Gromnir

wtf? seriously, wtf? anybody else lies to federal prosecutors, impedes a Congressional investigation and threatens witnesses with murder and it not matter if is mueller or some random oil pipeline investigation or fed free-range abuse case 'cause the d-bag is going to prison for such crimes once convicted. what the hell do you mean by distinguishing 'tween protecting trump and criminal acts? the criminal acts were not obscure and stone sure as hell knew what he were doing could be criminalized. weren't some archaic bit o' legal mumbo jumbo which resulted in conviction o' otherwise benign behaviour. what is with some of you people? stone got sentence commuted 'cause he didn't rat out trump. period. commuted sentence was a reward for staying loyal to the don. the day his sentence were commuted, stone public stated how much easier it would have been if he had cut a deal with feds. how can you be ok with that? ... honestly, what is wrong with some of you? this is not normal. this should not just be another trump moment. btw, this corrupt BS couldn't happen in south africa preciscely 'cause your constitution prohibits such nonsense... and you still don't see a problem? am disappointed in you bruce.

funny part may be it has taken so long to see big pharma getting villain role. is a bit transparent mercenary, but writers o' movies and tv know it is good to sell villains who scare their audiences as 'posed to picking villains who scared the parents and grandparents o' the audience. anticipate future villains is what good scifi does, but such is rare even in the genre. HA! Good Fun!

don't be like vol. take an extreme example and somehow makes it emblematic o' an entire group is wrong, and you know it. is tragic how popularity o' fox news proved it were commercial viable to sell modern mass media as a product which were meant to not only resonate with a particular viewpoint, but to further polarize. fox model had competing organizations dueling to out conservative or out liberal each other to appeal to their respective audiences. fox did what were obvious in retrospect and sold people news as the audience wished it to be. unfortunate, the alternative facts culture has become less fringe with each passing year. viewpoint news were hardly new in US history, but viewpoint history as some kinda packaged and sellable commodity is... well, ok, that ain't new either. difference is the speed with which stuff is available and proliferates. am pretty certain gd wouldn't have used the link to the racist puke promoting greater access to guns and ammo if he knew more 'bout the kid's credentials, but in today's world, who can keep up with such stuff? history and facts is viewpoint specific? no, but you wouldn't realize that truth if your only experience were the internet. armed with google and a bit o' free time, you can always find a dissenting opinion on any historical issue. is why @Hurlshot and his observation 'bout teachable moments is so important. when faced with angry, stoopid and ignorant, responding with anger and indignation is not gonna be helpful if you wanna bring 'bout education. teachable moments we suspect hurl references is not like how board issues play out, thank goodness. the holocaust survivor who is confronted by holocaust denialism gains little by raging at the offender and sending 'em a text with links to a half-dozen holocaust history sites. "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." turn holocaust into some kinda viewpoint battle does not promote education. regardless, @Guard Dog, be better than vol. HA! Good Fun!

gd sounds much like an early 20th century marxist. what marx followers got wrong were the inevitability o' collapse. self-defeating prophecy. the capitalists woke up in time, thanks in part to marx, and made just enough changes so revolution were anything but inevitable. maybe some folks wanna argue revolution and rebuild woulda' been better, but such is a different issue altogether. fact is the collapse were not a certitude in spite o' fact obstacles to change and scope o' threat were far more dire than those we face today. am not being dismissive o' 2020 debt growth and income inequality problems. contrary. situation is worse than many wanna pretend. am so inexplicable frustrated by those who saw recent years as some kinda economic boom w/o recognizing how underlying problems were getting worse at an alarming rate. Gromnir is precise the guy who were making money these past few years and even we can see how paying off debt with more debt is not sustainable... and use cooked unemployment numbers don't actual make employment situation better, particular when in decades past a single minimum wage earner were enough for statistic average sized family to survive in the USA. etc. predictions o' doom is not misplaced. many problems. many enormous problems. gd reads history, so he should be aware we has stood at the edge o' the abyss many times. pretend as if this time we is safe 'cause we escaped doom all those other times is foolish. similar, presume doom is inevitable in spite o' all the other past certain collapses is equal naive from our pov. serious, US social and economic cataclysms is a bit like a buffy universe apocalypses-- they happen all the time. HA! Good Fun!

Americans’ Aversion to Mask-Wearing Is Holding Back the Economy apologies for msn link, but bloomberg is paywall, yes? "Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan said Friday that U.S. growth would be faster if all Americans wore masks. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates a national mask mandate could prevent the U.S. from losing almost 5% of its gross domestic product." no shirt, no shoes, no mask, no service. @Guard Dog if nixon were covering for fact ford were the real mastermind behind the watergate break-ins and obstructionist actions which followed, you would have a point. ford were committing political suicide, but he didn't want to see the nation torn apart by the partisan p00p show which woulda' followed if nixon were convicted. ford's pardon were against self interest. HA! Good Fun!

have mentioned on these boards how there is few things dumber than a university student in their first couple years. just enough education to convince selves they have answers to all the big problems w/o any kinda life experience or wisdom to temper their profound ignorance. that said, collective (not individual) we like university underclassman and don't mind their mind blowing stoopid. those morons is just learning to ask questions and they demand answers. fact they ain't earned answers and is often asking wrong questions don't stop 'em, and am thinking that is a good thing. is young, stoopid and unreasonable who change the world 'cause older folks and educated folks is actual reasonable... reasonableness is the death o' all social progress. collective we applaud the brobdingnagian stoopid college underclassmen who improbably and against all odds has carried the nation into the future more than once. individually... individually, dealing with a university underclassmen who has taken a couple classes and now thinks they know is a kinda personal nightmare. aside: am not getting the folks dismissive o' the stone commutation. stone's crimes were covering Presidential dirt. stone were convicted o' covering for the President. but for curious doj memo which states a sitting President cannot be charged with federal criminal in time of office, the stone conviction would be an obvious first step in prosecuting trump for lying to muller... and lying to fed investigators is what were breaking point for many during the clinton investigations. have never had a President commute sentence or Pardon an individual for covering up same President's dirt. is corrupt. is, at common law, abuse of power. however, Pardon power o' the President, regardless o' what pelosi says, is unbounded and may not be limited by a Congressional act-- is no law Congress may pass to prevent same happening in future... and this is exact among the examples given by framers as to why impeachment is vital. hopefully voters will do what Congress cannot. "legal" and "corrupt" is not mutual exclusive terms. such an observation is not directed at gd, but have heard pundits mention how President has legal authority to pardon stone, as if such recognition makes the act less odious. legal should never be read as "right." HA! Good Fun! ps for many years our board signature were as follows: "the reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- george bernard shaw. shaw woulda' been just as annoyed as is Gromnir with ignorant and unreasonable, but am nevertheless recognizing how our hopes for future may hinge on those clowns.

... yes. ... you did see where stone threatened witnesses, yes? hell, not only did stone threaten to have persons killed if they would testify 'gainst him, but he threatened to torture one guy's dog as well... and though the threat o' violence 'gainst animals is a trivial thing at law, am certain gd feels different. HA! Good Fun!

Forecasts of Total Deaths significant variation in models result in predictions of anywhere between 140k-160k deaths by august 1. also, "The state-level ensemble forecasts suggest that the number of new deaths over the next four weeks in Arizona, Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and West Virginia, will likely exceed the number reported over the last four weeks. For other states, the number of new deaths is expected to be similar to the number seen in the previous four weeks or to decrease slightly." given uptick in cases and positivity rate, am surprised CA is not on the list. case numbers is less concerning to us than is hospitalizations and positivity rates. am honest not knowing 'bout hospitalization number for CA, a number which is itself misleading as the state is enormous both in terms o' geography and population-- overall numbers may distract from how dire or benign a situation is in many distinct locales. will need check for details. regardless, at least for now, yay CA. recognition: cheer stable death count is admitted a bit perverse. HA! Good Fun!

lindsey graham might disagree with you... well, pre-2016 lindsey. that said, some o' biden's groping incidents is indeed disconcerting. sure, the woman who recent accused biden o' sexual assault turns out to be a pathological liar and habitual mercenary, but biden's past relations with women is indeed worrisome. however, most o' the other nonsense such as burisma is just conspiracy theory fodder. which brings us to today... Trump commutes longtime friend Roger Stone’s prison sentence roger stone. roger stone? please recall why stone were convicted... previously linked: To put into context the events surrounding the sentencing of Mr. Stone, it is important to provide some background on the case itself and the basis for the charges that Mr. Stone obstructed and lied to Congress. I want to emphasize that in describing the proceedings against Mr. Stone that set the stage for his sentencing, I have limited myself to materials and filings that are a matter of public record, including the testimony at Mr. Stone’s trial. Roger Stone is a longtime friend and associate of President Trump. In the summer of 2016, Stone was considered by the Trump campaign to be the campaign’s access point to WikiLeaks. Throughout the summer and fall, Stone was in regular contact with the highest levels of the Trump campaign, which was relying on him for information about Wikileaks’s activities. Beginning in spring 2016, Stone told senior Trump campaign officials that he had inside knowledge regarding WikiLeaks’s plans, and that he communicated with Julian Assange. Stone made these claims throughout the summer to Deputy Campaign Chairman Rick Gates, Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, and Campaign CEO Steve Bannon. These men believed his claims, and they sought information from Stone about what WikiLeaks would do to help the Trump campaign. Moreover, as the summer wore on, the senior leadership found Stone’s predictions to be reliable. Manafort instructed Gates to keep in touch with Stone regarding WikiLeaks so that he could keep then-candidate Trump updated on Stone’s information. And the senior level of the Trump campaign began brainstorming a press strategy based in part on Stone’s predictions of a WikiLeaks release of documents that would be damaging to the Clinton campaign. That summer, Stone reached out to both Manafort and Bannon, telling Manafort that Stone had a “plan to save Trump’s ass.” And in August 2016, Stone told Bannon he knew how to “win but this ain’t pretty.” Bannon responded, “let’s talk ASAP.” In this same time period, Stone also publicly bragged that he had a backchannel to Julian Assange, and “therefore I am a recipient of pretty good information.” On Friday, October 7, 2016, WikiLeaks began dumping into the public domain thousands of emails which the Russian government had hacked from Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta’s personal email account. Minutes after WikiLeaks began releasing the hacked emails, one of Trump campaign CEO Bannon’s aides texted Stone, “well done.” That weekend, Campaign CEO Steve Bannon himself heard that Stone was involved in the WikiLeaks release of the hacked emails. And that summer, Stone wasn’t just talking to the CEO, Chairman, and Deputy Chairman of the campaign. He was talking directly to then-candidate Trump himself. On June 14, 2016, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced that it had been hacked earlier that spring by the Russian Government. That evening, Stone called Trump, and they spoke on Trump’s personal line. We don’t know what they said. On July 31, Stone again called then-candidate Trump, and the two spoke for approximately ten minutes. Again, we don’t know what was said, but less than an hour after speaking with Trump, Stone emailed an associate of his, Jerome Corsi, to have someone else who was living in London “see Assange.” Less than two days later, on August 2, 2016, Corsi emailed Stone. Corsi told Stone that, “Word is friend in embassy [Assange] plans 2 more dumps. One “in October” and that “impact planned to be very damaging,” “time to let more than Podesta to be exposed as in bed w enemy if they are not ready to drop HRC. That appears to be the game hackers are now about." Around this time, Deputy Campaign Chairman Gates continued to have conversations with Stone about more information that would be coming out from WikiLeaks. Gates was also present for a phone call between Stone and Trump. While Gates couldn’t hear the content of the call, he could hear Stone’s voice on the phone and see his name on the caller ID. Thirty seconds after hanging up the phone with Stone, then-candidate Trump told Gates that there would be more information coming. Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, also stated that he was present for a phone call between Trump and Stone, where Stone told Trump that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and in a couple of days WikiLeaks would release information, and Trump responded, “oh good, alright.” Paul Manafort also stated that he spoke with Trump about Stone’s predictions and his claimed access to WikiLeaks, and that Trump instructed Manafort to stay in touch with Stone. In his written answers to the Special Counsel’s Office, President Trump denied remembering anything about his conversations with Stone during the summer of 2016, and he denied being aware that Stone had discussed WikiLeaks with anyone associated with the campaign. One week after submitting his written answers, President Trump criticized “flipping” witnesses and stated that Stone was “very brave” in indicating he would not cooperate with prosecutors. The Special Counsel’s Report stated that the President’s statements complimenting Stone “support the inference that the President intended to communicate a message that witnesses could be rewarded for refusing to provide testimony adverse to the President[.]” 2. Stone’s False Testimony to Congress Given that Stone had publicly stated he was in contact with Julian Assange in the summer of 2016, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) called him as a witness in its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The HPSCI investigation sought to understand what Stone knew about WikiLeaks, how he heard about it, and what he told the Trump Campaign. Stone repeatedly lied to the committee about these matters. First, Stone claimed to Congress he didn’t have anything in writing that related to Julian Assange – no emails, texts, documents, or anything at all. In fact, he had hundreds of such communications. Next, Stone lied to Congress about his intermediary to WikiLeaks, insisting that his public statements in August 2016 about an intermediary to Assange referred to Randy Credico – never naming Jerome Corsi, who had told him in August about the game “hackers were about,” and that they planned more dumps, including in October. Stone further testified that he had nothing in writing with his intermediary, and that his intermediary was “not an email guy.” when Stone actually had hundreds of messages with both Corsi and Credico. Lastly, Stone repeatedly lied to the Committee about his contacts with the Trump campaign. Stone testified that he’d never discussed his WikiLeaks intermediary with anyone involved with the Trump campaign. But Stone had extensive discussions involving the information he was receiving about WikiLeaks throughout the summer and fall with Manafort, Gates, Bannon, and Trump. Rather than disclose this information, Roger Stone chose to lie. As Judge Jackson noted at sentencing, those lies hindered the efforts of Congress to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election: Mr. Stone lied, and he said he had no documents, no emails or texts with his claimed intermediary with Julian Assange; no emails or texts with people associated with the campaign concerning his contacts with WikiLeaks. So the committee did not issue a subpoena for the trove of material Stone had in his possession and lost that opportunity to consider them and to delve further. They spent considerable resources and they wasted them going after Credico as the supposed intermediary. They lost the benefit of his testimony when he acceded to pressure from Stone not to testify, and they didn't hear from Corsi, who wasn't identified by Stone at all. This obstruction lead the committee to reach incorrect conclusions about the lack of evidence that would contradict Stone's claims. Judge Jackson also rejected the notion that Stone had been prosecuted “for standing up for the President. He was prosecuted for covering up for the President.” Stone’s criminal conduct did not stop with his lies to the Committee. Following his congressional testimony, Stone embarked on an extended month long campaign of witness intimidation and obstruction of justice targeted at Randy Credico. Stone tried to get Credico to go along with his lie that Credico had been his backchannel to Wikileaks in August 2016. Stone repeatedly told Credico to do a “Frank Pentangeli” – a character in the Godfather Part II, who lies to a congressional committee to save Don Corleone from getting prosecuted for perjury. When Credico refused Stone’s pressure, Stone threatened Credico, telling Credico to “prepare to die.” And Stone promised that if Credico didn’t keep quiet, Stone wouldn’t just ruin Credico’s life, he would ruin the life of Credico’s friend, an attorney, by filing a bar complaint against her. In response to such threats, Credico told HPSCI he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights if called to testify. Then, fearful of what Stone’s associates might do to him, Credico moved out of his house and wore a disguise when going outside. end other Presidents, in the days before they leave office, commute sentences or hand out pardons which may be questionable deserved. this thing with stone is an order o' magnitude different and is done months before an election? won't affect trump base... not at all. HA! Good Fun!

had a slight brain hiccup. with exception o' anchovies, you pretty much listed ingredients o' typical tapenade. am admitting we kinda like sardines, and am knowing they is good for us and all, but am certain we would eat far less if our dogs did not get so much enjoyment licking clean our sardine tins. first couple times we worried they might cut their tongue on the cans, but would appear they have a preternatural tongue deftness which makes 'em immune to such dangers. we like sardines ok. the dogs love sardine tins. we have sardines frequent. HA! Good Fun!

gd will be disappointed. 1) am suspecting any secret worth knowing will get sold to putin and similar. 2) all the real secrets won't be stuff gd thinks o' as conspiracies. us history suggests only time secrets is maintained is if is only a small number o' folks who know truth, or if secret is banal. is gonna be all kinda secrets, but the juicy stuff is just fodder for imagination o' jerry fletcher and gd. HA! Good Fun!

assuming nice horse-friendly dirt roads, which is impassable when is heavy rains, +3 days. assume ~20 miles per day. unlike gd, we has less romanticized notions o' equines. spent a large part o' our youth shoveling horsesh!te. grandfather wanted us to understand horses and guns ain't toys, so he had us spend hundreds o' hours doing care and maintenance o' both to teach us respect... or something. horses is useful tools, but they require a great deal o' care and they is not like big dogs. is there exceptions? sure, but if you want an animal friend, go to the local pound. "if you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. this is the principal difference between a dog and a man."-- mark twain. quote works just as well if you replace "man" with "horse." HA! Good Fun!

quick clarification: on the ridiculous "absolute immunity" claim by the doj regarding a sitting President and criminal actions, the Court were 9-0. am thinking neal is being a little optimistic 'bout the time frame for the ny case, but will be worth watching. could we see trump taxes before november? we wouldn't bet any real money on seeing taxes 'fore the election, but it could happen. regardless, the cases from a practical pov means even if trump were to get reelected, his serious legal troubles would be just getting started. state courts in multiple jurisdictions were watching scotus close on this and the decisions effective declared prosecutors have an open season on trump. one money bet we would take: trump ain't going down as admirable as liam. HA! Good Fun!

had a friend call us up 'bout a year ago, chuckling as she told us she heard us doing vo for her kid's cartoon show. had no idea what she were talking 'bout... claimed we sound just like tarrlok. sent us a couple youtube clips. didn't believe her... didn't sound at all like Gromnir. so she had us read a bunch o' tarrlok lines doing our best to sound like tarrlok, which she recorded and played back to us. ... ok. so we sound like tarrlok... or the pasty-faced vo actor who did tarrlok. whatever. HA! Good Fun!

is not just a toronto thing. hell, even in rural, Gromnir does bike stoopid at times. we live in the foothills-- understatement. am right on border o' sacramento and el dorado county. lotta hills. lotta stop signs right at the top o' a hill. *groan* how many times at 5:30 am has Gromnir not made a complete and full stop at every stop sign on our bike route? too many to recollect. nevertheless, when we see a driver in his luxury suv drive through such intersections at same time o' day, we gets all indignant 'bout how dangerous is such behavior. we see different from pov o' cyclist. serious, there is something 'bout a bike helmet which decreases iq. as bike is a small frame o' metal offering zero protection in case o' collisions, genuine reasonable behaviour would have us being far more careful than auto drivers just because consequences is so much more dire, but cyclists don't see the world reasonable. because autos is able to do more damage, they should be more careful? while cyclists pinball machine their way through stopped traffic at busy city intersections and ignore, with regularity, the most basic rules o' road, the menace is the lady in the mercedes doing her makeup instead o' paying attention to the road. again, is not binary. far too many cyclists routine ignore rules o' road which makes biking more difficult or taxing. is somehow ok 'cause the real menace is auto drivers. *snort* HA! Good Fun! ps 'pon reflection, stop signs at bottom of a hill is worse for Gromnir on bike. am habitual violating stops at bottom o' hill when making a right turn... is American, so no oncoming traffic when making a right. however, am having no idea what is around the corner we take at +30mph at 5:30 am and we nevertheless do such almost daily. is daily stoopid. is the kinda daily stoopid cyclists do all the time w/o considering as menacing. one o' these days, if we hit some old guy walking his pomeranian at 5:30 am as he crosses street a bit before the stop sign from his pov, we will reflect 'pon our dumbness, but am betting tomorrow we do exact same as we has done +4 times a week for years and burn through the stop without more than a slight tap on the brakes.

yes! for chissakes, we drive knowing we is in a vehicle with enormous mass and we drive appropriate. all too many cyclists take hurl's view and obtuse presume they need not be careful 'cause it is Gromnir in the big and dangerous vehicle who should be more aware and cautious. what? is as if putting on a bike helmet squeezes your brains outta your skull. and again, we were hit multiple times when our vehicle were stationary. what 'bout F=ma is so hard to understand? wanna tell us many drivers o' cars and trucks is careless? fine. no argument. is many careless drivers o' cars, but you know that. would think more cyclists would act accordingly. cyclists should be more careful knowing there is careless auto drivers and recognizing they always lose in a auto v. bike confrontation. geez. assume as fact there is many auto drivers who is careless (there is) don't mean cyclists is precluded from being similar or even more careless. is not freaking binary. HA! Good Fun!

7-2, with only alito and thomas rejecting majority, is bad news for mcgahn btw. sure, mcghan situation is not same and there is unique issues o' law, but is hard to read, "the Constitution does not entitle the president to absolute immunity or a heightened standard," and not see such as warning o' things to come. 'course given the rate at which Courts move, we will never see trump taxes anyways. will soon be moot. HA! Good Fun!

'cause homelessness, like crime, is one o' those issues some folks wanna fix with a police baton as 'posed addressing causes (at least in the case o' crime) such as, but not limited to, poverty, social/economic discrimination, and lack of education. homelessness, perhaps surprising to many, is a temporary condition for the majority o' those who suffer-- less than 6 months is actual average duration for more than 50% o' US homeless population. the rest includes significant numbers o' children, military veterans and the mentally ill. crime rates is indeed higher 'mongst homeless, until you look at crimes committed. disturbing number o' resisting arrests with underlying crime amounting to contempt o' cop or vagrancy. oh, and violence against homeless should be a bigger concern. homeless women, in particular, is disproportionate victims o' violent crime. oh and complete unrelated, but cyclists is a menace. haven't been in a moving vehicle accident in years, unless you include cyclists hitting our stationary vehicle. couple years past, one a-hole broke our passenger-side rearview mirror and just kept on pedaling. is nobody's fault city streets were original designed without more awareness o' cyclist needs, but all too many cyclists wanna punish ordinary drivers for the lack o' city planner foresight. too many near misses o' cyclists weaving in front o' our vehicle as if they have no respect or awareness o' F=ma. almost makes us want to move to notoriously hilly cities such as pittsburgh and boston, places with less cyclist friendly weather as well. we use our bike frequent, but we use bike paths and streets with dedicated bike lanes. 'course we don't live in city so is so much easier for us to maintain such guidelines. regardless, whenever we see cyclists lamenting how oblivious is drivers to cyclists, we cannot help but view through prism o' our own experience which suggests all too many cyclists is a-holes who is willful obtuse regarding some very basic rules o' common sense and physics. HA! Good Fun! ps if we had to choose boston or pittsburgh, pittsburgh would clear win. fewer patriots fans in pittsburgh.

spanish sound, but not exact how you meant. am knowing it ain't the first roy clark malaguena posted on these boards, but has been awhile. clark deserves to be in GOAT discussion but rare is included. margarita cansino is likely our favorite hispanic entertainer all-time. HA! Good Fun!

we disagree, and is always good to check sources... Parkland Teen Kyle Kashuv, Former Turning Point USA Member, Apologizes For Racist Slurs oh, and is utter bs that regulations make it near impossible to buy a gun in ny. kid starts with fibs to make a point? oh, and a recent advert from one o' those anti-trump republican groups. “Rather than talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems, make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit?” Reagan said in a 1980 presidential debate. “And then while they’re working and earning here, they pay taxes here. And when they want to go back, they can go back.” and “I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here, even though some time back, they may have entered illegally,” Reagan said in a 1984 presidential debate. dreamers would have a powerful Presidential advocate in reagan. HA! Good Fun!

if you are afeared of tentacles... it's already too late SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Produces Long Tentacles in Infected Cells to bring back 'round to politics Frederick Douglass Statue Torn Down and Vandalized in Rochester, N.Y. oh, and we ain't adding as some kinda stoopid, "look, the far right is vandalizing monuments too," shtick. we posted mr. douglass' famous speech 'bout the fourth and as if to commemorate, some d-bag (likely multiple d-bags) take an action which seems to drive home, with a notable lack o' subtle, the recognition that the wrongs of 1852 is not complete a thing o' the past. HA! Good Fun!

the bills do have diehard fans. 2x as likely to have snow at rich/new era as lambeau during weather months and while lambeau may technical be a smidge colder, the wind chill factor is also much more pronounced in buffalo than green bay. chicago gets called the windy city, but buffalo beats it ez. much like chicago, there is a high percentage o' working-class poles in buffalo and is amazing how those folks seem to think nothing creates a party atmosphere like sub-zero temperatures, howling winds and football. The NFL's Worst Weather Cities "If you didn't see your team in the top 10, here is a full list of the football weather misery indices we calculated for all NFL cities with teams that do not play their home games in climate-controlled stadiums. Remember, a higher FWMI means worse weather. 1. Buffalo (77.4) 2. Green Bay (65.6) 3. Cleveland (65.2) 4. Pittsburgh (57.3) 5. Chicago (57.0) 6. Miami (56.0) 7. New England (51.6) 8. Kansas City (50.2) 9. Seattle (49.1) 10. Cincinnati (48) oh, and buffalo consistent had most cap room of any team in the nfl for a number o' years. ownership weren't even trying. bad teams and worst weather in the nfl and those folks come out every sunday; is baffling and simultaneous kinda impressive. HA! Good Fun!

protesters ain't trying to change history, but instead demand recognition of it. God bless America; we love it for what it is and not what we wish it. happy 4th. stay safe.

if we are gonna trade... get tens o' thousands o' people packed into lambeau or fedex field singing mr. taylor's civil rights era anthem in unison would be a beautiful thing. ... let us enjoy the dream. HA! Good Fun!

initial observation: flag displays count as symbolic speech and get full 1st Amendment protections. with that out o' the way, you do realize states do have the right to display any flag they choose, yes? tweet is simple declaring that what is, and has been since 1787, should continue to be the law o' the land. mississippi recent voted to remove confederate battle emblem from their flag. an a-hole preacher in florida, one guy, may set a quran ablaze and anger the entire islamic world, and there is nothing the government may do 'bout it save make sure he is adhering to local/state fire ordinances. an artist in soho wants to photograph herself squatting over an american flag and urinating and is nothing the government may do 'bout it. the only speech which needs protection is speech which offends. is no point in protecting speech which the public, the collective will o' the people, believes is good or at least harmless. only time you got The People attempting to put the kibosh on speech is when it makes people uncomfortable or poses some kinda amorphous and future threat. we protect nazis having a parade in the largely jewish community o' skokie, illinois not 'cause we thinks illinois nazis is ok. the only people who approve o' illinois nazis is other nazis... or so we believed until last couple years. we protect the bad 'cause more than once in history, groups and ideas which were unpopular and offensive, turned out not to be so bad after all. naacp and vietnam war protesters were not popular. mlk never had even 50% public approval during his lifetime and he were arrested and disappeared for days by the government 'cause o' his speeches. (apologies for background music, but almost every clip had similar) the framers o' the Constitution believed The People could not be trusted to decide what speech were good, (good enough) to deserve protection from government, so those framers decided to take the decision away from the excitable People and their tidal passions which would come and go with little rhyme or reason. yeah, states may choose which flag they want flying outside their buildings, and because o' that freedom to choose, mississippi continued to use the confederate battle emblem on their state flag... and there were absolute nothing the fed government could do 'bout it. thank god. first amendment protects john kerry and mississippi same. only speech which needs protection is speech which offends. you may now read our signature for the appropriate response to bad speech. would be nice if those antifa idiots would read and understand the sentiment expressed by J. Brandeis in whitney. HA! Good Fun!