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Fine. Go back year and compare them to another 7 -9 team. CIN. Then lose RG Walker for 9 games. Lose C Fowler for 4. Lose LT Peters for 1 game outright, and play him 10 snaps or so for 3 other games. Do the Bills end up 7 - 9? Would they fall from thier 3rd least pass attempts, to the bottom? Would Edwards have been planted head first into the turf despite the dearth of long pass plays? From what I read here on TSW, nobody is claiming that the current roster backups are going to come in and mow down linebackers and DLs. It's a rough sport - you have to plan for injuries. One can certainly heap bricks on CIN, but not for not stocking the OL bench just in case. The Bills are on OL thin ice...

What??? You couldn't climb up the Himalaya Mountains and find a Guru?

I wish I had the Weather Channel stage make-up contract. They must get it bulk delivered on shrink-wrapped pallets... Paul Goodloe is my favorite tv made-up person. Stunningly perfect, pleasing skin tone - my wife calls him "Mr. Coffee".

Certainly! Canned meats, or approximations, are welcome! Add things like packaged, sealed toiletries like toilet paper, soap, toothbrushes, razors, as well as laundry detergent, cleaning products, and pet food and treats. Most downtrodden folks love their pets, and want to keep themselves and their domicile clean. Unfortunately, these can fall by the wayside when hunger calls...

Please contribute. Put goods in a plastic bag by your mailbox, and your mailman will pick it up. http://www.nalc.org/commun/foodrive/

I guess the reverse should be asked...who gets into the playoffs with a lousy OL? Plenty here are happy about the recent upgrades in the Bills' starting OL. Certainly there is more to a winning club - everybody knows that. We have been discussing back-ups that can do a halfway decent showing if called upon. I like to think that even the poorest team that can go injury-free in their starting 22 can be playoff caliber.

Yep...we "Cornered" the market.

Aren't you stepping on your employer's turf?

22 of 32 teams drafted an OL, 4th round or higher, this year... http://www.nfl.com/draft/tracker#tab:dt-by-position|pos-ol

Aren't they illegal in most States, save for handicap permit holders and some in the trucking and farming business?

If I sought for and became a Representative Of The People and was actually serious about it, and helping out, you bet I'd be going to the local barbers. As a matter of character.

So...you are willing to pay about $400 extra in State taxes to make up for Cig tax shortfall, as well as greatly increased FICA tax because smokes and their maladies kill quickly in mid-life usually, and the victims don't hang around to pull a dime out of the Social Security system? Open your wallet. See a 1989 study by the then-Price Waterhouse company, who concluded that the best financial thing to do about smokers is to offer them a light. BTW, here's the latest from OH...finally got rid of the last of the cig cessation organizations so the currently-ruling Dems can divvy up the cash.. The Americans with Disabilities Act recognizes alcohol and drug dependencies as an addiction, a sickness. And money gets yanked out of your pocket to pay for the so-afflicted. That nicotine addiction exists is well-established. So I want you, being a fair fellow, to push legislators to force you to pay for me to solve my addiction. I figure an extra 500 bucks added to your 1040 bottom line will save my soul and make you feel good about buying into the crap about smoking costing society and business profits. BTW, Our new Governor, Ted Strickland - D, grabbed the last of the $$$ from the government confiscation of private assets, i.e., the 'Tobacco Settlement". If you recall, the idea was to help folks stop smoking, but OH, like most if not all States, filled their general funds with the loot. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/04/14/ap4886951.html This is a dated article. The deed has been done in OH. The Gov sold the remainder of the extracted settlement $$$ for 50% of value to feed the State coffers. The outfit that administered the no smoking effort had been closed.

You win the cash prize.

Why won't the government just make cigarettes illegal?

I've joined the Free LSI cause. See sig.

Well, don't worry...we have Preston. He conquered the Yukon. "Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police with Yukon King, swiftest and strongest lead dog breaking the trail in the relentless pursuit of lawbreakers, in the wild days of the Yukon. Back to the days of the Gold Rush, as Sergeant Preston, with his wonder dog, Yukon King, meets the challenge of the Yukon."... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182633/

100,001, if I knew about it.

Just make sure it's a precise snip, worthy of a $400 haircut!

There has never been a government agency that didn't claim that. If they are underfunded, well, Congress can solve that if they would care to drop some of their earmarks and local pork projects. Granted - they can't explicitly force an Administration to spend funding for the FDA - but they can certainly withhold in other areas to put a heavy squeeze on. The new leadership of Congress made a lot of glorious promises, but making sure the FDA got a larger cut seems to be just more election rhetoric gathering dust... And the FDA as well as all agencies are always subject to the whims, right or wrong, qualified or not, of this or that politically-appointed boss (with Congressmen getting their bites in - it's not just the Administrative branch). But not so curiously, very few quit. The lifetime employment remains appealing, especially since the old discount in wages in exchange for a lifetime sinecure has been largely erased. And the FDA gets stabbed both ways - damned if they don't approve a drug hastily, and damned if they do.

Don't count on a large selection of lo-cal, lo-fat stuff at Wal-Mart. The closest the one near me comes to that, is the obligatory yogurt products in the dairy case, the light microwave popcorns, and the natural juice canned fruit gathering dust on the shelf. The twenty five or so feet of milk offerings has two feet devoted to skim milk.

Thanks! You would be one heck of a ten year old, otherwise... Chroise...it's everywhere!

Ah..I see, a Mardi Gras thing. Sounds fun!

That's impressive. According to your profile, you were born in 1998. Hamdan was born in 1981. So at birth, you recognized that then 7 year-olds' future greatness.

What is Fantasy Fest? Is it a Sci-Fi, fiction literature and film event?