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UpperWestside

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  1. Not real sure who said it was limited to a single political party. Demented people don’t need a party to commit an atrocity like this. HOWEVER, there is only one party in America right now openly trying to make life hell for trans folks. That rhetoric can seep into someone’s mind whether they support that party or not. Normalizing hate can give people the idea that crimes like this are for some twisted greater good scenario they have in their head.
  2. Ocean’s 11 is a good description, especially the musical score. I went and saw this again Friday night. It was just as cool seeing it the 2nd time. Listening to the dialogue again and picking up some clues about things made it a fun 2nd viewing. I read they want to do more of these and the cast is up for doing them. Cate did such an awesome job. The chemistry with Fassbender really made the movie. I’m good with taking Fassbender’s role if he wants to give it up. 😂
  3. I still cannot fathom how they put 14 teams in this field of 68 from a conference that has just 16 total. They could’ve cut out about 5 or 6 of them and given them to teams that actually belonged in the tournament.
  4. I just watched a movie with him tonight so this hits close to home.
  5. The things China is doing that wind up being the most intense topics are going to be geopolitical in nature. This will be of little significance to what China does or does not do on a worldwide basis, but The Solomon Islands have a leader that is decidedly pro-China. They came in and built a stadium for the country even though The Solomons have no real way to maintain it. Obviously it’s buying influence just like America does, but this troubles me quite a bit. Guadalcanal is the site of one of the most decisive and bloody series of land, sky and sea battles that happened in WWII. That land is hallowed ground for the Americans who gave their last full measure to stop Japanese expansion of their co-prosperity sphere in East Asia. I will live in that country and I want to work to make sure that the Americans who fought there as well as the native Solomon Islanders who helped America by being our eyes and ears on the ground, as well as the people that hauled injured soldiers for miles on stretchers, to one day have a museum worthy of what they accomplished. These people sacrificed themselves willingly for something they didn’t even have a word for. They called Guadalcanal “The Big Death” because of what they witnessed. It really bothers me how little America cares about what happened there. We should be stepping up and getting China right out of Melanesia and Micronesia entirely and doing right by people that had our back when we needed all hands on deck, even if they weren’t American. Seeing China buy influence right in the backyard of sacred ground for Americans just really gets to me.
  6. He’s a coward and that thread he put up about his orange god king put a glaring spotlight on exactly who he is. He’s been one for the entirety of his existence. The guy is around 70+ or so and he’s never done a single thing that was not in some way beneficial to him or the image others might have of him. It’d be nice if some of the newer Longhorn basketball alumni saw the stuff he writes on here while simultaneously trying to be their friend when he sees them at events or athletic department functions. He’s an embarrassing human being.
  7. Be careful. In the past, before social media, hatred of entire nations would not be as widespread. Europe though pays special and close attention to America. Europeans that I cross paths with, even the ones coming way out this way now, can tell me more about our politics than most people who actually are American. Just enjoy the vacation and take a Canadian hat with you to wear.
  8. Give it time. Eventually he’ll snap out of his funk.
  9. They sat Jokic and Murray tonight. Going about as you might expect in LA without those two. Luka is obviously an elite talent, but 21 in the 1st quarter isn’t happening if Jokic is playing.
  10. So looks like the fines are going to have to be higher and more frequent. Any fan who paid to watch this deserves a full refund. You want to see all of OKC’s best players out there. Instead Grimes will probably put up 50 tonight for Philly and they’ll still lose.
  11. I'm excited to see how Teslas handle the DRC.
  12. They should exit stage right to France, Britain or Germany ASAP.
  13. You have to remember that a very large portion of America, and honestly most countries, pays little attention to anything political until the effect of multiple horrendous choices and decisions change how they live. The key to making sure things like this do not transpire is the teaching of more government and civics classes in school and people educating others about history. Look at Germany for instance. The kids there still have to put together school projects on nazi Germany and why what happened was horrific. Not everyone there thinks that obviously with those far right neo-nazis, but the point is that you teach and educate your population. Right now, education is at the bottom of the list for things our orange god king cares about.
  14. There was a guy in my hometown that recently passed away. When I was a kid he coached his three sons in basketball. His sport in college was baseball (UH 63-66), but basketball was his first love and he coached it in the early 70’s at a small school (won a district title) and then at Alvin long before their school system got big. He got out to move back to my hometown and went into private business. He kept coaching his kids. One became an all-state basketball player in the early 90’s. He never really quit “coaching” though. He and the high school basketball coach did not much care for one another because he would sit a center court opposite the bench and yell all game. The coach he did not like that coached his youngest son finally had enough. My senior year of high school I remember that he wanted to quit because he was not the football/AD’s hire and because of this one parent. They asked him if he would at least coach through the rest of first semester. He said if (player’s dad’s name) says one more thing to me I’m walking right across the court and I’m going to beat his arse in front of everyone during the game. This was a guy from Graford, same hometown as Billy Gillispie. It was not an idle threat. Needless to say he never coached another game and that parent stayed at center court almost another three decades. Hopefully he calmed as he aged.
  15. One of the best things about living out this way is direct access to parts of history I absolutely love. I knew part of the reason for coming this way was not just to be in the area of the world I enjoy the most, but also it would give me a chance to work at a museum here. I interviewed for a job working part-time (Could have been full-time, but I have one of those jobs already.) as a tour guide on the Missouri last week and got accepted. I’m stoked about being able to do this and see this solemn, but serene view each time I come to work.
  16. You will either see the US military stand down and refuse the order to attack our neighbor or you’ll see them finally give Dotard a military “parade” that ends at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I vote they do both and end the stupidity.
  17. It was #1 at the box office last weekend. Quaid will wind up being a pretty big star I think. He has put in the work though to succeed so good on him for being part of a cool movie like this.
  18. There are few things more fun about NBA basketball than Luka’s continued domination of the Suns. I think he just delights in making Booker look silly every single time they play. His mic’d up comments during the game were impressive. The never been so open comment was hilarious.
  19. He looks like someone that has sexy time with a sex doll.
  20. Do what Vivek Ranadive did with his daughter’s team. Take your findings directly to JJ Redick and get him to play 5 on 4 for 48 minutes. Can’t see what might go wrong.
  21. The highlighted name, Timothy Barton, is an idiot. I saw the name and it rang a bell. I checked something online and sure enough it was the one I remembered. When I was done playing football at SAGU (I was not good and wanted to coach basketball) I became a student assistant on the men's basketball team led by a guy named Scott Vaughan. Vaughan would later be fired by SAGU for refusing to attend church services at an Assembly of God church instead of the charismatic Baptist church he attended. He got the last laugh and has won three NBA titles as a scout for the Warriors and was on the podium in 2022 with the team in Boston. Anyhow this younger Barton tried out for the basketball team. He was not good, AT ALL. I was never shy about my opinions on players. When we voted about which guys would join the roster for that season I gave him a quick no. Everyone on the staff, even myself as a student assistant, got an equal vote on adding players. I had actually voted against a guy that i went to high school with when we took these votes and that was the guy who originally suggested I come to SAGU to play football. Timothy Barton is a terrible basketball player and apparently an even more terrible person. If any of you ever cross paths with him please feel free to ask him about how his aspiring basketball career went at SAGU and then give him two swift kicks in the nuts. If you see his idiot father that poses as a Christian minister and fraudulent historian please kick him square in the face.
  22. AOC is going to be firing off a whole lot of salvos for a good while at these cowards. She is the leader we need, but instead we get an old hunchback who has a foot in the grave and just doesn’t care anymore.
  23. Yeah this is a fun movie. I am not a gore person, at all, but the scenes in this where things go sideways were ridiculously awesome. I only turned away once. They can do a Novocaine 2 and I’d watch it too. Jack Quaid was great in this.
  24. Black Bag. Man this was really enjoyable and it clocked in at 93 minutes. It flowed great and Fassbender and Blanchett had some really good chemistry. I wouldn’t mind seeing them do more movies and have a few of these.
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