1984Echoes

Catch-22.

If God is omnipotent and omniscient, then why are there billions of dead species? Obviously, he's a brainless jagoff who has absolutely no clue what he's doing. Whatsoever.

There are those who do exactly that. I guess that's what they've decided is the meaning of life: Be an asshole. Trump is the current leader of that movement...

Stupid. Are people really this asinine?

Dysfunctional Bigs, and 3-OR-D's... Weaver's specialties...

I just caught myself on that... 😉

I must be Monty or something... I've totally forgotten about Ivey. He's probably a lot better than Hayes... on offense. But apparently, since he's not playing much D (in Monty's eyes), Monty has Hayes above him. I think Ivey should be the bench PG ahead of Hayes; but I will agree with Monty here that Ivey has to make enough of an effort on D to earn that spot ahead of Hayes. I guess I'm giving Monty the benefit of the doubt... For now.

Starters and bench should be: starters: Sasser-Cade-Ausar-Livers-Duren bench: Hayes-Burks-(Harris or Knox or whomever is healthy)-Stew-Bagley At least until Bojan comes back. Then the starters are Sasser-Cade-Ausar-Bojan-Duren. With the only problem being the defensive hole that Bojan creates... That pushes Livers to the bench as... SF? Hayes-Burks-Livers-Stew-Bagley...? Just my 2 cents... But it also seems that Monty is just now starting to experiment with lineups since nothing has worked so far, so... hopefully he can get to the above conclusions...

Yep. I take nothing from my Christian friends... they have their own perspectives on life. Funny thing is, in New Jersey, I am surrounded by Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and many other beliefs or non-beliefs. It would be insane (or lonely) to just lash out and denigrate everyone based on their beliefs, or anything else, so... When it comes to religion, I am not a bigot. I believe there ARE religious bigots ("if you don't believe what I believe then I HATE you"...), which I tend to avoid. I don't care what anyone does or does not believe in, I only care that a person is a good dude, or gal. At some point, if I want to hold onto a friendship, and we're at a point of contention... It has to get to agree to disagree when it comes to that...

There's some hypocrasy in here... Replace "Big Bang" with "God" or whatever else is the "something" that a person could believe in (a lot of people have turned away from the belief in a "god" but still believe in "something")... and what do you have? Nothing created something. 50,000 years ago when we were hunters and gatherers and (modern homo sapiens is 250,000 years old, so it took 200K years to...) came up with the concept of the "Happy Hunting Grounds", and all the itinerant spirits, gods, origin stories that came along with that, etc., etc.. I can understand it. We didn't know anything so we created these stories. Bu that's what "God" is. A man-made creation/ created story. I mean, religious believers understand that this is true, right? That ALL creation stories/ religions are MAN-MADE. That YOU created "God" (or your ancesters 2,000, 3,000, 50,000 years ago... whenever applies) out of NOTHING. That we KNOW that God = Nothing. So in effect, YOU are creating Something (Universe) out of NOTHING (God). Just so you understand that perspective. No disrespect, believe in whatever you want to... But I give absolutely zero credence to anything "God" related. Maybe there's some good things out of religion, but there are also TERRIBLE things out of religion (murderous pogroms, murderous crusades, murderous genocide, papal decrees to enslave Native Americans, Christian complicity in the Jewish Holocaust, Inquisitions, and modern-day Christian youth gangs that beat to death homosexuals or other "undesirables" that they don't like... Point. Let me offer an alternative: Your life has whatever meaning you assign to it. IE: If you wish to become a "pillar" of your community, and do all sorts of volunteering and service, then you've just added meaning to your life. Self-defined. If you decided to become an Astro-Physicist and work for Space-X because you believe it is important to colonize Mars... then you've just added this meaning to your life. Self-defined. If you decide that it's most important to be a good father and you do so, and raise a family accordingly... then you've just added this meaning to your life. Self-defined. You DON'T need someone else to define your life. Or the meaning of your life. Real or imagined. YOU get to define the meaning of your own life. Personally, I don't see what's so hard about that.

Would the front door stoop be an OK place? Ummm... Asking for a friend. No names...

gotcha!

I didn't catch that one... But otherwise, I think I'm mostly correct...

I think the primary issue with Campbell right now is he has to think too much. That slows his reaction times down. We won't know exactly what he is until he starts reading offenses better/ faster, and can just react with instincts instead of thinking about his responsibilities and where to go. When the game slows down for him, then we'll see what we've got. I believe this is normal for 1st year LB'ers, most of 'em... because there's so many reads/ responsibilities that they have...

To be fair though... THESE Palestinian prisoners are primarily rock-throwers (teenagers) and soldier-slappers (Palestinian women)... They haven't gotten to the hard-core murderers, bombers, etc. yet. When it comes to releasing male Jewish hostages and soldiers... Hamas will demand the more deadly prisoners. So far it's been women and children and foreigner hostages for women and teenager prisoners...

The ONLY thing that matters for Partisan Hackery...

Netanyahu's and his supporters are extremist West Bank land grabbers. That's what always has kept him in power. Hamas is the perfect foil, as Jim calls them, for that purpose.

I think the O-Line healing in these 10 days will do wonders for them...

The two state solution was broken a decade prior to Netanyahu. By Hamas. So... yes, let's blame it on Hamas. Initially. Netanyahu joined in because it suited his purposes perfectly. As did all of the other "Ultra" or extremist-factions in Israel. But he is NOT the main reason, initially, that the 1993 Oslo Accords fell apart. He came to that "party", LATER. It was Hamas that broke that agreement, first and foremost. And I'm not calling Israel innocent in the matter either. Just trying to get facts/ timeline straightened out. Yes, both extremist sides are each other's perfect foil.

that's the very short (and effective) version of what I said...

Actually... looking at her previous roles it looks like I've seen her at least half a dozen times already...

I don't believe I've seen her in anything else or, nothing that I can recall. She seems perfectly suited for this role however and is doing a great job acting so far... IMO.

Which means more acquisitions, by default. Sorry Chas, you are, technically, off-base.

I think the Tigers were, and still are, serious about obtaining Yamamoto... and nothing has changed. I believe Maeda is part of that plan. It doesn't guarantee that we end up with Yamamoto... obviously competitors against us... And it wouldn't bother me if it was a Yamamoto as Plan A, with Imanaga as a Plan B, plan that they are following, in fact, I'd be all for that. So, bottom line... I'm sticking with the Yamamoto plan, and the belief that that IS their game plan. At least until the game is over.

What I have seen over the past few decades is that whenever a deal would start to get close enough, Palestinian militants would start an Intifada or some other violent action to skupper the deal as they DON'T want a deal... they want the Jews exterminated. That's Hamas' philosophy. I'm not calling Israel innocent, they are not. Yes, they've stolen or threatened or used "illegal construction" to demolish homes and used the courts as well, and other "pseudo-legalisms", to steal land. They have been repressive and Palestinian violence has in good part been because of Israeli actions. But I've also seen violence coming directly out of the possibility of finalizing a two-state solution. There are large Palestinian elements who do NOT want a two-state solution. And most likely large Israeli factions as well. This toxic mix has produced nothing but heartache or worse for the majority of Palestinians who would just like to have a normal, decent life, in their own country not beset by Israeli interference or repression or theft, not beset by corrupt Palestinian authorities who do not help the situation, nor beset by Palestinian factions unwilling to allow Jews to live in Jewish ancestral homelands but willing to use violence whenever it suits them resulting in more death and angst for the Palestinians who just want to end this cycle. I don't see an end to this cycle. And it is NOT all in Israeli hands to end this cycle, in fact they've given up and are simply making a push to grab as much land as they can at this point. No, it is also in the hands of Hamas' since they REJECT a two-state solution and have a multi-decade record of murder and violence whenever the two-state solution gets close enough to implement. So how do you see an end to this cycle when HAMAS will do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to THWART a two-state solution?