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Heck, I thought this would be a post about Anna Nicole. Gee, the "international community" needs to do much more to help? No kidding. Considering most of the world is doing absolutely nothing (think France) or actively supporting groups promoting the "insurgents" (think Syria), that isn't really a newsworthy thought. I don't really feel that bad for Syria having to deal with refugees when they are creating a large portion of the problem. (I DO however feel bad for the refugees.)

I really liked the bumper stickers in Louisiana when Edwards was running against Duke in '91. "Vote for the crook. It's important." Talk about a no win situation.

Tomatoes, peppers, cukes, peas, carrots, radishes, pumpkins, cantaloupe, watermelon, potatoes, probably corn (I never seem to have any luck with that, so I'm not sure if I'll plant it or not), and 1 rhubarb plant that we don't seem able to kill. Start all from seeds. Grow the tomatoes and peppers in small pots until the late spring, then transplant them. We also have cherry trees, blackberries, and wild strawberries (and them's good eatin').

How exactly is a courthouse, and one who's construction according to your linked article is the judiciary's #1 priority, pork spending? A courthouse is a building that is required for the judiciary to perform its Constitutionally mandated functions.

You may want to move to Venezuela soon. It looks like they are in the early stages of implementing a system that you would love. Except they are taking it 1 step further than even you are advocating at this point, they are about to steal, er, I meant to say, nationalize all the large private businesses. That way they will be able to have lots of pork spending and give middle class people jobs. As if taking their property at below market rates isn't taxing the rich enough, I'm sure their other taxes will keep the system mostly taxing the rich. It sounds like Utopia, you can probably get a plane ticket to there pretty cheap.

We already have that. It's called the EIC.

That seems to be your favorite talking point and it is also the most spurious. Of course revenue from an income tax increase will go up that particular year and revenue from an income tax decrease will go down that particular year. There is no time for the tax change to alter people's behaviors. Also, I have never understood why you seem to assume that GDP will always grow at 3% regardless of policy. Were that assumption valid, then your argument that tax cuts decrease forever federal receipts and tax increases increase them would be true. Fortunately, your assumption isn't valid. Finally, I still don't understand why you never look at the spending side as a problem with creating the deficit.

Except Dick Nixon wasn't running for POTUS and stated unequivocably "(y)ou won't have Nixon to kick around anymore", and hadn't been in public office for 8 years. He went into private practice for a few years, and then, lo and behold, there he was in '68. I guess we did have him to kick around again, afterall. I'll believe Gore's not running when it's August of '12 and he hasn't thrown his hat in the ring in either race.

EII, I hope you are correct that GL water will never get diverted to the SW. I'm afraid that it will, quite likely in the next 20-50 years. While the GL states and Canada will raise holy hell over the issue and have been working for several years to come to an agreement on this and other issues regarding the GL's, unless there is a treaty approved at the Federal level between the US and Canada you will see increased pressure at the Federal level to allow diversion of GL water. Considering that population shifts are reducing the # of reps from GL states and increasing them in the S and W, it looks like it would be a hard fight to prevent diversion of GL's water if legislation doesn't get passed soon.

Maybe. But a few years back the Bills showed the Fish game down in Miami in the Field House. Some portion of the proceeds went to Roswell Park. They were going to make it an annual thing but the league made them stop doing it claiming that having a corner of the Field House packed with fans hurt the TV ratings.

HBD gents.

Unless your profession is "gambler" or more accurately "game show contestant", why would you have to pay employment (SS and medicare) taxes on those winnings? Lotteries and the like are considered "other income", not "self employment" or "wages", so I don't see how you'd have to pay those other taxes on that money.

Top federal tax rate is 35%. Top NYS tax rate is 6.85%. So assuming the lottery winnings don't kick you into paying the AMT, in NYS you'd be taxed 41.85% on a big win.

But most of Reed's catches (5) and yards (124) came in the 1st half while it was still a football game. His 2 big catches came when Dallas only had 14 on the board. After only having the ball for 1 more offensive play the Bills were down by 18. Reed caught the ball 8 of the 9 times they threw his way. The only 1 that wasn't a completion was the play that Kelly got hurt.

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Grant's a good egg. (Even though he likes TO.)

Saw them on the 1st show (monday 9/21, just after I turned 21). The lasers bouncing off the clouds and Echos were the highlights IMHO. Had to talk a professor into letting me skip out of an exam that day. (What a pain in the butt. Had to do the same thing to see Roger in '85 on the P&CoH tour.)

The Sabres not having a hockey tradition in the early '70's is obviously true (they entered the league in '70). But Buffalo not having a hockey tradition is ludicrous. Buffalo had the Bisons in the AHL for many years, winning several Calder Cups and having coaches like Shero (2 SC Championships). Also, the Knoxes were minority owners of the Seals prior to getting their own franchise. How exactly was/is Buffalo a "non-traditional" market?

Can't or won't?

He's not criticizing you for being political, he's calling a spade a spade. He states that you hate Bush which is obvious from your posts. Why this would bother you even slightly is beyond me. You hate the guy, why get your panties in a wad when someone points that out?

And they are different than listeners of Franken, Rhodes, or Schultz how? Yes, you are clearly an open-minded individual. You've displayed open-mindedness so obviously in your partisan rants over the past year and a half that I've read the posts on this board. Please show me where you have EVER demonstrated an open-mindedness or tolerance.

Why does it not surprise me that you can't tell the difference between 50000 and 5,000?

I would have figured he'd give the Kansas City Penguins unis some credit and drop the snot smears to 31.

The Sabres never played back-to-back nights in December after the 2nd. They have back-to-backs 4 times this month, so you will see more Marty in January. Feb's schedule is similar to December's, so if Ryan's healthy, we won't see much Marty. March is another killer and Ryan will be spelled a fair bit. All told, Marty will end up playing in 20-25 games, which should be more than enough to keep Ryan fresh for the playoff run. As for the pp, it's been mentioned elsewhere, but the key to the pp is Timmy. When he comes back, it's all good again. (Kind of like the pk took a dip w/ Hank out of the lineup. Unfortunately, it looks like here we go again.) Definitely agree with your last statement.

HBD X.