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Still waiting to hear what these bad things are..... Just a rumor that all parties involved with the chair may not be on board with it. I know that's vague, but I'm not at liberty to say any more. Doe$n't $urpri$e me. It doe$n't have any ¢orporate tie-in$ to make money of off, $o the admini$tration i$ again$t it. Plu$ it wa$n't their idea, which I'm $ure al$o pi$$ed them off. I'm sure we at HB (and toss in GopherHole.com) can come up with some scratch to sponsor it. I'm in for $20. The HuskerBoard.com $5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy Presented by GopherHole.com

Guessing before looking at the choices above, I went Newby. He returned kicks early in his career and would get a couple touches a game behind Ameer. Am I right?

#GBR

You can't make me

Everyone with a twitter account needs to be sending @Huskers, @HuskerFBNation, @NE_Fball_Mngrs, and @NUEquipment a tweet asking where is the #brokenchair

Really??? Then why do they keep getting elected? Good question. Brownback has the lowest approval rating of any governor in the US. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-20/sam-brownback-chris-christie-among-nations-least-popular-governors-poll-shows Brownback, a Republican, only has a 23 percent approval rating among Kansas voters in the new poll, compared with his 26 percent approval in results collected from January until early May.

I am not on the Facebook, but my wife is. She had to mute (is that what its called? not unfriend them, but not see their posts) multiple family members (on my side and hers) over the past year because all they would do is share these fake stories about Trump/Clinton.

Facebook Fake News Explained News stories are supposed to help ordinary voters understand the world around them. But in the 2016 election, news stories online too often had the opposite effect. Stories rocketed around the internet that were misleading, sloppily reported, or in some cases totally made up. Over the course of 2016, Facebook users learned that the pope endorsed Donald Trump (he didn’t), that a Democratic operative was murdered after agreeing to testify against Hillary Clinton (it never happened), that Bill Clinton raped a 13-year-old girl (a total fabrication), and many other totally bogus “news” stories. Stories like this thrive on Facebook because Facebook’s algorithm prioritizes “engagement” — and a reliable way to get readers to engage is by making up outrageous nonsense about politicians they don’t like. A big problem here is that the internet has broken down the traditional distinction between professional news-gathering and amateur rumor-mongering. On the internet, the “Denver Guardian” — a fake news site designed to look like a real Colorado newspaper — can reach a wide audience as easily as real news organizations like the Denver Post, the New York Times, and Fox News. ---- Publicly, Facebook’s CEO has downplayed the site’s role in distributing fake news online. But privately, there’s a raging debate inside Facebook about how it could do more. BuzzFeed reports that some Facebook employees are frustrated by Zuckerberg’s blasé response to concerns about fake news on the social media platform. “What’s crazy is for him to come out and dismiss it like that,” one anonymous engineer wrote, according to BuzzFeed. “He knows, and those of us at the company know, that fake news ran wild on our platform during the entire campaign season.” One reason Facebook’s management has been so cautious on this issue is that it’s still smarting from the controversy earlier this year over Facebook’s trending news feature. Until this summer, Facebook employed a team of professional journalists to curate the trending news box that appeared in the right-hand rail next to the Facebook newsfeed. Then in May, one of Facebook’s trending news editors told Gizmodo that the team was routinely suppressing trending stories that slanted in a conservative direction. That caused a massive backlash, including questions from Republicans in Congress about Facebook’s editorial policies. This led to Facebook terminating the entire trending news team. Today, Facebook uses software to choose which headlines appear in this box. But with the human editors gone, Facebook had a new problem: It started to see fake stories showing up in the trending box. Facebook’s trending news algorithm simply wasn’t sophisticated enough to distinguish an accurate news story from an inaccurate one.

In the final three months of the US presidential campaign, the top-performing fake election news stories on Facebook generated more engagement than the top stories from major news outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, NBC News, and others, a BuzzFeed News analysis has found. During these critical months of the campaign, 20 top-performing false election stories from hoax sites and hyperpartisan blogs generated 8,711,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook. Within the same time period, the 20 best-performing election stories from 19 major news websites generated a total of 7,367,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook. (This analysis focused on the top performing link posts for both groups of publishers, and not on total site engagement on Facebook. For details on how we identified and analyzed the content, see the bottom of this post. View our data here.) Up until those last three months of the campaign, the top election content from major outlets had easily outpaced that of fake election news on Facebook. Then, as the election drew closer, engagement for fake content on Facebook skyrocketed and surpassed that of the content from major news outlets. https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/viral-fake-election-news-outperformed-real-news-on-facebook?utm_term=.bfmO1G71E#.ui9P28z2K

I was just going to post something about Fake News and social media. You beat me to it.

NU/OU can't happen in the Cotton. Cotton has to take the highest ranked non Power 5 conference champion. If the season ended today, based on the CFP rankings (which is who places teams in these bowls) the top bowls would look like: Peach (Playoff) - Alabama/Clemson Fiesta (Playoff) - Ohio St/Michigan Rose - Wisconsin (B1G #1) vs. Washington (Pac #1) Sugar - Auburn (SEC #1) vs Oklahoma (Big 12 #1) Orange - Louisville (ACC #1) vs Penn St (Big Ten #2/SEC #2/Notre Dame) Cotton - Colorado (Top Remaining At Large) vs Boise St (Group of 5) So in order to make the Cotton, we need to end around #10 in the final CFP rankings.

Here is Kiper's top 10 by position. He doesn't have any Huskers either. http://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2017/insider/story/_/id/18008341/nfl-draft-2017-top-10-prospects-every-position-mel-kiper

It has to be the VP, right? I have noticed that he does look increasingly haggard. All of the campaigning had to take a toll on him. He reportedly only sleeps a couple hours a night. Look at the pictures of Bush/Obama from when they were inaugurated to when they left office. They completely changed. Doesn't seem like it will be kind to a 70 year old.

What additional laws do people want put in place on this? Only American citizens (and immigrants with green cards) can contribute to federal politics, but the American divisions of foreign companies can form political action committees (PACs) and collect contributions from their American employees. I believe the problem is in enforcing it. It is interesting that the administration that is going to work on this is the same administration that had contact with a foreign government directly in their campaign to be elected. And a campaign that also solicited foreign donations

So you're telling me we are going to the Outback Bowl...

Waiting for Alex Jones to get a position in the administration...

Dammit people. We need to pick one!

None is actually not that surprising to me. On players eligible for the 17 draft, I think that Carter is actually our top prospect.

We need to hashtag this and get it trending. What are we thinking? #whereisthechair #chairgate #brokenchair #findthechair

He needs to keep it so we can all be reminded what a petulant child he is.

I can see some sort of shady business deal coming to light over the next couple of years. Not sure what exactly, but something tied to foreign policy decisions and his businesses where it is proven somewhere (email?) that the sole reason for that decision was to enrich his business.

How Trump Can Make Money Off The Secret Service When it comes to political campaigns, the U.S. Secret Service pays for agent travel, be it on aircraft, trains, boats or automobile. Unlike Clinton, Trump didn’t need to charter an airplane since he flew on his own jets. As a result, while the Secret Service chipped in for its share of what the Clinton campaign paid to charter a plane, when it came to Trump’s campaign, the federal agency effectively just paid him. For travel on Trump’s black-and-red Boeing 757 and Cessna Citation jet, the candidate’s aviation company TAG Air Inc. has raked in almost $6 million, Politico reported. These payments, Secret Service spokesman Joe Casey said, accord with FEC rules specifying that those traveling with a campaign—including the news media—must pay for their travel. For any of the Trump or Pence clans assigned a protective detail due to safety risks—and the rancor of the 2016 vote could well produce many—Secret Service travel on a Trump-owned plane means the agency would need to reimburse the aircraft’s owner. In this case, the president.