11 minutes ago, Red Five said:

AKA let's just put the conferences mainly back together from what they were 20 years ago...

 

 

 

 

So, would the Plains Div be comparable to old Big 12 North or Big 10 West - weak  - I think we could do well in it.  

26 minutes ago, Mike Mcdee said:

What are the odds that DJT knows what high school Baron goes to? 

Slim to none

12 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

What a f#&%ing joke. His son has never done anything with him. But, we are all supposed to be heart broken over this. 
 

 

Buttt Kari - aren't you heart broken why Donald won't be able to go - because he tried to cover up an adultress affair

Seems like the 'family values party' has lost its way - don't you think

5 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

Such a proud, endearing father figure.     All he cares about is himself. 

19 minutes ago, knapplc said:

The House GOP is a complete clown show. They're going after yet ANOTHER Speaker. 

 

Granted Johnson is about the bottom of the barrel, but dang, this is a mess.

 

This never happened when Nancy Pelosi was running the show. She had her caucus in line.

 

 

The GOP has not been a good governing party for some time.  They are an opposition party at best and have been since Obama.  Say "NO" and then do not present positive alternative.  Think of Obama Care -  NO, NO, NO was their response and then when they controlled the House, Senate and WH - They did nothing.   They rarely do anything for the common good, to which they say no,  but to all tax cuts, they say yes. 

1 hour ago, Crusader Husker said:

I am sure this has been asked already, I just don't know the answer...

 

So, since we are dealing with old, senile candidates.  What happens if one or both of these guys die before the election?  What is the process?

Mr Google found this: 

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-happens-if-a-presidential-candidate-cannot-take-office-due-to-death-or-incapacitation-before-january-2025/

55 minutes ago, Fru said:

There’s a palpable hunger in this country, on both sides of the aisle, for someone new, different and young. I think this hunger far outweighs the MAGA base. I’ll never understand why the R’s can’t recognize this and move on. 

I agree with the hunger on both sides.  

Regarding the bold:  I can't help but think that in some of those document boxes illegally taken by Trump and stored in his bathroom is incrimination files on major movers and shakers in the GOP.  Why do people like Cruz, Rubio, Graham and so many others fall like a house of cards from their previous anti-trump position and are now cult members without Trump having info on them that they don't want out?  Maybe they just want power and have no values - very likely but I don't think that explains it all.  

Good interview with Michael Cohen on the upcoming criminal trial

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/12/michael-cohen-trump-trial-surprise-00151868

2 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

I hope Trump arrogantly and foolishly agrees to a debate or two.

GOP now officially the Trump party, the Trump cult -it has become a religion - The RNC has given it structure, the dogma begins with 2020 election being fraudulent and ends with the creed that "Only Trump Can Fix things" - he is the savior of the world.   They are willing to send any and all Americans to their chaotic hell if they do not believe their doctrine .

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/politics/lara-trump-rnc-2020-election-fraud-claims/index.html

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The Republican National Committee last week sent out a scripted call to voters’ phones on behalf of new co-chair Lara Trump saying Democrats committed “massive fraud” in the 2020 election.

It’s the latest example of how the RNC under the former president’s daughter-in-law is perpetuating lies about the 2020 election, even as prominent Republicans say the party needs to look forward to win in 2024.

“We all know the problems. No photo IDs, unsecured ballot drop boxes, mass mailing of ballots, and voter rolls chock full of deceased people and non-citizens are just a few examples of the massive fraud that took place,” the RNC call said. “If Democrats have their way, your vote could be canceled out by someone who isn’t even an American citizen.”

The claim of “massive fraud” in the 2020 election marks a significant shift in messaging for the RNC because lies about the 2020 election had not been a consistent theme in its messaging since Donald Trump left office.

But the call’s message is largely consistent with the views publicly espoused over the past four years by Lara Trump, who was elected as co-chair in early March as part of Donald Trump’s takeover of the GOP. Lara Trump has a long history of echoing his election fraud claims, according to a CNN KFile analysis of her past statements as a commentator and surrogate for the former president.

“I’m sure you agree with co-chair Trump that we cannot allow the chaos and questions of the 2020 election to ever happen again,” said the call, which was obtained by CNN’s KFile from the anti-robocall application Nomorobo, which estimated 145,000 calls were sent with the message from April 1-7.

It comes amid previous CNN reporting about the RNC asking employees who are reapplying for their jobs whether they believe the 2020 election was stolen in an apparent litmus test for hiring. The RNC denied any such litmus test existed. Lara Trump and new chair Michael Whatley succeeded Drew McKissick and Ronna McDaniel, who had earned the ire of the former president because of his dissatisfaction with how the RNC handled claims of fraud around the 2020 election, CNN previously reported.

There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, as even some state GOP election officials and former Trump Attorney General William Barr have acknowledged. The former president and his supporters filed more than 60 court cases in six key battleground states following the election and lost every one of them. And, they have still not brought forth any evidence of the rampant cheating they continue to talk about on the campaign trail.

But in the years since the 2020 election, Lara Trump has continued to push claims of fraud. Her comments have been in line with those of her father-in-law, who’s successfully reshaped the GOP in his image and easily secured his third-straight GOP nomination this year.

 

16 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Geee....which poster has been saying this for months???

 

 

 

I didn't know Chris Christie had been posting on here. 

Every Wonder (or if you were a 1990s Boys Band - TELL ME WHY)

31 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

 

Ha, must be a Nebraska thing (or just unsupervised kids back in the good ole days thing).

 

We had bottle rocket wars and BB gun fights all the time. I remember specifically how they came to a halt.

One bottle rocket war, we (my side) was winning and the other team took refuge in one of the guy’s houses. We kept shooting as they all piled through his front door. One of the bottle rockets went into the house and exploded on a wall leaving a black mark. Yeah, his mom put an end to our bottle rocket wars.

 

The BB gun fights ended similarly. The kid that lived directly behind us across the alley took one dead center between the eyes, just above the bridge of his nose. Left a nice little indentation and of course he ran home crying. You guessed it, his mom also was extremely unhappy   The line in a Christmas Story, “you’ll shoot your eye out” has extra special meaning for me and the kids I grew up with 

 

BTW, we had no pump limit on the BB guns and it was hit and miss on who chose to wear eye protection for either type of battle.

Yes, we had bottle rocket wars and BB gun wars eventually graduated up to 'nail gun' wars as a young adult.  One rule - couldn't intentially hit someone  - just scare them.  Of course that didn't last long as the job site manager but an end to it. 

NOTICE TO ALL: 

- I HAVE REMOVED THE ORIGINAL POLL QUESTION FOR THE PRIMARIES AND HAVE REPLACED IT WITH THE GENERAL ELECTION POLL QUESTION.  

7 minutes ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

This seems so extremely unlikely. I'm really trying to figure out how and why people think Joe Biden is going to win. 

 

It seems to me that there's a decent chance that the electoral college bias is so strongly against Democrats that it may not be possible for them to win. Joe Biden will probably need to win the national popular vote by nearly 5% to win the electoral college, which is a margin that may not be possible given how deeply polarized the electorate it and how impossible it is to sway political opinions.

 

It seems likely that we're heading towards a 2016 environment where Biden wins the popular vote by ~2.5-3%, leading to a decisive electoral college loss. There's a reason Trump's electoral strategy isn't even trying to sway opinion - they don't need to. They need to drum up the base to turn out and cruise to victory because they have tremendous built in advantages.

Many of the swing states had very narrow wins for Biden in 2020.  I don't think Trump picks up any more voters there.  I think he losses voters in those states due to his criminal issues as well as the abortion issue.  He can turn out his voters as much as he wants - he'll get those red states - that is a given.  But more and more thoughtful GOPers are leaving trump and they will either vote 3rd party, not vote at all for the top of the ticket or hold their nose and vote Biden - in all 3 cases Trump losses a 2020 voter.  The Arizona abortion case just tossed Arizona deeper into Biden's camp IMHO.  

On 3/28/2024 at 9:08 AM, knapplc said:

 

Coffee will have better flavor the longer the beans are in contact with the water. In a traditional drip coffee maker, that's a very short time. It's longer with those older perk coffee makers, where the water percolated up through the central stem into the basket with the beans, and circulated over and over. With a press, the beans and water interact for several minutes before you push the plunger down, which screens out the beans from the water (now coffee).

 

 

Knapp, you are like my son - he would call himself a coffee snob (no offense meant towards you) by that  - by that he is an expert on all things coffee. He got spoiled on coffee in HS by working in a coffee house, he's had every type of coffee maker there is besides roasting beans himself.  He does like the French Press method also - and yes black - let the beans alone do the talking.  We've encouraged him as a side hobby to open a coffee shop - my wife and I would volunteer to work it. 

Me: My stomach is too weak to take it strong -  Someone said it has to do with blood type but who knows.  So I like the Kona Coffee - very mild and as a Mocha even better.  I can't drink a lot  - messes with my ADHD brain - - my wife can tell when I've had too much - kind of go off the rails     I'm better with herbal tea.  Even blank tea can drive me bonkers wt its caffeine. Extra Strength Excedrin - loaded with caffeine will take care of any pain but then later...    Caffeine also gives me sleep issues: I also will fall asleep at night but wake up at 2pm trying to solve all of the world problems - some of my posts come from those late night thinking sessions. 

Speaking of BBs - some of that in my long story to follow.  I grew up as one of 7 kids (8 counting my twin who died after 3 days of a bad heart - docs thought I'd be a goner too - we were a month premature and in 1955 that was a big deal). We grew up on in SE S.D. My farm environment was remembered as a lot of work.  Grandpa's farm - 15 miles north was remembered for lots of fun.  In 1991 when contemplating this and knowing Grandpa was about to pass, I wrote down some thoughts.  I was able to read this at his funeral 3 weeks later.  Did it wtout breaking up but 14 years later at a family reunion I couldn't get through it.   So, my fondest memories were of "Grandpa's Place".  I tried to get it published but no takers but it has struck a cord with many who have had similar memories.    Sorry for the length but I am who I am in large part due to my grandparents - some of the kindest people I ever knew:

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Grandpa’s place – what memories come to mind.  There are so many that want to be expressed first.

 

            Ah, Grandpa’s place is the smell of fried potatoes, eggs, and bacon in the morning, Grandma’s loving duty and Grandpa’s daily need – don’t forget the ketchup on those eggs.

 

            Grandpa’s place is the great fire – lightning hit the house at night and Grandpa telling Grandma, “Don’t panic” as he puts his pants on backwards “where is the zipper, ma?”.  It is Grandpa backing out the garage at 50mph to call the fireman, forgetting the old Plymouth was in his direct line – CRASH!  It was a night when Grandma gave new meaning to indecision; hauling the furniture out into the rain so it wouldn’t get burned and then hauling the furniture back in “It will just get ruined by the rain out there.” she said.  Thankfully this was a night when Grandpa’s place would keep standing.

 

            Grandpa’s place was a fun place where the local cousins could get together with the far away cousins.  It was wrestling or basketball in the hay loft – The Locals (Ron, Mike, Dan) against – The Far A-ways (Steve, Terry, Todd) I think The Locals always won.

 

            It was a place where Grandpa tried to get Mike and Terry to explain, “How did that B-B break the Plymouth’s window? It bounced off of how many buildings first?”

 

            Grandpa’s place was pushing someone in the big wheel pushcart or riding on the bedspring while Grandpa smoothed out the drive or exploring the grove of trees and looking at that old farm equipment.  It was getting to herd the sheep back to the barn with the little Ford tractor.

 

            Grandpa’s place was work, too.  It was listening to Grandpa telling the story about Uncle Denny wanting to build up his muscles, so Grandpa sent him to clean out the sheep barn.  “Oh, he looked so whipped at the end of the day” Grandpa would say.  Grandpa’s place is knowing the same feeling one day, as I, too would be sent forth with pitch fork in hand to do battle with the sheep barn only to become another victim of its power.  It was watching the Canadian geese circle down into the lake near his farm while we were “harvesting” the rocks off of the fields before spring planting.  Grandpa’s place was hearing Grandpa criticize those city boys because they cut weeds too high in the soybean fields.  Us  kids knew how to cut those weeds – low down.  We had plenty of practice.  They didn’t call Grandpa’s place the c$%k-a-bur farm for nothing.

 

            Grandpa’s place was a vacation for us kids and a relief for Mom, as we would spend many nights over at Grandpa’s Place during the summer.  It was listening to the wind going through the trees at night and wondering if that was really “just the wind”.  It was going to town with Grandpa and following him in the café like ducks and holding our chests out big as Grandpa would proudly introduce us all to his card playing buddies.  It was picking apples with Grandma and being told for the millionth time to “get down from that windmill”.  Grandpa’s place was jumping and swinging on the bedspring swing and hoping you would never get hit by that lethal weapon if you fell off.

 

            Grandpa’s place was wondering if Uncle Billy would become famous like the Beach Boys as he and his group would practice their form of 60’s music in the barn.  It was also wondering why Grandpa painted the farmhouse a bright blue color.  You could see it for miles and I don’t think Grandma ever forgave him for that deed.

 

            Grandpa’s place was Trixy and Pal – two of the most faithful dogs on this earth.  It was a dirt floor workshop in the garage where Grandpa turned out toy barns, deacon’s benches, windmills and the like.  It was straightening bent nails and digging through the dusty nut and bolt box.  Grandpa would save everything – “We may need those nails and bolts some day” he would say.  Grandpa lived through the depression and he knew the value of a straightened nail or a saved bolt.  It was working with Dad, Mike, and Danny in the fields or going to get a pop from 6’8” “Tiny” at the gas station or visiting Pumpkin Center or Rumpus Ridge to get a bag of feed for the sheep.  Grandpa’s place was watching a dark cloud of hail destroy the corn on our farm 15 miles away near Parker, S.D. and knowing it will have to be next year.

 

            Grandpa’s place is memories, especially the memory of sitting down with Grandpa by the grainery as we waited for Mike or Dad to bring in another load of oats.  It was Grandpa remembering all of the changes he has seen in his life – airplanes, radio, TV, and a man on the moon.  He drove on a dirt road to the Black Hills and then Hwy 16 and then I-90.  Two World Wars, Korea and Vietnam, the place where Uncle Billy had to go.  A depression and after the war a boom.  He was the next generation, then he raised the next one which then gave birth to my generation – we will carry on his heritage through our children.

 

            Grandpa’s place was walking through the farm one last time after Grandma’s funeral and before Grandpa had to sell the place he and Grandma had lived for nearly 50 years.  It was taking pictures of the hay loft where I played, the barn where I worked, and the farmhouse where I was loved.  The pictures, I thought, would help Grandpa’s place to live on.  I have found that it is the memories, those wonderful, living memories, which make Grandpa’s place live on - not the pictures.

 

            Grandpa’s place was a place full of faith.  Grandpa and Grandma were in church whenever the doors were open.  Grandpa ushered and took care of the church grounds among other things.  Their faith was a quiet faith demonstrated by their genuine care for others.  Grandpa’s place was most of all love.  It is the legacy that he and Grandma have left us.  Grandpa’s place will always remain; for Grandpa’s place is Grandpa, it is Grandma, and it is love – and love will never pass away.

 

Betting line moving clearly in Biden's direction

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7456/Who-will-win-the-2024-US-presidential-election

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

we have good QB recruiting coming up behind them.

Have we offered Dylan's brother?

12 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

@TGHusker, it amazes me that this idiot still has a job.  But....like you've said, you live in an extreme red state. However, I do too and I don't think he would keep his job in Nebraska.

 

 

Yep, he practically shut down Tulsa schools - indirectly forcing the Superintendent to resign.  He wanted to take control of the Tulsa school system due to too many failing students - yes something had to be done but talk about overstepping.  He's made several very controversial decisions  - I think he sees his calling is to bring the state back to the time of McGuffey Readers.  

16 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

I wasn't a fan of Haley, mainly because of the Trump stink she had on her for a long time.  However, late in her campaign she started speaking the truth about Trump and saying what needed to be said.  Unfortunately, that doesn't get her anywhere with the R voters.

 

As for abortion.  I'm beginning to wonder if this is the death nail for Republicans controlling so many state houses.  OK...they've turned it over to the states.  Now, really pathetic laws like what Scott is supporting are coming up and, I believe, the majority of people are going to push back against that.  Republicans are going to have a really hard time now saying...."well, we support abortion in certain situations and we care about women's right to make these decisions".  No, they will feel like they need to still stand with an extreme hard line against abortion.  And...that's not where the majority of the population is on the subject.

 

There's also a chance that this is why some Republicans are pushing for a national abortion ban.  It takes the pressure off state houses and it will be easier for them to keep control at that level.

I agree on all points.   Haley was soft on Trump to begin with.   That was a mistake.   

With Trump being Trump and most likely being convicted in criminal court here soon, wt the cultist members being on record of supporting him and also at the state level supporting draconian laws, I would not be surprised to see a Blue Wave on every level.  If Biden wasn't 80- it would be a walk in the park.  Of course, Biden's record isn't spotless - we could bring up many issues, but he is far better than the rapist, fraudster, cult leader and soon to be convicted hush money criminal alternative. 

19 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

Jail is definitely one of the possible outcomes. 

I wonder in NY who sets sentencing - the judge or the jury.?  I was on a criminal jury case recently and the judge gave us guidelines and it was up to us to pick the sentence.     I would suspect that the judge would give guidelines that for this crime such and such penalties can be given and perhaps even speak of Trump's previous record as a criminal - now that he is a convicted fraudster and rapist - those things could be considered.  In the my jury case, the defense tried to shield the client from his previous record by not allowing him to testify. If he testified all the cards would be laid on the table.  The prosecutor dropped a hint during the trial by calling the defendant '  Gas Can Bob"..    It wasn't until we found the guy guilty and we went into the sentencing stage that we heard of his priors - one being trying to set the court house on fire while he was serving time for one of his previous crimes.  All of us who remembered that incident in the news 5-7 years previously had a collective - "I remember that" and understood then the "Gas Can Bob" reference. 

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

Never cared for Sen Scott.  He is fumbling with his words because the GOP is in an untannable position now with the abortion laws.  The only 'bright spot', if you want to call it that,  is that this will surely lead to Trump's defeat and will also secure the house and senate for the Dems - which could bring moderation on this issue.  Not that the House & Senate will be able to control states, but rather gaining the house and senate may help down ticket candidates at the state level.  Except here in Okla where the filing dead line has passed and the GOP is assured continued control, before the casting of any votes,  of the Okla House and Senate due to the total # of unchallenged races.  This will lead to more engrained corruption as the GOP gains absolute power in the state.   

IMHO, The GOP missed the opportunity with Haley - I think she would have worked towards some national consensus on this issue - as a woman leader- she can see both sides.