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nittany ramModeratorNow, if you were to suggest that Nittany will “graggoksnorfle” the day, then I think he really would get antsy a bit and stop posting on behalf of Monsanto. But “rue”? It just sounds too nice a word to me.
Well, “Rue” is the name of a morgue where some murders took place in a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe.
What, exactly, is there about murders, morgues, and Edgar Allen Poe that you consider “nice”?
I may be a shill for Monsanto, but at least I’m not twisted enough to have warm feelings about a word so closely associated with the macabre.
nittany ramModeratorWell, fwiw, they lose ‘me’ when they put this kind of thing in the article. That causes all kinds of alarm bells to go off in my head. I mean, why add that last sentence? Where does ‘that’ come from?
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vI actually wasn’t going to post the article because of that, but I liked the chart. Although because of that last paragraph this comes off as pro-corporate spin, I think the underlying message that the vast majority of cancers aren’t caused by some superfund site, but by normal human behavior that most of us deal with on a daily basis is important. Of course, that doesn’t absolve corporations of their role in creating the tobacco, obesity, etc problems…
Happily, the incidence rate for most cancers are on the decline.
nittany ramModeratorCowherd says Goff looked “like Brady in a playoff game”.
Wow.
I love that comparison.
As Pats fans like Zooey will tell ya, that’s about the highest praise a QB can get.
nittany ramModerator“The fact that we can find such a distinctive and medically important fungus like Poison Fire Coral right in our backyard shows we have much to learn about fungi in northern Australia,” Barrett said…
“It didn’t surprise me because I have been finding quite a few things over the years,” he said…”
===============Ok, this guy seems a little to pleased about the fact that a brain-eating fungus has been found in his country.
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vHe got tired of waiting around for Ebola.
October 4, 2019 at 9:05 am in reply to: the one-shot tweets thread (diff'rent stuff, funny angry interesting) #106192nittany ramModerator— The OG Devil's Agvocate™️ 🇺🇸 (aka Michelle) (@MGigger) October 3, 2019
nittany ramModeratorWilson had a big game I see.
One thing I always liked about Greg Williams – he knew how to stifle Wilson. Of course, his defense would get lit up by someone like Mike Glennon the next week, but…
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nittany ramModeratorInteresting. Thanks for posting it.
nittany ramModeratorNah.
Kickers age very slowly, and for the most part Greg’s been clutch.
nittany ramModeratorI’ve got a 12 hour shift tomorrow beginning at 4am so I won’t be able to stay up and watch the Rams tonight.
That means the rest of you are going to have to pick up your game.
Somehow you’re going to have to come up with enough mojo to make up for my absence, and will the Rams to victory.
Gawd knows it won’t be easy. But we’re Rams fans. If we cared about ‘easy’ we’d be Pats fans.
Your lies are as transparent as any teenager’s.
All of that was “double-speak” for, “I will be rooting for the Seahawks.”
4am shift {/eyeroll}.
A classic example of transference right out the text book.
What a fascinating clinical case study you would make.
“Transference describes a situation where the feelings, desires, and expectations of one person are redirected and applied to another person. Most commonly, transference refers to a therapeutic setting, where a person in therapy may apply certain feelings or emotions toward the therapist.”
nittany ramModeratorI’ve got a 12 hour shift tomorrow beginning at 4am so I won’t be able to stay up and watch the Rams tonight.
That means the rest of you are going to have to pick up your game.
Somehow you’re going to have to come up with enough mojo to make up for my absence, and will the Rams to victory.
Gawd knows it won’t be easy. But we’re Rams fans. If we cared about ‘easy’ we’d be Pats fans.
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“Doc,” he said, “Some time, when the crew is up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, tell ’em to get out there and give it all they’ve got. And win just one for the Zipper. I don’t know where I’ll be then Doc, he said. But I won’t smell too good, that’s for sure.”nittany ramModeratorWhat you are describing sounds like the racist-nationalist part of his core. Maybe also the rightwing-evangelical-block but I’m not sure how many of them actually liked Trump.
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vA venn diagram of racist nationalists vs right wing evangelicals would overlap. I think the circles would practically eclipse one another.
Racism is the one thing every Trump block has in common – from the most extreme white supremacists to the desperate working class folks who have bought the lie that blacks are living large on public assistance, and that programs like Affirmative Action are keeping “decent hard-working Americans” jobless.
Trump is their savior who’s going to restore the proper order.
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October 1, 2019 at 2:11 pm in reply to: Judge rules jury can apply Castle Doctrine in Amber Guyger murder trial #106059nittany ramModeratorTo me the issue is how the Castle Doctrine is allowed to be applied to this case. I suppose the judge allowed it because the defendant claims to have believed she was in her own home.
But she wasn’t, so the Castle Doctrine shouldn’t apply because believing something is true doesn’t make it true.
“I believed I was sober even though I had a blood alcohol level of 2.5, so I shouldn’t be convicted of drunk driving.”
She is certainly guilty of manslaughter at least. But it’s possible she could get a much reduced sentence or even acquitted by a jury based on the Castle Doctrine.
nittany ramModeratorWell, this is what the Rams offense is going to look like until:
1. The o-line solidifies.
2. Goff calms down. I never believed he was a system QB but he’s seen the same defense for 5 straight games and still looks confused.nittany ramModeratorShow me the receipts of other candidates unapologetically supporting #LGBTQ equity and inclusion during the AIDS epidemic.
I'll wait. #Bernie2020 🌈 pic.twitter.com/VlKSX34fAI
— Brianna Westbrook (@BWestbrookAZ8) September 29, 2019
nittany ramModeratorThey’re in another league, entirely, in fact. I mean, when has the EPA gone after a state (California) for having higher anti-pollution standards than the Feds? When has the Interior department given away two million recently protected acres to fossil fuel giants? Obama just protected them a few years ago, and now that’s all been reversed.
This is where Trump sets himself apart. On stuff like foreign policy, he’s not that much different than his predecessors. On economic policies, he follows the same neoliberal playbook that’s been used by every dem and rep since Reagan. It’s like McVay’s offense…same personnel grouping every play but with different formations so it ‘feels’ like something new.
But nobody, not even the most conservative Republicans would have gone after The Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.
They would have liked to, but they wouldn’t have had the hubris to do it. They wouldn’t have dared to declaw the EPA to this extent, or silence EPA and CDC scientists.
He won’t be the last president to try and take away a woman’s right to agency over her own body or deport brown skinned people who are simply looking for a better life, but I pray to Cthulhu he’s the last president to invite destruction of the last few pristine areas on earth by opening it up to his fossil fuel overlords.
nittany ramModeratorI understand why some people don’t see the point of impeaching Trump when there’s little chance of him being removed from office.
Polls show that less than half of the country wants him to be impeached. The same was true for Clinton’s impeachment and it backfired on the Republicans. His approval rating shot up to 60% as a result. Impeachment could be the best thing that could happen to Trump.
nittany ramModeratorNote that the logo has no yellow in it.
Only blue and white.
September 28, 2019 at 11:22 am in reply to: RAMS TV Map for game 4 & informal poll — will the Rams get untracked v. Tampa? #105840nittany ramModeratorTampa has a tough run defense. They’re 2nd in the league in yards per run allowed. SF got 98 yards on them in 32 carries, and SF is 4th in the league rushing. McCaffrey got 37 yards on them in 16 carries one week after running all over the Rams. They held the Giants to 72 yards on 19 carries.
They don’t have a good pass defense. It’s a hair or 2 below average in terms of yards, but they are 10th in sacks.
The Rams have a pretty good yds/carry average. Tampa’s been great at stopping the run. I suppose Tampa will try to stop the run and force Goff to shoulder the load without the advantage of play action. It seems doable. The Bucs have a good defensive front led by Suh, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the offense continues to struggle a little this week.
Winston is dangerous but erratic. I’m pretty confident that Wade’s defense will confound and harass him the whole game.
nittany ramModerator(On the status of OL Austin Blythe and TE Tyler Higbee and how their status influences their practice plan for the upcoming week)
“They’re both (OL Austin Blythe and TE Tyler Higbee) making good progress. They’ll still be day-to-day, but the anticipation, the hope is that they’ll be able to play this week.”Let’s hope Blythe is back or we’ll have to contend with the nightmarish prospect of a motivated Suh lining up over Demby.
nittany ramModeratorI disagree with Bate and Ruiz.More and more these national writers that don’t actually follow the Rams they write from a fantasy owner standpoint which isn’t relative. Ruiz doesn’t even mention that we are three games into a season in which the entire interior OL is in the first year starting. Higbee and Blythe not playing, Woods Cooks and Gurley all having uncharacteristic drops. The running game was doing next to nothing till the second half adjustment when they ran it up the middle then surprise surprise the passing game opened up. I am not saying that Goff has been perfect but he’s 3-0 including 2 3000 mile road trips against a very tough schedule so to say he’s not executing and it’s all on him,
that’s just over the top sillinous .I agree for the most part.
However, it is true that Goff hasn’t looked comfortable in the pocket since after the Chiefs game. He hasn’t had a great game from start to finish since then. He’s had stretches during games where he looked totally in command, but in almost every game since KC he’s had long stretches where he’s looked lost.
I think there are a lot of mitigating factors (poor protection at times, lack of running game, etc) and I’m not worried yet, but so far this season he looks like he’s regressed. He’s having accuracy issues and seems to be struggling reading defenses. I think opponents have discovered what he doesn’t do well and are taking advantage of it.
But he’s only 6 months older than Baker Mayfield. He’s still very young. He’ll learn. What are weaknesses in his game now will become strengths. I fully expect him to return to the elite level of play we saw against the Vikings and Chiefs.
nittany ramModeratorOh btw. The Browns modern ‘progressed-forward’ Uniforms made me Gag.
I assume the NFL’s giant-corporate-brains did some focus-group-studies and polled a bunch of American Teenagers and came up with those atrocities.
Cant wait to see how bad the new Progressed-Forward Rams Uniforms will look. I bet they glow in the dark. I bet they look like a Salvatore Dali painting of the interior of a McDonald’s restaurant.
PS — the New Rams Progressed-Forward stadium will have plastic grass. I think that is Unconscionable. I could go on and on and on about it. But I will spare yall.
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vActually, those crappy unis the Browns wore were their “color rush” unis. The Rams color rush unis are the all yellow ones they’ve been wearing once or twice a year for the past few years.
My understanding is that the players chose the color schemes. So your communist corporate-bashing mantra doesn’t apply here, Chairman Mao.
nittany ramModeratorFirst PFF says this…
“Goff rarely pushed the ball downfield and struggled to create enough big plays through the air to put the Browns away earlier in the game.”
Then they immediately say this in the next paragraph….
“Cooper Kupp was the main target man, as the Browns played with two deep safeties for the majority of the game and allowed the Rams slot receiver to take advantage in the middle of the field.”
They answered their own question as to why Goff wasn’t “pushing the ball down the field” and didn’t even realize it.
nittany ramModeratorTough win. Nice adjustments in the second half but this wasn’t one of McVay’s better games from a play calling standpoint.
nittany ramModeratorGiven how we already look at the poor of other nations as animals and are trying to build a wall to keep them out, there is little hope that we will respond humanely when whole populations of them are forced to move as climate change progresses.
nittany ramModeratorMultiple sources confirm there is friction in the #Rams #Chargers Inglewood Stadium relationship and the Chargers may not be pulling their share. This is a serious issue. The story Monday at noon @AM570LASports
— Fred Roggin (@FredNBCLA) September 22, 2019
This may have to do with the Chargers not holding up their end of the deal in funding the stadium. They projected $400 million in PSL sales. After two years, they still don’t have much of a fan base in LA. They have readjusted projected PSL sales to $150 million.
nittany ramModeratorI’m sorry, but the second somebody utters the phrase “progress them forward,” I’m out.
I can put up with a lot of things, but you may not tarnish the English language without consequence.
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Demoff might be regressing them backwards.
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vI wish he would regress them onward.
nittany ramModeratorIs there a yapper who deserves a paycheck less than Skip Bayless?
I’m not sure that anybody on the planet takes him seriously.
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Well, his wife might take him seriously. I dunno.
Skip yells at his wife because he thinks opening a door in SoCal has some immediate effect on a pass play in KC.
As if we needed another reason not to take him seriously.
nittany ramModeratorLarry should be in the Hall based on his numbers and reputation with former players.
Hell, if John Hannah calls you the best, that should be enough for anyone.
nittany ramModeratorIF Jim Brown plays, the Browns have a good chance.
I was thinkin about Jim Brown the other day, when i listened to Weddle talk about Aaron Donald. Weddle said he was the best football player he’d ever played with, period. I started wonderin which players had risen to a completely different ‘level’ than the other players. Jim Brown did. Who else? I dunno, but maybe Aaron Donald is in that class. Maybe. When he’s healthy.
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vChristopher Todd Massey.
nittany ramModeratorReport: Antonio Brown harasses latest accuser via text message
Antonio Brown may have crossed the line, as far as the NFL and the Patriots are concerned.
Robert Klemko of SI.com reports that Brown has sent harassing text messages to the unnamed accuser who shared allegations with Klemko regarding Brown’s behavior after Brown hired her to paint a mural at his house.
“I’m on my knees painting the [mural], and he walks up to me butt-ass naked, with a hand cloth covering his [penis] and starts having a conversation with me,” the woman told Klemko. “Unfortunately, I’ve been tried [by men] a lot of times, so I just kept my cool and kept painting. After that, it all ended abruptly.”
Brown reportedly has sent a group text message to the woman, accusing her of fabricating a “bull sh-t” story in an effort to “make up some stuff for money.” He also called her a “super broke girl with a lot of kids,” and he encouraged someone to whom Brown refers as “Eric B” to investigate her in order to “see how broke this girl is.”Brown also sent a screen shot of an Instagram photo of the woman’s children, adding that the woman is “awfully broke clearly.”
On Thursday night, the woman’s lawyer sent a letter to the NFL explaining that Brown is “intimidating and threatening . . . our client, in violation of the NFL Personal Conduct Policy.”“Our client . . . is understandably frightened by these text messages, which are clearly intended to threaten and intimidate her,” attorney Lisa J. Banks wrote. “While she certainly qualifies as a ‘starving artist,’ she has never approached Mr. Brown, nor will she, about seeking money to compensate her for his sexual misconduct, contrary to his allegations in the text messages.”
Amazingly, Brown’s lawyer was included in the group texts. Darren Heitner tells Klemko that Heitner did not advise Brown to communicate with the woman.
The league responded to the letter within an hour. Investigators will speak to the woman’s lawyers about the situation.“This sort of intimidation and harassment is the reason victims are often so reluctant to step forward in these cases,” Banks told Klemko. “We have confidence the NFL and the Patriots will step in and end this behavior.”
The Personal Conduct Policy expressly prohibits “talking, harassment, or similar forms of intimidation.” The fact that the behavior has been directed at a woman who has made allegations regarding misconduct makes the situation even worse for Brown. Employers routinely take swift and decisive action against employees who are accused of misconduct and who harass or intimidate those who have made the accusations.
The Patriots, who like any NFL team wouldn’t have signed Brown if they’d known about the sexual assault and rape lawsuit that was filed last week, likewise have not been inclined to terminate the relationship based solely on uncorroborated allegations in a civil action. If Brown sent these messages to a woman who chimed in with her own allegations of misconduct by Brown, that gives the Patriots a much more tangible basis for severing ties with Brown.
Regardless of what the Patriots do, the league can take action against Brown. The aggressive and angry response directed to an accuser could be enough, for example, to cause the Commissioner to believe that Brown “may have violated” the Personal Conduct Policy as to Britney Taylor, justifying immediate placement of Brown on the Commissioner-Exempt list.
However it plays out, Brown apparently has committed yet another serious error of judgment, one that has placed his current employment in real jeopardy.
Brown unabashedly harassed this women via group text – he even included the victim’s lawyer in the group.
He has the arrogance of someone who believes they are untouchable. Gotti/Trump level arrogance.
But in his case he’s also delusional because he can be touched. I hope the league suspends him.
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