jerryskids

One thing about Shooter McGavin -- it's funny that he was picked for sports, and WW said he had him for villain, because I was planning to take him for punchable face this round.

Just got in from golf. I did meh but I was working on my swing earlier this week and things started to improve on the back nine. Give me a few to get the lay of the land and collect my thoughts.

Well, context matters. Your synonym is for their 5th of 5 definitions of death -- the killing of a large number of people Ex: "Thousands of people were killed on the field of death". Other synonyms for this context are holocaust and genocide. Yeah, that's what we were discussing. But hey, technically in a different context, you are correct. Enjoy your W, it's well-earned. I'm going golfing.

Death and murder are synonyms? OMFG.

Great picks from a great movie! I had Bluto on my list, and Wermer is amazingly punchable.

I left to spend time with my wife. Also, you were sky screaming as usual. Murder$#!#@$#! My first post in this thread expressed surprise that my senator would get involved in this "seditious-ish" video. Fnord replied that it wasn't seditious, they were just, ya know, reinforcing hypothetical HR training. I asked Fnord if we were going to play that semantic game. Fnord listed some potentially, but not officially, illegal orders. Before I saw Fnord's post, I made the following general comment: Note that I "certainly disagree" with the implications in Trump's statement. My first value statement on Trump's actions. I then responded to Fnord regarding his list of possible illegal orders. In that response I said: So in this thread I stated two actions of Trump with which I disagree. Tell me the last time you stated agreement with something Trump did? Anyway, we got to talking about coherence, Sean proved his inability to process language and mentioned murder, you jumped on the murder bandwagon, and I decided to call it a night. HTH

You introduced the word murder from thin air, English teacher. So no, we weren't discussing murder. In fact, I was discussing with DogCows Trump's relative coherence when I brought up Biden, in the quote you posted. One of us doesn't know what they are talking about, and I'll give you a hint, it's not me. Chump. Your inability to process basic grammar and discussions no longer surprises me.

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8.1 Bill the Butcher, Daniel Day Lewis, Gangs of New York - Villain

7.7 Santanico Pandemonium, Salma Hayek, From Dusk Till Dawn - Chick

You are unhinged, DEFCON 1 TDS. Rational discussion with you is impossible. Carry on.

Murder?

Are you not entertained?!

Are you incapable of answering my question? I honestly don't know what that had to do with Biden, let alone Trump, calling for murder.

Damn you, this was on my list. I didn't think she'd go this early.

Another non-responsive post. What does this have to do with what you quoted?

You literally quoted me saying that Biden was a mental vegetable, so the answer is none, Biden did nothing, he was a mental vegetable. Murder? Who said murder? You really don't read the posts you quote, and instead just post whatever pablum comes to mind. Amazing.

Incoherent? Possibly. Biden was a mental vegetable for much of his term, and I'm sure you objected to his staying in office and running for another one. That is evidence that it can happen. But since we are using squissy-like nitpicking to say that the congresspeople aren't technically telling the military that they are getting illegal orders, Trump merely said that sedition is punishable by the death penalty. Which is true.

So... both? You start by listing alleged illegal actions, then make it sound like it's just another day of HR training. I'm not going to engage in that latter track because it's fairly dumb IMO. Did they feel like the military wasn't providing this training regularly enough, so six congresspeople took it upon themselves to shoot a video to provide extra, supplemental training for something that isn't necessarily happening? Never mind, I said it was dumb and I wouldn't engage. Regarding the ship bombing, I've stated here multiple times that I don't agree with it. It sounds like you don't, either. That doesn't make it illegal, though. Has it been found illegal?

I should state that I certainly disagree with implications by Trump that congresspeople could be facing the death penalty for making this video. We all know that it would never happen, but it's one of the many unpresidential things he says. Actually, we probably don't all know it. This seems like one of those things where Lefties decide that Trump is coherent, not lying, and honestly plans to try to kill them.

Well, you don't make that video unless you believe that armed service members ARE being given illegal orders. Is that your point (that they have been given such orders), or are you arguing that by stopping short of flat out saying it, they haven't said anything that can be considered seditious?

Yes. Landa is at the farmhouse and just told the farmer that he understands how Jews think. I suspect that he is going to find the family under the floor soon, and hilarity will ensue.

I'd be surprised if abolishing the cap would have that large of an effect. Do you have a link showing such an analysis? I always thought the solution was to raise the disbursement age, which nobody will do because it is a 3rd rail with the older crowd, but which absolutely should be done. Life expectancy has risen significantly since SS was implemented, and it was never intended to fund 20+ years of retirement.

I'm surprised Mark Kelly participated in that seditious-ish video. We are a purple border state which has tried in the past to enforce deportation when Dem admins weren't doing their job. It doesn't seem like it would help him as much as hurt him. Although, his reelection isn't until 11/28, so maybe he doesn't care.

Somehow I have never seen this movie. But as luck would have it, it came up in my Netflix recs because 11/30 is the last day they will carry it. So I've started watching it. I spend about 15 minutes each day slow watching a show (usually a series) while I stretch, so I should end around that date. Thanks. I'm really enjoying your team so far. Josey Wales kinda threw me for a loop. That's probably my favorite western, but at that point in the draft I was focusing on what I'd consider more "chalky" picks. Now I'm sad that I'll never get Josey. But it made me rethink my approach to the draft. On a related note, I took a 2 hour class/presentation last week on Clint Eastwood's westerns which was incredibly educational. We learned about his early days doing bit roles for Universal (they didn't renew his contract because he spoke through his teeth and squinted too much, heh heh). Then a part in Rawhide which led to being cast in Fistful of Dollars. Fistful was a throw-away movie: a studio from Italy teamed with one in Spain to shoot two films (saving money on props). I don't even remember the name of the "main" one. But Fistful was the first western by Sergio Leone, and he created this concept of the western anti-hero. They chose Clint because he was known to American audiences from Rawhide, but wasn't a star to command a large salary. But as they say, the rest is history. Leone also pioneered the "less-is-more" tension of the shootout. To that point, most shootouts were a few seconds, maybe 30 tops. The shootout at the end of Good Bad Ugly, though, was 6 minutes long. Not a word is spoken. We watched the whole thing, I forgot how good that was. Clint liked to do different takes on classic western themes. Josey Wales, for instance, was inspired by the John Wayne movie The Searchers, which I just learned from Wiki was AFI's pick for best western ever. In that movie, Wayne was also a confederate soldier who lost some of his family to a raid, but by Comanches, not soldiers. The movie centers around Wayne's journey to find and rescue this family members who were abducted, killing the Comanche chief in the end. In Josey, the Comanches are NOT the bad guys, and it explores if white folk can co-exist with them.