I wonder: Has @HighEliteMajor heard from Milton's brother lately?
mayjay
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@DoubleDD For all of your concern about Hillary, and your unhappiness about main stream media, here are some things to consider:
Hillary's private email server: story broken by New York Times
Hillary's foundation/access to SofState: story broken by Wash Post
"Friends of Bill"/Haiti scandal: story broken by ABC News
Has Breitbart ever broken a single story about the Russian interference invthe election, or about all the contacts admin members have had despite denying them? Has Fox ever discovered anything unfavorable to Trump?
If Hillary did anything illegal, it is done now that she is no longer in any office. In contrast, the investigations by the Republican-led congress and by Mueller into the Russian/Trump mess involve people still in positions of influence. If anything corrupt is going on, that is a bigger and more immediate threat deserving far more attention than HRC.
@approxinfinity Isn't this the third thread on this topic?
@REHawk Moi? :innocent:
EdwordL said:
If Doke cannot get better, then he should do what he did in the one Italy game (when he received the long pass)--toss the ball to the backboard, then dunk the FT for 2 points!
Wilt made them change the rules for FTs. He used to take a step to the line and go up with his finger roll. Can't jump forward any more. If Doke puts it off the backboard without hitting the rim, it is a violation and ball out to the other team.
@wrwlumpy Gosh, you just had to give @Crimsonorblue22 and @RockChalkinTexas a picture of good old Fabio, didn't you? Then George Clooney, too? They are going to be impossible now!
@DoubleDD Did you miss this part?
"especially one commonly discriminated against in a community, society, or nation"
If the demographic projections are true, whites will still be the largest single racial group for quite some time, some 46%:
"Minorities, classified as those of any race other than non-Hispanic, single-race whites, currently constitute about a third of the U.S. population, according to Census figures. But by 2042, they are projected to become the majority, making up more than half the population. By 2050, 54 percent of the population will be minorities.
"Minority children are projected to reach that milestone even sooner. By 2023, the bureau said, more than half of all children will be minorities....
"The projections are based on Census 2000 results and assumptions about future childbearing, mortality rates and net international migration, the bureau said.
"The group predicted to post the most dramatic gain is the Hispanic population. It is projected to nearly triple, from 46.7 million to 132.8 million, from 2008 through 2050, the bureau said. Its share of the total U.S. population is expected to double from 15 to 30 percent. "Thus, one in three U.S. residents would be Hispanic," the Census Bureau said in a news release.
"The African-American population is projected to increase from 41.1 million to 65.7 million by 2050, going from 14 percent of the U.S. population to 15 percent. The Asian-American population is expected to increase from 15.5 million to 40.6 million, or from 5.1 percent to 9.2 percent of the population.
"Among the remaining races, the bureau said, American Indians and Alaska natives are projected to increase from 3.9 million to 8.6 million, going from 1.6 percent to 2 percent of the U.S. population. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders are expected to more than double, increasing from 1.1 to 2.6 million."
I don't think you have to worry about being rounded up into camps or anything.
@DanR Sorry to hear about your loss. I hope you get to go in spring! I will look forward to hearing about it. We will just be hanging with the gkids on Maui this next trip, but when my wife retires in 2018 we will make longer trips and get to explore the other islands.
So, I guess there is an investigation. Go figure.
@DanR
All immigrants. Anywhere, any time. Everyone should have just stayed in Africa 2 million years ago, for crying out loud. And what's with the Bering Straits bridge in the Ice Age, anyway? Should have had a freakin' wall. People ruined this hemisphere. The birds and bison would have been very happy being left alone.
@DoubleDD I would simply say that not everyone feels that the flag represents them very well. You counsel patience. It took the US 78 years after the Constitution to get rid of slavery. It only took 12 years after that for the South to start enacting Jim Crow laws, which took nearly a century to overturn, and which have left a legacy of inequality in housing, economic opportunity, justice, health, and education. That would be roughly 12 generations of blacks who have lived under Old Glory in a country ostensibly founded on freedom but offering millions much less for most of that time. I am guessing the "patience" advice seems kind of hollow by now.
drgnslayr said:
Before we get too negative on Dedric let's not forget other past players that needed to be disciplined.... like TT and the Morris twins.
And JamTray and Brady and JJ and....
Okay, after listening to the first quarter I broke down and purchased! Putting a cancel reminder on my phone calendar for August 25.
@DanR He was hired on March 31, after the end of the 2011-12 season.
Games schedule and radio (not paid):
ESPN Kansas City will air live coverage of the KU men's basketball team's exhibitions in Italy, set to air at 11:30 a.m. on both Aug. 2 and 3, and at noon Aug. 5 and 6.
From KUSports.com
@wrwlumpy Well, they did win an NCAA game, after all. High water mark of the Squeaker era at KSU.
@Texas-Hawk-10 In addition, the boycotts organized by MLK and others were devastating to many white business owners and city bus systems, who sometimes were able to get them declared illegal business interference (the charges leveled against MLK and 89 others in Montgomery). Many organizers faced criminal charges for boycotts. Sounds purposely aggravatin' to me.
@globaljaybird Should have signed Holland.
@brooksmd I realize the topic incites you, but it is unfair to post a rant, then agree it shouldn't be there. You get your say while giving only lip service to the inappropriateness of interjecting it.
@Crimsonorblue22 Not at that price!
@JayHawkFanToo So all those police depts are wrong? Oh yeah, just a joke. Forgot.
As an engineer, can you tell me how far you can stretch the truth before it loses all characteristics of what truth is?
Besides that, last year's new CBA banned smokeless tobacco use by all rookies and anyone coming into the league in the future.
I think lots of places that prohibit smoking don't prohibit chewing. The don't usually have smoking areas. SF , I think, bans it all.
@Crimsonorblue22 It has, in all ballparks where tobacco use is totally banned. No exceptions for the players.
At least, that's what they said would happen....
@globaljaybird I only thought Ned screwed up in that game by not going ahead and walking the batter when that last wild pitch was thrown, which had put runners on 2nd and 3rd with only one out. You saw the result of the infield pulled in: perfect dbl play grounder Esky had to lunge at and throw to first while seated, then an attempt to get a throw home in time.
There was the same situation earlier in the game, and we got away with it, but over time, you handicap your defense when you pull the infield in. Routine ground balls become rbi FC's, and you never have an easy double play.
@KUSTEVE Self: "An altercation occurred and he didn’t handle it well."
We also had an altercation occur last year that wasn't handled all too well, but not in practice.
CK protested police brutality.
The president just advocated rougher treatment during arrests. Police departments nationwide disavowed his recommendation. Many of those changed their arrest procedures after police brutality was publicized.
I'm going with CK on this one.
People are still talking about what he protested. But although you may not be paying attention, that doesn't mean other people aren't listening.
@JayHawkFanToo Require all phones to sound a siren when a retina is visible to the screen in a crosswalk! Or enforce it with a laser! Goon squads with long butterfly nets with which they seize phones! C'mon, there is opportunity for some creative inventioneering for you engineer types here!!
@approxinfinity According to a variety of Trump supporters, if the President does it, it is not illegal because he can pardon people.
@JayHawkFanToo Yes, it is easy to have trouble remembering things from years back. How you can overlook an entire page on which you are expressly required to divulge that meeting you had with the Russian ambassador a whopping one month ago seems to be stretching it just a teensy weensy bit.
Okay, you believe him. A lot of well-meaning people don't. Including a number of conservatives, a point made many times here but to which you consistently fail to respond.
@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.
@KUSTEVE She and Ann Coulter have always been out to get me. So I paid a Delta passenger to take Ann's seat.
@JayHawkFanToo You and Double DD seem to think that the Democrats are leading the investigations. Which Congressional committees exactly do the Dems chair?
@KUSTEVE I was only responding to her complaining about liberals telling people how to think. No implication about her listeners intended.
More seriously, it probably just gives the locality a means to make a public relations point to raise awareness. And if someone violates the law, causing a driver to swerve and inadvertently hurt someone else, it provides a target.
@DoubleDD No, it is the fault of the people who manufactured the paint used in marking the lines.
All the protests would be sit-ins in the crosswalks. Oooops!
Honolulu is prohibiting pedestrians from looking at phones while in crosswalks. There have been many reports of huge increases in pedestrian injuries and deaths involving inattentive pedestrians.
So, what is your take? Apart from the ridiculously impossible enforcement issues, is this a sensible approach to public safety? Or is it namby pambies trying to protect idiots from themselves? I can see both sides
I am wondering because I see it as a microcosm of the other issues we were discussing. And not as visceral, so likely to not get nearly as heated.
@approxinfinity Tweets have no legal effect whatsoever except as evidence used to show the intent of a later-issued executive order, as has been done with the travel ban(s). The Supremes will be deciding whether that use is okay, but they have used extraneous comments by legislators in the past to void legislation passed with bad motives (e.g., NC voter restrictions) so the same principle might apply.
There are other legal issues, chiefly Jared's security clearance forms that have had to be amended 3 times, I believe, to add these contacts, change dozens of answers, and include over 100 people he had omitted initially. Might be excused as the work of a neophyte, but any ordinary federal employee would be cashiered for those. Obviously, Jared had no way of knowing how to answer and presumably with a net worth of 400 to 600 million, no assets to hire legal help.
@dylans I didn't even realize this thread was not in the political category! I am done.
@JayHawkFanToo Your SN link has an extra letter at the beginning. Here it is without it:
http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/news/nfl-tv-ratings-rasmussen-reports-poll-colin-kaepernick-anthem-protest-reaction-effect/95jdoch1ngj103xvbkllcbvk ↗
All of your articles were written in-season, two only 5 to 7 weeks in. The Breitbart article simply recaps the Yahoo Finance article (this is "the media"?).
Later numbers I presented to you previously show the overall effect for the season was less than the initial impact.
A factor, yes. "Killing the NFL"? Not by any measure.
@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.
More on Robinson, including his background of drama at WKU, which I'd forgotten:
@HighEliteMajor I just read in yesterday's paper about a 10th Circuit US Court of Appeals decision allowing a family to sue the Johnson County DA and police department for violating the family's right to be free from unreasonable search and seizures (no probable cause).
The police first decided to target people buying supplies for hydroponic gardening, and then tested 3 batches of wet vegetable matter taken from their trash cans. The police used field tests known to be incorrect as much as 70% of the time, and ignored the test mfr's recommendation that action should only be taken if a positive result for pot was confirmed by a lab test.
After thoroughly searching the house, scaring the kids to death, the swat search squad left with no evidence of marijuana. The DA had to cancel a major press conference scheduled for that afternoon.
Turns out the mom and dad had a hobby of growing their own organic tomatoes and a special tea (the wet matter found by the cops). The Court blasted the cops, the DA, and the judge who issued a warrant on such flimsy evidence (of entirely legal activity). It has taken them a few years and substantial legal expenses to finally have the chance to seek damages from the police.
Many police are wonderful, and I appreciate their dedication and going into dangerous situations to protect the citizenry. But even there in my old home of JoCo, being innocent is not always enough to avoid incompetence and bad faith.
@wissox Well, people are very parochial. He never mudered any of those fans' family members, after all, so that didn't directly affect them. Disrespecting the anthem? Striking at their core values, so they take that personally.
The recent body cam footage of Baltimore cops planting drugs, and the dismissal of 3 dozen or more cases as a result, certainly doesn't help the cops' efforts in Balt to rehab their reputation.
@Crimsonorblue22 Sort of like the excuse that you accidentally shot someone 12 times with a six-shooter.
@Crimsonorblue22 ....over and over and over again.
@BeddieKU23 Yep. From the Louisville paper:
"Robinson arrived in Bowling Green on July 9 and attended summer school for two weeks prior to his departure, the report said."
I guess if that wasn't a "term" under the rules he would not need a waiver, but that seems really unlikely.
@AsadZ @SkinnyKansasDude
This issue is being discussed on pp 22-23 of the 2018 recruiting thread. I posted the NCAA guidance over there.
I think he could transfer without sitting out if and only if he was not enrolled in a summer term and was present on campus on the first day of classes (regardless of whether his own classes started that day).
~~I think we don't know yet.~~
Edit: He attended classes for 2 wks of summer school. See other thread.
@DoubleDD Here in the south, sweet tea is the big thing. Don't drink that, either. Now, just once in a while, say every two months, I have an unsweetened iced tea at McD's if I am avoiding Diet Coke.
I know, you are saying, "Ha! I knew it! Gotcha!"
(slinks away in shame....)