Mark80

Paul McCartney - In Red Square. You get a great concert and a great back story about The Beatles in the USSR during the Cold War. Not really fitting your description, but still a very good watch.

No, it does not mean that at all. It means SOME are run badly. There are plenty of decent ones out there.

Unions are most certainly not a cancer. Their main problem is that they make it too hard to fire a crappy worker. Grievances, 10 strike and your out discipline plans, only willing to work at a certain station or certain job, things like that. It would seem obvious to me that a well run union would be open to easily getting rid of the "bad" workers. It would improve the operations of their companies, potentially leading to more revenues/profits, higher pay/benefits, less offshoring, more jobs. Instead, they are mostly too consumed with keeping their dues high, to the detriment of their "good" worker members. Unions are a good idea, that is often executed very poorly and with some obvious corruption. As far as this article goes. I studied unions at undergrad, took many labor law courses there as well as in grad school. I never came across a scenario where a company was punishing someone for talking unionization while they were working there AFTER they were no longer employed there. I'm not sure if that is illegal or not, really. Certainly it would be if they were working there and were retaliated against, but AFTER, that's a different animal that I have not heard of before.

Mel Torme

More like 100k.

Current ride - 2018 BMW M240 xDrive. Small, fast little coupe. 0-60 in 4.2 stock with phenomenal handling and balance. Uses the same engine as the new Z4 and the new Toyota Supra (believe it or not). Have had it since April 18 and have seen exactly 1 other one on the road. That's why I like it so much, it's a sleeper and you don't see any around. I see a Camaro or Mustang or Challenger every time I go out for a drive. Now, rarely do you see the high end ones of those, but you see a ton of SS's, GTs, and SRTs. Cool, and fast, but too common for me. On the M240 I will be modding intake, exhaust, mid-pipe, and do a performance tune to start, but going to wait until after warranty. Desired rides: 2011 BMW 1M 2019/20 BMW M2 Competition 2007 Audi RS4 1978 Corvette Desired side rides: Toyota 4Runner Jeep Cherokee XJ

My "odd" jerseys: London Fletcher - Dark Blue Sam Cowart - Medium Blue CJ Spiller - White throw back #21 (only wore rookie season) Got one.

Jim Brown - Trucking Aaron Rogers - Throw on the run That part on Vick...we really missed out on seeing a great player I think. We saw some flashes, but never the full potential. Sad on a lot of levels.

He was wrestling with him already before he sat down. As soon as that happens the whole encounter has changed. Now the cops top priority is getting this guy in handcuffs some how, some way. The man (a 6'6" mountain of a man mind you) sits but continues to ignore commands to lie down. How are you going to handcuff a guy that size when he is sitting, back against a wall? As noted in the article he is also suspected of being intoxicated in some way so who knows what he will do. Then after being tased after refusing command after command after command, he gets up and lunges at the officer, eventually taking away his taser. The guy is lucky he is not dead and it would be completely justified. And the profanities part? Yeah, people always listen to "Will you please ..." in a calm voice in these circumstance.

One of the most versatile and effective drugs in its natural form is illegal in this country. I wonder who doesn't want people having access to basically free (if you grow your own), non-physically addictive medicines? Hmmmmmmm. Such a sad state of affairs in this country when protecting corporate greed is the top priority. But no one does anything about it. Nope, they care more about slamming a 4th of July parade. Sad. (I understand CBD oil is legal, BTW, but you still cannot grow and make your own for free)

Also took a salary of $1 when the company was close to bankruptcy when he was asking employees to make sacrifices.

More like 99.9999%

Grateful Dead - Europe '72 Allman Bros - Fillmore East Led Zeppelin - Song Remains the Same Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder Nirvana - Unplugged Mad Season - Live at the Moore Johnny Cash - Live at Folsum Prison Tragically Hip - Live Between Us O.A.R. - Any Time Now Jimmy Smith - Root Down Live! I love The Band, but I always found The Last Waltz to be kinda meh for some reason.

Don't have to convince me. I'm just saying what the article said. Most likely it's just something brought to the table by the owners to be used as a bargaining chip. This is very common in labor negotiations. Bring things to the table that you don't really care about so you can take them off during the negotiation to help get what you really want. "Oh, OK, we'll take X off the table if you take off Y (or give us Z)".

A good manager/coach always adjusts to the strengths of their personnel. Bad ones force their personnel into their own systems regardless of fit (I'm looking at you Rex).

I know it does not currently, but that is what the article is about. Potentially negotiating that it WOULD affect the pool in the future and, in turn, the players potentially wanting some say in how the money is spent since they, essentially, would have paid for part of it.

Yes, but I believe the negotiating point brought up is to change that for the Stadium fund, sort of like a write-off in the tax world. At least that's how it read to me.

I think you are missing the point here. The point is that their money is already going to be taken in that the pool of revenue in which the players are allocated a certain percentage, will be lower because money will be taken from it and placed into stadium projects. He is saying since they are essentially paying for some it because of this this now reduced pool of revenue, they should have some say in how its spent. Simple example with incorrect numbers. Total Revenue $1B, players get 50% share. Players get $500M. In this scenario it may be this. Total Revenue $1B, Amount dedicated to stadiums $100M. New Revenue left $900M, players still get 50% share. Players only get $450M. So, they actually "paid" for $50M of the stadium improvements.

Professionally, early. Personally, on time. Never late unless its because of waiting for the woman.

That is quite the insult to Nirvana. FF are so meh.

Must be nice to have the best offensive line in football and two extra years of experience. I'd put any amount down on Allen having more yards and TDs than Prescott had in his 2nd year, barring injury of course.

I buy and listen to vinyl, there is not skipping of songs really. So my list is pretty long. Some of my favorite beginning to end ones are: Beatles - Abbey Road Led Zeppelin - II, III, IV The Allman Bros Band - Self-Titled Pearl Jam - 10, Vs. Van Morrison - Moondance Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul Blind Melon - Self-Titled Mad Season - Live at the Moore Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Oasis - What's the Story (Morning Glory) Hum - Self-Titled Weezer - Blue Album Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin Bob Dylan Coltrane - A Love Supreme Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Hum Jimmy Smith - Root Down John Mayall Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton

I got it for like $3 used on Hertel a year ago. What a steal.

Wish I would have seen this thread two days ago. Had no idea he was coming here and would have loved to see it.

Maybe you are not familiar with how breeding certain traits works with dogs??? Maybe I'm not understanding your comment correctly? Maybe you didn't understand mine? Pit bulls came from their English cousins who were bred to to "bait" bulls. The American pitbull was bred from those extremely powerful dogs to be fighting dogs. The ones who wouldn't fight would often be killed by their owners and they would only try to breed the ones who would fight willingly and did so well. So that mentality kept getting bred deeper and deeper into them as the generations passed. I'm sorry, I love pets and animals as much as anyone, but those are, quite simply, the facts. They were bred to be killing machines, not companion pets, not working dogs, not guard dogs, not even hunting assistants, but killers.