Taro T
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The tax reform panel made it's recommendations yesterday.
Does anyone see this as even being a starter? My guess is that the recommendations are total non-starters as I expect they will cause far more more wailing and gnashing of teeth over lost deductions than they will gain fans from the AMT elimination.
It also appears they fell into the "revenue neutrality" fallacy. Increased tax revenues tend to accompany lowered tax rates. This plan does very little lowering of rates as it tries to make up for "lost" AMT revenue.
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Yes I do realize the CIA made the referral to Justice. I am no expert in these matters, but from what I have read, it appears that CIA refers a lot of matters such as this to the Justice Department. Who (apparently illegally) leaked the info about the referral?
I also noticed that you did not embrace finding the source of the new leak.
PS Not that it has anything to do with this new leak, but if Libby did in fact perjure himself, he should be in jail.
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It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
I'm sure the Democrats will be VERY concerned over finding the person(s) that leaked information about these classified sites to the paper.
WSJ predicted in the aftermath of the Libby investigation that if politics become illegal then reporting politics becomes illegal as well. I guess we'll get a chance to find out if their prediction is correct.
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1. Change defensive approach, maybe not overpursuing and giving up big running plays would be a start.
2. Stick with Holcumb until he proves otherwise that you shouldnt. Seriously, who cares if he isnt a big time prospect? he is 32, and he has never really gotten a chance to play long term. Let him play. And make JP EARN the spot going forward, just dont throw him the keys without a open competition in 2006.
3. Get Roscoe Parrish more involved in the offense.
4. Incorporate more deep passing plays into playbook, especially for Lee Evans.
I would definitely like to see #1 happen, but don't see Gray going along with it.
I was surprised in the offseason when they just gave the starting job to JP and didn't make him compete with Holcomb for it. I know they had made the decision when Bledsoe was still here, but for some reason I thought they might allow it to be a competition.
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Now that the Bills have reached the midpoint and bye week, what will their focus be during the last half of the season?
They have no realistic chance at a wild card, but they still might believe they can win the division only being 1-1/2 games back. I don't see them being able to win the division, as they will probably need to go 6-2 to get there. I think it's still a reach if 8-8 is good enough to win.
I expect and hope that they will play Losman at quarterback. I'd like for them to give him some more experience now that the playoffs are very unlikely. At the very least, they should have a better idea of what he might be able to do for them next year. If NE loses next week, does that sway the thinking at OBD and they go with Holcomb?
What other changes do people see over the next 8 games?
I hope Jerry Gray gets away from blitzing so much, but don't hold out much hope for that happening.
Maybe Bennie finally gets to take a seat while Preston gets some action?
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Didn't you double count FCS? I think you have some more work to do young man.
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I totally agree, and it's an often wrongly understood and made distinction. But please answer these two questions for me:
1. Do you believe in your heart of hearts that OJ Simspon is guilty of killing two people?
2. Do you believe in your heart of hearts that OJ Simspon is guilty under the law of killing two people?
My own answers to those questions would be:
1. Yes, I think he is guilty of killing two people.
2. No, I think he is not guilty under the law of killing two people because the prosecution didn't prove its case. People can say that he is guilty because of the civil case, but to me that is not the determining factor, the governments case is.
1. As much as it pains me to say so, being a fan of the Naked Gun movies, YES.
2. Criminal law, no - I don't think a reasonable person could have voted him guilty with the evidence presented. Civil law, absolutely. The 2 are distinct, and if someone feels better knowing he lost the civil case, so be it. Me, I don't really give much of a rat's butt about him.
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OK, I can understand wasting time on this board, TSW, or SR Center Ice, but Lonsberry? Bob Lamb, you have issues.
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You also, I would assume, think OJ is guilty of murder, unless you're crazier than I think. You think he did it, and you think he's guilty of the crime. That's okay, too. That's another opinion. You also think, as I do, that he is innocent under the law, and he shouldnt be in jail for it because he wasnt proven guilty in court. That's the way our system works and it's highly flawed but the best in the world. But you don't think OJ''s innocent of killing two people.
He was found (rightly in my opinion because the prosecution was incompetent and the defense did raise "reasonable doubt") not guilty of criminal charges. In the civil complaint by Goldstein's father, he was ordered to pay restitution (i.e., guilty by preponderence of evidence). So, I'd say he wasn't "innocent"; just "not-guilty" of criminal charges.
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Of course. Secret agents don't drive, they either have limos driven by masked chaffeurs or they use fancy cloaking devices that just whisk them away, invisible to the world. The offices are in caves and undisclosed locations like Batman and Cheney. Likewise they don't grocery shop, get sick, or go to the bathroom like the rest of humanity.
And some people really believe that sh--. They HAVE to because it's the only way they can continue to pretend to believe they can defend the idiots who don't give a rat's ass for them or theirs.
Huh? Which they is that they?
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I was at that game. SMU had just come off of program "death sentence" for recruiting violations and Houston was in their run & shoot hey day. Today's UB team could have beaten that SMU team and Houston's offense was incredible against non-top tier opponents.
Pardee did everything he could to keep his team from breaking 100. Houston had the ball with about 7:30 left in the 4th and managed to primarily run draw plays to 3rd & 4th stringers to run out the clock. (Going from memory here, so exact time left in game may not be exactly correct.)
He had ALL the starters out somewhere in the 2nd quarter.
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That stinks. I've never liked the Giants, but always respected Mara.
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Thankyou, thank you very much(in my best Elvis voice).
I know as a Bills fan that sounds wacked, but I just do not believe this team is good enough to win in the playoffs, and next year that D will be even OLDER. So at what point to you cut bait, and start to look towards next year.
Put another way, do you think the Bills would have a shot in the playoffs agaisn't any of these likely particpants(and on the road most likely)
Indy
Cincy
Pittsburgh
Denver
SanDiego
Kansas City
Jacksonville
I sure do not see from the first seven games.
Only Indy and Pittsburgh (or perhaps Cincy) would be on the road. On the very wild off chance the Bills make the playoffs, it will be as a division winner, not a wildcard. Bills would be home against (most likely) the top wild card seed.
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I agree, and have stated all along, that if he did perjure himself he belongs in jail. My guess is that he probably didn't perjure himself on some technicality. I'm looking at this from the point of view that this guy is a lawyer, and I'm assuming a fairly smart one to have moved this far up the political food chain. He knows (my assumption) what perjury is, he also knows what he knows about all this and when he learned what he knows. Being a lawyer, he is used to using "weasel words" to say one thing when he means another. Probably something along the lines of him learning that Wilson's wife worked at CIA from Cheney but not knowing her last name was Plame and/or that she had been a covert agent and getting told by a reporter what the last name was and the specific question that Fitzgerald asked was "when did you learn and from who did you learn Valerie PLAME was a covert CIA agent". Technically, he would have learned about Plame from the reporter; realistically he would have learned from Cheney. If my guess is correct, is that perjury? Mickey could help me with this one, but I don't believe that it technically is perjury.
Again, as I've stated before, I don't like people working in the Executive Branch taking liberties with sworn testimony.
Considering nothing official has been released from the grand jury yet, I am willing to wait a couple of more days to see what indictments, if any, are handed out. The NYT is, or should be, speculating at this time on what is in Fitzgerald's possession at this time.
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Libby, at least, is probably going down. It was learned today that Dick Cheney first told Libby of Valerie Plame and that she worked for the CIA, weeks before the Novak article. Cheney found out when asking questions about Joe Wilson from George Tenet. None of that is illegal, obviously. But then Libby told the Grand Jury that journalists told him first. His notes from his meeting with Cheney are where this is known from and Fitzgerald has them.
http://nytimes.com/2005/10/25/politics/25l...artner=homepage
Looks like GG's quote about this becoming another "definition of what 'is' is" is coming to fruition.
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Jerry can see that a spade is a spade and he calls the spade a spade, but he also comes to the conclusion that the entire deck has no red cards because he only saw the spade and he tells everyone that the deck has no red cards.
2 cases in point. I accidentally heard him on GR a couple of days ago and tried to give him the once every 3 month 5 minute listen and I just couldn't do it. His rant was about hockey and how stupid it is to have different rules in the regular season and overtime. Whoa, the guy is actually right (IMHO) about something for once. His remedy: convert playoff rules to regular season rules.
WTF?!? His reasoning was that regular season has the "quickie" OT so people can get home early. (Which is actually WRONG, it's due to television advertisements and scheduling; not to let the crowd get home in time to see the 11 o'clock news.) He'd kill the most exciting thing in sports (again, IMHO) so that the playoffs will be consistent w/ the regular season.Case in point #2. He would start Losman this week against NE. Yes the season is over if the Bills lose to NE and they will probably lose no matter which QB they go with. With that being said, why would you send the kid to the lions. The Pats are coming off their bye, meaning BB has had 2 weeks to game plan; it's a night game on the road; Bruschi will likely have the Pats and crowd in a frenzy; and the last time JP played there, it did not go well (and that was not his fault); and (according to the media at least) the vets have little to no faith in JP. All of these indicate that this will be a tremendously difficult game for him to win. IF JP is the future of this team, and I think he MIGHT be; why would you risk him getting it in his head that he cannot win in NE? Yes, JP should be starting again soon; please wait until the KC game, when he may actually have a legitimate chance of playing well.
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I'm not predicting a victory. all i'm saying is that it's in the realm of possibility. turnovers and special teams occasionly help weaker teams upset better teams. it happens all the time. because of some weird flukes, last year a NE team that was much better than it is now lost to an atrocious Miami team.
You are right in that it IS possible that the Bills will pull the upset of the Donahoe era. (Heck, it might even be bigger than going into Jacksonville and getting GW's 1st win
)Unfortunately, I just don't see it happening (but d*mn, it would be cool if it does happen). Not on Sunday night, not w/ NE coming off a bye, not w/ Bruschi giving the team and fans an emotional lift (even if he never sets foot on the field, him dressing probably gives the Pats a 3 point boost). I hope I'm wrong.
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This is symptomatic of a much larger problem in our society. Take the drug laws, for example. No one can tell me that severe penalties for lesser quantities of crack cocaine vs. powdered cocaine (at least in Ohio) is not racist, at least subliminally. No one will ever admit it today, but an argument can certainly be made that the drug laws as written are aimed toward prosecuting more blacks than whites.
I don't think the laws that punish crack possession more severely than powder coke are racist as much as they are classist. The politicians don't see crack in their inner circles, but I'd be surprised if they didn't see or suspect the other form within their crowds. (I can't remember which comedian it was, maybe Robin Williams, that said that cocaine was God's way of telling people they had too much money.)
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They also beat Titans at home Sunday night before labor day a few years ago.
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describe the comeback game
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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The play that stood out in my mind was the Oilers kickoff right after they had gone up 35-3. Fail DelGreco shanked the kick and it ended up like an onsides attempt. The Bills recovered the kick and had good field position to start the next drive.
I started jumping up and down and telling the wife (fiance at the time) that we were going to beat the $^##% %%^^#@ girl f*gs. (I had thought at 1st the Oilers intentionally tried an onsides kick to really rub Buffalo's nose in it.) I don't know if that helped fire the Bills up any, but it sure did fire me up!