Posts posted by F250
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5 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:
Bernie’s a rumpled bed, Beto is always in shirtsleeves and no tie, Mayor Pete never wears a sport coat, Yang never wears a tie, the rest of the men wear the same cookie cutter bullshit uniform. No one says jack nor shit.
Uh, Beto's lack of diversity when it comes to his long sleeve blue shirt with a permanent armpit stain has repeatedly been brought up here. Same with Bernie's terrible style, Buttigieg's casual outfits have elicited multiple jokes, and a day doesn't go by that Donald's lack of tailoring isn't mentioned.
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1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:
On a shallow note, she should think about what she wants to look like as president. Cardigans and slacks are fine for her style of public speaking and her image as a person of the people. I don't see that look in the White House.
I've never thought about it until you brought it up but her style is very comforting.
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23 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:
But it does not depend on race, sex, or religion of the batter. Or pitcher.
Catcher, never forget the importance of framing a pitch. A good catcher can turn a ball into a strike and a bad catcher can turn a strike into a ball. Everyone knows this, man. The strike zone is very subjective and yes, the players involved have a big impact on how a pitch is called.
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4 hours ago, TahoeHorn said:
In a baseball game some batters have had more advantages over others. Two people with the same athletic ability don't have the same opportunity to hit the ball. One may have had:
1. A culture (family or community) which introduced him to baseball later in life
2. Inferior coaching
3. Discriminatory treatment by Little League coaches
4. Unsupportive parents
5. Pressure to play other sports or study instead of practicing baseball.
And many more.
But if I'm the umpire I don't care. A strike is a strike and a ball is a ball. I'm not even going to pay attention to who the batter si or who the pitcher is.
If it's a church picnic I'll give 5 year old Susie extra strikes and easy pitches. And I won't cut 14 year old Billy, who plays high school ball, any slack. But in MLB a ball is a ball and a strike is a strike.
You know how I know you don't know jack shit about baseball?
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43 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:
Dubya being a useful idiot to give others cover for their nefarious machinations is another way in which he foreshadowed this presidency. He's a decent human compared to Trump. That's a pretty low hurdle. He's a rich frat boy douchebag who failed upwards his entire life. He mocked a woman on death row. He's the sort of friend who would've hit on your girlfriend when you weren't around.
Karla Faye Tucker, to this day I am disgusted by that execution. She was executed for political gain and nothing more.
Yeah Trump is a greasy turd that smells like a dead goat thats been fermenting in Mangino's ass all summer but Bush was a fucking butcher. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed or maimed because of his political ambitions. Fuck, fuck, fuck that guy.
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42 minutes ago, pepper brooks said:
Good luck. Our select team gets started August 15 with practice, and play our first USSSA tournament in Houston on 8/24. we will probably play 6-8 events in the fall as 12U. Lil' Pepper also plays on a team that will be 13U and while he is a full member of the team (bats in the 3 spot), he's more of a part time/fill in there.
My son would occasionally drop down to 12U from 13U to assist in a big tournament on Sundays. In the beginning it was like playing in turbo mode when he played with 12 year olds but as the season progressed he actually struggled to downshift to the small diamond and modified play. By the late Spring his 13U team was playing in a number of 14U tournaments and the dynamics and speed of a 60/90 field are slightly different than a 50/70 field, enough to be a hindrance.
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On 7/22/2019 at 10:59 PM, Helobious said:
Sucks that Texas West won't be a south Texas team. What HS areas are those Western Hills kids mostly from? Westlake/Lake Travis? I've never heard of that little league at all.
Agreed, I usually pull for those teams. I think this sentiment (regional pride) is what makes the Little League All Stars playoffs superior to the big select baseball national championships. Sure these teams wouldn't beat those select teams made up of mercenaries from kids all over the country but nobody cares about those teams. People like myself or you root for South Texas Little League teams because they are the best Little League team from our region.
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The Iranians are jumping in on the action.
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5 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:
That's a colonial caste system that intentionally uses race and ethnicity to divide the oppressed in order for the ruling class to retain power.
Tantric's point is basically addressing the "ignorance breeds contempt" problem. Familiarity with other groups tends to soften prejudices, especially when blood relations are shared.
Back to your reference of the Spanish colonial caste system, once Mexico became independent the nation united under the Mestizo banner. Sure they could have engaged in ethnic cleansing and what not but took the "let's just mix" approach. As a result Mexico had a black President nearly 200 years before the United States and abolished slavery* without fighting a war. Well, they did fight a war and lose over slavery, Texas Revolution.
Yes, Mexico still has issues but their integration streamlined race relations in a way that the United States could never achieve. The integration is primarily why there wasn't a mass genocide committed by the Mexican government against the indigenous population like the one in the U.S.
*Yes, I am aware that there are those that view integrating and black Presidents as a negative.
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1 hour ago, Mojo Hand said:
Isn't the title based on a previous similar thread about Paul Ryan, who was also a major disappointment? Seems fitting.
Yes it was. I am not sure why people put any hope into a Speaker of the House, the nature of their job is to cater to special interests and the welfare of the Party. An ideologue will never become Speaker, it takes a soulless pragmatist to get the job done.
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This is probably one of more insane things from the article. Apparently the owner never completed anything higher than a high school education and Googled anything he needed to know regarding human tissue donations. As a result a lot of contaminated tissue was sold.
I used to work for a Biotech company that made a killing by selling human skin that was lifted off of body donors. The idea of selling or reselling human body parts sounds pretty unethical and after seeing the inside of the industry, I have to say that the whole thing is pretty fucking unethical.
"I could have been more open about the process of donation on the brochure we put in public view," Gore wrote. "When deciding which donors could be eligible to donate, I should have hired a medical director rather than relying on medical knowledge from books or the internet." -
Someone alert Bob Stoops.
PHOENIX – A head sewn onto a mismatched body, a bucket of limbs and a cooler filled with penises are among items found by FBI agents during a raid on a Phoenix body-donation business.
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3 hours ago, Parliament said:
Over flying a disputed island to remind Japan and South Korea both allies claim it is a good way to drive a wedge between those 2 nations.
Yeah, Japan has already lodged a complaint to South Korea for exerting defense over Japanese claimed territory. It's an interesting way to rile up the South Koreans and Japanese who despite being allies have a lot of bad blood.
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Elizabeth Warren 2020
in Cloak Room
Mr. Rogers was the first person that came to mind when I read his post. Then I thought of my 6th grade social studies teacher who dressed like Mr. Rogers.