Everything posted by Wales2004
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The Politics Thread
This probably sounds perfectly logical and proactive to those who will never be affected by such policies. What gets overlooked is that all the people who are subject to being stopped and frisk are not criminals. Next, what's a little inconvenience if it's going to keep the neighborhood safe? It's more than a little inconvenience to treat law abiding citizens like criminals.. If stats showed that 20 year old guys who wear blue jeans are most likely to commit crimes, would the public applaud the police stopping all the guys that fit that description? It sounds pretty generic and so many guys would probably fit that description, so what makes "black or Hispanic male" any less generic? Nothing but bias. The phrase "racial profiling" is tossed around as though it's something that can be fixed by legislation or policies. There's no federal law that says it's okay to discriminate on the basis of race but it happens. Why? People have biases of which they are sometimes aware and sometimes not. It's quite possible that some of those liberals who annoy you heard Barack Obama speak and thought to themselves that he's exceptional for "his kind." He's articulate. He's "clean" according to Joe Biden. And he is able to communicate in the "negro dialect," according to Harry Reid. Try to imagine how you'd feel if your neighborhood experienced a crime wave and the police decided to stop every male "to keep the neighborhood safe" and as a result, you ended up being stopped and frisked three times in less than a month. Would the approach seems as logical to you then?
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Coming November 2013 (first single)
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The Tennis Thread
I guess it's too much to expect announcers to call matches and skip the psychoanalysis, mind reading, and projecting. The first set was all about how tired Djokovic was and how he wasn't on his game presumably Wawrinka's fault. Then they switched to how he was made to go five matches because of his endurance training. They were pleased that "this guy" was waking up and "this guy" was possibly tightening up. I stopped watching for a set and a half and turned back on in time for the final set. I don't remember all of that noise when Djokovic failed to show up against Andy Murray. And how stupid is their graphic of a "big four?" Andy Murray doesn't belong in a big anything unless it's a list of ugly players. Roger Federer may have fallen off but are they seriously comparing his career winners to Andy Murray? This is all Djokovic's fault for not dispatching Andy Murray twice. Good for Nadal.
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The Tennis Thread
Yay!!!! Andy Murray's been dispatched!!!!!
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Lots of HAIM
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The Tennis Thread
I turned it off during the middle of the fourth set because I was getting annoyed. I figured if JMDP somehow won, he'd be too winded to give it a good go on Sunday. When I turned the tv back on, ND was just about to win. I might have enjoyed watching more had I considered muting the volume and forgotten about my disdain for Andy Murray. Those pop psychologists wore on me. Sometimes I just want to hear games called and not the opinion of the announcers--especially not their mind-reading skills. It just makes me hate ESPN since they have such a monopoly on sports. I think Patrick McEnroe does a better job than John McEnroe. And at least all of them are infinitely more tolerable than ESPN's NBA, MLB and NFL crews. I detest their NBA pre-game/half-time panel the most. While I'm on a roll....I was forced to turn the tv off again by Andy Murray's recurring dream....may it turn into a complete nightmare.
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The Tennis Thread
Here's my rant for the day.... For some reason I can't seem to explain, Andy Murray irks me in the worst way. He looks awful and I knew when he won the third set that FV was done. I love FV's hair. I can't recall ever watching tennis and loving anyone's hair so this is a first for me. As for those phony people in the crowd...I can't imagine that the ones rooting for him as though it were the Olympics (waving the Union Jack around), actually think much of him. The moment they get a competitive player out of England, they'll stop pretending. Now I am compelled to root for Jerzy Janowicz to step his game up and shock ugly right out. But I'm just not that lucky.
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- The Tennis Thread
Did you mean this the other way around? She beat her last month in Madrid.- The Tennis Thread
Sloane Stephens won the third round and will face Maria Sharapova next. She needs to mature and hopefully she will....sooner rather than later. For now, I'm just going to view what she did as the silliness of youth since I think she was only 19 then and 20 as of March. I hope she continues to do well and soaks in all of the life lessons she's bound to learn.- ABC Song Title
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There's no video for this yet.....98 Degrees - "Girls Night Out" https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F90000765%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-XSLUk They'll be performing with the old NKOTB who have their own new ablum: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PN1EFs9XQoc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> and these guys who probably never stopped.... <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Koz393gAwjQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>- What Are You Listening To?
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One of the songs iTunes has for free this week: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/15-Lzj08IbQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>- What Are You Listening To?
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