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EmmyLou Harris and Mary Chapin Carpenter are coming to the Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids on September 1st. I really want to go to this as I love both artists.

They are going to what about the Steve Scaliese Congressional baseball game shooting for a while too. They are going to hold that one up anytime right wing violence gets committed or attempted against Democratic or non-MAGA Republican elected officials.

If those mother******* Manchin and Sinema would pass HR 1 we'd have nationwide gerrymandering reform and would be setup much better and more equitably long term for the US House. Oh well, the racist filibuster is more important.

It's not the weight persay that players dislike. It's the fact that he sits high and mighty on his perch (or golf cart) and acts like a complete jackass towards his players. Furthermore, Patricia was rumored to have shown up late to team meetings. So you're demanding, screaming at your players to work harder and be better while not being better yourself.

This is awesome! I've got the Kool Aid jug filled up high tonight

Dan Campbell and Aaron Glenn doing up downs with their own players on Hard Knocks. Can you imagine Matt Patricia doing up-downs at practice haha.

Lions fans are going to be blue lipped from all that Kool Aid after Hard Knocks airs tonight for sure. I wouldn't say I've guzzled down a jug of Honolulu blue Kool Aid just yet, but I've been sipping on it for sure. As I said previously, things feel different under Brad Holmes, this isn't just the usual hype of having a new coach or GM that quickly fades once they step onto the field. It feels like this organization is making smart moves that they have not in the past from a roster stand point by drafting talented players without reaching, not trying to draft solely for scheme fit, valuing the intangibles like speed and athleticism that you can't teach, getting high football IQ guys, and leaders on the field. This offseason and last also proved their prudence with managing the salary cap. They could have blown the bank to try and rush the rebuild, ala Jacksonville and Trent Baalke, but they did not. They stayed patient and made smart signings. All things largely neglected by prior regimes. It feels different in a good way not just because myself or any fan says so, but because the moves they are roster moves that seem to be building in a positive directions. I'm hyped because Brad Holmes has given us as fans legitimate reasons to feel this way for once. Maybe Holmes hasn't made the right moves and these guys end up being busts. But so far, it seems so good. Coaching and this staff still remain my biggest question marks. I don't feel I can say one way or another, based on last years horrific roster that the staff had to work with, whether or not our coaching staff is any good. Time will tell on that one as the season progresses. Brad Holmes has got me hyped and ready for Hard Knocks tonight in a way I wouldn't have been if Quinn, Patricia, Mayhew, or Caldwell were still around.

My whole question is, with the league being as weak as it has been sometimes handing down punishments, can we count on teams to act appropriately and accordingly if they were in charge of discipling their own players?

We're talking about different situations here. Billups' situation was before he was a Piston and I believe, before the start of his NBA career. As well, there wasn't clear evidence Billups was the perpetrator. In the case of a Ray Rice, we have that on video tape. Same as we do for Joe Mixon. My concern is, if a team is in charge of disciplining their own players, and we end up getting clear and definitive evidence during the season that they are guilty of X, can we count on that team to suspend their own player if it could potentially have a significant effect on winning, playoffs, etc.?

Roquan Smith wants to be traded from the Bears. He's only 25 and still has tread on the tires. Would you trade for him and what would you be willing to give up?

It's like the mob boss wanting you whacked, his button man shows up at your door with the gun in hand, he misses, and you still stand up for the guy who tried having you whacked.

Is she saying the President and Presidency should be above the law? I guess when you support outright authoritarianism, fascist dictatorship, and strongman theocracy, that comes with the territory. If this is the GOPs and MAGAs general response, to criticize the FBI and make arguments like this, they are going to lose politically speaking. I can't see this whole President is and should be above the law argument resonating very well with voters back home.

What about a Ray Rice situation where he knocks a girl out cold on an elevator and it's caught on camera, but the Justice system hasn't yet brought him to trial. What if a team is in the playoff hunt or in the playoffs and an incident like that comes to light. Are we really going to trust a team to suspend their own star player in the middle of a season, with the playoffs on the line? I barely trust the league to suspend a player in that type of a situation, much less their own team.

He doesn't piss on their heads were they on fire, yet they continue falling for the grift.

Yep. Limbaugh used to call him Sandy Burglar on his show. I remember there deep ceded concerns that Hillary's emails may contained classified info. Didn't the right also go nuts over Chelsea Manning?

MSNBC has legal experts and former US District Attorneys on and Fox News has some candidate for Congress in Washington State in and a couple of political commentators.

LOL FOX NEWS. I tuned over to Fox while MSNBC was on a commercial break and they're comparing this to Hunter Biden.

Sandy Berger, Clinton's former National Security Adviser, went to jail over stealing classified documents from the National Archives. I wonder if Trump is in a similar boat as Berger was.

Extra butter on mine please!

Thank you Brandon. The inflation numbers and gas prices are still a net negative for Democrats and the Biden Administration overall from a political perspective. But as gas prices continue to fall and if we can get another improved inflation number in September and October, right before people go to the polls or are actually voting, that will put a crimp in the Republican strategy and messaging. There lot of work needs to be done between now and where we need to be overall. Inflation and the debate around it should have been the perfect time for Biden to take a bolder, more progressive approach as a Warren or Sanders would. Even if Warren and Sanders lost in the primary, their solutions to the long-term economic challenges we are facing are still generally the ones that would work best for people over the long term and reign in the corporate, oligarchic power that has taken control of our lives. We need to start having the real conversations about things like nationalizing healthcare, the energy industry and airlines. We need to discuss breaking up big corporate conglomerates, ending corporate monopoly power in a host of industries from banking to finance to food supply to healthcare. We need real federal price controls and mandates to protect consumers from corporate and business price gouging at the gas station, grocery store, doctors office, pharmacy, and so on. We need stricter regulatory measures across almost every industry to reign in the power of corporations and big business, ensuring everyday people get put first. We'll continue to struggle and suffer, facing economic shock after economic shock, as long as we have half baked measures that nibble around the edges and still let the capitalist system run roughshod over consumers, workers, families, etc. For now though, this is good news for Brandon and his merry band of socalistas right before the midterms.

I've been as knee jerk negative as they get with this team over the years and I can see the complete transformation of this roster occurring and them getting better. Ridiculous formula, whatever it is, being used by ESPN. This is especially true with the growth and development of their Oline. I think we have a real shot at having a top 10-top 5 Oline this season given that they all have another year together now.

I have the same belief about Santa Claus that she does about January 6. No one can convince that the name "mom" written on the from line of the gift tag isn't actually Santa in disguise. Somehow though, since I was about 8 or 9, I noticed that when I wake up on Christmas morning, the milk and cookies are still there untouched. Maybe Santa doesn't like them anymore?

He's at the point in the campaign where he is criticizing Oz's choice in jeans and I love it!!!

That's the trouble with me, you know, I got the wrong doctor. You know my doctor, Dr. Vinnie Boombatz.