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Every time. Every time this kind of thing gets brought up, someone casts doubt on the sellout streak. Here's the thing. Nebraska's sellout streak is as valid as any sellout streak in any sport in America. If you want to say it isn't, it would be helpful to identify which streaks aren't "a farce," so we could contrast Nebraska's with a "non-farcical" streak.

So the sellout streak isn't interesting to you. That's cool. Most everyone who thinks it's a neat thing understands the situation. They're cool with it. Tennis isn't really interesting to me. To some people it is. I don't go into conversations about tennis and tell everyone how boring I find it. Seems pretty odd to me that some people do.

Nebraska touts a sellout streak. A sellout counts tickets sold. You're talking about attendance. That's a different thing. Something else to note about this article and the inference Sam is making here. These stats are provided in a vacuum. We have no idea how this compares to tickets taken in 2007, 1997, 1987 or 1977. For all we know, this could be reasonably normal.

I could say "I would prefer no one starve to death" and someone could reply: "So you want all Nebraskans to starve to death just so we can feed a few people in China" and it would make as much sense as this leap.

That was quite the segue.

It seems to me like you have more of a "hard-on" for it than anyone else in this thread.

That's not how that works.

It's not at all a farce, unless you don't know what sell out means. In which case, in your head, it's a farce. But not in reality.

Comparison. This needs to happen in every state, whether it benefits Democrats or Republicans. The Supreme Court needs to rule the right way on this.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/pennsylvania-gerrymandering-supreme-court-map-congressional-districts-2018-elections-20180219.html

This could get interesting.

Haha!

The black market isn't some corner store with "close out" prices. I would be happy if we at least got to the point of that being the only source. Prices alone would keep the guns out of the hands of some of these kids. Not to mention a random teenager isn't going to be able to Google search where to find a source. They'll have to ask friends and acquaintances for help which would hopefully raise some red flags. Using the recent example: I can't picture a kid like Cruz wandering around rough neighborhoods and striking up conversations with community members assuming they are gang members and asking where he can get a gun.

I said that because I know very little about Nebraska high school football. As far as Missouri football, Webb City, Rockhurst, and others would wipe the floor with just about every ks and neb high school teams

Meth an alcohol are incapable of harm until put in the hands of humans!

Picked up a husk CB from a Buckeye writer.

Wow. Just wow.

There's an approximately zero percent chance that McConnell and/or Ryan ever allow a gun control bill to make it to the floor of congress to even be voted upon. The only way anything happens is if a veto-proof Democrat majority is voted in later this year and I'm not even sure that's possible. Trump will never sign a gun control bill which means the earliest anything possibly changes at a federal level is 2021. They couldn't even get legislature done on bump stocks after Las Vegas when almost everyone hates the things and don't use them. I applaud those high school kids in Florida for doing what they are doing but at the end of day I don't think it's going to make a damn bit of difference. Sad.

Pff you got Snapple Tea and Top Gun after you, none of your arguments will be heard.

well....don't get excited then.

They better get a second set of batteries this year.

This is a good article from Politico today: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/19/why-the-nra-always-wins-217028 Why does the NRA always win, despite the repeated national traumas, and despite poll after poll showing a majority in favor of stronger gun control measures? It’s not the money. It’s because the NRA has built a movement that has convinced its followers that gun ownership is a way of life, central to one’s freedom and safety, that must be defended on a daily basis. [...] To beat the NRA at its own game, the gun control movement needs to better understand how the NRA has built an army of single-issue voters. [...] Gun control proponents don’t necessarily have to emulate the NRA and, say, launch a TV network. But they might consider ... emulating one of the most successful public service advertising campaigns in history: the anti-tobacco “truth” campaign. [...] edgy ads that turned teenage perception of what smoking represents from cool rebellion to corporate dishonesty. The ad campaign is not the sole reason, but it is widely credited for helping drive smoking levels among teens down from from 23 percent to 6 percent. [...] Like the tobacco industry, the NRA has been cultivating an image of guns as a source of freedom and cool, with the extra value of protection from grievous harm. A large-scale counter-campaign could help reverse that image, highlighting the damage guns do every day: the depressed never getting another chance for mental health services, the children dying from home accidents, the domestic abuse victims who never could escape. [...] As heartwarming as it is to see high school students organize anti-gun marches, they are no more likely to be successful in busting the NRA narrative, or separating politicians from NRA money, than the parents of Columbine and Sandy Hook. The gun rights community is steeled against succumbing to sympathetic victims, as they have convinced themselves that they are above the politics of knee-jerk emotion.

This is something I don't want to see... It's so sad and disgusting that we even have to consider this. I mean resource officer's are fine, but I would rather have an LEO than a trained guard. The LEO can do so much more than another person with a gun... Why could my parents go to school without fear and kids had guns in the rack of their truck outside?

Used to be Rockhurst, but they have been down lately. CBC and Blue Springs as of late. Trinity Catholic and Lutheran have sucked a lot of top flight athletes from St. Louis Public Schools. Funny that they still cant beat Lamar. What a joke!! 2A school with 10 D1 athletes on the roster and they cant beat a public 2A farm school.

Remember when Trump would tweet about how insensitive Obama was for golfing???

OWH

Anyone claiming that this is primarily, or even somewhat, of a mental health issue - got any data to back up that claim? I see people spout that off all the time, but what is it based off of? I haven't seen anything that shows the United States being drastically worse at dealing with mental health than other developed countries. I also don't even know what 'mental health' as an extremely broad catch-all is even supposed to be referring to. What mental health issue is the mental health issue?

These are two things are not in the same universe, and that is not how it works. UNK has to use some of it’s overall budget to keep these athletic programs running. UNL Athletics runs in the black as a business, UNK does not. Though they are in the same University system, athletic budgets at these schools are separate, revenue is separate. If you trying to suggest University of Nebraska Lincoln should pay for UNK tennis, that is way larger argument.

It's as simple as this, and that's what the numbers reflect.

A lot of the movie companies are starting to raise their prices on Netflix, which is part of the reason we've seen that flow through to the consumer. Someone posted back on page 21, I think, that some companies like Disney are pulling their movies all together. If anyone is interested in a good series, I'd recommend Dirty Money. Found the last one on Trump to be fascinating (it basically shows how he's not as rich as he's plays himself up to be and shows just truly how poor of a leader we have in office).

It's the only legit way to analyze it. It's called a SELLout. Yes, it does seem weird that some are 75% full, but the tickets are sold. It's up to the ticket holder at that point.

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Stuff like this isn't nearly as flashy as porn stars, Putin, pee-pee tapes, etc. But it could ultimately play an even bigger role in the downfall of Trump's presidency.

Automatics are illegal already. As far as making semi-autos illegal, i will argue that. I own a few semi-auto guns, none of them in the AR style. I use mine for coyote, coon or any other small game hunting. I have 6-10 round clips for them depending on which gun (caliber)it is. What makes the ARs so convient for theses incidents are the quick change, high volume magazines.

This is definitely someone to keep your eye on. He first caught my eye when he ran to be the DNC chair, but honestly I'm pretty glad he didn't get it. His career trajectory is probably better staying in South Bend. Could he be the Rust Belt hero Dems are looking for? Lord knows running as a progressive out of South Bend would be a stark contrast from Pence. On the other hand, I'm not sure how well an openly gay Democrat could do statewide in Indiana or nationally, for that matter. I'd like to think we're in a new era vis-à-vis sexuality, but we've also seen how the nation reacted to electing the first black president, and in many ways it hasn't been pretty. A couple interesting quotes: Certainly for me, that's hitting a lot of the right notes. I think there's a lot of wisdom in there.

You must have not seen the E's on the ends either.

Yes and he left respectfully, where the other one left trying to destroy the program as he had done the first time.

What season did you watch? Mike Riley didn't get a free pass. He got a lot of hell for that 6-7 season. But since everyone knew he wouldn't get fired in year one, we perhaps looked for some positives going into season two. Super close losses. Played Wisconsin almost straight up. First win against a Top 10 team in ages. Decent enough bowl win. Something to build on. Is that what you're talking about? In Season Two, Mike Riley essentially delivered a Bo Pelini performance with the same Tommy Armstrong at the helm -- and to be honest a ton of injuries. In Season Three, with a hand-picked quarterback for his system, Mike Riley's team generally s#!t the bed and he was fired four seasons earlier than Bo Pelini. No free passes for anybody.

I’ll play lol. Riley was worse.

This type of attitude doesn't help. Going around and demonizing anyone who owns a gun and blaming them for what happened isn't right. It's not NRA members (as much as I despise what they've become) going around committing these atrocities. In fact most of those "mass shooitngs" you cite were gang/drug related crimes. Over 99.99% gun owners haven't done a thing wrong, yet it's their fault? It's no different than blaming anyone who drinks a beer for all the DUI deaths commited every year. This kind of thinking is how we got the Patriot Act. Literally the next comment after mine. Bolded and enlarged for irony. I'll just keep posting "literally no amount of bloodshed will convince the pro-gun people" every time there's another mass shooting. Because of the irony. And every time, excuses will be made. Every. Single. Time. EDIT - I'll add to this, because of the hysteria of the reply I got: I like guns. I love to shoot, and would love to shoot more. I'm not anti-gun. I'm anti-gun availability. We don't need them, fun as they are. They simply are not necessary for a developed society.

You can't do away with criminals. But I completely do not accept that you can't reduce gun violence by reducing access. It's simply a question of whether we want to. And hey. If people feel strongly about their guns, then we, as a society, continue to decide that these are acceptable costs -- as we have been. I hope for a day where that's different, but it's not this day (again). I also don't accept that reducing gun violence doesn't cut violence overall. Guns are far more efficient killing devices and they enable deaths that otherwise don't happen.