1 minute ago, Utebird said:

This article states they still have strong social programs but like to buy stuff.

The pic at the top is a may day march for democratic socialists not democratic capitalist.

Like i said countries that have strong social programs with free markets as well do better than social countries with weak free markets or free market countries with weak social programs 

A good indicator of a healthy economy is a strong growing middle class.

US middle class is shrinking creating a wide gap of inequality between working class and ruling class the haves and have nots. Democratic socialism balances out predatory and croney capitalism practices and evens out the wealth.

In a true social society equality is reached  yet that doesnt exist in the world though has been  forced through systems like communism, communism isnt inherently good or bad either except in the case which it is most often a form of forced socialism.

Communism will never work because human nature won't allow it. Some people are hard working, some are lazy. Some are honest, some aren't.

Complete equality will never be achieved. There will always be people who take advantage of other people.

The best you can do is to live your life as honestly and self sufficiently as you can.

Just now, Asg 15 said:

Communism will never work because human nature won't allow it. Some people are hard working, some are lazy. Some are honest, some aren't.

Complete equality will never be achieved. There will always be people who take advantage of other people.

The best you can do is to live your life as honestly and self sufficiently as you can.

Agreed in full!

1 minute ago, Utebird said:

Whats a state store? Im not familiar with that term.

In PA the state controls all liquor sales

1 minute ago, Asg 15 said:

In PA the state controls all liquor sales

Hmmm learn something new every day. 

How and why did that come about?

4 hours ago, NCiggles said:

I think it's really about training more than the "quality" of the person.  There's also too much blame on the officers who, when equipped with tear gas and rubber bullets, use those in an effort to carry out what they think they need to do and too little blame on the people in charge.  

Major truth here.  From what I have seen there are serious lapses in leadership in both the departments and unions and arguably it training. Someone had to make the decision that Chauvin and Thao were qualified to be training officers.  That’s a failure. I have to ask why Thao didn’t intervene and let his rookie and the other rookie know this wasn’t all right. Was he intimidated by Chauvin?  How does Chauvin rise to be the senior officer on the scene?  Lots of questions and frankly, I wonder how our local state police barracks would fare under such questions. 

4 minutes ago, Utebird said:

Hmmm learn something new every day. 

How and why did that come about?

Long before my time.

8 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Major truth here.  From what I have seen there are serious lapses in leadership in both the departments and unions and arguably it training. Someone had to make the decision that Chauvin and Thao were qualified to be training officers.  That’s a failure. I have to ask why Thao didn’t intervene and let his rookie and the other rookie know this wasn’t all right. Was he intimidated by Chauvin?  How does Chauvin rise to be the senior officer on the scene?  Lots of questions and frankly, I wonder how our local state police barracks would fare under such questions. 

Agreed.  Being 'senior' doesn't necessarily qualify someone to train.  Teaching/training is a very different skill from just being able to do a job, and from what we saw... Chauvin had some issues with doing the job.

 

My biggest concern in all of this is the pendulum is tending to swing way too far one direction... and there's a major movement to throw the baby out with the bathwater.  There are far far more 'good cops' than there are 'bad cops'.   

24 minutes ago, Utebird said:

Hmmm learn something new every day. 

How and why did that come about?

I believe it goes back to the Commonwealth's Quaker history.

28 minutes ago, Utebird said:

Hmmm learn something new every day. 

How and why did that come about?

Imagine how much money you would make if you had a monopoly on liquor sales for 12 million people... that was the thinking.

4 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I believe it goes back to the Commonwealth's Quaker history.

No, it's a post prohibition arrangement.  Basically they wanted to jack up the price and rape the consumer "for the public good." 

1 minute ago, TEW said:

Imagine how much money you would make if you had a monopoly on liquor sales for 12 million people... that was the thinking.

No, it's a post prohibition arrangement.  Basically they wanted to jack up the price and rape the consumer "for the public good." 

Thanks.

Looking at snap counts last year it's hard to gauge how many snaps M. Jackson will play.

I assume, especially coming off injury, he will be coming off the bench to spell both Cox and Hargrave so should be around 50% of the snaps?

Does that seem a legit expectation?

4 minutes ago, PrinceKelby said:

Looking at snap counts last year it's hard to gauge how many snaps M. Jackson will play.

I assume, especially coming off injury, he will be coming off the bench to spell both Cox and Hargrave so should be around 50% of the snaps?

Does that seem a legit expectation?

I'd like to see Cox play fewer snaps.... maybe 75%, same with Hargrave.  Jackson can mix in at DE a little as well.   So 50%, barring injuries, seems about right.

8 minutes ago, PrinceKelby said:

Looking at snap counts last year it's hard to gauge how many snaps M. Jackson will play.

I assume, especially coming off injury, he will be coming off the bench to spell both Cox and Hargrave so should be around 50% of the snaps?

Does that seem a legit expectation?

It would be nice if they got back to the 2017 ratio. Cox around 60%, Hargrave and Jackson around 50%, Ridgeway can get the rest with Rush if he makes the team. 

4 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I'd like to see Cox play fewer snaps.... maybe 75%, same with Hargrave.  Jackson can mix in at DE a little as well.   So 50%, barring injuries, seems about right.

Ridgeway averaged a bit more than that last year but I think that was due to injuries.

I had forgot the injury situation on first glance at the snap chart. Took a minute to wrap my brain around it. 😅

Timmy was around 39% so I just kind of averaged the 2 and added a bit because he could play DE.

 

3 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

It would be nice if they got back to the 2017 ratio. Cox around 60%, Hargrave and Jackson around 50%, Ridgeway can get the rest with Rush if he makes the team. 

I think Hargrave is going to be around 60% Cox still close to 70%, but would still be less than an last year.

 

2 minutes ago, PrinceKelby said:

I think Hargrave is going to be around 60% Cox still close to 70%, but would still be less than an last year.

 

Hargrave was at 63 percent for the Steelers so that might be about right. 

2 minutes ago, PrinceKelby said:

I think Hargrave is going to be around 60% Cox still close to 70%, but would still be less than an last year.

 

That might be better.

24 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I'd like to see Cox play fewer snaps.... maybe 75%, same with Hargrave.  Jackson can mix in at DE a little as well.   So 50%, barring injuries, seems about right.

A lot of the increase was due to the injuries (I hope)

We can't have as many injuries as we did last year. Can we?

47 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I believe it goes back to the Commonwealth's Quaker history.

That would make sense

41 minutes ago, TEW said:

Imagine how much money you would make if you had a monopoly on liquor sales for 12 million people... that was the thinking.

No, it's a post prohibition arrangement.  Basically they wanted to jack up the price and rape the consumer "for the public good." 

That sounds about right😒

9 minutes ago, Asg 15 said:

A lot of the increase was due to the injuries (I hope)

We can't have as many injuries as we did last year. Can we?

Id like to think last year was an aberration.

I cant imagine playing games with 7th string DTs and 6th string DBs is going to be the norm😕

46 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I'd like to see Cox play fewer snaps.... maybe 75%, same with Hargrave.  Jackson can mix in at DE a little as well.   So 50%, barring injuries, seems about right.

I can also see BG getting more snaps at DT this year in NASCAR packages.  Need to get these young guys on the edge.  Push him inside more.

16 minutes ago, Utebird said:

That sounds about right😒

It continues to this day because no one on either side of the political divide ever wants to give up the money on their own watch.  Plus there is a weird coalition of special interests (basically busy body/NIMBY types and government union workers).

47 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Hargrave was at 63 percent for the Steelers so that might be about right. 

Yeah, trying to figure Ridgway in as the "main 4" I think they'll be around there.

I could see Hargrave at a bit more.

I would be shocked it he's under 60% by design though. 

Anywhere from 60% to 65% to him seems logical.

It's really kind of tough to figure out due to all the injuries the past few seasons.

While doing so, I totally forgot we got Higgins back for depth too.

Last season was all over the place too so you're averaging averages between different players at different points depending how many bodies available to try to come to a logical conclusion. 🤪

5 hours ago, bpac55 said:

I've never in my life seen a more reasonable statement get more blown out of proportion and twisted up than Drew Brees has.  You would think Brees said FU black players, no kneeling, no justice.  Good lord.  

There was a NBA announcer who had to resign because he tweeted "all lives matter"

Ok...