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  1. Question for all those armchair QBs out there...

    What kind of salary SHOULD these pro's be making? What's fair for the players vs. the owners? If you can't pay to attract the top talent and put in "The Replacements", would you pay to go see them? My money'd be better spent at an OSU or local High School game without the "best" out there...

    Here you go -- I'll even help you with financials

    http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/30/sportsmoney_nfl08_Cleveland-Browns_307074.html

    http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2008/10/nfl_tickets_where_does_the_mon.html

    Make your business cases...

  2. Beyond the human suffering, this is related to the forum...

    How the earthquake is affecting Japan’s motorcycle companies

    http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2011/03/how-the-earthquake-is-affecting-japan%E2%80%99s-motorcycle-companies/

    5517928906_7d0525de0d.jpgThis illustration shows the locations of Japanese motorcycle factories and companies in relation to the 8.9 magnitude earthquake’s epicenter off the coast of Sendai. So far, the only word of significant damage comes from Honda’s Tochigi R&D facility where one person was killed and 30 injured during the quake. It should be noted that this is an ongoing event, aftershocks continue and tsunami warning remain in place for the entirety of Japan’s east coast.

    Illustration: Grant Ray

    Even though most of the above facilities appear to have escaped the catastrophe unscathed, it seems reasonable to expect disruptions to production as Japan’s infrastructure reels from the massive quake. According to Jason Fullington’s firsthand report, public transportation in Tokyo is currently shut down completely and the roads — jammed with people trying to reach loved ones or escape damage — aren’t much better. The next few weeks are likely to see energy shortages, continuing difficulties with transportation and emergency measures which could further interrupt normal operations.

  3. Or you could just read it for what it is...an article someone wrote. I didn't post it because of the person who wrote it, or what site it's on, or whether the original site (still) exists or if the person who wrote it is really Sarah Thomson or someone used a pen name. You can read it or not. I don't care. None of those things change the fact that when you clicked the link, words were in front of your face to read if you wanted to.

    That's a pretty ignorant thing to say. It's all about the presentation.

    Telling you that "cognitive scientists have shown Republicans have mental deficiencies" is different than telling you that "Joe, my neighbor that votes Democrat, discovers Republicans are mentally deficient."

    They're just words, but when you try to bring any sense of clout to your argument and it's not true -- it's pretty ineffectual when people realize you're intentionally trying to mislead them by disguising an opinion piece as a scholarly article with "facts and studies and analysis" that never existed. :nono: Check the citations too... a lot of them are non-existent as well.

  4. I'd like to see a pay scale based on the average income of the people they represent.

    We could run with that, and the congresspeople who have a salary that is the farthest away from the national average have their votes mean the least.

  5. They could have used this avenue the day they left.

    Yep. But that's unfair to ask them to look beyond the next move. The GOP are great checkers players, too bad the game is more like chess.

  6. Wait, I want to retract my post.

    Please, by all means, everyone ONLY fill up in the morning (staying off the roads for me and leaving me with plenty of pumps to myself when I decide to get gas) -- and only use the slow setting (this is mostly for my own lulz watching you waste 20 extra minutes each fillup).

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