There is no greater way to bring a community together then a public execution
- General George Washington.ahhhhhh the good ol days. I'm reading Killing England and while I'm not a big fan of Bill O'Reilly as he is just a very very good propaganda minister . . .the guy can really write a fantastic book in a style I have never read before. This is my 3rd "Killing" book. This one is about the Revolutionary War.
He is turning into one of my top 4 favorite authors behind Cornelius Ryan and the son of my moms dentist Stephen Ambrose and Doug Stanton.
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So I got into a dust up on Facebook over the Columbus Chamber of Commerce who is publishing a downtown map that ONLY shows businesses that pay them $900 a year. TO ME, that seems shorts sighted and not helping Columbus as a whole. They advertise ONLY their business with a map that shows 1/3 of all the downtown businesses and empty spaces for the rest so it tells people there is not much business in Columbus. this map hurts Columbus more then helps.
Why help ALL of Columbus when you only have to help a small amount and STILL get $900 from each business. The map will bring in an extra 100 people in the summer instead of an extra 1000. Short sighted and not looking at the LONG game IN MY VIEW.
A for profit organization who's goal is not to help the City of Columbus at all, but to help only THEIR business and screw all other businesses. NOT! a team player in our town.
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We watched iTonya this past weekend - This was one of the best, funniest, most thought provoking movies I have seen in a while. Hilarious in fact yet . . . so so true and I will be the first to apologize to Tonya for making fun of her. America REALLY missed on that one.
All this Tonya stuff was going down just when CNN and the 24 hour news cycle was ramping up which is why it was such a big deal back then and Americans did not know the WHOLE story. Even how Tonya was continuing to get beat daily by various people DURING the run up and into the Olympics and how she never had a chance to really win because she was not a "delicate princess".
This is an "R" rated trailer. The movie has a fantastic sound track (she skated to rock music) and is really really well produced.
https://youtu.be/fbpWmvPGGws
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OH - I gotta say something about a guy I drafted. He's hilarious! Take Rob Deer and put him on steroids. As baseball Prospectus says "He's the kind of player who will put up a batting average that would make Rob Deer blush. The worst BABIP (Batting average from balls put in play) in MLB history, he hits more fly balls then anyone in an era of flyballs, strikes out more then anyone in an era for strikeouts."
Last year he hit .158 last year . . . and STILL was useful. He strikes out, walks or hits a homerun, that is about it. Almost half his total hits were home runs. 15 singles, 2 doubles and 14 homeruns in 197 at bats. But it was an off year and he was my 19th round and player #32 on my team. Ryan Schimpf spent most of last year in the minors . . .where he basically did exactly the same.
I'll use him only against right handed pitchers and only in ball parks conducive to HRs.
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20% of woman in prison in Japan are seniors. Japan is the oldest population in the world and it seems many senior woman are committing small crimes to be sent to prison for it's “community and stability”. Weird.
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United Airlines, a Chicago based pet euthanasia company that also fly's people to distant places is head and shoulders above all other airlines when it comes to losing, injuring or killing your pet. 2.2 out of every 10,000. More then double all other airlines.
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The Tennessee legislature took 36 seconds to shoot down a bill that would force law enforcement to recognize neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups as a domestic terror group. NOT IN MY STATE the GOP leaders said. They are fine people.
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Anybody have their woman's NCAA brackets busted? Did you see that the University of Connecticut was up by NINETY FOUR at half time (94) over Saint Francis University?
Of all the brackets in ESPN, Yahoo, CBS Sports and Bleacher Report, 10s of millions of brackets . . . all went down the drain with The Retrievers (Gus's favorite team). Not one bracket remains unscathed.
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I took this shot 10 years ago today
The guy in the far right image is Scott (Graham Man) from Minnesota who will get a hold of me and invite me to be a picture car passenger in Oshkosh. IF you look they are ACTUALLY backing up.
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Facebook stock is down 4% now that people see the GOP stole 50,000,000 peoples profiles without Facebook knowing it to use against them in the campaign. All is well. At least Putin won in Russia so we can see the playbook GOP is using.
All is well.
