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wvParticipantAllz-i-know-iz, i hope-ta-god we arent sitting here next year
saying they need a Quarterback.Goff. Its all about Goff to me.
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vwvParticipantThe bots’ end products were largely millions of Twitter and Facebook posts carrying links to stories on conservative internet sites such as Breitbart News and InfoWars, as well as on the Kremlin-backed RT News and Sputnik News, the sources said. Some of the stories were false or mixed fact and fiction, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the bot attacks are part of an FBI-led investigation into a multifaceted Russian operation to influence last year’s elections.
—————-Well, i like RT News. Its generally been pro-Trump and anti-Hillary, but all in all, its better than American Corporate News. I’d rather have RT News in the mix than not have it. Its actually quite good on a lot of issues.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipanttrust in media at new low:http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx
US 41st in media freedom:https://rsf.org/ranking#
wvParticipantWe are doomed.
“We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!”
That is from The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. A great play. It’s about something else. But I want it to be about this. “We are what we always were in Salem….”
Humans. At best, we’re hypocrites. At worst, well….
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I listened to the Crucible on an audio-CD in my car.w
vwvParticipantWell obviously this was not their first choice 🙂
Maybe take a center in the third round. Or trade up into the second round
or somethin like that. They gotta be stronger up the middle. Goff has to feel safe.w
vwvParticipantAnd I can’t help but wonder, if the 9ers had the best record in the league, if they wouldn’t have gone ahead and watched them while complaining about Kapernick.
People compromise with stuff they don’t like all the time if it gets them to a larger goal.
When that compromise is not going to get you to your goal, it is a lot easier to make that point of compromise the “straw” that broke the camel’s back.
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Yup. The Steeler fans hate big ben…but they love big ben. If ya know what i mean.w
vwvParticipant3. Republicans (and their patrons in big business) no longer believe Trump will give them cover to do what they want to do. They’re becoming afraid Trump is genuinely nuts, and he’ll pull the party down with him.
They are just now figuring this out! Really?
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Nice to see you on the board, Al. Hows life?
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vwvParticipantI do know some things about the Korean war. That right there is what I call basher left purple prose. I never find that kind of thing enlightening. It just reminds me too much of right-wing purple prose–basically, boyscouts acting like things reduce to slogans. It’s especially annoying when it actually tries to turn north koreans and/or putinista russians into good guys.
To me the left is about balanced accounts not about which name to call which namecall target.
Here’s an example. The way this is stated, something that is part true gets turned into bs: “…brought the peninsula to the brink of nuclear conflagration, if American generals had their way at the time.” Deep in there is a part truth being distorted by emotion-drenched irrationality.
It has the tone of an emotion-driven, very partisan fan venting on a message board. “Snead is the worst gm in NFL history and drafting Robinson disqualifies him from being called a human being.”
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I dont disagree in general — but i dont mind that kind
of stuff.How many Koreans died from the war though? Is it three million?
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vwvParticipantHe really threw a lot of accurate quick darts in that offense, under
plenty of duress.Still, i wouldnt want him as my franchise QB. There’s just somethin
about Sam i dont like. I cant quite put my finger on it.w
vwvParticipantI have no idea, but my wild-speculation iz — its mostly just that player evaluation experts think he’s no longer a decent QB.
Teams seem to have figured him out, and he wasn’t able to adjust.
If Tom Brady or Russell Wilson joined the Black Panthers and burned the American Flag on Oprah, i think teams would still sign them.
But if a mediocre or role player did the same thing — then yeah, the powers-that-be might make an ‘example’ of em.
Kapernik just aint a bigtime talent anymore. I wouldnt want him. And i love running QBsw
vMarch 20, 2017 at 7:40 am in reply to: Republicans have to stop lying to Americans about health care insurance. #66501wvParticipantI wonder if its possible to ‘go too far’ with the American public. I dunno.
Its possible the Reps are lying too much now.Just depends how brain-damaged the public really is, due to lifetimes of
corporate-propoganda.w
vwvParticipant“So the dream is gone.”
Yes. I think we should rename the Public House, “the Dream is gone.”
Most of our posts describe dream-crashing of one kind or another 🙂
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vwvParticipantThe corporotacracy never sleeps.
=====Republican Legislators Push for Cities to Be Treated as “Tenants of the State”
Sunday, March 19, 2017 By Simon Davis-Cohen, Truthout
link:http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39899-republican-legislators-push-for-cities-to-be-treated-as-tenants-of-the-stateRight now, there are two bills filed in the Florida legislature that propose sweeping new restrictions on local governments. One (House Bill 17) would bar them from regulating “businesses, professions, and occupations,” the other (SB 1158), would expressly preempt “the regulation of matters relating to commerce, trade, and labor.” The broad language of the bills has local advocates up in arms and newspapers like the Naples Daily News asking whether “local regulations [are] a thing of the past.” The legislative session to discuss and advance the bills began March 7.
Though egregious, what may be most noteworthy about the bills is how ordinary they actually are. Bills like them have become commonplace in the United States.
Local governments have become a battleground, and corporate interests seeking to dampen their influence have been proposing and passing bills like these for years. Countless local minimum wage hikes, worker protection bills, rent laws, police oversight initiatives, fossil fuel extraction bans and other progressive reforms have passed across the country since 2008. In Florida, local ordinances on wage theft, expanded paid leave, fracking, gun regulations and more have been central to the left’s platform. Now more than ever, going local has become a key way to make gains and resist — especially under Trump.
In response, corporate and right-wing interests have used their disproportionate (and often gerrymandered) control over state legislatures to pass “state preemption” bills like HB 17 and SB 1158 to quell local activism. Increasingly, the basic powers of local governments are becoming a keystone in the fight over a slew of issues, including the maintenance of democracy itself… see link
wvParticipantat the 11:32 mark, the “japanese war
tuba” ?w
vMarch 19, 2017 at 8:15 am in reply to: discussing some FAs: Cook to Raiders, Britt to Browns, Seattle's signings, etc. #66458wvParticipantJoeckel sure sounds like a very bad player. Wonder why the seahawks wanted him ?
I guess it aint as easy to find bad-Offensive-linemen as it used ta be.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantWow…Saffold saying the scheme was the biggest problem?
Usually players don’t spread the dirt after a change…but….
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And Fisher picked the players that didnt commit. So it ends up back at the coach anyway.
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vMarch 18, 2017 at 8:08 pm in reply to: Timing of first humans to arrive in North America pushed back 10,000 years #66430wvParticipantWell, the most important questions remain — When did the first humans come to West Virginia?
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vwvParticipantIs Goldman Sachs, Evil?
link:https://www.corbettreport.com/wvParticipantEnh.
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Yeah, i like Abbey but that was kinda, enh. I thought it would be about Israel 🙂Having said that, i still have questions about 9/11 and i dont think it was investigated very well. But i lean toward the official account.
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vwvParticipantIn spite of Sanders and Trump, neither party seems to notice the obvious underlying connection. How dense are they?
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I dunno, but i just think thats who they are.
Ya know. I mean, Obama just IS a corporatist. Same with Clinton. Its not that they are ‘dense’, its that they are neoliberals. They just are.w
vwvParticipantMany people asked, bewilderedly, “how did this [Trump] happen?” When I suggest it had a lot to do with the 35-year-long decline of incomes of the bottom 60 percent; the growing sense, ever since the Wall Street bailout, that the game is rigged; and the utter failure of both Republicans and Democrats to reverse these trends – they gave me blank stares.
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vwvParticipantIf you skip to the 51 minute mark or so, and listen for about five mins
to the part where he mentions educating the public and he sez he’s ‘open to ideas’ on how to get thru to the brain-washed masses — itz purty telling.w
vwvParticipantBern talks about the difference tween ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive’ at about the nine minute mark. Sounds a lot like our ‘liberal’ vs ‘leftist’ discussions way back when.
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vwvParticipantAnd of course none of that matters since,
A) the Rightwing-Machine will spin the usual BS out into the airways,
and B) the Dems — the opposition party — are dominated by Pro-Corporate
interests themselves.America has become one big-giant-huge “fuck the poor” nation.
I wonder what Jesus would think?
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vwvParticipant“…Bernie Sanders offers a good illustration of what I mean about using language effectively by going beyond reason and incorporating character and emotion. I long thought Sanders would be particularly effective in a debate against Donald Trump, far more so than Hillary Clinton. That was not because Sanders has a more acute command of debater’s logic than Clinton; in fact, she’s far better at this. Rather, it’s because Sanders had those other two appeals: the emotional appeal and the character appeal. Sanders could very effectively describe meeting people without health insurance, and speak with moral conviction about the plight of the underclass, and he could fundamentally get people to trust him by having a kind of personal integrity that many people respected. (Hardly anybody respects the character of either Clinton or Trump.) Democrats need to not just be right on the facts, but to have candidates that can speak to people on an emotional level, and who seem to have the kind of human traits in which people can place their confidence…”
wvParticipantOne mans view of the Guardian:http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/28/the-dangerous-cult-of-the-guardian/
“….The paper’s role, like that of its rightwing cousins, is to limit the imaginative horizons of readers. While there is just enough leftwing debate to make readers believe their paper is pluralistic, the kind of radical perspectives needed to question the very foundations on which the system of Western dominance rests is either unavailable or is ridiculed.
Reading the Guardian, it is possible to believe that one of the biggest problems facing our societies – comparable to our compromised political elites, corrupt police authorities, and depraved financial system – is an array of mainly isolated dissidents and intellectuals on the left…”
wvParticipantRachel Maddow is becoming must see TV in my household. At least up until Trump gets impeached.
And then we’ll watch the victory laps for a week or two.==========
Enh. Not to me. Shes a
Hillary lover.
And she
probably works for AIPAC
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vwvParticipantthis article has some really boring parts and some really interesting parts. Skip around:
link:http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/15/how-bankers-became-the-top-exploiters-of-the-economy/
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