Obama’s bans were on those already covered by UN travel bans or who had alleged ties to terrorist organizations. There were no bans based on someone’s religion. The Iraqi ban, as PA points out, came after an attack in the US and was on all Iraqi nationals applying for a special immigrant visa and refugees. Iraqis weren’t banned based on their religion and at no time during the ban did the flow of refugees from Iraq completely stop.

I haven’t had a chance to see the video yet but going on the responses if Dore is claiming an equivelency between the Obama bans and the Trump ban he is incorrect.

The “Hair Twittler” part of the article is funny.

I like that.

The rest of the article is ominous.

Really really ominous.

Didn’t care for that as much.

Added as a regular member was the Assistant to the President and Chief Strategist, who is, of course neo-Nazi and avowed.

Tell us your favorite travel memory – was it a picture, a souvenir, a sunset? We'd love to hear it!

— Trump Hotels (@TrumpHotels) October 11, 2011

When people showed up to airports to protest your owner's xenophobic, unconstitutional #MuslimBan https://t.co/vLMSUdGdlW

— Jill Biden (@JillBidenVeep) January 29, 2017

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zn wrote:

One of the biggest difference between TG’s 100 yard games in 2015 and the later not-100 yard games is long runs. Most of those came in the 2nd half as the team adjusted to how defenses were defending against the run. I think Cigs had a knack for that in ways Boras didn’t. This also shows up in points per quarter—the 2016 Rams were fine that way in the 1st quarter and from the 2nd quarter on plummeted to the bottom of the league in ranking.

I think it is also entirely clear that TG contributed to this. This is not the first time we heard that he was not as dedicated in the off-season as he was in 2015. He visibly lost some weight, strength, and explosion.

To me all this is a perfect cluster storm of combined causes. IMO the people trying to narrow it to one cause are generally missing the whole picture. BTW that’s not aimed at other posters in this thread. I don’t see you guys as doing that.

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So maybe some of the flaws in Gurley’s game that people have been talking about this season (poor vision – not seeing the holes, impatience, etc) have always been there but last year they were mitigated by the occasional long runs and second half blocking adjustments by Cigs.

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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.