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I don’t think i can vote for another Clinton.
Can’t do it. I hear what yer say’in, but I’m done
with the lesser-of-2-evils voting.It’ll be Jill Stein, for me. And I’ll sleep
just fine if a Rep gets elected.Bernie has done way better than i expected, btw.
I mean his policies are exactly the same as Naders.
So why did so many more support Bernie? I’ve been
wondering a lot about this.w
vAt the moment, I am examining the layout
and shapes of the bananas on my peanut-butter
and banana sandwich, in order to divine
the mind of Snisher.Oracle Ram
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Divination
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/divination.aspx
“…In the East divination generally appears to have been effected by crystal gazing, dreams, and similar methods of self-hallucination or self-hypnotism. Divination flourished in Chaldea and Assyria among the Babylonians and Ethiopians, and appears to have been much the same as in Egypt. In the Jewish Talmud witches were said to divine by means of bread crumbs. Among the Arabs, the future was often foretold by means of the shapes seen in sand. The Burmese and Siamese pierced an egg at each end, and having blown the contents onto the ground, traced within them the outline of things to be. Divination by astrology too was common in oriental countries, as were the predictions of prophets.It is remarkable that among the native races of America the arts of divination known to the peoples of the Old World were, and still are, used. These arts, as a rule, were the preserve of the medicine man and priestly class. In ancient Mexico there was a college of augurs like the auspices of ancient Rome; the members occupied themselves with observing the flight of birds and listening to their songs, from which they drew their conclusions. In Mexico, the Calmecac, or college of priests, had a department where divination was taught in all its branches, but there were many ex officio prophets and augurs.
In Peru, still other classes of diviners predicted by means of the leaves of tobacco, or the grains or juice of coca, the shapes of grains of maize, taken at random, the forms assumed by the smoke rising from burning victims, the viscera of animals, the course taken by spiders, and the direction in which fruits might fall. The professors of these methods were distinguished by different ranks and titles, and their training was long and arduous.
The American tribes as a whole were keen observers of bird life. Strangely enough the bird and serpent are combined in their symbolism and in the names of several of their principal deities. The bird appeared to the American primitive as a spirit, in all probability under the spell of some potent enchanter—a spell that might be broken only by some great sorcerer or medicine man….
Well, I dunno.
I guess I’m just not sold on Goff or Wentz.
But what do i know.Wentz looks kinda slow to me. Like a big Kerry Collins
kinda guy. And Goff…well Goff has teeny tiny hands
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vwentz ran the 40 in the 4.7’s. 3 cone was 6.87.
he’s pretty athletic for his size.
By slow I mean his release. His release looks
slow to me. Not like Luck or Peyton or even Cam.Prisco: “……“Run it harder,” Fisher said.
That’s his approach. It won’t change. But if he can run it, then drive the ball with play-action passes down the field, maybe it can work. To be honest, I think he needs an overhaul to his style of play. And if you make a deal like this to get a franchise passer, it has to become his team…”Overhaul his style of play? I see that a lot these days.
Maybe. But I watched Seattle run the ball with Marshawn,
play great Defense, and rely on Russell to manage the offense and make a few big plays a game. And then I watched Denver win a ring with great defense, and a crafty but old-injured qb managing the offense.I just dont see how Prisco and others can ignore the
Seattle and Denver examples. Seems to me they are ignoring
the fact that there are many roads to the mountaintop.I also dont buy into the meme Peter King and others are
putting forth about the Rams having to do this trade
because they have to have an elite QB to compete with
Carson Palmer and Russell Wilson. I dont think that computes.The Rams did/do need a good QB, but that doesnt mean
they had to trade for the number One pick. They could have
traded down, gotten more picks and picked a QB later in the draft.
Or kept all their picks and picked a QB at 15.One of the big question marks I have is — Is it True,
that Goff/Wentz is so much better than every other QB
that would have been available to the Rams later in the Draft?Do yall think no other QB in this class, picked after say,
the tenth pick will be excellent?w
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