JimBob2232

No, I disagree. I agree with the republican philosophy (or at least their campaign philosophy). Smaller Government, Lower Taxes, strong defense, less government involvement in our daily lives, etc. etc. However, they get in office and its more of the same old crap. Its troublesome. A 3rd party candidate (who stood for my values) would get my vote, if for no other reason but to send a message. Its not that I have no political backbone, far from it....its just that neither side of the isle is doing what I want them to be doing as my elected representatives.

I agree with above. However, if you told me you took portis in round 1 and cullpepper in round 2, nobody would be saying anything. So the fact you took him in round 1 and portis in round 2...i guess it really doesnt matter. Does your league only start 1 RB? If so, you did okay....Portis is a good RB, but I would want someone other than Bennet, Goings and Perry backing him up. In fact, Keep bennett, but get rid of goings and perry. Bennett may start, but the others are backups at best. Goings is the 4th RB in Carolina this year (Behind Foster, Shelton and Davis). Pick up some guys with a real chance of playing. (i.e. Jacobs from NYG, Toefield JAX, Anyone from Denver, heck even joe burns is a better play than Goings at the moment.) WR is solid, especially since ward is now in camp. I like crumpler alot this year. Vinny and the Bills are also solid. I think your starting team is good enough to compete with the top of your league...however any injuries and I think you are hurting pretty badly. Oh, and are TDs worth 6 points for a QB? I would really need to see a scoring breakdown...

You would need a crazy left win democrat (Hillary) vs. a Crazy right wing republican (Newt). Then a third party has a chance. The biggest problem is the perception they have no chance. I voted for bush in 04, not because i liked him, but because virginia was close and I didnt want to throw my vote away because kerry scared the hell out of me. The Nader Syndrome (or Perot Syndrome) is the problem. If people voted for who they actually wanted, yes a 3rd party has a chance. The key is convincing the electorate that there is actually a viable chance of the 3rd party winning.

As long as Don Cherry goes to OLN...life will be GREAT

I also hate steven a smith. However, some of the promo commercials looked pretty good. (and by good, i mean the guest list). It seemed (per the commercials) he was asking some tough questions and probably had some decent interviews...but even that is not enough to make me watch that show.

Antwain Winfield did a pretty darn good job in minny last year...

Some of the best things TD does are the things he doesnt do...this gets overloooked way too often.

Upon further review...go to http://datelinehollywood.com/ and see the headlines JACKSON AGREES WITH JURORS WHO REGRET ACQUITTAL “No doubt in my mind whatsoever, that boy was molested,” writes Jackson ------------------------- STUDY: HOLLYWOOD NEEDS FEWER ORIGINAL IDEAS ------------------------- IRONIC MEDIA MARKET NOW BIGGEST SEGMENT OF BUSINESS ’Care Bears’ t-shirts, ‘Showgirls’ DVDs become top selling products Its satire...still funny though.

Gotta be satire. No real journalist would put a screen name in an article..

(Sirens) The analogy police are here to take away your analogy licence... Oil (specifically gasoline) is a very inelastic demand. This means that the price of the good (oil) does not impact demand. Ice cream is very elastic. I go to the store and see that it is $5 for a half gallon, i leave the store without it. Have a buy 1 get one free sale...i take some home. Oil demand has skyrocketed due to a number of things (increased energy consumption, SUVs, global warming (so the left tells us), etc..). While demand is going through the roof, the supply of oil remains constant. It doesnt take an economics major to see that high demand and low supply causes high prices. Again the ice cream analogy is flawed. Supply is drastically reduced, thus driving up the price, leading to lower demand. Two different worlds. There are 2 ways to solve this oil problem. 1) More Supply 2) Lower Demand Period. We have little control over the supply. But even if we did, we do not have enough refineries to process enough oil to meet our increased demand. Therefore, we do need to build more refineries..but it needs to be coupled with a real and sustained effort to lower our demand. Hopefully this is occuring.

The only one who can hit -6 is elkington...I say -3 or -4 wins it...though a playoff at -2 wouldnt suprise me one bit today...

Are you kidding? Every single holiday we currently have is a day of great american pride or celebration. Christmas, New Years, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Labor Day, Independance Day, MLK, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, etc. We are not celebrating the terrorists (which is what a 9-11 day would do). It would help them achieve their objective of destroying our economy. We already have a day to honor those who died defending our country, and a day to remember all those who died in service to our nation. Those who parished shall be remembered during these times. Why not a pearl harbor memorial day? The answer is simple. This is America. We celebrate the good and remember the bad.

Yep...and until we do something to become non-reliant on the middle east for oil...this is the way it will be. We have 2 options...1) Start using our resources to develop new forms of energy and process some of our natural resources in the meantime or 2) Work hard for a US-Friendly middle east. We are taking half a$$ed approaches to both. That wont cut it. For the record, #1 far outweights #2

I am planning on taking a trip to buffalo at some point this season to catch a game (probably the 2nd half of the season). I have been to a few road games, but never a game in Buffalo. Where is the best place to sit? Most of the seats I see on ebay and on here are in the end zone or in the 300 sections. Are these seats decent, or should i wait to see if I can get something better? Thanks.

Yes..I did...in fact in the thread right below this one

It will be interesting to see who got the better of the QBs. I have to think it will be losman...but really...nobody will know for 3-5 years...

The problem with your premise is that people are saying gas prices are going up due to the lack of oil refineries. They are not sayign crude oil is going up due to lack of oil refineries. There is a difference. Crude oil is going up for other reasons. 1) Lack of stability in the middle east 2) Death of the king of Saudi Arabia 3) Increased consumption in the US and around the world 4) Lack of supply due to OPEC restrictions, etc, etc... With more refineries, the price of crude would still be the same as it is...but the price of gasoline would come down some due to increased supply. Hope this helps.

The point here, is that they are not doing the consumer a service. Any fee that ticketmaster charges shoudl be to the venue/host of the event. For example, the bills have a football game. They want to sell tickets. They choose not to do it themselves for whatever reason. They employ the services of an outside contractor (ticketmaster) to handle the sale of the tickets. The contractor then goes to the end user and says "we need to charge you for this convenience". Its ridiculous. The bills should be paying ticketmaster not the end user. Now, i realize any fees the bills pay would be be reflected in higher ticket prices (and thus the same net outlay to the consumer), so the point might be moot, but it feels like you are being ripped off. The convienience is NOT to the consumer, but rather the venue hosting the event. The whole thing is ridiculous. By the way though, i worked for ticketmaster for a short period of time. Be nice to those operators on the phone...they get paid next to nothing (and know next to nothing). They have a very thankless job. Don't buy the magazine subsriptions they peddle (unless of course you want them), but do allow them to transfer you to the operator to get a free whatever it is they are giving away free. It is a gimic, but the operator gets a "bonus" for every person they refer. So do them a favor, and screw ticketmaster out some cash at the same time. You wont have to buy (or even do) anything after you get transfered. Just wait until someone picks up the transferred call...and hang up. Job done.

There are many reasons IMO for the high oil prices (especially the last few days) Recently the king of saudi arabia died. Uncertainty in one of the largest sources of us oil now has a questionable future. Yes, it IS bush's fault (I am a very strong conservative), BUT...it is also clintons fault, bush 1's fault, and every president over the last 30-40 years. For the love, BUILD SOME OTHER SOURCES OF ENERGY. Build more nuclear power plants...build more oil refineries, start using some of our own oil reserves, and promote research and development of alternative energies. We dont, because none of the above named investments pay off immediatly. They will all take 10 or more years before they even make a dent. In the meantime, the president is out of office and it does him no political good. We need someone to take the bull by the horns and TACKLE THIS PROBLEM. Bush is off to a decent start with ANWAR and increasing nuclear technology...but its a far cry from what is needed. Do it before its too late.

I got nothing else...see the front page. Also...old news...but Smith is likely out for the season as well

I wouldnt pick up garcia. At least not yet. If I were you, I would be taking a gamble with some other QBs. Grab a losman, or a boller, or even Rex Grossman or Alex Smith. Take a gamble. It might pay off, it might not, but at least you tried. If the guy you choose to gamble on doesnt pan out, then take a look at Garcia if Harrington struggles weeks 1 and 2. Might as well maximize your upside. As far as the rest of your team goes...NICE. I am used to rating 12 team leagues, so that gives me a little bit of a problem grading your team, but any time you can get 3 big time backs plus Chad Johnson, Andre Johnson and Antonio Gates, you should be set. Hasslebeck is okay. He should be decent. You do need the 2nd QB though. No fun if hasselbeck goes down and you have to pick up jeff george to get a starter. Take a shot on losman, boller, grosman, smith or eli manning.

Ugh. If you read my post you would have seen that I said if the ONLY thing i was basing the starter on was that scrimage it would be woodbury. Now obviously there are other things besides a scrimmage to pick a starting QB, but if I just got back from a 10 year tour of africa and saw that scrimmage (and only that scrimmage), and I had to pick a starting QB, it would be woodbury. That said, JP obviously has the talent and performed well, and will (and should be) given every opportunity to lead this team.

He looked very good in the scrimmage. In fact, I will go so far as to say that if looking ONLY at the scrimmage, and I had to choose a starting QB, it would be woodbury. Obviously he wont start (nor should he), but he was our best QB on the field on saturday. We need to keep this guy. If we can get him on the PS, im all for it, or if need be get rid of matthews or place him as a 5th WR or something...but we need to keep him around. He looked like he can be something special someday.

And woodbury ran one in for a TD as well..so it is clearly not against the scrimmage rules

wow...i fell asleep after the first paragraph.