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Come on United! Stuck at work as well, but what a glorious day to believe again and enjoy my squad win or lose today. We're top four and at home to a big club. It sets up very nicely as PSG haven't played anyone worth a damn in over a month in their shit league uuuuunnnn. I don't see PSG being well prepared for what they have coming at them on attack. We're playing with maximum effort, attacking with confidence, and working as a unit for over a month. It is all I can ask for at the moment and I'm loving every minute. I will find a way to take the afternoon off if it's close for the second leg. You never know how many opportunities you get to have fun with your club and make a magical run in Europe. U-N-I-T-E-D

Fairly certain that will be investigated in the Oversight Committee led by Cummings. He's been catching shade and roadblocks from the White House on all sorts of issues since the transition. He's pissed and no stone will go unturned, and he has subpoena power now. That investigation deserves it's own thread when it gets going, going to be awesome.

I know that alcoholism is a progressive disease that I was predisposed to genetically. I also know that I have had quite a bit of trauma in my life beginning in childhood. When I discovered alcohol as a treatment for some trauma in high school it became my solution. I was able to use alcohol as my solution for life's ups, downs, and shocks until it no longer worked and my life became unmanageable. I think if I would've properly treated the trauma in my life at an early age or when it arose throughout, I may have been lucky to not progress to a point where I know I'm an alcoholic and can't drink normally. I believe there is something to that, certainly, and I think it is useful to young people who haven't gotten to the point that I did when my solution became my problem. It could save lives to have the proper treatment available before a person begins to self medicate. I see therapy working like more of a vaccine than a cure. I know I can't go back to drinking normally through self knowledge/therapy. I tried it when I got sober the first time and it almost killed me. I wound up crazier drunk than I had ever been before. Trauma sucks, life is hard, but thank God I am free and happy today.

Hey! Just saw this thread, not sure how I missed it. My one and only daughter has DS and she's fucking awesome. Beautiful, cool, very high functioning (she's a grade behind), and becoming a prima Dona like all 10 year old girls do. It's been a rollercoaster of a decade, heart problems, Type 1 diabetes since she was two, almost died from a diabetic coma, constant therapy (physical and speech), loads of tutors, and the constant work with her from birth to keep her functioning at her highest level. It's been a bitch of parenting, but it's the only thing I know. I wonder sometimes how easy it must be to raise normal kids. Having her has been the biggest shake up to my world, but I'm glad it happened. Got a divorce in part because of the stress, but it's all worked out the best we could do. I could go on, but just wanted to lay out my initial thoughts. I'll come back and post more as shit comes up, it always does. Much love and big hugs to all of you out there. Happy days.

Oklahoma checking in here. Boomer! We might not have debt, but we barely have an education system! *You're welcome Texas. You have all of our good teachers that we invested in, plus our big boy oil companies.

Is it just me or does Stone seem like the guy who would go missing or off himself so he goes down in the ultimate self created conspiracy? Immortality in his mind.

It's not highlighting shit. We can't know if parts of the gov't are expendable or not like AirTraffic Control, Justice, Courts, TSA, IRS, or FBI. They're still going to work, just not getting paid. That's the fucking problem. The workers should be able to not show up without reprisal and truly shut the fucker down. Then you'd see it matters.

Always at my committed meetings, helped launch the first campus group at the local University over the last several months, try to take at least 2 meetings a month to treatment centers in the area. I've had a couple of guys ask me to sponsor them in the last year and it's never lasted more than 3 weeks. I ask for 100% honesty and that doesn't seem to go well with them. Out the door pretty quick. Always available to my group/call sheet and the normal folks in my fairly large social circle. I'm "anonymous", but most folks know I quit drinking and ask if I can talk to someone they know who needs help. I alway answer the phone or call back within 5 mins when anyone calls relating to alcohol. I'm not a go tell it from the mountain guy at all, but I take being available very seriously.

Thanks brother. It's a hell of a thing I wouldn't wish on anyone. Very dark times that I was certain would only cease with a miracle. I was right. The nice thing is, miracles are real. You just have to be willing for a moment to believe they're possible.

One year today. This is my second time to have a trip around the sun sober. I am beyond grateful I was able to have this year, if it is possible to be beyond grateful. I know I am very fortunate to have my life and my sanity today. It took me going drunkingly insane that only a hopeless alcoholic can know (still didn't sober up right away), while almost dying (cops should've shot me) to bring me to full on surrender. I thought I knew better 3+ years ago when I was slowly killing myself with liquor, but my mind kept trying to convince me that after almost two years sober I would get some self knowledge and beat this disease. It didn't work out well at all. Instead, and by the grace of my higher power, I was able to have a moment that brought me back in. I was dry and seeing a woman, we met when I was "sober" for a few weeks. I had stopped by to see her on a Friday night when nothing was going on. I had been drinking that day, but not enough for her to notice yet. After my third trip out to the car to (swill down as much vodka as I could to suppress the anxiety) get smokes, phone, whatever excuse it was, she busted me cold. I don't think I can describe the look, but if you drink like I do, you've seen it. A normal person sees someone, some "thing", that their face kind of recoils in bewilderment/disgust/pity/horror all at the same time. If you're lucky like I was, you get some grace and they ask WTF is wrong and how is it possible that a person like you could do this? If you're also lucky and have a moment of honesty because you know exactly who you are, you blurt out the words "I'm an alcoholic and I need some help sobering up so I can get to a meeting ASAP. I can't live like this." I knew what to do and I knew where to go. The jig was up. I was defeated, thank God. No telling how long it could've gone on. The anxiety, sweats, shakes, vomit, excuses, mind fuckery, lack of peace, no sleep, loneliness, hopelessness, bitterness, worry, fear, anger, isolation, finger pointing, resentment, hollow eyes, empty soul, and gut rot would have continued until I died or I had another moment to take action. We never know if it will come again. I got mine and couldn't let it pass by. The ride has gone faster and smoother than the first time because I quit expecting anything. I let go. I've found complete and total surrender. I know who I am and I know what afflicts me. I am cool with both. I'm just a guy who has a different view and experience of life than most, but I'm not alone. I've seen the only thing worse than hell, complete darkness, but I made it back to the light. I am one of the lucky ones. I'm alive. Grateful for all of you on this board and for the fellowship I get to share with folks like me. It's truly a remarkable life worth living. If any of you out there are lurking, the scariest part of this deal is making the call or walking in to ask for help. There's plenty of help out there with some cool people you never knew existed. I hope you find the peace you need without eating a bullet or dying a slow lonely death. The only constant is change, why not try it? Much love.

The longer you wait, the more political it is. I understand you only get one shot at this, but you also don't get to choose the perfect shot when it comes to the President blatantly running train on Congressional hearings/testimony/investigations. After Cohen testifies in Feb. and you have evidence that the President obstructed, you go. This can't be seen as a game and I don't think the Senate R's believe D's have the balls to stand up and do the right thing. R's see it as wholly political (I get that it is not a criminal proceeding), but you have to administer it as a function of necessary oversight and to carry out the duties you're sworn to do.

It's not a hard playbook to decipher. What's fucked up is that it works, and has for years. The easiest job in the world is a Republican political consultant or content maker. Find the biggest lie, say it in a different/clever way, and repeat it over and over. Fucking rubes eat that shit up and it becomes truth.

There's that too, but once there were tapes.... Don't worry though. I'm positive there will be an effort to discredit the emails, tapes, and bank records as fake news.

That's the point of all of these leaks. The Manafort stuff from last week where they "accidentally" forgot to properly redact the new charges against him. Now with this Cohen bomb coming from law enforcement officials. More than likely from the FBI office in NY that was giving Rudy info during the campaign because of their Hillary hatred. The only saving grace and why the Mueller report is so important is that he has the money trail, emails, and tapes. It's going to take hard evidence because Trump and his folks do a masterful job of sewing doubt and continuing the chaos.

I'm trying to not spoil it, but it's fucking happening! I had to wait until we played a top team to believe again. It's been years of beatdowns, let downs, and tight defensive play and it was going to take me while to dip my toe in the belief waters. The boys have been given license to show their ability and play the way they grew up playing in the youth system. Happy days are here again and Chelsea, Spurs, and Arsenal should be shitting themselves about making the top 4. Come on United!

He may have been stopped before, but I doubt this super idea that he came up with al on his own is going away anytime soon. That's a storm the gates of the WH move if he tries to do it. Then again, there have been many storm the gates moments and will be more, but here we are, waiting for the rule of law to play out.

Bullshit. It shows that two-tiered medical systems work quite well all over the 1st world and Rand and his "Death Panels" ilk are nothing but fear mongering hypocrites. Fair criticism.

He can't cut a deal on state charges. He resigns, his bogus business empire is fucked and he has no protection again the state pen. Unless he's planning on fleeing the country, which I think is his only out in the long run, he has to keep his position as POTUS. It's the only thing keeping his family out of jail and the money flowing into the coffers right now.

No shit Matt. You didn't want the thing to get buried in the GOP obstruction machine? I love that he calls the shit Gowdy, Nunes, and their ilk were doing oversight. Overseeing the suppression of evidence and collaborating with the WH. These fucking clowns all realize there is going to be record of this. History will not be kind, but he does have a way with words.

I have to believe for my own sanity and based on the congressional election results that this is true. We shall see. I'm a semi-reformed early Brisketeer, but not fully converted to believe we are a strong/smart enough country. Long term diagnosis is still out. Thank God the information keeps slowly coming out and that Muller has more time to get to deep dark holes of the money/hacking/manipulation.

Still no smoking gun. Trump himself didn't take the meeting so there's no way he knew about it. He's not smart enough...er he's too smart..er he's too honest to know anything about a meeting like that. Manafort was just a rogue agent looking to help himself and his old client. You guys and your wild crazy conspiracies because you can't help your hatred for Hillary losing. I can't help myself and can hear the "never going to be anything to see here" crowd now. Any sane person who has been following this, i.e. the folks that read this thread, can easily piece together from all the circumstantial evidence that the Manafort/Foreign Policy/Data side of the campaign was done in conjunction with help/data/hacked material to and from the Russians. This is only from the evidence that is out in public. If we are already at this point, I can't imagine how easy it will be for Muller to put together a case for people who still believe in facts.

She seems like the type of unhinged third party/special interest candidate that has spent most of her life devoted to a cause/injustice that finally just snapped and said, "fuck it, consequence be damned, burn it all down."

Ha! Fair enough, he is smart enough to speak in complete, albeit sometimes moronic, sentences however. He also has managed not to choke on anything while spending his entire life breathing through his mouth.

You are correct about Manafort, he is an operator who was specifically hired to do this job. It's not like he just stumbled into the campaign because he was cheap and needed a job because he could count votes at the convention like the cover story says. He's had an apartment in Trump tower for years and was known as Yanukovych's guy. Stone is a buffoon, but he's not reckless. He knew the stolen emails came from Russian and he worked to make sure the release of them was timed correctly. He's been in the game his entire life and knows what he was doing was wrong, but never thought he'd get caught. Don't forget that he was communicating with Assange, a known Russian asset, to facilitate all of it. Sure Jr. was an easy mark and amateur, but he was fucking thrilled to invite Russians to his dads office to get the dirt on Hillary. He's not that fucking stupid to think, "hey, this might not be a good idea to use an enemy of the United States to help us win an election." That shit doesn't fly and Trump's attempt cover it up on AF1 about adoptions makes it pretty clear they knew what he did was wrong. All of them. You forget that you had Flynn on the campaign, who is no amateur either who just happened to be at the dinner with Jill Stein before the campaign began. The judge just recently called him a fucking traitor to his face. This isn't some rag tag bunch of misfits like you want to claim. They may be dumbasses for thinking they could get away with it, but they sure as shit knew what the fuck they were doing. You may be right about Sessions, but he knew they meeting was wrong or he wouldn't have lied about it so many times. You don't lie if you aren't hiding something. No fucking clue what Page is all about. You conveniently forget the server in Trump Tower communicating with Alfa-Bank in Moscow during the election, Eric Prince and his meeting in the Seychelles with Russians, Trumps decades long attempts to build Trump Moscow, and his relationships that got him the Miss Universe pageant. This isn't some clown car bullshit that you want to keep throwing out there. I know it's disingenuous shit that you do, just like the "both siding" of every fucking political post on this board. It's like it's your job to minimize everything and sew doubt for the people not really paying attention. You spend way to much time on this board to not know what the hell is actually going on and you're obviously smart enough to know what you are doing and it's bogus. Just own it and fight for what you believe instead of this half ass attempt to sound reasonable. It's so old.

Not arguing that it is always 100%, but it being "a game of telephone" in the post I quoted is way too simplistic. I can agree with you on the 90%+ threshold, that's great. There may be a small amount of details that are wrong, but this guy, at this time, wasn't going to fuck around. Dude spent his career in Russia or collecting contacts in Russia. I'm going to say he probably left out a lot of stuff that was more of the "investigate further" variety than he put in. It should also give skeptics pause that the Republicans who originally hired Steele did so because he is a Russia expert. Obviously it wasn't too big of a secret among NY/political circles that Trump was already bought by Russia.