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  1. 1 hour ago, BeardIP said:

    Are you the guy that was married to spicy and then got a semi-public divorce in front of hornfans? your avatar kind of looks like the guy, at least, but I think he was a realtor from california now that I think about it.

    Nah. I was the guy that helped with all the Rose Bowl and Holiday Bowl tailgates.   I hauled all the beer, food, and supplies in my horse trailer. 

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  2. Smartmatic has settled a lawsuit accusing San Diego-based One America News of defamation by falsely claiming that the voting technology company rigged the 2020 presidential election to help Joe Biden beat Donald Trump.

    It’s the third settlement involving the right-wing network whose reach has dwindled in recent years. A lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against OAN is still pending.

    Terms of the latest settlement are confidential, Smartmatic’s lawyer Erik Connolly said, but the company voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit filed in 2021 in Washington, D.C.

    Smartmatic had estimated that OAN’s false claims wiped out much of its business value, reducing it to less than $1 billion from more than $3 billion.

    Lawyers for OAN did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    The lawsuit was one of several accusing right-wing or conservative-leaning media of spreading lies about the election to drum up viewership, and boost advertising revenue.

    Smartmatic still has lawsuits pending against Fox News and Newsmax over their election coverage. It is seeking $2.7 billion in the Fox lawsuit.

    Last April, the voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems reached a $787.5 million settlement with Fox, as opening statements at a trial were about to begin.

    OAN positioned itself to the right of Fox and Newsmax, sometimes airing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, the Jan. 6, 2021 attack at the U.S. Capitol, and vaccine safety.

    It suffered financial blows in 2022 when Verizon and AT&T’s DirecTV stopped carrying its programming.

    Smartmatic, based in Boca Raton, Florida, accused OAN of causing irreparable harm by “spreading disinformation” about the election and its technology.

    It said OAN eroded trust in the democratic process and abandoned a pledge by Charles Herring, president of its owner Herring Networks, to provide “reliable, credible, fact-based news with substance.”

    In court papers, OAN said awarding Smartmatic more than $2 billion would silence “one more, albeit conservative, voice” from what the U.S. Supreme Court has called the “marketplace of ideas” protected by the First Amendment.

    In May 2022, OAN settled a defamation suit brought by two Fulton County election workers, and posted numerous corrections.

    “Georgia officials have concluded that there was no widespread voter fraud by election workers who counted ballots at the State Farm Arena in November 2020,” an OAN announcer said on air.

    Similar concessions of fact were posted on OAN’s Twitter and Facebook accounts.

    But in settling another defamation suit last September, OAN went radio silent. A search of its website didn’t show the name of the plaintiff, Eric Coomer.

    The Smartmatic settlement also isn’t mentioned on the OAN website.

    Coomer, OAN parent Herring Networks and chief White House correspondent Chanel Rion jointly agreed to dismiss the case brought by Coomer, a former Dominion Voting Systems executive.

    Coomer and the defendants “have fully and finally settled the disputes among them concerning Plaintiff’s claims against Herring Networks … and Chanel Rion only,” the filing said.

    The case is Smartmatic USA Corp et al v Herring Networks Inc, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, No. 21-02900.

     

     

     

  3. On 4/7/2024 at 11:55 AM, shadow_operative said:

    imagine that your direct supervisor at your job tells you that you and one of your coworkers are going to be competing for a promotion, and that the winner of said promotion would be whoever made the most sales. 

    you continue to come into work every single day with your head down, consistently doing your job and making sales. meanwhile, your coworker has stopped coming into work altogether, other than to take his morning dump and steal the newspaper on his way back out the door. your direct supervisor is now repeatedly reprimanding your coworker for this frankly unbelievable behavior while you continue to do your job every day making sales.

    they day of the promotion comes, you are excited to receive the promotion, when suddenly, your boss’s boss- a man who has gone out of his way to be a total POS to you on multiple occasions, a man who wears his personal hatred of you with pride- shows up and says, “your coworker is getting the promotion, and i have some new rules for you to follow, and if you don’t follow these new rules you’re fired.” are you seriously trying to tell me that you would just take all of this stride, shrug your shoulders, and accept it as if it was just some totally reasonable and simple request? i don’t think so. not even a little bit.

    George-Costanza-working-for-Costanza-and

     

    On 4/7/2024 at 12:58 PM, shadow_operative said:

    do you have kids? if one of your kids kept going to school every day and getting picked on, bullied, and harassed by another kid who knew that your kid suffered from mental illness, would you flippantly ask your kid why he cares what other people think? would that be your solution?

    this isn’t about what other people think, and frankly at this point you have to be pretty obtuse not to see that. this is about straight up online bullying a mentally ill person for sport. i’ve been putting up with his shit for over a year. i have put him on ignore multiple times and it has never worked because he has a gang of pals on the hoops board who quote all of his posts and who pile on, so i see everything he says anyways.

    i asked this dude to leave me alone. i begged this dude to leave me alone. i literally never posted to/about him unprovoked, and he wouldn’t stop. threads kept getting derailed, people kept getting mad at me for it, and i kept saying, “jesus christ all i am doing i posting about hoops and this guy will not stop coming after me unprovoked.”

    that’s when bob stepped in. that’s when bob told both of us to leave each other alone or get banned. that’s when motown repeatedly came after me, repeatedly earning himself bans. all the while, countless other posters still talk shit to/about me and you do not see me mentioning them or going to bob about them, do you? i don’t give a fuck what you think about me because i already know that the majority of people who actually post where i do and who aren’t antagonistic children actually like and appreciate me and my posts. other people not liking or appreciating me matters zero to me. this is not about that and never has been. at this point you either get that or you don’t. figure it out.

    Difference is, a kid HAS to go to school. 

    If I go to a bar that's full of assholes and get picked on...well, I don't go to the asshole bar ever again.  I find another, better, friendlier bar. 

     

     

     

     

    I don't want anything bad to happen to Derka.   But I happen to believe that this board is bad for his mental health, and, "IF" (and it's a BIG FUCKING IF IMO) Derka is actually getting professional help for his mental health (from a REAL professional) that professional would conclude that his participation here is bad for him. 

    And, I also believe that one can be both mentally ill, and be an asshole.  I was married to both. 

    I've seen post after post, many from Derka himself, about how the "old" Derka was bad but the "new" Derka is so much better.   Looking through my lens, it's the same old bullshit from this guy. 

     

    Derka, if you're reading this, go get some real help.  God Bless your mom, and Bob too, but dude, you need somebody with a professional degree helping you through your struggles. It may take a very long time, but it's worth investing the time. 

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  4. On 4/14/2024 at 2:45 AM, tigol said:

    Woodcreek?

    Never heard of woodcreek.

    On 4/14/2024 at 8:16 PM, Mileslong said:


    My ex grew up in Rancho Cucamonga

    The great one…

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    I've lived in Ontario, Upland, and Alta Loma. 

    Baldy Lodge pool was a really easy place to get pussy back on those days.  

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  5. 2 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    No, you’re right. Scottsins did crim law and a few others. Foosters maybe?

    Foosters is a Los Angeles criminal defense guy.   He's fighting the good fight.  A fight that NEEDS to be fought. 

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  6. 1 minute ago, Red Five said:

    What graduation is Eric talking about that's taking place in April?

    Barron is graduating High School (presumably in Palm Beach). 

    And the judge has yet to issue a decision on whether dotard can go

  7. 10 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Really weird transition from "You May Be Wrong" to "Rock 'n Roll".  No fault of the singer, but the grooves of each song don't match.  The Zep song should be much more frenetic.  Bad call.

    Oh, I love Sting.  The Police would have never existed without him.  To say he was "propped up" is laughable.

    Perhaps you haven't noticed over the years, but I'm a bit of an asshole.

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  8. On 4/12/2024 at 1:06 PM, BeardIP said:

    As an aside, was I the only one in the world who didn't have sex on prom night? I got drunk with a bunch of dudes in like a Fairfield Inn. ugh. That's probably why my interest rate sucks.

    I stayed home that night to watch the Lakers take on the Spurs.    

    In '82, I didn't need to rent a tux to get a blowjob.   And, I hate dancing. 

  9. 2 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    Apparently Gil is a regular at what looks like the cheesiest bar on the Pacific Ocean

    It's been closed for a few years now.   Nice location too.   

  10. 7 minutes ago, miguelito said:

    My mom and I were at the October 2015 MSG show where Steve Miller and John Mayer showed up. Mayer looked stoned, but killed it on "Crossroads."

    I was at that show...but I was with South Austin's mom. 

  11. 11 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I've told this before . . . some of you unfortunate few may have missed it . . . first time I saw him was 1982 at the Erwin Center.  A guy I knew on my floor at Jester won tickets and his girlfriend had to work, so he asked I wanted to go.  "Eh, I don't really like him all that much, but OK."  Those seats were very close up on the floor, and Billy killed it.  Just hit after hit after hit.  I kept thinking "oh yeah, he wrote that one, too."

    I've probably seen him 3-4 times since them.  An American legend.

    That's similar to when my friends took me to see Lionel Ritchie.   I knew the guy had hits, but I had no idea how many until I heard him play them one after another

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