DCSaints_fan

On 9/30/2023 at 4:25 PM, Destino said:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/30/us/tupac-shakur-killing-suspect-arrested-what-we-know/index.html
 

So they assaulted a guy that was otherwise minding his own business in Vegas, and got their car shot up by his uncle. Playing gangster with a bank filled with legitimately earned millions.  What a stupid way to go.

Seems like no matter how rich these young guys get, they still have something to prove

You can get them out of the hood, but you can't get the hood out of them

Look at Aaron Hernandez

Wegmans has decent ones, something like $25 for 4 last I checked.  You cook them yourself

2 minutes ago, oraphus said:

...possibly working at McDonalds as it wont be anywhere close to professional football. .. and keep your hands off my fries Ron!! 

Yeah I think Ron Rivera has made a little money so he doesn’t have to work another day in his life 

2 hours ago, GoDeep81 said:

Im not even sure what reason there is to not tear it up, since with the current lineup, Ovi isn't doing anything anyway. Soon as Nicky stepped away all bets should of been off about a rebuild. Kuzy playing like dog ass has expedited that, imo. Strome isn't a play maker. They need a true 1c in a big way, or Ovi might as well plan on playing till he's 45. 

According to Spotrac for 2024-25 we have $12m space left and 18/23 players signed.    I think we can buy out Backstrom and add like $3-4m.  Can probably do the same with Oshie assuming he's not coming back.

There's a couple of big name Cs available as UFA (Stamkos, Nylander, Reinart, Guentzel, Marchessault, a 39 year old Pavelski) after the season end, but half of those guys probably are resigned by their teams, and we're going to be an extremely tough sell.  We just don't have alot to offer besides money and the chance of being the guy that helps Ovi break the goal scoring record.  

That’s what a well run PP unit can do. 

Not a whole lot of fancy stuff.  Just crisp passing and finding the open guy

I turned it off at 5-2 then the Canes just got another one 

The team has just given up

I like this one from The Running Man

On 12/19/2023 at 1:30 PM, Fan since a Fetus said:

what would have made this so much better is if they were eating 1/2 price appetizers at Applebees and getting smashed on Budlight. 

Would have been funny if it was the wrong number 

1 hour ago, abdcskins said:

 

Absolutely not. The time to buy was 7-8 months ago. I expect there will be another dip soon to like 34,000 - then maybe time to buy.

Its peak was like $65k, so I think there is some room to grow.

Timing this stuff is a bit of a fools errand

22 minutes ago, abdcskins said:

Don't look now, but the crypto market has rallied significantly in the last 7-8 months. Bitcoin is over $44,000.

Might be time to sell.  I actually did buy in when it was <40 (cant remember exact amount), but should have bought again when it was at like $20k.  Well at least I didn't lose anything...

1 hour ago, PokerPacker said:

Regulation win over Pittsburgh.  Ovechkin scored.  I'm okay with this outcome.

We probably don't win if Nedeljkovic started but yeah it doesn't matter to me

Didn't ARod also do something like "bet his salary" that Ryan Braun wasn't on the juice? 

Eat **** Pitt

Ok we suck at the shootout .. l wish we had Oshie back …

I tried to think up of a joke relating to the "size of the endowment" here but couldn't come up with anything with a good punchline ... 

55 minutes ago, Destino said:

Old guy was determined to use his uh freedom of expression as much as possible while he still could by the looks of it.

I did a search of “Gow” on some sites and got some ..interesting …results…

14 hours ago, Renegade7 said:

You know what...it's not like we've never heard of teachers moonlighting because of the low pay in the industry.

 

I'd be shocked if this guy wasn't making 6 figures, it doesnt and shouldnt feel the same...but I wouldn't care if new teachers barely making ends meet but buying their own supplies anyway was doing porn.

 

 

If it's not known and has to be discovered, much potential damage is done from people doing things we don't know about?  If we didn't know. What if no one told us?  Wouldn't know to care.

 

 

He was making $230k, according to this site, highest paid position in the university

https://openpayrolls.com/university-college/university-of-wisconsin-la-crosse

Although that seems odd the President was not making more ...

Yeah in general academia pays **** although there are some people that can make bank.  And by bank I mean something like the minimum rookie salary for professional athlete in one of the "big four" north American sports leagues ... 

5 hours ago, Gurgeh said:

 

Apparently it was carrying a few hundred tons of Shahed drones and their warheads, which is why we got the big boom. Heads are apparently already rolling over this.

I guess the cargo is more important than the ship itself.  In WW2 they didn't seem to care about the cargo so much - they were fighting a tonnage war

500 tons doesn’t seem like a whole lot, but perhaps I’ve played to much Silent Hunter

I see 2800 tons displacement (500 tons cargo). That is actually fairly large

On 12/23/2023 at 12:46 PM, TheGreatBuzz said:

I think Biden should be backchanneling to someone who he thinks can take out putin and restore some kind of order. Putin is incredibly weak after the whole PMF uprising thing.

I actually kinda see more as elminating one of his few potential rivals, and stregthening his power.  For those who think of taking out Putin, they have to think if someone as powerful as Prigozhin failed, then surely they don't stand a chance

Hitler only got more powerful, with respect to his grip on the German state, after the failure of Operation Valkyrie in July 1944

Also, even if Putin is taken out, his replacement surely will not withdraw the troops (but may start negotiations).  Because they will be blamed for "losing the war". 

Similar to how the Karensky provincial government kept fighting after the Tsar was deposed.

59 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

@DCSaints_fan

 

I agree not all the levers have been pulled in regards to squeezing Russia's economy.

 

I have concerns over your assessment this likely ends in one of the two countries collapsing.

 

Russia is the largest country on earth with Nukes spread throughout its territory.  It's hard to argue that country collapsing not being worse then present situation.

Political collapse does not necessarily imply a broader social collapse.  It just means the country's leadership changes significantly enough to not continue a certain policy, in this case a war.

Democracies, functioning ones at least, have the rule of law and peaceful transfers of power so can have a political collapse without social ones.  For instance, if Trump were to win in 2024 and radically change course on Ukraine as I would expect, that would count as a political collapse with respect to Ukraine policy, but it wouldn't necessarily mean a social collapse in the US.

It is harder in authoritarian states to avoid a social collapse during a political collapse because often the pursuit of a policy is intertwined with the survival of the regime.  Russia is a democracy, at least on the surface, but I can't imagine Putin would ever voluntarily give up power to a successor, so it would have to be a coup which is almost certain to trigger a broader social collapse.  Since many of the policies were justified on the basis of "might makes right", when that might disappears you have a power vacuum and all the people with grievances start to assert themselves and you have an absence of the rule of law, i.e. a social collapse.

As a historical example, the loss of South Vietnam was due to a political collapse in the US, who pulled the troops and funding, but it didn't trigger a social collapse.  OTOH the loss of Afghanistan by the Soviets did in part lead to both a political and social collapse
 

Ukraine will never recognize Russian territorial gains, but even if you can get both parties to a ceasefire, there's the issue of Ukrainian "neutrality" which was one of the cited reasons for the invasion.  Ukraine will not agree to this because they (quite reasonably) assume that Russia will not respect it anyway.  There will continue to be insurgent attacks inside the occupied territories which Russia will use as a justification for launching new assaults

I can only see this war ending with at least the political collapse of one side or the other.  I guess the question is do we want to continue funding the UAF or do we want them right up against the Polish/Romanian/Hungarian  Russia is not going to stop at the Dnipro.  They are hoping that by somehow suggesting that Poland, Hungry and Romania get Ukrainian territory they can dismember Ukraine while undermining NATO and the West (this is straight out of Hitler's playbook)

Personally I think we should at least threaten to completey shut down their Russians oil exports out of the Baltics and the Black Sea.  They can't redirect because thats where the pipelines flow.  These are all through NATO controlled territory but we would have to get them on board.   If we can do this it would crater the Russian economy because its something like half of their income

21 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

Putin Quietly Signals He Is Open to a Cease-Fire in Ukraine https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/world/europe/putin-russia-ukraine-war-cease-fire.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

 

Here's another off-ramp:

 

Ukraine needs to accept if they want all their territory back they gonna have to run point versus being dependent on resources from other countries.  The goal was to prevent the overthrow of their government, it's a stalemate otherwise.

 

Russia needs to be given a deal of accepting the current lines if they are serious before we use their frozen assets to keep fighting. 

 

If we look at this from the standpoint of preventing the toppling of a democracy wanting to forge its own path, this is currently a success. Folks need ro count their blessing and try to get the territory back another way another time before the resources to continue this dries up Putin changes his mind on a cease-fire.

 

The counter offensive failed, time to move on and accept that.

The first country to ask for a ceasefire is admitting their army can't hold on for much longer.  The opposing side should demand more than just a ceasefire on currently held territory

I've been clean all my life.  Never really had the urge to try

If I get a terminal diagnosis, all bets are off.

27 minutes ago, ntotoro said:

 

Based on what he has done the last few weeks with this D? 

Two of his top D lineman were traded away halfway through the season

Based on previous stints with Chicago and Carolina, its under the right conditions at least, someone will give him a chance at DC

Washington is also viewed as somewhat of a dysfunctional franchise at least until Harris can build the proper organization.  Look at what happened with McVay and Shanahan

3 hours ago, Riggo#44 said:

Well there's two parts to that equation--Ron has to want to coach, and someone has to want him to coach. The latter part is the bigger hurdle.

Someone is going to want him as DC, not sure if he would accept that role