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ZooeyModeratorYes. It is what you think it is.

ZooeyModeratorGoff 29 points to Wentz’s 11 in fantasy points, if that’s your thing.
I love this. Good start by the Rams. Looking solid everywhere except the kicking game. 2-0 against the NFC which is good for tiebreakers. Kiser was everywhere.
Would have liked to see Wentz take a seat multiple times in the pocket, and I’d prefer a bit stouter opposition to the run, but still an overall good performance. 3 TOs is helpful.
Bosa probably has torn ACL for 9ers, and Garapolo high ankle sprain per Shanahan.
ZooeyModeratorDamn, that is scary.
Me, I’m hoping the Good Lord smiles on us and Trump eats one too many Big Macs and has the big one.
I have come around to thinking that Trump eating the big one before November would be the best thing for the country. This election looks like it is going to be ugly. November and December are going to be a nightmare, I’m afraid.
ZooeyModeratorSo…that looks like game, set, and match to me. They’ll fill that seat before November, and that’s the end of it.
Not completely. Democrats can go to McConnel and say this: ” If you insist on getting an appointment through before the election here is what will happen IF the Dems take the white house and the senate. Because the Constitution does not address the number of SC Justices we will make sure we have 13 justices on the SC. ” This is more than possible since the number has changed over the years. It is the one card that the Dems can play.
They could. But that would require the Dems to play hardball, and I can’t think of an example of them doing that since LBJ.
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ZooeyModeratorI think about democracy a lot. I roll things over in my mind. “Which form of government is best?,” I ask myself.
All i know is Democracy is bad without an “education system” that prioritizes “critical thinking” and “compassion.” In other words Science plus Compassion.
Critical Thinking to ‘me’ is just another synonym for ‘wisdom.’ And wisdom to me, is “reason” plus “compassion”. Both. Haf to have both.
Now without an education-system that seriously prioritizes Science/reason and Compassion/cooperation, any ‘democracy’ will end up warped and dangerous and eventually a hellscape.
We did not end up with a democracy with an education system that stressed critical thinking/wisdom.
We ended up with a democracy that stressed Corporate-Capitalism. Corporate-Capitalism nurtures, greed, individualism, religion, fear, propaganda, hierarchy, obedience, imperialism, recreation, entertainment, incredible cutting edge technologies and bio-chemical-and-nuclear-weaponry. And general stupidity.
So, thats what we got.
It can be tinkered with, but it cant be reversed.
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vYeah, I think that pretty much nails it.
I would just add the the “educational system” is the media. That is the uber educational system. Kids aren’t learning their values from their teachers.
ZooeyModeratorAll I know is Robert Woods is one of the most underrated players. I love that guy. And I am glad he will be with the Rams for 4 more years. Yay.
September 17, 2020 at 10:09 pm in reply to: tweets … 9/17 thru 9/19 … ( w/ some excellent Rodrigue stuff in here) #121235
ZooeyModeratorGary Klein@LATimesklein
The Rams are looking to throw money, and passes, in Robert Woods’ directionRobert Woods is still my favorite player right now. Has been ever since he joined the Rams. I loved him at USC.
He is the Old Faithful of WRs. There are other WRs that have more spectacular eruptions, but Old Faithful is the most dependable, and the most frequent.
ZooeyModeratorNoCal radio today…”Whom should the 4 get to replace Garappolo?”
ZooeyModeratorThe single best thing about Russell Wilson is the average weight of the sod he eats every time he plays the Rams.
ZooeyModerator49ers just put Richard Sherman on IR, too, for four weeks. They seriously don’t have any WRs right now, either. And if Kittle’s out… they could be in early trouble. They have an easy schedule in the beginning, though, so maybe they scrape through until they get some players back.
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ZooeyModeratorWouldn’t shutting down FOX be a kind of mercy killing?

ZooeyModeratorPanel 5, though.

ZooeyModeratorFair enough.

ZooeyModeratorIf that’s not enough maybe the President talking frequently about serving more than 4 more years? Or endorsing extra judicial murders by US marshals? Or vigilante murders? Or letting 200,000 die? Or calling immigrants animals? Or sending goons to snatch people in unmarked vans? O
— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) September 14, 2020
ZooeyModeratorfuller. yeah. what a game. what a game. what a find.
also. yeah. edward-helaire woulda been great. but i’m happy with ramsey. i’m also still waiting to see how akers does. it’s a long season.
Yeah,during the game, I just kept asking my son, “WTF is Fuller?”
I dunno. He was the guy who kept making tackles, seemed like.
Anyway. A win is a win.I would have liked more…but I always want more…and that was a win.
I have no complaints. I mean… I have nobody to criticize…the Cowboys are a good team, and I always want to dominate…but they won while looking like a good team. I will take it.
ZooeyModeratorLove Auburn-especially the old Placer County Courthouse. My son lives in Fair Oaks so we are there often-at least we were before COVID. I understand your skies are pretty crappy now with falling ash, etc.
It is pretty bad. Orange skies in the morning and evening. But it was even worse in Chico yesterday.
It looked like I was in San Francisco on one of those foggy days.
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ZooeyModeratorNo. I am a 5-hour drive from Ashland. I spend several summers there because I was working on a masters in technical theatre. I’m in Auburn, in the Gold Country.
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ZooeyModeratorPlus the entire “panic” thing is itself dubious. There is such a thing as disaster studies. Historians and social science people study events like the great SF earthquake in the past, or tsunami events in the present and so on. What people in disaster studies say is that there is more harm done by authorities doing things to “prevent or control panic” than there is harm done by actual or real panic. In fact disaster studies people say that the entire “people panic” routine is all fiction. Under the conditions of actual disaster, you are far more likely to get community solidarity than “panic.”
“Panic” is a thing in movies.
So what kind of “panic” did Trump-brain anticipate? Rioting in the streets? Cities burned down? Mobs congesting the freeways?
Naw the “panic” would be people hunkering down and…gulp…spending less money on a daily basis because they go out less.
Which of course would not be panic, it would be a rational response.
But less lucrative.
Right. The only “panic” he could have been worried about was panic on Wall Street. Not panic on Main Street. He could not possibly care less about that.
And…what’s ironic is that Bush DID have advance notice. Remember the memo about planes? That’s a bit different, of course, because you wouldn’t “say” anything about that kind of event, anyway, but…he ignored it.
ZooeyModeratorHere’s my drive home yesterday at 4:00. Every car on the road had its headlights on.
The nearest fire is about 100 miles away, I think.



ZooeyModeratorA Green New Deal sounds expensive, though.

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ZooeyModeratorI should probably get an agent. I mean…I am not getting paid anywhere near that for my job, and I probably should.
September 9, 2020 at 3:22 pm in reply to: Rightwing violent-fringe, rightwing conspiracy theories, etc. #120665
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Saw a meme once that said that NPR is the preferred news source for people who support coups and drone attacks as long as the paperwork is filled out correctly. Or something along those lines.
September 9, 2020 at 1:07 am in reply to: Discuss game one! Dallas at Rams, Sunday 9/13 … 8:20 et, 5:20 pt #120643
ZooeyModeratorThere is nothing to discuss.
Nothing short of a Nittany would think that the outcome of this game can come out in any way other than a landslide in the Rams favor.
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