nittany ram wrote:

Zooey wrote:

Yeah, I agree with you. I think the Green Party ought to represent the far right in this country.

We should be laughing at the crazy ravings of fascists like Sanders and Stein.

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Hey you extremists just cant deal with the real world. Pragmatic centrists like Stein and Sanders live in the ‘real world.’

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canadaram wrote:

While I have to admit that I’m disappointed that it came to this, I think that it’s the right decision. It would be nice if Keenum develops into the ultimate game manager in the meantime. Maybe the Rams can break .500 if all the cards fall into place, or if all the Cards fall on their face. Get it?

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Ditto. I’m a little disappointed.

…It’s like getting a birthday present of a
baseball glove in December, and knowing you wont be able to
do anything with it until Spring.

I want Goff to be ready NOW,
dammit.

…Now watch that little shit Case Keenum become the league MVP 🙂

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bnw wrote:

Dumb.

Why? Goff has to learn. He needs reps. They cant protect him forever.
Might as well put him in now, and get him experience.

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Billy_T wrote:

when it comes to the rise of mental illness. And the likely culprit, IMO, is pollution of all kinds. We are awash in air, water and land pollution, and the things we eat all too often are filled with serious hazards — known and unknown to those who make and sell them.
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…That, and the usual PTSD of living in dangerous environments . . . . The human animal wasn’t meant for that. It was meant to leave those areas for greener pastures. We just don’t have the internal defenses for daily, toxic levels of stress and pollution.

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Yeah, I dunno, but that is what i suspect. At least those are significant factors
in the big complex ball of factors.

But like i say, I dunno. I do know that in West, by god, Virginia, mental illness and serious drug addiction are just going through the roof. Its exploded here in this Red-state.

There are damn few West Virginians here, who are not-crazy, and/or not-addicted.

I talked to four indigent-defendants today who were diagnosed with this, btw, fwiw:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_explosive_disorder

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Dak wrote:

Wow. It was a joke on a late night TV show. Nobody cares anything about it except right-wing conspiracy theorists.

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Yes, but I’m interested in who these rightwing-conspiracy types are,
and how they got that way. I think many are mildly to moderately to extremely
mentally ill. Not all, but many. I suspect that because i work with many
mentally ill defendants and many of them have ‘those views’.

Mental illness in all kinds of forms is on the rise in America. Google
the numbers. At least it seems to be. Especially among the poverty-stricken. If it is…why?

Sometimes i think the ‘system’ causes mental illness (not on purpose of course)
and then the system blames the mentally ill for their wacko-views. Sometimes.

At any rate, Alex is mentally ill in my view. Having said that I would ‘assume’
Kimmel’s people and Hillary’s people made damn sure she would succeed at opening the jar.
I mean if YOU were on Hillary’s staff wouldn’t you make damn sure she was
gonna be able to open that jar? Maybe they picked the jar or picked the type of jar
or loosened it or had Hillary practice with similar jars…somethin like that.
Cause they would not take a chance. No way they would take a chance on that.

Granted, it aint the least bit important to the Non-brain-dead
whether she can open jars or not. But then how many Americans
really vote on ‘policy’ issues ? I dunno.

PS — I know Alex’s views are dangerous-memes. Quite dangerous.
I dont mind people criticizing him at all. I just dont think
he’s mentally healthy. I am not convinced he’s a ‘con man’. I think
he believes this stuff. But who knows.

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zn wrote:

wv wrote:

I totally disagree. I think it does help things, and will contribute to the much-needed
discussion in a positive way.

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Hate to be skeptical. But, if there is a lot of evidence of that, I would be happy to see it.

Lefties putting out blog stuff about the anthem’s lyrics won’t cover that, in my mind. That’s just the same pre-ordained percentage talking to itself again.

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Well I dont think it will help much at all. But i think every little iota of leaning-toward-the-light helps. You didn’t just write it wouldnt help, but you wrote it would hurt. “divisive” etc.

Yeah, it’ll cause divisiveness, but it’ll cause other things too. All in all, I think its a ‘positive’ thing, despite the divisiveness.

Do you think the Carlos/Smith act was meaningless or divisive?

I like the fact it was aimed at Grid-iron fans. Gridiron fans get HEAVY dose after dose after dose of the usual pro-authority, pro-system crap. I am in favor of them seeing another point of view on that.

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So far so good, regarding injuries in the preseason. Nothing devastating yet.

Which means, of course, we are in for a major ACL-storm
in game four.

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Interesting. Thanks Cappy.

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One has the impression the front four will be anywhere from good to great,
as long as Q is healthy (big IF, btw)

But replacing laurinaitus with Ogletree,
and losing McCleod, has me thinking the D will
be kinda inconsistent, at least at first.

I am hoping they will be good in the redzone. Seemed
like last year they really tightened up in the redzone.
Gave up a lot of yards but not so many points. Am i remembering
that right?

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Well, i am not convinced he’d be worse than Bush, and I’m not convinced ANYONE really
knows what Trump would do but I no longer think he’s relevant. And we all know where we stand on Trump. Nobody has changed anybody’s mind about that the billionaire.

But, He cant win, now. Its over. He’s toast. I doubt we see his like again — the Reps will never allow that to happen again, i would think. They will have four years to figure out just what kind of algebra they need to bring their shattered party together.

I’m much more interested in what Hillary will do. The annointed neoliberal-hawk.

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nittany ram wrote:

Invasion Biology stipulates that the species most ecologically similar to the invading species will face the greatest competition from the invading species.

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-invasion-ecologist-doubts-exotic/

“…Earlier this spring, he published a bombshell of a book with Oxford University Press called Invasion Biology. Davis claims that alien species have been demonized and resources wasted on purported “invasives” could be better spent protecting habitat. More than that, he disputes the maxim that invasive species are the second-leading cause of species endangerment after habitat destruction, impacting some 42 percent of threatened and endangered species. Such concerns are particularly timely as ecologists debate the risks of relocating species to save them from climate change. In June, one reviewer wrote that Davis “dares to touch the third rail of invasion biology,” slaughtering some of its “sacred cows.”..

Young Havenstein is unstoppable.

He’ll be out there for Game one.

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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, “I am man.”, our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall mock the earthquake. We shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself.

Well, some Neanderthal women were just Hot.
Especially the corset-wearing Neanderthals.

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