Alpha1Cowboy

Exactly! I mean...I could work anywhere as my job is fluid...but my wife is a Prof at a local community college where she is able to walk to work and commuting in this region is no fun Plus after going thorugh all this pain of getting the house renovated/built (no we still don't have a roof..or HVAC) I want to live in it lol

BAZINGA!!! Also.... if they choose MoGoCo I will be ass raped on both ends.....as 1. My house is three miles down the road from their proposed location and my property taxes will skyrocket and 2. My taxes will already be fucked because of the huge ass crazy incentives that MoGoCo offered Amazon. That's like a double tax fuck. I'd be paying more in taxes for them to come and fucking increase my taxes.

I purposefully made the choice to eat only free range pheasant this last week. Verification was 100% as I had to actually get off my bum and go out into nature to get them.

SKOL VIKINGS!!! Will this be the year? That schedule ain't doing them any favors, but they have pretty much done everything they could to make a run.

Eagles for 200.00 1. Eagles FG 2. Under 50 3. 12 4. Kamara 5. Jacksonville, Arizona, Denver 6. 37-45 7. Two 8. Kareem Hunt, Stefon Diggs

If you're investigating in video cards always get the insurance. They've always done this at MicroCenter, but now I've noticed the same at Best Buy where they literally upsell you on the insurance by stating "You can literally break this phone/card/vacuum and get a replacement no matter what. At MicroCenter though..you can get two years out of a card...take it back in say it's defective and they give you a credit for what you paid....to be applied to a new card. And the kicker is that you can then pay the extra for insurance on that card.

I just really want Lando....which of course hasn't been announced. I am interested in the new Operative Units class though. I've only been able to watch only games played out due to no time, but once the weather turns cooler I plan to both hit up the nearest gameshop. They are pretty huge into the Star Wars dice game...but I think the way Legion is set up it makes for pretty fast games..comparitively

And we have some new expansions. Now that schools is starting up and our house is moving forward I can finally look forward to setting all this up in my basement

Every Minnesotan right here I had friends from Wisconsin. I went to camp in Wisconsin. Wisconsin has cheese, beer, and pretty woods. For the bulk of my life, it seemed like a perfectly normal, good little state. But now I know the truth about Wisconsin, and that is that it’s actually a fucking loony bin. The governor is a union-busting turd. The biggest city is more segregated than apartheid-era Cape Town and was run, until very recently, by America’s Most Corrupt Sheriff. Their most prominent congressman will go down as one of the most spineless enablers in human history. The cops beat up a Milwaukee Buck and laughed about it. The citizens have brains and asses made of boiled weisswurst. The entire state is a series of cool cities surrounded by psychotic suburbs in which people have been stifling their racism in the name of politeness for so long that their eyes are now just swirling like cartoon characters. It’s a cut-rate Illinois filled with crackpots, serial killers, and racists. Wisconsin is INSANE. And frankly, I’m glad this is all out in the open now. Do you know much joy I get from knowing that the state of Wisconsin is completely dysfunctional, and that the Packers kind of are now as well? I have a hate boner that could touch the bottom of Lake Michigan right now, I’m just that excited. My team has a new stadium, a new practice facility to lure free agents, a good head coach, a good playcaller, and all of its good players are signed through 2020. The Packers have Beav and a roll of duct tape. WHO HAS THE UPPER HAND NOW, GREEN BAY?!!!!! THIS IS MY FUCKING TIME!!!!! I’m gonna pay dearly for all that baseless crowing but I regret NOTHING. I fucking hate the Packers and I want them to suffer.

Just finished this one.....I'd call it Horror Lite. Not bad, and the humor was hit or miss, but it definitley was enjoyable for a summer read https://www.amazon.com/Meddling-Kids-Novel-Edgar-Cantero/dp/0385541996

I'm pretty sure that we're going to see Kreeses character take those kids and amp up their negativity which will make it even better to see how Johnny reacts so i Kinda think it made sense for the audience to see a bot more of it prior to his introduction.

I'm seasonal.....Really like to drop in on country/folk music in late summer early fall. Artist: Amanda Shires (Folk/Americanna) Album: To the Sunset Best Song Eve's Daughter

I would say that you are tiptoeing the line here. The character is a product of the cold war era British Agent...the first novel came out in 1953....so your assessment is semi correct in that "he is meant to be the personification of the male (specifically, British) id"...but color plays into that..... unless you think MI-6 had prominent black agents post WW2. Even today MI5 and MI6 are trying to shake off that very image that you just connected with Bond http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5766701/MI6-attempts-shake-macho-James-Bond-image-bid-encourage-women.html So any Bond in the modern world can be anything really...because it doesn't have to be tied to the cold war Bond Image of an MI-6 Agent. My take...a modern bond in the modern worldcan be open to interpretation.......a Bond based on the cold war era fictional creation....not so much. Personally..I like the take of creating another Agent persona and running with it. Heck..really make it fun and have Bond die.....and pass the torch. )I don't know...once the boomers are gone is the Bond Franchise really relevant? But this is definitely a fun discussion. I just saw this and thought..hmm.. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/people-outraged-jack-whitehalls-playing-disneys-first-openly-gay-character-jungle-cruise-damn-shame-150335651.html

Shit I would have loved that. Michelle Banks would have been awesome for that part. She was one of the possible actresses who I initially suggested during the Oscars discussion I believe.

I'm not doing any such thing. You're seeing what you want to see. Trying to justify or fit the thinking to your narrative. I've been pushing over the years consistently in my posting for more representation...period.

I don't really see that. Look at this take..and look at every one of the films mentioned.....it's trying to make a point...but it only addresses one non white protaganist group....like Asian, Hispanic, and Arab/Indian weren't even an afterthought. https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2018/mar/05/oscars-2018-radicalism-get-out-me-too Awards or no awards, Get Out is the start of something So, Get Out didn’t quite manage the best picture upset so many people were rooting for. Instead Jordan Peele will have to be content with a original screenplay win, though that in itself should be cause for celebration. This, after all, was a horror film released in February, and one that presented subject matter almost certain to prove unpalatable to some of the Academy’s less forward-looking voters. The fact that it even got near the nominations suggests that those widespread efforts to change the Academy’s makeup are ever so slowly working. Besides, Get Out’s influence will ultimately be measured by far more significant metrics than awards statuettes. Along with Hidden Figures, Girl’s Trip and of course Black Panther, it showed that the old beliefs about films with non-white protagonists not selling at the box office are bigoted nonsense. Change is afoot.

I had an opinion on Idris Elba playing Roland based on Stephen King's vision of him based off Clint Eastwood and my own reading of the books. . I thought casting Scott Eastwood would have been pretty cool. I never watched the film, but I understand they got around the whole Detta Walker stuff by playing it off as one of Rolands alternative trips to the Tower. Diversity to me isn't just replacing a white character with a black character and it's mission accomplished. The problem still exists.

I made angry threads about how a deaf actress could have been used in The Shape of Water. I've made angry threads about Johnny Depp and Taylor Lautner being cast as Native Americans, I've made angry threads about how Indian actors aren't represented in the US after Outsourced the tv show got cancelled... and how Asian's are barely represented in hollywood. I'm one of the few that has been entirely consistent on diversity casting.

I'm not being clever. I'm pointing out inconsistent thinking. Bond is an iconic literary character that has been established a certain way. He's fictional..I have no problem changing a fictional character any which way...that's the best thing about fictional characters..you can change everything about them. But watch supposedly liberal MCU and DC Fanboys lose their shit if you change their iconic literary characters. I'm not knocking diversity....I want to expand diversity beyond the current narrative of Diversity = Black.

Then why didn't the actor Benedict Wong play Dr. Strange instead?

Why does James Bond need to be a man? I'm not a fan of James Bond at all. Saw Goldeneye and one of the Daniel craig ones.......I think Skyfall. That said it feels like ther is this huge push to change race for the last 10 years on the charachter...but the majority settle on merely swapping white for black.....here in the US we push for divesrsity..but that mostly means adding more black actors and actresses and shows......what about Inidan, or Hispanic, or Asian...or Arab. I mean...in the Marvel movies we have War Machine, Falcon, and Black Panther. Seventeen movies in and not one Latino Superhero? Asian superhero? Well...kind of maybe sort of...although...negative marks for The Ancient One and The Mandarin.

Why do we need a black James Bond? If you want to really go the divesity route...cast Kunal Nayyar. Now that...would be something.

All very good points. The story I posted was actually of an Officer going beyond his job duties. You would be amazed by how many Officers on their patrols end up buying homeless people shoes, or coats or mittens etc. This one just happened. Just so you are aware...a cop isn't required to literally jump off an overpass to get to a victim quickly...but she did. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article216152905.html Also...more liberal cops is a terrible solution how? It disrupts groupthink. And that is one of the things you need. A precinct can make examples of bad cops and send them to prison...but that's like sending criminals to prison...it's barely a deterrent. 1. Cut down on the number of military.......the military trains to be aggressive towards civilian populations..the opposite of what you want. 2. Make a college degree a requirement. 3. Do more recruiting on liberal college campuses 4. Academy Training of at least a year. You make these changes and you will see cultural shifts in departments....and that's when true change is gonna occur....just throwing some slimewad in prison just means another shitheel will take their place and take the risk. Right now a lot of departments are hurting for manpower and while they'd like to weed out all the shitheels...they don't have the luxury and have to take chances. I grabbed this off Facebook under a video of a cop giving confusing orders and tazing a compliant individual Teresa Brewer Heath Indeed... enough of the shite. I'm former law enforcement in rural Indiana. I'm 5'0" tall and 98 lbs. I resigned in 2000 because of the "good ole boys club", I faced subtle harassment, most of it not really sexual, most of it was based on my size and my being female. it was bad... I cried every night just prior to my resignation and I'm not a "crier" it simply became too much and it was affecting my family as well. So I left. But know this... they stick together like glue and they make inappropriate jokes about brutality, charging people with extra crimes that really don't fit and then you have the, "stop resisting" excuse. I so wish I could have moved up at the Sheriff's department so I could have called out the shear abuse of citizens. But from where I stood in 2000, I didn't have a "snowballs" chance. I apologize for not being strong enough to do anything about it. Breaks my heart, like they broke mine

To me it’s more the damage he and his ilk due to people who are not critical thinkers. They have an idea of something and he gives them a fully fleshed out version that helps fit the narrative they need. Talk amongst his listeners becomes one big circle jerk just like the Q anon crap and further makes the issue worse. Just finished reading “Germans into Nazi’s” again and there are a lot of parallels with a society of group think. I’ve got liberals friends who accuse me of being a rightwing Nazi.....and i’ve Got conservative family and friends who think I’m drinking the socialist kool aid. In order to debate or have a discussion they have to pin an exact label on me and then take aim instead of just focusing on one issue.