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Get a pair of big'uns in the middle, and we can call it the 'Buffalo Cover-2' rather than trying to run another team's scheme that's tailored to their personnel, their division and most of all (I think) their climate. Teams won't be passing in Buffalo as much as they run, especially late in the season. Vive le difference.

KMart was bought by Sears; I think it was last year. Unlike a omplete takeover, they've allowed the KMart brand name to stick rather than switch all of the signage to Sears. Wouldn't surprise me if they decided to consolidate, as they need to cut costs to pay for buying them, as that is how profit is made.

Yes it does. But you're misrepresenting what "freedom of speech" is. You are equating it to 'You can say anything you want w/o consequences.' In reality, FoS just guarantees that the govt cannot put you in prison for what you say (besides making a threat of violence). It doesn't mean you can't be fired from your job for what you say, ostracised from the community or that people must continue doing business with you. FoS is like the freedom to jump off your roof and fly --- you can try it, but there are consequences. The important point here is that this book offers real, physical proof of bias. Every time this judge hears a case involving illegal immigration in any way, it provides immediate grounds for appeal. The reason why nominees for SCotUS (i.e. Roberts' confirmation, memorably) decline to answer such broad questions on their philosophy is that it gives the appearance of prejudice. He had the right to write the book, but not w/o professional consequences. What those consequences may be, I don't know.

Oh look, I have my own little stalker.

[sarcasm] Yes, that's what's being advocated. [/sarcasm] We all make choices --- thousands every day --- and we all have to accept the results of said choices. No way to go back in time and change them. Unless this was random, it looks like DW or someone he was associated with PO'ed the wrong person, with tragic consequences. What happened, happened and no one ever said life was fair. We all act like we're close to invincible, but we have so little control over what happens. Hopefully the police catch the reponsible person(s), but like the Ray Lewis incident, I doubt the public will ever learn one quarter of the truth. All due respect, but on the grand scale, no, they don't. Different faces, different places, different implements, but the same mistakes made at the dawn of man will still be made at the dawn of the Apocalypse.

I'd say that insurance companies have just as much or more to do with it than the govt. How do you think Aetna, Cigna, et al. afford their huge buildings in Hartford? And the $500,000 rare mohagony meeting-room desks (my uncle was one of the people who built them)? That WalMart is offering more choices for people and more competition for Rx is only a good thing. Another thing I've heard about is having practioners actually at pharmacies who can prescribe for low-level conditions, i.e. ear infections, poison ivy, etc. for a nominal fee rather than someone having to go to a $100 doctor's visit just so s/he can look at you for 2 minutes and give you an Rx in handwriting that no one can read. That makes SO much sense, it boggles the mind why no one has done it before. Could really help streamline things for a system that's just getting overburdened.

It is real. Worse than the Madden curse, and we do it to ourselves! So, with this in mind, who do we propose to go on a new banner? Or should there be a player picture at all? I think a nice all-text banner would be nice.

Are you effing dense? First, I used that phrase in quotes b/c that's the common usage describing those players. There are many degrees of 'character.' On the low end, let's go with Osama bin Laden. On the high end, let's say.... Ghandi. I'd say players like Lee Evans, Aaron Schoebel, etc. that Marv likes are higher character than people like Kobe Bryant, Lawrence Phillips, and the like. Why? They've never been involved in any kind of trouble. They do their jobs, go home, and you otherwise don't hear a peep. I'm getting castigated by you b/c I appreciate people like that? That I appreciate Thurman Thomas handing the ball to the ref rather than acting like a fool? I'm not slamming DW. He seemed to have turned things around quite a bit from his youth. But if you opened the myspace link, there's photos on there that show he still did the club scene. Nothing wrong with that; this is the land of the free, but as Bill said, and he should know, that lifestyle and hanging around with that crowd assumes more risk than driving straight home to wifey every night. Regardless, that didn't make him a 'bad person' b/c he chose to do different things. Mountain-climbers aren't 'bad people' even tho what they do is extremely risky. He didn't 'deserve' to be shot; I don't think anyone here said anything like that. And.... and you know what? I'm tired of explaining myself to you. I have better things to do.

God, every time I watch their games I think to myself, 'I shouldda gone to USC!'

Why, did it scream, "... And then we're gonna go to MARS!! And SATURN'S SECOND RING!!! YEEAAAHHHHWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!" over its audio system?

In the NFL, if you win the toss and 'defer' you would kick to start the game, and the loser of the flip decides what they want to start the 2nd half. Unless you're Baltimore, whose D can score as much as their O, no coach in his right mind would think of defering. Never understood why the NFL does it this way. It pigeonholes the winner of the coin flip, when by logic, the winner should have a better choice --- if they want to receive it to start the first half or to start the second.... as the college flip allows.

His throwing the ball at Barringer after the 4th Q catch was low-ball. And the guy was hurt, too. Pick him at your own peril; he'll get you a lot of yards, but he'll be getting a lot of 15-yard penalties on Sundays, and will be a major distraction. The refs called a hell of a game. They get so much gruff when the screw up, they should get some credit when they do a good job.

I don't know what the dispute is about either. What you just wrote is a summation of everything I've written on this. But what would you know, Bill, you're just a cop. BlueFire staked a position put words in my mouth and now, in the face of all contrary evidence, is trying to defend it with all the vigor he's learned from the best bullsh--ters he looks up to on PPP.

I never said DW was Ed. Why don't you go exercise your wrist while staring at your Vince Young poster? There's a reason why the Texans logo is a !@#$ skull.

I knew those were contacts (or Photoshop?)! No one has eyes that blue, even me. All of that enhancement stuff gives me the heebie-geebies. Like on that earthquake episode of "Fresh Prince of Bel Air": I'm stuck in a basement Sittin' on a tricycle Girl gettin' on my nerve Goin' outta my mind I thought she was fine Don't know if her body is hers!

Would that be of the 'Jesus was an Alien' variety? Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if this stuff is U.S. military. Whatever.

One will almost certainly be spent on a WR, so it's a wash w/ their losing Branch. Then I think they take a CB or S to replace Samuel if he signs elsewhere (likely); or Harrison (injured yesterday, and it may be the end of the road). What really gets me is the Boston TeeVee stations were whining about the 'cheap shot' Harrison took to the knee. That's rich!

Yep, and our lack of talent/depth at TE (and perhaps OT, if he had thoughts of converting) that attracted him here, along with a new reputation that this team gives UDFAs a real chance to make the team based on how well they play. How sh-- lucky were we that everyone else wrote him off when they couldn't see a place for him?

Not so high that you're spending an extra $15-20M on signing a kid who has just as much chance to bust and not so low that we're behind the 8-ball in rounds 2-7, where the future and raw talent is got.

I know a group of Hartfors Whalers got in trouble up in Buffalo in the early-to-mid 90s. It was in Jim Kelly's old bar, Network.

Someone I know has looked at the numbers, etc. and said that Denver. in some respects, was worse than L.A.! I think it's more to do w/ drugs, esp. meth (perhaps owing to its airport hub), and less w/ murder, tho give that enough time to incubate.... Them shutting down their gang task force for a couple of years b/c of some hokey-pokey certainly didn't help.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Denver's got just as big a gang problem as other major cities, and depending to who you listen to it's a major hub of that problem in the SW, much as the airport is a major hub to the airlines. Maybe it was in the '60s, but it's not "safe" anymore. NOTE that with this statement, I am NOT saying that gang activity was involved in DW'S killing.

We really should. In the 4th or maybe the 6th. We need to start developing a good backup now b/c Holcomb isn't going to be here for very much longer and has a noodle for an arm. Bills have picked 2 QBs in the last ~11 years; Pats take one about every two years. I'm thinking someone like Tate out of Iowa State or John Stocco from Wisconsin....

Denver Post link. There I go... assuming things again.... tard. And one person said Denver TV was reporting there was an altercation w/ WR Javon Walker in the club....

Being in the company of a 24-year-old lady friend in a Hummer limo (if the pic was right), I'm going to assume they weren't on their way home from taking communion at St. Paul's or the Unsinkable Molly Brown museum. Just a hunch. You can get into the whole 'Well, you don't know everything!' schpiel that you've learned so well on PPP. I know enough. We'll see how that goes, sparky. Like I said, 'enemies' can be made really easily. A guy I know was back from Iraq for one day, went to a club in Hartford and asked a guy, "Hey slick, are you done with this table?" The guy got two punches in before he got his ass kicked.... all b/c he didn't like being called 'slick.' Like I said, things get really stupid, really fast in places like this. I'm not preaching, just telling it like it is; and I'm not saying DW was a bad person or that he was 'asking for it' in any way. He should have had a fun night and be cleaning out his locker at Invesco Field right now. It's really sad that we've cultivated a society that runs to violence as an answer for any and every perceived slight.