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Quite surprised at NY and MI governor races. Surprised Michigan demands another four years of Whitmer. Surprised the crime isn't yet bad enough in NY to try someone different. It'll be interesting to see if Caruso can win in LA. In hindsight, I shouldn't be surprised at the Fetterman win here because I strongly suspect he'll resign in short order come 2023 and Governor Shapiro will install his wife as the senator. I think that's "the" plan. This referenda on abortion carries an expensive cost. I don't think the majority of America that aren't millionaires realize that this time next year, you're not only going to continue getting strangled by high prices for food and energy, your 401s will be eaten alive simultaneously, and you may not have a job.

Out of all the races here in PA, I'd suspect they'd be primarily interested in the governor's race. On one hand, Mastriano is the conservative Republican. On the other hand, the Mennonites aren't fans of the Christian nationalist movement many feel Mastriano is aligned with.

An interesting detail in my neck of the woods is the greater number of Mennonites at the polls today. A lot more than I've seen in previous elections. You'll usually see a wagon or two, but the parking lot had many more wagons and bikes throughout the day today.

Super Bowl teams peak at just the right time. I felt the Bills did that last year. They turned it on late in the season, winning 4 straight to close it out. In 2020, they had six consecutive wins after the bye. My biggest concern is this mid-season malaise takes away something you want - like being home for the playoffs.

Raiders: You chose poorly with that head coach pick. Should have stuck with Bisaccia.

I agree with that. I think after eight years of Presidents with old Presidents with plane loads of baggage, I sense the fatigue. I think even the most ardent supporters of the two know that another term is just four more years of zero sum roadblocking of everything in Washington.

Took the Jets lightly. Paid the price for that.

The NFL could build a better coaching pipeline with a legit minor league NFL infrastructure where coaches and GMs could learn on the job. It's not revolutionary, it's how the MLB, NBA and NHL do it. Learn the ropes in the minors. I think a big component of coaching success is how a head coach works with a general manager. The Bills are a great example, but you can see it with the NYG. Schoen and Daboll are on the same page, all the time. San Francisco and Kansas City are other examples. In Detroit, the Lions hired GM Holmes and HC Campbell separately, and there's risk there for a lot of disconnect.

You don't say. Did EBOLA leak from a lab? Scientists claim accident at US-funded biofacility may have caused 2014 West Africa outbreak https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11383611/Ebola-leaked-biofacility-causing-2014-West-Africa-outbreak-scientists-claim.html Tell me if this sounds familiar: "Writing in the investigation, the authors said: ‘There is so far no evidence for an animal reservoir for Zaire Ebola in West Africa. 'The... strain’s sudden appearance in the region was thus unexpected and is still unexplained. Furthermore, the epidemiological investigations in Guinea and Sierra Leone were inconclusive and unconvincing." COVID wasn't the first lab accident. It was the latest.

That's my opinion of what happened. It's another one of Paul Pelosi's peccadillos getting out into the public eye.

Democrats for the most part make for terrible administrators. They are ok if their whole day is having lunch, discussing policy, and tweeting thoughts, but if the job requires running a government administration like a state or city, where you need the streets consistently safe and swept, you should always vote Republican. Republican-held cities don't descend into the level of chaos you see in Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco, Portland or LA. Your local mayor can't appoint people to the Supreme Court or do anything about abortion. What they can do is fight the crime and decay.

Heat. Absolute masterpiece in filmmaking. It is legitimately one of the very best crime films ever made IMO, and one of the best movies of the 1990s (released in 1995). I've watched this movie so many times I could act out the coffee scene between Pacino/DeNiro on the street. While I've read Michael Mann's book (Heat 2), I don't want a sequel. I don't think you can make movies like that today without neutering the story.

Time has faded the fact that the the Indianapolis Colts had terrible drafting in the early 1990s. They have candidates for worst draft in history with their 1990 and 1992 drafts. In 1990, they picked Jeff George 1st overall, despite all his problems at Illinois, choosing him over guys like Cortez Kennedy, Junior Seau, Emmitt Smith. He was gone by 1993. In 1992, they were one of only 2 teams in NFL history to have both the #1 and #2 picks. They picked Steve Emtman (50 games) and Quentin Coryatt (82 games). That draft was arguably also one of the worst in NFL history. No HOF players.

I think he (or a new owner) will have a challenging time getting a new stadium constructed in the near term economy. I don't see Virginia or Maryland having the appetite for a generous Hochul-like stadium deal.

Ray Lewis. For a while. IMO, he got away with a double homicide, and since he was the face of the NFL at the time, the NFL et all worked overtime to rehabilitate his image. The whole "Ray Lewis is such an inspirational figure" makes me ill.

I think outside her elected position, those two (Pelosis) are up to their eyeballs in shady business deals with shady individuals and these break-ins of the home (not the first) and the "accidents" Paul has are the result of that part of their life and not anything to do with her political career.

That's Tudor Dixon's race to lose.

Unfulfilled expectations is the source of a lot of fear, anger and pain in life. If you think about the times you've felt the most angry, the source of it is likely an expectation you had of something happening or not happening, and the opposite of that occurred. I often find people who couch their enthusiasm for the Bills do so out of not wanting to experience the physical pain of disappointment, because they feel it deeply.

I think the Shapiro/Mastriano race in PA is a lot closer than what's reported. Rasmussen and Trafalgar both have it at a statistical tie.

I think Zeldin as governor would make Adams a better mayor of NYC. Adams needs the political cover Zeldin can provide from Albany to do what's necessary to get crime under control in NYC.

I'd like the Bills to get another offensive lineman - no more Greg Van Roten please. I think Josh Jacobs from the Raiders would be a shrewd addition to the backfield.

This is a clever attempt by the vaccine manufacturers to escape liability once the emergency declaration expires, if it ever will. I suspect they've been told that it expires sometime next year, or with a Republican held Congress, they end it. I also suspect the VICP isn't going to cover COVID shots. Money talks - if the government isn't going to put the shots in that fund, you have to think real long and hard about putting that product into a child's body. I don't think states will bite though because if you mandate it and something goes wrong, there's no federal fund to handle the lawsuits like there is for the other vaccine shots and parents turn to the mandating body for compensation.

Terrible technique as a route runner, which is the big problem, and why the Bills will never trade for him. He's still out there every Sunday playing street football. He either doesn't take coaching well or the Steelers haven't tried. I'm going to assume the former.

Less broadcast is more, NFL.

The Boston University facility has BLS-4 laboratories, where I hope is where this research was conducted. I think articles like this only provides more credence that the OG Covid was made in a lab.