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How in the world are you going to replace ME oil in 3 years? There is no way you could even get all the right of ways issued to get all the new power lines you'd need in 3 years. Much less the rest of the infrastructure modifications. Heck, we haven't needed to provide for "rural electrification" for about 40 years, but we can't even get that program killed. It's not a matter of "economically unsound" (though it is), it's "politics, politics, politics."
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Over on SabreSpace someone said that NBC had 'exclusive rights' to their 'Hockey Day in America' telecasts. If that was the case, then CI couldn't show any of those games. The Sabres - Ducks game earlier this year fell on a Vs 'exclusive rights' day. I don't remember which game Vs was showing, but it wasn't that game and even in the Sabres or Ducks markets that game wasn't shown. Kind of sucks that they've set up some of the broadcasts that way. I'd have to believe that it ticks off more hockey fans than the ratings bump for hard core fans forced to be watching the 'national' game is worth. But somebody in the league office or their broadcast partners doesn't see it that way.
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True, it was, but "All the Way" wasn't exactly an only released on a minor label in England B-side either. Just sayin'.
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3 Very Good Songs. Loved Synchronicity II but never thought much of Synchronicity I. Liked On the Turning Away, but would probably choose One Slip as my favorite from that album. Saw them in '87 in TO on an overcast rainy day. They opened w/ Echoes and the lasers were reflecting back off the very low clouds. I'd go a little later in the decade for my favorite JCM and The Who songs; I'd go w/ Cherry Bomb and Eminence Front. And it was a great call by SDS w/ the Triumph, though I'd add Magic Power to that list.
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A few that I don't think have been mentioned yet. The Church - Under the Milky Way Tonight Pink Floyd - Not Now John Dire Straits - Telegraph Road Rush - Red Barchetta R.E.M. - South Central Rain R.E.M. - It's the End of the World as We Know It (& I Feel Fine) The Kinks - Destroyer The Kings - This Beat Goes On / Switchin' To Glide Duke Jupiter - I'll Drink To You Gowan - A Criminal Mind EDIT: X'd out the 'standards' and added some replacements. Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home Donald Fagan - New Frontier
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Judge Rejects Obamacare Individual Mandate Provision
Taro T replied to /dev/null's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Obviously, every person that has a problem would like the problem to go away; health related or not. Your post implies that when people want something they will necessarily work towards that end when provided the resources to accomplish it. That isn't always the case. You really haven't ever seen a person that has insurance skip going to a doctor because they believe their problem to be "minor" and something that "will go away" only to find out that it's more major than they thought and that going to the doctor would have enabled the problem to remain "minor?" Whether a person has insurance or not will not magically make people that are predisposed to bad decisions stop making bad decisions. "Wishing" for more affordable insurance seems to be the only thing supporters of Obamacare are doing. It has a lot of problems inherent to it, not the least of which being the main point people have been arguing against you in this particular thread: that it now creates a mandate that people enter into a transaction with another private party whether they want it or not. We have NEVER been forced to do that in the history of this country. Well, seeing as how you seem to be an expert on bad blanket statements, I'd suggest you have a point there. There are a lot of things that can be done better in the way healthcare is provided in this country. (Many good ideas have been supplied by people posting to this board in the past couple of years.) Unfortunately, I don't see where the things Obamacare "does right" outweigh the myriad of things it does wrong. -
Defensive Adjustments or new coordinator
Taro T replied to Logical Reasoning's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
The team has definitely been making better adjustments at the 1/2 on both sides of the ball than they've done in years. I hated it last year when Jauron would defer to the 2nd 1/2. There was no expectation that the team would do anything. This year, I like seeing the Bills get the ball to start the 2nd 1/2. I've started to expect to see them do something with it at that point. -
Judge Rejects Obamacare Individual Mandate Provision
Taro T replied to /dev/null's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Again? When did you ask the 1st time? I chimed in on the 1st post of mine you replied to in this thread. The better question is, does it make sense to you now? It's good to see you do appear to realize there is distinction between 'healthcare' and 'health insurance' but I'm not convinced you know what the distinction is. -
Judge Rejects Obamacare Individual Mandate Provision
Taro T replied to /dev/null's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Again, I ask, how does someone receiving 'healthcare' which is by definition what someone receives when they are being treated in the ER not 'have healthcare?' He clearly doesn't. Whoa, hold on. Can somebody check the TOS? Are trolls allowed to put people on 'ignore?' -
Judge Rejects Obamacare Individual Mandate Provision
Taro T replied to /dev/null's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Should the personnel that provide healthcare in an emergency room not provide healthcare to a patient in the emergency room because the person didn't already have "healthcare?" That seems even sillier than the "your only problem w/ this is a federal / state issue." -
Judge Rejects Obamacare Individual Mandate Provision
Taro T replied to /dev/null's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
It'll be interesting to see whether Kagan recuses herself when that happens. -
HOF Hockey Writer and Buffalo Icon Jim Kelley has died
Taro T replied to theesir's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
RIP. When I lived down south, I used to subscribe to the Snooze's Sunday edition to be able to read his "Inside Hockey" column. It arrived about 5 days late, but it still was a treat to read every week. -
NFL draws line on Pinto Ken's bowling ball shots
Taro T replied to Meathead's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
How sad that the league chose Ken as the example to single out. They just don't get it. Ken, keep doing what you do. You are a big part of the game day experience for a lot of people. -
Or, rather than continually bumping this thread through the entire season you could just sign up for SDS's Survivor Pool. (TBD Football Pool is now open thread)
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6-10 They win the opener and then fall to 1-3 but bounce back up to 5-4. Unfortunately, that ends up the high water mark as they have a rough end of the year. Hopefully they can be respectable down the stretch and end up 8-8 or 9-7, but don't expect it. They'll have some good young talent for when football comes back in '12.
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I was thinking of the Tasker short slants over the middle for large gains as runs, but the game I am referring to was in fact Shula's last playoff game. Tindale had the 44 yd TD run and picked up ~20 more on 4 other carries.
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3 Games that I was at stand out. The Ricky Williams - let it snow, let it snow, let it snow game. Bledsoe was awesome that game. The last playoff game that Shula coached when Tinsdale and Tasker had a couple of long runs. But the one that had to stand out the most was Opening Day 1980.
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Yes. Thanks for setting this up.
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I was getting that message for the survivor pool because I hadn't logged out of the other pool. Once I logged out of the pick-em, I clicked the survivor link again and it gave me the regular log in screen and then after I logged in, it gave me the option of entering the league password. So, just log out and go back through again and it should work.
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Additionally, in most versions of C&T it is also raising another barrier to entry for new companies as the existing ones are the ones that get the carbon credits to be traded. Hey, cool, 1 more new way to stiffle innovation. What's not to love?
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Don't feel like discussing the rest of it, just want to harp on the point that in order for something to go 'into the red' it has to have been in the black. The government never stopped running up deficits during the '90's so it didn't GO into the red in the last decade. Now, to say 'it went DEEPER into the red;' I'll give you that one.
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So what, now the Bills aren't moving to TO but are moving to Beijing? Man, that's gonna mess w/ the Fishes and the Cheatriots travel schedules.
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Not exactly. Yeah, he was signed off waivers, but back then that was how you brought a player back off of IR. It's not like the Eulers weren't pissed that the Bills grabbed him.