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01-27-15, 10:37 AM
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01-27-15, 10:50 AM
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Doesn't everyone?
01-27-15, 10:50 AM
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Something to do in front of a football game.
01-27-15, 10:53 AM
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About 2.5 feet + in the flat areas. Very fine soft snow. Drifting like crazy, high winds. Across the street from my window is a parking lot that goes all the way across the block to the next street. I can't see across the parking lot. It's a white out. I'm very lucky, my next door neighbor likes to fix small engines and restore old machinery. He's outside using his restored snow blower, he usually does my house and the one past my house too. He's doing it now, because in a little while it would be too deep for his machine. Blizzard conditions all day at least are predicted.
Lesson for today - Get cash from the bank before the storm so you can pay someone to do your driveway. The snow plow "berm" is up to my waist.
Not a good day to be a Corgi. It's taller than he is. He only has 2" ground clearance too. I have to go out and make a path for him now. He's had breakfast.
Photos soon.
Lesson for today - Get cash from the bank before the storm so you can pay someone to do your driveway. The snow plow "berm" is up to my waist.
Not a good day to be a Corgi. It's taller than he is. He only has 2" ground clearance too. I have to go out and make a path for him now. He's had breakfast.
Photos soon.
01-27-15, 10:57 AM
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Vette's are great in snow, second only to F-Body GM's.
01-27-15, 10:57 AM
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Soccer has never been more interesting to me than it is right now -
01-27-15, 11:01 AM
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Hey @3alarmer. When you go for a bike ride, how do you decide what bike to ride? Do you have a main squeeze type bike or do you pretty much ride a different bike every time? I've been wondering this for awhile, don't know why I suddenly decided to ask.
Also, I have a citrus growing question if you don't mind.
Also, I have a citrus growing question if you don't mind.
Also, I need to take some photos to document ownership on the most recent ones, for when someone steals them all.
I don't miind questions about gardening, if you are prepared for possibly disappointing answers. Gardening and horticulture are filled with failure and disappointment.
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01-27-15, 11:08 AM
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...this will seem like complaining, but it's really more of a high five to the Chinese bike makers.
I recently helped some guy open up a hub, and the hub races were poured in there, in the manner of Babbitt bearings.
Way to go, guys.
I recently helped some guy open up a hub, and the hub races were poured in there, in the manner of Babbitt bearings.
Way to go, guys.
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01-27-15, 11:24 AM
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About 2.5 feet + in the flat areas. Very fine soft snow. Drifting like crazy, high winds. Across the street from my window is a parking lot that goes all the way across the block to the next street. I can't see across the parking lot. It's a white out. I'm very lucky, my next door neighbor likes to fix small engines and restore old machinery. He's outside using his restored snow blower, he usually does my house and the one past my house too. He's doing it now, because in a little while it would be too deep for his machine. Blizzard conditions all day at least are predicted.
Lesson for today - Get cash from the bank before the storm so you can pay someone to do your driveway. The snow plow "berm" is up to my waist.
Not a good day to be a Corgi. It's taller than he is. He only has 2" ground clearance too. I have to go out and make a path for him now. He's had breakfast.
Photos soon.
Lesson for today - Get cash from the bank before the storm so you can pay someone to do your driveway. The snow plow "berm" is up to my waist.
Not a good day to be a Corgi. It's taller than he is. He only has 2" ground clearance too. I have to go out and make a path for him now. He's had breakfast.
Photos soon.
Hang in there.
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01-27-15, 11:55 AM
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I have no problems with the NFL doling out even-handed punishment, I'm merely pointing out that fans are calling for a decidedly disproportional response when compared to the punishments received, as a result of infractions, by other teams. What sanctions were taken against the Vikings when they were caught, red-handed, heating up balls earlier in the season? They didn't even have to go to the principal's office, they got a warning instead - almost no fans noticed this whole episode at the time, but those that did merely yawned (I was one of them). In terms of the severity of the infractions, I don't know how you can argue that "DeflateGate" is any worse (and let's not forget that there's no proof at this point, merely suspicion), yet people are advocating that vacating wins (something that, to my knowledge, has never happened in NFL history) is appropriate? Sorry - I don't see how that's not an overreaction.
If your kid were caught cheating on a test, and said "but Daddy, I knew the material anyway", would you say "oh, well that's ok then kiddo, no problem"? I doubt it.
01-27-15, 12:11 PM
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Apparently someone DID check at least one ball during the game, that's how the issue was discovered. Fact of the matter is, here's an OCD coach who will do anything to win, and has shown time and again that he's willing to cheat to do so, if necessary.
What if the whole league started looking and finding ways to cheat? The league would become much like the pro cycling league, with rampant uncontrolled cheating, playing on insignificant networks you have to hunt down and pray you find on some remote channel. A fringe sport. Then, without football, what will become of America? Watch hockey?
I don't think so. 
What if the whole league started looking and finding ways to cheat? The league would become much like the pro cycling league, with rampant uncontrolled cheating, playing on insignificant networks you have to hunt down and pray you find on some remote channel. A fringe sport. Then, without football, what will become of America? Watch hockey?
I don't think so. 
Also any opinions coming out of New York or that of NY fanboys are automatically thrown out....
01-27-15, 12:14 PM
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01-27-15, 12:15 PM
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That's a pretty good analogy.
01-27-15, 12:30 PM
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No doubt. Only the rich and well-connected can get away with being repeat offenders. If you have enough money you can get away with virtually anything.
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01-27-15, 12:34 PM
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01-27-15, 12:50 PM
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I disagree. As an analogy, it removes too many factors to remain relevant to the situation. If we were going with the cheating child analogy, it would need to include multiple children, numerous previous infractions of varying severity and the accompanying punishments. Then if Timmy gets caught cheating on a test just like Johnny did last year, Timmy deserves the same punishment that Johnny got last year. Well, okay - maybe it's a second infraction, so maybe you double length of the grounding. What you don't do, however, is give Timmy a worse punishment than what Ryan received when he got caught maliciously hurling rocks at other kids and had to spend some time in juvie.
Like it or not, precedents have been set and grossly exceeding them would be trouble for the NFL, both in terms of viewership and impending lawsuits from wronged parties.
Like it or not, precedents have been set and grossly exceeding them would be trouble for the NFL, both in terms of viewership and impending lawsuits from wronged parties.
01-27-15, 12:57 PM
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I disagree. As an analogy, it removes too many factors to remain relevant to the situation. If we were going with the cheating child analogy, it would need to include multiple children, numerous previous infractions of varying severity and the accompanying punishments. Then if Timmy gets caught cheating on a test just like Johnny did last year, Timmy deserves the same punishment that Johnny got last year. Well, okay - maybe it's a second infraction, so maybe you double length of the grounding. What you don't do, however, is give Timmy a worse punishment than what Ryan received when he got caught maliciously hurling rocks at other kids and had to spend some time in juvie.
Like it or not, precedents have been set and grossly exceeding them would be trouble for the NFL, both in terms of viewership and impending lawsuits from wronged parties.
Like it or not, precedents have been set and grossly exceeding them would be trouble for the NFL, both in terms of viewership and impending lawsuits from wronged parties.
01-27-15, 01:02 PM
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Adjusted to hit the nail on the head.
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01-27-15, 01:15 PM
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Haters gonna hate...America loves a winner ....unless they win to much. May we pause and consider that all of this is speculation and nothing more. That Hummer and the Sheriff are ready to convict the Patriots until the facts are known only go to show that I never want them on a jury. Wait until the facts are in. Until then, enjoy what should be a great game between the two BEST teams in football.
01-27-15, 01:16 PM
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At the end of the day, I look at it like this: if it another team were in this situation, a team that I'm absolutely indifferent about, let's say, the Titans (they're still in the league, right?), would I feel differently about it? Nope, not at all - it would be much ado about nothing to me.
01-27-15, 01:19 PM
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I disagree. As an analogy, it removes too many factors to remain relevant to the situation. If we were going with the cheating child analogy, it would need to include multiple children, numerous previous infractions of varying severity and the accompanying punishments. Then if Timmy gets caught cheating on a test just like Johnny did last year, Timmy deserves the same punishment that Johnny got last year. Well, okay - maybe it's a second infraction, so maybe you double length of the grounding. What you don't do, however, is give Timmy a worse punishment than what Ryan received when he got caught maliciously hurling rocks at other kids and had to spend some time in juvie.
Like it or not, precedents have been set and grossly exceeding them would be trouble for the NFL, both in terms of viewership and impending lawsuits from wronged parties.
Like it or not, precedents have been set and grossly exceeding them would be trouble for the NFL, both in terms of viewership and impending lawsuits from wronged parties.
01-27-15, 01:20 PM
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