Thurston from Pender

How about this? Omaha resident, UNL alum and formerly the richest man in the Universe is not an expert on infectious diseases. But we will shortly find out that Warren Buffett will have spent much of his $120 billion in cash investing in American companies. 

My money is with Warren. Warren Buffett has always made money for his partners. When there is blood in the streets, he buys. 

The panic is worse than the Wuhan virus.

We Masters of the Universe all think the same. Proud to note that Warren is a UNL alum!! 

BigRedBuster:

John Hinderaker is very numerate. He's cross examined hundreds of experts in various technical fields in jury trials throughout the country. Dismiss his opinions if you must, but I'm confident that his views will prove way more accurate than the "expert" who predicted 56% of the CA population will get infected. 

We will see shortly who is correct. My money's on Hinderaker. 

Here's the link. Read the comments. Many smart people agree with him. There are two sides to this story. 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/stop-the-insane-overreaction.php

The "experts" in California have predicted up to 56% of the total population will be infected with the Wuhan virus. Note well "up to" or "could" in the Governor's letter. 

That prediction is all based upon assumptions. Change the assumptions and the prediction changes. It probably assumes a long life of the virus on surfaces and a high R factor. Also, no effective treatments.  Just watch. Using the right drugs will stop this thing cold. 

One other point that I learned from my superior education at the University of Nebraska. The Fake News is using the old "ticking clock" rhetorical device you see in the movies. Daily we get infection rates and deaths. Tick. Tick. No context. The constant drumbeat makes things seem way worse. 

The Fake News is in the business of generating controversy as that generates audience.

This thing blows over in 30 days. The King of Huskerboard has spoken! 

The author is a Dartmouth and Harvard grad. Somewhat famous. Very successful. 

Wise words from one of the smartest guys I know.

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The economic devastation that is now playing out before our eyes is not caused by the Wuhan flu virus. In the last 21 days, approximately 162,000 Americans have died. Of that number, 150 were killed by the Wuhan virus. If governments at all levels had done nothing, other than eliminating regulatory barriers to the deployment of already-existing medicines, would the virus have killed more Americans? Yes, that is what flu bugs do. Would it have killed more than the 13,000 or so who have died from this year’s seasonal flu virus? Who knows? More than the estimated 80,000 who were killed by the flu in the U.S. just two years ago? I doubt it: world-wide, it has killed only a little more than one-tenth that number.

The answers to those questions are speculative, but this is not: by dictating a virtual cessation of economic activity, government at all levels, but especially state and local, are causing an economic collapse the likes of which, if it continues, we have not seen since the Great Depression, if ever. When has such a government-caused disaster comparably devastated a non-socialist country? Not often. The inflation of the Weimar Republic comes to mind.

 Here is a prediction: the deaths of Americans caused by the Wuhan flu bug will be dwarfed by the suicides committed by people whose life’s savings have been wiped out, whose businesses have been bankrupted, whose jobs have been lost, and whose prospects have been blighted by the insane overreaction we now see from our governments. That overreaction must stop. Right now. Before it is too late, if it is not too late already.

From another blog, 

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You know how Instapundit is always saying he will believe global warming just as soon as they start acting like they believe it?

Lemme tell you a secret. This virus is like all the rest. It's going to kill some people, just as the flu does. But those who are making this political? They don't believe it's a pandemic.

Yeah, it's a pandemic just like swine flu was a pandemic.

It's not a pandemic like you see in the movies

But, we are all scared. Why?

Think back to the Iraq war and how the media covered military deaths during that war. Made you think it was as bad as WWII, didn't they?

That's what is happening here. If we behaved the same way for the flu every year, we would be out of our minds with fear of catching the flu.

The media and their bureaucratic and political friends are evil for what they're doing right now. And when it's all over they're going to pay themselves on the back and say, "Phew! We had very few deaths from this, despite what Trump did. We got lucky!"

When all along most of them knew, or suspected, that this was a nothingburger to begin with.

That's why they're behaving the way they are.

Remember this when it's all over. They should have hell to pay for what they've done.

Big Ten title is now a lock; provided, however, we do our Ritual Exorcism before the season starts. 

Spring game?

Roundball:

Now that's what I'm talking about!

Dr. Tom. 

He knows the head coach. 

Iowa - 27

Nebraska - 24

I begged you people to conduct the ritual before the Iowa game. But noooo. And looked what happened!

I rest my case. 

Completely agree. Free Speech and Deep Thought are pointless. 

Big questions for me: What kind of defense do we run in the Red Zone against OSU and who will be our third string right OT next season. Important stuff. 

You need not have studied Joseph Campbell to understand the vital importance of ritual and myth in society. All you need to have done is see a Star Wars movie. 

Larry Kasdan wrote the first Star Wars movie. He's a Michigan man and he took the course multiple times. Luke Skywalker is the good character. Darth Vader is the evil character. Spoiler alert: Darth is Luke's father! And on and on. 

Kasdan tapped into many ancient myths and themes in Star Wars. 

Here in Nebraska we have our Tunnel Walk. First the music. Perfect modern martial music. The armored warriors leave their cave of safety and march onto the field of battle while their Husker Nation wildly cheers them. Admit it. Just reading those words gets you fired up. The Nebraska Tunnel Walk is one of the many rituals that makes college football so great. 

Other rituals and mythologic characters. 

Herbie Husker.

Little Red. (For the kids)

The school song. 

Release of the balloons. 

The fair virgin cheerleaders 

Celebrating before and after the game with other tribe members around campfires and now called tailgating. 

The above points out how important ritual is to success of Big Red. It is also why it is a categorical imperative that there be a ritual cleansing of Husker Nation's soul. We must forever rid Husker Nation of the bad memory of failed coaches and AD's of the past starting with Steve P. from NP. Sean E. from Wisconsin would be the last one disposed of in our ritual. Frank Solich, of course, would be spared. He's firing started the downward spiral where we have now hit bottom. 

Mark my words, until this ritual is completed we will continue to suffer. 

Husker03

I agree. Ban all people with opinions contra to yours. 

I have it on good authority (the mods here) that there is absolutely no "banging" going on at UNL as I was penalized for suggesting that there was. There certainly was no banging going on when I was there. And there was absolutely no banging when Willa Cather graduated in 1894.  Willa, Louise Pound, Roscoe Pound and I used to play tennis and I always had my doubts about Willa. 

And what's up with the lawyers here? Defining "relevant" and other word games. Ha!

The Ritual Exorcism is the Categorical Imperative to restore Nebraska's relevance. 

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

I will address the "diversity of females on campus" part...

 

Ummmm...let me put this in non-offensive context for our more easily offended posters...

 

Dudes on the team loving banging girls from the state.

I thought the girls at UNL were the squarest and the fairest. 

When did this activity start happening? This "banging." 

And there's always this, 

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Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. helped LSU, his alma mater, celebrate its national championship Monday night by handing out wads of cash to players.

1. The speed lives down South. It is cold in Nebraska. Lots of players make their decision based on that. 

2. Evaluation of recruits is an inexact science. How many top recruits have bombed out in college?

3. Chemistry between the coach and the player is very subjective. 

4. Nebraska has never been relevant on the national stage in the lifetime of the recruits. It's like going to Gopher stadium and seeing all the national titles for Minnesota and the first thought is, "Minnesota was a football champion?"

5. To have a championship football team, you need at least one excellent player and about 5 really good ones. No weak sisters. And must have good special teams with a consistent kicker. 

6. Lack of a diverse female student body to date. 

7. Lincoln is, face it, boring. The only thing to do is drink and not supposed to do that until 21. Weak music scene. 

8. The competition is much stiffer than back in Dr. Tom's day. Now it is Bama, Sooners, LSU, Clemson, Ohio State, Oregon, Notre Dame and others trying to get back like us: Texas, Michigan, FL, FSU, Miami and others. 

9. State has only 1.8m people. Not a lot of job prospects here after graduation. 

10. Program has been cursed since Steve P.  and the fans refuse to perform the Ritual Exorcism to cleanse Husker Nation and rid it of the demons of the failed coaches of the past. 

Blitz:

Can you read?

The former staff was so, so bad that they couldn’t recognize the obvious talent of a future Heisman winner. And he was Mr. Ohio Football to boot.

Wild mismanagement and pure stupidity under the former regime.

Nebraska has a long, long way to go. At least 10 years.

Now do you get it? 

Or, in your opinion, am I trolling you?

Blitz:

The failure to recruit a future Heisman winner - whose Dad played for Nebraska - just highlights how low Nebraska has sunk and how far it has to go. UNL would lose by 60 points to LSU.

And there’s nothing more intellectually cowardly than to call for censorship on this board. 

Burrow won the Heisman.  He’s really good!

TV guy said he wanted to play at Nebraska!

His Dad and brothers all played for Nebraska and Riley didn’t even recruit him? Mr. Ohio Football too.

How could that happen?

I might do an ex post facto leap into The Dredge.

We might not win a single game in the Big Ten. Terrible team.

Doesn’t this kind of stuff go on all the time at UNL? 

What’s the big deal?