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Reading about Tua, and wondering how long he would have lasted with Zimmer as coach.
Maybe a day?
While I agree that some people respond to different types of coaching or management, I have had toxic bosses and bosses that seem to understand quality work. Tua is paid well enough to stfu and get to work.
Parcells would’ve kicked him in the groin. Ditka would have called him a pussy… over and over, and over. Yeah, we live in the kinder, gentler world these days.
For sure.
My Little League coaches were tougher than Parcells and just about every coach I played for was like that. And for about two thirds of my professional bosses treated us like crap.
And then some pretty good leaders came along that were just as demanding, but treated people with dignity and respect – and got even better results.
There is a world of difference between being demanding for exceptional results and that of being toxic treating people in a demeaning way.
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
That was what I was taught as a child.
No one’s words have ever made me feel bad about myself, ever, in my life.
No one can make you feel bad about yourself, without your permission.
You and I grew up that way. Times are different.
At one time, I had over 20k people working for me. I was demanding as hell for results – but I always treated people with respect and expected every leader in our organization to do the same.
And I firmly believe that is the way to get the best results.
You mention Parcells, I would have fired him and replaced him with Joe Gibbs or Bill Walsh.
There is simply no good reason to treat people in a toxic manner.
There are many reasons to be hard on people. Obviously the most important one is to test their mettle. See if they can take it. That was what Basic Training was all about. Weed out the weaklings.
Now, before you get me wrong, I agree with you wholeheartedly that leaders who are “toxic” as you say, are self-defeating in the end, and result in bad morale. I am 100% on your side.
It is “how” we go about testing and being demanding – as you know.
Good talk.
Even in prison you have people who respond to ‘tough love’ and some who see it as a challenge to stand up to.
I found it you treated them per the rules most of them were ok with that. A few AssHats thought that meant you were soft and so they pushed back so you had to be a hard case back with them.
Fun times, not dissimilar to the Army just percentages were far less AssHats to deal with.
Yep, after having so many types of bosses, I am fine with most. However, when I am treated well, I want to do a better job for that person, as well as for the paycheck. Much different situation vs an NFL player. Tua cannot just up and go get a different job if he is unhappy. There are only 32 of those jobs.
Thousands of people can do the job I do, so if I quit tomorrow, they will have my replacement in about 4 weeks.
The left remains diabolical…
The Harris campaign hired lawyer Marc Elias, a key player in the Russia collusion hoax. He commissioned the Steele dossier, which falsely alleged that Donald Trump conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election. The Federal Election Commission fined both the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee for misreporting Elias’s work as “legal expenses” instead of opposition research. And that was it. No one went to jail, and the media basically dropped the whole thing after spending months telling the public total lies, without apology. They just went on to the next bogus Trump character assassination spiel.
Of course now mainstream media outlets are downplaying that a presidential nominee hired a lawyer who helped create the Russia collusion hoax and pressured states to change their voting laws.
The left is as sinister as they come.
They are diabolical because they are ‘allowed’ to be. If we had a free and unbiased press their behavior would change because it simply would have to.
With no one to call pass interference, you’re going to see a lot more interference – why not?
Yep
A Republican has to beat the democrats and the majority of the press. That said, it would help one hell of a lot if our guy would stop all the bullshit crap like saying he’s prettier than Kamala etc. He needs to pick up his game big time.
Trump is being criticized for not being a good politician, because he isn’t one. He’s a businessman. He believes in telling it like it is, not what other politicians think the voters want to hear.
He won in 16 because suburban women didn’t like Hillary and he got votes. Four years later, and the turmoil of his first term (not appealing to many women), he lost this group.
To win, he needs to win back this group. And attacking Kamala personally will almost guarantee they don’t come to him.
He needs to stick to ‘issues,’
And whether you and I like it, and even if he likes it or not, part of the job requires him to be a politician (my opinion). He is no longer just a business man.
One party dictatorship and deficit spending. Socialism? Not a threat to democracy at all.
Yeah… the Socialists telling everyone they’re “Saving Democracy”. It’s galling.
Missed Joe last night, was he juiced up? He back on vacation?
Yeah, he said women don’t have electricity.
Along with repeating his normal lies.
Just a rerun?
Doesn’t matter. The guy that has been running the country for the last four years, and likely the next four, will be speaking tonight.
Joe was juiced up……and they over did it a little bit so he was the angry/loud Joe.
i was just remembering the game the game where Peterson missed Eric Dickerson record by 9 yards, beating the packers to make the playoffs.
I was driving home from Montana, listening to the game on the radio. I don’t remember how many carries he had, but it felt like every play was “handoff to peterson” “handoff to peterson”….man that was a fun game to listen to.
I always think of “orange peanut” when I remember that game.
Never mind. NFL blocked.
Anyway, there was a bad lipreading interview of AP after that game, and it joked that he was saying “orange peanut.”
i remember that bad lip reading. makes me chuckle thinking about it now
Heard that a bunch of Dem women tried to sing the National Anthem this morning, and they didn’t know the words.
Maybe they were just hitting the Kamala juice early.
Moose & Rocco showed up to give Flo some “protection” prior today’s presser…
Has this ever happened before where players joined their coach in support?
I’m not sure but it’s a great picture. I love the way both Metullus and Phillips have their arms crossed like they’re Flo’s enforcers. Not sure how intentional this was because I haven’t seen the presser (I’m just going by Seifert’s comment) but it’s pretty cool, IMO.
Sure wish we played Miami this year.
Me too
That would be fun.
Our DB’s against their WR’s – boy, that sure will be a lot of fun.
Flores would come up with something. Hopefully… yeah, who am I kidding.
Remembering Lions and Packers – they could put 40 on us.
They may score 40+ points, but I guarantee Tua would be sore the next morning.
if we played miami, this would be flo about tua….
Dolph Lundgren auto rec
Yep.
And then Tua would whine about what a bad man Flores’ is.
did they stay up there the whole time?
also, why no one else? do the other players hate him?!??!?!
Interesting – “said he has evolved as a coach.”
Not a bad statement I’d say. Might be some truth in what Tua said, so Flores, instead of getting into a pissing contest with Tua just states that he changed / evolved, and wishes him all the best. Well handled IMHO.
There’s different ways to lead. Remember Bobby Knight said “I get more out of my players with a kick in the ass, than I do with a pat on the back”. Flo may have bought into that. I’ll tell you sometimes a person needs a hardass coach to get the best out of them.
Well, given where you live you hear this also, most all the Miami fans wouldn’t give you two cents for Flores as a coach. And not just the Tua relations, but also throwing coaches and other players under the bus when things go bad. It’s more than the hard ass thing.
I was speaking to the subject at hand, which was Tua’s characterization of Flores. Lots of bad commentary on Flores around here for sure though.
And people can see the error of their ways, and evolve.
People do change and that’s good for sure. Now amongst my conservative friends, he’d be held in higher esteem if he’d drop his discrimination case.
Rec for the Caddyshack ref
Free abortions and vasectomy’s at the DNC if you want to make it to Chicago.
“Free” meaning no extra out of pocket money is required.
If you did more of the later you wouldn’t need the former.
Has there been any update on Hock’s progression? Everything on track for him? no setbacks or anything?
If Hock is on schedule, I think I have seen week 6 thrown around for when he should be back, or around there?
i see Griffin practiced yesteday. that’s a good sign.
for reference, the Griffin comment was more meant a good sign for HIM, not anything to do with Hock
Of course everything reported is glowing.
But I wouldn’t expect him back until late October.
Just my opinion.
If we aren’t in a playoff picture then, just sit him.
Probably.
I could see him wanting some reps for a couple of games.
But yeah. Why risk it.
could the team even do that? if he’s healthy enough to play, and wants to play….i feel like they would get in trouble with the NFLPA for just sitting him for safety sake
Hock is under contract to the Vikings, and the team can play him or sit him as they see fit. They can trade him too. A contract in the NFL means a team owns you, and you don’t get a vote (if that’s how they want to play their hand).
They do that all of the time.
Players get benched.
Players are pulled if the game is out of reach.
Players don’t play “out of an abundance of caution”.
There is no guarantee that any player MUST play.
Easy, just don’t ‘designate him to return off of IR’.
I was wondering the same. Man if the interior OL could be even decent and the QB could be average that offense could be scary with Hock back!
Been watching Ingrim lately.
I wonder if I could beat a lie detector test by making myself have a panic attack during the entire test, so every question is answered from a position of stressed…
No
What is the best strategy?
Not that I have to take one. I just worry that I might someday…
Not because I’m planning anything, you should understand. I also worry that someday I might have to fight a mountain lion…
Controlled breathing helps the most. That, and pretending that the person asking the questions is talking to someone else, not you.
Interesting…
I am watching a YouTube video of an interrogation where the murder took a lie detector test.
I wonder why he agreed to it. He wasn’t under arrest. Maybe he figured he was screwed, and he figured he might as well give beating it a shot.
They aren’t allowed in court for evidence are they?
I don’t think so. They are mainly a tool in investigation, I think. I wouldn’t put money on it, though.
At one point, in some places the polygraph was not admitable.
But the person who administrated the test could testify to the results, what they saw, and why it was considered a failed test.
I want to know why so many folks on this thread know so much about beating a lie detector test…..
Lots of secret agents in here…
When we first bought the bar we owned, there was a guy in one night, he looked familiar but no one could remember his name. Turns out, he was a local grown guy, but had moved to Oregon or Washington right out of high school. He was in his 60’s at this point.
He seemed fairly normal, but was making some very provocative comments to our bartender. He didn’t seem overly drunk and the bartender said he only had three drinks since he came in.
We started talking to him and it turns out, he was back to help move his mom into an assisted living facility. My friend, who happened to be sitting with us, was the realtor that sold his mom’s house. This guy starts talking about how my friend ripped off his mom and so on.
We finally get tired of him and tell him the bar is closing, and he leaves. But, when he gets out side he takes off running towards his apartment.
We dimmed all of the lights so it looked like we were closed. Next thing I know he is walking by the windows from the opposite direction he went when he left. He sees us looking out the windows and takes off running and he trips when he gets to the corner of the building.
Me and two of my friends go out to see if he is okay, and he gets up and takes off running again, getting about half a block before he trips again. We go up to help him up and he looks like he just got done fighting a mountain lion. Cheek is cut and already selling, glasses all bent to shit. So we help him up and walk him up to his apartment. Get him laid down in his bed with a bag of ice for the swelling. He asks who we are and what we do. So we tell him, then he asks if we are secret agents. We confirm we are not secret agents.
A few months later, I was talking to a police officer friend of mine. I was telling him about the situation. It turns out after we left him in his apartment, he went looking for us and the police got called. He made it all the way to his neighbors front door and fell and passed out. He told the cops that he was going to find the secret agents.
TL;DR read it it is funny.
Mental illness is a hell of a thing. The stories I could tell if I could if not for that darned oath.
Sounds like something an Erickson would do…
That is the only Jackson name I can think of right now…
It was a Leach brother, his brothers do not talk to him.
I knew a Leach from the Heron Lake-Okabena area. He was a couple years ahead of me.
Heh heh this is like asking if you should flatten the chest cavity on a corpse when you bury it so that the compacted ground overlying the grave doesn’t subside during decomp…just in case?
So that doesn’t work either?
Damn!
I do know from burying a horse that the ground seems to settle a bit centrally after a month or so. Whether that is due to the thorax collapsing under the weight of the soil I’ll never know cuz I wasn’t about to dig it back up.
One of my old coworkers had a horse he really liked. When it died, he was too cheap to hire a backhoe to come out and dig a hole, so he tried burning the horse. Then he went to Wal-Mart and bought a whole bunch of Tupperware. He scrapped what was left into the containers and buried that.
I never really understood the thought process there…
Yuck. Nothing like smelling burning horsehair and horse flesh as you lie in bed at night with the window open. <sniff sniff> oh that’s just Bessie.
Interrogator just asked the guy, “What is your normal heart rate?”
“130 or 140…”
“Your resting heart rate?”
“Yep.”
He’s a cool customer…
I got no clue what my resting heart rate is.
Probably around 60-70.
I thought like a tack in your shoe or something so you can spike your heart rate reaction even in your control questions could help? Guessing here.
It’s not a lie if you believe it.
I’d be so screwed. I inherited my mother’s niceness. I would just volunteer for whatever crime I was accused of just to save the police all the trouble.
The hearing for the order of protection filed by my granddaughter against her cousin was held today (at least in Montana when an order of protection is filed it is temporarily granted for 20 days, and a hearing must take place within the 20 days). The cousin did not testify, a subordinate of his at his place of employment did testify (“he lied under oath” my GD sez heh heh). A permanent order of protection was granted, he cannot be within 500 feet of her with the exception of the local HS football field and gym where the order is reduced to 100 feet so that he can watch his son play.
The order can only be rescinded now by my GD. Until it is rescinded it cannot be expunged from his record, although by my understanding it won’t appear on a criminal background check, only more of an individual background check such as what hospitals do.
He sounds like a nice guy.
Hopefully he learns his lesson.
Glad she “won”.
Hopefully he leaves her alone.
Well, if he doesn’t, his employer has a zero tolerance policy for domestic abuse.
Not sure what the situation is but whatever it is I hope your granddaughter is OK and her cousin gets the help they need…
Oh, I had laid out the events in some detail on here previously. For the sake of brevity, his 8th grade daughter was allowed to participate in varsity BB and track and played alongside my GD, a senior. Apparently the 8th grader told her parents that GD did not welcome her to the team nor defend her when the other senior girls on the BB team expressed annoyance that they were benched so an 8th grader could play. Another angst was my GD refused to switch positions in the 4×100 relay at divisionals. Coaches said my GD was always a good and polite teammate.
Started with the 51 year old cousin/father sending a text calling her the C word on Mother’s Day. Family blocked him, assuming he would calm down. The 18 year old brother of the 8th grader started sending her threatening and demeaning snap chats. Then during the playoffs for the local legion baseball team (that the brother was playing in), the 51 year old approached her with a beer in his hand, called her the B word and said he hoped to never see her again, and spilled beer on her, in front of many witnesses. My daughter who was with us at the nearby rodeo received a dozen texts from mothers in attendance at the baseball game as well as a tearful call from the GD…asked what to do, I advised speaking to the deputies at the rodeo as the passive response was not working and they recommended filing an order of protection.
WTF is wrong with people? All over some sports too, calm your tits people.
That’s the part I love. I can just see him going into a local dining establishment with a couple of buddies and she is there…he gets to say oh I have to leave cuz I bullied my 18 year old cousin.
Ok, The Teacher is ready.
Will check in once we get back in a few hours.
Have fun!
Spent about $200 mostly on meat. That is where the biggest savings is.
I figured if I don’t spend at least that much we lose out since we are paying for the gas to go 75 miles one way.
CRV gets good gas milage and they gas is cheaper on the base so we fill up there. More meat we get the more we save, some other stuff is cheaper and some is pricer we are learning.
Just don’t say anything and hopefully his suspension can cover one or or two of those missed games.
He could still be suspended right?
He will be suspended.
DUI is an automatic suspension.
The going rate in the NFL is 3 games.
6 games if “extenuating circumstances” were involved.
They’ll wait to suspend him until he’s healthy.
I was wondering about that. Can you get two birds stoned sort of situation (extra credit if you know the reference).
YES!
Do I get double extra credit for also finding a gif of it?
Likely.
Duh, then obviously the Vikings report him as a full practice participant starting next week.
Guessing NFL will wait til after court date. After he’s healthy. May miss many games.
A 6th or 7th round pick would be great to get.
Slick is getting excited…..
Not bad, a 7th for a 1st – Bidenomics.
But..but we got all of those years of ‘quality service’ out of him.
so one of my co-workers asked a vikings qb trivia question today and it brought me back to our 1998 year.
I just realized, i’m a fair weather fan. That’s the year (1998) i truly became a vikings fan. I watched every single game that year (i hadn’t really watched every game of a season before them and i’m sure it’s because my dad got into it as well)
I have been chasing the high of 1998 since 1998.
I think I started watching seriously in 1983.
Haha the “high water” of Vikings fandom of the last quarter century.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen mom that happy!
Made we realize, wow, I really let her down…
How could the 1987 season escape you?
Backed into the playoffs.
Stomped the Saints
Stomped the 49ers.
Almost beat the Redskins for a Super Bowl berth.
1987 was the most exciting season of the last 40 years for me.
I was barely a year old so I have a hard time remembering that one.
I keep forgetting that millennials don’t have the full Vikings experience. Some even think Kirko is the greatest Vikings QB of all time. Just sad.
That’s a little extreme. Not even the best I’ve watched in my comparatively limited time.
Well, in the last 35 years he has played in the most games so there is recency bias. The QBs I place ahead of him played in an era long before I became a Vikings fan.
1987 was preVF (Viking fandom) for me.
It was spectacular…if Nelson didn’t have a broken hand he makes that catch and the endzone and we go to the superbowl.
Yep.
It’s always something for the Vikings.
Maybe if Carter had ran the correct route he wouldn’t have brought Green back into the play so he could hit Nelson as the ball got there.
This is also a good point. Screw Chris Carter.
It was Anthony Carter I believe.
Should have had a fall guy. Or maybe he was Nelson’s fall guy?
I don’t remember the wrong route part (just the drop by Nelson) but you would be correct on this point…Anthony Carter was on the 1987 Vikings squad whereas Cris Carter was a rookie that season with the Eagles.
For some reason, I didn’t watch as much that year. It was maybe because I started junior high and got distracted by how weird life was becoming.
I can clearly remember remember mom watching the 49er playoff game, though, as I walked through the room and then watching the end of it.
I thought you were older than that.
I was in college at that time.
In fact, I had my car packed for the ride to Madison for the upcoming semester and left right after the game.
That was one tough emotional ride that afternoon.
I’m very emotionally mature for my age!
I feel like I can dimly remember the Vikings losing to the Redskins, but mostly I was neck-deep in trying to figure out how everyone in my class had changed so much over the summer.
Puberty was a trip, man!
I also remember I started paying more attention to the Rams than the Vikings for a bit because I really liked Eric Dickerson. I was also a Raiders fan and remember them winning the Super Bowl pretty well in 1984.
I even had silver and black moon boots.
I’m envious of the moon boots.
I distinctly remember a high school guy picking on me one day because I had silver/black moon boots, black jeans, a Raiders shirt and a Raiders hat on one day while getting on the bus.
In retrospect, I guess he had a point. I was overdoing it a bit…
You were a Gene Simmons clone!
I still remember hearing my first KISS song. They were not big in my area. One of my friends had a cassette, though.
He played “Heaven’s on Fire.”
I really liked it. The only songs the radio played here were top 40 stuff, so I never got really exposed to rock until junior high. I grew up on country, classical and stuff like Juice Newton.
Wren walking into middle school on the first day.
I was a baaaad man!
Duh
I remember my dad selling moon boots in his shoe store. I always hated those things. They were so ugly.
1987 was a great year. Also the best year I had bartending (sports bar and Applebees). Made great tips during and after games for the Twins and Vikings.
Sadly, reality hit soon after.
I didn’t realize Applebees was around in 1987. I thought it was a newer chain. Now I have to look it up…
Apparently, it was founded in 1980…
Started working there in 1986. Spent 5+ years doing that part time, until I got through school for IT things.
1987 I worked there and Sensers.
Is Joe Senser still around?
Didn’t his wife kill someone or something?
I used to listen to him do the Vikings game all the time. Then he just disappeared.
He had a stroke, but is still alive and kicking.
And yes, his wife ran over someone, tried to blame it on someone else. Messy shit and she did time.
Joe was a very nice guy to work for. I know that. Anything else I have no idea.
This was the year I learned not to bet on the Vikings. It was only a dollar, but to a poor freshman it was a lot.
Still mad at my father. he went to Vegas in march of 87. I gave him $20 and told him to put 10 each on the twins and vikings. They only took $20 futures bets, so he bet the Vikings. Could have just spotted me the $20, or split the bets. Nope. Just 1 bet on the Vikings.
Twins won, at 1500 to 1.
Nelson catches that pass in the NFCCG, I would have won some money, but not as much as the twins paid.
Happy Kirk-Tuesday everyone!
Kirk Cousins programmed a nostalgic Falcons practice playlist for his birthday featuring 2000s alt-rock classics (msn.com)
Just when I thought Kirk couldn’t get any cooler…
Right??!!!!
Can’t believe he puts Stacey’s Mom on a playlist. Kirk is a pervert!
But, you have to admit, she’s got it going on.
No doubt…
perused the list. literally maybe 2 good songs on there. good riddance kirk and your terrible 00’s music taste
This list is terrible indeed. As ugly as Kirk’s grilling “skills”.
Picture up top – The Great One, what a talent.
Going out to the AFB today to stock up at the Commissary.
Will do a drive by of the BX to see if they have anything on special.
Need to stop by the Mall at some point, my Vintage/Classic iMac has been acting up the last week or so, thinking of replacing it before it takes a dump (again). Don’t think it has many of it’s ‘Nine Lives’ left anymore.
Just got back from morning errands with my sister. Picked up her meds, bought some groceries, went by the bank, then got some Dunkin Donuts and coffee.
She’s worn out, but happy we got her out and about finally. Baby steps with her recovery.
I could see that, out and about accomplishing things can be a positive for the day.
Goodonya for taking care of family like that.
Thank you SoCal, she’s getting better. Don’t know if she will ever walk without a walker again. Just going to give her the best quality of life I can.
“The Best You Can Do Is The Best You Can Do”.
Had a Major scoff at that once and said it was a ‘cop out’.
Yeah, she wasn’t that bright and had issues, we butted heads often. Luckily she rotated out before she qualified to give me an Evaluation.
I worked for the Forest Service in college and our supervisor hated when we’d finish a task and say “good enough for government work.”
I was told before I started at the Prison, if you care and try to do a good job you will be way above your peers, unfortunately ‘they’ were right.
A donut and a cup of coffee makes for a wonderful morning.
She was so happy, sitting there. It’s the simple things in life.
So true about simple things.
How’s ‘ retirement life ‘ going?
Still getting a lot of things wrapped up, but trying to relax. Time to go through 50 years of junk collection, boxes we haven’t looked into in decades, etc. I have stuff in three storage units in three states. Gotta get that all worked out.
‘I have stuff in three storage units in three states’
And I though I had it rough moving after 19 years and adding The Teachers stuff to mine in the middle of that.
She said to tell you ‘pace yourself’ there are no more deadlines.
Wise woman… my wife has also said “take your time”. She loves me being “available” now whenever she wants to do something (including changing the air conditioning filters).
As I sit here now, we have boxes in the garage that haven’t been opened since two moves ago. At this point, probably going to be the kids problem after we pass along.
I got boxes I should label ‘open after I’m gone’.
Not interested in going thru them and sorting them but don’t think they should be thrown away.
‘We are held captive by our possessions’.
Exactly!
Indeed.
My 90 year old mom has created a list of stuff that SHE wants given to whoever.
My 3 siblings and I want none of it.
Yet she insists on who should get it.
Yeah, my mom had an item for each of us.
I was designed to get her 50 year old, wobbly, dining room table. She was shocked when I declined.
I wanted the antique Seth Thomas clock but that is suppose to go to ‘big brother’, but he opted out of the will so maybe.
Ugh, these posts bring back memories of the struggle we had getting my mother to purge prior to selling the home and moving into a condo.
My mom spent a year going thru her house prior to moving herself into the assisted living home and leasing out her place.
She threw, gave, donated, and sorted for a full year.
She had one set of dishes, ugly, that she couldn’t sell so she gave it to my SIL to hold for one of her daughters. She actually said ‘you can’t sell this set’. Hello mom, you are giving it to her because you could not sell it.
What is a BX?
Base Exchange… like a department store, but smaller.
Would be a Post Exchange (PX) on any Army Base.
Oh, I guess I thought PX and Commissary were synonyms.
The Canadian equivalent (CANEX) has in my limited experience contained both food items and department store stuff.
PX/BX has limited food, mostly snack items, plus a food court.
They have ‘Shopettes’ at larger bases, normally at the gas station, that may offer more, almost like a Truck Stop.
PX/BX are mini dept stores.
Commissary is a grocery store.
In Calif I would get ‘reverse sicker shock’ shopping there vs a ‘normal grocery store’.
See, price controls work……
Communism was a decent idea.
“Each to his need
From each according to his ability”
Karl Marx
Too bad it doesn’t work with Human Nature, it can work with family sometimes.
I’m offended that you’re offended….
I start to get offended at the Woke thinking I am so stupid that I would fall for all their lies and shenanigans. Then I realize that I am not their ‘target audience’ and I just get disappointed that those who are and fall for the BS.
What bothers me, is the number of people who are so limited intellectually. Keep in mind, the liberals don’t want our children to be well-read, and well educated. They want kids to focus on their “gender journey” now in schools.
Don’t know that there are that many ‘true believers’, most are either distracted or just don’t care and go along with whatever crowd they run with, like my Mom in the Assisted Living Facility.
Especially sad are the ones that say ‘I think that is wrong’ but vote with them anyway.
Yeah, you’re totally not limiting yourself intellectually by only being brain washed by one side if you actually believe the stupidity in the above. I mean seriously? Yes there are so extreme morons on the lib side but there are also decent folks that aren’t that extreme, as a matter of fact the vast majority are not what you label as basically all libs. You guys, are so bought into a one sided skewed narrative while at the same talking about intellect and being, “well read.” Incredible.
Who’s ” you guy ” ?
The difference is that the right has some extremists and the left party is extreme. The moderate dems are the ones not in touch with their party anymore.
I disagree, it’s the progressive dems that are not in touch with the moderate dems. “Liberals don’t want our children to be well read and educated”. Such an idiotic comment.
If the Liberals want “our” children to be well read in the 1619 Project and CRT is that well educated?
No it isn’t. This is just factually wrong and just a stupid narrative pushed by the media of the right.
HAHAHAHA
It’s truly a false narrative and if you think it’s true you are just demonstrating that you don’t understand how the political spectrum actually works or what it really is. You hear the same moronic stuff from the left that the right is just all gone so far extreme. It’s just another tool used to divide us that only those with party loyalties to hold on to embrace.
You’re demonstrating that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
That can’t be true, he is way smarter than all the rest of us.
We have facts and he has truth ala FJB.
Except life long Dems are actually voting Republican because in their own words the Democratic party has moved too far left and left them behind. Look at Elon Musk.
Super Bowl here we come !!
not gonna lie, i wish we had Storm Duck
There aren’t many “normal” names on that list.
The only song of his that I can remember is…..
“Everybody wants you……”
I usually remember In the Dark first and then The Stroke.
I never realized how big he was at one time. Plus, I guess he is one of the most sampled artists of all time in hip hop.
Now I do remember a few more of them.
Thanks for enlightening me!
“Stroke me stroke me….”
Good morning Skolios,
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Skol
Thank you Surly for continuing to post the threads.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!