Originally Posted by Bull_Dawg Pit butchers logic and lumps opinion and facts together both his own and others without regards to how they were originally presented and acts like it doesn't matter. It's maddening to me.
You have just posted irrefutable proof that rather than address the message you attack the messenger. This is a very old and worn out approach to dodge legitimate counterpoints.
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People (myself included) don't know what they don't know. Yet, some people are aware of that limitation, while others seem oblivious. Sometimes people do know things that others don't, despite the others thinking they know something that they actually don't.
Throwing out wild hypotheticals isn't even attempting to present facts and you do a lot of that.
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Personally, I find more arrogance in someone claiming a falsity as fact than in someone pointing out their "fact" was false. I'll admit I can be "haughty" in my condemnation.
As you drivel on about that without supplying any evidence of these "falsities" you are claiming. But you have a habit of that. And remember, as you post this nonsense you are the person who claimed bombing a location wasn't bowing it up. And being haughty, a very mildly descriptive word to explain your actions. While at the same time exactly what you were accused of. You sound like a person who describes them being a very stubborn person as being strong willed.
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This isn't pointed solely at you, mgh888, but like I said I have my principles. I don't doubt your intentions, though. I can't say the same for others, and honestly we're well beyond the point where responding to him directly serves a useful purpose.
And now you claim that after I've pointed out fact after fact, you try to call out my intentions. Once again your superiority complex comes shining through. And now you're using it as a weapon to ignore me pointing out your questionable and shady logic. For someone that claims to be so skeptical, war doesn't seem to something you remotely try to be skeptical about. Odd how that works.
I get it. You can't dispute it so you have decided to ignore it. There is a lot of that going around these days.
Don't blame me because you can't defend the points I have been making. You're fully aware that you have done more deflecting and creating hypotheticals than posting facts. It seems as though your accusations are far more an admission.
If you want to address me or my actions, man up and stop doping it in a backhanded way to a third party. Surely you have a little more spine than that.
It's not irrefutable proof of personal attacks, it's a brief summation of your standard actions and how I feel about them.
I'm not the one constantly claiming BS as facts. I present my hypotheticals with question marks. They are to be thought about. I don't expect them to be treated as gospel (like you seem to with every twisted word that you spew.) I keep the facts and my opinions separated.
Saying I claimed bombing a location isn't blowing it up is yet another falsity. I said blowing a facility up is different than blowing "them" (an entire civilization) up. Go figure, you did exactly what I described that you tried to characterize as a personal attack.
You sound like a Donald Trump word salad when ranting about my word choices. I didn't call myself the names you want to, how dare I?
You don't know what a fact is, or at least act as if this is the case. You make up BS and claim it is a fact over and over. It almost never is.
You're the one that's caught up on superiority complexes. I don't say I'm better than you. You are just frequently demonstrably wrong. Everybody can be wrong. Most people just aren't as certain of themselves when they're wrong as you. They don't dig deeper and deeper into being more and more wrong. The more wrong you are, it seems the more certain you pretend to be. Don't change my words and make up BS, and I won't make you feel like an idiot, or so it seems with your constant superiority complex "drivel."
Call me out and you'll get the response you deserve. Bull, horns, you know the drill.
I try to ignore you because everything you write is almost all nonsense. When you misrepresent me, I'm going to defend myself.
Why don't you show the spine to fess up to your BS and stop being such a nuisance that has to change other peoples' words in a seeming attempt to feel better about yourself?
I used to have to go up on the roof for various reasons. I stopped doing that. It is not the ladder. It is getting from the roof back on the ladder. I started to become more conscious about it. I just ended it with why take the chance?
Don't you know it. Last year, I had to sit there and think about how I'm getting onto the ladder from the roof without losing my balance, and I struggled doing it. I don't know if it's the lack of flexibility or just the lack of confidence, but I decided right there that I'm not doing this anymore. I've been up there many times in the 30+ years I've been in this house, climbing up and down that ladder without a second thought.
Von Miller was the MVP. Yes, technically Peyton Manning was the Super Bowl winning QB, but he wasn't height of his powers Peyton Manning at that point.
It's also kind of interesting how many top QBs only have one Super Bowl win. Elway kind of rode Terrell Davis and defense to one of his.
Brady is more the exception than the rule. And he's the one that went in the 6th round.
I think having a good enough QB with a great team around him is a more realistic Super Bowl path than making the team worse for the chance to potentially have a (maybe) great QB.
Obviously there is value in the QB, but I think Myles' value to the entire defense is somewhat being overlooked. Without Myles, I don't think our defense works. Putting a rookie in a shootout every week is not necessarily a recipe for success.
I'd be focused on other avenues than Myles, if possible. Like only last resort, every stone turned over, and he demands out.
Is Brady the best of all time because he's Brady, or was Brady the best off all time because he was on good teams because he didn't maximize his contracts? Would Brady have been Brady on the Hue Jackson era Browns?
Could DW be a QB for another 7 years? Well, that's possible but how many of those over 30 QB's have had 2 Achilles injuries? He's had other injuries besides that also. I wouldn't bet DW will be a QB into his late 30's.
And while I agree with you to a very great extent, for any sane person it's obvious that a lot of this division and chaos begins with what is being said and posted from within The White House and at Mar-a-Lago. Once a contagious disease starts, an epidemic will soon follow if no controls or constraints are put in place to contain it.
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.
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.
