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I love the cognitive dissonance at play when somebody says the scientists are all lying in the relentless pursuit of money
assume you have no more than a high school scientific foundation (me) and really don't care that much about the global warming debate (me) because ya figure it's all coming to an end sometime  and it might as well be sooner rather than later #nolivesmatter
so anyways....working from that viewpoint...which scenario is more likely 
scenario 1) lots of different people who study climate science have purposely created a fictional narrative about how human behavior is heating the planet to catastrophic levels, they are motivated to do this for the following reasons
A - to make themselves and their careers very important 
B - to get more government funding for their lavish lifestyles
C - as part of a leftist plot to overthrow big corporations and create a new world order communist government
 
scenario 2) it appears that the release of CO2 is killing the planet, people who have made their fortunes, or currently make a living the in the oil/gas/fracking/refining industry can plainly see that if this is  true, than the government might step in and promote the use of energy sources that could very well cost millions of jobs and completely destroy the economy of the place they live. In response to this..it is much easier to find articles that support that position you really want to hear anyway, which is that the earth is doing just fine, nothing to see here, carry on as usual. 
I hold no ill will against anybody for believing in the first scenario..heck it might be true..i just doesn't sound very plausible to me...i know that if my livelihood depended on the oil industry...i'd be much happier believing in that then admitting to myself that i'm contributing to a major problem...
really though who cares.....I read while back that in order to reverse the affects of GW we'd have to immediately revert to the energy expenditure of a nation like kenya......that ain't happening...if the damage is done it's done..I say bring on the mad max post apocalyptic world already

So help me to understand this mentality if you don't mind.
How exactly do you feel that your complaining from the stands is helping the team, coaches, or program? 
You do realize that the coaches can't hear you right? and if they could it is unlikely they would make changes based on your suggestions....so what is your goal here? 
Let's say that you go to a movie, and I'm sitting next to you, and I start hollering about how the movie is all wrong, the lighting is off...the lines are weak, the acting is bad etc. and you look over at me and ask me to shut up...so I come back with "I paid my 7 bucks so I can say whatever I want, I've been watching movies for 30 years and I know all about them, when I see something wrong I'm calling it out, and if you don't like it then you can move"
would that be acceptable behavior in your mind? of course not...so why is it any different at the football game? 
I can only think of two reasons why you and guys like you carry on the way you do
1) therapy- you use criticizing coaches as a release from the stresses of day to day life...I get that, it feels good to able to let people have it sometimes
2) attention - for some reason you really want the people around you to think you are a guru of football, like maybe you'll get some respect or maybe some more dates if people know you as the resident football expert of row 15
either way...it sure seems shallow to me that you regularly tear down a group of hard working and long suffering people in front of their friends and families to make yourself feel good or to get people to look at you

So help me to understand this mentality if you don't mind.
How exactly do you feel that your complaining from the stands is helping the team, coaches, or program? 
You do realize that the coaches can't hear you right? and if they could it is unlikely they would make changes based on your suggestions....so what is your goal here? 
Let's say that you go to a movie, and I'm sitting next to you, and I start hollering about how the movie is all wrong, the lighting is off...the lines are weak, the acting is bad etc. and you look over at me and ask me to shut up...so I come back with "I paid my 7 bucks so I can say whatever I want, I've been watching movies for 30 years and I know all about them, when I see something wrong I'm calling it out, and if you don't like it then you can move"
would that be acceptable behavior in your mind? of course not...so why is it any different at the football game? 
I can only think of two reasons why you and guys like you carry on the way you do
1) therapy- you use criticizing coaches as a release from the stresses of day to day life...I get that, it feels good to able to let people have it sometimes
2) attention - for some reason you really want the people around you to think you are a guru of football, like maybe you'll get some respect or maybe some more dates if people know you as the resident football expert of row 15
either way...it sure seems shallow to me that you regularly tear down a group of hard working and long suffering people in front of their friends and families to make yourself feel good or to get people to look at you

So help me to understand this mentality if you don't mind.
How exactly do you feel that your complaining from the stands is helping the team, coaches, or program? 
You do realize that the coaches can't hear you right? and if they could it is unlikely they would make changes based on your suggestions....so what is your goal here? 
Let's say that you go to a movie, and I'm sitting next to you, and I start hollering about how the movie is all wrong, the lighting is off...the lines are weak, the acting is bad etc. and you look over at me and ask me to shut up...so I come back with "I paid my 7 bucks so I can say whatever I want, I've been watching movies for 30 years and I know all about them, when I see something wrong I'm calling it out, and if you don't like it then you can move"
would that be acceptable behavior in your mind? of course not...so why is it any different at the football game? 
I can only think of two reasons why you and guys like you carry on the way you do
1) therapy- you use criticizing coaches as a release from the stresses of day to day life...I get that, it feels good to able to let people have it sometimes
2) attention - for some reason you really want the people around you to think you are a guru of football, like maybe you'll get some respect or maybe some more dates if people know you as the resident football expert of row 15
either way...it sure seems shallow to me that you regularly tear down a group of hard working and long suffering people in front of their friends and families to make yourself feel good or to get people to look at you

I don't get how we can say there is no "human linkage"...you aren't asking for realistic, logical conclusions, you have put yourself into a position where no amount of reasoning will change your mind, like a juror in a murder case who won't convict on a mountain of evidence because they have seen too much NCIS and they want some dang DNA 
here's what is known: 
CO2 traps heat in the atmosphere
humans release a lot of CO2 by burning fossil fuels
since humans starting releasing a lot of CO2 into the air...earth has gotten hotter
do you really need more than that? 
If I stop on the scale and weigh in at 180 lbs...then I go grab a 20 pound dumbbell and get back on the scale, now my weight is 200lbs......does it makes sense for me to say "We can't just blame the extra weight on the dumbbell! it was probably natural phenomenon! My weight has been fluctuating my whole life...I just happened to go up at the same time as I grabbed that dumbbell and got back on the scale, the dumbbell weighs nothing..I heard about a dude over in Alaska who grabbed the dumbbell and got lighter!..so that means there is no dumbbell problem...we must never blame the dumbbell!!!!!
look I hate the government with a purple passion.......and I get that politicians are probably eaten up over how using global warming as an excuse they can demand more powers from the people...I hate the thought of it honestly...but the two things don't have to go together...just because this is a serious world wide issue doesn't mean that we need the government to fix it...if anything they would definitely make it worse

I love the cognitive dissonance at play when somebody says the scientists are all lying in the relentless pursuit of money
assume you have no more than a high school scientific foundation (me) and really don't care that much about the global warming debate (me) because ya figure it's all coming to an end sometime  and it might as well be sooner rather than later #nolivesmatter
so anyways....working from that viewpoint...which scenario is more likely 
scenario 1) lots of different people who study climate science have purposely created a fictional narrative about how human behavior is heating the planet to catastrophic levels, they are motivated to do this for the following reasons
A - to make themselves and their careers very important 
B - to get more government funding for their lavish lifestyles
C - as part of a leftist plot to overthrow big corporations and create a new world order communist government
 
scenario 2) it appears that the release of CO2 is killing the planet, people who have made their fortunes, or currently make a living the in the oil/gas/fracking/refining industry can plainly see that if this is  true, than the government might step in and promote the use of energy sources that could very well cost millions of jobs and completely destroy the economy of the place they live. In response to this..it is much easier to find articles that support that position you really want to hear anyway, which is that the earth is doing just fine, nothing to see here, carry on as usual. 
I hold no ill will against anybody for believing in the first scenario..heck it might be true..i just doesn't sound very plausible to me...i know that if my livelihood depended on the oil industry...i'd be much happier believing in that then admitting to myself that i'm contributing to a major problem...
really though who cares.....I read while back that in order to reverse the affects of GW we'd have to immediately revert to the energy expenditure of a nation like kenya......that ain't happening...if the damage is done it's done..I say bring on the mad max post apocalyptic world already

I love the cognitive dissonance at play when somebody says the scientists are all lying in the relentless pursuit of money
assume you have no more than a high school scientific foundation (me) and really don't care that much about the global warming debate (me) because ya figure it's all coming to an end sometime  and it might as well be sooner rather than later #nolivesmatter
so anyways....working from that viewpoint...which scenario is more likely 
scenario 1) lots of different people who study climate science have purposely created a fictional narrative about how human behavior is heating the planet to catastrophic levels, they are motivated to do this for the following reasons
A - to make themselves and their careers very important 
B - to get more government funding for their lavish lifestyles
C - as part of a leftist plot to overthrow big corporations and create a new world order communist government
 
scenario 2) it appears that the release of CO2 is killing the planet, people who have made their fortunes, or currently make a living the in the oil/gas/fracking/refining industry can plainly see that if this is  true, than the government might step in and promote the use of energy sources that could very well cost millions of jobs and completely destroy the economy of the place they live. In response to this..it is much easier to find articles that support that position you really want to hear anyway, which is that the earth is doing just fine, nothing to see here, carry on as usual. 
I hold no ill will against anybody for believing in the first scenario..heck it might be true..i just doesn't sound very plausible to me...i know that if my livelihood depended on the oil industry...i'd be much happier believing in that then admitting to myself that i'm contributing to a major problem...
really though who cares.....I read while back that in order to reverse the affects of GW we'd have to immediately revert to the energy expenditure of a nation like kenya......that ain't happening...if the damage is done it's done..I say bring on the mad max post apocalyptic world already

I'm with Jesse Ventura
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Don't they really feel like men when they go home to their families? "Where you been dear?" "Oh, I been out looting and rioting." Did you make any money?" "No, but I got us a big screen tv and set a couple cop cars on fire." "That's my man."

seriously X family live free for 500years Y family lives under captivity for 350 130 sort of free 70years as free as X family. What family would you bet on to be more further ahead.
This is no less true for poor white kids living in those trailers over in kenefick than it is for poor black kids in any other town...poverty and getting out of poverty is a problem all by itself, it doesn't belong to a certain skin color. I honestly thing that racial tension is a convenient way for the powerful to divide the rest of us. If it weren't for racial tensions, we might look around and decide that the real thing "holding us down" are government regulations that stifle opportunities and draconian drug laws that serve only to put poor people in prisons and fix nothing, but instead of working class people uniting, marching and slinging batteries at deluded and corrupt government officials, we're too busy arguing at each other about a the protest of some football player
forget all the black/white statistics.....I'd be willing to bet that 99.999999% of the people who get beat up or shot by police are living at or below the poverty line, nobody in a gated community driving a lexus causes cops to "fear for their lives"
 

Word I got is they did the spring game in the middle of the day without pads so as to lower the amount of parents screaming at the coaching staff, it has apparently always been an issue but a few select "fans" are getting out of hand with it, coach would just as soon get his work in without having his players have to hear him and his staff be questioned every few minutes

I like it when they say a team "has that killer instinct"...I have no idea what that means. I mean I know what the people who say it think it means, but it doesn't make any sense. If a team loses a lot of close games, they don't have that killer instinct...I mean do we really think that the team stops playing hard late in the game? Or is is more likely that they are good enough to play with other teams but not necessarily good enough to beat them, or maybe just have had a run of bad luck late in games
my other favorite is a coach that "can't win the big game" .....seems to me that every game is pretty big, especially in district..but a guy loses in the 3rd round and people go all "he can't win the big game"....it's pretty easy to just wait until a team loses and then go "see....see...that was the BIG GAME and he couldn't win it".......pretty much everybody who doesn't win the whole thing can't win the BIG GAME

I like it when they say a team "has that killer instinct"...I have no idea what that means. I mean I know what the people who say it think it means, but it doesn't make any sense. If a team loses a lot of close games, they don't have that killer instinct...I mean do we really think that the team stops playing hard late in the game? Or is is more likely that they are good enough to play with other teams but not necessarily good enough to beat them, or maybe just have had a run of bad luck late in games
my other favorite is a coach that "can't win the big game" .....seems to me that every game is pretty big, especially in district..but a guy loses in the 3rd round and people go all "he can't win the big game"....it's pretty easy to just wait until a team loses and then go "see....see...that was the BIG GAME and he couldn't win it".......pretty much everybody who doesn't win the whole thing can't win the BIG GAME

I can't speak for what may or may not ever happen ever, so no...just raising the point that we should probably question information which comes from a site that so obviously panders to the fears of the far-right of Limbaugh crowd with little regard for actual facts. 
Pedophiles? It's definitely a mental issue, what else could explain it? (other than a red guy with a pointy tail who lives in a bad place) OOOOOH YOU SAY THAT ITS OKAY TO BE GAY BUT HOW IS THAT DIFFERENT IF SOMEBODY IS A PEDO OOOH GOT YOU OOH
It's not the same thing, pedophiles destroy the lives of children who have the ability to consent, there are victims.....the only victims of homosexual set between adults are the butt hurt conservatives who are really just upset that they don't get to join in 

I do not think God wants his people to sit by silently and watch their society and government embrace cultures that conflict with his will.
By the same token, I don’t think he wants us condemning sin or sinners without first sharing His love.
What Christians know about Christianity means very little without knowing Gods will which comes from a personal relationship with him. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Why is it an emotional topic?
For the record..I really don't support the federal government telling businesses that they have to serve anybody, in my mind the market should sort that out all by itself, I mean is it really THAT hard to find cake decorator that is willing to do a gay marriage? Seems to me that cake decorators probably aren't normally the most conservative group anyway, I can see how it seems frustrating for the religious especially, to feel like your deeply help beliefs are being trampled on and there's nothing you can do, but I still think the outrage is a little much. I mean nobody is telling anybody that they can't be christian, go to church, raise their kids like they want etc, so why is the advancement of LGTB rights so offensive? I don't necessarily mean this issue about bathrooms by itself, but the whole thing, gay marriage, openly gay kids in schools etc. etc. 
What is is about the whole thing that you find some offensive? I'm not trying to make fun, i'm trying to understand

alright alright..i'll stop poking
I am sorry, in trying to be light-hearted it appears I gave offense. I meant no disrespect to small college athletics. I do think that my comments on BISD football in general are correct though. These teams are never going to start having the success they want until kids and parents stop looking for outside forces to blame and start focusing on being the best teammates, players, and supporters that they can be.

Isn't the bible thumpers whole point that there is a "war on christianity" and they are being unfairly persecuted by the evil liberal media cultural machine?
who exactly is claiming victimhood? 

I'm not taking shots at anybody, just assuming since a few of you guys were so quick to defend d3 sports that you must have a connection somehow, otherwise how would be be so imminently knowledgeable on the topic
 
and yes..everybody for Central is a great player, the problem is coaching, for the last 30 years across 3 schools after countless coaching changes, no Beaumont schools have been able to find the right guy, yeah that's probably it. Cuz we all know that the players are always showing up to practice and making it to summer workouts and that they are all D-1 or D-3 (same thing) talents if they would just be coached right. I mean look at lil' roger, his dad was in the marching band and his mom quit basketball in 7th grade but he's a by gawd stud and if they don't win it's on the coaches. 

Very sad, sounds like the worst was avoided. Still, surprised this doesn't happen more often, most districts use coaches, not professional bus drivers, to take kids to athletic events. Bus drivers, although much more experienced and qualified, demand hourly pay, coaches are free. It wasn't uncommon for my cousin when he coached that he had to teach all day, then have a practice, then have to drive a team for a bus trip that might be hours away, then work the game, then drive all the way back in the dark after working an 18-20 hour day. But Hey ya   know we gotta cut costs, somebody has to pay for the superintendents four secretaries 

Very sad, sounds like the worst was avoided. Still, surprised this doesn't happen more often, most districts use coaches, not professional bus drivers, to take kids to athletic events. Bus drivers, although much more experienced and qualified, demand hourly pay, coaches are free. It wasn't uncommon for my cousin when he coached that he had to teach all day, then have a practice, then have to drive a team for a bus trip that might be hours away, then work the game, then drive all the way back in the dark after working an 18-20 hour day. But Hey ya   know we gotta cut costs, somebody has to pay for the superintendents four secretaries 

Forgive my poor writing, I wasn't trying to make a personal attack on the integrity of anybody. Maybe I'm way off, certainly not for the first time, but it seems to me that many of my friends and neighbors would definitely support laws against criticism of christianity if they were ever to surface in a realistic way (oh the horror of reading my facebook feed if such a thing were ever actually in the national discourse). The original post used the term "thought-crime" an idea which is sadly becoming the norm on the authoritarian left, but let's not forget that the single biggest persecutor of thought-crime throughout human history has undoubtedly been organized religion. 

Forgive my poor writing, I wasn't trying to make a personal attack on the integrity of anybody. Maybe I'm way off, certainly not for the first time, but it seems to me that many of my friends and neighbors would definitely support laws against criticism of christianity if they were ever to surface in a realistic way (oh the horror of reading my facebook feed if such a thing were ever actually in the national discourse). The original post used the term "thought-crime" an idea which is sadly becoming the norm on the authoritarian left, but let's not forget that the single biggest persecutor of thought-crime throughout human history has undoubtedly been organized religion. 

Bloomberg is no better than Trump, remember he's the guy whose big platform in NY was making sodas smaller and outlawing smoking pretty much everywhere, he's another who thinks the government should protect people from themselves

I'm with libertarians on about 10.5 of them