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I do my best to do 105 push ups per day and walk 2 miles.

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105 ? Wny 105 ?

Thats a lot, btw. How many can you do in a row?

I used to be a big ‘pull up’ guy. I liked pull ups. But now, at my age, its tough to get my elbow joints to go along with pullups. But I’m still gonna try and see if i can get my body to go along with them.

I rewatched a dvd of ‘Pumping Iron’ with Arnold and Ferrigno a while back. On the special features they kinda hinted that a lot of the drama was kinda ‘created’ just to add some pizzazz to the film.

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First John Oliver attacks Jill, and now Taibbi falls in love with Obama’s charisma. Gag me.

You can’t separate Obama the person from Obama the tepid center-right empty politico?

I think he would have made a great university president. When he spoke up as a moral spokesman on certain issues I thought he was tremendous.

His policies, such as they are, were Clintonista sameole sameole.

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Nah, I’m not interested in that kind of separation. I think focusing on his personal traits is just a diversion from his hideous murderous neoliberal policies.

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canadaram wrote:

I’ve started cycling over the past 5 years. I used to run regularly, but my calves no longer handle it well at all. I still run occasionally, but during the summer I usually ride 5-6 days per week. I lift light weights a couple times per week as well. In the winter I x-country ski. I have a fat (tire) bike now, so I plan to ride that this winter as well as ski.

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How old are ya, Canada ?

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Now this is worth watching. Really.

nittany ram wrote:

<I always think of you when I see Moonrise Kingdom. When I was watching it in the theater for the first time I thought this was a film you would like. I could picture you fitting in quite nicely in that universe. 😉

I’m also a fan of the ‘mockumentaries’ done by Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael Mckean, etc….This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind…

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O shit. Thats probly true. I would fit into a Wes Anderson movie.

What kind of movie would you fit into?

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Elrond: Put aside the Ranger, become who you were born to be.

Well, i still maintain the MSM is a more sinister problem than the ‘fake news’ problem. Both are problems, but which one will the MSM NEVER talk about and which one will they try to solve ?

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“Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.”
― A.J. Liebling

The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.”
― Gore Vidal

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“We are intellectual prostitutes.”
John Swinton, New York 1890.

John Swinton, the foremost journalist of his day, was asked to toast an independent press at a New York banquet given in his honour by other journalists. His response was clear and forthright:

“There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Other of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.

“The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men.

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PA Ram wrote:

This is all going to be very interesting to watch how the U.S./Cuba relations turn now that Trump will be in charge. On one hand there is the possibility of him negotiating something that includes Trump Hotels in downtown Havana and maybe some casinos, if he sees some profit there but if he doesn’t get what he wants from them, or it looks like a loser financially, I would expect him to play it up for all it’s worth and slam them hard.

Stay tuned.

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Well, i just think its surreal that the US Government has tried to destroy Cuba for all these years, because they dont like the Cuban Government, and yet,
the US Government LOVES dictatorships like Saudi Arabia.

I could go on, of course… 🙂

And yes, it will be interesting to see how the Donald handles
Cuba, and other nations.

Will the Donald kill more brown people or less than Obama did?

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Now, I just shake my head, and quietly shut the game off, upset with myself for investing yet another 3 hours of my time.

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Get NFL-replay. Then you can choose to only watch the
gawd-awful, boring, hideous, Touchdown-less WINS.

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NERam wrote:

wv wrote:

Record (W-L-T): 544-548-21

I’m not real good at math, but that looks pretty close to the same % as 8-8.

I bristled when Arians first said that the Rams were just another 8-8 team; maybe he’s right…

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Hey 8 and 8 would look pretty good right now.

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bnw wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

bnw wrote:

3 million illegals voted and they didn’t vote for Trump.

Nah…

Link: http://www.snopes.com/three-million-votes-in-presidential-election-cast-by-illegal-aliens/

Thats right 3 million illegals voted.

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Well you’ve offered zero proof of that. So far its just a rightwing rumor.
Why do you believe it?

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