So you've never watched a trump rally obviously then. Even the head head honcho is out there throwing tantrums and calling the other side nasty names. You forgot to add Murica! And Freedumb! to your post.
Yeah, but you don't see the Idiot Freaks at Trump rallies. No one with blue hair, no guys wearing women's clothes. No one dressed in a furry costume, etc.... there are so many idiots I cannot name them all. They all reside on the left side of the aisle.
I find myself thinking more and more about aging as I get older (I know... funny how that works). My playing hockey has been a really good barometer. Starting at mid-thirties, just doing a couple laps around the rink and a quick stretch was no longer enough to get my body ready to play. I realized that I had to be more disciplined about exercising (not just hockey as exercise, but cardio and stretching) so I didn't pull a muscle or worse while playing. I've still got work to do there, but now (getting into my mid-forties) I'm finding that sometimes all the discipline in the world won't stop a random muscle pull or other minor injury... and now those take a LOT longer to go away.
What's more interesting to me, though, is how I'm aging upstairs. Even after I got married, I was still playing 3-4 times a week non-stop with a couple tournaments each year. Now I only play once a week and look forward to taking the summers off. Yes, kids and house and job are the reasons (just like everyone else), but I always imagined that I wouldn't be able to handle playing so little.
Sorry for the tangent, reading your post and feeling my shoulder from when my dog yanked on the leash got me in a sharing mood.
Watched last night, purely out of team loyalty. Just painful. We have some more work to do. We do not have the answers for NYK, clearly the better team. Apparently better coached IMO.
Mestemaker is one to keep an eye on, but I have some skepticism. (Go figure, me, skeptical)
The Oregon game in week 2 could kill/dampen the buzz pretty quickly.
8 of his 9 interceptions last season came in 3 games --The games against "better" competition. USF, Tulane, and San Diego State aren't on Oregon's level.
Oklahoma State was not very good last year. (Oregon beat them 69-3) The situation he'll be in does not inspire confidence.
On the other hand, a good outing vs Oregon could bring on the frenzy. We'll see how it plays out.
So I used an absolute - my bad. That's never a good thing (maybe absolutes are ok sometimes!). But I did acknowledge and state you can find voices that agree with Trump anywhere. They are often the fringe - in the UK they are the hard right party trying to blame everything on immigration. At the start of the war - both the conservative and Reform party leaders were indicating that the UK should have done more to assist the US. Within a matter of days - seeing the train wreck, lack of objectives, the way Iran responded.... that sentiment changed and did a 180. Spain and the rest of EU similarly had zero interest in the war. [1] Believing it to be a war of choice and not a response to an imminent threat [2] remembering Iraq and how the USA lied and manipulated them at that time.
Yes - there are talking heads and ex-ministers who will tell you Iran is a threat and dangerous. No it was not prevalent. It was not those in power and leadership. No there was not a call to choose to strike and go to war from the majority and not those in power.
Does that prove that Iran was not imminently on the verge of obtaining nuclear arms - no. But based on these people in power having better access to information and details than you or I - I'll follow their lead instead of a pathological liar in Trump and Netanyahu who has had the same agenda and cried wolf for nearly 30 years and whose ONLY objective is to keep military action going to prevent losing power and subsequently and inevitably being convicted when he leaves office.
As I said - this is not hard. And we can disagree.
Absolutes can be okay when they aren't false. False absolutes are always bad. (That might be a situation where an absolute is ok. Still was uncomfortable to write)
I agree that there was a 180. But that implies that initially there was support. That in turn implies that the problem wasn't the idea that something had to be done, but that they did a shoddy job of it. As far as [2] I think you're selling short the other countries' complicity in the "lie." I.e, the Brits were the ones that provided the allegedly manufactured intel. There's reality and what "needs" to be done, and there's politics and trying to manage public sentiment and trying to win elections. Unfortunately those things don't always align.
I think the middle paragraph is tilted to support your beliefs. I think people saying Iran is a threat and dangerous is more prevalent than you care to admit. There are degrees to that, but you seem to be saying that most people in power and leadership saw what Iran was doing as fine, which isn't true. There was no public call to war because war is unpopular (as it should be.) Yet "wars" were already going on and have a tendency to spread and worsen, and Iran was already involved in one with our allies through proxies. Wars have a tendency to escalate and Iran ramped up HEU production. If it were just any one individual thing with Iran ("Death to America") it would be different than the totality of bad things that we have, the supporting terrorists part in particular.
Yes, people in power have more information, but they also have more concerns. You don't know why they are making the decisions they are making. The idea that they have concerns closer to home is not meritless. Is it crying wolf when Iran has literally been funding (terrorist) proxies in Hezbollah and Hamas for decades? Claiming ""ONLY" in all caps is BS. It's not that simple. We have to get to him leaving office, and while some things are inevitable, his conviction unfortunately isn't one of them as much as we might like it to be so.
And the question could become, if Monkin doesn't develop some of that "1st round" talent will it be the fault of Monkin for not developing that talent or will it be the talking heads were wrong about their evaluations on some of those picks?
If you eliminate major costs you foresee while working, then things are simpler, so I agree. We have set up savings and investments every pay. We "practiced" budgeting before retirement while we only received one payday a month. We are comfortably set. More than that, we are happy with what we have; my wife is a blessing because we share priorities. The Shaker motto was good advice that smacks of Transcendentalism: "Simplify, simplify." Control what you can.
As I said earlier, simple is the name of the game, especially if you plan on doing most of it yourself. Leave the complicated to the people who can afford personal secretaries, a team of accountants, and lawyers. Complicated takes a mental toll if you plan to do it yourself.
888 keeps insisting tax payers don't pay anything for National Parks. Lies are lies even when one doesn't realize one is doing it.
I made an error which I am happy to accept and acknowledge - something most won't do on here. And if anyone was to keep a score of the lies and the misinformation that is spammed on these boards, then one group of posters win by a land slide and it isn't the guys who don't like Trump.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office filed charges against an ICE agent in connection with the January shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan national, in Minneapolis.
Christian J. Castro, 52, is facing four counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of falsely reporting a crime.
ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis
The backstory:
The ICE-involved shooting took place near the 600 block of 24th Avenue North just before 7 p.m. on Jan. 14.
Initial reporting detailed federal agents were pursuing a man in a vehicle who had crashed into a snowbank. The man then ran to a nearby home, where a pursuing agent caught up with him and attempted to make an arrest.
An "altercation" between the agent and suspect then ensued, which led to two other people arriving from a nearby apartment, and all three attacking the officer – one armed with a broomstick, according to DHS.
"Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life," DHS initially claimed.
Julio Sosa-Celis, 24, a Venezuelan national, was taken to the hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, while Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna, 26, was also arrested in its aftermath.
Both men were charged with assaulting a federal agent in the aftermath of the altercation, but the DOJ later requested the charges be dismissed with prejudice, writing in a motion that, "newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the complaint affidavit."
Big picture view:
The shooting occurred one week after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by ICE officers and ten days before the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal officers. ICE agents under federal investigation
Dig deeper:
The U.S. Attorney’s Office later opened a criminal investigation into two ICE officers after video evidence allegedly showed the agents’ sworn testimony included "untruthful statements."
Court filings filed after the shooting showed the ICE officers’ accounts of the moments leading up to the shooting differed significantly from testimony provided by the two defendants and multiple eyewitnesses.
SoS is based on the previous year's results (which itself takes into account it's own SoS), but each team has turned over as much as 25-35% of its roster and 30% of all teams have new head coaches, staffs, and systems.
So, it sounds good, but there really isn't much you can reliably take away from it. It's predicting this year's corn crop based on last year's tomatoes.
According to most on draft day, this guy was massively overdrafted, and supposedly not on any team's radar.
I think this just reinforces that most draftniks & sites just really don't know and that reality is disguised by the ability to pick a lot of low-hanging "no-brainer" fruit in drafts. That said, the same applies to all front offices as well, given how many misses there are each year.
They're making a guess on future performance in one system against higher quality talent based on past performances in other systems against decidedly lower talent.... sometimes you'll hit, sometimes you won't.
