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Monday, December 31, 2007

God save us all...

...because I just wrote poetry for the first time in...seven years?

Everyone watch out! It might richochet and hit you! That would suck.

Oh, and it was one Italian sonnet and then one just freewheelin' poem. Felt good to shake off a little rust, though.

Happy New Year!

Um, that's all, really. Happy New Year. Even if I loathe you. :-)

And Cal came back and won the Armed Forces Bowl. Not bad, and not the stupidest name for a bowl game, thank god.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Ending the MA state income tax, redux -- a republished Jeff Jacoby piece...

Earlier, I posted a link to an email I received from Carla Howell's mailing list about ending the income tax in Massachusetts. And had a brief skirmish with someone who thought it was an evil pipe dream.

I just received in the mail an op-ed piece by Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe talking about this very issue. I am reprinting it here, because it covers -- in much better detail and fashion -- the arguments I made for abolishing it in the little give-and-take I had with a reader over it. Who eventually, I should point out, ended up agreeing that I had a good point.

Here it is:

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TAKE THE TAX OUT OF 'TAXACHUSETTS'
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe

Sunday, December 30, 2007

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/12/30/a_resolution_abolish_the_income_tax/

On Election Day five years ago, 885,683 Massachusetts citizens voted for a ballot measure to abolish the Massachusetts income tax -- a 45 percent level of support that shocked the state's political establishment, which had expected the question to go down to ignominious defeat, not come within a few percentage points of passing. So when Libertarian leader Carla Howell launched a new effort to junk the income tax earlier this year, the powers that be made it clear that this time they would do everything they could to discredit it.

In August, Howell's Committee for Small Government filed its updated ballot language, and Michael Widmer of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation wasted no time pouring scorn on it. (Its name notwithstanding, the Taxpayers Foundation is a business lobby that often opposes broad-based tax relief.) Howell's proposal is "absolutely unreasonable," Widmer snorted. "Essentially she's trying to repeal the 20th century."

Undeterred, tax-repeal supporters collected 100,000 voter signatures on initiative petitions, well above the number required to move the measure forward. So Governor Deval Patrick is cranking up the rhetoric. He told the Associated Press last week that undoing the income tax is "just a dumb idea" that would utterly devastate Massachusetts.

"Patrick said he has lived in places with no taxes, including the time he spent in Darfur 30 years ago," AP's Steve LeBlanc reported. "He says there were also no bridges, no good roads, and no public safety there. 'Civilization costs something,' he said. 'If we could have something for nothing, which is the fiction that has been sold by the right for some time now, then we wouldn't have a $19 billion upkeep backlog for the roads and bridges.' "

If that is Patrick's best case for preserving inviolate the state income tax, maybe he shouldn't be tossing the label “dumb" around quite so freely.

To begin with, Massachusetts without a personal income tax would not be a "place with no taxes." It would be a place with corporate income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, gasoline taxes, meals taxes, hotel taxes, excise taxes, workers' compensation taxes, estate taxes, capital gains taxes, cigarette taxes, wine and liquor taxes, motor vehicle taxes, and real estate transfer taxes, not to mention the taxes ("license fees") imposed on a vast array of professions and occupations. The $11 billion collected in personal income taxes accounts for only 40 percent of state revenue. Take that away and the government of Massachusetts still helps itself to more than $16 billion a year. That's not exactly "no taxes."

It's not exactly Darfur, either. What a shameless comparison. Even Patrick cannot possibly believe that the misery and horror of Darfur is caused by insufficient taxation. A ballot initiative to repeal the state income tax is not an invitation to choose between life as we know it today or a life of poverty, lawlessness, and war. For Patrick to suggest that those are the stakes is both ridiculous and disgraceful.

"Civilization costs something," the governor says, echoing the 1904 dictum of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: "Taxes are the price we pay for civilized society." Maybe so. But in Massachusetts lately, taxes are also the price we pay for Big Dig corruption, for larcenous public-employee pensions, for state-owned golf courses, and for wretched public schools. Higher taxes are no guarantee of a more civilized society.

When Holmes defended taxes as the price tag of civilization, there were no federal and state income taxes. Massachusetts didn't begin taxing incomes until 1916; for most of its history, the Bay State survived -- even thrived -- without an income tax. As Howell's ballot proposal advances, the fear-mongers will shrilly warn that voting yes will plunge us into the Dark Ages. Like all addicts, those hooked on high taxes are terrified by the prospect of giving up their drug. They cannot imagine how much better they will feel when they learn to live without it.

Eliminating the state income tax would reduce government spending by about $11 billion, shrinking the budget to roughly where it stood in 1995. But that $11 billion would not be lost. It would be back in the private sector -- back in the hands of the men and women who earned it, and who are far more likely to spend, invest, or donate it wisely than the bloated state bureaucracy it goes to now.

Nine states -- Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming -- have no income tax. In 2008, Massachusetts has another chance to make it 10. Last time, the repeal campaign came close. Next year, let's put it over the top.

(Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.)

Saturday, December 29, 2007

THE PERFECT REGULAR SEASON 16-0

Kiss my ass.

16-0.

Brady sets the TD record, Moss sets the TD reception record.

Kiss. My. Ass.

A quick and random picture gallery

Heyo. I've put together a quick and rather random photo gallery of a few of the pictures I have. It's linked to the sidebar, and I'll put the link in right here...

And if you need the actual link itself, it's:

http://kiplange.com/picture_gallery/pictures1.html

Enjoy. And don't ask me what the hell the pictures are, it's just a random assortment.

The Perfect Season...on the line...

Well, here we are, boys.

Everybody gets the game now. NFL Network coughed it up to all three major networks, I believe.

Of course, to match the '72 Dolphins, really, we have to go on and win the Superbowl, and while I'm not worried about a Cowboys-Patriots game, I am concerned about how we'll do against Indy. They've got Harrison back now and we weren't so sharp against them last time around.

But still, if the Pats hit the 16-0 mark, it's history.

The NFL Network is running a six hour pregame show.

How much more hype can we stand? I feel like someone has punched a frigging needle full of hype straight into my chest a la Uma Thurman's adrenaline injection in Pulp Fiction.

Anyway, here we go...

Friday, December 28, 2007

My man K-Rhyme, rock rock on...

Shout out to K-Rhyme, whom I just had lunch with today.

Many important issues were discussed, including the nature of consciousness and the general state of pants.

And I got to meet the elusive L., K-Rhyme's girlfriend.

A pleasure all-around.

Me and my dad, Christmas 2007

I just took this picture about five minutes ago. I love my dad. My dad rules. My dad can beat up your dad. Click on it for a much larger version.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

The lyrics to the original Star Trek theme song

Did you know that there actually are lyrics to the original Star Trek theme song? You know, the one with Kirk, McCoy, et al. It's true, it's not an urban legend; snopes.com backs it up.

Here, for your benefit, are the lyrics to the original Star Trek theme song. Please try not to read these while you have anything in your stomach. I warned you.

And a one and a two and...

Beyond
The rim of the star-light
My love
Is wand'ring in star-flight
I know
He'll find in star-clustered reaches
Love,
Strange love a star woman teaches.
I know
His journey ends never
His star trek
Will go on forever.
But tell him
While he wanders his starry sea
Remember, remember me.


You know, I might kinda dig the "strange love a star woman teaches".

Kip Lang, damn you, even though that's not it

*sigh*. Google has dropped my page ranking for "Kip Lang" again, so I'm just going to have to say Kip Lang a few times until Google spiders go out and crawl over this article and realize that Kip Lang was writing about how people misspell his name as "Kip Lang" (and not Kip Lange, which is correct, and the E is silent), so, you see, I've got to repeat the phrase Kip Lang as much as I can, possibly linked with Kip Lang having sex, Kip Lang naked, Kip Lang on dope, Kip Lang is dead, long live Kip Lang.

There.

Goddamn you, Facebook

Argh. I've now spent like seven hours on Facebook. It's too addicting. I have to get away from it.

Who are these people who have over 100 friends on these social networking sites? I can't even think of 100 random names of people, much less 100 people I know.

And, tell me, is there anything more ugly than those MySpace pages people create with the flashing backgrounds and stuff which subsequently obscures the fascinating minutiae of their life, like how they like to hump Teddy Bears, or something like that (as long as the Teddy Bear isn't named "Mohammed").

Worst of all, now I'm on there. Argh! Argh!

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Author, Author!

Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to add to my sidebar links the homepage of one Mr. Kevin Shay, author of The End as I Know It: A Novel of Millenial Anxiety.

Kevin and I go wayyyy, way, wayyyyy back in the Wayback machine to a little place called Creative Arts at Park.

The above link is to the book itself; the sidebar link is to Kevin's blog.

Listen to Kevin. Read Kevin. Kevin is a very intelligent man. You don't hear me saying that too often.

The post-Christmas blahs

Does anybody else get these? The aforementioned "post-Christmas blahs"?

You gotta know what I mean. All the effort and everything that leads up to Christmas, then everybody opens their presents, and you eat your ham, or maybe you open your ham and you eat your presents, I don't know, but then, damn, it's all over and New Year's is creeping up...and I really am kind of sick of celebrating New Year's, it always feels forced to me.

I mean, back in the day, so to speak, I liked New Year's, because I'd go out and get totally plastered and then maybe dump a beer on my head at midnight. But now I'm older and my constitution simply can't take that, even if I was still trying to party at that level.

It's just an empty feeling, you know? A very empty feeling. I was so close to running to the liquor store and buying a pint of Jack Daniel's, but that never goes well -- drinking alone, I mean -- and I always end up calling up some ex-girlfriend at like one in the morning and insisting I still love her (which I probably do, but which none of the poor ladies I have put through the grinder that is known as a relationship with me deserve to be reminded of).

Ah well.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Merry Fucking Christmas

Yes, indeed. Merry Fucking Christmas, okay?

Really.

And a happy motherfucking New Year.

Regards,
Weird Uncle Kip

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Dirty Kip

Here ya go. Here's a picture of me unshaven and unwashed.

I'm well on my way to dirty old man, don't you think?

Here you go (click for a larger version):


We don't need no steenken showers!

Ugly son of a bitch, ain't I? ;-)

*sigh* I give up...

Alright, alright, I give up, I've finally gone ahead and joined the social networking thing.

Not like I really care, but I had skeleton profiles on MySpace and Facebook, and some people I actually like contacted me through them, so...whatever, I give up, I'm in MySpace and Facebook now.

In Facebook I'm under the name "Superpimp Jerky" -- there's another Kip Lange, some crunchy-granola asshole -- whatever you do, don't mistake him for me. *Please*.

Friday, December 21, 2007

Download Unreal Tournament III "Shrine" mod locally

Okay, just for the heck of it, I've put the Shrine map mod local, here on my own site.

So you can download it right here.

If that link doesn't work for some reason, the full URL is http://www.kiplange.com/downloads/dm_shrine_ps3.zip.

See my earlier posts for instructions on adding the mod to the game.

Enjoy!

When your iPod starts displaying black pictures in place of a real album cover

Here's another tip.

This just happened to me the other day. I synced my iPod Classic, went to look at cover flow mode, and half the albums just showed up as pure black.

I did a little searching, found a suggested fix, tried it, and it worked. Here's what you do if you run into this problem...

Connect the iPod and open iTunes.

Go to the music tab. Uncheck "Display album artwork on your iPod". The iPod should actually, at this point, automatically sync again. If it doesn't, just sync it.

Then re-check the box ("Display album artwork on your iPod"), and sync the iPod again.

Worked perfectly for me. Good luck.

How to unjailbreak an iPhone...

Okay, I'm noticing on my web counter that a lot of searches are coming in looking for a way to unjailbreak an iPhone.

Now, I've never jailbroken mine, so I can't tell you for sure, but I did some searching to see if I could help the people who keep coming here looking for an answer to that question.

The best answer I got was:

Just restore your iPhone.

I don't know if that's easy but I imagine that actually would unjailbreak the phone.

Good luck. Tell me if I'm wrong and a restore doesn't work and I'll dig further and find something that does.

First Unreal Tournament 3 PS3 Mod Map

For those of you who care...

Someone has ported a PC-created mod map, custom, user-designed, to the PS3. It's a deathmatch map, fairly small, made for maybe six people.

To download the file go here:

http://files.filefront.com/DM+Shrine+PS3+Map/;9292864;/fileinfo.html

Then you need a memory card or flash/jump drive of some sort. Unzip the file onto the flash drive or whatever (not into a folder, just the root directory), plug it into your playstation, fire up UT III, at the main screen go to "Community" and then...there may be one more step I'm missing but it's obvious...anyway you hit square to import the mod.

Worked perfectly for me, is all I can say, and the map is fun. The name of the map, by the way, is "Shrine".

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Feel my online wrath -- please!

Just for those who are interested, thought I'd post my Playstation Network gamer ID:

Kippah9

Inventive, huh?

And yes, I always play the Pats in Madden and I don't care what you think about that.

ABC's list of the top tech disappointments of 2007

This is a pretty good summing up of what, other than the iPhone, has been a relatively lousy year for tech advancements.

ABC compiled a list of the fifteen biggest offenders...and, of course, it doesn't take much to guess their #1 contender: Windows Vista.

Anyway, interesting read.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

The ballot initiative in MA to end the income tax

Years ago, a friend of mine signed me up for the MA Libertarian newsletter, put out by Carla Howell and Michael Cloud. Since then, the friend in question has, quite wisely, moved from Libertarian to hardline conservative (this happens when you finally realize Libertarians with a big-L are, on a number of issues, clinically insane and/or stoned).

However, the good hardline conservative AND the good hardline liberal sometimes come full circle and find themselves sitting down for a Libertarian pow-wow. The Libertarians put some good things out there, and this is one of them: the ballot initiative to END the income tax in Massachusetts.

So I'm putting up their latest little email to me. Fans of small government in MA, take note, you might want to donate.

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From: Small Government News
To:
likeI'mgonnapostmyprivateaddy@mydamnblog.com
Subject: The Perfect Christmas Gift: ENDing the Income Tax in Massachusetts

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THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT: ENDING THE INCOME TAX IN MASSACHUSETTS
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Dear Friends,

It's the season of miracles.

A time to give. A time to receive.

Wouldn't you love to give the Perfect Gift - ENDing the Income Tax in
Massachusetts?


Wouldn't you bust out smiling as you watched 3,000,000 Tax-achusetts
workers and taxpayers get back $3,600 EACH worker, EVERY year?


Wouldn't you celebrate and cheer as you saw small government activists
in other states launch 4 or 8 or 12 Ballot Initiatives in 2010 to END
their states' Income Taxes?


Wouldn't that be the Perfect Christmas Gift - for you to receive and
for you to give?


Will you chip in and help us buy this Christmas Gift?

In this season of giving, will you help?

We need you to give now - so we can arrange news coverage by the Wall
Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, USA Today, the Washington
Post, Newsweek, Time, and more.


We need you to give now - so we can reach out to ABC, CBS, NBS, and
PBS News and Magazine Shows. So we can arrange appearances on Fox
News, CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC. On the political - and BUSINESS - shows.


We need you to give now - so we can broker appearances by Carla Howell
and Michael Cloud on the hundreds of crucial Talk Radio Shows.

We need you to give now - so we can ignite an explosion of Internet
NEW Media essays, Blogs, Links, and - most importantly - Internet
Activists who will help us reach and teach, motivate and mobilize tens
of thousands of supporters.


We can do it within 120 days - IF you act in a spirit of giving.

How do we know?

Ron Paul proved it. The first 3 months of his Presidential campaign
this year, he raised $530,000 - and attracted 10,000 to 20,000 looky-
loos to his website and campaign.


The next 3 months, Dr. Paul was included in televised Presidential
debates. His supporters evangelized the Internet with his small
government, anti-Military Interventionism campaign for President - and
he raised $2,400,000: FIVE times the money he did in the previous 90
days. Better than 10,000,000 Americans googled Ron Paul and visited
his website. And dozens of supporters launched their own pro-Ron Paul
Websites and blogs.


Our first 4 months, we collected and filed 78,512 certified and
validated petition signatures with the Secretary of State's Office -
and raised $200,000 to fund it.


Following Ron Paul's lead, in the next 4 months, we could generate 100
Internet articles, 30 or 40 newspaper, magazine, TV, and radio stories
on our Ballot Initiative to END the Income Tax.


This News Coverage will let us reach and teach tens of thousands of
Internet advocates and supporters who can help us get the word out.
Who can donate and volunteer.


And these supporters can help us raise $400,000 to $1,000,000 for
advertising and publicizing our Ballot Initiative to the 3,000,000+
Massachusetts voters receptive to what we're offering.


We can promise you 2 things:

1. This will NOT happen if YOU don't give.
2. This CAN happen - it WILL happen - if YOU do give. If you help now.
If you make it happen.


This Media Breakthrough will cost $50,000. But the payoff is huge.
Just like Ron Paul's was.


In this season of giving, will you make a difference with a Christmas
donation today?


We need one $5,000 donor. If you will donate $5,000, one of our
earlier donors will MATCH your $5,000 donation. Will YOU donate $5,000
now?


We need ten $1,000 Christmas givers. Will you help us make a miracle -
and donated $1,000 now?


Will YOU be one of the twenty $500 donors needed to create this Major
Media Breakthrough? Your $500 holiday donation WILL make a difference that you'll soon see.


Or will you be one of the twenty $250 donors we need to make this
happen? Will you give $250 now?


Will you please be one of the vital eighty $150 Christmas
contributors? Or one of the crucial forty $65 or $85 Christmas givers?


613 people have already taken us this far.

Will you please be one of the 172 Christmas givers, miracle makers,
champions of small government?


Please give now by credit card by clicking:

https://secure.bluehost.com/~savyonco/ms/sga/sga2.php

Thank You for making this an unforgettable season.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays,

Carla Howell & Michael Cloud

Friday, December 07, 2007

Sublimely absurd -- Gennifer Flowers may support Hillary

Oh yeah. You gotta love this one.

I'm sure Hillary's thrilled. ;-)

Me, I'm tickled pink.

Gennifer Flowers, the first Bill Bimbo to come along in 1992 (of course, he has a long history of Arkansas affairs -- that, many claim, were all handled and hushed up by...Hillary...) thinks (and it's hurting her head) that she might vote for Hillary.

There's an endorsement I love.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/us/politics/07flowers.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Argh, the frickin' dentist...

Okay, so I'm done with my second trip to the dentist in the "rebuild all your teeth" venture.

I have had nine teeth drilled now, and somewhere around sixteen holes drilled. I'm not sure how he counts cavities. As my man Nig said, this is why he hasn't been to the dentist in eight years and why I skipped him for just as many. Because I knew the SOB would want to drill. So now I'm paying for not letting him drill earlier. Trust me, folks, go to the damn dentist on a regular basis. I'm going to end up looking like Jaws from James Bond when this thing is over, there's so much silver amalgam going into my mouth.

On a positive note, the guy gave me painkillers on the first visit, but wouldn't give me any more on the second visit. Nice enough guy, but give me a fucking break, everybody hates the dentist, I'm showing up while you drill the crap out of me, do me a favor and toss me a 'scrip for some damn painkillers. Go down a schedule and give me frickin' Tylenol with codeine. I don't care, but you owe me something for letting you sadistically drill the crap out of my mouth.

Don't you just love the smell of smoke when they drill into you?

Although -- God bless Novocaine. And, to tell you the truth, it doesn't hurt that bad. Oh, it hurts, believe me, he's doing a lot of work on me, but it's manageable pain. Eating is a bit of a bitch, though, since I have to not use particular sides of my mouth and so on after a visit.

Six more to go. At least I get a ten-day break before the next one. Maybe that's long enough to prescribe me another damn handful of painkillers. I fucking deserve it. I stand by that.

Thing could be worse, though. I could need a root canal. I don't need one yet. *knock on wood*

Genji: Days of the Blade quick impression

I'm not going to call this a review of Genji: Days of the Blade, it's going to be too short.

Here's all you need to know. It's another Ninja Gaiden Sigma/Devil May Cry/Heavenly Sword-type game (enhance your weapons by gathering stuff from defeated enemies and such), although Ninja Gaiden Sigma and Devil May Cry and Heavenly Sword are all much better than it.

It's not a bad game. What it suffers from is a static camera. Exactly. You can't move the camera angle. It's infuriating at times, downright idiotic at others (as you thrust to attack enemies who are offscreen).

However, it's a good play, and it's fairly long (I'd say 15 hours or so at absolutely max playing speed? Or maybe more like 20). The voice acting is good, the graphics are very nice, etc. It uses the PS3 engine to deliver some very nice-looking effects. Unfortunately, it's one of those early-release PS3 games that's there to do just about that and only that -- showcase a little bit of what the PS3 can do.

I picked it up on a rental and am planning on beating it. And having fun with it. I actually put down Assassin's Creed to play it, bad camera angles and all.

Definitely worth a rental. Just don't buy this thing. Don't buy Heavenly Sword, while you're at it, because while that one's really a great game, it is pathetically short.

Monday, December 03, 2007

I told you, Jesus loves the Patriots...

Okay. I've been accused of being a Patriot "ball-licker", but I'm going to say it, right here, right now:

The Ravens deserved to win that ballgame tonight.

Without question.

They outplayed the Patriots, they had the game in the bag, and then one of the most outrageous serious of blunders on the part of the Ravens cost them a game they should have had -- topped by a timeout called by Billick which, had he not called, would have been the end of the game.

These guys cannot play like this against the Colts and expect to win. They cannot play like this against the Steelers and expect to win.

I don't know what the hell's happened to them, and it ain't just the wind, but the Patriots stole one from the Ravens while playing a really shitty game of football on both sides of the ball.

I tip my hat to the Ravens and Ravens fans. You guys deserved that win.

I'm off to go have a heart attack now.

A Christmas miracle

This is unheard of.

It's the beginning of December, and all my Christmas shopping is done. Usually I'm shopping right up until Christmas Eve.

Good God, what's happening to me? I hope this doesn't qualify in any way as growing up, cuz that would piss me off.

Saturday, December 01, 2007

Latest Madden '08 roster update details (November 12th, 2007)

Here is a full list of the changes made in the November 12th 2007 Madden '08 roster update for the PS3 and 360 (from pastapadre.com). The Patriots get much love, as they should. This is, as far as I know, the latest update (5th update so far):

Transactions

TE Ben Patrick – Added to Cardinals
WR Tim Dwight – Signs with Raiders
QB Andrew Walter – Released by Raiders
CB Leigh Torrence – Added to Redskins
MLB Kris Griffin – Added to Browns
CB Patrick Dendy – Signs with Panthers
WR Mike Williams – Released by Raiders
WR Chad Lucas – Released by Bucs
DT Sam Rayburn – Released by Dolphins
CB Ricardo Colclough – Released by Steelers/Signs with Browns
CB Anthony Madison – Signs with Steelers
LB Rich Scanlon – Signs with Titans
LB Pat Thomas – Signs with Chiefs
DT Grady Jackson – Signs with Jaguars
RT Rob Petitti – Signs with Rams
DE Louis Leonard – Added to Browns
LB Gary Stills – Added to Ravens
MLB Edmond Miles – Added to Dolphins
QB Shaun Hill – Added to Free Agents
TE Michael Matthews – Added to Giants
CB Evan Oglesby – Added to Cowboys
WR Michael Spurlock – Signs with Bucs
TE Matt Murphy – Added to Bills
CB Dimitri Patterson – Added to Chiefs
CB Chris Johnson – Added to Raiders
RG P.J. Alexander – Added to Broncos
RT Adam Meadows – Released by Broncos
RT Isaac Snell – Added to Broncos
C Chris White – Added to Free Agents
RT Seth Wand – Released by Titans
RT Michael Otto – Added to Titans
RG Fred Matua – Added to Titans
HB Quinton Ganther – Added to Titans
CB Eric King – Added to Titans
SS Justin Hamilton – Released by Browns
TE Greg Estandia – Added to Jaguars
DE Kenny Pettway – Added to Jaguars
CB Blue Adams – Added to Bengals
DE Chase Page – Released by Dolphins
DE Derreck Robinson – Added to Dolphins
DT Anthony Bryant – Released to Free Agents
WR Kerry Reed – Added to Dolphins
DT J’Vonne Parker – Added to Ravens
MLB Oscar Lua – Released to Free Agents
FB Kyle Eckel – Added to Patriots
CB Derrick Martin – Added to Ravens
CB B.J. Sams – Released to Free Agents
LB Alfred Fincher – Released to Free Agents
LB Matt McCoy – Signs with Saints
S Bhawoh Jue – Released by Rams
S Hanik Milligan – Signs with Rams
DT Demetrin Veal – Signs with Titans
SS Rashad Washington – Released by Jets
WR Brian Clark – Released by Broncos
DT Amon Gordon – Released by Broncos
SS Curome Cox – Released by Broncos
SS Steve Cargile – Added to Broncos
TE Chad Mustard – Added to Broncos
DT Antwon Burton – Added to Broncos
DE Paul Carrington – Signs with Broncos
SS Marcus Paschal – Signs with Eagles
LB Jorge Cordova – Signs with Jaguars
G Tutan Reyes – Signs with Jaguars
CB Ronyell Whitaker – Released by Vikings
CB Charles Gordon – Added to Vikings
HB Kenneth Darby – Released by Bucs
SS Kalvin Pearson – Added to Bucs
FB Luke Lawton – Released by Colts
LB Akeem Jordan – Added to Eagles
SS LaMarcus Hicks – Added to Lions
SS Eric Frampton – Released by Lions/Signs with Vikings
TE Ryan Krause – Added to Packers
DE Jason Hunter – Released to Free Agents
FS Quinton Teal – Added to Panthers
FS C.J. Wilson – Released to Free Agents
RT Kevin Sampson – Signs with Redskins
C Darnell Stapleton – Added to Steelers
LG Claude Terrell – Released by Rams
DT Grady Jackson – Released by Falcons
DE Quentin Moses – Signs with Dolphins
HB Samkon Gado – Released by Texans/Signs with Dolphins
FS Lance Schulters – Signs with Dolphins
SS Nick Sorensen – Signs with Browns
HB Joe Echemandu – Signs with Texans
LT Terrance Pennington – Signs with Falcons
DT Tim Anderson – Released by Bills
DT Jason Jefferson – Added to Bills
DT Corey Simon – Retires from Titans
P Chad Stanley – Released by Texans<
P Matt Turk – Added to Texans
HB Patrick Cobbs – Added to Dolphins
LB Quinton Culberson – Added to Rams
RG Tony Pape – Added to Chargers (practice squad)
DT Marcus Bell – Released to Free Agency
RG Na-shan Goddard – Added to Giants (practice squad player)
RT Clint Oldenburg – Added to Jets (practice squad player)
RT Chris Patrick – Added to Packers (practice squad player)
RG Brandon Frye – Added to Texans (practice squad player)
RG Marvin Philip – Added to Steelers (practice squad player)
LG Mike Kracalik – Added to Ravens (practice squad player)
RG Tim Duckworth – Added to Saints (practice squad player)
RG Reuben Riley – Added to Panthers (practice squad player)
RT Damone Duckett – Added to 49ers (practice squad player)
FS George Wilson – Added to Bills
WR Chad Lucas – Added to Bucs
LT Stephon Heyer – Added to Redskins
LB David McMillan – Added to Browns

Ratings Up

HB Correll Buckhalter – 79 to 81
LB DeMarcus Ware – 90 to 92
WR Randy Moss – 97 to 99
WR Wes Welker – 87 to 90
WR Donte Stallworth – 82 to 85
FS Sean Taylor – 90 to 93
HB Ronnie Brown – 89 to 90
DT John McCargo – 77 to 80
LB Jamar Williams – 60 to 66
LB Derrick Johnson – 90 to 91
WR Dwayne Bowe – 79 to 82
DE Josh Thomas – 75 to 78
LB Ben Leber – 78 to 82
MLB E.J.Henderson – 86 to 87
DE Trent Cole – 85 to 87
K Robbie Gould – 92 to 93
P Todd Sauerbrun – 86 to 89
K Phil Dawson – 88 to 89
K Matt Bryant – 83 to 88
P Matt Scifres – 80 to 82
P Dustin Colquitt – 84 to 94
K Nick Folk – 81 to 86
K Jay Feely – 85 to 87
P Brandon Fields – 74 to 79
K Morten Andersen – 83 to 84
P Andy Lee – 87 to 94
K Joe Nedney – 86 to 89
P Donnie Jones – 79 to 88
P Sam Koch – 78 to 81
K Jeff Reed – 79 to 82
P Daniel Sepulveda – 81 to 83
K Rob Bironas – 85 to 88
P Chris Kluwe – 77 to 81
K Kris Brown – 79 to 85
LB David Harris – 77 to 83
FS Anthony Smith – 75 to 76
HB Ryan Grant – 70 to 76
WR Greg Jennings – 86 to 88
WR James Jones – 79 to 80
TE Donald Lee – 80 to 82
C Chris Myers – 70 to 76
HB Selvin Young – 77 to 79
HB Andre Hall – 74 to 75
WR Brandon Stokley – 79 to 81
FS Abram Elam – 60 to 70
WR Ronald Curry – 80 to 82
RT Cornell Green – 77 to 80
LT Barry Sims – 83 to 85
LB Thomas Howard – 86 to 87
DT Ethan Kelley – 71 to 79
LT Damion McIntosh – 79 to 84
DE Jared Allen – 93 to 95
DT Alphonso Boone – 78 to 80
FS Jarrad Page – 80 to 82
DT Jonathan Babineaux – 70 to 78
CB Terrence McGee – 82 to 86
LB Tyjuan Hagler – 64 to 71
HB Joseph Addai – 87 to 90
CB Trumaine McBride – 71 to 75
TE Greg Olsen – 81 to 83
HB Kenny Watson – 79 to 81
C Melvin Fowler – 80 to 82
HB Marshawn Lynch – 84 to 87
CB Leigh Bodden – 82 to 85
CB Eric Wright – 78 to 79
MLB Leon Williams – 76 to 79
QB Derek Anderson – 81 to 84
DE Shaun Smith – 73 to 75
DT Jovan Haye – 80 to 82
FS Tanard Jackson – 79 to 80
HB Earnest Graham – 74 to 76
MLB Barrett Ruud – 84 to 86
QB Jeff Garcia – 86 to 87
RT Jeremy Trueblood – 79 to 82
SS Jermaine Phillips – 84 to 86
DT Darnell Dockett – 88 to 90
MLB Gerald Hayes – 84 to 85
LB Calvin Pace – 72 to 76
WR Jerheme Urban – 66 to 70
CB Antonio Cromartie – 83 to 84
MLB Stephen Cooper – 77 to 80
DT Ed Johnson – 75 to 78
T Charlie Johnson – 68 to 73
SS Antoine Bethea – 86 to 87
CB Anthony Henry – 88 to 89
DT Jay Ratliff – 71 to 79
LB Greg Ellis – 79 to 82
LB Bradie James – 83 to 84
LB James Harrison – 84 to 87
DT Trey Lewis – 67 to 70
WR Roddy White – 79 to 84
MLB Patrick Willis – 85 to 87
DE Paul Spicer – 80 to 83
QB Kellen Clemens – 76 to 78
DT Shaun Rogers – 96 to 97
FS Gerald Alexander – 74 to 77
DE Dewayne White – 83 to 84
DE Jared Devries – 70 to 73
LB Paris Lenon – 79 to 80
DE Corey Smith – 67 to 70
HB Kevin Jones – 84 to 85
C Dominic Raiola – 86 to 87
FB Jon Bradley – 62 to 73
RG Stephen Peterman – 72 to 80
WR Shaun McDonald – 74 to 77
QB Brett Favre – 92 to 94
HB Justin Fargas – 75 to 79
C Jeremy Newberry – 84 to 85
K Sebastian Janikowski
LB Rocky McIntosh – 84 to 85
WR Antwaan Randle El – 77 to 80
WR David Patten – 75 to 77
DE Darryl Tapp – 79 to 82
LB LeRoy Hill – 85 to 86
CB Ike Taylor – 87 to 88
CB Deshea Townsend – 85 to 86
DT Casey Hampton – 96 to 97
FS Ryan Clark – 80 to 83
DE Aaron Smith – 91 to 92
QB Ben Roethlisberger – 87 to 90
DE Brett Keisel – 82 to 84
DE Travis Kirschke – 72 to 75
WR Santonio Holmes – 82 to 83
WR Terrell Owens – 96 to 97
WR T.J. Houshmandzadeh – 93 to 95
WR Braylon Edwards – 88 to 93
LB David Thornton – 88 to 89
DT Albert Haynesworth – 90 to 94
DT Tony Brown – 81 to 84
HB LenDale White
DE Travis Laboy – 79 to 81
CB Nick Harper – 84 to 86
CB Cortland Finnegan – 82 to 84
FS Michael Griffin – 82 to 84
LB Ryan Fowler – 75 to 76
HB Adrian Peterson – 89 to 92
TE Visanthe Shiancoe - 75 to 79
RG Anthony Herrera – 78 to 81
RT Ryan Cook – 77 to 78
LB E.J. Henderson – 87 to 88
DT Pat Williams – 91 to 93
CB Fred Bennett – 74 to 77
DT Amobi Okoye – 80 to 82
TE Owen Daniels – 83 to 84
WR Kevin Walter – 73 to 76
WR Andre Davis – 74 to 75
TE Tony Gonzalez – 96 to 97

Ratings Down

DT Warren Sapp – 89 to 86
LB Joey Porter – 90 to 88
SS Sean Jones – 87 to 85
FS Brodney Pool – 83 to 80
K Jeff Wilkins – 95 to 94
P Ryan Plackemeier – 87 to 84
QB David Carr – 82 to 79
HB Vernand Morency – 81 to 80
DE Simeon Rice – 88 to 83
DT Sam Adams – 84 to 80
FS Erik Coleman – 82 to 78
LG Robert Gallery – 86 to 84
CB Ty Law – 90 to 89
LB Kendrell Bell – 80 to 75
DT James Reed – 74 to 72
RT Kyle Turley – 81 to 80
RG John Welbourn – 82 to 79
LG Brian Waters – 96 to 95
WR Bernard Berrian - 85 to 82
HB Rudi Johnson – 91 to 90
LT Levi Jones – 93 to 90
DT Ted Washington – 84 to 80
HB Edgerrin James – 93 to 92
DE Bertrand Berry – 90 to 88
CB Paul Oliver – 73 to 71
QB Philip Rivers – 89 to 88
C Todd McClure – 89 to 85
TE Alge Crumpler – 94 to 91
RG Kynan Forney – 92 to 90
RT Todd Weiner – 91 to 88
LB Tully Banta Cain – 78 to 76
WR Darrell Jackson – 89 to 88
MLB Brandon Moore- 82 to 78
HB Tatum Bell – 82 to 79
RG Damien Woody– 89 to 85
CB Fabian Washington– 83 to 81
HB Dominic Rhodes – 83 to 80
HB LaMont Jordan – 86 to 84
DT La’Roi Glover – 88 to 84
LB Chris Draft – 81 to 77
TE Randy McMichael – 88 to 87
WR Torry Holt – 98 to 97
QB Steve McNair – 85 to 83
WR Mark Clayton – 85 to 82
QB Mark Brunell – 80 to 77
CB Fred Smoot – 83 to 81
C Jeff Faine – 85 to 83
CB Mike McKenzie – 87 to 86
DE Will Smith – 94 to 92
RG Chris Gray – 85 to 82
HB Shaun Alexander – 91 to 86
LG Ruben Brown – 89 to 86
WR Marvin Harrison – 98 to 97
HB Ahman Green – 86 to 84
QB Chad Pennington – 86 to 84
QB Jay Cutler – 85 to 84
HB Warrick Dunn – 88 to 87

Weapons

FS Tanard Jackson – Bucs – Becomes Big Hitter
P Saverio Rocca–Eagles–Loses Big Foot Kicker
QB Daunte Culpepper – Raiders – Loses Cannon Arm
MLB Jeremiah Trotter –Bucs–Loses Smart LB
DT Warren Sapp – Raiders – Loses Finesse Move
WR Wes Welker – Patriots – Becomes Route Running Weapon
MLB Nick Barnett – Packers – Becomes Brick Wall Defender
MLB E.J. Henderson – Vikings – Becomes Brick Wall Defender
DT Sam Adams – Loses Power Move
CB Ty Law – Loses Smart CB
LT Levi Jones – Loses Pass Blocker
MLB Barrett Ruud – Becomes Brick Wall
CB Antonio Cromartie – Becomes Speed Weapon
LB James Harrison – Becomes Big Hitter
TE Alge Crumpler – Loses Possession Receiver
HB Tatum Bell – Loses Speed Weapon
QB Tom Brady–Becomes Cannon Arm QB
FS Anthony Smith – Becomes Big Hitter
LB David Thorton – Becomes Brick Wall
C Kevin Mawae – Becomes Pass Blocker
RG Benji Olson – Becomes Run Blocker
HB Warrick Dunn – Loses Elusive Back
HB Adrian Peterson – Becomes Trucking Back
LG Ruben Brown – Loses Pass Blocker

Injuries

TE Stephen Alexander – Broncos – IR Calf
LB Rob Morris – Colts – IR Knee
HB Ronnie Brown – Dolphins – Knee
FS Renaldo Hill – Dolphins – Knee
QB Trent Green – Dolphins - Concussion
SS Gary Baxter – Browns – Knee
LT Renardo Foster – Falcons – Knee
HB Nick Goings – Panthers – Concussion
MLB Jonathan Vilma – Jets – IR Knee
CB Carlos Rogers – Redskins – Knee
RG Richie Incognito – Rams – IR Kneecap
DE Tommy Kelly – Raiders – IR Knee
HB DeShawn Wynn – Packers – IR Shoulder
DT Ted Washington – Browns – IR Knee
WR Rod Smith – Broncos – IR Hip
DE Jarvis Moss – Broncos – IR Fibula
HB Sammy Morris – Patriots – IR Chest
CB Dunta Robinson – Texans – IR Knee
MLB Dan Morgan – Panthers – IR Achilles
FB Deon Anderson – Cowboys – IR Shoulder
LT Jonas Jennings – 49ers – IR Ankle
DE Leonard Little – Rams – IR Toe
SS Sean Considine – Eagles – IR Shoulder
LB Justin Durant – Jaguars – IR Knee
RG Chris Naeole – Jaguars – IR Quadriceps
LB Abraham Wright – Dolphins – IR Knee
RG Drew Mormino – Dolphins – IR Shoulder
LG Ruben Brown – Bears – IR Shoulder

Contracts

P Chris Kluwe – Vikings – 6 year extension
QB Tony Romo – Cowboys – 6 year extension
QB Jim Sorgi – Colts – 3 year extension
TE Donald Lee – 4 year extension
C Eugene Amano – 2 year extension