Gromnir

the story were the protest. the reason for the protest were reported accurate. am not certain how you can see some kinda duty to "follow up on the report." and no, we don't think it is a big deal. is no big deal 'cause kaepernick is hardly relevant-- the protest went initial unnoticed after all. we only mention 'cause kaepernick and the talking heads seem to all be missing an essential factor: the US can't do anything to bring 'bout the changes kaepernick wants. is a bit like Gromnir walking into a dunkin donuts and lighting a boston creme ablaze... to protest nike's use o' cheap foreign labor. is nonsensical. HA! Good Fun!

no. hell no. why does kaepernick get special treatment just 'cause he protested? is it the reporter's duty to ask the backup qb 'bout all his other political views and his feelings regarding the nfl... and puppies... how does he feel about puppies? reporter asked kaepernick why he sat. kaepernick explained why he sat. reporter then reported what were kaepernick's response. a multitude o' news agencies then ran with the story. *shrug* is no duty on the reporter to try and make kaepernick look better or worse. sure, some reporters will have an agenda, and they will provide context that skews. that ain't unusual. nevertheless, the reporters did report the facts accurate, and we not see any duty for them to dig deeper and plumb the depths o' kaepernick's soul. HA! Good Fun!

doesn't actual help kaepernick to note that he were protesting all kinda unrelated stuff. sit during national anthem to protest nfl behavior? makes even worse. oh, and his initial protest were mistreatment o' blacks, specific by cops. yeah, he is protesting all kinda other stuff, but when asked 'bout the national anthem protest, he were not misquoted. HA! Good Fun!

aside the kaepernick protest reveals a fundamental disconnect 'mongst many folks. if a backup qb wants to sit during the national anthem to protest a national ill, we got sympathy. sure, no reporters at the actual game noted the protest 'cause kaepernick ain't actual relevant at the moment. more significant is the fact that the perceived social ill is not w/i the federal power to fix. make changes to fbi and marshal service procedures? sure, but individual municipalities and state Police Power is specific excepted from the fed by the US Constitution. part o' the reason blm and other groups face an uphill battle for change is 'cause the fed is extreme limited regarding what it can do to alter local and state police behavior. "There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder." ok, but is California and san francisco and danville and turlock that deserve kaepernick ire. the backup qb protest identifies a fundamental lack o' awareness. anger directed at America over police actions is misguided. Obama, as the President, has the power to bring national awareness, but is not a Constitutional granted power. there simple ain't anything for the government o' the USA to do in this matter. protest inaction o' any fed actor or agency save the President is misguided. HA! Good Fun!

am assuming you read, but you observing lack o' detail seems to miss the point. the article notes that that there ain't a whole lotta substantive money issues to be argued over 'tween player and a team precise 'cause o' the cba. but yeah, unless you were in the room with bosa's folks and the chargers, the only details 'bout the signing bonus you is gonna have is the the ones the chargers released regarding the deal they claim bosa rejected... so... is not all that complicated, and delayed signing bonuses is kinda ordinary 'cross industries. yes, the cba makes bosa options different than those available to an accountant or attorney or engineer, but that is 'cause the nfl rookie pay is resulting from a C. B. A. that the freaking players agreed to. wanna discuss anti-trust with enoch? be our guest. HA! Good Fun!

calling bs on the cartoon. is the signing bonus that is deferred. heck, Gromnir got a signing bonus from our current employer, and we actual had to wait six months to get it. with sd's offer, bosa would need wait 'til january to get a lion'e share o' his signing bonus... five months from now.] the washington post article we linked were surprising fair. can scroll back up and take a looksee. HA!

lord knows that Gromnir didn't blame the cast. "what is wrong with the people on this show" is not our quote. were not our question. HA! Good Fun!

josh has a curious sense o' humor. he says he likes funny, but is tough to get outta him what, if anything, he genuine thought were funny in a game-- any game. likely how some developer messed up roman history or the inquisition or somesuch. "silly," we suspect, is josh being dismissive o' humor he don't like. am personal not a fan o' silly, but we do like humor, particularly in entertainment that has a duration o' tens o' hours. be dour and serious for +20 hours is cruel. am thinking one genuine needs humor in lengthy crpgs. am not a fan o' silly or cheap laughs, but +20 hours o' serious is reminding us o' a few o' our least favorite university courses, or german stand-up comedy. is sawyer german? elmore leonard observed that he were an admirer o' hemingway, an author who made writing look so easy. 'course leonard noted that he had to give up on hemingway as a role model 'cause ernest had no sense o' humor. am not being critical, but is nobody current (or past) writing at obsidian who were anywhere near talented as hemingway. clear ain't anybody writing as part o' a collaborative writing effort can be deadpan serious for entirety o' a game such as were the length o' poe without the stories and characters becoming oppressive. "silly" is the wrong freaking word, but poe2 likely could use more humor... just don't let josh decide what is and ain't funny. to Gromnir, the best humor is the stuff that don't seem like it is trying to be funny, but such subtlety is gonna be difficult in a crpg, particular without the deceased elmore leonard doing story and characters for the game. HA! Good Fun! ps am thinking that there is also some bass ackwards reasoning at work on his conclusions 'bout hard-counters... 'least 'til we hear him explain. absent hard counters were only problematic 'cause o' accuracy bloat. see a need for hard counters when the actual problem were a flaw in combat maths is intellectual dishonest.

what Gromnir doesn't understand is those folks who laughed at seinfeld. sick. twisted. that show were never funny, and yet you folks kept it on air for almost ten years. HOW could you people laugh at seinfeld and his pals just kinda being d!cks to each other for a decade? y'know, am pretty certain that seinfeld did more to hurt race relations in this country than those who fear trump imagine he is capable. oh sure, trump is one o' those complete obtuse shmucks that just don't have any idea that he said or did something inappropriate... almost pity the jackarse at times. but seinfeld created a national humor gap, a wound, that is only now starting to heal. white majority would repeat seinfeld jokes or humor that they enjoyed during must-see-thursdays and us minorities would stand 'round baffled and uncomfortable, wondering, not for the first time, "what is wrong with white people?" puzzle over what is wrong with clinton or trump is actual an improvement from the 90s. serious. there were an entire decade during which we were shocked by the crap that millions o' white people were laughing 'bout. just sayin. HA! Good Fun!

honest, when we saw name o' daymon wayans attached to this, we thought it were daymon wayans jr. am not able to recall any recent work. a few tv shows that got cancelled after a half season maybe five-to-seven years past? on the positive side, he should be well rested. HA! Good Fun!

terry gilliam is kinda a dr. seuss for adults. has a distinct aesthetic that surrenders realism in favor o' a rough whimsy. protagonist is typically sane, but learns that the world 'round him is not. quixotic is norm. over-the-top is norm. nonsense is norm. less rhyming than dr. seuss. gilliam is not gonna be appreciated by all. he brings a unique and immediate recognizable vision to movies, but that vision is not grounded in the ordinary or the recognizable... and at the end o' a gilliam film, the grinch will not be be carving up the roast beast as he enjoys christmas dinner with the whos down in whoville. HA! Good Fun!

ah. doesn't matter how is the rest o' the day 'cause we got our dammit jim! and dirty balls from the culinerdy cruzer. as a side, we prefer hulk fries or brocodile for pretty much any other burger or sandwich on the menu, but the bleu cheese from the dammit jim! burger so perfect compliments the brussels sprouts that the combination is a no-brainer for Gromnir. is good to indulge our more plebeian cravings from time-to-time. HA! Good Fun!

the mongols did pretty well. HA! Good Fun!

*chuckle* am recalling when our grandfather decided we should at least attempt public school. almost two hour bus ride each way, and our interpersonal skills were clear deficient when dealing with angry little kids who were getting daily indoctrination from parents who did not much approve o' the reservation located adjacent to their respectable community. our first school experience weren't toddler, but we were kindergarten or first grade... am not actual certain as the experiment didn't last too long. regardless, we came home and our grandfather asked us how were school. am not recalling our answer, but it were, for all intents and purposes, "I gave daddy a big hug, and he went away, and I was sad." the next day we didn't need go to school. instead we were directed to do all o' our least favorite chores, including cleaning out horse stalls. ankle deep in horse and pig sh1t for hours. grandfather then asks if we wanna go to school tomorrow, or stay home and do more chores-- were our choice. school, please. ... such parenting might explain a few o' our personality quirks. HA! Good Fun!

well, sometimes the dialogue in the movie being dubbed is just that bad. also, translations and voice actors is expensive. for a miyazaki animated film that disney is gonna release outside o' Japan, they spare little expense for good voice actors. not so much the case for guardians, eh? HA! Good fun!

whenever medical issues and the Presidency arise, our first thought is not fdr, but is kennedy http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/08/the-medical-ordeals-of-jfk/309469/ http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/06/health/the-doctor-s-world-disturbing-issue-of-kennedy-s-secret-illness.html?pagewanted=all http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,393754,00.html it were a different time, but kennedy bold-faced lied 'bout his addisons on numerous occasions. during the heated democratic nomination, lbj had private investigators dig up proof that jfk had addisons, and kennedy lied multiple times. claimed war injuries. kennedy actual represents a medical milestone as he is the first recorded patient with addisons to survive major surgery. kennedy didn't wanna be confined to a wheelchair, so he got back surgery that predictable resulted in complications. nevertheless, kennedy survived. can't imagine such stuff being successful hidden today, but looking at the nonsense from both trump and clinton camps regarding their respective health, perhaps we is being naive. side note: jfk's presidency were so fascinating. he became some kinda liberal folk hero, but when he ran 'gainst nixon the focus o' his campaign were the russian threat and how eisenhower and the republicans had allowed the military to become weak. honest. the foundation 'o his campaign were the need to resist the soviet threat, and a belief that a credible military power to deny commie encroachments 'cross the globe were essential to maintaining the American way o' life. civil rights? *chuckle* mlk SR. would not support kennedy 'cause jfk were a papist. weren't 'til the feds arrested mlk JR. late during the Presidential race that kennedy managed to get african american support. were days that nobody public knew where mlk jr was being held. for chrissakes, jfk were running with lbj, whom he loathed, precisely 'cause he needed the southern democratic vote, and most african-americans at the time were republican. so instead o' having bobby use his doj influence to track down and release mlk jr., kennedy opts to send a letter o' support to mlk jr.'s wife. that's all. didn't wanna offend white democrats in the south. and that letter is what possible won kennedy the election-- an empty letter o' condolence. mlk's wife does a radio interview and thanks kennedy. the kennedy campaign then prints out copies o' kennedy's letter and the transcripts o' the radio broadcast from mrs. mlk and then the campaign floods southern black communities with paper. and that is how kennedy became an advocate o' civil rights? when vote for Presidency takes place, jfk's campaign were actual shocked by how relative poor he were doing in catholic districts, but were equal surprised by how well he were doing with african-american demographic. in an extreme close election, an impotent letter o' condolence made the difference? possible. kennedy presidency were fascinating and curious... particular given how jfk is actual remembered. HA! Good Fun! ps edit: added a couple more kennedy health articles

bosa not signing with sd makes little economic sense. sit out a year and he won't go top 3 next year. even if bosa believes the sd offer is bad, whatever deal he gets this year will be better than what he gets offered next year. plus, money is worth more today than it is tomorrow. the millions he earns now, invested, will already be generating considerable income over the course o' the year. from an economics standpoint, there is no way bosa walks away from this as a winner. he lost the best deal he were gonna get, and now he can only mitigate his losses. 'course, these kinda negotiations is rare just 'bout the economics. am guessing that bosa would rather lose a big pile o' money than cave to sd's demands. will be interesting to see how this plays out. edit: a more balanced bosa article than we is seeing at espn and elsewhere. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2016/08/25/whos-to-blame-for-the-chargers-joey-bosa-fiasco-everyone/ HA! Good Fun!

He offered recipes. What good is your advice if I still need other recipes to use it? Good day to you, sir. GOOD DAY am tempted to state the obvious. ... nope. HA! Good Fun!

YOU GIVE, YOU GIVE NOW to make a soup recipe a low-sodium soup recipe is easy even for culinary challenged. 2 steps. 1) replace stock in recipe with "low sodium" variant. 2) use kosher salt for dashes or pinches or whatnot. that's it. low sodium beef, chicken, vegetable, ham, turkey and fish stocks tend to taste like arse. you can make your own and they will taste better than pre-made varieties, but they is still gonna be less flavorful as salt is a taste enhancer. stock is kinda the foundation o' any non-cream soup. also, use the kosher salt 'cause individual crystals is much larger and you is actual getting far less salt in a pinch or dash or even standard measurements when utilizing kosher salt as 'posed to traditional table salt. simple, no? HA! Good Fun! ps if you chose to not make your own stock, be wary o' claims that a pre-made stock is actual "low sodium." call something "low sodium" doesn't make it true. check labels close for salt content. pps if a recipe calls for canned tomatoes, use fresh instead... dice and remove seeds. recommend roma. example: https://food52.com/recipes/35254-frances-moore-lappe-s-lentils-monastery-style no can tomatoes. and use low sodium stock. got yourself a low sodium soup. almost the same as our monastery lentils. skip the swiss cheese and perhaps use small amount o' quality shredded Parmesan post cooking to keep salt as low as possible.

due to our dual citizenship, we actually have a chance to vote other than CA. *shrug* HA! Good Fun! What are the chances of Pine Ridge(I believe) voting for Trump? south dakota? chances is extreme high. HA! Good Fun!

due to our dual citizenship, we actually have a chance to vote other than CA. *shrug* HA! Good Fun!

You know Grom, you do have another option that is a viable candidate and on the ballot in all 50 states this year. Only three candidates can say that. Given your line of work that 3rd option might even be attractive. Yes the odds are long, but they are not zero and good things can come even from a loss this time. Just sayin'. our certainty that trump won't win needs be absolute before we consider voting for a 3rd party candidate. we marveled when folks acted as if sanders supporters and sanders himself giving clinton their support was some kinda mortal sin. "how could you?" how? why? 'cause the freaking alternative is trump. duh. if our voting 3rd party has any chance o' resulting in a trump presidency, we would be irresponsible in doing so. the good news is that trump will be able to accomplish virtual 0 o' his domestic goals. everything he wants to do is either blatant unconstitutional, or is a job for Congress or individual States. trump will be impotent, particularly as he is Not a consensus building candidate. liberals will be unified 'gainst him, and he is gonna split conservatives. doomed. bad news is that once trump discovers that his domestic efforts is stymied by his own nature and by the federal system itself, he will possible become more concerned with foreign affairs. the President has broad powers when dealing with foreign nations, and regardless o' what some believe, the US is still the most powerful economic and military force on the planet. trump as President scares us. he should scare you too. 3rd party? sure, just so long as chance o' trump victory is zero. HA! Good Fun!

trump is a businessman. am not sure if he is a competent businessman w/o seeing his taxes, but he is a businessman. some businessmen likes to micromanage, or to at least know the details o' the business. other businessmen is just kinda "big picture" managers. these kinda guys don't worry the details 'cause they has hired the right guys to worry the details for 'em. trump not need to know geology or architecture or legal or even plumbing, 'cause he gots geologists, architects, lawyers and plumbers to deal with problems when they arise. is all big picture for trump as he believes he can identify the right kinda folks to get the little jobs done. debt crisis, blm, healthcare... whatever. those is all little jobs. get the right people to do those jobs, yes? that's how Reagan did things, right? ... as we don't have tax returns, we don't actual know what kinda businessman is trump. we know his dad were one o' the ten wealthiest guys in the US and we know that trump isn't. we do know that trump has had paid 0 taxes multiple times. we know that there were some shenanigans regarding the identity o' his tax preparer for at least one of his returns. we wanna see returns. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/15/new-evidence-donald-trump-didn-t-pay-taxes.html gonna keep linking. am not sure why trump supporters ain't more concerned. oh, and Reagan's approach did work for the first half o' his first term, 'cause for all intents and purposes, Congress were working for the President at that time. got elected with an overwhelming mandate from the people, and Congress responded. the folks that actual make Law in this country is Congress. President has broad powers when it comes to international affairs, but domestic issues is handled by Congress... and the career bureaucrats who is functionally insulated from the executive. Reagan always had difficulty with the bureaucracy, but at the start o' his Presidency, Congress danced to his tune. trump don't have anywhere near the overwhelming support that did Reagan. sure, at the start o' his campaign, Reagan were also a washington outsider who seemed to the media more like a joke candidate. and why would they view him as anything other than a joke? people would ask Reagan a hard question and he would respond with an anecdote 'bout a movie or his summer as a lifeguard or whatever. is kinda baffling that it worked for Reagan, but trump's approach is different. when asked a tough question, trump acts as if the solution is obvious, and that the questioner is an idiot or part o' a (The?) media conspiracy to destroy trump. if forced to respond, he observes that he will put the best people on the problem, perhaps ivanka. ... clinton is a moderate career politician and we would not typical consider voting for her. too much skeevy self-interest and the clintons has always had a strained relationship with the truth. that being said, as a President's real power is foreign affairs, we believe that clinton will actual be a capable executive. as much as many folks in the US despise clinton, her popularity beyond our borders is much better. *shrug* trump is... ever seen a car accident just before it happens? as often as not, the first indication you got that a car accident happened is the sound o' car horns immediate followed by the loud crash as two or more cars slam into each other with bone shattering force. but sometimes you actual see the accident unfold. you see the guy pull his el camino into the bike lane and accelerate into an intersection in spite o' the fact that he gots a red light. is literal nothing you can do to stop the guy, but you know what is gonna happen. you cringe. your whole body tenses. you await the crash. trump is the guy in the el camino, but the accident is happening in slow motion and can easily be stopped. inexplicably, more than 1/3 o' the americans watching the developing accident is cheering trump forward. oh, and tax returns. HA! Good Fun!

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/88086-us-election-2016-part-iii/?p=1828131 either trump has no basic understanding o' the powers o' the Executive, or he is counting on the ignorance o' the American public regarding the fundamentals o' the federal government. HA! Good Fun!

kinda funny. maybe not as good as that edward norton verizon commercial from a few years ago, but we chuckled. HA! Good Fun!