Bevo

That actually sounds like a good plan.

$1000?

Tough game. Can y'all donate some offensive linemen to Houston?

How old was Nicole at the time?

Don't care much about the game but the announcing was a beating. If I was a Penn State fan, I would be fucking pissed.

S. Korea is a very, very big weapons supplier. And I think I could kick Steven Seagal's ass.

Now they pass every down. Great way to run the clock. Dumbasses

So shitty. That was a personal foul.

True. When he has time to think, he fucks it up - like the timeout and then the pass on 4th and 2. I’ve seen him do they kind of shit throughout the year.

That was a hold.

Amazed how few penalties we have seen. It is in stark contrast to our games.

Only partly true - also tax laws, wage rates, unions (anti-robotics)... Manufacturing and R&D isn't very profitable but marketing and sales are. Lots of reasons behind the move.

Yeah, it is an easy decision for a dictator. They don't give a shit about their people unless the people give them money or power. If the people cost money or jeopardize power, then they are a nuisance at best.

She's faking it!

Yeah, I found that interesting. He was terrible when he was in.

She does address it in her book. Many of the accounts were from a small number of sources.

Just turned it on in Prime

And I don’t take offense. I’m curious because I’m Jewish and wonder if he wasn’t treated fairly early on because he was an outsider and not a true Catholic and maybe at other times in history because he was Catholic and not Protestant. Maybe his strong faith that he showed outwardly was a ruse. And now there is a totally different prejudice because people are very anti-imperialism and have a disdain towards how people treated the indigenous. For me it is just a theory that may or may not be supported by evidence.

Read up on Carol Delaney. She could be wrong but she is an expert.

It seems like no one here really cares. Here is a short opinion piece on him done before we learned he was Spanish and Jewish. I wonder if some of the criticism of him was because of religion or ethnicity. I find it crazy that one of the most well-known figures in American history may not be well-known at all and different prejudices and preconceived notions of him over the ages have colored opinions. OPINION Opinion/Delaney: Shedding light on the real Christopher Columbus Carol Delaney Carol Delaney, of Providence, is professor emerita at Stanford University. Columbus Day is coming soon, but so many people want to get rid of it or replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. I think the latter is a good idea but not as a replacement for Columbus Day. Most people know very little about the man and are blaming him for things he did not do and defacing or destroying statues of him. Until the fall of 1999 I, too, knew very little about him except that “in 1492 he sailed the ocean blue.” At that time I was teaching a class at Stanford called “Millennial Fever” to look at the frenzy over the turn of the millennium. In one of the readings for the class there was a small footnote that mentioned Columbus’ apocalyptic, millennial beliefs. I had never heard of them nor had any historians whom I asked. But I was intrigued. Thus began many years of research that resulted in my book, “Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem.” Despite the title, he was not attempting to sail to Jerusalem but instead to reach the Grand Khan of China. There he hoped to set up a trading post like Marco Polo. The profits from that endeavor were to be used to finance a crusade to wrest Jerusalem back from the Muslims before the end of the world. This motive is in Columbus’s writings and his agreement with Queen Isabella. Jerusalem had to be in Christian hands so Christ could come again to save all believers, and Columbus felt not many years were left. When he encountered the natives, he wanted them to be saved as well, and he kept asking Isabella to send more priests to teach and baptize the natives so they, too, would be saved. The Santa Maria went aground on the first voyage. So after making friends with the natives, especially the chief, Guacanagari, he had to return to get a rescue ship. He left 39 men behind with strict orders that they respect and obey Guacanagari, that they not go marauding and raping. Isabella sent him back with 17 ships and hundreds more men. A gruesome site awaited them — all 39 men were dead and spread out on the beach. The incoming sailors wanted revenge on Guacanagari but Columbus said no. He learned that the men had gone against his orders, went marauding to another group of natives and that group came and killed them. He remained friends with the chief but had a difficult time with the incoming men. The next time he returned to Spain he became a lay Franciscan monk and is said to have worn the robes for the rest of his life. Columbus the monk! Whoever heard of this? He never had a slave, but Las Casas, who has become known as a “defender of the Indians,” not only had slaves but two encomiendas (large ranches) that were worked by slaves. Finally, it is not really accurate to call him the “discoverer” of America, since the only thing he felt he had discovered was the western ocean route to China. While in the new world he was often off sailing, still trying to find the Grand Khan. Nevertheless, I think we need to acknowledge Columbus Day, for he was the one who opened the route to what we know as the “new world.”

It is easy to wire them money, but it was terrible for them to wire me money. And after all the verifications, I trusted the software system, but with the phone call, I would need to hang up on the caller, look up the title company's number and then call them back. The phone call seems like it adds a redundancy that could cause issues rather than solve them. As for the software, once I linked up their system with my bank, if there was fraud, that would be the weak link. The software could have pulled every dollar from my account like the movie The Beekeeper and I couldn't have done shit about it. Once I decided to allow that, transferring money into it was a non-issue.

I was so pissed at my title company earlier this week. We had wired them escrow and they needed to wire it back to us. They gave me the digital link. It required two level verification. Then it needed a drivers license uploaded front and back with the bar code. Then it verified the documents. Then it needed the info to log into my bank account which required a password and pin and two level verification. Then it automatically connected the two accounts and showed and verified the routing number. The following day I received a call from the escrow company asking me to verify all the info. including the routing number. I told them that we already did everything electronically and the message stated that the funds would automatically be transferred as we were notified by their software that the automatic method was preferred over the manual method. They stated that there has been a lot of fraud and that they verify all transactions by phone. I said, "Well I'm at work and I don't carry my bank routing information on me". The lady then said that she could overnight the check. Fuck, why the hell didn't you just do that to start with instead of making me waste 45 minutes online and then verifying by call the next day?