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What's the iconic story behind the topless chick in the upper left corner?

Well, here's an interesting little twist http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch?amp

Years ago I was walking a bush-hogged path close to my tree stand. There's a 4 inch diameter tree with a horizontal bough crossing the path 7 feet high and clear as day is this stupid ground hog frozen on point hoping I wouldn't notice him. Walked right up and he never flinched. Soooo tempting to put an arrow in to that useless creature but it was close to my stand and I didn't want to disturb any deer. It would have looked something like the rabbit scene in "upper-class twit of the year!"

No, no, no. It was our poor coaching that ruined his career. All their fault. That, and tents have a certain allure for EJ. Derek Carr's headed to the bench any time now.

Saw the movie yesterday, I enjoyed it and thought it was well done overall. A lot going on but the overall plot kept things together. I noticed near the end when Captain America grabbed Thanos' guantlet, Thanos' didn't seem able to use it against him and had to punch CA away with his other hand. Curious, not sure if it'll come into play in the second one. Only negative was that while I enjoy the quips and humor there were a couple times where they overdid it.

Interesting. Where do you draw the line when he's being one and not the other concurrently?

It bothered me also and is a valid criticism. I can't think of another top draft QB whose proponents used this excuse. When Allen said to look at the film not the stats, I had to laugh. Yea dude, I did look. You made some great passes on film, but all the over throws, poor placement, and poor decisions still back up your stats. I thought his receivers were solid. There were some drops I'd expect when a rocket armed qb has accuracy issues but they seemed very reliable otherwise.

Any one of these drafted QB's has a great highlight reel, same as in years past. Deshone Kizer has plenty of highlights, but if you bother to watch his game film, it becomes apparent if his primary is covered he struggles to do progressions and make quick decisions. He's at best a backup in this league. Josh Allen made a lot of poor decisions in his game film, and a good number of poor quality passes. He also had no feel for the edge rushers, though decent pocket awareness otherwise. He made some great throws also, both in timing and placement. But sailed or inaccurate on many. Knowing his Wonderlic score, raw talent, and sometimes poor footwork, I have warmed to the possibility of him being able to develop into a franchise guy. But in seeing what he can't do on his game film, it'll take time. That's not intending to be snarky, just get a realistic picture for a position that's very difficult to evaluate.

How ironic that it's called "rational" wiki.

Flo getting run over by a Progressive ad-laden bus.

You know, that's what I remember also about the talus but a quick search didn't reveal any sources. This article gives a decent timeline of the dewatering and they claimed it was put to a vote and people favored leaving it be. It sounds like the engineers were willing to remove it but the vote ended the discussion. http://www.niagarafrontier.com/dewater.html

They're dewatering to replace the bridges. I don't think they've ever maintained the talus.

It is a question. Goat Island makes the Falls a far more intimate experience on the American side. The panoramic view of all the falls is far better on the Canadian side (especially for pictures) and there's a lot more other things to do. But if you're going simply to experience the falls, don't skip Goat Island.

That photo was reportedly taken while McCain was on a trip to Syria to meet with the Free Syrian Army. Look at his label pin. It's a flag. Difficult to see, but it appears to have stripes with the top one lighter (possibly green). Bottom stripe black, appear to be 3 stars across the middle white stripe. So, I don't know the truth of his pin. I think it's a FSA flag which makes sense because that's who he's going to meet. You, seem to think it's an AQ flag. Which AQ flag has stripes? Oh, here's the FSA flag. Look carefully. Do your own research. The truth will be hardest to see for you because you put so much research and effort into creating your own truth. The plan was to get Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions. I am no fan of Obama, he wanted a deal with Iran in the worst way and may have stupidly ignored the results of Operation Cassandra to enable meeting his deal. But to assume that he was knowingly and actively guilty of treason is just a little too far off the reservation for me. Peace. I do think there's some substance to Horowitz and the entire election scandal. Most assuredly not as deep as you are convinced but we'll see and I have followed it and have enjoyed your work here posting documents.

At the time, the goal was to get Iran to halt centrifugal enrichment of its own uranium. Obama's plan was to simply provide them with all the reactor grade uranium they needed while also drawing down Iran's stockpile. Russia, being Iran's ally, would seem an excellent participant to lend legitimacy to this proposal. I'm not seeing how this was going to pretext to an Iran war since the proposal was widely publicized at the time and a pretty good idea if the goal was to stop Iran from needing to develop its own enrichment expertise.

Exactly. All it did was show he's still playing a blame game and that he continues to lack the wisdom to see the big picture moving forward. All he can control is his own words and actions and they continue to be piss poor.

A colleague at work tore his pec in the middle pretty bad and required surgery. He got it sewed up and had his arm immobilized in a sling for a few months. Took him over a year to fully come back. You can sew muscle to a limited extent if you include the fascial tissue around the outside. I'll ask him how it's doing strength-wise as it's been 18 months. Sounds like a minor tear for Price, but I would worry about him coming back too soon and tearing it again. His profession will put a lot of stress on it. As far as bench press and lifting weights in general, in my 48 years I have learned that good form and controlling the weight trumps pretty much everything. The times I have gotten injured is from careless lifting of (and racing through) lighter weight or struggling and seriously compromising good form to lift heavy weight. Of course, with age you start to realize certain lifts hurt too much and to find alternatives. Any curling I do is strictly on a preacher bench.

Jeff Nixon, safety. "Nixon for President" 1980, three INTs and a fumble recovery to beat the Dolphins and end the 20 game streak

It is of some concern. There's just no need to be a mindless panic-whore about it.

If you actually read your own article you would see that yes, they are doing something about it. Albeit slowly thanks to government red tape. Of note (lest the MSM insinuate otherwise), is that the hacking involved voter information databases NOT election day voting systems.

Can't agree with you. He was decent his first season but our line couldn't protect him and he started getting PTSD his second year, once the defense got that first good hit on him he started throwing off his back foot, usually to check-downs and was kind of useless. We actually did him a favor sending him to Dallas because they were able to better protect him and he did better for a time. But even there, once he took a solid hit/sack he got jittery and mostly ineffective. I don't think he was ever mentally the same after that sheared artery. Pretty scary stuff.

In the game films I saw, he was fantastic at recognizing the blitz and getting the ball out quickly to the proper receiver. Big plus IMO.

Even more than that, with a very different style of playcalling. That most impressed me, how fluidly Bama transitioned (with a few hiccups from Tua). That's great coaching.

Opening kickoff, Patriots block to the back that wasn't called. Obvious as daylight. Just downhill from there. I honestly feel they pay the officials off. Funny thing is Kraft must have had a spat to start the year as refs were making calls on them they never do, but then things got straightened out. Just disgusting.

C) was symptomatic of A) and his lack of communication skills, IMO. I liked Doug Whaley. He made some mistakes but did a decent job bringing in talent, especially with the constant coaching overhauls. Also agree that he didn't always properly value talent. For me, Pegula being happily willing to hand over control of the roster to McDermott upon his arrival told me everything I needed to know about Whaley's vision and plan: he had none or was totally ineffective at communicating it. The mess surrounding Rex's firing also speaks to Whaley's lack of presence. In business, you have to earn control. Especially since Whaley was new to the title with zero track record previously. And in complete fairness to Whaley, he was groomed to the position by first-time GM Buddy Nix, who seemed more interested in bringing in talent than enacting and executing a detailed 5 year plan for the franchise. I hope Doug finds a better mentor first if he wishes to ascend to GM again.