InvaderRam wrote:

Todd Gurley played a word association game on ESPN’s SportsNation show

should we be concerned that gurley hasn’t even met mcvay yet?

i mean we know that donald, quinn, ogletree, and goff have already met their new coach. does this guy get it?

Yeah, that struck me as odd. Not sure what to make of it but on the surface it doesn’t sound good. On the other hand he’s saying the right things about taking responsibility for last season and working on fixing it so…I dunno.

It’s funny seeing a punter described as dominant.

Those two words just don’t seem to go together.

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Unlike our past few coaches, he has hired a veteran staff and an expert to handle the side of the ball he’s not familiar with. (Fisher hired a veteran staff but chose not to hire an offensive expert as coordinator, an equivalent of Williams.)

Ultimately, that was a big part of Fisher’s downfall. He built a playoff caliber defense and special teams, but his offense was so bad it negated all of that. Bad offensive coaching and bad quarterbacking did him in.

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wv wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

Trump just froze all EPA grants and their contract budget. Scientists there and at the Dept of Agriculture are also prohibited from communicating with the public (whose tax dollars fund their research) and the media. Trump thinks there’s an inherent bias in the results of the research. He views science as a leftist conspiracy.

This is an obvious attempt to bully the researchers and ultimately weaken those agencies. I think the EPA is going to be gutted and perhaps eliminated and the environmental regulations it overseas will be rolled back. He can’t eliminate it with an executive order due to the 1977 Reorganization Act. However, he can do it with cooperation from congress which he could get it due to the Republican majority.

Enjoy the clean air and water while you can, folks.

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Well that kind of thing might very well limit him to four
years. I dunno though.

wv

He can do a lot of irreversible damage in four years. Hell, who knows if he even wants a second term?

Trump just froze all EPA grants and their contract budget. Scientists there and at the Dept of Agriculture are also prohibited from communicating with the public (whose tax dollars fund their research) and the media. Trump thinks there’s an inherent bias in the results of the research. He views science as a leftist conspiracy.

This is an obvious attempt to bully the researchers and ultimately weaken those agencies. I think the EPA is going to be gutted and perhaps eliminated and the environmental regulations it overseas will be rolled back. He can’t eliminate it with an executive order due to the 1977 Reorganization Act. However, he can do it with cooperation from congress which he could get due to the Republican majority.

Breathe deep and enjoy the clean air (and water) while you can, folks.

zn wrote:

Among Bernie and Stein people who try to suggest Trump won’t be that bad compared to Hillary I argue that, absolutely, yes he will and if anything will he will be even worse than we anticipate.

Yeah, I never understood how leftists could think Trump would be better than Clinton. Granted, part of how good a president is is a matter of personal perspective but since Trump was elected the republicans have moved to defund women’s healthcare and take away their reproductive rights. The groundwork has been laid to sell off protected federal lands (including National Park Service lands) and the Endangered Species Act is in jeopardy because the ESA also serves to preserve land upon which endangered organisms rely. None of these things would have happened under Clinton, and they’re just getting started. Trump has been in office less than a week.

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I’d take Gillman.

Even Gill Man would be an upgrade over Boras.

The pats uniforms are horrid. And that logo – the alien minute man – is the most ridiculous logo in sports. Especially when you consider it replaced one of the all time great logos – Pat the Patriot.

I ask you, would just football gods allow a team dressed so shabbily win so much?

I want the Rams to have Julio Jones.

That was funny. I’ve seen an episode of that show before and it’s quality stuff.

zn wrote:

wv wrote:

See, i think ‘what screws over the left’ is that there ISNT one.

There’s Dems and Reps.

Jill got one percent of the vote. One percent.

Where’s ‘the left’ ?

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I’m a lifelong leftist. And I didn’t vote for Stein. It’s a mistake to characterize the left by who they did or did not vote for in THIS election.

There is a left in this country, as you know. And for a ton of reasons it does not reduce to who voted for Stein. That just feels like more of the left purism I am complaining about. It goes like this–to ME the left equals these stances, and these actions, and to me that means voting for Stein, and if you didn’t you aren’t.

See my Monty Python vid a few posts back.

Making it personal, you’re really saying if I didn’t vote for Stein in your eyes I can’t call myself a leftist?

Yet…I am a leftist.

I didn’t vote for Stein either and yet I consider myself a leftist. It was a matter of pragmatism for me. Trump had to be defeated at all costs and a vote for Stein wasn’t going to accomplish that.

I probably would have voted for Stein under different circumstances but I am at odds with her on one of my core issues that keeps me from being “all in” for her or the Green Party. She is anti-science in that she only believes the science that supports her agenda. She ignores or denies the science that doesn’t.

But this is a just another example of the diversity of views among leftists that zn and Billy are talking about.

My wife is in Washington DC.

That’s a great article. Read the whole thing via the link.

I’m no fan of Obama but he isn’t alone in trying to circumvent the Constitution. Most presidents have tried and many have succeeded in violating it in some manner.

Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. Free speech was suppressed during WWI and the Japanese were interred in camps against their will in WW II. McCarthyism, wire-tapping Vietnam War protesters are more examples. Dubya has a litany of offenses.

Trump has been president for a day and he is already in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause because he’s continuing to accept payments from foreign governments.

Every president swears an oath to defend the Constitution (until it becomes an inconvenience).