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wvParticipanttorturing pregnant women
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The System is worse than a dumpster fire at this point.
To me, it all starts with the Lies. Culture of Lies, leads to what we are seeing.
Layers and layers and layers of lies. CIA lies, NSA lies, Pentagon Lies, PR-lies, Corporate Lies, MSM-lies… There’s no way to combat it, because we never even know whats going on.
Thats what happens when a Nation allows/ignores a system built on lies.
Just my take on things.
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vwvParticipantFirst thanks all of you for everything and not just this thread, thanks for all the fellowship over all the years. I just don’t do the message boards anymore but I still look in from time to time.
Last year I received an autographed football from Robert Woods and the Rams when someone told them about me and it included a really nice personalized note. I have it displayed prominently amongst all my Rams stuff.
My desire was to see them make the playoffs one last time but I am feeling quite a bit more optimistic about my chances now so I really want a Super Bowl victory this year.
Cheers and don’t worry or fret about me its all good and I am at peace with this
Thanks again
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I’ve always felt fucking honored to be able to post with you, Jim. You are one of the reasons i love the internet. From a small town in the middle of appalachia, i can find a Jim Fadler out there on the internetz.
…btw, what do you think of the trades and draft picks this year? Anything to say about McVay or Goff? Can they do it again? Will they regress?
Any lingering thoughts on the move from St.Louis?Sincerely,
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Eva Bartlett reports from SyriaPosted by margo on May 10, 2018, 12:58 pm
What’s interesting is that we wouldn’t have got this up-to-the-minute news from Bartlett if we didn’t follow her feed on FaceBook. We had to protect against FaceBook censorship by going into SETTINGS … and ticking the box to SEE Bartlett’s posts FIRST.
If you ensure your Settings allow you to see MediaLens/Off-Guardian/Duran FB Posts First ( as well as other commentators), FB can become a helpful, rolling news platform.
It was probably becoming too helpful, which is why FaceBook – in cohoots with US state – recently started to censor it. But for FB users, there are ways to still follow those alternative journalists who continue to use the FB platform.——– — – —-
Eva Karene Bartlett on FB this morning — School in Dara’a targeted by more than 50 mortars, from terrorists just 150 metres away. Many children have been killed in these attacks, I was told. The road I stood on taking the photo is in line of potential terrorist snipers. Around the corner, locals were walking quickly, half-running, from the shelling nearby. On the same street, over 40 people have been killed, including a man 5 days ago, I was told. 200 metres down the road were terrorists, so no lingering.
A few minutes drive away, including at high speed down a road exposed to terrorist sniping from less than 100 metres away, the national hospital, itself battered and partially destroyed from terrorists mortars. The director showed me destroyed wards (dialysis and laboratory wards), and off-limits areas die to high risk of sniping (gynecology, operations, blood bank, nursing school, children’s hospital).
Before leaving, I saw a dark plume of smoke from a freshly landed mortar at the court. Earlier we had discussed going to the court, as it was one of the sites targeted by “unarmed protesters” in early 2011. Had we taken less time at the hospital, might have gone there. Good thing we didn’t have time…
This is a glimpse of a Dara’a corporate media doesn’t care to discuss.
Photos:
1. Outer wall of the partially destroyed school from street.
2. Local pointing in direction of terrorists 100 metres beyond.
3. Some of the damage to Dara’a’s national hospital. Much more inside and other side of hospital.
4. Stairwells sandbagged to protect from terrorists attacks.
5. Smoke from mortar near court house.wvParticipantwvParticipantTexas, too. And the big news there is that Texas is getting very close…and this is staggering to think about…Texas is getting closer and closer to turning Blue..”
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Well. Lets see them try and gerrymander their way out of that.
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vwvParticipantSigh. One of the best people I’ve read on any board anywhere.
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“We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.”
~Richard Le GalliennewvParticipantWell what do the demographic studies show?
Is there reason for hope in the demographics?
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vwvParticipantWell, one possible future iz, Trump waits a bit and then signs a ‘new’ deal with Iran thats really just the same deal. But he talks about it like its a better deal and his base congratulates him on being tough.
Another possible future is…AIPAC will just openly, finally be named Secretary of State.
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“..It’s another intelligence scam driving us to war,” Blumenthal said, calling the intelligence cited by Netanyahu “arguably fabricated.”Apart from Netanyahu, who has long been advocating the collapse of the internationally recognized agreement, Israeli lobbies within the US greatly contributed to Trump’s decision to take a more hawkish stance on Iran in line with Israel’s own, Blumenthal said.
“This triad of likudic billionaires – [ Home Deport co-founder] Bernard Marcus, [casino magnate] Sheldon Adelson and [hedge fund billionaire] Paul Signer – contributed over $40 million to pro-Trump Super PACs, and also contributed enormous amount of money to Trump’s UN ambassador Nikki Haley and Tom Cotton, the senator that shaped Trump’s Iran policy,” the journalist pointed out.”
Max Blumenthal on the Iran situation:https://www.rt.com/usa/426213-iran-deal-withdrawal-israeli-lobby/May 8, 2018 at 2:44 pm in reply to: Dan Orslowsky Good Morning Football + D.O. vid on 2018 Rams D #85984wvParticipantwvParticipant…speaking of punt-returns — i watched this old vid of Hester. (two TDs against the Rams are on here). I was wondering who the best punt-returner I’d ever seen was. Thing about Hester if you watch is…its not really his speed that stands out. Its not his power. Its not his juke-skills. (though he has all that stuff). I tried to figure out what was so special about him — and it looks to me like its his…Vision. He just see things. Lanes. Angles. Paths.
Sometimes a player just see things. I guess you cant really measure that.
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vwvParticipantLongest punt return for Rams?
punt:https://twitter.com/ramsnfl/status/933427884370169857?lang=en
wvParticipant“I have rightwing thots sometimes”
wvParticipantI’ll have to pass those posts on to wv ewe.
For her files.
She’s still assigned to watching Nittany and PA.
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vwvParticipantYeah that was good. And purty accurate.
Take a look at this one on Trump. It gets good at the 6:50 or so mark. He/She talks about the rift between the Old Left (marx) and the New Left (ID Pols).
wvParticipantwvParticipantThis one was interesting too. Weird but interesting:
May 6, 2018 at 3:05 pm in reply to: The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant #85942wvParticipantIf u dont like America, why dont u just go back to 14th Century Russia.
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vwvParticipanthe Pats are an interesting example. They, apparently are often below average on the draft, but they must be good evaluators during free agency, cause they always put together a good team ‘somehow’.
I don;t agree with that either btw.
Subtract Brady and Bellichick and you don’t have a good team.
That doesn’t mean they put together good teams, measured against others. It means they have both Brady and Bellichick.
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Well what is it that Belichick does? He “puts together a good team”.Also — Gronk.
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vwvParticipantFor starters, I’d call tavon a bust. I really would.
I don’t think Tavon is even remotely a bust. Some would say a disppointment based on the slot where he was picked, but he was performing half the role he was supposed to be performing in 2017, when McVay would not use him in the passing game. That’s not on Tavon.
To me it’s a matter of perspective. Trung Canidate is a bust. Robert Thomas is a bust. Jimmy Kennedy is a bust. Klopenstein is a bust. Tye Hill is a bust. Claude Wroten is a bust. Brian Leonard is a bust. Chris Givens is a bust. Tavon gets used and accounted for. That’s not a bust.
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Well, like i said, we disagree. He was drafted in the top ten. They moved up to get him. And he ended up making as many bad plays as good ones. Drops, muffs, fumbles, missed assignments, bad kick-return decisions. He totally lost his confidence at the end.
If he’d been a sixth round pick, I ‘might’ not call him a bust. But i might. I dunno. But a top ten pick that ends up running a few sweeps and basically plays decoy because the coach doesnt trust him to do anything else? For me, bust is a fair word.
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vwvParticipantInteresting article about the eroding-or changing face of communism over the years/
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-gitlin-communism-anniversary-20180504-story.html
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“…During the preceding half-century, despite all of Communism’s recorded crimes, Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries had remained committed to the absolute rule of a single party as the only viable remedy for capitalism. Around the world, Soviet-style governments enjoyed a reputation as the best imaginable route to social progress….”
——–Thank goodness we have something so much better than a SINGLE party here in America.
I mean we have TWO whole parties that rule everyone. 🙂
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“I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile – at best.” Todd GitlinwvParticipantCK7’s last 6 games with SF
Jimmy G’s last 6 games with SF
CK7
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….i would give a gazillion ceramic tapirs, just to see Jimmy G, kneel down during the national anthem for one game 🙂
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vwvParticipantBoy, i think its good to try stuff like that but there’s a lot of subjectivity to it and lots of layers. For starters, I’d call tavon a bust. I really would. Because i consider where they were drafted. Now, i know you dont consider where they were drafted, cause i’ve read you on that. But i do, so to me he was a major bust.
Also, what complicates ‘grading’ teams or reducing them down to one percentage is the blue chip, red chip aspect to it. Its one thing to draft a Hagar who ‘contributes’ but its another thing to draft an Aaron Donald (and he was not a consensus pick. there were folks who thot he was too small, etc)
The blue chip, red chip player thing kinda blows up percentages, because its a lot more important to draft one Brady than three ‘contributers’. Ya know.
Also, of course you have different percentages for different rounds, and some teams had multiple first rounders, etc etc.
I dunno where any of that leads us, but i dont think it leads us to this percentage or that percentage is good or not-good.
Having said all that its purty obvious to me that Snead has done a good job. A really good job. That doesnt mean he’ll continue to do so. The Bethard example is the one i go back to, always. One year everyone thinks he’s a personnel genius, then a few years later he’s a bum who knows nothing.
Personnel is such a tricky game. The Pats are an interesting example. They, apparently are often below average on the draft, but they must be good evaluators during free agency, cause they always put together a good team ‘somehow’.
I think somewhere George Allen is smiling at the latest Ram team. The future is now.
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vwvParticipantI dont think there’s a “fatal” flaw in the starting 22 or special teams.
I’d rate the biggest dangers ASIDE from INJURIES as:
1. Goff regressing or not evolving to the next level. He still does have to improve. I dont think they can win a Ring if he stays at his second-year-level.
2. …uh….hmmmm….really its just Injuries after that. Key injuries can sink any team. If Gurley goes down, if the OLine gets bulgerized, etc.
They really do look poised to make a run at it. But then so do the Vikes and Eagles and maybe the Saints and Panthers. Maybe some others. And then there’s always the Pats in the AFC.
I just hope we get to see a lot of Suh and Donald healthy and playing every game this year. I assume it will only be for one year — but that dynamic really looks to be special. Once in a decade type thing. I cant wait. I can not think of a DT combo this good since…? Maybe ever. Course they havent actually done anything yet. But on paper it looks to be about as good a DT combo as has ever existed in the NFL. Think of a better one.
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vwvParticipantThe Fox News take on this, btw. They have more of it right, than the Dem-MSM:
wvParticipantYeah, and its all been said a million times before. Ie, the MSM is in bed with the Powerful.
And its gettin worse, year by year, as fewer and fewer corpse control more and more voices.
“…’The spirit of the event had always been jokes that singe but don’t burn,’ O’Donnell wrote.
Like your reporting, you mean?….”
wvParticipant“…Many Redskins cheerleaders understand the team’s approach — sex sells — and remain enthusiastic supporters of the team. They said they were troubled, however, when their safety was not taken seriously. There is no leaguewide policy for security, or a union to protect them…”
Sigh. Well, I dont even know where to start.
The corporate aspect of the NFL is truly appalling.
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vwvParticipantThey are all mystery-players to me, but i expected that. What I’m hoping for is to get two solid starters out of that group. I dont mean starters ‘this’ year, but maybe in a year or two.
If nothing else I would think the Tennessee RB would contribute.
Doesnt look like they took any ‘bad boys’ in the Draft. I guess they only want veteran-bad-boys.
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vwvParticipantI gave up on him, a while back. Ball security.
I hope he does well with Dallas, but I dont think he’s long for the NFL.
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vApril 28, 2018 at 6:06 pm in reply to: Rams draft in general — tweets n bits n posts n articles etc. #85566wvParticipant<strong class=”d4pbbc-bold”>Joe Curley@vcsjoecurley
Rams Pick 5 Academic Award Winners
Joe Noteboom: four-time Academic All-Big 12.
Brian Allen: three-time Academic All-Big Ten.
John Franklin: three-time Academic All-Southland Conference.
Micah Kiser: two-time ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Sebastian Joseph: three-time Academic All-Big Ten===================
Well now thats interesting. Is that a first for the Rams? I cant remember anything like that.
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vwvParticipantEnh. Very inconsistent, a project. A need pick.
What were the odds zn came up with about OT’s picked after the second round? Somethin like five percent?
Its a good thing they are an unstoppable Dream Team.
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vYeah it’s about 5%. But that’s not OTs, it’s just LOTs. So a coupla outcomes here. One is, he becomes one of the odds defying lower round LOTs. Another is, he becomes a guard or ROT. Some have even mentioned center. The odds of finding a lower round starting guard or ROT are significantly better. They need OL. They just do…2 are old and the other 3 are FAs after this season. So if he becomes a starting LOT, then, they scored big time. If not, they need a guard or ROT anyway. Heck right now, as a swing tackle, he is already by far the best depth they have for THIS season.
Rams have had their share of good to great OL coaches, going back years. Kromer is one of the top ones, if not THE top one. He of course was in on this pick. So there’s probably more to this than the negatives in scouting reports would lead you to think.
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Well my gut sez Bust.
My brain sez my gut doesnt know shit.I do think its reasonable to think they will find a couple of gems in the late rounds with all those picks. I hope they dont trade up. I hope the make a gazillion picks and a couple are likely to be good.
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