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This is crazy, JP didn't get to be a bad NFL quarterback this early in his career by quiting. It sounds out of character.

Suicide bombers want a better world too, just not one we will be sharing together. Wait.......lemme think about that some more Suidide bombers - making a better world by leaving it. Does that work?

It is probably time we all agree to go back to safe humor: good old fashioned ethnic stereotypes.

That depends, will Tom assign an intern to help the Prez during his stay?

Just remember that through Benjamin Franklin Americans have a proud history of discussing the fart. He composed just such a letter to the Royal Academy of France Letter to the Royal Academy

Why question this? You are totally stealth, dude. Go ride some public transportation this instant and report back.

It all started out very innocently. I never dreamed in my wildest imagination that this was the beginning of an illness. An illness that would rob me of my sanity, my families trust, and more importantly my own self respect. It robbed me of the wonderful life that I had known and little did I know that my life would never be the same. For about the first seven months or so, it seemed like I won debates most of the time. And I would listen to Limbaugh three or four times a week and often just for a few hours. Then I started losing to educated people. I started subscribing to those Limbaugh Letters. And I would justify using this by thinking I've got to win my debates -- I've got to win back my lunchroom and I'll pay these astronomical bills and then I'm finished with political rambling. Well, that never happened. And I'd like to also mention that prior to political rambling on this message board. I was a very responsible person. My wife often said that I didn’t need to stretch one single point into twenty minutes of mindless drivel. And I was really responsible in every aspect of my life. I've raised three children, I've taught them to be honest and I don't know what came over me other than I'm compulsive when it came to political rambling. At work and on the message boards, logic didn't have any value to me whatsoever; it was just a means to play. I didn't give a thought to what I was doing to myself or to my family, the only thing that mattered was staying in the debate. Sometime in 2005, I knew I had a problem. My marriage was on the rocks, and at that time I was lonely I felt that my wife didn't really care about me. My children were grown. They didn't need me anymore so I would listen to Limbaugh. And when I wasn't listening to Limbaugh I might as well have been because my thoughts were always his. In Dec. of 2005, I finally maxed out all five of my credit cards. And these were cards that were used only for books on political rambling, Coulter, Hannity, etc. I needed to go to the dentist, but yet I couldn't afford to, but I could afford Malkin’s books. I wouldn't buy myself anything, all of my money went for my addiction. Finally, enough was enough, I started dating a woman half my age and began taking oxycotin. Hell, it works for me, and now I have a fistful of singles for the strippers at Sundowners that would have previously gone to conservative hacks. The wife is happy, the kids talk to me again, and people sit next to me in the lunchroom.

Always wondered what would have become of Jerry Butler had he not been injured.

I am more of an A-10 type of guy.....no airbrushing.

My High School Prinicpal used to play football with the old leather helmets, and he looked like his nose started out of his left eye..

Not a very sexy idea, but how about trade down and pick up Center Greg Eslinger - Outland Trophy winner.

Sheeeesh, the Pats knew they had no chance of matching Buffalo's power running game this year, so why would they want somebody that can blow people up in the running game like Bennie.

I imagine a guy called "Cactus Face" didn't have much need for a facemask. great post.

Wherever he was going, it was at 3 yards at a time.

Bench Shelton? Who is going to run the ball in the frickin' Red Zone package? Willis Magahee?

The big surprise is that there are 5 teams out there that they think are worse than our Bills.

It seems to me that your stance is libertarian, aside from wanting economic individualism, the ill-defined charge of "blight" in these cases seeks to return non-performing properties to the free market sector. Or as O'Connor said a "Robin hood in reverse, stealing from the poor to give to the privelidged." I do see your point though but I still believe a good Marxist interpretation of this system would still say that the peasant is getting his ass kicked in this class system Untimately, as for libertarian capitalism for groups such as the Cato institute, the danger in this case is not individual rights for the homesteader per se, but case law that could eventually be turned against private corporations. My bet is the Cato institute spends very little time in East Buffalo, although they did write an excellent brief.

My point was that there is no clear division on this decision. The state is not taking the property for its own use, but co-opting it and putting it into the domain of capital ventures. I certainly don't agree with this decision, but is it leftist thinking to take property and turn it over to corporations. What is classically leftist about that? The heirarchy appears to be: Corporation> State> Individual What socialist worth his hammer and sickle would agree with that?

The vote hardly matters, it is the principle involved: to allow municipalities to co-opt private property to foster capital enterpise (not municiple enterprise)and to clear the way for big box stores such as Target and Walmart would not be particularly leftist in thinking, but strictly an admission that capital trumps the weak. Who liked this decision: Wall Street, City Halls, Souter, League of Municipalities Who disliked this decision: NAACP, Thomas, O'Conner, Cato Institute, Urban League So what do you want to call the NAACP and the Urban League? Conservatives?

Anything to win.

Curious that you call eminent domain laws used to open capital ventures leftist. There has to be a better word.

Have you read some of the posts recently? All of our postings are being evaluated and we might be gone with TD.

not sure what the "power to disallow" means but it certainly is a tricky one for symbolic notation.

I have been playing around with Google Earth, check out Afghanistan. Check out Afghanistan, nothing but desolate terrain. What did your old Soviet counterparts really want with this place? It looks like hell.

excellent point, the astrology looks pretty good too.