Chilly

Which is exactly why I'm going to vote Libertarian - need to get them to the federal funding threshold, and they are the largest 3rd party.

Right, because you can easily and validly determine what the majority thinks by not having a secret ballot.

Yes, I read that joke of an article, which assumes that no one does it. It also implies that the 3% and 4% you save are daily usage of oil, which it isn't - its the amount each individual car could potentially save if they had tires which were barely inflated and had been driving for 10 years without a tuneup.

One General Parking Spot please.

This is what he said: You Obamaians just can't admit that he's wrong at times.

Westbrook easily. You're looking at 80-90 points from receptions from him.

Just pro, or pro and college? Got the feeling a lot of colleges would win here. I can say that Houston is pretty darned quiet.

Telephone surveys have nothing to do with Exit polling.

Exit polling and regular polling are tremendously different beasts, and there are a number of factors as to why exit polling failed (and now has been blown up) since the 2004 elections. The first statement you made was correct: these polls don't even matter then, because tracking polls, outside of very general overall trends that don't provide a ton of information, aren't really that useful. To use the 2004 exit polling example to discredit all polls is not a valid argument.

He immediately got ridiculed for it because saying it will give us the same amount of gas as off-shore drilling was a stupid thing to claim. Obviously, people keeping their tires inflated is not a bad thing in and of itself. Saying that it will give us the equivalent of 8,400,000 gallons of gas a day (more than that 4 million that you posted above) was flat out wrong and rather ignorant.

But he got in during the 2nd quarter! Don't you know that its an NFL rule during pre-season games that 2nd stringers play during the 2nd quarter? Therefore you MUST be wrong about the 3rd string part. Don't you know anything about football?

Missed my point. <Insert whoever has made the pro bowl a couple times, but who is obviously not a HOFer>. There are plenty of them, he just came to my mind first. Looking over the 2001 pro bowl roster, here are just some examples: - Rich Gannon - Kordell Stewart - Priest Holmes - Corey Dillon - Troy Brown - Jermaine Lewis - Ken Dilger - Donovan McNabb - Kurt Warner - Ahman Green - David Boston - Byron Chamberlain - Jamir Miller - Marcellus Wiley - Kendrell Bell - Sam Adams - Deltha O'Neal - Jeremiah Trotter - Sammy Knight - Lavar Arrington Since when has getting a stadium built and revitalizing a fan base (both times unhappy marriages) qualify you to be in the HOF? Easy, two reasons: Kelly had 8 seasons with over 80 passer rating, with one at 97.6 and one at 101.2. Bledsoe had 5 above an 80 passer rating, with the highest being a 87.7. Kelly never had a season below 70, and only one year (his last one) below 75. Bledsoe had 3 seasons below 70. Kelly led his team to 4 AFC Championships, Bledsoe made one pass as a backup that got his team to the Super Bowl. Kelly was consistently a solid QB in the NFL. Bledsoe was not very consistent at all. Based on stats its obvious Bledsoe isn't good enough. I made the claim that no one currently considers DB an exceptional QB, and that he isn't currently popular. You are attempting to argue that his popularity and reputation will get him into the hall. In order to make this argument you need to establish that he is currently popular and has a good reputation, not that he used to be popular and have a good reputation. What you've argued is that he used to be popular, not that he is currently popular. You also have argued that he used to be considered a good QB, not that he is currently considered such. Once again, having 4 good seasons over a 14 year career isn't enough to make the hall of fame. They are arguments that he used to be popular, not that he is popular. The argument is NOT that Bledsoe was/was not popular, but that he is not popular TODAY, which is what matters when saying someone is going to get into the hof based off of their reputation.

One would think they'd take his car.

Uh, no - the Republicans will get more from energy interests due to their policies, but this is the period in the campaign where the major fund-raising happens, thus its no surprise that either candidate's donations are increasing heavily right now. It was just inevitable that McCain was going to get a huge increase from energy interests.

I blame the Jews. [/LaDairis]

Perhaps that's due to the election calendar and not his reiteration that he's for offshore drilling....

Why was he driving an 11-year-old Nissan?

What back story?

HBD

I will be, along with my old man and girlfriend.

Big deal. Obama has received something like $300k in contributions himself.

Oh, you're wife is part of the great Jewish Favre ploy!

Hmm, I did a quick google search and ran across this article claiming he doesn't have one in his contract, but because of the whole choosing not to report deal. I think you may be on to something.

There's a pretty big difference between getting in the pro bowl and being hall of fame level. Vince Young made the pro bowl, but no one in their right mind would argue that he's a hall of famer. Ask those same people what they think of him now. Its also not just judged on the four seasons where he was a successful quarterback, but his entire career. I've never once heard a hall of fame voter vote someone into the hall of fame because of how excited he made the fans of a city, or because he was an upgrade over a former player. The accomplishments you point to were all short, initial-love periods that were defined by serious disappointment. Because he was initially popular in Buffalo doesn't mean he is still popular through the entire league. Ask Dallas fans what they think of the guy, ask Buffalo fans, ask NE fans, hell, ask my roommates who are Texans fans - they'll tell you that he was a decent guy, probably even a decent quarterback, but not ONE would think he's HOF worthy. There isn't even a discussion about whether he's hall of fame worthy in the media, which almost any player that has the slightest shot gets (see: John Lynch).

So the actual response is, "I purposefully mixed this up in an attempt to be deep on an internet message board"?