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I've done it. Just takes time and commitment!

Trump went to CNN for better coverage; was denied. Kushner and Sinclair make an agreement; both sides say totally normal, nothing different from any other network incentivizing a candidate for interviews. Then Trump ramps up his CNN fake news schtick around the time he strikes this "extended deal" with Sinclair, who were already known to be conservative-leaning and doing "must run" stories. So the message of Sinclair Local News affiliates doing the must run on "don't believe a lot of what you hear out there, but you can trust us, the reliable Local News" -- that sucks. We should expect better from presidents & journalists than gaslighting the public, this lame attempt at "don't believe anything you hear unless you hear it from me." It's ridiculous. The major obstacle to solving such a problem is the intense partisanship, as evidenced by most of the replies in this thread. This isn't even close to the same thing, B-Man. The Sinclair video shows actors reading a script, while pretending to still be your friendly Local News reporters. Your video shows CNN and MSNBC using the words "concerned" and "propaganda" talking about this story. Uhh, yeah? No sh*t? It is propaganda and it is concerning. The fact that you think this is somehow the same is exactly the partisan problem I'm referring to. why not just summarize by saying "MY GUYS AREN'T THE PARTISANS, YOUR GUYS ARE THE PARTISANS!".

Hillary is most definitely the "Some of the cities that are diverse excluding married white women and Not West Virginia" president! She's also the "Almost First Female President" and if not for the choices made by people that voted, she likely would have been the President that was actually elected. As Almost First Female President, she should write some pretend executive orders to pretend shape the pretend future in the diverse cities that helped her win pretend office!

i would have thought it a colloquialism but I'm really hung up on why you thought of asshats and pastures. My sugar must be low.

this may be one of the worst trash talk idioms I've ever seen. asshats and pastures?

The Bills made the playoffs because of the Dalton play and the roughly 15,000 minutes of football that preceded it (and the minute or so after it when Flacco had the ball). In the interest of brevity I did not calculate camp time and/or relative time invested in traded, cuts and/or acquisitions. Realism is fine, but ignoring the work that got them to the point where Dalton' s pass actually mattered seems silly.

#thepainISreal

i hear ya, we all have our lines in the sand. i was at the Wal-Mart yesterday and they were out of Spring Oreos. I was like "Later B•tchez". Hello Target.

again, fair points, as was the prior poster who suggested he might be the next Aaron Rodgers. I get that, and mentioned that possibility in my first post. I don't claim to have any, most or all of the answers. I think the potential for challenges is there, and would think the same thing of he wore a "F. Obama" shirt or "Crooked Hillary" hat, with the mindset being that he would debate anyone in the world about the need for an end to the overall of our national entitlement system or the need to end support for planned parenthood. And btw, while we're discussing it, it is 100% fair to draw parallels to successful NFL qbs. It is also fair to point out that for every brash, outspoken (or thoughtful as some see it) high end collegiate athlete who makes it to the top in the NFL as a "leader", there are a whole boatload who didn't for any number of reasons. If he goes to the Bills, I hope he's the guy who some of you think he can be. For me, there are warning signs.

Could be, and time will tell. I wasn't talking about his politics, I was talking about his demeanor. imo there is a fine line between having faith in your convictions and being a know-it-all. I think folks figure that stuff out, and maybe it will plays well in whatever football locker room he ends up in. I'll say this....arrogance can be tolerated and celebrated when you get lots of wins, but can be an irritant and be divisive when you don't deliver. I'm not much up in the Beatles, so I'm not sure about John's politics, but he was a hecka of a salesman.

Sure, it was an easy read. Why do you ask?

So, on the leadership issues as it relates to this commentary, Rosen strikes me as world class narcissist, and a self-absorbed rich kid who could be prone to alienating teammates (and fans, though winning chills a lot of that noise out). He also strikes me as Intolernat of the views of others, and I think that can cause friction when working with adults. To summarize....I think he sounds like a Trust Fund baby. Its not not even so much what he says, or wearing a dopey hat, much of what he's talking about likely comes from a good place, but I'm typically concerned about someone's leadership quotient when in less than 1000 words they've told me how enlightened they are relative to other people, how well-educated they are because like UCLA, how wealthy their parents are, how there's so much ignorance in the country relative to everything they know, but the real kicker for me was "I'll debate ANYONE" which always seems an awful lot like "I'll bludgeon ANYONE" with my opinions". then again, maybe he's so good no one gives a crap about any of that and he leads his team to the promised land. Hard to say. Oh and I gotta hand it to him on the Thuderbuddies reference.

absolutely true. i had a general rule that anything that could kill me on the spot was not for me. At least, where drugs were concerned. but I had friends who tried things and did all right as well, so I guess you gotta hope your luck holds out. Lies. Alice died, The End. (but excellent response!!)

i don't know anything about bad trips on acid...the effects of mushroom, ludes or anything psychadellic. I had family members who went down that road and never really recovered for whatever reason. i do have a friend who's college age son had a breakdown of sorts for some reason either not fully understoos, or not shared with me. 20+ days in the hospital, hallucinations, terror etc. Assuming my friend shared it all, they believe it was induced by stress and an adverse reaction to the copious amounts of potent mj he was smoking over the three months prior. also could have just been a manic episode due to hormone levels. anyway, good news is he recovered at this point, back in school, no more reefer and living clean. lets hope the best for ZJ.

football will come and go. Best of luck to Zay working through this situation regardless of what happened.

well, that's simply not true. he sucks at hiring if the changes in the admin are contrary to the model he chooses to follow. if he's following his business model, then the only real question is whether or not he feels he's successful in delivering what he wants to deliver. there was a time folks thought he sucked as a candidate...buy his plan worked to perfection. That IS a fact.

I'm with you. Let's wait until someone gets fired before we assume anything untoward happened.

Look, we all have our favorites and it's hard to let go. There are folks who think lance armstrong didn't cheat, that Brady didn't oversee a complicated scheme to deflate balls to improve performance, and that OJ was watching soft core in a Marriott in Chicago when Nicole and Ron Goldman were murdered. Hillary had an amazingly good run all things considered. Rode her partnership with WC and his coat tails to the senate, to a spirited yet ultimately stagnant presidential campaign where she lost to an upstart, circled around swallowed her pride, sucked up to her former enemy and rode his coat tails to become Secretary of State, and then it got interesting: she dodged one scandal after another, sold access to power, quite literally described 60+ million Americans citizens as deplorable and of no redeeming value, ran a negative campaign through one health crisis after another, watcher her top aide go down in flames with her dopey husband Karlos Dangerfield...and still managed to convince 60+ million people that she should lead the free world even though she so totally misjudged the political landscape that she got beaten by a guy who never held public office in any way, shape or form. It's amazing to be able to have gone through all that and yet be totally devoid of any sense of deeply held personal conviction that would have her look in her daughter's eyes and say "I ran my race...and yet I lost." Nope, she wept, sat in the darkness, contemplated apparently none of the multiple miscues that were well within her control...and blamed everyone else. She's a loser and again, it amazes me to have to say that given what she seemed to be before the breakdown. Then again, she did agree that there is a special place in hell for women who did not support her.

You're on to something here. She's a lost soul at this point. What's amazing to me, and I don't say this lightly, is how pathetically weak she has turned out to be. There were many things not to like about her as a candidate, of course, and since I skew conservative she never really offered anything of value to me. I despised her political posturing over Benghazi, and her snarky demeanor over the email scandal as her most ardent supporters described her as a simpleton on national security issues but a really crackerjack option to run the country was pathetic. But this constant yammering on about how she's the victim in some giant conspiratorial intersection of electoral college, sexism, bullying and Oedipal dominance of republican women is pathetic. Hell, Howard Dean got bounced for a 45 second primal scream (that makes me laugh until my sides hurt to this day). There could well have been 5+ ads of her with voiceovers from key admin officials speaking about carelessness and recklessness. She should have at least considered the fact that she might lose the election. Stories of politicos drunk with power, willing to do or say anything are as old as time. Some lose, of course, but rarely do they collapse into a blubbering mass of self-pity and self-loathing for all the world to see. Watching her implode should have been more fun than this.

you have earned a ZERO. The book has the answer, and I have the book, and the book is never wrong. You're also intellect-shaming Stanley, which is bullying. You'll need to write a letter of reflection and a personal letter of apology to Stanley and the 5th grade community, which of course must be read in front of the class. You probably also have to apologize to the book. Stay tuned.

Here's a word problem from Mrs. Delmonaco's 5th grade class: Scenario: Stanley thinks flag burning is wrong, he thinks it's disrespectful on many levels, and was angry to see a player on a football team that he supports burn an American flag at the stadium on game day. Question: What color is the player? Answer: It doesn't matter, Stanley is a racist whether he knows it or not.

Well, no, I didn't think we were saying the same thing. Apologies if I misread what you meant. I'm not being argumentative, at least not on purpose. My contention is that there is a difference between protesting, and the reaction of the customer to the protest. Kaepernick quite artfully made his stand where he did, and chose his actions carefully. Mission accomplished. If the collective fan base of the NFL gasped, then whimpered, then moved on perhaps his career takes a different path. He's not a great QB, he's not been well above average in quite some time, and that's not really in dispute. The collective fan base gasped, became upset, and outrage followed. I have zero issue with a team deciding he's not worth the effort. Your points on Stallworth, Vick et al are fair, but respectfully they are largely irrelevant when it comes to kaepernick. He's a hot button for you, that's fine, but i don't believe most folks rationalize that Stallworth did something worse that kaepernick so kaepernick deserves something. And for some folks, what kaepernick did was significant and redemption and forgiveness are not on the horizon. People feel how they feel, and often don't sweat the details as to the relative nature of what bothers them: "YOU SUCK KAEPERNICK, THOUGH IN A LESSER FASHION THAN RAY RICE OR MICHAEL VICK TO BE SURE!" Maybe there would be less hard feelings, but they still think ck sucks. i don't see it as blackballing, which to me is icing the guy out solely because of his actions. Of course that's possible...maybe the owner of the Saints had a brother who was a police officer killed in the line of duty, or bob krafts father was a serviceman who saw death, despair and horror at the Bataan death march and told young Bobby to always respect the flag. Just as likely, the simple business decision flies at odds with your thoughts based largely on emotion---they don't see the guy as worth it. Play + Need + Potential - Fan Outrage = No opp for kaepernick. But again, I come at it all from the perspective that I don't like the decision to protest at work. I think that usually ends badly, one way or the other.

i disagree. he's not in the nfl right now because of the reaction of a large percentage of the fans (and no doubt, sponsors) to his protests. it's a game entirely built on emotion and passion, but at the end of the day, it's about selling merchandise, tickets etc. his decision on how/where/why to protest was calculated for effect, but actions have consequences. he effectively jammed his finger in the eye of many paying customers, and you do that at your own peril. it's basic business. don't piss off your customer. put another way, his protests, from his perceptive, are bigger than the nfl and there is no doubt about that. he, on the other hand, apparently is not. the nfl owes him nothing.

i'd bet you're putting a lot more thought into your response than the poster who put that meme up. as for me, yup, i think he's kind of a douche for protesting at work, in front of a captive crowd, pig socks and all. i never saw it as particularly brave, but admit it might be my narrow view of the world. i think of the great revolutionaries in history and i'm hard-pressed to see the connection between some of the protests v. a star athlete in a restricted area walking around on artificial grass brought to you by Go Daddy. on the other hand, i support his right to do so, if for no other reason than I am grateful for my right to opine in response. i also support the employer's right to figure he's not worth the effort and potential damage to the brand if that's the way they see it. it's a tough road for the nil to walk. all that said, pass on him signing here.

With Tyrod's physical gifts and work ethic, you hang around just hoping for one...more...game when he pops over the top and consistently starts to light it up. He just never did, and when you're this deep in and get a few >100 yards passing, it's hard to keep waiting. And that playoff game....oh my.