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Don't get me wrong. I like having a couple guys with an edge. Vicks nasty streak last year was absolutely useful. And with age and familiarity the attitude can be let into the inner circle. Maybe the Lawsons this year are the peripheral attitude, the thought being that after a year of evaluation there's still time to pull the plug, and that the same would be true with this WKU kid. But I think that's dangerous. 3 wild transfer kids feels like too much. Theres an opportunity there for these guys to reinforce an alt reality about the situation. Working hard in practice while not being eligible can become something negative. Don't need three kids rapping about Bill Self on social media.
@HighEliteMajor talent is important but I hope whomever ends up at KU has a decent attitude as well. Don't need a distraction for the core we have.
@Bwag funny. I had almost equated it's value to the Bolivar when describing it but decided that might be too political.
@stoptheflop huh. I hadn't noticed that about his feet on the floor, but had noticed that he does some funky things once he jumps. Often, his knees are still very bent in the air, sometimes he scissor kicks in the air, and sometimes he kicks both feet down, and both seem to be done to get extra lift on the ball if he's tired (?). I wonder if this helps with his accuracy, as it allows his upper body to always do the exact same thing?
I burnt out on my lawnmower, moved on to dismantling an elevated side garden in preparation for paving the driveway today. Thanks for all the well wishes and guesses, 50 bucketpoints to the winner when I figure out what's wrong! (or 1 bucketpoint to each of you if I just buy a new one).
(*) bucketpoints are a new form of electronic currency similar to bitcoins only worth no money.
thanks guys. It's a TroyBilt 725ex 190cc walking mower with a 128M02/0926-B1 Briggs and Stratton engine.
Not sure where the fuel filter is. I know the carb was getting fuel
@jayballer54 I'm sure i messed up the skin you're using (in combo with the device / browser you use) with the tweaks I did. Reverted and all good for the time being. May revisit later :thumbsup_tone1:
I added a plugin that automatically builds tags out of the title (see under this post's title in the list). I'm hoping that this bolsters search traffic a bit to help a few new kindred spirits find us this bball season.
testing.
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I fought the lawnmower today and the lawnmower won. Wouldn't start, so I replaced the gas, the oil, cleaned the airfilter, replaced the sparkplug, cleaned the carburetor, then cut up my hands loosening the crankshaft bolt, which I shouldn't have done because I didn't have the flywheel puller anyway (i wanted to look for a sheared flywheel key, or maybe I just wanted to break down my lawnmower into little pieces at that point). Anyway, no luck, small engine repairman it is.. :-/
It might have been a cache thing. I forgot that there were themes that had light colored text anyway, so that means changing the background for the content to white put light text on light background for superhero. See, bowling ball, china shop.
hmm thats interesting cuz I removed the offending css. weird. ok thanks for that.
@Red.Rooster Thanks man! Glad we could get the upgrade knocked out in the bball offseason; that was a big win.
Killing the background for now as it caused issues for some.
@DoubleDD which one was it?
@ballin54 remember back when we were playing with which font looked best under profile? Thats what I mean by skin. Setting in profile. If I know which one is a problem I might be able to fix it.
@ballin54 I'll bet it has to do with whichever skin you were using on the other account. Can you tell me which one, then try to change it and see if that fixes it? If so maybe I can fix the custom css for the broken skin and then test it. Otherwise I'll have to roll back.
Hmm that's weird. So youre on the same computer? Maybe I broke something for you with the css overrides. You've logged off and logged back on and no dice?
@BShark wow man. nice update.
As with any css overrides there are often unforseen consequences. I'm just a hack. The nodebb guys deserve the credit here. I noticed that when you are loading a long thread, the picture, which is already heavily reduced in quality and pixelated, will get stretched tremendously and only a fraction of the picture will show on phones for those transitions. I probably need to rethink this one. Everything the nodebb guys did was with careful consideration so I'll try to carry my bowling ball with 2 hands through this China shop.
@JayHawkFanToo poke a doke, lol. that's great man :)
@jaybate-1.0 thanks man. if we get tired of it we can switch back, or try something else. it was just feeling extra vanilla tonight.
500 posts in this thread. That's passion!
@BeddieKU23 ah yeah, got to it eventually :)
I think it's a little windier up there.
Wonder if when all is said and done, Self will think back on his transfer laden teams as fondly as his homegrown teams. I wonder if coaching professionals would be more enjoyable than coaching transfers.
Here's where I started.
So the idea is that the democrats hired the Awan family to do IT work, and other democratic offices fired them, except Wasserman Schultz who kept them on payroll. They stole data from the democrats? Can we confirm what data? Where's the source for this? They ended up getting arrested for equipment and bank fraud, and now a conservative group The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) is calling for an ethics probe as to why Schultz kept them on payroll?
What are the facts here that would warrant an investigation?
I was kind of hoping we'd never have to deal with Wasserman Schultz again. If she did something legitimately criminal I'd love to see her locked up.
Can we just agree to soft boycott Fox, CNN, and ESPN and post stuff from sources that aren't spin straight off the tap? I'd like to dig into this, but I deliberately avoid watching these garbage channels. Don't want to walk into a story and get hammered with immediate bias.
@brooksmd Fox News is MSM.
@KUSTEVE lol
@dylans yep, I know you got your own thoughts. I'm just saying ESPN made Lavar Ball. Now Bilas conveniently serves the narrative that we should disown Ball. The media is indoctrinating us to worship a pantheon of egomaniacs of their choice.
@dylans wow. ESPN telling us what to think. Guess they dont like their pet monster now that he's all grown up.
@JayHawkFanToo I am not saying Trump rigged the election but I'm trying to explain the mind of someone who is coming from that premise.
So what you are saying is that if Clinton had won, and it came to light that she had actively participated in rigging the election, Tim Kaine should become President because the Constitution says that is the line of succession.
@JayHawkFanToo agreed. Nutjobs fly many different flags. Question though, if (and I'm asking you to answer this hypothetically, strictly hypothetically) a candidate were to tamper with an election and win because of it, what would be the fairest solution? His running mate would have benefited as well, so no go there, so you've already gone to uncharted waters. What is to stop then at the speaker of the house, if they are of the same party, if you've already broken form on the designed line of succession?
@mayjay here's a podcast about it (episode 3):
@JayHawkFanToo i see what you're saying here, but Trump's language went beyond just dealing with the Russian government in his denials. No deals in Russia, fake news etc. Regardless, being truthful would be to explain the truth not just deny some partial truth by playing word games while going on the offensive espousing your innocence. The whole thing stinks. Illegal? I don't think so with evidence to date. Untruthful? Yes.
Royals traded for Melky Cabrera?
@mayjay is that a legal issue? The initial omission of facts on a security clearance, then amendment? Should he have been denied clearance and is the granting of clearance despite these omissions something that can be scrutinized regarding legality? Or is this just really bad form, possibly unethical, but technically not illegal?
@JayHawkFanToo
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/donald-trump-russia-timeline-campaign-denials ↗
The lies were various forms of denial regarding contact with Russia, and I think mostly the person denying it was Trump himself. The Trump team took the easier road to electability by denying all contact, but they persisted with that lie up to the point of undeniable proof to the contrary.
Legally the line is drawn if one testifies and purjures oneself. I don't understand why Kuschner, Jr, and Manifort were allowed to testify in private and not under oath this week, but lying in such a format is still purjury. The transcripts also could be released by Congress with classified information redacted. They should be.
When you so forcibly deny the truth on social media platforms you use to conduct other business, such as executive orders banning transgender people from military service, the legal lines get a little blurry as to the criminality of those false claims. Regardless, a case can be made that no legal lines were crossed, provided that the testimonies of those three admitted contact with Russia, refuting all their prior statements on the matter.
Either way, the president and his team have clearly repeatedly lied to date.
@HighEliteMajor and here I was thinking I didn't like ESPN because most of their staff is annoying as crap, forced to be opinionated, and usually underinformed about the sports and sporting teams they cover... I am willing to concede that the mandated lean is liberal. Either way, it's obnoxious.
@DoubleDD I read the Forbes article..thanks for that. Good read. One thing I'm curious about is the claim that Fusion was already collecting material on Trump for a republican super PAC. I found this in Steele's Wikipedia page. When I attempted to verify it what I found was that Paul Wood for BBC had reported that it was Jeb Bush's PAC Right to Rise that funded it. The PAC denied it and BBC retracted the story.
I understand where you guys are coming from regarding frustration around the origin, credibility, and intent behind this document.
@DoubleDD sorry, I misspoke. What I meant was that as you said, it wasn't possible to verify an association beyond that, but I mistakenly said Clinton instead of Obama.
@JayHawkFanToo I get that they're new to politics but it's hard to believe that alarms weren't going off when they were contacted. I'm not a politician but I would know to proceed with extreme caution in that situation. If this was even a reflection of their business acumen it seems to point to carelessness. Not a quality you want in a presidential advisor.
@DoubleDD thanks. I read the piece you linked to. It didn't look like they said anything about Clinton being involved with orchestrating the meeting, as you said.
There is certainly the question of what the Russian attorneys motives were. I get that there could be an agenda here that was possibly trying to harm or get leverage on Trump. But seriously, why did they walk into this trap in the first place? Be it chaos, lack of understanding, or deliberately doing things that are going to get themselves in trouble, it feels like this administration is taking daily jogs through spider webs. This doesn't feel like being fresh and original in their approach. Why can't they avoid these mistakes?
And it seems like maybe the narrative has been shifted to try to incriminate Clinton in being behind the attorney, because it would be more socially acceptable that the Trump cabinet was careless if it was entrapment by Clinton. What if it was entrapment but by Russia instead of Clinton. Doesn't that become a problem when they walk right into it?
@KUSTEVE I don't agree. Polls on ESPN are meant to incite debate. The result is arbitrary.
@jayballer54 ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY!!!! Woooo here we go!
@HighEliteMajor I honestly don't believe there is a liberal media bias from ESPN because I consider them to be shameless opportunists. Their voiced opinions align with liberal bias because they believe that deliberately biased content will maximize their profits. Just as I don't believe they give a poop about Duke, but use strongly pro Duke language and selection of topics, I believed they handled Caepernick in a similar manner. So yes, I have no doubt that their garbage can have the appearance of a bias of any rediculous flavor on any given day, and I'm sure it's possible to find trends. However, they don't believe a word they are saying, they want you polarized and they want you enraged. If you deeply disagree then they have you on the hook just as much as if you strongly agree.
@DoubleDD I haven't had the opportunity to try to find sources regarding conspiracy around the lawyer that Donald Trump Jr met with and Clinton. I have been meaning to. Do you have a starting place on that angle with a source that doesn't have a strong bias on this? I've admittedly been blind to that angle but would be open minded to a source that didn't smell funny from the gate.