Neither player added makes the Dolphins a championship team, but hopefully the sum of what we had before this offseason, and what we’ve added during the offseason does add up to a championship team. At first, signing Sony Michel didn’t inspire me. After a couple of weeks, I realized that improving the depth on this team is important. It’s not a matter of is Sony Michel more talented than Mostert or Edmonds, it’s more a matter of we need guys who can carry the rock, and have done so in big situations. Michel fits that bill. Michel doesn’t need to be a superstar, he just needs to be able to step in and play if called upon. Bringing in LB Melvin Ingram fits that same bill. He won’t need to be the primary pass rusher, or edge setter. On the other hand, if we have a team in a bad situation, a 3rd and long, it will be great to have Ingram on the field, especially if it’s in a big spot in a big game, because he’s been there. One thing you can say about most of the guys who have been here is that when it’s been a big spot or big game, we’ve yet to step up and meet the challenge.
I give Chris Grier and Mike McDaniel a lot of credit for how they’ve transformed the roster, and just as importantly, the aura around this team and organization. There is a tremendous amount of positivity buzzing around this team that hasn’t been present in decades. I liked Brian Flores because he seemed like the tough minded guy you wanted to be your coach. One thing he lacked, and it seems severely lacked was vision of the big picture of what the whole team needed to be. Of course we haven’t played a game yet in the Mike McDaniel era, but the philosophy is out there, and it’s tangible. We don’t know exactly what we’re going to be, what our identity will be, but we have a pretty good idea, and I’d bet when the games start, we’ll see that just about all of us at FMU will see what we think we’ll see. Patience will possibly be necessary because implementing a system in today’s NFL isn’t that easy, with the limited amount of team practices, which has been drastically cut down from years past. Still, we’ve seen teams like the Rams with Sean McVay start quickly, and maybe that happens here too.
On 3rd and 1, 4th quarter and against the Bills, game tied with 3 minutes left, I don’t have a problem giving the ball to Sony Michel. He knows how to play the game and understands his responsibilities. He’s a young veteran RB coached by two great coaches too, Bill Belichick and Sean McVay. He’s been on winning teams and knows what it takes to win. I want that on our team, which frankly to this point, clearly doesn’t know what it takes to win. Melvin Ingram too. He will help our defense, he won’t lead our team in any statistical category, but his locker room presence, and presence of mind on the field will be invaluable. We have talent on this team, but these guys need players like this to show them. Sometimes I’m a little slow on the uptake, because the Michel move didn’t impress me on the surface of it. Pair it with Ingram and the light finally came on for me. Sorry, not sorry, we’re all in, and these moves help us to stay in throughout the season. Lean on these guys in big situations and other guys will see what to do and be interchangeable with them as the season progresses. That’s what we need, we need our guys have all the talent in the world to learn what it take to win. We can’t step on the field against the Bills and get blown out every time and expect to win a playoff game later on after the season. I look forward to this season more than any season in quite some time. Hope you do too!
#stangerstrong
GO DOLPHINS!!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
Stanger,
I’m going to ask Ricky about this matter, man.
Please do.
M13, whatever your beef is with Stanger, you seem to hawk him and not acknowledge that all he’s doing is sharing news that is already public. He’s not putting it out to the masses from this blog. LOL
I don’t have ANY beef with Stanger, seriously. I just don’t like anybody putting a private citizen on blast. Ricky and I have been in contact with one another for well over a decade, and I WILL DEFEND him.
Politically? Yeah, we’re not 100% (and it doesn’t need to be that way!), but he sometimes leaves me questioning what he says he represents (RINO).
I still respect Stanger!
You’re always stuck in a political box, man. Stanger doesn’t create current events and public knowledge, he shares it here on a little blog with maybe 100 people who might come here total. And who cares if someone has different views than you? This country and world lacks common sense in a lot of ways. It’s not going to be perfect for anyone anytime soon. The universe is violent and utopia does not exist.
Like I said, I STILL respect Stanger! It’s ALWAYS alright to disagree, and that’s my mantra. Sometimes I come on strong, sometimes I come on soft.
We all have opinions, and they should be taken as such… mere opinions. Doesn’t mean I’m correct, hence ‘IMO’.
I don’t mind opinions outside of mine, seriously. And I hope my opinions are minded, so as to have a good and earnest exchange. Politics aren’t the best things to talk about in this day and age on a ‘sports blog’, and yes, I’M guilty of participating, yet not nearly as much as I used to do.
M13, I was referring to these comments.
“Politically? Yeah, we’re not 100% (and it doesn’t need to be that way!), but he sometimes leaves me questioning what he says he represents (RINO).”
That means you’re not cool with his history and ideology as a Republican compared to your Republican views. Just like religion, it changes based on specific opinions.
We need to stop being tribal, be an individual and believe in the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It’s a legal document that gives us all the same rights. If you don’t follow them… off you go.
Sooo, anything new going on?
WOW!!!
18 children and maybe 3 adults dead. 😦
Getting up to Shady Hook territory.
Hill is…..I hesitate to use the term…..All In on Tua
Shooter was engaged by law enforcement prior to entering the school and still managed to gain entry and kill 18 kids
That’s a problem and what I heard was he gained access because his mother worked at the school. Now we have to make schools top security institutions. 😦
No he gained access by apparently forcing an entrance after a gunfight with school security police officers. He had a long gun and body armor
Hmmm… I did not hear that. Obviously all the info. will come out. At the end of the day, when a young person or anyone decides to cause mass carnage against innocence, it’s a massive problem.
I realized that my comment on the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not a legal document like the Constitution. I always thought the Declaration of Independence was part of our core view for freedom. If we believe in it, we’ll all be better off. But not enough of us live it.
Then you have people throughout the world who don’t want to be free. That boggles my mind.
Sad day when an evil person can kill innocent kids. I’m a little shocked that after Columbine that we haven’t defended our schools better. I would think it would be a greater priority. and we waste so much money on education that using just some of it to protect kids seems like a no brainer. Every time I see a cop writing speeding tickets, I can think of dozens of better jobs for him that day. We waste billions on drug rehab, but innocent kids don’t see any safety money. Our priorities are off.
I hope this evil trash is soon forgotten but the media loves to glorify death.
Totally agreed.
Bring a RINO is a huge compliment. Same with DINO.
RINOs and DINOS
These are the best people in each party.
Politics is, or should be, in a well functioning world, a continuum, a line graph with all of us as points on the line. And the RINOs and DINOS are clustered at the midpoint, sometimes shifting from RINO to DINO or DINO to RINO. This would be a great world and is the only way the 2-party system will actually work.
I love DINOs. I love RINOs.
Far to the right and left ends of the spectrum will always unfortunately be a tiny amount of lonely curmudgeons of their parties, huddled back into corners with no friends, pitiful victims of their own life traumas that make it impossible for them to empathize with anyone, even those in their own party only a few dots closer toward center.
Politics, like all naturally occurring demographics, should be a bell curve, as far as proportions.
There should be a huge amount of people in the center of the political spectrum and a tiny amount of people howling eccentricities on the far right and far left. The people in the middle are happy, well adjusted, productive, and tolerant of those in the next cohort a bit to the right or left of them.
We should not allow any dictator to change that.
Dictators don’t want a natural world with people being friends across the line, empathizing, compromising, moving forward, solving problems.
Dictators hate it when people in their end have friends across the midpoint.
Dictators can’t control that.
Dictators don’t know how to work with RINOs and DINOs.
Dictators don’t want to solve problems, because they need a focal point, an enemy, an easily defined target, someone to teach their disciples to hate and blame and someone to aim at.
Dictators like problems. They want to distort nature from a line spectrum to 2 disconnected clusters with a gulf of hatred, distrust, and misunderstanding in between for the dictator to exploit.
RINOs are the best Republicans. DINOs are the best Democrats.
Because those are the people using common sense, showing decency towards fellow citizens, looking at each issue with fresh eyes instead of the slogans of a dictator, and possessing the ability to actually get work done.
**Being** a RINO is a huge compliment.
Although bringing a RINO to a party is a fun image. Or a DINO.
I used to think like this but not anymore. They are elected to follow their constituent’s desires, not decide what is best. 90% of both parties look for ways to enrich themselves and each other at the expense of the people who vote them in. They all mostly agree already. Agree to pass no laws and do nothing but enflame partisan feelings so they can easily promote agendas they will never personally foll0ow through on.
Dictators love when both sides agree because both sides are on the same coin. Few dictators haven’t had a morally compromised congressional body to vote in everything they wanted.
Our roads and bridges aren’t fixed. We have about 12% on welfare and a gigantic illegal population eating away at our economy. We are a service industry and make almost nothing ourselves. We have about 200+ years’ worth of energy supplies we are unwilling to use because of grifters and ignorance. We are 30 TRILLION in debt, no one wants to work, and our moral standards are lower than Rome’s. Show me the big problems we’ve fixed in the last 50 years. They work together like with the Ukraine money. Our country is in distress, and they use $40 billion on Ukraine and other hidden pet projects. Screw those politicians!!
RINOs and DINOs do nothing for the people just like most of the others. Give me someone with a backbone and at least a moral stance they won’t compromise at the first opportunity. Give me anything but a RINO or DINO. At least the others are more honest as they stab me in the back.
Naples wins post of the night for me. That’s where I stand. You push extreme views you get extreme results. Moderates are just that, moderate. We’re willing to give and take. Nobody will ever agree on everything.
I am a lifelong registered Independent.
That is not to say apathetic or confused or not a contributing citizen.
I am just not owned.
I support all good ideas, all good people, all good work, all solutions.
Tribalism is bad. It skews the mind. Umm-kay!
I agree with MF13 that there are sicknesses in American society.
I agree with New Age that the police are misused and money is wasted in education funding.
I was amazed to see about a thousand cops at that elementary school.
Why were they all there? They were too late. Way too late.
They need to be going out there and finding these shooters BEFORE they kill our mothers, wives, and children.
It should not be that hard to do.
Milling around a crime scene is not good use of police resources.
Far too much money in education is wasted in the district office on expensive textbooks, consultants, and cutesy named programs.
The money should be spent on making kids so happy that they will never shoot their school or their grocery store or their grandmother. Or resort to drugs to find happiness.
Like MF13 said, blame needs to go toward the gaming industry which puts mass murder into the hands of children in the form of fun games to play.
I do think though that a major amount of the blame needs to go at parents.
Parents these days are afraid of their children, yet teach their children to be disrespectful and to threaten teachers with their lawyers if the teacher tries to get the children to do the right thing.
Leave the tribe! Be an individual. We’re doing it to ourselves.
In nature, the first order of business is to protect our young. I’ll just leave that there.
No, that is the post of the day
Kids are the present and future, we seem to be getting away from that
I saw a video of a bank robbery and the lady was holding her child in front of her with a gunman present, WTF put the kid behind you or wrap around
When kids went from a source of pride and an extension of the parent to a source of income, it really damaged our society. When we started to move away from shaming people for terrible behavior, we allowed in monstrous behavior. The first thing anyone that sees that video should think is “what a horrible person that is!” Followed by, “I really dislike criminals as well.”
I just watched my Mets lose a crazy game. But it was a fucking baseball game. Little kids lost their lives today. WTF am I thinking about? We’re so consumed with what turns us on we lose sight of what is really going on and some of our citizens will never get to do what we’re doing. Little kids who never really got started. It makes me sick.
“Agreed, I doubt it was another liberal, democrat, nazi white supremacist in this case…”
This is so fucked. Smh I’m going to the fest this year. I stand behind my morals. Show up. You are a hair trigger away from accusing the left of politicizing but there is literally no other way I can read this.
This isn’t about parents ability to discipline kids. I had the shit beat out of me growing up. It didn’t make me a better person, it made me a survivor. Should I be grateful for the abuse? Do t answer. Fuck that.
I so admire the Wattiors coach Kerr. I encourage everyone to take in his comments today. He literally went to a pregame conference when his team could advance to a championship series and said “I’m not gonna talk about basketball.”
This isn’t about politics. It’s about whether our leaders who say they’re about life letting our children die in school and not doing a single thing about it. Fuck prayers and moments of silence. Perhaps that helps some sleep at night but the parents of those children won’t have another restful night for the rest of their lives.
I’m with coach Kerr. I’ve had enough of this political bullshit. Kids SHOULDN’T wonder if they’re gonna die at school tomorrow.
Spin has no place here. I thought after Sandy Hook we’d come around as a culture. I’ve never been so concerned about my daughter’s and eventual grandchildrens future as I am right now. And I frankly wonder what I should’ve/could’ve done to prevent this reality.
We live in bubbles but when it’s your family member that dies its too fucking late to address the problem.
Mike/Herd/Pig:
If this is too bombastic I will absolutely respect your decision to take it down. I’m just done living like 2nd ammendment rights are more important then our childrens’ lives.
My heart goes out to all people affected by this latest mass killing and all the previous atrocities. Some horrifying stats I read on-line ……. this is the 27th this year-to-date so more than 1 a week on average. Children and young adults are now more likely to be killed by a bullet than any other cause of death.
I’m not going to go into the politics of it (partly cos I don’t follow the issues in detail over there) but man that is such a sad state of affairs. Coach Kerr nailed it for me too JahnDoh. Human nature can provide inspiration beyond measure sometimes, but the dark reverse of that can cause unfathomable despair.
Thank you Jahndoh and uk!
Didn’t read or see what Mr. Kerr said, but sounds about right….
It only happens in America….is that the price of freedom (rhetorical)?
Saw the press conference….what happens after enough?
Jahn – Not too bombastic. I don’t have an answer that will solve this. It’s clear mental illness is behind most of these atrocities. In this particular case the gun was obtained legally, but I think when someone is at this breaking point, they will get a gun in any manner possible. Do we do a better job of mental illness screenings? I have no idea how that happens. I think of drugs, drugs are illegal, excluding weed of course, but everyone gets them. I think it will be the same for guns. On the other hand, how the heck do civilians get body armor and stuff like that? Schools will have to be more secure, it’s a damn sad reality.
Not too bombastic….lol.
I do think the blind political thinking and those that lead with political rhetoric who cannot see their own prejudice is a valid point, too.
Which blind political thinking are you referring to?
Straight up quoting mf13ss…..for some reason Republicans and conservatives were not included as ones who have issues or contribute to this issue.
Kerr made it clear what his thoughts were, too.
I just think that’s blind political prejudice. If you don’t, you don’t….it’s blind.
In response to New Age. The school did have armed police officers on site. The school was protected. The problem is that you can’t and will never be able to properly protect a school when people have the ease of access to the type of firepower this country allows
There are millions of guns out there. Do you think this doesn’t happen if this kid can’t get those guns legally? Do we not have a problem with him getting body armor? Shouldn’t that only be available to military and law enforcement? I feel like everyone just points at guns, as if they won’t be available unless purchased legally. Ghost guns, and every gun imaginable are all available illegally. I think gun sales should be more restricted, but that’s not the last word on this problem by a longshot.
Just so you know, I don’t own a gun. I do believe if I wanted to get my hands on one, illegally, it would be easy as pie
In just about every mass shooting the weapons were purchased legally
In Stanger’s defense, I always thought him as more of a triceratops than a rino.
Lol…definitely not a rino
I read just the other day that when building Colorado Rockies stadium they unearthed a 7′ triceratops skull when digging the foundation.
Maybe it’s an ancestor. Can we get 23 and me involved?
same area, different building foundation from what I found.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/photos-rare-triceratops-fossil-found-in-colorado-at-construction-site#:~:text=City%20of%20Thornton%20officials%20say,as%20a%20likely%20triceratops%20skull.
Krishna – The differences of opinion is that it’s not the guns that are the problem, it’s the demons that get in the minds of the people that do these things. Mental illness doesn’t choose a political aisle.
That’s one view….the availability, the range of arsenals, the inability to pass universal background checks, and probably a worldwide view, only in America….
I think there are many views and a comprehensive solution could be had without the political bullshit.
Would it be 100% fool-proof, is anything?
What if it reduced mass shootings by half or more….a crisis we refuse to address. Ok by me….
I just deleted a diatribe on the subject. This is all I will post at the moment. There are no perfect answers, but ignoring the underlying issues for decades and allowing small vocal groups (lobbyists) to control the majority with fear is not an answer at all.
Fear of losing their personal power, as in being voted out or opposed in the primaries. Kerr is right about one thing. Our leaders are cowards who put their own political power before the good of the people.
Yep…
Mike E. says:
May 25, 2022 at 8:10 am (Edit)
There are millions of guns out there. Do you think this doesn’t happen if this kid can’t get those guns legally?
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Yes
From a British perspective, we had a mass killing at a Dunblane school (Scotland) in ’96 and immediately introduced much more rigorous gun control as a result. We haven’t had such an event since.
I saw a Retweet also saying : “The suspect in the Robb Elementary School shooting, Salvador Ramos, turned 18, purchased two rifles and carried out the second-worst school shooting in US history all within a span of eight days. Legal purchases of two AR15-style rifles were made May 22, sources tell @ABC”. The text of the Retweet ………. It took me 6 weeks to renew my passport!
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Ken, I think we live in different worlds if it is thought this doesn’t happen if a kid can’t get guns legally.
“The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statics kept active nationwide research on the topic thru 2004. Back then the breakout on crimes committed with the use of a firearm consisted of 52% illegally obtained and 48% legally obtained. Since then, many states, including Florida, have tightened gun laws. As gun laws have tightened, more guns used in crimes have been illegally possessed.”
From a 2019 study by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.
“In the states with the strictest laws, about 65% of the guns were illegally owned. That means that most crimes are committed with illegally possessed guns.”
Illinois has some of the most restrictive gun control policy in the country, yet Chicago usually has the highest homicide rate by firearm in the nation. We are not talking assault weapons either. The majority is by handgun.
Just this last weekend, I bonded two 17 y.o. kids for Carrying Concealed Weapon. One had a Glock the other a .357. They were riding around with another 18 y.o. who was also charged with Carry Concealed Weapon (Glock) and Possession of M/J Over 20 grams with Intent to Sell. His grandmother, who raised him, refused to bond him out. All 3 weapons were obtained illegally. None of the parents and grandmother knew their kids had the guns.
That said, I do believe something needs to happen. There is no reason an 18 yo should be able to walk in and by an AR15 just like that.
Exactly what I am saying
In almost every mass shooting the gun is purchased legally. This shooting happened only because a kid on his 18th birthday legally purchased 2 semiautomatic rifles that allowed him to overpower armed police at the school, gain entry to the school and kill 19 kids. I doubt this 18 year old kid would have obtained the same level of firepower illegally. I doubt he would have overpowered the police officers with a handgun. I doubt the carnage would have been the same. Guns are too easy to obtain.
👍. ..no doubt….especially comparing thug violence with mass shootings, it’s apples to oranges and quite different intentions….both are horrific
Then you have the situation where the mob tries to gain entry into the home in St Louus, but couldn’t, because the owners protected it with assault rifles
This guy was whacked, he would’ve still been able to get a gun legally even if he wasn’t able to get an assault rifle, just would’ve had a different plan
Ken, I agree in regard to the mass shootings. You are 100% correct.
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/476461/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-legality-of-shooters-weapons/
I know we will never fully eliminate gun violence in this country. That doesn’t we can’t do more limit it.
All this talk about politicians doing this and that, that everyone hates, then some stick to their #1 talking point its the guns
Even that POS Biden couldn’t wait 5 minutes to talk about the guns
What is he supposed to do ignore it?
He’s supposed to not make it political and have some compassion for those that lost their lives
The families of those who lost their lives don’t want compassion, thoughts and prayers. They want their loved ones. And what about what was said makes you think he doesn’t have compassion?
He’s a jackass everything he says is read off of the teleprompter, so no original words, unless it’s come on man or calling someone a liar or taking someone behind the woodshed…
How do you know what the families want?
They can’t have their family members back, they can have them not die in vein
To have them not die in vain is exactly the point. Enact change. Unfortunately we don’t
Your idea of change is more govt control, the more govt gets involved the longer it takes and more expensive it is
I think a big part of the problem is parents. Many parents today, IMO, are not involved enough in their children’s lives once they become more independent in their teens. Yeah, I didn’t tell my parents everything, but they were very easy and helpful to talk to when something seriously bothered me and always showed sincere interest in what was going on in my life.
Another thing that is a problem which someone already brought up and that is glamorization of drug and alcohol abuse, partying, shooting people, etc in music, movies, TV, internet and video games. Yeah, it existed way back in my teen years in music and movies but not as nearly as rampant as it is today with the internet and video games. Even movies today are much more graphic/violent and in certain genres of music it is everywhere. I mean I didn’t have video games until Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Pacman and Galaga (my fav) showed up in my HS years.
Throw all this glamorization at a young teen coupled with the normal BS growing pains teens go through, toss in some political BS/sky is falling stress with no proper parental support, no outlet. All this boggled up in an immature and not fully developed mind of a teenager, it only takes one with an acute mental illness/breakdown to go one way or another. Suicide or postal.
I think this also goes for adults who don’t have proper mental coping capacity.
Biggest problem is kids growing up with only 1 parent, welfare state makes it too easy to do that
Same ole shit of trying to buy votes at our expense
Yup I need to stay away from here for a few days.
Let’s go shoot some pool….lol!
The 18 y/o kid who murdered a bunch of young children and some adults yesterday bought his shiny new assault rifle legally but couldn’t legally buy cigarettes for another 3 years.
So some govt regulations don’t make sense, I’ll agree
I hate gun control, because it gives govt more control, but I’d be ok with raising the gun laws up to 24, when the brain is fully developed
These HS kids that got bullied need a cooling off period
I agree with that.
Bingo, Steve. Brian development was precisely what I was thinking about and why I will continue to refer to him as a kid regardless of legal definition of adult.
This is just one small side of a multi-faceted issue that will take a multi-pronged solution, but although other potential solutions can be argued and debated, IMO this particular one to me seems like a no-brainer. Don’t give people with brains that aren’t fully developed access to legal assault rifles.
Same post as the one that just disappeared into the mob-blog black-hole, but this time with text to get the link to appear
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On a lighter note for us Star Wars fans even though it is not Friday night tunes:
Cool.
I liked the two that MF13 posted a while back too, but didn’t have time to reply. The 1st rocky one of his went less well with the films than the piano version for me though.
The version of duel of the fates I posted at the time was by a German orchestra and was a bit ponderous – this Danish version is much better as it’s more like the original tempo and energy, but I can’t find video of the LSO version.
……….. and look what I found!
https://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/whats-on/halle-301222/
Feel the full force of the Hallé as we bring you John Williams’s iconic music from Star Wars to the stage of The Bridgewater Hall. Filled with some of the most recognisable cinematic themes, this concert packs more punch than an Imperial blaster. Dress to impress and relive the rise and fall of the Empire in one action-packed evening. We advise you to come in Star Wars disguise – Imperial Stormtroopers will be patrolling the area! May the Force be with you.
Happy New Year! 😉
Love the Duel of the Fates
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Wonder, if he’s taking a page out of Edelman’s playbook, being best friends with his QB off the field to become his favorite target on the field
LYNN BOWDEN JR.
(On how being a former quarterback helps him learn offenses)
“It’s a good thing. I just look at it, when I’m learning, I look at it from a quarterback’s perspective, so I know everything from left to right.”
(On how beneficial it is to work with QB Tua Tagovailoa)
“The chemistry is good there. That’s my boy. Outside of football, everything that we’ve met about outside of here, it wasn’t just about football. Me and him got closer as brothers. It will help out here but I’m out here competing with everybody.”
Posted an article yesterday about AFC East Projected Starters, it had this to say about Judon
Matthew Judon faded hard at the end of last season, sometimes playing out of structure
He didn’t have any sacks I think the last 4 games
What a crock of shit, he had 12.5 sacks on the year
Phillips had most of his during a middle stretch with not much at the end, Ogbah seems to have that issue every year, don’t think anyone thinks they’re washed up
Media is too agenda driven, but not only with the Fins
So some 18 year old birthday boy walks into a store and buys 2 assault rifles, kevlar body armor, and bunches of ammo and the sales person says … nothing?
I’m trying to get an image here. What was the conversation?
Clerk: Anything else, sir? ok, have a good day.
And then never mentions it to the boss or law enforcement?
Did the clerk not wonder what the kid was going to do with that ?
That he bought the minute he had the chance?
What does any person do with 2 new rifles, kevlar, and boxes of bullets anyway?
Kill people. That’s all they’re good for.
And Resisting law enforcement in a shootout.
Yet we do nothing.
Of course the sales person does nothing. They don’t want to lose a sale. There is no requirement the sales person does anything. Also don’t know when and from where the body armor was purchased
Let’s start with that then.
Let’s have “a form” or something that must be filled out.
Or a small 3 question interview each clerk must ask:
Question #1: Why do you want kevlar body armor?
Question #2: What are you going to do with 2 assault rifles and 200 rounds?
Question #3: you mad, bro?
This should be video taped and the tape should be sent to the FBI for immediate review.
The FBI should have trained observers who can use psychological tells (or plain common sense) to detect latent rage issues.
I’d setup several questions about what they’re going to do with this, asking the same thing from different angles, so someone that wasn’t exactly the sharpest tool may get caught in a lie and flagged
Of course to me, there should be zero sales of body armor of any description allowed to any private person not in law enforcement. also grenade launchers, flame throwers, and silencers should be forbidden.
You can buy all of those things. And why silencers?
And reply…why does any private person need a Corvette? No one outside of race car drivers need to go that fast.
Because girls think guys with corevettes are hot.
Ah…that’s why they keep looking at me!
also bullets 🙂 Sell guns just don’t sell any bullets.
Ken – Let us know when you get your Junior Thanos Glove with Firearm Erasing Rock. Then you can make guns illegal and crazies won’t be able to get them.
I have no expectations that all guns will be illegal but I do believe there can and should be tighter control
I don’t disagree, but not sure what the control should be. Not banning…that’s treating a symptom, not the sickness. Better background checks, sure. Ones we use now are obviously ineffective. More government control isn’t the answer – government sucks at any complicated issue. Plus it is a social issue and the government shouldn’t be involved in social issues.
I agree there is a definite social issue component to the problem but that is even harder to control than guns. I believe in the following controls:
1. Universal background checks.
2. Increase the minimum age for purchase.
3. Red flag laws
4. Limit magazine capacity
5. Tougher criminal penalties for straw purchasers
I say we just start putting violent criminals to death until we run out of them?
If the death penalty makes you queasy we can call it an abortion of the 1,282 trimester! 😉
I’m in favor of the death penalty. That doesn’t help the victims. It’s like the work of police. Way too late.
WTF is up with the posting?
There goes our cap, we’re going to have to cut at least 3 moderately priced vets (U75 talk)
I don’t think mass shootings are funny.
Also
Constructing obfuscatory quibbling does not save innocent children.
We have a problem.
If we can solve the problem, children, moms, wives, grandmas don’t have to die by being randomly shot.
Why would anyone be against solving such a problem?
If those three questions were asked of every person buying mass weaponry, it would save many innocent lives.
Why would anyone be against that?
Or at least trying it out.
Gang violence a la Chicago is a different problem.
We can try to solve that one also.
But I actually don’t care as much if gangsters shoot each other.
We need to stop this shooter rampage against innocent victims problem first.
99% of the people want that too, the problem is in the way the left solves these issues, they always seem to put the blame in the wrong place
For example the issue with police brutality/criminals is all of course the cops fault, so to solve it we’ll defend the police
With these mass shootings someone has gone whacked, so the blame is of course gun control, instead of flagging their purchase subject to mental eval
Biden has said flatly the answer is not to defund the police.
I do not want to defund the police.
Only a few extremists want that. I’d just like to see the cops do something besides wrap yellow tape around crime scenes.
If 99% of the people want a simple program to stop idiots and insane people from going on shooting rampages, then let’s pass a law to get that done.
I don’t want to take the guns from Phelon, a 40 year old business man with a verifiable career in the security industry. I’d sell him kevlar for all 30 of his employees. And whatever firearms he prefers.
I want to stop the guys who shot up a grocery store and the churches and schools.
It should be easy to tell the difference, and if it’s hard, then the guy can wait while the FBI guys figure it out.
If he can’t wait, …
A guy I worked with, that retired about 4 years ago, grew up on the Southside of Chicago, he had plenty of stories to tell, mostly heart broken ones
Anyways it’s sort of classist to say, you don’t care if gangsters shoot each other, but maybe more accurate to say you don’t care about the less fortunate class
The same way 50% of the people don’t care about a fetus
I feel for the kids in the lower class, that are there for no fault of their own, were just born there
With school choice they have a chance, but some don’t even want them to have that
But for some reason you cared about George Floyd
I totally did not say I don’t care about a certain race or socio-economic class.
You’re saying that to try to cloud the issue.
I don’t care about gangsters, criminals, urban terrorists, etc.
I am active in my religion which started the Salvation Army and still has many programs for helping needy families, especially kids. I am against the Welfare State.
I did not say anything about abortion during the entire debate on this board.
I would only allow a limited use of that, and not just some form of birth control for the careless.
Invoking the abortion debate is another attempt to muddy up the gun violence problem.
We have school choice here. We have many conservative parents who are against it as they want their kids to go to their neighborhood schools.
“The killer entered the classroom, locked the door and started shooting”… and the kids are 10. What are they gonna do?
I would like some of the “smart folks” to tell me why someone would want to do a mass shooting at a school?
Because “sane” people can’t answer that question!
Hurting children would be the lowest form of human action I could possibly think of!
It is m biggest fear while driving!
Even the hard core criminals don’t want kids shot up, they’ll take care of you in prison, if you kill kids
We all know it’s a mental issue, but the red flags aren’t going up
Ukraine loves Hollywood
Ken – Again, I don’t disagreeing with any of these except limiting magazine capacity and that only because it has no practical effect. But each has warts:
1. Universal background checks. – The checks run now are ineffective because not all agencies and virtually no doctors/psychiatrists/psychologists input data into the database. If you could get them to put data in it would make the check more robust, but good luck getting patient information. Or anything DoD.
2. Increase the minimum age for purchase. – A no brainer. Add a one week waiting period as well. The latter would cut down on crimes of passion and impulse.
3. Red flag laws – Slippery slope. That whole innocent until proven guilty, 4th Amendment thing. Bitter Ex’s, asshole neighbors, etc. and the doctor, et al thing again. Who can raise the flag?
4. Limit magazine capacity. – Solves nothing. Even a newbie can swap out mags quickly.
5. Tougher criminal penalties for straw purchasers. – Absolutely. But we can’t even keep violent criminals behind bars for a day anymore. And repeat offenses mean nothing.
I love your pragmatic look at this Phelonious. Thank you.
I disagree with you on magazine capacity as there have been a number of instances where overcome and or people escaped while the shooter was changing magazines
But yes Phelon I recognize nothing is perfect. But imo something is better than nothing
The M1 had an 8 shot clip. Least not sure why anyone would need more than that.
You disagree about mags, I disagree about doing something just to be doing something. Doing the wrong thing is as bad or worse than doing nothing.
Musket had a one mag – C’mon old-timer…we’re in the 21st century!
Don’t think I proposed anything that wrong
Note: I beg of everyone on this blog to read this post in its entirety. In return I’ll pledge to spare you from any more novel length posts for awhile. Its not mean spirited or divisive:
I want to say that I started my soliloquy yesterday w a quote from MF13.
He did not do this. He is not a criminal and my anger is not towards him. I told him to show up to the fest because I truly believe looking people in the eye creates bonds that faceless chatting can not. I want to make that connection with a guy I’ve chatted with for the better part of 2 decades.
My anger is towards the fact that we have continued to do nothing while children elderly and church goers get massacred. It feels so hopeless.
Coach Kerr brought up H.B. 8 :
A common sense Bipartisan background check bill that closes the private purchase loophole which allows people to circumvent background checks.
It passed in the house with Bipartisan support well over a year ago.
While it has sat unvoted on in the Senate we’ve had 60 SCHOOL mass shootings. We’re not talking about gun control we’re talking about background checks. If you are pro 2nd ammendment and you think mental illness is the problem, you should want background checks passed. If you do, you’re not in the minority either. Nearly 90% of Americans believe we should have better background checks.
We must do something. We can’t avoid the topic because it’s uncomfortable and we don’t need to spin anything. We all agree children across America shouldn’t have to worry about getting murdered at school today.
Tell you Senators to pass the H.R.8 – Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021
We can force our ineffectual government to act and we can disagree about the finer points of gun control at the same time. In a time where our nation is so incredibly divided we have a chance to revive American exceptionalsim by coming together on a topic the vast majority of us ALREADY AGREE UPON.
PLEASE I implore you. Burying your head in the sand is tantamount to condoning senseless massacres. Your families lives may very well depend on it. Ask the Columbine parents of they’d ever thought there’d be nationwide support groups for parents of children murdered in School shootings. This is out of hand but we CAN do something. It’s not everything and won’t prevent every shooting. But if we can prevent a single senseless death I argue we MUST do so. God save our souls.
I’d love to see that bill pass, but gonna take at least 60 votes in the Senate cause of the filibuster. And am doubting Uncle Mitch will let that happen cause will give a win to the Dems.
It doesn’t take 60 votes to pass it takes 60 votes to break the filibuster
and the filibuster rules alllow modifications of the legislation during the process
It’s not all Mitch McConnell’s fault, the fact that Schumer won’t even put it to a vote fearing the filibuster is a problem
If Mitch McConnell wants to endlessly debate it through the filibuster, let him try.
“Honestly, it’s kind of just like a waiting game, You know when the tag deadline is, and you know that it’s a possibility, but you don’t know what’s gonna happen. I was on my honeymoon in Bora Bora, and the tag deadline was the next day, and it was still up in the air. I didn’t know if I was going to be able to hit free agency, if they were going to tag me, and then I got a text at like 3:30 a.m. Bora Bora time…from my agent, and he was like ‘Hey, they’re tagging you.’ I rolled over in the middle of the night and looked at my phone, tapped Halle, and was like ‘Hey, we’re staying in Miami another year.’”
— Mike Gesicki on getting tagged
It never really happens unless you put it on facebook…. SMH
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“Roughly 30 minutes before Ramos went to the elementary school, he posted on Facebook that he was going to shoot his grandmother. He later added in a separate post that he had shot his grandmother, before posting again saying he was going to shoot an elementary school.”
Interesting read
Click to access USSS%20Averting%20Targeted%20School%20Violence.2021.03.pdf
Woops the story above is Secret Service report on averting school violence
Not sure if anyone wants to talk Dolphins right now (which is fine, not judging), but this is interesting. Apparently our new punter was the one who reached out to us…
“I won’t get too specific about it because it’s team business but I actually reached out to them. There was no punter on the roster and I thought Miami seems like a nice place to play. Financially, I was willing to take a veteran salary benefit deal and I don’t think they knew that, so I just made it clear.”
https://www.thephinsider.com/2022/5/25/23141325/thomas-morstead-reached-out-to-the-miami-dolphins-this-2022-nfl-offseason-says-hes-the-og-t-stead
That’s cool.
▪ Agent Drew Rosenhaus made an interesting point about coach Mike McDaniel during his weekly WSVN-Fox 7 segment this week: “We represent multiple guys on the team, both offense and defense. They love him. He’s made a great impression on the players. They really respect his knowledge. He has made an impression on the players that he’s a brilliant football mind. “A lot of players have commented that it’s been tough — the workouts, the practices, the conditioning has been brutal. Maybe even tougher than what they’ve had in the past. McDaniel has made a great impression, but he’s also a guy who’s proving that he’s going to demand that players work extremely hard.”
More McDaniel feedback this week: Christian Wilkins on McDaniel: “We came in, we all bought in. We gave him a chance, he gave us a chance to show what we got. It just felt natural since Day One.”
Gaskin on McDaniel: “The whole coaching staff has a different energy. It’s refreshing.”
Punter Thomas Morstead on McDaniel: “Getting to meet coach McDaniel, he’s a super interesting guy. It’s my first time having a head coach that is my generation, and it kind of feels like one of my buddies as the coach, which is kind of cool. It’s cool to see people like him that are of a unique background getting opportunities to do what they do, provide value and help build a team.”
https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/barry-jackson/article260863507.html#storylink=cpy
Sometimes I think only person more important than Grier in the front office is Rosenhaus. He ever sours on the team and all the players leave.
Lol, he does seem to represent half the team…
You keep hearing this stuff over and over.
I like this quote.
“A lot of players have commented that it’s been tough — the workouts, the practices, the conditioning has been brutal.”
That was what stood out to me too. I keep hearing ‘players coach’ , and I know he looks like a hipster, lol, but that doesnt mean he’s soft. Love it
I think lots of you make good points about the problems with these shootings. I really have no idea what the best course of action is, but can we do something that can help at least limit the amount of them. Children should not be targets.
We really didn’t
Jahn – H.R.-8 was a good bill. nothing objectionable in it. However, the 19 amendments tagged on to it (by both sides) are a different story and have nothing to do with the matter at hand (https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/117th-congress/house-report/10). If they are truly interested in getting it passed, they should send a clean Bill. Otherwise, it is just posturing and using a tragedy as political fodder.
If you vote on a bill like that
And it’s filibustered, republicans can remove the parts they don’t like
The legislative process allows for modifications during a filibuster
It’s no excuse to not pass a bill bc some one doesn’t like parts of it. Bills can be modified to get to 60 votes in the senate
If a senator likes a part of the bill but doesn’t like another part, there’s nothing from stopping that senator from making their vote dependent on removing the parts they dont like
Of course, that’s what they always try to do, but they still have to agree upon the stuff they take out and Pelosi and others only want bills passing, that they get kickbacks on
You make it sound as if it’s not passing, because of the Republicans aside from what the corrupt have put in there
I didnt say that.
I actually blame Schumer for not putting it to a vote
You are obviously just eager to engage in partisan politics and don’t care to read what I wrote
Your statement doesn’t make any sense. Pelosi is a member of the house, she has nothing to do with the passage in the senate. The filibuster has nothing to do with the house. If you assume the house fills a bill with stuff you don’t want, every member of the senate has the power to make their vote contingent on removing those things
It doesn’t matter where a Senators politics fall. The process is designed to permit compromise.
Let’s say you like part of the bill but don’t like the other garbage – every house member and every member of Senate can just propose their own bill without the additional stuff
They aren’t trying to pass anything, They are blaming each other for it not passing.
So if a Republican in the senate tells me they like part of a bill but don’t like another part – I’m gonna call them out on it
And if a democrat tells me it won’t pass bc of the filibuster – I’m gonna call them out on it too
That makes sense, if you don’t think about it
So if the Senate changes the bill you’re saying the House doesn’t revote?
If they do remote, which we all know they do, that’s where Pelosi comes in it goes back to the house, never said Pelosi was in Senate
The do nothing dems don’t care about getting anything done unless they benefit monetarily or with power
I think they have to send it back down to vote on changes
We’ve seen this procedure before lead to legislation passing. People are always going to disagree with one another. That’s the reality of living in the US. It’s a big country with many different views on things.
The fact that a bill has things the senate might not like isn’t some of death sentence…especially if you find a part of it you have common ground over
Changes to legislation before it’s finalized for all kinds of reasons is part of he process
I know you never said pelosi was in the senate, but you can’t blame her for what the senate does
It really should not be impasse just bc the bill that passed the house isn’t perfect. A lot of the time the house will take direction from the senate on changes
I’m not a fan of the filibuster, but when democrats say they can’t get something passed bc of the filibuster, that’s a cop out.
When republicans say they won’t pass something bc of other things in the bill, that is also a cop out
Those things are workable with better leadership IMO
I learn so much from you people…..there’s some smart mother fuckers on this blog.
But I really can’t stand the “left this, the liberal that” comments….I guess I should embrace you showing your true colors….carry on.
When people get too consumed with politics they put people into categories. If you vote this way you’re racist, homophobe, Nazi, fascist etc. If you vote the other way you’re a socialist, freeloader, America hater, soft on crime etc.
Most of us don’t belong in any of those categories. But the extremists who are having their own pissing matches control the dialogue and pit people against each other. That’s why it takes so long for common sense policies in this country.
Ken,
Israel has single access schools. We build places with lots of entrances so is that very viable? Why are banks not attacked more? Government offices? Police stations? Probably because nothing is as defenseless as a school with lots of children and entrances. Why do these cowards choose schools? Because they will have less viable resistance. Why can’t we protect them better as a starting point?
Handguns kill more people every year than any other weapon.
Illinois has strict gun laws and Chicago is the murder capital of the US.
Every citizen in Switzerland has access to a semi-auto rifle.
Guns are not the issue. People are.
1. I’m all for better background checks but the FBI misses stuff all the time.
2. I’m for mental health restrictions. FBI seems to miss that too. Must be focused on Trump and other things.
3. Raising the age of gun purchases? Sure, but did our grandparents murder each other when 12 yr olds could shoot guns and some kids brought them to school? No, because it’s not about guns.
4. No to red flag laws. Easily abused.
5. No to magazine limits. Just like with drugs, killers will find illegal weapons.
6. Straw purchasers? Go at them but can we start to punish criminals again? It’s incredibly hypocritical of our society to want to take away everyone’s rights but the criminals. Honestly, fuck that. Let’s go back to death penalty? For primarily murder but if you kill someone, you should be punished harshly. Forever. It shouldn’t be a mild issue. Let’s protect people that aren’t criminals again.
I watch a lot of criminal investigation shows based on real stories. Most of the time the perp had a record showing they were a bad seed. In prison then released, in prison again then released.
What’s going on with these young males with no criminal history that snap, not sure what to do there.
It’s crazy how many criminals are out with huge records. The chance a criminal will repeat bad behavior is is pretty close to 100%. So why do we let them back out? To harm more innocents?
I really don’t know about these kids but I think it’s their chance to be famous? I don’t know what is going on with youth today but they crave attention and fame like nothing else yet rarely put in the effort needed to get famous. My nephew wanted his own Youtube channel as a career choice a few years ago. Look at Instagram, TikTok, etc. It’s a sickness today. These people are narcissists. It’s sad and I hope they move on from their issues.
It’s one thing to be a fuck up, but to murder innocent people – children, in your own despair? Something is not right.
Yeah, that’s not despair in my opinion. It’s evil. I can’t really call it anything else. I think it’s beyond something in your mind not working right. It’s almost inhuman.
Evil is the right word.
Doing something IS better than doing nothing.
If the thing we do is imperfect, but it saves one child, one wife, one grandmother, it is worth it.
We can learn from the imperfect thing and make it better.
That’s the road to dictators and autocracy. You can’t save every child, every wife, every grandmother. You should be trying to save the majority not focusing on one person.
Did I miss a major development in the US?
Why do people keep talking about the death penalty?
Because it needs to be used more.
it’s still legal isn’t it?
As far as I know.
I’m very comfortable leaving it up to the states and then leaving it to judges to apply it
Honestly asking bc it’s like the 3rd time I’ve seen it mentioned lately and I thought there was some sort of proposal see where I didn’t know about
I’m comfortable with states having that choice as well. I haven’t heard anything lately and pro death penalty seems to be poorly regarded overall still. I’d like to change that though… 🙂
Naples,- To misquote Patton, perfection is the enemy of action. At the same time, doing the wrong thing is as bad as doing nothing.
What about doing the right thing because it’s the right thing? Limiting the opportunities for people to kill others should be a no brainer and not self-defense….don’t know why we haven’t taught/encouraged that behavior.
60 mass school shootings! I’m pretty sure I read that and it’s in a short period of time.
It’s fucking appalling!
Krishna says:
May 25, 2022 at 8:12 am
Straight up quoting mf13ss…..for some reason Republicans and conservatives were not included as ones who have issues or contribute to this issue.
Kerr made it clear what his thoughts were, too.
I just think that’s blind political prejudice. If you don’t, you don’t….it’s blind.
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Bro, nothing irritates me more than the intentional ignorance of the media. SERIOUSLY speaking, the predominant majority of mass shooters come from the ‘left’… even when it’s a white guy, yet they try to make the white guy look as though he’s from the ‘right’. And if the shooter is a POC, it automatically gets swept under the rug.
THAT SAID (I speak the truth), I shouldn’t have gone political with my comments. Biden had me SO FUCKED OFF after politicizing the shooting in his speech to the nation yesterday 😡 .
Two wrongs don’t make a right, and I bit at the low-hanging fruit. Why? Because like ALL OF US, I’m most upset about what occurred yesterday in Texas to innocent children. We’re ALL on the same page.
Sorry if I let ya down with my comments… I’m bloody frustrated as much as anyone. We need to unite instead of separating from one another with the political divide.
Here are some of my thoughts. I make no apologies for the size of the post, lol:
Comparing anything in Switzerland or Israel to the US just doesn’t work. They are both about 2% of the population of the US. Switz is 23 thousand times smaller and Israel is 44 thousand times smaller. A major factor in the issues we deal with is our size and makeup. We’re a monstrous republic with 50 different state voices and hundreds of millions of opinions across a vast land. When you’re a small land surrounded by enemies, like Israel, it’s a lot easier to come together and find solutions that are needed for your society, and a lot easier to enact whatever needs to be enacted.
Comparing what our grandparents did or didn’t do vs what we do or don’t do is antiquated. The technology, the societal pressures, the way we live, the makeup of our citizens and problems people deal with are entirely different, and just not comparable. It’s Maslow’s hierarchy. Our technology and the basic standard of living in America today creates a different set of problems for today’s youth vs the youth of 50 years ago.
In my mind we’re talking about two different problems. Naples touched on it. Talking about solving gun violence in inner cities is not the same as talking about solving mass shootings perpetrated by rural and suburban kids. They both need to be addressed, but again, different problems.
Ultimately, it’s always people that do everything. Dismissing any actions on guns and saying it’s the people is only addressing part of the issue IMO.
I’m not really talking about the handgun issue, because frankly, I have no idea how to even begin on that one, but the mass shootings to me seems like there are pretty simple actions we can take.
Going back to the shooting yesterday, the kid waited until his 18 birthday, obviously he didn’t have access to automatic weapons prior to that. If he had to wait until he was 24 or 25, does this happen? Ken pointed out earlier, in most mass shootings the guns were acquired legally. I know one of the arguments is “it’s so easy to get illegal guns”. Maybe getting illegal handguns is easy, maybe some people have easy access to illegal automatic weapons, but most suburban kids don’t have easy access to illegal automatic weapons.
It will always seem ludicrous to me that with our youth today that they can go out and purchase an arsenals at 18, but there are so many other things they can’t purchase or do at that age.
I know moving the age limit up for automatic weapons won’t solve the mass shootings problem entirely. Some of these happen because the kids get their parents weapons, some of these aren’t kids, etc. But isn’t it silly to look for just one solution?
People seem to want to shoot down every step towards resolution as not viable because they look at one piece of the puzzle and say “well, what about this? It doesn’t solve everything.” This problem will not be solved with a magic bullet. It will take many steps, with many angles to address, and not everything will work. The real problem within this problem is our own inertia because all people see are problems they want to argue about and threats to their freedoms, or people want to go to the ultimate extreme of just banning everything.
At some point, to deal with these events, we’re going to step on toes, some people are going to be unhappy or feel things are being taken from them, whether it’s the young man who has to wait a couple years for his automatic weapons, or the adult who has to have a waiting period before he can get his guns, or the person who’s mental health is in question that has to jump through hoops to prove they should be allowed to own guns, people are going to be unhappy. Doing nothing hasn’t gotten us anywhere and the problem isn’t going away.
Anyway, these are just some of my own thoughts, I know just because I think them it doesn’t make them true or make me right, lol. Yesterday, I compartmentalized my feelings on nearly 20 young kids getting killed in one of the most heinous ways possible, today I’m feeling it and this post was cathartic.
It’s all sad, man.
“and purchase an arsenals at 18”
Man, you killed your entire post with that spelling error right there… 😆
VERY thoughtful post, CavKong! I think most of us need to have a release from the agony of yesterday.
LOL, what I would give for an edit button…
Ohhhh, and if we really want to get technical, it’s a grammar error, not a spelling error, so 😛
lol
LOL!
You are correct! 😀
Kong,
Good post. I have no problem with increasing the access age. Sounds good. Let’s see if it helps. I sure hope so. I do have a problem with no one giving a damn or trying to find a solution for inner city violence. I also have a problem with let’s just get rid of high-powered rifles!! (not your argument I know).
I think it’s also an excuse to say we can’t compare different things. Since when? We compare us to Europe all the time when it’s convenient. Idiots compared Trump and Putin to Hitler, other leaders to Chamberlain. The US to Rome, Nazis to people they disagree with, etc, etc, etc to ad nauseam. Since 99.999% of humans aren’t super smart, comparison can be very valuable. What has worked before or works elsewhere? Why?
We lose about 600 people a year to gun violence in Chicago alone. Why aren’t we focused on this more? Show me where they have changed anything! Anything! Show me where this is a top discussion point anywhere. Anywhere! All life should have value but when we look at results, is it close to true? I hate this happened. I hope we start to look for real solutions including upping the age for guns. But, I don’t think restricting certain things while we ignore others will make solutions happen. Has it in Chicago? No. Are they asking to restrict guns for kids or for everyone? Let’s be real about this.
Cheers, New age.
In regards to comparisons. One of my answers to that is in your comment. “Idiots compared Trump and Putin to Hitler…” I agree, those people are idiots, lol.
I just don’t think you can compare small countries and their solutions to our country and our solutions. And I believe that across the board, not just one side of the argument.
I could say look at the UK, after their big school shooting in 1996, they enacted strict gun control policies and haven’t had a school shooting since. I don’t think you can compare that to us though and just enact strict gun control policies because we’re 4 thousand times larger than the UK with 5+ times the pop and that is just the beginning of the list of differences between us.
I’m not saying all comparisons are useless, just the two that you brought up with tiny countries and comparing what our grandparents did vs what kids do now. Our great, great grandparents got mail by horse and information took months to travel from place to place. How can you compare growing up in that time and what childhood looked like in that time to what kids today experience? You can’t, two different worlds. Well, I see it as the same thing with our grandparents and us in comparison to our kids. The internet and technology has changed that experience to such a degree they become to disparate to be comparable IMO.
Where you and I can come together in agreement is I don’t think restrictions solve anything on their own. It’s a multifaceted issue and what you say about people being the problem is definitely true. We have to look at mental health, better prevention, and honestly, I agree to an extent about making schools single access buildings, it’s just a huge undertaking.
I like what Phelon put out yesterday and think that is a good place to start in regards to the gun side of the issue. I also think the document Wyo put out from the secret service is a good step in attempting prevention. I just want us to start taking some of these steps instead of just talking about doing things and getting nothing done.
Anyway, I appreciate your response and want to say even though we may disagree on some positions, I hold you and your opinion in very high esteem. I think you often present salient points that are worth consideration and I don’t think I’ve ever seen you go low in a discussion which is rare (I struggle constantly not to go low) and I do my best to give you the same courtesy.
Cheers, bro.
Just to kind of continue with the grandparents vs today comparison. When I was growing up there was “The Anarchists Cookbook”. How many people here remember that book? Probably quite a few.
That was THE book to have to learn how to build anti-personnel devices, bombs, exploding pens, lol, stuff like that (it was mostly worthless and half the shit didn’t work). It was banned and hard to find, but I had a copy because I was a rebel, lol. It’s a stupid little book, but that was the kind of information I had available to me. Or throwing stars I could order in the back of a magazine.
Kids today have information at their fingertips that they just don’t have the experience and/ or capacity to process. And that is just the beginning. The entire American childhood social experience has changed. The internet has singlehandedly made the world very small while simultaneously creating more isolation.
My youngest just turned 21. We had like 12 years straight of teenagers starting when the oldest turned 13 in 2008. We’re just one family, but we saw this process happen in real time. It’s a trip. She’s 21 and I feel like the things she does now are the things I was doing around 15 or 16. The maturation process has stunted. I struggle understanding the things she deals with because it seems so foreign to me…now I’m just rambling, ok, I’m done, lol.
jahndont says:
May 25, 2022 at 3:01 pm
Note: I beg of everyone on this blog to read this post in its entirety. In return I’ll pledge to spare you from any more novel length posts for awhile. Its not mean spirited or divisive:
I want to say that I started my soliloquy yesterday w a quote from MF13.
He did not do this. He is not a criminal and my anger is not towards him. I told him to show up to the fest because I truly believe looking people in the eye creates bonds that faceless chatting can not. I want to make that connection with a guy I’ve chatted with for the better part of 2 decades…
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My man!!!
THANK YOU, SIR. It’s very kind of you to take a step back and reflect on what would have been construed as… not so good.
My reply to Krishna above goes to you as well, man. I should have handled that sit way better than I did yesterday. We’re ALL just feeling hopeless and decimated.
CHEERS!
We have a human and societal problem. Left/Right is all of us, no?
We have a corruption problem in all forms of govt across the country
Agreed.
Anyway, I came from work today and went directly to see my nephew (who lives with me) who is in the 4th grade. I gave him a great BIG hug and told him how much he meant to me. He knew what it was about, too. I damn near choked up, but I kept it together. We played in the yard until it was dinnertime. I love that kid, dammit. I would die for him.
Alright, mushy feelings out of the way…
ANYBODY SEE THIS MIKE FLORIA HIT-PIECE ON TUA TODAY? SMH
See your post above on media bs, it applies to sports media too
Steve, which post above in particular, man?
9:05
He can’t stop being a dick. LOL
How about let’s see the 2022 team instead of predictions.
Florio really does have an axe to grind; what a flippin jerk, smh.
“At first, I thought it was going to be something crazy, the ball going all over the place,”
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That is because he was used to Mahomes throwing it to him and slinging it all over the place.
Yeah, I’m not cool with PFT and their BS…
I would love to see a team of players support one another….
I don’t get what Florio was saying…lol
To be fair, I don’t think Florio gets what he’s saying, either. LOL
YOUNG STANGER: TO answer your question from a couple of days ago, the answer is NO, I will not be attending this year’s Fest. Last season I found myself thinking about my partner for life for many minutes while at the games. I concluded it just wasn’t fair either to her or to me to be at the games while she stayed at home suffering through her painful lower back injuries. I decided I’d watch the games in our living room WITH HER BY MY SIDE for as long as it takes for her to get better. Just recently she embarked on a new treatment program that emphasizes physical therapy over more surgeries. Her first three sessions are now complete. And she does feel a bit better.
I hope that the day comes when she can again COME WITH ME to a Dolphins home game. When that does occur, my smile will be even bigger than it usually is when we BEAT THE JETS!!
I have been blessed to see 55 years of Dolphin games. This includes the two seasons they won the Super Bowl. And I’ve been further blessed to know and meet so many of you on this blog. It’s been the thrill of a lifetime. And it is exceeded only by my love for my beautiful wife, Miss Penny!
HOPEFULLY, she and I will meet up with all of you at some future Fest in the not-so-distant future. To say we’re looking forward to it would be a huge understatement!!
Y’all have a great evening and a better tomorrow!!
Time to walk the Greyhound and hit the sack!!
We love all of you guys and gals!
The Old Dolfan is out.
Gonna miss you buddy. Hope to see you both soon.
Nice sweep by your Lightning ⚡️
Thanks, Son. The Lightning are still alive for an historic “3-Peat!”
Now, if we can just get our Dolphins to win a third championship, too!!
Sorry to hear that OD, but completely understand.
I’m starting to put it all together now. When Evan Silva (FKA: “Silly Boy”) was talking smack about our Phins back in ’12, he was working for… wait for it… Pro Football Talk (PFT).
Silva talked so much BS about our Phins that I just HAD to respond to his nonsense and constantly. He had a very heated rivalry with both Omar and — by my defending both our Phins and Omar — ME.
He got so bothered by the “Silly Boy” moniker I gave him, and many others started calling him “Silly Boy” as well (trendy!). He actually blocked my ass, being I’m the one who started it.
Interestingly enough, Silva went out of his way to ‘un-block’ me after he left PFT and let me know. As a result and being we’re clearly decent men, I promised him that I would NEVER refer to him as “Silly Boy” ever again… promise KEPT. He stopped intentionally trashing our Phins after he left PFT, but that had nothing to do with me.
There is SOMETHING or SOMEBODY over there at PFT (owned by NBC/Universal) that/who wants Steve Ross to fail… that’s the constant over the years since Ross took ownership.
Y’all realize I’m not the biggest fan of Steve Ross (he’s slowly growing on me, though!), but something isn’t right with the way he’s being treated by PFT/NBC/Universal.
MIND YOU… this has been going on for over a decade regarding PFT and our Phins. Nothing that Ross has done in-between (yes, lots of bone-headed BS!) has changed their song. There’s something larger that stems back over a decade.
I can’t believe the Blues stayed alive for one more game.
Stopped watching at 0-3
You did a lot better than me. I quit watching 2nd period game 4, lol.
MF13,
Appreciate the reply. Respectfully, I don’t think the President politicized it. I watched. Also he wasn’t mindlessly reading from a teleprompter. It was obvious to me, but thats just me. He’s the president of the USA. He MUST address it.
When Abbott had a press conference yesterday he also wasn’t politicizing it. He’s the Governor of Texas. He MUST address it.
When one party says another party does nothing to address it in a system prone to obstruction and gridlock its also not politicizing it. Legislators trying to legislate even in the face of gridlock. That’s called governing aka doing your job.
Lastly New Age, accepting less then perfect legislation is not a one way ticket to dictatorship. Naples was talking about doing something good vs doing nothing vs doing something perfect or not doing it all. Governing is tricky. Turns out there’s lots of people to please.
Confusing read:
Doing something good vs Doing nothing at all OR Not doing that good thing because it’s not a perfect thing.
I think that makes more sense? If I’m wrong Naples lmk.
I see social media posts about some politicians who are elected officials that should be in jail. It goes for both sides of the aisle.
Isn’t it sad that people feel that way about our elected officials and their appointees?
Who votes for them?
The money votes for them, they fall in line and the party takes care of them, by putting out ads with lie after lie and gets them elected
You could say it’s the voters fault for not doing their research, because the common American has no clue who these people really are and what they stand for
We feel that way, because they’re corrupt. The ones in office too long all have some type of kickback
Say what you want about Tyreek Hill. He has already brought leadership to this team talking up his teammates and not putting them down. We know he came here because he loves Florida and the money was there. But as a competitor he would have asked to go somewhere else if he thought Miami was a bad place to be for the rest of his career. All I’ve heard is Hill works full speed all the time. His stage is the NFL game day stage. There is no Cheetah without game day. He raises the level of everyone with his competition.
6 years in the NFL – 6 Pro Bowls and 3 time All-Pro. If you’re going to trade draft assets and pay someone big money why not this guy? The opposing defense has to game plan for him every game. Now Waddle gets secondary concern in his 2nd season. Good luck! 🙂
I’ve always said it’s ok to overpay, as long as you have an elite player
For example overpaying Tannehill won’t ever get you a ring, but overpaying for Russell Wilson gives you a chance, as long as you have cap space to field a team around him
Steve CCNV and Cav Kong; I, too,watched in stunned disbelief as the Blues completed the most incredible comeback I’VE EVER SEEN in a Stanley Cup Playoff game – – EVER!!! Can the Avalanche regain their composure?? – – Their credibility has sure taken a major hit!
They’ve imploded in this round the last 2 years, stranger things have happened, but I wouldn’t bet on it
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If 90% of a population want a certain outcome and elected officials are not able to deliver that outcome, then you have to ask is the system fit for purpose?
^^^^^ We need very short term limits.
YOUNG STANGER: I LEFT A MESSAGE for you at 10:22 PM up the page regarding my plans for the Fest. Thanks very much.
The Old Dolfan.
And I replied there….. you’ll be missed.
OD – You will be missed at the Fest sir! I completely get your decision though, makes total sense to me. Good man!
Kong – Nice post above at 9:14PM, despite the fact that it was a grammatical wreck! 😉
LOL 😛 (toothless)
YOU PEOPLE!?? Man I thought we weren’t allowed to use that trigger phrase.
Try using Uds (spanish)
OD, all the best to you and yours…I get it. There’s no one or no event more important than Miss Penny. My thoughts are with you both.
I don’t think anyone opened this up and read any of it.
It’s the Secret Service recommendations to “Stop” school attacks
Click to access USSS%20Averting%20Targeted%20School%20Violence.2021.03.pdf
It brings up solutions to the issue!
It also has some interesting stats!
MFS
Click to access USSS%20Averting%20Targeted%20School%20Violence.2021.03.pdf
Wyo….thank you….I appreciate the info and effort. I read through to the Key Findings and Implications of a 67 page document. Not much of course, but bottom line guy.
Still don’t get the availability and easy access. All the monitoring is great….now teachers need to be vigilant about crazies and still get paid shit.
I didn’t read the stats but the key points aren’t very applicable
They deal with the school identifying problem students
Some of these guys aren’t returning to their school
This guy way 18 and went to an elementary school
The school can’t identify that
Last line of the key points talks about unprecedented access to firearms.
The secret service isn’t going to propose changes of the law – they are going to work with what they have in terms of the law
Rockphin says:
May 26, 2022 at 8:01 am
YOU PEOPLE!?? Man I thought we weren’t allowed to use that trigger phrase.
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Well, with all the pronouns out there now, you can’t just say you guys/girls anymore. Ya gotta be able to say something. lol
Wyoming, I had scanned through it. Read many of the plots and was like “DAMN, these kids are fucked up in the head” and so close to carrying shit out. Even plotting for over a year or more.
I didn’t read it all, but I saved the link and will go back to it. Thanks!
Yeah, quite a challenge to read on a phone
Fansided Power Poll
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NFL power rankings for 2022, where do the Miami Dolphins land?
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Tua Tagovailoa #1 of the Miami Dolphins celebrates a first down at the 45-yard line. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)+
11. Miami Dolphins:
I know some Dolphins fans are excited to see the team so high, and some fans think I’m way over my head so let’s break it down. If Tua Tagovailoa can be a decent game manager (Jimmy G), then this team’s running schemes and weapons can carry a lot of the weight.
Any game manager in the NFL would do serious damage with Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle at WR, now if Tua takes the leap just think about the things this offense could do. I’m not asking for anything crazy either, Tua improving into a top 10 QB would make this team a serious contender.
The top 5 defense from the last 2 years is still there, and so is their defensive coordinator. After that, this team just depends on Mike McDaniel to execute.
Many people are still sketched out about McDaniel, at the very least he will be good on his side of the ball, offense. He’s already gotten the Dolphins to buy in, and he’s already had success calling plays in San Francisco.
Even if Tua and McDaniel both suck, this team shouldn’t fall below the top 18, that’s how much talent this roster has. It’s loaded. Achilles heel (for now) will be that right side of the line.
10. Arizona Cardinals:
This team for 2 years in a row has come close to ending the season strong but both years it ended in disappointment. The Deandre Hopkins injury set them back, and after Kyler Murray got hurt he wasn’t the same.
On paper, this roster is still loaded and they are deeper with weapons this year, the time is now for Kyler and the Cardinals to make a run because the NFC won’t stay this weak for long.
9. Cleveland Browns:
Nobody knows what’s going to happen with Deshaun Watson, but we all know the situation is dark. If he plays this team is ready to contend, excellent o-line, great weapons, an excellent run game, and a very strong defense, the only piece missing was the QB.
We’ll see how that unfolds, if he gets suspended this year then this ranking will change drastically. Since dolphins fans know the quality Jacoby Brissett brings to the field.
I can see the headlines now especially if Watson isn’t suspended, Dolphins with Watson would’ve been an SB contender with all of that talent
Sorry for long post, didn’t realize it copied entire page.
Buffalo was of course #1
We may have to take them out, or they may be a SB champ
So I’ve been reading along but not commenting on the issues of the day. I’m sharing this because it happened here yesterday. I’m totally fine with no charges being brought against the person who killed this asshole. I heard it was a female that took him down, shouldn’t matter but makes me proud!
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – Charleston police say a man has died after he was shot following an altercation about speeding through a neighborhood.
According to the release from the Charleston Police Department, Dennis Butler, 37, of Charleston was found around 10:45pm Wednesday with multiple gunshot wounds at an apartment complex on Renaissance Circle.
Officers say their investigation found that Butler was approached earlier Wednesday and confronted about speeding through the apartment complex while children were playing.
The report says Butler left the area, but returned a short time later with an AR 15 style rifle and started shooting at people attending a party.
Officers say a party goer drew a pistol, fired at Butler and fatally wounded him.
Charleston police say no one else was injured, and that several witnesses and the person who fired at Butler waited for police to arrive and cooperated with their investigation.
The Kanawha County Prosecutor’s office is investigating. At this point there are no charges filed.
What a maniac some one should be to start randomly shooting up a party bc people were mad that he was speeding through the neighborhood
And was a high school graduation party.
No respect for the rule of law. Watch the news, a movie or a video game, listen to some rap – violence is the answer to everything.
Once in a while only the right guy is taken out, but that doesn’t happen if the guy at the party, that shot him, wasn’t carrying
Karma
As a woman, why not be proud? As a man, why not be proud of that woman….it’s called strength.
What Tyreek is saying is that the media hype (Florio) was so negative about Tua that Tyreek thought he must be a bad passer. Then he says that when he actually got on the field with Tua and caught some of his passes, he found out the truth.
That’s sort of troubling too, because it suggests Hill didn’t have a clue about Tua or even thought he sucked, yet still chose Miami only for the money
Or Hill is so over the top confident in his skills it didn’t matter who the QB was
I also loved the Tyreek quote saying something like “yeah I run real fast and go real hard at practice. That’s just me. That’s the way I am.”
(He left out the part about that that’s what makes him so much more successful than other hyper fast guys who are “just track stars” in the NFL … you all know who I mean)
I’d much rather our players embellish Tua’s skills a little bit than whine like divas.
The former builds team spirit while the latter ignores the fact that everybody makes mistakes.
Will Tua misread or slip a throw? Sure. Has A-Rod ever thrown a pick?
Is there a WR with no career drops?
Tyreek had 6 drops in 2021.
He’s going to have drops, because he’s always trying to get YAC, sometimes it leads to taking your eye off of the ball, but I’ll take those drops as long as he continues to be so dangerous
YAC total yards is the real stat, this YAC avg is a bs stat, because it penalizes a receiver for contested catches where he’s tackled right away
yep … why I thought Parker was unnecessarily down-rated.
According to Mike Masala:
On Wednesday, the NFL and NFLPA agreed to changes to two key parts of roster construction – the practice squad and injured reserve.
Teams are allowed to roster 16 players on the practice squad, which is up from 14. They’re also permitted to keep up to six veterans on the practice squad.
On top of that, practice squad players are now allowed to be elevated three times to the active roster as opposed to the two times it could be done last season.
Last season, Sheldrick Redwine, Jamal Perry, Cameron Tom and Isaiah Ford all reached the two-game elevation limit, so in order for them to come up again, they would’ve had to have been signed to the active roster. Now, they get an extra opportunity before that’s the case.
They are finally getting smart about the practice squad. It always should have been a much more valuable tool for teams to draw on.
Not smart enough though, I hate that other teams can poach your PS players
It’s great for players that just want to be active on any team, but it could be used as more of a developmental squad
Take Skylar for example, we either have to put him on the 53bor risk losing him, that hurts the product on the field and takes a spot away from a more useful/deserving player
What is the change to IR?
Love the rule change, and it seems to be good for players and team
But could be better
Steve, true, but he did choose Tua over the adolescent New Jersey jester.
I think Tyreek knows football and knew of Tua’s skillset.
Tyreek went to WEST Alabama after all.
He was taking a side swipe shot at Mike Florio and other idiots who bash Tua for bogus reasons.
He may have chosen So FL, we’ll never know for sure
Masala on IR:
When it comes to injured reserve, the NFL had allowed an unlimited number of players to return after three weeks, but that has changed now as well. Only eight players are allowed to be placed on injured reserve in-season with a chance to return. If they want to return, they’ll have to wait four weeks instead of three.
In 2021, the Dolphins put 13 players on injured reserve in-season. Six returned to action.
This change may force teams to keep players with less serious injuries on the roster but still inactive if they can’t go, instead of putting them on injured reserve, allowing the player to get the rest and using their roster spot for another player that could impact a game or get valuable experience.
It seems like this rule is moving closer back to pre-COVID NFL days when teams could only return two players from injured reserve, and they’d have to wait eight weeks to return. That would be a mistake.
Cheers
Inching closer, but still much like during covid, 8 is a lot comparatively
Teams should be able to play with their IR guys more like other sports, why set a limit?
I prefer my Masala on a plate! 😉🤣
Leadership…it goes a long way. I think McDaniel and this crew might finally have it. He fucking impresses me.
I sure hope he keeps it up. No Koolaid yet!
I think they can still protect some PS players from poaching but not all.
a COVID era rule
Would be news to me, but don’t think they can
Ouch!
… each Tuesday, teams can designate four players as protected, so they can’t be placed on another team’s active roster from that day until kickoff. Teams can still poach on Mondays, though.
… … in 2021
for example
“nine quarterbacks were protected this week: Steven Montez (Lions), Kurt Benkert (Packers), Brett Rypien (Broncos), Matt Barkley (Titans), Trace McSorley (Ravens), Brett Hundley (Colts), Nick Mullens (Browns), Reid Sinnett (Dolphins) and Josh Johnson (Jets).”
… …
These quotes are from ESPN
Ahh man.
RIP Ray Liotta
He was awesome. Couldn’t have been that old.
from Cincyjungle.com
also for 2021
Can they change teams?
Practice squad players are eligible to sign with other NFL teams, but only if they are signed to the 53-man roster. There are no practice squad-to-practice squad moves allowed.
How much do practice squad players get paid?
Not a whole lot compared to their teammates on the active roster. For those with no more than two accrued seasons, their weekly salaries this year will be $9,200, non-guaranteed.
As for the potential six players with more experience, their minimum salary is a bit higher at $14,000. Both figures are expected to progressively increase during the life of the current CBA.
If any practice squad player gets elevated to the active roster for a week, they will receive a proration of the NFL’s minimum salary for a player of his number of accrued seasons. The minimum salary for a rookie this year is $660,000, so if a rookie is on the active roster for a week, he will receive a check worth $36,667.