“People say,‘Oh, it’s demoralizing to lose the Super Bowl.’ I told the players this—it’s the best season I’ve ever been a part of.
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Nice.

There were several thoughtful comments in that article.

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“…Could these same conspirators have ordered Epstein’s death and now be covering it up by claiming it’s suicide? It’s certainly not impossible… Could someone have ordered all these things in order to either create conditions for Epstein to die by suicide or perhaps even to set up a situation where an assassin could have murdered him? As I said earlier, it’s not impossible.
But, it is unlikely…”
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My take is different. I think she’s minimizing the ‘possibility’ quotient. Murder in this case is more than just “not impossible” in my view. And i dont think murder is “unlikely.” My own view is, its a completely open question. Just as likely that he was murdered (or coerced) as it is that he simply killed himself.

So for me its just an open question.

I doubt if the mystery is ever resolved.

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1) I am happy there were, apparently, no significant injuries.

2) I’m pleased Bortles got work. I want him to get a lot of work. I hope he benefits from the McVay experience.

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nittany ram wrote:

How does this happen? He was on suicide watch.

I’m not going to rush to invoke a conspiracy, but that’s some high level indifference and/or incompetence by the correctional facility.

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Yeah, every person in wv I’ve talked to has called it murder. Nobody i know is buyin the suicide thing.

I have no idea, myself. In WV there’s always cameras in the jails.

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Reginald was good.

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Bortles: …(On his thoughts going into Saturday’s preseason game) “… It’s an opportunity for me to get a new resume on tape and for us, the guys to get an opportunity to play to go and kind of build that resume and get some good plays and some good work on tape and get a little bit of game-like atmosphere…”
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I dunno. I’m not a hundred percent sure thats the best answer.

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…just an aside, fwiw — Harper’s January 1992, Vol 284, #1700, has a Lewis Lapham essay titled “Who and What is American.” I happened to read the essay the other day in an anthology book called “Changing Community” (graywolf annual ten).

Zn always points out there is resistance. Always, there is resistance. To the nightmare. And he’s right to point it out. Its always there.

My ‘own’ dark thing though, is, the resistance is indeed there, and it has actually grown, i think. Thanks to the internet. But…the other side has grown MORE. And i think we are past the tipping point. I dont think its possible to turn things around. Just my opinion.

And yes, i still think it makes sense to ‘bash on relentlessly…regardless.’

I’ve been thinkin some about the shooting thing. I dont think its all that complicated. But it is multi-layered. Several factors.
1) Guns. Americans have a long history of gun-love for both logical and fear-based reasons. So, there’s all that access to all those various kinds of guns. Duh.
2) Racism. America has that deadly history of Capitalist constructed-Racism. Modern-Corporate-Capitalism no longer ‘needs’ racism or slaves, but racism was constructed long ago and now its difficult to un-construct it. The Racism has all those nefarious and subtle and not so subtle effects. It contributes to white privilege, and inequality which contributes to all kinds of resentment, anger, stress, anxiety, etc. All kinds of domino effects. Racism leads to young people joining the Nationalist hate brigades, etc etc etc.
3) Corporate-Capitalism (CC). CC leads to millions and millions and millions of poor people and people without health care and people stressed out and fearful. Opioids, “mental health” issues, depression, loneliness, anxiety, lack-of-meaning, consumerism.
It also leads to escapism, Nationalism, jingoism, and various kinds of infantilism(religion), infantilism(emotional-stunting) etc etc etc.
Corporate-Capitalism leads to Imperialism which requires a War Machine, and a CIA, and an NSA and Weapons Manufacturers, etc. That leads to a lot of Americans getting a lot of training with guns, and PTSD experiences, and depleted Uranium experiences, and disillusionment experiences etc, etc, etc.
CC leads to a Fake-News-Media. Which then leads to citizens inundated with jingoistic Propaganda. The Media/Elite creates ‘enemies’. (Commies, Muslims, Immigrants, Russians, whatever) CC creates a toxic, toxic, toxic mix of conditions. Too many to list.

I could go on about the effect CC has on Media, Education, but the bottom line is,
Corporate-Capitalism is a virulent, toxic, poisonous over-arching system, that mixes with
Systemic, constructed-Racism, coupled with
Red White and Blue Gun-topia.

Themz the three factors that account for the bloody chickens coming home to roost, I would think.

But what do i know.

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