Budweiser has worst week ever, while conversely Miller light and Coors Light rise in a huge wayPosted By James Brown |
It is indeed! I'm partial to "White Rascal" in the summer and "The Reverend" On a cold winters day around the fire. In a small glass of course!Originally Posted by Brian McFarland
One of the nation's best craft breweries is right in your hood - Avery. I haven't been there in years; I hope it's still as good as I remember.
Is the goal Which marketing executive can TANK an entire company FASTER than the other Exec?Posted By James Brown |
It is funny that Rod has ripped a page from your playbook.Originally Posted by Richard Davis
No, I'm not being hostile and I'm not being aggressive, I'm simply asking him a few simple questions...
Paula Scanlan, Univ. of Penn Female Swimmer speaks out about Will "Lia" Thomas and how the girls were threatened.Posted By James Brown |
Lia Thompson is significantly taller, and has a significantly greater wingspan than any woman swimmer in the NCAA. This provides a huge advantage. She went from being ranked about 500 as a male competitor to #1 as a woman in her main freestyle events. She may be taking testosterone suppressants now, but she grew to full size and strength as a man. This is where I think the NCAA will eventually draw the line, at which gender you went through puberty.Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman
Leave it to an obtuse moron to post something like that.
Returning to reality and looking at articles, I see interesting findings:
"Joanna Harper, a medical physicist in Portland, Oregon, has conducted research into the effect of testosterone blockers on transgender women runners like herself."
"In 2015, she published the first study of transgender women and athletic performance and found that trans women ran at least 10 percent slower after beginning hormones. And, relatively speaking, they did no better against cisgender female runners than they had previously done against cisgender men."
Then the recent study: "A new study suggests transgender women maintain an athletic advantage over their cisgender peers even after a year on hormone therapy."
"The results, published last month in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, could mean the current one-year waiting period for Olympic athletes who are transitioning is inadequate."
“For the Olympic level, the elite level, I'd say probably two years is more realistic than one year,” said the study's lead author, Dr. Timothy Roberts, a pediatrician and the director of the adolescent medicine training program at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. “At one year, the trans women on average still have an advantage over the cis women," he said, referring to cisgender, or nontransgender, women."
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trans-women-retain-athletic-edge-after-year-hormone-therapy-study-n1252764
Paula Scanlan, Univ. of Penn Female Swimmer speaks out about Will "Lia" Thomas and how the girls were threatened.Posted By James Brown |
Some of the European cycling tours now have two classifications. "Women's" for biological women and "Open", for anyone else.Originally Posted by Russ Carroll
We should never allow competition based on chemically balancing hormones to accommodate someones desires.
Look, I wanted to pitch for the Detroit Tigers as a kid, but I wasn't strong enough. Should I have been allowed to take steroids so I could pursue my dream? Society does not have to bend to wishes and dreams of others. If changing genders disqualifies you from participating in certain sports that one desires to compete in, so be it.
Paula Scanlan, Univ. of Penn Female Swimmer speaks out about Will "Lia" Thomas and how the girls were threatened.Posted By James Brown |
The bolded part is quite possibly true in most instances. It is certainly not true in the cases that get national attention, like Lia Thompson who was #500 in D1 as a Man and #1 a year later as a female. Some time ago, biological boys took 1 and 2 in the 100M in the Connecticut girls state championship track meet. This was extremely unfair to the girls, and maybe life changing, since the girls who lost were running to impress college coaches and maybe get scholarships in some instances.Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman
Leave it to an obtuse moron to post something like that.
Returning to reality and looking at articles, I see interesting findings:
"Joanna Harper, a medical physicist in Portland, Oregon, has conducted research into the effect of testosterone blockers on transgender women runners like herself."
"In 2015, she published the first study of transgender women and athletic performance and found that trans women ran at least 10 percent slower after beginning hormones. And, relatively speaking, they did no better against cisgender female runners than they had previously done against cisgender men."
Then the recent study: "A new study suggests transgender women maintain an athletic advantage over their cisgender peers even after a year on hormone therapy."
"The results, published last month in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, could mean the current one-year waiting period for Olympic athletes who are transitioning is inadequate."
“For the Olympic level, the elite level, I'd say probably two years is more realistic than one year,” said the study's lead author, Dr. Timothy Roberts, a pediatrician and the director of the adolescent medicine training program at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. “At one year, the trans women on average still have an advantage over the cis women," he said, referring to cisgender, or nontransgender, women."
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trans-women-retain-athletic-edge-after-year-hormone-therapy-study-n1252764
Paula Scanlan, Univ. of Penn Female Swimmer speaks out about Will "Lia" Thomas and how the girls were threatened.Posted By James Brown |
Hi James: I mentioned this last week in a reply to Greg. I often agree with Richard's opinions, but his delivery is usually so laced with name calling, other insults and the like, directed at people I consider friends, that I'm usually not interested in engaging on the merits of whatever issue is allegedly under discussion. Richard must know this. It is obvious that he posts here to heckle, insult, twist, tap-dance, and obfuscate more than anything else. It is kind of weird that we indulge him at all.Originally Posted by James Lacey
As I said, the post where you were disparaging Rod's imagined physical appearance, or post #9 if you want to be specific. I stand by my comment; if you had a point, it's completely lost in all your pointless heckling and insults.
Paula Scanlan, Univ. of Penn Female Swimmer speaks out about Will "Lia" Thomas and how the girls were threatened.Posted By James Brown |
You've said the exact same thing about me, quite recently. I think it is hilarious. No rational person could miss the obvious, huge, and important differences between the way me or James, and you behave in this forum. For a long time I thought it was an act on your part. Now I am pretty sure that your posts here reflect obvious, huge, and important differences in our actual personalities and demeanors. The fact that you don't see this is both funny and tragically sad. Nothing anyone can do about it though.Originally Posted by Richard Davis
LOL! Its just so comical to watch you James.
As I've stated 100 times if I've stated it once, you have your methods of namecalling which are snide, sneering, sarcastic, and mocking, while I'm more direct and will just call you out directly and tell you and others to f off.
But there is no difference between You and I.
You simply try to disguise your remarks a bit differently. If you think that makes your responses adult and mature, it doesn't.
In fact it just makes you petty, and indicates that the only one who you are fooling is yourself.
But hey, you're free to whine about it incessantly.
Paula Scanlan, Univ. of Penn Female Swimmer speaks out about Will "Lia" Thomas and how the girls were threatened.Posted By James Brown |
Waste of time explaining this, but the huge difference is obvious. I (and to a much much lesser extent) James or Russ etc. can be snide in response to your provocation. You on the other hand are gratuitously rude in response to no provocation at all. You are simply an internet asshole virtually all the time.Originally Posted by Richard DavisLOL! Its just so comical to watch you James.
As I've stated 100 times if I've stated it once, you have your methods of namecalling which are snide, sneering, sarcastic, and mocking, while I'm more direct and will just call you out directly and tell you and others to f off.
But there is no difference between You and I.
You simply try to disguise your remarks a bit differently. If you think that makes your responses adult and mature, it doesn't.
In fact it just makes you petty, and indicates that the only one who you are fooling is yourself.
But hey, you're free towhinepiss and moan about it incessantly.
Clarence/Alito Scramble For Financial ExtensionsPosted By James Brown |
Hi Dave: I think our judiciary is quite independent. The press is trying to make Thomas out to be beholden to right wing donors, but there is no evidence that this is the case. The simple fact is that Thomas has a conservative judicial philosophy, and he has ruled in every instance in accordance with his core conservative judicial philosophy. This is no different than RBG, Sotomayor, Brown-Jackson or others adhering to their liberal judicial philosophies.Originally Posted by David CotterellI asked this in another thread but it got buried under all the arguing and sniping.
How, in any sane political system, are financial donations allowed to be made to sitting judges at any level? Judges are not (supposed to be) political figures. The judiciary is meant to be independent, isn't it? Three branches and all that...
Dave
Clarence/Alito Scramble For Financial ExtensionsPosted By James Brown |
They are permitted to have lives and friends outside of their jobs. That said, our Justices are a lot less wealthy than our congressmen, women, and former presidents. Singling out the Justices is misplaced. Do Canadian politicians and judges take oaths of poverty? I doubt it. Now I really gotta go, glad to hear it is not too smoky in your neck of Canada.Originally Posted by David Cotterell
The concept of lifetime appointments isn't really the problem. They are paid a decent salary. Why can rich folks give them money, trips, property? That is my question....
Meanwhile...
The fires are in very remote areas but there are some isolated native communities near some of them...many have had to evacuate.
The smoke is affecting many millions of people, however.
There is a low pressure system that has been stuck over Nova Scotia for a week or more. The backside airflow is coming down over the eastern Great Lakes and on into New England, New Jersey and New York... If this system moves off the smoke will blow into the mostly uninhabited North Atlantic region....but when will this low move?
Dave
