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5 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
Except that the politicians being censured did, in fact, do their jobs by voting in the way they felt proper. And except that companies can decide to let people go from their jobs if their behavior will negatively impact the company.
Other than that your comparison was intelligent.
So you agree they are not the same thing at all- not sure how you think you are disagreeing with me.
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5 hours ago, 716er said:
Can someone square the Republican push to end cancel culture with multiple Republicans, such as Cassidy, Romney, Burr, Toomey, and Cheney, who are being censured by their state GOP committees for their impeachment votes?
Are you comparing a politician being censured for not doing their job to normal citizens losing their jobs for saying things that are not popular in their private life? Not an intelligent comparison.
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3 hours ago, Jrb1979 said:
Yes. Since the new season started the ratings have gone up. I think the main reason ratings were down in the summer is due to most people being able to do things outdoors after being stuck indoors due to Covid.
The numbers are only up compared to last year of which they were down 40%+
https://www.statista.com/statistics/240377/nba-finals-tv-viewership-in-the-united-states/
I know this is only the finals but it is a good indicator of interest. I know the NBA was hawking it's opening week numbers as great but the Christmas day numbers were down 2.5 million total viewers. Basically the NBA now has one national team(Lakers) and little else of interest
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4 hours ago, DCOrange said:
Sure but Licht had already done a fantastic job of building up that roster before this season anyways.
TB was missing a decent QB to make the playoffs. They literally had a historically bad QB last year in Jameis and were 7-9. People do not realize how many time Jameis lost games all by himself that his teammates won their matchups.
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16 hours ago, Sherlock Holmes said:
Sign Watt, Kerrigan and Get Kuechly out of retirement.
Kuechly was great largely because of his speed but the last time I saw him play he had definitely lost a step from his peak. I don't think he will be a big upgrade at LB even as a rotation guy.
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2 hours ago, Unforgiven said:
https://www.rt.com/usa/515571-minneapolis-police-extra-funding/
Minneapolis releases $6.4mn to police to hire new recruits, as depleted force
struggles with soaring crime after calls to defund
No *&^%, huh
Who would want to be a cop in any large city right now? They are either totally corrupt if the Dems are right or you are daily fighting that perception and unable to do much good. If I as a teacher had to fight that perception daily I would quit and make more money.
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2 hours ago, SectionC3 said:
I watched the NBA. Loved it. Phenomenal basketball. Baseball is what just bores the crap out of me now.
I tried to watch the bubble basketball and found it much worse than prior to bubble. Far too often I felt like players did not seem to care.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/cuomos-covid-hero-myth-house-165006269.html
This is the definition of the failure of our media. If you did not want to destroy him as I have for every awful decision that is one thing but they literally made him the hero. His numbers are literally the worst in the developed world, he is the baseball coach who is 40-120 and the media argued he was best. If you live in New York and at any point thought Cuomo was impressive during this please use this to recognize how bad he has been and how much the media covers for him.
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9 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
The triumph of Politics and Ego over Conscience
1) NYS got dealt a tough hand
2) Cuomo made some tough decisions, I'll give him that, although too late
3) Some of his decisions were understandable in the context of the early pandemic, but incorrect from a public-health standpoint
4) Unclear how many deaths in nursing homes resulted from this policy, with widespread community infection and poor infection control policies/lack of PPE meaning many aides caring for the elderly unwittingly spread infection. Lord knows there are enough nursing home deaths in states that did NOT have this policy
5) Be that as it may, the honorable course of action after the fact, is transparency. Put the data out there, support investigation, let the chips fall
6) If the aides and subordinates do not follow that course of action, the buck falls on the desk of the man in charge.
All that said actions can be despicable and immoral and not illegal. Hopefully with the "prison on the table" comment at this point, you aren't one of those who respond in other cases calling for investigation prior to "rush to judgement"
There is one comment you make that is scary for an intelligent person to make- and I believe you are intelligent. "Some of his decisions were understandable in the context of the early pandemic, but incorrect from a public-health standpoint"
His decision to put the sick back with the elderly was implemented in March of last year when by March 12th we knew that the elderly were much more susceptible to COVID. Putting the sick with the elderly is not understandable if you ask any epidemiologist or anyone who has ever worked in healthcare. That decision is responsible for thousands of deaths and was made without a shred of intelligence or advice from a competent person. I am certain of date because it was first day spring break and I did not see my parents for months after.
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7 hours ago, WideNine said:
Yeah....
Actually she is a data scientist, AND geographer. The kind of work she does and has done involves a lot of data mining analysis, and trending.
You don't have to be a epidemiologist to crunch the numbers tracking Covid cases, rate of spread, and mortality rates. I have friends that do this work already as well as contact tracing.
Data Science:
Data science is an inter-disciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from many structural and unstructured data.[1][2] Data science is related to data mining, machine learning and big data
Jones alleged that the Florida Department of Health pressured her to strategically align COVID-19 case data with Florida's goal to reopen the state.
Now, what I don't get is the motivation for her to blow up her career for no reason; whereas there is motive for Florida's governor to want to open the state and keep it open.
I don't think she is lying about being told to doctor the data.
I also think she is wicked-smart and has a borderline psychotic revenge history that makes the idea of her exploiting the State's messaging system (hacking is a bit generous) to encourage others to blow the whistle plausible.
You admit that she has " borderline psychotic revenge history" but believe everything she says? Psychotic people believe what they want without needing a good reason to destroy a career. I will tell you that no one has backed her up publicly, which to me is a huge red flag. As for the scientist part I should have clarified better but she has never worked on any data in regards to viruses and the media made her expert for no reason.
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1 hour ago, WideNine said:
Two wrongs don't make a right, but what about all the data and guidance manipulation Trump's people made continually through the pandemic.
Prison on the table for them too?
How about DeSantis in Fla and his personal vendetta against the data scientist there because she wanted to show their real numbers?
The crux of the issue is we had a psychotic narcissist in the WH who politicized the hell out of a pandemic because the timing of it was hurting his and GOP reelection bids.
All the BS mismanagement of Covid-19 can be traced back to that.
Not saying what Cuomo's team did was right, just that by turning a pandemic from a fact and science-based emergency our country needed to responsibly address, Trump and much of the GOP kept lying, and lying, and lying...
You might want to reconsider your take on the Rebekah Jones in FL- she is not a scientist, she is a geologist, she did not want to print proper info, she wanted to print the most inflammatory numbers, and she was just dropped her lawsuit against the state for the raid. Literally your entire comment about her is as if you believe everything she says but literally no one else, since no one has come to her defense and no lawyer wants her case.
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4 hours ago, Tiberius said:
The old man is putting a focus on human rights
I will have to give him credit on this, I hope this does not signify him going back to helping Iran because between the two SA is better. If he can push SA to be better without helping Iran I will be impressed.
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3 hours ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
What the hell were people doing?? Everything was closed and most of us locked in our homes!!
Sorry I bring this up each time this is mentioned but I have been living my normal life here in Florida except I don't go to crowded bars, which I used to do about twice a year for the past decade.
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1 hour ago, Backintheday544 said:
And one of the great ways to reign in spending is to cut costs to cops. You bring up LA for example, $3.1 billion of the budget is for the police force. That’s 29.93 percent of the entire budget. Dems saying defund the police were just trying to fix the problem that you’re talking about.In addition, you make it sound like a Democrat only problem. Spending is an issue on both sides. Both sides have spending problems.
If you want to argue which sides economic policies are more sound, I’ll go with the Democrats every day of the week. Interestingly enough, we got to see what a full on GOP economy would look like in Kansas with the Kansas experiment and it nearly bankrupted the state. For a quick read on it here’s the wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment but it’s really interesting so I suggest you pursue further reading then that quick summary.
With Kansas we see the devastating impact of trickle down economics and its impact on the middle class. On the flip side, we don’t see that with deficit spending. There’s even thought among economists that deficit spending isn’t terrible: https://www.reuters.com/article/sponsored/is-a-debt-doomsday-near
Back to the original point of my post. If our GDP increases like it does with Democratic leaders, we have the ability to spend more as we generate larger tax revenues based on GDP.
Kansas missed what Florida, Texas, Idaho, Tennessee are doing well. It is not enough to simply cut taxes, you must provide value on the dollar. Brownback missed the fact that no one wants to move to Kansas. Now let us discuss all the states that are hemorrhaging money right now who are all deep blue. Cali, NY, NJ, IL are all in financial peril like Kansas was and very few red states are. I am not a proponent of cutting taxes when they are needed, government does have it's place but it should have to justify it's spending. Lastly you are correct that both parties have spending problems but the Dems right now are much worse.( I feel like I am defending a person who drinks one bottle of whiskey a night vs someone who drinks two)
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3 hours ago, Backintheday544 said:
My original comment was about GDP. You brought up expenses. As I pointed out, GDP is not the same thing as a budget.I find it funny that you ignored all the date from the past 3 years and point out a chart that I did not create but referenced to to highlight GDP growth based on party. You can ignore Truman and Kennedy if you wish, but those facts still hold true that the Dems after them have been able to rise GDP more than their Republican counter parts.
If you want to ignore the original premise of GDP and focus on spending, we can discuss that as well. But please try to keep on topic and coherent.
I conceded your point up front, I was making a different but related point. I know you can't respond because you just spent two long comments avoiding discussion.
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5 hours ago, Backintheday544 said:
GDP and budget are two different things. GDP looks at the actual dollars brought into the economy, budget for a city in your example looks at tax revenues and other revenues less expenses.One area where blue states do not get a lot of help here is funding. You can see percent of states budget attributable to public funding here: https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal-government/
9 of the top 10 states that get the most Federal dollars for their budgets are red. I’d imagine if you removed federal money from those states they would have large budgetary issues.The graph also implicitly states the obvious, Democrats win cities. For example, Cook county is 1 county but will be a huge block on their since its Chicago whereas Wyoming County NY will be tiny.
The other skew is California. If California said F off IS and because it’s own country, it would be the fifth largest country in terms of GDP as of 2019.
With CA in mind you may say the data is skewed due to population when looking at real numbers. However when you look at GDP per capital, the top of the list is mainly blue states and the bottom of the list is mainly red states (it’s Wikipedia but it’s an easy presentation and has the figures): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP_per_capita
But the fact the charts do point out is blue counties bring more GDP to the US than red counties. The link I provided above also shows red states require more Federal assistance.
Its not a crazy thing that Democrat policies lead to increased GDP, as we have seen this on the national side as well based on President:
I find it funny that you responded to my comment about liberal spending with a bunch of facts that do not relate to liberal spending. I also find it funny you had to go back 60 years to show Dems are better on economics. Kennedy and Truman are fiscally nothing like today's Dems so while the facts are true the reasons are not similar.
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14 hours ago, Backintheday544 said:
If only those on the right could start pulling themselves up by the bootstraps:
if they would just get jobs and contribute to the economy they wouldn’t have time to riot and start insurrections
If this is true- and I am accepting it- how is it possible that LA, CHI and NYC all can't balance their budgets easily? It would seem the issue is not funding but spending. If this does not speak to the incompetence that is now running blue counties I am not sure what would.
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21 hours ago, Bubba Gump said:
Also had their lowest ratings since 2007. People are sick of watching Tom Brady, and maybe already getting sick of all the Mahomes hype. I would be willing to bet that a Bills/Packers SB would've generated a bigger audience.
I do not watch games with Brady very often because I dislike him and the officials give him calls no one else gets and I believe many people have come to same conclusion. His last 3 Super Bowl wins are all ones where officials played far too large a role and it is now expected by many people.
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Two points about the officiating 1)the planning by the teams is at least partially based on expected calls by officials. The comparison of the AFCCG and SB was as different as possible. To go from only calling it when you absolutely have to call it in the AFCCG to looking for things to call should be unacceptable. 2) Our Defense was built around the way the NFL called holding the past 4 years when smaller speedier guys would get the call enough to make it worth having them. This year they called it differently but at least it was consistent throughout the season and we could adjust. I think we will adjust well and be back better next year.
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3 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
I don't believe it would be an issue. What would be the difference with a City like Pittsburgh or Detroit that has Hockey and Football stadiums downtown?
He means actually use the same stadium- I think- but the concept would not work at all.
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I compare him to Barry Bonds in many ways, the numbers don't lie as far as accomplishments in the game, both would virtually undisputed if not for the absurd level of cheating.
To me the fact he and his team has been caught and punished for cheating multiple times will be enough not to ever give him that status. If the cheating does not bother you then I would have a hard time arguing against him.
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5 hours ago, Buffalo Bills Fan said:
Ya know what you mean doc. We are as well getting tired of the cold, snow and lack of light. Plus the population going down were we live at. A big job for a rural town going to shut down 800 workers. People told me this town was great. Movie theaters, mall full in the past. Now mall a ghost town, used to have movie threater bunch of other stuff. Lots of it shut down. Jobs moving to mexico, some big ones in the past.
Now it's pretty much fast food and stores like Wal Mart. Such a shame.
Never been to disney world. Heard it is pretty cool. Ya worth a shot man.
Orlando is growing very quickly but if you are willing to live a little ways out there is still some good deals. As for Disney I live very close and it is a cool place to visit, as is Universal. I have had annual passes to both over the years and the biggest advice I can give is always be there at opening and bring snacks so you can wait to eat till later in day when park is at busiest.
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6 hours ago, TBBills said:
You don't have more freedom down here just FYI. It's the same...
I will say with certainty that you have not lived in other parts of the country, especially during COVID. My family who still lives in NY has had their business shuttered, which does not mention gun ownership rights, ease of opening a business, or ease of getting proper school for your child. FL is not a utopia, but it is much better than any of liberal states right now.
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7 hours ago, TBBills said:
Except the only difference was one was true and the other wasn't.
Just to be clear- do you believe Trump won in 2016 due to Russian involvement? Or are you simply pointing out Russia tried to influence our election?
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If corner is clearly the BPA you certainly take it. That being said I think corner is less needy then the other two portions of the defense right this second. I hope we get some decent D tackles this year