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I'm sure TV news is showing frequent live video of Portland to prove the absurd lying going on, right? This is almost as effective as having a panel argue both sides with video showing the same.
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I know my signal for him and Israel
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Thanks for responding and for the information. I share Brian Fontana's skepticism and viewpoint below. Israel has participated in talks for more than a year using their participation to blatantly carry on the obliteration of Gaza. They attack and kill journalists providing the thin stream of eyewitness accounts of what they're doing. Maybe the world leaders are swallowing their vomit and pride to praise Trump in hopes to move him to act with force. Imagine giving a peace prize to leaders from a country who abetted this: or deported persons demonstrating to stop it. Anyone associated with this is a war criminal. And, as I wrote above, this is the international community showing up just in the nick of time. Had they delayed any longer, things may have gotten really bad for the people of Gaza! In the meantime, all those stern warning and denouncements really helped! I would have used a UN force heavily backed by the US military to set up a beachheads for humanitarian relief and dared Israel to attack it. If Hamas attacked, fuck them, too. From there, if possible, keep establishing larger zones protected from attack. Maybe none of that shit would work, but that's where my head is. I'm fucking ashamed of my country and the West.
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Has Israel already delayed enough to complete their objective of making Gaza an uninhabitable wasteland? The "peace" negotiations seem to have been the most transparent of fig leaves to allow continued slaughter and famine. Without massive international aid and investment, can anyone really see Gaza rising from its ashes as a home for the surviving Gazans? Imagine offers of international aid after the world's nations dithered during the most brutal eradication of a people since Pol Pot in Cambodia. At least most of those countries didn't supply the bombs and ammo that killed the Gazans. We did. The greatestestest country in the whole widest world! Just ask us! Chock full of the free and the brave.
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I wish we had some kind of resigned sorrow emoji icon for responding to posts. I don't have tears, but I have the resigned sorrow in spades.
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Banned. With extreme prejudice.
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That's a fair position. I don't think Sark's prior QBs had this problem. Certainly, Ewers used his quick release and good reads to good effect, I believe. How does that weigh in the balance of responsibility? There's no excuse for the OL. That's all on coaching from recruiting to developing to fitting them to the offense we want to run. Purely in terms of judging the staff, there's a possibly fatal flaw from OL coach to OC to HC. I feel differently, obviously, about the weight of responsibility for this QB's struggles to be placed on Sark. He's not absolved. Should Caldwell get to play and should he do much better, the delay in that decision would fall on Sark. I suspect that the dynamic of the whole team having to pick up the QB for so long is corrosive. Their faith in a coach whom they think is in error will also corrode. I hate this for Arch. I really do.
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I don't know shit, but I'm persuaded by @Thatguy. Many times, I've heard game analysts start a replay comment with, "QB Jones sees right away that the defense is in such and such. He knows there's pretty good chance he can hit Receiver Hayes in that spot vacated by..." I've seen it over and over over the years. A million years ago, when I played a bit and watched, QBs were waiting for a guy to break open. Now, as you all know, the ball should be arriving when they break. It's a remarkable development as are so many other subtleties to the game now including the importance of a few feet in where a db sets up. I've been wondering if Arch got in a habit of looking for the long ball in high school. He arrives here, and the focus seemed to be that he could hit those long passes that are so often open in our offense. Maybe it's ingrained that that is what he's expected to do. Just a muse. Another thing that Thatguy's film takes substantiate is my observation that the play designs are actually good. Our problem has been executing something that shouldn't require extraordinary levels of skill.
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Interesting. Is the thought that covid pent up rage that must find release?
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Yes, I have thorough faith that Trump's policies are based in the law of the land. She's right, but it means nothing outside of a debate exercise. That's not what we're doing here. Perhaps your faith in what you call data is misplaced if it keeps you from looking deeper. Instilling all the policies you list is a huge victory. Precedent. Testing the waters for future action. Making sending federal troop to address illusory urban rebellion something that ceases to be headline news because it happens all the time is enormous. The "data" (to be clear, I'm sure it's accurate and that you are honest) about deportation numbers, as well as national guard and ICE deployment "measurable" outcomes is not the point of their operation. Clue: they're not doing anything in good faith nor justifying them by citing anything true. Trump declares Portland a hellish warzone. Miller talks of attacks on ICE based on a desire to deny the election of Trump. (After reporting this, I'm sure CNN had a couple of guys on a panel say that they didn't think this was true. yay cnn.) Trump announces his plan to use the Army in the future to take over the streets in these illusory hellholes to all of his flag officers. OBTW we'll be firing 20% of you (tacitly: go along or lose your cush jobs and status). It is a story for only part of any news show you can name. I don't know who the normies are. I wonder if you mean the 30% who acquiesced to Trump's election by not seeing enough reason to even vote. The normies have had plenty of triggers to rise up. They are not doing so. Your complacence about the odds of everything going down the sewer is remarkable to me. The water is rising with nothing in sight to slow it down. That's how I take the meaning. That's how he takes the meaning. That's the meaning that matters. It may even help that he bends the definition of the word to serve his ends. It's often a fatal error to misjudge an opponent as dumber, not as brave, or not as determined as you are. Big time.
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You seem to think the recognizability of a chief presidential advisor and strategist is the key factor when he announces the president of the US has absolute power. The importance of a news story is founded neither in that factor nor if the readership are ignorant sybarites who don't care. The magnitude of declaring a republic essentially dead or one big step closer to having the plug pulled is not just a huge story for the news, it's historic. It's the biggest story our news outlets would ever cover if they embraced the big picture. They don't, generally. It's the same ol' segmented approach using the templates. On the day the President of the United States assembled all of the nation's flag officers to announce they'd be invading US cities for political reasons, I was listening to NPR All Things Considered. They had a solid interview with a congresswoman veteran. They reported a part of the content of the speeches. Then, because it's their template, the time for that segment ran out. Their next story was about a science breakthrough. Okay, thanks for that explanation of the world catching fire, in our next segment we talk about Halloween (scary music in back, hosts fake laugh) and so it goes. They have little editorial understanding of their jobs. They're all putting on a show. And, always, pander to your audience and block them from seeing anything too terribly disturbing. You might block them from becoming Treymfiant! The second biggest story? The American people tamely bow to tyranny.
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That was a very deft duck before he started hammering the head. He knows what he is doing. I don't think this was so common 40 years ago. I don't want to be anywhere near it.
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The national media humiliated themselves by setting up this huge story of another Manning entering the game and taking over college football on day 1. They ranked us number 1 based mostly on that. Look at all the players we lost last year, they didn't care. They turn out wrong then they crucify Manning for not living up to their delusions. They're all geniuses, the sports writing guild. They had to be right in their predictions, so the problem can't be that they're wrong. And fucking stupid. All. The. Time. Manning did not proclaim himself the greatest. He didn't ask for the whole God gives us another Manning to rule football narrative. He was an extraordinary prospect not the sure thing. He may still turn out to be exceptional, but that won't be on the moron schedule. I like Manning the man. I want him to succeed. I don't think he's ready, but that's secondary to this point: the idiot sportswriter world created a huge circus only to have their tent catch fire because they didn't know what they were doing. They're the kings of Idiot World. My last word on Arch is, good luck and beat OU. Hook 'Em!
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I can't find the graphic about how people rate Monster. I know some publications are harping on it's terribly low rotten tomatoes score. The graphic showed almost all ratings either a 5 or a 1, and I totally get it.
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They don't use the same actors, but they are very close in appearance and portrayal. I don't know why aficionados would be irked. Delighted to hear we may get another season of Mind Hunters.
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We started Wayward last night. After two episodes, it's pretty good. There's some mundane character development in the first episode. Speaking of mundane, we've watched a few episodes of Manifest which I started based on critical acclaim. It's very much like a soap opera with character portrayals. I'm hoping they develop something interesting about what happened with the flight soon or they'll lose me. It's all stock characters, predictable relationships, and the mundane ominousness of the NSA. The flight survivors need some spice and maybe even a villain. I don't know how good the cast is. They're trapped in two dimensions. I'll reveal more as we get deeper in.
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ScipioTex wrote extensively about the problem with Greg Davis' line recruiting not matching his offense. Demanding reach blocks from guys who were better at driving. I haven't read him in years. One of the best writers on the internet for my money.
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I knew I recognized something about the actor but couldn't place him. As said above your post, it's the actor from Sons of Anarchy. He's brilliant in this. We watched it the same way. Goredho, I was wondering if we should proceed after the first episode. We were fascinated but, more than that, we were unsettled. It's not the same thing episode after episode. There's are real character arcs and a terrific cast to dramatize them. The tie to future movies is used in a very interesting way. The second to last episode includes scenes that border on the obscene as my beloved noted. Richard Speck became maybe the most depraved human to enter my sight. The portrayal is dead accurate. I recall seeing a photo and video of him in prison in the news last century.
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I'll give them their due. They're undefeated and doing better than we guessed they would. It's a wild year, and who knows how far the Aggies or just about anyone else will go. I thought it would all be fun when we thought we were in the mix. All that we have over the Aggies is that we're not pointing to the Ohio State loss as proof we're really good. All of that said, my goodness they are pumping themselves up based on beating ND at ND, which is certainly credible, and wins over Auburn and Mississippi State which is kind of dubious. MSU has a 14-game SEC losing streak extending back to 2023. They played the hell out of Tennessee and lost. Auburn is 3-2 with a win over Baylor in August. In the Aggies position, I'd be excited but cautious. As usual, the Ags think they have already arrived. They complain that they're not getting enough respect. I guess this is dog bites man news, but I must feed my obsession from time to time. -
Monster is pretty brilliant. It's horrific, but not gratuitously. I'd never heard of Gein. Anyway, I think it's elite.
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
RomaVicta replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
I continue to wonder if the GOP is ready to ease Trump out so they can resume control of the subjugation of the republic themselves. All of their pieces seem to be in place with gerrymandering, control of Congress, a GOP toad as VP, and troops deployed to deal with any possible demonstrations from the tame Americans. Trump boosted the speed of this. Now, his approval ratings sink as he takes blame for the worst parts of the plan. Tragic death re-elevates Trump and the cause. Easy peasy. So, let Epstein playout with GOPs voicing concern and, (vomit in mouth) taking the moral high ground. The timing and situation seem perfect for that to me. But I am almost always wrong with political predictions. -
I suspect your reasoning is circular. I really don't care that much. Maybe my reasoning is circular as well. I hope Arch comes around. It's my experience that if the first team guy isn't cutting it, you give the second team guy a try. That would remove speculation and present a body of evidence beyond a single play.
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Yes. I thought all the argument around here is that you can't blame a QB for a poor team. I only judge by what I see. I don't care about the background of a person who performs the best. I don't even get why you'd make such a point. It all comes down to who is playing the best not what they were doing last year or in high school. I prefer winning to pedigree.
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