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Discussion in 'Los Angeles DODGERS' started by irish, Apr 2, 2017.

  1. LAdiablo

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    RIP Ray Liotta damn
     
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    Thanks for your response.

    I’d just say this. If there are that many guns already circulating, why make it easier to buy more? There are enough going around for everybody to have one or more. And these are of the type that really are excessive (military assault rifles). If you are a bonafide gun collector or enthusiast, would a few extra hoops really matter to you? We are not advocating bans, just getting weapons out of the hands of psychos and those who, like the boy in Texas, is planning something “big”.

    Will it stop all massacres? Of course not. But if it stops 1, I’m all for it.

    Just one other thought about Kerr.

    When his father was assassinated in Beirut, he was playing for Arizona, and was a star. They were ranked 3. This was in ‘88.

    When they played Arizona State, before the game started during warmups, students were yelling “PLO, PLO” and “You’re father’s history”, and “Why don’t you join the Marines and head back to Beirut!”

    It was so bad, Arizona State’s AD personally apologized to Kerr. He dropped 22 on them, 6-6 from 3 point range. They won the game too.

    I will never question Kerr’s sincerity or fortitude, his take on gun violence, or his views on society, or politics, or faith, or whatever. He deserves a hell of a lot of respect, and I listen to him when he has something to say.
     
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  3. LAdiablo

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    tbh i didn't know his father's back story
    still don't understand how his father's demise gives him the right to speak as an authority on gun violence
    he was assassinated by terrorists in a violent and dangerous middle eastern land
    and i wasn't looking to impugn kerr as a human being
    just have a hard time understanding why defending and protecting the most vulnerable among us is so controversial
    people screaming "do something" doesn't help
    we aren't going to confiscate all the firearms in our society
    or for that matter knives, hammers or the means to make explosives
    its a deeper subject and while we debate that how about guarding schools???
     
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    Freedom is only a right If you can defend it. Everything else is fantasy land.
    Dominate is part of the word freedom.
    Free means liberal.
    Liberal dominance is freedom.
    Freedom is living on the edge at the cliffs overlooking the end of the world.

    If you can steal something it's gonna be stolen. Destiny and future is what this country most likes to steal.
    There is no.such thing as rights if they can be taken away by the court or a dude with a badge.

    God gives you rights.
    God gives you what you need to keep the gifts he has entrusted to you.
    But most of us rather waste our talents at a job that glorifies the design that steals people's rights systematically.
    Instead of working for God.
    If you on a mission from God there are no rights they can take from you other than the rights they give you.
    And they dont give you nothing but repackage what god already gives you for free so you think you beholden to them.
    Like real estate.
    It's just dirt.
    First real estate agent was the grave digger.
    Selling you the right to die.
    If you paid cash up front for the land.
    Land for your dead corpse to live in.

    Rights are a con based off the artists making their marks feel entitled and good about themselves with a false self confidence so they be easy pickings.
    Con artists are lazy by nature and would rather you do all the work.
    That's why they set all these legal fiction traps with language.
    A sitting duck is worth two in the bush.
     
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    rube DSP Legend Staff Member Administrator

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    Why does someone deserve respect for what happened their dad?
    Nobody deserves respect for anything than your personal relationship with them.
    Or else you end up with a gay ass kissing society.
    This is woman emotional shit being shoved down your throat to infanticide your reasoning.

    Getting guns out of psychos hads is not logic. It's not a plan.
    It's wishful thinking.
    It's crying to god.
    Disneyland shit.
    And the God that answers those prayers then comes to fuck you in the ass behind the teacup ride.

    If you want your children not to kill you with guns then stop blaming the children and the gun makers. Start blaming you.
    Maybe then you will find an idea.
     
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    The husband of one of the murdered teachers...just died. Couldn't handle it.
    I don't know if one can die ( physically) of a broken heart, but this sure is a reasonable facsimile, at least.
    Maddening.
     
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    Well written.
    To me, this is the very same thing as the knee jerk reaction, " there has to be a law against that"...law is for the law abiding.
    Not for the criminals. That's why they're criminals.
     
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    Yes youcan.
     
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    67, way too soon
     
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    RIP Alan White and Andy Fletcher wtf
    remember seeing Depeche at the SB bowl in 01 and Fletch we were on the front of stage
    my step daughter was 16 and the wife looked as hot as she ever did
    i wasn't directly next to her and he seemed to be playing just for her lol
    when they left the stage the entire band slapped my kids hand it was epic
     
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    WTF?!

    Somebody is cleaning up in the celebrity death pool today.
     
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    It confuses me that people like Steve Kerr (leftists) feel compelled to speak publicly on social and political issues in the first place.

    All systems of power and influence are already amplifying your position. So it's not as if you're providing a perspective that's lacking in the discourse.

    Self importance and attention seem like the most likely reason.

    I'm not somebody who thinks your occupation invalidates your opinion. There are brilliant and educated people who happen to be in the field of sports and entertainment. But what they need to realize is, as far as the public is concerned, they are well-known because of their acting, athleticism, etc. They didn't gain notoriety for their intellect or perspective. People don't want to hear it.

    I'd pay money to watch Steven Spielberg give someone a directing lesson, because that's what he does. I respect that. It's his field of expertise and I'd love to learn from an expert. He EARNED a voice of authority in FILM. He didn't earn a voice of authority in politics. He's free to speak, but only someone who feels a sense of self importance or is seeking attention would be compelled to speak publicly and with authority on issues outside their expertise.

    To Gabeth's point, we absolutely look the other way, if not root for, similar celebrities who express opinions that align with our own. I think DiNero is a piece of shit and Jon Voight is awesome. Because I'm a hypocrite. Mostly. But it might also have to do with the fact that one of those guys is taking an underrepresented position, not the mainstream one.
     
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    So what would do more to reduce school shootings:

    Banning guns, or banning public schools?
     
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    I've always thought kids should be remanded to labor camps until they can prove they're useful to society.
     
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    I was kidding about the labor camps, but not the public schools.

    The government has proven over and over again that it's unwilling to protect the children it demands attend it's public schools. If the whole system was privatized and parents had a choice in where their kids were educated, you'd have better education and safer children.
     
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    Maybe Steve Kerr is a great filmmaker and has kickass home movies and training camp footage.
    Fauci is an expert in health.
    You can't get stronger bonafides than his title.
    But I wouldn't take a health class from him.
    And guys like Spielberg make dumb transformers movies full of stupid jokes and splosions with no depth to characters or story.
    It's all.about the money.
    How awesome would a transformers movie be directed by the wachowskis.
    Hey but the wachowskis are the liberal nuts and Spielberg the classic picture of conservative old powerful dude.
    Bit they would lean into the Gen 1 aesthetic fully like they did with speed racer keeping it authentic to the source art while innovating the visial technology to give us a new experience.
    It might not make a billion bucks at the box office but it will become a classic.
    If we keep relying on the guys with the titles or the heroes of old then the enemy will keep innovating and feeding our children their Saturday morning cartoons.
    Sure it's highly polished content, but it's not memorable.
     
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    Have you ever had steak tartar?

    There is this iceberg floating in the sea.
    It is a huge mountain of an ice island.
    Hidden with false names so surfers miss it.
    Climb up to the top of the iceberg and stare down into the abyss.
    Then dive off the cliff.
    Under that undersea mountain is tartaria.
    The conspiracy theory of the day.

    From the Great lakes of Michoacan in the south all the way north to the Great lakes of Michigan.
    From Ukraine the lone star in the Asian west through the bearing straits all the way to Texas the lone star of the american west.
    Where the animals roam and so do the people.
    Those are the Tarascan people.
    The Chinese eyed miners from Apatzingan,. Oklahoma and Siberia.

    Little people make the best miners.
    Specially when they minors.
    It's the minority trifecta.
    Of infernals in the tartar rus.

    Where Tyr shed a tear for the sinking of Tyre.
    While the stars tarried in retirement the tards tarred up the bird and made it burn like a flying bush set on fire to make you look.

    There are many gods.
    God of this God of that.
    But when all the gods meet for war they meet the one god that is all about just that.
    War.
    Then everyone agrees that there is only one God.
    The son of the God of War.
    And war is hell.
     
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    How bout we do the same with all seniors.
    Why should they get to retire to the desert or the beach and do all the state approved drugs?
    Nah, put them to work. Hard labor
    Followed by all liberal arts majors.
    And dues paying members of organized religion and other such gangs.
    To gulag!
     
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    Can't wait.
    I love archipelagos...always have.
    Sorta turns me on, like slightly saggy breasts.
    On a woman.
    Not like Arnold's.
     
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    i see what you’re trying to do there
    but what’s in a name
    ‘specially when the names conjure up judgement and biases
    but in a cartoon or superhero world…
    mighty mouse be > dr fauXci
     
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