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UpperWestside

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  1. Pretty good effort in the 2nd half by the Purple and Gold. I did not expect to see them win game 1. Jokic is just on another level right now. I do think the Lakers win game 2 though. This will be a fun series.
  2. Daniel Cameron won the GQP nomination for Governor in Kentucky. He is a big-time grifter and MAGA believer. He specifically thanked Dotard in his address by saying “the Trump culture of winning is alive and well in Kentucky.” Just an utterly horrific human being.
  3. The Noise Control Act of 1972 was one of the best things he got signed into law. It was, and of course it was, rolled back entirely by Reagan. Nixon’s roots in his Quaker faith played a part in getting that act signed into law. That’s all I got on his good deeds.
  4. It’s on me for going in, but I almost never leave a movie. I wasn’t mad and my day was still awesome as usual, but man that movie just had no real point to it. Had some pretty good actors and actresses in it as well which further confounds me as to how the movie wound up being like that.
  5. I had free time yesterday afternoon and so I got a ticket to Fool’s Paradise. I cannot say it strongly enough. Do not watch this movie. I left after 30 minutes. I stayed that long to see if it would get better. The person that greenlighted this movie should probably be a Wal-Mart greeter instead. I usually am pretty middle of the road on movies and find enjoyment in most every film I watch, but this was just, well l, I’m not real sure what it was supposed to be.
  6. I can say a couple of things with certainty about Grant. He waged war exceptionally better than General McClellan and he was the biggest raging alcoholic to ever hold the office of the presidency. I say that as a person three and a half years removed from drinking so I know the pain that man had to have felt as a human being to drink that much.
  7. The goal, as I am sure everyone here already knows, is to completely drain public schools, especially in the large metro areas, to the point that they will almost cease to exist. It is entirely about money. It should be illegal to profit off of the education of children. I just find that to be one of the most egregious things human beings do. When you have reached the point to where turning a profit for investors off of schooling is normalized, you are completely lost as a person and society is as well. I cannot voice more strongly than that how opposed I am to it in Texas as well as here in New York. We have ghouls here in the mayor and now the governor who want to see more charter schools. These people all deserve to sit next to each other for all of eternity while hearing Gilbert Gottfried’s voice on a never ending loop.
  8. Why not both? Break the backs of public schools AND get people to take out loans to attend schools that are actually a subpar choice to just attending a public school.
  9. If anyone here honestly believes that Greg Abbott was ever a good person and that this is not who he actually is, well, you need to be committed to an asylum in Siberia. This is who he is. You do not wake up one day and become a horrible human being, especially to the most vulnerable among us.
  10. Of every gun offense committed by a pro athlete was that one the most comical in nature? I cannot think of another instance of shooting yourself and getting a nice timeout in Rikers because of it.
  11. Didn’t they give him the award shortly after losing to the Warriors? I seem to remember that was a really awkward press conference.
  12. If you had told me Karl Malone likes to shoot guns I would’ve believed it, but I can tell you I never remember even seeing these pictures from the ad. He is one of the most despised players in NBA history, is also a horrible human being, but he at least does this correctly.
  13. This book was such a good read. I am a naturally quiet person when I am not at work where I have to talk for several hours. Considering the off the charts levels of stress and anxiety we have in this world right now, I would highly suggest reading a book devoted to silence. The stories they use from across the spectrum of people and their experiences are really cool.
  14. If you put Harden on your roster you are guaranteed that he will disappear in big games. If he is your 2nd best player then you team does not have a 2nd best player. You just have a guy who flashes brilliance at times and then also just no-shows when you need him most. Why Morey has the fascination with him is odd, but seems to be worthy of a psychologist studying him a bit if one were so inclined to do so.
  15. Hoooo boy can Kwame be the official Mess Around and Find Out Liaison for NBA players? He cut straight through to the heart of the matter. Morant does not have a single person in his orbit that will talk to him like that because he doesn’t have even one actual friend and that includes his clownfraud parents.
  16. I think it’s how he’s going about displaying guns. He was told not to do this and he did it again anyhow. The NBA is very image conscious, but is also the most socially advanced pro league in America and perhaps the world. If a white player brandished a pistol I would see the same suspension being handed down. Adam Silver is not going to tolerate this kind of stuff from any player now that Morant crossed a giant red line. I can again point to Keldon Johnson and how he has gone about the enjoyment he has with hunting rifles as well as guns he shoots at that range in San Antone. There is zero outrage about that because he is being RESPONSIBLE and has ingratiated himself to the outdoor community there. Morant is glamorizing having a gun to show toughness he does not otherwise possess.
  17. Heiani has fit right in with Aliyanah. I love just sitting and watching them play when I get in from the day. Man, dogs are ridiculously awesome.
  18. Snoop has the best Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsRQR4Jpizs/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
  19. There’s guys you can say this about with certainty. James Harden will never win a title. Embiid’s postgame comments were ill-advised, especially when neither guy up there did anything remotely well. Embiid at this point is still not a leader and with Glenn Rivers as his coach you can bet he isn’t going to change. Tyrese Maxey should run from this franchise as soon as he possibly can. Playing 3rd banana on this roster is a waste of his skill set. Put him in a free flowing offensive system where his abilities are a much better fit than his current situation. If I were Golden State I would at least put in a call and see if they want to move a bad contract like the one Harris has if it meant landing him. You have to at least kick the tires with a player like Maxey.
  20. If the 92 Dream Team wore Clippers jerseys in the Olympics, Angola would have beaten them by 20. The JV team in LA is just a cursed/comically run franchise.
  21. https://andscape.com/features/its-ok-to-be-different-spurs-forward-keldon-johnson-feels-at-home-outdoors/amp/ That seems to be an acceptable way to show what you enjoying doing in your free time.
  22. I mean I understand this and it’s a bit of a mind-bender thinking about how the same thing is celebrated by a different segment of the populace. Anyone that needs to use a gun to show some level of toughness is the exact opposite of that. The NBA just cannot send a message to their fans, many of which are really young, that this is an acceptable way to conduct yourself. Personally I would give him or any other player the Roy Tarpley treatment for repeat stupidity like this.
  23. If your boss tells you to change your personal behavior because you are setting a bad example and you fail to do so then you deserve the finding out part of the messing around chart. He’s about to be cosplaying with water guns after his giant payday is withheld for an entire season.
  24. Watching this play out I feel pretty confident saying that none of this is related to any kind of mental illness. Well at least not until a psychiatrist decides to label messing around and finding out a syndrome. Morant is just your average clownfraud trying to emulate a lifestyle he does not know the first thing about. Morant is getting a year off without pay and maybe more than that. If Stern were still alive and running the show he’d be banished permanently. Silver gives him a year away I think, but his actions deserve at least two years worth of being told to kick rocks and ply your trade in Europe or China.
  25. This should move into the suspended for the entire 2023-24 season territory now. That kid he beat up and threatened with a gun should get himself a good lawyer and sue the mess out of this horrific clownshow and his friends.
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