LastPommerFan

It's 1% of TVs, not people. Even if we get all the way up to 2 Million people in Buffalo, the LA Metro has 18 Million. We'd have to beat them by nearly 10x in ratings to be a "better Market", I should specify, that's TV-Households, not total tv sets. so a house with 3 tvs would still count as 1.

My numbers include the entire buffalo viewing area, which stretches from the border to Olean. Probably doesn't include the CBC! so there's that!

I am certain you and the others take your Oath seriously. Just remember, the Constitution that that oath upholds created Federal Supremacy in no uncertain terms. It also made the President, even this president, your the Commander in Chief, and no one else. You wanna run a fools errand and attempt armed insurrection, be my guest, but don't claim constitutional authority while you shoot holes through Madison's work.

4.3 in LA = about 250,000 TVs 7.3 in Buffalo = about 45,000 TVs If you're talking TV Audience, we are a terrible Hockey Market.

There was no fighting because the Federal Army (and lets be honest, if the Commander in Chief is Riding at the head of the army, no matter where the militiamen came from, that's a federal army) so outnumbered the "rebels" that they knew their destruciton was assured. Washington rode at the head of 13,000 to quash 500. I view the Army of Northern Virginia as the greatest armed force in the history of North America. Even it was no match for the Federal Government. This is why the 2nd amendment is ineffective in your stated cause. The system is designed to give federal hegemony. It is designed that way for a reason, we needed it in 1789 to maintain the union and become great. It took all of 5 years to prove that even a well armed citizenry was no match. Your armed vigilance, and the armed vigilance of all the other "oathkeepers" and "minutemen", is a fraud that offers me nor you any protection. We must be vigilant, but not with our arms, with our words. The country does not move at the speed of a gun, it moves at the much slower pace of culture and politics.

We had some Hartman's Skinnless Weiners over the weekend. Very tasty. Love eating local.

It's the same but a matter of degrees. Reinhart needs to put on 10-15 lbs, less than 5-8% of his body weight. Bennett needs to put on 20-25 lbs, or 10-15% of his body weight. So, while Reinhart will have to change like everyone else, his needs are about half relative to Bennett. Again, just a data point. A single secondary factor among dozens.

If adding the strength needed to survive in the NHL reduces his speed and agility, he could potentially be worse. There's a reason runners are built like runners, that's the fastest body type. Changing his body type will change his game. It might not be a negative, but it could. What this shows is that he will certainly have to change his body type in the next few years. I think that is the data point. Not a deal breaker, not a nothing piece of trivia, just a data point.

Fried egg is the wife's absolute favorite burger topping. Very Yum. And you're not late. Grilling season is just beginning!

Good on ya Ink, I hope it keeps up! I went through a similar journey to yours, albeit at a younger age. I found that after a while, I couldn't even force myself to binge, I just didn't want it anymore. I also found that by significantly upgrading the quality of what I was drinking (craft brews, top shelf liquor, and high end wines replaced Miller Lite, Plastic Bottle Vodka, and Barefoot type cheap wine), I enjoyed the actual drinks way more than the drunk.

For a non-HBOer, where is Arya currently located in the TV Plotline?

Unless he has Marfan Syndrome, then he's screwed.

yum. burger toppings probably could have been it's own thread. Lots of awesome suggestions here.

How about the whiskey rebellion. Where the Alpha Founding Father took the Federal Army and crushed a local militia to pieces. The 2nd amendment's efficacy didn't make it past the Washington Administration. There is a reason for that. We the People, in adopting the Constitution, created the single most powerful central government on the planet. George Washington had more real power than any European Monarch of the time. Just ask Louis XVI. This deification of the Founding Fathers as individual rights Heroes is a revisionist addition to history in the last 50 years.

Played The Legend of Zelda on NES last night. Now this in my brain all day:

He was captured by the government we were at war with. Pretty standard POW swap. If the asymmetry of the war on terror means we don't negotiate for our prisoners of war, I suggest we make that more clear when these kids enlist. Particularly by removing all references to "No Man Left Behind" from each service's creed and/or mantras.

There already are. On multiple governmental levels. Also lawsuits.

3) she's just fancy.

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It's $$. One half wants to spend not one more dollar. The other half has to try and prioritize what they can get. At least Obamacare mandates mental health coverage. That's a start.

I'm making burgers tonight. So, Sabrespace...What are your favorite non-standard burger toppings?

Resistance is futile.

Yes. Thank you. This. And agreed. We Millenials largely don't have the tools to deal with it. But I think one affect will be that profit, while still being critical, will be just one of several drivers of decisions for this generation. See above, it's the relationship between community and self. That's what I'm trying to get at. Lots of this first internet generation looks at the community as the self. And as I wrote, for better or for worse.

I'm talking past myself here. Millenials, as a whole, do not have a stronger sense of community with their neighbors. It's a different relationship between their self interests and the interests of the community. If anything I think we have less sense of civic engagement as a public service as previous generations have. We don't serve others because it's a good thing to do. We have a broader sense of community. And we engage with it in more aspects of our lives, like business. And none of this is based on my experience. I had an... odd... Childhood. This is my analysis of the research on Millenials. I'm just barely in that group. Right on the line in 1982. And no, Taro, I'm not going to teach you how to use emoticons.

I guess my reasoning hinges on the assumption that the internet is a massively different leap than other communications tech. Simply in terms of magnitude and ubiquity. In the past the community we live in and interact with had degraded almost down to the size of the family. This was largely the result of suburbanization. The internet blew that up almost instantaneously. Community is so much more now, and people born after 1982 essentially have only memories of this new reality.