Heretic

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On Feb 17, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "Asstros Thread" at 06:20 pm

  • The main thing I've gathered from all of this is that Manfred is about as impotent of a bitch as a commissioner could possibly be, as things currently stand. No players have faced any consequences other than public opinion, but he's threatening punishment against anyone he decides intentionally throws at one of their hitters. It'll be awesome when the eventual fallout is that a handful of random pitchers on other teams wind up getting punished more than anyone on Houston for their reactions to what Houston did.

    I am in big favor of all the current players who are utterly blasting both Houston and the impotent commissioner.

On Feb 13, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "Democracy" at 01:32 pm
  • posted by jmog

    You both are right...kind of. Across the board governance by either party sucks. The dems have owned major cities for decades and ran most of them to the ground.

     

    The repubs have owned Mississippi and Alabama for decades and those states are still in the 60s economy wise.

     

    The states that flourish are typically the ones that have a mix of both parties.

     

    This is why, even though our 2 party system blows donkey balls, I have always said that whatever party has POTUS, I hope the HoR and Senate majorities are the other party. 

     

    It effectively slows down the slippery slope to either ideology and typically (not lately) makes the 2 sides compromise.

    That is a good point. There are some on this site who constantly harp on the conditions of large cities run by Ds...while completely ignoring the large percentage of the lowest-education and/or poorest states that are known to be Red States. To me, it seems the main thing to take away isn't that a city or state is Red or Blue, but that it is generally dominated government-wise by one party.

    I suppose that it says a lot about our government when the big takeaway is that both sides suck, but if they are in a situation where they either have to work together and compromise OR they don't and because they're evenly-matched, that just means nothing gets done, then things are WAY better in general.

On Feb 12, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 12:25 pm
  • posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

    If this helps guys like you who are obsessed with AOC et al., then I'm all for it.  It'll give you something else to focus on - unless Greta is still ruling your dreams. 

    He'll just shift to one of his other targets if his AOCDS goes away, as he also has ODS, CDS and a few others. And those two, in particular, don't seem to be going away since his "HEADS WILL ROLL....SOON!!!!" claims never seem to be getting any sooner.

On Feb 11, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "2019/2020 College Basketball" at 04:57 pm
  • posted by Ironman92

    Whatever it was, I’m glad it happened and glad I was watching

    Yeah, I was, too. I didn't even really know it was happening and just tuned in because it was a B1G game and had a couple hours to chill in between running to one place and to another place. I'm sure it'd been broadcast that it would happen, but I didn't know it was until I heard the announcers talking about it. And for whatever reason it did happen, it was good to see it and the crowd really seemed to appreciate the moment.

  • Heretic replied to "2019/2020 College Basketball" at 12:48 pm
  • posted by Ironman92

    some? He’s not well at all

    Yeah, all you had to do is see him on TV for more than a second or two Saturday and it'd be pretty apparent that he's on his last legs. I'd heard about his health being in decline and still was kind of taken aback by how feeble he seemed. The combination of Dickie V (aka: the patron saint of old-timers) doing an otherwise meaningless (other than jockeying for bubble space) midwestern basketball game and him finally coming back to Indiana really gave me the impression it was a last hurrah reconciliation, in the same vein as someone forgiving someone else while on their deathbed.

  • Heretic replied to "2020 Reds Talk" at 10:24 am

  • 70 wins for the Pirates seems way high. I don't trust this.

On Feb 10, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "Build your perfect year, weather-wise" at 11:56 am
  • posted by justincredible

    Let's say you find a machine that lets you control the weather. How would you control the weather for the year? Nice and sunny all year long, or are you a fan of all 4 seasons?

    My personal paradise, weather-wise, would be:

    3-month Spring, 60-70º, one night-time thunderstorm each week
    3-month Summer, max high of 85º, low humidity, one night-time thunderstorm each week
    4-month Fall, 60-70º highs, lows in the mid-50s, one night-time thunderstorm each week
    2-month Winter, 25-30º, little to no wind, snow accumulation the entire time

    I think I'd switch it to 4 months of summer and 3 of fall to have a bit more heat, but other than that, I really like this idea.

On Feb 8, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "Tribe Talk- Off Season Chatter" at 08:41 am

  • I...think so? I know he only had a tiny handful of at bats at AAA last year, but was hurt almost the entire time. Can't remember the terms of his contract, though, and honestly haven't heard his name mentioned once on the fan blog I read, so he might not be, though.

    Check that...did a quick search and he's one of the 54 remaining free agents who haven't signed. So, no one wants his "will break at the first sign of movement" body eating up precious DL space.

On Feb 7, 2020:

  • Heretic created thread "The relaunch of the XFL!" at 02:22 pm

  • I was on ESPN's site today and one of the main stories is about Landry Jones being the face of the XFL. And just like that, any potential desire to even watch for one minute faded to nothingness.

    So, if anyone does watch this and had opinions. feel free to voice them!

  • Heretic replied to "Restart life with current knowledge or large cash sum now?" at 01:42 pm
  • posted by Zunardo

    This.  Reminds me of "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" where the main character is 83, arthritic and in pain each day - and finds those aches go away when he goes back in time to his youth.. 

    Some also mentioned not wanting to go thru the drama and turmoil of those early years - but if you have your current knowledge (and presumably the accompanying maturity and wisdom), wouldn't you be better able to anticipate situations and deal with them more successfully?  

    I think that'd make it worse. You're there with an adult's knowledge and whatever maturity and wisdom you developed AND have knowledge of anything big happening over however many years, but because you're in the body of a child, it's not like you'd be taken seriously when you're trying to give your parents stock tips. It'd be more like "Awww, our little boy likes eating apples so much he wants us to buy stock in Apple! That's so cute...now go to your room and read one of your Little Golden Books while we finish our grown-up work."

    And having already gone through school once, it'd be pure hell to do that again, having to sit still and listen to lectures daily for year after year, knowing that I have to endure it all over again with a smile because if I start letting my true feelings through, I'll be getting that "troublesome" stigma and those years of re-youth will be pure hell simply because I don't have the patience to put up with the "not in actual control" aspects of going back to a day when I was a legal dependent who had to follow all the frivolous rules that children are forced to deal with.

  • Heretic replied to "CNN.. Fake News or lazy?" at 01:31 pm
  • posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

    Okay. Just very predictable. 

    When you're "party before country", the concept of a person on "your team" breaking ranks with the party is THE ULTIMATE SIN.

  • Heretic replied to "Uranium One / Clinton Foundation / obama DoJ corruption" at 01:28 pm
  • posted by ptown_trojans_1

    Is he a crime syndicate? I fucking doubt it. 

    Go back to conspiracy land...

    Well, technically this thread is conspiracy land, where the idiot partisans spam whatever wacky theories that are bouncing around their favorite blogs.

    Personally, I find it amusing. Quaker and CC are the exact same as a guy like Seth Abramson, with the only difference being that he's been going for the "HEADS WILL ROLL NOW!!!!" takedown on Trump since he was elected, while they've been trying to do the same for Obama/Clinton/Biden/etc. for even longer. With the exact same results of one nothingburger after the next. Gotta give 'em credit for continuing to try!

On Feb 6, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 12:50 pm
  • posted by O-Trap

    It sometimes even seems like they take it a step further.  Like some people have a Clickhole filter in their head that interprets anything news-related.

    It's kind of like the left-wing versions of CC and Quaker, I gather. Believe everything that supports their personal opinions and refer to anything that doesn't as bullshit or fake. Because for everyone that is getting a panic attack because Trump, there's a CC giving his personal blowjob opinion on Trump's presidency a few posts above this one.

  • Heretic replied to "2020 Presidential Election thread" at 12:47 pm
  • posted by Spock

    I was working on a new conspiracy last night......Bloomburg is spending billions and didnt jump into the waters of the Iowa caucus........the Iowa caucus ends up being  a total cluster (that will surely sink the dems).  THe Clintons former campaign people have their fingers all over it with the company that built the app.  Bloomburg and Clinton are buds.  

    So Bloomburh knew the Clintons were rigging the Iowa caucus to blow up and Bloomburg knew to stay out.  

    I'm still sticking with my old theory that you're a total idiot who auto-believes any random line spewed by any right-wing blog, regardless of how stupid it sounds to anyone capable of rational thought.

  • Heretic replied to "CNN.. Fake News or lazy?" at 12:45 pm
  • posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

    It will be entertaining to watch right wingers applying the McCain treatment to their once "he's a great businessman" presidential candidate. Now he's a fake and a moron because of his vote. No doubt Medal of Freedom winner Limbaugh will have a parady song or like. 

     

    It's kind of like watching professional wrestling fans being drawn predictably through the emotions of the plotline when their when their wrestler's former tag team partner turns on him. 

    I think we all can imagine Quaker sitting in a high school gym while some former hot-shot neo-con is speaking and, in tears, blurting out, "IT'S STILL REAL TO ME, DAMNIT!!!!"

  • Heretic replied to "The WTF thread..." at 11:06 am
  • posted by O-Trap

    So much wrong with this.  Just so much.  I want ... to assault ... this man.

    Dude even has Ohio ties, as I recall. Thought his name was familiar and looked it up. He was a high school football coach that refused to comply with the rule about coaches not being able to lead prayers, which led to him losing that gig. He then proved he was more an attention whore than a person with genuine faith by using whatever publicity he got from that situation to propel himself into being a religious right talking head. And, I guess, for that to pay the bills, you have to make a public spectacle of yourself every once in a while.

On Feb 5, 2020:

  • Heretic replied to "Impressed by the Trump administration part II" at 02:11 pm
  • posted by O-Trap

    I don't often side with you on stuff, but this is an excellent summary.

    Our governing bodies are full of children at the federal level.

    With the sad thing being that our idiot populace largely rewards them for acting like that (at least when it's the politicians on their side doing so; when the other team does it, it's an OUTRAGE!) with how all their memes and Twitter hashtags give them all rock star status for whatever their latest "WE'RE GREAT/BOO THEM!!!" antics happen to be. It's great being surrounded by a population that's less concerned with actual reality and more concerned with putting something online that props their favorite poli-dicks up at the expense of the other side's poli-dicks.