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AP Reports... If he goes on IR, I don't think the Bills can make the playoffs. We need to Ellis to step up and earn some game time now!

All I can say is that if the shoe were on the other foot, you would be throwing a fit. I don't respect any of your opinions any more, so I too find this conversation a waste of time.

Sam sex marriages, where they are legal, is also pubilc domain. Would it be OK if a newspaper decided to start printing just those and didn't print the traditional marriages?

Of course is intimidation. Why else highlight only them? The newspaper is pointing out the minority. Is that fair?

Yes, it is extremely troubling. Once again, there is a double standard here. Where is the American Civil Liberties Union? They should suing the newspaper today. We all should have the freedom to support who we want without being unfairly highlighted for it in the media.

You aren't this thick. Why would the newspaper do this? Answer that question honestly if you are able to admit what this is.

Is that right? How many of these first-time voters, who carried Obama to victory, are college educated?

Too true, VA. Then Israel won't even consult with us when they bomb Iran. Of course, Obama or no Obama, the rest of the world will still blame us, and terrorists will still aim for us.

I've been to games all over the place, and I supervise sercurity at Redskins games. What you described is unfortunately the norm everywhere. Although, I would say there isn't really a shortage of personnel doing the searches. They only spend about 10 seconds on each person. It is the stadiums' refusal to spend the money to create and maintain order in front of the gates that is to blame.

No one who I know has said Obama cannot give a good speech. Indeed, his speech last night was epic-like. He looked presidential. He looked sincere. But that is what he's known for -- giving great speeches. He is the president-elect now. So he has my respect now. I will give him a chance, to an extent. But there are points on his platform I strongly disagree with, and if he acts on those points, I will not support those moves. First and foremost, if he cuts and runs in Iraq, he will lose any respect I have for him. We cannot lose the war. I am looking to organize a march on the White House the day after Obama is inaugurated. We must stand united and speak loudly to show we will not accept a surrender in Iraq. We cannot allow the sacrifices made by our service members and their families go for naught. Please, PM me today if you will help me put this together or if you want more info as plans develop. I am well connected in the military and veterans communities. This will happen; I hope you will be part of it.

Change the air filter, flush the water supply, clean the generator and reinforce the hatch yet again on my family's bunker. Or, burning Philly to the ground.

It's about the same as what Barack Obama put out.

Mr. Winfield and Mr. Fletcher also made the list. Good for both of them.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nf...am_N.htm?csp=34 SS — Donte Whitner, Bills: No questions now about whether Buffalo reached to draft him eighth overall in 2006. Congrats, Donte! No question, indeed.

Something like a small-time crook getting busted only leads the criminal to hate police more and become stronger?

Wow, a cell phone! OK, now I feel old.

The prevailing message here is that this election is only making the racial divide deeper. No matter who wins, it is not going to be immediately good for the nation.

I agree that the child's parents should be shot. I've had a McCain sign stolen from my front yard, as well. I now have it in my front window.

How the hell did the Pats*' Vince Wilfork not at the very least get an invite to that party?

I actually agree to an extent, but the trade deadline has past. By the offseason, Peters will either be very good again or exposed as not so good anymore.

That hasn't always been the case. Now that it is, on many levels, that is sign things are going to get better. We were a violently divided nation once, too.

But we did over throw the governments in Europe and Japan, no? But I guess Americans were tougher and more determined and more patriotic and less self-centered then. I'm not saying you are self-centered, I don't know you, but I think those who will vote for Obama because they want out of Iraq are.

What I am reading here is that I live in a nation that lacks the resolve necessary to win in a long, hard war against those who hate Americans and the American way. I am reading that many support Obama simply because they are tired of sacrificing so the war on terrorism can be fought. Sure, you'll come back and say the war in Iraq is not the war on terrorism, that we had no right to go in there to begin with, the Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11. Well, this isn't about 9/11. This is about fighting Muslim fanatics who want to destroy America. No one with a clue can say honestly that isn't exactly who we're fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. My fellow Americans aren't being asked to go fight anywhere against their will. We aren't going to impose a draft. Yet the majority, if you believe every poll other than the one I linked to, don't even have the guts to allow other Americans to fight terrorism on their behalf. You can say this is about McCain being a bad boy at the Naval Academy and cheating on his ex-wife decades ago. You can say this about whether he told his captives in Vietnam his dad was an admiral. But it seems to me it about the war. About America not having the stomach for a tough fight. If you vote in Obama and he waves the white flag in the desert, claims we just cannot win, that it would be too hard to win, then we'll end up much like we were after Vietnam. Our service members will return, lick their wounds and figure out other ways to better our nation. But the rest of the world will know America no longer needs to be taken seriously. I wonder what our world would be like of our fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers said the Japanese and Germans were too tough. That they just didn't see how we could go fight two monstrous forces on separate continents at the same time.

If we can get democracy to stick, it is feasible to have a relationship with Iraq similar to the ones we have with Kuwait, Qatar and UAE, other somewhat progressive Middle Eastern nations.

The Big Cat did a decent job at answering; although, I would definitely add that the goal is not merely establishing a functional democracy but establishing a self-sustainable, functional democracy. Is it possible? It has to be. What is the alternative? Allow it to be overtaken by terrorists? Iran? Is there a difference? No, we must have win. How are we going to win? We need to continue fighting these terrorists, continue training Iraqi forces so they can defend their own country, and we need to keep pressure on other countries helping those terrorists replenishing the enemy in Iraq. I also want to note KIAs are down considerably, and troops are not dying daily. There have been 6 American KIAs this month, 24 days into the month. That is still too many, but it down from 30 last October.