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Ever hear of a cost benefit analysis? Yeah, I'd take a dook on my living room floor if the benefit is a cancer cure.

Attendance stats are relatively meaningless when you have the lowest average price per ticket. Other teams get paid in Orchard Park, but nowhere near what they get paid in other stadiums. That's the point. You seem to not like the message that the other owners are sending to Pegulas. That doesn't change the reality that the message has been sent loud and clear, and the other owners can do a lot more to pressure the Buffalo franchise to increase its revenue stream.

Actually, they can do a lot about it if there are only 1 or 2 franchises that aren't pulling their weight, such as changing the revenue sharing formulas (Each team gets to keep 100% of their gate receipts). Bills would be toast competitively.

What was the initial promise? What if it was a cure for stage 4 cancer?

Bills are at or near the bottom of the revenue sharing pie, and the opposing teams get far less from their 40% of gate receipts in Orchard Park than they do in other stadiums. This is not coming from Roger, but from other owners.

Awkward phrasing of the last sentence or intentional?

Minor correction to this point - Their argument is not that the President doesn’t have the authority to set/conduct foreign policy, but that in conducting that policy he stood to personally benefit in an upcoming election. While that argument may play well on the CNN octopanels, it's a thin one to base an entire impeachment proceeding on. Not only because of the paucity of evidence of wrongdoing, but the horrific precedent it would set for future impeachment proceedings. As many remarked, by this standard, every President would be subject to impeachment by the opposing party in legislature. That's scary, third world banana republic stuff right there.

Graham's observations in early 2016 are consistent with this site's anti-Trumpers' thoughts at that time. You also know that most people here didn't vote for Trump in 2016. But in the wake of the crazy train that entered the train station after the election, Trump doesn't look so bad after all. Yet you attribute it to blanket Trump support. These are all the facts that you intentionally ignore, and that's why you get called out for your shallow "contributions"

Under the standing anti-corruption laws for mere mortals, intent does not matter one bit.

Biden's admission on camera isn't enough for you?

And then you wonder why insults are thrown back at you? This episode is precisely why bribery and corruption laws exist. There are no parallels between the two. In one, you're dealing with an executive who sets the policy and has a wide latitude to set that policy. In the other, you have a guy who tries to influence policy, is in charge of implementing his boss's policy in a country where his son is a direct financial beneficiary, and exerted his influence to prevent a criminal investigation where his son could be implicated? You really don't see the difference? In one, there's a real illegal offense that may have been committed. In the other, there's a dispute in how foreign policy should be conducted.

Because it's not how decisions for selecting corporate boards go. Each member is selected based on their potential contribution to the company. In Biden's case, given his zero experience in energy, his selection was based purely on potential political influence. The appointment in itself is rife with conflicts of interests, but when you add daddy bragging about firing a prosecutor who was looking into the business dealings of a company where his son is a director, that should set off so many alarms for breaking every ethical code that exists in advanced economies, not to mention standing laws on corrupt dealings by public and private officials.

There's a wide world of difference between using family connections to get a high profile job in the public sector and using your government family connections to build up your family's fortune in the private sector.

You have posted this line of thinking before. Which always prompts the same question, "Why jump into a discussion with a definitive opinion, when you don't know all the particulars surrounding that story?"

She was?

Lee Smith is a former Pat*

Hey, remember the days when the Sens were the absolute joke of the NHL? That was oh so long ago, right?

Could get more interesting in next few days, witnesses may be called. Careful what you wish for, as always.

Which was always the risk, yet people are surprised at his style.

I'm sure it's playing well inside AT&T, where most of management are southerners ...

They may have had something to do with it. Of course, in the guise of helping the common man.

You're also missing the part where Honduras was not the basket case it is now leading up to 2009, and was enacting a lot of reforms to improve its economy and attract much needed foreign investment. Then some people did some things.

So we're going to toss the rich history of gay European artists who created fabulous eternal works of art down the toilet? That's progressivism?

Did you explore why Honduras disintegrated into one of the worst places in Central America in the first place? Why are Honduran migrants eclipsing even the Guatemalans?

That's even better than John Goodman's Linda Tripp.