JJ Husker

32 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

 

Only in the deepest MAGA fantasies is that fat tub of orange goo considered 'hardened.'

 

I bet his arteries are hardened

 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

Yes he actually would have dominated the Republican primary based on polling data if Trump were not a candidate.  
 

He is also a MUCH better primary candidate than Trump.  If Trump ends up anywhere near Biden this election, DeSantis would have been President if not for Trump.  

Well I was responding to what you said in this post. 

7 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

I agree.   DeSantis would have dominated this general election 

Considering he didn’t even make it out of the primary and Trump is not “dominating” the general, this appears to be more of a fantasy than anything. You just happen to have a much higher opinion of Desantis than the general electorate had or has. Sure he probably would’ve picked up some never Trump R votes so he may have done better in the general because of the locked in R only votes but he wasn’t going to he nabbing anymore independents and he wasn’t going to steal any Biden votes. But we’ll never know because the “if” didn’t happen.

3 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

I agree.   DeSantis would have dominated this general election 

I mean we know you like the guy but he wasn’t going to dominate crap. He struggled just hanging in the primary field as long as he did. No. He didn’t and wouldn’t dominate anything. And this is coming from someone who would’ve rather seen Desantis in the general just so Trump would slither off into his hole.

3 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

 

I am having a difficult time finding hard numbers. Of course it is secretive, because of the civil liberties violation aspect, but I am seeing everything from 200k a year to an astonishing 3.4 million warrants a year of US citizens' data...all without a warrant. 

If it is the correct 3.4M people, for the right reasons, then good.

I’m sort of serious. Ya know, I have zero concern about being surveilled because I’m not doing anything wrong. I am not worried about whatever they may find. But yeah it would be a problem if it were somebody like Trump doing it for the wrong reasons. So yeah, a government spying on it’s own people is a bad thing……until they give them a good, legitimate reason to be in those crosshairs.

5 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Well....then voters need to make a statement on this in November.

 

 

Who is going to do something about it? Serious question.

The people voting for Trump and people like MTG, Gaetz etc. want Trump running the actual government. Shadow government? Pffft, they want to make it the actual government with no checks and balances.

54 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Then change it and fix it instead of just proclaiming all of FISA is bad and get rid of it.  It's an example of a political hot button issue causing them to do this instead of actually doing their jobs and fixing it.

Exactly. But I have absolutely no hope of any of them doing their job or fixing jack s#!t. The other reason, dems voted against it, is simply because it was something the repubs proposed. Maybe a pretty good starting point to oppose anything they want but a helluva way to govern.

Personally, I don’t have any problem with US citizens, that happen to be out of country, being surveilled when indications arise that need to be surveilled. If Trump doesn’t like it, it can’t be all bad.

9 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

I think that, as currently utilized, FISA was bad because it allowed for US citizens to be surveilled without a warrant. Foreign nationals/citizens on foreign soil suspects of crimes should be treated differently than US citizens on our own soil. 

 

I am not sure if that is what the no vote was trying to fix? I kind of think that's the case since every single D voted no.

This. FISA needs to be fixed so they can’t spy on our own people. This is why dems voted against it. The Rs that voted against it did so because orange man bad told them to. There is a very distinct difference here. One party is trying to do what is right and the other party is ignoring their constituents and doing the bidding of one man.  Somebody was poo pooing the idea Trump would become a dictator. Well, he already is one for republicans.

1 hour ago, commando said:

he got that angry over a 5 day suspension from the force for creeping on high school girls?   he must be working on his street cred to get a promotion in the trump campaign

I thought creeping on adolescent girls would be a prerequisite to even get hired on to the Trump campaign? One of those bare necessity low bar things to make sure you’re ready for whatever DJT may ask of you.

56 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Not remotely true but oh well 

Really? The sarcasm dripping from my post didn’t indicate anything?

38 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

I know there are different rules in different states. I'm asking Archy why there are rules against turning in ballots that are filled out by the voter.

Obviously it is to prevent those cheatin’ dems from stealing more elections. Everyone knows any mail in ballot voted is a vote for dems. Don’t want to make it easy or convenient for registered dem voters to actually get those ballots turned in. All self respecting repubs do it the old fashioned way, they go to the polling place, in person, preferably with their open carry sidearm and Trump 2024 shirt in plain sight.

11 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

Why would it be illegal to turn in someone's ballot that they actually filled out?

On this one very limited issue Archy is correct. States have different rules and limits. In Colorado, one person can deliver/turn in up to 10 ballots. Anyone the voter determines to deliver for them is okay. Nebraska has no specific rules. Other states limit this activity to only relatives or caregivers and some states have different numbers of ballots specified. I presume the laws are to prevent the illicit kind of ballot harvesting that some believe to be the reason that Republicans don’t actually win every election in a landslide.

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

I just made some bets.  

 

My "long shot" is Brooks...10 to win 240

 

I took Speith to finish in the top 17

 

And I LOVE Tiger but I might take him to finish worse than 53rd.

I got a free $10 bet from MGM that had to be used on the Masters. I don’t follow golf at all. I put it on Tiger to make the cut at +110 odds. So I’ll clear a whole $11 if he makes it 

1 minute ago, BigRedBuster said:

Remember those cap guns that had the red plastic caps that would pop?  We would put them under rocks in the street. Cars would drive by…pop….stop and get out trying to figure out what happened. We would just laugh. 

I am highly disappointed that we never did this one. 

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

Another thing on the BB gun wars.  We used to live in a very big old house with a huge upstairs with lots of rooms.  That's where we had our BB gun wars.  It was awesome.  the walls were all old plaster, so the BBs didn't dent them like they would drywall.

Those were either some weak a$$ BB guns or that plaster was spectacular. 
 

We had our wars outside, around the neighborhood, usually at dusk or after dark where it was highly likely that cars, house windows etc. were likely to and did take damage. It was just another evening activity like kick-the-can for us.

My favorite evening trouble making activity was what we called “canning”. We would stretch fishing line across a street at bumper height and tie empty cans on the ends. Cars would drive by in the dark and the cans would swing back into the sides of the cars. We would laugh as the drivers would stop and get out to see what happened. Got chased more than once by people who figured it out 

So, what I’m seeing is, there is an operation called “criminal carl” and I can sell them my ballot (or be extra stupid and just give it to them) and then criminal carl will have subverted all elections that don’t go the way repubs thought they should’ve gone. And the only real victims here are DJT, his supporters and republicans. And we all know this is a huge problem and all of the “criminal carls” out there are most definitely democrats because no self respecting republican would ever do such a thing.  Seems like a legit serious problem. 

13 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

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. 

I guess the kid in us never really grows up. I worked on a lot of construction sites. We typically didn’t have carpenters or those type of nail guns but we did have the Hilti/Red Head powder actuated nail guns for shooting nails into concrete and sheets of 2” thick styrofoam. The safety features was the outlet barrel had to be depressed so you couldn’t just shoot them like a gun so, of course, we used the styrofoam to allow us to shoot them wherever. Pro tip- nail guns like this are not very accurate 

4 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Up till 6th grade, I lived in town and in a neighborhood with 3 other kids my age.  We had a blast.  We would all make sure our parents would buy A LOT of pop bottle rockets at 4th of July.  We would never come anywhere close to using them all.  BUT....(it's hard to explain) in our front yard and and the yard across the street, there were things we could hide behind.  So....we would split up in teams and have pop bottle rocket wars.  At night it was awesome.  We all had beebee guns.  They worked perfect for aiming them.  

 

The cops would come around and tell us to stop....we would.....until they turned the corner and it was always fun to be the first one to fire one off after the cops were gone.

 

We did the same thing with polack goose guns.  That was fun too.

3 hours ago, teachercd said:

That is awesome!

 

We used to have BB gun wars.  We would steal safety goggles from school and then we would wear a lot of layers of clothing.  The was you could only pump your gun 1 time...but...I don't think anyone followed that rule. 

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.

3 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Life is just so horrible with a Democrat in the Whitehouse....we all should just want to die.

 

 

The very telling point of that interview is when she says “I don’t care what the data shows. You and I have very different ideas of what’s going on.” I’d like to say it’s sad that these people are the way they are, but eff that and eff them. Sick of this f#&%ing cult. She complains of all the entitled people in this country and how terrible it is here. GTFO if ya don’t like it you epitome of entitled b!^@h.

51 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

Now you need to find the 2 Lost actors who are in Shogun

Richard Alpert and Dogen.

Yeah I cheated. Nestor Carbonell was easy to pick out, his dark eye makeup always kinda creeps me out. Hiroyuki Sanada was tougher to find.

On 4/7/2024 at 2:39 PM, Moiraine said:

I feel like 75% of the people who hated it think that nothing on the island ever happened, even though it flat out says in the last episode that it all happened. I think the other 25% just don't like the Christiany ending.

5 hours ago, RedDenver said:

It was because during season 1 a bunch of fans guessed the ending (which I won't spoil for anyone) and the producers stated that it wasn't. So a lot of people were confused/annoyed because they lied about what was happening. Plus when they get off the island but then have to go back really was terrible writing, which was when I stopped watching.

If you’re interested, this is the best rundown/explanation of Lost that I’ve seen. Listing the events in chronological order helps quite a bit.

https://hauntedcoconut.wordpress.com/2020/07/16/lost-the-island-smoke-monster-and-everything-else-explained/

4 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Also, many of the comments on masks comes from a time when there was a mass shortage of masks for health care workers who were being overwhelmed at hospitals with COVID patients.  So, they were telling people to find other types of masks (homemade versions) and using them, leaving the commercially made masks for hospital workers.

 

But.....hey...let's crucify the people trying to figure out the best path forward.

Yep. You couldn’t buy an N95 mask almost immediately after we knew what was going on. So they wanted them reserved for healthcare workers (for the greater good). They asked the rest of us to make do as best we could. I don’t recall anyone ever saying those cheap little blue masks would protect the wearer but common sense indicates it did help others (when not worn as a chin diaper).

But I do understand the point of what and when should something get censored. I’m not sure I agree with the example of Covid being evidence that valuable info would be silenced. The anti-mask anti-Fauci disinformation undoubtedly caused more problems than had much of it actually been censored.

59 minutes ago, teachercd said:

It is a HUGE thing in schools right now.  

And that’s great. Gotta get that instilled while they’re younger, before it’s too late. There’s a huge swath of older generations that have proven they don’t want to or can’t learn how to sort the bulls#!t.

2 hours ago, funhusker said:

I think it would be easy.  One of our Social Studies teachers does something like this when he is talking about primary, secondary sources, etc.  He gives the kids 4 news headlines, one of them is fake.  The kids have to decide which one is the imposter.

 

When signing up or renewing the social media account: If you get it wrong, that email you are trying to sign up with is rejected.

Don’t have much to add but I am happy and actually impressed that kids are being taught to discern news sources. This literally might be more important than the 3 Rs at this point in time. I also like the idea of people having to pass some sort of competency test to sign up for things. Maybe it could be applied to the ability to vote also.