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wvParticipantI like what Nathan was pointing out at the 40:37 mark. “means tested” vs “universal” stuff
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vSeptember 26, 2019 at 7:04 pm in reply to: media folk & posters set up Tampa game & Rams v. Suh #105718wvParticipantWell Suh has a history of showing up big in games he cares about. One would think he would care about this one.
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vwvParticipantLMU93
The Rams have surrendered a league-high 49 quarterback pressures on 115 pass-blocking snaps. Per PFF.==============
How can they rank them 10th out of 32 Olines, if they lead the league in giving up QB Pressures?
At any rate, I dont think the line has been ‘terrible.’ We’ve seen ‘terrible’ during the Fisher-Injury-Plagued years.
But they aint been ‘good’ either. They’ve looked like a middle-of-the-pack OLine to me. One can still hope they will improve as the year goes along and as the young linemen get more experience. But then there’s the wearing-down that will be goin on with Whitworth. So, who knows.
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vwvParticipantI would have gotten rid of the couple introduced a bit later in the story, for instance. Had to jog my memory via wikipedia, but I think it was Dorothy and Ray. To me, they were the least integrated into the story, the least “organic.” I was also just so so about the computer whiz kid.
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Yup. Agree.
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vwvParticipantWell, if its true, what was the one american novel published between 1770 and 1779?
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vwvParticipantShe could beat Trump…because so many voters just don’t like the chaos of Trump. They would prefer a wonk to a bull in a china shop.
But Ball is right…she fits the profile of a long list of Democrat losers, and she COULD lose at the end of the campaign because she’s NOT going to get the passionate turnout the Dems need from POC and the youth vote. Those people will come out for revolution, but not for policy papers. At least not in the same numbers.
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I agree, she could beat Trump. Trump could beat her. It will be close whether the Dems go with Bernie or Biden or Warren. All four have their bases and its hard to say whats gonna happen.
Ball is a diehard Bernie supporter so she tends to ‘see’ things that paint Bernie in the best light, etc, blah blah…
What Ball didnt mention was how the VP choice could swing things one way or another. In a razor close election, one would think the VP choice would be critical. I would say a Bernie/Warren ticket with Bernie at the top would be…interesting. Where would the Centrists go? They would be done-triangulated for a change 🙂
Then again maybe a more viable ticket would be Bernie and a Centrist as VP. I dunno.
I used to devote more brain-energy to the horse-race aspect of the corporotacracy but since I fell into the pit-of-hopeless-despair, I dont really keep up on the electoral-window-dressing anymore. I mean, the Ring-of-Power is on Sauron’s finger, shadow has fallen over the Land, the shire is in ashes, the Elves have sailed away, the Trees are burnt, the Nazgul-birds have eaten all the puppies, and we are voting on whether a Mordor Orc, an Uruk-hai, or a Cave Troll should be makin the prezidential tweets for the next four seasons.
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wvParticipantI just can’t tell yet. I dunno about the new Gurley. Sometimes i get the impression he’s lost a bit of explosiveness. But I cant really tell for sure.
Given the fact he doesnt get as many touches, its gotta be harder for him to ‘find a rhythm’. And then there’s the new OLine issues. And teams have adjusted to McVay more. So them three things make it hard for me to figure out what part of it is Gurley and what part of it is other factors. I dunno.
Its great having Wade and McVay on my team though. And Snead. I just dont worry about the future/big-picture with those three making the decisions. Its just a pleasure to have those three brains on the Rams.
I didnt like some of them other brains. These new brains are better than those old brains.
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vwvParticipantWV: I expected those two to be good early. But I’m always expecting them to be in trouble as the games pile up.
I don’t expect them to wear out.
It’s not like Donald where peak physical effort is the key to their games. They’re playing on smarts and veteran savvy…
Whatever they are now I expect them to be all year.
This D is as good as if not better than the last top Rams D, which was 99. In the end it may just rank with some of the great 70s Ds.
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Well yer just a crazy man. Those old guys are not gonna hold up.
It does have the potential to be a great defense. Tough to compare D’s anymore due to the rules changes and all, but yeah, it could end up being a great one. Then again, they have faced a mediocre version of Cam, and Saints offense without Breeze, and dynamic but inexperienced QB in whats-his-name. And they wont have to face Big Ben, I guess. Bears dont have a good QB, Cincy’s QB is mediocre…Tampa? Winston isnt really scary is he? I guess I wanna see how they do against the good QBs. Russell Wilson, for one. I dunno what other top ten QBs they face.
I’m looking forward to the Bear game, btw. I wanna see if they can improve on that shit-storm of a game they played last time. How’s this OLine gonna hold up against da bears?
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vwvParticipantActually, 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.
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Oh, so you’re going to bring Facts into this thread. Is ‘that’ what youre planning to do?
What kind of crazy mixed up dysfunctional agenda would have the PLAYERS involved in football decisions?
You think George Halas asked his players what kindof socks they wanted to wear? You think Vince Lombardi asked his players what colors they wanted to wear? You think the Roman Empire would have given us aqueducts and…and…Fancy Roman stuff if the Emperors had asked the Christians what color lions they wanted fight?I’m tellin ya, this color-aggression wont stand, man.
wvParticipantShe’s calling his conduct “a violation of the law.”
I read somewhere this morning that such an approach might not be the best because a president doesn’t have to violate the law to be impeached, so she may have set the bar higher than it needs to be, but I dunno about any of that.
But…here we go.
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What would be funny iz,
if the Politicians somehow impeached Trump — and then he won re-election, anyway.
(losing the popular vote again, of course 🙂 )Amerika.
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vwvParticipantBtw, Pelosi apparently will be meeting with the Dem Caucus at 4pm today. The topic is Impeachment..
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Well, ‘what we need’ is for 99 of them to vote to impeach themselves. And Trump.
And Antonio Brown, just to be thorough.
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vwvParticipantDid you finish The Overstory, WV?
Powers uses that term, if memory serves, and talks about the same things.
He drew a great deal from Peter Wohlleben’s work, especially his The Hidden Life of Trees, which also uses the term. Worth a read. It’s short, too.
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I did finally finish it. I thought the first 300 pages were awesome. Great stuff. One of my favorite books of the decade. The next 100 pages were just ‘so so’ for me. And the last 100 pages I was losing interest. I just thot Powers kinda lost his way er somethin. But again, one of my favorite books. 300 good pages is excellent. Maybe i just got tired or somethin. Coulda been me and not the book.
I am now reading the Hidden Life of Trees. Coz i heard Powers mention it in an interview. Its a breezy read, and the writer really anthro-po-morphizes a lot, but i dont mind. Not sure Nittany would like it, but its right up my alley 🙂
I also bought another book Powers mentioned: Oak, the Frame of Civilization. Or somethin like that.
This is my Year of Trees, i guess.
We have a little Arboretum in my town. I hadnt walked through it in a long time. I walked some of the trails the other day and I got a lot more out of it since reading Overstory. There’s a Redwood in the place. I didnt know redwoods could grow in WV. But i was walking and I came upon this awesome, large, reddish tree and I smiled when i read the label on it. Cant remember what kindof redwood it was.
One of the things I looked at closely was the bark on the various trees. I’d never looked at bark before. I was bark-blind, before i read Overstory. Now, i see bark.PS — In Overstory the characters read and talk about “The Secret Forest”. I ‘think’ thats the name of the book they refer to. Anyway, I tried to find the book online and there were a couple of books with that name or a name close to that. One was a children’s book and one was about a gazillion dollars, but neither seemed quite ‘right’ in the context of Overstory. Was that book in the story just a ‘made up’ book to fit into the story? Or were the characters referring to a real book?
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wvParticipantYeah. Getting rid of Republicans is only Phase One, and it’s the easiest part. We then have to overpower the Democrats….
…Bash on, regardless.
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Right. Haf to get rid of Dems, Reps, and Money-in-Politix.
In other words we need “Magical” solutions.
We need the people to magically wake up. To magically be able to think critically, after they’ve spent a lifetime of being dummed-down and corporotized.
Magic.
And yes, we bash on relentlessly, regardless. Indeed. Why not 🙂
I suppose we are doing pretty good for progressed-forward primodal ooze.
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wvParticipant“Both Trump and Pelosi are stewards—caretakers—of neoliberalism.”
Yeah, and if ya wanted to micro-cize the whole article down to its essence it would be that sentence.
Though, to my dying-day I will argue that its a mistake to ever use the word “neoliberalism” in any dialogue or article aimed at the masses. They dont know what it means. I test this all the time here in WV. They…dont…know…what…it…means. It loses them and confuses them.
I have tried to find terms they understand. ‘Corporate-Capitalism’ aint perfect but it gives em a better sense of what the point iz.
wvParticipantIf we’re gonna look and be concerned about the offense not being right, we should also acknowledge that the D looks near dominant. I’m not gonna just look at what’s going wrong because that’s not balanced.
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Reminds me a bit of when the old 70’s Steelers kinda morphed from one kinda team to another. They won on defense in the early years, but then changed to more of an offensive team, i thot. And the Pats went from defensive to offensive at one point.
The Rams have kinda gone from offensive to defensive now. Kinda. Defensive teams always seem more ‘solid’ to me, somehow.Thing is though, the Rams defense is relying a lot on Old Mr Weddle. And Old Mr Matthews. I expected those two to be good early. But I’m always expecting them to be in trouble as the games pile up.
Not to mention the whole house of cards thats gonna fall on Goff if/when Old Man Left Tackle starts wearin down.Interesting, formidable team. But its walkin a tight-rope, I think. Maybe every team is, though.
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vwvParticipantOh 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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vwvParticipantWell, its my iron-clad policy to Never complain about a Road Win. I mean, its the NFL, and road wins are hard to come by. A road win, no matter how Ugly, is Beautiful.
But man — Cleveland has an ENTIRE secondary replaced and the Rams offense cant air-it-out? What does it mean?
Kupp looks like an all-pro, but Goff looks like he depends on Kupp maybe too much. Maybe he has to.
The Defense, to state the obvious, looks more solid than it has since Kevin Carter was there. Even though they allow too many running yards, they still look formidable and reliable to me. Clay and Weddle make a significant difference. Will the old guys hold up though?
The defense, in general, looks faster to me. Sometimes Suh just looked slow or sluggish to me. Now everything looks like its moving faster. On Defense.On offense, frankly its not a mystery. Its prettymuch what we expected. The OLine aint what it was, and Gurley aint what he was. Themz two big things.
Overall, I’d say they still have a purty good chance to win the NFC and get beat again by the Patriots.
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vwvParticipantGiven 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.
Yes, that’s been disturbing me for quite some time. There are going to be hundreds of millions of people displaced. Mostly poor, brown people. And they are going to head north.
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Which is one reason why Immigration is such a winning issue for the Repugnants.
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vwvParticipantThanks for the article by Naomi Klein, too, Zooey. She’s great. I wish she were American so she could run for the presidency. If memory serves, she’s Canadian, unfortunately.
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Yup, she has been great for a while now.
Meanwhile the Washington Post had a big article (with quotes from NPR writers) on the coruscating brilliance of Cokie Roberts.
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vwvParticipantI dont think its an accident that the two foreign eco-fascist killers — one in New Zealand and one in Norway — were more informed about Climate Change than the American mass-murderers.
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vwvParticipantI guess what I’m trying to see is this: We need well-informed conversation about the issues now more than ever, and that conversation should be as broad and deep as possible. There are all kinds of ways to truncate this, flatten it, drive it into little pens like sheep. We should do our best to avoid this, and push others to avoid this as well, when possible.
Rams 31, Browns 20.
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Well, I will always agree with that^^^ comrad.
I virtually always agree with what you think ‘we need.’
But i hardly ever think ‘what we need’ is ever gonna happen, in this-here Biosphere-killing, Corporate-State. Too many brains have been corpor-o-tized. Waaaaay, too many. We are SOOOOOOOOO outnumbered BT.
We…just…are. 99-1 doesnt just happen by accident. 99…to…1Sometimes on Sunday mornings I buy the Washington Post. (cant get the NYT in Motown)
I get it just to aggravate myself and to read the occasional non-political-human-interest story. (today i read about Billy Ray Cyrus. Did you know he had another mega-hit — with a rap star no less…)Anyway, so I skimmed the Wash Post. The ‘liberal’ Wash Post. It was…almost…unreadable. They had a big article smearing Bernie’s health-care plan, and basically every news article was an advertisement for corporate-capitalist EMPIRE. Biden-style. Obama-style. Clinton-style. Deep-State-Empire-style.
And this is the ‘liberal’ paper.
Even if a progressive wins now and then, here and there, the Corporate-Empire has destroyed too many American brains to get ‘what we need.’ I just do not foresee a David and Goliath story-ending here. I think the biosphere is gonna find out what happens when Goliath wins.
I’m rambling, darkly. Again 🙂
None of this means I believe in ‘apathy’ or silence or not-bashing-on-relentlessly. It just means i believe in bashing-on-relentlessly with no hope. Itz a skill 🙂
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vwvParticipantLarry King: “Are we too politically correct?”
A.J: “I dont think so…..”I rarely hear this answer from comix:
wvParticipantAnyway…the ONE THING they CAN’T do is get rid of the horns. They have to know that.
They know that, right?
I mean…they radically change the helmet, and there’s going to be a frenzy.
yeah. that’s the one thing they can’t do.
i’m a little worried.
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On the one hand, I think there is no way they will screw around with the helmets. Its too iconic. It’d be like changing the star on the Cowboys helmet.
On the other hand, we know what they did to St.Louis Fans, and how they went about it. So, we know they are totally capable of being lying, weasely dicks, if they think they can make more money.
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vwvParticipantThis frustrates me as well: That small group of public-figure lefties seems to ignore the fact that Trump has managed to…
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What ‘lefties’ are you thinking of?
There’s very very few public figures I’d call ‘lefties,’ myself.
99-1
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vwvParticipantAbortion-clinic waiting-room jokes. O my.
wvParticipantbrooks:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Brooks
6’3″ 258 Lbs. He’d be kindof a tweener in today’s game.
Anyway, what that article left out was his acting ability. Much like Jim Brown, and unlike Chris Massey, the man could act:
“He made a cameo appearance as a substitute teacher in the ABC sitcom “Welcome Back Kotter”.
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vDo you remember The Undefeated? Gabe and Merlin were in it. John Wayne was the lead. I think it came out in 1969, the same year Gabriel won the MVP. Loved that movie as a kid. It holds up less well when you see it as an adult, but it’s still enjoyable as nostalgia, etc.
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I remember it. Gabe was no Fred Dryer.
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vwvParticipantI’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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vwvParticipantSo. IMO this is it. If this doesn’t lead to impeachment, it’s time to pack the bags and get out because the country is officially over.
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