It stands for “Daily Bear Dump”. It’s wear subscribers can spout off about anything they want.
So if you’re new to WFC or were generally silent on CGB - don’t be shy. Anything on your mind, so long as it is civil - or at least more civil than anything Twist would say.
"Lee Grosscup, who became a gregarious and beloved radio broadcaster for Cal football after starring at quarterback for the University of Utah and a brief career in professional ball, died Monday. Grosscup was 83.
His association at Cal began in 1986 as analyst for play-by-play man Joe Starkey. Grosscup’s role diminished in recent years, and he did his final work on Cal’s postgame show after the 2018 Cheez-It Bowl.
"It's been a wonderful time," Grosscup said at the time. "I'll miss it. It's a good way for me to go out.”
Grosscup still contributed to pregame segments this past fall.
Starkey, Cal's long-time radio voice, was emotional Monday afternoon while talking about his friend. The two first worked together as broadcast partners for the Oakland Invaders in 1983.
“I hope I can get through this because I’m a wreck,” Starkey said. “We were really close. On the Cal road trips, we would always go in a day early and play golf. We were close friends from the start to the finish.”"
That was my mom's favorite as well. One time when she was visiting, we watched it, and I was put off with the glibness of Cary Grant's character in face of danger early in the film. Sort of if he didn't take things seriously, why should I?
Anyway, it's a fine film, re-watched and sent Mick LaSalle some comments about, including "I didn't know women in the 50's were so easy, but I guess it makes a difference if you look like Cary Grant". - He replied "Oh yeah"
OOOOooooOOOOoooo another great one, one of the best. Great directing, fantastic acting - have you seen/read the deleted scene that shows Ingrid Bergman's character as more of a call girl? That movie has a hard edge. Cary Grant is hardly a nice guy.
Aaannndd...Trump. Peaceful protested outside the White House dispersed with tear gas and rubber bullets. Trump giving a speech that if the local leaders don't take control he'll send the military in and crackdown.
It will be interesting to see what, if any, affect on Covid numbers comes out of this in a week or two. Supposedly, it doesn't transmit hardly at all outdoors, where all of this is happening, but while there has been a mixed level of use of masks on all sides, for a variety of purposes, social distancing has not even been an afterthought. This will be an unwitting test for current thinking on mass gathering limits.
On a large scale, it will be difficult to distinguish this potential increase from Memorial Day-related gatherings and widespread loosening of restrictions across many states.
Anecdotally, there was a very well executed protest in Baltimore this morning where folks mostly maintained appropriate spacing and wore masks during the entirely of a ~2 hour march from City Hall to the Inner Harbor (by Camden Yards). They even gave hand sanitizer to a police officer who shook the protest leader's (Rev. Westley West) hand after West challenged the officer to recite the name of a victim of police violence.
It’s completely consistent with every jurisdiction basically saying “guess we’ll try our best” and hoping for things to work out. I will say it makes me a little nervous to see people with no masks getting showered with tear gas in the midst of a pandemic with respiratory transmission
Your point reminds me of this thread on Twitter. Not saying that YOU are sea-lioning, but because the sea-lioner in this thread is talking about COVID-19 transmission, and because sea-lioning is a new term to me, I'll share this here: https://twitter.com/tarahaelle/status/1267304160086691841?s=20
Maybe it's just me, or maybe I'm misunderstanding the term, but that cartoon doesn't seem to capture it accurately? The Sea Lion in the cartoon seems to have a very reasonable basis to be offended, his questions don't come off as bad faith or diversionary, and the person with the initial statement is just avoiding the implications of her statement.
Isn't it supposed to be when someone makes a defensible statement, and someone asks a bunch of difficult to answer questions in order to defeat the argument? So, someone expresses reasonable concerns about unchecked police violence against black people, and the Sea Lion troll will say, "but what about black-on-black violence???"
I thought Sea Lioning was more when people are having their own conversation on a topic and the Sea Lion keeps butting their way into it and preventing the discussion from moving forward. So it's not necessarily that they're wrong, it's just that they won't leave you alone to have the discussion you were trying to have with the people you wanted.
This is probably more applicable on Twitter than on open forum spaces like this.
It will definitely be an issue for anyone who gets arrested at one of these demonstrations, even if they are eventually released. You do NOT want to be in jail right now.
Rolling thread of police abuse, vandalism, assault, etc. I’m a little behind but personal favorites include the Seattle PD pepper spraying a 10 year old girl in the face and the Austin police shooting a pregnant lady with rubber bullets and then shooting the people who come to help her
At least in PDX, the "rubber" bullets aren't the hockey-puck hard rubber projectiles many are recalling or envisioning.
An area reporter covering one or the weekend's confrontations that was hit by several when a spontaneous dispersal effort commenced recovered one, which was a metal ball mostly but not totally encapsulated in hard plastic. Kind of a buck-shot sabbot. Without knowing the velocity, its hard to judge the likely impact damage, but definitely not something you want unprotected soft tissue to be struck by.
Best Buy, Gamespot, Sally's nails per City of Union City facebook. There was some concern about druggies trying to hit dental offices to steal needles, etc.
According to Rob Hwang's tweets on Saturday night, the looting came within 2.5 blocks of our neighborhood.
I did feel scared Saturday night, and then a little bit silly for feeling scared (it's not the struggle Olympics, but I know other people face much worse all the time), but I was discomfited enough that I kept reading to distract myself, then didn't sleep until 5am.
In Durham and Fayetteville, they set fire to historical monuments related to slavery.
I was at a gas station at the Virginia border yesterday, 1 dude was telling his other 2 friends that he was going down to Raleigh to loot and that they should come with him to fuck things up.
For some time now, there is an element that shows up at whatever today's event that will have reporters and cameras present is who are there solely to raise a ruckus, no matter the issue.
Did they? When I was on their website yesterday, I only saw the downtown Oakland Target closed. I had no issues at the Alameda Target (other than getting through the tube and onto 880 on the Oakland side).
I saw a report somewhere that Target was closing a list of stores in the Bay Area. I don't think it had a date when they were going to be closed. maybe it wasn't yesterday.
Maybe because the Walnut Creek Target was looted and Concord was not? Which begs the question, why Walnut Creek Target but not Concord? Conspiracy theories needed.
Maybe, but yesterday when I drove by the Target the parking lot looked full. So maybe it was precautionary in case the Broadway Plaza looters worked their way up N. Main?
Probably more the lack of any conspiracy, or other form of planning and coordination. Lots of semi-random, figure it out as we go decision making going on from all sides.
Number one is the White House obviously. The main shopping street in Georgetown has been hit hard the last couple nights. A little ways out an upscale shopping area near Chevy Chase, Maryland got a lot of vandalism last night. There's been some protests in a few outer suburbs but they have been less violent and damaging.
I thought it was funny to see the Montgomery county cops lined up in Wisconsin ave and the Maryland side of western avenue just watching and making it clear that they were there
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) tweets that Feds should use active military. Imma choose to believe that, despite Cotton being ex-military, he doesn't literally mean "no quarter" (ie, kill opposition with no prisoners).
"President Trump on Monday berated the nation’s governors on a conference call, describing them as “weak” in the face of growing racial unrest and urged them to try to “dominate” unruly protests, according to three people on the call who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversation."
Trump also called on them to take back the streets and use force to confront protesters and said if they did not, they would look like “fools,” alarming several governors on the call as they communicated privately, according to the officials.
The president told the governors that “you have to use the military” and “we have a wonderful military,” said this person.
The president said that people arrested at the protests should serve a 10-year prison sentence, according to another person familiar with the call.
“He’s never at fault for anything. It’s Fauci’s fault. It’s China’s fault. It’s Obama’s fault. It’s always someone else, somewhere else,” said David Lapan, a former Department of Homeland Security official in the Trump administration. “He doesn’t want to hear the bad news, he doesn’t take responsibility for the bad news and wants to gloss over it and change the subject. That does a disservice to the American public, who need the facts and the straight truth about what’s going on.”
He needs to learn from the Minnesota Governor taking responsibility for the CNN news team getting arrested.
CNN's Kaitlan Collins says she has done lots of night reporting from there over the years and that happens every night around that time. Any of our DC-based pals confirm?
I wander by every once in awhile on my way somewhere at night and don't remember seeing the lights turned off. But I admit I don't particularly pay attention. That clears it right up.
No, just a regular Go Bears. I should note that I saw a guy walking his dog this weekend wearing a blue cap with the interlocking SF logo in gold on the front and script Cal on the side. Also so a young woman with a Cal tee leaving the building across the courtyard. May have another Bear in the complex.
The Cupper dies.
https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/lee-grosscup-dies-at-83
"Lee Grosscup, who became a gregarious and beloved radio broadcaster for Cal football after starring at quarterback for the University of Utah and a brief career in professional ball, died Monday. Grosscup was 83.
His association at Cal began in 1986 as analyst for play-by-play man Joe Starkey. Grosscup’s role diminished in recent years, and he did his final work on Cal’s postgame show after the 2018 Cheez-It Bowl.
"It's been a wonderful time," Grosscup said at the time. "I'll miss it. It's a good way for me to go out.”
Grosscup still contributed to pregame segments this past fall.
Starkey, Cal's long-time radio voice, was emotional Monday afternoon while talking about his friend. The two first worked together as broadcast partners for the Oakland Invaders in 1983.
“I hope I can get through this because I’m a wreck,” Starkey said. “We were really close. On the Cal road trips, we would always go in a day early and play golf. We were close friends from the start to the finish.”"
Condolences to the Grosscup family, Cal, and everyone concerned, on the loss of a great one.
Ugh, sad news. Here’s to the Cupper.
Elsewhere in college
Miller Moss commits to USC
https://twitter.com/EmilyKovnerMoss/status/1267562993832701952?s=19
https://i.imgur.com/rNkF58H.gif
USC Athletics Department: [ChefsKiss.gif]
https://twitter.com/USC_mikebohn/status/1267503827801915394
I’m both pleased and surprised. Michael Pittman had thoughts:
https://twitter.com/mikepitt_jr/status/1267250662301032448?s=21
Good.
Favorite Hitchcock movie
My favorite is The 39 Steps, not that I think it's the best one.
North By Northwest
One of the first years they had "Screen on the Green" on the National Mall I saw that along with thousands of folks.
That was my mom's favorite as well. One time when she was visiting, we watched it, and I was put off with the glibness of Cary Grant's character in face of danger early in the film. Sort of if he didn't take things seriously, why should I?
Anyway, it's a fine film, re-watched and sent Mick LaSalle some comments about, including "I didn't know women in the 50's were so easy, but I guess it makes a difference if you look like Cary Grant". - He replied "Oh yeah"
I love the movie, but I always feel a little bit cheated at the end that we don't get to see how they got down off of Mount Rushmore.
Doctor, I am gassed!
Plenty of choices, but I think I'll go with Notorious.
OOOOooooOOOOoooo another great one, one of the best. Great directing, fantastic acting - have you seen/read the deleted scene that shows Ingrid Bergman's character as more of a call girl? That movie has a hard edge. Cary Grant is hardly a nice guy.
I have not seen that...I think I need to go back and watch it again in general, it's been a few years.
That scene is reconstructed on the Criterion edition
Rear Window
That one is truly great. Grace Kelly...
Sad times.
As someone noted:
"Who had tiger on the loose on their COVID-19 Bingo card?"
https://twitter.com/ACSOSheriffs/status/1267299965635682305
Right next to monkeys escaping w/ C19 lab samples.
Loved Jon Wilner's response after the Sheriff's office acknowledged that all the Tigers were accounted for.
"The tiger saw America and wanted no part of it."
pqtm
Kiwis show solidarity
https://twitter.com/princetrisy/status/1267321214415986688
Good on ya, mates.
Looks like there were lots of protests across the globe over the weekend. The solidarity is impressive.
Dump
Ahhhhh....that one was satisfying.
Riots
Aaannndd...Trump. Peaceful protested outside the White House dispersed with tear gas and rubber bullets. Trump giving a speech that if the local leaders don't take control he'll send the military in and crackdown.
Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/george-floyd-protests-police-violence.html
I also saw that Roof Koreans were back over the weekend.
It will be interesting to see what, if any, affect on Covid numbers comes out of this in a week or two. Supposedly, it doesn't transmit hardly at all outdoors, where all of this is happening, but while there has been a mixed level of use of masks on all sides, for a variety of purposes, social distancing has not even been an afterthought. This will be an unwitting test for current thinking on mass gathering limits.
On a large scale, it will be difficult to distinguish this potential increase from Memorial Day-related gatherings and widespread loosening of restrictions across many states.
Anecdotally, there was a very well executed protest in Baltimore this morning where folks mostly maintained appropriate spacing and wore masks during the entirely of a ~2 hour march from City Hall to the Inner Harbor (by Camden Yards). They even gave hand sanitizer to a police officer who shook the protest leader's (Rev. Westley West) hand after West challenged the officer to recite the name of a victim of police violence.
It’s completely consistent with every jurisdiction basically saying “guess we’ll try our best” and hoping for things to work out. I will say it makes me a little nervous to see people with no masks getting showered with tear gas in the midst of a pandemic with respiratory transmission
Your point reminds me of this thread on Twitter. Not saying that YOU are sea-lioning, but because the sea-lioner in this thread is talking about COVID-19 transmission, and because sea-lioning is a new term to me, I'll share this here: https://twitter.com/tarahaelle/status/1267304160086691841?s=20
Maybe it's just me, or maybe I'm misunderstanding the term, but that cartoon doesn't seem to capture it accurately? The Sea Lion in the cartoon seems to have a very reasonable basis to be offended, his questions don't come off as bad faith or diversionary, and the person with the initial statement is just avoiding the implications of her statement.
Isn't it supposed to be when someone makes a defensible statement, and someone asks a bunch of difficult to answer questions in order to defeat the argument? So, someone expresses reasonable concerns about unchecked police violence against black people, and the Sea Lion troll will say, "but what about black-on-black violence???"
Or am I not getting it.
I thought Sea Lioning was more when people are having their own conversation on a topic and the Sea Lion keeps butting their way into it and preventing the discussion from moving forward. So it's not necessarily that they're wrong, it's just that they won't leave you alone to have the discussion you were trying to have with the people you wanted.
This is probably more applicable on Twitter than on open forum spaces like this.
That makes sense
It's definitely a new one on me, so it's entirely possible I'm not understanding the term properly.
It's new to me, too. There's a bit more in this thread, but I haven't looked into this further: https://twitter.com/sbarolo/status/1036782685547622401?s=20
First time I've encountered that term. I guess what Salary Cap was doing back in the day was a bit like that.
Hm that may have been before my time
It will definitely be an issue for anyone who gets arrested at one of these demonstrations, even if they are eventually released. You do NOT want to be in jail right now.
Especially if that jail happens to be in a building that just happens to have been set on fire!
I’m broadly against being in a burning building which is why I’m feeling a little uncomfy in the old USA right about now
On the other hand, I had a hard time getting too worked up about the burning of the Daughters of the Confederacy building in Richmond, VA.
I am the opposite of worked up about that one.
Does require the proper PPE. Not that that has proven to be a challenge lately.
True that.
Rolling thread of police abuse, vandalism, assault, etc. I’m a little behind but personal favorites include the Seattle PD pepper spraying a 10 year old girl in the face and the Austin police shooting a pregnant lady with rubber bullets and then shooting the people who come to help her
https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1266751520055459847?s=21
And the at least two people who lost eyes to rubber bullets.
At least in PDX, the "rubber" bullets aren't the hockey-puck hard rubber projectiles many are recalling or envisioning.
An area reporter covering one or the weekend's confrontations that was hit by several when a spontaneous dispersal effort commenced recovered one, which was a metal ball mostly but not totally encapsulated in hard plastic. Kind of a buck-shot sabbot. Without knowing the velocity, its hard to judge the likely impact damage, but definitely not something you want unprotected soft tissue to be struck by.
NYPD doxxed DiBlasio’s daughter in case you were wondering how civil oversight in NYC was going
https://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/1267300846167040000?s=21
I think the brazen fascism of this organization of retired NYPD cops is a useful barometer: https://twitter.com/SBANYPD
Oh, Cincinnati...
https://twitter.com/P0kes/status/1267230163521191936
Those bastards
What is being targeted in your local riots?
Best Buy, Gamespot, Sally's nails per City of Union City facebook. There was some concern about druggies trying to hit dental offices to steal needles, etc.
Best Buy, Bay Street, so obviously looting for it's own sake - no protests, just looting.
According to Rob Hwang's tweets on Saturday night, the looting came within 2.5 blocks of our neighborhood.
I did feel scared Saturday night, and then a little bit silly for feeling scared (it's not the struggle Olympics, but I know other people face much worse all the time), but I was discomfited enough that I kept reading to distract myself, then didn't sleep until 5am.
Things seem fairly quiet here now.
Yes, glad all is ok. I’d be scared if they were 2.5 blocks from me. The world is on fire...
Glad you're okay.
Trashed two streets in downtown Raleigh.
Looting a bit here and there.
In Durham and Fayetteville, they set fire to historical monuments related to slavery.
I was at a gas station at the Virginia border yesterday, 1 dude was telling his other 2 friends that he was going down to Raleigh to loot and that they should come with him to fuck things up.
I wonder how many of the looters and properly destroyers are from out of town. I'd imagine many of them.
For some time now, there is an element that shows up at whatever today's event that will have reporters and cameras present is who are there solely to raise a ruckus, no matter the issue.
Nothing, surprisingly. It's been pretty peaceful in Baltimore.
Baltimore PD seems to be doing a surprisingly good job of not escalating
Maybe BPD actually learned something from the Freddie Gray riots.
Maybe!
Target in Oakland got looted. Broadway Plaza in WC got looted.
Broadway Plaza? Well.... I guess perhaps that is the brightest symbol of white privilege for 30 miles around.
Target closed most of their stores in the Bay Area. Though interestingly WC but not Concord.
Did they? When I was on their website yesterday, I only saw the downtown Oakland Target closed. I had no issues at the Alameda Target (other than getting through the tube and onto 880 on the Oakland side).
I saw a report somewhere that Target was closing a list of stores in the Bay Area. I don't think it had a date when they were going to be closed. maybe it wasn't yesterday.
Maybe because the Walnut Creek Target was looted and Concord was not? Which begs the question, why Walnut Creek Target but not Concord? Conspiracy theories needed.
Conspiracy Theory #1 - Pac10 offices used to be in Walnut Creek!
Also, as Twist knows, there's a Cheesecake Factory in WC.
Maybe, but yesterday when I drove by the Target the parking lot looked full. So maybe it was precautionary in case the Broadway Plaza looters worked their way up N. Main?
Probably more the lack of any conspiracy, or other form of planning and coordination. Lots of semi-random, figure it out as we go decision making going on from all sides.
Number one is the White House obviously. The main shopping street in Georgetown has been hit hard the last couple nights. A little ways out an upscale shopping area near Chevy Chase, Maryland got a lot of vandalism last night. There's been some protests in a few outer suburbs but they have been less violent and damaging.
I thought it was funny to see the Montgomery county cops lined up in Wisconsin ave and the Maryland side of western avenue just watching and making it clear that they were there
Our Crumbling Democracy
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) tweets that Feds should use active military. Imma choose to believe that, despite Cotton being ex-military, he doesn't literally mean "no quarter" (ie, kill opposition with no prisoners).
https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1267459561675468800
I think he does. I mean he might claim it was virtue signaling but I think he’s just that crazy
He may be the loathsome senator at this time.
Some more excerpts from WaPo's Robert Costa:
"President Trump on Monday berated the nation’s governors on a conference call, describing them as “weak” in the face of growing racial unrest and urged them to try to “dominate” unruly protests, according to three people on the call who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversation."
Trump also called on them to take back the streets and use force to confront protesters and said if they did not, they would look like “fools,” alarming several governors on the call as they communicated privately, according to the officials.
The president told the governors that “you have to use the military” and “we have a wonderful military,” said this person.
The president said that people arrested at the protests should serve a 10-year prison sentence, according to another person familiar with the call.
Well, he certainly knows a lot about people who should serve a ten year sentence. Many work or have worked for him.
Well, he certainly knows a lot about people who should serve a ten year sentence. Many work or have worked for him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-may-days-a-month-of-distractions-and-grievances-as-nation-marks-bleak-coronavirus-milestone/2020/05/31/123e7e6a-a120-11ea-81bb-c2f70f01034b_story.html
Robert Costa et al get amazing access. Kinda mind-blowing.
“He’s never at fault for anything. It’s Fauci’s fault. It’s China’s fault. It’s Obama’s fault. It’s always someone else, somewhere else,” said David Lapan, a former Department of Homeland Security official in the Trump administration. “He doesn’t want to hear the bad news, he doesn’t take responsibility for the bad news and wants to gloss over it and change the subject. That does a disservice to the American public, who need the facts and the straight truth about what’s going on.”
He needs to learn from the Minnesota Governor taking responsibility for the CNN news team getting arrested.
Learn? Trump?
White House turns off its exterior lights
https://twitter.com/rulajebreal/status/1267423105414303744
CNN's Kaitlan Collins says she has done lots of night reporting from there over the years and that happens every night around that time. Any of our DC-based pals confirm?
I wander by every once in awhile on my way somewhere at night and don't remember seeing the lights turned off. But I admit I don't particularly pay attention. That clears it right up.
Turning off the lights like the protesters are trick-or-treaters who will move on to the next house...
Even Motel 6 leaves the lights on
PRO
Washington Wizards issue an interesting statement:
https://twitter.com/WashWizards/status/1267303407997587458
CAL
Farewell, Bear.
MSOC: Chris Ortega ('11) passed away last Friday.
https://calbears.com/news/2020/6/1/mens-soccer-cal-mourns-passing-of-soccer-alum-chris-ortega.aspx
Go Bears.
Is that a sad Go Bears?
No, just a regular Go Bears. I should note that I saw a guy walking his dog this weekend wearing a blue cap with the interlocking SF logo in gold on the front and script Cal on the side. Also so a young woman with a Cal tee leaving the building across the courtyard. May have another Bear in the complex.
Go Bears!!!
Uh... go... uh... Bears?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZcZITKX0AEoCr2?format=jpg&name=4096x4096