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Missouri finally offered Courtney Ramey, just a weird recruitment there.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 09:04 AM) I can't believe the number of people who actually suggest arming teachers as the solution. Double points for the venn diagram of "people who want to arm teachers" and "people who think teachers are lazy union thugs indoctrinating our children with liberalism" being a single circle. LOL so true... Can't give those teachers a raise, but how about a gun?

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Feb 15, 2018 -> 01:50 PM) I wish I were born 100 years later, or however long it takes for this to get sorted out. It really sucks growing up in this world, in this country, especially as a racial minority. I wasn't surprised in the least to learn that this guy was a member white supremacist group. Sometimes, something like this happens, or Vegas, etc. and I think that this could be the one that finally makes a change. But, if nothing happened after Sandy Hook, I think we're stuck like this until something even bigger than Vegas happens. At this rate, though, that might even be by the end of the year. I don't know what that tipping point could be at this point, and pretty scared to really think of just how large it would have to be.

That video...I'm at a loss for words...

Altered Carbon had its flaws, but I was enamored with that world and the story. That was a fun binge.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 14, 2018 -> 02:05 PM) I really liked Kinnaman and Hildagedo, and Chris Conner(the hotel/Poe) was awesome too I love Dichen, it was just a poorly written role. She needed to be a bit crazier or a bit saner, to me she was written too much in the middle where you question why she is acting the way she is (and not for a good reason). She's been great in many other series, including Dollhouse.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 12, 2018 -> 12:30 PM) Don Jr.s wife hospitalized after opening envelope that contained white powder. Sickening. Yikes, hope she is ok and those f***ers are caught.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Feb 8, 2018 -> 12:47 PM) Not shocked it's delayed, shocked it's delayed by 6-8 months. The biggest reasons are apparently because they have now decided to make the Dual Motor variant BEFORE the Short Range battery (it was reversed), and they are also going to do international deliveries before that as well. So people in Canada saw their estimations MOVE UP 6-8 months. For being a Day 1 reservation holder, it's a real kick in the dick to suddenly drop to the very end of the priority line. They've done something like this for every major release, Tesla just can't hit their delivery dates here. Whatever the reason, they've been really poor in that area (and as someone who wants to see them succeed it's frustrating that they keep doing this).

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Feb 8, 2018 -> 12:48 PM) I doubt he has a Tesla if he is getting a new battery at lunch. Man I totally read the Tesla stuff and just assumed it was for that, my bad.

Chili, not sure how you are so shocked that Tesla is pushing out their production rollout again, they've been consistently late to deliver on every model.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 7, 2018 -> 01:35 PM) Shocked trump is offended at restricting father-daughter moments. I laughed at this.

The Republican party has at least said they won't endorse him or anything, but that seems odd that you can label yourself a candidate of a party without their support/say so.

Yea the commercials were pretty lame this year, the car commercials were atrocious.

I may get flamed for this in this thread, but I really hope X-men doesn't replace the Avengers, I would lose all interest.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 10:08 PM) Oh, they will in no way make the NCAAs. Goal should be to stay above water and get into the NIT. Next year they add Shayok from UVA and should only lose one starter. Horton-Tucker should be fun to watch. You’ve got a ton of talent coming in, may need some time for Conditt but the other guys are so underrated.

Not sure how close you are to the strip, I would imagine the market would be fairly strong though. And you should miss most of the riffraff of those looking to host parties at their accommodations. I've booked an "airbnb" on the strip before, it technically was at MGM Signature and it was an awesome experience (full hotel service but cheaper). Not sure if those properties are reasonably priced for the returns you could get from renting them out but if it is that sounds like a good idea.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 30, 2018 -> 02:12 PM) So a statue of great generals in history would be exploiting racist imaging but a statue of General Washington or any other President who owned slaves is not. Not sure how this shifted to statues, and not sure why statues would be a necessity to teach history either. I think the statue argument is never going to be 100% correct on either side, but I also think it doesn't really apply in this conversation so I'm not going to go further into it.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 30, 2018 -> 11:24 AM) Generals Jackson and Lee are used extensively as experts in military strategy. Should this information not be taught because they were Confederates? Teaching history is absolutely different from exploiting racist images.

I don't know why people think that it's only on minorities to fix racism and offensive material.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jan 29, 2018 -> 04:21 PM) Always got to play that “white man” card. What would you say to the millions of white people who aren’t offended by Notre Dame’s nickname? I’m all for this logo getting scrapped because of its racist undertones, but please stop playing the “white man” card anytime someone isn’t outraged by something. I’m sure there are plenty of other people of varying races & genders who gives two s***s about this logo. I honestly don't care (in respect to whether it should still be used or not) if a mascot offends one group or not. I think that as a society, as humans in 2018, we should be able to look at something called Chief Wahoo and collectively agree that it's not a good image to have around. And the reason the white man card keeps getting played is because white men keep coming in here and saying their s***. If white men would more commonly not have horrible takes they wouldn't get picked on so much.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 29, 2018 -> 12:16 PM) I watch his show. I don't agree with everything, but he does have some interesting guests. I didn't agree with the Trump book author insinuating a Trump/Nikki Haley affair. If he didn't want to actually put it in his book, his hint wasn't necessary. But that one wasn't on Maher. He had another guy on who made an interesting point about the republicans who say the Russians interfered for Hillary. His point being, if they really thought that, wouldn't they want to sanction the s*** out of them instead of the exact opposite? Maher says enough bad s*** consistent enough to invalidate the good things he says. Sure, he has his good moments but I'd rather not have him be such a public figure for the left, because he takes crazy stances too often. I want liberals to snuff the crazy out and be better than the right when it comes to their public figures. I hate the #bothsides argument that people bring up with this because frankly I expect liberals to act better than republicans at this point. I don't want them to stoop to the right's standards. To me, any liberal who wants to stoop lower is a hypocrite and is hurting the cause more than helping.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jan 29, 2018 -> 02:41 PM) Political correctness is running amok. I live in Indian Country and have yet to hear much from American Indians on this subject. But, if someone says something folks are afraid to counter for fear of being labeled racist Just because a small population of Native Americans hasn't specifically mentioned it to you (I'm assuming you're not NA) doesn't mean they aren't offended, nor does it mean it isn't the right thing to do in general.

Glad this is finally changing and glad those who are in favor of racist mascots are upset. Not really sure how anyone could defend that mascot.

I've got liberal friends who gobble his s*** up, I try to talk sense into them but it's like talking to Hannity/Fox personalities, reason won't prevail.