Goat head looks cool.

We’ve been in quarantine for a week in the SF Bay Area

Tesla (in Alameda County in SF Bay Area) finally buckled to the stay home mandate and will cease operations this Monday.

I can handle the LAMC for another year….

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/03/tesla-says-it-will-shut-down-its-fremont-factory-next-monday/

Tesla says it will shut down its Fremont factory—next Monday

Since Monday, Tesla has been under pressure from officials in Alameda County to shut down operations of its car factory in Fremont, California, to fight the spread of the coronavirus. On Thursday, Tesla finally announced it would halt vehicle manufacturing in Fremont.
“We have decided to temporarily suspend production at our factory in Fremont, from end of day March 23, which will allow an orderly shutdown,” Tesla said in a post on its website.

March 23 is next Monday—a full week after officials in seven Bay Area counties ordered non-essential businesses to close down. To make sure there was no confusion about Tesla’s status, Alameda County tweeted on Tuesday that Tesla was not an essential business.
But Tesla persisted. In recent weeks, Elon Musk has been a vocal skeptic of efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. “Danger of panic still far exceeds danger of corona,” Musk tweeted on Monday.
Earlier this week, Tesla claimed that it fell under a federal category of “national critical infrastructure” and hence was free to continue operating under federal law—even as automakers in Detroit announced they were suspending operations.
Operating the Fremont factory for an extra week gives Tesla time to make a few thousand extra vehicles. It’s also an extra week when coronavirus could spread among Tesla employees—though no coronavirus-afflicted workers have been identified so far.

Tesla says that it will also suspend operations at its solar panel factory in New York. Tesla’s battery factory in Nevada, dubbed the “Gigafactory,” will continue operating, Tesla says.
It will be costly for Tesla to have its Fremont factory sit idle while its workers shelter in place. Luckily, Tesla says, it had $6.3 billion in the bank at the start of the year—before the company raised another $2.3 billion from capital markets. That should be enough cash to keep Tesla in business even if the coronavirus forces it to leave its factory idle for months.

Springtime!

Pablo Neruda
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

With leaders from all over the world focusing on the safety of their citizens, in connection with the coronavirus, our “leader” is focusing solely on his own political survival.

Just curious, do you think the timely drop outs from Mayor Pete, Amy K, Money Bags Bloomberg, were for political survival or for the safety of citizens?

1) Change Management 101: Most people will not change their behavioral patterns unless they experience PAIN…..

Perhaps another 4 years of Trump is the pain that this country needs to finally change behaviors to be better informed of the actual issues and vote for candidates that actually support their beliefs, needs, and wants instead of propping up status quo losers like Dukakis, Mondale, HRC, etc….

2 or 3 more Kavanaugh clones in the SCOTUS is going to be very painful, but that might be what it takes to get people to finally wake up.

Most people want health care
Most people agree in a women’s right to choose
Most people are OK with reduction in military spending.
Most people are OK with corporations paying their fair share of taxes…

Vote for candidates that support your beliefs.

Right now, there’s 8 minutes left in the game, KC is losing to SF and has a 98% chance of losing the Super Bowl. Bernie ain’t Mahomes, but Biden is pretty far from being coach Shanahan. Bernie has better odds of beating Biden than KC did in beating SF this late in the game.

Let the debates play out and let’s finish the game. Vote for the best candidate.

If Biden wins and Bernie runs as a 3rd candidate to compete, vote for the candidate that best supports your beliefs, your needs and what is best for your country.

And Beto too I suppose. In fact I guess everyone not aligned with the “progressives” are full of shit. Maybe everyone is full of shit. Then again maybe none are and are simply people who want the best for their country and have different ideas on how to get there. I think its best for all to avoid the “if I can’t have it my way I’m going to take my ball and go home”.

or you can say, “if i can’t have it my way, i’ll openly go against the leading candidate who works hard for every vote he gets but will support another who is using old school connections to game the system”

Which candidate do you think is going to do a better job of representing the average American?????

i’ll say it again, fuck Mayor Pete and Amy K ……in addition fuck Joe too…. btw, didn’t he get arrested in South Africa on his way to visit Nelson Mandela?

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I agree WV, I think Bernie can kick Trump’s ass…..

zn wrote:

John Fugelsang@JohnFugelsang
ever notice how the Americans who really hate foreigners also tend to hate huge amounts of other Americans?

WIKI = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fugelsang

Fugelsang (FEW-gull-sang) was born on Long Island, New York. Of Danish, German, and Irish descent,[3] he is the son of a former nun and former Franciscan Brother.[4]

Steve DeBerg, Steve Bono, Elvis Grbac, and Alex Smith can all state the same…..

The Moving Pictures album took many many spins on my turntable….

RIP Neil, the inventor of the air drum performances by many of his fans…. he rocked.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/story/2020-01-07/rams-special-teams-coach-john-fassel-agrees-to-join-cowboys-staff

Rams special teams coach John Fassel agrees to join Cowboys’ staff

The Rams coaching staff continued to churn Tuesday when longtime special teams coordinator John Fassel agreed to join new coach Mike McCarthy’s Dallas Cowboys staff, people with knowledge of the situation said.
Fassel, 45, is the third coach to leave or be let go by the Rams since the end of a 9-7 season. On Monday, coach Sean McVay did not retain defensive coordinator Wade Phillips and running backs coach Skip Peete.
Fassel had been a Rams coach since 2012. In the aftermath of Jeff Fisher’s firing during the 2016 season, Fassel served as interim coach for three games, all losses.
Fassel, who also has coached for the Baltimore Ravens and Oakland Raiders, is regarded as one of the NFL’s top special teams coordinators. He oversaw a unit that has featured kicker Greg Zuerlein, punter Johnny Hekker and long-snapper Jake McQuaide during Fassel’s entire tenure

Zuerlein, Hekker and McQuaide made the Pro Bowl in 2017after McVay’s first season as coach. Zuerlein is a pending unrestricted free agent.
Fassel helped develop multiple players into special teams standouts and eventual starters.
Linebacker Cory Littleton, for example, made his mark on special teams after signing with the Rams as an undrafted free agent. He ascended from a backup role on defense to become a starter in 2018, while continuing his special teams roles, and was voted to the Pro Bowl. Littleton also is a pending unrestricted free agent.

That was pretty cool…… it started off slow… almost to a point where I was going to turn it off but I really enjoyed that entire segment.

what could’ve been with Sam Bradford……..

Coincidentally, if i remember correctly Long was ejected when Bradford was hurt in Carolina…

Then it happened again in preseason in Cleveland….that was just devastating to both the 2013 and 2014 seasons.

The Rams just couldn’t “rally around” Clemmens, Austin Davis nor Shawn Hill,

Memorable Rams games that they discussed:
i forgot about the coin toss in Washington….. when the Rams made honorary captains of the players who the Rams received in the RG III trade to flip the coin, that was Long’s idea……… Rams ended up shutting them out… another memorable game that they brought up was 24-24 tie game at Candlestick and the SF game in STL that same season that the Rams won in OT… Long stated that, that was one of the most physical games that he ever played in…..

It was also great to see them talk about the recent playoff games and match ups… great insights from those discussions…..

it seems that Chris Long genuinely loved his stay in STL and loved playing for Fisher and acknowledges his efforts in building that defense…..

BTW, I’m freaking old…. i remember Howie Long being drafted…… now his kid is retired from football after 11 years….. I have a photo of him on my phone when he walked off into the tunnel at Levi Stadium for his last game as a Ram….

I fucking hated him when stripped Goff in LA and jumped in the stands to celebrate the Eagle victory, but he was a great Ram.

I didn’t know Sam Wyche well. He arrived in Cincinnati as the new Bengals’ head coach in early 1984, just a few months before I departed the Enquirer for the San Jose Mercury News. But we did have a couple of conversations before I left and they were really interesting and fun. When he found out I was leaving for the Bay Area–where he had worked as the 49ers’ quarterbacks coach under Bill Walsh–Sam gave me some advice about the region and wished me well. After that, I interviewed Sam a few more times when the 49ers played the Bengals.

Most memorably to me, this included a last-second victory by the Niners at Riverfront Stadium when they got a late turnover with almost no time left and in the confusion, the Bengals’ defense forgot to cover Jerry Rice, leaving him wide open in the end zone where Joe Montana couldn’t miss him. Sam was so stunned that he immediately rushed across the field to shake Walsh’s hand and congratulate him without realizing that the score was just tied because the 49ers still had to kick the extra point to win the game. I was on the field for the final minutes and remember laughing out loud as I witnessed the whole improbable finish. Sam was not laughing. And of course, he later lost to Walsh and the 49ers in the Super Bowl on another famous last-minute Montana drive, another memorable game I was lucky enough to cover.

In my experience, Sam was unfailingly quotable and fascinating and never acted as if he knew the nuclear codes just because he coached football. I was really sorry to hear about his death Thursday after a series of health crises that must have been hell to endure. Crazily and unfairly–because he was a very good X and 0 guy and did get the Bengals to the Super Bowl–Sam is probably best known for an incident in 1989 when he told a snowball-throwing crowd at Riverfront Stadium to knock if off because “you don’t live in Cleveland, you live in Cincinnati.”

It’s indicative of Sam’s personality and philanthropic nature that he later went to Cleveland and allowed himself to sit in a dunk tank to raise money for a charity there, as he explains in this video clip from a couple of years ago. It reminds me of an era when the NFL seemed to be a lot more fun. No one enjoyed that more than Sam. My sympathy to his family and friends.