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Very well said. He's a players player and damn he could be very exciting at times.

Crazy talk, but you're stepping up to the plate! The Foles play seems very plausible after this move.

Pre or Post Trump 401k?

which is why...as a person with virtually no interest in owning firearms, who on a purely emotional level understands the call for some sort of universal background check or gun registry, who understands that lawful gun owners are not the problem, and who tries to wade through all this crap.... realizes with 100% certainty that those who suggest "no one is coming for your guns, crazy!" is naive, wilfully ignorant or deceitful. History tells us someone is always willing to use their power to come for something, and willing to abuse their power to shape the world as they see fit. those people simply cannot be trusted.

I think it was Martin Luthe King Jr who said he dreamed of a day when people would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by carefully cut sound bites and oddly edited grainy cell phone videos no more than 20 seconds in length.

i get angry just reading that a viewer might not be certain whether teddy was calculating or just a dimwit. but yeah, statute of limitation for apathy has expired.

What an unusual story designed to hilight problems with the police. You were speeding through a neighborhood. They targeted you not because you were speeding through the neighborhood, but because...you were in uniform. They went to check your ID, and you were out of your truck, enraged that you were pulled over NOT for speeding, and you punched the hood of your truck. After you lost your cool, and punched your truck as most reasonable people are prone to doing, you felt it....cowardly on their part to return to your truck to with weapons drawn for an outburst that in your mind is perfectly normal. You then decided to insult the officers doing a routine traffic stop when you acknowledged speeding who simply went to check your ID at which time you apparently lost your cool. Then...they issued the ticket that you indicated you deserved and sent you on your way. Where was the douchey part again? About a a year ago I got pulled over on a snowy night on the nys thruway. The trooper approached my car, watching behind him as cars sped past us, and did the short version. Told me I was doing 81, that he was going to give me a ticket and was going to check my license. I said "Ok.". As he walked away to issue the ticket, I punched.....the button to jack the heat up. He must have been ok with it. Nothing happened. No guns drawn. No insults hurled. He returned, gave me a ticket, looking behind him the whole time. He asked me if I had any questions, I said "No", wished him welll and drove away thinking how frigging sad it would be if some jackass wiped him out while he was walking back to his vehicle. Ironically, that happened to a friend of a friend earlier this year. The end.

there are few things more irritating to me than hearing an announcer say "that was a good no-call", especially after watching another game where every incidental contact is called. it seems some games officials toss flags like crazy, others they "let them play". I'm for simplicity. Anything that increases the time I have to watch 3 geezers discussing the Summer of Love at Haight-Ashbury while pretending to talk about a penalty...consider me against.

you gotta limit that election meddling to stuff we can all get behind...that made up ×#@%. That's where the magic happens.

yes, I'm shocked. not surprised, unfortunately, but shocked. same response I had to hearing a kid would walk in and murder 17 people. Shocked, but not surprised.

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. It may not necessarily occur in a linear fashion, but seems most likely to occur in this situation. Horrible injury to an elite athlete., and it seems somewhat understandable he would feel this way.

Well, I noticed a tendency but have never put anyone on ignore. I scan the pages from time to time and jump in every now and again. The interesting part about it for me is it's a way to gauge what people are thinking, opposing points of view and I don't think that's a bad thing. I'm not all that interested in allowing myself to be offended by people, so claims of "vomiting" experiences shared by someone with a bone to pick because I disagree politically are what they are. I do lose respect for folks who ask questions, get an answer and scurry off rambling "well you're dumb" when asked a question in response. But zealots are are going to be zealots. Thanks for the scoop. Btw, the question about me being DR actually made me laugh. I wish I had the level of focus, desire and commitment displayed by DR to the, or any, cause.

why would you feel the need to apologize to me? That's weird. I thought your question was sincere, but if it was the setup for throwing the stone there's no need to apologize. I can handle it.

You ask question....I reply respectfully. I ask question, you stamp your feet, refuse to answer then throw a stone at my head as I walk away. Again, that's your limitation, not mine.

I'm no less threatened by a guy holding a knife to my throat than I am by a guy with a gun to my head. I don't deal in absolutes, they typically don't apply to this sort of thing and have learned over time that doing so has a tendency to restrict my thinking. I'll share one example. At one time, a friend of a friend parked his car, and was jumped by 4 guys and beaten up pretty badly. These guys who jumped him were distguishable by features, ethnicity or what have you and were different in that regard than "we" were. It colored my perception, impacted the way I viewed people and gave me pause to consider who(m) I trust, if at all. A few years later, another friend was nearly murdered by a guy outside a bar during one of the many, many fights that occurred with frequency outside a Buffalo bar. The guy at fault, interestingly, was not at all different than "we" were, and that got me thinking about the way I was thinking. Subsequently, I would say my view broadened, and I'm better for it. So, back to your question. I think Obama, as a sitting President, creating and sustaining a fact pattern demonstrably false, and hrc complicit and subsequently playing dumb about it, with the ultimate goal being to influence voters is no less of a threat to my America than Facebook ads. Mind you, I tried hard not to sit in judgement of the actual incident as as tragic and apparently avoidable as it was for the people impacted, those things happen when either dems or rs are in power. People screw up. Political decisions are made. It's horrible, sad and true. I'd be surprised to see something of that nature happen on Trumps watch (meaning the repeated ignoring of request for assistance, not the attack itself) just based on his approach to the military. But the Hollywood version they cooked up on the graves of those who died...disgraceful and sheer propoganda. I ask ask you now: Are you comfortable with your ruling political class putting out propaganda pieces to further a political agenda you ascribe to? And if so, would you be comfortable with the Russians helping you get your desired outcome? I can understand why you would miss the larger point, why you would suggest that two separate and distinct situations should not be co-mingled, and why Benghazi is "silly" to you with respect to your political views, Russians and The Facebook. I see that as your limitation, not mine.

See Bob, that's the point. I'm guessing you're ok with it. When your people put their thumb on the scale it's business as usual. No problem as the ends justify the means...correct? To me, I'd expect consequences if/when I saw Trump sitting in front of a panel wearing Mr. Magoo glasses feigning indignation that anyone dared to care about a phony story specifically intended to sway the populace during an election. Benghazi = Russian story, the main difference is we know with certainty who told the Benghazi story. And then, you seem to scoff at the notion that investigating how the #### this Russian interference occurred to begin with while BO sat in the chair? Near as I can tell, Obamas main jab in the eye after being asleep at the wheel was to expel diplomats as he was leaving office, a strictly political play designed to jab the trump team in the eye on the way out. After reading your your reply I'm not even certain Michigan is all that pure. I'm torn as I was a big Bob Seeger fan in my youth.

I can live with it. As a thinking man, I owe it to myself.

In excess of 60 million people chose to vote for someone other than obama's high-name recognition, hand-selected, gift and bubble-wrapped candidate pitched as the successor to HIS presidency and chose a brash, combatative imperfect businessman from New *#%¥ing York city as an alternative to lead the nation forward. This in spite of copious amounts of evidence that the dems cooked the books against all comers from their own party, a steady public relations campaign that characterized him as sexist, racist, homophobic, hypermaculine, micro and macro aggressive toward every person on the planet. While i I would prefer a President that could be less divisive and bring more centrist democrats into the mix (if there are any left out there), you do yourself a disservice by failing to recognize the divisiveness of the former president. It's part of the job, it's just that Trump uses a sledgehammer and Obama plays smooth jazz while smoking a pack of Camels. For additional evidence, see Election, The, 2016.

I just hope they dig back far enough to figure out why this was able to happen on the BO and HRC watch. When you step back from it a bit, his description of her as adorably reckless with national security but a crackerjack candidate for Prezbian you have to wonder how bad it got in that administration. Then again, I have never understood why Russians placing phony ads ito influence an election is bad, but BO, HRC & Susan Rice et al creating a fictional account of Benghazi to influence an election was a resume booster for the modern democrat voter. But, lets see it through and see if we all can live with the results.

Ah. Now it makes sense. Assuming your story is true, after all, it's a message board, there's a whole lot going on there. i can't speak to your experiences in Iraq, but as for the police, try forgiveness.

Good for you. I learned much of what I need to know about you from the two posts you shared. Here's the good news--you get the right to espouse what you want to. In that regard, many members of law enforcement, most probably, learn to deal with it and just write it all off as part of the deal. My post wasn't about you, really, it was about them.

Damn I read commentary like this and it makes me sad for folks who choose law enforcement as a career. The good news is many seem to be able to get past this nonsense.

I feel like I'm being disrespectful to Roberto Duran and the true legacy of his time in the ring, but the words "No mas" pop into my head every 7th message BiM sends.

I have a JRT. He's the funniest, craziest, oddest and creativest (I made the word up for him) dog ever. Very smart, trained For a variety of things--jumping over obstacles, into my arms on my back etc. Excellent 'fetch' dog, and like Tommy Desimone in goodfellas never thinks he can't kick everyone's ass. The thing with Jacks that get them into the most trouble is they are bred with an incredible prey drive. Our dog, once focused on something, will stay on it for hours, longer if we would let him. Chipmunk runs terrified into a downspout? Downspout subsequently mangled OR dog waits patiently like an East German sniper for the chipmunk to return. One day my wife called me to tell me she thought he got a squirrel...I came home to find a tail in the garage but nothing else. Two days later, I found a dead tailless squirrel on my front lawn. No idea where it was, or how he got there. No signs of trauma, except of course he had no tail. I would not do it again, my kids were little when we got him but I'll say this---they love that little pain in the ass. He just was very high maintenance and barks at everything. Every...thing. In fairness, our little family sent all sorts of mixed signals at training time(s), so it likely could have been different if we were all on the same page. On on the other hand he's sitting with me now, burrowed in and just about lovable enough for me to forgive him when he growls at me when I have to get up to go grab some coffee.

Polls are iron-clad. They cannot be manipulated and represent the attitudes of the American populace to +\- 0.0%. I defy you to find one time....one single time in the past 5 years where polling data was inconsistent with the outcome of any election.