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God, I hope so.

Replaying of last season's finale "The Incident" tonight at 9 on ABC, ahead of next week's season premiere. Refresher time, everybody!

That's... not what happened at all. Greer developed for a few years in spot duty and when pressed into it, arguably was a better cover CB than McGee. For the life of me, I don't get how you can write that Greer "didn't fit" the D. Then, the FO let him sign elsewhere w/o making a serious enough offer. Not saying this was the wrong move. Indeed, the Bills' cup runneth over in the secondary --- to the detriment of just about every other position. And yet, Jauron et al kept drafting CBs/Ss with shocking regularity.

The Lowe's 10% coupons are in change-of-address packets at any post office.

+1 Modrak is and wants to be a chief college scout. He can detail college players' strengths and weaknesses, their fit to certain schemes, their mentality, etc. That's basically what the scout has to do. He defines the players and make recommendations. With the seven-headed hydra that was the FO hierarchy, there must've naturally been confusion as to what was being built (too many cooks in the kitchen doing their own damn thing with the soup) rather than a single vision. I think they far too often deferred to Jauron's input on the draft and roster management. The single vision is now put in place, for better or worse, with Nix. Succeed or fail, we'll know exactly who to cheer or blame. As has been well-chronicled on this site, Guy's performance has been, well... ****ty. Outside of Spikes and Sam Adams and perhaps Hangartner (maybe I'm overestimating him b/c he doesn't get pushed back into the QB's face w/in 2 seconds), it's hard for me to think of a real impact FA signing, and we can all recite a litany of complete duds. I am less filled with venom for Modrak than most here. Last year's draft looks pretty damn good, post-Maybin (who knows, maybe the kid pans out. Way too early). For sure, Modrak's on a short leash. Now that the panel's off and some known bad circuit breakers have been removed, let's see if the one marked TM is still good before throwing it out. Pretty far into the draft process, anyway.

Dude, this is a state that regularly elected Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. Looks and good teeth play little to no part in deciding who to vote for here. Maybe it's a big deal where you're from --- I don't know.

Actually, as someone who was barraged by the ads for the last few months, it was more a scare campaign than hate. Probably the main item was Coakley trying to distort Brown's record on "denying abortion rights to rape victims" that had an air of truth, but not the fullness of truth. Brown sponsored legislation that would allow medical/pharm personnel to not prescribe abortion drugs, etc. I believe it also required someone who would to be on duty. This has been a hot-button in many races. To be fair, Coakley's "negative" ads were about trying to scare voters away, not personal attacks, as such. The level of acrimony b/w them was pretty damn low as Senate races go. Brown won on the issues. That fact should scare the pants off of the DC Dems. Unless by "hate campaign," you mean Coakley calling Curt 'Bloody Sock' Schilling a Yankees fan on live radio. In Boston, that's nigh unforgivable.

Articles titled, "Week after Quake, Aid Elusive" Where are all the threads saying, "Obama hates black people!"

Fixed. It shows the depth of your cluelessness if you think this was about hairstyles and good teeth.

Ayla is "available." (victory speech video)

Well, yes and no. Many in the state do want national health care reform. Just, not the reform as the language now stands, how it was conducted in the backrooms, the pols' elitism on the subject (the Barney Frank 'Shut up. I know more than you do, you filthy pigs' attitude on full display this summer didn't endear anyone but the left wingnuts), and the process of how the Landrieu and Nelson votes were out-and-out purchased for $400M, among other sweetheart earmarks. As I wrote in the other thread about this race, Brown said that he would welcome continued debate. Like many Republicans, he's in favor of many of the aims of the bill, it's a relatively small percentage of the bill that is a dealbreaker; and the Dems would hold fast trying to get all or nothing... well, with the way Pelosi et al. are leading on this issue, it looks like they're going to get nothing. No one to blame but themselves. Brown said during the campaign that one idea may be for individual states to follow the Mass. example and come up with their own state plans. With Congress run the way it is (I put this to the system, rather than any one party), that may be the best course for health care reform, in reality.

Is that Chad Kelly, the one who's won all those Pass, Punt & Kick contests (he was on the field Sunday). And is he the same one who was kicked off of his hs football team this past season? We never heard why.

Me too. But as I wrote yesterday, they're getting a much shorter leash. I want demonstrative proof that they're moving in a better direction. I want to see the fuggin compass readings! My bull **** meter has been dialed down 6 notches. First whiff I get, I am spending my weekends outside like I did most of this past season, and I'll wait for Ralph's dirt nap.

Actually, it's been more substantial than that. There's at least 2 commercials from the race during every station break in the Boston and Providence (their DMA reaches SE Mass., the islands, and parts of the Cape) markets. Brown has run ads highlighting his military service and supporting Pres. Obama's Afghanistan surge, ads calling for tax cuts, and, yes, ads that the health care bill as it currently stands needs to go back to the drawing board, and it needs to be done out in the open rather than Democrat back rooms. Brown didn't say he would kill it; he is for much of it including the pre-existing conditions clauses. Like other Repubs, he's for ~80% of the stuff, but the other 20% of it is a deal-breaker. (Plus the skeevy-ness of the outright purchase of Landrieu(?)'s and Nelson's votes, along with other choice earmarks.) Coakley has gone very populist. Centered mostly on health care and incurring the Kennedy image (tho some of her ads proclaim it is "not the Kennedy seat"). She's said she'll "go after" Wall Street bankers. I figured out what's up with her weird speech style. I thought it was an accent at first, but it's mostly from the fact that she doesn't move her upper lip much at all (Maybe she can't. Certainly looks like a botox job, if I've ever seen one).

HBD, Mr. Bad Robot.

Been saying that for years, and I get flamed for it. Actually, I'm much more partial to a coma-like state where he would technically still own the Bills and someone else (Mary Wilson?) would take over as a nominal CEO. They can keep people alive in comas for years. Then there would actually be a chance this team would be run like a 21st century NFL franchise. For the record, I am overwhelmingly ambivalent about the expected Gailey hire, just as I was for DJ. Gailey and Nix have a very short leash vis-a-vis my intentions of actually giving a crap about the Bills and the NFL.

The official . Some find the guy's voice irritating. I find it hilarious (especially the "Whhhaaaaaaaaaattt?!!!?!?s that were all too common given the givens of S5).

That was a few seconds. A lot of people close their eyes to visualize --- not the least of which would be football coaches who have to "see" what a formation should be. With eyes open, there's too much stimuli to visualize. Unless there's drooling, snoring or a giant startle-wake, a lot of the stories about X was sleeping during Y is spurious. It often is a tool for concentrating better.

I could. But most people here wouldn't want me to. I read the other day that someone saw Ray (Jack's grandfather who gave him the shoes for FLocke) in the background during the Jack-Hurley exchange at Ajira boarding. I rewatched, but no, it wasn't him.

Most of them.

Personally, I don't really believe in time, as such. Yeah, I know TODAY is on @ 7 a.m. and dinner's at 8. But as I've gotten older (and with the influence of "Lost" among other works) I'm getting more into Eternalist theory. Going back in time wouldn't really do much. We would still have lived in a world with societies that created psychopaths; doesn't really matter if you kill one Hitler or Stalin, b/c there's 1,000 more who would do marginally the same things in their place. "The universe has a way of course correcting" for whatever change you'd make. Mostly, you'd just go backward (or forward) as an observer of discrete events. But here, too, we get into time as a fourth dimension and the alternate realities put into that dimension once you did something to change the future.

Great. We can count the whole number of persons. All well and good. But the Constitution makes no stipulation that this resulting whole number must be used unadulterated to determine apportionment of representation.

Present: Michael Emerson (Ben on "Lost"), Laura Linney , Alan Alda (tho, not sure it's right to put a M*A*S*H nod in a "present" category), Harrison Ford rarely disappoints Deceased: Cary Grant, Paul Newman Foreign: Matthew MacFadyen, Audrey Tatou, and I've gotta agree on Daniel Auteuil ("Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources") Foreign Deceased: Yves Montand, Paul Eddington & Nigel Hawthorne (tho, they had the benefit of great writing on "Yes, (Prime) Minister)

I've never had fresh-made like that. My father once said it tastes pretty similar, as he remembered. You mean, "Dr Pepper." No period in there.

Sure, the Census should --- and does --- count them. I'm not sure of the language used, but with this administration.... Just saying that I take issue that their headcount contributes to congressional seat and electoral college apportionment. This is like stowaways getting in line at the galley for shares of a ship's rations.