5 minutes ago, teachercd said:

No need to finish the rest...that is already a mistake.

 

Set the program back 5 years to what?  To not making the dance?  Ummmmm...

Just now, Enhance said:

That might be the case. I think not going for a big name hire means you're just hoping/banking on the next mid-major dude to make it happen. Some might view it as kicking the can down the road.

 

I wonder who they could get even if they throw big $$$ at them. I don't ask that as in 'nobody will come here.' I just genuinely wonder what the ceiling is in terms of a candidate hire. Some dude on Twitter was suggesting they go after Baylor's HC but I don't think there's any denying that'd be a step down for them even if you have the cash.

 

Fred Hoiberg is an option but I think that dude could go to a better place in the college ranks if he wanted.

I honestly don't even know anymore.  I guess we need to know what the top line number of the salary is that Moos would offer.  $2M won't get any big name here.

I agree with Dirk's assessment that anything short of a big time hire and the basketball program is set back 5 years.

1 hour ago, JJ Husker said:

 

We don't know why she's claiming assault. All we know is she claimed assault and the screwy Cali law that says a 15 yo can't give consent to another 15 yo allows that, among other possible reasons. I may be wrong but since one of the alleged assaulters (is that a word?) only got probation for the assault charge, I'm coming to the conclusion that those who determined probation was a just punishment for the "crime" didn't think it was any kind of real sexual assault so they gave him the lightest possible sentence based on that technicality in the law.

 

It would be really beneficial if they wouldn't lump such diverse possibilities as the same sexual assault charge. It feels like the same issue is allowing them to call what MW allegedly did as child porn or revenge porn. I don't think the word "porn" belongs in any possibility of what MW may have done. Revenge Harassment (better) but child porn is just wrong imo considering they are effectively the same age and dated each other.

 

To be honest, it just seems like it was consensual and not a thing until the video got out and her parents saw it. Then she claims it was assault (or maybe her parents claimed it was assault based on the technicality in the law). And now they are doing the same thing with these ancillary changes against MW. Maybe I'm too used to seeing parents who cannot accept certain realities about their own children. I've seen so much of that it likely is preventing me from interpreting this any other way.

The sexual encounter happened in 2016.  There was a video taken.  The video was distributed at the school of the girl and the 2 guys in the video.  One of the people that received the video in 2016 was Maurice Washington as he went to that school as well.

One of the males in the video was charged and received probation for distribution of the video.  Not for an assault.

The 3 in the video were expelled from the school.  The reason why the girl was expelled was because at the time, it was ASSUMED it was consensual because no one said otherwise.

The students that received the video were directed to delete it.  Maurice Washington, it appears, did not do that.

FAST FORWARD to 2018.  Girl reaches out to Mo to say congrats.  They start talking and he wants a sexual relationship with her.  When she declines, he gets mad.  She deletes him from social media.  He sends her the video.  These are her, and the police reports words.

The video is intercepted by her mother.  They call the police and here we are.  She says she didn't initially call it non-consensual, or assault, or rape, because she felt ashamed.  She now says that it was assault.  Believe her or don't. 

NO ONE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH AN ASSAULT AND THERE HAS BEEN NO EVIDENCE TO PROVE THAT IT WAS AN ASSAULT.  The police were saying Mo COULD face charges related to an assault because he was refusing to speak to police so they had no idea what he knew or didn't know at the time the video was taken.

I think it is safe for us as Husker fans to not get wrapped up in the assault piece of this.  There is such a low chance that Mo will face any charges relating to an assault.  Let's focus on the distribution part.  That is where he is going to get in trouble if he in fact gets in trouble.

Just now, TGHusker said:

Yep --  in our race to making everyone 'equal' we pull equality (fairness) from others. 

If our government would just address the tax loopholes that exist today, there would be no need to vilify people that make money and get them to pay for everything based on new special taxes.

Amazon made $11B in profit in 2018.  They will receive a refund from the government because of tax incentives and loopholes.  Think about that.  Trump did a disastrous thing by lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.  Amazon turned that into a -1% tax rate for themselves on $11 BILLION DOLLARS.

1 minute ago, BigRedBuster said:

I remember towards the beginning of this thread, a fan (don't remember who and don't really care enough to go look) stated that he won't be a fan of Nebraska anymore if Mo is on the team next year.

I would assume that person will either be walking that back or selling some Husker clothing come fall if he's on the team.

I must have missed that "fan."  Yes.  That fan will have to do some walking back for sure

I'm all for the ultra wealthy for paying their fair share but taking money from them like this is nowhere near fair.  

I am very surprised Nunes didn't put up a fight.

Just now, knapplc said:

 

Don't you?

 

 

 

You said people will be walking back based on what Frost does with Washington.  What will they be walking back?

1 minute ago, knapplc said:

 

Is this the part where I have to explain what an analogy is or could we not do the super-literal thing today?

I just didn't understand the "walk back" part of your statement.

1 minute ago, knapplc said:

 

Nah, I'm just saying it's weird. It's like those people who declare they're moving to Canada if their politician isn't elected. They never move, do they?

I don't recall anyone saying they wouldn't still be a Husker fan if Washington didn't receive the punishment they think he deserves.

I thought he should be gone from the team.  I've since softened that stance to 4-6 games suspension.  If Frost decides anything less than that, I'm still a fan of Nebraska football.

10 minutes ago, knapplc said:

It's going to be interesting to see how people react to Washington staying on the team. Several people drawing lines in the sand that are going to be difficult to walk back.

It's just their opinion, why would they have to walk it back?

Alabama newspaper editor calls on KKK to lynch Democrats

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47295551?ocid=socialflow_twitter

"If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out DC we'd all been better off," he said. "We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them."

3 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

You mean a candidate that isn’t pandering to an extreme and is willing to discuss options without trying to sell pipe dreams. 

Isn't that what I said?

7 hours ago, Clifford Franklin said:

T&P for this idiot.

 

 

We should pray that he shot himself in the dick so he couldn’t reproduce again.

6 hours ago, Clifford Franklin said:

 

Did you watch? What are your thoughts?

I did watch.  I came away feeling better about my decision to support her.

Shes not selling a pipe dream.  Which I like.  I don’t believe in free college for all.  And she’s not up there promising it. She knows that something has to be done about healthcare but she’s not pushing a magic pill like some other candidates that we will just tax the rich for everything and we will be okay.

She likes the ideas in the Green New Deal but doesn’t feel 10 years is an attainable goal for the whole thing.  

This, to me, is the true honest candidate.  Her ideas will appeal to moderates and likely some conservatives where people like Warren and Sanders will not because they go too far to the left.

We’ll see how genuine Sasse is if the House passes a resolution on the emergency and the Senate is forced to vote.

I wouldn’t hold my breath that he does the right thing 

12 minutes ago, TonyStalloni said:

We'll get to Andy McCabe Buster.  Not everyone can sit on the computer all day.  Please tell me you aren't defending that lying sack of shinola McCabe.  The fired former FBI deputy director with a book to sell.  The same Andy M who was sanctioned for lying three times under oath for the unauthorized sharing of sensitive information to the media. The same McCabe who had kissed Comeys hiney so often he knew where every pimple was?  The same fool who let his wife accept campaign funding from a governor with strong ties to Hillary while "serving" on the team that investigated her email servers. Did he use poor judgment or was he a partisan hack for discussing with the deputy attorney general the reasons for invoking Amendment 25?  Did he not know the FBI is not part of that process?  If not why was in a position importance in the FBI.  Did you know he only did investigative work for 2 1/2 years in the field and has been a pencil pusher the rest of the time?  Now McCabe comes forward with allegations that an FBI agent told him what was said and after all this creep has lied about under the guise of trying to nail Trump, you want to defend him in this interview?  Surely you jest?

 

Look I too wish everything in Washington was lollypops and jellybeans.  That we had a whole Congress full of men and women who would be willing to lay their life down to protect the Constitution of this country.  People who would defend Americans and try to make the world a safe place.  We haven't had a Congress like that in ages and I doubt we ever will again.  If Trump screws up royally I will be the first to call for his head.  Till then I want him doing what a businessman does and I don't care if he doesn't act "Presidential".  

Please define “royally” as a reference point for a Trump screw up.  Because he has a lot of them right now

16 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Put this another way. 

 

Obama declares an emergency on gun violence like you said. Do you have the same reaction if Chuck Schumer says we don’t want to do that because it would allow a Republican President to go the same?

Yes because it’s not about what someone else might theoretically do.  It’s a gross overstep by any president and that is what should be a senators concern.

Put the scenario into the others hands.

Say Obama declares a national emergency on guns after any of the countless gun attacks that happened while he was president.  And took money from the military to fund whatever action he deemed necessary.  Ben Sasse would have been screaming about it.

Then Trump gets elected and declares the national emergency to fund the wall.  Do you honestly believe Sasse would speak up against it or would he shrug it off because that’s what Obama did?

If your answer is he would be opposed, you’re kidding yourself

1 minute ago, BigRedBuster said:

That matters???

Sorry.  I was going to write something and accidentally hit submit.  Disregard this.

25 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Which I’m fine with. You aren’t because you’re conditioned to find fault in everything he says. 

He’s not my senator.

3 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

I see no reason that indicates he can’t have a problem with both. 

 

you're assuming that  he actually supports the national emergency ....as long as a dem can’t do it. 

Then he should have just come out against it as a whole of presidential overreach.  But he didn’t.  He came out in fear of what a Democrat might do 

32 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

I fail to see how his statement here is a problem. 

It’s not necessarily a “problem” it’s more that his issue with what is happening is more about what a Democrat president theoretically will do as opposed to what a republican president has actually done.

11 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

 

Yeah, they’re a bunch of F-ups. Like I said, our government is dysfunctional.

The republican government is dysfunctional 

Klobuchar will have a Town Hall on CNN tonight