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  1. Wild Card Trivia Time:

     

    6 wildcards have won the Superbowl, about 12% since it started in 1970. 2 have been #6 seeds, as the Titans are this year.

    Since the wild-card round of the playoffs started in 1970, 10 wild-card teams have advanced to the Super Bowl. Six have won the Super Bowl -- the Oakland Raiders (1980), Denver Broncos (1997), Baltimore Ravens (2000), Pittsburgh Steelers (2005), New York Giants (2007) and Green Bay Packers (2010).

    Of those, six won the Super Bowl. Only four of those wild card teams -- New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Giants, and Green Bay Packers -- won three games on the road to make it to the Super Bowl.

    Since 1990 when the NFL expanded it's playoff format to include six teams from each conference, only two six seeds have gone on to win the Super Bowl. The 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers and 2010 Green Bay Packers won it all from the low spot on the totem poll.

     

  2. for a second, I thought I was on the football board. Phew!

    Yeah, but seriously, the poors browns and blacks get it disproportionately.  Life in barren solitary 23 hours a day with no tv or radio is mental torture which is worse than death. So, that's the solution.

  3. 1 hour ago, Parliament said:

    I read that title thinking it was real.

    it is, I assure you.  Look, the article mentions the missing CCTV footage, a known fact and thusly a clear indication of the veracity of it's entire scope.

  4. https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2020/01/17/todays-election-lies-promises-cock-ups/

     

    Coroner Accidentally Burned Jeffrey Epstein’s Body & Dumped It In Ocean

    WHAT is being labeled as a ‘simple’ administration error that ‘could have happened to any one of the bodies’ being stored in the New York City coroner’s office, the body belonging to billionaire sex trafficker and friend to the famous and the powerful, Jeffrey Epstein, has been mistakenly destroyed via burning before being dumped in the Atlantic ocean.

    The latest unfortunate coincidence comes after the CCTV footage in Epstein’s cell, which could have shown conclusively whether or not he committed suicide, was deleted accidentally.

     

    With the autopsy also concluding the paedophile committed suicide, authorities have admitted it is a ‘shame’ a second autopsy cannot be carried out on his body.

    “While it is not normal procedure to accidentally to burn a cadaver, douse it in acid, and then burn it again before mixing it with the ashes of other corpses and then sailing 25 miles out to sea to dump it. We accept that this was just an unfortunate mistake which needs no further investigation,” confirmed police not looking into the incident.

    As the sailing boat, registered to a man named Itani Mulli, involved in the incident evaded detection at sea there is no way of pinpointing the exact location of the remains of Epstein, who counted the world’s rich and powerful among he closest friends.

    “I think the public knows the difference between an honest mistake and a sinister cover up, so they’ll be happy to know we’re not wasting valuable police time by reexamining a simple error,” confirmed a NYPD spokesperson.

     

     

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  5. 20 minutes ago, StruggleBus said:

    Sprouts is great. If you’re a vegan and you like poor selection. 

    i get meat and seafood from Tom Thumb and produce, nuts from Sprouts.  Top quality and prices in both categories from each.  I've lived in Austin and Houston for 15 years and HEB didn't stand out as the very best, not bad , but not Everest either.

  6. a good list of LSU early guys

     

    https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/lsu/article_932fdddc-37e1-11ea-a8e8-2b6150f1bc15.html

    Grant Delpit, Junior . Patrick Queen, Junior , Jacob Phillips, Junior , Justin Jefferson, Junior Lloyd Cushenberry III, Junior , Saahdiq Charles, Junior

    That's 6, but some say 8 have declared. Who from the below list are the other 2? 

    POTENTIAL NFL DRAFT ENTRANTS

    • JaCoby Stevens, Junior
    • Kary Vincent Jr., Junior
    • K'Lavon Chaisson, RS Soph
    • Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Junior
    • Zach Von Rosenberg, Junior
    • Ray Thornton, Junior
    • Andre Anthony, Junior
    • Tyler Shelvin, RS Soph
    • Austin Deculus, Junior
    • Thaddeus Moss, Junior
    • Glen Logan, Junior
  7. 9 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

    Why a 20% increase in patients?  The uninsured rate nationwide is at about 9%.  In Texas, its 17.5%.  Even if everyone ran to the doctor, it wouldn't be a 20% increase. Really,  I doubt we'd see a meaningful increase at all at the outset.  What we would see is ER's becoming less taxed with non-emergencies which is a good thing.  We'd see an uptick in preventative care.  Also a good thing.  The conservative idea that everyone who is currently uninsured is going to turn into a super-hypochondriac is laughable.

    And conservatives are going to have to live with the idea that poor people deserve cancer treatment too.  However, even that isn't going to drastically affect the wait time at the oncologist.  The primary issue the uninsured and impoverished have had when it comes to cancer is a lack of early detection.  By the time they hit the ER, its too late to do anything about it.  And they still often get the current too-late super expensive end stage surgeries.  What they don't get is the early and cheaper treatments.

    Also, the hysterics over the price tag is funny.  We spend far more than that on healthcare every year.  The current massive premiums we pay will be shifted to M4A.  If supplemental is permitted, the premiums will be far cheaper than current rates since it will be gap coverage.  At some point, we could also stop allowing pharma to gouge us too.

    my 20 % was a ballpark guesstimate. I've seen figures of uninsured from 25mil to 45mil Americans, so i was giving a fat estimate as the upper limit of newcomers.

    On the political front, if the Dems can deliver better healthcare, more hospitals, clinics and EMS to the outer rural areas -- they are going to clean up in the elections.  I'd say go for it, we want to save American lives don't we?

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  8. 3 minutes ago, hornhorn said:

    Mercatus also said that to keep it 3.3 trillion/year we will have to cut physician reimbursements by 40% which is below their service costs and is unsustainable. So the plan is to drive doctors out of business? LOL OK. 

     

    yet the same In Network  doctors accept Medicare Supplement insurance from United Healthcare.

  9. 1 minute ago, hornhorn said:

    Oh yes people will have to pay the second time if they want the same level of service they do right now. If they don't want to deal with wait times etc.

    And you can defund the military by half and it would only add 400 billion to a 3.2 trillion M4ALL budget. 

    no there won't be a second payment.  My mom goes to the same In Network doctors that I can go to via the same carrier -- United Healthcare. There is no extra wait time.

    The $3.2 trillion is already funded by premiums from employees and employers.  Incremental monies can come from cuts in other areas such as military.

  10. 6 minutes ago, hornhorn said:

    Not a dumb analogy, once M4ALL passes the service is going to suck due to the exponential increase of patients. There's a reason why Canada has a private option. 

    So you're asking people with insurance to pay the same, possibly more and then get worse service. And if they want the same level of service then make another payment to have the private option. Yeah, sounds like it would be a real popular idea for those. 

    it's not going to be exponential, perhaps 20% increase in patients.  People with insurance will not pay a second time, because they won't need their private insurance anymore; which employers partially fund as well and will continue to do so to M4A.  This is all just a paper change in payment systems, diverting the money away from insurance companies who remain as admins and take some profit, but deductibles and co insurance are eliminated.  More funding can come from military cuts.

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  11. Just now, bernorange said:

    My parents have medicare and cannot see the best doctors in our area.  There are a lot of doctors in our area. 

    to clarify, we have the Medicare Supplement which is about $96/month. My mom has United Healthcare and so do I from my job. Same carrier , but her insurance is much better than mine.

  12. 8 hours ago, hornhorn said:

    That's a ridiculous statement that the left keeps making and here's why it won't work for the ones that already have healthcare: Replace healthcare with travel. Current travel cost for everyone(ones that fly private, first class, economy, train and greyhound) is $3.2 trillion. What we should do is nationalize it and make everyone travel on greyhound premium. The ones that were already traveling on greyhound would love it as they would not pay anything more, possibly even less and get a bump by traveling on greyhound premium. But the ones that weren't, like the ones flying economy, first class or private now get to pay for those same fares and yet have to travel on greyhound premium. Why would they?

    dumb analogy.  My mom  has medicare and goes to the best doctors in the area, pays almost nothing. She's had surgery and paid almost nothing. There is no max out of pocket crap that i have at my job's insurance. It's an awesome value really.

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