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Ergo, LaConjecture.

In the short term, yes. More importantly, it provides incentive for Gilmore to sign sooner vs later as the tag is free to use on him and that amount is farther south of the Josh Norman money he is looking for than what the Bills would give him on a new deal.

Jason LaConjecture as he is referred to by 26CornerBlitz over at TBD.

Thank-you Willis McGahee.

That is because you have a face made for radio.

Yeah, those good people. There are decent folks who are for Trump just like there are some a-holes for Hillary (look for that slogan on a T shirt soon). Point is, that crap needs to be strongly condemned, regardless.

Has anyone seen the NYT video of various attendees at Trump rallies they posted yesterday? Sad and disgusting. Trump and his more moderate base have to come out and strongly condemn this kind of behavior. This is giving many good people a bad name. Does anyone know if there is similar footage of Clinton rally attendees? If anyone attending her rallies is behaving like this, she needs to strongly publicly condemn their actions as well.

That was a joke.

Yeah, we went to different schools together. But I'm your elder by two years and I expect you to respect that.

The elephant? So you're saying if we only appeal to the GOP things will improve. Nice. Disclaimer: that was a joke. Seriously though, if we can better understand our own motivations, chances to improve bipartisan relations grow. And I appreciate Hajdt's efforts to point that out. I do have a bone to pick with him though, and that is he could do a better job of presenting his data. I suspect that is is own conservative bias at play, so I can forgive that.

Great read. Thanks for the link. They touched upon the explosion and impact of mass media and I would add that doing away with media ownership regulations and the Fairness Doctrine in the 80s was a huge contributing factor. A lot of crap hit the fan in that decade.

Well now, vitriol is as old as the human race and no era can claim superiority in that department. But the electronic age and the speed of messages sent, received, and responded to, makes present day challenges of discord far more challenging. I'll leave it at that.

In my best Hedley Lamarr: "Kinkeeeey"

When you say "differently", do you mean standing up?

No doubt we've had periods of polarization previously. But the 24/7 news industry, the internet, the explosion of mass media producers, social media, and cultural evolutions both here and abroad, have radically changed the playing field compared to other times in history.

Street cred is everything. You can't get that sitting in your ivory tower of academia bird dogging an attractive grad student while she's grading papers.

Very interesting read. Thanks for the link. This quote from the link speaks volumes, I think: "Our legislative process is not designed to withstand the current levels of partisan polarization in the electorate." So yeah, we get the government we deserve.

This is an outstanding post. Elegant, actually. Well done.

I am unequivocally asserting the primary was rigged.

Nice calves.

... is a false flag candidate intending to destroy the DNC from within?

This is the post that I responed to: If I failed to construe that only non-political responses were being called for here, I apologize. "...Clinton will do away with the V.A...." read like an invitation for just kind of response. I am certainly not prescient and like I said, it wasn't my intention to involve you in any unwanted give and take vis a vis the VA program.

I had to chuckle at the hyper link in the story entitled: 'Khizr Khans Deep Legal, Financial Connections to Saudi Arabia' Just out of curiosity, how familiar are you with Pamela Geller?

What, the rick roll or the green pixie guy? In the nearly 20 years Scott has been hosting a Bills forum, I've fallen for Green Pixie Guy at least 100 times. That is no exaggeration, either, as people's ability to disguise hyperlink destinations as evolved. First time for me with the Rick Roll, though. Did I mention d4rk is a bastard?

You bastard! This is right up there with the green pixie dude at TheStadiumWall. Fool me once....