JJ Husker

I'm doomed. 12 or 13 of them,....at least once. Probably more if knew what half of that stuff was. Ouija boards Levitation Divination Marijuana (but definitely not pot parties- momma told me not to go) LSD/Shrooms (don't ask) Video games Harry Potter Halloween Fornication Rock music Heavy metal Twilight films (my wife and daughter are bad influences) Vegetarianism- well not exactly but I do eat my veggies. At least séances are cool apparently.

I understand the concern here. But where I fail to make the connection is when I try to identify a team in that top 25 that we would have competed with. I come up with possibly SDSU and Wisconsin, after that I'm getting bubkus. Possibly a couple others in the first half of the season but I did say "competed". Actually winning makes it even tougher. We competed with #21 which was a top 10 team at 1 point with a back up walk-on QB, # 1 or 2 WR, and starting Safety out. We didn't play #21 Louisville. If you mean #22 Tennessee and want to call what we did in our bowl game competing...well, I ....am speechless. I mean we can play the excuse game all day long. At one point we were tied with #6 tOSU, and we were 7-0 and ranked in the top ten......before we actually played anybody. Sorry, I'm whining again. Just getting sick of being nowhere near where this program should be. The last 16 years is wearing on me hard. We have better talent than our on field performance indicates and our talent is still miles away from the top programs.

Okay. I won't whine and you don't cry. I'll piss & moan and you can stomp & cuss. At least we agree on the following.

And that is exactly what anyone said? Makes sense.So you believe this team was deserving of a top 25 final ranking?You're lying to yourself if you think every one of those teams "deserves" to be in the Top 25 but, using the same metrics, Nebraska absolutely doesn't. Especially since, being the third team in "others receiving votes" we're basically ranked 28th. I'm not saying any of them "deserves" it. Just stating the obvious that we do not. Don't see any sense in crying over a few possible mistakes in the poll until we clearly belong there.

I understand the concern here. But where I fail to make the connection is when I try to identify a team in that top 25 that we would have competed with. I come up with possibly SDSU and Wisconsin, after that I'm getting bubkus. Possibly a couple others in the first half of the season but I did say "competed". Actually winning makes it even tougher.

And that is exactly what anyone said? Makes sense. So you believe this team was deserving of a top 25 final ranking?

We can complain all we want about other 4 loss teams being ranked. Fact is we aren't a top 25 team. 62-3 and 40-10 cemented that. We have to get better, much better, if we want others to acknowledge Nebraska football.

I hear what you are saying, but you don't think 4 hour games are a problem? Usually only if Nebraska is involved. The tOSU, Iowa and Tennessee games sure could've been much, much shorter. But seriously, yeah, the games could be shorter. Reduce some of the commercial breaks and adopt some of the NFL clock rules and problem solved. I like reviews and having a way to correct bad calls but they need to speed up the process. It's gotten better but still some of them seemingly take forever.

No doubt the big box stores and strip malls all but killed traditional malls. Not to mention Amazon and online sellers... If Sears would've specialized in Craftsman, Diehard and Kenmore and shed the dead weight, they'd likely have survived forever. They were probably too committed in property and real estate too think they could downsize their stores. Plus, didn't they acquire KMart after their demise was written on the wall? Brilliant.

I'm failing to see any problem. We wait the whole off season anticipating being able to watch football. Now somebody wants to reduce the length of time we get to watch the games. That is time where you are in a stadium or on your couch doing nothing except having a beer and watching a game. No chores, no work.... I say we fire anybody that tries to shorten the games.

IDK, the one in Greeley is in a mall. Sears is the only reason I ever go there, once or twice per year. (Except for the movie theatre which is sort of attached to the mall). Whenever I go there I get this strange feeling I've been transported back in time to a ghost town. The whole mall is pretty much a ghost town except for the teenage hooligans. The theatre on the other side is always hoppin'. It seems so dead in Sears and their methods antiquated. I think they didn't/aren't surviving because they refused to update and advance with the times. I go there exclusively for Craftsman. Have compared larger appliance purchases there but never got one. Don't even consider them for clothing or electronics.

I agree. By far, this is the biguest concern and issue to come out of this deal.

Interesting. I guess I'm pretty much still in the same boat but a little more troubled that there is at least some possible trail that may link Trump, or somebody representing him, to the Russian efforts. However, they made almost the same link to the Clinton campaign as well. It all just seems odd. I mean, other than the remote possibility that Trump enlisted their aid to find and release dirt on Hillary and the DNC, what is the worst we think could happen if Trump and Putin actually may talk and have some rapport with each other? I understand there are some that want to doubt all of Trump's intentions but is the thought that he might actually cause some serious damage somehow to our national interests as Russia is concerned? I'm failing to see the worst case scenario here. Trump may be a lot of undesirable things but I don't see him willfully exposing the US to harm from a sovereign power. I'd be much more worried about his loud mouth or actions accidently leading to armed conflict with some other nation. I find the fact that he seems to desire even the slightest dialog with a wildcard like Putin, rather than trying to bully or talk down to him, a little reassuring that maybe we won't end up lobbing ICBM's at each other. All we can do is hope he doesn't really trust Putin or Russia any farther than he can throw them.

I agree with all of this. Well stated.

First let me start by saying this is not in support of Trump in anyway. How do people make the logic leap by equating what Russia did to a position of not supporting Trump because of it? I really don't understand the connection. Is the claim that they did this at Trump's behest or with his direct knowledge and approval? Why should anyone hold what Putin and Russia did against Trump? Here's an analogy of how I see this. I am a Mike Riley supporter (really want him to be our coach) and I go out and discover a tape where Bo Pelini is bad mouthing NU fans. I release that tape and people discover my motives of wanting MR to be the coach. BP is subsequently fired and MR is hired. Are you telling me that all NU fans should hold that against MR and not support him? BTW- I do see plenty of other reasons for a person to not support Trump. This just isn't one of them IMO. I do think he or his team was involved in some direct or indirect way - not sure that there is (or will be) proof of that however. My issue honestly is that he's trying to portray to the American people that we shouldn't trust our own intelligence, and that even if we did that this simply isn't a big deal because they didn't influence the election (which can be debated of course) ... the bigger issue for me is the greater idea that he's giving the impression that whatever happened, however big or small is ok. You know there would be no end to this dialogue if he had lost the election. I agree that the issue is his now downplaying it and questioning our intelligence agencies. But I take that as his typical anti government shtick. Is there any real evidence that he or his people were involved? I really haven't been paying much attention to the whole deal.

First let me start by saying this is not in support of Trump in anyway. How do people make the logic leap by equating what Russia did to a position of not supporting Trump because of it? I really don't understand the connection. Is the claim that they did this at Trump's behest or with his direct knowledge and approval? Why should anyone hold what Putin and Russia did against Trump? Here's an analogy of how I see this. I am a Mike Riley supporter (really want him to be our coach) and I go out and discover a tape where Bo Pelini is bad mouthing NU fans. I release that tape and people discover my motives of wanting MR to be the coach. BP is subsequently fired and MR is hired. Are you telling me that all NU fans should hold that against MR and not support him? BTW- I do see plenty of other reasons for a person to not support Trump. This just isn't one of them IMO. There's an argument that Trump people were at best complicit and at worst colluded with the Russian government in doing this. The other part where your analogy breaks down, though it is a rather good one, is that Mike Riley never stood up and said "Hey Eichorst, I hope you find a tape of Bo Pelini cussing out his fans so you can fire him and hire me." I think people have a very easy time holding it against him because he encouraged a hostile foreign power to attack us. Did I miss this? When/where/how did Trump request that Russia or Putin do this before it happened? Ummmmmm - during the debates when he asked Russia to hack Hillary to find the "missing" emails for starters ... Is there anything else? Honestly that just seemed to me to be another of many stupid, unthought out comments on his part. Kind of along the lines of saying you wish someone would just die and then you find out they died a few weeks later. Does anyone really feel that is what caused this to happen?

First let me start by saying this is not in support of Trump in anyway. How do people make the logic leap by equating what Russia did to a position of not supporting Trump because of it? I really don't understand the connection. Is the claim that they did this at Trump's behest or with his direct knowledge and approval? Why should anyone hold what Putin and Russia did against Trump? Here's an analogy of how I see this. I am a Mike Riley supporter (really want him to be our coach) and I go out and discover a tape where Bo Pelini is bad mouthing NU fans. I release that tape and people discover my motives of wanting MR to be the coach. BP is subsequently fired and MR is hired. Are you telling me that all NU fans should hold that against MR and not support him? BTW- I do see plenty of other reasons for a person to not support Trump. This just isn't one of them IMO. There's an argument that Trump people were at best complicit and at worst colluded with the Russian government in doing this. The other part where your analogy breaks down, though it is a rather good one, is that Mike Riley never stood up and said "Hey Eichorst, I hope you find a tape of Bo Pelini cussing out his fans so you can fire him and hire me." I think people have a very easy time holding it against him because he encouraged a hostile foreign power to attack us. Did I miss this? When/where/how did Trump request that Russia or Putin do this before it happened?

First let me start by saying this is not in support of Trump in anyway. How do people make the logic leap by equating what Russia did to a position of not supporting Trump because of it? I really don't understand the connection. Is the claim that they did this at Trump's behest or with his direct knowledge and approval? Why should anyone hold what Putin and Russia did against Trump? Here's an analogy of how I see this. I am a Mike Riley supporter (really want him to be our coach) and I go out and discover a tape where Bo Pelini is bad mouthing NU fans. I release that tape and people discover my motives of wanting MR to be the coach. BP is subsequently fired and MR is hired. Are you telling me that all NU fans should hold that against MR and not support him? BTW- I do see plenty of other reasons for a person to not support Trump. This just isn't one of them IMO.

Why it matters moving forward: I mean, hostile foreign powers are always going to want to meddle if they can. The fact that Russia had this large an effect via a simple phishing scheme is troublesome for our cybersecurity efforts and we should expect Russia will try to do the very same in four years to protect their puppet. Fascinating reading for those interested in what happened. I'm braced for the wave of denialism from Trump allies. I'm curious of your's and other's opinions on this Russian cyber attack and our election. I feel like I'm missing some important aspect of all the brouhaha. I just don't quite understand what profound effect this really has, other than of course we don't want the Russians meddling in our affairs. But, the way I see it, all they did was help make voters aware of certain truthful shortcomings of HRC and the Dem party. The key here to me is that all they did was release some information that may not have been made known otherwise. It kind of seems to me that people are flipping out because they discovered the truth. So it is clear, this is what I think in bullet points. 1- It is bad and shouldn't be tolerated that the Russians hacked anything in this country. We need to take steps to prevent similar occurrences in the future and we need to let Russia know, in no uncertain terms, that it is not okay. 2- It is particularly troubling that Russia felt the need to try to influence our election. But the fact they did it by simply making truths known to American voters makes it seem far less concerning to me. 3- Trump is a dbag for denying and or downplaying this Russian meddling. But he is a dbag about most everything so that is to be expected. 4- About the most disturbing thing I find about this is that Trump's reaction was to question the authenticity of our own intelligence agencies. Am I missing something that I should be outraged about? It seems most people are up in arms and beside themselves about them "influencing" our election. Why exactly should I be extremely upset that information was released for public consumption? It's not like they tampered with vote counts or anything. You stated "The fact that Russia had this large an effect via a simple phishing scheme..." What do you mean by "large effect"?

No way, Jose. The best one is "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" starring Bill Shatner Have you seen "What you need"? If not, give it a whirl! I'm sure I have. I was watching 2 or 3 episodes every night for a while. There are so many great episodes it's hard to pick a "best" one. My favorite (don't know the name of it) is the one with the spoiled little boy that nobody will say no to. If he doesn't get his way or if you don't agree with him, he'll turn you into a jack-in-the-box or some such thing.

I actually kinda like not having a full liquor/beer section inside the grocery stores. When I go to an actual liquor store, they know what they're talking about. They can recommend stuff to you or, if you get to know them well enough, even put in a order for you. If I buy booze at the grocery store, Timmy the high school bag boy isn't going to know jack sh#t about anything Oh I agree. I still prefer going to a real liquor store for those reasons. But it would be nice once in awhile to be able to grab a sixer at the grocery store. Years ago I did that here in Colorado and found out when I got home that it was some 3.2% crap. I don't even know what the grocery stores carry today. I just don't get it there.

Sounds like they might be decent places. Would be cool to have a place to get multiple local micros without having to go to each one individually. Speaking of good beer, we were in Omaha over Christmas and I wanted to pick up some stout to drink at the relatives house. So I ask them where the nearest liquor store is and they take me to HyVee. Damn! They had a hell of a selection of beer from all over. They even had a couple from Crabtree Brewing right here in Greeley which really surprised me because I didn't think they were all that widely distributed. Now I know why you guys in Nebraska always mention the liquor sales at HyVee. Grocery stores around here don't have sh#t for beer or alcohol.

I remember getting the Sears Wish List Christmas Catalog every year and thinking it was the most magical thing ever. I would stare at that thing all day, thinking about the amazing Christmas gifts I was going to ask for. Damn, that brings back some memories. Sears, Montgomery Wards and J C Penny's catalogs. Yup, would spend hours studying those catalogs to make sure Santa's list was just perfect. And Penney's always had a pretty risqué lingerie section to boot. Probably would've gone blind if Victoria's Secret existed back then.