4 hours ago, The guy in France said:

Just as long as we recognize some media is stronger in the NEWS aspect and others are stronger in opinion. Since the lines are drawn I watch CNN and for my opinionated media I will watch MSNBC. Lately I haven’t been following either because I’m exhausted with both Covid and Trumpsky, been over 2 months since I tuned into either 

CNN in the U.S. is not the same as the international version of CNN.  It’s basically the same as MSNBC in the US now.  It’s become more and more opinionated over the past 3+ years than ever before, imo.
 

 A lot of that has to do with "reactions” from news anchors to stories.  They may not always state their "opinion” but anyone can see where they stand from their reactions alone.  And lately, they just about always state their opinions. 

8 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

CNN in the U.S. is not the same as the international version of CNN.  It’s basically the same as MSNBC in the US now.  It’s become more and more opinionated over the past 3+ years than ever before, imo.
 

 A lot of that has to do with "reactions” from news anchors to stories.  They may not always state their "opinion” but anyone can see where they stand from their reactions alone.  And lately, they just about always state their opinions. 

I don’t take much issue with opinions; misinformation and lies are a much bigger issue. 

1 hour ago, Ace Nova said:

I tried searching for a picture of the guy but couldn’t find one.  The guy probably requested anonymity knowing what Eagles fans are like.  

10 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Looks like a dewsh 

5 hours ago, greend said:

And then the customer freaks out ans starts yelling about his "rights", guess how businesses make their money? Selling stuff, not enforcing government rules. Totally unfair to expect businesses to enforce this

Well it's up to the business if they want to tell a customer to leave if not wearing a mask.  It's also possible that if customers are walking around without masks in the store that other customers or employees get sick then the store has to close.  That wouldn't help business either.

Me personally, doesnt bother me if people wear masks or not.

3 hours ago, NCiggles said:

Teddy Roosevelt was President from 1901 to 1909. 

Which is still a long, long time ago.  That's what I was trying to get at.

2 hours ago, Alphagrand said:

You honestly want a guy who is halfway into his rookie deal and never stops whining and moaning?  If DAL gets Adams I wouldn’t lose one wink of sleep — especially if they throw $20M per season and multiple draft picks out the window, to go along with the $35M they’re going to give Dak.

Jamal Adams is a very good box safety, but does nothing to defend a downfield passing attack.  He isn’t worth more than about $12M per season and is demanding closer to $20M.  Anyone who gives up big money and a 1st round pick + will have buyer’s remorse — because he will be locker room trouble.

Yeah I hope Dallas trades for him and gives him a contract.

But honestly to their credit, I dont think Dallas will be stupid enough to do it.

44 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

It is both. Don’t get me wrong, I have no issue with removing statues of Confederates but some of this is focused on only a part of the person’s life sometimes. At Texas A&M some students are pushing to remove the statue of Sully Ross.  Yes, Ross was a Confederate general. In his early twenties.  Yes, he was a participant in the Comanche wars  but there are negatives on both  sides and that was before the Civil War. Please don’t  hold me responsible for everything I did in my early stages of adulthood. Although the results are questionable, he did resolve the Jaybird-Woodpecker war. He was also of the family that founded Waco, a two term state senator and a two term governor who declined to run for a third term to become the president of Texas A&M. He did a lot of good things as senator and governor. He was pretty great as a president at A&M.  He was so dedicated to education that Sul Ross University was established in his honor. No doubt he was possessed the prejudices of his era. As many of our predecessors did. I know that includes my family’s history. 
 

 

The raising and tearing down of monuments is nothing new.  This kind of practice dates back for as long as people have been raising monuments.  I think it's important to keep that in mind when we look at what is going on with some of these statues.  I don't think we are ever going to have a monument for anyone who is going to be without criticism. 

8 minutes ago, 315Eagles said:

Which is still a long, long time ago.  That's what I was trying to get at.

  I was just pointing out your ignorance.  If you think the events of the past, even from a "long, long time ago" don't impact the present, then I think you will have your ignorance pointed out to you repeatedly in the future.  

1 hour ago, vaeagle2 said:

he sounds like he sterotypes people

I don't stereotype people.

I hate everyone equally

I was trying to figure out how someone from Sarasota just happened to be in Aberdeen at the time when Goedert was eating with his family. Aberdeen isn't exactly a tourist destination for all of you who haven't been there

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

It is both. Don’t get me wrong, I have no issue with removing statues of Confederates but some of this is focused on only a part of the person’s life sometimes. At Texas A&M some students are pushing to remove the statue of Sully Ross.  Yes, Ross was a Confederate general. In his early twenties.  Yes, he was a participant in the Comanche wars  but there are negatives on both  sides and that was before the Civil War. Please don’t  hold me responsible for everything I did in my early stages of adulthood. Although the results are questionable, he did resolve the Jaybird-Woodpecker war. He was also of the family that founded Waco, a two term state senator and a two term governor who declined to run for a third term to become the president of Texas A&M. He did a lot of good things as senator and governor. He was pretty great as a president at A&M.  He was so dedicated to education that Sul Ross University was established in his honor. No doubt he was possessed the prejudices of his era. As many of our predecessors did. I know that includes my family’s history. 
 

 

Well said.  You can bet every single one of our founding fathers did things that today we frown upon but they lived in different times.  We can't hold people who lived over 200-300 years ago accountable to the same standards as we live today.  We have evolved and for the most part become better humans.

The thing is if these SJW want to tear down statues that they don't agree with then they better look at all statues and judge all men and women being represented.  The beloved MLK has some shady history if you want to get down to it.  It doesn't take away from all of the wonderful things he did for the Civil Rights movement but watching and supporting friends raping women and womanizing among other things aren't things to be proud of.  

6 hours ago, greend said:

And then the customer freaks out ans starts yelling about his "rights", guess how businesses make their money? Selling stuff, not enforcing government rules. Totally unfair to expect businesses to enforce this

I think this all comes back to a branding question - "what kind of customers are you most interested in attracting and how do you want them to feel while they shop with you?"  At a Target or Chick Fil A, I expect they'd require masks of shoppers and employees.  At a Trump rally or a WalMart,  I know not to have that expectation.  And both work for their target audience.

I had a really wise business law prof say something that stuck with me all these years - sure, you have rights.  up until they infringe on someone else's...so yes, you have the right to play your music as loud as you want.  Until it infringes on someone else's rights to peace.  Then it is a matter of deciding what is "reasonable."  Middle of the day?  Sure - play your loud music if you don't care about your neighbors.  early morning or at night, the rights shift balance

People absolutely have the right to shop without a mask.  Until it interferes with other people's rights to expect a healthy environment while they are shopping.  I've been in stores where they clearly staffed extra people to enforce mask wearing.  which is a smart investment to keep the customers they most want to keep.  But I've also heard of gun stores that banned masks in their stores.  Admittedly oversimplified, but basically, don't shop a store where you don't like the rules. 

3 minutes ago, purplefiggy said:

I think this all comes back to a branding question - "what kind of customers are you most interested in attracting and how do you want them to feel while they shop with you?"  At a Target or Chick Fit A, I expect they'd require masks of shoppers and employees.  At a Trump rally or a WalMart,  I know not to have that expectation.  And both work for their target audience.

I had a really wise business law prof say something that stuck with me all these years - sure, you have rights.  up until they infringe on someone else's...so yes, you have the right to play your music as loud as you want.  Until it infringes on someone else's rights to peace.  Then it is a matter of deciding what is "reasonable."  Middle of the day?  Sure - play your loud music if you don't care about your neighbors.  early morning or at night, the rights shift balance

People absolutely have the right to shop without a mask.  Until it interferes with other people's rights to expect a healthy environment while they are shopping.  I've been in stores where they clearly staffed extra people to enforce mask wearing.  which is a smart investment to keep the customers they most want to keep.  But I've also heard of gun stores that banned masks in their stores.  Admittedly oversimplified, but basically, don't shop a store where you don't like the rules. 

Unfortunately, I deal with repeat business from contractors so if I threw out everyone that wasn't wearing a mask I would have very few customers. I've learned to live with them being a-holes about everything my point is if the law makes it mandatory for them to wear a mask (which is fine by me) then the law can deal with the stupid rednecks that don't want to wear one.  

5 minutes ago, greend said:

Unfortunately, I deal with repeat business from contractors so if I threw out everyone that wasn't wearing a mask I would have very few customers. I've learned to live with them being a-holes about everything my point is if the law makes it mandatory for them to wear a mask (which is fine by me) then the law can deal with the stupid rednecks that don't want to wear one.  

And that should have been done waaaaay back in March when Fauci suggested it.

Now we have southern and western states with record cases and getting worse....   And we might not have sports because of it.

 

18 minutes ago, greend said:

Unfortunately, I deal with repeat business from contractors so if I threw out everyone that wasn't wearing a mask I would have very few customers. I've learned to live with them being a-holes about everything my point is if the law makes it mandatory for them to wear a mask (which is fine by me) then the law can deal with the stupid rednecks that don't want to wear one.  

That I agree with.  Or at least threaten to fine businesses who don't enforce, so the businesses can make the law the heavy.  And of course I realize that's a double edged sword,  but if every business has to comply, the social pressure goes up and it will be the a-holes who have to learn to live with it, not the rest of us.

1 hour ago, Ace Nova said:

CNN in the U.S. is not the same as the international version of CNN.  It’s basically the same as MSNBC in the US now.  It’s become more and more opinionated over the past 3+ years than ever before, imo.
 

 A lot of that has to do with "reactions” from news anchors to stories.  They may not always state their "opinion” but anyone can see where they stand from their reactions alone.  And lately, they just about always state their opinions. 

it's not the same, it's still more moderate than MSNBC. There are media charts out there that show bias based on computer language recognition/sentiment recognition and MSNBC is still well further to the left than CNN. CNN is more left than it used to be, though CNN.com news pieces are not as bad. for reference:

 

1 minute ago, purplefiggy said:

That I agree with.  Or at least threaten to fine businesses who don't enforce, so the businesses can make the law the heavy.  And of course I realize that's a double edged sword,  but if every business has to comply, the social pressure goes up and it will be the a-holes who have to learn to live with it, not the rest of us.

Sorry but the rednecks will still see it as us "falling for the conspiracy". Like I said when I started my rant......................never have I seen such a huge amount of anger over such a tiny inconvenience.

 

26 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

Lot of good x's and o's in the video, and I agree with all of it.  JJAW was an absolute disaster last year.  That clip of him running into Dallas Goedert is more than facepalm worthy.  That throw to Miles Sanders was one of the best, pin-pointed throws I've ever seen.  It literally missed 2 Redskins defenders' hands by about an inch because it was an absolute missile, and more importantly, he baited the defenders by keeping his eyes in the middle of the field.  If Miles isn't ready for that pass, I think it knocks the wind out of him.  

16 hours ago, bpac55 said:

I understand the context but do you think it will be just that one?  How long until someone defaces Mount Rushmore because they now know what TR did in his past?

I'd be kind of impressed and wonder how they managed to do it lol

The perception of history is a constantly evolving thing, you can't try to stale it, it's a fools errand. Does anyone really think a hundred years from now, when all the current generations are long gone, that the generation of that time will look at people like Washington and Jefferson as heroes? Nope. History is a very unforgiving and cold thing, where your failures dwarf your glory.

Just look at Churchill, he was so confident that history would remember him as a hero because he thought he would be the one to write that history. But now look at him, his statues are getting defaced, more and more he's being called a racist and a colonist, and as we get further removed from his victory in WWII, the more his shortcomings will come to define him.

So Dillard put on 15 pounds of muscle in a few months according to Brooks.... Guess he’s on that Considine workout plan.... 🙄

1 minute ago, greendestiny27 said:

So Dillard put on 15 pounds of muscle in a few months according to Brooks.... Guess he’s on that Considine workout plan.... 🙄

So he's lost 15 pounds from last weeks claim of 30 pounds of muscle?

6 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

So he's lost 15 pounds from last weeks claim of 30 pounds of muscle?

Ohhh I didn’t hear it was 30 pounds lol even better