buddha

a week between games sucks.

its about the money. its always about the money.

why any team would waste a pick on a late round qb is beyond me. ask brad kayaa. i remember thinking that was a great pick because he droppes in the draft. it wasnt. just another wasted pick. no late round qbs. ever.

i dont mind paying taxes. i mind the american governmental system where there are so many tax collecting governmental entities that do not work efficiently to provide quality government services. federal, state, municipal, all working for their own purposes with their own axes to grind, wheels to grease, and pockets to line. it all adds up to an incredibly poor product (governmental services) given to their constituents. now, the solution is not to starve the beast as the republicans want to do, but rather to trim the herd of the many beasts that now need feeding. but that's a pipedream that neither republicans nor democrats want because it would mean less power for them. our governmental system will never change. if anything, it will continue to get bigger and bigger, with more mouths to feed at the pork trough.

jackson and polk fall because they were expanantionist and very anti-mexican and anti-american indian. i would say anti-black but that would be just about every president weve ever had. both were extremely important and influential presidents, much moreso than barack obama for god's sake. grant rises up the ranks because he did his best to put through reconstruction, put down the klan, and be at least civil to native americans. but because grant was not a natural politician, he did what he did at everything in life except being a general: he failed. reconstruction ended as soon as he left, the klan went on terrorizing the south for a hundred years, and grant authorized war with the sioux once gold was found in the black hills. but at his heart, grant was a decent person. he was decent to black folk, thought the mexican war was unjust for what it did to mexico, and genuinely wanted and worked to uphold the treaties with the native american tribes. grant was a good general (although overrated now) and a bad president.

obama is ridiculously high in that ranking. so is grant. polk and jackson way too low.

why do you want to pay higher taxes?

they could build solid highways that dont break every winter, but that would cost a lot of money. it would also preclude the state from handing out juicy highway repair contracts and jobs every summer, and we all know politicians dont want to give that up.

its his second offense too. look, everyone hates wisconsin. theyre a dirty team. theyre annoying as hell. the troll center is a terrible place to play. but you cant do that. at the very very least he has to be suspended for the rest of the year. he really should be fired.

the saintly players union would never do that.

that's twice for juwan.

$3 million for that is quaint by today's standards. you can get $3 million for a back strain nowadays if you play your cards right. take randy's scenario. if you put that claim with a good plaintiff's attorney, the first thing theyre going to do is send you to a plaintiff friendly neurologist who will produce a report that randy has a traumatic brain injury and that he will never be the same for the rest of his life. he will sufferel from headaches, and memory loss and mood changes. you get randy's wife or girlfriend to testify that he's not the same person that he used to be. you'll find an expert to say that the way red robin places tvs right above where people are eating is a hazard, that they knew it was a hazard, and they did it anyway because they dont care about safety and they only care that it would cost them $50 to move it. if randy really wanted to play it up, he could testify as to how it is really hard to work and concentrate and that he fears he might lose his job. or heck, he quit his job because he cant do it anymore. put it in wayne county, then you pick a jury full of teachers, nurses, women, and high school graduates and convince them that red robin is rich and poor randy is injured for the rest of his life. boom. youre a millionaire.

you could have gotten yourself a nice pay day out of that.

could very well be. its been a long time since i read about that case in law school.

the coffee was so hot no human being could drink it. she spilled it on herself and suffered third degree burns on her crotch. mcdonalds did offer her 500k. why isnt that enough money? her medical bills were much less than that and they were almost completely paid by insurance. i can cite you a litany of cases where no one has done anything wrong and yet plaintiff attorneys mainpulate people's emotions and come up with ridiculous verdicts. $1 billion for a death of a teenager. $750 million for the death of a 70 year old woman. $350 million for a man put into a wheelchair. and that's just the last 6 months. the legal system didnt work in the mcdonalds case and it doesnt work in most cases. it asks 12 ordinary people to come up with a solution to a problem they have absolutely no knowledge of, but expect to be taught what they need to know in a week. and that knowledge is filtered through a series of arcane rules of evidence to the point where the jury never knows the complete story. i am in this system every day. it is THE WORST judicial system in the western world. it is ridiculous and it benefits almost solely the attorneys who operate in it and earn MASSIVE amounts of money for doing it.

good samaritan law would prevent such a lawsuit for that reason. not that they wouldnt still try to sue you, they are plaintiffs attorneys, after all.

going to the game ia such a hassle. i like the view from my couch on my big ass tv just fine.

i'm still worried about his skating and hoping he doesnt turn into rasmussen, but having soderblom turn into a player would be a real coup.

that's what happens when you've been giving away money for free for 20 years. large investors have more cash than they know what to do with, so they spread out their portfolios and get into property ownership. cant put your money in bonds, no growth there. plus newly rich chinese companies are getting into the us property market, buying everything up. i know a guy who was trying to buy an investment property and everytime they would look at something, a big investment firm came in and overbid and paid cash up front. driving up prices everywhere. you cant get anything worth a damn for a family in chicago for less than 500-600k now.

they need to be over 500 in conference play. if so, they'll probably squeak in.

just wait until she gets a lawyer and sues the nfl and the rams and stafford.

oh matthew....a fractured spine? that could cost you a million in meds easy.

they have neither the ideology or the terrain to hold off the russians. they also have a sizeable part of the population that is pro russian. there is no comparison between them and the afghans. and it doesnt matter, its not in the us's interests to fight the russians over this. take a compromise. move on the other things.

ok. you need to relax a bit.

it doesnt. some are under the belief that mlb is somehow rejiggering the game solely to placate some gambling interest. even though the ones who are preventing the game from speeding up are the players, not the owners. baseball has been getting slower and slower and slower for decades, but somehow now that the evil gambling interests are involved its all about mlb catering to their interests (even though theyre trying to speed up the game).