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March 8, 2016 at 1:03 pm in reply to: Man Who Assaulted Black Woman At Trump Rally Learns It Ruined His Life #40148
ZooeyModeratorHow very odd for an 18 year old prime for the draft when both parties have candidates willing to expand war.
It took me a while to come up with a possible interpretation of what that remark might mean. I gather you are saying that the immediate threat of being drafted is greater than the threat posed by climate change.
I’d say the chance of my son being drafted is zero. The chance of climate destabilization in the next 30 years is 100%. The only question is how bad will it be.
March 6, 2016 at 3:05 pm in reply to: Man Who Assaulted Black Woman At Trump Rally Learns It Ruined His Life #40072ZooeyModerator===========================
Yeah, i suppose it would be the worst
Dem-Rep combo in my lifetime.The Corporate-Billionaire-egomaniac
vs. the Corporate-puppet-egomaniac.They will split 95 percent of the
Amerikan citizens’ votes, as per usual.
Amerikans will flock to the polls
and continue to vote for Dems and Reps.
Like its a law of nature or something.Meanwhile independent candidates,
like Jill Stein will split the
remaining 5 percent of the votes.What does that say
about Amerika?w
vMy son, who is 18, was flipping out after Tuesday. He thinks it’s the end of the world. Basically, he argues, Sanders is the only candidate who, as president, would do anything about climate change that might matter, and that without Sanders as president, it’s Game Over.
I tried to fish around for…something…but I got nothing.
March 6, 2016 at 10:08 am in reply to: Man Who Assaulted Black Woman At Trump Rally Learns It Ruined His Life #40053ZooeyModeratorI don’t really think Trump can win the general election for that reason myself, although I didn’t think he would last long in the Republican primary, either. In the end, all those Undecided, Independent, Moderate voters are going to fill in the ballot for the “safest” candidate. A lot of what Trump says resonates with a lot of voters, but I don’t believe you are going to get a majority of voters who are willing to risk his apparent recklessness. I mean, he is unleashing ^^^^^^^^^ this kind of crap. He would have to pull in the reins in the general, and follow the attack plan on Hillary that was described in the article I linked to have a chance, but I just don’t think he is self-disciplined enough not to shoot himself in the foot.
Clinton/Trump would be the ugliest campaign in my lifetime, and there will be a lot of holding of noses at the ballot boxes.
March 5, 2016 at 4:44 pm in reply to: Man Who Assaulted Black Woman At Trump Rally Learns It Ruined His Life #40033ZooeyModeratorHe wrote online he pushed her. Pushed. His future DI would have had worse in store for him and his fellow recruits.
Sure. And that wouldn’t be an act of hate. Totally different.
ZooeyModeratorTwo of the biggest egomaniacs ever to run for the Presidency.
I know that these candidates do it for themselves more than anyone–but does anyone believe that there has ever been bigger “Me! Me! Me! Look how great I am!” candidates in the history of this country?
It’s not about the country or a belief–they’ll toss that away with the wind if they get to have the title: President of the United States.
Their only core belief is in “Trump” and “Hillary” and that’s where it ends.
After that everything is open for negotiation.
That is certainly the message I get. The only difference is that Trump is openly, brazenly self-promoting whereas Hillary is doing a terrible job trying to conceal that the only thing she deeply cares about is making history as the first woman president.
I do wonder, though, if we are really stuck with these two candidates alone. There has never been an election more ripe for a third party candidate than this one. The negatives on both those people are unusually high.
ZooeyModeratorI don’t understand the love for “Catch Me if You Can.” I felt like that movie was a waste of time. I appear to be the only one who thinks so, though, so no offense to fans of the movie.
March 2, 2016 at 9:45 pm in reply to: Jenkins fires his agent…but? (4/8) …may stay with Rams? #39899ZooeyModeratorHaving said that, i do think JJ has all-star talent,
and it looks like he’s finally becoming more disciplined.v
Agree. But he isn’t Richard Sherman, and $13 is too much.
ZooeyModeratorI want to see The Revenant.
I haven’t seen many DiCaprio movies. But the only thing I saw that I thought he was really good in was Gilbert Grape. I didn’t see The Aviator or Blood Whatever. I heard he was good in those.
But. I think I have, on average, one student a year who is as good or better. And none of them are rich enough to drive a Prius like he does.
February 29, 2016 at 10:39 pm in reply to: Jenkins fires his agent…but? (4/8) …may stay with Rams? #39825ZooeyModeratorI like Jenkins. I think he’s a good player. I would be sorry to lose him.
But. From the beginning, he has had that out-of-control egocentrism that is a liability.
We all want players who talk less about themselves, and more about the team. And rings. And that stuff.
Jenkins has always been all about Jenkins.
And I even if he should be paid higher than 5/45, it’s not by so much that 5/45 can be called “total disrespect.”
Sorry. Screw it.
February 28, 2016 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Jenkins fires his agent…but? (4/8) …may stay with Rams? #39751ZooeyModeratorI dunno how this works.
But if Jenkins gets franchised, what’s the point in having an agent? He’d be paying a large chunk of money to somebody for nothing, basically.
Players aren’t required to have agents, are they?
ZooeyModeratorI would say that right now, based on what we saw last year, that Keenum is better overall than Kaepernick.
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I don’t know about that, but even if he’s an improvement, it’s not by enough to make it worthwhile to give up any resources to get him.
ZooeyModeratorSure, but the Lebanese have something to live for.
So when you factor in the pointlessness of American life, we come out pretty well.
ZooeyModeratorLet the offseason begin.
Thought they might try to restructure Chris Long –
They could still do that. Bring him back for less.
That’s what I expected, but that statement sounded pretty final.
“We will always be grateful for James and Chris’ unselfish commitment to the Rams and wish them the best moving forward.”
ZooeyModeratorWell…there WERE communists. I don’t know about ties to the USSR, but many of the people called out as communists were actually communists. Abraham Polonsky is one, for example. He wrote “Guilty by Suspicion,” a film with Robert DeNiro, that I kinda liked though it didn’t get great reviews. I show it to my classes whenever I teach The Crucible which isn’t very often. But, anyway, Polonsky had his name pulled from the credits because Irwin Winkler changed the main character from an actual communist to someone falsely accused, and Polonsky said he thought Hollywood had enough of the “falsely accused” stories, and wanted to tell it like it was. So he pulled his name from the credits.
Point is. Being a communist was not, and is not, against the law, nor is it unpatriotic.
So. The McCarthyite fears were not without foundation.
He had no right to pursue those fears the way he did, and he and his crew undoubtedly ruined a lot of lives of totally innocent people. But. Some of those totally innocent people actually were communists.
ZooeyModeratorThe Rams horns are the only man-made object visible from outer space.
February 18, 2016 at 7:47 pm in reply to: UC Irvine for Rams training camp? or (update) Cal Lutheran? #39240ZooeyModeratorThose two places are about 14 hours apart. They have got to make a decision soon. Man, if I was a Ram, I would be looking for a rental for the first year. Let everything settle down, and get to know the different areas before buying.
February 18, 2016 at 12:56 am in reply to: Scalia's Trip Was Gift from a "Friend" Who Had Business w/ the SC Last Year #39199ZooeyModeratorThey declined to hear the case. It’s in the story, silly…
Oh.
You know, I read the story, then went away for several hours before returning and responding.
You’re thumb is on fire, btw.
February 17, 2016 at 7:51 pm in reply to: Scalia's Trip Was Gift from a "Friend" Who Had Business w/ the SC Last Year #39174ZooeyModeratorMaybe it’s just me.
But I find THIS a lot more disturbing than the lack of autopsy.
The trip, the Washington Post reports, was a gift from the ranch’s owner, who just last year obtained a favorable result from the Supreme Court.
Wonder which way Scalia voted on that decision.
ZooeyModeratorI think Obama is probably plotting to nominate a Muslim judge who wants to rule America with Sharia law.
All that would do is consolidate the already existing conservative bloc on the SC, and give the conservatives a 5-4 majority.
Right?
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Ironic, isn’t it?
ZooeyModeratorI think Obama is probably plotting to nominate a Muslim judge who wants to rule America with Sharia law. That’s what I think. You know why?
Because nobody has come out and explicitly denied that. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it? Think about it. If he wasn’t going to appoint a Muslin, he would have said so, right?
I have a case, don’t I?
ZooeyModeratorThere isn’t a law requiring autopsies because SC justices’ deaths have never been questioned before. We don’t make laws, typically, in anticipation of something that might happen. We make laws to address issues we already experience.
And Scalia’s death would not be an issue at all if it weren’t for a few circumstances. First, it’s Scalia. Secondly, he didn’t die in the hospital. And, most importantly, the narrative many people in this country are living is one in which democrats – particularly the Clintons and Obama – are basically demons with no scruples. It goes hand-in-hand with the same narrative that has led us to Donald Trump as a serious presidential candidate. The relentless right wing media assaults on these people have created a subculture that EXPECTS democrats to perform illegal and even “evil” deeds. That suspicion has been seeded continuously for the past 30 years.
It’s really no surprise that they would suspect foul play.
ZooeyModeratorThere is reason. Because of the office he held and the 180 degree effect upon likely upcoming 5-4 decisions before the court his Obama nominated replacement will cause. That is called motive.
But it isn’t the sheriff’s job to do all that political calculating, and especially not to worry about the implications to the court decisions.
A guy died. His OWN doctor and the sheriffs on hand said it was natural causes. Totally routine. It’s paperwork from there. Just declare him dead. Ask the family what they want to do. And the family said to take him to a funeral home and get on with it without an autopsy. That’s it.
All this political calculation and second-guessing and invention of assassination is crazy internet political people doing their crazy internet thing.
Sorry.
But the legal authorities don’t make their decisions based on what fringe political citizens in some other state are going to dream up.
And as a fringe political citizen in another state myself, I’ve already told you I would think an autopsy would have been appropriate.
But the absence of that move does not concern me for all the reasons that have already been stated.
His doctor. The local sheriffs. His family. Really. All with 10,000 times more first hand knowledge than you or me. Eye witnesses. They all say the guy died in his sleep. A man of deteriorating health who was nearly 80.
I mean…that’s it.
ZooeyModeratorWell, I’m surprised an autopsy wasn’t performed.
I woulda thot there was some sorta law about that
to be honest.w
vWell, there is no law, I would guess, because the assassination of justices doesn’t have a rich tradition in this country.
Why mandate an autopsy when there is no reason to suspect foul play?
ZooeyModeratorDonnie Avery
ZooeyModeratorToby Wright?
ZooeyModeratorTheres a lot more than 10 but that will do for a start. Background in article.
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
Project MKUltra
Operation Northwoods
CIA Drug Trafficking
Operation Mockingbird
COINTELPRO
Operation Snow White
Secret Global Economic Policies
The US Government Illegally Spies on its own citizenshttp://theantimedia.org/10-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true/
I don’t recognize all of those, but what the ones that I do recognize have in common is actual evidence.
As opposed to the Absence of Evidence (negative evidence) being used as evidence.
So the Scalia conspiracy used the absence of an autopsy as evidence of foul play whereas what would really be impressive would be actual evidence such as signs of struggle or injury. And the suffocation by pillow allegation is truly silly. It takes an estimated 5 minutes to suffocate someone with a pillow, and there would certainly have been a struggle. It works on infants and people who are completely infirm, and nobody else.
And while the death decree was made remotely, it was after talking to the sheriffs and Scalia’s doctor who said there was no evidence of foul play.
Just in terms of the credibility of evidence, there is evidence stacked on the side of natural causes, and nothing – except the absence of an autopsy – to suggest otherwise. But the absence of evidence is not evidence.
And none of the conspiracies above were proven to be true by using negative evidence.
ZooeyModeratorThat is exactly what Vince Foster said about Benghazi right before his emails turned up in Whitewater.
So, those are the guys who killed Scalia?
On email?
In Bengazzara?
Yeah.
I got this feeling that an autopsy woulda been rigged somehow. By a coroner who got his job because of a jobs program financed by an Obama sympathizer.
And get this…
he was transferred to that county just a week ago.
ZooeyModeratorIn fact it fans the flames.
There will be very few flames.
That’s my bet.
That is exactly what Vince Foster said about Benghazi right before his emails turned up in Whitewater.
ZooeyModeratorO’Rourke has always struck me as a raging alcoholic. Also, a “glass half full” type to be sure; a little prick who is never happy with anyone or anything. I just thought it interesting that he does Op Ed’s on BBC. I think it is important at times to get an outside view of what goes on here, not that he is an outsider, but he didn’t write this for us, he wrote it for the rest of the world.
I used to read “The Economist” whenever I could, and bought an issue before my trip to CA a few weeks ago.
If you think most Americans think the current race is loopy, you can only imagine what the Europeans think…
Zooey is right, this is a train wreck in slow motion…
Yeah, I think O’Rourke has always fancied himself to be the guy at the Exclusive Gentleman’s Club who is seen as the offbeat iconoclast with the witty bon mot. An Insider positioning himself as a Freethinking Outsider.
ZooeyModeratorOver the years the president’s nominee has normally focused on finding someone that both parties can accept. One strategy now would be for Obama to nominate a very liberal judge which then forces the Republicans to reconsider their stalemate on the chance that Clinton-or Sanders win and their stuck with the worst case scenario.
Hey, I have a question for you. And maybe my premise is wrong, but I’d like your opinion.
Seems to me that there are a number of examples over the years of judges who got appointed to the SC and then drifted to the left. Have you noticed that? And if so, do you have an explanation?
I don’t know. Maybe I’m imagining it. But Blackmun, Kennedy, Souter?
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