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33 minutes ago, WrestlingRasta said:

Having no reason to care about Jan 6 one way or the other is pretty….wow. I mean you can think whatever about who holds some responsibility, but to claim to care about the country so much, but not care at all about that event…..just doesn’t seem to square with each other. 

Guys can't go to the Capitol?  Like, guys can't have fun anymore?

47 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

It is the right thing to do at the wrong time.

But I am of two minds on this.

He erred tremendously by not allowing for a viable candidate to emerge from the primary process. Whoever winds up as the Democratic nominee will likely need to address whether they are legitimate. On the other hand, I am not a huge fan of the extended nature of our elections. Perhaps the Democrats will benefit from a shortened process, whatever that process winds up being.

There's only one Dem name I've heard that can win and that Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan.  

14 minutes ago, uncle bernard said:

It will be Kamala and she’s going to win. The suburbs will fall in line for her.

That's wishful thinking and highly unlikely.  She's from California.  That doesn't play well in the Midwestern states that Democrats have to sweep to win the election 

4 minutes ago, ionel said:

Pickleball, fly fishing, cycling up mountain roads!   

If you come to Philly for NCAA's this year bring the bike.  Philly has a great trail system for a city at Wissahickon Park

https://www.trailforks.com/region/wissahickon-valley-park/

4 minutes ago, Ohio Elite said:

Get outside and do some Disc golfing...

Great advice!  My kids and I are addicted.  Play once sometimes twice a week

- (Series) The Bear season 1 & 2 are great.  Season 3 so so. 

- (Comedy)  Kill Tony episode on YouTube with Shane Gillis playing Trump

- (Movie) The Northman directed by Robert Eggert

2 hours ago, Offthemat said:

The shooter was probably using .223;  the leo maybe .308. 

25 minutes ago, ionel said:

The .223 would be pretty similar to 5.56 at that range

I read the shooter used a 5.56 (juiced up .223).  I'm guessing the sniper used 7.62 round (juiced down .308) which is common these days

On a side note, @Husker_Du, who the heck is Elliot Humphries?  Hell of a run at Fargo

20 minutes ago, Hammerlock3 said:

i could hang with the mandalorian through the 2nd season but holy hell the third one was bad.

To be fair I don't think there is anything they could've done for season 3 that wouldn't have been a let down.  The ending to season 2 is up there with Vader revealing his identity to Luke 

17 minutes ago, uncle bernard said:

With the exception of Andor, the Disney Star Wars stuff is mostly crap.

Andor was great. I've enjoyed the Mandalorian.  The Vader vs Obi -Wan battle in the tv series was well executed 

35 minutes ago, ionel said:

No talk at all of Harold DeMarsh coming out of high school.  Heck he couldn't even make the lineup at his chosen weight class.  And yet he did something no one before had done and no one after would ever do.  

I thought this was a coming into college lore/hype thread?

10 minutes ago, Scouts Honor said:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bullet-glass-trump-wound/

Scout, do you think it's time to also reveal to @RockLobster that the earth isn't flat or is that too much for him?

On 7/16/2024 at 9:47 AM, red viking said:

These people are completely nuts. The right-wing propaganda and divisiveness have created a nationwide mob of whackos and they'll shoot Democrats, Republicans, and everything in between. There's no limit to where these people will go and I think we've just seen the beginning. 

Even though he was shot by a right-winger, there WILL DEFINITELY be retaliation and shooting of minorities and Democrats. 

Where are you getting this info from?  From what I've read so far is the FBI hasn't found any evidence to this point that reveals his political ideology.  Facts that I have found and are corroborated

1) He was a registered Republican

2) He made a small donation to Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal group

3) He voted once in the 2022 midterms

4) They have yet to find any social media posts that reveal his ideology

5) No one who knew him intimately has come forward revealing any political ideologies he might have had.  There is a classmate "claiming" Crooks mocked him for being a Trump supporter in 2016.  Emphasis on "claiming"

6) The NYTimes reported that Crooks had searched for images of both Trump and Biden.  He also searched for dates of Trump Appearances and the DNC Convention.  This report is based on a 2nd hand account of a "person" on a conference call with lawmakers.  Supposedly he also searched "major depressive disorder"

7) His father is registered as a Libertarian and his mother is registered as a Democrat

3 hours ago, 11986 said:

They ended up being the USA team reps at 145 and 152 at the Dapper Dan that year, pretty cool:

Here's some Dapper Dan Trivia. 

-The year 1992 is probably the most famous because of the Bono/Kolat match.  Manning heavyweight that year for team USA was now Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell. 

-NCAA champs who have lost at the event are Kellen Russell, Eric Juergens,  Jake Herbert, Darian Cruz, Anthony Ashnault,  Cory Clark, Alex Dierenger, Chris Perry, LeRoy Smith, Barry Davis, Jeff Prescott, T.J. Jaworsky 

21 minutes ago, Ohio Elite said:

Wasn't he like 7 and 0 against Zane?

Last time I remember it was 6 and 0 but I might've stopped counting 

4 hours ago, BloodRound said:

I will always remember the Pico hype that the owner of my first gym had.  We used to watch all of his matches together, just in total astonishment of what was going on.  It came a huge shock when he decided not to pursue the sport any further.

Would've been fun to watch him compete in college.  His run at the 2016 OTT's was extremely impressive.  Side note, first time I ever heard of Yazdani is when he impressively beat Pico at 2014  World JR's.  

5 minutes ago, VakAttack said:

Yes.  The definition is the right of citizens to political and social freedom and equality, equality being the key here; all women everywhere should have complete control over their bodies.

Before I start I consider myself pro choice sometimes and pro life with restrictions the other times.  I'm all over the place on this issue but here is the crux of it for me.  Let's throw out the extreme scenarios.  Which I hope all of us can agree on.  Let's say the female and the fetus are healthy.  At what point does the fetus have rights?  Or does the fetus deserve no rights until it exits the womb?  

1 hour ago, VakAttack said:

They're completely different scenarios.

Agree they are different scenarios but there is relevance.  Would you classify abortion as a civil right?  

56 minutes ago, VakAttack said:

I just typed out a whole long reply, but then the thread seems to have been deleted while I was typing, so that sucks.

Well, hopefully a few posters can refrain from name calling and instead enhance the conversation with actual facts.    

He's a stud and will fit well into Taylor's room.  He has a lot of upside.  At this point he's not up there with the other guys you mentioned.  He's placed at some major tournaments in Folk and Free but has yet to win any of them from what I remember.  

25 minutes ago, WrestlingRasta said:

Or not.  Same shit, different toilet...

5 minutes ago, JimmyBT said:

And you’re the toilet …….  Someday you’ll figure that out 

Fellas fellas.  Lets clear our heads and get some facts straight.  Toilets, sanitation in general, is an important component to a healthy society.  It provides protection from disease and infections.  List of waterborne disease a toilet helps prevent: hepatitis, amoebiasis, and gastrointestinal infections.  Toilets also offer prevention of environmental contamination.  Also the spread of mosquitos  that can transmit diseases like dengue, yellow fever, and zika.

28 minutes ago, Paul158 said:

The shooter only missed killing President Trump by about 1/2 an inch. or less. The bullet was traveling at 2500 feet per second. If Trump hadn't turned his head to look at the huge graph to his right, he would have been killed. 

Not trying to argue but that was less than 1/2".  Grazed his ear.  Another point is that the shooter (if he had any training) would have waited for Trump to turn to his right.  The target (Trump in this case) turning towards the shooter created a larger target area.  I'm guessing the shooter used an AR-15 chambered in 5.56/223 and used a 55 or 62 grain bullet.  FPS would've been slightly higher than 2500 at 150 yards.  Anyways, just some trivial stuff

While the conspiracy theories pile up I choose to believe it was a kid who was a loner, detached from society, and acted alone.  Also, I still find the BBC interview disturbing.  Failure on the part of the SS.

55 minutes ago, uncle bernard said:

given the actual shooter was on a roof, i bet the secret service panicked and fired blindly into the crowd. 

No.  They didn't panic.  The snipers were set up to the back corner of the stage.  More likely they didn't have a clear line of sight.  In the video you can see the sniper had to re adjust. 

59 minutes ago, uncle bernard said:

shooting my shot here, we’re gonna find out this guy was “on the fbi’s radar” and they possibly even made contact. would not be the first time with a mass shooter…..

Quite possible.  Lot's of questions have to be answered. 

ththe

That's awfully close.  That BBC interview was disturbing.