Voltaire

Not doing it this week. I'm on vacation and didn't watch any games yesterday as I spent the entire day driving. Happy Thanksgiving everyone from the Smoky Mountains in western North Carolina.

The story is still on their website and does not include a redaction. I just don't see how its particularly relevant.

If the Deviant Art stuff is true, Crooks fetish was muscular bodybuilding women who could turn dorks like him into a pretzel. Maybe there's an alphabet letter for that, but to me, being attracted to females of any body type is not gay.

Hold on now, this furry stuff tracks back to the NYPost on November 17th which has broken several stories, the Hunter Biden laptop one being most prominent.

Also, the search engine for Thomas Crooks does indeed also bring up furry content, but the source for that is Sam J at twitchy.com who in turn is quoting a post by Election Wizard on X . Don't judge a book by its cover, but when I look at Thomas Crooks photo, I imagine this person was bullied a lot in elementary school.

I got Crooks the Trump assassin conflated with Tyler Robinson, the Kirk assassin. Its Robinson with the trans/furry fetish. Apparently Tucker Carlson has uncovered a lot about Crooks recently. He's migrated from being a sociopathic right wing lunatic to a sociopathic left wing lunatic.

Oh no! You're right. You've also correctly identified the reason as that British material I taught for over 21 years seeping in,

I don't know why this isn't more popular across the board. We are way too far apart as a country now. I want you to be able to do what you want and me do what I want. The only thing you get by hanging around with me is more MAGA for the rest of your life... you can't want that and I don't really care to impose it on you. Also, the danger to me is we're always one election away from that reversing. My line of work allows me the ability to go anywhere in the country and so when I returned to the US from being overseas for so long, I moved to the reddest part of a red state to keep away from leftoid people. The safest/best solution for both sides it seems to me is to cut each other loose.

She's staked out her own positions and put her foot in her mouth repeatedly but one of her best ideas is a peaceful, amicable national divorce. We're just so heavily divided. Its great and all that Trump is beating the fock out of the left but it wasn't that long ago the Biden politburo was beating us with the stick. And it would be a total disaster were they ever to pick it up again, they're forevermore one election away from doing so.. Look, I really don't care what happens in blue sh*tholes. I think they're cancer but that's what they want to be, so fock them. The best / safest thing for the country is an electoral college map that excludes California, New York, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, Minnesota etc plus two leftoid senators and a leftoid congressional delegation from those states. The only thing I have to offer them by sticking around is more Trump and they can't possibly want that. Just wish them well and let them do their own thing. By cutting them loose to run their own damn country how they like, we never have the worry of them taking over the good and decent parts of the country. MTG is right about a national divorce. If California were to secede, I wouldn't want to fight tp keep them in; I'd throw a party, strip their Congressional delegation of voting rights, and ask New York to consider joining them so we could do the same with their Congressional delegation.

I'm on a nine day holiday, I'll sleep all day tomorrow, wake up at 12:01 and flood the forum for 24 hours straight. Yeah! Psyching myself up! Get it done! Yeah, Baby! Number One baby! Bring it on! Yeah!

I never saw Richard Dawson ask this on Family Feud.

What crap the Lions had at QB all my life until Matt Stafford came along as the #1 pick the year after 0-16. And we had crap goaltending in hockey at the same time. Those were otherwise Super Bowl or Stanley Cup caliber teams, but then two steps down since the most important position was occupied by the nightmare incompetence of Tim Chevaldae and Bob Essenza in hockey and Rodney Peete or Scott Mitchell in football. Eventually the Red Wings found above average goaltending and won Cups with Mike Vernon and Chris Osgood plus a third with the outstanding goaltending of Dominik Hasek. Unfortunately. the Lions never found the answer. They only ever trotted out pure cr@pola QBs and so those Barry teams of the 90s that were always good enough to make the playoffs, would inevitably get bounced in the first round, except the one year they got to the NFC Championship.

I never realized there was a time when the Cowboys existed before Jerry! (1989! - Looked it up)

They aren't terrible, at equal strength I'd still take them at -3 over GB, although that wasn't the case earlier this year. What remains is still really good but they're playing one of the best teams in the league at 70% strength. To get a 'sure' spot the playoffs in the NFC, teams are going to need 10 1/2 or 11 wins, which the Lions should be worth 4-2 to get there. SF too and they're even more shredded than the Lions. The Lions have four medium strength teams (Dallas, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Minnesota) to go where they should be favored to win and two great ones (LA Rams and GB Packers) where I think they should be underdogs, but in GB's case, it turns out are not. I'm looking at the Bears as likely to be the last NFC team without a musical chairs seat since their remaining schedule has been backloaded with top shelf teams, but they can still make it if they pull two upsets or get help.

I'm surprised the Lions are favored over the Packers. I'm glad there are believers out there but I'm pessimistic. The Packers were the better team on opening day despite playing the Lions at full strength. Now, with so much of the team injured, I don't see how things have gotten anything but worse for Detroit. Granted its a home game.

Zero Concerts were always too expensive and so I never got in the habit.

12 Angry Men (1957) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Alien (1979) All About Eve (1950) Apocalypse Now (1979) Aquaman (2018) Avatar (2009) Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) Avengers: Endgame (2019) Back to the Future (1985) Barbie (2023) Black Panther (2018) Blade Runner (1982) Casablanca (1942) Citizen Kane (1941) The Dark Knight (2008) Die Hard (1988) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Fight Club (1999) Finding Dory (2016) Finding Nemo (2003) Forrest Gump (1994) Frozen (2013) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather Part II (1974) Gone with the Wind (1939) Goodfellas (1990) The Green Mile (1999) Groundhog Day (1993) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011) Inception (2010) Iron Man (2008) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Jaws (1975) Joker (2019) Jurassic Park (1993) The Lion King (1994) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) The Matrix (1999) Pulp Fiction (1994) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Rear Window (1954) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Schindler's List (1993) Seven Samurai (1954) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Singin' in the Rain (1952) Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) Titanic (1997) Toy Story (1995) ===== 39. I included Citizen Cain even though I fell asleep all three times I tried. The last time, I woke up just in time to catch the meaning behind "Rosebud" I won't be making a 4th attempt unless I have a film professor sitting next to me explaining why this technique or that one was revolutionary for its time because the movie, on its own merits, is about the most boring movie I've ever attempted. And I don't forsee taking that class.

1) Los Angeles Rams 9-2 1 2) Green Bay Packers 7-3-1 4 3) Seattle Seahawks 8-3 5 4) Philadelphia Eagles 8-3 2 5) Denver Broncos 9-2 9 6) Detroit Lions 7-4 6 7) Kansas City Chiefs 6-5 11 8 ) New England Patriots 10-2 8 9) San Francisco 49ers 8-4 10 10) Indianapolis Colts 8-3 3 11) Baltimore Ravens 6-5 13 12) Buffalo Bills 7-4 7 13) Los Angeles Chargers 7-4 12 14) Chicago Bears 8-3 14 15) Jacksonville Jaguars 7-4 16 16) Dallas Cowboys 5-5-1 22 17) Houston Texans 6-5 19 18) Pittsburgh Steelers 6-5 15 19) Tampa Bay Buccaneers 6-5 17 20) Carolina Panthers 6-6 18 21) Minnesota Vikings 4-7 20 22) New York Giants 2-10 25 23) Miami Dolphins 4-7 21 24) Atlanta Falcons 4-7 24 25) Cincinnati Bengals 3-8 31 26) Arizona Cardinals 3-8 23 27) Cleveland Browns 3-8 29 28) Washington 3-8 26 29) New Orleans Saints 2-9 27 30) New York Jets 2-9 28 31) Las Vegas Raiders 2-9 30 32) Tennessee Titans 1-10 32

Jewish Silwa voters are advised to flee now and will be welcomed if they do. Jewish Mamdani and Cuomo voters are 100% unwanted but they can serve as the canaries in the coal mine to test if Kristallnacht II transpires or not. I don't wish ill upon you because you're Jewish, you're unwelcome because you're Democrats and I hold you directly responsible for Mamdani in the first place. Democrats should live in the communities they created and not go around relocating and destroying other people's communities. Cuomo and Mamdani voters are both cancer.

Why not this year? The Chiefs, Ravens, and Bills have all taken a step back while NE, Denver, and Indy have stepped up. The AFC is wide open and whoever wins it has a 25-33% chance of upsetting the NFC team in the Super Bowl. Nobody knows how good the Pats ar because they haven't played anyone all year. That's not like its their fault, just all the stars aligned in a way that this team has been given the softest schedule that I can remember. Their job is to shred the teams they're playing and that's what they've been doing.

They've turned the corner in that they don't suck anymore but this is far and away the softest schedule in the league.

The Patriots division sucks, their NFC South opponents division always sucks, and the AFC North is battered with injuries. Plus they get Tennessee and Las Vegas. The above average Pats year has been a perfect storm built on running the table on 3-9 teams.

The Bears season is finally getting real. They've barely beaten up on crap teams all year and have Eagles, Packers, Browns, Packers, 49ers, Lions left on the schedule. That's one win left in the tank and maybe another to get to ten. The Lions are likely too banged up again this year to make a full playoff run.

One team from the Bears, Lions, Packers, Seahawks, and 49ers isn't making the playoffs and that team is Chicago. Meanwhile, the entire AFC should be praying the Jags and/or Houston make the playoffs and KC is locked out. Chargers could collapse. The AFC North is only getting one team: Baltimore.

The 2025 Giants are by far the best 2-10 team in NFL history. I haven't seen this many absurd defeats yanked from the jaws of victory since Scott Mitchell was wasting away Barry's career by QBing the Lions.