11 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

Assuming they're talking about masks on helmets, I don't know how that will work. The physical therapy place I go to mandates masks and doing basic exercises/stretches is a pain in the a** with that thing on when you start breathing heavier than normal. I'm obviously not a professional athlete, but I don't know how that would work with the energy these guys are exerting during a game. Especially in swampy humid weather like Miami and Tampa during the fall. 

5 minutes ago, justrelax said:

My doctor said there was no purpose. Treatment would be the same but I could have the test again if I wanted it. I said no. She said some people have been tested three or four times without conclusive results. 

Don't drink any bleach. 

33 minutes ago, justrelax said:

Went to bed Friday feeling peachy. Saturday a.m. ugh. I’ll be fine. I’ve been a good boy, too. Masks and distancing.

That really stinks.  I'm sorry.  

 

1 hour ago, justrelax said:

Picked a little something over the weekend - Covid-19. 

Did you stop taking your hydroxychloroquine?

Get well soon.

10 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Assuming they're talking about masks on helmets, I don't know how that will work. The physical therapy place I go to mandates masks and doing basic exercises/stretches is a pain in the a** with that thing on when you start breathing heavier than normal. I'm obviously not a professional athlete, but I don't know how that would work with the energy these guys are exerting during a game. Especially in swampy humid weather like Miami and Tampa during the fall. 

You're going to physical therapy during the pandemic?

Guessing there's specific equipment you need to use?

10 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

Isn't he franchise tagged?  That's a 2nd rounder. 

3 minutes ago, Green Dog said:

Isn't he franchise tagged?  That's a 2nd rounder. 

and $15M already on top of Brooks salary. They aren't spending $30 or so million on a freakin RG

9 minutes ago, Green Dog said:

You're going to physical therapy during the pandemic?

Guessing there's specific equipment you need to use?

Yes. Wiped down after every use with distancing and masks being used. I know it's not perfect but it's either that or chronic back pain. 

5 hours ago, ManuManu said:

Apparently the governor misspoke or was confused on the numbers, thank goodness. 

So... instead of over 50%, it's more like 0.4%.

17 minutes ago, Green Dog said:

You're going to physical therapy during the pandemic?

Guessing there's specific equipment you need to use?

It’s pretty safe with both people masking and equipment being wiped down. 

4 hours ago, BigEFly said:

Land is expensive in both Chester and Lancaster. Has the Amish spreading to York.  

I'm fine moving further west.  She'd not be happy moving pretty much at all.   So... 15 years to move her on the needle or just get super comfy where I am.

4 hours ago, Asg 15 said:

Its odd we've grown tomatoes for years in raised beds  using Miracle grow garden soil in the beds and have always gotten more than we could use. This year not so much. I noticed this morning we're finally getting quite a few flowers. We did have a late spring here that could have something to do with  the late blooming.

On a better note my Asparagus and green beans are going crazy

Tomatoes generally won't start setting flowers until they feel it's warm enough.  Above 50 degrees for overnight lows, highs (at least local highs) need to hit the 80s a few times for multiple days in succession, etc.  And the soil needs to be warm enough for their roots to be happy.

3 hours ago, Desertbirds said:

California has approximately 66.6 (must be the Devil's work) times the population of Wyoming.

So, you are suggesting that Wyoming gets less than 1 representative? 

1 hour ago, justrelax said:

Actually no. The test was negative but I have all the symptoms. My doctor said it was a false negative and that the rest is only about 60% accurare.

Take care of yourself.   

4 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

So, you are suggesting that Wyoming gets less than 1 representative? 

I’m not suggesting anything, I’m stating facts.

1 minute ago, Desertbirds said:

I’m not suggesting anything, I’m stating facts.

Well, those facts are irrelevant until they redo the numbers based on the current census.  The situation right now is based on the census from 10 years ago.   So, California gets bigger, they likely get another rep or possibly two.  But, it's Constitutionally stated explicitly that no state gets less than one representative.  So, California might gain more reps, but Wyoming won't lose any.

1 hour ago, justrelax said:

Went to bed Friday feeling peachy. Saturday a.m. ugh. I’ll be fine. I’ve been a good boy, too. Masks and distancing.

Kick its butt

38 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

and $15M already on top of Brooks salary. They aren't spending $30 or so million on a freakin RG

It's ridiculous. They'd have to take on Jeffrey's salary and more to make the math work.

3 hours ago, greend said:

Question is. Why can't we come up with better candidates to run for President, America has a lot of people in it.

We do, but then we vote.

4 hours ago, Asg 15 said:

Are you suggesting that if a candidate wins a state 60% to 40% the winner gets 60% of the electoral votes?

That seems quite reasonable to me.

Yes. Seems fair. No state becomes more valuable because it is a swing state, like PA and it means the flyover states might get more attention.  The electoral college split still means a state like Wyoming voter has a bit more umph than a California voter.  That’s not pure democracy but it is closer. 

22 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Well, those facts are irrelevant until they redo the numbers based on the current census.  The situation right now is based on the census from 10 years ago.   So, California gets bigger, they likely get another rep or possibly two.  But, it's Constitutionally stated explicitly that no state gets less than one representative.  So, California might gain more reps, but Wyoming won't lose any.

Hardly irrelevant. We still have an election forthcoming based on the previous census.

I never offered a solution for the Wyoming problem.

1 hour ago, ManuManu said:

 

Albert Breer is hard to take seriously; he says a lot of things that are just tossing things against a wall.

There are a multitude of better options to fill Brooks’ spot for one season than to bring in a high-priced player already on a one-year deal, and give up $ and draft capital to do it.

On 6/16/2020 at 5:00 PM, BigEFly said:

Not sure I agree with you.  You and I are two of the older posters in here. We have seen some incremental change. Sometimes it is glacially slow and sometimes it backslides.  My sister and I were talking about growing up in the South.  I mentioned when I was in college (she and I lived in a house with several others). One roommate, who was a black man and my girlfriend who was as pale as her Irish roots would suggest, made a trip out to a place in East Texas. They stopped at a small store in a smaller town. Both saw the reaction to a black man with a white woman. He thought he was going to be lynched   Last time I was in that town about a year ago, I saw an interracial couple walking hand in hand with their two small children.  A change that occurred over time. I have heard the stories of my wife’s East Texas relatives of her parents and grandparents age. It was much worse back then. I have seen the end to government enforced segregation in my lifetime. The racism of our parents generation is not the level of racism of ours and is not the level of our children’s. Changing culture takes time  

I have also seen the bad results of instant change. Take the Patriot Act. Awful law.  We sacrificed personal liberty with it.  Take CERCLA (Superfund) with its retroactive strict and joint liability.  It assumes that every pollution event was similar to Love Canal (example of environmental racism, BTW, if that was a POC neighborhood rather than suburban white, there never would have been that law.). Well CERCLA results in protracted litigation because of its harshness.  As an environmentalist, I saw there is a better way. Take the internment of Japanese descendant citizens in reaction to Pearl Harbor. We never got Japanese saboteurs during WWII but we did get German ones. 

Knee jerk can be as bad as glacial incremental change. A median between the two is often the best. 

Yes, let's talk about these changes. After the Civil War blacks could vote, own land, hold office, move about freely during Reconstruction. Once Grant was out of office, however, all that dried up. A black on the road without a documented purpose could be seized and placed in a work gang for an indefinite period. Slavery by another name. The statehouses and Congress once again became all white. Then we have Plessy vs. Ferguson, separate but equal. That was, what - 1898? Then fifty years passed. No progress. Then came WWII and hundreds of thousands of black soldiers fought and died, albeit in segregated units. Harry Truman integrated the armed forces, a very unpopular move. When  these black GIs came home to the South they were assaulted in their uniforms, often lynched. That's where the Civil Rights movement began, much as the freedom of black soldier almost a century before. If you can  fight and die for the country you can be a citizen, although for roughly 80 years during that span you could not. I'll pass over red-lining for the moment. The Civil Rights movement did great things and then came the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Breakthrough! Umm, not so much. The minority group that benefited most from that Act were white women, black men were a distant second, and black women suffered serious setbacks. Voting? Well there were literacy tests, poll taxes, and today we have poll taxes under another name in Florida and Iowa, currently being challenged by the courts. We have hundreds of thousands of enrolled voters stricken from the rolls. We have mail-in ballots being challenged on spurious nonsense by the same people and states that did it before. We have Georgia, where if the election wasn't stolen it gave every appearance of it, and by whom and for what?

I don't mean to say we haven't made progress but it's two steps forward, one-step back or, post-Reconstruction, three steps back. Today, we see the spiritual descendants of those same miscreants attempting to suborn voting rights. Is there anything more basic to citizenship than that right? It's so blatant and so obvious.

Not so many years ago, my wife and I were returning from Gettysburg and we stopped at a roadside diner. Big Confederate battle flag on the wall. My wife said to me, "if anyone asks, I'm you're secretary." I ordered a hamburger and a Coke. She ordered a Coke. I got my order. She got half a glass of warm Coke, no ice. I paid. No tip. And drove 100 mph until I was sure there was no one following. Twenty-first century PA. Ha.

Agree on the Patriot Act. An abomination. A shredding of the Constitution.

That's why I distrust gradualism. It gives the villains time and room to maneuver. And I hope I have explained a tiny bit of black rage, when the rules keep changing and the bar gets higher, and the issues that were previously dealt with are raised again, and again.

2 hours ago, justrelax said:

Actually no. The test was negative but I have all the symptoms. My doctor said it was a false negative and that the rest is only about 60% accurare.

Not good. Hopefully just the flu symptoms at worse for you. Hope you do well. 

1 hour ago, PrinceKelby said:

Great post.

Pretty much why things are so screwed up.

Need to bring back the cap on political spending as it just breeds corruption on both sides when that much money is involved.

I'd love to see the outrageous numbers of political donations and spending over the last 20 years.

I'm sure it spikes hard after Citizens United in 2008.

 

Caps per Citizens United are unconstitutional but apparently Montana’s disclosure law isn’t. I would back that law everywhere.  Plus if you pass my Constitutional Amendment that Corporations are not persons, then Corporations lose their Bill of Rights protections as well they should.