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Are you smarter than a 5th grader? What's the fastest route to Asia from the East Coast ports?

Start with a globe and then map out the shipping routes in a warming Arctic Ocean.

Straight up for Clowney!!!

Simply comparing the effectiveness of his snaps to Lawson’s. Lawson looked better to the naked eye.

I thought it was an odd coincidence that recently McD highlighted his play, followed by Leslie talking about him at length at today's press conference. Then came the extended discussion between Murph & Tasker on their show. All talked about how Trent is newly energized, doesn't have to worry about his past injuries and is truly contributing to the defense. But all that talk isn't backed up by game film, where it's clear that Shaq is outperforming him. Save for a nice spin move on a sack, Murphy has been as invisible as last year. Wondering if the public pep talks are more for motivation or something else, because he's not showing it on the field.

You keep missing the main point. Private enterprise will function no matter what the central planners command, no matter what the national currency dictates. Why do you think the black markets are more pervasive in socialist/closed economies? You just scoffed off the notion that government spending doesn't have the same effect on wealth creation as the government stepping out of the way, but you keep coming back to it as if it's interchangeable.

How else would the planes reach Iranian airspace? (Unless they got KSA's permission)

My guess is that you rarely have a sudden 500 foot drop on a train

Seats still available with NYC Bills Backers, fyi

There's definitely a Groucho Marx reference to those pics. If even a fraction of those pictured are in the "club" then you have to question the ability of that club to order dinner, let alone run the world.

I now also realize that I didn't notice how Allen froze the safety in waiting for Beasley to get open. If he stares down Beasley (like he would have last year) the safety would have cheated to the slot and Allen wouldn't have a clear passing lane.

Then there's really no comparison between them, other than they're both tall and can throw the ball far. Cardale actually looked better in camp than EJ, while you can't find many QBs who looked worse than Tyree last week. His only shiny moment came in his running play, giving more ammunition for a possibly TE conversion. If you need 3 years to see if he can develop into a viable backup, that's 3 wasted years.

He just can't help himself, can he?

Chubb was the reason Bills were able to trade into the #7 slot

Which QB faced a better defense?

Very emblematic too. Spend cash to influence a $50 billion market cap company, and spend no cash to influence a $1 trillion market cap company. Which one has a greater on total wealth creation if there's a 1% jump? That is in essence the difference in thinking that a government can do a better job in dictating the economy over the private sector.

No offense, but Cardale looked far more ready at this point of his career.

Misunderstood the post. Thought you implied that Teller didn't play well. He was good on Friday.

He's already looked better than the coach's nephew who somehow stuck on the roster for 2 seasons.

Please revisit the cause & effect point. Would you be making the same arguments for the British pound in 1920? Yes, you would. The pound was unassailable. What do you think had a higher impact on overall private wealth creation? Trump adding a new contract to Raytheon’s order book, or US reducing the tax rate on companies’ overseas profits? One didn’t involve spending a dime.

Very likely both sides were setting up the blackmail services. But that’s a far cry from a group of global overlords.

The first part of your post is correct. Until you got to Teller. He had a very good game, and held up better against the same guys than Spain.

Interesting choice of words for the backup C

The demise of USA's economic supremacy is only inevitable if somebody overtakes it, and it won't be China in its current form. Your standard for US losing its edge in the '70s is due more to other countries finally getting their act together and increasing their share of global output. But if you look at any tangible metrics on who's still driving the global economic train, there's still only one country that sits between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. USA's economic growth is consistently higher than the other G8 continues. QE is fundamentally inflationary because the central bank created nearly $3 trillion of assets out of thin air. I don't know how much more basic it can get. Just because the Fed parked the assets on its balance sheet doesn't mean it's not inflationary. Same with Japan, because the only reason BOJ is getting away with inflating its balance sheet is that the currency traders don't have a better Asian benchmark. That's why I said that Japan is playing with fire by betting that China will never take a more capitalist turn and truly privatizes its economy. If China makes that move, then Japan is toast. You are totally underestimating the roles that government bond and currency markets play in determining whether a country experiences inflation or not. If a sovereign falls out of favor with investors, then there's nothing a central bank can do. You can't have it both ways. You can't claim that US will lose its supremacy but then be sanguine about the debt build up. Your DoD obsession is a bit overboard in explaining away gov't spending. Raytheon's annual revenues are only $25 billion. That's a pittance compared to the overall GDP, and even the DOD budget, the majority of which are personnel and other expenses related to running the bases. Raytheon's share price increase as a result of new contracts is insignificant to the overall market, unlike movements in other sectors. For comparison, Apple earns more in one month than Raytheon does in the entire year. The markets moved much more with anticipation of Apple bringing more cash to the US than anything that happened with Raytheon's contracts. Again, people use US$ because it's the most convenient and liquid. They will easily move to other currencies (ie method of payment) if the US$ is no longer convenient and liquid.

This is a far more plausible theory than an interconnected cabal of global elites that controls the world.