Arkady Renko

What kind of recovery? Another question I have is whether insurance normally gets on board.

For the past few years, my allergies have been really bad and hardly manageable with standard allergy medication (or the medication made me extremely tired). My allergies lead to really bad nasal congestion at night and it's hard to get a good night's rest most nights. Allergy shots have only slightly made it better. There's only so much one can do with his environment, so I am beginning to look into this laser surgery they can do at an ENT doc where they open up your nasal passages a bit more or cauterize the stuff that causes nasal congestion. I know this is probably fairly rare, but has anyone here done something like this. If so, what were the results?

I don't think I was clear enough about what I meant. I think it's fine and good to look into why someone died and the mistakes they made, but I don't like it when it comes with the attitude that it's not a tragedy when someone dies just because they made a mistake or the attitude that the person deserved it. I don't want anyone to assume that the post was directed at anyone in particular. I was just trying to caution people from acting superior when someone dies. That does not mean learning from the person's mistakes is a bad thing. I am not trying to attack people in general here (in fact no one here may have done it--but it has happened before, and some of things said so far reminded me of this issue), but I can understand people might have gotten offended by the way I put it. You appear to have felt I was attacking you, so I apologize for that as it was not my intent.

I don't see why whenever someone dies it seems like we try so hard to find a reason to blame him for dying. "He wasn't wearing his seatbelt" "He smoked" "He's a thug". We all do our share of stupid things and sometimes people die younger than they should have. I don't see the point in trying to prove that it was his fault.

Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind

When will a player holdout in order to play for the Bills?

I hate to say it, but I called it about a month ago: http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?s=&am...st&p=858835 I wish it weren't true. I really got my hopes up.

Stop Ron Mexico before he coach-kills again.

He's just repeating what his man Terrell Buckley is telling him to say. (He was in a bye-week, by-the-way...)

WBNG-12 Binghamton and whatever CBS in Watertown will carry the game. That's it for New York State.

The NFL hates Christmas.

While there certainly is good bacteria in your body, I doubt that the human body produces bacteria.

I am calling it "improbable" because well, I am trying to fight my pessimistic nature.

I just have a good feeling that if the Bills win out, they will make it to the playoffs and that is what this will all come down to. And I hate to be optimistic, but I just have a feeling that this team will do it. It has been long enough. The last time the Bills went to the playoffs they lost to the Titans on that freak play and I was in high school. The last time the Bills won in the playoffs against the Dolphins I was in middle school. The last time the Bills won in the playoffs, I was 13. Last time the Bills were in the playoffs I was 17. Now I am 24 and about to get married. It's been that long and it's been long enough.

I just remember how much we soured on the team and Bledsoe because of how the Pittsburgh game went.

Would you view it as a successful season considering your expectations?

Let's not ask this question a million times. Also, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and any town that is in these markets are blacked out on both Sunday Ticket and the local stations. The closest stations are WBNG in Binghamton and Watertown's CBS.

Yes, radio is not blacked out. There is no legal way to avoid the blackout TV-wise. I am not sure why there is this myth about Sunday Ticket.

Sorry about your loss.

Will we be able to post large pictures in our posts?

Is there a substitute board? Where am I supposed to post?

What about Fletcher? That's disappointing.

I hear a lot about the Jags in regards to the Titans. Bills beat them too, so big deal. Not that I think that the Titans will be easy. In fact, I think they will be more challenging than either the Jets or Dolphins... I think this one will be a close one that can go either way and come down to a play or two, frustrating for either teams' fans. Jets and Dolphins fans were quite confident about easy victories against the Bills and they were wrong too. The Bills and Titans are both hot teams surprising people, so you're going to have a lot of shocked fans of either of the teams' opponents.

A couple points I think are worth making (some have been made before) 1. Tuition has rapidly increased and outpaced inflation while the jobs that students can do have not kept up. I think that tuition has been at the pace of the expansion of our economy, but not with low wages that unskilled young people can get. (That you could pay your own way easily decades ago does not mean it is close to being that easy anymore.) 2. Some professional schools have restrictions under how much a student can work: 20 hours a week in law school for example. 3. Professional schools (I know vet schools and law schools are like this) and certainly undergraduate schools require you to provide your parent's financial information--even if you have little connection to them or you/they do not want them paying one red cent for your college/grad school education. So a student looking to do the more admirable thing of paying for their own education instead of their parents will face the full bill (lots of schools charge over $40K a year just for tuition) and can take FAFSA loans up to only $18,500 a year at 6.8% (not including loan fees) currently and then have to take out loans at 8%+ from private lenders to cover the rest and to cover living expenses. 4. While I think it is far more admirable to make your own way in school, when you receive help, is receiving voluntary help from parents that much worse than receiving help from taxpayers or other people? A student who "pays his own way" received help in at least some way through the following situations: -A lot of help from taxpayers if they went to a state school, some if they went to private school in the form of federal grants, subsidized loans, grants, etc. -Especially in private schools, help from donors to the school. And these donations were subsidized by the rest of the nation's taxpayers through charitable tax deductions. -When there are need-based grants they are paid by others. Some of these grants were paid for by higher tuition bills by students (or at least whose parents) who can supposedly afford to pay a higher share of the tuition. 5. Before unleashing personal attacks on me based on what you assume is my situation note that I have paid my education through working all the time since high-school (normally more than 20 hours a week during the school year and full time or more during breaks), loans, help from parents and some limited assistance from the government. I don't feel like I am entitled to any of the help outside of what I earned myself and I am not going to attack anyone else who received more help than I did. 6. I do not have much sympathy to those who jumped into question educational adventures, knowing they would have mountains of debt and then complaining that no one is bailing them out.

The hardest thing for the Bills playoff hopes will be winning the rest of the games, as I said before. The rest of itself will work out if the Bills win out, I think.