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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. I wish they would move to Vegas tomorrow.
  2. I thought about that. But at least Rob Washington was right about that being just how baseball goes. This is worse
  3. I wish they would go ahead and do it at this point. When the Adelsons bought this team, I felt it was an angle on the potential for Casino Gambling in DFW, and moving the team to Vegas was plan B. Now that it appears the Dunn/Wilkes wing of the GOP* apparently won't allow casinos anytime soon alienating the fans will make moving easier, so phase I is complete. *DON'T give me the "NO CR" bullshit, it's relevant to this moment.
  4. I'm numb. I feel nothing. Ive been a fan of this team for 44 years and nothing comes close to how low this moment feels.
  5. This week I read an economic outlook paper from a large and widely respected investment firm about how they are thinking about allocation in 2025. It suggested that a Trump admin might unleash economic growth and optimism based on what he said he would do from a regulatory and bureaucratic standpoint, but also speculated that Trump might not mean what he said he would do with tarrifs and besides, Biden didn’t roll back the last Trump tarrifs on China and that turned out OK, right? It’s awfully crowded at the hopium den these days.
  6. No offense, but while unions provide a mechanism to do those things, none of that is the primary utility of unions*. The utility of unions is to enable efficient price discovery for labor among non-management workers. It isn’t good for the market on any level for capital (even public capital) to have the ability to collectively negotiate if labor does not. That’s not to say I necessarily think public sector unions are always good, just that the sellers of labor should be able to negotiate collectively as long as the buyers of labor can. Show me a bad union and I’ll show you bad management, and vice versa. Always. .
  7. So the inflation will be … transient?
  8. My goodness. Remember when Trump got on Truth social and said he was sending the military into California to turn the water back or whatever? I thought that was just some crazy talk. However, it seems to have had a grain of “Truth”, as it were. It appears the Army Corps of Engineers was ordered by an appointee to drain full reservoirs into flooded farmland without telling anyone or coordinating anything, and sent farmers, local politicians and others into a scramble to stop it before it destroyed equipment and crops. For the record, Tulare County voted 60-40 for Trump.
  9. Not how I remember it going down, but neither of us are going to actually dig through it, so let’s agree that Major was better and part as friends.
  10. The dream of the 50’s is alive in Grand Rapids
  11. I don’t remember the details, but something like 4-5 of Chris Simms “victories” as a starter are in games where he was bailed out by Major Applewhite.
  12. Anglican Catholic- split off of the Episcopal Church in the 70s over women in the priesthood and rejected the adoption of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. They kept the 1928 book and mostly use the along James Bible. Basically it’s an idealized American version of what the Church of England was like in the 50s.
  13. That’s a funny question. Here’s this Jewish reform movement that spreads a political and economic message that rejects the entire social order, and says that the least respected members of society are the most blessed and vice versa, and that hated outsider minorities are beloved of Abrahams god, but Jewish custom pushes the Temple leadership into conflict with God’s greatest commandments. That alarms the authorities so much that the founder is executed in the humiliating manner of robbers and murderers, and his followers are martyred for hundreds of years, as the message spreads across half the known world. You’re asking me if that causes chaos or is a protest?
  14. Ghandi- blocked roads, disrupted state industries. Incredibly unpopular with the not just the British but the Indian client power structure. MLK and SCLC- routinely blocked roads, inspired wild and violent overreaction and profound unpopularity not only with whites but many older black leaders who believed in gradualism and felt they were counter productive. Christians- two many examples of art smashing, chaos and defacement to list over the last 2000 years. So unpopular that Rome literally fed early Christian leaders to lions for fun and at one point were nearly driven to near extinction outside of India, Africa, Ireland and Syria/Turkey while Europeans worshiped a mishmash of local pagan deities, Roman gods, and flirted with Mithraism and other historic also-rans.
  15. “As previously stated, we are in complete agreement with the director that communist influence is being exerted on Martin Luther King, Jr and that King is the strongest of the Negro leaders. As we have stated before in a memorandum, we regard Martin Luther King to be the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country.” Dep FBI Director William Sullivan, 1963 the “previous memorandum,” written two days after the March on Washington speech (the one we hear a soundbite from, never mind the rest) used much the same language- ““We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security” so in 1964, the Deputy Director of the FBI (and head of COINTELPRO) sent King this unsigned letter, presumably with J Edgar Hoover’s approval, as part of a multi pronged effort to disrupt King’s work. Correct. @Rex Kramer the MLK they present to us every February is a comforting fiction created to protect the things the real King wanted to destroy. I realize you don’t fully disagree, but the American political establishment and white public at large was absolutely terrified of MLK in the same way and for even some of the same reasons that the Temple crowd and Greco-Jewish clients of Rome who ruled Judea were terrified of Jesus.
  16. In 1966 MLK was putting together a coalition of the American rural and urban poor and working class of all races to smash the unjust and dehumanizing social and economic order of society in the name of Christ’s gospel and the moral edicts of God. Then he was killed by racists, his message was compressed into one great line divorced from all context and his memory was retconned by the media from “the most dangerous negro in America” into a civil rights version of Bagger Vance. MLK was a moral and political revolutionary. We should never forget that.
  17. What’s the ballpark word count of the top 25 on an average day?
  18. Edit: but seriously- gross Justin
  19. Bozo_Casanova

    LBGTQ

    Or a toaster license.
  20. Of course you don’t. I take your posts posts as a sort of avant garde comic performance. I knew Andy Kaufman wasn’t dead. Thank you for your service.
  21. not for nothing, it’s his site
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