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UpperWestside

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  1. Do what Vivek Ranadive did with his daughter’s team. Take your findings directly to JJ Redick and get him to play 5 on 4 for 48 minutes. Can’t see what might go wrong.
  2. The highlighted name, Timothy Barton, is an idiot. I saw the name and it rang a bell. I checked something online and sure enough it was the one I remembered. When I was done playing football at SAGU (I was not good and wanted to coach basketball) I became a student assistant on the men's basketball team led by a guy named Scott Vaughan. Vaughan would later be fired by SAGU for refusing to attend church services at an Assembly of God church instead of the charismatic Baptist church he attended. He got the last laugh and has won three NBA titles as a scout for the Warriors and was on the podium in 2022 with the team in Boston. Anyhow this younger Barton tried out for the basketball team. He was not good, AT ALL. I was never shy about my opinions on players. When we voted about which guys would join the roster for that season I gave him a quick no. Everyone on the staff, even myself as a student assistant, got an equal vote on adding players. I had actually voted against a guy that i went to high school with when we took these votes and that was the guy who originally suggested I come to SAGU to play football. Timothy Barton is a terrible basketball player and apparently an even more terrible person. If any of you ever cross paths with him please feel free to ask him about how his aspiring basketball career went at SAGU and then give him two swift kicks in the nuts. If you see his idiot father that poses as a Christian minister and fraudulent historian please kick him square in the face.
  3. AOC is going to be firing off a whole lot of salvos for a good while at these cowards. She is the leader we need, but instead we get an old hunchback who has a foot in the grave and just doesn’t care anymore.
  4. Yeah this is a fun movie. I am not a gore person, at all, but the scenes in this where things go sideways were ridiculously awesome. I only turned away once. They can do a Novocaine 2 and I’d watch it too. Jack Quaid was great in this.
  5. Black Bag. Man this was really enjoyable and it clocked in at 93 minutes. It flowed great and Fassbender and Blanchett had some really good chemistry. I wouldn’t mind seeing them do more movies and have a few of these.
  6. America is the home of the mediocre white man. There's another Schumer just waiting to fill in admirably as the next mediocre white man up if called upon.
  7. I spent 8 and a half years there and he has a light accent, if that, for a New Yorker. I spent a lot of time out on Long Island where the actual New York accents are mostly at, and Jeffries sounds like Walter Kronkite in comparison.
  8. Gonna need to put that order in with the Stoops Penis Orchard. They have a monopoly on them.
  9. He sounds fairly normal to me in how he speaks in tone and cadence. Maybe I’m missing something.
  10. I was never particularly good at fighting. Probably more Jerry Cooney than Iron Mike Tyson. What I have always been good at is taking punches. I think it just goes back to always playing sports and getting the tar knocked out of me playing football. Punches never hurt. I say that to say that yes if you are in a situation that gets heated don’t give in and throw punches or pull out a weapon trying to go all John Wick on someone. Take your cue from John Lewis and show up and dare someone to violently attack you just by being there. I would love to see more of this from Democrats, but too many near the top of the pyramid are entrenched and just aren’t interested. I find it humorous that three of the Democrats willing to be vocal and not back down in AOC, Ilhan Omar and Jasmine Crockett are all small in stature, but they each never stop pushing back against fascists. These are the people I want leading among a few others. Jeffries can kick rocks. Just a free healthcare and paycheck collecting fraud.
  11. I can’t wait to try and sell this one on my boss that when I ask for a day off that that means I’ll see you next year because Congress said so. 2025 is just one long day now. I am sure it will go over well getting the year off.
  12. If only South Korea’s leader would write a nice letter expressing how much he loves TFG like the benevolent 18 Time NBA ALL STAR and reigning Olympic Champion in the 100M in charge up north. All would be well.
  13. Udoh will get the snaps in the backfield, but Rigdon can get on the field early on ST. I don't really follow recruiting at all but looking through the list of guys that Dillingham signed, as well as the transfers, looks like a group that will be playing for a shot at another conference championship this coming season.
  14. John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush and George Henare star in this film from New Zealand. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Lithgow playing a Kiwi that has an extremely dark side to him. His accent isn’t perfect, but he grasped it fairly well. Lithgow is an all-time favorite for me and this is him at his best. Some actors just do films at his age to make money, but you can tell he was enjoying playing this character. Kinda reminds me that I’d also never put a relative in a care facility. Rush and Henare are both very good, especially Rush as he deals with no longer being in charge as a judge.
  15. I have strayed from calling them Nazis because this movement comprised of the dumbest people imaginable resembled fascism more to me a few years back more than anything else. The fealty to Hirohito has a stark resemblance to how MAGA acts toward Dotard as well. The difference with our fascism and the one most referenced of Italy in the 20’s-early 40’s is we have a gigantic capacity for industry as to where Italy’s industrial output was meager straight through. That doesn’t even get into all the other host of issues Mussolini had with the king, church etc. It’s all just so ridiculous that historians and authors decades from now will no doubt just devote entire books to the stupidity of it all.
  16. Ruffalo was very over the top, but that was the point I think. Pattinson was stellar in his role though and his character went through a complete arc emotionally. He makes this worth watching. I never saw him in any of the Twilight movies. He’s been fun to watch in the movies I have seen him in. The guy can act. Also the aliens were cool. Would’ve enjoyed seeing more of them.
  17. It’s incredible to see others picking up the slack for our government. There are always going to be people in this world willing to go to bat against tyranny and oppression that value the lives of others more than their own. Those are people I have unwavering respect for. The guerrilas in The Philippines cared more about others than themselves during the Japanese occupation. The underground resistance in Europe cared more about others than themselves during the German occupation. If we want Americans we can look at Harriet Tubman, Julian Bond, John Lewis, all of the Freedom Riders and Dr. King. The one thing these people all share in common is that they cared more about others than themselves. When a society loses that characteristic they have lost their moral compass. That is the point we are at right now. I am not trying to sound the alarm because that went off long ago, but rather to bring a little perspective to the type of person you might want to emulate as we all go forward. You do the good you are capable of for others while you can.
  18. Albert Burneko is one of my favorite Defector writers. Doesn’t matter if it’s this article or the sports posts. Guy is talented at what he does.
  19. At a certain point it just has to be realized that this is who Russia is. How many times have we had people just on this site trying to remind us that this is who that country is. Hundreds of years of being ruled by strongmen (and women) has made them EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE. This is not to mean every individual Russian goes along with how they are as a society and country. I have a friend that is an American citizen now, but she grew up in Russia. She does not really identify with any of these normalized Russian values of hate and degradation. This is who Russia is and I applaud Europe for finally at least taking a stand politically. Now they'll likely have to back that up with military force at some point because dictators like Putin only understand power through a show of force. That is something I hope does not happen, but Europe has had so many wars in its history that you can just not rule out anything with so many different cultures and countries having to agree on what to do here.
  20. He'll have to fight whatever is left of Bill Snyder's family for it.
  21. And not one of those cowards said a thing. Just roast them. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
  22. I find this fascinating that people are still getting reeled into an obvious scam and think this will end in any other way than a very small few making off with the money of the 99 percent of morons who didn’t want to admit they were being scammed. Kinda fun to watch in an odd sort of way.
  23. Few Americans from that time are more deserving. Truly a horror show of a human being.
  24. Lancaster was some good memories for me. They have had Coach Doug aka “Coach Snoop” for almost two decades. Years ago I volunteered as a basketball coach and the first year I went to Lancaster to scout Hutch because they were a district opponent for us. Hutch got roasted as I recollect, but they were tough. I would also posit most of the women from Hutch would wipe the floor with Perkins.
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