#2 | Posted by LampLighter

I do agree but Social Media made athletes all work on branding. It was much easier when it was say Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird. They basically showed up and did shoots. Social media just plain old stinks.

#5 | Posted by fishpaw - That post is a great example of projection...

Scum Bags seems worse than Deplorables...

#37 | Posted by snoofy

Factually speaking not true... 1.9 million in New York-Newark-Jersey City and over 7 in Israel. Just sayin...

#10 | Posted by DarkVader

All it takes is someone going to one of the places it still occurs and bringing it back. I am sure we could extinguish it pretty quick but still...

Bring Back the Iron Lung!

I remember when I was working in Georgia around spring break. We were talking on Friday about going to Savannah and maybe the beach. One of the guys we were talking to us said DO NOT go to the beach because Orange Crush is going on. And went on to tell us what sounded pretty bigoted about it was all the black people going to be there and us as young white guys would most likely get mobbed and beat up. What is sad is he wasn't wrong at all.

There's more bias in the South than NYC, and if you have spent any time in to both of those places, you would already know that.

#23 | Posted by snoofy

Totally not true and I have spent time in both places. The bias in NYC is DIFFERENT than in the South. Usually it isn't as much out in the open in NYC. What's funny in the South is all these people telling you they aren't racist, but... (insert bigotry here.) To go even further there is bias anywhere and everywhere you go in gobs, especially since trump. He ripped the veneer off a lot of it.

I was raised hunting and fishing. I quit hunting many years ago and quit eating venison when CWD made it to Michigan. In the UP it came in naturally. In the lower peninsula, morons with the paid hunt farms brought it in on the west side of the state by importing dear from out west. Hunter numbers have dwindled tremendously as young people are not taking it up and deer populations have soared. Farm fields around here were decimated last year. Soy beans never got over knee high. Seeing 20-30 deer together in the spring, summer and fall was everyday and so was the road kill. I think CWD is only going to get worse because of that.

To address the taste, venison taste really depends a lot on what they have been eating. If you get one from a juniper swamp - ya, that is some super gamey meat. Even regular forest feeding it is gamey. However, if you eat one that has been grazing primarily on corn and soy beans - different flavor but not too bad for those unused to it. If that is all they are eating - better yet. Most people I know use most of the meat in things like tacos, chilli and spaghetti sauce.

One of the other massive differences is not only their diet but their lack of fat in the meat. It is extremely lean. If you think 93/7 beef is lean, I think venison is like 99/1. There is no marbling whatsoever. And honestly the fat I found very early on is very gamey no matter what.

I see my original title and comments didn't last... lol

#39 | Posted by zeropointnrg

Very very interesting. Permanent gains is not a good way to put though. From reading the article, I would say permanent potential is there because of core muscle changes. The changes enable you to regain muscle mass/strength that is lost faster.

What I see though is people who are working out who were using and quit ALL lose size and strength FAST. That is even working out consistently - so clearly not ALL the gains remain.

#18 | Posted by zeropointnrg

Steroids do not result in permanent change. I know athletes who have both used them and are using them - 1000% not a permanent change. I mean if you are talking about speeding up recovery from an injury, I guess that is a permanent change but otherwise - just no.

*plunder

Wow. Going to run fishing operations out of it too. Guess they found someone that will let them have a base to blunder the Caribbean.

What sock puppet is this?

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Something indeed. That is over 400km / 250 miles from the front line quite possibly a lot further. That is Ukraine expanding their abilities. This isn't the first time they have started to flex out greater distances. I actually have an idea or two on what they may be doing. But we'll let stooges like you stooge for Russia.

Loons on the right got all upset by separation of church and state. It was very deliberate by the founding fathers. They also knew it was a slippery slope. They didn't qualify it for this very reason. By inviting this faith or that one in you while not allowing others then you are in fact creating a defacto state religion for that school.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy

Funny but true.

I for one agree with them. I think just about anyone who is half way observant would agree. Even as a child I saw it in animals with a vertebrae. I couldn't understand why the adults didn't. Nature's a b---- though and the circle of life is cruel. But it is life. Consciousness, sentience, etc is something on different levels. I have seen the intelligence of Dogs, cats and even fish given in a human approximation in recent years. Scientist think Dolphins may be the smartest animals of all.

#3 | Posted by truthhurts

I know this is way up for the original post but you are not the only one that sees it and some CLAIM that is God's Hand guiding the changes silly enough. A couple of my more favored "lighter" works on the insanity of the bible and the manipulation of the "holy" scripts are below. It starts essentially immediately and the Roman's wiped entire books because they didn't fit with the narrative the emperor wanted to instill in the religion he sought to control. The references in Ken's Guide to the Bible (very short work) is just fun for when I engage with certain Zealots.

#8 | Posted by cbob

That would be about 8.50 in 77 is about $45 today... lol

#6 | Posted by REDIAL

You forgot Moscow.

I was in Greece last year for their record rainfall at a time that is supposed to be sunny and dry. One area just North of Athens had 24" in 24 hours. About 20" fell in about 3 hours. Many homes in the region ended up completely under water. The next day, I myself was on the Acropolis when the skies opened up. It was a rain storm like very few I have witnessed. Raining so hard it was coming through the umbrella. Our guide basically freaked out. Nothing like being on the highest point with lightning coming down around you and no quick way out. Well over 1000 People huddled up in the single file line to get down on slippery stone path. She said she had never ever seen anything like it in her 20 years of leading tours. I later heard it was 6" in about 30 minutes. It was the result of the Jet Stream making a highly unusual dip. This is the same system that moved on to hit Libya and North Africa causing record flooding there too.

This is just localized weather but part of the extreme weather events predicted in all the models. Records are falling all the time now so get used to it. We have had a few record days this year already. Look at California precipitation of the last couple of years. etc. etc.

Why do companies to make things easier for customers but not employees?

#2 | Posted by Sycophant

Because employees are disposable in the eyes of most companies while customers have value. My employer may have gone a bridge too far for a lot of long time employees like me. They changed our healthcare provider to 2nd tier one this year. It was the thing keeping may of us here. Now it is a case of show me the money.