WORD LE 233 6/6

Monday, February 7, 2022

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INSPIRATIONAL: Woman saves three fishermen by calling for a rescue

Monday, February 7, 2022

https://nypost.com/2022/02/04/3-fishermen-rescued-thanks-to-sharp-eyed-911-caller/

Three fishermen rescued off coast of Massachusetts thanks to sharp-eyed woman who called 911
By Associated Press
February 4, 2022 10:04am

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SCITUATE, Mass. — Three fishermen who clung to debris in the frigid waters off the coast of Massachusetts for nearly an hour after their boat sank survived thanks to a sharp-eyed woman on shore who was the only person to call 911.

The 55-foot (16.75-meter) Bing Bing went down so fast about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from shore on Tuesday afternoon that the crew didn’t have time to don survival suits or even make a distress call.

“The whole boat flipped over; I was thrown in the water,” crew member Joe Roderick told WCVB-TV from his hospital bed, where he was recovering from hypothermia and from swallowing saltwater and diesel fuel. The other two crew members also required hospitalization.

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Kudos to this lady, who saw something and said something.  To save three souls is inspiring.  The Talmud teaches, “He who saves a single life, saves the world entire.”  Not exactly sure what that means, but I know there are three men who would agree.

From my fat old white guy injineer’s perspective, should not boats, especially commercial ones, have an automatic alert system?  Sort of like an airliner’s black box or transponder.  If the boat goes down, it should be calling for help with a location — no human intervention required.

In any event, these fellows were lucky she was “on duty” watching over them like an unseen Guardian Angel.

And, speaking up like this, about a life saving event, is certainly not being a “Karen” and the MYOB rule is not applicable in this situation.  I am waiting for my turn to “save a life” or, even deliver a baby.  (Have to not waste that USAF air survival training. Laugh!)

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WORD LE 232 4/6

Sunday, February 6, 2022

Wordle 232 4/6

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INTERESTING: “political puritans” aka “yankee” like a contemporary “Karen”

Sunday, February 6, 2022

https://anchor.fm/brion-mcclanahan/episodes/Episode-246-Political-Puritans-e811ma

The Brion McClanahan Show
By The Brion McClanahan Show
The Brion McClanahan Show discusses history, politics, and society with the slogan, “Think Locally, Act Locally.”

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A Yankee is a peculiar type of American that was born and bred in New England in the 17th century but that eventually found his way into virtually every part of the United States, and like a horde of locusts, he plunders and consumes everything he deems unholy.

The Yankee is always concerned that someone, somewhere is doing something he doesn’t like and it is his goal to ensure that stops.

This originated in Puritan theology and has been secularized in the modern age. That is why I have termed the new left the “political puritans.”

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Yup, it certainly seems that no one can MYOB.  

FMPOV, I don’t want my face rubbed in whatever you’re doing.  If I don’t feel that whatever you’re doing will impact my life, I really don’t care.  And most of all I don’t want to pay for whatever you’re doing. Hence why I really don’t like politicians and bureaucrats.

I guess I’m not a “Yankee” or a “Karen”. 

Live and let live.  MYOB.  AND, most of all, blessed are the Peacemakers. 

Sigh!

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WORD LE 231 4/6

Saturday, February 5, 2022

Wordle 231 4/6

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TECHNOLOGY: Add your COVID vaccination … but should you? (IMHO NO!)

Saturday, February 5, 2022

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4034897/posts

You can add your COVID vaccination certificate to the Apple Wallet… but should you?
TNW ^ | 2/2 | Callum Booth
Posted on 2/2/2022, 5:01:47 PM by nickcarraway

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Spoiler: Yeah, why not?

The modern world hurts my brain. Let’s take the news that Apple enables users to store their COVID vaccination certificates in the Wallet and Health apps as an example.

When I first heard about it, I was pumped. Flashing my QR code to enter a restaurant or grab a coffee would be far simpler if it sat in my Apple Wallet. Friends, the time I’d save!

But, of course, the world had something to say about that.

We talked to 4 successful entrepreneurs This is what they wish they knew before getting started

While putting my digital certificate of vaccination in an easy-to-access place is cool… is it safe? And because I can do it, does that mean I should?

Something that seemed simple on the surface is actually a minefield. I wanted some clarity on this issue.

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COVID vaccine certificates in the Apple Wallet app: not a huge concern To put it bluntly: there are no obvious dangers of moving your vaccine certificate to the Apple Wallet. This does come with a large caveat though, as this is only true if you tightly control what apps can access your data.

In this way, vaccination certificates differ from digital IDs. The majority of the former are digital by nature, while the most common forms of identification (driver’s licenses and passports) are paper-based. Digitizing them opens a huge and wriggling can of worms — while the vaccine pass system could actually benefit from being incorporated into the Apple Wallet.

So, there you have it! A little bit of respite before the modern world messes with our heads again.

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It’s just too easy for the Gooferment make this the digital version of “show me your papers”!

It’s a BIG “NO” for me.

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WORD LE 230 x/6

Friday, February 4, 2022

Wordle 230 X/6

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Biden administration’s covert effort to relocate thousands of illegal border-crossers

Friday, February 4, 2022

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-border-gets-worse-and-worse

The border gets worse and worse
by Byron York, Chief Political Correspondent | January 31, 2022 10:25 AM

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THE BORDER GETS WORSE AND WORSE. These days, the Biden White House talks a lot about the border. At press briefings, there are many questions about the border. But it’s the Russia-Ukraine border. Meanwhile, the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border is deteriorating daily.

Two new developments. One, we are learning more about the administration’s covert effort to relocate thousands of illegal border-crossers — single, adult males, not families — into the nation’s interior. We’ll talk about that today. And tomorrow, the second development — new information about the changing makeup of the thousands of people crossing the border illegally each month.

First, the relocation effort. Last week, Fox News broadcast body camera footage from security officers at New York’s Westchester County Airport, about 30 miles outside Manhattan. It was the middle of the night. An unmarked passenger jet had just landed, and a steady stream of single, adult men came down the plane’s steps. They were accompanied by federal contractors.

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The public knows very little about this process. How many illegal immigrants have been relocated? Where have they been sent? How many have been charged or convicted of crimes? How many have complied with the requirement to check in with immigration authorities? What nongovernmental organizations are assisting them? How much is the federal government paying for this? Is there a limit on how many will be relocated? And more.

The bottom line: Yes, the news is filled with reports on Ukraine, or COVID, or the latest twists and turns of the Biden agenda on Capitol Hill. But what’s happening on the border — the U.S.-Mexico border — is important news, and you need to know more about it.

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What can we do to get the Biden administration to follow the law?

They are just trying to upset the voting balance of the country and penalize the “red states” for their political votes by loading them with social costs (i.e., crime, welfare, homeless).

Argh!

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WORD LE 229 3/6

Thursday, February 3, 2022

Wordle 229 3/6

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: THE COVID COUP has radically changed AMERICA

Thursday, February 3, 2022

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/01/30/truth-or-covid-or-why-we-know-everything-theyre-telling-us-is-a-lie/

Truth or Covid? (or, “why we know everything they’re telling us is a lie”)
Guest Post by Michael Lesher

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1. THE COVID COUP HAS CONSISTENTLY RELIED ON UNCONSTITUTIONAL METHODS.

The first and most unmistakable clue about the real nature of the coup is its aggressive destruction of constitutional government.

Right from the start, it involved suspensions of the legislatures; from there it moved quickly to arbitrary rule by executive fiat (mask “mandates” followed by “vaccine passports”), and then indulged head-on in violations of constitutional rights, as in the imposition of mass “quarantines” without a court order – an illegal act even under “emergency” dispensation.

I have argued this in print for over a year and a half, so I won’t belabor the point now except to stress the complicity of mass media in the unprecedented assault on our basic rights. The most important lie, of course, has been one of omission: the press simply never mentions the absence of any constitutional basis for the repeated attacks on freedom.

But I would like to call attention to a small but very revealing lie that crops up every time the press reports a new COVID19-related “order.”

Last month’s story about sweeping new muzzling requirements in California was a case in point. “California is ordering a statewide mask mandate for indoor public spaces,” blared the Los Angeles Times. But “California” does not and cannot issue a “mandate.”

Promulgations of legal requirements belong to the appropriate organs of government – and that means that an honest report would have necessarily told readers how the mandate in question came to be. What body passed the law? Who signed it? Which agency issued the regulation, if it was a regulation, and what was the statutory authority for it to do so?

In my opinion, it was no accident that the Times never informed its readers that the new California “mandate” was a unilateral edict signed by Tomas Aragon, the head of California’s Department of Public Health – an edict that did not even attempt to identify any authority for such an action in California’s statutes or regulatory code.

I repeat: in a constitutional government, health regulations are always grounded in such authority; “mandates” that ignore this are violations of law at best, dictatorial usurpations at worst. And the propagandists in the media, though they know this, obviously do not want you to know it.

The same story – political crime furthered by media complicity – emerges just as clearly from New York’s latest assault on the Nuremberg Code. The fiat recently issued by the state’s dictator – officially, Governor Kathy Hochul – claims to acquire authority for a statewide “vaccine mandate” from New York’s Public Health Law, section 225.

But that statutory section does not address vaccination policy at all – and since the COVID19 “vaccines” do not even prevent person-to-person transmission, there is no legal way the section’s general language about “the preservation and improvement of public health” can be construed to give the state’s governor the power to force 5-year-old children to be injected with experimental drugs, as Ms. Hochul has ordered.

In short, the “governor” – the word really must be put in quotation marks at this point – is acting outside her legal powers. And if we had a political opposition and a functioning court system worthy of the name, she might be facing impeachment instead of routine accolades from the tame “liberal” press, which calls this democracy-wrecking child poisoner “a moderate Democrat.”

Consider, by contrast, the intense debate over the 1985 decision of New York State’s public health council to rewrite its regulations so as to force the closing of gay bathhouses. That decision – taken at the height of the AIDS outbreak – was denounced by liberals at the time and is sharply criticized by students of political history to this day.

Imagine the reaction if New York’s governor had simply written a unilateral order closing all gay bathhouses in the state, thumbing his nose at New York’s legislature and the whole existing regulatory system on the grounds that, in his view, New York faced an “emergency” that justified the suspension of democracy!

But that is exactly what has happened in states across the country – New York and my own state of New Jersey among them – for nearly two years: state executives have issued fiats suspending legal processes on the grounds of a hazily-defined “emergency,” and have followed them up with a series of unilateral decrees that drastically altered the lives of their citizenry – in direct defiance of their states’ constitutions.

You cannot support that and support constitutional democracy at the same time. The propagandists may not like to admit it, but when they sing the praises of mask “mandates,” they are celebrating dictatorship.

And the democracy-busters are everywhere. In New York City, outgoing Mayor Bill DeBlasio slapped a “vaccine mandate” on all municipal employees, topping off the outrage by extending the same requirement to 184,000 private business and organizations.

The mayor’s constitutional authority to order this assault on bodily integrity was so obviously shaky that a local judge promptly stayed his order. But that didn’t bother DeBlasio, who said, “I hope [this measure] will be emulated all over the country because it’s time to get even tougher to end the COVID era.” Got it? When you’re being “tough,” who cares about the law?

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It’s a long quote but so accurate.

How do we get our freedoms back.

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word le 228 3/6

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Wordle 228 3/6

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Hard to do better unless you’re very lucky.

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SECURITY: Gooferment can be “trusted” to misuse “passports”

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/02/27/nick-corbishley-vaccine-passport.aspx

What You Need to Know About Vax Passports, Digital IDs, CBDCs
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola — February 27, 2022

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“The passports essentially function as a gateway to allow government to herd us into a totally new reality where our actions, our movements, our thoughts, our behavior are tracked and surveilled,” Corbishley says.

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There is no reason to permit Gooferment, any level of Gooferment, to treat us like their cattle.

When will “We, The Sheeple” object?  When they are loading up the trains!

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BIGOTRY: Isn’t race-based affirmative action merely racism except packaged palatability?

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

https://sharylattkisson.com/2022/01/read-supreme-court-to-hear-race-based-affirmative-action-cases-in-2022/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Sharyl+Attkisson+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=Daily+Newsletter&vgo_ee=9GwjIKYNhIK3eFXY6NCvBw%3D%3D

Supreme Court to hear race-based affirmative action cases in 2022
DATED: JANUARY 30, 2022 BY SHARYL ATTKISSON

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Untouchable Subjects. Fearless, Nonpartisan Reporting. 

Supreme Court to hear race-based affirmative action cases in 2022

Supreme Court has announced that it will reconsider race-based affirmative action in college admissions, a decision that could eliminate a practice that in recent years has primarily benefitted black and Hispanic applicants. The high court will specifically listen to challenges to policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) that use […]

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You just can’t continue to use “race” and not be complicit in “racism”.

End Gooferment Skrules and everyone will be competitive!

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WORD LE 227 4/6

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Wordle 227 4/6

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The non-fictional five Democrat families enrich themselves

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

http://republicbrief.com/jesse-watters-reveals-how-five-democrat-families-used-power-and-influence-to-enrich-themselves/

Jesse Watters reveals how five Democrat families used ‘power and influence’ to enrich themselves
by Kari Donovan
January 28, 2022

OPINION: This article contains commentary which may reflect the author’s opinion

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It is finally all coming together how left-wing families, who resemble the Five Families in the famous movie, The Godfather, have transformed American politics and exploited their access to power while they caused a major disaster for the rest of Americans.

“These five families are the Bidens, Kerrys, Pelosis, Schumers and”perhaps the single greatest abuser of our country’s trust – the Clintons,” Fox News host Jessie Watters said on his program, on Thursday.

Watters gave a significant smackdown to these five family’s on his show one by one- exposing their outrageous deeds against the American people. Evidence is being uncovered that a leftist mob has pushed numerous public policies, thwarting the success of regular Americans while getting themselves, their family members, and their friends filthy rich.

Fox News reported on the comingling of influence by ‘mobsters in politics’: 

Jesse Watters explained how the five crime families of “The Godfather” movie represent “the five families of the Democrat Party” in Thursday’s opening monologue of “Jesse Watters Primetime.”

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Are we seeing a new “Mafia” that using the Gooferment to feather their nests?

How do we “clean” House, Senate, White House, and all the bureaucrats?

I don’t know but for sure it needs to be done.

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INNOVATION: imagine what da Vinci could invent today?

Monday, January 31, 2022

This drone flies using da Vinci’s 530-year-old helicopter design – CNET https://www.cnet.com/news/this-drone-flies-using-da-vincis-530-year-old-helicopter-design/#ftag=CAD590a51e


INNOVATION: Mark Cuban Opens Online Pharmacy To Provide Affordable Generic Drugs

Monday, January 31, 2022

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/billionaire-mark-cuban-opens-online-pharmacy-affordable-generic-drugs/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=31-01-2022

Billionaire Mark Cuban Opens Online Pharmacy To Provide Affordable Generic Drugs
By  Good News Network – Jan 26, 2022
 
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Mark Cuban has officially launched his newest venture—the online pharmacy Cost Plus Drugs.

GNN previously reported on Cuban’s support for Texas radiologist Dr. Alex Oshymansky, who started a public benefit company to provide cheap pharmaceutical drugs.

The launch comes just weeks after the company’s pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) operation was established; both are efforts in the pursuit to help shield consumers from inflated drug prices.

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I’m trying it out.

https://costplusdrugs.com/

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word le 226 5/6

Monday, January 31, 2022

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INTERESTING: Charlotte man pleads guilty to stealing $273,000 in goods while working for Amazon – WSOC TV

Monday, January 31, 2022

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/charlotte-man-pleads-guilty-stealing-273000-goods-while-working-amazon/NVJZ4QZU3BAPJN6TCNV5XFVOWU/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Charlotte man pleads guilty to stealing $273,000 in goods while working for Amazon – WSOC TV
January 28, 2022 at 1:45 pm ESTBy WSOCTV.com News Staff

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CHARLOTTE — A former manager at an Amazon warehouse in Charlotte stole more than $273,000 in merchandise during a 15 month span, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Western District of North Carolina. On Friday, he pleaded guilty to his crime.

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So the IT system doesn’t know employee’s home addresses?

Seems like an obvious check ‘n’ balance.

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Word le 225 6/6

Sunday, January 30, 2022

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POLITICAL: Are we going to get yet another really ignorant Supreme Court justice?

Sunday, January 30, 2022

https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-sonia-sotomayor-coronavirous-aoc-kyrie-irving

POLITICS ON LATE NIGHT
Published January 22
Bill Maher torches Sotomayor for botching COVID facts: ‘That’s really ignorant for a Supreme Court justice’
The HBO star also calls out AOC for going to Florida and wonders why Kyrie Irving can’t play home games
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News

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“Real Time” host Bill Maher returned from his holiday break Friday and took aim at liberals for their responses to and handling of the coronavirus pandemic. 

Along the way, the HBO host commented on U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, NBA player Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Maher kicked off the show’s panel discussion by listing all the COVID restrictions the United Kingdom is lifting from mask mandates to vaccine passports, saying “They’re getting back to normal, we should follow this.”

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Unfortunately, it appears that Joe Biden is using sex & race as a critical criteria for deciding who to nominate for the Breyer’s replacement.

And, worse, when selections are made for “appearance”, then we wind up with a Justice like Sonia Sotomayor.  Virtually illiterate about the facts around Covid.

Hopefully the Senate will do it’s job and maybe administer an IQ test.

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MEME: Groundhog’s Day

Saturday, January 29, 2022

State of union groundhog day meaningless ritual

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Word le 224 2/6

Saturday, January 29, 2022

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BIGOTRY: The Left’s War on civilization

Saturday, January 29, 2022

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/01/emulating_islam_the_lefts_war_on_the_christian_cross.html

January 26, 2022
Emulating Islam: The Left’s War on the Christian Cross
By Raymond Ibrahim

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For example, a 61-year-old Christian woman who escaped to Britain from her Nigerian homeland — where a genocide against Christians is currently underway — experienced something similar in her adopted nation. Mary Onuoha, formerly a nurse at England’s Croydon University Hospital since 2002, was over the years repeatedly harassed by management and finally “bullied” out of her job for refusing to remove her small cross necklace, which she has worn for 40 years.  

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I believe this is not unique to England, but is rampant anywhere the “woke” Left exists.

Not sure how “we” can counteract it, other that being alert and aware to ANY “religious discrimination”.

Once again I repeat my tenets: (1) don’t rub my nose in it; (2) don’t try to “convert” me; and (3) most important: don’t make me pay for it.

Sadly, no one listens.

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Word le 223 5/6

Friday, January 28, 2022

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INSPIRATIONAL: Chiefs-Bills shows why NFL must change unfair overtime rule

Friday, January 28, 2022

https://nypost.com/2022/01/24/chiefs-bills-shows-why-nfl-must-change-unfair-overtime-rule/

Chiefs-Bills shows why NFL must change unfair overtime rule

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Initial thought was to disagree, like what to do? Like the colleges? Nah. Plus the games are too long as it is. But on second thought, maybe “just” for the playoffs change the rules? Open to suggestions. It is “win or go home” time!

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Well I can think of at least three “rules” that could have a “better” way:

(1)  Current rules, but both teams get to possess the ball equally.

(1a)  Bills should get a possession to score a touchdown too. And, that continues until someone “loses”.

(1b) Less preferred, the Bills are guaranteed only one possession.

(2) Even less preferred, the team, that scores a certain number first in regular play, wins.

(3) Most less preferred, the team, that scores the tying number in regular play, wins.

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