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I was looking for this. Besides being friggin hilarious, I think it gives us a bit of a hint on this guy. How many bench reps are required: to set a guy up like he's beaten you outside, and then flatten him with one arm? What I like best is the mentality necessary for that. When I say mentality? Check this out at 10:42(just click the link): Yeah, same exact play. Not a one-time thing. I love guys that are looking to embarrass, punish, etc., the other team. I love guys that look to show up the other team, not after the whistle, but before it. It's like a takeaway checker in lacrosse. You can affect the other team by making them look foolish/take away their momentum/make them quit. At the very least they will very wary of you, because they don't want to be embarrassed again, at that by itself changes what they will do. It's a small thing, but, if this indicative of Kujo's mentality? When he said "Yes it is"...a warning to other teams? Take these two things together: I am inclined to believe him.

Yeah, and how many times did he pull in that game?

Yeah...because those are precisely the terms that are required to characterize it. Words mean things, and these words are exactly appropriate. Speaking of meanings of words, do you know what the word irony means? Because, I can't help but notice you didn't respond substantively to me calling your post "ironic". Let me help. Ironic: Your treatment of "stupid frat boys" is exactly equivalent to their, as projected by you, treatment of gays. You even use the word "sterotypical", to provide a handy underscore to your hypocrisy. The difference: I can't possibly know how "stupid frat boys" might or might not treat gays. However, I can know how you would treat millions of people you've never met, yet attribute both absolute behavior and mindset: you've posted it! (I always love Dr. Xavier mind-readers like yourself, who are capable of knowing what millions of "stupid frat boys", are all thinking, at the same time, now and forever. I mean, this is one hell of a trick you can pull off.) Nothing like blatant hypocrisy, couched in pretend morality. Nothing like self-congratulation, being represented as grace. I had thought that this was the sole province of the religious extremist, because I keep hearing that from the supposedly "enlightened". You've debunked that notion, and provided me a good bit of lulz in the process. Nice work.

Avoid traffic? And why not? These people don't have time for traffic anyhow. And, you'll notice, we aren't talking about the POTUS's ride here: that's Marine 1. We are talking about the 23 choppers everybody else in the administration "require". You can make a security/time argument for the POTUS having a chopper...but the Secretary of Labor? Get em a limo.

I wonder...how does this thread compare, in terms of total # of person/time spent thinking about this issue, nationally? I mean, with so few people in the country spending any time on this, we have to be up there, don't we? I bet we are just above CNN's time spent, because we have more people, and just below Harry Reid's staff meetings, because we have less.

Helicopters are notorious for breaking down, are expensive/maintenance problem children, and apparently it's hard to keep their working parts clean. Seems to make sense, with so much air moving around in different directions. I really don't know why somebody can't come up with a better design, but, in the meantime, it seems like things being difficult to maintain is inherent no matter what.

And what happens when those financial supports are removed, as, they will be, specifically when the progam-specific Fed funding for Medicaid(not Medicare, at least not in the way you've presented it = the same as Medicaid) is removed, as per the design of this thing? Somebody will have to make up the difference. The states that bought into this scam are going to have to replace that funding somehow. In all cases, the notion that Obamacare is "deficit neutral" is a hilarious lie: they simply stop paying for it...at the Federal level, and move that burden to the states. Thus the states were set up to face a no-win choice: either they cancel/cut their programmed subsidy/financial support for Obamacare policies, or they are forced to raise taxes to replace the Federal funding. This is precislely WHY the "Red states didn't sign up for the Medicaid extension". They took the 3rd choice that Democrats assumed they wouldn't. Hence the big tears from the leftist media...because this "breaks" Obamacare. In fact, they are trying to claim this is all about politics, and trying to screw with Obama, and those "poor people in those red states" blah, blah, blah. However, these people are the opposite of sincere: all these "Red states" are doing is refusing to walk into a trap. The Democrat's hope for this trap was: their "cure-all", raising taxes/increased spending, would be locked in. Rather than winning elections, they impose their "solution" by default. The states that refused to extend Medicaid are confounding this.....and that is the REAL reason why Ds are crying about it. Democrats assumed that no state would dare not extend Medicaid, and confound them, because, that would give the Democrats an easily angle of attack: "How dare you withhold health care from people who need it"? They assumed that no one would call their bluff, and, even if they did, that would give them so much political ammunition, that they could win election after election, and get their way regardless. They assumed wrong. Once again they overestimated their ability, and their support. Typical. But really? The worst assumption Democrats made was that everybody else is like them: craven and unprincipled. A craven and unprincipled person falls into the trap, and behaves as designed, because he has no other choice: he is who he is. The opposite of that person refuses to walk into the trap, and is just fine with being attacked by....obviously craven and unprincipled people. Anyone who observes Obamacare to be anything other than a lame set of poorly designed political traps, and tries to call it a "solution"? Either they are ingorant of these realities, which is fine, because now you know they are ignorant. Or, they are being purposefully ignorant, in which case, now they are busted. EDIT: However messed up the health care system was prior to Obamacare? That's no jusfication for Obamacare. It messes things up worse than they were, and, in fact(this has now moved from "what I predicted in 2009" to "undeniable in 2014"), creates a lot more problems than it solves.

And this is based on what exactly? The Pat's drafting ability over the last 10 years? No. When Brady leaves, unless there are serious changes, many weaknesses, that have been accounted for by Brady, will be exposed.

I find it hilarious that on a day when literally everything has been forced into a quantifiable state(Ht. Wt. 40 time. Speed off the edge. Bend. Length.), when even "intangibles" become "measurable"....we are suddenly supposed to forget all that, because Sam is gay. Gay: an "intangible", that cannot be quantified, and is of absolutely no value to play on the field. Of course, it has infinite value as a marketing tool: to the dopey, and the dopey that attend to the dopey. This is a sham. It's highly INEQUITABLE, and most of all to Michael Sam. If Sam is being drafted as an NFL/Rams PR move, then I fail to see how this advances anything for anyone. Let him be subject to the exact same process as everyone else, and leave his sexual orientation aside. Anything else is a disservice to literally everyone involved. It seems some are putting their own need to drive their agenda, ahead of the good of Michael Sam himself, and I fear that is only going to end in chaos, and real stupidity here. I wonder: in the future, will anyone accept the blame, for hyping up this guy, his sexuality, and casting aspertions on the motives of anyone who says: "he just can't get it done in the NFL" for football reasons, if Sam crashes and burns? Or, will they only take the credit( ) for being "morallly superior" today? I also find this hilariously obtuse: Sorry, but this is pseudo-intellectual farce. The premise of this farce: establishing acceptance of all, real acceptance, not lip service, and therefore real equality, is the goal. But then this goes on to characterize every "frat boy" as the same. And what's worse? Uses the very word "stereotypical" to do it. That's hilariously self-unaware irony. I wonder: what is the process for any "stupid frat boy", to gain acceptance from: transient? Or, are they all doomed to being pre-judged as "stupid"? Apparently "frat boys" not only can't be accepted, then can't even be tolerated. And, transient has taken it upon himeself/herself to establish this "standard" for the rest of us, based on: "we all know how "frat boys" are". As I said: intellectual farce, and hilariously ironic. The premise is also retarded. There is no "right to acceptance", and there must not be, in a country that espouses "equality". Real equality depends on allowing for diference of opinion, beliefs, and ideologies. We cannot be equal if some opionions, beliefs, and ideologies are deemed to be "correct" or "superior" while others are not, and therefore, those who hold the former are treated differently, and better, than those that hold the latter. As long as the latter are called names, denigrated, excoriated....then we are merely a representative tyranny, and there is no real equality. No. Tolerance is what we all signed up for, and that's all. We must not and cannot force acceptance upon anyone. Otherwise we CREATE the very "false acceptance" the premise of this farce has identified, and a whole lot of resentment to boot. QED This is an intellectual farce, because it espouses causing the very problem it seeks to solve.

In..... before moved to PPP. What a shocker: the solution the Brits arrived at? More GP "trainees". More supply. In fact, specifically create more supply to stay ahead of "population growth". What does Obamacare do however? Drive doctors, especially GPs, out of the business, provide 0 support for educating new doctors, and make it such that very few existing doctors can make their private practice work based on Obamacare-level reimbursement. (So, they are selling their practices to big providers. However, the big providers are going to find out the hard way that they can't make it work either, especially when the Feds pull the support for Medicaid...in 2 years.) In fact, it is quite literally designed to operate this way. Obamacare supporters can talk all they want. When they get done? The above will remain: fact. This was never about opinion/politics for those of us with the intelligence/education/experience/knowledge to understand Obamacare. This has always been about us knowing that the thing won't work, because it was designed either by children, or, via a childish mentality hell bent on "punishing"...while having 0 understanding of how health care, health insurance, big systems, IT, BPM, business, and basic economcis: works. It's as I've said from 2009-present: this is about bad system design, largely because this system was designed by people who don't know how to do big system design, and even less how to manage it's execution. It's as I've said: Obamacare is Cargo Cult Health Insurance. Instead of real airplanes delivering real care. We have fake airplanes, designed by people who have seen the real ones, but have no idea how they work. Instead of knowing where quality care comes from, and how to deliver it, we have people who have simply made something up, and called it quality assurance, while having either been completely unaware of, or ingorning, the tenets of what makes a QA system function and produce proper results. They have completely confused QA with Cost Accounting/Reduction, because they don't understand either, or how to implement either. This is just one of many examples: Obamacare doesn't deliver real cargo. It delivers something nobody cared about or wanted: more control of health care by government minus any tangible improvement.

So, now we don't got Belue.

Clearly they are going all out for ST with these UDFAs. One DT, and everybody else is a burner/hitter.

Well we got Belue.

Optimus Prime EDIT: Watkimus Prime? Just go with: Watkimus?

The funniest part of all of this? We KNOW this is what they are doing. However, they think they are still fooling us. They think this entire scam is still working. Who is the moron is this equation? The only people they are fooling are themselves, as they sit, in the bunker, moving the pieces, of non-existant public support they have deluded themselves into believing are real adoring masses of people, around on the map. The support? 1 guy with $100 million. It's the ultimate special interest. The guy is a VC who is in the business of green tech. And the Koch brothers are the ones "making money" on this? And again, Harry Reid actually believes he is fooling people with this. It's hilarious.

I voted for nuts

I assure you I had nothing to do with this. I am fully on record as saying we need O line. However, given our dropoff in ST, and the fact that this guy can play zone CB, slot CB, and press? Value-wise, I can't argue with the pick. And, a bunch of OL were taken ahead of us. Also, I think that O line is going to be abundant in UDFA.

I would assume that if Brown truly approached Willis athletically, we'd have seen him go when Willis did(what was that? 10? 9? I know it was right before the Bills, so we took Poz) That we are getting a guy with the potential to be, let's say 75% of Willis, in the 3rd? I'll take it.

I mean, if anyone would be able to make an accurate Patrick Willis comparison, I would assume it would be the people who've watched him play every Sunday. But, maybe that's just me? Imagine if someone asked us to look at somebody and tell if they played like Kiko? (Of course, no one is capable of playing like Kiko, because Kiko exists in multiple universes at the same time...but still)

Well, if you don't like that, I've read 49ers fans comparing him to another MLB, Patrick Willis. It's right in the comments of the video. Patrick Willis comparisons are nice. Whether they are accurate?

Nice post. Seems like a bit of a Zach Thomas type. Much depends on his football IQ. But, it seems he was able to beat blocks a lot and get inside to make the tackle. Perhaps it's his head that is responsible for his feet? Meaning, he's diagnosing/hesitating a bit?

Well, that makes sense given his size/power rush.

Yep, and that's the other part. Injuries happen, and, there's nothing wrong with this kid providing competition to both Spikes and Rivers, learning both spots, etc.

We needed a backup for Spikes no matter what, and, we needed a backup plan for Spikes as well. I wish we got Chricton, but MIN was ahead of us, and I seriously doubt anybody would have traded with us. Not only that, but, he goes from rocky mountain....to squishy goo, that can be rolled aside....when he gets tired. If you are 22 years old, and you get "tired"? At this level? No thanks.

The EJ insurance was, is, and will always be: a myth. Well, not completely a myth. A myth that has perhaps a ~10% chance of being true.