The Frankish Reich

Yellow headed weirdo claims he never spoke to "red headed weirdo" about nuclear subs. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-claims-he-never-spoke-to-billionaire-red-haired-weirdo-about-nuclear-submarines

"Iron Dome (Hebrew: כִּפַּת בַּרְזֶל, romanized: Kippat Barzel) is an Israeli mobile all-weather air defense system[8] developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries.[7] The system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells fired from distances of 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) to 70 kilometres (43 mi) away and whose trajectory would take them to an Israeli populated area.[9][10] From 2011 to 2021, the United States contributed a total of US$1.6 billion to the Iron Dome defense system,[11] with another US$1 billion approved by the US Congress in 2022." So ... from Canada, Mexico, or maybe from the sea. In other words, this would be an idiotic use of U.S. military resources. But Trump thinks it sounds good to his potential voters: "Hey, let's put an Iron Dome around the United States too."

He took a few snaps in their win yesterday. By the way, you were doing really well on the "most ludicrous post" derby until that "Jets will win the Super Bowl" blew this one out of the water ....

Assume everyone on the defense is healthy pre-season. Who are the most important players? 1. Milano 2. Von 3. Tre And then add in Jones and Rousseau (playing, but not himself now). We should expect a better effort against the Pats, yes, but to expect this defense to perform the way they did in the first half of last season just isn't realistic.

I still feel fine about our prospects about winning the division or at least getting a wild card. I don’t feel fine about making (much less winning) the Super Bowl.

I’m not so good at math. Are we now ONE GAME behind the Dolphins in the loss column? Because everyone here says we’re toast.

We didn’t really do anything different than the Rams, except that they actually did win the Super Bowl before those contracts turned bad.

Yeah, the Tua hate just gets weird sometimes. Hitting guys in stride isn’t easy, and he’s great at that.

Gotta say I love watching those big arc rainbow deep throws. It’s no Josh Allen, but it’s pretty in its own way.

They gave Knox a big contract based on promise, not performance. And it turns out he just hasn’t gotten any better. That contract extension was debatable at the time, and an error in retrospect. Miller? He gave us exactly what we weee after. A fantastic addition till he went down. I don’t think you could say he was a bigger injury risk than any other player; he was coming off a superb season in LA. Sometimes it’s just bad luck defeating sound planning.

And now they’ve revived the corpse of Julio Jones. We need to investigate what kind of wizardry they’re using in Philly.

I’m sure Knox could drop those too

I just want to clarify that we are talking about Trent Sherfield Sr. and not his 10 month old baby boy, Tent Sherfield Jr. This has been the source of much confusion, causing the Bills WR to add the “Sr” to his jersey. On a different point: We have also talked for many years about how the Bills could use a tall receiver for red zone plays, which is why we got 5’6” Deonte Harty. Unfortunately Josh thinks he is the 6’6” guy he wanted and overthrew him by a foot.

A RB who stays in to block and can actually block would have helped today.

Where would we be without the semi-annual “keep calm and carry on” posts?

I think in our hearts most Bills fans knew after the Bengals debacle that the window was closed. Time to reload as they say, meaning a partial rebuild.

True. Everyone was ready to dump Frazier for his mulish obsession with playing only cover 2 and not being aggressive. Now? “We should have just played cover 2 and made Mac Jones earn it”

Michelle Goldberg is a liberal NY Times columnist. I generally don't agree with her columns. But this one is very solid and fair. It is not Twitter/X. You need to actually read a few paragraphs (a lost art around here) instead of an inflammatory 200 character characterization. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/opinion/israel-war-gaza-hospital-danger.html Of course, I’d read Israel’s insistence that an errant Islamic Jihad rocket had caused the explosion at the hospital, but I didn’t put much stock in it, because in the past when Israel accidentally killed civilians, it has blamed Palestinians for the deaths. In May of last year, the Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp. Israeli officials said she was shot either by a Palestinian or by an Israeli soldier aiming at a Palestinian gunman. A New York Times investigation, however, contradicted the official Israeli line. It found that the bullet that killed Abu Akleh was fired from the direction of an Israeli military convoy and that “there were no armed Palestinians near her when she was shot.” A few months later, during another round of Israeli bombing of Gaza, five Palestinian boys were killed in a cemetery. Initially, Israeli officials blamed a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket for the deaths. But as the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported, an army inquiry found they were actually killed by an Israeli airstrike. With the hospital explosion, it seemed history was repeating itself on a larger and more tragic scale. Perhaps it was, just not in the way I thought. As I write this, it looks increasingly likely that Israel was correct about an Islamic Jihad rocket hitting Al-Ahli hospital. That, at least, is what both early American intelligence and a number of independent experts have found. If their analysis holds up, it means the best analogy for this world-convulsing event is not the killings of five boys in Gaza last year. It is the myth of a massacre at the Jenin refugee camp in 2002. The article continues, analyzing a "Jenin (West Bank) massacre" by the Israeli IDF that probably never happened.

Luddite.

He's from the MAGA right wing, but at least he has a tiny streak of common sense. And apparently Matt Gaetz hates him, so at least there's that. But still ... a hard "no."

Look, Biden flew overnight to Israel, had a bunch of meetings in 8 hours there, flew back, then gave an Oval Office address. I'll say pretty impressive for an 80 year old. Should we be electing 80 year olds? I'd still say no. But still ... pretty impressive.

Huh? The Biden administration has supported the ... "Biden regime"? #eyeroll

Oil: the problem is our friends, the Saudis. They control OPEC, and manipulate production (and hence prices) in a cartel that would be illegal in the United States under antitrust laws. Right now, they're restraining production to raise prices. Ordinarily this would give U.S. producers and incentive to drill, drill, drill in oil fields where the cost of production is higher; with high oil prices, higher cost oil from those fields would still be profitable. But what will the Saudis do if U.S. (Canadian and other too) oil production starts to spike? They'll open the Saudi spigot (and get Russia and others to go along) and lower oil prices, making all those investments in U.S. higher cost oil a waste of money. The solution would lie in expanding something like antitrust laws to OPEC. It wouldn't be antitrust, but a sizable tariff on OPEC oil could provide the certainty U.S. drillers need by incentivizing U.S. production. But neither party will do that because in the short run it would mean higher price oil. Yes, our friends the Saudis have us over a barrel ...

I guess the surge in wealth bypassed the Bonnie grads.

How could I have forgotten ...