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Wanted to pick a bone with that statement by GD as well, but I feel like we've gone over it so many times already that there was little point. Nancy Pelosi is formally opening an impeachment inquiry (today?). It seems her party + the latest corruption allegations have swayed her to act.

For whatever reason, Rodgers always plays like a god @Dallas (and hasn't ever lost there, including in his SB win). Hoping that stays the case, .

Too bad pay phones basically don't exist anymore - hard to do actually anonymous tips these days.

Similarly, Packers continue to win ugly games. Still winning, but still not sure if this team is actually for real.

Was taking out some trash very early morning today, and noticed how nice it was, so I decided to take a short walk. A few minutes later, I noticed that two creeps seemed to be following me around, decided to take a sudden turn into somebody's driveway and book it through their yard and hide around a corner there to see if they were actually following me. They were, though I wasn't able to discern exactly why. They reversed course back where they'd just been coming from once they realized they lost me after some looking around. This area has a problem with methheads and alcoholics, and I'm sure that it was a very early Sunday morning/very late Saturday night played into it. Guess I need to start bringing more than just a strong flashlight on walks now. (e): wordz

HoonDing's probably thinking "a job well done" there.

I'm being more cautious than most. The last two games have been pretty darned close (1-score games where we needed end-zone interceptions to essentially seal them - we could very easily be 0-2 now), so I expect this to be a relatively even game as well until our offense starts really proving otherwise. The beginning of seasons can be weird - some teams will often rattle off a few wins before falling off a cliff, while teams that started slow often self-correct and start to pick up steam. We'll have a better idea of who the actually good teams are in two weeks (not including the Patriots, of course).

I mean...not really, but maybe under certain/extreme circumstances? If I thought a person were advocating for and advancing some actually evil ideas and policies, the fact that it's over politics is kind of irrelevant, isn't it? I'm hardly likely to shed a tear for Duterte when he goes, for example, seeing as he has advocated for murdering people in the streets during his presidency, and that's over a matter of "politics". Being glad someone is gone is also not the same as being glad if they were murdered or something - as much as I despise Trump on a political and personal level, for example, I certainly do not want him to be murdered for a variety of reasons. I don't know specifically about David Koch, but I'm less concerned with the specific individual than I am with understanding your general reasoning here.

Packers also 2-0 after two ugly wins. Any kind of win > any kind of loss (...outside of pyrrhic victories, I guess), but that 21-0 start made me think we were gonna blow the Vikings out.

I just watched It (2017) the other day and also thought it was a literally laughable mess that wasn't scary at all. Don't understand how it got the ratings it did, but everything I've heard about the second is that it's the same but worse.

I'm not feeling great about it, either - thankful it's at home and that we probably won't be snapping the ball with 0 on the playclock every snap like we were against the Bears (which is quite often disastrous for our offensive line play because the defense knows when the snap is and seems to get them into a wrecking rhythm). Really wish that little "facet" of our offense from years past had been solved.

Yeah, not saying that he did it...but holy cow, the amount of drama with this guy over the past few weeks makes other notable drama queens look like lightweights in comparison.

It (2017). It (ha!) was kind of bad. Almost everything felt off with this movie, and the horror elements were really comedic - I literally laughed at most of them. No tension or suspense in this one. Everyone except the main kids were unrealistically, gratingly awful, and even the main kids were not that great (and a couple of them I've literally already forgotten). I am shocked this got as much hype as it did.

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Yes.

At this point, he should get into the Hall of Fame for clearly being legendary at keeping all this nonsense under wraps. Just cut from the Raiders, I hope only bad teams are willing to offer him anything, and that it's not even close to what the Raiders gave him.

An early win at your division's reigning champion's home is always a great win, no matter how ugly it may be. We had 19 pressures in that game - a little over double the 9 pressures we had vs. them in two games last year. Those defensive FAs we signed are paying dividends.

In unrelated news, Antonio Brown threatened to punch his GM in the face over a fine because he had been refusing to practice, and is to be suspended as a result. Between signing all the lowest character guys, Gruden, and moving to Las Vegas, I really hope the Raiders are as big of a dumpster fire this season as they seem.

Trump accidentally claimed that Hurricane Dorian was going to strike somewhere it's not. Instead of going "whoops" and everyone forgetting it, he took an official projected path map and sharpied over it and tried to pass it off as official. vs. It is difficult for me to understand the man that thinks that this sort of thing will somehow come across as better than just saying "oops, I was wrong" and literally everyone forgetting within 48 hours tops. Or more likely from him, saying nothing at all and pretending it never happened. But to double down on such a flagrantly stupid thing... lmao

Steven Universe: The Movie. It was goofy and good and the ending was sort of paced all over the place, but given how unreasonably excited for it I was (which I refuse to get about virtually anything because of how frequently I am disappointed), I was happy with it.

Why am I all of a sudden struck by frightful visions of a certain hedgehog of the spellcasting variety...

I watched Beauty and the Beast as sort of a "meme watch" with a friend. I knew that I was in for a bad time in the opening moments of the film where I learned that Emma Watson couldn't...err...well, it's not quite that she can't sing at all, but it was immediately obvious that she certainly should've never been picked for a musical role, much less the protagonist of one. It really only got worse from there. At least it gave us the Lindsay Ellis video on it.

His own wife's message was "your candidate might be better, but my husband is the one that will actually win". A whole lot of shades of "It's Her Turn" going on there.

First top-rated poll that has anyone (Sanders) ahead of Biden, though it's on a knife's edge and certainly within the margin of error. Notable that the last time Monmouth polled, Biden was way ahead of the rest of the field at about 32 - a 13 point drop is rather insane. But polls are polls, . (e); numberz

Yeah, they're whatever. Stop bothering if you know they're not for you - that's what I did, . Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). Yes, that's the name of the film. Quite possibly the slowest movie I've ever seen and that I will ever see in my entire life. Clocking in at nearly 3 and a half hours, this film features zero camera movement - no panning or zooming of any kind, thereby moving only through hard cuts in between some ridiculously long single takes - and more or less just shows the daily routine of a mother going through her chores. There were a lot of really nice things about this film, including the aesthetic, the unique filming style, the main character portrayal, the presumed themes and symbology...but it kind of overstayed its welcome for me. I can easily see this being a great deal many people's "most boring film of all time" for how indulgently slow and long it is on top of how few events of typical movie noteworthiness happen (there's just about exactly one scene like that, actually, and it's arguably the weakest scene of the movie). Overall, it was more of an...interesting see than a necessarily strictly enjoyable one, but that's just me.