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I understand. My question was rhetorical. Its a collection of really poor decisions and a weak support system to save him from himself. Unfortunately not the first athlete to throw away that amount of wealth. And he wont be the last

I totally agree. This article reminded me of the articles/lists that PFF would put out in its early days where its "analytics" would "prove" that some mediocre QB who was only starting because the team didn't have anybody better on the roster was actually a top five QB. I don't know what magical "analytics" the statboys are using but it smells a lot more like subjective opinion than numbers to me. Career-wise, Payton has certainly gotten good mileage out of his single SB appearance, but this is 2025 not 2009, and the NFL is a different league today than it was. Certainly McDermott was the better coach than Payton in last year's playoffs. I fail to see the relevancy of Tomlin's 2008 SB win, Payton's 2009 SB win or John Harbaugh's 2012 SB win to these coaches' ability in 2025. I think Herbert is doomed with Harbaugh as HC and Greg Roman as OC. Harbaugh had Roman as his OC in San Francisco before he departed for Michigan. Now he's hired him again. I disagree about Herbert. I think he's been the victim of crappy coaching his entire career, and it's only gotten worse with the new regime. I think what Roman wants him to do doesn't fit his skill set or his temperament. Harbaugh hardly made "the best out of a horrid group of skill players and a QB that isn't uniquely talented enough to overcome it"; he created the situation by forcing Herbert into his system rather than modifying his system to fit his QB. BTW, if you think I dislike Harbaugh and Roman, I plead no contest. Roman was the OC in Baltimore from 2019 through 2022. He failed to develop Lamar Jackson as a passer. In 2 seasons under Todd Monken, Lamar has become an infinitely better QB as demonstrated by his superlative stats in 2024. Teacher! 🖐️ Teacher! 🖐️ I know!!! 🖐️ I know!!! 🖐️ It took Andy Reid only 6 seasons to make the Super Bowl, 14 more seasons to actually win a SB! Are you buying the Bills? I didn't realize they were for sale.

Eric Adams is probably the best option of the three, but I don’t think he can beat Zohran with Cuomo and Sliwa still in the race. He’ll also need to build up a semi-competitive ground game. You can’t just scream “Socialist! Jihadist! Communist! Anti-Semite!” from afar and expect anyone outside the PPP MAGA nursing home demographic to take you seriously. My guess is that the race will come down to the working-class minority neighborhoods, and so I really like Team Zohran’s odds. He’s refined the AOC 2018 playbook that enabled her to take down Joe Crowley. Oh, and I’m now hearing rumors of corporate donors pressuring Cuomo to stay out of the general election. So the establishment Dem fear is both palpable and justified, in both NYC and throughout the rest of the country. Trumpian and Israeli politics are absolutely factoring into these political dynamics, but demographic breakdowns in the NYC mayoral race polling data suggest more fundamental economic fissures in play…fissures that were equally emergent in the polling data during the 2016 and 2020 Bernie primaries.

I agree in a sense. The vast majority of the left, the useful idiots, absolutely have not thought about it at all and they never will. But the puppet masters certainly have. Radical climate agenda, racist DEI, wide open borders for illegal alien criminals, sexualizing children with trans crap, free Palestine etc.... These are all insane causes that the Democrat party of ten years ago would never accept as fringe issues let alone fully embrace as wedge issues. The long march through the institutions is coming to fruition and they've got an orange menace to rail against to help justify all of it. And useful idiots lap it up.

Cuomo may run as an independent in the general election, however, which would divide the anti-Zohran vote between him and Eric Adams (independent) and Curtis Sliwa (Republican). This reminds me of the 2021 Buffalo mayoral race in which Byron Brown defeated India Walton in the general election as a write-in candidate. I’m also reminded of the 2020 Democratic primaries in which all the centrists consolidated under Biden after Bernie won in Nevada. Note the strategic lesson here… Nevertheless, I’m pleasantly surprised with last night’s results (shout-out to Staten Island…WTF LOL) and now feel that Zohran’s campaign has potential to grow to an indomitable electoral majority by November 4. Having recently canvassed for Zohran in Manhattan and Brooklyn and The Bronx, I can say that we have plenty of room for growth with working-class minority communities. Lots of people have still never heard of Zohran, but they do recognize the Cuomo name. Zohran has 4 full months now to work his Obama-like charisma and keep championing his economic message with implacable focus. The weather here is hot, my friends, and so is Zohran. The thirst for water is high, my comrades, and so is the demand for pragmatic solutions to economic market failures under late-stage neoliberalism.

This is going to be entertaining. The only certainty in the whole thing is that when failure comes, it will be because of racism and have nothing to do with ideology.

I work as a judge. Job description would mainly be deciding if someone is guilty or not and sentencing when it comes to criminal cases (we do not have a jury system) and deciding who owes who money and who gets custody of a child when it comes to civil cases.

10 million illegals and free loaders that can work but have been abusing the system. ”I have a “back” injury.” Waste. Fraud. Abuse of Medicaid. Get it gone. Chris Murphy is mad that is a good thing. MAGA!

These points need reinforcing, as I sometimes get the impression that the average Bills fan suffers from short-term memory loss and / or mild dementia. His deer in the headlights moments have been too frequent and their impact has been too severe, and they heavily outweigh his game day tactical nous and ability to problem solve in quick time when encountered with a high pressure situation. That said, he is a great Monday to Saturday coach who is surely one of the best in the NFL at building a great culture and instilling an uncompromising team ethos into his players. And he is a high character human being. If I had a kid who played football, I would love him to play under Sean. But, sadly, the fact remains that he is something of a game day dud. There have been too many instances for this to be ignored. As a Bills fan I obviously wish him well. But in the race to achieve the ultimate goal of bringing a Lombardi to WNY, he simply does not have all the necessary tools in the tool box.

This thread is about the NYC Mayoral Race… can you hop off Trump’s D for five seconds?

The split of who contributed more in that arrangement is overwhelming toward Brady, and yes, Josh would have been just fine in Chicago. Guarantee it. As would have Tom somewhere else. They both didn't need somebody else to tell them to put in the work. This isn't a guy playing in a Bill Walsh mastermind system. Both are primarily defensive coaches who stressed not screwing up. With Josh, so much to the extent that it nearly screwed HIM up.

They have had it at some of the more casual events. Like Historic Racing Event etc. Vintage Racing from my visits years ago 65 mph speed limit 😋 and no passing. Get behind a line of Porsches though and the track opens up a bit lol Station wagons and mini vans welcome. Great place indeed The Gorge is really the jewel though for most folks !

The "borders aren't real and also borders are racist" crowd sure thinks borders matter when it comes to dumping foreign invaders in some third country. Everyone is a blood and soil nationalist for the people they actually care about.

That graph above is from Krugman's blog. I've been involved off and on with immigration enforcement and policy ever since I got sworn in as a lawyer. I'm a realist. Neither political side has embraced realism for more than a few moments. Democrats typically think that because most immigrants, legal or illegal, are hardworking and generally law-abiding (save for that illegal entry), it follow that enforcement of immigration laws is bad. Republicans typically think that illegal entry is an offense to the very concept of a law-abiding nation, and that strenuous enforcement will right that wrong with little or no cost to Americans. In fact, they think it may be a net benefit. The reality is ... the reality. We have an illegal immigration system in America, and the American economy has come to rely on it. Both Republicans and Democrats need a dose of reality here.

The evidence is what I laid out. As to the "why now," I think it is obvious, and it isn't strictly my opinion, it's from listening to countless discussions with Israeli officials, mostly ex ambassadors and others involved in dealing with this while living there and undergoing these relentless attacks. To respond to the question, I think the Oct 7 2023 inhumane barbarism started it. Prior to that, things were kind of quiet by local standards. Hamas and the Palestinians enjoyed employment within Israel and the Israelis mistakenly thought that at long last there could be some kind of coexistence. Then we witness the most barbaric attack in modern history. Babies killed, families butchhered and filmed, and a host of other unimaginable atrocities. Israel responds by attempting to finally eliminate Hamas, which is nothing more than a murderous org taking intl relief and converting it into an underground weapons delivery system. Hezbollah chips in, and hundreds of thousands of Israelis have to leave northern Israel. The entire country is involved in supporting their defense. The economy is no longer functioning with so many displaced and so many reservists away from their usual careers. Hamas gets set back and then the brilliance of Hezbollah getting severely castrated by the beeper thing. Syria collapses, as the Israelis use that to destroy existing air defenses and create a corridor through there to Iran. That was a big deal, and I pointed that out at the time. Now you have a very reduced capability from Hamas and Hezbollah, and the Iranian weapons program still a major threat. Not just nuc procurement, but a massive ballistic missile capability. Guess what? They've got a clear path to Tehran after decades of threatened and backed up murder. They've had scores of human assets inside Iran preparing for this moment for years, and the activated them, building drone launchers and other offensive weapons from within. Air defense eliminated, The timing was perfect, as was the execution. It is the dream scenario for the west, the middle east countries wanting to live in peace and anyone else who is sick and tired of the worst regime on earth.

If you look at the timeline it would seem that things began escalating towards this inevitability prior to Trump. Notice the ramp up of actions in 2024 Also the last post in 2024: Oct 26: Israel openly attacks Iran for the first time, striking air defence systems and sites associated with its missile programme.

2020 Alleged Israeli attacks against Iran's nuclear program stepped up significantly after the disintegration of the 2015 nuclear deal meant to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons. July: A mysterious explosion tears apart a centrifuge production plant at Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment facility. Iran blames the attack on Israel. November: A top Iranian military nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is killed by a remote-controlled machine gun while travelling in a car outside Tehran. A top Iranian security official accuses Israel of using electronic devices to remotely kill the scientist, who founded Iran's military nuclear programme in the 2000s. 2021 April 11: An attack targets Iran's underground nuclear facility in Natanz. Iran blames Israel, which does not claim responsibility, but Israeli media widely reports that the government orchestrated a cyberattack that caused a blackout at the facility. April 16: Iran begins enriching uranium up to 60, its highest purity ever and a technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90 per cent. 2022 June: Iran accuses Israel of poisoning two nuclear scientists in different cities within three days of each other, though the circumstances remain unclear. 2023 On October 7, 2023, Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip stormed into Israel, killing 1200 people and taking 250 hostage, beginning the most intense war between Israel and Hamas. Iran, which has armed Hamas, offers support to the militants. 2024 Feb 14: An Israeli sabotage attack led to multiple explosions on an Iranian natural gas pipeline running from Iran's western Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province to cities on the Caspian Sea. April 1: An Israeli airstrike demolished Iran's Consulate in Damascus, Syria, killing 16 people, including two Iranian generals. April 14: Iran launched an unprecedented missile and drone attack on Israel, firing over 300 missiles and attack drones in response to the Israeli airstrike in Damascus. Working with a US-led international coalition, Israel intercepts much of the incoming fire. April 19: A suspected Israeli strike hit an air defence system near an airport in Isfahan, Iran. July 31: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is assassinated by an apparent Israeli airstrike during a visit to Tehran. Israel had pledged to kill Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders over the Oct 7 attack. Sept 27: Israeli airstrike killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Formed by Iranian Revolutionary Guard members who went to Lebanon in 1982 to fight invading Israeli forces, Hezbollah was the first group that Iran backed and used as a way to export its brand of political Islam. Oct 1: Iran launched its second direct attack on Israel, though a US-led coalition and Israel shot down most of the missiles. Oct 16: Israel killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip. Oct 26: Israel openly attacks Iran for the first time, striking air defence systems and sites associated with its missile programme. All during Biden's term. So to say Israel is only attacking Iran now because Trump is in power seems misplaced

https://www.newsweek.com/china-state-media-israel-iran-airstrikes-defenses-arms-sales-2086463 The collapse of Iran's air defenses in the face of Israeli attacks has prompted influential Chinese commentators to say it could have fared better if it had been supplied with Chinese weaponry. Chinese fighter aircraft proved themselves in combat for Pakistan during its recent confrontation with India, with Pakistani forces claiming to have shot down Indian jets. "Iran's biggest mistake was not purchasing weapons from China," wrote "Former HR himself," a Weibo account with two million followers. The Chinese comments on the failure of Iran's air defenses, which were largely dependent on Russian systems, highlight the increasing prominence of the latest Chinese weapons technology and China's desire to secure new markets for it. The apparent success of Chinese air power in the confrontation between India and Pakistan had already elevated its profile, with stocks in Chinese defense company AVIC Shenyang soaring by 10 percent on last week's news that Pakistan planned to acquire 40 of its J-35 fighters. Countries unable to acquire advanced fighter jets from the U.S. are increasingly turning to China as an alternative supplier, as Beijing positions itself as a viable competitor by ramping up exports and strategic partnerships, as well as showcasing its aircraft in military drills. China Central Television program Defense Review said that netizens from several Muslim-majority countries had called on their governments to introduce the Chinese J-35 fighter jet immediately after seeing what had happened in Iran. These calls—from nationals of Pakistan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Algeria, and others—illustrated a growing desire to strengthen security partnerships with China as a way to counter U.S.-built hardware, such as the F-35s flown by Israel, the report said. This narrative was also taken up by Hu Xijin, the outspoken former editor of the state-run nationalist tabloid Global Times, who has nearly 25 million followers on the Chinese microblogging platform Weibo. "If Iran had several dozen J-10s, plus a Hongqi series missile air defense system, and with Pakistan's level of air defense, it would probably not be as easily struck by Israel like this," Hu wrote in the now-deleted post. The J-10 is an older generation fighter than the J-35.

On our way home from the stadium we always drive by that Mongolian Buffet and I think of that drag racing incident with Dareus everytime lol

Say it louder for the people in the back so there’s no doubt you’re a racist.

Thought Marcell only liked drag racing. Is there a Mongolian Buffet near there?

I bet Salen’s. I was there for a Cup series race and Marcell Dareus was the Grand Marshall walking around with that sailor hat.

another excellent share from Billstimelander. Something or other about Trumps tariffs. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻🤦🏻‍♂️ https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsayegh/2025/06/19/cyberattack-on-whole-foods-supplier-disrupts-food-supply-chain-again/ On June 5, 2025, a cyberattack forced United Natural Foods Inc., the primary distributor for Whole Foods Market, to shut down its systems and halt deliveries to more than 30,000 grocery stores across North America. Nearly two weeks later, the company is still operating on a limited basis, relying on workarounds and manual processes. This was not a minor glitch but a direct hit to the digital backbone of the food supply chain.

Jamie Nails. He was about 365 lbs at RT. I remember a game where the play by play guy said something about the pass rusher trying to run around him and Dan Marino as the analyst said "if you're going to run around Nails, you're going to be late". Absolutely hilarious at the time. Also, Ted Washington. Listed at 335 in the program but played at around 375. Big Ted was chasing Marino and Jim Kelly as the analyst deadpanned " there's a foot race".

Boo! The sleeper cells are after you! Will they bring back Bush's terror warning system so you know if its safe to go outside? Awesome! I'll ride my e-bike over and pick them up