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http://news.yahoo.com/remote-cabin-near-popular-colorado-hot-springs-frozen-162354456.html Explosives or burning down the cabin? WTF? Sounds like a cover story for the results of a biological weapons test gone wrong, and maybe the government needs to incinerate the cows and the cabin to prevent contagion. You decide.

The underwater UFO in the Baltic Sea was the subject of numerous media reports in the first few days of August, 2011 (see the date of the OP above). Shortly thereafter, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency ("DARPA") tested a hypersonic "aircraft" in August that reportedly reached Mach 20 before "flying out of its skin" and crashing into the Pacific Ocean: http://news.yahoo.com/super-secret-hypersonic-aircraft-flew-skin-152315621--abc-news-topstories.html This raises some questions: 1. When our terrestial enemies are fighting us with AK-47s and RPGs from caves in the mountains, why do we need a Mach 20 weapon? 2. According to DARPA, the "aircraft" experienced shock waves "more than 100 times what the vehicle was designed to withstand." Did the hypersonic "aircraft" really simply "suddenly lose control," or did an underwater UFO in the Pacific engage shock wave countermeasures that peeled it like a banana? You decide.

I thought the article below was an interesting attempt to evaluate whether the "old draft chart" makes sense and how it could be improved. It doesn't take into account the recent changes in contracts for first round players and the varying costs of the 5th year option: http://harvardsportsanalysis.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/how-to-value-nfl-draft-picks/ OTOH, it makes me wonder if the Patriots habit of trading down early in the draft is based on some sort of similar analysis.

I'm no expert on the quality of the current LTs that start for the teams picking at #4-#9, but let's assume that those who have postulated that none of those teams need a LT are correct. If we can see that, so can the Vikings GM. So ask yourself what the Vikings have to gain by implying that they won't take Kalil at #3? They are trying to put fear in the teams at #4-#9. If MN wants Kalil, the ideal situation for MN is to trade down a few spots and still get him. If they can make a team that covets Blackmon or Claiborne believe that the only way to get the WR or CB is to trade up a few spots to #3, the Vikings can get Kalil AND an extra pick. The Bills have an obvious need for a LT, but Buddy Nix is known for not trading up or down very often. So the Vikings can trade down a few spots with little fear that the Bills will trade up to snatch Kalil away from them. While some other team with a LT need might trade up if Kalil slides too far, the Vikings don't have much risk of losing Kalil if they only trade down a few spots, because trading up from a spot below #10 takes a lot of ammo. If you were the MN GM, and you pretty much knew that Luck and RG3 are going to be the first 2 players picked, why wouldn't you try to trade down a few spots and still get Kalil (assuming he really is the guy MN most wants)?

You may have reached a correct conclusion about ESPN's potential legal liability for entirely the wrong reasons: 1. Repeating someone else's defamatory statement is NOT a defense for broadcaster ESPN: http://www.answers.com/topic/slander-and-libel 2. But because the GM of an NFL franchise is arguably a celebrity or public figure, Loomis might have to show that ESPN acted with reckless disregard for the truth or falsity of the reported information (i.e., with actual malice) when it republished the report in order to win a civil suit against ESPN, even if what ESPN reported turns out to be totally false: There was a pretty good movie called "Absence of Malice" that dealt with this topic some years ago.

Because it's in Austria, would the current postal abbreviation be F##king, A?"

Some people think meat secretly imported from northeastern Brazil explains the unique taste: MMmmmmgooooddd

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-03-04/news/31122324_1_white-boy-fire-tv-station

Grab my emergency zombie apocalypse response kit, my DVD of the Comeback Game (to preserve our culture and all), and high-tail it for my survival condo in an old missile silo in Kansas - - well, at least I want you to think it's in Kansas: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/photos/best-us-places-to-survive-the-apocalypse/survival-condo

Here's a surprise - - three of helmet maker Riddell's insurance carriers say that the concussion-related health claims being made by former NFL players fall outside the scope of the insurance policies Riddell bought, so Riddell has now filed its own suit against those three insurance carriers: http://www.cnbc.com/id/47042055 P.S. Please make sure you have an operational sarcasm detector before replying to this post.

Is her name Kimberly Pruitt? http://www.theonion.com/articles/but-if-we-started-dating-it-would-ruin-our-friends,11473/

http://www.erie.gov/billslease/stadium.phtml

While I agree with you that a future owner of the Bills is likely to have more debt than Ralph, there is reason to believe that Ralph had about $128 million in team-related debt as recently as 2009: http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/130751-conventional-wisdom-bills-have-no-debt-service/page__p__2173076__hl__%2Bconventional+%2Bwisdom__fromsearch__1#entry2173076 I don't know where or how Forbes magazine got their info about Ralph's 2009 team-related finances, but Forbes is considered a generally reliable source of financial information by most people.

I'm a citizen, but if they don't want me to be distracted by the nurses I encounter at the Citizens Medical Center, then they are eliminating the wrong people from their applicant pool.

Found another consistent source - - apparently the rule used to be that an assistant coach could always interview for a coordinator job because it was considered a promotion, but that is no longer the rule: http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/bucs/content/nfl-teams-will-continue-be-permitted-block-assistants-under-contract

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/sports/football/stormy-honeymoons-for-two-new-nfl-coaches.html I found a link to an undated copy of the NFL's anti-tampering policy - - can't vouch for its accuracy, but FWIW: http://www.dawgtalkers.net/uploads/2009%20NFL%20Anti-Tampering%20Policy.pdf Schiano's comments about teams using "half-baked titles" seems to indicate that teams are at least claiming that an "assistant head coach" falls under the "head coach tier." As I read it, other teams could prevent Schiano from interviewing their current assistant coaches and coordinators (even without "half-baked titles") for the Buc's vacant coordinator positions because the NFL anti-tampering policy divides all coaches into only 2 categories - - (1) a head coach tier, and (2) everybody else. So by definition any assistant position coach, offensive or defensive coordinator, or even grand imperial pubah of special teams is interviewing for a lateral move (for purposes of the anti-tampering policy) if he interviews for a vacant coordinator position. Anybody read it differently?

You've said a number of things I agree with - - here's one: When you get off the soapbox and stop complaining about how access to justice isn't the same for everyone in our capitalistic society, let's talk about the part of your prior post that I still disagree with. Here it is: The parts I highlighted in bold simply aren't true. According to you, mere knowledge of someone else's intent to commit a crime is itself a "prevalent" crime in the US court system, and some laws are "clearly worded" to show that such knowledge alone is itself a crime. If that's true, it shouldn't be very hard or time consuming for you to provide one verifiable example of such a prosecution or the text of one such law. I get that (1) prosecutors have the ability to use the full weight of the government's justice machinery to roll over the poor, weak or stupid, and (2) poorly paid public defenders often aren't the sharpest tools in the legal shed. But that has nothing to do with how the criminal laws are worded, or whether mere knowledge of someone else's intent to commit a crime is itself often prosecuted as a criminal offense.

1. Mario Williams will go deer hunting in Jim Kelly's back yard and discover that what he actually saw were animatronic Christmas decorations that Jimbo never took down. He will quit the team and move to Kenya so he can hunt big game on safari; 2. Kelsay will find incriminating photos of the next owner of the Bills and get another big contract extension; 3. Some idiot will suggest that Ralph may have already granted an option to purchase the Bills to somebody in Toronto; 4. Fitz will retire and become an Amish elder; 5. ESPN's John Clayton will mysteriously disappear 3 days after an alien mother ship is sighted over Bristol, CT; 6. Doc and Mr. WEO will agree on something.

Sadly, if we had drafted a "punt catcher" to replace the legendary Chris Watson, we might not have lost that 6-3 game to Cleveland a few years ago. Let's not make that mistake again. While we're at it, let's draft a "kick-off watcher" who is able to watch kick-offs go through the end zone with a late lead against New England, rather than "pulling a McKelvin."

I just checked - - he's not there yet: http://www.jailexchange.com/CountyJails/Ohio/Stark/Stark_County_Jail_Inmate_Search.aspx

FWIW: http://law.justia.com/codes/louisiana/2011/rs/title14/rs14-26/ For an overview of various circumstances in which courts have considered whether sports violence is legally actionable (in either a civil or criminal case), see: http://sportslaw.uslegal.com/sports-violence/

I haven't bothered to look up whether the RICO conspiracy statute has been amended, or if the courts have changed their interpretation of it, but here's what one federal appeals court said in 1997 about what the government must prove to make out a RICO conspiracy case: http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/55087F3B51C2F08C85256F120065D7D8/$file/95-3157a.txt Sounds to me like your "friend of a drug driver" example is way off base. But then again, I have never claimed to have any particular education or work experience here, and may not be a "pretty informed dude."

You should be happy with the newest revision to the overtime rules: Finally an OT rule for the fans

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