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Update: Administration Calls for Action on Detainees First trial, of OBL's driver, started today.

1) You're giving him until Week 10?!? By your tone on this board, I'd have you pegged for calling for his and Edwards' heads if we don't score on the first drive of the preseason. 2) JP threw JP under the bus. And anyway, that wasn't Schonert's call. An idiom consisting of busted plays and the long bomb might get wins against Miami or the Jets in their down years but your team will never run with the big dogs like that. Sorry. There's countless anecdotes about guys who were playing one day and on the bench the next in favor of the new guy. Where was the (non-feigned) outrage for Coy Wire? Why did no one stick up for Robert Hicks? Oh, wait. They weren't QBs. It's trite, but Glanville's "Not For Long" sums the league up perfectly. If Trent can't develop a full game in 2-3 more years, guaranteed he's on the skids too. 3) How about Sparano whose resume is almost entirely OL coach, now he's Parcells' boy. Looks like Turk was comfortable where he was most effective. It shouldn't be a read on how capable he understands/is able to conduct an offense. There's question marks about him, sure, but training camp hasn't even started and you're on the guy's breasts already. If you're bothered by fluff pieces, then God help you come training camp time. And pretty much any other living, breathing moment b/c it's ~60% of "journalism" now.

It kind of disingenuous to be making these kinds of predictions based on relatively recent-past growth being representative of future population growth. Africa and India will have population booms? How? Life requires resources. More life requires more resources. Famine in Africa. AIDS and other diseases getting more widespread. There's only so much that nature allows before she puts a check on things. I don't mean to sound cold-hearted, it's just the way things are. Nor am I worried that everybody would suddenly scream, "Kill Whitey!" BTW - What's the deal with all of these white fear articles, anyway? What agenda do they serve? [Deep Voice] 'You'd better bow down to darkie now before he outnumbers you, and then he might let you live'? [/Deep Voice] It was used as a veiled threat following the Civil War, like in Langston Hughes poems, now put in a global scope? For the internal US racial debate, combine that with the numbers of interracial marriages and offspring, and what is the word "race" even going to mean in 50 years' time? Are we going to use blood quantums? Seriously, WTF. Besides, Thomas Newton predicted from all his study that the world would end sometime before 2060, anyway. (But you know, he was a smart dude, and the way things are going....)

"Not going anywhere for awhile?" I'd forgotten about that one.

It's carefully coordinated with the team nutritionist (I forget whether the conditioning coach has much, if any, input in this area), and it's individualized to each player's needs/goals. Such as if they need to lose or gain weight, muscle/fat ratios, etc.

I believe there was a piece on this time out of mind ago. Don't remember if it was from BN, RD&C, bb.com or elsewhere. Perhaps our resident guru-of-all-things-Bills Lori will come through in the clutch, yet again. They ran a list of what quantities of such-and-such food from the menu was eaten over a time period. And it was massive. As they say, an army fights with its stomach.

Awesome idea. Uses the Ralph for something rather than standing dark, subconsciously promotes the Bills, and possibly could charge for movies in the future... the drive-in concept is pretty dead, but this is a nice small payback/perk for a community that puts up with a lot of logistics headaches every fall.

Well, point of fact, the trials of some of the detainees will be starting soon. Kind of a test run of the system. As much as I agree with AD about the principle, the truth is where the rubber meets the road. Found a pretty good article here.

*Bump* The question stands.

The word now is that in addition to the "rip his nuts out" phraseology, the "Reverend" Jackson also dropped the N-bomb. Jesse, So sorry that Barak is cutting in on your scheme of getting filthy stinking rich by fleecing your followers and corporations who've given you, personally, millions of dollars and the lap of luxury to keep the 'We're victims of The System, not our own bad choices! Give us transfer payments and govt programs!' gravy-train alive. The America of 2008 is not the America of the Sixties. Vive le difference. Just hope this goes a little further toward making you irrelevant. Imus makes a bad but not ill-intentioned joke about someone's appearance and Sharpton goes at him like a boxing match, but when it's Jesse Jackson threatening to maim the genitals of the Democrat nominee (b/c he has the gall to say that fellow blacks need to make better decisions to improve their lives) and then drops the N-bomb that he's previously campaigned against all uses of.... well.... I guess "THAT'S DIFFERENT!"

What do you mean by not "as convenient"? Is it a finished basement? Stairs? Are you concerned about the logistics of getting the unit into the basement? We've got one here in the basement and for the number of times you have to go down there, it's usually "Honey, while you're doing wash, could you bring up a pork roast for Friday?" It's a big chest freezer, about 6'l x 3'w x 3'd, and it's old (~25 years) but it works like a champ and once it's frozen, the compressor doesn't run too much. We use ours pretty much like LA does, and for freezing strawberry/blueberry/rhubarb pickings, and for storing 1/4 cow when a farmer we know in town has one butchered (beats supermarket both in prices and taste). But hell, I don't think we need to sell you on one, you're just deciding b/w the basement or the garage. A link above states, "Choose a cool position. Placing a fridge or freezer in direct sunlight or next to an oven or other heat source can increase energy consumption substantially." I would think this is the same rule of thumb for putting an air conditioner in a shaded area rather than direct sun; I forget what the percentage it added to an energy bill was, I think 10-20%. I can't find anything on the Internets about the impact of a chest freezer in a varied-temp garage as opposed to a perpetually cool basement, but even if you go at the 10% assuming similar usage increase, that could be a fair amount per year depending on its original energy use. Weighing it all, I'd see how much of a hassle it would be to get it in the basement and if you could live with the travails of having to lug frozen lutefisk up the stairs. It's also a consideration of where you can most sacrifice any space the freezer will occupy. Being a lifetime member of the Man Club myself, I'm not prepared to give an inch of the garage b/c that just leads to a mile of spare shoes/dress/knitting accessory storage in a land where tools and touch-up paint buckets should reign sovereign. A pearl of wisdom from my old man: If you do put it in the basement, set it on top of some cement blocks/bricks (this goes for a furnace too). If a few inches of water ever gets in via foundation leaks or a basement sink or washer overflowing, etc., it won't kill your freezer... and on the other hand, if more than a few inches of water gets in, a dead freezer ain't your biggest problem.

Amen. Where would we have been the past few seasons if the Special Teams weren't as good as it is? 'Screwed' is the answer.

Well, it's not out of the question to cut firewood in summer. Campfires... storing up for winter... With energy costs the way they are, wood is going for ~ $220/cord in this area, and that'll only get higher once fall/winter hit. Even in Texas, it gets cold. Thing is, why the !@#$ didn't they invest in a woodsplitter? About $800 will get you a nice 8HP model from Harbor Freight (last I checked). Beats the crap out of splitting with an ax, I'll tell ya... safer too. Yeah, if it had been my finger that was hit, Luke would have needed about 40 stitches in his face.

So this morning, I was reading a magazine in the waiting room, I think it was Time (or maybe Newsweek?) from late June, and there was an article in there about the big prison breakout in Kandahar where ~ 1000 Taliban inmates escaped after a large suicide bomb and a convoy of minivans that shuttled the prisoners away. And I'm reading.... and up comes the detail that the seed of the escape happened when Terrorist A in the prison called Terrorist B on the outside, on his cellphone. Go on to read that about 700 prisoners in the compound were allowed to have cellphones, provided they were paid for by family members and they paid $100 to... whatever entity collected it (gee... what're the odds that this $ went straight into someone's pocket?). Reports were that the prison guards, over the period of a day of escaping/shuttling going on, had stripped off their uniforms and mingled in with the prisoners so as to avoid being killed. This is the crap about detention of Taliban/AQ prisoners that no one seems ready or willing to answer. Where do we put them, if not Gitmo? Above all, I want that question answered. Both candidates have said they will shut it down, w/o getting into details, as far as I've seen. Real-world question: Where do they go? To other countries where they will be released only to bomb again as was the impetus for the start of this thread? Or to other places where the security is, shall we say, less than adequate to defend against groups of people who have no hesitation to kill and be killed for their demented cause? Or where said security is waylaid by a little graft under the guise of 'prisoner rights to talk to their families' that enables communication/coordination b/w terrorists to take place? Perhaps this large escape is why we're having a difficult time of it in Afghanistan for the past few weeks now? Hmm? Maybe it says they had the right guys locked up? Where's the apologist schpiel, Steely? As well, to update the goings-on, many pretrial hearings were held in the last couple of months, and, as predicted, quickly turned into a 'I don't respect your authority/I will cut all your heads off, Allah willing' circus. How 'bout that?

I wonder if Ted f**ked DiPietro's wife. Or maybe DiPietro f**ked Nolan's wife. I dunno, but, someone must've f**ked someone's wife.

"Tightie whities are against the Geneva Convention!"

Well, Christ! That sounds like actual work and stuff.

Yep, for the second straight year, Miss USA landed on her heiney. Kind of metaphoric for what's happening in the world today, no?

Tho, if memory serves, he had communication with/worked out with the Ravens for a brief time after he announced his retirement at the field house. He was kind of handed his hat by Dan Henning (with tacit approval from Marv and Ralph) and I think it left a bad taste in his mouth, but it's probably something he and us fans shortly came to see as the right decision. It can be tough to hang 'em up. Granted, Kelly didn't try to hold the Bills hostage, as his contract was expired --- he was just moving on. That, and Favre's on-again/off-again retirement talk has to make everyone in Green Bay weary of his bs. Funny how someone who's so decisive on the field can be so indecisive off it. On Edit: Yep. NYT archive: Kelly Is Undecided On Return to N.F.L. NYT archive: Kelly Asks Ravens For 3-Year Contract

Right. When I heard the words, 'You're a Bills fan? I'm Kelly Holcomb's cousin!' I didn't jump bogart and lay in about talk of noodle arms and checkdowns. Instead, it was, "Oh, really. That's interesting" and then I started to carve the turkey. Even tho I was thinking to myself 'That's not something I would go bragging about.' Too bad some people's mothers didn't drive it in enough to show some class and when you can't say anything nice....

Either an early (before 10 a.m.) or a later mowing (~ 2 hours before sunset) is best for the grass --- doesn't subject it to mid-day heat stress which will require more water to keep it healthy. On weekends, as a courtesy, I don't mow before 9 a.m. Weekdays, 8 a.m.

I found out a couple of months ago that my brother's on-again/off-again girlfriend (baby-momma-to-be, actually) is a cousin of Kelly Holcomb.

Eddie might put the 'fat suit' down?!!? Say it ain't so! His best was Trading Places. Which is sad when you realize it's ~20 years old and he hasn't done anything worth a bucket of sh-- since. Then again, 90 percent of everything that's come out of Hollywood in the past 15 years is warmed-over dreck.

Welcome back the Prodigal Son. Give him a Bills hat, take him to a training camp session, sacrifice the fattened kielbasa and pour the Genny Cream Ale. Remember that the most fervent believers are often the sheep who were once lost. People, we aren't in a position to be turning away those who would support the team. I've brought a couple of soft-core Pats fans into the Bills fold and we're now Bills buddies. ... Just, watch him pretty closely for the next two seasons.

I don't think he was pointing out the Iraq and Afghanistan (BTW, GG, I don't think there's many congress-critters going back on the Afghanistan measure) war votes specifically. He was talking more generally about the deterioration of checks and balances that's been happening for some time now but just recently with this admin, it seems to have picked up pace: Signing statements that basically say whether or what parts of the bills this administration will go along with, the domestic spying ruckus... Patriot Act, FISA, giving telcoms immunity, etc. To say nothing about the use of torture. By and large, for most of this presidency, everyone was walking around in a daze after 9/11 and/or playing 'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.' Talkin' both parties there b/c they'd all like to have more unconfronted power when they get the reigns. There's been a long line of Republican "I'm gonna do whatever I wanna do and nobody's gonna stop me." Dubya isn't the first. Crossing threads here, sorry, but where the Republicans (and, full disclosure, I'm on their lists; just haven't gotten hold of a change of registration card yet to go to Independent) went wrong has as much to do with lying about their intentions on the size/scope of govt they promise in election years (the fundamental part of being a fiscal conservative) as it is getting sidetracked with divisive, relatively petty social issues with the religious right. It's like they're 90 degrees off course, and no one in the boat who has access to the wheel can see they're going in the wrong direction... but it wouldn't matter anyway b/c the wheel is lashed. Now that they're committed, they have to go in that direction. Yeah, that's the biggest drawback. I give him some leeway in the 'I didn't know it'd be enforced/applied that way' mien, but anyone who wants to earn my vote (versus me holding my nose while I fill in the bubble) has to show forethought and great understanding of the short- and long-term consequences of his/her actions. That's probably asking for too much these days. All that being so, I'll take someone who only recently "got it" and 'flip-flopped' over people who I think are flat-out wrong.