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pilight

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  1. There have been reports of explosions all the way down in Sevastopol. Russian media says it was lightning.
  2. One might say the same about the US
  3. I guess D Clark is Dutch Clark from the 30's? #13 seems awfully high.
  4. Montana was the first beneficiary of the West Coast offense, which raises completion percentages with quick, horizontal passes. It completely revolutionized football. Every NFL team and most college and below teams use at least some of the Walsh philosophy. Watching games from the 70's and earlier can be very disorienting to modern viewers accustomed to faster developing plays.
  5. I was wrong about Daunte Culpepper. Steve Young was the QB made by a receiver more than any in league history.
  6. Russia's only a threat to the US to the extent that they still have working ICBMs
  7. Why would he retire? He'd already invaded the Rhineland and Austria and the Munich agreement basically allowed him to take Czechoslovakia without a fight. Everyone other than Neville Chamberlain realized that his pattern of ignoring treaties would eventually have to be met by force.
  8. It's not meant to be taken literally. Think about how Jesus taught during his time on Earth. He used parables, metaphoric analogies designed to illustrate a lesson. Why would anyone expect God to use a different method when spreading the word through others?
  9. Not British, so I don't feel qualified to tell them what form of government they should have
  10. You say that like it's a bad thing
  11. Culpepper's career is more properly divided into "years with Randy Moss" and "years without Randy Moss". He was a QB made by a receiver more than any in league history.
  12. He's been known as Charles so long it would be awkward to change now Charles is the oldest person to become the English monarch
  13. Considering how many people believed the "Paul is Dead" story, you might be incorrect
  14. Candide was made into an opera, which has seen several TV versions produced. It was also modernized to a WWII setting for a French film in 1960. The BBC produced a version for Play of the Month in the 70's.
  15. The government should not be involved with censoring anything. Private actors like YouTube and Twitter can set whatever standards they choose for what is carried on their platforms and enforce them appropriately. The market will determine whether they've gone too far. The notion of social media as a digital "town square" is ridiculous.
  16. You leave a game to the kicker, you're begging to be disappointed
  17. I recall voters being confused by butterfly ballots. RCV would really perplex them. OTOH Australia has used RCV for more than a century. It seems unlikely their voters are significantly more intelligent than US voters.
  18. I think your methodology is flawed
  19. He only played 10 games in 2000 and only threw two passes in one of them. That's about half of a 16 game season. The W-L record is mostly a function of the team around them. Look at 2000, his best season. The Broncos were 7-3 when he started. That includes the two pass game I mentioned above, so let's call it 6-3. They were 4-2 when he didn't play and won the game he barely played. They were just as good with Gus Frerotte as they were with Griese. This was a team that had just won two straight superbowls and with Griese for four years they made the playoffs once, when he essentially missed the second half of the season. After he left, Jake Plummer took them to three straight playoff appearances. I'm not a huge Plummer fan but he was obviously a much better QB than Griese and he's probably not on your list.
  20. He was good for about half of one season in 2000. Otherwise he threw too many interceptions and always came up short in crunch time. There's a reason he never played a playoff game and every team that started him was constantly looking for an upgrade.
  21. Brian Griese? Something is dreadfully wrong here.
  22. With all due respect to Greg Cook's shoulder and the Throwin' Samoan, they flamed out with most of their pre-Boomer Esiason rookie QBs too.
  23. The game is so different now than it was in the 70's and 80's that it's hard to compare someone like Montana or Bradshaw to Rodgers. Going further back will exacerbate this problem.
  24. https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/trump-social-media-app-facing-financial-fallout
  25. I worked full time while going to school full time. My only free time came during the summer when I drank too much and crashed bunches of concerts, including Live Aid!
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