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  1. 9 hours ago, Mo Horn said:

     He's gonna start a war with Iran to distract from the impeachment. I mean, how can you impeach a President who is saving the world from evil regimes?

    That and Saudi Arabia will make him an actual billionaire if he does their bidding like a good little bitch.

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  2. On 11/16/2019 at 11:03 AM, bad_teammate said:

    MY LEGACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     

    Obama was such a disappointment.  He came in preaching change and just rolled over the last part of his presidency.  He was a solid president, but he changed little, after talking such a big game in 2008. Obamacare was even a Republican plan previously. The only guy who went to jail for the financial crisis was a whistle-blower. Good luck seeing anyone from the financial sector do that again.

     IMO, If you want major change, don't vote for any candidate that got a degree from an Ivy League school. The connections they make there are exactly the people who will be hurt most by changes to help the majority of Americans.  Lately, that is where almost all our presidents have attended. Previously they came from a much wider variety of schools. Since 1988, all our presidents received a degree from an Ivy league school: Trump (Penn), Obama (Columbia and Yale), Bush II (Yale and Harvard), Clinton (Yale), and Bush I (Yale). During that time we have been in several wars, income equality has risen steeply, the money floodgates were opened for the rich and corporations to heavily influence our elections, banking regulations were weakened and not enforced properly, taxes keep getting lowered on the rich and corporations, etc. 

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  3. Poll from AP/Norc/USAFacts says social media is the most popular source of daily government information:

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    Many Americans say they rely on government websites, as well as news sources and social media, to get information. In total, 54% say they get information about the government from social media at least once a day, 52% say that about local TV news, 50% from national TV news networks and 47% from cable news. About 6 in 10 also say they have used government websites to look up information.

    And yet, poll found widespread skepticism about these sources — majorities say they have little to no confidence in information they get about the government from social media, the president, members of Congress and businesses.

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    A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and USAFacts finds that regardless of political belief, many Americans say they have a hard time figuring out if information is true. Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they often come across one-sided information and about 6 in 10 say they regularly see conflicting reports about the same set of facts from different sources.

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    Democrats are more likely to say they rely on scientists and academics, while Republicans are more likely to trust what they hear from President Donald Trump.

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    Republicans are more likely than Democrats to put a great deal of trust in the president’s statements, 40% to 5%. Overall, a majority of Americans (61%) have little to no trust in information about the government when it comes from Trump,

    Corra said he distrusts academics as too “liberal" and he's not alone in that regard among Republicans. More Democrats than Republicans say they consider something to be factual if it’s been verified by scientists — 72% versus 40% — as well as academics — 57% versus 30%.

     

     

  4. Trump did not release the Ukraine aid.  State Department lawyers determined that it could be released and that the White House had no standing to hold it up. Bolton in the middle of it. His testimony could be key.

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    President Donald Trump says he lifted his freeze on aid to Ukraine on Sept. 11, but the State Department had quietly authorized releasing $141 million of the money several days earlier, according to five people familiar with the matter.

    The State Department decision, which hasn’t been reported previously, stemmed from a legal finding made earlier in the year, and conveyed in a classified memorandum to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. State Department lawyers found the White House Office of Management and Budget, and thus the president, had no legal standing to block spending of the Ukraine aid.

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    The memo to Pompeo had determined that State had the authority to spend the money -- regardless of what Trump was saying through the OMB -- and would start the process by Sept. 7. But State officials were also wary of provoking a confrontation with OMB and Mick Mulvaney, the acting chief of staff who still leads the budget office, whose team argued they could block the money through a process known as apportionment.

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    Congressional appropriators were frustrated when their inquiry on Aug. 29 about the status of the State Department funds was greeted by silence. Days passed and on Sept. 9, when they asked again, the State Department’s Legislative Affairs office told them there was no hold on the $141 million, according to a person familiar with the matter.

    What they didn’t know, according to one of the people, was that shortly before Sept. 9, Bolton had relayed a message to the State Department that the funding could go ahead. It’s not clear whether Bolton, who resigned from the job a week later, did so with Trump’s approval.

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    An OMB spokeswoman denied that characterization, saying Bolton had done no such thing and didn’t have the authority to do so. Nonetheless, Bolton at the time was waging a battle with senior-level OMB officials over the funding and opposed putting any conditions on the aid.

    That may explain a cryptic letter that Bolton’s lawyer sent to Congress on Friday saying the former national security adviser has “new details” about the Ukraine matter that they don’t know about, without elaborating. Bolton has declined to testify against White House orders unless a judge rules he should and didn’t respond to multiple emails seeking comment.

     

  5. I think we would only have picked up the Coastal Carolina game as a win with Dearmon calling plays.  Maybe WVU, but we kind of lucked into the win vs. Tech with the bonehead play at the end. I'll keep that WVU game as an L due to that. So 4-4 with a good shot at a bowl game.   Dearmon has made a hell of a difference in our offense. I just hope it continues and he can adapt once other teams get a good amount of film on his schemes.  KU has an outside shot at a bowl game this year, which I would never have expected at the start of this season. I thought 3 wins was our ceiling, and probably was if Koenning was still OC. We have some good WRs and some strong RBs. Stanley should have been starting the last couple years, but that dumb ass Beaty could never see it. I think every season by the end, Stanley was starting; but, only after whatever QB Beaty had brought in that year to be the starter, shit the bed. The OL is still not very good, but Stanley has mobility and with our RBs playing well, other teams have to respect the run.

    The defense is doing better than I expected, considering how depleted we are there. Until we get some depth and some DL talent it will constantly struggle.

    Special teams are terrible again. Our FG/PAT team is the worst I have ever seen. How many blocked kicks and missed FG/PATs do we have this season? Probably due again to our lack of talent on the OL. The kicker is probably crap as well, but hard to judge when the OL is being pushed back into him. Special teams will continue to suck until we get some talented depth or play more starters on them.

    To take a big step forward we have to get some talent and depth on the defensive and offensive lines.

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  6. 10 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    "Very frightened puppies." "Died like a dog."

    What's his deal with canines?

    If my hours of playing DotA2 with Russians taught me anything, it is that Russians love to call people dogs when they are unhappy. Maybe he picked it up over the years from all the Russians he has helped launder cash for over the last few decades. Maybe he heard Putin use it and wants to emulate him. Who knows.

    Looked it up: 

    In the Russian Orthodox past, the dog was considered an unclean animal, as elsewhere in the world. Now, “dog” serves as an abusive interjection, when one wants to express annoyance. Calling someone a dog would mean you disapprove: “My cat has knocked over the flower pots again, the dog!”

     

  7. In South Korea, I have eaten Australian and American beef (it is marked on all the beef for sale where it is from). South Korean as well. There is no difference in the taste of the Australian and American beef. The South Korean beef is better, probably due to being fresher than the imported beef, but it costs twice as much as well.

  8. With KU football it is best to hope for the best, but expect the worst, because that is what you will get most often. Too many KU fans drank the kool aid on Miles turning this around quickly.  For me, this year and next year are kind of like Beaty's first two years - low expectations. Next year is likely going to be worse than this year, as the juco recruiting the last couple years under Beaty, will probably bite us hard. Year 3 is when we should be seeing some forward momentum. If not, my hope for Miles is the same as for Beaty (who failed at it). That hope is that Miles gets some solid high school talent in numbers into the program for the next coach. Of course, for a decade this has not happened.

  9. On 8/31/2019 at 12:04 PM, DoobieWah said:

    giphy.webp

    One Friday night a few years ago, I got on the subway in South Korea, sat down and looked across the isle at the seats on the other side of the train facing me. Right across from me is a 50-something dude drunk off his ass. His dentures are sitting on his piss covered crotch. As I am getting off the train at my stop, I take one last look at him and he is popping his dentures back in his mouth. 

  10. 20 hours ago, HenryJames said:

     

    Fuck this stupid ass motherfucker! You are the president of the goddamn U.S. of fucking A. Be a leader for once in your pathetic life. If you see some part of the country suffering in squalor, you can fucking do something about rather than pointing a finger at others and moaning about it on Twitter  like a fucking drama queen. You have the vast resources of the federal government at your disposable. JFC, this guy would not know leadership, even if Lincoln, FDR, and Washington smashed him in the face with their 100 pound cocks. When you are the guy at the top, you are responsible for those under you. Some will not need your help and others will, to get shit done, for one reason or another. Failing to get shit done is just not your subordinates failure, but yours as well. As president you hope the successes will outnumber the failures greatly, but there will plenty of failures no matter what. This herpes sore on the asshole of America, fucking only wants credit for successes and turns a blind eye to all the failures or lies about them being successes, or worse uses them for political gain rather than addressing them, like every other worthless politician in this county. I welcome the day our AI overlords take over and take care of us like the giant fucking babies we have become. Shit might actually get accomplished.

  11. On 7/9/2019 at 3:02 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

    Back in 2013 and the preceding years the deniers were arguing "The Pause." Global temperatures weren't accelerating the way the models predicted (as if it should be perfectly linear). Then 2014 set a new global temperature record. Then 2015 broke that record. Then 2016 broke that record. 

    Thats why. 

    The average was taken from 79-83 as baseline and I remember 1980 was hot as hell. Was over 100 F nearly everyday that summer in Kansas. So maybe they took a hot five year average as baseline as well. Probably hotter than average, as the graph dipped below the baseline the following few years after 1983.

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