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Like PHJF said, there is no perfect system. But that doesn't mean the process can't evolve and change, the problem is, we have to ALLOW it to change and evolve. We're WAY better off as a species than we were a 100 years ago because we MADE CHANGES and we need to be able to make changes if we're going to continue to improve.

Problem is, we have too many armchair generals and quarterbacks. None of us know all the facts, yet we all claim to be experts on how things should be done. Sad thing is, even those in charge don't always know the whole story either.

Biggest thing, IMO, we need to do is to give up our arrogance, the arrogance that says what works for you will work for everyone else. We need to stop policing the world and start taking care of our own. We can't help others if we can't help ourselves first. We also can't be afraid to try new things and constantly re-evaluate. We can't learn or grow otherwise.

Really? I thought he was full of poop. Armchair quarterback, who couldn't do what Roddick does in his dreams.

But then.... if you say so....

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Westy makes some rather salient points. Thank you.

Maybe Federal govt offers competitive pay. But I can say from experience that State does not.

You can't have efficient gov't when you constantly piss on gov't employees because of the "taxation is theft," or the "I pay your paycheck" mentality. small government is not efficient government. EFFICIENT government is efficient government. size has nothing to do with it.

I'm sorry if you haven't had a good experience with the DMV or Post Office, but i don't think im going out on a limb when I say that your experience is the exception, not the rule. The system does work. I really hope I don't have to argue why the DMV and Post Office are necessary. If there is a problem, it starts at the top, not the bottom. Either an employee needs to be disciplined or retrained, regardless, a supervisor or manager at the top is responsible. The fish rots from the head as saying goes.

When you have a problem with the system, you don't throw out the system, you fix the system. And again, it starts at the top. Quite honestly, I think it starts with election reform. We are in this ridiculous perpetual election cycle. As soon as someone wins election, they're already worried about the next one instead of actually doing their job for which they were elected.

My own personal opinion is that the appointee system needs to go, it just encourages crony-ism. Again speaking from personal experience, every time we get a new governor, The governor appoints a whole new set of commissioners for purely political reasons. These new commissioners, in turn, remake their agencies in their own image, re-making things that are perfectly fine, re-doing logos, redoing floor plans, meanwhile nothing actually meaningful changes. Then it all just repeats when a different governor is elected and time and money are wasted.

Just to summarize, but government isn't the problem, it's just that there is a huge shortage of people who actually want to do their job. That's the problem with any business, public or private. The only difference is that gov't is controlled by a bunch of armchair quarterbacks who too busy looking for their next job instead of doing their current one.

I can't fault him for his reaction. There was absolutely no pass protection, so over and over he was getting sacked unmercifully. He became like a dog that's been beaten too much: cowering at even the sight of his oppressors.

I know it's the pros, so we expect them to react better than we would, but he's only human. However it is professional sports, so he should be used to the second-guessing of millions of armchair quarterbacks by now. The lumps you get off the field might be worse than the ones you get on the field, at least sometimes. >> ^rottenseed:

Hahaha...they were in his head!

"Nebraska finally has a starting quarterback heading into next fall. Visit our website at www.doubletakesports.com (youtube)."

I didn't care about the differences between a quarterback and an archer, or the fact that the editing could have been better. I loved the science of the ball hitting the target. I had no idea that a perfect spiral needed a precise amount of wobble. I understand now why a quarterback can miss a receiver and find himself with an interception.

First upvote of 2010.

The offensive line for the Vatican City Holy Sees is absolutely horrendous this year. First of all, the new quarterback has been in for a few years, yet he can't maneuver well outside of the pocket. He just stands there and waits to be sacked. Secondly, the guards can't take down a linebacker who's probably 5'5" and barely 100 pounds? That's just poor defensive skills. I don't know who to start blaming for this, but heads are gonna roll if this team can't get itself together before the playoffs.

I'm a solid #5 now.

The activists are pretty loudly saying we should be pushing the leftmost Senators to withhold their vote -- try to get concessions made back to the left. Hold the individual mandate hostage, since we know the health care industry is salivating over that more than anything. Make them give us little people some real concessions in return for it.

There's a huge amount of blaming Obama for being essentially silent and invisible on this topic since, oh, July. What little we've seen from him has been a diplomatically phrased STFU to the progressives about the public option, and most recently a very undiplomatic "shut the fuck up you stupid, crazy motherfucker" to Howard Dean, who really sparked this firestorm.

There's some pretty anemic arguments coming from our wonkier members, mostly saying #1 -- the status quo is so bad, we should eat crow on the public option just for the improvements in the existing bill, though they aren't pointing to something we hadn't really heard about before, they're just stoked about the mandate, subsidies, and the exchanges.

The problem with that is that it means that all political positives of the bill disappear. Maybe I shouldn't worry about that so much, but it seems to me that the Senate bill looks a lot more like the McCain health care plan (tax employer benefits, subsidize individual insurance, and enable national competition in the individual market) than what Obama talked about (which always included government negotiation of prices, which didn't make it out of any committee).

There's no clear road forward with the bill as it is now, other than we're going to set things up for a bigger crisis in the future, which will hopefully give us the clout to make things right later.

That too seems like the Republican modus operandi (i.e. run up deficits to create perpetual budget crises with the hope that people will empower Republicans to cut popular liberal programs), and I don't care for it one bit.

Normally I'm happy to play armchair quarterback, but I don't see a win in killing the bill, nor in passing it as is. We need more options, and quickly.

this is how blankfist stole the star quarterback's jock strap in high school. He'd fall asleep with it on his face.

Aiyyo my songs on, I gotta get my grub on some to-to
(I love to-to) order three buckets of mo-mo
We gettin more dough, off the books (you gettin gelly)
Pullin more hoes off the looks (you gettin gelly)
You wan hate me? cause your wifey, wants a autograph?
From the look in her eyes, I can see she wants more than that
When I see fat asses I make fat passes like quarterback
Beatnuts is alla that, your shit, all the wack
Open can-dela, if you foolin wit mah cheddah
Hardrock, ever since, junior high suela
Fly fella, takin my beats, to make your crowd get up
Im fed up, niggaz wanna bring it -- whatever!
Ima storm your pa-rade (pa-rade) blow your legs off
With a gre-nade, now you flappin, like a mermaid
Yappin off, bitch you cough at the lips
While Im at the bar, baggin, the bartender tips
Then I bag this chick, with a, hi, and the eye
She did the butterfly, rubbin her ass, against my buttonfly
I could already imagine my shit stuck inside
Everytime I strike, haters be like, dat fucking guy!

Hows that yo? its hard for you to swallow
It dont take much for us to let the metal holla
Leads bustin out of a old black impala
Thug nigga only fuck wit, muchacha malla
Big ju, dime lo conllo, how we do? , how we do? (how we do)
(how the girl dont only love me, they love you!)
Whatchu gonna do? (what, what, what? )
Nigga whatchu gonna do? (what, yo)

Heres to my pollyin niggaz who campaign
To the killers who be lovin the chicas and champagne
Thugs who get wild in the club and snatch chains
Players who be pimpin the hoes with no brains
Front watch a nigga get shot from close range
The most range, crazy motherfucker wont change
Beatnuts, forever diehard, you want pain?
Cause you walkin outta here breathin is insane
Flip a beat fast, you leave the club with a heat rash
You got a weak stash, came in the club with a free pass
I aint even know they made a roley for your cheap ass
Makin me laugh, you was in jail wearin kneepads
Now the beef has, gotten over your head
Its over you dead, ranger rover, both of your legs
Til both of us said, platinum gettin took this year
Cause for real, there aint nothin but crooks in here, nigga

I once did a jumping tackle ON a quarterback. He was showing pass, so I jumped in the air to block it. Mid-air he tucked it under his arm to make a run for it, so I grabbed on to his helmet on my way by, popping his chinstrap and making for a nice trophy. It was pretty awesome walking away from the play with the quarterback's helmet held high by the face mask. They made me give it back =(

Sure felt like it, but no, I was the one tackled. Three of my teammates decided that I should have chosen a different extracurricular activity and felt they should persuade me to reconsider my options post haste. I'm sure they were only trying to scare me into quitting, but they succeeded in getting themselves banned from playing in our district indefinitely, and permanently injuring me. The most frustrating part is that I now get winded really easily because I can't inhale fully without pain, so I have to breathe shallow.

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>> ^HollywoodBob:
>> ^rgroom1:
i remember my first hit....wait, do i?

I do too! 3 broken ribs, fractured collar bone, dislocated shoulder and hip. First and last hit, during a practice scrimmage. Guess that was my punishment for thinking that going out for football in 10th grade would be a good way to make friends.
Good god, man. did you try to tackle a Suburban?