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Awesome! I've been hoping for this ever since he was released. I would guess, assuming his body holds up, that he has at least 2-3 good years left.

I've generally found that it is nearly impossible to reason with conspiracists. I've recently and very briefly been engaged by a few of them regarding this topic, and they were entirely devoid of rationalization and would not accept supposed physical evidence that didn't fit their views. It's useless. Which reminds me of one of my favorite quotes 'Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.'

This could very well be the case. I would expect Buffalo to pick a Qb with the #8 selection. The Mingo talk coming from their camp could be a smokescreen to target one of the QB's that we desire. Probably Nassib.

From the National Journal: Hardly a bastion of right wing news. http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/against-the-grain/how-obama-misread-the-politics-of-gun-control-20130418

That's what their findings show.... Are you this mind numbingly thick-headed to where you can't see the difference between differences of each studies findings? I already know the answer, and let's just say you aren't the most intuitive person on this message board. The only thing that they could demonstrably cite to support a portion their thesis was the error in the spreadsheet. Which they have already stated doesn't change the dynamics hy all that much. The other main central point they make is debatable. Which is that they argue that certain data points are weighted too heavily. Which means nothing to me. Basically it's whose weighting do you believe, mine or yours? And of course R & R has much more credibility than these unknowns who happened to find a spread sheet error. Even after all their studies, they concede that higher debt does impact growth, which was the main point that R & R was making.

This is what we call revisionist history. I specifically remember telling you that the closures that you and Lybob were citing was nothing unusual. You both disagreed. That's what happened.

I was commenting to your most recent observation. Which was that the economy from your view was "picking up steam". Also, You said that there were big problems with refinery utilization rates, I told you it wasn't anything that what we typically see every year or two, you disagreed. Now we see that refinery utilization rates are at or near record highs, which pretty much negates everything you said about that particular topic. In regards to the second half of the year. I don't know, we'll see.

You mean an economist has a differing view than that of R and R? Thanks

Let's see here: Huh, 16 year low for gasoline demand. And TPS says that the economy has been picking up steam.... Boy were you off. I seem to remember telling TPS that those refinery shutdowns that he was crowing about earlier were quite normal, of course he disagreed, and of course he was wrong. Here we are at the "highest level ever reported by the EIA" for refining capacity. http://www.cnbc.com/id/100650912 Just like I've made the point, the equation for inflation is both monetary and about real demand. Right now, China is not growing as fast as many economists had hoped, and that is leading to a huge temporary sell off in commodities, and despite TPS' woefully inaccurate claim that the economy is "picking up steam", we are seeing a slowdown here domestically as well. Oil and commodities will find a bottom some time here soon, unless of course the global and domestic economy continues to weaken. Having said all that, in regards to metals, we've seen similar shake outs like this. Usually the pattern of the metals markets is to make a huge spike every two years, the following years it corrects and forms a baseline, only to take off again for a new push. Will that happen moving forward? I don't know, I haven't kept up with it nearly the way I use to, so I really couldn't say. I

You do realize that this link says absolutely nothing, don't you? What a waste of time, thanks TPS

If he had taken on his own base (Hollywood), and made an honest attempt for a comprehensive bill that would of included mental health, some sort of violence provisions along with the background checks, he would of been able to get the bill through. Rather than do that, what the left did was verbally focus exclusively on gun control, which of course caused the natural reaction of guns rights advocates to entrench themselves with their positions. A missed opportunity.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/max-baucus-worried-about-health-law-train-wreck-90215.html#ixzz2QkZWV3DV Me thinks that Senator Baucus is trying to distance himself from Mr. O's health insurance law.

Without reading the article, it probably has something to do with either the 40% tax on the "Cadillac plans" or the unintended consequence of employers opting to drop some of their employee's coverage and paying the fine. It's cheaper for a company to drop coverage, and give them an increased pay that matches the health premium they pay. The rate of health inflation far surpasses any sort of increased rate they would give them for the loss of the health benefit.

I would hope that's the conviction he would have, rather than allowing public pressure to dictate or influence his decision making process.

Here is why I say this, it's not so much that I believe that they wouldn't know what to do when the time comes if he's available, but more on the aspect of how the pressure of his perceived value amongst most draftniks, "experts" etc. That pressure would make it very difficult for him to possibly pass on Geno, who is widely viewed as this years top prospect. I'm just hypothesizing here, what if they like Nassib or another prospect a little better, or what if they have serious concerns with Geno? The thought has to be there, the thought of passing up on Geno, this year's top QB prospect, and he winds up living up to his top QB billing. He will never live it down, just about everyone has Geno as the top QB, ends up with a good career and he passes on him for some other player, or even worse yet, chooses a QB other than Geno who doesn't have nearly the career Geno had. That's the nightmare scenario that could possibly go through his head, IF he has serious doubts about Geno.

Yeah, it's a smoke screen. I mean it's fairly obvious that what they are trying to do is hype up his value so that some team jumps up in front of the #8 pick to draft him in front of us. Winning!!!!

I fear having the opportunity to draft Geno. I think the pressure would be too great for Nix to pass on him if he is available. I just don't have a good gut feeling with Geno.

So Barney Frank is as far out on the fringe as Alex Jones?

It was anticipated, but it's good to hear it confirmed.

Pretty much how I feel... He is waaaay too transparent. And the prebuttal to the anticipated "Well it could be a smokescreen", I simply don't buy it.

That wouldn't make sense to me. Simply because Marrone and Hackett have seen him throw for years, I don't really see how after the season he would of "shot up" the charts, unless of course Marrone and Hackett's lobbying efforts have penetrated into Nix's thoughts on Nassib.

Assuming he is truly speaking his mind, and that he honestly believes that there are two or three guys that will be "big-time" quarterbacks, then you have to believe we will be drafting a QB with our first round pick. When you have such a big and important hole to fill in the QB position and you have the opportunity to draft a "big-time" quarterback, then it would be professional/GM malpractice to not make that selection, assuming of course that one of those picks are still available by the time we draft, in which I'm pretty sure that they will be.

I think that if they target Nassib, they will roll the dice and not draft him at #8 and look to trade back into the end of the first round to get him.

They've all been wrong. I don't think, at least I hope anyway, that no one is claiming Gruden is the end-all-be-all evaluator of QB prospects, I think it just speaks more to the growing chorus of respected evaluators of talent, on to the Nassib bandwagon.

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