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WOW...............WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW.............CHRIS ILLITCH, I APOLOGIZE ! NOW THAT'S A BOLD MOVE ! (just trying to will something big here)

If any bands participated, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them took some money to cover costs. Kid Rock or Cardi B don't need any money to go do an event, but they'd build some discourse amongst their touring staff if techs and others are pulled away for a few days to work for free because some rich person wants to root for their favorite politician. Sounds like Cardi B paid that out of her pocket, but if she wanted to support Kamala and accepted some money to cover her costs, there is nothing wrong with that either. And honestly, even if they did pay, who cares? If they think it'll help them, do it. Kind of funny Kamala is getting trolled for paying people where Trump is the one that would stiff people.

You didn’t hold your breath waiting to see if the information was true. You posted the fabrication from maga Twitter as a truth. You just admitted to it.

Twitter used to be the best aggregator for breaking news, depending on who you followed. Then came Trump's fake news followed by bots and Musk. Now it's worse than Nextdoor

I was told there would be no math.

Well, TBF, he didn't say, "I checked the FEC filings." He told you to check the FEC filings. Difference. Which, I'm glad you did for our benefit, because now i know and don't have to check it myself. But yeah, he has no interest in the FEC filings, and he never will. And the moral of the post is: eliminate your expectations.

It's easier than defending the teevee doctor running Medicare and Medicaid, that's for sure.

Most Blacks I know feel disrespected by the White community at large. They are past being offended by exclusion. It's expected. They do like to have a functioning government because it's their best chance.

Flying to syracuse this morning and Jason Benetti is on my flight! he's very polite.

Bones jones did the trump dance though so checkmate

Water is your friend! Water is life! ( not the bottled stuff…. you need all those chemicals in your tapwater. Lol. Better living through chemistry.) 😁 all kidding aside, get used to drinking water. It’s so much better for you than any of those other drinks.

I would’ve preferred dropping one of Kreidler, Baddoo, or even Lange (sorry, not a fan of his lack of control) as opposed to Leonard.

And the folks are right to vote this down. The money needs to go to fixing the hurricane damage, not a playpen for a billionaire.

Dude literally tried to invalidate millions of votes in the last election. But crickets from certain folks

bsky is a good signifier that you reject oligarchy.

The companies dont care about you per se. The government would care about you precisely. That’s why they need subpoena power and legal authorities to do this sort of thing.

Yet when I try to talk about the winning candidate, you never engage.... there always seems to be a "whaddabout the losing candidate" pivot. Interesting.

Okay... now that y'all got me going down this rabbit hole I decided to go all out... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passer_rating Go read that page for all the nitty gritty details, but short version is that there are 4 calculations made. Each calculation is weighted to give a result between 0 and 2.375. When the formulas were created a result of 1.0 would be league average based upon data from 1960-1970. I don't know why 2.375 is considered the "cap" but that's what they picked. If the result of any one of those four calculations is negative, it's set to 0. If it's more than 2.375, it's set to 2.375. Then you do this: It seems the inventors of the formula wanted 66.7 to equal average while 100+ was excellent and presumably 33.3 was awful. Still seem super dumb to me, but whatever. Obviously as passing has become a bigger and bigger part of the league the numbers have shifted up. In 2020 League average of 93.6. I will say that I don't think the designers ever intended that someone who hit the highest possible score had a "perfect game." I think they were just trying to set a cap to prevent a QB having one aspect of their game be super good and skew things because of that. So we shouldn't (imho) be using it to say that a QB had a perfect game. It would be more accurate to say his game was so good it topped the rating measurement system. But that doesn't really roll off the tongue. Here's the mark you need to hit for each equation to meet that 2.375 cap: 77.5% completion percentage 12.5 yards per attempt 11.875% TD/ATT (1 TD/8.421ATT) No interceptions It's also worth noting that fumbles, sacks, and rushing yards/TDs by the QB are NOT included in the calculations at all. A QB who had 18/25, 250 yards, 3 TDs and 1 INT gets a ratting of 126.6 while a QB who had 18/25, 250 yards, 3 TDs and 0 INTs, but 3 lost fumbles get a rating of 143.3. Why? Because this formula was very specifically designed to be PASSER RATING. Even though most of us talk about it like QBR or Quaterback Rating, it's not. QBR is an ESPN stat and it's totally different than this.

Largely true but it is important to demonstrate the lack of good faith certain posters bring to the forum.

Elon's worth is tied to Tesla, not Twitter, but of course you knew that. And in fact that net worth isn't really easily accessible because if he tried to access it by selling Tesla share in any significant number, that would tank their value. So his wealth is semi-paradoxical.

Nope. I just put you on my ban list. Didn’t want to go that route but you have just admitted to being a troll. The gig is up. You are not worthy anyone’s time here. FWIW, you are not living anywhere in my head. You are now completely insignificant. I equate you with the fly who circles around a fresh piece of ****, happy as can be in the thinking it’s the greatest thing they’ve ever seen.

I'll be at this game tomorrow. I'm hoping we get to see Ausar suit up.

Holic playing you guys with the maga playbook like clowns. The premise that there would even be a issue with Kamala paying Oprah is never challenged because you're so caught up in whether it's even true or not. Which is all a diversion from the fact that it had nothing to do with the original discussion about black support for Trump. You guys should know better by now.

Would be a killer hire if they decide to take a stab at it.

That's news to Trump folks because they don't pay their bills. To think you'd have to pay a bunch of hardworking union folks to set up stages and speakers and platforms and sound and lighting.... Unless they think oprah does all that work herself.

Maga is confused because maga usually dines and dashes on those rally expenses

You're going to do what you are going to do... Nobody's telling you otherwise. But if you aren't going to engage on the actual substance of anything I post, why should I be expected to engage on your unrelated and irrelevant points?

HaHa - people will say this before the fact, but watch how fast everybody bails if it comes to pass. The human is always very brave about what they will do in the future!

How do you know this information is true? It was posted randomly on Twitter and every Maga just fell in line and ate it up as a truth. This is part of their propaganda machine. Every celebrity and the campaign has denied this false claim. None were paid appearance fees. Stop passing along baseless Twitter rumor as fact. I was giving you credit for being a little smarter than the typically gullible maga but I was wrong.

Hard to believe Pepe Lives Matter isnt covering this.

I got bumped, for free, on a flight from DTW to Chicago and yeah... it was basically comfort plus. Only time I've been upgraded. We fly to Chicago now rather than drive. By the time you factor in gas and parking fees... it was only like $100 more and that's worth the piece of mind.

I’ve pretty much cut out soft drinks, especially because of the interactions between the sodas and drug I take for my lungs (Ofev). I’ll do an occasional Ginger Ale but that’s about it. But then I’ve also cut back on wine, except for an occasional small glass of Petite Verdot. Lots of water and the occasional beer if we visit one of the local breweries.

I'm not bothered HInch only finished third. They were the 3rd wild card. An 8 game improvement. KC was the 2nd WC and had a 30 game improvement and Vogt's team won the division and they had a 16 game improvement. It's not a travesty.

Thanks again for telling me how African Americans feel.

If only the players were as good as the PR team. The real estate deal is 100% about garnering tax breaks for the organization. Becoming catalysts for urban renewal and civic engagement for their home community is all bull****. They wouldn’t do the deal if they didn’t get massive tax benefits. The part about criminal justice reform is masterwork as well coming from Platinum Equity, which has been under fire for years for excessive price gauging from one of its subsidiaries that owns the largest prison phone and email services.

When the dust settles on this election, even after focusing on the share improvements across the board (as you have done repeatedly), you're probably looking at Donald Trump's opponent getting somewhere between 88-90% share of the African American vote. In that context, it would be surprising if the vast majority of the community didn't notice a lack of representation within his cabinet. I don't need to look for a story to tell me that... The vote share tells the story about what the black community largely thinks about Donald Trump.

Dearest Constance, The Winters here are harsh and despite my hubris regarding my chances of surviving and even thriving in the wild, I find that no amount of of confidence is enough to sustain me now. I was merely fooling myself. This cold envelopes me at a cellular level. My food stores are very low and I am finding that I am too week to collect, much less chop fire wood. I am leaving you this note in the hopes that if my remains are eventually found, you will know that I did this for you. I survived several years on this frigid plane known as the 40-man roster. Every once in a while there was the warmth of attaining the active roster, but by the time those opportunities came around, I was far too weak and weary for it to last. Now I am cold and alone, waiting for the end as time tortures me with fleeting visions of hearing my name called by the PA announcer in a canyon-sized baseball cathedral. Even those dreams are fading. I will make every attempt to linger until Spring, but if I don't make it - please don't send my remains to the White Sox organization. Even in death one needs pride and dignity. Yours lovingly, Akil.

Mom and Stepdads wedding. Summer '71

Strongly disagree. Hinch got this team to a playoff series win with about 10 rookies on the team and one legitimate starter for a good chunk of the season. At one point in the season, our entire OF was on the DL. And we sold at the trade deadline. Cleveland had superior talent and established players. I think Vogt got it as a new manager, and Hinch might still be paying a penalty for his suspension. Objectively, Hinch’s performance was better. For the first time in my 50 years following the Tigers I can honestly say that the manager played a significant role in the actual outcome of games on a consistent basis. Sparky and Leyland were great at what they did, but they also had stacked teams.

I quit pop about 10 years ago. I first gave up coke then diet. I lost more weight when I quit diet. Was totally addicted. I would get a 20 ounce after lunch and would feel the sensation immediately. More so than any booze or cigarette ever did. the only time now I ever have it would be in a mixed drink at a wedding or whatever.

Is that TP?

Wait until he finds out they don't take a receiver all the way until the 4th round.

Vogt wins MOTY, I really don't care that much about awards especially this one but feel like AJ deserved it. Maybe I'm selling Vogt short since I didn't pay attention to the Guardians other than looking at their end game result but I find it hard to believe he actually managed the game as well Hinch did. Some teams overachieve due to a bunch of players having breakout seasons, little of which a manager is really responsible for but the Tigers on the other hand won in large part due to how Hinch used his players.

The 49ers are starting to feel the effects of the Lance trade now. They basically wasted three 1st round picks and now have and aging roster and haven't been able to add good cheap players because they had no 1st round picks. They got lucky that Purdy turned out to be decent.

Lions need to win by at least 5 points on Sunday. If they do that they will have as high a point differential against the AFC South as the rest of the NFC North combined.

I've got 23 guitars. Some I spent way too much money on. The one I play the most? A cheap Yamaha FG800 that I spent 200 bucks on. It actually sounds decent and It is the only guitar I leave out all the time. I don't give a crap about dings or scratches and it is always within grasping distance in the evenings when I'm kicking back and relaxing. I'm kinda' like grandma with the good china in the cabinet that no one is allowed to eat on.

Daughter's Fender Squire arrived. Signed her up for lessons. It is not easy to find a young woman to teach a young woman guitar. Did find one who is college student so right up her alley. I assigned the son the job of buying her picks that he thinks she'd like. That might have interesting results.

We grew up with a piano in the house and none of the seven of us kids bothered to learn to play it. As a result, even though I’m very musical, I’m not a musician. My wife bought me an electric Casio full piano with heavy keys for Xmas some years ago. It would sit for months untouched until I got a song in my head and I would sit down to pick it out, then that would be it for another long stretch of time. In the past year, I was at my brother’s for Thanksgiving. He has a piano (again, doesn’t know how to play it) and some of the kids were plinking around with it. I joined for a couple minutes but couldn’t do anything with it. Earlier that year I’d been at a resort hotel, saw a piano in the lobby, and really wished I could sit down and play something, anything. I felt embarrassed because, again, I’ve had a damn piano in my place of residence for probably most of my life. So this year, I made an actual New Year’s resolution to learn to play five songs on the piano, so that whenever I would see one out in the wild, I’d be able to sit down and confidently play something at least halfway decent, and play it at least halfway decently. And so, after committing to the work, I can now play “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” (i.e, Cheers theme song); “He Gives Us All His Love” by Randy Newman; the piano part of “Great Gig in the Sky” by Pink Floyd; and almost all of the piano part of “Layla” by Derek and the Dominoes. For my fifth song, I am currently working on completing “Fred Jones Part 2” by Ben Folds Five. All these songs are quite simple and rather short, but they are, to me anyway, very beautiful-sounding songs that I think people might be at least a little impressed seeing someone play them. I can’t play them all with zero mistakes yet, but I’m far enough along I feel pretty confident about going to my brother’s this TG, playing the songs and surprising some people who’ve known me for six-plus decades and would swear on a holy bible that I can’t play piano, same as them. And moral of the story is: it’s not too late to call the audible.

daughter was asking for a guitar for her 16th birthday. I was generally supportive but the wife was and is tight with the cash. Anyway, saw the girl up on stage at the most recent HS cabaret singing like a bird. Dad's ears might have been hearing more than existed but she seems to love performing and she's putting effort into it. I wouldn't have gone up on stage like at at at 15. I was more worried about hitting a baseball. Some of the kids in the performance were playing guitars, some were playing piano. So, the father-in-law had a banjo he left for the kids. When i brought up the idea of the guitar for her birthday again the green eyeshade wife said..."We have a perfectly good banjo she can learn to play!" and I'm like, DID YOU SEE ANYONE HERE PLAYING THE F'IN BANJO!?" so, took the girl to guitar center last night and the salesgirl who came up to help us through our dumbness looked like a 4 years older version of my daughter. She did a good job taking some of the nerves my daughter had about the purchase away. We didn't buy last night but will as her birthday gets closer. I think my daughter and my money will be at that place or places like it much more in the coming couple years.