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I’ve never witnessed this many fuckin’ crybabies in my life...the phony investigation is over. Except maybe the one heading in the Dems direction. 👍
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sarah sanders admitted to mueller she blows it out her ass
Axe replied to Clevfan4life's topic in POLITICAL DISCUSSION
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☆ 2019 INDIANS SEASON THREAD ☆ MAJOR LEAGUE Movie now 30. Misc. chit chat.
mjp28 replied to mjp28's topic in THE TRIBE BOARD
Hey it's BASEBALL Friday April 19, 2019..... -
☆ 2019 INDIANS SEASON THREAD ☆ MAJOR LEAGUE Movie now 30. Misc. chit chat.
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By Hayden Grove, cleveland.com UPDATE: Friday’s game has been postponed. A traditional doubleheader will be played on Saturday, with the first game starting at 4:10 p.m. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Indians and Braves will face off at Progressive Field beginning Friday for a rematch of the 1995 World Series and rain could be a factor. -
'I have never seen a more biblical president than I have seen in Donald Trump'
Clevfan4life replied to calfoxwc's topic in POLITICAL DISCUSSION
i think tge guy that used to post here as OBF either passed away or left, and gave his log in to who runs the calfox acct. im serious on that accusation. ☕ -
they are accepting muellers findings tho. Its fascinating watching this spin train. Again, Mueller declined to indict a sitting president because thats DOJ policy. U guys are willfully now not acknowledging that. If Trump was leaving office the DOJ would serve him with that indictment days later. He conspired to obstruct justice on what, 10 occassions according to the report? His orders had to be factually ignored by his people cause i guess tgey understood what he was asking of them...
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2019 Browns Board Mock: Day 3 - Rounds 6 and 7
gumby73 replied to Tour2ma's topic in THE BROWNS BOARD
if i win anything? send me a working' military watch as my gift.. Just this week, Da Bears had to announce the Retirement of a really good guy, I really enjoyed watching..TE Zach Miller..I also enjoyed watching this testy little prick play TE at BC.. DAA-Chick-go Bears select--TE TOMMY SWEENEY--YAnk Chowder College -
Well.....you know, some of those early Disney film had their fare share of creepiness to them..so I didn't see anything of that sort to be out of the ordinary. (and that bit of creepiness may have been what gave Disney the edge vs. some of the syrupy sweet cartoons that may have been out there). As for Keaton....he is no stranger to being weird if not evil at times. This is the guy that played Beetlejuice and his role in Birdman I felt was off kilter. And remember Pacific Height....he was an evil bastard in that role. And as for Colin Farrell's accent.....that is just your typical British/Scottish/Irish actor trying to adopt a US southern accent. They are rarely adept at it. As for no characters being lovable? You forgot one: the title character.
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'I have never seen a more biblical president than I have seen in Donald Trump'
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Obama from conman to ....still conman. -
2019 Browns Board Mock: Day 3 - Rounds 6 and 7
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7.5 Shitsburg selects Will Harris S Boston College - Today
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California city tests universal basic income program ahead of 2020
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Dumbo Walt Disney PG. 112 min I know it will sound a little bit odd if I say I was disappointed in this film since as you will see at the end of the review I give it a fairly high grade. Here’s the deal. This is Disney, not some fly-by-night movie studio being run out of a Bakersfield garage. Nobody, and I mean nobody, in the world does this kind of thing better. The original is one of America’s most beloved animated features and now with access to the most amazing modern graphics imaginable being remanufactured for a whole new generation. It really should have been an A+. And I’m serious when I say it looks spectacular. Tim Burton directed this and for all of his talents and shortcomings the guy really does make his films look more rivetingly surreal that almost anyone else. Unfortunately within that jaw dropping look you will find just a hint of creepiness. Unlike the pure and heartwarming charm of Disney’s recent MARY POPPINS, Burton just can’t help adding a little essence of skunk to the perfume. The original animated DUMBO was released in 1941, q very different time in America, and subject to the constraints of a very different level of animation effects. The new DUMBO is a louder brasher and even more violent flick. The Medici Brothers Circus has fallen on hard times. Trick riding cowboy star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) has come home from World War I with one less arm and two kids to provide for alone after the death of his wife. Circus owner Max Medici, (Danny DeVito) having lost so many of his attractions, is counting on the upcoming birth of a baby elephant to breathe new life into the show. When the time comes everyone is shocked and appalled by the look of the little pachyderm who has unnaturally huge ears. As the audience turns against the poor little creature Max and his crew feel all is lost until Holt's daughter makes an amazing discovery, that the little elephant can fly. With a flying elephant the circus is back on the fast track to success but now gains the attention of V A Vandevere (Michael Keaton) the unscrupulous owner of the world’s largest show who works up a deal to make Max his partner, and give all the Medici Brothers Circus performers a new home. Does anybody think he can be trusted? When Vandevere shows his true colors, and Dumbo and his mothers lives are now in jeopardy, Holt, Max, the kids and trapeze artist Colette (Eva Green) steer the film into an action adventure to save the elephants. Part of my slight discomfort was that it’s hard to accept one of Hollywood’s most charismatic guys, Keaton, as an evil son of a bitch. And it seemed to me Farrell was channeling Luke McCoy for the accent. It’s just that none of the actors are as lovable as you would expect Disney characters to be. Nobody makes a film quite as visually stunning as Burton but I don’t think he’s generally good with characters. Personally I think he could have hit the hook about the elephant not needing the feather to fly or the cowboy meeting his arm to ride a little harder, but it was there. Still that’s not a deal-breaker and I thoroughly enjoyed the film and I’m giving it a B. It was exciting and heartwarming and thrilling at various times, and I do love those mice. I just wish the masters at Disney turn this triple into a home run. B WSS
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Captain Marvel Marvel PG 13. 125 min Okay gang, to be honest I had no real idea who Captain Marvel was. Apparently, and I had to look this up, Captain Marvel was a character from a group called Fawcett comics back in the 50s who were sued by DC for copyright infringement meaning that they felt the captain was a ripoff of Superman. Apparently they won because Fawcett dump the character and it wasn’t until the 60s that Stan Lee at Marvel Comics bought the trademark and gave the series new life. Last year the producers of the BLACK PANTHER found out that you can put out a mediocre superhero movie and as long as the main character isn’t a white guy you will make a lot of money and grab a lot of headlines. So what to do with the stale CAPTAIN MARVEL series? Bingo! I have no idea what kind of transgender surgery went on but all of a sudden he a she. Well frankly I didn’t think BLACK PANTHER was terrible, just way overrated. CAPTAIN MARVEL, on the other hand, sucks. Now before you get irate it’s not because it’s a female in the lead, WONDER WOMAN was great, it’s just a bad movie. 1. First of all you need to figure out how to our heroine winds up on Earth near the end of the 20th century when she’s actually from somewhere in the intergalactic future. Or something. There are two things going on in the future first some kind of a war between the Cree and the Scrulls. The Scrulls look a little bit like Orcs so we assume that they are the bad guys right off the bat. They can also metamorphosize themselves into any kind of creature and wind up imitating some of the other characters as the story clumps along. Brie Larson is Carol Danvers, (Ironically Stan Lee, may he rest in peace was imitative till the end. SUPERGIRLS Earth name is Linda Danvers) also Captain Marvel, is charged with protecting a super energy thingamabob created by her mentor Annette Bening. It just happens to look exactly like the glowing blue cubes that were the big problem in BLACK PANTHER. Apparently everybody wants control of that Cube and guess what, there’s a whole lot of fighting as they try to take it from each other. And a whole lot of blowing stuff up. Surprised? The bulk of the film, when it’s not completely consumed by explosions, violence and second-rate special effects, Danvers hangs out with Nick Fury ( the usually great Samuel L Jackson) and his family or the most interesting part is waiting for Jackson as fiery to drop an MF-bomb. Finally when the dust clears and we’ve traveled back and forth and time to give you a crick in your neck, everything is resolved at least until the next film when Marvel joins the rest of the Avengers for another two and a half hours of noise. Besides the surprisingly shoddy CGI, and a confusing and nonsensical story there is some second-rate acting going on here. I blame the director because I’ve seen Jackson in plenty of things in which he’s not asked to play a tough guy and a nerd in the same script. The usually compelling Jude Law plays his part like a villain in a B science fiction serial . Also the Scrulls rubber masks obviously make it hard to talk. Nobody in the sound room could overdub the voice? And for whatever reason Larson plays the main character with the look and feel of a Bob Evans waitress. It will undoubtedly make a lot of money but it still stinks. D WSS
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Cold Pursuit Summit Entertainment R. 98 min Okay it’s Spring, right? Meaning that we in Northeast Ohio have just slog through the entire winter that are crossing our fingers we’ve seen the end of the snow. I thought it was especially appropriate that finally one of the most familiar figures in our neck of the woods is featured as the hero in an action thriller, namely the snowplow driver. Remember Mister Stanley, if it wasn’t for the snow plow driver we’d never even be able to see the white lines on the Highway. So the latest thriller starring senior citizen action hero Liam Neeson is COLD PURSUIT. On the plus side it’s supposed to be an action thriller and I usually like those especially when there’s some good old fashioned revenge involved. We know from the trailers that snow plow driver Nelson Coxman’s (Neeson) son has being found dead and the preliminary cause of death seems to be a drug overdose. Dad knows that his boy is not a druggie so the real reason must have been murder. And we're off. One of his sons dirtbag buddies spills the beans that they’ve been wrapped up in some sort of dope deal gone south. Dad puts together a plan to kill off all the members of the food chain, one by one, until it gets to the head drug lord, known by his gangland nickname Viking. (Tom Bateman). For the record all the bad guys have gangland nicknames. Viking is certainly a despicable character but there’s just enough asshole in his personality to keep him from being truly frightening. As matter of fact most of these desperados fall short of the intense hatred necessary to make a Revenge film work to its fullest extent. Don’t get me wrong we are still happy to see these mugs get knocked off but mostly they come off has more stupid than pure evil. Another thing that makes the revenge factor less compelling is that we never really meet and get to know Nelson’s son. If there was more of an empathetic connection I think the audience would feel worse about his unjust death. One semi interesting subplot is that Viking has mistakenly killed the son of an Indian chief, who just happens to take time away from the casinos and the reservation to be a rival cocaine kingpin. That means Vikings son is now in jeopardy. This particular film, set in Colorado, is the Americanized version of a Scandinavian project and book called In Order Of Disappearance. This, as I assume did the previous versions, keeps a running total of all the bad guys who meet an untimely end. This flick is listed as a dark comedy and while it is certainly dark enough it’s my opinion that the Scandinavians, for all their fine qualities, seem to fall a little bit short in the area of Comedy. Anyway despite the lack of excitement and real intrigue there is just enough of the poor man’s Coen brothers quirkiness to keep it from being a complete bore. Just not quite enough to earn it more than a mediocre rating. C WSS
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2019 Browns Board Mock: Day 3 - Rounds 6 and 7
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The kid Lionsgate R. 100 min Here’s one that’s worth a little extra trouble, not a whole lot but I had to drive to the Valley View Cinemark who often have some films that don’t play in wide distribution. Why you may ask? Well in the first place I really like westerns and there aren’t many of them these days. Second it starts Ethan Hawke who’s a pretty good actor but usually flies just under the radar. His presence is not a guarantee of a great film, as a matter of fact even despite the short-lived Oscar buzz, I hated FIRST REFORMED, but that’s another story. Third, I was curious to see what Vincent D’Onofrio we do behind the camera. Well the kid here is William Bonney AKA Billy the Kid (Dane DeHaan) and this is a semi-biographical tale about him and his friend / nemesis Pat Garrett. (Hawke) How much is real and how much is artistic content who knows? I’m guessing the fictional part concerns the main story of the actual protagonist here, another kid, Rio, (Jake Schurr) who has run away from home with his sister Sara, (Leila George) after killing his drunk and abusive father. Things are looking perilous for the siblings as a nasty uncle is out to seek revenge for his ne'er do well brother. The kids find an abandoned cabin in which to hide out. Well not quite abandoned as presently it’s also in use by a band of outlaws led by the notorious Billy the Kid. The good news is that Billy takes a liking to the youngsters and sort of takes them under his wing. The bad news is that it’s not long before Pat Garrett and a handful of lawmen capture the entire bunch. Unwilling to confess patricide to the authorities Rio and Sara make up a story about a relative who will take them in when they get to New Mexico. That just happens to be where Pat is taking Billy to stand trial and presumably hang. So what we have is kind of a perverse buddy flick / Thriller as the company travels along getting in and out of various dangerous situations together. It’s not really an action-packed journey but there are plenty of exciting moments along with a satisfying but somewhat bittersweet ending. Besides Hawk, DeHaan is an unexpected bright spot as Billy, even though we’ve never seen the kid except for old photographs, he looks pretty much like them and is completely believable. Schull is a fine little actor as well, and we should be seeing more of him in upcoming films. D’Onofrio exhibits a steady hand directing the story through are rough and gritty landscape. Certainly worth the ride. B+ WSS
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California city tests universal basic income program ahead of 2020
DieHardBrownsFan replied to Vambo's topic in POLITICAL DISCUSSION
They already have AI that can learn. Why couldn't it be programmed to be ethical? And in reverse, why couldn't it be programmed to be evil? -
Here is This Week's Survey. Give your answers or opinions: 1. Give your best prediction on who the Browns will draft with their #49 pick (assuming they stay there).....or any moves you predict them to make. Really feeling the D-side here. Thornhill has been much bandied about 'round here, but I still feel LB has the greater need. Problem is that the projected LB prospects get pretty thin in Round 2 so I look for a move up to a late-1st/early-2nd to catch a faller squeezed out of his rightful spot. Devin Bush (ILB) or Brian Burns (OLB) are the two likely candidates I see. But if we stay put... Thornhill is as good a choice as any and there's good LB value in Rounds 3 and 4. 2. What major move do you think will take place either before or on Draft Day.....by any team...including the Browns. NYG... a trade with AZ for Rosen makes a lot of sense. For the price of a 3rd rounder they get a great understudy for Eli and a possible franchise future, and they get to spend their 1st round capital on Defense. 3. The schedule has been released, so: What if any AWAY game are you going to try to get to this year (whether you live here in NE Ohio or elsewhere)....or....if you are from out of town, which, if any home game do you hope to come to? If I go to CLE, then that BUF/PTG 2fer gumby latched onto looks really enticing. I don't see me making any road games this season. 4. While I may have asked this before....I will do so again: NBA playoffs have started. Which teams do you want to make the Finals(and win).... vs. which teams you expect to make the Finals (and win? Kinda pulling for Kyrie and the Celts to win it over the Rockets in the Finals, but... ... until dethroned I've gotta go with the Warriors... likely over Toronto. 5. Same for the NHL playoffs (and note: I don't give a shit whether you give a shit or not...so no snarky answers about not giving a shit). Which teams make the Finals (and win) vs. which teams do you want to make the Finals (and win) Love the Bluejackets KOing the #1 seeded TB Lightening in a round one sweep... so happy to wish for them to take it all. Out of the West I like Nashville to take it all... But it's a bit much to expect an 8-seed to skate the cup, but with the East now wide open they can make the final.
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He is an Aries thankfully we got him not the Rams
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I concur. I see 19 wins. Z
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California city tests universal basic income program ahead of 2020
MLD Woody replied to Vambo's topic in POLITICAL DISCUSSION
Finding an exception here or there (potential exception) doesn't do anything for the vast majority of jobs. It doesn't hurt the need to study UBI. -
He's an Aries like me. April birthdays rule. Being 24 is awesome too, good for him. Zombo
