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Former five-sport official with 35 seasons of officiating experience; former radio DJ, too :) Let's talk sports, entertainment, & music. Oh, let's talk politics, too. It's much too important to ignore.

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5/ Ooopsies... the Pickles received a dozen walks.

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4/ for the division title game on Tuesday night. If the Pickles win that game, they host the WCL title game on Thursday night against the North Division winner. We won't know who that'll be until Tuesday night.

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3/ Update: the Pickles bombed the Berries 12-0, scoring seven times in the bottom of the first. Eight walks issued to them by Marion pitching helped.
Corvallis won tonight, meaning a winner-take-all game three tomorrow afternoon. No matter whether Bend or Corvallis win, they'll come up to Portland

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2/ Elks defeated the archrival Corvallis Knights, meaning that the Knights will have to win tonight and tomorrow at home to advance to the division championship game on Tuesday night.
The Pickles, meanwhile, need win tonight OR tomorrow night to advance.

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1/ With Marion nursing a 3-2 lead in the top of the 8th, it took just one swing from Schleichardt to tie the game. Then, in the 9th, the Pickles manufactured what would turn out to be the game-winning run, thanks to aggressive baserunning by Connor Stewart.
More good news came from Bend, where the

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3/ impeached and removed from office, that the rest of the administration goes with him/her.
Perhaps that would be a good idea, but that's not what the Constitution says, at least by the precedent currently set.

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2/ still interpreted today, is that, when one of those people is impeached AND convicted, that person shall be removed from office. It doesn't say that impeachment and conviction of the President means the whole administration is removed. Nor does it say that, if anyone other than the President is

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1/ That's not exactly what it says. What it does say:
"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
How that has been interpreted, and is

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this week in stupid: August 9 edition buffalo: 1, hunter: 0, and so much more...

www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-week-... Even the strongest Autocratic regimes can and do suffer from Authoritarian arrogance, ignorance, & incompetence. It has been the undoing of nearly all Autocratic regimes, especially those of the past.

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BTW: one of the four types of Authoritarianism, Communism, are at the left end of Authoritarianism, not the extreme left of the political spectrum as a whole. Those Left-Wing "extremists" about which the other three types of Autocrats talk about are the Communists. Fascists hate Communists.

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The Nazis were definitely not Left-Wingers; even political historians who consider themselves to be "Conservative" admit that Authoritarianism is a RIGHT-WING political construct, exclusively. Authoritarianism has never been Left-Wing, nor will it ever be.

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14/ do that for us by acting and speaking like Fascists.
Perhaps the most pathetic thing about the Authoritarianism-brainwashed is that, at one time, they could have resisted the Autocratic programming but decided not to; they are intentionally ignorant of the truth & facts of matters political.

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13/ they will still not believe you. At least 100 million GOP voters need to be deprogrammed of Authoritarianism before they'll believe the truth and facts.
The Fascist GOP are correctly called Fascists by me and others because they ACT and SPEAK like Fascists; we don't have to prove anything; they

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12/ Authoritarian propaganda/punditry based on logical fallacies, cognitive biases, BS, & lies because I already know the truth and facts of matters political.
Besides, the Fascist GOP's voters are Authoritarianism-brainwashed; you could quote the truth/facts to them until you're blue in the face &

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11/ the shows on ACRW media, such as Fox News, Newsmax, and others, I don't watch those because those channels are simply the propaganda/punditry arm of the Fascist GOP. I already know the truth/facts about government/politics thanks to my extensive research/study of same. I don't need to listen to

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10/ instead of being the show's host/moderator. I would love to see that; in fact, I would love to be the host/moderator so that Molly could kick Stephen A's ass in a debate sense. I think many more people, mostly men, would watch the show just to see Molly taking on Stephen A. in debate.
As for

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9/ believe that many of the men watch the show to hear/see Molly and put up with Stephen A.
On the Halloween edition of First Take last year, one of his "Stephen's A Lists" was, "Stephen A's biggest fears". Number five on that list? "Molly in the debate chair", meaning that Molly becomes a panelist

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8/ anyone intelligent and sane: Molly Qerim. There's a rating in visual mediums, especially TV, called "Q ratings". IIRC, Q ratings are done by asking viewers one question: "why do you watch the show?" Many of the men watch not because of SAS, but Molly. In my opinion, Molly's gorgeous and I also

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7/ last nerve most of the time, which leads to me turning off the show and viewing another show. My belief is that he says outrageous things so that both his fans and detractors have fodder for their opinions about him. The second biggest reason people watch First Take should be no surprise to

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6/ says next. I believe that Smith is much like Stern in that regard: people watch mostly to hear/see what he says next. It would still help, though, if the disclaimer were run at the top of both hours of the show.
Personally speaking, and this is just my opinion about the man, the man gets on my

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5/ further research revealed that his fans listened for 37 minutes, on average, and the reason they gave for listening was "to see what he says next". The research further revealed that Stern's detractors listened for 39 minutes on average and they gave the same reason for listening: to see what he

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4/ A. Smith. For those who remember the Howard Stern movie from the late 90s called "Private Parts", which was based on a book of the same name, there's a scene from the beginning of Stern's time at DC101. Arbitron ratings showed that Stern was popular via the number of listeners he had. Some

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3/ show, its participants, and the owners of the network/channel. Why? Because, up front, the disclaimer would confirm that the opinions are opinions and not facts. Also, any facts actually detailed need to be easily verifiable.
There's one main reason First Take is as successful as it is: Stephen

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2/ disclaimer. That disclaimer should be as follows: "The opinions expressed on the show are the opinions of those who express them and they are not necessarily shared by (name of network or channel) and (actual owners of the network)."
The disclaimer would stop any and all lawsuits against the

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1/ Here's the thing: debate shows like First Take suffer from the same problems that shows on ACRW media do: people foisting their opinions as though they are facts. At least The Pat McAfee Show runs its disclaimer at the start of each hour of their program. All shows should start with such a

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School vouchers are a scam to send taxpayer money to private religious schools. Vouchers are also a violation of church and state.

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10/ were held accountable for their adherence to Corrupted Smithian economics.
"Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it"--- George Santayana. Go ahead, GOP morons... continue down the road you're on & see what happens. Continue denying the truth & facts. You're not going to like the end.

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9/ phrase, "keeping your head while others are losing theirs". If the dipshits of the Fascist GOP really think that, in 2025, there can't be a French-type revolution, they are sadly and tragically mistaken. The Fascist GOP is headed down the same road the French monarchy and elites were before they

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8/ but political power, to themselves for several decades before the French masses rebelled in the French Revolution starting in 1789. That revolution lasted about a decade and it saw all of the monarch and elites having their heads separated from their bodies by a guillotine, which birthed the

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