Settlements, Fraud and Fast Cars
Welcome to the It’s Just business update cavalcade! We check in on topics we have covered over the last year and a quarter of the shows existence. We get blockbuster updates like the Supreme Court opening up a path for states to legalize sports betting, settlements in the Larry Nassar nightmare and Paulie Walnuts roughing up some cast-off Eli Manning Unis. Who knew seeing every episode of The Sopranos was good prep work for being a sports business podcast host?
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What’s up with Vegas? They have speed, power, what? I’ve never seen them play, not once.
Let’s Go Caps! Wife said ‘we need an early goal’, and boom.
You’re probably sure how you feel, right?
I was so confident going into last night, I thought I’d doomed them.
I was just checking, k0n needs a draw off that bottle.
Wish i could get into hockey, can’t , but go Caps!
What? You don’t like fights?
I can appreciate the skill that’s required to ice skate and hand-eye coordination with a stick and the puck and trying to shoot in a tiny little net, I get all that.
Fighting? Looks clumsy on skates…
MMA or boxing, yes I’m all in
Remember the Alamo
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It’s weird. I was fully prepared to work my ‘Ahwell. Another year of this’ response…but here I am a bit unsure of how to navigate the Caps going to the finals.
It’s like, being some place once before and so many years go by until you’ve been back there that none of it looks the same as when you were first there.
My God, grow a pair!
Shaddup
You shut up, I’m doing this for your own good.
“I’m not sure how I feel”….. blubblubblub, you live in Texas, you watch Caps playoff hockey.
https://twitter.com/Capitals/status/999511816819617792
Happy Thursday!
Hpy Hpy
Checking out , Later
Later Buck, me too
I credit Alex Smith for this Cup run. Who’s with me!?
You’re going down McPhee.
Good for Ovie, the Caps, the fans…..
Just wish I could watch 🙁
You can, the series is over, watch the first few of the cup, see how it goes.
That’s what I’m saying though. I can’t watch the finals.
Got to take one for the team.
Maybe I can watch. But I damn sure can’t link the stream. Those games were fucking a disaster.
You’ll know in the beginning.
And fuck some “golden knights”
Commemtators were def anti caps most game.
F*ck em
– Tomsula
Weren’t the the whole series though? Caps do something on offense or defense…ehh. Lightning do the same and those dudes would lose their damn minds.
Great game by the caps, a total win. They even got to beat the Shit out of a guy and win the fight.
Is it too late to fuck anything up if I turn on the Caps game?
Enjoy the victory lap
And it only seemed to take 56:30 for the announcers to switch to being pro-caps
You’re welcome.
Love the dirty little empty net goals
Here comes an empty netter.
Uncanny
Ovechkin looks as fast as ever!
5 minutes
Seeing some empty seats starting to pop out in Tampa.
Holtby playing like a big time goalie.
I thought that was Ewan MacGregor in the net.
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D is laying it all out too for blocks- Devante taking that one off the base off the skull earlier was crazy.
Ha, I’d not seen that dave coulier Geico ad yet.
1/2 a period left till DC ends a bad streak.
I am still unsettled.
Here we go mother truckers!
Caps sweep Vegas in the finals!
I do believe the winner of this game takes the Cup.
Wouldn’t be a DC sports fan if you weren’t.
If we still are up by multiple goals with 1 min left I’ll start enjoying it.
“We’re not going to be suck this year.” – Alex Ovechkin
Whole team beasting out. Need another goal and then an empty netter.
Epic move by Tommy Wilson dropping gloves coming out of that penalty in the first.
Why settle for 2 more goals when you could go for 4.
Fair enough!
That kinda makes up for the non-penalty.
Yaaaaassssss
SCORE
Brutal hit on Brooks there.
Very
Funny…TB has been dominating since midway through the first period and yet the Caps score again.
Fine by me.
That’s hockey man. Frustrating…
1 good shot is all it takes.
Yesssss biatchessssss
After getting down and taking a good look at my shredded grass tops, I’m really liking the idea of a reel mower.
Won’t have to fuss with nothing at all. Just get out there and get to pushing. Might be looking at having to do some bagging, but, ehh…whatevs about that.
Do you own a file and a wrench?
Several of each.
Was telling Buck, brands I’m shopping are using hardened steel they claim last years before needing sharpened.
You can get in on it too
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that’s hilarious
Ahhhh….no file needed.
The blades are sharpened with lapping compound and cranking the cylinder a shit-ton of times. The sharpening happens when the blades come into contact with the same edge that does the grass.
I’m talking about your electric mower.
Far as I can tell, there is no paper test for a rotary mower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jigJnXodiTc
fuck all that .
But you can putt on your yard!
I don’t putt
Sharpen your blades with a file, not a grinder. No heat.
I use a grinder even though i know it’s not the best way .
Just don’t bear down on it, get the steel too hot.
I’ve done that to my push mower a few times . Always felt like i was fucking it up or making it worse
Most peeps do, no worries. If you need to use a grinder, use a flap disk, like 80 grit.
Vice and a file is what I use. That and a nail to hang the blade to check the balance.
Then your wife hit a rock and she ain’t tellin’ ya.
That blade is fine. I’m just say’n….it’s not a clean cut.
If I had a little patch of turf, say right off of a patio with grapes and whatnot, maybe 20×30, I’d probably cut it with a Fred Flintstone mower. They cut good. I’ve used them before. Maybe when I retire.
Just guessing, I’ve never measured 2500 – 3000 sqft of lawn here.
I have a zero turn thats getting some age on it . I confess i have never sharpened these blades but they need it bad . 6 years old now .
He’s complaining about shredded grass, that’s why. If you’re like me, I sharpen them when I start seeing an uneven cut.
Shredded grass ? You gonna have that unless you have a bagger or cut it every other day with a mulching blade . My cut is uneven now .
The grass tops, like where it got cut.
You live out in the country . None of this shit applies to you .
Nope
If you knew how many spindle assembly housings, pulleys, shaft bearings, spindle shafts, blades….lol combat mowers
Shit dude , you know how much small engine shops charge per hr i am sure . 40 bucks an hr on a 500 dollar mower that’s three years old already . Whatever …
I buy the parts and do it myself. Once you figure a mower out, it’s just swapping parts, fast.
I can do the accessory parts most of the time but if i have to go in the motor , that’s where it ends for me .
You probably have a Vtwin or something like that. Small motors aren’t bad. Sometimes the valves can get outta wack.
I can’t do it . I know my limitations .
and you work at least a 40 hr week. You cut the shit the best way you can when you can
I have some nice roses, grape Vines, a garden, apple trees, peach trees, plumb trees, pear trees, just planted two dwarf cherry trees on mother’s day….grass gets made shorter.
sounds nice . All those trees bearing fruit ? You speaking my language by the way
The plums have quit the past two years, I need to prune the living shit out of them.
so the deer and critters ? You have those dogs though i guess
apples and pears are like crack to a deer
Yeah, deer only come in as far as the creek. If I were to pen the dogs, they’d figure it out. Someday, when I’m about 70, a huge buck will be standing in the yard, nibblin’ on an apple…….
It was an observation. Not a complaint. Tractor riding mofo’r.
No matter the sharpness of the rotary blade, it’s not going to match that precision reel cut.
Thats probably true .
Sounded like a wounded rabbit…..a cottontail in distress.
dude , when your current mower wears out , get a battery mower . by then the price will have dropped and the technology might be better
Yea. I know. But I’m curious and mostly…just looking for something new to do.
Plus then I can be all…’look at all these powered mower pussies up in here’
I have only seen one “reel ” whatever one time .Somebody gave my uncle one for some kind of trade . It was a John Deere push thing . It was ungodly heavy . I mean seriously heavy . Solid steel
This thing had an engine that propelled it . He said it was a golf course mower
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It’s heavy as hell
That’s a valuable mower.
yeah and it got flooded with salt water . Ruined . Scrap metal.
Damn.
He never used it . Just sat in the shed . Like i said it was too heavy for him and he didnt have a need for it . he had a little lawn care business after he retired out the shipyard . Hurricane Isabell got it and his house too, Bout killed him .
That sucks. You could really baby a small section and have it look like Buckingham palace, but who’s got the time…
I’d have to build a house on piers, or around pylons, that floated.
Alot of older houses that had never been flooded got it . They worked out some kind of BS plan with FEMA and had them raised . They look kind of fucked up but they won’t get flooded next time unless its a really bad one , in which case it would be a catastrophe.
The gulf coast is full of houses like that, OBX too. South Florida (houses that you or I would live in)
Yes . Most of these still have a cinder block foundation but its like 9 or ten blocks high . Looks weird .
I’d have it where I could park shit under there, maybe a storage room.
Most of them have that . Obviously you couldnt raise the existing garage with the house so ….you get what i mean
Yeah
New houses are built Nags Head style now
I love the houses on lower Hatteras.
I love that place . Could easily live there year round . Love it . Wife loves it
Got six inches on my gloor joist but never hit the sub floor . Got lucky as hell in that respect .
There’s a retired engineer (probably passed away now) that built a house up near Wintergreen, my dad was friends with him back in the day. He built a house that rode on a massive center column. Theoretically, it would rise with flood water, never had a live trial though.
Does it flood there ?
Flash floods. 1969 1985 sometime in the 90’s
Depends where your house is.
That was a hurricane that turned inland i think . One of those years .
69 was Camille, destroyed Nelson county, Piney River, all up through there. We lived up on the rockfish river, same area as where it had hit (when we new the guy with the house). Near the base of Priest. Some people were never found. Others found down on the James River in Appomattox. Washed out Tye River
Had a neighbor who used one of those reel mowers. Looked like a lot of work.
Shhhhhhhhhhhh
all i see is work when i look at it
2 – 0 Caps
Still need to keep putting the foot on the throat
What’s the score? I watched two games and the Caps blew rec both games.
1 – 0 Caps
I’m staying away, NANANANANANANANANANANANA
since I don’t like hockey I’m watching the Celtics versus the Cavaliers and it’s ridiculous the calls that LeBron James gets versus when he fouls other people they dont call it on him at all it’s f****** crazy
Dude, it’s a great game 7. Nothing but action from the drop of the puck. One heavyweight beatdown of a TB puss cake.
As entertaining of a 20 minutes of hockey as the caps have put up all playoff.
If there was any question that this fight was gonna happen from the gate:
https://twitter.com/JoeSchillerNFL/status/999451658122874880
bring on the Hanson Brothers!!!!
https://twitter.com/ianoland/status/999451631589699585
Coburn wanted no more after that haymaker connected.
You don’t take off another mans shirt
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He was a terrible hockey player.
You’re right, you should tuck it up in his pad straps so his arms are stuck sticking straight out.
& the reason he got mad.
https://twitter.com/ianoland/status/999450282105942016
Slapshot! Woot!
Now THAT is a fucking fight.
Right out of the box and back in.
fine old school Goonery
Wilson connected flush at least 5 times. That was a beatdown by a grown ass man.
Now that was starting to be a real fight there.
That ref is a badass.
Just so you all know, this game is amazing so far.
Later turkeys
“We’re not going to be suck this year”
– Alex Ovechkin
OVI!
1-0 CAPS
CAPS SCORE
Caps win this thing and I’ll commit to buying a sweater.
From the Caps game thread on the WaPo:
17 seconds ago
Had my afternoon nap and wearing my “We’re not going to be suck this year” shirt. CAPS! CAPS! CAPS!
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LOLOLOLOLOLOL
kon, for now • 3 hours ago
And now…….beer.
I mean damn, can’t talk yard work and grilling and not have a beer in hand.
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I save the beer for after the yard work, sit on the back porch and maybe have a nice lemonade and lager on a hot summer day. Very satisfying.
But 1 life lesson, don’t smoke a whole cigar when trying to do heavy yard work.
first problem…you SMOKED the damn thing.!
I tried not to inhale. But when you’re sucking wind and working hard you can’t help but do it some.
Gotcha.
That is why it is a mistake.
i smoke a black and mild every now and again . Thats about it .
I was wanting to get into cigars a few years ago. But it feels like a weird complex sub culture
it’s popular . My brother in law let me smoke one of his once recently . It was expensive . Nice flavor and everything . I can see the appeal .
nice as crap outside now . Perfect weather .
Love the NHL analyst speaking of the ‘Caps and suggesting that, “…scoring early could be a real advantage.”
No…fucking…shit.
This dude who wouldnt leave his parents house is actually on Fox news trying to defend himself . He’s a few french fries short of a happy meal . Shouldnt be on TV
At 18, after graduation, my folks said: adios, bye, saranara. 6 months later I was in my own place and loving it. Best thing my parents did.
Thats good . I don’t think i could have made it when i was eighteen .
Did good for a few years. Uncle Sam got my ass out of a sling at 22. Crazy days, I tell ya.
He’s made the rounds all day. Started this morning. That guy for sure seems to be ill-equipped for the world. But I don’t know…might all be a damn act to cash in somehow.
Bingo!
^ Sherm?
No. Granny.
never thought of that .
Bucking for a reality TV show invite.
Right? He’ll go on Big Brother and knock up all the hot young chicks.
Having never left the couch?
Maybe he’ll be the first naked and afraid casualty? Death by leeches, he failed to move.
he could get one in a hot minute . They would eat that up
How do you not lay hands on him, as a father? How do you go through all of these court proceedings and not slap the taste out of his mouth first time he comes out slick at his Mama?
IDK . I don’t think he’s all there in the head . Either that or he is the sorriest white boy on two feet
by looking at him , i am thinking he is not likely to be hired by anybody worth a shit .
1000 times this
What y’all keep missing is WHY Trump won. There are people in the country so angry about their “place” that they were willing to elect that person.
2 reasons from what I have observed:
1 – Trump won something like 53% of college educated women; supposedly Hillary’s wheelhouse.
2 – Any democrat who doesn’t pull just about every AA voter won’t win and Hillary couldn’t get that demographic to come out and vote for her.
But a # 3 is also that Independents/swing voters (like me) decide elections and we all hated Hilldog.
Lots of white people that voted for Obama went for Trump . So that that throws the racial thing out the window .
Dude, that was my point.
Hilldog would have needed like 95% of the AA vote and anything short of that and she COULD NOT win.
And that’s what happened.
I am agreeing with you .
Number two didnt happen because they knew she didnt give a shit about them and took them for granted
We are in agreement.
Okay, shut down the blog.
Thank you…..GOODNIGHT!
(mic drop)
I don’t think we are missing anything . I also think that’s wrong and it is a narrative the democrats have put forward
If you’re angry about your place then do something to change it
Government ain’t there for your place in life
Earn it
I won’t introduce my Lyndon Johnson, Top 15 President debate into this discussion….Steve may kick me off the show! LOL
Jeez. Yeah, you’d be gone for that. 🙂
Your Lyndon Johnson has nothing on my Woodrow Wilson.
The ONLY reason why I admire Johnson was because he was President at one of the most difficult times in our history and it was a no win situation. He was a dick to Bobby K. though.
Well, to be fair, Bobby Knight wasn’t exactly an angel…profanity, throwing chairs and such.
What did the owner of the New England Patriots ever do to Lyndon Johnson, anyway?
NPI and smokey…those are “bloop singles” jokes. but I’ll give you a like. LOL…
I need something like…”I didn’t even know he knew Bobby and Whitney”…..see what I did there?
lol
I think the Presidency is over-rated with unbelievably high expectations. If I was President, I’d pick two things to be historically good at and slow-walk the rest.
That’s what politicians do.
Trump’s not a politician.
True
that’s a good point and very true
Well…I’ll tell you this much….if you think I’m gonna let this little “issue” stand in the way of me seeing the Smith/Quinn connection this upcoming season, ya’ll crazy.
It’s going to be so relevant!
Different_Cat
“… I try to do it in fact/logic manner…”
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This country is very divided. But it is these types of discussions that are a good outcome out a world of chaos.
We are having a civil discussion.
Steve Thomas Team Captain • in a few seconds
Yes, because the alternative – Hillary – was such an awful choice that I couldn’t stomach any vote that wasn’t in direct opposition to her.
I voted for Marco Rubio in the republican primary (which was before he went off the rails and went slightly crazy towards the end).
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….which is your right, but wow…
She would have been a total disaster. She’s repulsive in every way. She offends me more than Bill, and that’s saying alot. I liked Marco at the time. Trump was the only vote that counted as a true vote in opposition to Hillary in the general election.
I loathe Clinton. Trump has exposed the underbelly of our country.
They both sucked . That’s the problem . Crying shame with all the highly intelligent and good people we have in this country . That’s the best we could do ?
That’s why I liked Marco at the time. He seemed to have dignity and civility.
I thought the same, then i realized he was weak minded . Jeb ? WTF was he doing ? He was just pitiful .
Jeb was awful. I also liked Mike Huckabee but he was out early.
Too bad Kasich couldn’t get any traction.
They both sucked, but only one of them was actually qualified to do the job.
I’m not even gonna entertain that for a second . Woman is a despicable criminal and chronic liar .
yeah , he lost it . He was once a rising star . He folded up like a cheap suit .
In the end, it was a wasted primary vote. His mental breakdown was like a week after the Texas primary. Had I known he was going to lose it, I’d have voted for Ted Cruz.
He would have never had the backbone to be president .
It was a tough choice, and I wasn’t thrilled with any of the 2016 primary candidates, to be honest.
I stand for the anthem because this is MY country with ALL it’s flaws and fucked-up-ness. My ancestors worked the tobacco plantations of Southern maryland and the fields in Alabama…Don’t tell me this ain’t my country.
I’m getting upset….woosah Rick….calm
I don’t think anyone said that this isn’t your country. I thought we were having a civil discussion.
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LOL
“Make em’ behave” is what many Americans want.
That’s a VERY old, yet familiar line of thinking.
It’s a bidness decision.
You know that, right?
NFL viewership down 9 percent. Yes bidness.
This country was founded on dissent and protest. The country was under British rule and colonists broke British laws and allegiances for the purpose of independence. We CELEBRATE dissention and “freedom” every July 4th, yet want players to “shut up and play” on Sundays. FOH.
In the immortal words of John Witherspoon in “Little Nicky”….
“Now you messin’ wit ma business, bitch!”
I think that sums it up.
I think players are free to speak their mind on their own time, but at a football game, i.e., on the job, it’s wholly inappropriate and the owners are right to be concerned. Players are already prohibited from saying and doing all sorts of things during games. I’m not sure why this is any different.
I dunno Steve…when the leader of the free world insults “all sorts of people”, you just take it??? Are we allowed to disagree?
“A person can only be insulted relative to their own capacity to be insulted.”
– NPI
that’s bull
I think you just proved me right.
Of course you’re allow to disagree. I just think anyone who takes what Donald Trump says at campaign rallies literally does so to their detriment. He spouts off and goes off script in order to fire up his base. I mean, I voted for the guy, but I don’t much care for the way he speaks or acts, but I think taking that stuff seriously isn’t worth it. At this point, he’s basically intentionally trolling all of the media and the political left in this country.
You voted for Trump?
Yes, because the alternative – Hillary – was such an awful choice that I couldn’t stomach any vote that wasn’t in direct opposition to her.
I voted for Marco Rubio in the republican primary (which was before he went off the rails and went slightly crazy towards the end).
I would have rather voted for Ricky Rubio.
“Of course you’re allow to disagree.”
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Sure, go ahead, and then Steve will insult you and ban you from the forum. No problems.
D_C’s heart was broken when meeting his idol…Robert Griffin III.
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The bottom line here is the fans are going to react in kind . There are rabid FB fans who do not like it or agree with it whatsoever . I said last year that i was having a hard time having any NFL FB discussion . I was told numerous times that they weren’t watching and had no plans to do so .
My wife quit watching and she is a fan . She has watched FB since we have been married . Not anymore and she doesnt mind telling anybody why .
NFL viewership is down 9 percent.
It’s going to go down some more if it stays an issue . That’s just human nature regarding things people are passionate about
Well…in the words of Jim Tomsula….”Fucc em”.
Thats your right . I think it’s a damn shame we can’t all unite and be prideful on this one thing . It’s sad really .
I 100% agree
So the Caps in game 7…..
Awwwwwwwww shucky!
Getting it done tonight!
Doing my part.
Staying away.
Steve Thomas Team Captain • 24 minutes ago
What the president said is that the owners should say, “all those sons of bitches should stand”, or something like that. But I think the players need to get over it. President Trump is crude, and he doesn’t serve him well.. We all know that.
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Wait, what? Get over it? Really? So you’re all bothered about an issue that is deeply offensive to you (and I respect that), yet offended players should “just get over it”. THAT my friend is WHY they protest.
Those players are contract employees.
Political protests, they just don’t belong in the workplace. Ever.
They really ought to be doing that stuff on their own time. Away from the field.
Very well said. 100% agree.
If I want to see people kneel, I’ll go to mass.
(ooops)
But do either of you REALLY care about what they are protesting about? Do you have the ability to look at the issue and not the window dressing?
I told you on and off the air that I understand and agree, to a point, with the concept of identifying police violence as an issue in this country. As a matter of fact, I said it on last week’s show.
Absolutely I care. The things my people have dealt with from law enforcement, excessive violence, lives fully disrupted, families torn apart…is a thing that I am extremely very opposed to.
But would I stop what I’m doing at work to protest? No. No I would not.
I will however get together with like minded people and wave some signs around out in public.
This president has called all sorts of people all sorts of things, to his detriment, as it doesn’t reflect well on the office of the president, and yes, people need to get over it. But that’s not why Kaepernick was protesting. First of all, I think NPI is right when he said that Kaepernick was initially just pouting and all of a sudden turned it into a cause, but that aside, the protest was about police violence, not the president.
I am 100% right on that.
Tell me when will you be mine….Tell me Kouandjio, Kouandjio, Kouandjio…..
– Murph & The Magic Tones
Did anyone ever actually spit on a Vietnam veteran? Or were they just, not received well for the stories of atrocities that were hitting the news back then?
http://www.startribune.com/disrespect-for-vietnam-vets-is-fact-not-fiction/160444095/
In other words, yes, it happened.
Cute dogs.
Game 7. GO CAPS. Just leave it all on the ice and I’ll be happy.
…yet Vietnam Veterans didn’t get SHIT when they returned to the US, but spat on in many cases and now folks wanna be all “patriotic”. It’s shameful. Hypocrites!
The type of folks who are applauding kneeling now are the same type of folks who spat on the Vietnam vets back then.
Bullshit.
It’s totally correct.
Bullshit.
You’re wrong, as always.
“NOILRMOT DC”
Blacks and millennials spat on vets returning from the nam?
You sure you want to stick to that?
Liberals are the ones who spat on the vets. Liberals are the ones applauding the kneeling now.
LOL, so everything liberals do equates to spitting on vets. Got it.
Conservatives were the ones who lynched blacks, so supporting Trump is exactly like lynching blacks.
-Steve’s logic
^moron
^dumbass
Old school southern democrats were the ones defending slavery, not republicans.
Right, and they were politically conservative despite what they called themselves.
we aren’t going to deny there was a whole counter culture to the Vietnam war are we ? The bulk of which were liberals . Thats just common knowledge .
Apparently not according to tweedle-dee and tweedle-dumb.
No, that’s totally accurate. What’s totally inaccurate is that there’s any other similarity between the negative reaction to Vietnam vets and the Kaep protests.
It’s the same group of people….ultra liberals.
Hippies from the 60s and all kinds of people in 2017-18. You are wrong as always.
“No one is less right…more often…than D_C.”
Learn it.
Know it.
Live it.
I’ve figured that out in recent weeks since I’ve had the misfortune of having to interact with him.
Jesus, you’re just flat-out unintelligent and incapable of any logic at all.
There is absolutely no logic in your “argument.” It’s an idiotic attempt to link two things that are totally unrelated.
Sometimes I wonder how you even function in this world. You must have some sort of caretaker to get you through the day.
Of course those hippies were politically liberal. Of course the people who support Kaepernick’s kneeling are politically liberal.
Dude, are you an idiot? I know most of those folks are liberals. Certainly not ALL of them. That’s just a ridiculous blanket statement. Not all liberals spat on Vietnam troops. VERY very very few did, even if many opposed the war. Not all liberals support Kaep. Some conservatives support Kaep. Stop being such a knee-jerk, brainwashed dingbat.
You’re a fool and a moron. Read what I said. I said, “The type of folks who are applauding kneeling now are the same type of folks who spat on the Vietnam vets back then.” In no way does that imply some sort of “All” standard or 100%. It was a broad generalization.
If you don’t leave this blog, I’m going to ban you at some point.
Like I said before, it’s your sand box and you can do whatever you like. I will say that it would be a pathetic act of cowardice, banning someone because they dare to challenge your political views. I try to do it in fact/logic manner, but you never fail to resort to childish name calling.
There’s no fact or logic to your posts. Rick and I are having a civil discussion. You should take notes.
No, YOU should take note.
“according to a recent poll conducted by Seton Hall Sports Poll, 84 percent of respondents support the players’ right to protest, with only 16 percent saying players should be required to stand for the anthem.”
Wow, all those people spat on the troops returning from Vietnam? Surprising!
They are aligned in the fact they are left leaning in their politics . That’s undeniable
Right, just like the KKK and Trump supporters are aligned in their politics. Doesn’t mean they are one in the same as Steve is implying for liberals — connecting 60s hippies with 21st century supporters of civil rights protesters.
Calling them baby killers and all that shit . That happened .
very few people felt that way
people forget that very few % of Americans were hippie types, it was a sub counter-culture
Or maybe….
http://www.stickypc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/mower.jpg
There it is !!!!!!!!!!!!! case closed . Nailed it.
And I am a big fan of all things quiet.
I wonder how effective a reel mower would be on st.augistine.
Get’n curious here.
IDK , that’s a tough grass . Nice grass too.
You would have to keep the blades sharp i would bet and that looks like it would take some work .
The more spendy models are boasting on hardened steel blades they claim last years before needing sharpened.
Looking at $140 – $180 though.
I remember those puppies
https://img0.etsystatic.com/114/0/11170123/il_570xN.968366986_hds2.jpg
Olllld school
Good for cut’n and Halloween
They aren’t just laying around everywhere . genuine antique . Seen a few in some old barns
Love it!
– Russ Grimm Reaper
3 months we will have FB again !
90 days to debate the National Anthem debate
Buzz killer
Sorry dude
it won’t end then either . It’s gonna keep going . Which players didnt come out , blah , blah , the media will feast on it
Dude from the Giants already saying he’s going to pay for the fines the players on his team incurs.
There you have it and the rule isnt even twenty four hours old
My mistake. different person and team
Edit:
May 23, 2018 02:54 PM
Updated 1 hour 5 minutes ago
FLORHAM PARK, N.J.
The New York Jets say they will pay any fines and not penalize players if they violate a new NFL policy to stand or stay in the locker room during “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Albert Breer’s report today said that the teams are going to be fined, not the players.
The teams are going to get fined, not the players, so, yes, he’ll have to pay the fines whether or not he wants to do so.
The National Anthem is just that…an anthem. It’s our national song that honors our country. I always stand for the anthem, but there are some despicable things going on in our country now. But, I don’t see kneeling as the answer. What I disagree with is those that say they’re disrespecting the military. The anthem is not just about the military or the flag. It’s for service men and woman AND civilians. People are getting lost in the message. The ORIGINAL reason for the protest was to speak out against excessive force by police, which very few to REALLY care about.
Sitting or kneeling while the national anthem is a direct slap in the face to all those who have defended this country, to me. It’s no different than a person using language that others find to be offensive.
…and the President of the United States reffering to NFL players as “sons of bitches” is a direct slap in the face to me….so where’s our common ground?
The boudoire?
POTUS is a D-grade reality television star. On equal footing with Kathy Griffin.
He’s your president and he’s doing a great job pursuing the agenda he said he’d pursue.
Which was a pretty fucked-up agenda, so I don’t support him one bit.
Good. I don’t want to support anything you think is a good idea.
What the president said is that the owners should say, “all those sons of bitches should stand”, or something like that. But I think the players need to get over it. President Trump is crude, and he doesn’t serve him well.. We all know that.
https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/redskins/redskins-ota-practice-report-qb-alex-smith-sharp
Decent breakdown of OTA’s or whatever they are called
Rob Kelly looks leaner and meaner and a half a step quicker than last year .
They also said Guice’s athleticism set him apart from the rest .
Turn on NFLN now if you can
silverback but i think it’s over .
I admire Josh Norman for pushing through Dancing With the Starts while not missing a single OTA practice or meeting.
really ? IDK , whatever .
a little less talk and alot more action would be good for me.
https://twitter.com/TheHogSty/status/999406352777740288
You’ll have to click through to read them all, because I sent out 5 or 6 of them.
An Angry Ball.
16oz of Angry Orchard
1oz of Fire Ball
Both in the same tumbler
an Angry Ginger Turkey
ice, 8 oz of ginger ale, 1 oz of WT 101, 1 oz of Fire Ball
Damn. Sounds good.
Woot! Gobble gobble
And now…….beer.
I mean damn, can’t talk yard work and grilling and not have a beer in hand.
You want another weird thing….I’ve never drank a full bottle/can/mug of beer in my entire life.
I can’t imagine the money I would have saved over the years…sheesh
That’s a bit more understandable. The stuff is an acquired taste.
But look, anymore there’s hard sodas. Which taste exactly like…soda.
https://youtu.be/uZiMqgvtzqQ
Steve, tastes just a sunkist!
Yeah, but it’s the alcohol part that I avoid, not the taste.
too much sugar in that stuff . Instant headache for me . Can’t drink any of that kind of stuff .
IPAs do that to me. And I’m not kidding when I say instant.
Henry’s makes a sparkling water. No sugar added.
http://www.millercoorsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/SPARKLING_CANS_RENDER_1.jpg
Oh dear….Lakers are working out Liangelo Ball.
Isn’t that the little turd Trump rescued from the evil empire of China because he couldn’t keep his sticky fingers in his pocket?
Yes, him.
You said “oh dear” Was it because of off court, or because he’s a good player?
He’s supposedly not even ranked in the top 100 on professional scouting boards, so the “oh dear” part was if they are contemplating drafting him in round 2 just to cater to Lavar. I doubt Magic would ever do that, but still.
I see.
Wife wants breakfast for dinner… so guess I’ll be making some bacon, (but just frying it in the pan not going all out)
That’s ok, too.
Three words….bacon wrapped salmon.
Three more words…
bacon wrapped everything
I like making a skillet for breakfast meal
hash browns, throw in some onions and peppers
when that cooks, crumble in some bacon and add some ham chunks
pour in the eggs and add some cheese
garish with some fresh diced tomatoes
also like a good breakfast casserole
the best one is where you let it sit overnight so the mixture soaks into the bread
use some Pepperidge Farms cinnamon raisin bread
grease bottom of pan
fit bread so bottom of pan is covered
use like 8 eggs and 1.5 cups of 1/2 and 1/2 mixed well together
pour mixture over bread
cook sausage roll crumbled up, drain grease and add sausage evenly to pan
add mixture of cheddar and swiss cheese
salt & pepper
I like to add a dash of hot sauce and a couple of dashes Worcestershire sauce to egg mixture
bake at 350 for about 50 minutes
Spicy chorizo sausage smothered in fruit-of-the-looms undies.
Oh, yeah, geez, I forgot, I also have a few pre-packaged microwave burgers that the kid and I like, too.
lol
I’m coming down there
You need an intervention
Those balls just committed suicide. They just couldnt’ live with the failure….
Grilled bacon. Coat it in brown sugar, cracked black pepper and cinnamon
Bacon and cinnamon?
That’s male aphrodisiac overload.
Try cayenne powder.
rather than pepper? I will next time.
– the cinnamon though
can also brush it with maple syrup before doing that
Don’t like sweet bacon. All natural thick cut cured bacon.
the pepper (black or red) and cinnamon cut the sweetness
you’re looking for the fat and sugar to caramelize into goodness
Hmmmm…. I’ll have to think about that.
I buy the microwave bacon. It’s pretty much the same to me, but I’m obviously not a foodie.
Balls have now exited his body through his anus in shame, looking both ways to make sure no one kknows where they came from.
The kid loves that bacon. I’ve cooked bacon on the stovetop for him before, but he likes the microwave stuff better.
Kid… and dad….
Steve, don’t be like my neighbor…don’t use charcoal fluid. Even used moderately, that stuff is a no-go.
Get yourself a charcoal chimney. Which btw, is dummy proof.
living in the city where we lack timber it’s sometimes hard to not use that easy light shit but you feel shame when you do.
My neighbor must use half a damn bottle of the stuff when he grills. Stinks up my side of the fence whenever he does.
I’ve been out there a few times when he’s lit it. Hear that big ol whoosh of fire happening.
What I do when I cave and use the easy light stuff, I use about 4-5 of those coals to get them just starting then the rest is lump charcoal with nothing added.
That’s better than fluid. Still…get yourself a charcoal chimney. It’s super simple. And, they’re only $15-20.
Save some of someone’s old Christmas tree in a rubber tub.
^That (the charcoal chimney) was a life, and I mean a life, changer.
gas grill , case closed .
my favorite fun thing to make on the gas grill
pizza
I have a pizza stone, get that grill up to 600 degrees and you have a done crispy pizza in about 7-8 minutes
I’ve wanted a outdoor pizza oven in the past. hard to convince the wife on that one.
Nice! I’ve been really enjoying wood grilling lamb of late. Racks, kabobs, chops.
When I visited Rome, I was able to get a chef to give me his recipe for pizza dough. Pizza Stones are awesome. Make your pie, add the sauce and toppings…bake, then add cheese last after it’s been cooked. Let it melt onto pie.
Met a guy who built his own. Thing was amazing. Think having one is more a bragging rights thing.
I’ve got the Blackstone griddle…they make a pizza oven.
But damn. $300.
I’d have to be baking shit all the damn time to justify that price. Still though, it’d be cool to have.
https://www.blackstoneproducts.com/product/pizza-oven/
Can’t you just pop it in the regular oven? Why go through the effort of a grill?
You want those 500-600 degree temperatures…
Can’t stand soggy dough in the middle of the pie…
Plus … doesn’t heat up the house.
This^
I’d always rather just order it or do one of the microwavable pizzas. I love the microwave.
Philistine
I’ve even done meatloaf on the grill
so much better than a microwave
That I could see really easy.
just use a flat cookie sheet and let the fat roll off
damn typos
And that one ball that dropped just crept back inside….
LMAO
wtf
You’re either all sorts of wrong or some kind of god-tier level troll
I haven’t decided
I just don’t cook. When I have to provide dinner for the kids (it’s complicated, don’t ask), I usually go to the grocery store deli and get a roasted chicken and sides, or I can microwave vegetables at home.
Steve…it’s a holiday weekend coming up. There’s going to be sales.
Go out, get you cheap grill, a bag of charcoals, a package of hot dogs, some ground beef (well, for you, buy some ready to cook patties) and get your ass to grilling.
Got to buy a new grill for my summer house this year, nothing too expensive, just something basic, only go up a few weeks a year
Weber’s Smokey Joe ftw
Yes, good little grill. I got one for my camp, great on those days when no time to wood grill.
For the small meal…it’s perfection.
Just…put it up on something or get you a super low chair. Otherwise, there’s some bending to be done.
‘Zactly. I put mine on an aluminum topped table, works like a charm. Only about 25 briquettes too.
If you start with anything other than a Weber, you have failed. $100.00 for the standard kettle grill.
Yes, the plan is a small weber. I can probably get away with an 18 incher there
Weber Smokey Joe is ~$35. Hard to beat, really well made too.
See, I want something that’s waste high. The old one we have there is just rusted out was a weber 22 in.
Table. At least that’s what I did with mine. I made a ‘stand’ with an aluminum road sign top.
4 Parts Salt
4 Parts Garlic
1 Part Black Pepper
1 Part Paprika
Sprinkle it on your burgers and fries…#Perfection
Perhaps I should.
It’s not hard to do. Yes, there is some learning to with lighting your coals and when to get to cooking. And, some more learning when it comes to knowing the cooking temperature of how you like your burger and dogs.
You’ll pick it up quick enough. And man…hot off the grill burgers and dogs. Juicy as hell with that little bit of char…
nom-nom-nom-nom-nom
I switched from gas lawn equipment to the EGO stuff from Home Depot. Started with the mower, which works great for my relatively small yard. Then I got the hedge trimmer. Blower. String trimmer. Great stuff.
Problem with gas is that, with the hot, humid, salty air down here, it doesn’t stay fresh very long even if you treat it. Got tired of cleaning out gummed up carbs.
I wouldn’t mind mowing my own grass, but my issue would come when actual landscaping needs to be done, because there’s no way I’d do any serious landscaping myself.
I don’t blame you . I would do the same if i could . The ethanol or something in gas these days is terrible for small engines . Everybody has trouble with it .
Yeah, that’s the problem. There are some marinas where you can buy ethanol-free, but that’s hassle.
If you don’t winterize you stuff , you are screwed in the spring . Carbs are basically half ruined . Gaskets and o rings etc are eroded .
Since we don’t really have winter down here I tend to forget. You’re using the stuff, but not as often. That’s when you get in trouble.
I’ve never had a problem with sta bil
Eesh, I have. Best I found was Sea Foam.
I put that stuff in an old truck i had . Took that knocking sound right away .
I used it regularly when I had outboards. Cut down on problems a lot.
Thats the thing to do before cold weather sets in if you can remember to do it .
EGO is over priced. IMO.
My trimmer and blower are Ryobi. My mower is Earthwise.
I started learning to cook when I was 10, went pretty good until I was 11 and made Steak Diane with my Dad’s expensive brandy
bet I’m the only person here who was 11 when his Dad took him to the liquor store in DC to buy cheap booze and wine to cook with, so I didn’t use his good stuff anymore
Supposedly I knew how to make pancakes from scratch by 2 or 3.
My mother tried to teach me how to cook, but I was never that interested.
Basic grilling is about as easy at it gets. Simple rule that applies to almost everything: 5 minutes a side.
I started to learn how to cook because my mother was not a very good cook, she could bake great, but dinner was not her forte
she could make about six things, I think 6 was key because we use to go out to dinner on Sunday a lot after church, so she covered Mon-Sat
so for about 6 years until I wen away to college I fix dinner for the family
Also, Robert Davis tweaked a toe yesterday.
FUCK!
Gruden says it was minor. I’ll get some quotes from the presser out on Twitter later this afternoon.
Thanks
I’m not surprised, he’s soft. *ducking bc*
Jay Gruden mentioned that guard Tyler Catalina had a minor tweak in Tuesday’s practice that will force him to miss a little time.
Wide receiver Jamison Crowder believes Richardson will provide a similar presence as DeSean Jackson, noticed on a deep ball down the right sideline that Richardson collected out of the reach of cornerback Greg Stroman.
Later during 11-on-11 drills, Stroman broke up a slant from Hogan to Shay Fields over the middle, completing a strong day for the rookie.
id like to see him put on twenty pounds if his frame could take it .
and it wouldnt slow him down , which it would so scratch that .
Day 2 OTA practice notes
https://www.redskins.com/news/practice-notes-2018-otas-day-2
Silver and Florio in a Twitter war, again
this time over Foles story
Peace and love , i got meat ready to hit the grill
Later
one last comment , my brother in law has the lowe’s brand battery mower, weed eater , etc . He loves them . Has a nice yard , but not very big . They’ve come along way with that stuff .
Electric has instant torque, I’m just fucking with k0n
Does it have a cord, though, or is it battery powered? Because there’s no way I’m dragging an extension cord all over the place.
no cord thats the beauty of it .
Cordless…
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Kobalt-40-volt-Brushless-Lithium-Ion-20-in-Cordless-Electric-Lawn-Mower-Battery-Included/1000192703
Tons and tons of positive reviews on the youtubes
Almost every lawnmower I’ve ever had since I was 6 was electric, till I was 17 we got a gas mower. Soon as I got a house I went electric, find gas to be a pain.
Get the battery powered stuff next time you have to buy a mower . Everybody raves over them .
I may, my yards so small I can do it all with a weed wacker now.
battery weed trimmers too .
Also, you don’t drag a cord all over the place. You work your way away from the outlet one pass at a time.
But…yea, it’s still there and has to be brought out, wound up etc etc
But with a gas mower you always have to go fill up the fuel can, fix it when the spark plugs die, give and take to both I found.
There’s no give and take with electric. Plugging it in is nothing compared to the maintenance and pollution of a gas powered mower.
Now sure, some people have acreage…but all these people will small lawns. Come on already. Get that gas powered shit outta here.
STIHL even has it now . High as hell but they have it
That’s the deal, let the price drop.
And I’m not mowing some little square yard….
It’s not practical for you .
can’t imagine a battery powered chainsaw getting the job done . Must be for small limbs and stuff
Yeah, I’m more interested in the remote control lawn mower
Beast mode…amirite?
On the deck, drinking while operating a remote control lawn mower, what could go wrong?
If something did go wrong, that thing would mulch it in seconds.
‘No officer. I didn’t see any kids on bicycles today’
“baby…..what happened to the ugly ass plant I put right in the way?”
“Ummm, deer ate it?”
And just for you, they’ve even got one that drives itself.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Kobalt-40-volt-Brushless-Lithium-Ion-20-in-Self-Propelled-Cordless-Electric-Lawn-Mower-Battery-Included/1000330375
Peaces
At some point before I die, I should learn how to grill and cook.
No mower; no grilling. Not a man. Hell, not even a boy.
You thinkin like I thinkin
I was doing both before I was 10.
To be fair, I’m lucky to have all y body parts….
Oh, I used to mow our lawn as a kid. It’s not like I haven’t ever done it. I just don’t do it now.
OK, one ball dropped earl; still waiting on the other.
Well, I mowed it until my dad got to the point that the Air Force started mowing the yard for us. Not sure what that does to the ball situation.
Ha, I see that now.
just wait until Steve’s balls drop
he’s going to impress all of you
In my defense, the reason I don’t own a lawn mower is that I used to be on the road so much that it would’ve been a waste of money just sitting in the garage unused. Not anymore, but I never went out and bought one.
Cooking, well, I have thusfar had no interest.
Now THAT will save you some money
No mower, never watched John Wayne, doesn’t grill…….are you sure you’re GOP?
To be fair, Trump probably hasn’t either (mabe the John Wayne, but probably not the mower or the grill).
Is he GOP?
More like “Opportunist”.
I love everyone – Trump
I think it’s pretty much a guarantee that President Trump has never mowed a lawn.
They even make half assed grills that operate using gas…Surely you could learn with one of those.
Lol
Yard work is Manual labor to me
I’m serious, Manual Gonzalez does all the yard work
I support my undocumented North American guest workers
Racist^
6:30 am “listen to the song of my people!” – Manny
is there anything more trivial and tedious than posters posting insults about other posters?
it’s metta
And it’s May.
Walter, what’s up with the weather?
[this is commonly called the squirrel! technique]
Hi Debbie, how ya been?
That video of those three guys drowning…damn
The truth is, Hope wildly underestimated fishy’s skull…which is all but impervious to blunt trauma. In his effort to make blood ooze out of flounder’s ears, Hope demolished his own hands.
He’s only on the fourth of twelve scheduled surgeries to reconstruct his hands. After that, he’s facing years of rehabilitation.
Since he can neither type and has yet to master any assistive technology input devices, we won’t be hearing from Hope any time soon. If ever.
Lowes is trying to get me grab one of those 40V cordless Kobalt mowers they’ve got on promotion today. $250. Plus another 10%.
The thing is, my corded electric is fine. And until it stops, I’m sticking with it. Is what I keep telling myself. Like a mantra.
I have no response to that….
Ahhh…
I’ll just copy that into a doc and keep it handy for future use 🙂
Meh…
Ok, I’m back.
This from a guy that cries like a lil biotch to SCamp about artificial turf. That remote control weed whacker is kickin’ yo azz
There’s weak…and then there’s what you just posted.
Which is the opposite of weak, I know. It’s ok, can’t everyone be a winner. Hold my trophy while I kiss your girlfriend 🙂
she has a couple teeth missing , be careful
Good lookin’ out, Buck!
^ So she’s almost perfect.
just about , except for those moles .
I sometimes forget, you’re a ditch digger. You can’t help but dig a hole.
Ok…. I’ll pretend to be insulted so as to not damage your fragile ego, because I care.
me either . I have nothing good to say .
Maybe it’s vaginal? – Iron Mike
it’s definitely vaginal.
Better to smell like, the faint hint of ozone than gas and oil fumes.
Pussy.
Yeah , while you drag an extension cord all over creation .
Hits a little clump of crab grass wwwwwwwwpppfff! Pops a breaker.
Bawwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Man. You just do not know. smh
Relax, Mr. Gadget, we just funnin’
Fuck sake. Don’t do that.
Guests come by and see that post and think we all get along. Next thing you know, they’re upvoting shit.
We do have one of those.
100′ of 12 gauge…it’d break you old man.
( no offense to the other old fellas. Just this one pussy I’m talking to here )
I could crush you into fine dust with one forearm .
actually , probably not anymore but it sounded good.
I thought it sounded fantastic
You couldn’t push my electric mower with one arm.
Bet I could pitch it down an embankment with one arm.
I could raise it above my head and smash it in the street though .
Like a bar stool! In a bar fight!
Now you’re getting ridiculous. I bent and molded wire on a daily basis for twenty years ,
I have a battery powered bicycle pump! – k0n
You know , big wire . Not extension cords .
Pulleys did all the work. All you did was twist on an end cap. Come on, be honest now.
You know nothing but i credit you for trying .
I drive by power lines every day!
Pffft. I was there when TNMP put the smart meter on my house. I know it all. All of it!
LOL
Is it awful to say that I don’t even own a lawnmower?
There’s a lot of that around here. Me and like, four other dudes do our own lawns. Everyone else has a service.
I’m thinking about buying one, though, and doing it myself. Would save alot of money.
You’d pay for the mower in savings super fast.
Zig-Zag_BC • an hour ago
Hope is probably working out the kinks in our new NK puppet government. It’s almost GO TIME!
—————–
Nah, he’s been house hunting in Minneapolis.
That’s nowhere near as entertaining as NK.
Depends what part of NK.
The good part
But Kirk is soooooo… dreamy…..
Kim Jong-un fuck like pig;Kirk fuck like girl.
-Hope
Maybe the plan is to put Kirk in as the new leader?
The deal is that Melania goes to NK and becomes Kim’s wife, Kim keeps all his nukes, and Donald declares victory.
Bollocks
if you like stocky, busty, blonde women Minneapolis is awesome
so are their two months of summer in July and August
When the Eagles hired Brian Dawkins as a football operations executive less than two years ago, many Eagles fans envisioned a scenario where Dawkins, one of the most popular players to play for the franchise, might someday become the team’s general manager.
The five-time All-Pro safety, who will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Aug. 4, told the Inquirer and Daily News on Tuesday that he is leaving the organization.
Dawkins said he plans to start a philanthropic venture that will allow him to affect people’s lives.
You can’t make a Arlo Guthrie reference, and then just leave the fucking blog.
Sand, you’re suffering from dementia, we’re gonna have to put you somewhere safe.
Imma posting nonsensical stupid ish. Hey man, it’s f’n May.
Go sit on the Group W bench and play with your pencils
*slow Alice’s Restaurant refrain*…
just watch out for the mother rapers, and the father rapers
Paul Richardson on Alex Smith…
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/999365316156289025
Nashville named host city for 2019 NFL draft at owners meeting
this draft hosting thing is going to become as corrupt as the olympics or world cup.
Going to?
another non-option at LG
offensive lineman Richie Incognito has been placed on “involuntary psychiatric hold” after being involved in a gym altercation today in which he allegedly threw a dumbbell at another person
Dare I say roid rage?
We spoke with the alleged victim who tells us Incognito first threw a tennis ball at him for no reason — before grabbing a dumbbell and heaving that as well.
The alleged victim says Incognito was rambling about the government and screaming at the man to “get off my f*cking playground.”
Incognito had been placed under mental evaluation previously in February 2014.
That’s all, folks
incognito is incommunicado.
‘That’s our boy!’
Should be able to get him for the vet minimum now!
You think ? He’s been a loose canon as of late yet again. He was never an option and suggesting he was is stupid .
I’m guessing he doesn’t make any team visits for say about 72 hours
For a guy named Incognito, he certainly does not know how to keep a low profile.
Zing……..
Congo outbreak fears increase as three Ebola patients escape quarantine in Mbandaka
that’s not a good thing
O man. So they have typhoid Peter, Paul, and Mary on the loose.
https://youtu.be/zpG1Ywmbioc
LOL!
the problem with the uneducated in Africa is a lot think a shaman will cure them of Ebola and all they do is kill another 10-20 people
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/05/23/sean-taylors-killer-seeks-a-reduced-sentence/
speaking of prison sentences
mistake and accident…
smh
let him rot
So I walked on into the psychiatrist office and said ‘Shrink, I wanna kill.’
I wanna see dead burnt bodies in my teeth, I mean, I wanna kill
https://youtu.be/kkxdosn8sOo
Giant predatory worms are invading France. The worms are part of a group of species called hammerhead flatworms, which originated in tropical Asia, and grow to over a foot long. The worms have gone largely unnoticed for close to two decades, according to scientists.
I thought they were from the middle eastern region?
i wonder if Evgeny A. Freidman knows Abe Froeman?
I’m definitely keeping my eye on the Cowboys / Zach Martin deal. He reportedly turned down a team friendly extension last year, so they applied the 5th year option. Cutting Dez Bryant and franchise tagging Demarcus Lawrence were also moves to make sure they would have the space to sign him. That guy is a top 5 offensive linemen!!! Doesn’t matter if he’s a guard, but he’s completely worth the money and would love to see him hit the market! I believe the Cowboys will do whatever it takes to sign him, but that’ll end up tying a lotta money up in their offense with Dak and Zeke coming up for extensions soon.
I hope he secretly despises Jerruh, and all things silver and blue.
Today’s starting LG: Brian Du Jour, Iowa State. 6′ 3″, 315 lbs.
Good luck, noob!
— Grim reaper
Flounder’s barely been up here since the scuffle with Hope. Starting to think that Hope has him locked away somewhere and lets him log on for 5 minute intervals once or twice a week to avoid any suspicions.
Necks man up quite wining
–Floudre
Flow- dre?
Flounder on Urban One network
Very important French existentialist. Mostly specialized in linguistic nihilism. 🙂
Noone wins
Goes without saying.
Your’s was good, though
Who am I?
I’m No one that’s who
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/071/841/dcd.jpg
Thought they were German…
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d4/e3/2d/d4e32d90be8fc1fbcb010406cb093715–gift-finder-quirky-gifts.jpg
“God is dead.” – Nietzsche, 1883
“Nietzsche is dead.” – God, 1900
Hope is probably working out the kinks in our new NK puppet government. It’s almost GO TIME!
Boy Scouts to provide condoms at upcoming World Jamboree
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/22/boy-scouts-require-condoms-upcoming-world-jamboree/
Weird that this was a rule befor they went co-ed.
if that because there are:
1) female scouts now and we don’t want to get the pregnant
2) no female scouts but better to have safe sex among the guys anyway
It’s in WV so if they can’t find any girls there’s always goats and sheep.
Did one of our Oline guys get injured today?
Did the sun rise in the east?
Yes, my interpretation of East, anyway.
Take that Redskins news somewhere else!!!
Seriously?
Yeah
Tyler Catalina, apparently.
That’s him
According to NBC Sports Washington’s JP Finlay, Redskins guard Tyler Catalina left practice after he was injured on Tuesday during the first day OTAs. The severity of the injury is not yet known.
Great……..
“State Department warns U.S. citizens in China after employee suffers possible sonic attack”
BEIJING — The U.S. State Department is warning U.S. citizens in China that a government employee reported unusual “sensations of sound and pressure” and was later diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury — a case that recalls a wave of so-called “sonic attacks” on U.S. diplomats in Cuba.
A health alert sent Wednesday said a U.S. government employee assigned to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou reported “subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure.”
The notification said the department was not aware of any other cases inside or outside the diplomatic community.
But signaling the depth of their concern, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and all five U.S. consulates in the country held town hall meetings Wednesday so employees could ask questions and raise concerns. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the United States will send a medical team to Guangzhou next week to conduct baseline medical evaluations of all employees who desire one.
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do i believe this?? seem like talk of ufos and weather-manipulation, but it seems to keep coming up from reputable people.
Sonic attack?
skeptical, but:
“The U.S. State Department is warning U.S. citizens…”
https://pa1.narvii.com/5872/563d27e6463fffdfd24df66ce8204312f726eaee_hq.gif
Where’s Hope been? Is he over at the Vikings Blog?
Hope only shows up late nights I’ve noticed.
Well i am regular late night stalker and i havent seen him in months .
Really?
I’m trying to think the last time I did see him then. It could have been months I guess. Talk about a guy who liked to pick fights!
It’s been a good while . He was struggling with the KC situation . I think he was fed up at least for the time being .
Said something about killing Flounder and checked out
If you haven’t wanted to kill another regular on here, then you’re not hard core. Shoot, I’ve wanted to kill 1/2 you all at some point. Even wanted to kill half the guys I like.
He is a good dude . I think he felt like he needed to chill out for awhile
“something about killing Flounder and checked out”
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oh, my. hopefully it’s not that… and come to think of it… where’s flounder….?
Hope killed him. RIP
They cancel each other out. No harm no foul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTJSt4wP2ME
“They’ll call me freedom, just like a waving flag”
This guy gets it!
Protesting our flag is equivalent to protesting freedom! It’s like saying…I don’t want the right/freedom to kneel during the anthem.
Protesting the flag and the national anthem is direct slap in the face to all those who’ve defended that flag, to me.
I’m with you…anytime someone comes on the internet pretending or claiming to be a Veteran and says their ok with kneeling for the flag, I’d have to call their bluff. I haven’t met one yet who feels that way and although i’m no longer active, I keep in contact with a lotta associates and have several friends who are still active.
Alex Smith live now. I’ll say one thing – He’s level-headed and intelligent.
I’ve heard that as a knock against him. because he’s so intelligent and intellectual, he’s not instinctive and quick with decisions.
From Cornell law:4 U.S. Code § 9 – Conduct during hoisting, lowering or passing of flag
During the ceremony of hoisting or lowering the flag or when the flag is passing in a parade or in review, all persons present in uniform should render the military salute. Members of the Armed Forces and veterans who are present but not in uniform may render the military salute. All other persons present should face the flag and stand at attention with their right hand over the heart, or if applicable, remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Citizens of other countries present should stand at attention. All such conduct toward the flag in a moving column should be rendered at the moment the flag passes.
Yes but that flag code would also say that you shouldn’t wear a flag pin on your lapel.
And this:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71HCQPPDVeL._UX385_.jpg
this:
http://www.pgatoursuperstore.com/media/pgatss/images/fourthofjuly/4th-header.jpg
and this:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Washington-Redskins-US-flag-with-star-and-stripe-3×5-FT-banner/32793183814.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.8.560c15942J30TM&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_1_10152_10151_10065_10344_10130_10068_10324_10547_10342_10325_10546_10343_10340_10548_10341_10545_10696_10084_10083_10618_10307_10059_308_100031_10103_10624_10623_10622_10621_10620_10814_10815,searchweb201603_55,ppcSwitch_5&algo_expid=40e6a3d6-244d-436c-9cf0-a2ce782ea2f1-1&algo_pvid=40e6a3d6-244d-436c-9cf0-a2ce782ea2f1&priceBeautifyAB=0
are all considered wrong.
yeah, and how about buxom blondes in star-and-stripes bikinis? who the hell gets to determine whats appropriate respect? certainly not some flag code. you cannot foist honoring the flag on anyone. mind you, i always stand for the national anthem and look, generally, at the flag. that’s my choice. a country that REQUIRES that is…. well…. dictatorial. think north korea. betcha you can’t not stand, salute, whatever to the flag there.
which is exactly why the Kap thing doesn’t bother me or any joe shmoe, athlete or whomever that chooses not to follow etiquette. They are peaceful and literally not harming a soul. Its all sensationalized and pretty sad…
However if this pic doesn’t bother you, you’re made of stronger stuff than I am.
http://chickenhed.us/images/liddythong_1.jpg
but, that’s not real, right?
It’s 100% real. It’s a famous photo.
omg…. liddy is surely a “stand and respect the flag” guy…. well, or so i thought.
btw, i said “buxom blondes” – not whatever the hell that is.
He’s standing there……
standing, yes, but not respecting – according to my personal views about what’s appropriate flag-related behavior.
that’s bothersome for different reasons lol
yeah…. i mean who knew liddy was from europe?
In North Korea when they play the anthem, the customary salute of their flag is this:
https://media.giphy.com/media/EIgLwABXTBqa4/giphy.gif
literally, LOL, alex. still lol-ing….
don’t recall ever seeing that in the statute. But doesn’t deter from the code above during colors presentation. Its pretty clear. And you can’t prevent free commerce from doing whatever they want to fit their business model. None of this stuff is punishable. But its still sort of a right/wrong
That’s true. But the original intent of the flag coed was all about stopping people from using the flag as a tool of political propaganda and stop it from being used in advertising. Wow did that backfire.
those are also not flags
it’s the same thing as owning a Lamborghini and actually having a supermodel wash it in your driveway topless, and having a poster of it in your adolescent era bedroom
looks pretty damn much like a flag to me. how about track athletes who win a race then run around the track in a flag-shawl? appropriate?
No
The people who wrote the flag code in 1924 would disagree. They didn’t want to see the flag used as a way to sell goods/services. It’s what we would call today “fake patriotism”
I don’t get upset about it mid you.
I just like pointing out the hypocrisy.
The flag shirt is going too far. The Prescott jersey isn’t.
Not according to the code. If anything the Prescott jersey would be a worse abuse since it’s also being used to advertise, breaking 2 rules.
hahahhaa… funny to see you draw the line. completely arbitrary. i mean, i sort of agree, but i understand that that’s just my opinion….
The shirt looks like a flag to me, whereas the jersey doesn’t.
so does the liddy atrocity below look like a flag to you? or is that cool?
Liddy needs to put that howitzer away, for the love of God, man!
Sage points out what I’m saying even better with this example, no right thinking American should support wearing that.
https://twitter.com/SageRosenfels18/status/999355320534216709
a policy which “allows” players to remain in the locker room is nuts. i mean, anyone staying in the locker room is “making a statement”, right? and it’s divisive.
just require that they all stay in the locker room. run out on the field jubilantly after the anthem. whatever.
I can’t remember why I blocked Albert Breer, he pissed me off for something.
To be clear, though, despite the fact that I believe prisoners should pay for their keep, I do believe there are instittutional issues with the justice system that result in disparate treatment and enforcement of crimes.
Baaahhhh, we know where you stand!
heeheehee
in a manure patch ?
smells better than your wife’s….
LOL
I think the principal disparity is economic. Poor people can’t afford the same quality of defense counsel as can rich people.
If you want to fix the system the best thing you can do is to figure out how to fix the recidivism rates. US has the highest in the world, 75% going back to prison, lowest is Norway with 20%. If we can figure out what other places are doing that works to solve that problem it would be a game changer for this country.
Okay, really the lowest is really probably North Korea, because no one gets out of prison.
i really do not know the answer here, but does norway put people in jail for drug use? (and when i say “drug use” i am weirdly not including alcohol as a drug.)
They just decriminalized all drug use in December. But even before that they had a lot of success with stopping repeat crimes.
Does Norway have violent gangs based on race and ethnicity ?
i don’t know.
I don’t either but if they do not , what works for them , might not work here.
Maybe, but since what we are doing here isn’t working here, we aught to try what they are doing there. Not like Norway is that drastically different from the US.
Two grannies cannot make the same pie if they have different ingredients.
I’ve often said that .
I stole it from you buck.
Well right now their making pie, we’re eating a piece of shit coated in bread crumbs. So lets at least try their recipe and see if we can replace the piece of shit with an apple.
i like bread crumbs
This post is the POTD thus far. LOL
I’m getting in a groove. Probably because I’ve started packing for vacation so I’m in a good mood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gangs_in_Norway
Doesn’t look to be ethnic, except maybe Romany
Motorcycle gangs can be violent as hell . We have that.
imo, the simple using of a drug, alcohol, pot, herion, whatever should not be a crime. now, if you do anti-social, sociopathic stuff while on that drug, well, then, yes, that behavior is a crime.
anti-social or anti-societal?
i guess anti-societal… you know, like stealing, beating people up, etc… (which are anti-social), but sure, not saying “hi” to your neighbor should not be punishable.
anti-social people would never beat anyone up, that’s way too much interaction for them to handle.
Maybe the first time. Then they tell the criminal, “Next time don’t steal it. Just stop by and we’ll give you the drugs fro free. Part of your 90% taxes.”
38.52%
I use DC math.
So in other unrelated news to this thread on prison reform
the Redskins will placed Arie on IR if he clears waivers
procedurally how it’s done this time of the season for unvested players
I assume that the process is more or less the same.
during the season once he’s on the 53 man roster, I think an unvested player can go directly to IR without being waived first
not a 100% sure but I think that is correct
it’s like the Ed Simmons rule from back in late Hog days
Gibbs 1.0 was famous for stashing young players on IR that were promising
I’m not sure that’s the case.
no I’m right again — LOL
In regards to injuries, vested veterans can be put directly on injured reserve without being exposed to waivers. But up until rosters are cut down from 90 to 53 players on Sept. 2, injured non-vested players must be placed on waivers through the waived/injured designation before being placed on injured reserve.
This measure prevents teams from stashing young players on injured reserve. Once a waived/injured player clears waivers, he reverts to the team’s IR.
After cut-down day, teams can use the waived/injured designation or they can place a non-vested player directly on IR.
You’re not being reasonable, though.
it I want to be unreasonable, I would just post how the armed forces should do away with piloted aircraft and only use pilot-less aircraft from now because in aircraft pilots on unnecessary at his point in time
Because you know so much about military aviation.
I would defer to you on that
my expertise was in underwater warfare, submarines and ICBMs
I keep inviting you to go find another blog. Go. You’ll be happier.
Now, that’s just plain unreasonable. lol
I’m serious. Go find somewhere else to post. There are lots of good Redskins blogs.
What fun would that be? Maybe you need to learn how to relax. Have a Sunkist.
You’re right in this instance, yes.
That’s why I mentioned that he was waived with the injury designation in yesterday’s post.
they also do that so the league cover his medical/rehab costs
Definitely agree with AustinSkin…jailing people for possession of small amounts of weed is like jailing people for driving 10mph above the speed limit.
Head count, baby! All about the head count.
seems like those are the wrong heads to be counting – especially when you’ve got repeat burglars, assaulters, etc… going free, like the baltimore guy, presumably because of “overcrowding”.
Who do you want to guard? Honest question, which would you prefer to guard?
Easy answer. But do the folks doing the guarding really have the juice in the courts and on the street to pull the strings to let violent criminals go and pull the kid with a nickel bag?
Maybe so. But that seems far fetched to me. Not that it couldn’t be or happen.
The folks in legislation are your “regional managers”
zig,
is that even a serious question?? who cares who guards would prefer to guard. the question is “who would you prefer be off the streets?”
See, you are looking at it through a morality filter, you need to switch to the green one.
I’m really dubious whenever I hear about the “dude who got jailed for ‘small amount’ of weed.”
First, what was this small amount?
Second, what else did they do that the cops can’t get them for?
But if it’s legit, then by all means, they should not do jail time for possession of under a pound.
A pound??!!! You my new best friend.
I can’t really conceptualize a pound.
How much did Tim Allen have?
I thought he had cocaine?
I think it was Pot and Coke
My man! Lol
Why do you think he was always making those funny grunt noises.
If you’ve never seen him do stand-up at San Quentin, worth a watch.
His latest show just got 86’ed right?
Tim the Toolman?
Yes
A pound take up a lot of space, unless it’s mashed like the smugglers do it.
25 plants is a small amount………when held against worldwide production numbers
Even if he had a lotta weed, we shouldn’t put a rapist back out on the street to make room for the weed smoker/seller.
Is it against the law?
Don’t complain about it afterwards if you knew the consequences
https://twitter.com/AlbertBreer/status/999319818569506816
who decides what’s appropriate?
Appropriate respect is standing still while the national anthem is playing. It’s not rocket science.
“appropriate” is not so defined.
That’s also just Albert Breer in a tweet, not a written policy from the NFL.
well, he says, “new NFL policy will…” nothing about, “this is my opinion”.
He’s limited to 270 characters. There’ll be a written document from the NFL, I’d bet, and that’ll be what we need to study.
Good question. Personally when I stand for the anthem I do the hand’s behind my back thing, some do hand over heart, which to me always felt silly. Some do the whole salute thing, even if they aren’t in uniform.
I don’t think it’s a good question . It’s common sense to me .
There’s many things that I see done with the flag that I view as disrespectful but others have no problem with.
I agree with you. It’s common sense.
muddying the waters . ESPN will be losing their collective minds this evening .
ESPN has become the left wing kook network.
It was a business decision evidently . Something has cost them viewers .
They spend millions of dollars on a new NYC studio and to pay the expensive hosts for that new morning show, Get Up, and its ratings are in the tank. They have only themselves to blame.
just keep them all in the locker rooms. and, we do not even need to see the anthem on the tv broadcast.
I’ve read several books by white collar guys who have gone to prison
the meals in prison now provide you the basic number of recommended calories per day
people buy a lot of food from the commissary because inmates are hungry
one guy said they basically got about 1,800-2,000 calories a day and he figured between his job and exercise he was expending about 2,700-3,000 calories a day — he lost like 80 pounds in prison, said when he was released he was in the best shape he was in 20 years
Ramen noodles are the most popular food item because they are cheap (versus candy or nuts) and easy to make
You need to watch out for the flavor packs, though.
Chicken Picante es numero uno
Fuck it, I got so bored with the things, i’d just break um up and eat them dry, then drink water.
break um up buy slamming on the floor. Hard candy too.
Aye
Don’t forget to shake your belly after to mix it all up evenly.
Smash potatoes chips or Cheetos up and mix um in, use minimal water, roll it up and compress it….. Burrito!
Peanut butter, tuna, boiled eggs…..buy them from kitchen workers.
If I never have that dried ramen again I’ll be okay with that. I ate it bye the case in college.
But I was classy, I used the coffee maker to cook them in the dorms.
Most cellblocks are limited to the temperature of the water (there’s always some dumbass that throws a cup on a guard) unless vyou make a stinger (and have access to a hot electric outlet) or boil it in a soda can, with a toilet paper fuel ring.
Well you can technically just take ramen and soak it in room temp water, it will hydrate, just takes longer.
DO YOU NOT ENJOY VARIETY?!!!!
fun fact: I found the recipe for homemade black powder in a book in the prison library.
I wish D_C were here to add to the Prison discussion…
So Steve could bust a blood vessel?
If he would ever be reasonable, I’d be fine with him.
By reasonable, you mean in agreement with you?
🙂
You’re another one. You aren’t reasonable either. Plenty of people here who I disagree with are. You aren’t one of them.
Would I be reasonable if I just nodded my head and agreed with you?
I value political talk…especially from extremists of both sides!
Eh, I’m here, that’s your 1 extreme.
An interesting counter point to the NFL’s new policy, file this under, “you can’t win no matter what”
https://twitter.com/poniewozik/status/999331220835196929
That’s precisely why I’m in favor of making all teams stay in the locker room whether they want to or not.
can you imagine…
Rolf, c’mon man! The anthem is about to start!
*Rolf is sitting on the toilet, committing a public health hatecrime*
*Rolf realizes he is going to be late*
*Rolf runs onto the field, TP sticking out of pants, embryo stages of a severe skidmark starting to show through… puts right hand over heart*
…national anthem…
*Rolf runs back into the locker room*
Because the last time Rolf had too much cheese before a game, the fans made him out to be a hatecriminal.
I said this below, but I’ll say it again. The other thing about making prisoners work is that by and large, these aren’t stressful long days. The average prisoners work a few hours each day and then basically have free time for the rest of the day, even in the lower end of classifications in maximum security prisons. This is not making slaves work 16 hours a day in cotton fields in 1840 and threatening to kill them if they stop. It’s far, far from that.
Lower custody inmates are worked harder than higher custody inmates, fact.
1. You are short time, I can hang good time over your head
2. You are short time, you’re just trying to make it through
3. You are short time, your life isn’t over
4. You are short time, do you want to spend it in the hole for refusing to work?
Lifer – “fuck you”
To those points, I say, good. But none of these guys are working particularly hard.
Lmao, like you’d know.
Lmao, you have no idea what I’ve seen. I do know.
Sure, maybe someday we can share stories, just not on here.
I’m always willing to have reasonable conversations.
Me too
just because you go to court and have your case tired in front of judge or jury
that the experience is identical or equal for a wealthy person and a poor person
effective counsel who can call a myriad of expert witnesses can overcome even the most determined of prosecutors
see OJ, Casey Anthony, etc
poor people who have public defenders go to jail at a much higher rate
The constitution doesn’t promise equal quality of counsel, just counsel. That’s just life. If you can’t afford a good attorney, don’t commit a crime.
Well, guess we need to change that part of the constitution. PD’s for all
Feel free to lobby for any change you want.
Well clearly you are saying the only way for equal justice to be served.
Economic reality is economic reality. This isn’t and wont ever be some sort of Carl Marx communistic ideal of equality.
or only do crime if you’re wealthy so you can get away with it
that’s a great message for a society
that’s how riots and revolutions get started
You say you want a revolution?
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
We all want to change the world
Economic exploitation requires the exploiter to make a profit off of the exploitation. Does anyone really think the state is profiting off of the incarceration of prisoners? Does anyone think that the state/society is imprisoning people in order to make money off of them?
Let me know when the state comes close to the break-even point.
I don’t know about the state, the Prison Industrial Complex is making a fortune off it, and private prisons require the state keep them full in contracts.
private prison tend to kill inmates at a much higher rate than state run facilities
cut costs like medical care, food, clothing, heat, A/C
Got to pay the stock holders.
not to mention untrained guards who abuse prisoners to death
why do you get heat and A/C in prison? why… my ol grandpapy used to walk up hill both ways to school in the snow, but that was after slopping the hogs, harvesting the eggs, splittin wood, then school, then plowing 40 acres by hand in evening. and then having his brains thrashed and having to work at mill on 3rd shift. and they didn’t have central heat and A/C. and THEY survived!
and we have had prisoners die from heat exhaustion in FL
sweltering heat, no access to fluids, etc.
that’s why: dungeons
they maybe dank and dark, but the air is cool and mildewy you get moisture just by breathing, and possibly through osmosis if its the rainy season and the water table is high
Who gets AC? Unless you’re in a class in the education building.
There’s some kind of AC system, they even had that as part of the tour in the old Eastern State Penitentiary.
I’ve never seen that, except in County Jail, to control germs.
Just saying, I remember they had some kind of heat/ac set up when I went on that tour.
They have heat, it’s dry, white guys gotta use lotion on their skin, blacks get ashy no matter what. They circulate air in the warm months, but it’s not cooled. Only AC I’ve ever seen was in the administration, education, and medical buildings. Cellblocks with AC?
Every state is spending a fortune on prisons, obviously, and making some convicts wash dishes doesn’t come close to offsetting it.
That’s my point. How is that exploitation?
It’s not. I agree with your point.
I think the idea is
1) you actually get satisfaction by accomplishing tasks, something you don’t get from watching TV and getting r***** in your cell
2) over time they can amass enough of a nugget of money to get their start back should they be released
3) to waste that nugget by buying premium ramen noodles at the prison commissary
If #1 and/or #2 happen, that’s just a bonus.
#3 is just a way the prison makes the money all back from the captive audience
like how casinos use cheap buffets
Get rid of for-profit prisons altogether. There’s a fundamental conflict of interest when your existence is based on satisfying your shareholders by keeping your beds full.
Just end the prohibition on marijuana, and expunge the records of nonviolent offenders (simple possession). I don’t want my tax dollars paying to ruin the lives of people for simple possession.
Prisons should exist only for people who are a serious threat to life, physical well-being, and serious property crimes, etc.
Private prisons don’t put people in jail. Courts do.
And private prisons lobby for longer prison sentences for minor offenses. Or just outright bribing the courts to keep them full.
It’s just a system designed for corruption.
Yep
Bribery is illegal. Campaign contributions are not. If you don’t like it, lobby for state judges to be appointed to terms, not elected – I’m in favor of that.
If someone is lobbying for tougher sentences, I stand with them, and if a private company is making money as a contracted prison operator, good for them. But at the end of the day, courts convict and sentence.
Private prisons lobby for stiffer sentencing guidelines to keep their beds full. It’s business.
I’d rather see them transitioned into rehab facilities for mental disorders and substance abuse recovery.
Don’t commit crimes and then after the fact complain about the consequences
Who’s complaining? Is it complaining to point out glaring faults and inefficiencies within the system?
I was talking about the person who committed the crime
Yeah, it is what it is, but as a thinking man, witnessing first person, there is a pattern. It’s undeniable. I think you should only be paid in room and board, and good time, if you qualify. Good luck getting the calories you need for that work. Good luck with that spider bite you got clearing that land.
I’m so completely sick and tired of people blaming society for criminal activities. Every criminal made a personal choice to break the law. It’s their fault and no one else’s. Society isn’t responsible for you making bad choices – you are.
Wish I could like that 1 billion times
Enough is enough with the excuses
How about once?
I 100% agree with that
if you thinks selling drugs will get you a better level of lifestyle faster than hard work getting an education and working at a job
go for it
but don’t complain when you end up in prison for 20 years
Right. And, if the middle class white kid with the fancy lawyer and whose dad is friends with half the judges in the county gets 6 months plus community service for the same violation, well, that’s also part of the whole risk/reward cost analysis that goes into the decision making in the first place.
But that doesn’t mean it’s some deep state Machiavellian agenda of racial hate. It’s just the breaks.
I mean sure he only killed 4 people or raped a girl.
If you think a court system treats a white guy who committed multiple murders or rapes women nicely, you haven’t seen most courtrooms.
Ethan Couch, Brock Turner
No doubt, Steve.
But, if my brother fails, and I am my brother’s keeper, there is an onus on me to at least evaluate my role in his failure, and try to figure a way so that more of my brothers don’t fail.
So it costs about $150/day to house a prisoner in a medium security facility
the earn from $0.12 to $1 per hour and work 4 to 5 hours day
so that’s $0.48 to $5/day to offset their “cost”
so mark that up 100% and you still don’t make a dent in the expense cost
so basically you are economically exploited the prisoner
just because a person doesn’t “own” then and they “make” money
doesn’t mean that it is not a form of slavery
I not opposed to making them work but address the root causes of why they are there in the first place
lack of educations and marketable jobs skills
I’m for giving a person a second chance after a first mistake, but after that your ass can sit in jail until it rots
You seem to be failing to grasp the fundamental concept.
Slavery is work without compensation. That isn’t what’s going on.
you’re wrong
This is a significant thing, Mr. Steve, Noone rarely bothers to post this, tread lightly, the man is confident in his position.
He’s incorrect in this case.
This case, a bit of a broad subject to single out any specific case. Do you deny that there is a Prison Industrial Complex?
You’d have to give me a definition of what you mean by the term before I’d agree or disagree with you.
That there has evolved a state in which policy and procedure is effected by profitability.
I’m exactly correct, and you’re exactly wrong.
Prisoner performs work. Prisoner gets paid. It’s only a small amount of money because the prisoner committed a crime and therefore has been incarcerated. The en
Hence the “classification and psychological” comment.
I think you’re mixing up what they earn as an income vs with what they earn for the prison.
hence the mark-up factor
the value of their work as earned income to the prison if never going to offset the expense of the cost of housing them
We have federal funding for that 😉
Then make the prisoners work harder. I’m okay with that, too.
The Corrections Corporation of America makes 2 billion a year in profit. So clearly something is offsetting the cost.
So it makes money. So what? What’s the problem?
So, the prisoner’s work should result in the state earning $150/day from their labor. Until they reach that break-even point, its not economic exploitation; they are just covering their costs.
Otherwise agree about education and marketable job skills and, in some cases, giving people a second chance.
the problem is, you don’t want whatever boondoggle created to meet the problem to be an incentive for people to flock to prison.
New national anthem policy:
https://twitter.com/TheHogSty/status/999324787812990976
https://twitter.com/wyche89/status/999324196114182145
Totally reasonable.
Now, stop with the flags with the team logos on top of them, equally disrespectful.
Lol……..I mean, LOL
I know right?
A peek into the mystery of “what went wrong?”
I understand Steve’s point that they’re prisoners and are not really owed anything! From the discussions I’ve had, the issue minorities point to is that they’re being incarcerated at a greater rate for similar crimes. It’s definitely not a good look! I will continue to say that the first step in improving relations between law enforcement and minorities is more minorities filling law enforcement positions…something they don’t seem to be remotely interested in!
And people need to understand that the vast majority of prison jobs in state prison facilities are just a few hours a day. These guys aren’t working 15 hours a day then being put back in their cells. It’s more like, 4 or 5 at most. The minimum security works camps are different.
Yes. If you hate the system, become part of it and part of the solution.
I’ve said this to students many, many times. Unfortunately, most say, “I don’t bangs with the feds.” Or something to that effect.
if you pay Vietnamese children $0.50/hours to make clothes it’s inhuman child slavery
if you pay a black US prisoner $0.50/hours to make clothes it’s an opportunity to become a better citizen
some how I think I side with the black prisoner on this one
Why the prisoner gotta be black?
That’s why the loophole was created in the first place.
I saw Cool Hand Luke. They make the white guys work too.
But seriously, as I said below, I really believe it is more inhumane to lock folks up and let them bide their time in a state of perpetual uselessness.
Also, it is better to give folks skills, even if it is only the skill of knowing they can work day in and out, reliably.
And letting folks feel like they truly “paid” their debt to society vests them in their society more than just housing, feeding and monitoring them does.
All that said, I’m sure the system could be tweaked and made better. (And where there’s a system, there will be people who want to exploit and corrupt it…. That’s the problem with systems.)
If it was teaching them any real skills maybe. 3/4ths of all prisoners go back to prison in 5 years, so it’s clearly not working in terms of reducing recidivism.
That’s the individual’s fault, not society’s fault.
When a part of the system fails 75% of the time, it’s time to blow up that system.
No, it’s time to start placing the blame on the person committing the crime, not blaming everyone else. The criminal made a choice.
They need more and better work programs.
A ton of the folks in prison are bright, capable individuals with terrible childhoods, very few coping skills, and little to no support network.
They can be an asset to society or a detriment. Both they and we want the former in the vast majority of the cases.
And so you think by blatantly exploiting them they will feel like they are an asset? Sure doesn’t seem to be working.
They sent themselves to prison by choosing to become criminals.
60% of inmates are black or Hispanic
Key difference – the word “prisoner”.
If the prisoner gains any sort of job skills, that’s just a bonus.
most prison jobs outside of the kitchen provide little or no real skills that translate to jobs outside of prison
most jobs they do in prison have been outsourced to the third world
Prisoner was convicted of a crime. They would not be deprived of their liberty but for the fact they committed a crime
Incarceration costs money.
Prisoners shouldn’t be paid anything. They are paying for their cost of incarceration.
Prisoner had a choice not to commit crime that could result in deprivation of liberty. Slaves did not.
It’s a silly comparison, really.
Then we happened to build the largest prison population in the world, just a coincidence.
it’s economic exploitation of a class of people which is essentially slavery
It’s making criminals work for pay while being incarcerated for their crimes against society. It’s literally not slavery. They should be forced to help pay for the cost of their incarceration.
Linguistic nihilism allows us to call anything anything else and define the terms in our own way.
–Floudre
How is it economic exploitation? I am sure they don’t even cover the costs of their incarceration. Don’t commit the crime. If you commit the crime and require society to incur an additional cost, pay for that cost.
We have alot of people who commit crimes, and they deserve to be punished, severely, for what they did. I’ll never, ever understand sympathy for convicted criminals.
What we have are a bunch of laws that a huge segment of the population regularly disregards.
Now some folks get caught more often than others, and that can be a product of where/how they live, and how closely they resemble others who have broken/disregarded the same/similar laws or not and whether those laws are violent and/or hurtful to a community or not. (Also, whether they are the types of things that really annoy cops or not.)
But that doesn’t mean we have some racist deep state agenda to incarcerate people of a certain skin tone.
But we do, we do have a racist deep state agenda to incarcerate people of a certain skin tone.
Sarcasm font?
Nope.
I don’t believe it. And I don’t think it is even close to true.
We have a deep agenda to lock up people who participate in certain behaviors, and those behaviors may not all deserve imprisonment to be sure, but that is a different story.
99+% of the people in prison are there because they knowingly broke the law. Not because they have some skin pigmentation issue.
That’s just incorrect.
Read the Guice piece over at W&%$… Interesting kid. Seems like he’s had a tough go and to have avoided trouble so far is actually a pretty good accomplishment.
He does seem to have a bit of the loose cannon in him when it comes to answering questions and such. And he may eventually end up another example of “When Keepin’ it Real Goes Wrong.”
But he doesn’t seem like he’s going to do anything Ewok-Elliot bad, or even close.
He needs a mentor, Doug Williams or someone else, to make sure that he doesn’t go off the rails since he now has money for the first time in his life. He’s clearly a good kid, but if I were in charge, I’d make sure he has guidance right now. Maybe someone like Vernon Davis, perhaps.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/03/16/prison-labour-is-a-billion-dollar-industry-with-uncertain-returns-for-inmates
Very interesting article!!!
It doesn’t even play the race card either. But I can assure you the issue of prison labor is a very sensitive subject for minorities.
so is debtor’s prison
It’s a little slavery loophole.
It’s not slavery.
It is, weather you want to admit it or not.
Slavery is forced labor without compensation. They’re getting paid, no, so it’s not.
Plus, slavery requires ownership. Nobody “owns” the prisoners.
It’s a morally reprehensible practice, which has resulted in rampant political corruption surrounding our prison industry. And we should eliminate it in our society because it’s making Americas economy weaker by allowing people to underbid labor that free men should be preforming.
What’s morally reprehensible is that we are paying these prisoners even 50 cents per hour.
Good point; that too.
the state owns you
The state imprisons you pursuant to your conviction for crimes committed; it doesn’t own you.
Yeah. I know. I called them about that, but they said “suck it up buttercup,” or words to that effect.
So, I just asked if they had any plans on selling me to the Ruskies, and they said, quit calling us and we won’t.
It’s a wait and see game. Wait and see.
A person being forced into labor, while restricting freedom is the classic definition slavery.
Getting 50 cents a day doesn’t magically make it not-slavery.
Yes it does. Slavery includes the element of no compensation. This prisoners are getting paid, so it’s literally and figurative not slavery by any reasonable definition. That’s the exact reason why the state pays them anything at all.
the amount they get paid is ridiculously low. if that’s your supporting argument, then it is like slavery. however, it is more like paying your debt to society for violating the contract.
not at all. one can easily, with intellectual honesty, argue it is actually paying society back for whatever violation of the social contract prisoners have done. i mean, simply sitting in prison does not repay society for the crime.
But in many cases you’re not paying society, you are working for a private company who owns the prison.
to the extent that’s true, it is a failure of execution, not the concept. or, ideally, the “private company” has paid the government (i.e., society) something for the access to that labor.
No, the government pays the company for the slaves/prisoners.
That’s a distinction without a difference. That private company is a government contractor. So what.
Debtor’s prison is unconstitutional.
–Bankers
Cry me a river. They’re getting paid. Don’t get yourself thrown into prison in the first place and you won’t have to worry about it.
Guice invited fans out for a movie night (50 tix)? And paid for their concessions?
What a thug!!
in estimation, that’s around 1000.00. Nice guy.
Oh wait…concessions too?! that’s about 300,000. Sweet guy.
He’s gonna destroy opposing teams…..I can taste it…. ELECTRIFYING!
Is that the off field issue people were concerned with?
That was cool of him. What was the flick, ‘Debbie Does Dallas’?
Brian’s Song
*sob, sob* Thanks a lot smoke…
lol
Tuesday morning on the hogsty with a cup of coffee outweighs my usual routine of coffee and Candycrush.
so what are you doing here on Wednesday then?
Oh shit. My laundry needs doin. Thanks noone!
The retired and unemployed have no sense of time
Letting teams decide about the anthem is good. And league wide letting players just not come out to the sidelines seems ok too. That way they can’t get in trouble for not standing.
I don’t like that solution at all. If the league isn’t going to make 100% of its players stand for the national anthem, then they need to either stop playing the anthem or keep all teams in the locker room until it’s over. I really couldn’t care less about how the players feel about it. They’re employees and this is a televised entertainment product, not the social justice hour.
it’s their fan base and viewership , so by all means , proceed accordingly and let those folks decide .
The NFL controls all TV broadcast rights, though, so it really isn’t a local issue.
Regular season and post-season TV broadcast rights, that is, not preseason.
I’d just have everyone stay in the locker room, take away the platform. Fuck it. Do the anthem before the tunnel run.
that’s the way it was for years and years and years… then 9-11 happened….
thanks osama!
I thought we did eventually “thank” him?
trillions of wasted dollars aside, philosophically, he is “winning” from the grave, or davy jones’s locker or whatever.
did you mean…and then police brutality happened?
https://twitter.com/PFF/status/999096579092025344
There ya go D_C. It’s your chance to get out of the ferret raising bidness.
HAVE you got WHAT it TAKES…
…to get (presumably) paid to watch a lot of football?
Classification could be much better in the department of corrections, as a whole. It really comes down to how serious the classification officer is about his/her job. It is a government job after all. There are many, many, many, many people in prison that should never, ever, ever, ever see the outside, ever again. There are also kids that could turn it around, if shown a path. On the front line, it’s easy for a officer to clump everyone into the same group, as a mistake on that level could cost them their lives, serious business. The classification and psychological side is where things get fucked up, in the administration office (surprise!) Prison guards are there to keep you in, it’s their job.
News flash: prison guards aren’t too many steps from being prisoners themselves, oftentimes.
Someone has to regulate contraband. Might as well be a guard.
When they get caught… it’s all over but the crying.
More Data………out the window
I own all of this data, though, so it’s fine.
I didn’t marry you, either, so yeah, it’s fine. Please, carry on, Captain.
20 blog points: who coined this term: “It’s 120 degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents and they didn’t commit any crimes, so shut your mouths!”
Don’t know.
Hint: running for senate
That doesn’t help me. What state?
Awe for Christ’s sake, I done forgot.
I just googled the phrase, so now I know. Sounds like something he’d say.
That’s the Arizona guy, right?
Its Convicted Criminal and modern day American Himmler Joe Arpaio
I’ve watched LivePD which follows deputies in Pasco
You see people they arrest and are taking them jail but there is no bail hearing until Monday
and people are like, that’s ok it’s not bad for a couple of days
the state prisons are a different story though
the jail, they see a lot of the same people over and over
minor drug arrests for possession, prostitution, public intoxication, petty theft, etc.
it’s a vicious cycle
Getting a defendant sent off to a state jail facility was a pretty big win for a prosecutor.
state prison usually means higher class felony, a violent crime, repeat offender, used a gun in commission of a crime
those people don’t get to do roadside work
they tried to do that with them wearing chains, but the ACLU complained so they stopped
I can’t think of an organization with a better theoretical purpose who executes said purpose more poorly than the ACLU.
Except maybe Congress.
Some folks are not getting the message
Prison assignments are good for some folks, others, not so much. See Andy Dufresne and The Sisters.
in Pasco County FL where I reside
they try to make the jail self-sufficient as possible
they have a farm (which the inmates built) where they grow food and raise animals
the inmates do all the cooking and cleaning at the jail
and they contract the inmates out (to FDOT or local government) to do roadside cleanups along the roads in the county
The problem with that is that some inmates can’t be trusted with that much freedom.
It sounds like a work camp, probably minimum and community level.
it’s county jail, minor felonies, first time criminals, sentences 1 year or under
Ah, County. That’s good. That speaks to your county supervisors and Sheriff doing their job. Federal money entering the equation fucked up most State level prison systems. When it was on the State to account for the whole budget, they were growing green beans and raising hogs.
they have had some issue
like the girlfriend who stopped and picked up her boyfriend on cleanup detail and drove off
they caught with them in about 24 hours
they are both in state prison now which is not as nice as the jail
You can’t put violent criminals out on a highway detail, for example.
Violent criminals don’t mow grass near a perimeter fence without a gun on the other side, mirroring them.
What’s the name?
Pasco County Jail
Right, sounds like maybe you re-elect that Sheriff, eh?
County jail is a totally different animal than a state prison. County jails don’t house rapists and murderers and awful people for decades at a time. I’m all for making prisons self-sufficient, but I think there are realistic limits.
I’m well aware of the differences, overpopulation and federal money have all but removed that option.
County jails just aren’t set up for long-term housing of prisoners who need to be in a maximum security environment.
I feel like we’re wasting Data with some of this material.
the current sheriff is the protege of the former sheriff who started a lot of these practices and he was re-elected
Keep that momentum 🙂
Self sufficient prison farms are not profitable. We try to maintain a skeleton of previous programs, to throw at media or whatnot.
Punish people who break the law
The more severe the crime the more severe the punishment
That’s the basic idea.
Also, give people the tools to navigate life post-punishment.
A lot of time sending folks in for hard time is like giving a soft criminal a full scholarship for a masters’ in hard crime.
Most prisons have educational and work skills programs and counseling services.
Lol
That’s a fact. Whether they work on not is a different question.
Make them work while in prison, too. If we gotta pay to keep ’em, make them earn it. Clean the highways, mike license plates, etc. The more they can do, the better.
There are work programs in most state prisons.
Good. All of them need to work. Not as punishment, but to cover their costs to society.
Plus, quite honestly, it is more humane to give people purpose than to cage them up and add the existential gloom that comes with the pervasive sense of uselessness.
^Agreed.
I’m not concerned about humane conditions
A much bigger problems in prisons than making prisoners feel better about themselves is that they are gang havens filled with bad, bad people. Screw ’em.
Quick story. I got a good tour of a particular state’s maximum security facility and death row. I could talk for hours about it, but relevant to this discussion, they took us into one area that was workspace for the death row inmates.
That state had them processing car titles, somewhere in the chain between buyer, seller, and state records.
***Steve raises his hand and asks the tour guide, “What happens if the DA who convicted this prisoner buys a car and his name, address, and SSN pops up on the prisoner’s screen?”
tour guide: “Oh, don’t worry, we’re watching for that”
Steve gives horrified look to tour guide.***
^Good story.
Absolutely. If you have a guy for a few years, why not invest in giving him a real skill and using that skill to pay for his training and incarceration.
Take that up with your state legislators, who are controlling the federal money, maybe putting PRIDE back in, and removing Armark, or whichever company they have interest in.
Punish people who are convicted of breaking the law
The more severe the crime the more severe the punishment
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Fixed
Exactly.
–OJ
Worse case I saw in our area was a person who had something like 8 DWIs, lifetime ban on driving
got drunk, took her husband’s car to try and go to liquor store
crashed into tree and totaled the car
her 3rd crash after her lifetime ban
judge gave her 24 months supervised probation
the TV News people were chasing the judge down the street asking why probation when he could have sent her to prison for something like 5 years
I remember working on a case where a guy had 5 prior DWIs and got another one. Never seen significant jail time.
I’m not a hockey fan, but for the sake of some bloggers on here, I’m pulling for a good game tonight with a Cap victory.
Guice is talented, but my God, he looks like a stoner.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dd1twCZVwAA9wXm.jpg
Is this other guy in the photo someone who’s well known?
you joking? it’s wizards all-star john wall.
I’m a western conference fan. If he’s not in uniform, I’m probably not going to recognize him. Sorry.
Everybody has had their pic taken with their eyes half closed right?
And the grill… well, that’s pretty common status symbol in certain communities.
That said, no one could see that pic and not at least wonder if maybe….
Doug WIlliams said the kid doesn’t drink or smoke.
He just OD’s on Fortnite every single day.
I’ve read that he isn’t a club guy. He’s supposedly a homebody.
Homebody because he was a po’ boy? Now he has dough, but I hope he remains a homebody. Nothing good happens after midnight.
New Mexico lawmaker pleads with police, says ‘I literally fight for you guys’ during DWI arrest.
In a touch of irony, Youngblood was released from jail on her own recognizance — even though the tough-on-crime legislator had previously introduced a bill that would prevent aggravated DWI suspects like herself from leaving jail without paying bail.
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I hope they make an example of this woman. Her excuse was: she was fighting with her boyfriend. I’m all for letting her pull trash from roadsides for a 80 hour community service bit…but it won’t happen.
DWIs are tough cases.
If there wasn’t an accident and no person or property was damaged, it’s a significantly less serious crime.
Which leaves you in a reactionary position.
Make DWI/DUI a felony, first offense. Quit bullshitting.
one of those “starts with a j , ends with an n names”.
Jyionotorbioanveren Reed.
is he a cousin of Madhanagopal Sankararaj?
Finally someone goes to prison for stupid driving in Tampa
fatal hit & run then they took cab to casino for 11 hours of fun
Judge says 28 years in prison
tried the whole bad childhood, I’m bi-polar, didn’t know what I was doing, now I’m clean & sober…
Judge was like tough shit, you don’t treat human life that way
she’ll be at least 59 when she gets out with good behavior, 67 yo without
Good
Consequences for your actions
Always
Excuses are bullcrap
Fatal hit and run is a bit more than a stupid driving case.
that my categorization of all the drunk driving, wrong way driving, speeding, etc. that usually ends up in serious or fatal accident
most of the time people get a year or two max and are out in months
I’ve seen cases where the defendant had 3 DWIs and still not gotten jail time.
similarly,
“The West Baltimore teen’s crime spree began in December, prosecutors say, and, over the subsequent months, he stole four cars, skipped court dates and escaped from a juvenile center.
When a Baltimore County police officer confronted him Monday, 16-year-old Dawnta Harris ducked down and accelerated a stolen Jeep, running over Officer Amy Caprio as she opened fire, prosecutors say.
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don’t we have jail for guys like this??? like, BEFORE he kills people? how many “second” chances is too many?
I’m sure guys like Colin Kaepernick will find a way to blame society and the police and not Dawnta Harris.
Sure
He was afraid of police because where he lived police been harassing people forever, so in course of earning money for his family a police officer drew a weapon on him and in fear for his life he drove off, accidentally striking the officer. So it was the officer’s actions that caused her death.
useful maxim:
when a cop pulls a gun on you, stop. certainly not a 100% successful defense, but better than running.
when people are under 18, the law is very lenient with them
watch The Wire, all the corner boys were like 11-13 yo cause the dealers know nothing happens to them
doesn’t mean it’s right.
the calculation, i suppose, is whether locking them up reduces increases their chance of committing crimes, in the long run.
Usually, it’s vocational school.
society needs more vocational school, imo. not everyone is “into” college, but there is more to learn than just high school.
Accelerated criminal techniques division?
This is not State sponsored learning.
Punishment of minors and putting them in the youth detention camps is theoretically more geared towards rehabilitation of the defendants than protecting society or retribution. Clearly it fails in many cases.
Let’s be honest here
He won’t be rehabilitated
Why keep him alive
Put it down save the money
Vehicular homicide isn’t a capital crime, unfortunately.
i don’t want to kill a 16 year old. i still hold out hope. i don’t know what the answer is.
I’d be fine with executing him if he was tried as an adult, but it’s unconstitutional.
well…. he’s NOT an adult, so there’s that.
You have hope that while incarcerated he’s gonna get his life together
My gosh
jeez, greg. i’m saying society should not give up on a 16 year old. i just said i don’t know what the answer is, but i do not think it is killing 16 year olds.
Jason Reid – overweight sports reports
Jordan Reed – TE Washington Redskins
gee, thanks?
You’re welcome!
— Capt. Obvious
Any interest in Kendricks who was just released by Philly?
Can he play Guard?
I like him
Good player
I liked Jeremiah Trotter too. Sucked ass for us then went back to Philly and reverted to being a good player again.
That was a dude who just worked in the Tampa 2 scheme so much better than what we had him do here.
what is his price tag?
Vet minimum?
he would be more than that, and you’d have to be pretty sure he’d outplay Mason Foster; barring a scenario where Foster or Brown were injured in camp and at that point, Kendricks signed
Right; even the vet minimum would be more than I’d want to pay for dude. Not interested. Our front 7 is shaping up pretty damn nice right now.
Dead falcon in the road. Hit by a vehicle. Sad sight.
Was it Ryan, Jones or Freeman?
It’s a damn shame really. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d75c29ed15487e04a931cfbab3b959dbea26605cbd3ffe24bc4511b893656221.jpg
https://media.giphy.com/media/RZg9OirBYBh8k/giphy.gif
that was dirty yo
My man, an NFL field – especially during a turnover – is no place to take a leisurely stroll.
He was less than a few yards from where our player went down with the ball.
Head on a swivel my man. Head on a swivel. Else, sprint right off the field like other QB’s do.
Trade Jordan Reed to the Chargers for a 2nd round pick.
Yes, that would be nuts. But……injury to a starter creates a premium, a’la Jayson Taylor back in the day when we lost a starter. I think Philip Daniels?
make it so!
I bet Antonio Gates’ agent got a call today to check on how ‘retired’ he is.
that would make more sense for them since Henry prob makes it back for 2019
Straight up trade starting TE for starting LG
https://i.imgflip.com/1e0p66.jpg
Dan Feeney?
jason reed is an uncoverable freak. THIS is the year he stays healthy. i’ve got hebrews 11:1 kind of faith in that.
Jason Reed? Only reason this guy’s unrecoverable is if he no longer fits in a XXXL shirt.
i don’t think his skills are questionable at all. well…. blocking, yes. but, as a receiving TE, he’s uncoverable. hence my faith that he will stay healthy this season.
oh…… so sorry… JORDON reed.
I think Alex’s point is that “Jason” Reed is not on the team.
fredie,
well, yes. obviously. i corrected it to “jordan”. one of those “starts with a “j” , ends with an “on” names”.
John?
Jean?
Jerron?
Jen?
Joan?
Joaquin?
Yeah man. Could have easily been any of the above.
of those, only “jerron” fits.
“starts with a j , ends with an n names”.
They all fit per your own dumb excuse for just being wrong.
immediately edited to “on”, but whatever. enjoy your fake smackdown. sad!
Alex Smith didn’t have more success with a better cast…
Alex Smith in Kansas City 50-26; 1-4 in the playoffs 94.8 rating; 1.4% Int %
Kirk Cousins as a starter 26-30-1; 0-1 in the playoffs 93.7 rating; 2.6% int%
?
Kirk Cousins doesn’t have enough playoff stats to do a useful comp.
Again there’s a lot to confound there (coaches, teams, etc… Team sport; Kirk was a starter only 3 years), but what evidence do you have that Smith didn’t have more success?
Kirk is gone…..dead…….. obsolete………fuck that guy…….. moving on
My only point was that 1) Smith DID have more success and it isn’t close and 2) it could be him, his supporting cast, coaching, etc. We don’t know. But if he did have a better supporting cast, he also had more success with that supporting cast.
Vernon Davis could have a monster season if he stays healthy.
it’s very close
yes he is…
sb wins…and the not significant rating difference. You could take these stats and say how great kc was without all the help AS had…they’re about the same except AS is older and maybe, maybe has a bit more lateral quickness…maybe
15 yard penalty for kneeling?
Has this been discussed?
its all so dumb
*for the anthem
(Not kneeling during the play, or during a TD celebration.)
Glad to hear that’s being considered.
I would have made it 2 weeks suspension, with pay.
So, I’m working my way through the Dukes of Hazard over the last few weeks, made it to Season 2 (it’s now on Prime)
And second episode, 2nd season…. a young, slender Jay Gruden is one of the Texas villains.
Baywatch though
Do you shop WholeFoods?
Prime members get an extra 10% discount
Woot!
it’s funny because Whole Foods is really close, but we rarely go.
you’d think my wife would insist on it, but the one thing she values over healthy and cruelty is being penny wise. because I’m the only one who eats them, I can afford to buy the expensive cruelty-free free range eggs where they give the chickens pedicures and back massages in the afternoon. but if I ask her to get some? she buys much cheaper eggs than criticizes me for eating them.
Send her to Aldi’s for eggs. And man, I hope she’s not cheap on the toilet paper.
Speaking of eggs. Did you know…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRgxxOxD5yg
cows are vegetarian.
chickens aren’t. if you feed a chicken a vegetarian diet, that ain’t real.
chickens are omnivores and eat insects, rodents, small reptiles
that’s why the yolks of a real free range animal are orange
at least that’s what Joe Rogan says. (I didn’t listen to the audio of the video)
we order our toilet paper by the gross from Prime.4-pack to a box. it’s not the best, but it’s good enough. we get our organic dry goods that way too, like tomatoes, hemp protein flour, brewer’s yeast, etc.
Always get the best TP your money can buy. I’ll sacrifice something else in order to have great TP.
agreed
“So, I’m working my way through the Dukes of Hazard…”
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does not compute
it’s much more campy than one might remember
and because, unlike the re-runs of my youth, you can watch it sequentially, you can sort of watch early on and see that they were not sure how dark/gritty/dirty to make the show initially. and, while it’s very tame by today’s standards, the character of Daisy would be a hatecrime.
i suppose. laverne and shirley and fantasy island next?
in my experience, “dukes” was what i sometimes settled for watching after checking the other 3 channels.
they destroyed so many cars on that show, forget the General, all those Hazard County cop cars. it’s a wonder they could keep it going. apparently they took crit in later seasons because they started using models. you almost expect to hear yackity sax when they show Roscoe or Enis on foot chase. so campy. and in the episode in question, they used medical-grade alcohol to make Molotov cocktails, but instead of the alcohol splashing and causing a great fire, they had it explode like maybe a quarter stick of dynamite. BUT the show flips us on the SUV thing. We have SUVs because we “need” them to navigate the urban jungle. These cats are driving through creeks, jumping ravines, driving through rutted roads, driving off road with the hammer down… in a rear-drive car. And while stuntmen are doing it, it’s all real. At least, at this stage of the show it is.
Chrysler 8 3/4, with a locker – get some!
just don’t ACTUALLY jump a ravine with it
normal cars and SUVs ain’t surviving that without a dramatic amount of work immediately after; not unless you’re running a Baja style suspension
You forget, we’re running 14 springs out of a DANA 60, we do after all, run moonshine.
They were just good ole boys , didn’t mean any harm.
the mountain might get em, but the law never will
Someday….
Wouldn’t change if they could….
err… we did. now we just lead the local cops on high speed chases on a daily basis, but without moonshine. nothing illegal. also, since we’re not allowed to have fire arms, instead, we have archery equipment that launches high explosives. nothing illegal. here. no sir.
Horrible that most of her screen time was being a waitress. So misused.
Alex Smith def had a better supporting cast with minimal success given the situation. Not really debatable… just hope Gruden takes him and the team to another level
to be fair, Smith in KC
11-4
8-7
11-5
11-4
9-6
4 playoff appearances (4 out of 5 years)
Bounced out of 1st rd everytime
That’s on Reid though
No, he did win one in 2015. He’s won 2 playoff games, and though he’s 2-5 one of his losses (*wrong: Niners actually won, 36-32; but they did not make the Superbowl; V Davis had 180 yards and 2 TD in that game, including the game winner with 9 s left) is an epic game against Drew Brees. Smith’s playoff TD:INT ratio is 7:1 (14 TDs, 2 INTs)
But the KC Chiefs were a far better team when Andy Reid and Alex Smith showed up. How much of that is Smith? Dunno.
“bounced out”
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let’s get to the point where we’re dissatisfied with 5 or whatever years of that. people talk about the caps and nats years of not advancing far enough in the playoffs. let’s have that as our problem.
I’m more so comparing kirk vs alex. What has to happen to get us to that 10 win season year over year? Is alex worth 3-4 wins? Idk
i’m imagining that alex and kirk are comparable. maybe kirk is still improving? don’t know. smith is established, smart, capable. good to continue building the team around. given that there was no freakin way in hell cousins was staying here, smith was a awesome get.
Walt, I think that is the point. Building the team with a competent QB. I don’t think we should expect Alex to be “more wins” by X or Y amount, because he’s not being paid as if that is what they thought. they are paying HIM like they wanted to pay KIRK.
Fantastic post, way to go Walter.
I’m thinking some good things will happen. Gruden finally has himself a QB.
Might even change my tune about the guy.
One of the things re: Sports Gambling is (because I listen to Neb podcasts couple times a week) the Nebraska Gov claimed that the social costs to society are 3x higher than the tax revenue, and so they’re not even going to consider it. Fact check? Part of the issue is that you can’t soak gambling with taxes like other vices, it’s too easy to find alternatives (I think the number being thrown around is like, 7%)
Throwing a drink at Tomi Lahren is just flat fucked up. That sort of shit is why people showed and put an asshole in office.
instead of the other asshole. Makes sense .
You can say a lot about that person, but asshole?
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That’s Alex’s hero.
Hero?
I like the guy, sure.
Makes sense.
He’s a douche nozzle.
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/999145675739795456
May a bird shit on his head, this morning, and ever more.
“The Washington Redskins brought in Alex Smith under the impression that he’s an upgrade on Kirk Cousins, but one analyst sees things very differently.
Per CBS Sports’ Jason La Canfora, Smith ranks in what he considers to be the fourth tier of starting quarterbacks, an honor reserved for guys who can win you games, but aren’t necessarily bonafide franchise guys or rising superstars. Smith moves up from the fifth tier — reserved for veterans and place holders — and is joined in the tier by Tyrod Taylor and Case Keenum.
“These are guys who will keep you in games and play above their heads at times and be smart and steady and get you to the postseason,” La Canfora says. “They aren’t going to get you to the promised land, but you can do a lot worse. Smith moved up to this category after a MVP-type season, but the fact a win-now Chiefs team moved off him like a win-now 49ers team once did tells you what you need to know.”
What tier of journalism does Jagoff Can-o-Corn rank in, too low to tell?
Oh whatever. Fucking hater.
Besides, KSFTG is 99th tier.
Aye, Hielten sich für Captain Kirk
Criticizing Alex Smith is not necessarily endorsing Kirk Cousins. And he’s correct about the 49ers and the Chiefs. And I’ve always said with a much better team and Supporting Cast around him, in Kansas City, he didn’t do any better than Kirk Cousins.
He’s wrong. We got a better quarterback than what we had been suffering with.
Full stop.
It remains to be seen in my opinion.
I think the inaccurate part is the first sentence.
They didn’t bring him in because he is an upgrade over Kirk, they brought him in because he was a sign-able best value they thought they could get that would be similar in style and fit Jay’s offense. He wanted to be here, the Redskins needed a QB, Smith was expendable in KC; this move allows them to find their Next sometime in the next 3 years without forcing the issue. end of story.
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