Just for you, Lord Jim!

[BoSoxGal]

[TPFKA@W]

You keep saying that, @w, but honestly, I just don't get it. What is it that you've caught her at? How has she fucked the country? Look, I'm no Clinton fan, but I really don't understand where you're coming from. I'm only asking because I genuinely want to know; I'm not going to argue with you. I don't think you pull your opinions out of your butt as a general rule. So I want to know why a smart woman like you has this particular view.

It's good to know that you only deem that my opinions are only partially pulled from my ass. I blush over the praise.

I passed on the koolaid you accepted.

[MajGenl.Meade]

... Anyway, I've changed my avatar and might change it again because I am not yet quite satisfied with it...

Please, change it quickly. I'm getting ill looking at that young, subtle, BoSox ball girl, with her flat tummy and that come-hither look. Quite frankly, she everything I don't want in a woman. YUK!

It's the hat, isn't it? C'mon, admit it!

[oldr_n_wsr]

I have sigs and avatars turned off so I have no clue what people have. Sometimes I will look up a profile if there is some big controversy, but not this time.

[oldr_n_wsr]

For you Lord Jim and your football team.

The national debate about whether Washington’s NFL team should change its Redskins nickname has been ongoing for years. There’s been a somewhat significant recent push to get the team to change its moniker — held since 1933 — but team owner Dan Snyder says he’ll never change the name and insists that it’s intended to honor Native Americans, not disrespect them.

And, according to a new study by the Washington Post, most Native Americans still say they aren’t bothered by the name. Despite the resurgence of pressure to move away from Redskins, a new poll from WaPo determined that 9 out of 10 Native Americans don’t find the name offensive.

Among the Native Americans reached over a five-month period ending in April, more than 7 in 10 said they did not feel the word “Redskin” was disrespectful to Indians. An even higher number — 8 in 10 — said they would not be offended if a non-native called them that name.

The Post report also included a variety of responses from Native American people on how they feel regarding the name. There are those who liked it:

“I’m proud of being Native American and of the Redskins,” said Barbara Bruce, a Chippewa teacher who has lived on a North Dakota reservation most of her life. “I’m not ashamed of that at all. I like that name.”

There are those who don’t care:

“The name is nothing to me,” said Jarvis Michael Horn, a 39-year-old member of the Winnebago Tribe who works at a corner grocery store in Iowa.

There are those who feel that even if the population’s minority were offended, then it should still be changed:

“It’s about respect,” Marshall’s descendant, Jordan Wright, told The Post two years ago. “If even one person tells you that name — that word you used — offends them, then that’s enough. That should be enough.”

Others didn’t believe the minority should get to speak for everyone:

“It’s 100 people okay with the situation, and one person has a problem with it, and all of a sudden everyone has to conform,” said New York resident Judy Ann Joyner, 64, a retired nurse whose grandmother was part-Shawnee and part-Wyandot. “You’ll find people who don’t like puppies and kittens and Santa Claus. It doesn’t mean we’re going to wipe them off the face of the earth.”

And, finally, there are those who believe strongly the name needs to go:

“I don’t want to ever have my son experience anything like that,” she said. “It’s time to change. It’s time to move on.”

Who knows if the poll will have an effect on campaigns to switch the Redskins’ name, but at the very least Snyder now has fresher data of public opinion to reference when he’s forced to defend his stance.

(Via Washington Post)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/study-finds- ... 08521.html

[Joe Guy]

I'm thinking of changing my avatar to something appealing to women and baseball related....

[oldr_n_wsr]

another reason to leave avatars in the "off" position.

[rubato]

I'm thinking of changing my avatar to something appealing to women and baseball related....

That's not a beer gut that's an AMERICA gut! Boy, show some pride.

ex pluribus , magnitudo

[Bicycle Bill]

ex pluribus , magnitudo

Rough translation — It's HYUUGE!!

-"BB"-

[Burning Petard]

Retuning to a very trivial matter, unless you support the political efficacy of Bread And Circuses, sports mascots.

Why oh why is the mascot for the Arizona Diamondbacks, a Bobcat? That ranks right there with the minor league Wilmington DE Blue Rocks [named for a brand of clay pigeon once made in Wilmington by DuPont] which has a stalk of celery as a mascot.

snailgate

[Big RR]

And yhy is the University of Alabama (Crimson Tide) and elephant, the University of Miami (Hurricanes) a duck, Stanford (Cardinal) a tree, or University of Arkansas (Razorbacks) a boll weevil?

[Crackpot]

Because no one wants to see a menstruating woman mascot.

[Scooter]

Thank you for getting that image into my brain just before lunch.

[Big RR]

[oldr_n_wsr]

We have "Mr Met".

[Lord Jim]

We have "Mr Met".

SEXIST!

[oldr_n_wsr]

I do think at some point there was a "Mrs Met" but I don't remember seeing her in years.
Then again, I haven't been to a Met game since Shea Stadium closed.