Jauronimo
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Third times a charm.
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I've got a few rather knowledgeable friends who are Jets fan that insist the offensive play calling has been abysmal for the last couple seasons. It's not my own opinion because I'm no scholar of the game, but I take that for it's worth.
No you don't. No one does.
Are you f'ing kidding me with this crap, knowledgeable Jets fans? Bet you got a pet unicorn too.
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Whoever did it, I´m ok with it.
Mossad has never been shy about crossing a few imaginary lines if they perceive a threat. My money is on them.
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The reason companies want one penny more after making record profits is because there is long, dark, skeletal wasteland of companies no longer in business because someone with your line of reasoning said "You know what? This is enough. We don't need more than this."
You never stop trying to succeed. You never stop trying to outdo yourself. You should always seek a higher goal and rate of return. Always.
Because when you don't, you end up as someone like Obama, a failed leader whose most embarrassing and telling statement, as far as I'm concerned, was when he said "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."
Anyone residing in Rochester, NY should know what happens when you say "Enough is enough. Big bonuses for all. Everybody pat yourself on the back." The bluest of blue chip firms Eastman Kodak had the game won 30 years ago. They filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, a move which would have inconceivable 20 years ago. The minute you say enough is enough is the moment you set a course for disaster.
While we in the U.S. debate whether enough is enough and flirt with our own demise, think China is looking to take their foot off the gas?
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He then left in '99 to turn around an $800M-in-the-red, woefully lagging construction progress, and graft-ridden Salt Lake City Olympics to a rather successful $300M profit. This is at a time when almost every other Olympic venture has cost its host country tons of money. He then tackled the $3B Massachusetts deficit and turned it into a surplus.
Like it or not, Romney has a record of fiscal turnarounds. And that's exactly what this country needs right now.
And how did he turn around the Salt Lake Olympics and Massachusetts? By firing over half the US Olympic Association and laying off everyone in Boston thrice over, that's how.
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Although I agree with the spirit of the Rooney Rule I'm not a huge fan of it. It seems many times teams know who they want and they have to give token interviews to satisfy the rule. It seems a waste of time for some black coaches to interview for all of these jobs they know they have no shot of getting. I hope they do as someone stated earlier use it as a learning experience. It would be nice to not need this rule and know that the best man for the job gets it regardless of race. That is when it will be undebatable whether or not racism exists in the nfl.
I'm asking this question for real and not sarcastically - Since the Chiefs hired Crennel and did so after he was the interim does that change things? If you hire a black coach do you need to interview a white one? If you hire your interim regardless of race do you have to follow the Rooney rule?
If I recall correctly, a black HC candidate turned down an interview, think it was Leslie Frazier, since he and everybody else knew it was only to serve the Rooney rule and that a decision was all but made. I imagine it must feel pretty crappy knowing you've been used as a ploy to avoid accusations of racism.
The Rooney rule has good intentions, who can't get behind equality? How do we get to this "post-racial" society when we continue to identify and reinforce these differences?
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How did he screw over the middle class?
By earning profits and making money. See, there's a finite amount of money in circulation, therefore all money made is at the expense of the lower and middle class. The only way to get rich is by plundering the lower class.
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He said start with your top three. Further proof regarding the effectiveness of the Department of Education.
And he assumes that the Norfolk three* reasons he cited all hinge upon big government. Apparently massive bureaucracy is the impetus for effective legislation and checks and balances rather than a hindrance to the aforementioned. Who knew? I guess we also need a massive bureaucracy to award grants and contracts to private enterprise or else technological innovation will cease. Either that or Dave is claiming that the government carries out R&D in house, in which case someone should probably clue him in that Al Gore didn't actually invent the internet.
*Norfolk three - a colloquialism used in Norfolk to describe the number 8.
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The government makes enough for everyone to have, I like that.
How is taking a cut of what others have produced making anything?
While you criticize the concept of small government with limited scope and interference in our daily lives, you may want to refresh yourself on the principles on which this nation was founded. Our government exists to protect our most basic liberties not to provide a lifestyle. It is the responsibility of our government to protect the sovereignty of our nation and our basic freedoms including free speech, religion, etc. Basically, to provide you with a framework in which you can go out and make your bones. The rest is on you.
Why you and others want to take the concepts that made this country great and turn them against us will always be a mystery.
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Oh, I see, you just want more money to spend. That's your whole argument, you need more...ummm..ok
1) In too many ways to explain. You guys have no idea of what the world would be like in a country with a minimalist government
2) You are a complete idiot. I was asking a question not making a statement about capitalism being ineffecient
Insightful as always Dave. Out of curiosity, how old are you?
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How will reducing government make you happy?
Does the fact that people cheat the he'll out of insurance companies prove to you that capitalism is inefficient?
How does big government make you happy?
If you think capitalism is inefficient, then how would you describe massive government bureaucracy? Is there a word strong enough if capitalism is "inefficient"?
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Right down to the payment of indulgences.
Obama has been called a lot of things over the past three years, but I think its a safe bet that this is the first time he has been compared to Tetzel.
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Many on this board suggested Fitz wasn't the same after Fletcher popped him in the Redskins game.
That was a vicious hit by London. Still trying to figure out why Fitz would just stand there like that 10 yards past the line of scrimmage. Doesn't Fitz know that 7-10 yards from scrimmage is where London makes all his tackles?
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And even then, it's not like Bain and Romney were the kind of corporate raiders like the Richard Gere character in "Pretty Woman."
The WSJ has a more fair assessment here. Their model at the time when they started out was risk, but high reward. Much of the time, they entered at the company's request when it was already struggling. In some businesses, the investment didn't work out and both the company and Bain lost $. Nothing's perfect. But on what they were successful with, they were successful. And they didn't stick around investing good money after bad in situations they couldn't help --- a business sense that either Obama never learned, or isn't styled with his politics.
WSJ | Romney at Bain: Big Gains, Some Busts
And, as the article states, in many cases, the business experienced trouble years after Bain's relationship with them ended, with many of them happening in the 2000-2001 downturn.
More like Gordan Gecko if we're choosing movie characters. It appears Romney's opponents are going to try and make the link from VC/PE to "greed is good" and then bring it full circle to the greed mentality that caused the subprime crisis and subsequent Great Recession, and before you know it Romney will be culpable for backing up garbage mortgages with credit default swaps. Given the public's general animosity toward and ignorance of the financial sector, it will probably work.
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How pathetic does the REST of the GOP field sound, when criticizing Romney for his ¨¨firing¨¨ people comment? They sound like a bunch of liberals.
Thats what you want in a president, someone who is going to make the cuts necessary to make the system flow more efficienty and guide us to a direction where demand dictates jobs. Plain and simple
Corporations, profits, free-enterprise, and competition are tools of the devil, Magox. Romney should be burned at the stake for attempting to return failing businesses to profitability through LBOs. He should have let these companies go out of business as nature intended rather than intervene and lay people off. Has he no conscience?
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I love reading posts from internet tough guys, which I already knew you were.
Nope, it just seems that way because you're an internet puss. Pretend you have a shred of dignity and stop crying about how hard it is to be 19.
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Syria, 9-11 and Guantanamo. Now tell me the world is a wonderful place. I try to find distractions to make it more bearable.
Feel better poor sensitive Adam. I'd probably be miserable too if I were such a whiny kitty. Better lock yourself in your room with your favorite Linkin' Park CD, your diary and a bottle of sleeping pills and let the chips fall where they may.
Is that really the best you could come up with in more than 7,000 years of well recorded tragedy, suffering and atrocity? If you're going to be an insufferable twat at least choose some better reasons.
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I'm not an X's and O's guy, but don't the Patriots use the spread quite a bit?
What part of nuff said didn't you understand?
Chlamydia is a soup! Nuff' said!
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It just seems to me that anyone with even the least amount of self-respect would watch him and say "Y'know, you said you weren't going to do this stuff. You said this stuff was wrong. You said you were going to be different. You said you were going to operate at a higher level. And all you've done is take the very actions you've repeatedly said were wrong, and taken them to new depths."
Yeah, I get it. It's been done before. Obama doesn't corner the market on this kind of stupid. But when it's THIS blatantly obvious what a useless idiot he is...no better or worse than the Wasserman-Shultz's and Axelrods of the world...it's just exceedingly embarrassing, and you'd think the first thing any normal supporter would do is stop defending him.
This goes beyond 'it's his guy." Why would anyone want to associate with such idiocy?
You assume that the majority of people who voted for him, or any other candidate for that matter, voted on the issues rather than just their own ungrounded beliefs as to what their political party represents. In order to understand Obama's abject failure you must first know what he was attempting to accomplish.
How many people identify as Dem or Repub based on upbringing (mom and dad were Dem/Repub), profession, friends, whats hip/cool at the time? Some people choose their party based on one talking point like abortion, national defense, gay marriage and couldn't tell you any thing else about their party. And these people are no less fervent in their support than their informed contemporaries.
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...he turned 21 on January 1 and was in Richmond until last night....it was surreal seeing him order drinks....and drink them....I'm old.....
Call me a softy, but your post inspired me to take my son out for a drink. He made it about halfway through his first Manhattan before throwing in the towel. He went home and passed out face down in his coloring books. I know he's only 5 but still, what a lightweight.
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If anyone gets upset watching this, that's your problem. I think it's pretty funny and is meant that way (well, not by the person who filmed it, at least)
It's neither upsetting or funny. Given the subject matter and material available, there's no excuse for that vid to suck so badly.
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Really? Care to elaborate on why signing a receiver to the roster when you have one with a contract issue would NOT in any send a message to him?
Wait, what am I thinking, of course you don't need to be rational with your comment, this is the internet, where sarcastic responses are wicked awesome.
How does signing a guy who caught 22 balls for 341 yards and 1 TD over the last 2 years send any kind of message to SJ? If the Bills were in discussion with a big name WR, like Colston, Bowe or Reggie Wayne that might send a message and create some leverage. Threatening to replace 158 catches 2,077 yards and 17 TDs with Clowney was never the intention behind this move.
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I thought I liked potatoes, but that kid takes it to another level.
The Great Obama Is A Bad President Thread!
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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DC Tom's inability to lead cannot be quantified and its because Obama is a bad president? This development is as shocking as it is confusing.