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Crimsonorblue22 said:

@jaybate-1.0 you have been into jay ballers meds!

Increasingly in our drug addled world, all that is good is reduced to meds in jest, because the jest alludes to our deepest fears that good is no longer feasible.

The good stuff can't be enjoyed through meds, only inspite of them.

Meds and jokes about others being on meds, always betrays a weary soul that wants the blinders off, but fears the light may be to bright, or alternatively, that the darkness may NOT go away when the blinders come off.

Rock Chalk!

@StLJhawk

And this is why it has to be. :-)

We cannot live on the drivel Hollywood is putting out these days.

It is time to make new legends.

@approxinfinity

I grew up in Kansas City, which was categorized a medium to 3/4 sized city, I reckon. I have lived in much bigger cities and much smaller towns. Everywhere I have lived, I and those I grew to know, all tended to break down the place that we lived into a community within a larger area, even in the smaller towns I have lived in. One lives in a very, very tiny corner of any city or town one lives in. One gets to know one or two schools. One tends to frequent one, or two shopping areas. At Christmas, one tends to broaden out where one shops for a month, then goes back to one's old, much smaller world. Even the awesome recreational amenities that most places have, whether their stereotypes suggest they have them or not, grow over time to be used less and less, rather than more and more. Increasingly one hangs with ones family and friends. And then one's family matures and departs and so you mix with a smaller number of your family. And your friends move away over time, or you grow less close than you once were, and then you find yourself with a fairly small ring of regular social contacts. And so what really matters in the long run is how much you like your crib and how much you like a few of your favorite things around you, and how well the weather agrees with you. Weather is often a surprising variable. You think you want to be by ocean, but then you get there and after 5-8 years you realize you don't use it much and its kind of crowded to get to the beach and there aren't as many days when the weather and swells are small enough to go out and really enjoy being on the water. Or you move to a desert climate to get out of the snow and you find that as you get older its harder to take the heat than the cold, or you start in the desert and move to a cold climate and decide you can't take the cold. Its all very unique to the person what works and what doesn't over time. The great thing about America has been that one could move around and try new things out and find what worked for one and not be treated as a leper for having done so. Oh, there are always those that never move and view those that do as aliens from another dimension, and that's okay, too. There has been room in America for all kinds and that's what has made it a country I have preferred to live in, despite having visited wonderful places off shore and not wanted to give up my citizenship. I just read (and looked at) a coffee table book by a painter named Charles Wysocki. He has a very distinct style I have always admired and yet he seemed to folksy for me for many years. But when I read him and heard in his own words how much he loved America and the parts of America that were wholesome and loving and free, well, I recognized a kindred spirit that had walked the talk of love and freedom in a land that at least once tried to balance enterprise and community. Its still there. Its out there everywhere. What we are really doing when we scope our world down to a small part of a city, or town, is making a place that has as much of that freedom and love as we can manage from the larger, impersonal, producer oligopoly culture endlessly infrastructured and increasingly experimented on by a Deep State with a secret mission statement that apparently includes trying to demoralize us in macro, so none of us get together in micro, and then in macro, to say, get the hell out of our country. We are a democracy practiced through a republic. We are not a mindless bunch of consumers, or a bunch of Pavlov's dogs that need a steady diet of orchestrated terror bells rings, plus mood altering drugs from Big Pharma to get us through the difficulties of life.

Let me recommend a marvelous book to you. Unless you like to sail, no one else will ever recommend this book to you, same as no ever did to me (and I even like to sail!). "Sailing Alone Around the World" by Captain Joshua Slocum. Slocum was American by citizenship, but was a Nova Scotian by birth. The book was published in 1899/1900 and recounts Slocum retiring from a maritime career early on a commercial sailor and later as a sailing boat captain. Soon not knowing what to do with himself, he decided to sail a 36 feet 9 inch x 14 feet wide sailboat called "The Spray" around the world alone. He had been off the sea and missed it. From a far, and to a landlubber like me, the Spray would have looked at first like a ketch (two masts), but it was properly a sloop rig (one mast). It sailed part of the journey as a sloop, and then he added a tiny jigger mast footed at the very stern, for another part of the voyage. I reckon the jigger mast helped with steering and with not always having to run the big sheet on the main mast up and down so much, same as happens on ketches. In any case, when Slocum first saw the Spray it was on the hard and in ill-repair. He spent $553.62 in materials (hand chopping his own local Oak for new stem and keel ( and buying 1 1/2 inch thick Georgia pine for hull planks) and took 13 months to rehabilitate it. The point here is he did not reinvent the wheel, or the boat. He took something old, that an old Captain said had been a seaworthy boat, and adapted it. He did not make it better. He made it good again. The old boat served as more a three dimensional blue print than as a boat to be rehabbed. The finished "Spray" was almost a new vessel. To a captain of 3-masted schooners, The Spray seemed a small boat. I'm still in a league of thinking 28-32 feet is big. I could go on about this book and adventure of Slocum's for a long time, but the part I want to share with you is this:

"To young men contemplating a voyage, I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as also are the stories of sea danger. I had a fair schooling in the so-called "hard ships" on the hard Western Ocean, and in the years there I do not remember having once been "called out of my name." Such recollections have endeared the sea to me. I owe it further to the officers of all the ships I ever sailed in as a boy, and man to say that not one ever lifted so much as a finger to me. I did not live among angels, but among men who could be roused. My wish was, though, to please the officers of my ship wherever I was, and so I got on. Dangers there are, to be sure, on the sea as well as on land, but the intelligence and skill God gives a man reduce these to a minimum. And here comes in again the skillfully modeled ship worth to sail the seas.

"To face the elements is, to be sure, no light matter when the sea is in its grandest mood. You must then know the sea, and know that you know it, and not forget that it was made to be sailed over."

Gather you experience and sail with it, always.

But never fear having to raise your children anywhere that you find offers the best for you and them.

Land and seas and cities were meant to be sailed over, to borrow the spirit of Slocum.

Rock Chalk!

Uno Young is now a memory.

So many Uno Youngs.

Too many.

Uno should transfer to KU, sit out a season, and remake his game. It has worked for others.

James is ready!

He has been slow cooking like good ribs on the bench.

He has been seasoned.

From the moment, he left JUCO, he has been being groomed for this appointment with destiny.

He is on no one's radar screen.

He has paid his dues ALL season, while the basketball players got their development time.

James has been grinding it out in practice.

He was placed on this team for a reason, not by Self, alone but by higher basketball powers.

His time is coming and it is coming in a conference tournament game, or maybe the first, or second weekend of the tournament.

Self needs to get him some minutes so he is ready to fulfill his destiny.

Everyone knew this was going to happen from the moment that Mr. Basketball, Bill Self, had to raid the football team for an insurance player.

James is going to save Bill Self's and KU's bacon once before the season is done.

Of course, the most likely thing of all is that KU makes a Cinderella run to the Carney Finals and James has to close out a double overtime game, because Doke, Silvio, and Mitch have fouled out. The opponent is killing us inside. Self tries to defend the lead with James on the bench for the last 3 minutes of the second overtime, but the opponent goes +1 with 9 seconds to go. KU accidentally fouls and the opponent gets 2 FTAs. KU has to have the rebound, if there is one--HAS to have it. Self does the only rational thing. He puts James in to grab a rebound if there were one and gives instructions to call time out immediately to sub James out if the possible. The opponent misses both FTAs and the carom rims to James, who gets fouled before a TO can be called. James shoots and makes the first FT. The opponent calls a TO to ice James and make him think about the next FT. James walks off the floor cool as a cucumber. Self shoots him one of his confidence and swagger inspiring grins. James puts his hand on Self's shoulder. "Relax, this is what I was meant to do for The Legacy, coach. Its in the bag." Self says, "You da man, James." The teams return to the floor. James steps up. He drains the FT. KU is +1. The team races to defense and James steals a long desperation inbounds pass and passes it to Devonte who dribbles till time runs out. James Sosinski and the 2017-2018 Kansas Jayhawk basketball team joins the greatest legends of the greatest team of the greatest game ever invented! Amazing things happen in this basketball program.

Rock Chalk!

Almost forgot Vick finding his mojo!!

Things were never better. Just gotta keep finding the sweet spot!

I’m all in with @HighEliteMajor.

Cue Tony Bennett...

The best is yet to come...

Ah, was Malik a weaponized bundle of fast twitch, or what? SHOWCASE THIRTY!!!

And then we have Mitch stepping into the breach and delivering with Silvio telegraphing some next season this season!! The M&S Committee went 14/14 from the post! Big time!

And Svi was starting to ramp back up out of his mini slump.

And Self rested Devonte a whole minute, so Devonte is rested for tomorrow!!!!

Go, Hawks, GO!

Everywhere is a good place to live in USA; that's what I learned over 40 years of grinding it out.

Any time they say a place is bad, you will find there are really great things about the place that keep the people living there that the researchers aren't counting. Persons substitute A for B, when they live in a place. They never just do without A. They start doing B.

Put another way, the places ranking places to live are standardizing the places. It is nutty. Essentially, they are leaving out all of the really terrific uniquenesses of places that make them so wonderful to live in. Its sad that persons buy into these lists.

The only thing that makes it hard for me to enjoy living in a place is when the persons I have to associate with are so monoscopic in their views that no other place exists; this usually only occurs with folks that don't travel and don't move around.

As long as I can find some folks that have moved around some and travel some, we can get together and really appreciate the unique things about whatever place we are in.

And I've run into provincial, insular types every where I've gone--in big cities and small, all four coasts (the Great Lakes, East and West, and Gulf).

Seriously, I think these lists are for persons lacking an openness to life and the way its lived everywhere.

So many Americans have let themselves be place-shamed about liking this, or that place, and thinking that only this, or that place is cool.

Cool is any place that has a place for you to work and do what you like to do, and food and a roof you can afford. Once you get food and a roof set up, the finer things in life are greatly varied and engaged in in different ways everywhere you go in America.

@HighEliteMajor

Really, I view this as a huge positive and posted so on another thread.

All the team has to do is play two weeks without him; that is NOTHING for this team, if its shooting well.

This weeks means nothing; that's one week.

The first round of the March Carney is nothing, if the team shoots well.

Don't really see ANY issue at all.

Two weeks of hydrotherapy and and some stretching and Doke's back to dunking.

The team will get a boost.

On to the ring.

Unless they are fibbing about the degree of injury. :-)

P.S.: And I like the allusion to Rambo in the original!!!! Bill "Dick Crenna" Self just walked John out of the carnage of the first game past the sieging NG and police, and now we are ready for Part II, where Rambo shoots the rest of the Big 12 Tournament to pieces; then Rambo goes into the first weekend of the Carney and takes them down one by one knifing all the opponents in the thighs before opening up from trey with belted M-260s blazing.

Stay alive till Doke revives!!!!!!

Amazing things happen in Sprint Center.

Lightfoot + de Sousa = Azuibuke.

Good trey shooting beats bad trey shooting.

Losing Buike = best thing to happen to this team. This team thrives on obstacles and adversities. The solution to this problem is get off their butts and win for two weeks without him, then bring him in and win the national championship!

Way to strap them up and play like champs today!

Go Hawks!

@BeddieKU23

TTech will regret this big time in 3 years.

@approxinfinity

The bottom line for me is that from somewhere in the late 1980s to early in the 1990s, the bulk of culture crossed a frontier from analog information and process to digitalization of same.

From that moment on, ANYTHING can be made up at any step of the digitalization of the information in a way that cannot be revealed through the digitized evidence itself.

I know there are some digital tracks, but none that a well funded hoaxer could not mask.

I am not saying there is no way to prove anything.

But I think with really anomalous claims like the sudden irrefutable proof of aliens, one has to try to figure out how it could have been hoaxed, before accepting it.

@HighEliteMajor

That was a thought provoking read.

But it prompted a question: where did he get that photo of our galaxy? :-)

I don't believe any of our alleged space probes have reached that distance, have they?

May be an alien visitor gave it to him?

Now, about the Fermi paradox.

Fermi posited it before Chaos Theory and Complexity theory were articulated and verified.

The key is sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

Ferm's conception of the universe did not take sensitive dependence on initial conditions into account.

Fermi said the universe was way big.

Even the Milkyway was way big.

He saw all the stars as possible Ns in a vast distribution.

In his conception, if one sifted all the stars for the ones with solar systems about like ours, and with a planet about like Earth, one would be left with enough planets that statistically speaking a goodly number of should generate life. Among those that life should evolve to something capable of leaving a signature of some kind for us to find. Thus he was presuming a potential for similar evolution of life.

But we know now that sensitive dependence on initial conditions greatly alters possible outcomes. And in very short order, the sensitive dependence evolves into bewilderinging complexity.

I don't think his statistical models accounted for sensitive dependence. I don't believe the Chaos and Complexity mathematics existed for him to account for statistical impact on outcomes.

To the point, each planet that Fermi assumed might generate light was in fact a highly unique phenomenon on which even the tiniest variations in initial conditions could have lead to a pathway of events completely precluding life's formation, or could have completely precluded its evolutions steps unfolding remotely similarly to earth's life.

Essentially, sensitiveness of initial conditions does something similar to Fermi's assumption that Fermi's assumption did to the question of where is everyone.

Sensitive dependence on initial conditions sky rockets the possibilities of life not emerging, and of life not emerging in a recognizable way with any kind a culmination leaving any recognizable signature.

And as far as I know Erico Fermi, great genius that he was, did not include this order of magnitude expansion of statistical possibility of no life happening, or of life happening in forms that would not leave signatures we would recognize.

I have not studied the intersection of the Fermi Paradox and Chaos/Complexity. I am just speculating off the top of my head. I would think some statisticians and scientists since the advent of Chaos/Complexity theories have looked into this intersection and could either quatify what I am suggesting, or expose the errors in it.

Again, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing this with me.

The "alien thing" is again ascendant the last month or two.

One track of the story is the trickling out of new evidence from supposedly respectable sources like the military and intelligence sectors.

Another track of the story is the private oligarchy may be springing an alien hoax as part of a ruse to drive us into subordinating to a global collective security structure with Russia and China and certain other leading countries. Add in a few more market collapses and eventually the people's of the world will practically beg for the new order. This track says the hoax of aliens AND economic traumas are the path to triggering formation of an international military order and force. Russia announcing a new hypersonic missile system, as if it were a real surprise that USA had not given them (or they had ported to themselves illegally) to develop long ago, then incentivizes us to want to join in with the Russians to combat the evil alien threat. The Ruskies have the best weapon, or so the thinking might go. There are differing scenarios about whether China is invited in, or kept out and contained by the new global military order.

I'm still a skeptic on aliens. Probably more so than ever.

Why?

Because this wave of "aliens are real" stories is surfacing at exactly the time that our digital technology and sharply increased government control of the internet are enabling the faking of irrefutable evidence.

Faking a documented alien presence would likely lead to further fear and demoralization of the nations of the world; this would further enable pursuit of a global collective security order presaging one world order, the same way NATO was used to presage the European Common Market and then the European Union. Remember to get the EU formed they had to use the Soviet boogey man for a long time. Aliens would make great boogey men.

My best guess is the Atlanticist private oligarchy want to distract us again.

They've been sewing predictive programming of alien mythologies in popular entertainment since the early 1900s when the Atlantacist private oligarchy's central bank began to unfold the contemporary central banking order we see today. Maybe they are now giving the predictive programming a pilot test to see the actual effects of telling people aliens exist.

I don't know.

I just think it is very conspicuous and improbable that real aliens would be confirmed at the very moment that digital technology and government control of the internet enable fake generation and distributing of supposedly irrefutable evidence.

Remember, reports of aliens from other worlds have been reported for much of human history, but have always escaped irrefutable documentation, and so have never been widely accepted as real.

Again, doesn't it seem a long shot that aliens would be irrefutably confirmed at exactly the moment in time when our digital technology and our tightening governmental and intel control of the internet are capable of faking irrefutable evidence?

Michael Crichton long ago made clear that digital technologies made the faking of evidence so convincing that it actually could not be detected as fake. Hence, any evidence transmitted digitally has to be viewed with some skepticism.

And remember something else.

Cui bono?

Who benefits from being able to be the ones that claim to be in contact with irrefutable aliens?

The ones that report the irrefutable evidence, I would guess.

They get to tell us how we should best organize ourselves to meet the startlingly new challenge of surviving, or collaborating with the new aliens.

The papacy was once able to convince great armies of Christendom to go on military crusades because of their direct line to god.

I reckon this could work somewhat similarly.

But I am a skeptic.

I don't buy conspiracy theories generally.

And I absolutely don't by the conspiracy theories, or conspiracy theory meming, spread by military-intel.

But I do embrace hypotheses with high probability of feasibility that predictably serve the interests of a highly motivated and sufficiently funded groups of players from time to time, same as I from time to time find alternative hypotheses to those presented in official stories, as being more probably feasible.

Most times I just don't know what to think and so sit and wait.

Hence, I am partial to just sit and wait for the evidence to come in in a form that I can find no way to call into doubt, and that I can confidently supply an answer to cui bono to.

My suggestion is for Americans not to get too excited about the "alien thing" and wait and see.

I know I still haven't seen an alien yet, nor have I been contacted by one...that I know of.

Rock Chalk!

Very tough break. But the sketchiness of the information supplied and the timing so close to the recent stories about the FBI investigation and rumored connection to KU makes me wonder if there might be something more going on here. I hope not.

@HighEliteMajor

Yeah, this is the best I have ever seen by any coach.

Any number of all time greats might have been able to do it, but I don't recall any that circumstance forced them into doing.

The only thing comparable to this was the guys at NASA under Gene Kranz "turning this into this" to get Apollo 13 back.

I still have no clue how he did it.

I mean he shifted gears and redialed schemes so many times, that his shifting arm and dialing hand has to suffer repetitive stress syndrome.

It was virtuoso coaching in the middle of a fecal storm.

I don't know how they won that game in Morgantown.

I don't know how they won several games.

I don't know how he masked how bad of a free throw shooting team this is.

I don't know how he got so much scoring out of a post man that can largely only dunk.

I don't know how he got by with Mitch as a back up.

I don't know how he backed up all the perimeter positions when he only had Marcus Garret for a backup.

It is simply genius.

There is no other way to explain it.

Coach K, Roy, Calipari, these guys would all be .500 right now.

I'm not even sure Self knows how he did it.

That's what makes me sure its a large portion genius.

Unless something comes out later indicating the college game is as fixed as it appears to be at times, this is the best coaching job I ever saw in a single season, even if he loses the first round of the NCAA.

If he makes a run for a ring with this team, then they should build him a separate wing at the BHOF.

Go, Bill, go!

I don't see any reason why board rats aren't applauding this KU team for helping to improve the chances of a fellow conference member get in the Big Carney.

I also don't see why board rats are stewing about this loss.

If we lose game 1 of the conference tourney, it will be because its pointless.

If we lose game 2 of the conference tourney, it will be because its pointless.

If we lose game 3 of the conference tourney, it will be because it is pointless.

If we lose the first weekend of the Big Carney, it will be because we shot poorly from three, or because Self was amping one game and not the other.

If we lose the second weekend, it was because either we shot poorly from trey, or we ran into a better team.

If we lose the third weekend, it was because we shot poorly from trey.

That was easy.

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JayHawkFanToo said:

@mayjay

Good satire can be funny, poor satire is not only not funny but offensive as well and promotes divisiveness, particularly when it is not just a single comment but a series of comments designed to provoke a reaction; I would bet dollars to doughnuts his publicist and agent were not amused. Chris Rock’s lines were not funny but offensive to a great deal of people except to those who want to promote race divisiveness. Thanks but no thanks.

I don't see any evidence for this at all. :-)

NONE!!!!

Howling!

Self is a complicated human being, as we all are. Every meeting with Oklahoma state is a new circumstance. Self is always trying to make the team better. Coaches have long believed that a team can get overconfident from success. They can begin to let down, once they see how well they can play. I suspect today’s performance was tied up in self trying to take the team down a notch, and then it got away from him. The previous meeting KU may just have had some developmental problems and got caught on a game when Oklahoma State was playing well. Any coach at Oklahoma state has a pretty strong incentive to try to amp his Team up for a game against Oklahoma State graduate Bill self. You saw how they rushed the floor today. Self also is a coach simultaneously capable of great reason and quantitative analysis, while on the other hand capable of great emotion and psychological insight . He has a strong sense of legacy. When he talks of Allen Fieldhouse, he says amazing things happen in that building. That implies that self believes there are forces at play for beyond just executing and doing your best. Most knives have two edges. AcknowledgIng those dynamics help him with many games that he might but otherwise not win. Perhaps his being attuned to those psycho dynamics and legacyspirits can also work against him in a place like Gallagher-IBa filled with other legacies. Whatever, there is a lot going on under his hat.

@BShark

Yes, I laughed hard.

Jokes and jobs: those are the only ways to avoid the race war that so many are trying foment.

Americans better start hanging together, or they are going to hang apart.

Saw Chris Rock last night on the tube.

Hadn't seen him for awhile. Was wondering what had happened to him.

Looks like DIVORCE happened to him.

I hope he is okay.

He was not quite as funny as he used to be.

There was just too much self pity.

But he was VERY funny briefly when talking about finding god!

Wants to find god before god finds him!!!

He is really brilliant.

I like Rock a lot.

I just hope that bad boys in Hollywood didn't get to him.

@BShark

LOL!

Is the oligarch Vernon Jordan in white face?

Should we claim Padgett as a KU guy?

I just don't know.

Padgett looks younger than when he played at KU.

On any give day, when there is nothing at stake, any team can beat any team in the modern era.

Is Bucknell in the tourney this year?

Did everyone know that former KU transfer to Louisville Dave Padgett got the interim job at coupe'd'ville?

Man, are they trying to keep the bodies buried or what?

@KUSTEVE

No, but whenever it cannot be too soon.

Buster 1926 said:

@jaybate-1.0 Revenue sharing? Let em in, let em ALL in. Well they they go storming jb !! Big Kuntry autographs at Eskimo Joes later ... LOL-is what they do, do, do ...

What is it about ag/vet schools and rushing the court after KU wins?

BShark said:

This was the preview of our 2nd NCAAT game.

Ouch!!!!

Don't burst my bubble.

I have been trying to fantasize that this KU team is a special one with three point shooting magic and De Sousa slowly developing and deepening our bench bit by bit.

But I can see your skeptical POV.

@KUSTEVE

The person that gave it to me as disaster relief was appalled that I used kitchen matches. :-)

He said good lighters, when combined with butane manufactured with extremely low impurities, greatly enhance the flavor of a good cigar.

I think this may be a little bit like the 10/10ths types that get deeply into wine. I can taste differences out at the high margin of wine, but I just don't value those differences enough for the price.

I have a feeling this lighter business is similar, but I thought I would throw it out for discussion to ease the sting of this 21 point debacle.

Crimsonorblue22 said:

@jaybate-1.0 good one

You like colibri, and were joking, or you think they suck?

A 23 point pasting may be overdoing it, Coach Self.

On the other hand, this ought to drain our team of overconfidence.

A late loss before tourney play is alway good, unless you are trying to go undefeated for a season.

@HawkChamp

I wouldn't put much weight on this performance.

KU losing helps a B12 bubble team get in the tournament.

You interpret.

What brand do you recommend?

I have just come into possession of a Colibri cigar lighter.

Does anyone know if I should value it for lighting gars, or get rid of it?

I am an infrequent cigar smoker. And would prefer a side light for my equally infrequent pipe smoking.

Any advice on lighters would be appreciated.

Svi has been kind of quiet today.

Not much triggering, though I haven't looked at a box score.

I don't see how anyone can bitch about KU basketball. We are the most fortunate fans in all of college basketball.

Every time I read the name on the court in Allen Field House everything is okay.

Is Trae Young still suiting up for games, or has he just given up now that he knows everyone is going to focus on limiting him to 25-30 FGAs per game?

Who is bitching?

Alright, -10 with 10 to go.

KU has OSU where it wants them.

De Sousa da follows!

Silvio DeShoota

Down to -11

@StLJhawk

Yea, Garrett was an acquired taste for me, too.

But then we stepped inside the trey stripe to take a long 2 point

Only down 12!!!!

Basket!