Guy Chamberlin

All I know is that if a convoy of women got lost in Kandahar Province, they wouldn't be afraid to ask for directions. (Sorry)

No, Einstein. Go back and read my posts, where I walked you through how people use this kind of "plausible deniability" to pretend what they're doing isn't amoral. Again, that part's not really debatable. It's the GOP playbook. Feel free to read all the other words tucked around the quotes you cherry-pick. Sorry if words like "plausible deniability" are a little fancy for your taste. We could also double check if you're having trouble with the word "suppression." which is not synonymous with "stripped away."

Also, I gotta think if you're a foreign enemy of the United States, and you're getting your a$$ kicked by volunteer men, women, and all colors and religions of America, it says a lot more about America.

Wait. Clark said that? I guess that changes everything.

Well considering that we're debating the intent of GOP maneuverings, the words "GOP voter suppression tactics" and "backfired" pretty much put that narrative to bed. Thanks for joining us in reality. Do you want me to walk you through why it "backfired" and provide linkage as to why the state GOPs and their Democrat opponents are doubling down? Or can you do that yourself, Professor Moriarity?

"Sherlock" was used to adhere to community standards. Nice dodge though. I expected nothing more of you.

UCLA has every recruiting advantage in the world, and a big budget to lure top coaches. But they've underperformed for....well most of the school's history. I don't know why. Florida, Florida State and Texas have all the recruiting advantages, but they've gone through their share of lean years and coaches before climbing back. Florida State still isn't doing any better than Nebraska. Salt Lake City isn't anyone's idea of great weather, party atmosphere, or cool, but Utah has had a great run of recruiting NFL caliber talent in recent years. Boise State, too. A hotshot high school quarterback might be very tempted to go to Fargo at this point. North Dakota State has earned respect. My strategy would be for Nebraska to go back to its reputation for targeting offensive linemen. Give them all the love and props typically given to the skill positions. Pretty soon all the skill positions will want to play for the team with the great offensive line because it makes them look so much better and get so less injured.

1) Why is diversity considered a weakness rather than a strength? 2) Should the guy who fled to Cancun when his state was freezing be offering this critique?

Okay Sherlock, I'll walk you through it slowly. No one's right to vote is being taken away. But the wave of GOP changes to the voting process are solely designed to make it more difficult for historically Democrat voters to vote. That's not even up for debate. Plausible deniability allows people like you to clutch their pearls and feign outrage at the accusation, because, in fact, the right to vote is not being taken away. But the right to vote being made more difficult in ways that are clearly racist, partisan, and even childish. These measures do not correct any systemic problems in the existing system, other than the danger of Democrats winning. Here are some more links for you to ignore. https://www.kaporcenter.org/florida-gop-leaders-admit-voter-suppression-was-motive-behind-voter-laws/ https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/03/26/no-more-pretending-republicans-admit-vote-restrictions-are-all-about-winning/ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/supreme-court-gop-attorney-defends-voting-restrictions-saying-they-help-n1259305 https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-audio-trump-adviser-republicans-rely-voter-suppression-justin-clark-2019-12 https://www.britannica.com/topic/voter-suppression

actually you’ve been given s#!tloads of specific evidence, including direct confessions of guilt, but continue to parrot the plausible deniability strategy that makes this such a depressing exercise in democracy.

Dr Fauci joins the thousands of experts, who when asked to advise on public policy errs on the side of caution. if we’re going back to the early days of the pandemic, and the people most dangerously and willfully wrong on the subject, you could make a lot of unfunny t-shirts.

But do the colleges they are transferring to have similar or better academics, that allow them to transfer their course credits and continue on their non-football career track? just kiddding!

I keep going back to Trump saying "what can I say? We fell in love." about Kim Un Jung, before giving Kim the photo op his family always wanted and canceling a U.S./South Korea military exercise without consulting his own military. That's just a single incident. No Democrat could have gotten away with it.

Gosar is trying to get a U2 lyric trending on behalf of rightwing fantasy. I think Bono needs to step in here.

All these examples of the old systems just confirms that the current four team CFP has crowned the least controversial champions in history, with the liveliest debate over who should have been #4.

It may have been posted on this thread already, or maybe I read it on Facebook, but somebody suggested introducing mandatory insurance for gun owners, essentially the way we mandate insurance for cars. So your freedoms are entirely intact, but you and your insurance company will bear financial responsibility for any misdeeds of the machine while in your possession. Now at least part of enforcement is turned over to insurance companies, which are very diligent, motivated, and apolitical about this sort of thing. You can think of a hundred ways this wouldn't work, but at the same time it would shift the debate to actuarial tables and personal responsibility, where real change might occur. The NRA would fight it, of course, but gun owners as portrayed by the NRA wouldn't have anything to worry about.

That's worth a closer look. The National Review is famously partisan, but they do practice real journalism and I'm not seeing any of their facts contested.

I was raised in Nebraska, went to college at UNL. Moved to California a couple years after graduation. I still spend a lot of time in Nebraska. Still love the state. Love California, too. Weirdly enough found more small town values and tight knit neighborhoods here. So no, it doesn't suck. Nor do I badmouth Nebraska. Just you from time to time.

Surely we can agree that while some might use systemic racism as an excuse for their personal failures, that hardly means systemic racism doesn't exist. We should also note that when a black person works hard and overcomes all obstacles to succeed, it's not a story of racial equity, it's a story of all the extra obstacles the person had to overcome. That's still the case for a lot of women, too. Most importantly, why are we debating the false equivalency of rap vs. country, when heavy metal hair bands are the better fit? Hey, are any of you old enough to remember Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies album?

I guess we hang out with different people. The decently dressed and well-off blacks and Latinos I know can all tell stories of being treated like the the worst white hillbilly, In situations they did and didn't expect. I have mixed race friends who tell heartbreaking stories about how their children have been treated in their upper class world. It doesn't come up often over cocktails with the friendly white neighbors, but when they see this racist s#!t on the news, they know exactly what they're talking about. Honestly, there's a lot of sociological study on both the blatant and subversive effects of systemic racism. Check it out. If I'm reading it correctly, you think race was a problem prior to the 1960s, but has been pretty well ironed out since then. Suggesting the Black folk still angry and agitating are making too big a deal about the occasional police misunderstanding, or a random U.S. President speaking up on behalf of the Confederacy.

Imagine any other group breaching the U.S. Capitol, smashing windows, beating on police officers, sending Congress running for cover, s#!tting on the floor, and stealing the House Speaker's laptop. Not to mention building a hangman's noose out front and threatening the lives of specific politicians, including Pence and Pelosi. Imagine them stating their intent before they even arrived in Washington, having t-shirts made to commemorate their mission, and willfully promoting their adventure on social media. Imagine scratching your head at how easy it was for them to do this, even as security around the Capitol had been forewarned and supposedly prepared. Imagine the pretext for this insurrection being entirely false, and the President of the United States describing the terrorists as patriots. Now imagine listening to the same people who want to move on from January 6 rant about Benghazi.

Good Lord did you miss the point. If you are a rich or comfortably middle class white guy, and your skin turns black overnight, you will wake to find a country that treats you differently in ways small and large, and in situations you hadn't even imagined. When conservatives insist that racism is simply an anecdotal pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps issue, it proves the point. I think a lot of issues in the world are class issues rather than race issues, but race allows you to color-code the bias and it takes on a life of its own. So please don't fix my post. Just answer the question. Would you Archy 1221 rather be black or white?

It's a pretty simple test. Would you rather be black or white in this country? It would be the same you. Same personality, same experience, same values. But when you go out in the world you have black skin. Do you think you will be treated the same?

Is a 6-6 season even pessimistic at this point? Not being snarky. A 6-6 season with new talent emerging, a couple quality wins -- maybe a big upset - and I'm feeling pretty optimistic.

The Pac 12 hired Darth Maul with dual light sabers while the BIG10 sends in Rose Tico with a Power Point presentation. Is that how this game is played?