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Well, I’d say that Connor Cook’s dad is not a rare bread among fathers of football players. Or among fathers of non-football players, for that matter.
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Woulda been interesting if Cook had had Goff’s perceived-talent.
Would a team have drafted him number one,
knowing that sooner or later the ‘face of the franchise’
would have…oh i dunno what to call it….’Billy Carter’ moments?Oh, and PS — how come we diehard internet fans didn’t know
about those dad-texts before the draft? The internet
was slacking, I’d say.w
vWhy does Goff like 16 ?
Speaking of rookie numbers, what do yall predict
his rookie QB-rating is going to be?What are the numbers on the other top-three-type picks who were QBs?
What were their rookie QB ratings? What was Andrew Lucks
for instance? Mariotta? Winston?RG3 had a 102.4
Cam had a 84.5
Big Ben had a 98
Andrew Luck 74.9
J Winston 86.1
Mariotta 91.5w
vBtw, Bernie was asked about the Republican’s popularity among the poor people of McDowell County, WV:
http://wvpublic.org/post/sanders-winning-back-wva-working-class-you-gotta-make-stand
“…why he thought the GOP was gaining popularity in low-income areas such as McDowell County, where he is visiting today.
“Now, if I lived in McDowell County and the unemployment rate was sky-high, and I saw my kid get addicted to opiates and go to jail, there were no jobs, you know what? I would be looking at Washington and saying ‘what are you guys doing for me?’ And I’m going to look for an alternative,” Sanders said.
“The Democratic Party must make a stand, and the stand is that you cannot be on the side of Wall Street. You cannot be on the side of that pharmaceutical industry — which, by the way, charges our people the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs — you gotta make a stand. And the stand we gotta make is the stand with the people in McDowell County, W.Va., and poor people and working people all over this country…
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…..You know when we talk about poverty, Steve, we often think, well, it’s too bad somebody can’t afford a flat-screen TV, or go out to eat. But what poverty is really about is that we have millions of people who are living — who are dying at ages much, much younger than they should. In McDowell County, where we’re going tomorrow, the average life expectancy for men in that county is 64 years of age. Sixty-four years of age.And yet you go a six-hour drive to Fairfax County, Va. — six-hour drive — a man can expect to live until the age of 82 years of age, 18 years longer than men in McDowell County…”
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…The question is, why is somebody with Donald Trump’s perspective appealing to Democrats?That gets back to the question we talked about at the beginning of this conversation. Has the Democratic Party, has the leadership made the case that they are standing there, fighting for the poor people of McDowell County, or the working people of Indiana, or of New Mexico, or of California? Have they stood up and said that “maybe we gotta take on the billionaire class, maybe it’s wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, maybe we should not be getting significant sums of money from Wall Street or from the pharmaceutical industry that charge us the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs,” you know, “maybe we’ve gotta stand with the people who for the last 20 or 30 years have seen a decline in their standard of living”?
You know, those are the issues that the Democratic Party has got to ask itself. And I think when it does, and it makes it clear that they are prepared to take on the big-money interests, I think the Democratic Party will do just fine — and that’s kind of what this campaign is about.
INSKEEP: Sen. Sanders, thanks very much
SANDERS: Thank you very much Steve. Take care.
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vWhich one of these quotes doesn’t quite fit with the others?
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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————
“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. Alexis de Toqueville
———–Top Journalist: “We are intellectual prostitutes”
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.
“We are intellectual prostitutes.”
John Swinton, New York 1890.———–
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vAre they suddenly going to discover there is a debate happening in the democrat party?
I think they might. I don’t know if they can stop themselves. They’ve all been toeing the line by ignoring Bernie all year, but that’s the only horse race now. They are going to have to start talking about it.
That isn’t good for Hillary, I don’t think.
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Well for the most part i dont the bizness-as-usual-dynamic will change.
They’ll not discover any ‘debate on policies’ between Hillary and Bernie.
They’ll just cover the shallow stuff, and the ‘horserace’ stuff between her and bernie, as per usual.Aint gonna be no media coverage of Policies, Zooey.
That aint happnin. Bernie’s policies are off-limits.….btw, there’s a big Bernie sign hanging from the second floor of my house. I made it myself. After i made it, i got the brilliant idea to
pierce little holes in all the letters and then push christmas lights into the holes and thus have a Bernie sign that lights up. So, i spent an hour punching holes and then another hour pushing lights thru the holes. …and then I hook up an extension cord…and pat myself on the back….and plug it all in…and….nuthin. Must be a light out somewhere in the gazillion-light string. !@$%%$#@@!I blame Hillary.
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vIt’s gonna be like a Tsunami.
The water goes out and people think the water’s going down… nope.
Then the water rushes in and at first…it’s not a massive 100 foot wave so no one panics… until they realize that they are knee deep and the water that continues to come is coming wicked fast and there’s no where to hide.
By then, this will be all that’s left to say:
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Mack can you address what bnw had to say in his post?I mean, you are preaching to the choir with the rest of us.
Its people who share bnw’s ideas that should be the target
audience. Can there be any meaningful communication between
you and him on this subject?He says the ‘earth has cooled’. Has it?
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vI assume Fisher/Boras will protect Goff the first year,
by simplifying things as much as possible,
and by looking at what Goff does well, and letting him to ‘that’.Which means, we’ll probably see a Patriot type passing game. Lightning quick passes. Short passes. Which means Tavon will be featured, I would think. And of course we’ll see a lot of Gurley. But maybe not as much as some people think. And maybe they throw to Gurley as much as run him.
One would think gurley and tavon will be decoys a lot, too.
They need a third reliable weapon, of course, to state the obvious.
Will it be the new TE? Cooper? Kendricks? I dunno. But they need a third reliable weapon, or they will sputter.We may see a lot of dinking and dunking, I’m afraid. Dunno.
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vWV.
I admit I know Bowie’s music much better than Prince’s.
Bowie had several protest songs. “Repetition” about wife beating; “Valentine’s Day” about school shooters, “Heroes” about Communism, etc. I’m sure Price has many too.
However, you can’t just judge Bowie or Prince on their songs. You need to look at how they both broke down so many social barriers. They both spoke to the outsiders who felt alienated and strange.
Listen or read the lyrics to Bowie’s “Rock and Roll Suicide”. This gave a voice and a feeling of community to unknown numbers of outcasts throughout the world.
Prince was on the same vibe, I’m sure.
I honestly believe this world is a better place because they were both here. For instance, I don’t think we’d have marriage equality without them. Both are very high in my Pantheon.
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Nah, not buy’in what yer sellin T. (i have this conversation every week with some of my LGBT friends, btw)
You cant throw a rock without hitting artists who
sing/paint/write about ‘outsiders’ or Identity Politix issues.
— wv curmudgeon gives no credit for that stuff.wv curmudgeon only gives credit for themz-arteests who are pointing
out how and why the entire house is on fire. It aint that hard
to figure out who started the fire and why. So, why dont they sing about it?Frankly, to be totally honest about the level of my curmudgeon-ness, I can tell you that every time i hear a story on NPR about ‘trans-gender this or that’ or ‘LGBT this or that’ I just let an expletive fly and i turn off the radio. The house is on fire and the corporate-media is patting amerika on the back for being so progressive about who can go in what bathroom.
House…is…on…fire. How bout we notice it….and give the arsonist a name — Corporate-Power.
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