Gromnir

https://community.battletechgame.com/forums/threads/6855?page=24 seems to be a delay for the beta key release. am gonna get work done then check back this afternoon. will update once we have had a chance to kick the tires and take a mech or two for a spin 'round the block. HA! Good Fun!

give self too much credit. your arguments ain't yet reached even university introductory level. after all, by doing the exact thing which inspired anderson cooper's initial quip, and then calling attention to your mistake by referencing the cooper comment, all you managed to do is highlight your error. with his colorful bit o' imagery, cooper called out those who mindless defend even the most indefensible trump nonsense. you, in an attempt to defend trump, effective frame yourself as jeffrey lord? congrats? *shrug* we needs release the whip. what sense is there in continuing to beat on the equine o' turin, eh? HA! Good Fun!

am increasing amused by your inability to grasp why your use o' the anderson cooper bit to defend trumpisms is curious. even so, we do indeed have a soft spot for weak and pitiful. HA! Good Fun!

actual, it is strange. first, civil gets lower standard o' proof 'cause "its only money." may not seem american, but your monetary interests is getting far less protection from the courts than is fundamental liberties. the difference in standard o' proof for civil is not analogous in the present case as we are dealing with actual liberty as 'posed to monetary punishment. the chatman situation were kinda a loophole. in effect we got the mysterious one-outta-ten dentists who would not recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum. the defendant in the present case already lost his initial trial. on behalf o' the People, the judge punished the defendant to a term o' years. afterward the People decide to cut the defendant some slack and let him out early, but with provisos. as such, the original punishment is not vacated by probation and the People can decide to have the defendant finish off his sentence virtual on a whim. we don't demand the People go through the time and expense o' a trial when is only through undeserved largesse the defendant were granted Probation. is not at all analogous to civil cases. reasoning in the present situation is much more simple 'cause the defendant already had his day in court and lost. 'course in this case there were a trial. beyond a reasonable doubt is indeed a difficult standard o' proof to overcome, and for revoking liberty o' a probationer, a judge needs far less than beyond a reasonable doubt. in the new criminal trial the defendant received beyond reasonable doubt as the standard o' proof. the reason why the story got so much attention is precise 'cause the judge in the present context, while acting with legit authority, nevertheless acted in a manner not in keeping with norms. if the state goes through the time and expense to try a defendant for the new charge rather than simple terminating probation, most (not all) judges defer to the finder o' fact from the trial. ever wonder 'bout the one out of ten dentists? well, this is the one out of ten judges. judge jack niedrach had his reasons and he had authority to send the defendant back to prison, but nine other judges woulda' done different. HA! Good Fun!

Well it's hard to top the intellectual and sublimated barking remarks. BTW you seriously had to post the video like no one got the reference? your use o' the reference were so odd in the present context. even so, we do sympathize with your inability to find appropriate or meaningful counters. in the future you might wanna abandon the pretense and humiliation and just go with mom jokes from the outset. HA! Good Fun!

etymology is helpful, eh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSPmsk7P-VI is hilarious you would use in this context. sharp being sharp. btw, Gromnir is the one who described this nonsense as banal. but in addition to similar vacuous coverage o' first lady slapping away trump's hand, last week the media also printed curious trump comments 'bout nato. covered praise for duarte. media did stories regarding gary cohn comments 'bout coal, comments which were conflicting with trump. covered presidential mischaracterization o' nafta. you missed trump confirming israel as source o' the intel he leaked to the russians. media also outed trump's private cell phone use. insofar as the president's aphasia, the wh inexplicable keeps perpetuating what would otherwise be a non issue with follow-up tweets and idiotic presser responses. in the hill video, one can actual hear folks laughing at spicer's response. *shrug* only way to see the present nonsense as does sharp is with alternate facts and alternate reality. HA! Good Fun! ps mom jokes? really?

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/335809-spicer-offers-cryptic-explanation-for-trump-covfefe-tweet how can you not feel sympathy for spicer? HA! Good Fun!

is also a possibility o' less obvious and/or oblique kurt russell reference in the mcu. wouldn't be shocked if an mcu character had mentioned escape from new york, big trouble in little china, the computer who wore tennis shoes, etc. HA! Good Fun!

am understanding the president always orders his steak tartare well-done, and with ketchup. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grok https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/grok have used grok more than once, but we never considered it a legit word. had a law professor who used the word. she had never read stranger in a strange land, but had picked up usage when she clerked for J. stevens. *shrug* thought it were kinda whimsical that an imaginary martian word is in english dictionaries. ... *looks up kwisatz haderach in the dictionary* HA! Good Fun!

unlike the serious cartoon character occupying the oval office who made not one, but two covefefe tweets. the hypocrisy is strong with this one. HA! Good Fun!

didn't try google, but our first thought were kevin bacon. HA! Good Fun!

"Despite the constant negative press covfefe..." context doesn't lend itself to coffee = covfefe. drunk or a TIA would be our not-so-serious guesses. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/us/politics/covfefe-trump-twitter.html?_r=0 this latest covefefe is just so banal. HA! Good Fun!

am admitted reluctant to find optimism. got commercials with the heavy handed girl-power. and yes, got a ww who appears comic skinny to our eyes. worst of all, most early reviews we has seen tell us ww is "overdue." wish they wouldn't do so. am thinking it goes w/o saying that ww has a female protagonist. duh. nevertheless, the reviewers feel compelled to tell us how groundbreaking is ww. is a summer blockbuster with a pretty star who gots a dubious resume. our expectations is not gonna be difficult to exceed. HA! Good Fun!

record is 80k ft, no? sounds good enough. http://dronecenter.bard.edu/high-altitude-drones/ HA! Good Fun!

current scheme doesn't strike us as particular enlightened. sure, anti-icbm tech were considered counter-productive for much o' the cold war era, but the "hitting a bullet with a bullet" approach seems inherent flawed. heck, to make gifted glow, we suggest deploying swarms o' drones, carried in high altitude balloons, which could be released as needed to intercept icbms. one o' the more interesting approaches we recollect from the star wars defense era were small nukes studded with powerful x-ray lasers. the limits 'pon power o' lasers is the power source, and a fission reaction offers a considerable kick. high altitude explosion o' smallish nukes literal covered with x-ray lasers could intercept numerous incoming icbms. 'course limits 'pon atmospheric nuke testing understandable prevented meaningful development. drones. swarms o' kamikaze drones. HA! Good Fun!

well, in our defense, we never actual spoke to the conversational abilities o' border collies. however, we did give the canines an edge in intelligence when compared to human infants. ... might not be fair as we suspect the average border collie has better problem solving and critical thinking skills than a few regular message board posters hereabouts. HA! Good Fun!

According to data from the Joint Center for Political and Economic studies, African American voters had been voting overwhelmingly Democrat in US Presidential races at least as early as 1936. Anecdotally I've heard that this can - at least partially - be attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt making sure New Deal legislation applied equally to whites and blacks and her outreach to African Americans, but I don't know if there's any hard data on that. No Republican Presidential candidate has - since 1936 when the Joint Center started compiling data - carried more than 40% of the vote; the closest was in the 1956 election when incumbent Eisenhower pulled just under 40%. kinda misleading, though we did leave out an important descriptor: southern. southern black voters were still voting republican previous to kennedy. can do funny stuff with numbers. for example, the democrats actual didn't exceed 50% o' the black vote until the 1950s. keep in mind independent candidates was typical receiving ~20% o' the black vote. actual, in point o' fact, during much o' the roosevelt years, national black republican voting increased so as to be even with democrats, so am not thinking eleanor helped much. the kennedy election saw a sharp increase o' near +30% for national black voting for democrats. the increase came almost complete from southern black voters. the civil rights act o' 1964 further skewed and there ain't been no looking back. was a paradigm shift. HA! Good Fun!

so, another new father realizes there is far less magic related to child rearing than they woulda' hoped? babies is notoriously weak conversationalists. have yet to hear a baby contribute anything memorable to a discussion 'bout literature, art or politics. also, the most salient qualities o' any baby is as follows: feculent and inconsiderate. in an adult such qualities is rare acceptable and never appreciated. p00p and cry. cry and p00p. sure, chris avellone got away with that kinda behaviour for a few years, but his coworkers could escape from him at the end o' the day. for parents there is a 24/7 obligation stretching at least eighteen years into the future. eric is no doubt social compelled to craft lies 'bout the joys o' childrearing, but am guessing he is needing some kinda outlet lest he go all shawshank. wouldn't be surprised if he begged feargus to let him contribute to poe2. anything to end the monotony o' cleaning human waste and having one-sided conversations with a creature a bit less intelligent than the average border collie. ... kidding. HA! Good Fun!

am knowing leferd becomes annoyed when we use jfk as a punching bag http://articles.latimes.com/1988-12-15/news/vw-329_1_coretta-king jfk calls coretta king and offers condolences. jfk doesn't actual lift a finger to help mlk. jfk doesn't ask his brother bobby, with his considerable justice department ties to intercede on mlk's behalf. nope, jfk makes a brief phone call o' meaningless support. less than two-minutes. coretta king would appear on a radio show shortly after mlk's release, and would mention how touched she were by jfk's concern. the kennedy campaign printed up transcripts o' ms. king's radio address... printed 'em by the thousands. tens of thousands. black voters, who were historical voting republican, the party of Lincoln, do a 180 and vote for jk 'gainst nixon. in one o' the narrowest victories in presidential history, jfk, a democrat, acquires the black vote and wins the election. a two-minute phone call. a call careful tailored so as not to offend white southern democrats. phone call changed everything. HA! Good Fun!

am current playing nothing. with the battletech beta set to begin in mere days, it seemed like a good time to take a break from gaming. given our borderline ocd, am expecting to indulge a few unhealthy marathon sessions tinkering with mech combat. the gameplay video made melee seem more effective than we woulda' expected from our previous battletech experience. am kinda looking forward to bashing stuff. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-28/trump-ducks-reporter-questions-on-trip-only-g-7-leader-to-do-so At a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, a reporter asked the Israeli prime minister if he still trusted U.S. authorities with sensitive intelligence following reports that Trump had shared secret intel from Israel with the Russians during an Oval Office meeting. Trump stepped up to insist he’d never said the word “Israel” in his talks with Russian officials -- effectively confirming that nation as the source of the information. am no longer shocked by trumpastophes and trumpagedies, but the kinda relative minor trump-trips is what catch us off-guard. each such gaffe is paradoxical unpredictable and expected. you know trump is gonna say something ridiculous, which his core followers will inevitable dismiss as trump being "real" or "trump being trump." *insert eye roll here* the chances o' trump making a foolish ejaculation during a given week must needs be approaching 100%. even so, while is a certainty the president will public share his cringe-worthiness, the specific blunder(s) continue to shock us. took dan quayle years to bumble and stumble his way to a far less impressive catalog o' buffoonery. ... am feeling like we slipped into a coen brothers film. less funny than raising arizona, but not yet quite as dark as no country for old men. HA! Good Fun!

with the unofficial arrival o' summer, am reminded how much the grilling season functional kills our culinary ambition. summer in northern california is hot. is our uneducated opinion that one o' the easiest jobs is a weatherman anywhere in the california valley(s) region(s) from may 'til october. sunny and hot. for + 5 months is gonna be same-- sunny and hot. when Gromnir arrives home and the temps at 6:30pm is still 'bove 100F, chances are we is gonna forgo any sort o' serious kitchen work. don't need to expend much effort. few places on earth produce as much quality fruits and vegetables as does our functional backyard, and takes only little more effort to acquire good meat. cooking becomes reduced to the following: add fire to some kinda meat which may or may not be marinated and/or brined. clean some kinda fresh vegetable and perhaps add minimal heat and/or seasonings. rinse/clean/slice some kinda fruit. barbecued meat + steamed snow peas + a big serving of watermelon? is tough to screw up dinner. is tough to improve with culinary sleight o' hand. sure, once a week am gonna do something different if only to prevent our limited kitchen skills from diminishing, but feels almost forced. summer is here again. huzzah. *sigh* HA! Good Fun!

If you have any pull with them tell them to get out right now. we got almost as much pull as would trump at a greenpeace event. *shrug* HA! Good Fun!