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It is a stupid comment by Carucci for many reasons. It infers the Bills need to focus on the QB position. They love saying all of this crap on radio and TV about most teams as if there was one postion on the field. All it proves is that these radio shows are worthless. Without real comment about either JP (entering his 3rd year so conclusions are impossible in either direction) or KH (decent but won't ever be great) it is clear the Bills have larger needs. They could get Elway in his prime for the vet minimum and still have zero chance unless their other problems are fixed. I hope/trust Marv will try to do this. On the radio however it will all be about the QB as usual.

Happy Birthday and a philosohical question: When is a Bills draft really a party? I'm not sure I can make it this, but will if I can.

I scrolled over those links..... #1 - NY Times 2-6 Washington Post. Do you detect a trend? And wasn't it perjury about a blow job? If perjury about a blow job is ok, wouldn't (even in a VERY extrapolated scenario) perjury about a drunken hunting accident be equally ok in your book? If everyone should have shut up about Clinton, why shouldn't they shut up about Cheney? Should they wait until he commits perjury and then shut up?

I think there are a few facets to the issue. To me, the biggest is that the news gets filtered/spun by forces that are outside of our control. There is no guarantee that reporting good news means good news will be recived. One comforting fact is that the truth is the truth. Lack of reporting/broadcast/proper messaging can never change this. Eventually, the truth has a way of being revealed. It is inexorable but not always fast enough. A big part of the race we are in is based on the truth being delivered before some really bad stojan happens which is based on falsehoods or half thruths. We have always been in this race and always will be. Our "weapons" in this area are always growing as global communications capabilities expand. This forces the enemy to ratchet up the rhetoric and combat our message with theirs. This is dangerous for them because they risk being exposed as the frauds that they are. All of our communication power is great, but the real truth is always on the ground. The more and faster we help that truth get better and better, the more we become the winners. The media and its makeup is certainly another cmponent. Coke vs Pepsi doesn't really cut it. No matter the political leanings of the networks, they all follow the same formula when it comes to running their companies. This is their right and they may be maximizing profits through story selection at tis current structure (as CTM pointed out, bad news sells). They probably don't realize as much as you'd think that they are the major funnel of news and that their reporting has an impact overseas. I find this sad on a couple of levels. While I don't think they should change their structure at the request of the state, I do sense that they are wrong in their read of bad news selling better than good. I think they'd be surprised at the reaction ratings wise, if they were to report good news. Even if they had a separate show called "The Good News from Iraq" (catchy huh?) I'm wiling to bet it would do well. The Coke vs Pepsi thing makes it too risky to venture beyond proven formulas. The good news is that once a wildly different formula is proven successful, others hop on (diet coke begets diet pepsi). Just see reality shows (barf) for an example. Where do I think the government could help? Well, nowhere really. Not immediately, just gradually. They could have done it much earlier. Less regulation in communications spawns lots of 7-Ups and Iced teas to combat Coke and Pepsi's iron grip. Bottled water - whooda thunk? Coke and Pepsi latch on to these winning formulas too, but the innovator is always rewarded. There are tons of examples of this in technology (MSFT, CSCO, ORCL, and others too numerous to count --- BTW throw me the stock symbol of the next big thing here....thanks). Disruptive technologies are one thing....disruptive media is another. You would thinkthe barriers to entry were higher in technology, but I'm not so sure. On a positive note, technology is definitely helping lower barriers to ebtry in media. I feel the govt should help guard against artifical barriers being erected by the Cokes and Pepsis. Done rambling....

Some fish got arrested for beating up his wife. Yawn. It's February so just the same as every year. I'm not bothering with a link or a name because he is a fish and not worth it.

I thought it said Shania. Martina is better looking so I ignored it.

I'm not sure I buy that. If Cheney,turned, fired, noticed (too late) the guy's head peeking over a bush and then saw his head disappear in a downward motion, would he not say "I saw him fall".? Outside of our right to better jokes, with which I agree, what could Cheney have possibly done (wild speculation allowed) during the course of a hunting accident that would be deemed as something which impacted his role as VP? Why hide anything? Even if he was smashed drunk, dressed in a tutu and singing show tunes why not just spill the beans? Well ok, maybe not about the show tunes but really? Outside of shooting the guy on purpose, what could he have possibly done wrong that would truly matter?

Disclaimer: I didn't read the thread, just its title. Conclusion: I agree with Scalia.

I haven't been around much the last couple of days. Here's what I don't get about this: I heard on some radio talk show things like "This is news"..."They botched the reporting of it"...."it's a pattern of deceit" etc. etc. I don't get it. Clearly it was something the VP was doing in his private life (he is allowed one of those). It really has zero to do with "the country". Why is it really news beyond maybe a human interest sort of level? Does it a display an incompetence releveant in any way to DC's job? I doubt that a case can even be made for that. Hunting accidents happen every day. Seriously, outside of Letterman Leno et al...who should get real mileage out of this for years, who should care? Then I hear today that Cheney's "excuse" for not releasing the info sooner was that he didn't want it to spin out of control and that waiting to release it ensured the was accurate. Huh? That doesn't make any more sense than the ridiculous complaining by the media (and now the dems). If he said...."because I didn't think it was a big deal....news wise" it would have made more sense.

Although I am interested in the information, I cannot in good conscience click on your link. You capitalized the word miami in your post. This is over the line.

Thanks all and WRONG!!!!!!! I'm not 3, but if I told you my real age it would be damaging to my fragile psyche. Here's a hint: Our new GM calls me "Uncle OG"

The linked article is about a new Turkish movie that is very anti-American. Here is one example: Serious question: Wouldn't this movie be more realistic if Busey saved one of the kidneys for himself? Maybe even a liver..... Linky

Ask Greg LeMond's brother.

This has died down. Here are the right answers: 1. Genesis...from "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"....."The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging." 2. Shrouded 3. The canadian guys have lower prescription costs for their date rape drugs. Lower cost = more attempts. 4. Josh Reed 5. Wayne Gretzky.

1. WRONG!!!!! That is a song about Bills fans 3. Irrelevant. True, but irrelevant. WRONG!!!!! 4. WRONG!!!! 5. Finally. I thought that would be easy. Correct.

The combined answer to your attempts is: WRONG!!!!!WRONG!!!!!WRONG!!!!!

1. WRONG!!!!! Still, the good work continues. 2. Yup 3. As opposed to female hockey players in NJ? Not much difference there.....WRONG!!!! 4. Everyone is getting close.....WRONG!!!!!! 5. Not an equine...... but knows about equines. WRONG!!!!!

1. Quaddro phenia in greek means "fourth most popular album by the Who. WRONG!!!!!! 2. Shrouded is Correct 3. Good "point". WRONG!!!!!!! 4. I don't even want to think about that. WRONG!!!! 5. Not if she goes to Canada or Jersey. WRONG!!!!!

1. I can see why you're confused. Although in some cases Williw Nelson is "banned", in no case is he a band. WRONG!!!!!! 2. HOPS Guy is the winner 3. Ben Coates is not the difference. WRONG!!!!! 4. Ben Coates is going to Dallas. WRONG!!!! 5. Da Intitution sounds like a good place for you. WRONG!!!!!

1. Nice effort. WRONG!!!!!!! 2. WE have our first CORRECT answer. Nice work. 3-5. See reply to #1 above.

1. hff tdgh....fjsgh ewfiah bgf...."fghdshjid fdg asdjgha ". WRONG!!!!! 2. Not Really. WRONG!!!!! 3. All true but all peripheral. WRONG!!!!!!!! 4. Not as of now. WRONG!!!!! 5. That's nice. Why don't you start a thread about it? WRONG!!!!!!!

1. Lots of uses actually...WRONG!!!! 2. Nope!!!! 3. Beauty....WRONG!!!!!! 4. you mean, the "franchise"? WRONG!!!! 5. See previous WRONG!!!! answer.

5. What'll he be doing there? WRONG!!!!! and you're getting colder.

Is that an answer or a random assortment of words? WRONG!!!!!!!