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wvParticipantMoore points out that Sanders isn’t a member of a socialist party, but he used to be in the Liberty Union Party, which is the biggest of several socialist parties in Vermont.
Former Redsox pitcher Bill ‘Spaceman’ Lee is also a member.
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Ahh. Bill Lee. One of the deep thinkers in Baseball history:“I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won’t matter if I get this guy out.”
—–“I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.”
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“The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.”
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“The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.”
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“You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I’ll show you a pennant. I’ll show you the New York Yankees.”wvParticipantI cant be rushed. I’m still weighing the Bradford vs Suh thing.
I’m leaning toward, neither.
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vwvParticipantCall me crazy, but I think the Rams will find a way to win this one.
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OK, but are you factoring in the Ugliness of the Bengal-tigers’ uniforms?
Is Uniform Ugliness a tangible or intangible?
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vwvParticipantAndy Dalton’s hand size is only 9.5 inches. Thats .024 meters for you UnAmerican types.
wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_DaltonJared Goff’s hand size is 9 inches. .023 meters. wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Goff
I’ve done the math on my texas-instruments-1999-hand-size-calculator,
and thats a difference of .001 meters.Can the Rams possibly overcome that? Especially on foreign soil?
Well, let’s look deeper. Dalton’s ARM length is 31.75 inches. Or .081 Meters.
But look at Goff’s arm — its an UnGodly 32.75 inches. Or .083 Meters.
The calculator says, in bright gray letters, thats a difference of .002 meters.Thus, according to the wv-analytics, we’re in for a close game. Also a very ugly game. The Bengals are Ugly folks. They look ugly, they play ugly, and Dalton short-arms his passes.
PS — Dalton, has made the pro-bowl Three times. For a guy thats the butt of a lot of QB jokes, and who has a short arm, thats a lot of pro-bowls.
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wvParticipantWell hopefully we’ll see even worse football next game.
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vwvParticipantGood article. I had zero knowledge of any of that internal money/points stuff. The two big parties are Rotten to the Core. The Public is ignorant to the Core. The Corporate-Media is Rotten and Ignorant to the Core.
“…House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s prolific buckraking. By the end of June, she had raised the DCCC more than $43,000,000.”
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wvParticipantJust an aside on the Tillman thing. There’s a lot about ‘friendly fire’ in the book. What surprised me was just how often American soldiers were killed because of Communication-tech failures. Almost every friendly-fire incident in the book can be traced to the radios not working. One big group of soldiers would split into two groups for various reasons, and then Group A would go down one road, and Group B would go down another road. But then Group B would have to take a detour for some reason. So Group B would end up somewhere they weren’t sposed to be. And Group A would not know that.
And at some point both groups would run into each other unexpectedly. And cause the communication-system neer worked right….people started shooting at ghosts.
One would think if you can make drones, and satellites and toasters and submarines,
you’d be able to make radios that would work in the mountains of Afghanistan.w
vwvParticipant… don’t know enough about it yet to have opinion about the validity of the propaganda accusation.
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Well what does foreign ‘propaganda’ even mean, when we live in a Corporate-Imperialist-Propaganda-State?
I mean we are already drenched, inundated, drowning in American-corporate-imperialist propaganda, so…if foreign ‘propoganda’ puts Chris Hedges on American screens, to talk about American Imperialism….then I’m all for foreign propaganda.
Its similar to the Wikileaks thing for me. I dont CARE where the Hillary-Emails came from. I dont care if it was a russian hack or if they were downloaded by a whistleblower and then given to Wikileaks — i dont care if Hitler was behind it — thats all secondary. What i care more about was that the emails were FACTUAL. They shed some much needed light on the American system. I feel the same way about RT. I dont care what the agenda is of powers-that-made-RT — all i care about is that they put Chris Hedges on. And I trust ‘his’ agenda, coz its factual.
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vwvParticipantI didn’t realize Chomsky was such a big Arizona Cardinals fan.
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The Chapter about how the Taliban became Patriot fans is illuminating.
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vwvParticipantThe woman they were interviewing mentioned she worked for a news agency started by Fidel Castro and Chavez to combat corporate media that was usurping their democratic processes?
Castro did some good things for the poor of Cuba. He certainly did more for them than Batista, but he wasn’t exactly a standard bearer for democracy. He had total control over all aspects of the government and ruthlessly crushed dissenters and political adversaries. Plus the Cuban press was one of the most censored in the world when he was Premier.
What am I missing?
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Yeah, I picked up on that too, but it just doesnt bother me. She wasnt talking about RT at that point, she was talking about Telesur:https://www.youtube.com/user/telesurenglish/videos
But I like Telesur too, fwiw.Chavez was constantly under attack by the CIA and the Corporate-Media. Whats wrong with him trying to combat that by starting up a media site like TeleSur?
Castro and Chavez were different animals. One was elected over and over, right? But they admired each other and were friends and both hated the CIA/deep-state/corporotacracy. With good reason. At any rate, if you are a socialist being attacked by the CIA, why wouldnt you want to start a media company that got your point of view into American computer screens? I mean, what is the alternative? Just allow the capitalist-corporate-empire to spread its version of truth and let that go unchallenged? It just seems to me RT and TeleSur provide an anti-Empire, anti-AMERICAN-imperialist point of view. They do ‘not’ provide an anti CASTRO-crimes or Putin-Crimes point of view. I get that. So I have to rely on other sites for info on Castro and Putin. That doesnt take away from what RT and TeleSur give me.
I swear I get WAAAAAY more truth from Chris Hedges and Lee Camp on RT than i do from NPR, CNN, FOX, the NYTimes and MSNBC combined.
I know its ‘all’ problematic and complicated. No matter what source we choose to talk about.
Do you think Chris Hedges is a Russian Asset? 🙂
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vwvParticipantJust skip to the 20 minute 40 second point in that Vid, if you decide to watch it. The first twenty mins is just more of the usual about Hillary and the Dem Media smearing Tulsi.
Abby Matt and Katie talk about RT. I’d be curious to hear anyone else’s thots about Matt, Katie, Abby’s discussion on RT. Am i the only one here who agrees with Abby about RT? I think it has the best accessible, lucid, reporting on America that I can find. It doesn’t cover Russia, and I dont care that it doesnt cover Russia. I can find out about Russia from other sources.
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vwvParticipantI hate playing Winless teams.
I blame the schedule-makers for this.
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vOctober 23, 2019 at 7:46 pm in reply to: tweets + other things (w/ VB Q&A) … 10/21 thru 10/23 #107215wvParticipantRedzone Improvement, despite the OLine/Gurley mess. Interesting.
Well, we know McVay had to have made it a point of emphasis in the offseason. Maybe he figured some stuff out, i dunno.
I wonder if Gurley is gonna end up being a ‘third down back’ by the end of the season.
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vwvParticipantLOL people were so ignorant about the nature and cause of disease back then.
Now we know, because of science, that drinking the blood of murderers can lead to all sorts of ailments including dropsy, Bronze John, and the King’s Evil.
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Tell me about it. I had the King’s Evil once. But it was only the 24-hour kind.
Luckily I didnt have to go through the entire series of Owl Urine treatments.
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vwvParticipantI dont think so. She’s not Bernie. But Bernie is not Jill.
She’s not Obama. She’s a different animal than Obama.She’s no leftist. But she’s also no Obama-CORPORATIST. She’s an odd one. Hard to label.
One thing Ive learned is she…changed. If you look at the old-Tulsi from years ago, you can see why Bannon might like her. But ‘something’ changed her. Maybe it was some kind of political algebra, but I dont think so. I think she really did evolve in some ways. Again, she didnt become a ‘leftist’ (see her views on Venezuela) but she did change on some big topics. Its there in her record and her statements if you dig into it.
I cut and pasted her RECENT stances on issues. Look at them. This is not Obama. (If it were Obama-Hillary the deep state would LOVE her)
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• Break up tech giants like Facebook, Google, & Amazon. (Jul 2019)
• Pay for infrastructure by winding down wars. (Jul 2019)
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Raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour. (Jul 2019)
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• Free tuition at public higher education. (Mar 2019)
• Tuition-free community college for all. (Jan 2019)
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Ban oil & gas exports; end fossil-fuel subsidies. (Apr 2019)
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• Ban fracking. (Jul 2019)
• 2017: Short-sighted to withdraw from Paris Climate Accord. (Apr 2019)
• OFF Fossil Fuels: retrofit homes & fund new technology. (Apr 2019)
• Mixed score on “350 Action’s 2020 Climate Test”. (Mar 2019)
• Address climate change; US must lead worldwide effort. (Mar 2019)
• Silent on Green New Deal; supports push for renewables. (Mar 2019)
• No more fossil fuels for electricity by 2050. (Jan 2019)
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Ban assault weapons; require universal background checks. (Jan 2019)
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• No war with Iran: it would escalate region-wide. (Jun 2019)
• Troops home from Afghanistan; we’re no better off than 2001. (Jun 2019)
• Ending regime change wars allows investment at home. (May 2019)
• No regime change in Iran; no war in Yemen. (Mar 2019)
• No more wars for regime change, like Syria and Afghanistan. (Mar 2019)
• U.S. government lied to American people to launch Iraq War. (Mar 2019)
• Oppose regime change wars in Syria, Venezuela, Iran. (Mar 2019)
• End US support for Saudi-led conflict in Yemen. (Jan 2019)
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• Medicare-for-All will reduce bureaucratic costs. (Jun 2019)
• Supports Medicare for All; address prescription costs. (Mar 2019)
• Supports Medicare-for-All but keep private insurance. (Mar 2019)
• Supports Medicare-for-All; tax wealthiest 5% to pay for it. (Jan 2019)
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• Eliminate the Electoral College. (Jul 2019)
• Mandate paper ballots. (Jul 2019)
• No photo IDs to vote; they suppress the vote. (Jul 2017)
• Establish “My Voice Voucher” small campaign contributions. (Feb 2014)
• Public financing of federal campaigns by voter vouchers. (Jan 2017)
• Statehood for the District of Columbia. (Apr 2018)
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• Close down existing nuclear power reactors. (Jul 2019)
• No, no, no to nuclear energy & nuclear waste. (Apr 2019)
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• Trump’s chicken-hawks push Iran war; go back to nuke deal. (Jun 2019)
• We need to engage in diplomacy & deescalate tensions. (May 2019)
• Met with Syrian president; for “extreme vetting” of Syrians. (Apr 2019)
• Defends meeting Syria’s Assad; supports Trump on North Korea. (Jan 2019)
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• H.R.1 — For the People Act of 2019 to expand voter registration and voting access, makes Election Day a federal holiday, and limits removing voters from voter rolls.
• H.R.51 — Washington, D.C. Admission Act to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union.
• Supports medical and recreational marijuana. (Jul 2019)
• End failed war on drugs, opioid addiction is medical crisis. (Mar 2019)
• Let states legalize marijuana; non-user supports free choice. (Mar 2019)
• Exclude industrial hemp from definition of marijuana. (Jun 2013)
• Exempt industrial hemp from marijuana laws. (Jun 2013)
• Rated B+ by NORML, indicating a pro-drug-reform stance. (Nov 2016)
• Immunity for banks offering services to marijuana businesses. (Jun 2015)
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• No one in government should tell anyone who they can love. (Jun 2019)
• My time in the military changed my anti-gay views. (Mar 2019)
• I never personally supported gay conversion therapy. (Mar 2019)
• Must lead in condemning bigotry, regardless of belief. (Mar 2019)
• Supports gay rights, 100% record with Human Rights Campaign. (Mar 2019)
• Views on LGBT rights evolved; 100% rating from HRC. (Jan 2019)
• Early 2000s: supported father’s antigay rights group. (Jan 2019)
• Actively supports equal rights on LGBTQ+ issues. (Jan 2019)
• Regrets past anti-gay statements; now pro-LGBTQ+ rights. (Jan 2019)
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• End cash bail; it hits low-income Americans. (Jul 2019)
• Eliminate private prisons. (Jul 2019)
• Abolish capital punishment. (Jul 2019)
• Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences. (Jul 2019)
• Must expose and punish sexual assaults in military. (Mar 2019)
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• Served as Army Major for 16 years; deployed twice to Mideast. (Jun 2019)
• Don’t cut military budget; fund weapons systems & ABMs. (Mar 2019)
• End this new cold war and nuclear arms race. (Mar 2019)
• Allow transgender Americans in the military. (Jan 2019)
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Tulsi: https://www.ontheissues.org/Tulsi_Gabbard.htmwvParticipantThat WR the 49ers just got should make them even more dangerous. Looks like the Pats and Niners are clear favorites at this point.
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vwvParticipant…if u listen to the last few mins of that interview-excerpt, snowden shows he knows Rogan’s audience. He’s speaking to the rightwingish-libertarian-survivalist folks — a lotta-whom listen to Rogan.
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vwvParticipantAaron Mate refers to the time….Bill Clinton was given half a million dollars by Russian investment bank…..Just IMAGINE what MSNBC, CNN and NPR would say if Jill Stein’s husband or Tulsi’s husband had that kind of russia connection…
October 23, 2019 at 12:23 pm in reply to: tweets + other things (w/ VB Q&A) … 10/21 thru 10/23 #107195wvParticipantSosa K@QBsMVP
“If I was in my groove,
if I was on my shit,
it woulda really been scary out there today”
Jalen Ramsey
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See, thats how i feel everyday.
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vwvParticipantVincent Bonsignore@VinnyBonsignore
… One thing to keep in mind, there is often context and nuance involved that sometimes goes undisclosed..============================
I’m opposed to context AND nuance.
Just on principle.
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vwvParticipantI notice you havent buzzkilled Marianne Williamson. Now it all fits. You pretend to be Mr Science but in reality you love the New Age Wooo.
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vI’m not that into science. I just think everything should defer to it at all times no matter the cost.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must go into the back yard and perform the rite of the gathering and mulching of leaves. I must complete the rite before the Gibbous Moon ascends beyond Mercury and Venus on October 29th or my chi will be irrevocably misaligned.
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I was standing in line at a bakery, and someone was listening to a podcast named “Lore,” and they told me that on this podcast they learned that back in the 20’s, when there were still public executions, there were people who saved the dead-murderer’s blood. And the blood was ingested by epileptics because it was thot to cure epilepsy.
I just thot I’d throw some science at you.
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vwvParticipantIn most polls Tulsi gets ONE percent of the vote.
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vWhich unfortunately could mean that she has the support of 95% of the true left.
I don’t dislike her. I just don’t agree with her stance on nuclear power. She’s a little too trigger happy with respect to Muslims too.
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Well who knows, but I would think of all the Dem candidates, she’d be the least likely to Bomb random Muslims around the world.
I notice you havent buzzkilled Marianne Williamson. Now it all fits. You pretend to be Mr Science but in reality you love the New Age Wooo.
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vwvParticipantThe true left doesn’t seem to like Gabbard or Warren.
Is that true? I like Gabbard, she’s one of the most articulate gub’mint people I ever knowed of. And I like her a lot of her views. I never saw her as equivalent to Warren.
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I guess it just depends on who you call ‘the true left’ 🙂 In most polls Tulsi gets ONE percent of the vote.
I guess now i can finally admit the truth — I’m part of the ONE percent.
polls:https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/democratic_nomination_polls/
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantPeter Coffin on Tucker Carlson and stuff
wvParticipantRobinson’s point is that she isn’t really “owning” ANY of her history. She ought to be saying, “Yes, I was a Republican, and I supported these things, but God knocked me off my horse while on my way to Damascus, and now I’m a progressive.”
Instead, she is trying to say she was really progressive the whole time, and there is no way she can get away with that.
Whereas… Sanders… has always been what he is today, in spite of the enormous unpopularity of his positions over the past 4 decades.
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She’s Obama. There’s worse things. He never once, in 8 years, fought the system.
She wont either.
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So true. When will a politician actually say “I’m fighting for poor people.”
Fighting for the poor is, like, fucking anathema to politicians and the voters.
Maybe Mother Teresa should have just stuck to helping the “middle class.” Ya know.
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vOctober 21, 2019 at 5:23 pm in reply to: (must read?) Ramsey removed handcuffs from Rams’ defense #107109wvParticipantI have this fantasy that they looked awe full because the rams coverage and pass rush completely turned the corner in one week and are suddenly the next best thing to the 85 bears.
It could happen…
Actually, if Fowler continues to improve, they might end up being pretty good. 🙂
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Well i think the D ‘is’ good. I think it was good with Talib and Peters, and i think it will be good with Ramsey and Hill and company. (and yes Ramsey looks like he’ll give Wade the ability to take more chances, etc)
But heck i think the whole Ram team is good — except for the OLine. (I’ve been impressed with Henderson the RB. He’s stronger than I thot. I just dont know if he can hold onto the ball. He looks a bit wide-eyed and reckless…)
I just cant see them beating good teams, with good defenses with this OLine. I mean, thats what they will have to beat to go anywhere — good-teams-with-good-defenses.
What did you think of Gurleys play, Sunday? Has he lost his burst or is it the blocking? Henderson looked so much more energized.
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vOctober 21, 2019 at 2:33 pm in reply to: (must read?) Ramsey removed handcuffs from Rams’ defense #107093wvParticipantAnd Atlanta has a good OL. Their LOT for example is Jake Matthews, the guy everyone says the Rams should have taken instead of Robinson. That offense was 2nd in the league in passing before Sunday.
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Well, they sure didnt look like a good OL. They looked awful.
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