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A violent mob was breaching a secure area where the vice president was. That cop is a hero. The victim deserved it.

Start your morning off with a bad Lions joke . . . Q: What do you call 3 straight completions by Jared Goff? A: 3rd & 2

I hated Donald Trump back in the 1980s and it's never changed. I always thought he was just a loud-mouth fraud. I just can't believe he has this political power. We're so broken. How the hell did this happen?

Imagine Elon Musk but richer and worse arguments about politics

My wife is a sparty and highly accomplished in life. I think the general quality of education she got plus her own native drive and intellect were fine. My interest in sending my son to a "good school" in the top 100 of whatever category is just scoreboard of his/our success raising him. The ratings are likely just junk like you say. We've been to a couple campuses on our tours. Michigan is a very nice one. UVA also very nice. Some are just utilitarian. In my own story...my terrible HS grades (we are talking Blutarski level gpa here) were mitigated when I finally realized I needed to get going: tested well on the ASVAB, joined the Air Force, got community college going, did well enough in University of Maryland overseas courses in the Air Force, got off active duty and applied for University of Michigan based on my CC and University of Maryland courses. I never had to write any essays or do well on the SAT. I showed up and worked hard because I gave a damn so it worked out for me.

The "there was only one death" line was the coup de Gras. We have a full fledged troll on our hands folks!

Isn’t it obvious to everybody here yet that this is an ongoing trolling performance? I mean, come on.

The worst thing that happened today on this forum was this post.

I have to say, I do give Harbaugh credit for the positive turnaround this year. But more than any sort of general credit given to him, the real key is that I think he has potentially made the best hire of his Michigan tenure in Mike McDonald as DC. Gone are the days of Dr. Blitz Don Brown, blitzing for the sake of it, and leaving your Corners out on an island to get torched in coverage. I have really liked watching what McDonald has done with this defense and the balance he has brought to the play calling. So kudos all around to Harbaugh for listening to his brother and hiring the guy and of course to McDonald for the solid coaching so far. In a game of two evenly matched teams, I think his play calling and the positions he puts his kids in could end up being the key to this game for Michigan.

Agreed - the difference in the undergrad experience is not what is offered by the curriculum or faculty (which at any of the big research institutions is seldom deeply engaged with undergraduate ed anyway) - the difference is in the student body and the intellectual peer challenge and social networking/social capital is it possible build from that (if a student is so inclined), and then secondarily the amount of leverage the undergraduate degree will give you getting into the graduate program of your choice if graduate study is the objective. That is sort of the myth of it. It's the great students that make the great schools, not the schools that make the students. It's sort of chicken and egg. Once a school has a good reputation, it is relatively easy to maintain it because you will get you choice of the best students and they will keep your institution strong. That is why the schools understand the importance of the ratings even if they don't like them.

he liked trump and said some mean personal insults to people and eventually got banned from the old site.

Stanford had a few fun short response prompts too. One of them asked to name a historical event you would return to, one asked to describe yourself in five words, one asked what you did last summer, one just asked for favorite books and movies. Their big essay though is "what matters to you and why?"

I guess Penn Jillette was outselling his ice cream much more than some country singer (Trace Adkins?) and should have won the Celebrity version, but he was asked if he would support and endorse Trump for President he refused - and so he lost. And I believe him. Jillette never supported a Republican or Democrat until 2016 when he whole heartedly supported Hillary because his quote was "How ever bad you think Trump is, he's worse."

At least we know who our GM will be in 20 years when Yzerman retires.......

I sort of followed the first season then got bored with the genre. There was nothing in that scripted show that made me admire him. He reminds me of the guy who bought the last “real” radio station I worked. The guy came across as a nice guy when he was interested in buying the station. It was a small AM, we were ignored by the last couple small corporate owners who focused on the FM side, leaving us to basically keep the needle moving. He indicated he had big plans for the station. What he really wanted was the property and could give two shits about the station. Once he took over he hired a satellite music salesman as his consultant, we went round and round over the decision to go to the bird and his choice of formats once we did. He even accused me of sabotaging the equipment. Funny, when I left the 7-11 regional manager hired to oversee the operation also walked. The station eventually when dark. The guy now has a local reputation as a slum lord who cheats his tenants. To me that’s Trump in a nutshell. Only on a national scale. A slumlord who fleeces his followers. Just take a look at his latest social media venture. A shell company inside a shell company.

He followed protocol. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1030354113/capitol-police-officer-ashli-babbitt-riot

LOL: "Even though the Atlanta Braves have won the World Series, as the result of our witnessing flagrant demonstration of outdated cultural gestures by Atlanta Braves fans, we in the commissioner's office have decided to take the high road and award the commissioner's trophy to the Houston Astros"... would they go so far?

Yeah - it's ridiculous the knots people will tie themselves in to deny the obvious. All Trump had to do was go on camera and tell them to go home, he refused to make the effort. How obvious can complicity be? It doesn't even matter to argue they might not have listened to him, his lack of effort alone stands as the irrefutable fact convicting him. In fact a man with any kind of courage would have gone to the Capitol and told them to stand down. But Trump is coward even in the face of his own supporters.

campbell was great in this game. the lions have no talent and a shit quarterback and they hung tough thanks to ballsy decisions by their head coach and a good defensive scheme that kept them in it. very impressed with campbell.

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The lawsuits were thrown out because they were stupid. The election wasn't even very close and there is no evidence of widespread fraud that would have changed the election. It's just your guy being a big baby because he didn't win. Also, his lawyers are all idiots. With all his money (supposedly) and power, he should have had access to the best lawyers in the country and instead he surrounds himself with incompetent morons. Your guy is a complete charlatan and you guys just keep believing everything he says.

Campbell was competitive in this game by continually making the risky move. I’m not sure what people expect out of this roster but the staff is making the most of it.

People in here have been doing that for years. It's 99% not to discredit. It's for (a) making jokes, or for a laugh, (b) changing a word to offer a different viewpoint, but along the same lines as the original statement, (c) saying the exact opposite of what someone said, with multiple choice of reasons behind that, (d) and yes, sometimes to discredit. But if someone says the exact opposite of what you are saying... that is part of the conversation. You are the one overreacting as if you are mortally wounded by the tactic, rather than continuing the conversation. Even if it annoys you because it is the exact opposite of what you said. For example, I made a post that was NOT an "FTFY", but a straight up post that took your list of "Trump" positives and gave them back in almost the same point-by-point, in a post, with exact opposite viewpoints about how negative in each aspect Trump was. But it doesn't matter what the format of the post is (a "FTFY" that says the opposite, or a straight up post that states the opposite...); it's the content/ intent/ conversation of the post that matters. You seem to be extremely sensitive to a re-wording of your post through a "FTFY"... If I may recommend... Don't be so sensitive about it... but rather understand the content of the conversation and respond to that aspect of the conversation that you deem relevant. Ask esweig... a fellow conservative, how he has responded to the same. He's been whacked with quite a few FTFY's as well. But we all have been. Some with an interesting alteration. Some for a joke. Some with an opposite viewpoint. As for ewsieg: 99% he doesn't respond with indignity but, rather: "I know you think this way but I cannot", or "let's agree to disagree", or "funny, but I cannot stomach...".

I'm willing to discuss anything and I'll even admit when I'm wrong. What I won't do is change something you said to try to discredit you. That's BS and childish.

Kind of sounds familiar...That's most of you folks and Trump.

Michigan also benefits from having its historical ties to the Dharma Initiative https://lostpedia.fandom.com/wiki/DHARMA_Initiative

Strike zone awareness And bat speed are no match for The art of pitching

Everybody's got a price, everybody's going to jail! BAHAHAHA!

Reading some reports Keith Law hates the Tigers, eh? He can suck my ****.

After nine years of living in Texas (ie. an actual Confederate state), it never ceases to amaze me that I see less stars and bars here than I did back home