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Couple of Alphas taking notes? No way they'd play.

Mickey, Mickey, Mickey... You are one of the few I thought would be above this. I don't think anyone reasonable is saying anything to the effect that we've done it all right. My personal position, which you know well by now, is that the overall strategy was sound-but flawed in the execution. I could honestly discuss the layers of planning in general, and where the good points and bad points lie, but that would just ignite more stupid stevestojan here from people who need to be muzzled. In very simple terms, there's not an effective interface between DOD and DOS. It's realized now, but I've mentioned before how long it takes to move Rice Bowls. It's a little better now, but that doesn't change last year. But then again, what do I know.

Thanks Tom. (****)

Good stuff. I watched that game, and also the BC game. Buffalo picked well.

Once again, is our "moral maturity" (I can't think of a better term, and I'm not speaking religiously) keeping up with our intellectual maturity? Have you taken a good look at the world lately? We are developing technology at an exponential rate. we are not developing judgement at the same rate. Sad to say, I think in that department we are headed the opposite direction. Also, once again. Look at the prescription drug problem. The majority of drugs out there tie to this very issue. Extending life past the point of our lifestyles. We, as a whole, take little responsibility not only for our lot in life, but our very health and our ability to pursue it. Medicine is expected to bail us out from ourselves. Can this have anything to do with health care costs? What's the level of obeisety in this country? And we want cheap health care to cover every ailment resulting from.

I don't know. You never call, you never write, Oy Vey! What's a mother to do?

BTW, fear doesn't enter into this at all, at least not from my end. It's a question, not an indictment. I have my opinion. Why do some of us fear dying so much?

I get all that. I understand they were using roundworms for the research, start low-work up. It's the philosophy of it I was thinking about. As for Berg, my question, once again is should one do something just because they can? To me, it's easy to say the world will adapt. There has been a natural order for thousands, millions of years. Now we have the raw intelligence to possibly circumvent it. Just because it is not within our lifetimes, does it make it irrelevant. It is a concious choice of what is marketable now. Perhaps, 90 years from now a drug to enhance lifespan is introduced at $3,000 todays equivalent per dose. 10 years later, the masses are suing, voting, rioting, etc. because the cost of the dose is too high. for things to balance, there will have to be a reduction in the birthrate. We become a society of multi-octogenarians. then two hundred years later, there are no longer enough young to make for a meaningful society. I use this as an example, this is our trend. Someone give me a good reason why we should live past 80? Haven't we been saying "He/She led a good life" at less?

1. I think power rankings are a big whatever. Any of us could do the same thing and come up with something close. 2. None of the teams are the same teams they were in September. To me, one should closer at how teams are playing now, rather than their record. Pittsburgh is scary right now, but who knows two weeks from now? 3. The Bills have been relatively speaking, remarkably free of serious injury. Luck is involved, but someone has them conditioned too. We lost guys even before the season and in the early part of the season we are getting back now, rather than have them go down now. You think Daunte missed Randy Moss? 4. Yes, we have the highest marks of all the kids that failed. I call it a complement, and the rest of the league is going to go "Oh stevestojan" when the Bills beat the Pats Sunday (This WILL happen, and I'm not being a Homer, unless the Coleman Committee takes it away again) if we are on their schedule. 5. Don't underestimate the value of the Arizona win. Think Red Zone.

I'm there. And I don't even care if anyone misses me. I already know no one will. I don't like this "playing God" stuff. Curb suffering, yes. But just making people healthier extends life. Now how much medicine is devoted to rescuing us from our bad habits. You think Cro Magnon man was worried about acid reflux? Something never mentioned in the medicine debate is that very issue. How many medicines are out there simply to save us from our lifestyles, and also to extend life past a reasonable point? If one pours pork fat down their tubes for 40 years, why B word about paying $80.00 per bottle for cholesterol medicine?

...........how much do you make?

What's the quality of the petroleum? Light sweet? Where would it go as far as processing and the market goes?

Are you speaking for Ice?

I was listening to a piece on NPR driving home today, that I find disturbing. Your thoughts? Now there is a technique known as RNA Interference, the gist of which is that individual genes can be shutdown, manipulating protein formations and hence, metabolism. One group of researchers is specifically targeting the aging process, and have determined that gene manipulation can greatly increase life span. Is this another case of can we do something without regard to should we do something? What if, down the road, the human life span is extended to say, 150 years. We already can't fund social security. We already have population issues. Should people remain productive to the age of 130, how is everyone going to be accomodated by a job market that is shrinking through technology changes and a shift in consumer goods philosophies? What's wrong with the way things are? I can see the true value in the areas of disease therapy, and possibly the correction of birth defects and the like, but why the life span issues. Are we collectively that afraid of dying?

100% Catholic 100% Eastern Orthodox What a surprise

Bobby deserved it. Did a lot with very little.

30 what to zero?

Miami might want to trade it.

There there. Does Uncle Paul have to call his friends and eliminate your states?

I put it in the "must read" category, if only to gain a perspective. But I'm not DC Tom.

Flyboys

Rochester's Misguided

Wasn't aware. Thanks. Love the DC political scene. This will be quite the foodfight.

Lots of resistance on the Stadium. Mayor Williams needs seven votes to get it through the City council, thinks he has it by siphoning some of the stadium funds off for special interest things certain council members want. Vote was supposed to be yesterday, but got stopped (delayed two weeks) by the head of the council who wants to explore private financing, which would require a renegotiation with MLB. Anyone want a baseball team? EDIT: Sorry, meant to say Expos.

Semper Fi. I got an invite to one of the local birthday parties. And I'm Army. Thought you guys didn't mix with "lower life forms".