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Personally I think the Bills are stirring up the QB pot in hopes that at least 2 will be taken before their pick so that their real target falls to them.

It would be good to know what % is due to retiring. The baby boomers retiring has a significant impact.

My wife just got me watching Fortitude on Amazon prime. Highly recommend it. Set on a small island off Norway and strange things begin happening. Has Stanley Tucci and Michael Gambon in it. I went through season 1 the past 3 days (12 episodes) and just starting season 2, which is as far as it goes to date.

When the Bills beat the chiefs to go to their fourth straight super bowl, and how the crowd stood and cheered for some 20-30 minutes after the game. Favorite game was Flutie's first win against Jacksonville.

yes. My point is prices were filled with optimism from his election, and now they need some substance to keep going. Barring that, its profit taking time.

I'm currently less confident in the stock market. Trump needs to enact a major economic policy change or the bubble will burst. Fiddling with regulations and tweeting about companies ain't going to cut it. Nero needs to get off the golf course and use his early good will to get something passed.

DR, you'll enjoy this piece. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-23/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-us-created-isis-tool-overthrow-syrias-president-assad

Trump just knew how to work the media and feed his core supporters--certainly no populist, but definitely an outsider. I thought Flynn and Bannon were key to his policies going forward, but Flynn was taken out so to speak, and Bannon is currently being marginalized. I think Bernie recognized what any politician is up against, which is why he said it will take millions of Americans to make "the revolution" happen. I don't think he was simply talking about his economic policies.

My view of the DS, as I posted earlier, the Eisenhower view of the military industrial complex. We always need an enemy to justify the $600+ billion spent annually. It's Orwell's 1984, "there will always be war in Eurasia." I've seen estimates that the ME wars have cost us $5 trillion to date. One man's cost is another's revenue. In this view, there is no end game other than perpetual fear and war. At times, various interests coalesce, and the Iraq war is one case. The so-called Neocons produced "the project for a new American century" document in 1997, which outlined regime change in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Iran. The Neocons used 911 as an opportunity to begin. Destabilizing the ME via regime change would also benefit the MIC, Israel, and other US business interest like the oil companies. The concept of the Deep State suggests that the elements aligned behind this policy are more powerful than any political party, which is evidenced by the fact that regime change has continued regardless of who is in power. Which brings us to Trump, who was critical of regime change policies, but is now on board after the alleged chemical attack by Assad, who had absolutely nothing to gain from the attack. Russia is also being pushed again as evil incarnate; how else are we going to justify the need to upgrade our nuclear arsenal? My answer, again, to your question: there is no end game; there will always be an enemy.

Marrone deserves credit for hiring two good defensive coaches, pettine and Schwartz. The offense was equally bad during his first year with a rag-tag team of QBs, and the second year mostly with Orton. Based on his experience, I still would not believe in his ability to resurrect bortles.

you can get banned for saying that without attribution.

Postol's critique of the "Assad did it" line has gone mainstream: Yahoo.com Hell has frozen over. I agree with something Ann wrote...http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/04/12/ann-coulter-lassie-come-home/

Who knows, but he certainly didn't get the chance to develop. I suppose it was klutzy Kolb's fault...

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000800375/article/doug-marrone-jags-must-rebuild-bortles-foundation Funny he doesn't mention his experience with EJ...

I think there about 7 guys I'd pick at 10, otherwise try and trade back. From your list of gone guys, I'm very leery of Lattimore and his hamstring. A knee injury is one thing, but this guy has missed too much action due to his hammy. That said, the two guys I would still pick at 10 are Allen and OJ. If the Bills truly like a qb, then I won't be surprised if they go that route. However, The most likely scenario is they are trying to entice a trade partner. They really need draft capital.

It's hard to say who is and who isn't in the MSM, but there are a lot of articles (I believe I've posted some in this thread) on the CIA's infiltration and use of the MSM. People can try to make it (the DS) out as some type of conspiracy theory, but when a (more than one actually) sitting president, and former general, warns the country about the forces that have a vested interest in maintaining the flow of money into the armaments trade, is it still a conspiracy theory?

Interesting piece on Iran's next election and their own "Deep State" influence: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iran-deep-state-rouhani-election_us_58dd9822e4b0e6ac7093be2c?i87af1mtbkjra4i And a serious criticism of the White House Report on the Syrian chemical event that triggered Trump's trigger finger..

which is totally unrealistic. "Just give it 10 more years..." and the Shia, Kurds, and sunnis will all be singing kumbaya. The longer you stay, the more you become an occupying force in the eyes of all Iraqis. GG provides a scenario where he believes a large enough force for a long enough time could create the possibility of a viable working state, but how exactly will the three religious groups be able to make it happen? Seems to me it would require a strong military, mostly made up of whoever holds power. Kind of like Saddam's reign....

I'm sorry Howard. I'm 60 and find the most important factor is diet.

That Putin is one amazing guy to be able to control so many people at the same time... What's taking him so long to take over the world?

Howard wasn't joking about his donut habit.

im not defending them, I just find it amazing that guys like this get so far out there...further than myself even...

Stockman and Paul Craig Roberts make this thread seem tame. These guys were insiders. No Alex joneses here. So Through the looking glass...

http://original.antiwar.com/David_Stockman/2017/04/10/trump-joins-the-war-against-assad/ I'm really starting to like these old Reagan-era guys...

i wouldn't say Afghanistan is a real success story. Nixon pretty much went all in in Vietnam. About the only successes we've had with our gunboats, where the eventual outcome didn't result in chaos, were panama and Grenada. Reagan and Bush sr knew who to pick on.