Mavric

The trend in regulations is that they are being written more frequently by industry insiders who have a conflict of interest, and funding for enforcement/oversight has been decreased. Banking: Repeal of Glass Staegle (cause of banking crisis). Energy: Revolving door at MME (cause of gulf spill). Despite CFTC report, there is still rampant speculation in oil markets. Securities fraud, and the inability of the SEC to do anything. This is such a broad topic that it would take a considerable amount of research by people dedicated to honest debate. Yet you've still only given one example of less regulation. All the rest are examples of more regulation (I assume) you'd like to see. To state the anything at MME is the "cause" of the oil spill is nothing short of ridiculous. The spill was caused by human and/or equipment failure. You can make the assertion that some regulators doing something different would help prevent such an occurrence but they cannot cause it. Also, as I stated earlier, I believe that the implosion of the subprime mortgage market was the "cause" of the banking crisis. The main contribution of deregulation (as I understand it) was that it allowed banks to become bigger and work on both sides of investing. However, this has nothing to do with the actual subprime lending - which was mandated by the government. The only thing the regulations still being in place would have done would be to make the effects of the collapse only affect the banks involved in lending - those banks would have been hit harder (as they had fewer alternatives to make up for the losses) while the banks not on that side would have not been affected as much. (I'm sure that is an over-simplification but that's my general understanding).

Second jsneb83 Anything (B/P)o (P/B)elini says has to be gospel.

Can you please read my entire post instead of trying to pick apart one phrase? I said the ball is "screaming" coming out of his hand, he's got a "cannon arm", has "zip on the ball" and is "doing a lot of things right." Then people accuse me of saying he can't improve which is made up out of nowhere. I said comparing him to Kiel is "setting the bar pretty high" but just needed someone to compare him to. The comment I originally replied to said he has "awesome mechanics". I think that is overstated based on what a lot of QB experts would look for in a delivery. I'd say they are pretty good but it would nice if he would quicken up his delivery. With as strong of an arm as he seems to have, I would think he could do this without losing much. I believe I said earlier in the thread that I'm excited to have him because he looks like he could be a really good QB. But if he's as good now as he's ever going to be, maybe I'm wrong.

Seems to me like all we ever do is add regulations? What regulations have we lost? Really? You don't know about the deregulation of Wall Street over the last 30 years and how it greatly contributed to the stock market crashing? 1. So one industry losing some regulations qualifies as "too much"? 2. I believe the crash of the subprime mortgage business was one major cause of the crash. Why was there so much investment in subprime mortgages? Because the government mandated it. That sounds like an increase in regulation to me.

I really wasn't sad to see Frank go as HC. Not a failure but not getting it done either. However, a "lifetime achievement award" is not unreasonable, IMO.

Seems to me like all we ever do is add regulations? What regulations have we lost?

Sounds like it's not exactly a lateral move, either. "Defensive run game coordinator" sounds like co-DC to me.

I know this is setting the bar pretty high but it's a name I could find quickly. There is considerable difference in how fast the ball comes out.

I guess I'm not so sure about this. Which one of our four losses this year did he cost us the game? The Wisconsin game would be the first one on people's minds and he obviously didn't play well but we also gave up 48 points which is tough to overcome in any circumstance. Against NW he was 28/37 for 289 yds and 2 TDs and ran for another 53 yds. He also didn't have a great game against Michigan but I'm not sure what he was going to do to overcome the total meltdown by almost everyone else. He only "missed" on about two passes vs. SC and had our longest run of the day. I'd like to see improvement from him just like everyone else but I only see maybe one game where he could do enough by himself to get us any more wins. We need a lot of people to play better. Even some of TM's biggest critics would disagree with your last statement.

If that was a question for me, I expect that he will improve. Don't get me wrong, I don't think he has a long way to go. Anyone with as much zip on the ball as he's got has to be doing a lot of things right. But that doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement.

Hopefully. I would think 4 non-con wins plus NW, PSU, MINN & Iowa would be pretty realistic. That's eight. Wisc, tOSU, Mich & MSU? If we don't win at least one of those, that could be bad. I don't think two is asking too much. More than that? I'll have to see how we look after four games.

I mainly liked the space sceens - explosions and dogfight scenes. The CGI Jabba didn't work for me either. A couple of times it filled in a plot hole but other times it changed the story.

That's funny. My fortune cookie said the same thing yesterday ...

He's got his own fundamental problems but not as bad as ... well, you know. Pretty long stride and a big windup make for a slow delivery but it's screaming once it gets out of his hand. I watched the championship game and wish he would have gotten to unload it downfield because he looks like he's got a cannon of an arm but he'll have some things to work on as well.

Badgers and Packers letting things slip away ...

And now there are three. Oops.

Everyone must be too busy with Giants/Packers (including myself). Badgers up 24-21 at the half. Not sure how it's even that close as the Huskers are shooting 37% from the floor, 16% on 3s, haven't been to the line yet and are getting out rebounded 18-9. Apparently 11 Wisc. TOs are enough to keep it close.

Apparently even the pros can't defend the Hail Mary.

But he was the only guy that we KNOW had terrible practice habits to go along with them. Maybe there were others but it doesn't seem like it. To say him dropping passes was the only reason he didn't play is to totally disregard the other information (which seems to be a common occurrence). To a lesser degree, there was a similar situation with PJ Smith. He admitted that he blew his assignment to guard against Wilson on the naked boot. That's just one play but what if he consistantly has problems with his assignments? Naw, it's more fun to say they're in Bo's doghouse. As I've said before, ALL players are going to make mistakes. The ones who are out there every day busting their butts to get better are going to get more chances to overcome them than the guys that are coasting - or do you disagree with that philosophy? Interesting that you're now playing both sides of the argument. With Turner, he's got so much ability that how he practices or performs shouldn't be an issue - the highly-touted recruit should be in there over the walk on. With ARod, it should be the other way around? Tough to have it both ways.

Yeah, the QB only has to relay the play to everyone, check the defense, possibly change the play, avoid the rush, find the open receiver in coverage, sight-adjust the route in sync with the WR, try to come up with the correct timing in case the WR runs the route a yard short or a yard deep or comes hard or soft out of the break. But if he doesn't put the ball between the nubmers, it has to be the QBs fault for throwing a bad ball.

I don't think most of the items you listed would fit very many people's definition of "socialism". The key difference is education, roads, utilities, fire and police services, the military, etc. are available to/benefiting everyone (obviously some will benefit more than others but generally for the entire population). The social programs that are the main focus of the argument are, by and large, programs that one set of people is paying for while a totally different set of people are benefiting from. To ignore that distinction is either disingenuous or a total lack of understanding of the discussion.

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Dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria.

I wouldn't. The 49ers are a 13-3 team vs another 13-3 team. Meanwhile the Pats are 13-3 while the Broncos 8-8. There is a reason why the Broncos finished the season at .500...they aren't that good. Go look at the Broncos schedule and you will realize they played a very soft schedule. Except for the part where they played the third-toughest schedule in the AFC and tied for the 8th toughest schedule in the NFL. I don't think so.......maybe before the season but not during or after the season was their schedule rated that tough unless you think beating 4 8-8 teams and one playoff team as a good schedule. They lost to all the good teams. It's obvious that you don't think so but that doesn't make you right. NFL Standings by Strength of Schedule

There are a lot of times that the WRs have bailed out Martinez, but a lack of throws their way is no excuse for dropping the ball.... They get plenty of balls thrown their way in practice.... I thought the drops were an isolated situation for the most part, *cough* Brandon Kinnie *cough* Apparently I am forgetting all the big-time adjustments the WRs made to bail Martinez out. Maybe someone can remind me of a few.