All_Pro_Bills

If I recall correctly, in the first couple game against the Rams and Titans Josh took the short stuff, and it worked pretty well but as the season wore on that disappeared.

Their contention is "free speech" can be dangerous because it can be hurtful to some and disinformation to others. The social good vs. the rights of the individual dilemma. And therefore, some regulation and limits need to be applied. Of course that conclusion whether true or not, leaves out the discussion of the most important parts. Namely, how is what is allowed and not allowed decided, to whom is it harmful, how is it harmful, and most critical, who gets to decide what can and cannot be spoken, written, or displayed. Now if there was some social agreement defined from open and honest consideration of all points of views on what constitutes free and "allowable" speech that might be something most people across the social and political spectrum might be able to get behind. But when special interests or a specific political group with a specific political agenda, in secret, and without any transparency, get to decide for everyone, along with performing the act of censoring and censuring those that "speak" outside the acceptable boundaries that they create and operate in secret, that's another story. All while claiming its "fair" while consciously understanding they are lying. What it comes down to is the self-appointed censors decide to shut down people they don't like saying things they don't like. All their fancy talk and elaborate excuses can't hide that reality.

Of course she's lying! Because anyone who doesn't demonstrate 100% agreement, obedience, and support for all US government actions and policies while demonstrating 100% disagreement with anyone the government views as an enemy is a traitor. A misinformed traitor spreading disinformation and infecting the American collective with false narratives and debunked conspiracy theories. Most likely working for some foreign adversary or a supporter of "insurrectionists" or other "bad" actors. Putting Americans in danger and emboldening our adversaries (all the buzz words and terms from the playbook). While you legitimately act as a free citizen of the Republic with rights to dissent and expression your views such as those freedoms provided by the US Constitution the government and its supporters and allies such as those in the media view you as a subject of the government and the ruling elite. Do what you're told and shut up. This is the argument they will use against you if you speak out against or question anything. Its the only defense they can muster. Certain posters use it on this PPP board.

I'll concede there are exceptions but as a matter of practice they are also driven by science. In this case inconclusive science. But woke religion doesn't address ambiguous cases but rather people that reject their biological gender for a belief in something else. In these "I think I'm a women therefore I am" cases the gender is not ambiguous and the biological gender is clear yet people ignore reality. Just like those 10,000 year old Earth folks the left loves to snicker at. Its the same denial of reality at work.

I think anyone that prefers to apply logic, fact-based techniques of thinking, and things like the principles of physical science would conclude these people are rejecting reality in the face of evidence that renders their beliefs as false. Yet for some reason they might choose to cling to them. Why they would do that is something to explore. Faith is the answer I see most. This leads me to ponder the belief system of current social movements. I propose applying the same criteria to the American Woke movement, which after examination I conclude is a belief system that meets the criteria of a religion. Namely, dismissing scientific fact and logic. Start with the concept that they believe a man can be a women simply by believing. And attack anyone that disagrees. But genetic and biological facts invalidate their belief. Yet they cling to them. For me, that's consistent with a Christian cited in the example above believing the Earth is 10,000 years old when confronted with geological and scientific facts. So why do some that reject traditional or unique religious beliefs because they can be factually disproved believe in or fail to critique woke religious beliefs that can also be factually disproven?

The BS part is all these experts deluding themselves into believing they can control anything.

The social justice police request the use of proper pronouns or you'll end up living in a van down by the river!

Ask them why they still live at the beach and in urban areas along the coasts if they know and believe sea levels are rising?

When it comes to government spending being unsustainable, my favorite is "you want the truth", "you can't handle the truth". With the audience for the claim being the voters. I think it was Jung that said "people cannot stand too much reality". Fortunately for them, denying reality is the core competency and guiding principle of the current administration.

Why wasn't it 100%? CNN probably concluded making up a number of 72% by rigging the survey sample was about as high a number as might pass scrutiny.

To this point I haven't seen any study that has identified causality linking the vaccines to an increase in all-cause deaths. You'd have to design a study comparing a vaccinated population with a non-vaccinated control group, identify if any statistically significant differences exist in death rates between the two populations and then drill-down on those specific divergences. Organizations such as the CDC and NIH, along with most private companies such as Pfizer and University and Hospital researchers, have access to this kind of data. But given how invested most of these players are in the vaccine program, I expect nobody in the industry is eager to perform a study linking the vaccine to deaths which might suggest a personal or professional failure on their part that might also entail negative consequences. The fundamental issue isn't believing or not believing a link exists between excess deaths and the vaccines. Or the validity of conspiracy theories. The bottom line, and its a very valid conclusion, is that nobody running the show wants to find out.

Well, the author has impeccable credentials and decades of experience in investigating and exposing major stories. Correct or not we can expect, and right on queue the MSM propaganda machine will be carpet bombing the story with synchronized and consistently worded phases and terms to discredit it along with the writer in their usual fashion when defending this administration. Expect no tough questions to be directed to any administration or official. And they can't respond, because you know, national security and lives may be as risk. Nobody other than the author of the story will be grilled Obviously a Russian operative (ha ha). And the premise that Russia blew up their own pipeline to somehow "frame" some other party never made any sense. Frame them to what end? It was done for the same reason that Cortez burned his ships when reaching the new world centuries ago. To send a message there's no going back. Specifically with NordStream to Germany the most important nation state of Europe. What the US fears more than anything is Russian economic integration with western Europe. if you think the sideshow in Ukraine is about territorial integrity or stopping Russian conquest of Europe you're not paying close attention to how the world operates. its all about the money. But what blows that theory out of the water, no pun intended, is the existence of something people in the business call a shut off valve. I've heard its quite useful in turning off the flow of some liquid or gas running through a pipe. if you ever have a need to turn off the water or gas in your home its advisable to use the valve to stop the flow rather than blow up your water main or gas main hook up.

All Mighty God, if you're monitoring this message board please hit the "reset" button on the human race because your experiment has failed as some sort of social madness and insanity has overcome the world you have created which leaves the human race capable of only focusing on things of a trivial nature while things of importance are left to die and whither. or if this is some "Matrix" type existence simulation, please, erase the program and start over. Thank you.

Mention of Nixon brought back memories of a social and cultural parody of the times from this comedy and parody of the Watergate era by the late David Frye. It provides a good laugh for those familiar with it and might generate some thought on how liberalism has transformed from attacking and rejecting the establishment into today's embrace and support for it.

These viruses generally appear in large flocks of birds or herds of animals that are raised for human food production in unsanitary and crowded conditions. So the virus acquiring the ability to inflect people and then transmit it from person to person might just be nature's way of getting rid of the source of the problem.

"Evidence based explanations". Who can argue with that? But only approved evidence supporting the explanation (excluding anything that doesn't) from approved sources disseminated to the public through approved media outlets.

So do you believe the UK or US through their intelligence services have never killed or removed a non-compliant foreign leader? Like when the US executed a coup against Iranian democracy in 1953 because of the threat to nationalize oil interests of American and British corporations. And replaced it with the Shah of Iran, a brutal dictator. Or CIA support for the Chilean military to remove Allende in 1973. Same reason, corporate interests. I could go on and on here. What's amazing is how people of high intelligence with all this information at their disposal refuse to understand that our government, whichever party is in power, works for the Fortune 100.

Johnson delivered a message which scuttled a peace deal that had an agreement from both sides. Because certain western powers didn't want the war to end. So another 10 months of war and bloodshed so far. Exactly what threats or coercion Boris expressed in communicating the message demanding obedience, use your imagination.

Try Bing. Here's one: https://www.ibtimes.sg/western-bloc-led-by-aggressive-boris-johnson-ruined-russia-ukraine-peace-deal-leading-year-long-68910

All I can say is hindsight is 20/20 and we're critiquing people for a lack of action when they were not inclined to perceive or anticipate any action was necessary. I also think the preemptive strike to prevent the next Hitler from taking power theory is a risky speculative bet based on the operating assumption that you can predict with great precision and accuracy what the future holds. And that you can predict with certainty that you're action will prevent some catastrophic outcome in some future time and replace it with a good outcome. A future where there are potentially thousands and thousands of variables almost none of which you can control that might impact the outcome. Ultimately you can't know for certain if you're going to make things better, make them worse, or have no effect. What if you go back to 1928 and kill Hitler and that provides Stalin and the Soviets the opportunity to conquer the entire European continent?

Context. As you appear to be a history buff, you're well aware the world was in the throes of the Great Depression and the US was in no position, socially, economically, or militarily to involve the country in the affairs of other countries. Most Americans understanding the country faced with problems at home, saw no need or reason to intervene. They weren't isolationist but rather people with their own problems that took priority. Also, and most important, before WW2 the US spent about 1% of GDP on defense and ranked 17th in terms of military size. Facts are that America, for all its potential, wasn't a world military leader in the 1930's and people making this argument are projected current US power to act onto the 1930's era where it simply did not exist.

By sending Boris Johnson to deliver the message to Zelensky that if he attempts to make a deal with the Russian they'll kill him.

That's exactly what it is, or my word for it, a delusion. But addressing this question with people that express and demonstrate belief in gender self-identification will yield no answer. Because observable reality and facts have no place in their belief system. So either they suffer from mental impairment that obstructs their ability to understand reality or they honestly don't believe any of it and rather just do it to get along. My vote is they go along to get along. Imagine the treatment a biological female artist would get if she were to protest the award going to a man in a dress. Front page ostracizing by every media outlet in the country along with immediate ejection from the group and blackballing by the industry. All to support a social delusion and collective insanity nobody believes.

There are a lot of issues here. Like how many "spare" F-16's are just laying around? Will providing planes take away from operational readiness elsewhere? Where and what are the risks? What's the capacity to build new aircraft if necessary? Is there sufficient materials on hand or is there procurement? What about parts and maintenance costs and material? They can't wave a magic wand and poof, F-16's appear and with trained pilots out of thin air. There's a lot of details to work out, Maybe somebody has done that already? But I for sure can't say. And while I'm no authority on training fighter pilots but from what I can find it might take a minimum of 9 months to certify trained F-16 pilots. Maybe less in a crunch or with veteran pilots but most likely there's a significant amount of time between when planes might be provided and when they can become operational. And not even discussing training and staffing ground support and maintenance. So from today you might be looking at November to get squadrons airborne. I don't think its possible to predict what the situation on the ground will be then.

I didn't say they suck but after falling short a few times I believe some upgrades and changes are necessary to get the team in a position to take the big step to win it all. This requires bold actions. If they do more of the same I just don't see any path to another 13 win season next year or a division title with the Jets and Dolphins barking at their heels. And in a sport where 1% better is the difference between winning and losing scrutinizing the performance of the DC (and other things) in critical moments is something to consider.