Guy Chamberlin

Yep. The play is to promote the fact that China is poised to overtake the U.S. in alternative energy, not simply an ideology but intellectual property and patented technology that will make billions for private industry. The last administration was literally tilting at windmills.

I get that Bill Kristol couldn't follow his conservative ideology into the Age of Trump, but when did he become such a reliable liberal flamethrower?

You're adorable when you try to pretend this s#!t is debatable.

Don't get me wrong. I grew up with that fanbase. But we've taken to celebrating ugly victories against Northwestern and Purdue and I think we're currently starving for a few of those and at least one legitimate upset.

Every state has provided valid counts, often recounted for assurance, often under the eye of Republican state officials and admitted Trump voters. More than 63 challenges to election results were sent to the courts and 100% of them were rejected for having 0% actionable evidence. So really the question is on you, and the disturbing number of Republicans who want to promote this myth and enact more methods for manipulating election results they don't like. What could be more valid than what we've already done? And how f#&%ing childish and pathetic are these attempts to prove otherwise?

One very likely loss will turn into a very inspiring win. One very likely win will turn into a very disappointing loss. That's just the way these things work. Let's be honest: if the team goes 6-6 and is competitive in every game, with young talent breaking out, we'll be happy with the improvement.

I'm seeing a guy who puts a lot of air under almost every pass. Works pretty well with high school guys who are wide open and waiting for the ball to come down, but those passes would be picked off by faster, better DBs at the next level.

Just read that the presumed Covid Baby Boom didn't happen, either. Couples forced to quarantine together apparently didn't use the time to fornicate, and perhaps took a darker look at procreation because the U.S. population had nearly 500,000 fewer births in 2020, and its slowest population growth in 120 years.

I'm talking about the instructions to slightly blanch the peas. A needless waste of time and nutrients.

I disagree!

Wait....you knew this was a joke, right?

If you don't think a joke is funny, given the seriousness of the situation, it doesn't mean you didn't get the joke. Seriously. Wait. You think a cop making a Tik-Tok video where he pretends to pwn LeBron James by implying he wouldn't intervene in black on black violence to teach the uppity colored superstar a lesson is funny? Also, you know perfectly well that I'm frequently hilarious.

How come conservatives keep telling LeBron James to shut up and dribble, and liberals can't tell Scot Baio to shut up and act? Oh. Right.

Did anything in my post or my long posting history suggest otherwise?

The outcry over the poorly named Defund the Police movement ignored the reasonable policy shift to have other agencies step in to as many intervention situations as possible, including domestic disturbances, confronting the mentally ill. public drug and alcohol cases, vagrant complaints, even barking dogs and cats stuck in trees. A couple honest police chiefs admitted they would love to have these calls taken off their plate. Would an intervening social worker sometimes find themselves scared s#!tless and welcome an armed police back up? Of course. Could police learn about mental health assessment and de-escalation techniques from some unarmed experts? Why not? If the only other choices are Pro-Police or Anti-Police, it will only get worse. Our town of 50,000 had a full time mental health expert on the Police Department and he was pretty brilliant at navigating bi-polar episodes and helping police determine who was a danger to others and/or to themselves. He lasted about 5 years till budget cuts caught up with him. Pretty sure he was saving the department and judicial system time and money in the long run.

Remember a couple posts back where someone was talking about using the singular worst example to pretend the much bigger problem didn't exist? This would be that.

Yep.

You won't. No one would seriously suggest there's such a thing, just a comedian making a point The analogy is whether some professions should be granted a wider berth than others. The bad apple ratio for police officers, airline pilots, brain surgeons, and nuclear scientists should probably be lower than convenience store clerks, irrigation supply salesmen, athletes, and DMV employees. Right? They should be high for teachers, politicians, and stock manipulators, too. Some professions are pretty strict with their own standards — you screw up and you're out. Both police and teachers have unions that close ranks and give every benefit of the doubt to the bad apple. It hurts the larger profession. And again, in the law enforcement profession those bad apples can be deadly, and that doesn't take into account the selective enforcement that lands far more minorities in prison than white folk committing the same crimes -- or worse. The worst over-reaction to a policing event shouldn't negate a real and well-documented problem that's been going on forever.

That's why me and Chris compared jobs where the skill level and decision making of one person is a matter of life and death for others.

I totally sympathize with good cops who hate being branded by the worst actions of bad cops, but I think Chris Rock said it best as to why this isn't likely to go away: “Whenever the cops kill an innocent black man, they give the excuse, ‘Oh it’s just a few bad apples.’ Bad apples? Some jobs can’t have bad apples. Some jobs, everybody gotta be good. Like … pilots. “American Airlines can’t be like, ‘Most of our pilots like to land. We just got a few bad apples that like to crash into mountains. Please bear with us.’”

"Satan is the author of confusion." Corinthians 14:33

At the end of the day, COVID is going to be a lot like the flu. A deadlier flu that didn't use to exist, but a normal and expected part of our vaccine and seasonal health protocol. It was also preparation for whatever comes next. Among the things COVID has taught me is that our country and our generation has merely been lucky in terms of pandemics, which have been doing this kind of stuff forever.

Don't know and don't feel like researching, so I'm going to say "Demonland" refers to his cabal of Satan-worshippers, and the unholy practices he intends to bring to the University of Nebraska.

No. You don't.

Please. I'm asking you sincerely. Imagine a scenario of suburban white kids wilding, trespassing, vandalizing and/or doing drugs. Then imagine a scenario of inner city black kids doing the exact same thing. Does one scenario instinctively alert or concern you more? Can you imagine the incidents being handled differently by police, or on news channels? It's an exercise in empathy, and that's where I was going with the original post. If you're not biased, you're a better man than me. When I say my friends and I agree we would have been dead or in jail if we had been black, it's obviously not provable, or fact. But it sure as hell isn't hyperbole. And if you take away my particular anecdote, it actually is provable by incarceration and death statistics. Sometimes anecdotes help illustrate things. Perhaps that wasn't the case for you here. But it was an interesting revelation for my friends and me.