I like that our PG can be score first with a point forward.
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Beautiful passing. Much better.
I think so. both those last possessions were where he was the scorer not the facilitator. easy buckets.
Lawson needs to stop trying to do everything.
This ESPN app is sooo much better than the watchespn app.
Glad Self let Vick start at the 3.
@JayHawkFanToo I'm tired of distraction. I want Trump to eat sh-- for his relationship with MBS.
@BShark my fantasy team, so far, is the worst in my league :joy:
@HighEliteMajor Thanks for keeping it civil.
@BShark Thanks for the reversal.
Both perspectives have merit, and character assassination isn't going to invalidate the other.
@BShark At some point I think Silvio develops a 3 ball. Also, I think Silvio moves better on D than Mccormack or Udoka. This doesn't help us on the defensive end chasing 3-chucking bigs.
@BShark Thanks for the being the bearer of bad news. :(
Today's The Daily is all about the rise of MBS, and Trump's relationship with him.
Our modern world has been held together by false dichotomies.
Communism vs Capitalism.
Russian vs American.
East vs West.
Republican vs Democrat.
Conservative vs Liberal.
American Dream (American Exceptionalism) vs American forces seeking plutocracy
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These are false dichotomies because there are of course many ways to approach anything and everything, but the scale has been balanced along the lines of these dichotomies and the lines are taut. The tension holds the sides together and juxtaposed against each other artificially.
But now, these systems are in danger of all falling apart.
Some systems are failing because one extreme has folded into the other, Chinese Communism has embraced Capitalism. Donald Trump has embraced Putin and other autocratic leaders.
Some systems are failing because forces within each system seek to eradicate the opposite force, rather than dance with it as historically has been done; no more "give and take". American politicians have aligned with Trump because they seek greater plutocracy, the American Dream be damned. Normal American citizens have listened to his forked tongue, buying into his hate mongering, and are all in on taking something away from someone else, be it his simplistic ideas on China, or immigrants, or his full on hatred of liberals and his war on the media. His people are all in that SOMEONE is screwing them, and this guy is gonna set it all straight, and those people need to get screwed right back!... forgetting that the system was in balance, we had a system of give and take, a system of compromise. It was a pretty good system. And when you cut one weight in a balanced system the other one will be in freefall. The system will break.
It is a dangerous game to become an extremist, and to encourage your base to become extremists. The natural response in a system when one side becomes extremist is for the other side to move toward the opposite extreme. For every robocall, there is an equal and opposite robocall. For every bullshit media source, there is an equal and opposite bullshit media source. For every bullshit attack ad, there is an equal and opposite. For every intolerant policy, there is an equal and opposite EXTREMELY tolerant policy.
You will not get what you want by attempting to eradicate the other side. You simply will not. You might get anarchy. You might get civil war. You might get nuclear war. But you will not win what you wish to win by becoming more extreme and pitting yourself against your opposition with no compromise.
I'm scared for us all.
@JayHawkFanToo I'm pretty sure Coach K can convince himself that he has never done one bad thing in his life. He's always been a disingenuous, arrogant a-hole.
Heres (I think) the article @BeddieKU23 mentioned on Yahoo:
@drgnslayr ...and Roy doesn't give a flip about cheating!
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/college/article220131085.html ↗
@jayballer73 Glad to see you're on the mend. Welcome back!
@HighEliteMajor I think Bill really tried to play it straight, and what those texts reveal is a man a few meters down the slippery slope but grasping for some lesser standard that still represents a line he won't cross. "Just need a few real guys".
Would it sting you worse if he was involved in paying the 2008 team? I'd have a very hard time with that. I can still convince myself that this is a recent development.
loyolstud88 said:
atleast our program is clean and not linked to any scandals. All you bluebloods are alike...get all the calls, have refs on your payroll, have major shoe companies funneling money to recruits, getting the best recruits...must make your blood boil seeing a team of the common man beating you.
I think we did you wrong. Unbanned!
Me too. Here's my fantasy basketball team. It's a ten team league. I'm concerned my bottom half is a lot of speculation, and I didn't weight the stats quite right, as we went to a new scoring format this year. It used to be 7 cat H2H, now its weighted scoring (pts = 1 pt, assists = 1.5 pts, rebs = 1.2 pts, steals = 3 pts, blocks = 3 pts). imho assists are OP. Really need John Wall to not lay an egg, and some of my second stringers to become first stringers. My team won last year and half of them went first round / early second :)
@BShark kinda like Grantland, without the ESPN.
Hmm was Dana O'Neil a Duke-loving hack at ESPN only because that was what they wanted her to write?
I havent kept up to date but I just read this on ESPN. Is everything there stuff we already knew?
@Woodrow Kanye West isn't a shameless self promoter at all.
@KUSTEVE lol seriously? What proof do you have that Jay Powell is deliberately undermining Trump?
@KUSTEVE by "deck chairs", you mean the House, the Senate, the Judiciary and the Executive branch?
@KUSTEVE You do agree that Jay Powell runs the Fed, is a Trump appointee, is a Republican, and is the person who makes the final call on the interest rates, right?
@KUSTEVE Jay Powell is a Trump appointee and a Republican. Trump bookends criticism of the Fed with statements about not having direct contact with Powell and having a hands off relationship because he wants to play both sides. He wants people to trust the autonomy of the Fed, but he wants people to feel that the success of the economy was only tempered because the Fed raised interest rates. To suggest that the Fed had a partisan agenda that "favors the left" when Powell is in fact Trump's man seems to me to be incorrect, and a validition of why Trump is playing you with his fake criticisms of the Fed.
Regarding Fox News, they are doing a nice job of making you believe theyre a beacon of conservative truth thats fighting not to be snuffed out by the mean nasty liberals all around them. The truth is that they've been the number one primetime Network for 28 straight months! The world is progressive and nothing is fair? The problem as I see it is that no conservative news source with more journalistic integrity has made a play in the TV news space and they've allowed Fox to dominate.
Here are the ratings for July by network
Top 10 for July 2018 – Prime Time
Fox News (2,406,000)
MSNBC (1,663,000)
HGTV (1,360,000)
USA (1,344,000)
History (1,115,000)
Discovery (1,075,000)
Hallmark Channel (1,024,000)
Investigation Discovery (1,010,000)
TBS (999,000)
CNN (891,000)
Well, here's where we get to see whether Fox is actually state-run media ( do whatever the President wants) or just practically state run media (driven by ratings, journalistic integrity be damned):
@JayHawkFanToo I know I've been on the warpath the last couple weeks. You've let me say my piece and tried to rationalize where the other side is coming from. I don't agree with the rationale, but I appreciate your moderate temperament in the face of several pretty passionate liberal leaning individuals [even if we are justifiably so ;)]
@Woodrow interesting. Good Intel.
@justanotherfan Thomas did however play the race card, saying he was on the receiving end of a "high tech lynching". In my mind, that was in the same ballpark of impropriety as Kavanaugh saying it was a "revenge job by the Clintons" though not as bad as Kavanaugh's threat of "what goes around comes around", even if Thomas had a bit more composure in his presentation.
Didn't KU score 21 points in Morgantown? Isn't that a good thing? Confused.
@BShark that sounds like he's at least open to the idea of playing 12.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. Everything's coming up Frank!
:muscle_tone4: :heart: :basketball: :trophy:
Niiiiice! Glad his injuries seem fully healed. Got beat up last year.
Wowowow! The pinpoint alleyoop falling sideways after dead sprint at :28 was not shabby either!
@Woodrow he was saying that USA Today was "by no means a conservative publication", presumably to highlight that even liberal media has to admit [insert conservative talking point here], or something to that effect. The point is that this is false logic, as the author of the opinion piece he quoted is deeply embedded in conservative media. We've seen this faulty logic before, just keeping it real. Don't want my conservative buddies blind to how theyre being seduced by their conservative media.
JayHawkFanToo said:
Here is a nice summary ↗ in USA Today, by no means a conservative publication.
All the information cited above can be easily verified via google search.
Margot Cleveland, Opinion contributor to USA Today.
Margot Cleveland is a self described conservative Catholic law clerk who also writes for the Washington Examiner and The Federalist.
This piece is as about as unbridled a conservative opinion piece as you'd find in her other haunts.
Surprise! Conservative opinion writers are everywhere.
@mayjay hey, who you calling a ho?! Just kidding ;)
You corrected the typo. Haha
@Woodrow Legitimate news is not fabricated based upon what "half the country is thinking". The news is the news.
From a Fox News perspective of "the news as a weopon", this guy's comment begins to make more sense.
Speaking of moderate Republicans, Nikki Haley resigned today, unfortunately.
@DoubleDD here's a comprehensive list regarding who said what about Kavanaugh:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/01/us/politics/kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-witnesses.html ↗
Can we please stop with the one accuser/detractor fantasy? It's infuriating. Pretending certain people don't exist is not a good sign regarding how this Justice will rule.
@DoubleDD Oh I do think he did what he is accused of. And i think the investigation was artificially restricted. But thats not why I think he should be disqualified. I think the bar is even higher than "not having committed sexual assault" as to whether someone should be a justice on the highest court in the Judicial branch. Things like "not a partisan hack" and "not a belligerent d--k" and "not a liar" are the kinds of things I'm looking for.
The former Washington, D.C. bureau chief for CNN ripped the media for its extreme bias, misreporting, and low standards as they joined the Democratic party in launching an all-out assault to stop Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh from being confirmed to the nation's highest court.
The fact that your conservative "news" source Daily Wire ( est. 2015) claims that Sesno ripped the media for "standards as they joined the Democratic party in launching an all-out assault to stop Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh" is frankly misreported BS itself, as it is insinuating that Sesno stated this as opinion. I watched the piece and this was not close to his quote. So hungry are we for counterpoint that we eat up BS.
Can you call out this Daily Wire site for having low standards when in fact their standards are not for impartial news but rather weaponized information masquerading as fact?
I feel like a broken record.
@DoubleDD I believe he should have been disqualified based upon temperament, partisanship, and lying about being of drinking age when he wasn't and attempting to downplay the extent of his drinking. I stated so. But again you demonstrate that you don't care what I individually think, you've lumped me into a group you can program your counterpoint against (see my link a few posts up).
Finding trolls on the left in response to my post does not justify the lack of rationality on the right, it confirms it.
@Woodrow my previous post about this - /topic/7864