4 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

they could have still had playoffs. Dont need to be this long. 

They are looking to recoup lost money.  

5 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

the specific issue of protesting the anthem in todays F'd up world of liberal wack jobs? No, Im not surprised. But the idea of common decency should be common. Its part of the term. 

well this has got to be one of the most hypocritical things said in here when it comes to racial relations. 

Its a quote from Abraham lincoln i believe. You know the president who tried to end slavery😒

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

This is going to sound controversial but it's true.  Here's what we are going to see.

First, you have all these virtue signaling social media folks out there who are going to be going above and beyond to show their "support" for the black community.  It's going to be a social media trend to show that you care.  They think they bring about change by changing their profile picture or adding a frame that says BLM. Being pro black is a trend much like being pro gay or pro trans is.  They want to fit in so you how support without even knowing why.  What truly caring humans do is support and love their brothers and sisters without putting it on blast for all to see.  It's instinctive and you do it because you actually care, not because you want your followers to see.  You see this with "random acts of kindness".  People feel the need to praise themselves for doing a good deed.  Look at me look at the nice thing i did.  It''s going to be the same thing with race.  Look at me, I love black people, I'm a good person.  You didn'y shout it from the rooftop so you're a racist.

Second, you're going to see it become popular to talk down and be racist towards whites not only acceptable but encouraged.  I'm not talking about racism on the same level as what happened to George Floyd but you'll see it from celebrities first, then late night talk show hosts.  Who's gonna be first, Jimmy Kimmel or Trevor Noah telling white folks how crappy we are?  It's going to be the trend.  It's how today's society works.

Gross generalizations based on anything should be intolerable.   It’s discrimination.  But it is practiced.  Not all people of any race, creed, sexual orientation, religion or lack thereof, gender or profession are of the same beliefs or opinions.  

Most police are good.  It has to be scary with all the guns out there to do that job.  It has to be fair to also try to walk a mile in their shoes given gun violence in some communities. Contrary to how some lawyer ads portrayed my profession, most insurance adjusters are empathetic, professional and focused on using money to make people whole after a loss and close that claim, yet ads to the contrary exist in every market. Note, I said some lawyer ads, most don’t advertise or advertise like that.    Most car salespeople are honest and trying to earn a fair living. Yet we have terms such as honest as a used car salesman.

I think excessive force is never justified.  Yet we must recall as we ‘honor’ George Floyd that he was being arrested for check forgery.   There may be a victim in that crime, if it truly happened but that should have been determined by a jury of his peers.  

We are all guilty.  How many posters have asked for pictures in reference to a woman?  A respected, thoughtful colleague did it on a very tongue in cheek response regarding someone named Halsey.  I will admit my thought when reading that and the first post was "who the hell is Halsey” followed by "damn, I’m old”.  My point is, we all need to recognize we do some of this, without thought.  So the Blacks this or whites that fall on deaf ears here.  That even includes Republicans this or Democrats that.  The more we each work everyday towards seeing each person separately with their individual strengths and flaws, the better we are. Every time we start to think well, of course_________ because they are a ________, we slip a little. (Disclaimer:  this does not apply to Cowpads, wasteam, giants, and their fans. Generally we can all agree, they are misguided and confused.)

5 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

the specific issue of protesting the anthem in todays F'd up world of liberal wack jobs? No, Im not surprised. But the idea of common decency should be common. Its part of the term. 

well this has got to be one of the most hypocritical things said in here when it comes to racial relations. 

On the other hand, 47 percent of people find it decent to protest during the anthem. How do you determine common decency?

8 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

This one is just completely untrue. 

With your first two lines and one of your earlier posts its clear that youre done with any semblance of productive discussion. 

Yup got me😒 and yet youre the one calling others liberal whack jobs because they hold different views than you

6 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Dare I ask what Jake Fromm did?

Someone leaked a text conversation he had to social media. 

4 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

(Disclaimer:  this does not apply to Cowpads, wasteam, giants, and their fans. Generally we can all agree, they are misguided and confused.)

😄

25 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

Its true

What do you mean theyre not approaching white people the same?  Thats just not true.  Ive had a gun pulled on me for a traffic stop

The uncomfortable fact is that black people commit crime at a higher rate and therefore have more police encounters.

Your anecdotal evidence doesn’t change statistics. 
 

Also, systematic racism is at play here, I don’t think that’s something we can ignore. If I’m a cop and I decide to put you under a microscope, eventually I’ll find something on you. It’s not right. 
 

Just look at all of videos where cops claim someone was resisting arrest when video evidence shows otherwise. How many instances are out there where we don’t have the video to back up the citizen?

2 hours ago, Nivraga said:

The people rioting and looting are opportunists taking advantage of the protest focus - they're not part of the protest. What angers me after the damage done to life and property by the rioting and looting is that the story becomes about the rioting and looting instead of about the purpose behind the protest. So please do not make the mistake of conflating the rioters and looters together with the protesters. 

We need to define rioters and protesters as I think if I was drawing a Vin diagram, there was some overlap. (The looters are criminals, period, to me.). Some of the arson was part of the group protesting.  Some of the spray painting was part of the group protesting.  Some of the group throwing things at the police were protesters. They may be "rioters” too.  I think that is factual based on my eye view of videos. I am trying not to generalize but merely state, I think there is some overlap.

18 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

 

I think excessive force is never justified.  Yet we must recall as we ‘honor’ George Floyd that he was being arrested for check forgery.   There may be a victim in that crime, if it truly happened but that should have been determined by a jury of his peers.  
 

He actually wasn't being arrested for "check forgery".  Maybe that's the technical term but he was arrested for attempting to pay with a counterfeit $20 bill.   There's a big difference, imo, between writing a bad/forged check (That you know is bad)  than there is paying with a $20 bill (that you may not even know is counterfeit).  

Do you pay that close attention to the cash in your wallet?  I wouldn't know if I was passing a counterfeit $20 unless it was blatantly obvious it was counterfeit.   That's one of the more disturbing facts about his death - he may have not even known that he was passing a counterfeit bill.  

2 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

We need to define rioters and protesters as I think if I was drawing a Vin diagram, there was some overlap. (The looters are criminals, period, to me.). Some of the arson was part of the group protesting.  Some of the spray painting was part of the group protesting.  Some of the group throwing things at the police were protesters. They may be "rioters” too.  I think that is factual based on my eye view of videos. I am trying not to generalize but merely state, I think there is some overlap.

I think its more useful to attempt to understand the root causes of looting and rioting instead of labeling people as such.

8 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

He actually wasn't being arrested for "check forgery".  Maybe that's the technical term but he was arrested for attempting to pay with a counterfeit $20 bill.   There's a big difference, imo, between writing a bad/forged check (That you know is bad)  than there is paying with a $20 bill (that you may not even know is counterfeit).  

Do you pay that close attention to the cash in your wallet?  I wouldn't know if I was passing a counterfeit $20 unless it was blatantly obvious it was counterfeit.   That's one of the more disturbing facts about his death - he may have not even known that he was passing a counterfeit bill.  

Even more curious is there even any evidence that there was an actual counterfeit bill or is this just another case of sandwich shop Karen calling the police on  a guy for buying a sandwich while black???

28 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

the specific issue of protesting the anthem in todays F'd up world of liberal wack jobs? No, Im not surprised. But the idea of common decency should be common. Its part of the term. 

Common decency, common sense...these phrases are meaningless. What’s common to you may not be to me or the next guy. 

13 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said:

Your anecdotal evidence doesn’t change statistics. 
 

Also, systematic racism is at play here, I don’t think that’s something we can ignore. If I’m a cop and I decide to put you under a microscope, eventually I’ll find something on you. It’s not right. 
 

Just look at all of videos where cops claim someone was resisting arrest when video evidence shows otherwise. How many instances are out there where we don’t have the video to back up the citizen?

The statistics are on my side.  What statistics have you provided? None

What statistics can you provide that shows blacks are "approached differently" than white people?  

 

Youre operating on the fallacy that police are just out to target blacks and overwhelmingly thats not true

Been trying to figure out why, or if, we may bring in another CB?

I'm thinking since Slay primarily shadows the #1 they're thinking is that it's better to have guys used to flipping sides a lot, hence the wealth of nickel slot guys as they typically play both sides.

So unless that does not go well this year I don't see them bringing anyone in unless there is a really surprising cut.

Plus with the limited money we have in trying to roll over to next year there isn't a whole lot we can do.

The Alshon contract is really killing us.

Howie's biggest booboo of his career this far.

8 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

The statistics are on my side.  What statistics have you provided? None

What statistics can you provide that shows blacks are "approached differently" than white people?  

 

Youre operating on the fallacy that police are just out to target blacks and overwhelmingly thats not true

"just to target", maybe not. However, Stop and Frisk in NYC was stopped for that very reason.

But the manner in which the situations are handled have been shown through video evidence to be much different.  

2 hours ago, WentzFan11 said:

It’s easy for a white man to shout from the top that we’re all equal and to stop fighting. You’ve been on top throughout history. You created the construct to ensure you’re on top. 
 

Understand that you benefit from the enslavement of minorities and the systematic racism put in place for years. Fight with them to fix it. 

That’s a bit of a generalization and not completely accurate.  Even at the birth of country, poorer white men were not on top.  Not on the bottom either, to be sure.  Feudal history is very similar.  Indenture was not on top.  Most folks were dirt farmers.  Hand to mouth.  In many jurisdictions, property rights for women were behind rights of other cultures. It is still not equal for them, regardless of race.   We have had the Exclusion Act focused on Chinese.  We had discriminatory practices aimed at Irish and Southern Europeans (and Catholics).  We currently face discrimination against Muslims.  Interestingly, discrimination against folks at the bottom was prevalent towards folks perceived as lower on the social ladder, with the phenomenon that women in that racial or religious group tended to fare worse with the men of that group from the men in that group.   Cultural history, sociology and anthropology can be interesting although frequently skewed by the view or hypothesis of the writer but it is not complete without viewing the individual. 

I would encourage you to study as much as you can, including the slave markets of Africa and the effects to this day in relationships between tribes.   Regardless of race (Etc.), this is a complex and storied history.  

Eagles confirmed what I posted earlier. Although Coaches can return tomorrow they are staying virtual until July

 

8 minutes ago, PrinceKelby said:

Been trying to figure out why, or if, we may bring in another CB?

I'm thinking since Slay primarily shadows the #1 their thinking is that's it's better to have guys used to flipping sides a lot, hence the wealth of nickel slot guts as they typically play both sides.

So unless that does not go well this year I don't see them bringing anyone in unless there is a really surprising cut.

Plus with the limited money we have in trying to roll over to next there isn't a whole lot we can do.

The Alshon contract is really killing us.

Howie's biggest booboo of his career this far.

May see them do what Belichick has done.  Put Slay on their #2 and then double their #1.

9 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Eagles confirmed what I posted earlier. Although Coaches can return tomorrow they are staying virtual until July

 

The right decision. Why rush it?

6 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

May see them do what Belichick has done.  Put Slay on their #2 and then double their #1.

We’ve spent so much time talking about playing sides and shadowing 1s that we missed an obvious option. 

38 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

What a Moron.   
 

no excuse for that 

 

 

I’m imposing a self ban of 30 days.  Hopefully when I come back they’ll be some normalcy and maybe some sports.   
 

You message me on Twitter in the past.  I might be on there going forward.    I’ll check IM every now and then.  Most of you can celebrate now.  BYE.  

Not saying it's ok but go thru any persons private text messages and you'll probably find offensive things said between friends.  You dont think any black athletes text between each other saying similiar stuff about whites, asians, Hispanics,  etc.? 

 

55 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

They are looking to recoup lost money.  

Probably best to have a full season next year then with all 30 teams n stuff.

54 minutes ago, Utebird said:

Its a quote from Abraham lincoln i believe. You know the president who tried to end slavery😒

And the double standard didn't exist back then. Unfortunately you're posting in 2020. 

2 hours ago, hputenis said:

Anyone have any good marinade recipes/mixes for chicken thighs or chicken breasts?  I can't grill red meat every single night, so I'm trying to add some chicken options.  I've got some breasts marinading in the fridge right now (all in a Ziploc gallon freezer bag) with a mix of vegetable oil, honey, lime juice, paprika, black pepper, garlic powder, and chili powder.  

Sounds good. I have lots of marinades and recipes for chicken.  I also Google recipes all the time and then I tend to vary towards my tastes.  Recommend EVOO instead of vegetable oil.  No or low sodium bullions or better, Better than Bullion, can be used.  You name the vinegar, red wine, balsamic, cider etc., I have on hand.   Use alcohol.  White wine and mushrooms are great with chicken.  Have peppers Fresh) available, homegrown when possible.  If you can grow herbs, basil, thyme, rosemary, sage, mint, cilantro, chives, parsley are always better fresh.  Just tinker.   I do like the Pioneer Woman’s tequila lime marinade.