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dpberr

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  1. I think you've got a valid argument. If they put tires on your car that are outside the OEM specs, they should swap them out and they should have told you that when you signed the paperwork at the dealership. TBH, I feel like you got burnt by the "oh no, we're all out of the *right* tires so we'll just throw these on instead."
  2. I'd be very surprised this show survives for a fourth season. It's too expensive and lame to drag it out to syndication. This show took the irreversible turn towards blandness when it made the extremely not bright children the center of the plot.
  3. He reminded me of A-Train. I figured he was in trouble when he showed up so overweight. You don't hear too often today stories about NFL players coming into camp overweight. The NFL season is year long for players who are committed to making it a career.
  4. Free trade (NAFTA, TPP) is a DOA topic in many parts of the country.
  5. My question: What did the Clintons do to the Russians? Either he or she did something terrible to that country or those in charge of that country. IMO, the Russian hacking and saber rattling comes across as a patient, well timed, well planned, mission against her.
  6. If I'm the Bills I trade MD this offseason. Hopefully he has a great season and they can sell and get good value. There is serious trouble here and the Bills have to decide whether they want to go down the Josh Gordon route with him. There is little expectation IMO that it's going to go anywhere but this sad route.
  7. These guys go out of their way to part with their millions and career.
  8. In many respects, the Eagles are the worst team in the NFL eclipsing the Browns and even the weird 49ers. They get a pass somehow. They've been poorly run back to the post 2004 Super Bowl Andy Reid days. Multiple, often consecutive years of poor drafts, extremely poor coaching decisions (Wide Nine!, Chip) and bad or bizarre free agent acquisitions have buried the franchise into a big rebuild.
  9. Nope. 100% accurate on the Posluszny trade.
  10. This crisis has an obvious remedy. Trade for Paul Posluszny.
  11. I admit that I forgot that Nick Barnett played for the Bills. My vote for LB of the past to be brought in for the present training camp and future season is John DiGiorgio.
  12. The problem with cargo shorts is that they are too big, too baggy on any body type. I don't wear shorts or sandals so it matters little to me - just an observation that sometimes we men have a hard time finding appropriately sized clothing for our bodies.
  13. Christian Okoye Karl Mecklenberg
  14. Wouldn't surprise me that much like Lawson, Ragland had an issue in college that was never properly addressed. Fowler is another guy who went down in Jags practice last year. It's just like all of the college pitchers who have to have TJS before they even pitch in the major leagues. Their arms are beat to death by the time they are playing rookie ball.
  15. Saw Bourne against my better judgement. I found it boring and predictable. Unfortunately it was exactly what I thought it'd be. The same exact story with all the same plot devices. Not sure why they had to make another one.
  16. I think the whole Hilary Clinton for President train is all but derailed at this point. The convention looked good and the true blood Democrats who are going to vote for her regardless are feeling good but: WikiLeaks has saved the most damaging stuff for October. ISIS isn't going to stop. There will be unfortunately more attacks. She's structured to debate the Mitt Romney's of the world - scripted and predictable not Trump's style whatever you want to call it. The economy continues to go nowhere. Not even a tick up. The Sanders wing is taking it personally.
  17. I have to say - I didn't see that one coming. I actually thought the reporter and Dr. Scott's killer dead in one big murder montage.
  18. How about annoyed? I think he talks too much. I think fans and players alike would all be thinking about last season differently if he managed expectations instead of creating them. I wasn't a fan of his hiring by the Bills. I think being fired by the Jets and instantly hired by the Bills provided no time for him to reflect and learn from what went wrong with the Jets. I think that's handicapping him now. He would have been a better coach for any team in the NFL with a year off.
  19. Scariest part? Same as it always has been for me. Games #3 and #4. The opposing team has a couple weeks of tape and knows what's coming. It is the game where you see the talent of both your players and coaching staff. It has been the barometer for the last several seasons IMO.
  20. Great article. I learned quite a lot. My only comment is that I'd be *real* surprised McCoy is on the team in 2020. I doubt he'll even be here in 2017.
  21. I've watched both seasons. Oddly also watched Falling Skies until the no good, VERY weird end. I think the people behind TLS sense apocalypse fatigue (Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, 12 Monkeys,etc.) and that's why in the second season they are moving into more geopolitical story lines. I want to like this show but it has gotten slow and it's odd how they've made Chandler into Admiral Jack Bauer. I think they need to give the President more to do than nervously wait around. They have this ship and absent the crazy British brothers with the sub, there's been few real naval threats to the boat.
  22. I suppose I should have put "invaded even more countries."
  23. In a way we did. It was only after the Iran-Iraq war where everyone started calling in billions of dollars of IOUs that Saddam got desperate and started invading countries. Sure, we didn't like what he was doing in Iraq in the 70s or 80s but we didn't do anything about it. FWIW, this isn't a case that Saddam was this awesome guy. He was a brutal dictator. However, I think the size and depth of the Pandora's box we opened up toppling him was greatly underestimated - and that's the same worry I have with Clinton and her desires for nation building. I don't know how the West and Russia contain Syria if Assad goes on top of what's already destabilized.
  24. Like who? He was pretty much the Middle East's primary anti-Islamic, anti-Shiite pressure bulkhead. He was enemies with the Iranians and their proxies, the Kurds, Sunni milita, Sunni insurgents (early days of al-Qaeda) and strong Sunni nations (Kuwait, UAE, the Saudis). The man barely left Iraq, leaving foreign relations to Aziz because he was too busy warding off all of the factions that have become household names today. If he was funding "terrorists" it was his own intelligence services. Saddam was the West's secular "main man" up until 1990. The biggest mistake Saddam made was he invaded Kuwait. The West couldn't turn a blind eye to that due to the massive Saudi influence and pressure that persists to this day.
  25. Bourne looks *bouring*. I've seen all of the others but they have run out of gas. That franchise needs something else to do but battle neatly named government projects and distinguished actors looking grouchy in nice tailored suits in an office in NYC. I won't see Ghostbusters because it looks like an almost frame for frame reshoot of the classic. Old wine, new bottle.
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