ExiledInIllinois
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So let me see if I get this straight, you play hockey with a couple of Pats fans and since they fail to pass your "Around the NFL" muster, that equates to all Pats fans being know-nothing front running bandwagon fans who dont deserve what you, a fine Buffalo rooter who knows everything about every team in history deserves.
Is that it or am I missing something.
"Aisle 5 is in need of MORE broad brushes please..."
It sounds like a wide brush and it is a wide brush... Boston sports strikes me like Chicago sports, especially when the Bulls were winning. The two cities get pretty big heads.
You gotta admit, MA is one obnoxious place on the planet... That MA influence is pretty "edgy." NE in general is not to welcoming, IMO.
More wide brush please!
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It is a whole 'nother thing in MA?
I have family in northern NE and family outside Boston... Seems once you cross into MA, the rat-race begins... It is like a whole 'nother world... Like parts of Chicago, start drifting towards the north and you get a different attitude.
People are genuinely nice everywhere you go but, I don't know what it is about some places that seem to lose that quality? Maybe it the amount of people, lack of people that lived there their whole life, or what?
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As far as I know, most of the NSPS is just that, still rumor. Still being negotiated behind closed doors. Just about everyone at my agency, though, is deployable. Shots, weapons qual, the whole nine yards. We always have several civilians in country at any given time doing what amounts to vulnerability studies on installations and what not. We actually have a lot of people all over the world doing some interesting things. 50% are GS or Contractor. So, i'm thinking that's all part of the job description when you sign on. I really don't know. I'm a contractor, so the NSPS doesn't affect me. I've been thinking of going CS in the future though, there are some things going on that will create several new GS14 slots where I work, so I should probably learn more about it. With the COLA they hand out for DC, a 14 makes some pretty good money, and you don't have to worry about recompetes every few years.
Exactly.
What is going on here is the opposite. Federal jobs are being competed out/competitive outsourcing initiative... Mine won't start for about a year and the process will drag out through the A-76 for about another 18-36 months. A lot are bitter about it and fear getting contracted out. I don't look at it that way. It isn't really a done deal. There WILL be change and I look FORWARD to it. If it means working with a contractor, that's okay. I have been preparing myself for years now and would be nicely set if I choose to not work here or work with a contractor. I view it as one door closing, another opening!
Who knows what the future will bring? I am glad I thought about my financial independence along time ago!
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In all honesty, I wouldn't mind going there... Some say it is crazy, some not bad... I would want to help out if I could and see things for myself.
This might sound selfish, I really don't think it is. Right now in my life I have two small kids that need me home doing my job here.
I do appreciate (doesn't always sound like it) all the work our troops and civilians are doing there. 10 years ago or 10 years in the future, it would be in the cards for me.
Rumor has it with this new NSPS system they might actually force you to go there if you are a federal defense employee... Not necessarily true but, new hires???
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Exactly right! We don't agree on much... Nothing wrong with the owners opening their pocketbook to make their team competitive.
They have the resources, just don't want to use them.
That is where I draw the line. We are supposed to believe that this "Rich man's club" can't compete with the evil Yankees? Ha!
How much did Boston spend last year?
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I wanna say the "Green Zone" in Baghdad, not sure if that changed? Last time he spent a lot of time on base. He is doing inspection work.
There is another joke around here... We call it the "I am so effing safe, I mine as well be home zone!"
Anyway, his supervisor was at the the Baghdad Hotel when they took that explosion some time ago... He wanted to get stateside ASAP, and he did.
Later, when my supervisor pulled a soft gig... The others found out and went back!... I guess word gets around?
My luck, they'd have me fending off a group of trucks with a can of tomato soup!
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Those were the 26 won... What about the lost championships?
For a long time in baseball, there was no playoff... Just the two best teams in each league going to the WS (which should happen today, IMO).
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Why are they stiffing MLB?
Why doesn't, say, the owner in KC put everything back into the Royals?
The Yankees are truly loyal to their team and attempt to put the best product out there... What is wrong with that? And now a new stadium for the players and fans. Isn't that what it is all about?
No quarter asked, no quarter given.
Ya, but you are right... The Yankees should think of the health of the league while the other owners are still getting rich!
It is a game and a business... It is okay to squash (or attempt to) your competition.
Go Yankees!
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Ya... Just started this morning, will run through next Thursday (0800).
I am on a 6 week swing with 3 weeks of days, then afternoons and midnights... I like the break, get to spend 3 weeks home with the kids!
The downside: As this week progresses, my posts will get crazier!
I can't believe I wasted 15 years of my life doing this... Then again, there is TSW!
My boss is in Iraq helping out (second time). The joke around here is will he come back fatter than when he left?
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Anybody know this one?
What is the proper way to dispose of a flag, a worn, tatter, unusable flag? It is actually disrespectful to fly or display such a flag in normal situations.
I think it is... Burn it?
Kinda ironic that burning it in protest gets people all in a lather when the actual "death" of it is the only way to repsectfully dispose of it?
The big thing is what constitutes protest?
"Gee officer, I was only disposing my flag properly when Mrs. Smith next door called in the complaint."
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So, in other words... He was stupid and foolish for asking, knowing that they were gonna lie under oath?
I think the point is that he knew they were gonna lie and by repeating the question over and over again would bring their answers more scrutiny?
But, he is the fool for asking?
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It is a benchmark for how far a society could sink?
As for a average German, things began to cook along pretty good when Hitler took power... Until, you noticed that some of your neighbors were missing and nobody said a word!
It is kinda silly though... But, very real in a "HotPocket", apathetic/vindictive culture.
I find no harm reminding people. Through all the silliness, the real harm falls when people forget... They become doomed to repeat mistakes.
All sides are gonna throw barbs. Until a even greater benchmark (as per the first sentence) comes along that we can relate to, I guess Hitler and Nazism will be bandied about.
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." ~Walt Whitman
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Of course they do have an ulterior motive. The money the team spends on the staduim will for the most part be deducted from what they owe the other MLB teams in revenue sharing (70% if what I heard was correct). Not saying there's anything wrong with that, just saying. Bad news for Pitt, KC, Oakland etc., good news for the Yanks (and smart business). Last year Tampa Bay received just over 30 Million in revenue sharing. Their current payroll? Around 29.7 Million.
Give me a break!
Gee... It is so bad that the Yankees put all their profits back into the team and players wages.
Maybe you can tell the owners in TB, KC, Pitt, and Oak to do that! They get 30 mil and payout 29.7 mil... Is that all they made last year in profit? Smells like "welfare" for the owners!
Sports and all the whining has become a joke!
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What is Auckland's latitude south? Isn't it around the same latitude south as is the latitude north for Buffalo and the Great Lakes area? Of course it is a marine climate, wich keeps the weather tempered?
I hear skiing in the Southern Alps is supposed to be great!
Maybe I can come pay you a vist in late July or August!
Congrats!
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Pierce Arrow is a road that runs between Delaware and Elmwood. It was named after the famous 30's and on luxury auto manufacturer, which was headquartered and manufactured in the City of Buffalo...part of the region's history. The manufacturing facility was taken over by the now-defunct Kittenger Furniture company (also a famous name). That factory was just a bit south of the Curtiss-Wright factory, where the Bell Airacobra P-39 was manufactured during WW II.
The grille was in the vicinity - at least the one I knew of...
Actually from the first decade of the 20th century on to the 30's... With the height of its dominance being amongst the elite and affluent in the 1920's... Then came the depression!
What is it about Buffalo losing such premium brands and products before they truly become icons? Take for example the luxury car, micro-brewery's and, aerospace... All squashed out of town due to hard times, downturns... Only to have these products re-emerge strong a few decades later full force in some other town?
Wasn't the club in West Seneca an offshoot from the popularity of the one in the NorthTowns? It was short lived?
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Tax rates are realy a secomdary (actually tertiary or well down the list of the reasons I choose to live in a particular place.
Of course everyone prefers to pay less than more. However, I think this issue is pretty much a red herring in that taxes are not the leading piece which makes up the cost of living of s particular location.
Simple issues of supply and demand, logistics (Hawaii costs more for goods due to distance of travel, delightful weather and a small industrial base) and other issues determine far more than the relative tax hit the actual cost of living in a place.
I'd be happy and economically content in Buffalo even with a far higher tax hit because the real total costs of living here are so low. When I moved here from the DC area, friends would ask me about the cost of housing in a comparable neighborhood.
I'd say first there are no comparable neighborhoods because the lead economic engines (government in DC and a pretty diversified economy in WNY as the 40s-70s economic downturns cleared a lot of the centralized manufacturing economy out. However, in general you can choose to live in the size and type of house and neighborhood you want here and in general it is by onme get one free in terms of a housing comparison to DC.
From the Buffalo portions where are restaurants find it necessary to serve potions large enough for a diner to take 1 or 2 meals home in a doggy-bag if they so choose to availability of incredibly cheap housing Buffalo is an incredibly cheap place to live regardless of the tax bite.
We do have big time problems here with poor political leaders, but rather than this best being approached on the supply side with advocating tax cuts, a better outcome wiuld probably be had by seeing the same stupid fervor which Channel 2 and others devote to tax cuts would be to share inmformation and force more rational spending.
The problem here is not welfare queens like a recently passed away disabled senior citizen I knew, but the fact that for living in a high rise on Delaware Ave. near the hispital some rich developer got the the government to pay him over $1000 a month for her apartment.
Poot people are not getting rich off of taxes (hello they are poor by definition) rich people and developers are pocketing your and my taxes to remain rich.
I was raised om a Christain church an d I am sure most religions would easily see us pay far more in taxes if it went to benefit the poor. However, our money goes to benefit Andrew Rudnick and our local business "leaders" who run the GOP and to unions heads who seem a bit too cozy with organized crime who run the Democratic party.
I will pass on joining the tax revolt and instead am waiting for spending control which will still take care of the poor. elderly and disabled atop shoveling tax dollars to the insanely wealthy.
Once again, I can count on you to explain it!
It is just so much easier to scapegoat various issues like taxes and the "welfare queens."
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May my best wishes and prayers be with you. My mother would say:
"Life by the yard is hard, by the inch a cinch."
Take it one day at a time and GET WELL!
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It also comes down to being a person of honor. When told to stop doing something that is harming another, they stop. Unfortunately, we don't live in a society that likes to yield to anyone. I wonder why? Then, in a half-hearted attempt, legislative acts start to take over in place of that honor.
I am not saying it (the laws) work but, they (the laws) attempt to fill the void left by the shortcomings of society at a personal level.
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Why is it unlawful to smoke in a theater? Fill your gasoline in an unapproved container? Etc... etc...
Do things gotta burn or blow up before your eyes to realize it is wrong and may harm others?
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Problem with Pats fans
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I am from Buffalo... South Cheektowaga/West Seneca. There is a huge difference in Illinois also... Between the north and south Chicagoland areas and the rest of "downstate" that is predominately RURAL and VASTLY different. Again, I am generalizing, moving from Buffalo to the midwest and spending a lot of time in NE, you get a huge diffference in attitudes just as you do when you go from the south and north Chicagoland areas. There are discprencies at all levels of the social-economic scale... I think this affects people's attitudes?
Yes. I spend every other summer up in NH.
I usually make 2 or 3 trips a year to NE between my sister in northern Vermont and my in-laws in MA/NH. My sister married someone from northern Vermont and they even have distain for their southern brethren. Ya, he is a big NYG and NE, BoSox fan... think he has a nice word to say about the people from that region? Hell no!
NE is so parochial... Everybody outside certain general areas are considered different, scorned upon... Not from Maine? You are an "Outlander." Not form the mountains to the north? You are a "Flatlander." Etc... Etc... This probably has a lot to do with geography and history? For what the area benefits in geography and natural wealth, they totally lose it when it comes to personality qualities, IMO... Again, this is a wide brush and generalizing... I find it to be the norm. I even know people who moved from the deep south to NE, then the midwest, and then northwest and they have noticed the difference.
Like I said, very nice place... I just don't find the hospitality and welcoming attitude you find in other regions... It (NE) is very cold and distant with regards to general personalities...
Sure I am using a wide brush, sorry.