Doc Brown
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Tonight's winner so far - Nathan Peterman
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Nice job by McDermott.
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They force a punt?
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Cue the annual preseason overreaction crew.
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That's the Tyrod I know and love.
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There we go Edmunds.
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Low percentage throw there.
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2 hours ago, oldmanfan said:
I don't know which is factual or not. Which is the point. The president needs to finally realize his words have meaning.
And your stupid shtick? Very old, very tiring.
The president indicated quite clearly that Brennan as well as potentially others would have their clearances removed because of the Russia investigation. I think you should read each without confirmation bias looking to support a preconceived idea.
2 hours ago, TakeYouToTasker said:Again, explain how what was reported by the Wall Street Journal contradicted the official policy statement from the White House.
Here's a National Review article having to do with this debate. I think it was a vindictive move by Trump because he's a vindictive person, but Brennan gave him enough reason to remove it.
Here's a snippet:
Generations of precedent suggest that the president does not possess entirely unreviewable authority over the substance of security-clearance determinations. Though he does enjoy broad discretion, it’s clearly bounded by limits, even if they haven’t yet been fully defined by the courts. One of those limits should be that presidents cannot dispense or revoke the security clearances of private citizens (such as contractors or former government employees) in retaliation for the exercise of constitutionally protected political expression, short of evidence of disloyalty to the United States, instability, or vulnerability to improper influence. A security clearance is not a reward for good political behavior, and treating it as such has negative consequences for American national security. Does anyone doubt that John Brennan would still have his security clearance if his Twitter comments were just as frothy and erratic, but were instead aimed at the so-called witch hunt rather than the Trump administration.
Administration critics should note well that Brennan in many ways presents a poor plaintiff for a monumentally important constitutional test case. As noted above, his false statements to Congress alone provide an entirely legitimate reason to terminate his security clearance. But Trump’s statements indicating that the true motivation for the move was political, and his indications that he may target other former officials, are more than enough reason to be concerned that he views his authority over security clearances not as power held in trust to protect our nation’s security but rather as a weapon to wield against political foes in violation of the very Constitution he’s vowed to defend.
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47 minutes ago, DC Tom said:
You'll regret it when the Oompa-Loompa-in-Chief has to find another shiny object to distract him. Better hope, for everyone's sake, it's not something from the NRC.
Football season and SNL are close. We should be fine.
13 hours ago, DC Tom said:Except when you live and breathe identity politics, an attack on an individual is an attack on a group. For example: calling Omarosa a "dog" oppresses all women and blacks.
It is humorous to me that the best defense about comments like that proving he's not a racist is he's a dick to anybody he doesn't like regardless of sex, ethnicity, etc...
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Game was stolen from us. I've never been more ticked off at the refs after any other game.
For every Bills fan that complains about Instant Replay slowing the game down I refer to this game. We win the game if Instant Replay was a part of the game at that time.
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It's no Comet.
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Kelvin Benjamin took cheap shots at his ex quarterback who always seemed to perform better without him. Jalen Ramsey has only been on one team and didn't take any cheap shots at any players on his team. That should be rather obvious.
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Any hashtag started on twitter is dubious as most #walkaway people are Trump supporters pretending to walk away and it's wishful thinking. It's just the way social media works and twitter seems to be the perfect medium for that. For the few democrats that are, they're obviously not very ideological to begin with or are so self absorbed that they think they're above the current state of the party (see Never Trumpers).
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Has a career as the president when he retires.
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-It's never a good sign when your starting quarterback is giving a head coach advice.
-Everybody gets one mulligan except for Josh Gordon apparently.
-I don't think there's a coach in sports more unlikable than Gregg Williams.
-I could tell it was a preseason game because Tyrod's two minute drill didn't end with a sack on 4th down after 4 plays.
-Coleman only practices with the 1st team. Period. You f*** with him and he'll make you trade him.
-Looking forward to next week's episode with the Bills coming to town.
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21 minutes ago, DC Tom said:
Bush Jr's presidency was ridiculously snake-bit. It started with 9/11, ended with the financial meltdown, and had Hurricane Katrina in between. Any one of those would define a presidency; he got all three.
Between those, what was probably the most incompetently stupid Congress in the history of the country up to that time, and half the country thinking he was illegitimate because snowbirds were too goddamn weak to push a stick through a piece of paper, he did a surprisingly passable job for being such a Howdy-Doody-looking halfwit.
I agree, but those aren't my complaints about Bush Jr. Those things were out of his control for the most part. I thought he did a good job his first year with with the NCLB act and being the moral leader our country needed after 9/11. He was also a better unifier than Obama and way better than Trump thus far.
However, using the post 9/11 fear and faulty intelligence to gain public and congressional support for the Iraq War and the passing of The Patriot Act has and will continue to do lasting damage to this country.
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6 minutes ago, Koko78 said:
I'd suspect that it's not as normal as having them sign NDAs when they begin their employment.
Got ya. She actually signed it before her employment so that makes sense. What was her specialty in the administration again?
7 minutes ago, njbuff said:The left will tell you a whole different story without anything to back it up.
I won't say anything about Trump being one of the greatest Presidents ever until his time is up.
I have known five in my life
Reagan - outstanding
Bush 1 - eh
Bill Clinton - I actually liked Bill and thought he was good. I didn't care about him doing things with Monica and I thought the impeachment process with him was a joke.
Bush 2 - awful
Obama - worst President this country has ever seen by a country mile. People call me racist when I say this and I tell them I don't give a flying fvck what color or race Obama is, he was/is awful just the same.
Bush Jr. was by far the worst in my lifetime and it's not even close. You'd have to go back to pre civil war to find the worst in history though. James Buchanan maybe.
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2 minutes ago, row_33 said:
Why not?
More curiousity than anything. I'm just wondering if it has to do with national security.
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Is it a normal practice for white house employees to sign nondisclosure agreements when they leave the administration?
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I'm fine with four as the bubble players should get every opportunity they can to make the team. I'd lower the ticket prices to under 20 bucks though. Especially for that 4th game.
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30 minutes ago, LABillzFan said:
Exactly correct. In fact, even worse is the left not only NOT calling them out, but far leftists like Waters 'suggesting' things may get violence.
Yeah....If I was the Minority Leader I would of publicly demanded she step down after that tape came out. That's dangerous rhetoric and a person you don't want to define you as a party. Just another reason Democratic candidates trying to take out Republican incumbents in the House are calling for Pelosi to be replaced.
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9 hours ago, westside said:
Stop projecting
Doc, to protest against antifa and all the hate and violence they spew, doesn't mean you're supporting Nazism. That's what they want you to believe. They takeit right out if the Saul Alinsky book. If you're not with us, you're a racist, nazi, or whatever the newest hated slogan they come up with.
Lie, lie lie until they start believing it. That's what tibs, donbb, Gary, 34 are doing. I walked away from the Democratic party because of just that. I refuse to support that thuggish behavior.
You seem like a decent guy Doc. I would never put you in the same category as those fascists who have taken over the DNC. We need to take it back!
They haven't taken over the party as antifa has been around a long time and is a sliver of the democratic base, but the media and most Democratic politicians not calling them out and exposing them for what they are is what's troubling.
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I've never went hunting. My father was never a hunter (although he made sure I knew how to handle a shotgun and a glock for self defense). I enjoy other outdoor activities like golf, fishing, hiking, wind surfing, and tailgating, but hunting just never peaked my interests. I've pry killed more deer with my car then I would ever be able to kill if I went hunting every weekend during deer season.
John Brennan's Security Clearance
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That's problematic if that's the reason as that hasn't been proven yet. He pry should've just stuck to the official reason and not given an interview to the WSJ. If this is ultimately about political retribution it's a bad precedent to set even though I'm no fan of Brennan.