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According to the article, guess the Pegulas getting the Knig-hit Hawks just now became official. Really thought that had been official almost since Styres announced the current version was moving.

This is just news now? Thought that came though 2-3 months ago. The Knig-hit Hawk news, that is. The expenditure on the War Memorial Arena is new news.

Bummer. He was awesome as Navigator Howard Borden. (Apparently downgraded his career after having been an astronaut.) Also was on Match Game quite a bit. Seemed to be a real ditz, but also a good guy. RIP Mr. Daily.

Avs fans should be even moreso as Colorado owns Ottawa's 1st this season as part of the Duschene trade. How Sakic got that pick to be non-lottery protected is certainly a head scratcher. Very good chance that'll turn into a top 6 pick even if the lottery balls don't break their way. The only way they aren't the favorites in the Hughes derby is if Corey Price breaks early in the season.

Extremely unlikely they miss unless they have a serious injury bug. But, IF they miss, the Sabres get the '20 pick, not the '19.

Hope you're right. (Though to a large degree, on a separate level, hope you aren't.) And, sadly, why isn't seeing Kerry's name come up surprising?

Not doubting your veracity here, but IF you are correct about that; they'd better have had SIGNIFICANTLY better justification & documentation to get the warrant than the previous administration appears to have presented to get the Page FISA warrant. This stuff WILL result in a shooting war if this ends up looking like political retaliation. Those on the far left will never believe it isn't, but those towards the middle have to be able to see something like this truly is legit. (Again, if true.)

Correct. SJ doesn't have their 1st in each of the next 2 drafts regardless of whether they make the playoffs this season. If they make the playoffs this season, Buffalo gets the '19 1st & the Otters get the '20 1st. If SJ misses the playoffs this season, that flips & the Otters get the '19 1st & Buffalo gets the '20 1st.

Considering we know there IS a fixed end point to this tale (unless they decide to show some of what Saul was doing / working on while he was Walt & Jesse's lawyer - which would be kind of cool), really don't mind them stretching out the journey. And Gus' story for Hector was awesome & EXTREMELY dark. Much like Gus. One of the best written villians ever.

If they're bringing in taxes at say 26% of GDP (a level 44 never approached, btw), they can have a serious porkfest on the other side of that equation & the economy will be seriously in the dumper. And that would likely bein balance every single year. It is important IMHO that if there is a requirement for a balanced budget that there be a max that they can't exceed on the spending side which is below simply whatever they want to tax. (17-18% GDPis my best guess at what the # should be; even though we typically are spending more like 20-22%.) And, war should be pretty much the only emergency that allows them to bust the budget, but we've actively been at war for almost 17 years to the day with no end in sight. So, they're always able to blow through that cap, should they even bother to place such a cap. & If they are having a balanced budget without expecting at least 2 hurricanes, X fires, & a major earthquake, they'll always blow through the budget as well. You don't necessarily know when that stuff will happen, but they have a pretty good handle on how often disasters will happen within a given timeframe on average. A natural disaster should not give Congress, in a balanced budget framework, the ability to blow through the budget. That money should come from a separate account, IMHO.

Provided there was a requirement that the budget couldn't go over 18% of GDP during non-emergency conditions, I could possibly go along with that. Problem is, I doubt we'd ever be out of "emergency" conditions. There also would likely be other myriad ways for our Congress critters to further game the system. But a straight "balanced budget" amendment pretty much gives tacit approval to spending 25% of GDP & bringing the correspondingly crushing taxes that would "pay" for that spending.

How long before LaDexter uses the top photo as proof that 911 was a Zoinist conspiracy; as the "get away" "rocket" for the conspirators within the building was clearly visibly at the beginning of its launch sequence?.

If drinking & digesting their blood works well,imagine what eating & digedting their spleens could accomplish.

IF the tweet is correct, would officially make Hillary Clinton the worst candidate for national leadership in the history of voting. (It's been suspected for a long time, but that being public would make it official.) And that would move us precariously close to a shooting war. Here's to hoping the long, slow rollout has allowed cooler heads to prevail.

And if Cornelius Bennett could catch a football thrown at him, Norwood would never have had to try a field goal. And a welcome back to KRC!

Vikes. Though the way Garrapolo finished the year, not extremely confident in them. Hate week 1.

As mentioned in an earlier post, my recollection was of the '80 opener, not the playoff game in '90.

One section of goalpost may have ended up there. Another section ended up at the top of the upper deck. The drunks that carried it up there were shouting at the people leaving the stadium to get them to move back so they could throw it over into the concourse. Security took that section from them and there it lay 3 rows from the top of the stadium until well after everybody had filed out of Rich. Ironically, the replacement goal posts were made by a Miami-based comoany.

Are you referring to the 1980 Fish game? If so, No, they did not throw them over the top of the stadium. They WANTED to & brought a goalpost up into the upper deck, but security kept them from tossing it over. A couple of other sections of goalpost did make it into the parking lot, but not after being tossed over the stadium. They would've killed someone filing out of the stadium if they had.

So, basically, don't expect anyone to claim responsibility. Realizing it would just be speculation, but do you think this was due to somebody not getting a big enough share of the spoils & this was more personal or was it due to somebody upset w/ the way the pawns were laid out on the geopolitical chess board?

Has anybody claimed responsibility yet?

Well, in fairness, the guy making that statementis an Hollywood actor. Relatively speaking, astronauts nearly are humble.

Really? Good to see they're taking their jobs seriously.

Not a fan of him starting behind this line, especially if Ducasse is still starting come week 1. But if he looks good today, it is a no brainer to give him the keys against the Ravens.