Guy Chamberlin

3 hours ago, teachercd said:

 

 

You should care 0% what I say.

 

This is a post board.  

But that would mean the end of the post board as we know it. 

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

It is in the nut family, for sure.  

 

What is the saying, one bad nut spoils the bowl of nut-stuff.  I don't think that is word for word.

You tend to dedicate a lot of posts to the pro nut bros, and often claim HB posters are among them, when they're not. 

9 hours ago, teachercd said:

Pro Russia stuff is as nutty as Pro Pally stuff.

Outside of a small faction of Hamas apologists, pro-Palestine sentiment is mostly about their right to exist -- like Israel -- and to stop the wholesale bombing of civilians as conducted by the Netanyahu government. Not exactly nutty. 

18 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Edey is playing like he has something to prove. 

I've got a different take on the guy. I see a competent but not especially gifted 7' 4" athlete who gets most of the team's offense funneled to him. Given so many mismatches, he's going to get his points. But with a little bit of defensive strategy and talent, he and the team become a lot less efficient. Even with his incredible advantage, he's not a great finisher. 

Mostly what concerns me, and would keep him off my draft board, is watching him stand flat footed, arms at his side, as a Husky player drives past him. How often he's out of position, or makes no real effort for rebounds. Or simply has them taken out of his hands by a more motivated defender.

I think the NBA will eat him alive.  

I think if we all compared notes, we'd realize every part of the country, down to individual cities and even neighborhoods, handled the "mandates" differently, including ignoring them completely. 

It's worth recalling that in March of 2020, our closest working example of a pandemic was the 1918-19 global Influenza outbreak that infected a third of the world's population, and killed more people than the World War that had just concluded. 

Also in March of 2020, I rolled my eyes at the oncoming hysteria, convinced it was merely the next Bird Flu. As I learned more, I learned I was wrong. 

We've been laughing about the early days of Covid, when we watched YouTube videos about wiping down your groceries as soon as you brought them into the house.

But I never felt betrayed by the information and warnings provided. It always was an evolving pandemic emergency, taking place on a global scale, with countries executing a full range of precautions having nothing to do with Anthony Fauci. I thought the scientists generally chose their words carefully, based on the best available information, and were not afraid to change course as better information became available. 

I don't think I've seen the full list of what they got wrong, but they weren't wrong to take emergency measures in the early days, along with most countries. In hindsight, perhaps schools should have opened earlier. Then again, Sweden was pretty smug about keeping everything open, including schools, until they had a delayed response that landed them among the worst COVID cases per capita in the world. Masks weren't perfect, and mandates weren't the answer, but they were always sold as the best prevention we could control, and that remains true --- as it is with every virus. 

There was no doubt an attempt to downplay the possibility of accidental or intentional Covid lab leak from China, but while evidence now suggests it's a distinct possibility, there's roughly the same evidence for the Wuhan Wet Market theory. 

Once the vaccine was available, 90%+ of COVID deaths were among the unvaccinated. Much was made about vaccinated deaths, but come on.

They weren't wrong that Ivermectin and other rumored cures were not effective and should not be taken for COVID cure or prevention. For some reason the "experts" promoting dips#!t cures to show up the Fauci lovers were not held to the same standard of vetting and blaming.  

22 hours ago, teachercd said:

Hahaha!  

 

1.  If I said this, Chamberlin would be on me like white on rice! 

Many people enjoy brown rice. Why are you always bringing race into it?

I think we have to get to the place where we accept that Joe Biden is in decline, but it can be successfully mitigated. Given the alternative and what's at stake, we accept the inside intel that Joe remains highly knowledgeable and capable on important subjects -- vastly better than Donald Trump  -- and that Joe will remain prone to both physical and verbal missteps while under constant scrutiny. The party stops pretending he's not too old and that we didn't deserve someone younger and more inspiring, but instead it transparently limits his press conferences and extemporaneous opportunities, and begins delegating more public roles to his cabinet members and spokespeople. Biden is the President and will give some perfectly good speeches when needed, but it will be a team effort. And if you look at the team Biden assembles vs. the team Trump will assemble, it's not even close. It's grown ups vs. the worst teenagers you can imagine. It's Big Ten vs Community College. 

There was a kerfuffle a dozen years or so ago, just as my kids were moving into the local Middle School. We have about a 50/50 split between White and Hispanic kids here, and this made a lot of white parents nervous about sending their kids to the public middle school, where they were scared of both non-existent gangs and Hispanics dragging down the academic ranking. The school created a series of Advanced Placement classes (can't recall if the district was involved) that certainly sounded merit based but were essentially designed as a safe space for the white kids, a fact everyone seemed to recognized by the complexion of the classrooms.  

The principal was replaced and the system was changed, and most folks were good with it, as smart kids of any ethnicity still had the chance to excel. In what was no doubt a well-intentioned move, they created a recognition program exclusively for ESL or second-generation Hispanic students with some aspirational name like Rising Achievers, but when you attended the awards ceremonies it looked like a two track system, with a patronizing nod to kids given lower expectations.

But the same district has tried to maintain the college track AP for high schoolers, and no one wants to abandon some kind of merit based option. 

17 hours ago, admo said:

So Denver is the the clear favorite to win it all again.

 

We see it with our own eyes, and I hope they run it back.  I love watching Denver play, win, dominate, while every team that plays them got no answers....

 

However let's talk about the West

 

Denver

T-Wolves

OKC

LA Clippers

NO Pels

Dallas

SAC Kings

 

Who fighting to make the play-in for the NBA playofs?

 

LA Lakers

Phoenix Suns

Golden State Warriors 

 

There is enough Super Stars on these teams, with All-stars and MVPs......the faces of the League...... And 

 

Someone won't make it.  

The network would be sad to have a playoffs without LeBron James, Steph Curry and/or Kevin Durant, but sometimes youth needs to be served and the top tier is loaded with young talent.

That being said, the Nuggets are deep, experienced, and tested, and I honestly don't know anyone who hates them. That's rare all by itself. 

27 minutes ago, Mavric said:

Not a starter

Played 6th most minutes per game

4.8 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 2.1 apg

Declare for the draft

36/67/26

 

But it will be a circus

 

 

I thought the only way this works is that whatever team gets Bronny will get LeBron James at a huge discount so he can end his career playing with his son.

I would not want to be the coach of that team. 

1 hour ago, teachercd said:

Thanks, really!  

 

But you didn't answer my question, what are your thoughts on that?

It was actually a series of stupid and slanted questions. My issue was about the qualities I'd look for in a teacher, taking your larger posting history into account. I'm sticking with that answer.

You cheerfully admit the many many subjects you know next to nothing about. So I'm honestly not being a d!(k about this. 

7 minutes ago, teachercd said:

I am not a real teacher.

 

But this is interesting.  Would you rather have teachers following the news closely and then spouting off things in class?

 

Or not following it and not spouting off things in class?

 

Or following it and not spouting off things in class?

 

It seems right now that the idea is that teachers should NOT say anything in class unless it is left-leaning.  While right-leaning talk is discouraged.  

 

I would personally just see teaches teach and not try to send any type of "message" to the students about left/right/middle.  

It's mostly that you don't seem very curious, or interested in doing the simple things that would turn your opinions into informed opinions. Kinda the antithesis of teaching, really. 

7 hours ago, Display name required said:

It would be good for college sports but we could lose a huge advantage over non big ten and sec schools and it’s vary possible that we would make less money at the same time 

I'd be willing to do what's good for college sports. 

31 minutes ago, teachercd said:

You are legit my main source of news/information so I guess I don't mind it that much!

I want to go back to the days when I didn't think you were a real teacher. 

2 minutes ago, Display name required said:

Why  would the big ten and SEC want that they have a money advantage over other leagues why would they give that up 

Massive contract renegotiating when the time comes, with broadcasting entities giving the Big 10 and SEC no choice but to play along. Go ahead and let them keep their name and brand, but they go back to geographic roots that aren't even a generation old. Even with more equitable distribution, it's certainly possible these conferences could get more money from the new college sports landscape than they have now. 

It doesn't get talked about much, but conference realignment has been 100% driven by football, and most schools have another 20+ athletic programs forced to follow along. The Pac 10 and ACC/Big10 mergers in particular will add a large burden to sports that can't afford it, especially the travel schedules that aren't conducive to athletes, students, and tight budgets. 

I'm wondering if the growth of women's volleyball and men's and women's basketball might allow other people in on the decision. A return to geographic alignment could make a lot of sense for both monetary and rivalry reasons. 

54 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

I’ve been a proponent for a very long time that RSO’s RSU’s, etc should be more broadly used and whatever the C Suite level folks qualify for, every other employee should qualify for on an equivalent basis.  
 

It isn’t the salaries that have driving the income gap, it’s the stock awards that only a few are privy too.   If what I’m saying is considered Marxism, then I’m part Marxist I guess.  
 

And I believe much of the DEI spending is wasted.  Some of it is spent very well though and I learn from it.  

I can tell you from direct experience that much of the DEI spending goes to hiring a consultant for a one day seminar, having someone write up a boilerplate DEI statement for their digital media, cleaning up the optics wherever possible, and legitimately encouraging human resources to bring in and/or promote people of color. All told, it's not much money. The bigger companies may hire a full-time DEI officer. It will be interesting to check back on this in a few years. 

In other words, there's plenty of box checking and posturing and even some silliness, but at the end of the day it moves the needle a bit, and the diversity will likely have a positive return for the business.  

23 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Which is the reason I was hesitant to post in the first place.  I knew this and didn’t want to come across as attacking you or your loved one on a personal basis by either choosing a poorly placed word or having a thought taken out of context.  
 

I agreed in my post that a I believe a very small amount of people have a genetic anomaly that allowed them to produce both sex organs and a choice at birth or close to birth was made which could have been the wrong one.   However, the amount of people identifying as trans/non-binary is at an extremely high number compared to what the science says.  It’s a mental illness or a coping mechanism for those people IMO.  

 

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/07/about-5-of-young-adults-in-the-u-s-say-their-gender-is-different-from-their-sex-assigned-at-birth/

 

I need to push back on this as we read story after story after story of kids under 10 years living a life of a different gender than their birth.   We both talked about the scientific numbers yet we read about parents who somehow have 3 trans/non-binary children!   And the pediatrics interviewed go along with it.  Courts go along with it.   Those kids are screwed in my personal opinion.   The amount of Hollywood stars that have transgender kids doesn’t come anywhere near to where the science says it comes out to be.  
 

Court cases are constantly in the news where parents get divorced with kids and one says the boy is a boy and one says the boy is a girl, Court says the boy needs to be referred by both parents as a girl  How does a young child know this?  Kids younger than 5 are being raised opposite their birth gender.  That’s crazy and parents are driving that IMO.  
 

Anyways, appreciate the civilized discussion, hope for the best for you and your child, that you both live long happy healthy lives and I will return this back to being The Big Guy’s America thread 

Don't worry about offending me. I mean, not any more than you already do. : )

I'm going to take a wild guess that the "story after story" about transgenderism run amok appear in the conservative media you consume, specifically culled for your outrage and conveniently ignoring more baseline evidence. Hollywood weirdos? Someone with 3 non-binary children? Why does that negate the scientific numbers we agreed on? If we're going on a case by case basis, all kinds of parents -- well intentioned and not -- can f#&% up their kids. 

To put it another way: if we were to collect all the stories of devout Christians raising their kids with visions of cultish fundamentalism, scientific denial, and physical punishment for their sins, would the trans community perhaps want to distance itself from Easter? 

36 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Do you mind me asking how so, or what makes you come to that conclusion?   I’m not seeing but willing to listen. 

Workers control the means of production. Wealth inequality is something to be corrected. The value of a commodity is measured by the worker's skill, yada yada yada.

I'm sure this isn't what you or Carol had in mind, or Karl for that matter, but it's not that big of a leap from that post. 

Also, it's laughable to think DEI investment is taking anything away from corporate bottom lines. Carol is so keen to badmouth DEI and ESG, she unwittingly crawls in bed with Karl Marx. Best of all, she's right. Shared ownership is a smart corporate move that's been available to them forever and avoided for the selfish reasons that create class conflict.

50 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Absolutely 99.9%!   It’s the best way to help bring wealth inequality closer vs just giving a few bucks away at the expense of the middle class taxpayer.   
 

 

Don't want to alarm anyone, but this is the core of Marxism. 

21 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Thanks man.  Really appreciate it!  
 

It’s my opinion that Easter, being the holiest day on the Christian calendar, deserves to be revered as such.  Transgender Day could have been celebrated/acknowledged/proclaimed, for a day earlier or a day later this year out of respect.  
 

It’s my opinion that having these Transgender Days and celebrating Transgenderism is a disservice a great deal of confused young adults who get wrapped up into the false ideology by members who really don’t have the best interest of the said individuals well being.   They just want to advance what I think can be described as a cult that preys upon confused/mentally unstable young adults looking for where they fit in in life.  They are looking for acceptance somewhere and people wanting to promote the transgender ideology are more than happy to rope them in.  
 

It’s my personal opinion that transgenderism is a mental illness that shouldn’t be celebrated and instead those people should get the therapy they need and deserve.   I’m speaking from someone who is extremely close to an affected person whose life was almost completely destroyed getting pulled into that life.  

It’s fact that there are a minuscule amount of cases where a person was born with both sex organs and parents chose one that didn’t quite match up to what the child’s puberty and mental state as an adult made them out to be.  That is quite different than so so so many kids who are confused in life and get pushed into thinking it’s a gender issue and they were just born with the wrong sex organs, etc…..

 

it’s my personal opinion that parents do a disservice to kids confused about life and push them into thinking they are just the wrong gender.  Bulls#!t.  
 

It’s my personal opinion that Dr.‘s are doing kids a disservice by allowing kids and actually sometimes promoting kids to think they need to change genders.  Bulls#!t 

It’s my opinion that a kid under the age of 8 who barely even knows much difference between boys and girls has the capacity to decide they were born the wrong gender and that kinda s#!t is celebrated.  Bulls#!t.  
 

It’s my personal opinion that drug companies should get out of the business of puberty blockers for kids wanting to “transition” to a different gender.   Bulls#!t.  
 

it’s my personal opinion that none of that should be celebrated on the holiest day of the Christian calendar.  
 

It’s my personal opinion that transgenderism is a gender dysphoria mental issue being pushed as something else for who knows what reason.  
 

So there ya go.  I would prefer other young teens/recently turned adults not have to go through what someone very close to me went through, and what she says others she knows have gone through.  
 

All my personal opinion of course because a question was asked and no disrespect intended for any board member.  

Thanks Archy. Seriously. Truth is, this is what I envisioned you wanting to post, but avoided because it's pretty loaded with stuff other posters would jump on. It's still perfectly within the realm of healthy P&R discussion. 

Since you believe transgenderism shouldn't be celebrated at all, the Easter part is pretty moot. Assumption remains that supporting transgender people flies in the face of Christianity. 

As the father of a child who has identified as trans since roughly 20, I maintain plenty of questions and concerns myself. I do think there's a social movement attached, and that the whole issue is going through a phase that may look different in a few years, just as the nomenclature has changed too fast for poor dad to keep up. I've also been forced to learn a lot from a multitude of sources, both anecdotal and scientific.

If I could disabuse you of only one thing today, it's that this is being driven by parents and doctors and agenda mongers. It's simply not. It's being driven by young people at a fairly great risk to themselves, and as they're emerging, parents and doctors and society at large is being asked to adjust and accept. The science isn't perfect, but it's increasingly clear that a small number (under 1%) of humans are born with some kind of trans-gender identity, and likely have been across cultures and throughout history, as God made them. It's an anomaly, not a mental illness. Plenty of tough issues remain, including medical intervention on minors, but the vast majority of trans people -- hell any people -- report life-changing benefits when allowed to be yourself. 

3 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

To be fair, every real estate developer I’ve ever personally known or heard of uses debt to finance projects.   

True. These aren't unusual numbers for many international real estate developers.

What is unusual is the number of banks who refuse to do business with Donald Trump, going on 25 years now. Much of the Trump brand is in licensing and property management agreements with other entities, often foreign, who actually own the properties.  

3 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Your words say “worse than we already imagined”.  How do you imagine it to be currently”  

 

 Your implication with the previous statements suggest you’ve already imagined it and your imagination doesn’t have a good view of you think I’m going to say. In the interest of transparency, unlike what you are providing after being asked, I’ll give it a go.  

I'm already bored. If you still want off the hook I'll give you a pass and assume you had a palatable response.

If it really was dark, pointed, and juicy enough to warrant a TOS, I'd be happy to read it in a DM.