Jump to content

F250

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    14,011
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

Posts posted by F250

  1. On 4/4/2018 at 2:35 PM, UTEX90 said:

    This year I am a pitching coach on a 9-10 Little League team in Katy.  Lots of fun.  5-0 so far and have beaten some tough competition with great pitching and defense.

    Are you teaching them to brush back punks that crowd the plate?

    Kudos to your team having a pitching coach. When I was a team manager in LL I would bring in a dedicated coach for pitching and one for catching. It really made a big difference.

  2. 20 minutes ago, thrillhammer said:

    okay, so stalin's russia and armenia.  do you really think the united states government is comparable to this?  if so they are coming for your hershey's kisses also.  watch out!

     

    Next time just don't ask a question multiple times if you don't want an answer.

  3. 9 minutes ago, thrillhammer said:

    it must really suck to be you.  this is such a terrible, sheltered, paranoid, ignorant way to live.   

    has there ever been a movie made about a government confiscating guns? a book written?  it's not even in anyone's imagination except the extreme rightwing.   i wonder if overeaters have the same paranoia, that the government will one day come and confiscate their hershey's kisses.  seriously dude, there is some ocd involved here. i wish you recognized it.  has there even been a government that confiscated guns in any society ever, in the history of man?

    best of luck to you sir.

    Right, it's not like people are calling for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment or anything.

  4. What some of y'all fail to see is that Tahoe is a solutions guy. Now the solution might only make sense to a dog catcher in Flea Bottom Alabama but it is a solution.


    Seriously Tahoe, I used to sympathize with you but your behavioral pattern indicates you are either a troll or mentally incapable of having a reasonable discussion.

     

  5. 7 minutes ago, sachick said:


    Do we have any actual proof of this threat? Seriously. Are there any studies done or any research about increased crime caused by immigration? Or is all this based on fear mongering tweets and the the racists eating this up.

    This was taken yesterday just outside of Acuña.

    mexican-bandits.jpg

  6. 1 hour ago, Pods said:

    Is there a deal that lets both Trump and China save face that they would agree to? I'm not sure there is without external mediation. Putin to the rescue?

    I get the feeling we are relying on China to be the grown up in this situation.

  7. 8 minutes ago, 77horn said:

    Out of curiosity, I did a little genealogy research on this a few weeks ago.  From what I understand, the claim is based upon the second wife of her Xth great-grandfather being Native American.  However, EW descends from the first wife of the Xth great-grandfather.  There is no hard evidence about the 2nd wife, but even if the story is true, EW has zero Native American ancestry.   She can't bring herself to tell the whole story, so she's been sticking to the defending her "family story", while refusing to take a DNA test.

    She is an Okie. I've never met someone from there that didn't claim to have native American blood. It's a non-issue.

    • Like 1
  8. 50 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Donald Trump is the hero of half the working class voters in the country because he “talks like them”.  Donald Trump.  I would humbly suggest actual policy isn’t what makes the working class support a populist.

    Elizabeth Warren is a radical populist who would naturally appeal to the proletariat if you ask a bunch of lawyers who took her bankruptcy law class or tracked her opinions on Dodd Frank.  To many in the actual working class, she’s Ms. Harvard Professor who can’t say anything simple without (a) phrasing it in slimy lawyer/politician legalese, and (b) acting like she’s better and smarter than you.

    Populism is about emotions and impulse, not digesting the snooty Harvard egghead’s campaign themes that are derived from her secured transactions and consumer law thesis.

    There is something to this comment. These people don't seem to live in reality, at least not the reality we live in. I am not sure if they actually believe their jobs are coming back but they do live their lives as if the manufacturing plants will light back up one day. They want to believe, someone just needs to give them a reason.

    On a side note, the saddest thing I ever saw in Ohio was a real life lock-out. It seemed so anachronistic for people to sit outside a factory that was shutdown so that they could get partial payments from the union until their employer decided to open up the gates. In Texas we would just move on to another job.

    • Like 1
  9. 55 minutes ago, RPM said:

    I live in Texas. That's about as blue collar east coast elitist hating as it gets. I view Warren as more in touch with working class people than anyone in the republican leadership. I've seen her throw down with big financial criminals and demand stiffer penalties for their crimes. I've seen her fight for consumer rights. You know who that supports? The working class.

    Out of touch? Not at all.

    Living in Texas is about as comparable to the rust belt as living in San Diego is to living in Uzbekistan. People in Ohio, PA, MI, do not think like us at all. The mindset is so fucking different up there. I got stuck working in Canton for a while, the people reminded me of citizens of some Soviet bloc country.

     

     

    • Like 1
  10. 3 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

    The China tariffs are a bit crazy. When he first announced this plan, the general sentiment was that it shouldn’t be imposed on every country, but only the countries that were problematic in trade. The general belief, as I understood it, was that these tariffs should’ve been primarily against countries like China. Now China is taking the bandwagon-opportunity to hit back. Would it have played out differently if Trump had taken a more measured approach and only imposed tariffs on countries like China? I guess there’s no way to know, but this doesn’t really seem like it’s going to work out well.

     

    Here is an informative article from The Economist that addresses your questions. Basically, the United States has a legitimate gripe against China and so does Europe, Japan, South Korea, etc... However, rather than address our problems pragmatically with the assistance of a multilateral approach, Trump has dissed our partners, burned the WTO (how these issues are addressed) and decided to just take a last resort option (tarrifs) and go after China alone.

    Essentially Trump has ripped out all of the safety features and is going full speed ahead with this confrontation with China.

     

    https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21739726-it-undermining-rules-based-trade-order-and-could-start-series

    • Like 1
  11. 1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I have to admit, the moderate gun enthusiasts who support additional restrictions on sales and background checks have done a great job of stepping up and disputing the gun freaks like Baba Yaga or whatever the fuck his name is.

    Oh wait, they haven't.  Pardon me if your protests fall flat.  You just want others to carry the heavy water for you.

    I recently applauded a proposal you made regarding multi-tier licensing and I even added a restriction on magazine capacity to it that Twicehorn recommended. As I recall, Anastsis was supportive of stricter licensing but not the magazine limit. But one of those other guys must have got under your skin because you reverted back to "fine ban all guns" mode. You tend to be easily distracted.

    Just grow thicker skin and learn to ignore the noise and figure out how to get bad_teammate under control.

     

    Just kidding about BT, he doesn't bother me nor should he counterparts bother you.

Ă—
Ă—
  • Create New...