Damn. Well, i suppose if a board is gonna blow up this is the best time of year for a meltdown. Not much goin on.

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JamesJM
7/6/2016 10pm Update

The situation is not good.

The server is back up and running but all data is gone, perhaps forever. Two SSD Drives, against all odds, failed… the main SSD Drive and our backup SSD Drive.

If you try to access the site you’ll get a 404 error.. which means it’s running again but there is no data as yet. Troy is working to get an “Under Construction” page up to notify everyone about the problem. This blog isn’t reaching everyone and in fact is reaching a very, VERY small percentage of Herd Members.

Again… please pass along this information to any Herd Members you can reach.
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Agamemnon wrote:

… You have to have the star players and you have to have good cheap talent available to make it work.

I will contend that the real secret to maintaining a good roster is good drafting..

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Well true. but “good drafting” and the ability to figure out who
is going to be “good” cheap talent,
aint easy apparently.

And we’ll see how long Seattle can continue to do it. A couple of years from now, we may be reading articles about how Seattle lost its magic touch. Ya know.

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I dont think they’ve had six ‘great’ ones.

DV counts as one.

Maybe someone from the 50’s teams. Thats before my time though.

They’ve had some ‘good to very good’ ones, of course.
George Allen comes to mind. Maybe J. Robinson. Knox was ‘good’.
Those three built some fine defenses. Kinda one-dimensional on offense for most of their years. Course Robinson brought in Zampese and the offense changed.

It would not surprise me at all if Fisher ends up being considered in the “good to very good” range. Thing is, that means he wont have won a Ring.

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nittany ram wrote:

.. If you moved through time on one of these worlds everything would be the same no matter how far back or how far forward in time you traveled. So don’t expect anyone to come along with any new fangled ideas about democracy or the redistribution of wealth and power.

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Well, my complaint stands. Capitalist-Fantasy-writers write stories
about feudalism-worship and monarchy-worship. And they dont have to.
They just do.

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bnw wrote:

Trump has been out front in promoting women and minorities yet he’s constantly called a racist. Thats why.

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OK, i get where you are coming from. And fwiw, I am not one of the ones banging the “trump is a racist” drum. I suspect he is much more of a “nationalist” than a racist. But then Nationalism is as loathsome to me as racism.

I think we will see all kinds of stories about Trump NOT being a racist because he hired a new PR guy a coupla weeks ago, and his new handlers are trying to repackage him as ‘kinder and gentler’ and more sensitive. Its typical political crappolla, and it may or may not work.

I’d like to see Trump judged solely on his POLICIES btw. I dont get into the “hes a racist” and “he’s a sexist” stuff. I do think there’s “something” there, but I think he’s a mixed bag on race/sex stuff.

I think you will agree, Trumps biggest problem is to expand outside his “white male” base. He’s gonna have to convince some women and minorities he’s not a sexist/racist.

What do you think of Trumps recent conversion to evangelical-jesus-luv ? Surely, you dont buy into that ?

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bnw wrote:

Now now lets just drag that timeline forward 100 years since the democrats were flagrantly racist in the 1950s too. Sen. Byrd wasn’t alone in your state.

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Absolutely. The Duplicat Party and Replicant Party were both full
of racists.

I can focus on both. Why do you only focus on half of the problem?

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Zooey wrote:

Confirmation Bias…. It isn’t a debate..

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Well….right. Not a debate. So, in my case, I adopt different posting styles for different situations.

And it raises posting-questions…if its not a ‘debate’ what is it? And what can it be? Whats the best we can hope for on a pol-message-board, and how do we get there? Etc, and so forth.

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“You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.”
Denise Levertov

Zooey wrote:

It is easy to imagine, given what we know about Dick Cheney and other White House operatives applying thumb screws across the street to get what they wanted when they fabricated reasons for the Iraq War. Applying pressure is what these guys do. The Clintons didn’t get where they are without some arm-twisting along the way.

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Well, the FBI has a long long history of acting in utterly political ways,
because of political pressure. I recently listened to an old audio-book in my car
by Bob Woodward (whom i cant stand). It was his book about deep-throat, who was
the guy who was 2nd in command at the FBI during the Nixon/Watergate years.
(Deep throat far from being a freedom-of-the-press soldier was a great admirer of J.Edgar Hoover, btw) Anyway, Woodward, the former Navy guy, and former Republican was hardly an FBI-basher, but he made it very clear the organization was a matrix of contested ground between the “political” vs “professional”

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I watched the last few episodes of the latest season of GOT.

I must say, it was purty-damn-good.

In the second-to-last show, that battle scene was
claustrophobic. The film-makers did a fine job of making the viewer
feel squished and squashed and hopeless.

I also thought the special effects involving the dragons in the last
episode were really impressive.

My only complaint (which i made to a fantasy-loving-friend of mine, and I also made the complaint about Star Wars…)
is more ‘political’ than anything else. I wish George Martin (or substitute any fantasy writer, film-maker) would have added a faction, or tribe, or kingdom, or family that stood for democratic-socialism. Ya know. I mean all that “Yay for the good King” and “Yay for the bad King” stuff makes me grit my teeth every time.
I’ve said all this before, blah blah blah…

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nittany ram wrote:

http://www.snopes.com/2016/06/30/concealed-carrier-prevents-mass-shooting-at-south-carolina-nightclub/

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“…Some might validly argue that the suspect’s intent in the Lyman nightclub incident (and whether the event fit a given definition of “mass shooting”) is irrelevant; all that matters is that a legally armed citizen was able to intervene in a shooting in progress and thereby possibly prevented additional injury (or even loss of life). That may be true, but in the absence of additional details about the event, unequivocally stating that a “mass shooting” was prevented is problematic….”

Enh. I dont care whether it was defined as a ‘mass shooting’ or not.

It is a case of one gun-carrier stopping another gun-carrier.

People will, of course, interpret that scenario to mean different things….

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zn wrote:

Phase 2.b

Astilbe & hostas.

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I do not like Astilbes. I just want you to know that.

Now i dont want any trouble. I mean the last thing we need
is another deadly, rancorous, malignant Asbilbe thread.

But i do not like them.

I dont think the Comanches liked them either.

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Interesting.

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Jeffrey Amhurst wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery_Amherst,_1st_Baron_Amherst

Biological warfare involving smallpox

One of the most infamous and well documented issues during Pontiac’s War was the use of biological warfare against the Native Americans. The suggestion was posed by Amherst himself in letters to Colonel Henry Bouquet.[20] Amherst, having learned that smallpox had broken out among the garrison at Fort Pitt, and after learning of the loss of his forts at Venango, Le Boeuf and Presqu’Isle, wrote to Colonel Bouquet:[21]

Could it not be contrived to send the small pox among the disaffected tribes of Indians? We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them.

Bouquet, who was already marching to relieve Fort Pitt, agreed with this suggestion in a postscript when he responded to Amherst just days later on 13 July 1763:[22]

P.S. I will try to inocculate [sic] the Indians by means of Blankets that may fall in their hands, taking care however not to get the disease myself. As it is pity to oppose good men against them, I wish we could make use of the Spaniard’s Method, and hunt them with English Dogs. Supported by Rangers, and some Light Horse, who would I think effectively extirpate or remove that Vermine.

In response, also in a postscript, Amherst replied:[22]

P.S. You will Do well to try to Innoculate [sic] the Indians by means of Blankets, as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race. I should be very glad your Scheme for Hunting them Down by Dogs could take Effect, but England is at too great a Distance to think of that at present.

Historians Elizabeth Fenn and Benedict Kiernan have shown, “Fort Pitt had anticipated these orders. Reporting on parleys with Delaware chiefs on June 24, a trader [William Trent] wrote: ‘[We] gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect.’ The military hospital records confirm that two blankets and handkerchiefs were ‘taken from people in the Hospital to Convey the Smallpox to the Indians.’ The fort commander paid for these items, which he certified ‘were had for the uses above mentioned.’ Historian Elizabeth Fenn has documented ‘the eruption of epidemic smallpox’ among Delaware and Shawnee Indians nearby, about the time the blankets were distributed.”[23][21]
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Seven Years’ War in North America: The French and Indian War, St. Lawrence and Mohawk theater

Amherst was summoned home, ostensibly so that he could be consulted on future military plans in North America, and was replaced pro tem as Commander-in-Chief, North America by Thomas Gage. Amherst expected to be praised for his conquest of Canada, however, once in London, he was instead asked to account for the recent Native American rebellion.[24] He was forced to defend his conduct, and faced complaints made by William Johnson and George Croghan, who lobbied the Board of Trade for his removal and permanent replacement by Gage. He was also severely criticised by military subordinates on both sides of the Atlantic.[25] Nevertheless, Amherst was promoted to lieutenant-general on 26 March 1765,[26] and became colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Foot in November 1768.[27]
On 26 March 1767 Jeffrey Amherst married Elizabeth, daughter of General George Cary (Joshua Reynolds, 1767)
Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst

On 22 October 1772, Amherst was appointed Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance,[28] and he soon gained the confidence of George III, who had initially hoped the position would go to a member of the Royal Family.[29] On 6 November 1772, he became a member of the Privy Council.[30]

American Revolutionary War
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Ozoneranger wrote:

You know, politics and religion are not conducive to polite society.

Wait, we don’t live in a polite society anymore. Intolerant hugs and cretins from both sides dominate the floor.

So, the question begs…Are you ready for some football?

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Ready for football? Oh yeah. Though I have no idea what the won/lost record is gonna look like this year. Goff is a rookie-mystery.

Btw, I assume that was a typo “Intolerant hugs”. But i liked it. I like that sentence:

“Intolerant hugs,
and Cretins, from both sides,
dominate the floor.”

There’s just something weird and salvadore-dali-ish about
the image that sentence creates in my brain.
I would have liked to have seen a Dali painting of the US Congress.
Or maybe Bosch.

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Well, it will be interesting to observe the ‘reactions’ to the new President.
What will be the reaction/results of four years of Trump, or Hillary?
Will they galvanize a new opposition force?
And which one will ‘get the most done’ whatever that may be…?

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