It’s like Don the Con and his team of sociopathic grifters spit balled scenarios where they’re the biggest villains ever in every type of executive or legislative agenda. Meals on Wheels – come on. My grandmother used this for a year or so before she went into the nursing home. For a couple of bucks a day she got a lunch meal as opposed to going into the nursing home where Medicaid would have had to pay 3, 4, 5000 a day for her total long term care. Someone needs to step up and shut these these assholes down once and for all.

Next, these asshats get to decide if we should provoke a war with North Korea because you know, that would be a good thing right? Since I don’t trust any of them or believe a word any of them spout, I have a hard time thinking anything they do or say isn’t for their own benefit in some way. It’s obvious that none – not one – has the American people or what’s best for people as their number one priority.

They had to do something for the OL and I think this is a decent alternative to not doing something as in doing nothing. Another veteran interior such as a center wouldn’t hurt my feelings either.

Best rated lt in free agency but still a lot of money for a 35 year old LT – but, that’s the deal now a days it seems.

I was wondering if the reported glut of DB’s in this years draft will drive down the FA prices for somebody like McDonald have a chance to resign him. Wonder if they want McDonald back? Same thing for Tru Jo. seems like there’s a good chance this And then I actually read the post above and it mentions this same thing. It’s all up in the air ain’t it.

I think the flip side is that the market at both corner and receiver—two spots where there’s relative strength (Alshon Jeffery, Brandon Marshall, Kenny Stills, DeSean Jackson at receiver; Bouye, Stephon Gilmore, Dre Kirkpatrick at CB)—could be adversely affected by the historic quality of the draft class at corner and strong depth of the class at receiver.

It’s not out of the question that Jeffery becomes the second- or third-highest-paid receiver in league history, and Bouye and Gilmore easily outdistance the deal Janoris Jenkins got last year. But there’ll be a number of would-be suitors who balk at the prices and sit tight until April, which is one reason why you shouldn’t panic if your team is strangely quiet in filling those needs this week.

I should have bought an insurance company when I had the chance – ya know. Cigna? Who knew. Maybe this new plan is dead in the water – sounds like it might be as written. Four senators are said to be against it because of the loss of Medicaid expansion which affects nearly half of the ACA recipients.

As written and from what I can see, my old buddy Dave who is just getting a bit better after two years of treatment and convalescence from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma at 58 years of age will lose his insurance coverage when the subsidies go away. But so what? What has he ever done for insurance CEO’s anyway? He needs to call the insurance ceo’s and ask them to talk to our republican reps that went to Washington to save the insurance companies. That’s all they respond to – money, ceo’s, graft, corruption. His value to others as a human being, friend, dad, husband isn’t as important as any insurance company’s bottom line.

This is a guy I’ve known since we were in diapers. Our parents were friends in high school and both sets married young. Dave worked as a farm hand most of his life after growing up on his grandparents farm but he didn’t inherit it – I doubt he really worried much about health insurance. We were all bullet proof when we were 23 weren’t we? He never finished high school because he was busy planting wheat and feeding cattle and hogs when he was 14. He basically worked his whole life until he got cancer.

The radiation treatments from two years ago have left his stomach and intestines in a shambles and he can barely eat and digest food let alone work. So, he’s at about 100 lbs and still hanging on from a normal weight of 180 lbs. He’s a tough sob and a real cowboy who’s first love are his horses that he had to sell. His wife works as a clerk at a truck stop\fast food restaurant. He told me the work related insurance she could buy for him was more than she took home every month. They’ve never asked for any help from me and would be uncomfortable taking it. When I gave him a couple gallons of home canned tomato juice which he likes and I have an abundance of, he insisted on paying me back by bringing several dozen fresh eggs from his brothers farm chickens.

Anyway, for his sake and a couple of other old friends\acquaintances that we have in their mid to late 50’s who aren’t tapped into some employer based insurance plan, I hope this dies so their insurance stays intact and affordable for them. But, the assholes in power could care less by all accounts. If he has to go to the hospital, they’re obligated to treat them for most issues whether they have insurance or not. So, it will likely revert back to something like 2008 – non covered people who can’t pay will drive up health care costs for anybody else that needs healthcare at a higher rate.

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HB ZN – eat drink and be merry

Thanks for asking. I’m not sure how I feel at this point. I have been constantly trying to sift through all the info and sort of mitigate what’s real, what’s propaganda twisted from reality, what’s true and what’s not true and then where I sit on every issue.

I do feel that perhaps the principle conservative-right message, fueled for decades by Limbaugh and his protégé’s such as Breitbart and including many but not necessarily all of the Fox news team, that the mainstream media’s message is sand has been a false narrative. To me this is one of the main building blocks for where we are politically and what we’ve become. They’ve been spewing this narrative for so long that it seems a majority of US citizens from all political persuasions think this is the absolute truth. This lie helped set up all the others in my mind.

I still believe that most of what the mainstream media reports about and opines on is not a false hood. They’re absolutely not perfect and some of it is hard to sit and listen to but it’s not necessarily false or even misleading. To me, it’s what they think they know to a large degree and sure, they want ratings. That’s their game.

Run Donald run! See Donald run!

They let one of their shells fall off the table.

Hey WV – I will continue to write my a-hole reps. They’re both in the bag so I think all they understand is cash money. I need to put myself into a certain mindset to write them. Otherwise it comes out as a huge f y to them from me.

I do agree with this articles premise but that’s based on the current technology.

It’s hard for me to imagine that a Wind-Solar-hydro-nuclear combination will ever completely displace fossil fuel entirely for electrical production. But, I think that’s based on the current energy storage technology among other things. If there would be a significant technological advance in terms of mass electrical storage or toxic emission free electrical production, I think the idea that wind and solar along with the new technology could possibly displace fossil fuels is at least closer to being a viable reality. One of the analysts that work for the SD Public Utilities Commission told me 5 years ago that he could realistically see upwards of 10 to 15 and maybe even 20 percent by a combination of wind and solar with our current technology. Another factor in this issue is that electrical demand continues to increase with population and development of world wide infrastructure.

To me, one over-looked thing is that in our home we use a geothermal heat pump which was expensive to install 10 years ago when we built this palace. But it uses much less energy of a normal home in Central South Dakota. The unit paid for the difference between a normal air based heat pump system after about 5 years by my calculations. It’s not everything I want but it’s something that could really help reduce ff energy consumption. Plus there are other benefits: it’s paying me every day – air conditioning is very little cost in the summer and our summers are extremely warm from June to September. My heat bills run about 30% of my neighbors who use either propane or standard heat pump(all-electric). My home is worth more when I go to resell because of this.

So, what I’m trying to say here is that there are other things to do to help impact this.

Gollum is Guiliani.

I do not care about immigration.

I know that the net is 0. I have 0 problems with immigrants. I care about it to the degree that I’d like them to work to settle it so it’s not a divisive issue in the next presidential election. I think there’s a chance they can find common ground to do that.

More stuff.

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/the-panic-is-beginning-gop-strategist-steve-schmidt-predicts-election-day-disaster-for-republicans/

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt said early Wednesday that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton could win more than 400 Electoral College votes on Nov. 8, adding that “the panic is beginning” among Republicans.

“I think she’s trending over 400,” Schmidt said.”

Schmidt also predicted that Democrats will take control of the Senate and are close to taking the House of Representatives.

“If this election was today, I think Republicans are down 25 seats, as of today, with the trend line going in the wrong direction,” he said.

“The panic is beginning.”

A Washington Post/Survey Monkey poll released Tuesday showed the former secretary of State leading in enough states to take 304 electoral votes — well above the 270 needed to win.

Clinton is leading Republican Donald Trump by 7.2 points in the RealClearPolitics average of national polling, 49.1 to 41.9 percent.

As of Wednesday, The New York Times gave Clinton a 92 percent chance of winning the election.

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I think it’s a combination. He’s improved and it’s a good situation for him. I’ve watched him a few times and one of the things I think I noticed is that he seems more composed in the pocket than what I remember.

Since I believe that the election is finite, I truly suspect that Trumps latest performance was primarily about priming the pump(his loyal supporters) for the new Trump media empire that’s sure to magically spring up after Hillary wins the election.

Trump has a large batch of humans in his pocket that he’ll continue to exploit until he wears them out. His initial message will be to bag on Clinton and any other non right wingers(both republicans and democrats) for the next 4 years buoyed by these loyal supporters who constantly will need to be led. He can go from KKK meeting to Aryan nation webcast to Trump fund raisers for ever – talking, snorting, lying, lurking about, hurling insults, spouting nonsensical bullshit that Bannon’s team of degenerates feed him. Location, location, location was the mantra of the real estate shyster. Now it’s onto ratings, ratings, ratings. He’ll have Ailes and Breitbart boy at his beck and call.

He could give a shit less about helping anybody or real people in America and families and kids – he cares about money. That’s his honey. He wants it all.

Seems to me like Buffalo might win this because they match up well with the Rams. They have a solid Defense and a mobile QB, McCoy and their OL is solid. But what do I know?

To be safe, I posted a quick and easy tactical outline of WWI that I think the Rams hierarchy could utilize for victory in what could be a serious trench warfare type of situation.

https://quizlet.com/3549971/wwi-tactics-and-strategies-flash-cards/

Tunnel Warfare

Also known as Mining Warfare. During Trench Warfare, men dug tunnels underneath enemy positions (such as trenches) and then use explosives to destroy the enemy’s defenses from underneath. First used by Germans in December 1914.

Counter Mining

Both sides tried to find each other’s tunnels by auditory means. Once located, a small explosive would be placed and detonated. The resulting damage would destroy the enemy’s tunnel, but the other party’s tunnel would remain intact.

Hand-to-Hand Fighting

Occured when miners on both sides suddenly tunneled into each other. The result was deadly fighting with makeshift weapons of shovels, picks and other digging utensils.

Battle of Messines (June 7-14, 1917)

Battle on the Western Front in Belgium where most Tunnel Warfare was seen. The detonation of 19 mines out of 22 dug over a year, resulting in extreme disruption of German defences and decisive Allied victory.

General Plumer

British general in the Battle of Messines. The quote refers to the extensive network of mines dug for the battle.
“Gentlemen, we may make history tomorrow, but we will certainly change the geography.”

“War at Sea”

Both sides (Germany and Britain primarily) imposed a blockade on each other. Since Germany relied heavily on imported fertilizer for food, Britain halted ships bound for German ports with the goal of internal strife in Germany of both starvation and economic damage.

“Freedom of the Seas”

Allies’ blockade broke international law: A country is able to import non-contraband goods in wartime. The Allies abolished this law for a new one that dissolved the distinguishment. Neutrals were mainly affected, and US vehemently protested, asserting “freedom of the seas,” the right to trade with other neutrals.

Contraband and Non-contraband goods

Contraband goods: munitions, raw materials used to manufacture military equipment
Non-contraband goods: foodstuff, raw cotton, fertilizer, etc.
This distinction was set in the 1909 London Treaty concerning international wartime laws.

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

After naval blockade, Germans employed this strategy in 1915. Vessels in the waters around the Britain Isle will be torpedoed, whether neutral or allied. This led to the sinking of the Lusitania.
Mined waters: Naval mine

Self-contained explosive to destory vessels used to defend coastal areas. Germany and Britain both waged this tactic, mining each other’s waters. Germany was more successful in the beginning.

North Sea Mine Barrage

Tactic employed by the US fleet to inhibit the Unrestricted Submarine Warfare. A mine barrage was set along the North Sea, but completed few days short at end of war.

Schlieffen Plan

Devised by German Army Chief of Staff Alfred von Schlieffen, this strategy was calculated to avoid two-front war and bring swift victory. The plan 90% of army attacks French through neutral Belgium while the rest would be waiting for Russia to mobilize its troops. It was vital for French to be defeated, and she was not, so this plan failed.

Trench Warfare

The development of the machine gun made impossible for foot soldiers to advance on open land. Thus, trenches were dug for shelter, seen predominantly on the western front. The success of protection from artillery bombment and infantry resulted in stalemate.

Barrage

Line of exploding artillery shells; used to hamper enemy’s movement or to attack them. Unique as it is concentrated to one area.

Creeping Barrage

Lifted in small increments to keep pace with the infantry, who could move undercover with the artillery. The precision needed to employ this tactic made this difficult, as wrong timing would result in death. Horrible communication methods made this more difficult.

Propaganda

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. Posters were to rally public support, recruit soldiers, and demoralize the enemies.

Poison Gas

Gas such as chlorine, mustard, and tear were used on unsuspecting victims, causing painful deaths. Germans first introduced chlorine gas in the Second Battle of Ypres. Wind was a crucial factor. It became less effective later due to the introduction of gas masks.

Preliminary Bombardment

A means of breaking stalemate of trench warfare. It was considered a critical component of a lalrge-scale infantry attack, but this proved to be wrong. Used mostly in the Western Front, underscored in the Battle of the Somme, it was clearly ineffective. Creeping barrage developed from this technique.
French Nivelle Offensive

1917 French attack on the Western Front during the Second Battle of Aisne. The plan was to massive onslaugt of the German lines in 48 hours. It failed disastrously due to info leaks, causing more than 270,000 French casualties compared to the pre-estimated 10,000.

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Plan 17

French mobilization plan to recapture Alsace-Lorraine; attack Germany, then come back to attack Austria-Hungary. After some initial success, the plan was abandoned due to the German’s Schlieffen Plan.

Plan 19

Russia’s strategy: presuming Germany will focus on France, it proposed to immediately invade East Prussia. Due to dissents, this plan was altered before set to action: two armies would invade while the remaining 17 armies would defend Russia from the Austro-Hungarian Army.