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150,000 on a 2010 Chevy Avalanche that I really enjoy driving. It's the first vehicle I've had where I've never once thought of trading it in or selling it. I put nearly 200,000 on a first generation Jeep Patriot. I traded it in because Jeep was not repairing the CVTs and I felt like I was on borrowed time. I can't beat my dad though - he put just over 300,000 on a 1988 Ford Taurus. Needed a refurbished transmission and the fuel gauge didn't work (we all had to estimate gas based on a *very* careful reading of the odometer) but it faithfully served for a lot of years.

We'd likely make a lot of the "end of life" pain for patient and family a little better if we permitted assisted suicide for anyone over the age of 18. If you want to check out, let's do it peacefully, clinically appropriate and not leave a police scene for the family. We are all ok with not making our pets suffer but when it comes to ourselves, we've got to hang on to life no matter the cost, no matter if you really want to be here or not. We all talk a good game about free will but when it comes to dying, the collective "village" runs in with suicide hotlines, meds, therapy and 100 different ways of trying to talk you out of something you'd like to do to yourself.

WR is a young man's game and the Falcons likely don't want to pay Antonio Brown + money to a 30 year old receiver. TBH, I wouldn't want the Bills to do that either.

IIRC, Watkins had the foot issue appear late in his collegiate career at Clemson, which suggests to me it was a chronic condition that developed in college and the Bills likely knew about in their draft research. It's like Lawson's shoulder. Injured at Clemson, required surgery, a long recovery period and IMO, he's been behind in his development because of that. If he's a 3rd round pick, nobody cares. 1st rounder though, everyone cares. I think Whaley was correct in his opinion of the talent of Watkins. He was/is talented. However, they totally blew it (or chose to ignore the risk) of how a chronic issue could affect his availability for games, and further, in the games he could play, play at a high level.

The Bills picks generally break the commandments of drafting: Thou shalt not select players with chronic health issues with your high picks. (Watkins, Troupe) Thou shalt not pick superior athletes who are superiorly lousy at actually learning the game of football with high picks. (Spiller, Manuel) As long as you don't agregiously violate these commandments, the outlook for your picks is generally positive.

The idea is an ok one - but it's a no from me. Juan Castillo coached the offensive line last year and I'm entirely convinced he's nightmarishly inept at doing that to a satisfactory level.

One could argue their pick of Janikowski in the 1st round (17th overall) turned out alright for the Raiders. There weren't any superstars taken after him in that first round.

I haven't either. I don't pay for HBO. I hate paying for television, period. It's such a scam. (As an aside, I don't know how the cable business works but I can't understand why cable companies can't survey their viewing territory for the main channels, bundle them in the basic package everyone gets, and then let all the other channels as add-ons if you want them. If nobody watches MTV in my territory, why must the company pay for it and then pass most of the cost on to the customers?)

Just say no to any chronic condition. It's an easy rule to follow.

While I'm not a Phillies fan, I feel the Phillies are one of the MLB teams that gets their minor league "experience" right consistently. I believe the Reading/Philadelphia affiliation is the oldest affiliation in all of minor league baseball. That certainly has built a consistent following. The Iron Pigs play in a absolute gem of a ballpark. Both their AA and AAA teams are often tops in attendance and they appear to make very strategic decisions on who manages the team. It's not a new person every year. There's some consistency in the corporate knowledge and the program so yo usually get some decent baseball.

I'm ok with this pick if the Bills slot him at guard. He's likely a great guard in the making, has the football smarts for a center. If they try him at tackle I think they are going to be very dissapointed.

In theory, why couldn't the Bills have a real grass field? What's the science that says it wouldn't work?

When does it stop? Unpopular opinion: When there's moral hazard to being recreationally outraged. Right now, the media puts a face to the "bad guy" but often those outraged remain nameless, free to take the shots whenever, wherever they like without any consequence to themsevles personally. It's fun to be outraged. You're always in the pole position and you can easily use the "See, they are really bad guys. How dare you question my outrage!" card when somebody tries to punch back.

A Florida State pass rusher in the 1st Round? I'm sure you're a great person but I'd fire you immediately as GM. ? Outside of Peter Boulware who flourished in a compltely different position, no pass rusher drafted in the 1st round out of FSU has ever been a success. I don't know why that is but there's a long history of FSU failure of edge pass rushers.

There is something about Gwendoline Christie that I just can't get enough of. I haven't watched a single episode of GOT or the Star Wars movie she was in but she's interesting, intriguing.

Yes. Somebody should have stepped in and stopped that disaster. I don't think Hellboy was mentioned once in *our* sequels we'd like to see list. You know, the authoritative list Hollywood should be constantly F5ing. ?

Who clamored for a Hellboy redo? Was it a favor to somebody? The del Toro Hellboy movies were well done with pretty good actors and they weren't big hits.

I have my doubts on Bernie's real, legitimate interest in being President, especially at his age. I think he realizes he's got a lucrative business plan concept in running for President with other people's money and then doing lots of speeches where people pay him money to talk. Ditto for Warren, O'Rourke, Harris. None of the candidates have that deeply rooted obsession with the Presidency that the Clintons had nor the "let's change the world" idealism that Obama had. That being said, Trump is 100% no different. I think he fully expected to lose to the Clinton machine, turn around and make lots of money writing books, doing rallies and "Statler and Waldorf"-ing President Hillary Clinton for four years.

The Seahawks will quickly learn the pain of the Packers. Spending all that money on one position means you'll be forced to surround him with a sometimes good, often mediocre team of players and it makes the margin for error with draft picks absurdly small.

This building survived hundreds of years of French upheaval, revolutions and riots but couldn't survive Pierre and his ill placed welding torch.

However absolutely improbable, the White House and Congress have to agree to stop the inquiries about the 2016 election and move on to other topics. I can't imagine every President going forward having to deal with retaliatory Special Counsels, AG investigations, etc and that's the path we are all on. We will get bogged down in an endless loop of investigation where Congress transforms from the hard work of legislation which they all absolutely hate doing to a full time partisan board of inquiry which many seem to enjoy.

Thank you all for your thoughts. It felt good to read them. It was very difficult to do. She was a 16 year old cat who was in a lot of pain from a likely kidney tumor. I felt some peace as she passed because she didn't want to lay down because of pain, and had stopped eating and drinking. She was pretty dehydrated. We learned a lot about ourselves and our thoughts about death from our other cat who passed away at 16 from cancer. In hindsight, we extended his life probably a little longer than we should have. We pulled out all the stops in a desperate attempt to stave off the inevitable. This time around, we didn't want to extend life simply to extend it or to make ourselves feel better if it meant she'd just experience more pain. I think we all do the best we can in the moment.

I get to practice what I preach tonight and it's going to be terrible.

It's only his fault if it is the end of the road. All he had to do was exert maximum effort for one season to get a new contract and couldn't find the motivation to do that. He may have hated Buffalo but all he had to do was give it his all while he was here and then he'd likely be able to pick where he'd want to play. I don't know if he's dim, lazy, surrounded by poor advisors, or all three.

I'll make two: #1: One of the network shows will unveil some sort of "betting" analytics or data running in a ticker at the bottom of the screen because that's the next frontier for the networks - real time programming for the legalized sportsbooks. #2. If Kyler Murray is selected #1 overall by the Cardinals, it will be poorly received by Cardinals fans in attendance at a Roger Goddell is "walking to the stage" level.