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  • October 4, 2019 at 8:53 am in reply to: Fungus no fun #106191
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    “The fact that we can find such a distinctive and medically important fungus like Poison Fire Coral right in our backyard shows we have much to learn about fungi in northern Australia,” Barrett said…
    “It didn’t surprise me because I have been finding quite a few things over the years,” he said…”
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    Ok, this guy seems a little to pleased about the fact that a brain-eating fungus has been found in his country.

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    October 4, 2019 at 8:48 am in reply to: reactions to the Seattle game #106190
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    I only saw the highlights, but it looks like Wilson is the best player in the NFC, right now.

    Looked like the rams D was oh-so-close time after time, but RW is RW.

    Gonna be a dogfight this season. No team is gonna run away with it.

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    October 3, 2019 at 7:44 pm in reply to: reporters set up the Seattle game #106166
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    B.Westbrook on degenerative knees:

    October 3, 2019 at 2:43 pm in reply to: reporters set up the Seattle game #106149
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    Rams rated worst OLine in NFL by PFF:https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2019/10/02/rams-offensive-line-woes/

    Chris Carter mentions that in his take on the Rams:

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    October 3, 2019 at 9:15 am in reply to: Ready for Seattle? #106142
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    TSRF wrote:

    WV, this is actually going to be Game 5.

    Did you mean the TB told us a lot, or are you saying the Seattle game is going to tell us a lot?

    Sorry, being an engineer, I’m a numbers guy.

    I have no idea what is going to happen tomorrow, and it is making me a bit sick to my stomach.

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    Shit. Well, like I’ve always said, I never make any judgments until after FIVE games. Thats what I’ve always said.

    Engineers. Damn engineers.

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    October 2, 2019 at 8:17 pm in reply to: My political rant of the day #106114
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    Billy_T wrote:

    WV,

    This is in dispute, of course, and it’s not an exact science. But several articles after the 2016 noted that far and away most of those “Obama to Trump” voters had previously voted Republican for their entire adult lives. As in, it wasn’t that they switched from the Dems to Trump. They switched from the GOP to Obama (first), and then back to Trump again.

    Also in dispute is what caused the switch, but I think that’s where your comment about the Dems driving people into the hands of the “populist right” comes in..

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    Yeah, I think thats true that many were Reps who switched to Obama, but it doesnt really change the issue. They ‘could’ have just stayed the course and voted for Hillary, who was essentially a continuation of Obama.
    But they rejected that totally.

    Somethin about the Dems just pissed em off, i guess 🙂

    ….Has any National American Politician ‘ever’ gotten people’s blood up
    as much as Donald Trump? Lincoln maybe?

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    October 2, 2019 at 7:41 pm in reply to: Ready for Seattle? #106110
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    Exactly. An aberration or a reflection of serious problems?

    Game four should tell us a lot.

    Awfully tough place to play. Seattle. I’d be satisfied if the Rams put in a gutty performance and hung in there till the end, winning or losing a close one.

    Wouldnt surprise me if the Rams won, but I gotta go with Seattle. They have an excellent coach, play at home, will be sky-high for the game, played the Rams tough last year, and have improved. The Rams are probly not as good as the team that nipped Seattle twice last year. I think the Rams will split with them this year.

    Seattle 31
    Rams 24

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    October 2, 2019 at 7:35 pm in reply to: My political rant of the day #106108
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    waterfield wrote:
    wv wrote:

    Fair enough, but once in a while sit back and ask yourself how bad the ‘normal Dems’ had to be, to push half the country towards Trump. I mean, why didnt the Dems appeal to these people?

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    My answer to that is: It wasn’t the Democrats that pushed them it was ALL politicians including republicans. .

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    Well, I dont think Trump voters are some monolithic block. You dont think that either, right.

    What you are describing sounds like the racist-nationalist part of his core. Maybe also the rightwing-evangelical-block but I’m not sure how many of them actually liked Trump.

    But he’s got other blocks. For example many of the West Virginians who voted for Trump, had previously voted for Obama. How do you explain that one? 🙂

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    October 2, 2019 at 7:29 pm in reply to: chris carter on Gurley … + more on Rams run game issues #106106
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    zn wrote:

    gurley

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    I’ve said it before, but imho, the Rams aint handling this well, and Todd Gurley aint handling this well.

    Other teams have this figured out. It aint a secret anymore. They should just be honest about it.

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    October 2, 2019 at 6:11 pm in reply to: chris carter on Gurley … + more on Rams run game issues #106099
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    PS — there is some nutty stuff in that last vid I posted. Geez.

    Sometimes that Mangini guy is the only voice of reason on the internet. But even ‘he’ didnt just note the obvious — Gurley has a Knee issue. Duh.

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    October 2, 2019 at 6:03 pm in reply to: chris carter on Gurley … + more on Rams run game issues #106098
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    Gurley — “the greatest mystery in the NFL right now, (other than whats go’in on between Antonio Browns ears)…”

    October 2, 2019 at 5:54 pm in reply to: My political rant of the day #106097
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    Fair enough, but once in a while sit back and ask yourself how bad the ‘normal Dems’ had to be, to push half the country towards Trump. I mean, why didnt the Dems appeal to these people?

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    October 1, 2019 at 7:17 pm in reply to: The Problem With Impeachment? #106066
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    October 1, 2019 at 4:54 pm in reply to: the press on the Bux game #106063
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    October 1, 2019 at 4:32 pm in reply to: is Goff developing? #106062
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    October 1, 2019 at 3:35 pm in reply to: chris carter on Gurley … + more on Rams run game issues #106060
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    zn wrote:

    The Rams are tiptoeing around a delicate situation while pretending it doesn’t even exist. They are either desperately trying to preserve a healthy Gurley or managing a damaged one.
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    I like Vinny but he’s kinda late on this one. People have been sayin this for a long time now, and Vinny has been pretty wishy-washy about it till now.

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    October 1, 2019 at 12:13 pm in reply to: Of Mere Being – wallace stevens #106056
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    Yeah, i remembered how much you like him, BT.

    I saw that poem in a bird book I’m skimming, called Life of the Skies, by Jonathan Rosen:
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    “…the fact that the bird is not singing for the benefit of the human listener, is oddly not disheartening; it’s proof that something new and strange is there….
    …..the bird is simply there– alien, but the fact that it is alien is oddly a sign of hope,,,,
    …Stevens conjures in a very cerebral poem, the opposite of thought. Just as he creates, despite the weird chilliness of the poem, a kind of comfort. The sort of comfort that comes from encountering reality–even harsh reality, even death.”
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    …somehow, some of that resonates with how i feel about the whole ‘situation’ we find ourselves in theze days…

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    October 1, 2019 at 12:01 pm in reply to: Judge rules jury can apply Castle Doctrine in Amber Guyger murder trial #106055
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    Damn. What the heck do you do with ‘that’ fact pattern.

    What ‘is’ she guilty of, exactly. Somethin. But ‘what’ exactly?

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    October 1, 2019 at 11:58 am in reply to: Jimmy Dore with a cia-whistle-blower #106054
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    zn wrote:

    These kinds of boiling tensions and hostile confrontations make me so anxious.

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    You only say that because you’ve never gotten over the fact that I definitively proved
    Vermeil was a figurehead.

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    October 1, 2019 at 10:10 am in reply to: Jimmy Dore with a cia-whistle-blower #106041
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    Billy_T wrote:

    Quick follow up. Please know that none of this is about you. I kinda feel I have to say that again, cuz I know I sometimes react harshly to posts like this. It’s a bad habit.

    ;>(

    In no way, shape or form am I trying to get you to stop posting the stuff you think is important here. The more the better. I love reading your take on things. Always have. That’s not gonna change.

    Hope all is well in the Mountain State.

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    Oh i know all that, comrad. Its good we can disagree on some stuff. No big thing. We’re on the same side.

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    October 1, 2019 at 10:09 am in reply to: Jimmy Dore with a cia-whistle-blower #106039
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    Billy_T wrote:

    WV,

    It’s hard for me to watch that. IMO, Dore talks as if he’s being paid directly by Trump. Seriously….

    Oh, well.

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    Yes, I figured you would feel that way about it, BT. We just disagree on it.

    Dore loathes Trump, btw. Absolutely loathes him. He just loathes the ‘system’ more.

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    September 30, 2019 at 3:29 pm in reply to: Jimmy Dore with a cia-whistle-blower #106001
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    I think Jimmy makes an interesting point about which whistle-blowers the Dems and Dem-Corporate-Media paint as heroes and which whistle-blowers they demonize and put in prison.

    How come the Dems dont lionize Chelsea, Snowden, Assange, etc?

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    September 30, 2019 at 1:59 pm in reply to: the press on the Bux game #105996
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    Chris Carter on Gurley:

    September 30, 2019 at 1:25 pm in reply to: This is not okay: Trump calls for the arrest of Schiff for Treason #105995
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    One thing we know. Trump would burn the whole Universe down, rather than admit he was at fault about anything, ever. (Nixon wasnt even this averse to admitting fault) He has basically, essentially, written as much in his books. He’s always emphasized “if someone attacks you, attack them with twice as much force.” He lives by that. Its his nature. Its in his bizness books, its in his Pro-Wrestling ‘persona’ etc.

    Makes for good tv, in a corporate-capitalist-state, with hundreds of millions of corporate-capitalist-zombies watchin.

    His words about treasonous traitors are in keeping with his lifelong internal defense/attack mechanisms.

    Ah well.

    I dont remember ever talkin about Obama the Man, this much. Democrats are boring, corporate, biosphere-destroyers. Trump is a CRAZY-MAN, super-charged-corporate-biosphere-destroyer.

    I get tired of talkin about Trump and thinkin about Trump — but its impossible NOT to talk/think about him. He’s in my brain now, forever, in a way that Obama never was.

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    September 30, 2019 at 12:05 pm in reply to: reactions to the Bux game #105988
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    I looked at the gamebook stats. Interesting that a team scored over 50 points, and only rushed for 88 total yards, with a 2.9 yard average rush.

    Bucs only had two sacks, I see. Rams had two as well.

    Peculiar game. Sometimes blowouts have weird stats.

    Bucs have to be pleased they just kept answering the Rams scores, with scores of their own.
    But the Rams also have to be pleased they kept com’in. Coulda gone either way at the end. Makin up a 21 point deficit sez somethin. To pull within five in the second half and to be there at the end. Sez somethin about the fight in the Rams. They may be flawed but they are fighters. I like that. Possibly reminiscent of the Titan loss in 99.

    I guess the Bucs musta had a lot of ‘almost-sacks’ ?

    I usually wait until four games are in the books, before i start sayin much about the team.

    Big game comin up. Lets see what team shows up. A wild-cardish-team? An elite-top-five-team? A team with flaws but one that can improve? A team with fatal-flaws?

    Green Bay has flaws. Looks like Dallas has flaws. Are the 49ers the team to beat this year in the NFC?
    Lots of teams scratching and claw’in at each other this year in the NFC.

    A flawed-OLine is a fatal-flaw imho. Ask Russell Wilson.

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    September 30, 2019 at 8:33 am in reply to: the press on the Bux game #105975
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    September 30, 2019 at 8:13 am in reply to: reactions to the Bux game #105974
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    InvaderRam wrote:

    turnovers. -3 in turnovers. gotta take care of the ball.

    gotta cause turnovers.

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    I think thats the second game in a row they were minus 3

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    September 30, 2019 at 8:03 am in reply to: Bill Hicks talks to his rightwing dad… #105973
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    Zooey wrote:

    Yeah. So I found somebody near me. Once a month.

    But I want to talk my wife into it, and I don’t know how to do that.

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    Maybe Michael Pollen’s calm, matter-of-fact sensibility could help there:

    September 29, 2019 at 9:18 pm in reply to: Krystal Ball on the Ukraine thingy #105945
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    September 29, 2019 at 8:43 pm in reply to: reactions to the Bux game #105940
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    I’ve only seen the Highlights at NFL.com. Were they flat ? Looked like there were a lot of missed tackles. Thats usually the biggest sign of a flat team, in my view.

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