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  1. cross posting from rockets thread. you fools have a nice night

    same posts, same thread 3 or 4 years running

    Harden is not a superstar. he is a star. simple example - learn to drive right and add a mid range jumper. learn anything really. his game is going to the well over and over and getting better at just that. when faced with a challenge he gets the yips 

    rockets are the baylor of the NBA. offense works great bun in crunch time against a team that can adapt they choke. coach is a button presser. just keep pressing it and hoping it works out. 

    rockets played great D in this series. in that regard they definitely improved

    also durant is one of the most clutch scorers i have ever seen

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  2. same posts, same thread 3 or 4 years running

    Harden is not a superstar. he is a star. simple example - learn to drive right and add a mid range jumper. learn anything really. his game is going to the well over and over and getting better at just that. when faced with a challenge he gets the yips 

    rockets are the baylor of the NBA. offense works great bun in crunch time against a team that can adapt they choke. coach is a button presser. just keep pressing it and hoping it works out. 

    rockets played great D in this series. in that regard they definitely improved

    also durant is one of the most clutch scorers i have ever seen

     

  3. 7 hours ago, Mojo Hand said:

    Trump's Memorial Day tweet is sickening from a president. 

    shocked me too. i really thought he was going to say something nice about someone other than himself

     

  4. feels 2011 ish. that was the hottest MF summer in my 41 years on earth

    sitting outside at 10pm in the dark, its still 100F outside and i have a running water hose in one hand, margarita in another hand, and lady friend on third appendage. 

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  5. 48 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Time for Harden to ball out.

    or for him to simply put the air out of the ball for 15 seconds and flail for a three or layup. that 2nd half last night might have been the worst i have seen an MVP caliber player play, but again everyone was off and it was some kind of ugly game

    better find some other kind of offense other than iso with harden or you will most likely loose. no CP3 is going to make it even more difficult. hard to imagine a rockets win in Oakland but stranger things have happened. hope CP3 can make it back for game 7

  6. On 5/23/2018 at 10:32 PM, Larry T. Spider said:

    On the other thread there were varying accounts of how busy it was at different times. Most (myself included) thought it was good but not great. Speer has a new venture DT and not with the same partners so it could have been a disagreement there. I kind of know him but not well enough to ask.

    that was my guess. a dispute or disagreement of some kind

  7. 11 hours ago, HoustonHorn said:

    And some people want to shut these people up instead of letting them demonstrate their ignorance and racism for the entire world to see. Why? Let them air it out and ruin their own lives instead of driving them underground and hiding with others who just believe the same bullshit.
     

    absolutely agree. its why i think we need a parliamentary style government with all parties at the table. and we better get one fast before we end up killing each other

    don't let hate and misunderstanding fester. bring it out into the open. 

  8. 3 minutes ago, Vince_McCoy_Williams said:

    I agree, I think it would make the parents talk to their kids a little more and it would make them take their gun security more seriously. Unfortunately, this is actually a "common sense" regulation but it would never get any traction with the liberal lawmaking wing because they would overreach which puts a full stop to constructive policy discussion.

    i would consider myself a liberal and i don't want the 2nd amendment touched. 

    blaming one part of our dysfunctional government is really not healthy IMO. 

    All for making gun ownership a much more serious privilege of some type. thanks for your understanding. 

  9. 1 minute ago, tantric superman said:

    Tell me how I am failing to account for anything, since all I have done is suggest a better avenue of discussing the matter.

    Talking about the 2nd amendment is hot air?  Well fuck, I guess I have the wrong relevant amendment and I completely missed the fact that we have a court that will fucking move mountains to proclaim all sorts of gun rights.

     

    the 2nd ammendent is what it is. talking about it - pro or con - is useless, especially given the complete clusterfuck that is our federal government

    the problem is we have mentally unstable people with much to easy access to guns. give it shot (pun intended). practice saying it. its good man

  10. 1 minute ago, Vince_McCoy_Williams said:

    I would support a law where the gun owner is held responsible for a minor in their custody under 18 stealing their weapon and using it in a mass shooting. 

    something like this sure seems logical.

    i think just ticking the needle in that direction, no matter how little, is a start. 

  11. 6 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

    I'm not asking anyone to take any calculated risk.

    I'm asking the folks who purport to support a liberty interest (the right to buy any weapon they want), to tell me how many kids have to die before they are willing to engage in constructive dialogue about limiting that liberty in some way. 

    And I'm asking the folks who purport to limit that liberty interest to define what they are trying to achieve.  Zero accidental gun deaths ever?   

    again, we have a problem with mentally unstable people having much to easy access to guns. thems the words. stick to that. 

    we need measures to:

    - make gun ownership more of a responsibility

    - make mental health a national crisis (IMO it is)

    talking about the 2nd amendment is hot air, regardless of what side your hot air comes from.

    if the first above treads on your liberty then so be it. your calcs are wrong and IMO you are failing to account for the mental anguish and anxiety this problem is causing all of our society

     

  12. 6 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    A lot of people care. A lot of people don't care.

    and they can't communicate

    and when the can't communicate or trust each other, they can't solve problems

    ergo when problems happen you eventually end up with authoritarian behaviors needed to solve them

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    I still believe that enough people would oppose it if we ever had a leader that tried to become a dictator.

    and to this point specifically? i mean really? we have a leader acting like that now and people don't care. we are in a civil war here, dictator or not. its the same problem - no one is listening to anyone else. 

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    1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I'm at the point it really will not matter.  Most likely it isn't possible to criminally indict a sitting President.  The appropriate method is to impeach/convict a President leading to their removal for appropriate crimes.  The assumption is that Congress would remove a President even if from their own party.   I don't think the GOP will remove Trump for basically any crime.  I know you can create some strange scenarios where they remove Trump but they're very unlikely to occur.    FYI, I also think that if you flipped the situation so that Obama is President and the Dems control Congress, they most likely would not remove Obama as well.

    2020 can't get here soon enough.  I actually fear the scenario where the Dems win both the House and Senate in 2018.  If they moved to impeach/indict, I don't know if Trump accepts it.  And if he can get the military to stand behind him, we have a constitutional crisis.   And when people say Mathis would stand up to Trump, you're making an assumption that Mathis is still there.  Trump can easily find someone to replace Mathis.    Would Trump accept a scenario of losing in 2020?   If millions and millions of undocumented immigrants voted against him, why should he comply with an invalid election?

    Maybe my fears are unfounded, but I think we are in a world that we wouldn't have imagined as recently as 2014 or 15.

     

    42 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    What Trump really needs is a national crisis to suspend rights to finally take him over the edge.  If 9/11 happened tomorrow, do we not believe that concentration camps (freedom camps?) aren't build up immediately.   And criticisms of the good govt. become subversive actions.     When you see movies like V for Vendetta, we're not as far from that world as you think.  

    With that being said, I actually don't think any of this will occur.  I still believe that enough people would oppose it if we ever had a leader that tried to become a dictator.

    We are absolutely ripe for everything you are saying here. constitutional crisis, government goose stepping, and fucking freedom camps. 

    Wars don't happen because of certain events. WWI was going to happen no matter the final trigger (i.e. the murder of Archduke Ferdinand). The structure of the world was already broken and just needed a push. Same shit now. The world goes to war because children are in charge - and they magnify the seeds or hatred and irrationality to the point that almost any event will send us into a shitshow. 

    Infrastructure hack, bank collapse, bio attack, terrorist attack, you name it. you know its coming. its always coming. Obviously my expectation for how we  react is really fucking low. I am just hoping for no nukes my Gs.

    Have a good wednesday friends

  15. 5 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    I am aware who and what he is specifically targeting.  And I would agree wrt the electorate and the media.  I do however believe that that the entire political apparatus, or at least the vast majority of it, is corrupted.  

     

     

    yes, see money involved in electing pooh that makes nothing but shitty decisions. its all corrupted. i know its easy to point at trump, but the reality is that you as a voter are limited in creating reform or change of any type that is sorely needed. 

  16. 29 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    I've been a critic of Comey for a while, but his virtue signalling hits the nail on the head with this one. We have a corrupted political apparatus, a mind numbing stupid and short sighted electorate, and a broken information distribution system. The list of our societal faults could go on a while, but this is a pretty good start. 

    well summarized. 

    we are one real problem away from everyone seeing this in full swing. and its frightening to think about. 

  17. 6 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    It would be a start.  I don't know what the full answer is, but I am willing to try some radical shit to right the course. 

    i always like what the UK does - can't really advertise until one month before the election

    (i may be representing this wrong, but i believe that is the gist of it) 

    great idea. it short circuits this 2 year cycle BS campaigning

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