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Unfortunately, the world is full of idiots, and Trump is one of them.

Colorado governor cuts Tina Peters’ prison sentence in half, will release her on parole June 1


Why do dems lack the spine to stand up to Trump? Peters should rot in jail.

If he's got jokes, he should work on his timing, delivery and quality of material.
Other heads of state use humor, but I can't recall a single one of them joking about annexing another sovereign state as a punch line.

A good comic knows to "read the room." In his case, "the room" just happens to be the entire world.
Not very smart to drop a joke on a room of 8.7 billion people that only 40-60 million will laugh at.

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Or you just have a website that prepares people before their visits and let them download maps. Nobody said anything about removing positive displays, but you. Reading is fun(damental.)

Nope, not desperate. Just have opinions.

Distrust and paranoia are two different things. I get that subtle distinctions aren't really for you. Your changing what people say to better fit your narrative does nothing to make me trust more.

Just because you miss the point of something doesn't mean things are pointless. Hypotheticals are by nature "not real." They're designed to make you think, but again, I get that thinking isn't really for you either.

What? Those "buildings" also have information centers, park maps and restrooms located there. They have warnings to tourists about safety and caution to be used while in the parks and when interacting with wild animals. There has always been "positive displays at parks" and nobody has removed them or suggested removing them. You have really gotten desperate haven't you?

Using your self admitted extreme paranoia about everyone and everything is not sound grounds for pointless rambling in which you keep inventing things that simply aren't real. Just like pretending they wouldn't need visitor centers if they didn't sell trinkets.

Yes, I want less spending. Yes, I'm not a big mass produced knickknack guy. I'm more about experiences than stuff. If you don't sell the stuff, you don't need the building, utilities, or employees. Also, the tourists that are buying all the stuff, in my experience, tend to be the ones that do a horrible job cleaning up after themselves and disturb things they aren't supposed to.

So removing Confederate history is fine, but somehow wanting positive displays at parks is horrible? Your narrative changes based on who is doing it, so yes, I call it agenda driven. Personally, I think parks could do without the displays and let the nature speak for itself. Save on maintenance and less disruption of the natural.

Again that's just my preference and not some huge referendum on what either party has done.

I distrust everyone/everything equally.

The Giants will surprise me because I have no idea what to expect. Nabers and Scattebo are both coming off injury. Wan'dale Robinson is on the Titans now. Not sure how good Nagy is away from Andy Reid at OC. Bloomgren (Our OL coach last year) is there now. They added Ricard and Likely from Baltimore, but we'll see how they are used. Will be interesting to see how it all comes together, or not.

I kind of think the Titans could potentially be better than projected. Added some interesting pieces on O (Robinson, Tate) and have some talented guys that could be poised for year two leaps (Ward, Dike, Helm.) Daboll did pretty well with young Josh Allen.

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." - Mike Tyson

Who says the Jags are going to be bad? Are we expecting bad-Trevor-Lawrence season? Texans could go back to being really good if Stroud can figure out his TO issues. Similarly, Mike McCarthy will follow his usual cadence of having 2 really good seasons and then settle into 9-8/8-9 seasons after that. The one I'm curious about is the Ravens... that HC hire could go either way and they have a decently talented roster and a good QB.
I agree, Giants could surprise.

SOS is based on the last years records of teams.

It is of anecdotal information.

The NFCN has 4 good teams that took out the AFCN last year. Hence the AFCN win percentage was lower.

This year the AFCN plays the NFCS which had 4 teams tied at 8-9 and the saints at 6-11.

It is not that hard to figure out why the Browns have an easier schedule on paper this year.

Why would anyone, much less myself put thought into a manufactured falsehood? That's a pretty lame narrative.




Allow me to explain to you what a "lame narrative" sounds like. When a man has been displaying an obvious pattern over a long period of time showing a propensity to do something and when someone points that fact out to you, you try and dismiss it and belittle it as a "lame narrative". You're welcome.


That is how they were. Visitors centers have been around for decades. Promoting people visit our national parks has been happening for decades. WTH are you talking about?


So let's see if I have this correct. You want less government spending. Yet at the same time you oppose selling "knick knacks" at visitor centers which raises a lot of money for the park service which means they need less money from the government?

And "agenda driven narratives"? Is that what you call telling the entire history of a region where a national park is located? Let me explain what that really means. What that means is people simply want to remove the part of a regions history they want to hide and don't like. This allows them to selectively show what they like and erase what they don't like. That's the very definition of an "agenda driven narrative".

I’m sure we have a solid plan for this season! There are too many unknowns right now and it’s going to take a while to get some solid answers as to how things will play out. New OL, new WR’s new HC and staff not to mention our yearly quandary at QB. If I had to guess how many games we will win I would say 6-8 but it’s almost impossible to predict. Here’s hoping for the best and our young players to develop.

I agree. Want to win this series; I would welcome a little extra rest if we win tonight. For. The. Land! Go,Gavs!

The initial post was about budget cuts. Someone that works for an organization (the person that wrote the linked article) that is getting its budget cut has personal financial considerations.

I didn't say it was irreversible. People are arguing that designations should be. I disagree with that. Existing roads and sites are/were/will be no longer accessible. It's not all past history. Some had active practices (religious significance) from the locals. No longer being able to drive to sites deeper in the area makes them essentially impossible to get to in anything resembling a reasonable time frame. The Trump did it because it was Obama's is a lame narrative, and keeps taking us further from the initial post that was on budget cuts, work force reduction, and changing displays.

Where exactly is the reason "they did this" written out? Not some biased op ed or your made up opinion.

You haven't shown anything that shows the harm Trump is doing in this instance. Saying something "may very well be harmed" isn't evidence, it's conjecture and speculation.

Are only you supposed to be allowed to make up hypothetical harm?
I'd argue that promoting tourism is as likely to cause damage as leaving things as they were.

The history of federal mismanagement of national parks is its own separate issue.

Look I'm for preserving nature. I'm not a big fan of agenda driven narratives and selling knickknacks.

Personally, I'm weird and find the whole idea of owning land that the "owner" hasn't actually walked distasteful. Yes, claiming things is what governments do, but I don't have to like it.

Only idiots elect a man that says stupid nonsensical things on a consistent basis. These countries have no idea if trump is being serious or not if you look at his track record.

He is the same person that said if you elected the democrats they would start a war in the middle east but not if you elected him because he was a president of peace. He even pointed out that he didn't start any wars in his first term to back up what he was saying.

I suppose only idiots thought he was being serious then too?

That's been the standard line every time this fool says something stupid. Which is almost daily. "He was just joking." He wasn't being serious."

And you people keep repeating that BS. Right up until he actually tries to do it.

Increasing protections on land already owned and controlled by the federal government has no "financial gain" involved. And unless you think the National Park Service has some kind of slush fund that their employees are taking for themselves I have no idea what kind of financial gain you think there is in that department.

If it was just reversed how can you call it irreversible? The only thing you've been able to maintain in all of this has been made up possibilities and scenarios. Even after showing you that nobodies property was taken and nobody had to be relocated now you pivot in yet another direction. This harmed no one and only served to help forther protect land owned by the federal government. But since Obama did it, Trump had to undo it.

Or is that an obvious pattern you have missed in all of this? and since you're always searching for the truth, why don't you look at least far enough into the topic to see the reasoning of why they did this?

And it's quite odd that you raised a false flag about people having their property taken by eminent domain, which never happened, you then take issue with me asking if we should wait until irreversible harm is done to take actions to prevent it?

Here's the issue. You haven't actually presented anything the actions of Obama did to harm anything. You haven't shown anything to show it hurts the land or harmed any people. But there is certainly a chance that if protections are taken away from our federal lands and cuts made to our national parks things may very well be harmed.

It's as if you have just made things up as you've gone along that hold no substance.

Sounds like a plan

I sure hope that the Cavs can close the deal tonight.

It would be hard to win a seventh game in Detroit.

That's correct, except it is now 3 games, to get them to 17 total AND the opponents are determined in advance, not the schedules.

Now it is:
6 division games, 3 home and 3 away

8 non-division games from a rotating schedule of one division within each conference, this year it is AFC South and NFC South, (2) Home and (2) away from each division.

3 games, 2 from AFC and 1 from NFC, in our case, from a division different from the (2) above. So, for the AFC North in 2026, the AFC games will be the ranked opponents like your team in AFC West and AFC East. The last opponent will be ranked the same from any of the NFC East/West/North. Ranking in the division determines the opponent pool to choose from for the schedulers. These are the only (3) opponents undetermined at the end of the previous season. There is a rotating year over year from this tier that determines (2) home OR (2) away, one year you will have 8 home games, then next you will have 9 home games.

Our National Parks are geologic treasures.

Men of foresight recognized that. There was no political agenda.

These are natural wonders that should be available for all to see and enjoy. They must be protected from commercialization.

We are in a war that is costing billions.

As of May 2026, the Department of Defense (now called the Department of War) has asked Congress for a massive expansion in defense spending, totaling a $1.5 trillion, 44% increase in overall defense spending for Fiscal Year 2027, following a $1 trillion topline in FY2026.

The National Parks budget is roughly $3.5 billion, national parks generate an estimated $55 billion in economic impact, with visitors spending nearly $29 billion in surrounding communities in 2024.

trump is attacking a profitable resource that pays for itself and only requires what it needs to remain profitable.

As of May 2026, the U.S. national debt is approaching $39 trillion, with annual interest payments projected to exceed $1 trillion ($1.039 trillion) in fiscal year 2026. The Treasury is currently paying roughly $3 billion per day to service this debt.

trump is a business man?

Obviously.

I think 2 road games to start the season and then coming home to 2 teams that made the playoffs last year will be a fairly tough start to the season. The new Oline needs to gel quickly and hopefully Garrett and the defense gets off to a fast start.

I am a week to week guy.

I have no idea how the Browns will play right now. We don't know who will start at quarterback.

Once we have played three games or so you kind of get a sense of what we have.

The NFL is tight. The teams are close. Most of the games are close.

This. And you never know who will start fast or slow. Who will get injuries. Too many variables to read much into the tealeaves ... just prepare for each game one at a time. If we can get to 8-9 or 9-8 this year I will be surprised and happy.

Schedules are determined years in advance except for two games which are played against teams with similar records. One from the AFC, one from the NFC.

I agree that you can't get much out of strength of schedule. You can never tell from year to year how well a team is going to play.