WideNine

Truth, most don't realize or acknowledge that their Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid that they are banking on during retirement are all Social Services or socialist practices. Its not the bogeyman. I also think we need to better fund our institutions to address our homeless problem. My sister-in-law made a bizarre statement that it was an issue of affordable housing. I live in an area that has a homeless people problem. Where many hang out discarded needles are present, others have bouts of ranting and raving at traffic. That's not an affordable housing issue. I won't give any of them money, but I will buy sandwiches and beverages for them from time to time - especially the older folk.

When your avatar name has "punt" in it too.... 😂 - we've all fumbled a few posts, but you have to appreciate the irony.

I hope they are more solid...this team is hard on the ol' ticker.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/13/trump-legal-team-cases-dropped-436492 ... And ‘legal strategy’ should be in quotes,” said Ben Ginsberg, a veteran Republican election law attorney who headed the famed Florida recount team that ultimately led to George W. Bush becoming president. Ginsberg chuckled at one hapless Michigan lawyer who filed an election challenge Thursday evening in a federal claims court in Washington, D.C., the wrong venue, and bizarrely titled it, “Donald Trump v. USA,” as if the president was suing the nation.

I actually expect to be pretty frustrated this game with our ability to contain Murray and their running game. Expect a heavy does of RPO's of every flavor. As in the Seahawks game I think TOP and turnovers will be the key. I am not anticipating a low-scoring affair. Our defense, although they play hard and were opportunistic last week, still has a lot of holes and the bounces and bad passes do not always go your way. The most frustrating thing about this year is the offense is clicking, but the defense leaves every game in doubt.

OK man you got me... there have been some real truth is stranger than fiction accounts coming out of the Trump legal efforts.

I believe that there are complex organic bio molecular compounds that could be better explored. I don't think it takes synthesizing alternative compounds from Pharmacies to ensure efficacy or safety, but I think naturally-sourced active compounds need better safety oversight. I would still posit that there has been a lot of abuse and unhealthy sale and use of "approved" pharma medicines that have sketchy efficacy in regards to their intended use. More study is needed, but CBD seems to have more positive clinical results with less draw-backs than THC and more research into the CBD-based treatments should be encouraged. Of course pharmas take what works in nature and work to synthesize the same thing in labs often missing some of the complex interactions that natural compounds possess. I am not anti-pharma, but make no mistake, they are not benevolent institutions. They are for-profit institutions with the intent to profitably manage pain and disease, NOT to cure it. Long-term curative solutions I do believe would be shelved or simply the funding for promising research pulled if it competed with a management drug in their portfolio. I worked for a big pharma and that shaped my opinions. The same thing with "magic mushrooms" or more specifically psilocybin regarding efficacy treating depression. Having known families that lost loved ones to chronic depression, their desperate use of one pharma anti-depressant after the next, I think there needs to be a push to give this a more serious look. The clinical data and how long the positive effects remain are hard to ignore.

OMG - This is satire right? Because if you are joking you got me - I admit it. John "Smith" and James "Jones" - There is no possibility with such unique names that there could be more than one John Smith or James Jones right???? Well we have pictures of graves too your honor. 😂😂😂🤣🤣 GOP Lawyer fees well spent. This is not very scientific, but gets that point across...

What I despise is that far-left narrative that gets ladled over every disagreement like cheap gravy. I have never identified myself that way as many of my positions are probably a bit more socially and fiscally conservative, but I am skeptical of information and will go to other reliable sources and read. I have found other reasonably-minded individuals that dig a bit more and research enough to contradict the noise that has come out of the WH these past 4 years to frame a realistic picture of the character of our current acting President. I have chided both CNN and Fox for divisive and dangerous rhetoric in the name of click-counts and viewership. So yes, I do think main-stream media should be more professional and responsible in their reporting. Like anything else the public can look to more objective reasonable sources for their news and that does not mean finding something that is even more far left or right as you only short-change yourself. I voted for Biden because I believe that he is a candidate that could and would surround himself with good people, smart people who were capable of executing their roles, people who will likely stay in role long enough to be effective. This is needed to run a more productive government, not ceaseless Tweets attacking critics and perceived enemies while propping your own bloated self-image up with wild claims of accomplishments or spending inordinate amounts of time watching cable news 24/7 to gauge your own popularity. Biden also possesses the capacity to accept when someone disagrees with him and to still respect that person or take their advice keeping the big picture and goal in mind. He and Kamala fought a bitter fight during the Primaries, but he realized that she best fit the bill for his running mate and pulling her Senate seat from CA would likely not hurt their party's bid to keep that seat. Trump fires anyone he feels is disloyal - disloyalty seems to come in many flavors: being smarter than him, contradicting things he says that are not true, checking his abuse of power, unable to execute his crazy policies, or simply no longer a useful tool. John Kelly a retired 4-star US Marine Corps General spent more time closely working with Trump and guiding his day to day Presidential affairs, and it is safe to assume he knows more about the man up close and personal than any of us and he had this to say about Trump: Upon his post transition conversation with Trump - "I said, whatever you do -- and we were still in the process of trying to find someone to take my place -- I said whatever you do, don't hire a 'yes man,' someone who won't tell you the truth -- don't do that. Because if you do, I believe you will be impeached." He later would tell friends, "The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it's more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life," Trumps rate of administrative turnover compared to past Presidents - keep in mind these are people he appointed where they moved on and not up to the latest purges: Trump's penchant for jettisoning anyone for any perceived slight reminded me of the movie "The Death of Stalin" a gallows-humor political satire where all of Stalin's inner circle cowered and placated the man trying to not end up on his "List of Enemies" each night. Steve Buscemi was awesome. Oddly fitting that Trumps authoritarian and fascist tendencies followed by all the boot-licking from his inner-circle, GOP accomplices, and Barr called this comedy about a period of Russian government transition to mind.

Sorry - that was a typo on my part that I will fix. It should be .5% in which case a recount is virtually guaranteed as the losing party will always elect to do one on the State's dime. A losing candidate may also request a recount if the margin is less than or equal to 0.5%. This threshold was set in 2019 following the passage of H.B. 319. Georgia's official website describing its recount rules contains outdated information. There are no set deadlines for the completion of a candidate-requested recount.

In GA if election results are within .5% then any losing party can request a recount free of charge. So, close results pretty much are universally challenged as the losing party has nothing to lose requesting it and does not have to pony up the $. They may as well just do a recount whenever the margin is within that threshold.

Audits and recounts are automatic when the margins are slim. That margin varies state by state, but is sensible to verify against machine or clerical error. Larger margins (which we have plenty of in this instance) have to be paid for out of the challengers funds, unless a significant error or fraud is discovered. From the court documents I have read the GOP voting lawsuits have been REALLY poor with very little deliberation before getting tossed as having no merit. That leaves funded recounts. It cost money to have folks go through the ballots again and to have court appointed observers...usually a couple million dollars. I personally am not scared of recounts at all and enjoy watching this GOP throw their money away.

Actually, I believe Biden had narrow leads in AZ and NV which would have given him 270. I seem to recall Trump stripping what few mental gears he has when he saw his lead evaporating in PA and GA and he tweeted for vote counting to stop. Which probably sent all his advisors into panicked effort to course-correct Trump's stupidity. He then tweeted something about vote counting needed to stop only in states where he was leading already somehow framing it as the legal thing to do... It was the kind of the embarrassing crazy stuff I expected from Don the Con. “As the day wore on, the day wore on him,” the adviser said. White House and campaign staff whispered among themselves. “ ‘Wow, he’s so down. He knows he’s losing.’ ” But uncertainty crept back by dawn. When he woke, the race still not called, and his mood changed. On a phone call with the adviser, he said, “Why would I lose to Joe Biden? What’s going on?” He launched a demand — “STOP THE COUNT!” — on Twitter, but he didn’t understand that if the vote count were to stop on Wednesday morning, he’d be handing Joe Biden the presidency. The adviser asked if he was trying to say that votes cast illegally (something that happens rarely, despite Trump’s claims) should not be counted. “He said, ‘Yeah, yeah. That’s what I mean.’ ” People knew that by “stop the count,” he didn’t mean to literally stop the count, Trump said. “No,” the adviser told him, “people think you mean stop counting. If they stopped counting, you’d lose because you’re behind.” Oh. The president asked the adviser what to say instead. After consulting with the campaign’s lawyers, they settled on a message that claimed if the count was confined to legal votes only, he’d win, which put through the presidential tweet filter came out like this: “ANY VOTE THAT CAME IN AFTER ELECTION DAY WILL NOT BE COUNTED!” and “STOP THE FRAUD!”

You may be right. Most here live in a conspiracy world of truly fake news where Trump somehow won the election. He lost.

https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/11/12/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election In bold: "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."

Here we go again. Let's compromise on the fact that they're both old and f-up their lines, but one guy is bat-$hit crazy and unpredictable and the other guy I feel actually has the potential to surround himself with talented people and listen to them.

It is a good thing he parted with all his business interests that could have been construed as conflicts of interest or profiteering off the Presidency 😅 It is fitting that MAGA folks keep throwing their money at poor ol' Donny so he can (line his pockets) fight the good fight.

So now that Trump has lost GA by close to 15,000 votes. His campaign alleged to have proof that 4 dead people voted, the "Mouth of Sauron" aka Tucker Carlson goes on Fox and of course parrots the same unverified rumor. So.... qty. 4 votes under intense scrutiny, and Trump is losing by what? Meanwhile in the real world: One of the people listed by the Trump campaign was from Nicholson, Georgia. The county's elections director, Jennifer Logan, told reporters that the claim this person's identity had been used to vote in last week's presidential election was "not true." Logan said the person "was removed from (voter) rolls in 2003" when they passed away. Logan noted that someone with the same name but spelled slightly differently did legally vote in the county this year. Another of the four people listed was from Newton County, Georgia, where the Board of Elections said the individual had been removed from voter rolls when they died and did not vote in 2020. Phil Johnson, the chairman of the board, explained that the widow of the deceased man had cast her ballot using her husband's name, with "Mrs." as the prefix, causing the confusion. "I am very disappointed that anyone would make an allegation like that ... without checking it out," Johnson said. Officials are looking into the two other names listed by the Trump campaign. So.... Trump still needs close to 15,000 votes to be tossed and his big "4" is down to checking the last "2".

Seemed a tad biased when the announcers were saying, "Awww that's a shame..." about Jamal Adams drawing a flag when he stuck his leg out and tripped Beasley. I was actually thinking he got what he deserved and that it was pretty awesome that it wiped out that sack IMO

The Bills have overspent on an under performing d-line already. Rather than throwing more DEs and 3-tech DTs at the problem the Bills FO just needs to focus on filling their 1-tech void up front where they are rotating 3 players that barely make the grade.

You think the Miami player is saying "Dude. You know the chin-guard goes under your chin right?".

You are right and I realize it is a futile effort. He just starts another thread with the same baseless, fact less, nonsense and sophomoric name calling. It is the definition of trolling. At least I believe that although politics divide a lot of us, the Bills unite most of us. As crazy and divisive as these 4 years have been, I will take it.

Two points for the bolded above. 1. Do they not have access to any games outside of that playoff game last year? 2. Folks that do not understand the game only look at passing stats over the past month and say things like "poor QB performance". What I see is a QB who took what the defense was giving and played within the offensive game plan for that contest. When teams are loading up the field with DBs and two-deep zones, it dictates short passes and running the ball. This may not look great stat-wise, but throwing into double-coverage looks worse as the turnovers pile up. For example, the game plan against NE was to hand the ball off for most of the game. The passing stats did not light up the sheet, but this is not indicative of a poor QB performance. It frustrates me when folks confuse passing stats and fantasy football point totals to actual QB performance towards the goal of winning a game.

Is this that topic we debunked a while back about the federal "tough on crime" bills that Biden sponsored 30 years ago? It seems like a rumor that is immune to facts https://www.factcheck.org/2019/07/biden-on-the-1994-crime-bill/ At the time violent crime was steadily on the rise over decades in our nation and it was not some kind of racist plot, but rather a bi-partisan effort largely backed by the Dems and supported by black representatives as well. Black communities were calling for better policing and sentencing and supported the bill. The only dissenting black votes against it was a small group against provisions in the bill that called for the use of the death sentence. I believe the death sentence in the bill was invoked after a 3-strike violent offense rule. Nearly 40 African American religious leaders released a statement supporting the bill, saying: “While we do not agree with every provision in the crime bill, we do believe and emphatically support the bill’s goal to save our communities, and most importantly, our children.”