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I’m sure the accuracy of the polls was greatly influenced by people like me who will not answer ANY poll. I’m also quite sure that a lot of the highly trumpeted polls were nothing more than spin. Those two things really affect the accuracy of the data.
I’m using Firefox (whatever is the current version). I clicked on the link to print then “printed” to PDF. That saved the whole thing as a file on my computer. Not sure if the same works with a tablet or a smartphone.
For one year – Clyde Austin and Brian Mosier (sp?). Brian blew out a knee and he and older brother Steve went back to the midwest. Norm Sloan era.
For years I was opposed to any ad blockers but once ads started serving malware and stalling my browser I went with Ublock Origin (an open source solution). I took it that in return for content I would watch some ads but like anything it became massively a problem.
The decision to hold the game or not would generate questions regardless. Not hold the game and Matty turned left quicker and moved quicker and with sunshine in Raleigh and there would be bitching why was the game cancelled. All mighty dollar? Yes to some extent but let the game be cancelled and sunshine in Raleigh on Sat and just hear the whining. It is really a loose loose situation. If weather forecasting was perfect things would be different but it is not. Driving looking in the rearview mirror gives one perspective but decision makers did not have that luxury when the decision was made.
As I said I voted for Carter. Maybe he was too good to be Prez – we all who lived that can appreciate that issue. I will not call out his ideals but as prez he was not so capable.
McCallum if it were so simple as that. That was a big part for sure. WalMart is a big reason for the massive reduction of the US textile industry (note I did not say death as it has morphed). Cheap labor and such is a factor but having been on the inside I can tell you a lot was unwillingness to adapt, technology changes and the owners/managers like Mr Warlick passing blame. There was disruptive change and for many communities there was a severe cost to the workers. None of the mills I worked in during my career are alive and in most cases the buildings have been razed. Good or bad? I’m not sure but the change happened. Is it good to provide jobs at the expense of no innovation? If so can we do that in the face of global economics? There are a lot of issues packed into this. Many people I worked with lost their income with the change and the education they were provided didn’t help them adjust to that change.
I don’t have an answer but I have seen the human cost.My opinion will not be popular but here goes. Carter and Volcker were a major factor in the interest rate rise. Volcker as the head of the Federal Reserve caused that recession to “whip inflation now” (the Gerald Ford talking point that was useless). Were there other factors like the energy crisis part duex and such yes indeed. And BTW I voted FOR Carter rather than against Ford. Since that election I have always voted against someone.
As Bill says there are other factors that come into play. Regan did little for the economy but ride the WIN strategy – started sort of by Ford but really done in the Carter years. That is why this crap about “on his watch” is bogus when it comes to the economy. Actions do indeed have consequences but they often don’t show for a decade or so.
I remember in the 1980’s my company (a textile company) asked us to write to Congress et al about stopping the loss of textile jobs – the theory was cheap imports were the sole cause. Actually it was company owners and managers who wanted cover for the rapid technology change that made some jobs unneeded along with the cheaper imports that they were creating. Same today in all sorts of industries for good or bad.
My prediction is gov Pat turns over that office to the “loyal opposition” so they can have their chance at the trough. Nationally I plan to vote for Snoopy. Burr will probably skate by.
The worst I ever felt was when I was rousted by some cops in Rocky Mount in the late 1970’s. My crime? Renting from the neighbor of a cop in a leadership role who had a beef with my landlady. She reported a prowler around her house and implicated the renters in my land lady’s house. So at 11 PM I was rousted and questioned about what I had been doing. I had worked a shift in a very hot textile mill, came back to my room af 4:30 and crashed. I had not been out of my room since then but because of the landlord war I was rousted. Had I been black I’m sure I would have spent at least one night in jail. In the context of the current events means little other than I am skeptical of ANY claim pro or con.
I also will be satisfied with the results of the SBI investigation. My point on the video is it is not the smoking pro or con. Indications are that the police followed procedure but I don’t consider that proven. I saw the list of demands on FB this morning and did not go further in trying to locate from another source. The list of demands was silly. In this whole situation I find nothing that justifies rioting. I did not find that in the Watts riots even though there was problematic action by the police in that case. Fair resolution? Not sure that happens regardless. Wearing that uniform is incredibly tough and it is even tougher to think the truth will be produced – and even less likely that matters short of a public hanging of the police officer involved.
I did see the list of demands this morning so it is indeed available. The rest is not surprising at all. High profile, chance to fluff a reputation and the semll of money on the ground. I have seen the videos and could draw no conclusions from them other than the police ordered him to drop the gun (or whatever) and then after that shots were fired. Maybe the officer was justified or maybe he was not.
Lots a lot like the Watts riots of the ’60’s to me – justified or not.
