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ZooeyModeratorAs quality of life declines, and insurance premiums rise, people could feel that they’re being robbed by an aloof elite.
They won’t even be wrong. It’s just that due to the chemistry of climate change, many members of that elite will have died 30 or 50 years prior….see link
Yup. The people pushing the policies that are creating this will not be the ones to suffer the consequences.
ZooeyModeratorI wonder if Amazon will restock those sweaters soon.
October 21, 2016 at 10:02 pm in reply to: John Pilger: Why Hillary Clinton Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump #55751ZooeyModeratorWhat has happened to the great tradition of popular direct action, unfettered to parties? Where is the courage, imagination and commitment required to begin the long journey to a better, just and peaceful world? Where are the dissidents in art, film, the theatre, literature?
Where are those who will shatter the silence? Or do we wait until the first nuclear missile is fired?
Yes. But…uh. I don’t have any ideas how to stop these forces.
October 21, 2016 at 8:12 pm in reply to: John Pilger: Why Hillary Clinton Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump #55748ZooeyModeratorSparky pretty much nails it.
October 21, 2016 at 8:06 pm in reply to: Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominees #55747ZooeyModeratorHillary won. Not just because of her bribery of superdelegates. She got more popular votes.
She also had the DNC actively working against the Sanders campaign. Wonder how many votes that was worth?
A lot, probably.
I think that if the playing field had been even from the beginning, if Sanders and Clinton both began at the same starting line, Sanders would have won. He came very close to winning with the entire Dem establishment and the media completely dismissing him from the beginning. We were several primaries into the season before anybody would talk about him seriously, and even then, he was still downplayed. And, yes, that matters.
ZooeyModeratorThe wall was an expensive, silly idea for the most part(approximately 14 Billion + annual maintenance costs). From what I understand approximately 40% of undocumented aliens had their visa’s expire.
I’m hoping the new set of old bureaucrats can actually accomplish some sort of worthwhile immigration reform package whatever that may be. Since Obamacare was passed, they can’t seem to agree on a single issue so nothing truly gets done.
I do not care about immigration. That issue is so far down the list of things that concern me that I’m not even sure it’s on the list. The vast majority of people are decent people who want to work and feel at the end of the day like they’ve done something worthwhile. There are freeloaders on this planet, but I’m pretty sure you will find they are spread out evenly amongst all the races and religions and so on, and if anything, the people who leave behind their families and everything they’ve known all their lives to go start anew in country, risking their lives in the process, well…they are probably – as a demographic – a little LESS likely to be freeloaders. You don’t go through all that just for an inadequate amount of food stamps.
I think the idea of spending $14 billion – or whatever the number is, I don’t even care – on a wall that won’t stop them from coming in anyway is just preposterous. But I don’t even take it the least bit seriously since nobody in government takes it seriously either. It isn’t happening, now or ever.
October 21, 2016 at 2:35 pm in reply to: Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominees #55728ZooeyModeratorMore votes than Bernie? Up to and not including California? Because on the eve of the California primary the MSM called it for Hildabeast, a frequent tactic to kill further voter support in the remaining primaries.
Most Bernie supporters were quite skeptical of the media’s coverage of the primary, and on high alert before California. Moreover, they were passionate. I doubt the numbers were suppressed much because of that.
And – think it all the way through – that move was more likely to dampen the wider, but less passionate Hillary support than to dampen Bernie voters. Calling it early was more likely to reduce the turnout of the rather tepid Clinton support than the passionate Sanders support.
In any event, she got more votes. Even in California. It’s scoreboard, man. You can say the Rams played a better game, but if the other team had more points at the end, they won. Hillary won. Not just because of her bribery of superdelegates. She got more popular votes.
October 21, 2016 at 1:47 pm in reply to: Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominees #55725ZooeyModeratorNo, he didn’t. She won the popular vote as well. She got more votes. She got more delegates. And she got more super delegates.
Sure she did. Keep believing that. Especially BEFORE the California primary.
I supported Sanders, you may recall. I wanted to believe that her stacking the deck is what made the difference, and maybe it did.
But Sanders did not get more votes. He just didn’t. Not overall.
Now I don’t like the way superdelegates work, I don’t like the way delegates are apportioned in some states, and I don’t like Hillary Clinton.
But she got more votes than Sanders did.
ZooeyModeratorFrom the look of that a wall wouldn’t have worked. Should have sited the roadway through better terrain.
Which, of course, was my point. A wall wouldn’t work anyway.
ZooeyModeratorHe was good. And he was getting better. He had issues with discipline his first two years, but he was a good player who was getting more disciplined and improving.
Losing him was damaging.
E.J. Gaines is very good, and TruJo is good. So it was a question of priorities. Essentially they let depth walk. And that’s a salary cap decision more than a talent decision. Do you keep three CBs that are very good so you have one in case another gets injured? Or do you keep two good CBs with cheaper depth and allot your resources to somewhere else? The Rams chose the latter. I wish they had kept Jenkins, but I do not follow the CPA stuff, and so I don’t criticize this particular move.
October 21, 2016 at 11:38 am in reply to: Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominees #55717ZooeyModeratorYet with Hildabeast her super delegates in the primary completely negated Bernie’s voters. How many votes did each super delegate equal? Bernie by far had more voters so please tell just how “exclusionary” is that?
No, he didn’t. She won the popular vote as well. She got more votes. She got more delegates. And she got more super delegates.
ZooeyModeratorJust think…Hill is rated at the bottom of the list of CB’s and he replaced Sens….just how bad was Sens playing?
If Hill continues with this trend they’re just going to have to bring in the “next man up” to get them through until Tru is ready. Worst case is they rush Tru back.
Overall, Safeties have been a pleasant surprise and if they could get both Tru and EJ healthy at the same time the DB corps should be actually pretty good.
I was in a windup, ready to unload here about Sens every single week. I thought the guy was terrible. Apparently, I was not alone in that assessment.
October 20, 2016 at 2:22 pm in reply to: "Vote all you want. The secret government wont change #55671ZooeyModeratorAnd this will produce more Trumps.
People are tired of it.
I would hope we see another Sanders, but Bernie was one of a kind.
I’ve said it before though, and I believe it: if Clinton gets elected and dismisses the public and its concerns for the cool comfort of the Washington establishment, the Democrats will find themselves right where the Republicans are 4 years from now. She will make the most of this opportunity, or she will blow it.
If the system, as is, can’t be moved—both parties are in trouble.
IMO, this was it.
We had the opportunity to elect Sanders, and we didn’t do it, and there is no tomorrow. IMO.
We are screwed. Even if another Sanders (Warren? Feingold?) arises from the sidelines to win, it will be too late anyway. We cannot now avoid catastrophe. And I would wager that we won’t “make the best of a catastrophic situation” by trying to right the ship and minimize further degradation. Instead, we will blow up everything in an attempt to fix it, but the fallout, and the time it takes to reinvent a social system, will take too long.
The run of social stability, the American Dream, has maybe 30 more years at the most. At the most. Best case scenario.
ZooeyModeratorCritical thinking: For the most part — with exceptions — I think the left champions this and the right is highly suspicious — though the center-left is far less robust in this than those further to the left. That said, all parts of the political spectrum have their blind spots, but I think the right blocks grand-canyon views.
One blind spot I’ve see for the center left is the idea of empire. I’ve spoken with countless liberals who refuse to accept the idea that America is an empire, and most take for granted that our wars — with Iraq and Vietnam as possible exceptions — have been just. That our actions in all of those “good wars” have been justified. That we’re pretty much always “the good guys.”
Strangely enough, I’ve spoken with righties who admit to our empire, but they’re happy about it and want it to grow even more powerful. In a sense, on that subject at least, they appear less “naive” and more “realistic” about America than center-lefties. But the disturbing part of their view is they cheer this on and want America to project its power more aggressively, and they all too often seem indifferent to the lives lost and the destruction creating in the wake of that projection.
But on matters of science? I think that’s one of the biggest fault lines between left and right in America. I don’t know how it is in other countries, but it seems that the right is pretty much anti-science and the left supports evidence/fact-based research, etc. etc. Not blindly. But lefties tend to respect the process. Righties tend to think its a conspiracy by “elites” to take control over their lives — as if capitalism hasn’t already done that.
I agree with every bit of that.
ZooeyModeratorTrump will win. It should be by a landslide but the vote fraud of the democrats will not allow it.
Elections are controlled at the state level, not by the feds. And most states’s election boards – representing well over half of the electoral votes needed to win – are controlled by Republicans, including Ohio and Florida and Michigan. And, in fact, the only states in which the elections are controlled by democrats are mortal locks to go to Clinton anyway. Like California and New York.
So the democrats are in no position whatsoever to conduct election fraud on any kind of scale that would flip a state blue, no matter what.
I have no doubt, though, that your crack team of alt-righters will find a couple of people who try to vote without being registered, or maybe even with an expired ID, or something, and as sure as I’m sitting here, that will be enough to unleash the wolves.
Voter fraud has been studied extensively, and has been demonstrated to be statistically irrelevant. The numbers are miniscule.
What does affect the outcome is voter suppression which is scrubbing the voting rolls of names, reducing the number of polling stations in certain precincts and understaffing those stations in order to create long lines, and sending threatening messages via robocalls and phony flyers. This has affected hundreds of thousands of voters, and – guess what? – is an exclusively Republican practice.
October 19, 2016 at 10:12 pm in reply to: "Vote all you want. The secret government wont change #55625ZooeyModeratorYeah, Obama is indistinguishable from Bush et al. in the systemic stuff. He kept up, and even expanded the Big Brother state, continued Bush’s bailout of Wall St., and so on.
He made a tiny bit of headway (at a price) on healthcare, and he negotiated a deal with Iran to curb nuclear proliferation that no Republican since Nixon could have accomplished.
But, yeah. Guantanamo and Patriot. Weirdly, still standing.
ZooeyModeratorI have been told several times that Trump will win.
ZooeyModeratorIt may be Gurley’s fault. How would I know.
But I still wouldn’t have called that play, and I would say the same thing even if Gurley scored on it. Running between the tackles has got to be the least successful option in the playbook this year. And Fisher’s, “You need to be able to do that” just isn’t a reason to try it. Yes, they need to be able to do that. But the track record says they can’t.
Martz woulda called something with 5 WRs, 3 TEs, a FB, and some trapeze equipment.
ZooeyModeratorLosing patience with Robinson.
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Well, in the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus clearly states one can reach the ‘kingdom’ by going outside OR inside.“The Kingdom is inside of you and it is outside of you.” ~Gospel of Thomas
So the notion that Fisher is a heretic for attempting an offtackle play, and should be burned at the stake, flies right in the face of the scriptures.
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“Scrutamini scripturas. [let us look at the scriptures] Two words that have undone the world.”
John Selden (1584-1654)Typical scriptural fundamentalist. You take a text from the Apocrypha, and twist its meaning.
Jesus did NOT say the kingdom is inside the tackles, or outside the tackles.
He said inside of you, or outside of you.
Plainly, he meant that the Touchdown is both Inside you, and Outside you. It’s a state of mind AND a place.
He never said anything about how to reach the end zone kingdom. Well, he did. But not in Thomas.
ZooeyModeratorBack to the point I made somewhere else that you guys are too idiotic to realize was the Holy Truth…
The Rams haven’t been able to run up the middle all year.
Ya run ANY play at ALL except up the middle right there. Yeah, Jeff, you’re supposed to make that. But given the first 5 games, I would do something else. The Rams have got NO push ever this entire year. It’s their biggest, most glaring, most talked about weakness on offense.
And Jesus would agree with me, although I’ve heard he is more of a basketball guy…with Jews being so naturally shifty, and everything.
ZooeyModeratorI understand your frustrations but just want to focus on one thing. I can’t think of many defenses that could lose a top-flight DE like Quinn and a top-flight CB like Johnson and have meaningful depth behind those players.
Consensus before the season was our DL depth was fabulous. And only a year or two ago, we thought we had an embarrassment of riches in the secondary. More players than positions with Roberson, Bryant, Robertson etc. All promising young players.
And here we are.
And, yes, Quinn and Johnson are blue chip players, and their loss hurts. But…man. How many times have we watched the Rams take on a backup QB, and various injury replacements, and the mismatch we expect just never happens. In fact, some of these backups have a knack for having career days against the Rams.
I think this season is just the point at which a lot of Rams fans are going to say…”Enough. Just win. Win! No more 7-9 bullshit.”
ZooeyModeratorWell, I’m getting fed up, too. Apart from 99-03, this team has pretty much sucked for 25 years…
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Yeah this was a big loss for a lot of fans. For various reasons this one really had
an impact on a lot of fans.….this would NOT be a good time to lay an egg in London. Ya know.
W.Hayes said they ‘played soft’ all over the field Sunday. He said they were not ‘flat’ but they played ‘soft’. I would think that probly means they are gonna come out chippy and furious against NYG. For better or worse, i think it will be a chippy, ugly, physical War.
They are NOT gonna be ‘soft’ next week. …i look for Sims to get tossed out early
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I was far more disgusted by the San Francisco loss.
This was a SOSAR loss.
ZooeyModeratorThe Rams just lost two games they expected to win. It only makes sense that the head coach was going to have something to say to his team using language that he might not want the public to hear.
I think (and I don’t know for a fact) that it had more to do with 2 things in the Detroit game. The dumb defensive penalties, and the chippiness they showed during the Detroit victory kneel.
I don’t think a coach rips into a team for losing when they showed effort.
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I didn’t stay with it through the kneel down.
Ogletree, by chance? Sims?
ZooeyModeratorWell, I’m getting fed up, too. Apart from 99-03, this team has pretty much sucked for 25 years. It has given us a few entertaining games, and memorable performances, but there is no denying that this has been largely a bottom-feeding franchise for over two decades. And it’s just old.
I don’t feel disgusted anymore, or disappointed, or anything.
I believed that they were at a flimsy 3-1. But their 3-3 is just…I dunno. 9ers, Bills, and Lions. That is just 7-9 bullshit.
Had they kept Jenkins, I think they would be 4-2, maybe 5-1. It might be a flimsy 4-2, or 5-1. But I wish they had kept Jenkins.
Basically, I want a see a team that deserves to be in the playoffs. I am just tired of this.
It’s the erratic play. It’s the feeling they just don’t excel at anything except punting. It’s being 2nd or 3rd in penalties every year. It’s the appearance that the other team makes halftime adjustments and the Rams often don’t. It’s being Up for the Seahawks, and Flat for the 49ers. C’mon. It’s just time for a different storyline here.
ZooeyModeratorI wanted the FG at the end of the half, but I won’t complain that they went for it.
I do complain that it was a run up the middle when that has been one thing they have proven consistently terrible at all season.
A pitch, a roll-out, a sweep, 4 wide, I don’t care. Not up the middle.
ZooeyModeratorWe are dead.
We are dead at our own hands, bowing down at the Temple of Greed.
Ayn Rand must be so proud.
ZooeyModeratorPoster One: Trump supporters live in a glitchy “reality.”
Poster Two: So you’re saying freedom is outdated?
ZooeyModeratorI hope you’re right.
In the mean time, playcalling should be adjusted while the offense grows in sync.
There are some things that are working better than others, and they could go to those plays more often than they do – which in turn would relax the “pressing” in other areas.
So…I have officially started the Boras Skeptic Society. There will be a Facebook page soon.
If they are out of sync then playcalling makes no difference.
I think a team can be out of sync on some plays, and in sync with other plays. And that, in fact, is what I see.
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