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UpperWestside

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  1. This has been a fun game tonight. Micah Alejado was just shy of 300 yards passing at halftime for the Rainbow Warriors. He is a bunch of fun to watch in-person. He is way better than this level of football.
  2. Knew this was an L the moment they announced Leavitt would not play. Good thing I can just go watch the Rainbow Warriors play instead of sitting through that.
  3. Have you met Bobby Hurley? He has held his job for ELEVEN SEASONS at ASU. I mean it defies any rational logic that he is still the head basketball coach. I think he gets fired this year, but I mean a dozen wasted seasons for Bobby Hurley?
  4. That Israel will just not let the Palestinians live in peace is infuriating. You would think seeing 6 million plus people of Jewish descent perish in World War II would be the thing that leads the Jews to attempt to find ways to connect with their neighbors and live a peaceful existence alongside them. Instead they have gone full on "we've got bigger and badder weapons and we'll kill Palestinians anytime we feel like it because there are no consequences for anything we do to them." It's sickening to me and I think most of the world that is watching the Palestinians civilians suffer so mightily.
  5. Just remember that Bitcoin IS CLEARLY NOT A SCAM. I cannot believe there are people on this site who actually think it's legit. How little intelligence do you have to possess to realize it's a scam? One of the more baffling things that has happened. I hope everyone here that tries to buy that garbage goes broke and lives in a van down by a river that has run completely dry.
  6. Some schools really do not need football. Just close up shop and stop letting this happen. Nothing at all is gained in this.
  7. The soundtrack was really cool. Bridges and his appearance were well done. He's aged well and seeing him as part of a long since forgotten part of the computer universe was nice. I think it'd be great to be able to operate one of those bikes. They looked like all kinds of fun. This film deserves to win something for the music. The rest is not really memorable other than you know there will be more of these films. I'm alright with that as it was couple of hours of enjoyment in a 4DX 3D screening.
  8. An entire lineup of idiots. Honest to God all I do is laugh every single time I see this stuff. He could get up there and say he has a massive dong and they'd all applaud and smile.
  9. Anyone with a functioning brain knew he got ZERO consideration for it. That short press conference gave the answer about him lobbying for the Peace Prize. In the most Scandanavian way possible he was told he does not matter to the people in the room who make the decision on the winner. The short speech given about why Ms. Machado won it was pushback to dictators and fascists and governments that do not support democracy. He'll be right on it in two weeks.
  10. I'll also posit that we don't see much else about war with Venezuela. Regime being deposed means Ms. Machado can come out of hiding and be democratically elected as their president. Going to guess TFG doesn't want to see her on the world stage as a head of state. His narcissism wouldn't be able to handle it, at all.
  11. And the 2nd question was about TFG campaigning and saying he deserves the award. Yeah they shot him down pretty nicely with the response. He just doesn't matter to the people in the room making the decision.
  12. Lost to a Venezuelan woman...Oh his tweets about this and losing to an Hispanic woman at that.
  13. Who could’ve guessed he would do this on a national level. TFG is the most on-brand thief that our country has ever had.
  14. @Macanudo These stories I feel have been overlooked when it comes to remembering the history of that day. It is the individual stories of the witnesses that still bring these events to life. Thank you for sharing that. I am glad that I am able to chart a career path that will involve the war heavily in anything I do until I kick the bucket. I want to hear as many stories as possible from the few survivors left front at time as well as their families that know them. One of my main goals is to be able to get to talk with people in New Guinea, Kiribati, The Solomons, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Guam etc about the experiences of their families during the war. Those stories are not near as well documented and while I understand why it is still a shame more wasn’t written about it the people whose islands were turned into bloody battlefields.
  15. Met a woman today who was on the Big Island on December 7th, 1941. Her recollections of that day as a 9 year old are still as clear in her mind as they were when it happened. She remembered feeling something akin to aftershocks during the bombing. Her brother, then 15 years old, was over at Hickam that morning and saw the Zero pilots flying right above him. He had no idea they were Japanese until someone in uniform pulled him inside to tell him they weren't American planes and they were under attack. She also shared with me about how life changed on all the islands during the war. They had mandatory blackouts at night over on the Big Island, they built bunkers in case of another attack and she vividly recalled carrying a gas mask with her to school every day. A chance meeting like that was not going to happen in New York. I am really thankful she took the time to share that with me today. She barely spoke above a whisper, but she was so sweet to talk to. She had two family members with her. I gave her a fist bump and took a picture with her. Could not have been more gracious to speak with me after I told her why I was in Hawai'i.
  16. Wouldn't the biggest group of fans for Kerr be in Japan? The Iron Claw had people in the US that were familiar with that story. Kerr I had never heard of before this movie. Bad box office numbers aside, it's a pretty good movie and I'll bet several of y'all that wait to watch this at home will enjoy it.
  17. Ty Johnson played his first game for Crean Lutheran after sitting out five games as a transfer from Lampasas. The 4 star WR scored the first two touchdowns for Crean and was able to play in the secondary for the first time in his high school career in a 40-14 win. I think he’s probably enjoying having Caden Jones, a highly recruited 4 star QB, throwing him the football. Crean is 6-0 right now and Johnson is the 2nd highest rated WR in California at the moment. I think he’s a top 15 recruit for the state. It’d be cool to see he and Jones go to the same college.
  18. Optimism? No. I use history as a guide in how I look at the world. He's another bad actor in a world that's been filled to the brim with them throughout the existence of human beings. Like every other fascist government this one will fall as well. They all do. They crash and burn. It's just how much time elapses between now and that point that determines how much destruction they get to bring into being. I don't like using the nazis as a comparison, but it's the easiest to do because it's the version of fascism people remember the most.
  19. Not often that the chance is presented to talk about him. He is wrecking the NBL right now. I follow the league and McGee is doing whatever he wants there. The StonerSportsNetwork commentary is always great. Follow their IG is you want some good laughs on their highlight comments.
  20. Burr can kick rocks for taking money from the Saudis to perform there. What a worthless clown. Actually all of them that performed in Riyadh and took the money are all one and the same.
  21. I feel like Stephen Miller will be the one who gets the longest prison sentence once this eventually ends. The next 2-3 generations will be talking about him the way people talk about Goebbels right now.
  22. Boy did she. He’s trying to get clean and she’s going out and getting drunk. Did lead to a funny scene where he was talking to his sponsor while she was yelling at him.
  23. All of this information used in a presidential campaign in normal times would be sufficient to get the presidency back for the Democrats. We have crossed into fascism though so all of that is as out the window as the Weimar Republic after 1933 or how Japan was before it got hijacked by a bunch of young hotheads in the Imperial Japanese Army who thought greater Asia revolved around them. We are in the midst of fascism getting its roots deeper in the soil at the moment. Yeah that obviously is not a good thing, but we're there now. Using facts and logic to convince 78 million people to see they are being conned will not work. Lies are the currency that works in America in 2025. Again these types of governments do not have lasting power, but Good Lord do they do some lasting damage once they collapse.
  24. I enjoyed it. The Rock really did Mark Kerr justice. The violence of those early fights were just brutal. Emily Blunt was good as well. Annoying a bit at times with the self-centered stuff, but she had good chemistry with him. Having actual fighters portraying the main two opponents was cool too.
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