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Agreed, the mistake was this year. They should have tried to trade down in the 1st round, and use the additional pick(s) to draft tackles, and give them a year to get experience before they draft a QB. Without some free agent signings next year, a rookie QB is going to get killed.

The Republican's plan is to hope Christine O'Donnell gets elected so she can wiggle her nose like Bewitched and make it all better. Her slogan is going to be, "Wiggle your nose, not your Johnson".

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Look at the details. The majority of people in Manhattan, the area directly affected, support the plans. The majority of opposition is from other boroughs outside Manhattan, and people who live outside NYC who still incorrectly refer to the planned building as a Mosque.

The day after the rally, on FOX News Sunday (the only interview he would give), Beck went back to his old partisan politics and said that Obama practices a perverted type of Christianity that's based on Marxism (hint, hint, Obama's a commie). So much for coming together in Jesus' name. And did you see who was sitting behind Beck on the stage as one of his special guests? The Rev John Hagee, the same man who believes that Katrina was God's vengeance on New Orleans for allowing a Gay Pride parade earlier in the year, and who called the Catholic Church "the great whore of Revelation 17". Another fine example of tolerance.

To clarify again, it is not a Mosque with a dome, minarets, and robed men with AK47s. It is a Muslim community center with a pool, classrooms with a kitchen, day care, and prayer rooms, based on the design of the Manhattan Jewish community center, which supports the project. Are they going to use the pool to practice underwater demolition? Use the kitchen to teach Muslims how to make yellow cake? Mayor Bloomberg (Jewish) and a majority of Manhattan residents support the plan. The opposition increases as you move farther away from the actual area, and farther away from facts and closer to rhetoric. And here I thought conservatives were for more local control and less outside interference. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/nyregion/03poll.html

You mean the policy where we give tax breaks to the wealthy, and they invest it in businesses who then create jobs for the middle class? Like the Bush tax cuts that have been in effect while this economic downturn has occurred? Like the deregulation of financial institutions that caused much of this problem? Like businesses having huge cash reserves like they have now, that they'll use to expand and create new jobs? No thanks, we've been trickled on enough by the panacea of hoping the wealthy will sprinkle some crumbs our way if we only keep lowering their taxes.

I give up, the stream locked up and now it won't let me back in. And to add insult to injury, in Syracuse they replaced the Bills game on TV with Dallas vs Houston.

Anyone who still opposes the building of the Muslim community center (it's not a Mosque) should watch this interview from 'This Week' last Sunday with the wife of the Imam and the director of the Jewish community center who is helping with the planning, and whose facility is what the Muslims are trying to copy. I expect it will give you a new perspective on what is proposed. This Week interview

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Not quite; with McCain there would have been more people unemployed, as he would have let GM go down the tubes, he wouldn't have provided money in a Recovery act to save first responders and teachers jobs, significant health care reform would have been kicked down the road, and there would be no reduction of troops in Iraq. Not to mention that I would pray every night that he remain healthy and safe.

Amen to that. The economy is slowly improving, stock values are going up instead of down, financial institutions have stabilized, American car companies are recovering, and all this despite a Recovery Act that was too small, but was the most that they could get approved, and a continual effort by Republicans to put political theatre ahead of what's best for the economy. Of course it's little comfort for all the unemployed, of which I was one at the end of the Bush term but have been working for the past year. Since private companies are making profits but sitting on their cash reserves, it's left to the government to further stimulate job growth. We've seen the failure of trickle-down economics, hopefully voters will remember it was Bush and the Republican Congress that took a surplus to a deficit, enacted tax cuts for the wealthy without corresponding spending cuts, started an off-budget war in Iraq, and promoted less regulation for the financial and energy industries. That tiger won't change it's stripes.

I think they should turn it into a maximum security prison. Other than the entrance, there's no windows. It looks like the walls from Escape From New York.

A conservative dismisses right-wing Black Panther 'fantasies' A scholar whom President George W. Bush appointed as vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Abigail Thernstrom has a reputation as a tough conservative critic of affirmative action and politically correct positions on race. But when it comes to the investigation that the Republican-dominated commission is now conducting into the Justice Department’s handling of an alleged incident of voter intimidation involving the New Black Panther Party — a controversy that has consumed conservative media in recent months — Thernstrom has made a dramatic break from her usual allies. “This doesn’t have to do with the Black Panthers; this has to do with their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration,” said Thernstrom, who said members of the commission voiced their political aims “in the initial discussions” of the Panther case last year. “My fellow conservatives on the commission had this wild notion they could bring Eric Holder down and really damage the president,” Thernstrom said in an interview with POLITICO. Thernstrom, who had openly mocked the commission’s hearing on the case, put her dissent in writing last week in National Review, where she said the incident was “racial theater of very minor importance” and “small potatoes.” And other conservatives have weighed in on her side. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/...l#ixzz0uBKavII5

More goodness from the tolerant Tea Party: In an effort to mock to the NAACP's recent criticism of the Tea Party movement, Mark Williams, a conservative radio talk show host and spokesman for the Tea Party Express, published a post on his blog that is a mock letter from NAACP president Benjamin Jealous to former President Lincoln. "Dear Mr. Lincoln," the blog post reads, "We [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People and we demand that it stop!" The mock letter continues by taking on several core beliefs and positions of the Tea Party movement including the conservative movement's desire to end bailouts of big business, to reduce the size and scope of government, to reduce government spending and to cut taxes. "The racist tea parties also demand that the government 'stop the out of control spending,' " the mock letter says. "Again, they directly target [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People. That means we [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People would have to compete for jobs like everybody else and that is just not right. "Perhaps the most racist point of all in the tea parties is their demand that government 'stop raising our taxes' That is outrageous! Totally racist! The tea party expects [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People to be productive members of society, especially when our mission is to convince them that progress is impossible for them based on the color of their skin?" The mock letter ends by telling Lincoln he was "the greatest racist ever. We had a great gig. … Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we say that belong." http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/...bid=yN4rYMNDBu9 Why stop there, put on black face and sing Mammy. His audience would love it.

Pay attention. I didn't say the billboard showed they were racist. I said it made them look like lunatics. They keep the racists around to try to make themselves look reasonable by comparison.

They keep showing up at the rallies and are allowed to stay, but they're not tolerated? There's a reason why they show up there, and not at NAACP meetings.

I love the thrill of our 3rd stringers beating their 3rd stringers in the 4th quarter. It's the highlight of the season.

Present: Please, God! Future: Unanswered prayers

I wouldn't say Tea Party members in general are racist, but they do tolerate fringe racists at their rallies as displayed by some of the signs and things people shout out. Perhaps they tolerate them so as to try and make themselves seem reasonable. But then they go and do something as stupid as the billboard in the linked story, and remove all doubt about their lunacy. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07...oard&st=cse http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/13/...in6675861.shtml

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Unfortunately, they also resigned Lalime as backup goalie, so automatically pencil in 8-10 games in the loss column.

Neither, take whichever of these RBs is left: 1 Chris Johnson RB, TEN 2 Adrian Peterson RB, MIN 3 Maurice Jones-Drew RB, JAC 4 Michael Turner RB, ATL 5 Ray Rice RB, BAL 6 Frank Gore RB, SF

I rolled the eyes because the anti-Obama crowd will call for McChrystal to run just because he's spoken out about Obama, even though they know nothing about his views on most issues. "McChrystal's team disapproves of the Obama administration, with the exception of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who backed McChrystal's request for additional troops in Afghanistan." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37839756/ns/us_news-military/ I still think Hillary could end up as president in the future if she chooses to run.

Lincoln, FDR, and Truman all had issues with generals, and they were right in the end. If McCrystal really feels that way about the administration, then the honorable thing for him to do would be to resign and not wait to be asked to resign by Obama. If he does, I expect to hear calls for a Palin / McCrystal ticket by the end of the week.