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  1. It's crazy expensive right now, first time it's sold out in a few years at least. Definitely first time this early. At the very least, it;'ll be cheaper closer to the game as folks who have to unload on short notice sell closer to face. If/when one of the two purple bains of our existence beat us, prices will go down. Especially if it's another frustrating KSU loss the week immediately before. I'd wait. 

  2. 8 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has one-upped socialists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: She proposes to nationalize every major business in the United States of America. If successful, it would constitute the largest seizure of private property in human history.

    Warren’s proposal is dishonestly called the “Accountable Capitalism Act.” Accountable to whom? you might ask. That’s a reasonable question. The answer is — as it always is — accountable to politicians, who desire to put the assets and productivity of private businesses under political discipline for their own selfish ends. It is remarkable that people who are most keenly attuned to the self-interest of CEOs and shareholders and the ways in which that self-interest influences their decisions apparently believe that members of the House, senators, presidents, regulators, Cabinet secretaries, and agency chiefs somehow are liberated from self-interest when they take office through some kind of miracle of transcendence.

    Under Senator Warren’s proposal, no business with more than $1 billion in revenue would be permitted to legally operate without permission from the federal government. The federal government would then dictate to these businesses the composition of their boards, the details of internal corporate governance, compensation practices, personnel policies, and much more. Naturally, their political activities would be restricted, too. Senator Warren’s proposal entails the wholesale expropriation of private enterprise in the United States, and nothing less. It is unconstitutional, unethical, immoral, irresponsible, and — not to put too fine a point on it — utterly bonkers.

    It is also cynical. Senator Warren is many things: a crass opportunist, intellectually bankrupt, personally vapid, a peddler of witless self-help books, etc. But she is not stupid. She knows that this is a go-nowhere proposition, that she will be spared by the Republican legislative majority from the ignominy that would ensue from the wholehearted pursuit of this daft program. It is in reality only a means of staking out for purely strategic reasons the most radical corner for her 2020 run at the Democratic presidential nomination. The Democratic party in 2018, like the Republican primary electorate in 2016, is out for blood and desirous of confrontation. So Senator Warren is running this red flag up the flagpole to see who salutes.

    To propose such a thing for sincere reasons would be ghastly stupidity. To propose this program for narrowly self-serving political reasons is the sort of thing that would end a political career in a sane and self-respecting state, which Massachusetts plainly is not and has not been for some time.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/elizabeth-warren-plan-nationalize-everything-woos-hard-left/

    Yeah, because Germany and Denmark, which operate under similar (more strict in Germany's case) frameworks when it comes to corporate law, are such anti-business communist hellholes.

  3. 3 hours ago, Message Board User said:

    Anyone who says they can get through the first 30 seconds of this video without laughing is a baldfaced liar.

     

    Beto needs to plaster this video all over the airwaves. No commentary or anything. Just pony up for six minutes of ad time during Cowboys, Texans, and B12 games (not aggy they are a lost cause) for weeks leading up to November. He will win by double digits.

  4. I was in Spain with my girlfriend in May. Madrid stuck me as a place one could have a really interesting time on a solo trip. For a city so big an grand it has a laid back vibe - plenty of day trips/overnight excursions to mix things up on a longer stay. 

  5. 10 hours ago, angelos's frog said:

    Losing Blacklock is huge because the guy was 6'4" 330 lbs and incredibly athletic.  He wasn't just a space eater in the run game like a Andrew Billings (Baylor) or Poona Ford.  Blacklock was freakishly athletic for a guy his size and offenses had to double team him on passing downs which led to opportunities for the DEs and LBs to get to the QB.  However, you are right to some extent.  For one or two games, Gary can scheme around deficiencies on his D-Line.  Our starting D-line in the Rose Bowl was Stansley Maponga, Cory Grant, DJ Yendrey and Wayne Daniels.  Except for Maponga who has been a journeyman NFLer, those guys would be 3rd teamers at best on our current defense.  Yet they managed to beat a Wisconsin offensive line that had two 1st round picks, a 2nd round pick, a 3rd round pick and an UDFA who has played 6 seasons (so far) in the NFL with 60 starts.  

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  6. 9 hours ago, 6th Street said:

    Warren would lose badly in the Midwest - she is not pulling the blue collar vote from Trump.

    Warren's pro-labor, anti-corporate oligarchy approach and actual record on that front would play very well I think. I don't know that'd she'd reclaim Iowa or Ohio, those seem to lean a bit more red, but she'd take back Wisconsin and Michigan. PA is going Dem regardless of who runs. Turnout in Philly and Pittsburgh will be enormous.

  7. 8 hours ago, Js1 said:

    First House tracking forecast by 538.  (DURR IT SAID HILLARY WOULD WIN DURR RED WAVE - getting that out of the way)

    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/

    Average gain is +35 for the Democrats.  75% chance of the House flipping. 

    Notable seats:

    TX-7 is basically 50/50 right now

    TX-23 is about 75% chance of flipping from Hurd

    CA-48 (Putin's bitch Dana R.) 67% chance of flipping

    538 has established a pretty damn good track record on election predictions. Obviously they nailed 2012 and that was their claim to fame, but they were still one of the most accurate in 2016 (gave Trump a 30% chance when most gave him 0-10) and have been providing really good analysis on down ballot races since. I really like their work.

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