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romad1

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  1. WOOT!!! I told my detroit colleague about it and immediately all the local office "comedians" were making big johnson news jokes.
  2. Before. We had the lesser record/slot in the playoffs.
  3. Iran was the reason why I chose the path I did in life. I wrote a book at about age 11 about a spy who freed the hostages. Featured in the book were huge crowds of people shaking their fists and shouting "death to America"! Somehow the spy in my crudely drawn book was able to pull off the job were President Carter could not. Somewhere, in the Reagan years we ended up in a sort of war on Iran over tankers and missiles. Later, much later, our gang of students at grad school would gather on our Thursday night drinking nights and chug beers shouting "bar mar am-reek ka!" (Which in our drunken minds was the death to America chant") which is the exact sort of thing you do when you have infantilized your opponent. In my fancy pants school I learned that yeah, Iran had beef. But, of course...we have beef too. Then, after 9/11 when we were in the midst of the West's righteous rage at Sunni Islam, the Shia punks in Iran said "what about us, mate?" and funded and supplied the weapons to thousands of attacks on US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. We never quite took their measure but we allowed Israel to strike at their nuclear industry. Now, Iran is working in alliance with Putin to stir trouble for the Western democracies. Killing American troops is the tripwire forcing Biden's hands to act despite his wish not to. Trump is trying to slipstream this conflict back into the White House to avoid prison and to become America's dictator. Steve Bannon rubs his gravy-stained hands in the wings as he plots his leninist takeover of the US on behalf of his oligarch friends. So, my feelings at this point are that is the last thing Biden, America and the West needs but we do need to respond.
  4. That guy Jessie Waters has quite a back story. Punch-able face and impunity to spread all manner of bull
  5. I'm Mr. Brightside
  6. This document is public record. Its goddamn Mein Kampf for the theocrats and the kleptocrats who will swim in their wake.
  7. Separation of church and state Project 2025 focuses on Christian nationalism, and one of its goals is to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state established by the Constitution's First Amendment. Religious freedom for believers is paramount in the Project 2025 plan, preferring religious beliefs over civil laws like the Constitution. A tenet of the project is: "The message that America must remain Christian, that Christianity should enjoy a privileged place in society, and that the government must take steps to ensure this is clear in every section of the plan, as is the idea that American identity cannot be separated from Christianity."[41]
  8. This stuff is really scary Project 2025 - Wikipedia
  9. I particularly don't need someone like Stephen A Smith or his ilk telling me the obvious.
  10. It will be interesting to see if Hooker can stay around in development under this staff and as understudy to Goff to be an elite QB.
  11. and have teeth so shiny white that you can light a stadium. Thinking of Schlapp here.
  12. Its one of those things that Trump appears to reconcile himself to in his subordinates. The breastplate of righteousness crowd among his theocrat supporters tend to include a lot of closeted or quasi closeted types.
  13. Oblong, all good points. I slept pretty well, considering. I have had sleepless nights over the Lions during the Mariucci, Bobby Ross and Fontes eras. This team does not feel like that. I've got people here in Northern VA who are not Lions fans or Detroit ex-patriots coming up to me more upset about it than I am. The cynical asshats are SOLing this. I'm not.
  14. I'm curious if Trump was thrown off by Cohn's homosexuality becoming known or just the stigma of AIDS. I had wondered to what extent Cohn's private life was known because it was the basis of Secretary of the Army Joseph Welch's famous response to destroy McCarthy (which is an inconvenient story considering modern narratives). Cohn's lover Schine being drafted was the entire reason for the hearings. Cohn wanted to punish the Army for that.
  15. Gibbs TD was great. His fumble was not. Huge concur on the culture attracting players. The track record with this year's draft class has been amazing. Now add in pieces.
  16. Y'know. I say they have a bright future. I also remember David ****ing Ortiz in the 2013 ALCS. Fix the problems. Don't choke.
  17. Super elaborate in that it had zero impact on the end of the season. Go sell crazy somewhere else.
  18. Gibbs isn't good in traffic yet. He's Donovan Edwards. Oh, look i keep referring to my national championship win from earlier this Month. Dudes...this team is gonna be fine if the culture is right. The "Jared Goff" chants, the huge surge in support at Ford Field tonight. That's all great stuff. The right people are finally in charge.
  19. I think the troll is the equivalent of a griefer in a kid’s online game
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