As a kid, it was the California Academy of Science. I think I've been there several dozen times. As an adult, it is either the American History museum (compact, precious, well presented) or the British Museum (see the world conveniently pillaged to a single spot).
Smithsonian. I feel like I would've liked The Hermitage in St. Peterburg better if I hadn't just been to the British the week before. I did run into a woman who worked in the same office building as I did at the snack bar.
impossible to say. I have enjoyed many, and seem to enjoy the various aspects of the Smithsonian more than others. That said, I have only scratched the surface there (on trip every 20 yrs on average, doesn't do much.
The Crocker in Sacto has some very nice paintings, and some weird shit. and it's close enough to do a couple hours here and there and actually look at stuff.
We loved the Rodin Museum, but the Musee D'Orsay was my favorite. Beautiful building, pretty well laid out, great view of the Seine and there were some great exhibits when we visited.
The d'Orsay is great, as is the Museé du quai Branly, which features the indigenous art of all the continents not named Europe. Paris is a museum goldmine, not even counting the Louvre.
Pergamon Museum on Museum Island in Berlin was pretty cool with the reconstructed buildings in Babylon. I usually aren't wowed by museums but that was pretty cool.
Otherwise, I'd say maybe the Blackhawk Auto Museum and the Petersen Auto Museum in LA.
Oh...Totally forgot about the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio. And for children's museums the one in Indy is the best I've ever seen.
I really enjoyed Pergamon when I was there 1.5 years ago, despite the main Pergamon altar being under renovation (so I definitely need to return to Berlin at some point, in addition to the long list of other stuff that I couldn't fit into 3 days of sight-seeing). Similar to the British Museum, there are always talks about what should possibly be returned to the present countries where the item had been taken from.
I also really like the USAF museum in Dayton but would definitely have the Smithsonian Air and Space at Udvar-Hazy Center (the one near Dulles rather than at the Mall) over it (real space shuttle over a model one tips the scale for me). The plane that dropped the first nuclear bomb (Enola Gay at Udvar-Hazy) is also more culturally significant than the one that dropped the second nuclear bomb (Bock's Car at Dayton). Dayton does have all the past Air Force Ones though.
When you walk into Udvar Hazy, it's pretty impressive to immediately see an SR-17 and then shift your focus to take in a space shuttle.
I was there once in the observation tower where they play the control tower radio over speakers - there was the sound of "urgent warnings" and it turned out that a Lufthansa 777 had decided to go onto a runway as a Saudi Air 747 was coming on final approach. Turns out 747s are surprisingly quick to change course!
oh yeah I did forget about the Air and Space Museum. That's up with the USAF museum. I haven't been to the Udvar-Hazy center. Once I flew out of Dulles but I didn't want to rush it. Hopefully one of these days I'll be back and can enjoy it.
I really, really regret not getting a guide to show me around the Egyptian Museum. I think I did the audiotape tour and it focused on such a small percent of the museum. That place was like the Louvre of dead guys... it's so big and expansive that you're gonna break at some point and can't focus anymore.
It's a leisurely, multi-day project, I have way more stamina than most people for this, even so, it helps to A) focus on certain periods only, B) have a nice lunch there, with an alcoholic beverage (just one) I think a total of 4 hours viewing is the max for most mortals. And take your time, linger at what really interests you, don't try to see everything, even within a focus.
After watching Lupin (the new French series on Netflix), I almost want to be a janitor at the Louvre for a week to take in the art works at night when it's not crowded. Even as someone who like being in crowds, I could barely stand the crowd at the Louvre (I also felt the need to see the Mona Lisa again, for the first time in 20 years) after the Leonardo exhibit 1.5 years ago).
By comparison, I got the Netherlands museum card which granted me unlimited access to most museums and was staying near it, I really enjoyed my 2nd and 3rd visits (one early morning, on right before they close) to the Rijksmuseum because it was not crowded (and I was only looking at a few key things).
this is one reason why it's hard for me to rave about any one museum - because we take short "sampler pack" vacations, I have dipped into the Louvre and the British Museum and the V&A and so on, they were great (if packed) but I couldn't say I got a developed opinion. I think that's why my positive impressions are either places I've been repeatedly as a result of living in DC, or smaller more focused museums like the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. (The Paris Sewer museum was small and also pretty interesting, but we zipped through that to avoid a riot when the kids realized that we were actually standing _in_ the sewer system over flowing effluent.)
Seconded on the Prado, best power to weight ratio of the major museums I've been to; smaller museums can be nice as well, fond of the Freer in DC and the Rodin in Paris.
If it's churro con chocolate, I will have that at the top of the three foods. Nap is kind of a wildcard here, but I guess I'll almost always go for the sugar high.
Most of the time I end up feeling tired after a nap. The only nap I really enjoy is on a plane, usually because I didn't sleep much the night before - so the coffee / immediate nap on the plane is both refreshing and helps with not having to pass the time.
Yeah, I think the best naps for me have been the ones in some uncomfortable situations - like just in a cubicle at the library, out on the grass under a tree, in my office when my officemates are gone. The ones that I take while working from home in the past year, in my usual bed and sometimes for too long, have not been as refreshing as those.
pain au chocolat, black forest cake, a nap, don't like churros. Does anyone recall pain au chocolat on Northside? Went out of business a number of years ago.
UBC's team has also gotten older in recent years due to the semi-pro teams that they play for the rest of their schedule. This was why Cal has kind of downgraded this rivalry and why they have sent the reserve team up to Vancouver for the last two years that the matches were played.
But just score the swimmers only and not give Texas their diving edge (which has made the difference in the team national title 2-3 occasions, all in Texas' favor of coourse, in the past decade).
The basement. I need to get some storage shelves to help organize stuff. It's one of those "I'll wait until it's miserable outside and I don't leave the house all weekend" chores
I just saw a picture of the place that Biden stopped for bagels on his way home from church yesterday morning. I went by there in the late morning near the end of my run but didn't see any sign of him. Probably didn't miss him by much. I've never had anything from there but there is often a bunch of people and cars waiting outside for their order. Biden's now been out more than Trump was in his entire four years.
I'm saying it here and now...Rogers moves to the 49ers for 2021/22 Season!
Considering he's getting close to the end of his career and reports are that he's not entirely happy in Green Bay; And, that the 49ers are in need of a QB, it's not as far-fetched as it once was.
Grant Cohn’s been talking Stafford for past 2 mos...I initially was anti-Stafford, however I’ve warmed to the idea a twitch and would love to see him in Shanahan offense.
Kyle’s enormous ego would not mesh with Aaron’s similarly monstrous one...
I think there will be some teams taking a hard look at their QBs. Heh...Derek Carr? I wonder if someone like Lamar Jackson will be available if the Ravens don't think he's the long term solution. He'll want a lot of money for his next contract and I'm not convinced he can lead a team to the SB. Deshaun Watson?
In the 90s they got Plummer, Doug Brien, Andre Carter, Iheanyi Uwaezuoke, Jeremy Newberry (plus poaching Mariucci as head coach). But yeah, since then it's been a bit dry.
Such a weird story: I mean, not weird that Trump was all in on the coup, but who he found as a co-conspirator.
"WASHINGTON — It was New Year’s Eve, but the Justice Department’s top leaders had little to celebrate as they discussed Jeffrey Clark, the acting head of the civil division, who had repeatedly pushed them to help President Donald J. Trump undo his electoral loss.
Huddled in the department’s headquarters, they noted that they had rebuked him for secretly meeting with Mr. Trump, even as the department had rebuffed the president’s outlandish requests for court filings and special counsels, according to six people with knowledge of the meeting. No official would host a news conference to say that federal fraud investigations cast the results in doubt, they told him. No one would send a letter making such claims to Georgia lawmakers.
When the meeting ended not long before midnight, Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen hoped that the matter was settled, never suspecting that his subordinate would secretly discuss the plan for the letter with Mr. Trump, and very nearly take Mr. Rosen’s job, as part of a plot with the president to wield the department’s power to try to alter the Georgia election outcome."
So I've been closely monitoring QAnon ever since the near start in 2017 (Hillary has already been arrested!) was the QDrop. So lately - maybe within the last two months, they've adopted a TON of Sovereign Citizen beliefs. The big one is that Grant was the last "real" US President and then the US had to incorporate as the United States of America Corporation to the City of London to pay off our civil war debts - and when Trump returns and is inaugurated as the president he will be the 19th (20th?) president on March 4th (which was the old inauguration date.
The offshoot of this is that the post civil war amendments are not part of the constitution - including ending slavery and women's voting and a whole host of other things. QAnon is now an ur-consirpiracy whereas it was once "Trump has a secret force to arrest pedophiles in the government"
One of many things that I'm confused about is where they stand on Pedophiles. Are they just saying that to disparage their enemies and the higher-ups in the cult know the "truth"? A return to the 19th century also includes going back to a time when women are married off quite young and/or groomed in similar ways that pedophiles now would prepare their victims.
their stance on pedophiles is that they're against them, but in a general sort of way, not in any way that takes children out of danger. I mean when they worship Trump as the God Emperor of the Universe, and he hangs out with Epstein, you know . . . consistency isn't their strong point.
I know this is a formulation that too many people use, but I'm going to do it anyway: if you buy into Reconstruction "status quo ante," or the tools that the former slave states used to blunt Reconstruction, you really shouldn't have a place in US government. You can think it all you like but you can't be near the levers of power. One cranky old man's opinion.
Some of my very liberal friends are upset about this, but as I understand it this just returns discretion to the counties and what tier they fall into. This doesn't mean everything is open again automatically.
Hoping we can resume our sailing schedule in February with our COVID measures in place (reduced capacity, masks, must stay outside on deck and hand washing/sanitizing stations). We've been on pause since Dec. 1st, but are hopeful we can re-open with this being lifted.
Was anyone really following this? I’ve seen so many restaurants and other business down here in San Diego that are open with people inside and outside eating or shopping. It seems like everyone has given up on the stay at home order.
True and the only reason I can think of is that LA has about 3 million more people, lower income population, more manual/essential worker type jobs that require people to go into work, toxic individualism?
At least in the Bay Area those that tried to stay open were fined. I know there was at least 1 on Danville, I think, that publicized that they were going to stay open and got fined.
So they just stepped up a bunch of procedures that haven't been in place since like August - temp checks at my office building, mask wearing went up from like 50% to 90% just on visibility on my commute to the office. My gym now requires you to show a green health code, as do shopping malls. If you leave Shanghai for Chinese New Year, which the government is actively discouraging, you will need a negative covid test to come back.
The reason? we have 9 (now 11) new cases in the span of a week. If you're wondering how covid is going here.
Some of those throws Brady made were incredible. The game had an inevitability that Brady would win and go to the Super Bowl, starting with that ridiculous 24-yard completion, the Bucs' ability to score 2 TDs off turnovers (including that near-Hail Mary), and Green Bay's inability to do anything with Brady's three interceptions.
That TD at the end of the half was a killer. I mean what was that CB thinking? Almost was like the cover 0 the Jets did at the end of the Raiders game.
I just don't understand how a professional defense gives that up. If the receiver has to make an acrobatic catch over the defender, fine, I get that. But a guy being WIDE open when the one thing you can't do is get beaten deep, I don't get it.
Tony Dungy thought this play call was even worse than the Raiders one, because at least the Raiders were blitzing (so in theory the plan is to get to the QB before he can throw it deep). The Packers didn't even do that.
WTF would you kick a FG? Two things have to go right for Rodgers to tie it on 4th and goal, but a million things have to go right if you give the ball back to your opponent with so little time left.
He would not have scored but it might have changed the 4th down decision. Then again, Rodgers went for a TD pass rather than just throwing the ball away.
I'm also confused by the Packers' decisions at the end of the first half. They did not call a timeout and promptly took a sack on the play before the not-called-penalty/INT.
That was a very frustrating game to watch as an Aaron Rodgers fan.
I think he MAY have scored, as the LB was following Lazard on the play & cleared the middle, but it definitely would’ve set up a manageable 4th & short.
The FG was just a bad idea. The greatest QB of all-time is going to get a 1st down to ice it...hell, he got 2.
LaFleur is an idiot that wins bc of Rodgers...and they’re trying to run him out of town. Lame.
LaFleur should be fired for that decision. I really dislike LaFleur. He also made a poor decision going for 2 early in the game. Take the PAT and don’t go chasing points.
Also, that first round pick on a QB looks even worse now, the GB defense could have really used an extra defender with that pick.
I didn't get that either. You need to score a TD either way.
It was also a little fishy that jersey pulls were not called for pass interference all game, but then on the last drive when Brady needs to clinch it they call one.
Yeah, that was one of the most scared and pathetic decisions I’ve seen a playoff coach make. You have to go for the TD in that spot. Also, don’t chase points early.
We finally had a cold morning yesterday. It was only in the mid-20s when I started my run. At some point I crossed paths with a guy wearing a gray Cal sweatshirt. I gave him a "Go Bears" and could see the smile under his mask.
Keith Heyward publicly said his goodbyes to Oregon today... expect announcement at Cal soon. Trading DeRuyter for Heyward on the coaching works for me. Should be a significant bump in recruiting skills
What is your favorite museum?
As a kid, it was the California Academy of Science. I think I've been there several dozen times. As an adult, it is either the American History museum (compact, precious, well presented) or the British Museum (see the world conveniently pillaged to a single spot).
Smithsonian. I feel like I would've liked The Hermitage in St. Peterburg better if I hadn't just been to the British the week before. I did run into a woman who worked in the same office building as I did at the snack bar.
impossible to say. I have enjoyed many, and seem to enjoy the various aspects of the Smithsonian more than others. That said, I have only scratched the surface there (on trip every 20 yrs on average, doesn't do much.
The Crocker in Sacto has some very nice paintings, and some weird shit. and it's close enough to do a couple hours here and there and actually look at stuff.
Rodin Museum in Paris.
We loved the Rodin Museum, but the Musee D'Orsay was my favorite. Beautiful building, pretty well laid out, great view of the Seine and there were some great exhibits when we visited.
The d'Orsay is great, as is the Museé du quai Branly, which features the indigenous art of all the continents not named Europe. Paris is a museum goldmine, not even counting the Louvre.
We did that one as well on a whim, such a cool surprise.
artist specific, definitely the Chagall museum in Nice
Pergamon Museum on Museum Island in Berlin was pretty cool with the reconstructed buildings in Babylon. I usually aren't wowed by museums but that was pretty cool.
Otherwise, I'd say maybe the Blackhawk Auto Museum and the Petersen Auto Museum in LA.
Oh...Totally forgot about the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio. And for children's museums the one in Indy is the best I've ever seen.
I really enjoyed Pergamon when I was there 1.5 years ago, despite the main Pergamon altar being under renovation (so I definitely need to return to Berlin at some point, in addition to the long list of other stuff that I couldn't fit into 3 days of sight-seeing). Similar to the British Museum, there are always talks about what should possibly be returned to the present countries where the item had been taken from.
I also really like the USAF museum in Dayton but would definitely have the Smithsonian Air and Space at Udvar-Hazy Center (the one near Dulles rather than at the Mall) over it (real space shuttle over a model one tips the scale for me). The plane that dropped the first nuclear bomb (Enola Gay at Udvar-Hazy) is also more culturally significant than the one that dropped the second nuclear bomb (Bock's Car at Dayton). Dayton does have all the past Air Force Ones though.
When you walk into Udvar Hazy, it's pretty impressive to immediately see an SR-17 and then shift your focus to take in a space shuttle.
I was there once in the observation tower where they play the control tower radio over speakers - there was the sound of "urgent warnings" and it turned out that a Lufthansa 777 had decided to go onto a runway as a Saudi Air 747 was coming on final approach. Turns out 747s are surprisingly quick to change course!
Heh, you sound a bit like Gen. "Buck" Turgidson
oh yeah I did forget about the Air and Space Museum. That's up with the USAF museum. I haven't been to the Udvar-Hazy center. Once I flew out of Dulles but I didn't want to rush it. Hopefully one of these days I'll be back and can enjoy it.
Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
British Museum, Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
I really, really regret not getting a guide to show me around the Egyptian Museum. I think I did the audiotape tour and it focused on such a small percent of the museum. That place was like the Louvre of dead guys... it's so big and expansive that you're gonna break at some point and can't focus anymore.
the way my wife puts it about the Louvre is that "your eyes get worn out." There's only so much you can take it for sure.
It's a leisurely, multi-day project, I have way more stamina than most people for this, even so, it helps to A) focus on certain periods only, B) have a nice lunch there, with an alcoholic beverage (just one) I think a total of 4 hours viewing is the max for most mortals. And take your time, linger at what really interests you, don't try to see everything, even within a focus.
After watching Lupin (the new French series on Netflix), I almost want to be a janitor at the Louvre for a week to take in the art works at night when it's not crowded. Even as someone who like being in crowds, I could barely stand the crowd at the Louvre (I also felt the need to see the Mona Lisa again, for the first time in 20 years) after the Leonardo exhibit 1.5 years ago).
By comparison, I got the Netherlands museum card which granted me unlimited access to most museums and was staying near it, I really enjoyed my 2nd and 3rd visits (one early morning, on right before they close) to the Rijksmuseum because it was not crowded (and I was only looking at a few key things).
also, much as I like to stan for anything Dutch, there's just less to take in at the Rijksmuseum as well
I just watched two episodes yesterday of Lupin!
Same approach is necessary for The Getty (not Getty Villa) in LA. One or two buildings max per day.
this is one reason why it's hard for me to rave about any one museum - because we take short "sampler pack" vacations, I have dipped into the Louvre and the British Museum and the V&A and so on, they were great (if packed) but I couldn't say I got a developed opinion. I think that's why my positive impressions are either places I've been repeatedly as a result of living in DC, or smaller more focused museums like the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. (The Paris Sewer museum was small and also pretty interesting, but we zipped through that to avoid a riot when the kids realized that we were actually standing _in_ the sewer system over flowing effluent.)
Exploratorium is pretty fantastic. such a different and novel experience. i grew up going to the old one at the Palace of Fine Arts.
the Prado - has the most ridiculous collection of Goya and Velasquez. i was unprepared for how amazing it would be.
Seconded on the Prado, best power to weight ratio of the major museums I've been to; smaller museums can be nice as well, fond of the Freer in DC and the Rodin in Paris.
Rank 'em: pain au chocolat, churro, black forest cake, a nap
If it's churro con chocolate, I will have that at the top of the three foods. Nap is kind of a wildcard here, but I guess I'll almost always go for the sugar high.
Churro con chocolate
Black Forest Cake
Pan au chocolat
Churro without chocolate
Nap
Most of the time I end up feeling tired after a nap. The only nap I really enjoy is on a plane, usually because I didn't sleep much the night before - so the coffee / immediate nap on the plane is both refreshing and helps with not having to pass the time.
Yeah, I think the best naps for me have been the ones in some uncomfortable situations - like just in a cubicle at the library, out on the grass under a tree, in my office when my officemates are gone. The ones that I take while working from home in the past year, in my usual bed and sometimes for too long, have not been as refreshing as those.
bfc, churro, pain au chocolat, nap
I didn't actually answer this; I'd take all of these, thanks.
I'm having a pain au chocolat as we speak! My brother and his girlfriend went to Tartine, and I benefited.
Yum
churro
pain au chocolat
nap
black forest cake
1. Pain au chocolat
2. Nap (I really love naps)
3. Churro
...
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99. Black forest cake
correct answer
pain au chocolat, black forest cake, a nap, don't like churros. Does anyone recall pain au chocolat on Northside? Went out of business a number of years ago.
I like your presentation but it's hard to go wrong with any of them (except a nap, that's for emergencies only)
black forest cake by a lot.
For whatever reason and sport, which out-of-conference team do you see as Cal rival?
Rugby: UBC, now and forever. Those colleges that get 23 year-olds to come to their physical therapy schools don't count.
UBC's team has also gotten older in recent years due to the semi-pro teams that they play for the rest of their schedule. This was why Cal has kind of downgraded this rivalry and why they have sent the reserve team up to Vancouver for the last two years that the matches were played.
But do pseudoscience pyramid scheme schools count?
As long as Stanford (sic) remains accredited, I'm afraid so.
Ummm...Life University with all the guys from New Zealand doing the Haka?
I'm curious if anyone on this DBD finds your username to be a personal attack...but then again, no real names :D
Could also be someone who takes it as a personal compliment if being well-adjusted or domesticated is their thing
True!
Swimming: Texas
But just score the swimmers only and not give Texas their diving edge (which has made the difference in the team national title 2-3 occasions, all in Texas' favor of coourse, in the past decade).
SDSU seems to always have our number, plus the in state and CSU v. UC ties seem to fit
San Diego "Stinkin'" State - Dave Barr
As both a Cal and SDSU fan, I can tell you SDSU views Arizona and UCLA much more as rivals than Cal.
St Mary's basketball in the battle to court Australians?
What's something that could use a little cleaning this week?
The basement. I need to get some storage shelves to help organize stuff. It's one of those "I'll wait until it's miserable outside and I don't leave the house all weekend" chores
My entire condo.
The White House and the Capitol
Whole house, got the kitchen done and floors done today. Will work on the rest on Wednesday. Painting a bedroom and bathroom Tu/Th this week too.
My car.
200!
Remember the days when we used to count up to 1000?
Or 2,000? Insane! But a lot of that was dumb slap fights. Not all, by any means.
I hear it just snowed in LA
I think it was The Weather Channel that had some pictures of snow in Malibu.
I just saw a picture of the place that Biden stopped for bagels on his way home from church yesterday morning. I went by there in the late morning near the end of my run but didn't see any sign of him. Probably didn't miss him by much. I've never had anything from there but there is often a bunch of people and cars waiting outside for their order. Biden's now been out more than Trump was in his entire four years.
Trump only went to Trump places when he was in DC.
Yeah, I think he went to the steakhouse at his hotel and his golf course and that's it.
I'm saying it here and now...Rogers moves to the 49ers for 2021/22 Season!
Considering he's getting close to the end of his career and reports are that he's not entirely happy in Green Bay; And, that the 49ers are in need of a QB, it's not as far-fetched as it once was.
#GoBears!
It would bring me partially into the 9ers fold for at least a year.
Rodgers on the Niners would be the dream scenario.
Shanahan ego way too big
Plenty of irony there since the 49ers could have taken him as their first round pick, back in the day.
Yup, though who knows how he would have developed in the Nolan/Singletary mess.
True, maybe it was good for his career.
I'm sure he would have been better than Alex Smith because, well, he's better than Alex Smith. But he might not have even one Super Bowl by now.
I hope not, because I'm not rooting for the 9ers. I did hear possibly Stafford.
I hope not, Stafford? Hard pass.
Grant Cohn’s been talking Stafford for past 2 mos...I initially was anti-Stafford, however I’ve warmed to the idea a twitch and would love to see him in Shanahan offense.
Kyle’s enormous ego would not mesh with Aaron’s similarly monstrous one...
I think there will be some teams taking a hard look at their QBs. Heh...Derek Carr? I wonder if someone like Lamar Jackson will be available if the Ravens don't think he's the long term solution. He'll want a lot of money for his next contract and I'm not convinced he can lead a team to the SB. Deshaun Watson?
The Niners have almost never had any Cal players since Gary Plummer, many moons ago. Treggs was on the practice squad for a moment.
In the 90s they got Plummer, Doug Brien, Andre Carter, Iheanyi Uwaezuoke, Jeremy Newberry (plus poaching Mariucci as head coach). But yeah, since then it's been a bit dry.
Like I said many moons ago...
Our hopefully recovering democracy (although I still am having doubts)
Sen. Portman (R-OH) announces he will retire & will not run for reelection in 2022.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/portman-senate-republicans/2021/01/25/d329d28c-5f2a-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html
This opens up the seat for Jim Jordan, which makes me want to puke.
Or the Democrats
Sarah Huckabee Sanders running for AR governor.
https://twitter.com/SarahHuckabee/status/1353674788099780609
"A leader with the courage to do what's right - not what's politically correct" eyeroll.gif
And I noticed that after trying to go by Sarah Sanders for a while, she's all-in on riding the Huckabee coattails again.
I could a respectable path if she announces that she left the Trump administration for a particular reason, something to do with having courage.
Such a weird story: I mean, not weird that Trump was all in on the coup, but who he found as a co-conspirator.
"WASHINGTON — It was New Year’s Eve, but the Justice Department’s top leaders had little to celebrate as they discussed Jeffrey Clark, the acting head of the civil division, who had repeatedly pushed them to help President Donald J. Trump undo his electoral loss.
Huddled in the department’s headquarters, they noted that they had rebuked him for secretly meeting with Mr. Trump, even as the department had rebuffed the president’s outlandish requests for court filings and special counsels, according to six people with knowledge of the meeting. No official would host a news conference to say that federal fraud investigations cast the results in doubt, they told him. No one would send a letter making such claims to Georgia lawmakers.
When the meeting ended not long before midnight, Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen hoped that the matter was settled, never suspecting that his subordinate would secretly discuss the plan for the letter with Mr. Trump, and very nearly take Mr. Rosen’s job, as part of a plot with the president to wield the department’s power to try to alter the Georgia election outcome."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/politics/jeffrey-clark-trump-election.html
Well, Sydney Powell was a former federal prosecutor wasn't she? It's almost as if there are people working for the government who are dangerous.
A “deep state” of you will?
So I've been closely monitoring QAnon ever since the near start in 2017 (Hillary has already been arrested!) was the QDrop. So lately - maybe within the last two months, they've adopted a TON of Sovereign Citizen beliefs. The big one is that Grant was the last "real" US President and then the US had to incorporate as the United States of America Corporation to the City of London to pay off our civil war debts - and when Trump returns and is inaugurated as the president he will be the 19th (20th?) president on March 4th (which was the old inauguration date.
The offshoot of this is that the post civil war amendments are not part of the constitution - including ending slavery and women's voting and a whole host of other things. QAnon is now an ur-consirpiracy whereas it was once "Trump has a secret force to arrest pedophiles in the government"
One of many things that I'm confused about is where they stand on Pedophiles. Are they just saying that to disparage their enemies and the higher-ups in the cult know the "truth"? A return to the 19th century also includes going back to a time when women are married off quite young and/or groomed in similar ways that pedophiles now would prepare their victims.
their stance on pedophiles is that they're against them, but in a general sort of way, not in any way that takes children out of danger. I mean when they worship Trump as the God Emperor of the Universe, and he hangs out with Epstein, you know . . . consistency isn't their strong point.
It's sounding like one of those doomsday cults that keeps pushing back the date every time the predicted apocalypse doesn't occur.
Oh but it seems so much more, it seems to be a catch all for every conspiracy in the last 5 years. It’s basically a choose your own conspiracy cult.
they should just go straight for the punch bowl
I know this is a formulation that too many people use, but I'm going to do it anyway: if you buy into Reconstruction "status quo ante," or the tools that the former slave states used to blunt Reconstruction, you really shouldn't have a place in US government. You can think it all you like but you can't be near the levers of power. One cranky old man's opinion.
Take that Marjorie!
Today in Covid-19
Newsom lifts stay-at-home order statewide:
https://abc7.com/society/watch-today-california-lifts-regional-stay-at-home-order-statewide/9997141/
Some of my very liberal friends are upset about this, but as I understand it this just returns discretion to the counties and what tier they fall into. This doesn't mean everything is open again automatically.
Hoping we can resume our sailing schedule in February with our COVID measures in place (reduced capacity, masks, must stay outside on deck and hand washing/sanitizing stations). We've been on pause since Dec. 1st, but are hopeful we can re-open with this being lifted.
Was anyone really following this? I’ve seen so many restaurants and other business down here in San Diego that are open with people inside and outside eating or shopping. It seems like everyone has given up on the stay at home order.
There's a reason the numbers for NorCal are a lot better than the southlands.
Because fewer people live in Northern California and it is more rural.
Just Bay Area alone has done better than L.A.
True and the only reason I can think of is that LA has about 3 million more people, lower income population, more manual/essential worker type jobs that require people to go into work, toxic individualism?
At least in the Bay Area those that tried to stay open were fined. I know there was at least 1 on Danville, I think, that publicized that they were going to stay open and got fined.
I am not sure what San Diego is doing in terms of enforcement and fines. I would hope they are giving out fines.
So they just stepped up a bunch of procedures that haven't been in place since like August - temp checks at my office building, mask wearing went up from like 50% to 90% just on visibility on my commute to the office. My gym now requires you to show a green health code, as do shopping malls. If you leave Shanghai for Chinese New Year, which the government is actively discouraging, you will need a negative covid test to come back.
The reason? we have 9 (now 11) new cases in the span of a week. If you're wondering how covid is going here.
Other college
The way-too-early Top 25.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30669807/the-2021-way-too-early-college-football-top-25
Cal is not on the list.
USC #9, Oregon #13, UW #14. Those all seem at least 10 spots too high.
bc there is no reason for Cal to be on this list
After 1-3? No surprise there.
Exactly. UW at 14 is def 10 spots too high.
Pro
Lampard sacked
https://twitter.com/ChelseaFC/status/1353665331731066887
so just saying that the team needs the right mind set wasn't enough to save his job? Fancy that.
Sad day for Aaron Rodgers
Some of those throws Brady made were incredible. The game had an inevitability that Brady would win and go to the Super Bowl, starting with that ridiculous 24-yard completion, the Bucs' ability to score 2 TDs off turnovers (including that near-Hail Mary), and Green Bay's inability to do anything with Brady's three interceptions.
That TD at the end of the half was a killer. I mean what was that CB thinking? Almost was like the cover 0 the Jets did at the end of the Raiders game.
I just don't understand how a professional defense gives that up. If the receiver has to make an acrobatic catch over the defender, fine, I get that. But a guy being WIDE open when the one thing you can't do is get beaten deep, I don't get it.
Tony Dungy thought this play call was even worse than the Raiders one, because at least the Raiders were blitzing (so in theory the plan is to get to the QB before he can throw it deep). The Packers didn't even do that.
https://twitter.com/TonyDungy/status/1353459750218788864
The TD right before halftime reminded me of the end of the Jets/Raiders game.
The "No coverage" scheme?
I thought it was “thoughts and prayers” coverage scheme.
WTF would you kick a FG? Two things have to go right for Rodgers to tie it on 4th and goal, but a million things have to go right if you give the ball back to your opponent with so little time left.
Why didn't AR run for it? I wonder if he was less mobile than usual.
He would not have scored but it might have changed the 4th down decision. Then again, Rodgers went for a TD pass rather than just throwing the ball away.
I'm also confused by the Packers' decisions at the end of the first half. They did not call a timeout and promptly took a sack on the play before the not-called-penalty/INT.
That was a very frustrating game to watch as an Aaron Rodgers fan.
I don’t think he would have scored.
GB and AR was rather bad inside the 10 yard line. They had two scoring opportunities inside the 10 and Rodgers was 0-6.
I think he MAY have scored, as the LB was following Lazard on the play & cleared the middle, but it definitely would’ve set up a manageable 4th & short.
The FG was just a bad idea. The greatest QB of all-time is going to get a 1st down to ice it...hell, he got 2.
LaFleur is an idiot that wins bc of Rodgers...and they’re trying to run him out of town. Lame.
LaFleur should be fired for that decision. I really dislike LaFleur. He also made a poor decision going for 2 early in the game. Take the PAT and don’t go chasing points.
Also, that first round pick on a QB looks even worse now, the GB defense could have really used an extra defender with that pick.
There was a LOT of space open to the right side. He had a decent shot at making it.
Probably a better choice than throwing across his body to a guy with two defenders on him.
You don't take the ball out of the hands of your best player and kick a meaningless field goal. Derp.
I didn't get that either. You need to score a TD either way.
It was also a little fishy that jersey pulls were not called for pass interference all game, but then on the last drive when Brady needs to clinch it they call one.
Yes, that was rather fishy.
No joke, that was absurd.
Yeah, that was one of the most scared and pathetic decisions I’ve seen a playoff coach make. You have to go for the TD in that spot. Also, don’t chase points early.
saw a tweet yesterday that called Green Bay the Notre Dame of the NFL
Ouch, that's unfair.
Green Bay hasn't killed any student video staff for a start
but fairly accurate. How many NFC championship games has Rodgers played in? 5-6? and how many rings? 1
If the ND comparison was right, they would have been blown out 35-3; it was a tight game.
If it was ND-like they would've been put in the NFC championship game instead of having to win to get there.
but in how many of those did they exceed expectations just to get to the championship game?
Brady has as many NFC championships as Rodgers and Brews combined.
I believe in most of them they were the #2 seed. I don’t think they exceeded expectations when they went to the NFC championship game.
Cal
First day of FB strength training. And, the first day with new S&C Coach Brian Johnson
https://twitter.com/CalRecruiting/status/1353808499080220673
Go Bears!
I was wearing my Cal baseball cap at home. I got a "Go Bears!" from my wife because she knows that I miss receiving them in the wild.
my wife nor kids ever say go bears. i have to say it to myself ...
GO BEARS, HSB!
We finally had a cold morning yesterday. It was only in the mid-20s when I started my run. At some point I crossed paths with a guy wearing a gray Cal sweatshirt. I gave him a "Go Bears" and could see the smile under his mask.
Keith Heyward publicly said his goodbyes to Oregon today... expect announcement at Cal soon. Trading DeRuyter for Heyward on the coaching works for me. Should be a significant bump in recruiting skills
Considering budget restrictions, getting Heyward is a huge coup. He and Wilcox must have been really tight in order to pull this off.
https://twitter.com/CoachHeyward/status/1353797135087529985
Oh, and I think we have a troll on the FP
The what now?
goldenbear88?
Steve W? I think, I know we have a fair number of doom-and gloom fans, but his negative comments don't come across as authentic to the Cal experience.
it's rather pointless engaging front page commenters.
I don't, not my job.
for solid commenting and good back and forth, the Rivals board does a great job.
Hope so. Making lemonade out of lemons.
Cardwell decision coming today
247 Crystal ball: everyone including Huffman & Biggins saying Oregon
So you’re saying we have a chance?!?!
get your afraid to compete memes ready
...aaannnnddddd he's headed to Oregon
AT struck out on every RB recruit this cycle
yeah, not impressed so far with that dude
It’s hard to sale offensive recruits with our Toyota Corolla offense.