quick or explosive…massively overrated—and overdrafted—because of his college helmet and his father… So far…

Nothing except the guy you mentioned would be worse. Trump has made America into a roque nation, an untrustworthy, volatile nation, a nation closer to Russia than once friends. Fixing the world's financial mess and the US financial mess did not need to be threatening to ex friends to ex partners to US democracy, to basic rights inside the US border unless the new rule of US oligarchs is the primary direction. Yeah to fixing the border, yeah for reducing illegal drug availability, yeah for shutting down woke, boo for ingoring courts, for trampling rights, for threatening friends, for insulting half the world, for the tariff wars, for coziness to dictators, for appointing idiots to head administration, for using Musk for Doge for not representing all Americans, and for not being truthful.

I didn't get any of that when I was there. We got more "did you find a church yet" than anything political.

Have you seen the weather lately?

He was here for three years. Four if you consider is first stint.

On a hiking trail, right?

Chris Spielman has gotten a lot of mentions and he would have to be my pick. I remember watching Sports Center and hearing that the Bills had signed him. I was so excited and started celebrating. My sister came downstairs to see what I was yelling about. It's a shame he only played one full season in Buffalo. He sustained a neck injury halfway through his second year which basically ended his career. He took the following season off to take care of his wife. Then he was traded to the Browns and reinjured his neck in training camp and called it a career.

Firstly, it's not a major party. It's a fringe group. And the S African leader condemned them for the song but noted that they have the right to free speech there just like hate groups have it here, in Charlottesville for example. Yes, the Jim Crow south set an American precedent for extreme racism just as apartheid did in South Africa. Both have led to continued hatred and violence.

I read this bill over time will add $5 trillion more to the national debt currently pegged at $36 trillion with annual interest payments of over $1 trillion which is the level carried over from Biden. So I'm wondering, if they can borrow a couple trillion every year why can't the government just eliminate the income tax and borrow all the money they need? Is it simply a distinction between irresponsible fiscal policies that accumulate higher and higher debts that will kill us slowly vs. one that will kill us quickly?

I really thought he was ours once he got past Cincy and the Rams. Didn't think the Jags would pick WR.

Perfect blend of football and opioids. Broke the mold . . .

i have wanted this since the first hard knocks production. Cannot wait to watch it

The only thing that equates to this, a major political party espousing these types of views, would be the Democrat party of the Jim Crow south of the 1940's-1960's. Are you saying that what's happening in South Africa is ok because of what happened here 50+ years ago?

Exactly. The country doesn’t want to touch entitlements. DOGE was ruthlessly attacked for just trimming around the edges. The media trotted out every federal employee that may lose their job to AI (this is only allowed to happen in the private sector) for sympathy and cried about reducing the bloated federal workforce. Now they’re going to seethe over illegals losing access to Medicaid and other benefits we can’t afford. And there should be a ton more the Senate can add to this bill as far as cuts.

and I can show you KKK and other white supremacist propaganda calling for killing blacks (and Jews). Pictures of brutal lynchings, hangings and draggngs from the not so distant past. trump would never present those in the oval office. But your fictional chem eng friend apparently had no problems there and made his vast fortune.

We stopped in a few small places in Alabama before and after leaving the Gulf Shores. No lie, in the one place heard a red neck say to another in a hushed tone “damn bunch of liberals”. But that was about it.

Interesting Mango. As I know you're aware, Tren is popular in the "community" (note: I've never used it or any gear). But, to your comment: is/are there allowable trace amounts, or were you just kidding? I'm aware that it's a long cycle (40 or so days) so it would be dangerous to use vis a vis getting popped on a test.