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  • in reply to: I really, really like snow #62612
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    Come on, it’s winter.

    Enjoy!

    I’d rather enjoy winter in Ft. Myers.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: $tanK should issue fans a rebate. #62610
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    We need a general.

    A Washington not Cornwallis.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    I have no faith in the Rams front office.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: X mas present #62605
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    Nice, but why is it black?

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: informal poll — how do you feel about losing G. Wms #62603
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    <span class=”d4pbbc-font-color” style=”color: blue”>I would be glad to see him go. The only coaches I am keeping are Fassel and Waufle.</span>

    Agreed. The only generators of excellence on this team for years.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: informal poll — how do you feel about losing G. Wms #62600
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    get rid of him.

    Yes!

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Twitter redox: JAssange is not your friend. #62598
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    Meaning what? You don’t use twitter so you don’t care, or you used twitter and now you won’t?

    I don’t tweet so I don’t care.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Good Environmental News (for a change) #62596
    bnw
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    The EPA wants to go to propane, isobutane and R-441a. All are flammable. President Trump, please stop this nonsense.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    Of course Putin wanted Trump in the White House. Somehow that is news? Hildabeast wanted to go to war with Russia. Trump wants to work with Russia where our national interests align. Easy maths that.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Twitter redox: JAssange is not your friend. #62589
    bnw
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    No twitter here.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Betsy Devos and God's plan for public schools #62588
    bnw
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    So terrible that people have faith. So terrible that people express their faith. So terrible that the faithless based approach to education that has coincided with the increase of cost and the horrific decrease in academic performance will be jettisoned for something that works to improve choice and performance for the children.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Chomsky #62585
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    Time to Make America Great Again! Don’t fear it. Embrace it!

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: I really, really like snow #62584
    bnw
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    Have 3 inches of snow here and you’re welcome to take all of it.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    Two things-

    Clapper lied to congress about the US government spying on its own citizens.

    All those millions of dollars donated by foreign governments to the Clintons were to undermine the electoral system. Crickets on that.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Rams defensive staff hoping to stay #62517
    bnw
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    Get Payton as HC and tell GW to hit the road.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    Except Assange has always said the emails were not from Russia or in any way connected to Russia. Oops! Sure hope Trump doesn’t get suckered by the neocons.

    So we have different accounts of what happened. Who are you going to believe? The guy who decided to leak NOTHING from Republicans and ONLY from the Dems? And NOTHING from Wall Street and Corporate American and ONLY from the Dems? Or more than a dozen intel agencies, who don’t generally get along, often can’t stand the sight of each other, fight over turf constantly, but in this case agree?

    I find it interesting how the same exact conservatives — especially in the media — who screamed for Assange’s head for years and years suddenly think he’s a hero.

    The right: making the world safer for hypocrites since 1789.

    Assange leaked what he had. He said he would have leaked info against the republicans and Trump too if he had it.

    We don’t know what info he has at all. We can choose to believe him or not. We can choose to believe those dozen plus intel agencies or not. Or something in between. Believe this, but not that, etc. etc. But we have no idea what info Assange has on Republicans.

    But let’s go with your premise. Let’s say he ONLY had info on the Dems. That tells you something too. That tells you he and his sources selected the Dems to hack, and NOT the GOP. Right off the bat, that shows ginormous bias and radically skews everything that follows. I worked in Internet tech support for fifteen years, and I can guarantee you that his sources could have gotten info from the GOP too, if they wanted it.

    So, anyway you look at it, the intent appears to be to hurt the Dems and help the GOP — including Trump.

    I despise BOTH parties, so I would have loved to have seen Wikileaks shine a light on both of them. But since they didn’t do that, and they avoided shining a light on the corporate world as well, I don’t trust them in the slightest. Their motives, Assange’s motives, appear to be nothing but partisan. And they also chose to help the greater of the two evils, not even the lesser, so it makes it even worse, from my perspective.

    In short, I don’t trust Assange. You do. Oh, well.

    Podesta was hacked because he used the word “password” as his password. This is the sour grapes of the leftist liberal losers. China hacked the personal information of 20 million federal employees and nothing is made of it.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: When can we conclude that dark matter does not exist? #62509
    bnw
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    Good stuff Ag!

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Obama the Brat. #62508
    bnw
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    But on economic issues, taxes, spending, deficits, wars, the surveillance state, etc. etc. . . yes, he’s definitely governed as an old school conservative.

    Absolutely. There’s no question of that. And some of us were saying exactly as much when he first got the dem nomination, and then it was driven home by who his appointments were.

    This board will never have decent conversations until it’s clear to some that a leftist is not a liberal and that no leftist saw Obama as a liberal in terms of economic and foreign policy. It’s like we’re speaking german and some people keep insisting on saying “well you spanish speaking types are ALL [insert some absurd partisan-style wildly over-general empty conversation-killing stereotype].”

    Don’t run from yet another term. Don’t change the vocabulary again like from man made global warming to climate change. Here’s the definition of leftist-

    Left-wing, leftist

    “General descriptive terms for any of several otherwise quite varied political ideologies (socialism, communism, social democracy, welfare statism, contemporary American liberalism, some versions of anarchism, etc.) that join in denouncing the extent of economic and social inequality in the present order of society and advocate the adoption of vigorous public policies to reduce or eliminate these inequalities, usually through some combination of the following:

    Reduction or elimination of legal protections for private property rights
    Greater regulation (or complete expropriation) of private economic activity
    Stringent limitations on the right to inherit wealth
    Higher tax burdens on the rich and the middle-class, and/or the provision of more tax-supported government services and money payments to the poor.
    In America, the term has a somewhat more derogatory flavor than in European usage.”

    http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/left-wing

    Don’t run from the truth.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Obama the Brat. #62497
    bnw
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    Obama governed as a “conservative”? Gay marriage, trans everything, ACA, yeah some “conservative” there. Will be worth watching his agenda swirl around and down the bowl.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: When can we conclude that dark matter does not exist? #62492
    bnw
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    Heres an article from the Catholic News Service-

    http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2016/leaked-emails-show-hostility-to-catholic-church-some-say.cfm

    Podesta admits conspiracy and owns it. From the CNS article-

    Other emails leaked by WikiLeaks included an 2012 email to Podesta from Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress. “This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage, even though 98 percent of Catholic women, and their conjugal partners, have used contraception, has me thinking,” said Newman. “There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a Middle Ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic Church.
    “Is contraceptive coverage an issue around which that could happen?” he asked in a Feb. 10, 2012, email.
    In response to Newman’s question, Podesta tells him: “We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good to organize for a moment like this. But I think it lacks the leadership to do so now. Likewise Catholics United. Like most Spring movements, I think this one will have to be bottom up.”

    That is a conspiracy, def. conspiracy- any concurrence in action; combination in bringing about a given result.

    ________

    BNW, here’s the definition of conspiracy:

    con·spir·a·cy
    kənˈspirəsē/
    noun
    noun: conspiracy; plural noun: conspiracies

    a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
    “a conspiracy to destroy the government”
    synonyms: plot, scheme, plan, machination, ploy, trick, ruse, subterfuge; informalracket
    “a conspiracy to manipulate the results”
    the action of plotting or conspiring.
    “they were cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice”
    synonyms: plotting, collusion, intrigue, connivance, machination, collaboration; treason
    “conspiracy to commit murder”

    What you’ve described isn’t in the same universe as “conspiracy.” You’ve simply described political opposition to reactionary Catholic doctrine. And Podesta’s own words — and, again, he’s a practicing Catholic — make it sound like this opposition is half-hearted and disorganized.

    When you call something a “conspiracy to foment strife,” you’re saying it’s something sinister, illegal, secretive and malicious. What you’ve described, instead, is none of those things. It’s garden-variety political opposition, utilizing the First Amendment, and it sounds all too weak, disorganized and ineffective, which Podesta implies himself.

    I’m Roman Catholic, you’re an atheist. There is great concern with the statements Pope Francis has made in regards to previous doctrine within the laity and clergy. Since that is true regarding Pope francis I assure you it is true of the position and actions of one John Podesta.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    and also i believe the nfl just needed one team in la for the new tv deal that’s supposed to come up.

    Good point about the TV deal but the ratings are down for the NFL this season which marks LA’s return.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    Except Assange has always said the emails were not from Russia or in any way connected to Russia. Oops! Sure hope Trump doesn’t get suckered by the neocons.

    So we have different accounts of what happened. Who are you going to believe? The guy who decided to leak NOTHING from Republicans and ONLY from the Dems? And NOTHING from Wall Street and Corporate American and ONLY from the Dems? Or more than a dozen intel agencies, who don’t generally get along, often can’t stand the sight of each other, fight over turf constantly, but in this case agree?

    I find it interesting how the same exact conservatives — especially in the media — who screamed for Assange’s head for years and years suddenly think he’s a hero.

    The right: making the world safer for hypocrites since 1789.

    Assange leaked what he had. He said he would have leaked info against the republicans and Trump too if he had it.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Obama the Brat. #62488
    bnw
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    Obama has had years to address Russian hacking but only does so with less than 3 weeks before Trump takes office? Obama does so by a militaristic response? Nobel Peace Prize winner too. Beyond pathetic.

    BTW we as in the US lead the world in hacking. Our government demands a back door key to every software program to make it easy to “hack”. Better word is lazy. Other governments and criminals have to work to hack the programs. If our government wouldn’t insist upon the creation of the back door key then that avenue of hacking wouldn’t exist. Too bad that story doesn’t generate any interest in the MSM.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: When can we conclude that dark matter does not exist? #62484
    bnw
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    So we know it exists. BUT it is nearly impossible to detect any particles associated with it, because that which makes dark matter “dark” in the first place makes it virtually undetectable at the particle level. You can see the effects in astrophysics at huge scales, like you said, but not on the micro level…so far.

    No, we don’t know that it exists. It is a theory. A theory that I believe best explains what can be observed today but nevertheless remains a theory. It has yet to be proven.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: When can we conclude that dark matter does not exist? #62482
    bnw
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    As for the idea, in another post, that “liberals” are the source of the denial of this or that religious beliefs, we have again an example of how damaging simple partisanship can be. It deals in ludicrously broad generalizations. There are after all religious liberals and leftists, just as there are agnostic or atheistic conservatives. Sweeping generalizations like that are just simply completely ineffectual and usually based on mammoth distortions of the real world.

    Sure we all know how treasured the religious democrats are within the democrat party. Religious liberals even more so given the wikileaks email in which the Hildabeast campaign was conspiring to foment strife in the Roman Catholic church. Such a pious bunch!

    I know this is hopeless. But, nowhere in any of the leaked emails is there even a whiff of what you describe. “Conspiring to foment strife in the Roman Catholic church”? Via an email exchange by two people? Jennifer Palmieri, a practicing Catholic, and John Halpin had what they thought was a private conversation about the reasons why some conservatives choose Catholicism over Protestant Evangelical churches. Two people. Private conversation. The comments were mild beyond belief, and you think it’s a “conspiracy”?

    Oh, and Podesta is a practicing Catholic, too. Though he wasn’t a part of the exchange.

    Can you please demonstrate how their words equal a conspiracy against the Roman Catholic church? Their exact words. Not right-wing, freak-out, Op-Ed translations of their words. Their exact words, in context, please.

    Heres an article from the Catholic News Service-

    http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2016/leaked-emails-show-hostility-to-catholic-church-some-say.cfm

    Podesta admits conspiracy and owns it. From the CNS article-

    Other emails leaked by WikiLeaks included an 2012 email to Podesta from Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress. “This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage, even though 98 percent of Catholic women, and their conjugal partners, have used contraception, has me thinking,” said Newman. “There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a Middle Ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic Church.
    “Is contraceptive coverage an issue around which that could happen?” he asked in a Feb. 10, 2012, email.
    In response to Newman’s question, Podesta tells him: “We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good to organize for a moment like this. But I think it lacks the leadership to do so now. Likewise Catholics United. Like most Spring movements, I think this one will have to be bottom up.”

    That is a conspiracy, def. conspiracy- any concurrence in action; combination in bringing about a given result.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    That doesn’t make sense other than wishful thinking from a $tanK toadie?

    it doesn’t make sense for the chargers or the rams or the nfl to have the chargers move to los angeles. especially financially.

    i’m thinking spanos stays and tries to get a stadium built in san diego. that’s my guess.

    Didn’t make sense to leave St. Louis but they did. Chargers moving to LA was a concession the NFL got from $tanK to make his new stadium available to Spanos. To the NFL the Chargers move to LA does make sense.

    from the standpoint of the nfl it made perfect sense for them to move. it was about money. stan has more of it than almost any other owner and a team in la meant more money in all their pockets.

    unfortunate but true.

    Then by that logic two teams in LA doesn’t hurt NFL revenue.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: When can we conclude that dark matter does not exist? #62450
    bnw
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    As for the idea, in another post, that “liberals” are the source of the denial of this or that religious beliefs, we have again an example of how damaging simple partisanship can be. It deals in ludicrously broad generalizations. There are after all religious liberals and leftists, just as there are agnostic or atheistic conservatives. Sweeping generalizations like that are just simply completely ineffectual and usually based on mammoth distortions of the real world.

    Sure we all know how treasured the religious democrats are within the democrat party. Religious liberals even more so given the wikileaks email in which the Hildabeast campaign was conspiring to foment strife in the Roman Catholic church. Such a pious bunch!

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    Except Assange has always said the emails were not from Russia or in any way connected to Russia. Oops! Sure hope Trump doesn’t get suckered by the neocons.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by bnw.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    That doesn’t make sense other than wishful thinking from a $tanK toadie?

    it doesn’t make sense for the chargers or the rams or the nfl to have the chargers move to los angeles. especially financially.

    i’m thinking spanos stays and tries to get a stadium built in san diego. that’s my guess.

    Didn’t make sense to leave St. Louis but they did. Chargers moving to LA was a concession the NFL got from $tanK to make his new stadium available to Spanos. To the NFL the Chargers move to LA does make sense.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: $tanK should issue fans a rebate. #62446
    bnw
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    Outside of Hekker and Donald blow it up

    I see this same type of quote a lot…my thing is, not 1 team in the NFL is made up of all pro players and I’m including the dark side Patriots.

    There are plenty of players on this team that I think are solid players and can be building blocks going forward.

    Please explain what you mean by “blow it up”.

    It should be obvious. REBUILD. It is yet another rebuild. But when since 2004 hasn’t it been a rebuild? Solid players have their head in the game. Stupid penalties abound every year. When is the last time the Rams as a team could be described as having their head in the game? 2004? When is the last time the Rams had a competent offense? The Rams defense had been rebuilt of late yet this year regressed to the point that it needs a rebuild. Special teams are almost finally there but watching Tavon Austin’s piss poor judgement on returns or worse fumbling on returns is too much and with the coaching change it too will be rebuilt.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

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