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December 6, 2016 at 4:03 pm in reply to: Army Corps Denies Easement and Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline #60439
wvParticipantDid anybody notice the thousand of vets showing up in Standing Rock right before they decide to shut down the pipeline ? Trump who was the guy saying no one was a stronger supporter of veterans. They shut it down because when they lose the military they lose their power and the vets taking a stand was the first step.
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I noticed. Its been quite a protest. Lots of layers and cross-currents of interests and complexity.I have read btw, that indigenous peoples have become the most sophisticated protestors on the planet. They have learned much, by doing.
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vlink:http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/02/veterans-arrive-standing-rock-act-human-shields-water-protectors
“…The “Veterans Stand for Standing Rock” action has garnered widespread support, with the National Nurses United (NNU) union sending $50,000 to fund their expenses and a popular fundraiser surpassing $800,000 by Friday afternoon.“We salute the brave veterans who are standing up for the rights of the water protectors, and all of us who support this critical defense of the First Amendment right to assemble and protest without facing brutal and unwarranted attacks,” said NNU co-president Jean Ross.
Also on Friday, water protectors fulfilled a wishlist of supplies created by the Morton County Sheriff’s Department in Mandan, North Dakota, as an act of goodwill.
The generosity was striking, as officers from Morton County have subjected the Indigenous activists to extreme uses of force in recent days—including water cannons in subfreezing temperatures, mace, rubber bullets, and allegedly concussion grenades. One activist is still in danger of losing an arm after being struck with by what witnesses described as a concussion grenade thrown directly at her by police in riot gear.
“North Dakota taxpayers have already bankrolled the Morton County Sheriff Department with approximately ten million dollars for the suppression of peaceful water protectors. Despite this excessive financial support, Morton County officers are asking taxpayers to donate supplies,” said the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Indigenous Peoples Power Project in a joint statement….see link
December 6, 2016 at 3:04 pm in reply to: informal poll: should the Patz even bother to show up? #60436wvParticipantThe defense has looked terrible against two of the best offenses. Now they face a third good offense. It aint gonna be pretty.
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vDecember 6, 2016 at 3:00 pm in reply to: informal poll: what's wrong with the offense, can it pick up? #60435wvParticipantI’m not sure I’ve ever seen an offense this bad
where everyone was Healthy. For the most part they’ve had all their
players.Grob – inconsistent. Kendricks – inconsistent. Tavon — inconsistent. Gurley – inconsistent. Britt – inconsistent. Quick — inconsistent. Nothing is flowing, nothing is smooth. The Oline cant get out of its own way. ITs a train-wreck.
I have no idea if something that looks this bad, can bee quick-fixed.
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vwvParticipantFrustrating season, for sure.
“We just have to find a way to get better,” Rams defensive end William Hayes said. “It’s just getting frustrating. Week in and week out, everybody’s taking their turns making mistakes.”
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vwvParticipantSeems to me its either personnel or zn’s ‘distractions lead to lack of cohesion’
or both.I dunno, but i ‘lean’ toward both. Which is bad.
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vDecember 5, 2016 at 9:11 am in reply to: Army Corps Denies Easement and Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline #60311wvParticipantMckibben:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/04/standing-rock-victory-turning-point?utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit
The victory at Standing Rock could mark a turning point
Bill McKibbenDecember 4, 2016 at 5:34 pm in reply to: Army Corps Denies Easement and Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline #60252wvParticipantCan Trump over-ride all that, if he wants?
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vwvParticipantHow did the Rams get a TD? FOX switched the game to New Orleans with 10:48 remaining.
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Sixty yard pass to britt took it to the one. Then TD pass to britt.
All in garbage time.w
vwvParticipantI do not like this ram team.
I do not like them.
I would not watch them in a boat.
I would not watch them on a train.
I would not watch them with a fox.I do not like this ram team.
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vwvParticipantAre you wearing a Dickerson jersey? Cuz I saw that guy.
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Rams cant GIVE away sideline passes at this point. No-one wants them.
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vDecember 4, 2016 at 2:21 pm in reply to: 2nd Most Futile Franchise — At least we ain’t the Browns #60215wvParticipantDont worry, its a seven year plan. This is only year five.
The plan, btw, is to give Fisher seven years of losing seasons,
then fire him and start a new plan.Get with the program.
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vwvParticipantI dont see the ‘one year buy out’ theory as all ‘that’ important given the fact that Kronky is a multi-billionaire and can fire Fisher any time he wants, and just eat the contract-money.
I assume Kronky gave his word that fisher would get a pass on any ‘move’ year and so I assume Kronky feels he has to give Fisher one more year.
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vwvParticipant“…At the time, everyone noticed the attempt to weaken Syria, but no-one understood the under-lying motivation for this transfer of the population. And yet a close colleague of ambassador Samantha Powell, Kelly M. Greenhill, had published a university article on Strategic engineering of migration as a weapon of war [1], which should have caught the attention.”
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vI will say this. Just in terms of the prose, that’s English as a second language in a time when there are no editors.
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Yes. Much like Mike Martz, or Donald Rumsfeld.w
vwvParticipantED aint gettin his sideline passes anytime soon, huh 🙂
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vwvParticipantI think it sez a lot about Kronky. He’s very patient for one thing. I cant think of another owner who has extended a coach after four losing seasons (it was signed in preseason).
Maybe he’s also stubborn and unwilling to admit he made a mistake?
Or is he a genius and championships are just around the corner?
I would have never extended him. I’d have let this season play out
and THEN decided what to do. And given how the rams have played
I’d have signed another coach after this season. Kronky sees it differently, obviously.Or does he. What if the Rams finish with five wins…
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vwvParticipantSo he can still be fired though, right? I mean Kronky would just have to pay him two more years.
I would ‘guess’ the next five games still matter.
The ‘timing’ of this report is interesting. I mean, Why NOW?
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December 4, 2016 at 9:53 am in reply to: Clinton’s “Corrupt Establishment” Is Now Advising Donald Trump #60152wvParticipantThat cant be right. Cuz ya know, he’s an ‘straight-shooting outsider’.
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vwvParticipantYes, i agree with all that. But jeezus.
Thot this was good:
“…At the time, everyone noticed the attempt to weaken Syria, but no-one understood the under-lying motivation for this transfer of the population. And yet a close colleague of ambassador Samantha Powell, Kelly M. Greenhill, had published a university article on Strategic engineering of migration as a weapon of war [1], which should have caught the attention.”w
vwvParticipantwvParticipantBuckley could have mud wrestled with Chomsky and it would have been more intellectually honest and had more integrity than most anything happening in the public discourse right now.
Most of what’s out there is a gigantic hippo spraying shit all over everything, tail a blur.
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A gigantic hippo spraying shit all over everything. Tail a blur.
I like it.
I think it should be the new Amerikan flag.
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vwvParticipantA five minute vid. Wait for the punch line at the end:
wvParticipantI thot what he said at the 28 through 35 mark is worth listening to.
Essentially he said the marginalized workers all over the globe voted for racist-bricks-through-the-windows, UNLESS they had a legit leftist option….
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vwvParticipantThat’s bullshit.
The earth is only 6000 years old, ya freakin’ commie.
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According to Mermaids, its only 4000 years old.Damn mermaid-denier.
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vwvParticipantholy shit…
sometimes the comedy cuts a little too close…
wvParticipantWow, partisan buzzkillary…. sweet.
We used to have William F. Buckley, Jr debating Noam Chomsky.
Our discourse has diminished to “Hildabeast v. Drumpf”
I fucking hate people, sometimes…
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Well, as i recall, Buckley threatened to punch Chomsky in the nose.So, ya know, politix does make it hard to get along.
It takes a lot of effort. And practice. And stuff.w
vwvParticipantI watched half of it, and thought he was just excellent. I’ll have to check out the rest later.
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In general, the deployment of austerity as economic policy has been as effective in bringing us peace, prosperity, and crucially, a sustained reduction of debt, as the Mongol Golden Horde was in furthering the development of Olympic dressage.”
― Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous IdeaAside from France, I was baffled by the puzzle of Sweden and other Nordic states, which are often offered as paragons of the large state “that works”—the government represents a large portion of the total economy. How could we have the happiest nation in the world, Denmark (assuming happiness is both measurable and desirable), and a monstrously large state? Is it that these countries are all smaller than the New York metropolitan area? Until my coauthor, the political scientist Mark Blyth, showed me that there, too, was a false narrative: it was almost the same story as in Switzerland (but with a worse climate and no good ski resorts). The state exists as a tax collector, but the money is spent in the communes themselves, directed by the communes—for, say, skills training locally determined as deemed necessary by the community themselves, to respond to private demand for workers. The economic elites have more freedom than in most other democracies—this is far from the statism one can assume from the outside.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder“…raising the average income tax for the top income percentile to 43.5 percent from 22.4 percent, the level of 2007, would raise revenue by 3 percent of GDP, which is enough to close the US structural deficit while still leaving very high earners with more after-tax income than they would have had under Nixon.”
― Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous IdeaDecember 2, 2016 at 4:46 pm in reply to: How many promises will he break before inauguration? #60026wvParticipantI
If a few more state houses go Republican… you think Mike Pence won’t work with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to use the Nuclear option in the Senate to eliminate the filibuster and then start passing and ratifying Amendments to the Constitution that MOST Americans actually don’t want, but thanks to gerrymandering, corrupt Dems and hard right evangelical Christian Republicans… we could easily see…
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Well i guess we are gonna find out if there’s a real, actual ‘Left‘ in this country thats worth a damn.
If there is, then there will be a battle. If there aint, there will be…Mordor?
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vwvParticipantI’m with you I was being goofy……..The Lakers are the NBA brand of LA…… I too want the Rams to be the only show in town….
If SD doesn’t work for the Chargers…..STL needs a team…..
St. Louisans appreciate the sentiment. Seriously, thanks.
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Cardinals should move back to St.Louis
Chargers should stay in SD
Rams should be alone in LA
Oakland should move to VegasArizona and Oakland should get expansion
teams.OK, next problem.
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vDecember 2, 2016 at 3:23 pm in reply to: Scouting QB Jared Goff After 2 Games; LA Rams vs NE Patriots #60017wvParticipantI wonder if their record would be any better if Goff had started
from game one?I assume if he’s gonna have a really bad game,
it might be against Belichex on the Road, in the cold.It would be nice if they had a running game.
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vDecember 2, 2016 at 12:34 pm in reply to: Jill Stein raising money for vote recount in swing states #60004wvParticipantI’m just not sure how this will change anything in a state like Pennsylvania. It’s electronic voting. How do they check that? If it was hacked or corrupted in some way wouldn’t the recount just show the same corrupted data?
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Well i like the idea of a recount. If nothing else it furthers the conversation about secure-voting and methodology etc.
It gives the local election folks something to think about.w
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