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59-16-5...Wow!!

I don't know that the voucher system would overcrowd schools, as much as eliminate the multiple levels of administrators. Lets take Cheektowaga as an example. Typical suburban town of 100k people. They have 7 school districts. Seven! Cheektowaga Central, Cheektowaga Sloan, Maryvale, Depew, Cleveland Hill, JFK and Lancaster. Completely ridiculous. Lets say there was a voucher system and all the kids wanted to go to the "better" schools, Maryvale, Lancaster and Depew (I don't really know which are the better ones, just making an example). In order for those three to maintain their "better" status, they will have to hire more teachers to maintain student to teacher ratio. The schools not getting the vouchers would eventually close, leaving many highly paid administrators out of work, but the demand for teachers would remain constant. The only thing is you would have a bigger school. As far as gov't $$ going to religious schools, all religious schools take some level of gov't $$ in order to comply with gov't mandates to keep accreditation. The voucher system would not apply to private schools, only public schools.

Pretty much constant, consistent swearing.

Jeff Littman, destroyer of the Bills. Wonderful. I hope this clown has no role with the Bills now. I hope you are happy you saved a few measly pennies you jackass. Thanks Lori for the good read.

I'm bored and hoping to watch some debate!

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/overheardnyc/1849851.html

I know ND has a couple All America candidates. Pre-Weis Quinn did not do much. With Weis he was very good last year. This year, he seems to have done OK. How will his game translate to the NFL? What is his arm strength? Speed, cause he's gonna need it with our OL? How about his intelligence and reading defenses?

No more OL from Texas!

Brady who? Tom? Yeah, he's a good QB, wish we had him. Kelly who? Ripa? Yeah, she's hot. I'd bang her.

How do you know? What did he do for ND pre-Weis? How is he better than Brohm from Louisville? Break it down for me.

Hey Jeff, up yours!! Lori, thanks for the color in that story. I read Marv's bio, and knew about the poison pill on the Wolford contract etc. But the color you provide with respect to the relationship between Littman & Polian is invaluable.

Don't go there. We could argue the wisdom of that law in a country where you can die for it at 18, but not have a cold beer in a bar till you are 21. But we won't.

We'll keep this one around for others to contribute, if they want.

Give me a RB, FB and 9 OL, we'd direct snap each play.

A minor league baseball team tried it this year...it was an unmitigated disaster. The players & coaches hated it. Good luck trying to attract free agents.

I smell another stats thread coming!

A Perreault would be pretty cool. Drury just b/c he's my fav player on the team. No other reason. Yep. Do you like the home jersey or the logo? Difference there.

Story?

You have that system now, especially in public schools. Take a look at the property taxes in the areas with nationally recognized public school systems (see Great Neck, NY, as an example) and home prices in those same areas. Add into that its almost impossible to find a legal rental apartment in the area and what do you have. The voucher system is the way to level the playing field a bit. You can't compare elite private schools, they will always be about who can afford to attend versus who should attend based on aptitude (with some notable exceptions, such as Regis). Anyway, they are private schools for a reason. I was more talking about more efficient and better public schools.

Yes, and God, to them, sends his message thru folks like Falwell and Robertson. Hence, the support by Robertson is crucial.

If I had to do a current one (no sluggo, ever), it would probably be Drury. I think both Drury and Briere will be back next year, both on new deals.

I actually have two old jerseys. One LaFontaine white home and one road blue with #7 Tucker on the back.

But they fear the possibility of a Hillary election. They know Giuliani is the best NATIONAL candidate. Combining that fear with the the national security question (Ask yourself, who would you want leading you through a time of crisis?) and Rudy is far ahead of anyone save McCain. So, the primary voters get a McCain/Rudy choice. I don't think they like McCain down south. Pat Robertson despises him, yet respects Giuliani immensely. Even called him a "friend." Falwell has not come out one way or another yet. We're going to find out, but a strong Hillary is the best thing for a Rudy candidacy.

Good point, I agree completely.

All three have looked much better since the bye. Are we doing anything different? Have they just figured out the scheme? Are they reacting more and thinking less, because they better understand what is expected of them? The same things can be said of Nate & McGee. Maybe it just took a little while for them to become comfortable in the Cover 2 scheme. If so, thats a great thing and we should expect more very good performances from the D in the future. As for Spikes, true he is nowhere near the explosive playmaker that he was. The injury does take a lot of time to come back from, well over a year. I think you will truly see what he has left next season.