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1 minute ago, spystud13 said:
Sloppy goal, but we'll take it.
Seguin has listened to Lites.
Was it sloppy? I mean, the second pass didn't really connect, but it was all right ideas on cross-ice passes to open guys.
I guess what I'm saying is that while you don't give any merit badges on that one for tape-to-tape passing, there aren't many goalies out there that'd stop that.
Of course, some of that is a commentary on the STL defense.
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So after all that, a Top 10 finish?
I'll take it.
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2 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:
I agree. Bama Chick obviously isn't some intellectual powerhouse or great political thinker of our day, but she never claimed to be so it's unfair to insult and deride her as brain dead or otherwise.
And I'm not going to dismiss her so flippantly. She brings a different perspective--a perspective, by the way, that is probably far more in tune with the majority of voters than any of the elitist pseudo-academicians on this board--that I think is valuable and worth considering.
Nor am I willing to dismiss BT's conduct toward her as part of his being an equal-opportunity asshole. I mean, he is an asshole. But he seems to be more of an asshole to women. Except when he's white-knighting them; then he's just patronizing to them.
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10 hours ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:
Such a mysgonist calling BamaChic’s Cosmo-inspired thoughts on Bernie brain dead.
Actually, I don't think you have to be a troll to detect more than a touch of misogyny in BT's behavior toward Bama Chick.
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3 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:
Hillary's conservatism is extremely relevant to a discussion of the Democratic Party's positions. A lot.
Hillary is a never-was when it comes to presidential politics. What relevance does the position of the 2016 nominee during the 1968 presidential election have on the 2020 primaries?
None--you set that up as a strawman. That's all it is.
QuoteBe specific. What are you talking about? Specifically. What does "problems with women" mean? Specifically.
You can find pictures of Joe Biden groping teenage girls onstage. "problems with women" my ass
Biden has real, real serious problems with women. Going back to the Anita Hill hearings. It's one of my many misgivings about Biden.
And acknowledging one does not diminish the other. That Biden has problems doesn't mean that Bernie doesn't. And Bernie does--the revelations about harassment and unequal pay during his 2016 campaign (and his professed apathetic ignorance of both) are just the most recent and obvious incarnations of that problem.
QuoteThe fact that minorities voted for Hillary more than Bernie doesn't show that he has a problem with minorities. It shows that minorities liked Hillary more. Blacks are going to vote for Trump instead of a man who literally was arrested protesting in their favor? You're very smart.
Minorities didn't just like Hillary more. They didn't show up for Bernie at all.
Yeah--if nominated, Bernie would win 90% of the Black vote. But it's not just the percentage that vote for him that matters; it's also the percentage who show up. And absolutely nothing indicates that Bernie would be able to motivate minority voters.
A grainy 50-year old photograph is not going to be some sort of motivator to any community.
And by the way--why does everything have to be so fucking personal with you? Can you post anything without making a personal attack? It's really very unattractive.
QuoteIt's interesting that you take Bernie's 2016 primary defeat as a sign that he was/is a weak candidate. Joe Biden got 1% of the Iowa caucus vote in 2008 and the centrists can't stop jerking themselves off about him because people made Epic Memes about him during Obama's presidency. Bernie, a man with basically zero name recognition and zero personal charisma, took one of the most popular and well-known Democratic figures to the late rounds. Yet he's weak, right?
A woman, by the way, who had also lost a presidential primary herself to a guy with very little experience.He is a weak candidate. That's reflected in the current polls. He has 100% name recognition in Iowa. He has spent years campaigning there. He nearly won the caucus in 2016. And today, he's polling a distant second.
That's not a strong candidate.
It's also not a candidate that demonstrates a high approval of his own candidacy. His polling today reflects that much of his "support" was actually a vote against Hillary. But without Hillary, and with a number of other competent candidates, Bernie's support shrinks to a very small number.
That is a weak candidate.
QuotePerceived... by whom? Specifically. This is such vague bullshit.
Just google that shit. A simple search will reveal that the perception has been discussed widely. And while I understand you may think the perception is false, it is nonetheless a perception.
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40 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:
Read this thread. Look at Bama Chick's completely brain-dead criticism and Hugo's "he's not a party loyalist!" nonsense. The centrists have brain worms.
My #1 complaint with Bernie is that he's old. It's a huge problem and it really sucks.
Absolutely none of which has to do with Hillary working for Barry Goldwater. Maybe Bama Chick's grandmother voted for Barry Goldwater, but that's the extent to which your post has anything to do with the issues at hand.
And for the record, Bama Chick's criticisms are not "brain dead." Bernie has a real problem with women. You may not think he's a "sexist old fart," as Bama Chick would have it. But that perception is out there. And based on some of the recent revelations, I understand the basis for some of the criticism.
Bernie also has a problem with minorities. Polling and the results of the 2016 primaries bear that out.
Whatever you think of the candidate's positions, the candidate himself is problematic. And the candidate's support comes off as a bunch of entitled white males who like to spout off about socialism, but have no real idea about what the working classes want or need. "Bernie Bros" may be derogatory, but it gives a sense of the way in which they are perceived. They come off as a latter-day Fabian Society. And that's a problem for the candidate.
And one more thing--you decry Bama Chick's critique that Bernie is "sexist," "entitled and grumpy" as "brain-dead," but how is your #1 complaint that he's old any less brain-dead?
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1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:
Powerful Lib Brain: "Oh, well, if he thinks class is the most important determinant of rights, he must not care about blacks and women! BERNIE BROS!"
Here he is in 1963
This was Bernie Sanders while Hillary Clinton was LITERALLY CAMPAIGNING FOR BARRY GOLDWATER. I don't bring her up to just bash Hillary, but to illustrate how profoundly deranged the centrists are on this entire issue. They look at a man who has spent his entire life fighting for the civil and economics right of the oppressed and think he's LESS COMPASSIONATE than the dead-eyed political vampires who dab on Ellen.
You don't bring Hillary up to bash her; you bring her up to set fire to a profoundly-deranged centrist strawman that you've created.
Good show.
Meanwhile, what you've demonstrated above anything else is that Bernie is fucking old.
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16 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
Legitimate question, why should someone support Bernie over Warren?
Another legitimate question: why would someone support either over Kamala Harris?
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On 1/5/2019 at 6:43 PM, RDCanecutter said:
You should have gone to the meeting, and constantly insisted that they use proper grammar. Then you could have held forth about their music, no doubt based on African blues progressions, asked them to put on some Verdi. Hell, blasted it yourself. And you would have naturally turned up your nose at such a mongrel Taino concoction as barbecue.
Hell, you coulda shown them boys how to be white.
Ok--now I want to go to a Klan meeting to do exactly this.
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Kobach is definitely going to run for that seat. And he'd have a decent chance of winning the nomination.
. . . which would be awesome.
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7 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
The shutdown had an unintended effect today. My bride had enough with my #MAGA MIL.
In 3 weeks, MIL has not even bothered to ask how this would affect us, our home, our children, etc. But, she has plenty of time to forward every email, meme, falsehood, etc. Today was the day that she went too far. She posted a meme (paraphrasing) on Facebook about how all government employees were non essential, that the government should be shutdown for years, Nancy Pelosi has a wall around her house and is a hypocrite, etc.
Whatever she said (and my wife's retort) was bad enough that MIL either deleted her Facebook account or deactivated it, for I can't see it now.
So, I'm going to break out my bottle of Gentlemen Jack in a bit and just sip for a while.
Good--they need to be derided and ostracized at every opportunity.
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27 minutes ago, BillyGoatHill said:
My first flight as a young teenager in the 70s was with SWA and I am pretty sure I remember that the most......
As a single dad in the early 90's it was difficult to see my daughter that had moved to Cali with her mom ( I was in Wa State) after we divorced. Flights were expensive and not very convenient. This changed when Southwest expanded to the west coast in 94-95 (?) and my daughter (5 yr old) was able to fly solo due to their policies for unaccompanied minors. I was then able to see my daughter at least one weekend a month from then until she turned 18.
I credit Herb and his airline as a part of the reason I have the strong/great relationship that I have with my daughter today.....
RIP Herb Kelleher
There are very few large-scale enterprises in the history of American capitalism that have engendered the type of emotional connection that a lot of customers have for Southwest. After September 11, people sent Southwest donations. Not a few people, either--it was thousands. And a lot of those checks were accompanied by notes with stories like this.
They were stories about people who couldn't have flown before Southwest could fly after Southwest entered a market. And how that ability to fly changed their lives. It's really a remarkable transformation in the lives of most Americans over the past 50 years.
A lot went into that. Chief among those things was the Airline Deregulation Act in 1979 (Jimmy Carter doesn't get enough credit for this). And there were other low-cost carriers trying the same thing elsewhere in the country (e.g., PSA, PeoplExpress). But Southwest was, over the long-term, the most successful. And the effect that has had on American society and culture is remarkable.
1 hour ago, HouTex said:I also remember the good ole days from the 80's when they would give away free beer when they were like 30 minutes or so late taking off--which was quite often. They'd find a way to get you 3 beers from Austin to Dallas for OU weekend--believe it or not, it was around $29 each way). They got into trouble when they served some underage kid 6 beers on a trip from Dallas to Lubbock IIRC.
TABC tried to give them trouble, but the Airline Deregulation Act preempts state regulation of airline routes, rates, and services. And service of alcohol on an airplane is a "service." So TABC, as it ended up, couldn't do shit.
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11 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:
Just out of curiosity, what was the working schedule? Kelleher and Southwest have always fascinated me but I'm curious as to what his routine was.
In the 1970's, before he became CEO of the airline, he was still working as a lawyer in San Antonio (Southwest being his primary client). He would work all day at the office doing law stuff, go to dinner at La Fonda with his secretary, and then go back to the office with his secretary and work on airline business until early into the morning. In those days, he probably worked 20 hours most days.
After he became CEO, he switched from practicing law during the day to doing CEO shit during the day. Then he would go to dinner and afterwards go to some employee event or reception or meeting or other public-relations event. He did a ton of work after hours over cocktails, but the Wild Turkey aspect of it was overblown. His travel schedule was insane, especially as the route map expanded. And he had to spend a ton of time in Washington due to the regulated nature of the airline industry.
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This could be a good thing.
She’s less likely to remain loyal to Trump now.
She will lose.
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21 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:
Just finished the Business Wars podcast on Southwest v. American Airlines.
I haven't listened to this episode, but I'll have to check it out.
Herb truly did approach business something like a war. And he was in many ways a Churchillian figure--down to the whisky/whiskey, cigars/cigarettes, and absurdly odd working schedule.
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26 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
I'm starting to think that he is.
Hypothesis: Bernie's popularity wasn't so much his super-progressive ideas. Yes, those gave him a core, unique base on which to build. But what gave him the real numbers was the same charming attribute that Trump had -- he wasn't Hillary.
This time around, there's no need for a "not Hillary." Take that element away, and Bernie falls back into the pack.
Again, just my off-the-cuff hypothesis.
I think that's a very sound hypothesis.
This is a guy who ran four years ago in Iowa and damned near won. Now, he's running a distant second (with the guy who's in third place nipping at his heels). The loss of that much support tells you that a lot of it wasn't about the candidate himself.
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Watching her hold up that gavel is fucking wonderful.
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15 hours ago, Bama Chick said:
I don’t know why I still get bothered by the breathtaking hypocrisy.
I really should be used to it by now.
“Show votes”. lol This turtle looking motherfucker.
But it's not even a show vote. A "show vote" would be if they passed the bill knowing full well that it would be vetoed and that they wouldn't have the votes to override. Like those 60 or so votes to repeal Obamacare.
But in this case, they actually have the votes to override. Turtle just doesn't want to do it.
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22 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:
There's a way to do it with more ~*~ decorum ~*~ but he's the head of the military and he doesn't owe his underling generals much more than an order and expectation that they'll follow it.
What an absolutely abysmal leadership model.
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20 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
I am convinced that the vast majority of the voting population assigns ideological positions based on how politicians look and talk.There's actually some scholarship out there on this topic. Voters are more likely to regard women as "liberal" controlling for all other factors.
It really is interesting.
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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:
27% of the Utah vote went for an indie Mormon. That’s kind of a large number of people.
Whatever you think of Mormons, they tend to be highly educated. And in the current realignment of our political culture, that makes them a lot less likely to be Republican than they were five years ago.
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15 minutes ago, Stinkpalm said:
“Take a safety”
“Blow victory”
lulz
"Slow victory," not "blow."
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Donald Trump 2019
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Permit me to put forth a counter-argument in this one instance.
As against Trump at this particular moment in time, the Democrats need to play it (small-c) conservative. Trump is losing this fight all on his own. He's got the losing side of the argument on the merits. And, with last night's speech, he's got the losing side of the argument on the substance.
You don't want anything that would distract from that. For example, a Bobby Jindal-type performance would have been a disaster because it would have given our fickle and shallow media something to focus on other than Trump's terrible ideas and worse performance. Whatever you think of them, Chuck and Nancy are professionals--they'll give a decent performance without any game-changing mistakes.
They may not inspire anybody to charge an enemy machine gun position, but we don't need that right now. We just need to step off the tracks and watch this runaway train careen off the tracks.