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  1. On 5/15/2018 at 12:23 PM, RPM said:

    Malek is a great actor. Have no idea if he's any kind of singer. Hopefully it's all lipsync.

    Sounds like they’re dubbing in the real thing.  Letting an actor impersonate Freddy Mercury’s voice would be a disaster of a decision.  

  2. Fuck yeah. That was exactly what I wanted to see - the supporting guys coming up big in the biggest home game of the season. 

    31-10 road record this season, which was almost as good as their home record.  3-1 in the playoffs.  Gonna be tough to win in Oakland, but this is a damn good road team.

  3. I like Jalen and Beadle.  They at least have unique points of view.  Mike Greenberg sucks, though.  He’s safe, down-the-middle, and boring.  He says whatever gets a nod of approval from middle America. Mike Greenberg on TV in a cardigan hosting his own show is so risk-averse it’s pathetic.  Glad to hear it’s failing.

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  4. 22 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    That happened AFTER going to GS.

    it started in OKC. He and Westbrook copped an “us vs. them” bunker attitude with the media.  It was petty and lame.  Especially since most of it was directed at the tame, coddling local media.

  5. The players around the “big 3” have been inconsistent.  Home court is meaningless if these guys can’t consistently show up for the fucking home games.

  6. Serial doesn't even really scratch the service on all the weirdness, inconsistencies, and questionable shit that the prosecution pulled. It also doesn't really get into what a trainwreck Adnan's lawyer was.  She was physically falling apart and juggling way too many cases at once. She was in denial about her poor health, and took on way more work than she could handle.  She's her own tragic story.  A once great (or at least good) lawyer who literally worked herself to death.  

    I've paid attention to the case quite a bit over the years.  Jay is what fascinates me the most about this case.  I'm way more interested in the truth about Jay. My theory is that Jay was not involved in all.  Adnan could have done it, but I don't think Jay knows fuck-all about who really killed Hae Min Lee. It's a pretty out there theory,  but not all that implausible IMO.  

     

  7. 4 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    I can't decide which reply to go with, so here are both:

     

    1.  Louis Freeh is literally about as much of a "credible, world-renowned expert" as you can find -- he was a US Attorney, he was a District Judge, and he was appointed to run the FBI by Bill Clinton, even though Freeh was a Republican.  Yet you question his report and take the report from a guy hired by the Paterno family at face value?

     

    2.  It blows my mind that you think that "world-renowned experts" don't sell themselves out.

    What do you think "expert witnesses" do in court?  Do you think "expert witnesses" (who are also usually "world-renowned experts") are objective in court?  Do you really think "expert witnesses" don't tailor their testimony to benefit the party who hired them?

    Do you know the word "gullible" is not in the dictionary?

    1.  I never said Louis Freeh wasn’t credible. Neither did Clemente.  He just thinks Free got it wrong. And Clemente has thousands of child sex crimes cases to draw on. Free didn’t. 

    2. Did you miss the part where I wrote “it depends on the witness?” Where did I say I think expert witnesses don’t sell themselves out?

     

  8. 3 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:
    3 hours ago, immortal13 said:
    Get Durant on "skates"? Lulz

    If they can sneak into the GS locker room and replace his shoes without anyone noticing, it would create a significant advantage. Just need Capella to create a distraction....

    What about the ice under the court tho?  Surely Toyota Center hosts Disney on Ice and shit.

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  9. 52 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

    As of yesterday morning, Curly Dumps thought JoePa was guilty, but is now rethinking his position based on an advertorial commissioned by the lawyers of the Paterno family. 

    Now, I'm also rethinking my position on the Holocaust. Up until this morning, I thought that millions of Jews, gypsies, Catholic priests, homosexuals, political dissidents, Slavs, Russian POW's, Poles and others were systematically killed by the the Nazi's. But I saw a video commissioned by Neo Nazi's that has me rethinking my position. 

    As of yesterday morning, Treatyoak thought JoePa was guilty.  When presented with info from a credible, world-renowned expert who analyzed the facts and evidence of the case, he plugged his ears and yelled "LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU."   He is so uninformed about the case, he thought JoePa was handed a "written report" and never "turned it in to anybody." But he's got strong opinions!

    He also is too dumb to see the irony in his tasteless, idiotic holocaust denier analogy.

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  10. 1 hour ago, TreatyOak said:

    Everything that anyone needs to know about what Joe Paterno had to say is contained in his quote to the Washington Post. He admitted to being handed a report about one of his coaches raping a young boy in the showers in 2002. 10 years later, he had yet to report it. That's Joe's own narrative, not mine!!!

    i am honestly surprised that you even care what we think, cause the odds of you changing anyone's mind here are zero. 

    Yeah, you're a bit off there. Malcolm Gladwell describes how that all went down in the article linked a couple posts up: In Plain View

  11. 1 hour ago, Bartles said:

    Curly you lost 99 percent of posters on this thread with "if you're interested in a different perspective" LOL.

    I realized I walked into a lion's den by sharing what I've posted. And literally as of this morning, I was of the opinion that Paterno knew something was up, but turned a blind eye or lacked the courage to confront it. But now I'm rethinking that assumption.

  12. 5 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

    So what does the esteemed Mr. Clemente have say about Joe Paterno admitting that an aide approached him in 2002 with a report that Sandusky was raping a young boy IN THE PENN STATE LOCKER ROOM? 

    "Paterno, 85, told the Washington Post that the young aide who came to him in 2002 with a report that he had seen Jerry Sandusky allegedly fondling a boy in the locker room did not go into details.

    "You know, he didn't want to get specific. And to be frank with you I don't know that it would have done any good, because I never heard of, of, rape and a man," Paterno said."

    Dude, please just stop defending him. He's as bad as Sandusky and pretty much would have seen jail time. 

    if you're curious about what he has to say, listen to the interview.  If you just want to dig into your black and white "Paterno covered up kiddie rape, the end" narrative, then don't bother.

  13. 4 hours ago, Monster said:

    He was hired by the law firm representing the Paterno family"

    So...you don't think the law firm that paid him money to do this 'investigation' (of their client) had any affect on the final report that law firm published?

     

    No, I don't think that fact had any effect on Jim Clemente's findings. I'm repeating myself, but he's a former victim who spent 30 years investigating child sex crimes, putting away sex offenders, and endeavoring to prevent future abuse from happening.  It was literally his life's work. The notion that he would lie to protect anyone who covered up child sex crimes is outrageous. The only previous connection Clemente had to anyone involved in this case was to Louis Freeh - his former boss who he liked and respected.

    Defense lawyers pay expert witnesses to give testimony at trials. Does that automatically discredit the testimony? Of course not.  It depends on the witness.

  14. 1 hour ago, TreatyOak said:

    Lost all credibility since

    "He was hired by the law firm representing the Paterno family  back in 2012/13 to go over the Freeh report and give his opinion on its findings."

    It's a whitewash. Will not waste my time watching. 

    Jim Clemente, who spent 30 years investigating child sex crimes, and is a victim of child sex abuse himself, and has also probably made millions off the TV show he created (Criminal Minds) is going to throw away his credibility and life's work to shill for the Paterno family?  For what, a paycheck? He had no prior connection to the Paternos or Penn State. He refused to sign an NDA and warned the law firm that he'd be vocal about his findings regardless of how it made Joe Pa look.  You can disagree with his opinions, but to attack his credibility is just baseless and ignorant.

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  15. I'm a fan of Jim Clemente and his podcast "Real Crime Profile."  I didn't know until recently that he was involved in this case.  He was hired by the law firm representing the Paterno family  back in 2012/13 to go over the Freeh report and give his opinion on its findings.

    Clemente is a former FBI profiler with a lot of experience working child sex crimes and studying the behavior of offenders. He was also a victim of child sex abuse himself.  So, he's extremely informed and has zero tolerance for cover-ups surrounding these crimes.  He analyzed "The Keepers" netflix doc on his podcast and went scorched Earth on the Catholic church. So if he believed Paterno was guilty of anything, he would not have held back.

    The TLDR version of findings is that Free report was deeply flawed. Sandusky was an "acquaintance offender" and and expert groomer who had everyone around him fooled - Paterno, Penn State, the department of child services who allowed the Sanduskys to foster 20+ children, the department of health (who investigated the '98 incident), the DA who failed to press charges, the fraud psychologist who analyzed Sandusky back in '98 and misled everyone involved (by concluding that Sandusky was not a pedophile, just had "boundary problems"). Freeh didn't understand the type of offender Sandusky was, and thus misinterpreted the information he had on the case and events surrounding it  Clemente does not think Paterno tried to suppress information or cover anything up.

    Here is an interview he did back in 2013, if you're interested in hearing a different perspective. It made me rethink assumptions I had about Paterno, Penn State, and the alleged cover up.

       

     

  16. Philly not having a timeout there at the end was egregious.  I feel like you never, ever see that happen in the NBA. That’s about the most tangible way a coach can choke.

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