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UpperWestside

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  1. Looks like a small package going into such a wide gulf there. Work with what you got I guess.
  2. My mom’s 70th birthday in 2019 I brought her up to New York for a week. On her birthday I took her to the Bronx Zoo in the morning and then that evening I took her to see her Yankees play the Rangers. She was happy just going to a game for her birthday, especially since the home state Rangers were the opponent. She always roots for Texas if they aren’t playing the Yankees. What I didn’t tell her is I made the charitable contribution that allows you to put a message up on the Jumbotron in the 5th inning for birthdays and anniversaries. I put her first and last name and then my younger brother’s name and mine at the end of the message. We were out in Section 203 in right field so she had a clear view when I said “Oh look it’s all the birthday messages they put up every game.” She looks up and hears her name over the PA and lets out the loudest scream I have ever heard from my mom. Everyone around her wished her a happy birthday and she said later on that this was the best birthday of her entire life. I had attempted to get video of it, but the phone I had at the time was brand new and I hit the wrong button and recorded none of her reaction. I actually think that is better because it’s seared into my memory how she reacted and it also reminded me that not every cool moment in life needs to have a picture or video to remember it.
  3. Germany. The irony.
  4. This is what history will remember the most about this era in America. The absolute abandoning of being decent to each other. Seeing children doing this to each other is disgraceful. My mother always makes good points on this stuff and today she told me that if there is a God out there like you believe there is then he must really be disappointed in us for all of this hate. All I could say to her is that were I God I would absolutely be disappointed in how we treat one another.
  5. You have to have a voice from someone that people will coalesce around. It would be cool if that is Buttigieg because is one of the smartest human beings on the planet. He has a higher amount of intellect in his pinky than this entire administration has combined. Thank God he’s an American. He’s what we need leading us, but instead we get grifters stealing everything including the kitchen sink.
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    Brazil

    Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro agreed to a plan to poison President Lula, prosecutor says | AP News This should be fun to follow.
  7. "A psychopath on the spectrum." That was a compliment to Elmo. I don't know anyone on the spectrum that would like to be referred to as a psychopath. People like Elmo need to have their own classification on a separate chart. I do not, and I suspect I can speak for just about everyone else on it, want Elmo associated with us. He is not just a psychopath, but a racist and narcissistic one with a severe issue of making deadly wrong impulsive decisions.
  8. Reading a book for class right now. Really interesting book about the end of the Pacific War. The writer is a retired professor from Cal-Berkeley and a friend of one of my professors. If Robert Citino finds this book to be an important part of the history of the war then so do I. Got quite a bit of material from the Soviet archives that writers during the Cold War, and many years after that, never had access to.
  9. No need to bother getting immigrants to do the jobs nobody wants to do if you have a permanent underclass.
  10. They aren’t doing a real good job of keeping it quiet. I hope Drip gets a 2nd high school. I used to compete against them in sports and academic events when they were a much smaller school in my youth. I can still recall in elementary school tying for the gold medal in UIL Spelling. Got a perfect paper and only one other person did the same. Even my principal missed six words. I can also still remember her name and that she beat me the next year when I misspelled trafficking. 😂
  11. This is the point of it. You will either have parents going deep into debt to make up the difference at the schools or you’ll just confine the poor and their kids to schools where they learn nothing. That perpetuates the cycle of low income people continuing to not have an exit ramp through education, especially minorities.
  12. Even in Texas, especially in rural and solidly R suburban areas. Some of the best teachers I had growing up who really did care about educating students are still voting against their own interests because team first nonsense. One of the teachers that is irate about this is someone I grew up with. She’s got a bullhorn for a mouth (In charge of the debate team) and her child is on the spectrum. Combine a pissed off mother and teacher who has never been the quiet type and you’ve got someone who can at least put up some form of opposition to this garbage. They’ve already started in on the resulting loss of funds to the school district under these voucher plans. It would cut funding for her son’s teachers and other children just like him. That appears to be the red line for a lot of teachers. To be clear the voucher program issue is not just something school related only in Texas. New York is screwing over their public school students with charter schools and they have a Democratic governor. The blatant money grabs and the putting a price on your child is not limited to states like Texas.
  13. Smokey’s really gonna have to hustle this year.
  14. Howard is nuts as well, but his influence is limited. Elmo is absolutely the worst human being he has ever had on there. No argument there. Carson sticks out to me because of how he ruined a friendship for me. I am honestly shocked Carson is not part of this dictatorship in some way. He is a grifter just like they are.
  15. This idiot is responsible for putting this guy, also an idiot, on his podcast. Billy Carson is what happens when you mix drugs together with already insane beliefs. Again idiot #1 put this guy on his show. I had to quit being friends with someone that had been a close friend of 20 plus years because he believed the stuff Carson was saying. You know things like buying a book off of Amazon to translate a language no one has heard in over SIX THOUSAND YEARS. He put Carson in front of millions of listeners. There are not enough ways for me to say how much I loathe Rogan for this one alone. Anyone of you that get through more than 10 minutes of that, well, good luck. The rebuttal to all of it has been posted here by me last summer. It was from an actual person who likes to dispel this conspiracy garbage and it was glorious to watch.
  16. I have seen some fun stuff posted by current and former public school teachers in Texas. Abbott and his wife have now made enemies out of their own voting base. Not that he cares, but this is an interesting development.
  17. Some of them appear to have found their way out here too.
  18. Went to see Paddington in Peru last night. If you have kids you DEFINITELY need to take the to see it. Just a beautiful movie overall. Even if you don't have kids this is a movie to go see because you'll leave the theatre feeling good. It was just a film that makes you feel good and I am glad there is more of this type of stuff out there now.
  19. Cool movie. It took a minute to get used to not seeing Chris Evans, but I think this is going to work out well for Marvel. Enjoyed it all the way through and liked the big fight scene.
  20. One of the things that almost none of the owners of any American media outlets will say out loud is that Trump and his band of racist trolls being back in the big boy chair is good for ratings and that's good for the bottom line. More people tune in to see the illiterate old man say crazy things than the alternative. I mostly will read The Guardian or the website I subscribe to called Defector. I think there are some people here who are Defector members. It's sports, pop culture, animals, science, politics and really whatever else they want to write blogs about. It's the old Deadspin staff that quit and they've made it four and a half years now with no advertising. I will try and post one of David Roth's political blogs sometime soon. He is probably the best American political writer that there is right now. I met him at one of their birthday celebrations. He's a good guy with a gift for writing about Politics and his Mets. He also does their weekly podcast with the lead writer for the site Drew Magary. I would highly suggest some of y'all look at that site if you want to support writers doing some high quality work that is enjoyable to read.
  21. The map comment is one I always think of because I loved Geography as a kid and did UIL competitions in that and spelling in my childhood. When someone is passionately defending a group of people in a foreign land it’s best TO ACTUALLY KNOW WHERE THEY ARE LOCATED AT. Look at a map and at least familiarize yourself with the rest of the world.
  22. Weather in areas where the protests would be largest combined with a media that moves on to the next news cycle plays a fairly outsized role in coverage. In 2020 almost all protesting in NYC came to a halt as it got cold and never really returned. I participated all summer and into the early fall in protests that year. Protest or not, the Palestinians who no longer have a home are largely screwed unless a group of countries come together to fill the gap in leadership we are abdicating. Same as 2016 except with more cruelty this time around.
  23. Terrible liar and a simpleton. This is some elementary school level intellect on display.
  24. After letting the family members beat him he should be left just enough alive to be finished off by a badger. How in the heck was this guy ever released after sexually assaulting two children? I mean how does this happen? Jesus tapdancing Christ New York he should’ve been left to rot in prison for life in solitary.
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