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If the border of snobdom begins at around 400 dollars/ year for what amounts to the one area of a buffalonians life that is at its epicenter. 400. Hmmm. One prom dress. 1/2 a snow blower. What i use as my break point at a casino visit. Less than most spend on scratch tickets There is a caste system. It is seat licenses You are right no guilt but also when the next owner backs up the moving van to one bills drive who will you have left to blame?

New owners will not immediately share in " revenue sharing". So when Golisano et al fork over 600,000.000 or so( oh what an or so to billionaires you ask)they will in effect be paying, by dint of not receiving a fair share, an initiation fee to the "club of owners". If the Bills are worth 600 mil they are worth a lot more if relocated to LA wherer there resides more people per square inch of have a casual disregard for money. That is the memo you missed. The "new owners " of the Bills will have to have an inordinate sense of civic regard for Buffalo and environs and the fans need to realize that they too have a role to play in order to continue to enjoy the signature possession of Buffalo

The options seem to be wait for a white knight in shining armor and cash to burn and he/she doesnt care how much is burnt. Consider you are a multibillionaire. You did not get there by investing 600 million to receive a 10 million return. Consider further that if you are a multibillionaire and have say 5 billion in the bank you are only taxed on the income derived. The 5 billion is yours even if it is under your mattress. Trust babies do not pay taxes on the principal of respective trust but only on the dividend derived. Consider further that while 5 billion is an awful lot of money your lifestyle requires some modest return otherwise other billionaires will leave you relatively behind. Would you if say a billionaire continue to invest in Buffalo given the present rules of operation or move your franchise to a place that will generate great year to year income and result in a measurable increase in the value of your team/franchise merely the result of a change of scenery

We are a small market. We lack Fortune 500 companies to spend lavishly for football entertainment. The ticket prices are the lowest in the League. The next owner even IF a Wilson will have a huge nut and/or inheritance tax to crack. The conclusion is plain. Since we cant change population and wealth in the short run we must as fans compensate the next owner by being willing to pay more , much more, for tickets.

Stop whining and face the facts JP has been bad. the team as bad. this is the big time he and the team better improve. And the buffalonian " everybody picks on me" is old and tiresome. Do something!

Kick off is free kick. punt is not

No possession transferred. you can recover but not advance ball. If receiver gains possession and then fumbles the ball can be advanced. It is the distinction between fumble and muff

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Churchill was scolded by a Women-of-Standing at a dinner party that he was drunk and obnoxious. He replied that she was correct but in the morning he will become sober and she will remain ugly. A thinner MM will remain obnoxious.

And who will insure a 100 year plan that has disasters every score of years?We do not whine and moan over our bitter winters. It is a given in this neck of the woods. Should the government insure us that winter will be mild in Buffalo?Add up our expenses 4x4, snow blower, high heat bills, ice storms. No one else but the chief beneficiary should pay. You want to live on the San Andreas fault line or hillsides of San Fernando Valley then you take a real risk for which I should not pay.

The disaster in NO and Florida is heart wrenching. It is sad . We should do all we can- this time- but we should make it plain that personal risk is involved and the risk taker bears the responsibility in the future. There is a good reason why private insurers are refusing to write insurance in certain areas. FEMA does great work but the government should stop bailing out people in risky areas that are absolved from risk. A friend owns a home in Grand Cayman . When the hurricane hit a year or so ago it destroyed his home. He did not have insurance because the premium was nearly 1/3 the value of the home( in the Caymans most of the value is in the land). He is rebuilding, things do not proceed quickly in Grand Cayman- manana- with the hope tha it will be 4 years before the next one. Granted the world need not worry about foreign owners of luxury homes but it does illustrate the point about taking responsibility.

9th letter of Greek alphabet. Means an infinitesimal amount.

I actually care two iota.

Why if a guy scores a 41 do we rave about his intellect but a 9 is not important? The wonderlic is not overly taxing but it does require the mind to 'hold" two or more concepts while making a conclusion. Left tackle is a one trick pony position. Though help is largely restricted to chip blocks by your back it does not require thought as would tight end for example. Thus left tackle. His specialness on special teams may relegate Peters to part-time duty as a tackle. He is so good it is scary

He maybe one of the best but it is no longer difficult to entice hot shot high school qb's and rb's to switch to corner or safety...thus the talent pool flows unabated and as a result there is no need to overspend to a position that has a plethora of able candidates- quick how many more good corners than qb's? many more to be sure. As long as the cap is in place no team can afford more than six highly compensated people. do the arithmetic surely after seven at say 6 mil each you are approaching 42 mil or nearly half the cap .remainder is roughly a mil each for other 46 players...and that is if you go injury and dead money free No enjoy Nate for this year and keep an eye on Eric King. It is ALL about cap

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A maroon or a macaroon?

RE: Deficits and National Debt. Rand Corp estimated it cost US 6 trillion to win Cold War which was at end of CW just what our accrued Nat'l Debt amounted to. It was worth every penny. This war will last as long and be even more expensive and even more worth it.

One report, and I admit there is understandably a lot of conflicting reports amidst confusion and rage and sorrow, that the bus was not the intended target. Small consolation to the mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers of the innocents who died but important info to we remaining

Ditto

Observations: 1)Cell phones not used as in Spain where the nitwit s phone ID was left available to authorities- thank God for stupidity, though masterminds are still at large. Timers were used in London. 2) No evidence "at all"that suicide bombers were employed. 3) Anti-Semites rejoice: Netanyahou was warned by Israeli authorities minutes before bombings and he changed plans. Paranthetically, the "World's Mayor" was only yards away from one of the explosions. 4)Fear remains of booby traps in tunnels. Reminds one of London fire-bombings in WWII intended to exhaust fire fighters round the clock. Ironically the "tube" was a safe haven for WWII Londoners. Edit: 5) From Mona Charen (7/8) column: " By committing such atrocities, the Islamists manage to stiffen whatever small residue of resolve remains in flaccid Western civilization"

From National Review blog: Rehnquist AND Stevens resign as early as today... Edit:......oops .....same site now reports Stevens held interviews for 2 clerks for 2006 which doesnt sound like he is retiring.

Livingstone's anti-Semitic utterances are despicable. His words , from the heart and from the mind, after this nefarious event are not diminished by his past mal mots.

From MP George Galloway (of Oil for Food scandal fame) notes: "We urge the government to remove people in this country from harms way, as the Spanish government... {did}... by ending occupation of Iraq and by turning its full attention to the development of a real solution to the wider conflicts in the Middle East"

I am not responsible for your ignorance nor the stupidity of your band of sycophants who shortly will join your amen chorus