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@approxinfinity

The FBI notified the congressmen employing Imran Awan and family that he was under investigation related to a number of charges including fraud and more importantly unauthorized and massive off loading of information from the House servers; he was banned from accessing the House IT system since February of this year. All the congressmen immediately stopped using him and his family except for Wasserman Schultz; there is no way he could have done any work without access to the House IT system and the only way he could have done it is remotely using her login and password; keep in mind that as head of the DNC she had access to all e-mails that were hacked, allegedly by the Russians. Why she did this has no logical and/or legal explanation and she is in a world of trouble.

The Awan character is so crooked that he stole money from his own father who changed his name so he would not be linked to him. One f his brothers also has a criminal record and yet the 3 of them collected over $4M over several years.

Now, it looks like the individual in charge of investigating Awan is none other than Debbie Wasserman Schultz's brother...can you say conflict if interest? Lots of background and widely verified information in this link." target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://pamelageller.com/2017/07/u-s-attorney-overseeing-imran-awans-investigation-debbie-wasserman-schultzs-brother.html/) ↗

This is really a huge deal and there will be a big fallout when all is said and done.

Well, at least it looks like Doke has healed pretty nicely. His wrist must be in great shape for him to try to rip down the rim. :smiley:

@KUSTEVE

As officially unofficial as it gets.

@KUSTEVE

This is why it was labeled "unofficial." It is also off in the total time; looks like they left a player off

Link to game report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.kuathletics.com/news/2017/8/2/mens-basketball-jayhawks-outdistance-young-italian-team-90-56.aspx) ↗ at KU website.

Unofficial score box

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@Kcmatt7

Hopefully YouTube will have the video soon.

KUSTEVE said:

@Crimsonorblue22 A nut in Lawrence was arrested twice in one day for walking around neeked...

Under the circumstances I would have thought two nuts...but I am not touching that with a 10 foot pole. :smiley:

@Texas-Hawk-10

Again, I have no problem with his message, my problem is how he went about it at his place of work and on company's time; I cannot think of any business employee that would be allowed to do this, particularly when it affects the employer's bottom line. You did not see MLK purposefully antagonizing anyone, did you? CK went out of his way to insult police officers and most (obviously not all) football fans. His message got mostly lost in the way he delivered it. Nowadays, most talk about CK is about his disrespectful ways and next to nothing about his message.

I did not say or even imply that he should go into politics while he is in the NFL; both are full time positions. There are a number of professional athletes that went into politics and achieved great success including a number of congressmen and senators. Jack Kemp was a congressman and presidential candidate, Byron White went all the way to the Supreme Court, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura went on to become Governors, Former Vikings great Alan Page is currently as Associate Justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court, Dave Bing is the mayor of Detroit and Kevin Johnson is the mayor of Sacramento, former KU great Jim Ryan went on to become a US Congressman like Tom McMillan, Steve Largent and JC Watts juts to name a few. All these people went to much better positions from where to affect real change.

I do respect your opinion and see the points you are making but I just don't see it the same way.

@BeddieKU23

I see your point and makes sense. Also, KU emphasis/experiment with guard play last season (more due to happenstance than design) was very successful and I am sure recruits are paying attention and hopefully seeing unique opportunities at KU.

@Texas-Hawk-10

I don't disagree with his protest or message, my problem is the way he went about it. He could have called a press conference and presented his case without disrespecting the flag and the National Anthem and in the process alienating a large percentage of fans and causing his employer a lot of money and good will. He is enough of a big name that he could have had a huge audience and his message would have been better received. Many athletes have gone into politics and made a difference; there s no reason why, if he really wanted to make a real difference, he could not have followed that path instead.

mayjay said:

@JayHawkFanToo

The president just advocated rougher treatment during arrests.

Way to take out of context what the President said. He was talking specifically about the MS 13 gang and saying you don't need to be as nice to them particularly after the killed someone and he mentioned only the shielding the head while placing them in a patrol car. How exactly is that a rougher treatment?

Do a little research on the MS 13 gang. I know several people from Central America where the gang originated and the stories they tell and what I have read about them will make you sick. Their preferred method of intimidation is to kill rivals by cutting them up in pieces with machetes while trying to keep the alive as long as possible and while their families watching. Absolute sociopaths withe no redeeming value to society. This has been happening now on a daily basis on many cities in this country, the MSM just does not report it because it goes against their open borders agenda and the narrative that very single alien that comes into the country illegally is nothing but a hard worker looking for a better life; many are and many are not.

@Statmachine

Nice travel unis...:smile:

I am with @jayballer54 on this one, the timeline does not appear to support that Mitch's broken nose and Dedric's suspension are related.

@Texas-Hawk-10

Yes and no. People are still talking about him but how many people are still talking about what he protested? and how many people now have worse opinion of his cause? I truly believe that if he would have gone about it a different way and not being disrespectful of things people hold dear he would have gathered a lot more sympathy for his cause.

Not all publicity is good publicity, look at this story ↗ and tell me if you'd wish on any kid.

wissox said:

@JayHawkFanToo

To me you're describing effective protest!

Yep, he effectively protested himself out of the NFL.

@justanotherfan

Like you, my fist though was it was a skirmish during practice but Coach Self's comments and the severity of the punishment makes me think there was a lot more.

The Lawson Brothers, particularly Dedric, are/were projected to be an integral part of the team once they become available. Losing Dedric would be a big blow and the direction recruiting takes in the next few months will probably tell whether that projection has now changed and the teams is moving to plan B.

@wissox

But it was not harmless; it costed the 49ers, his employers, a lot of money and the League as a whole a great deal of viewership and by extension, money. Remember that his stunt during the National Anthem was not the only thing he did, he also showed to a team press conference wearing a Castro t-shirt and wore socks to practice with pigs dressed as police officers. He really went out of his way to insult a lot of fans.

If I am making a presentation to clients and one of my employees starts making political statements that result in lost work, he would be at the very least suspended or fired on the spot. I suspect most of us are in the same spot. He was hired to play football not make political statements and he was not doing the first part well so he did the second...me thinks to use as an excuse for potentially not getting his contract renewed. Keep in mind that he had already lost the starting spot to0 former MU players Blaine Gabbert who had been a huge bust at Tampa and in his last season there he played only three games, finishing with just one touchdown and seven interceptions.

@approxinfinity

If Clinton would have rigged the election chances are the VP would have been involved as well and both would be disqualified. Had he not been involved he would be the next in line...this is what the law says or at least my understanding of it. Of course this assumes the results were certified by the electoral college otherwise the process moves to congress who elects the new president, something that I don't believe has happened before.

Too many hypotheticals for election results that are not in doubt except for a few fringe individuals.

@Crimsonorblue22

I live in the real world where facts count and unproven allegations and rumors don't.

Apparently you have an issue with me having opinions of my own and standing by them even (or particularly) when they are at odds with others. I do not tell other posters what to think, I encourage everybody to read up and form their own opinions even if they are different than mine.

This is a worrysome development, leaving him at home while the team travels to Italy seems like pretty serious punishment so the offense must have been equally serious.

Way too early in his stay at KU to be in this much trouble and hopefully not an indicator of things to come.

@approxinfinity

I see where you are going but that is not what the constitution calls for.,,,and we are still a country of laws and the Constitution still is the final word. The only election rigging that we know was done by the democrats to eliminate Bernie Sanders...who is not even a democrat but was running as one.

BTW, if there was election rigging or foreign meddling it all happened under the Obama administration watch who did absolutely nothing about it and had the ultimate responsibility to have a fair election.

You heard the expression...If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Likewise, if election rigging happened and the administration did nothing about it, did it really happened? Or...if election rigging happened and the administration did nothing about it, who should shoulder the blame? Neither scenario bides well for the democrats.

mayjay said:

@kjayhawks "(Legs took out from under me while in the air for a rebound, head first to floor)"

Funny, I was never in danger of that type of concussion. My danger came from trying to jump as high as about 4 inches into the palm of a guy holding it flat over my head and laughing at me.

Was Ann Coulter, who is 6 foot tall, the one holding the ball over your head? It would certainly explain a lot.

mayjay said:

@approxinfinity According to a variety of Trump supporters, if the President does it, it is not illegal because he can pardon people.

People that think that are idiots, regardless of affiliation and no person with half a brain would agree with that. However, it is not nearly as idiotic as Maxine Waters, a US Congressman saying that Trump would be impeached and Hillary Clinton would be appointed President since she won the election...really? And I mean REALLY??? Has this loon not heard of the Electoral College and the US Comstitution and the line of succession?...and she is a US congressman. Both sides have their share of morons.

@mayjay

Please read my post where I quoted from the link @Crimsonorblue22 posyed. The form was submitted prematurely and the next day...yes, the next day they notified the FBI that the missing nformation would be forthcoming; not really a big deal and something that is done routinely. Now, you know that the information on those forms is confidential, right? and leaking it is illegal, right?Any outrage over that?

@DoubleDD

I agree. It would be very difficult to enforce, particularly when the offending party and dozens of bystanders would immediately start recording the entire process and posting it to Facebook; no police officer would want to deal with that.

@Crimsonorblue22

Are you agreeing or disagreeing with me?

@Crimsonorblue22

From the article you cited:

Jamie Gorelick, Mr. Kushner’s lawyer, said that the questionnaire was submitted prematurely on Jan. 18, and that the next day, Mr. Kushner’s office told the F.B.I. that he would provide supplemental information.

Mr. Kushner’s aides said he was compiling that material and would share it when the F.B.I. interviewed him. For now, they said, he has an interim security clearance.

In a statement, Ms. Gorelick said that after learning of the error, Mr. Kushner told the F.B.I.: “During the presidential campaign and transition period, I served as a point-of-contact for foreign officials trying to reach the president-elect. I had numerous contacts with foreign officials in this capacity. … I would be happy to provide additional information about these contacts.” No names were disclosed in that correspondence.

So, he made a mistake in his form and the NEXT DAY he told the FBI that he would provide the additional information. When did he have time to lie?

I have seen the form in question and I have visited with FBI agents personally when they were checking the form submitted by a colleague who had worked with me in the past and whose new firm was doing work that required clearance. Based on the questions they asked I can see why it would be so easy to miss details from years back and this is why the forms is routinely amended to include information previously omitted.

@DoubleDD

Texting while driving is a different case all together. When driving you are in control of a deadly piece of machinery that cans cause huge accidents and loss of life and requires a driver's license which requires you to follow and obey traffic rules that are in place to ensure the safety of all. When you are a pedestrian, you are risking primarily your own safety. Just my opinion.

@approxinfinity

His disclosure forms clearly outline the level of business involvement he had/has in Russia and by all indications is very limited and I have not seen any evidence that indicates his disclosure forms are incorrect.

Mark my words, when it is all said and done, the democrats will end up regretting opening the "Russian" can of worms because it it is becoming more obvious that they had a much greater involvement with the Russian than Trump did; many democrats have already indicated -of the record, of course - that they need to drop the Russian narrative as it leads to nowhere and it will likely backfire. Time will tell.

@approxinfinity

What contacts with Russia? There is zero evidence of any contact with rusians, which is implied to be the Russian government. There was one contact with one Russian attorney who is it and was not a member of the Russian government and who was personally authorized to enter our country by former AG Loretta Lynch after she was denied entry and led to nowhere.

By your definition, Kim Jon Un, the leader of North Korea must also be colluding with the American government, after all he met with Dennis Rodmam who is a friend of Trump.

mayjay said:

@JayHawkFanToo Laura Ingraham has made a career of telling people how to think. This is just a backlash of conservative political correctness: the right can't stand being challenged by people who say things they don't agree with, or who make them uncomfortable in how they say it.

Huge difference...THIS IS HER JOB, she is a political commentator and when you tune in on her show you know what you are going to get. When you watch a sports game you expect to see athletes performing their craft and not lecturing you on their beliefs. Like I said, if they want to do this they should do it on their own time and place and not at their place of work and on company's time where it affects their employer's bottom line.

Many athletes have gone to become successful politicians and there is no reason why Kaepernick could no become one, but when he is on the football field, he should stick to football. Most sports watchers appear to agree with me.

@mayjay

I did not say that Kaepernick was "killing" the NFL, I simply stated that he was one of the bigger contributors to the decline in viewership.

People that want to watch sports or movies wants to do just that and not be lectured by entertainment celebrities who got their status by way of their athletic prowess or physical attributes rather than their intellectual acumen. If they want to express their own views, which they are clearly entitled to do, they should do it on their own time.

@mayjay

We have an expression in software development that goes...you cannot design a fool-proof system because fools are too smart. Likewise, the government cannot legislate common sense into people's life any more than it can outlaw stupidity.

Maybe it is nature's way of "culling the heard" of individuals so stupid that literally risk life and limb to continue reading a twitter feed about issues so inane that a reasonable person would question the sanity of the poster...but I guess that is the way things are nowadays.

@Crimsonorblue22

What exactly was the lie?

@wissox

CK gas every right to express his opinion, the problem is that he did it at his place of work and on company's time and created a financiL nightmare for his employer.

Laura Ingraham wrote a book called "Shut up and sing" about Hollywood Elites telling people how to think. People go to a concert to hear music not political crap and go to a sports event to watch a sport to get away from politics and not to be lectured or insulted by athletes. Kaepernick could have called a press conference on his own time and express his opinion in that forum, he would have had a huge audience and none or very little of the controversy. This is true for all entertainers regardless of political persuasion.

@mayjay

Here are some articles with figures that support the contention that Kaepernick had a big effect on NFL viewership.

Link ↗ about media admitting the Kaepernick effect.

Here ↗ is one from Forbes.

This one ↗ is from Yahoo Finance.

Sporting News." target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/news/nfl-tv-ratings-rasmussen-reports-poll-colin-kaepernick-anthem-protest-reaction-effect/95jdoch1ngj103xvbkllcbvk) ↗

Want more?

Kaepernick was arguably the biggest driver for lost NFL viewership. Of course ESPN and its well known liberal agenda will ignore the big elephant in the room and pretend it is something else.

@approxinfinity

For an individual new to politics getting info on the other party would obviously seem like good news. Keep in mind that there is nothing illegal with what they did; unwise? yes, illegal? No.

Tyler's degree is in Sports Management and he is just moving on in his chosen field.

@approxinfinity

You are forgetting that except for some consultants that were eventually hired, basically the entire Trunp campaign team was new to politics including Trump Jr. and his brother in law; competent business men, no doubt, but complete newbies when it came to politics. They probably saw an opportunity to get some oppo research and jumped to it and did not realize they were being setup until the meeting got underway and the topic was not what they were expecting.

When the full story is told, the Democrats might end up regretting having pushed it when it comes back to bite them in the butt.

@Crimsonorblue22

Good story indeed except the procedure described is not the Heimlich maneuver but CPR.

@mayjay

In the KC area, we have had temperatures in te upper 90s with high humidity almost every day for the last couple of weeks and Saturday it got o 103; heat index has been consistently over 100 degrees. AC bill is going to go through the roof.

Ah yes, the dog days of Summer...

@wissox

I agree. The minimum wage was never mean to be the main source of income for an adult. My grandson who is in HS works evenings as a Tae Kwan Do instructor (he is a black belt) and during the day he works at Domino's taking phone order and making $8 per hour and has no complaints. Many kids that work at fast food places are grossly overpaid even at minimum wage.

Perhaps an individual who is working a minimum wage job should not be having kids he /she cannot support and then expecting tax payer's support.

In the old days, we used to get an education, get a job with a decent pay, get married and then have kids when we were able to support them without help from the government; too bad tings are ass-backward now a days and taxpayers have to bear the brunt of the irresponsibility of some people.

mayjay said:

@JayHawkFanToo So, you obviously think the Truth hurts? 😎 backatcha!

In his hay day the truth would drop 25 points on you and hurt you really bad but now that he is retired he is pretty harmless. We are talking about Paul "the truth" Pierce, right?

@BeddieKU23

Porzingis is really good and very young.

@approxinfinity

Probably softer than the Washington Post. ↗😂

@approxinfinity

While the information was made public in January, it has been available to insiders since long before the election. If the information was good, don't you think Hillary would have had it front and center? Bob Woodward of Watergate fame and still working for the ultra liberal Washington Post called the dossier a "garbage document." Enough said.

@Texas-Hawk-10

Mitch played at 209 pound las season and since then he has gained 8 pounds as of June and he expects to gain another 8 by the beginning of the season and get to 225 pounds ↗. Not bad for his build.

@approxinfinity

Here is one from Forbes ↗, a pretty respectable source.

Here is one" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/25/christopher-steele-admits-dossier-charge-unverifie/) ↗
where the author of the dossier admits his charges are unverified.

Here is one ↗ where one the banks implicated is suing the author of the dossier

Here is another ↗ with interesting background information on the links between the author(s) of the dossier and the Democratic Party.

Need more?

@approxinfinity

The report by the former MI6 agent was part of the opposition research dossier generated by the Fusion GPS group whose client was the DNC. The report was leaked to Sen. McCain who turned over to the FBI. The entire dossier was debunked by the FBI who deemed it to be not credible. Interesting that the report indicated that the Russians have been feeding information to the Trump campaign for many years; however Trump did not have a campaign team until after he announced his candidacy in June of 2015. By the way, do you know who has links to the Fusion GPS group? The lawyer that met with a Trump Jr. I understand she has indicated she is available to testify in front of Congress; I would be curious to hear what she has to say.

When you continue to cite a discredited report that has been fully debunked by the FBI (who is no friend of Trump) you continue to spread what now is called fake news. While this information has been kept low key by the MSM (big surprise) it is readily available from multiple reputable sources.

As far as your previous question on whether Obama could have won a third term, the answer is no, Hillary was supposed to be Obama's third term and the country rejected her and by extension Obama, who endorsed Hillary, campaigned extensively for her and repeatedly indicated that a vote against Hillary would be a vote against him.