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I will assume that means if a strange man approached your wife, daughter or mother and grabbed her pussy and forcibly kissed her against her will, you would shrug that off as stupid and vulgar and be totally cool with it? Am I understanding that correctly?

If a newspaper doesn't want to do endorsement, that's fine. The problem is that WaPo has already made endorsements in all the other VA and MD federal office elections so instead of a principled decision to change a policy before an electoral cycle stared, you have an obvious putsch by ownership to overrule his own staff and cut off a process that had already run nearly to completion for this election cycle. So instead of being a expression of principle, it's simply an admission of that Bezos is willing to prioritize his other business interests over the editorial integrity of his newspaper. A guy like that should probably sell to someone else - unfortunately for the public, newspapers don't make enough money for anyone likely to be editorially independent to be interested.

Ever entertain the possibility that the accusations could be true? That there’s a life-long pattern?

He is right, and the folks saying "well, no one cares about endorsements" are missing the point; the billionaire owner telling the board what they can and can not put out there 10 days before this particular election was never not going to cause controversy. I personally don't care about paper endorsements, but it's pretty clear what happened here and, at least in my view, really hits at the issue of trust.

The Washington Post made it official.... overall editorials aren't really meaningful that much anymore, I get that, but the way they spiked this led me to cancel my subscription. Just not going to contribute to that.

Manning, Mize and Torkelson. Trade them all for good (per our evaluaters) low level minor leaguers to clear room on the 40. They gave us next to nothing during our run and postseason so they will not be missed so continue to back fill the pipeline.

To quote Michael Scott, "Double Jeopardy we are fine."

One of the football accounts I follow on Twitter brought up a point about the Vikings defense. He said with gadgety type defenses that Flores uses that relies more on different blitz packages and less on actual talent tend to get worse as the season goes on when teams get more and more film on them and make the proper adjustments. Let's see if that plays out that way this year, judging by the last 2 weeks that could end up being the case.

I would say don't worry about Keith's power, it's in there, definitely enough for 1B if the OBP ticks up. And yes, I pushed Tork off a cliff but don't worry, I sent Brieske home with his outright release 3 years ago.

I really should go to bed, but I cannot resist reading the Vikings forum.

The view from my rooftop....

McAuliffe

Fernando-mania was something else. It's the closest thing to Fidrych '76 that I can remember. I just watched this clip the other day:

I’m really saddened by the passing of Fernando Valenzuela. It feels personal. When I spent six months recuperating from a bad motorcycle accident in 1982 and couldn’t go anywhere I listened to all 162 of Vin Scully’s broadcasts which was the only baseball available in Tucson, Arizona and Fernando was a big part of that. The Dodgers ended this season, I think, one game out of first place behind the Atlanta Braves, and I was honestly disappointed. It’s not like Ernie Harwell’s broadcast could reach all the way from Detroit to Tucson. So, for one year I was a Dodgers fan and a huge Fernando fan. Then of course in 1984 and no longer laid up and fully recovered I was able follow our own season as well as possible from such great distance — and with three new friends who’d recently moved from Detroit to Tucson — I forgot all about the Dodgers easily. But forgetting Fernando is hard. I will easily pull for the Yankees in the World Series, though, simply because of Sue.

I don't know if the allegations are true or not, and the evidence is thin. The story will go nowhere as always. But if I'm being honest with myself, knowing what I know about the guy, there's zero chance he hasn't done some really bad stuff with women over the years. And with Access Hollywood, he's been on tape admitting it. And he's currently paying out to EJ Carroll because of one incident as well.

Newspapers have been issuing editorials since before the printing press was invented. A discerning reader can tell the difference between the news section and the opinion pages. The fact that the owner of the paper overruled his editorial board should be News. Bezos capitulated to Trump. That is news.

I have no problem with the Washington Post not allowing the endorsement. That is not the job of newspapers. Their job should be to report unbiased news. A stupid endorsement is not going to change anything anyway. I like Amazon Prime and will continue to use it.

Well, whaddya know ... democracy really does die in darkness.

Not equivalent.

Well, if you guys are canceling, I am too!

When I got my real id this past summer, I had to have my birth certificate, SS card, and a copy of 2 bills with my address on them along with my old license-granted, it was because my old license had a different name (in MA you can put any name on your license as long as it's not to commit fraud so I had added my nickname), but that's still a lot of ID to have to chase down. From what I've heard, there's talk of making requirements such as having your current ID match your birth certificate exactly in order to vote, which would make it a nightmare for anybody with a legal name change-including women who take their husbands' names. It seems like there are a few wrinkles that are going to be difficult to iron out.

I wonder if Russia's oligarchs were happy with Putin right up until he stole their money and replaced them with his lackeys.

Yes, and sniffing kids' hair, too. It's mainly the attitude... that women are oversized children who of course need the guidance and firm but calming discipline from men. It doesn't always mean literally patting them on the head, though that's a stereotypical dismissive gesture that's seen with children. TBH it's best to keep your hands to yourself with people you don't know very well.

Don't be so hard on yourself. You may have one or two good qualities.

I could be talked into it with the following conditions, at minimum: Voter ID is made available, proactively by the state and at taxpayers' expense, to every eligible voting citizen, bar none. Citizens eligible to vote should not have to bust their humps to try to obtain voter ID, and they should not be priced out of voting. Every voter should be required to have their ID and voting status confirmed at the voting booth, no exceptions. No getting a pass from the poll workers because they "know" you. They cannot have the personal discretion to approve or reject you on the spot. Your ID MUST be confirmed, no exceptions. If I show up, or you show up, or Donald Trump shows up, and the voter ID cannot be confirmed, then no vote. Period. No exceptions. And ID has to be confirmed somehow before vote-by-mail or online vote is allowed. Maybe there are more conditions I would need to see to be talked into it, but these are the first two I can think of off the top of my head. I'm not sure how these could be implemented, especially #2. Is voter ID a physical card? Can it be located on your phone like your medical card? Is there a counter-check on the poll worker's side to positively confirm, like a scanner gun tied to a state database? Can voters be processed as quickly as they are under no-voter-ID rules? How the heck can ID be confirmed for mail-in or online voting? I don't know, but just because I can't plan out and articulate exactly how these would work to a 100% complete degree to you right now in this post, does not mean they shouldn't be conditions in the first place. But my thing is, until these conditions can be locked down airtight, I don't think voter ID should be a requirement anywhere. Because the whole voter ID thing is far too easy to use as a tool to keep certain eligible voters the politicians in power don't like, or the poll workers don't like, from being able to cast a vote. Figure this out to my satisfaction, and you may have me on board with you.

The motivations of black voters is rich and complex, but one thing I’m pretty confident of is that they have no interest in voting just to blow up the system, as too many white voters would like. Black people know they need a strong government to protect them from the freewheeling, unchecked racial apartheid and vigilantism that characterized the first 350 years of white rule on this continent.

This forum in general.

Great marketing!

I hate the new crack down on illegal formation. They never used to call receivers for being 6 inches too far off the line as it really has no impact on the play. It now seems to get called 2-3 times a game and I don’t really see the giant benefit to enforcing it so closely. It’s ticky tack which becomes even more frustrating when they are missing other big obvious calls that have a huge impact on the game. I also am beginning to get frustrated with constant false starts. Some are obvious and must be called but again every game I see a defensive player point at a tiny flinch from a OL and it’s an immediate flag. The zebras need to let a few of these go and not get baited whenever a DL stops and points. The automatic replay also needs to be changed to come in and make a call like last night when it’s obvious that a blatant personal foul has been missed. Need to eliminate the rule where if a flag wasn’t thrown on the field, a terrible mistake can’t be fixed. At the very least, they should amend and have the ability to intercede within the last 2:00 of a game.

They consider it a decent risk to get involved because the promise is, if Trump actually wins, he will shower them with riches. Of course, the dirty little secret Trump doesn’t tell them is that it’s a golden shower.

If an editorial board cant make the obviously right judgment, why should I pay them for said judgment prowess?

Thank you Matthew Stafford.

I have always found Newspaper endorsements to be meaningless and self-important. Good on them.

lol Vikings fans have to be losing their minds after that no call. Never mind they were pinned on the three with 90 seconds left and not timeouts.

Ras showing a little fire there.

What the actual

This is amazing

I didn't say they were the violent side. I said the violence MAY be instigated by the left. If we get a right wing sweep, there won't be much reason for the right to get violent. It will start out as protests, but protests can get violent. It won't sit well with a lot of people that the President atempted a coup four years before. Lots of people on the left have weapons. 20% of Democrats own guns, and it only takes a fraction of a percent to make trouble. But there is one reason we might not have much violence. Men are the violent ones and the majority of the men in the country will be thrilled by a Trump presidency.

As long as we were to get positive wins out of the guy, I wouldn't care what his role is.

An alliance is beginning. https://israelmyglory.org/article/understanding-gog-and-magog/

Boyd would be good for the first 6-8 weeks of the season before he inevitably gets injured or turns into a pumpkin. Lucky for Cleveland his season didn't start till mid August this year so they got the good stuff out of him and didn't have to deal with the bad.

He looks like a hitter. So many of them don't, but he does. He has that classic balanced stance, stands tall with square shoulders and the bat seems quick. Of everyone who posts here I am by far the least qualified to assess talent, truly, no one else is even close.

Or perhaps enjoy the radio broadcasts of the 1963 WS, which featured a voice that will be familiar to most of you.

The longest the series could have gone was Monday, so they could have played Wednesday.

You guys all know that I’m a Yankees fan, & I appreciate your tolerance of me, but this picture did give me all kinds of smiles/good feelings. (So, bear with me… you won’t get any more Yankees stuff from me) This is just cute. ☺️