Guy Chamberlin

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.  

7 minutes ago, ZRod said:

Everyone is still an a$$h@!e over there. Hamas sucks, the IDF sucks, and normal people are caught in the middle of the war machines.

True. It's the normal people who always get blown up. 

On 4/2/2024 at 7:20 AM, TGHusker said:

 

 

All this begs the Question:

Why oh why can't this great country full of highly qualified people not provide a better slate of candidates? 

 

 

If you're smart and bring a keen understanding of both politics and media, why would you want the job?

I'm a huge believer in logic and reason and the ultimate power of truth, but I honestly believe half of this country is under a spell right now.

And it didn't used to be that way. 

I'd like to point out that opposition to Israel's prosecution of Gaza has quickly moved from the Wacky Left to the mainstream position, with a lot of people brushing up on their Mideast history.  

1 hour ago, teachercd said:

The support continues to dwindle not grow.  It was never anecdotal evidence it was just evidence.  

 

My 2024 lines:

 

JB:  Over 308 Electoral Votes

JB: Over 76 Million votes

DT:  Under 225 Electoral Votes

DT:  Under 61 Million votes

Non-anecdotal evidence also tracks the dwindling support for Biden. It will be a race to the bottom.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/02/biden-support-black-hispanic-young-voters-poll/72086014007/

3 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Tell me how you imagine my answer then I will.  

Read it again. I said "You make it sound like your answer would be worse than we already imagined" because you literally declined to post it for public consumption. 

I'm saying I can't imagine it would be worse than the thousands of posts you didn't prefer to take to DMs.

Prove me wrong!

25 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

A reminder to not post drunk.

 

Can you repost this word salad tomorrow, preferably when you're sober?

In fairness, I have occasionally accused Teach of stretching anecdotes into facts, and possibly making them up entirely.  But I'm gonna stick by it. 

2 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Yes.   It’s a story of yours from decades ago that may or may not be true.  I believe you but others may not.  
 

Back to the question though.   You mentioned your pals have changed thought processes as they got older and quit the young casual sex scene.   Did the abortions take place within the timefram that they currently support?  Maybe their views haven’t changed on abortion, but other views have become more conservative and you just don’t like which politicians they support.  

You believe me. But other's may not. Thanks for your alleged concern. Jesus. 

I haven't talked to my friends about the old abortion days. Honestly don't know what time frame they currently support. Some might identify as conservative and Christian, but maintain a pro-choice stance that recalls their own past and own choices. So maybe some of their views on abortion haven't changed. Maybe I just don't like the politicians they support. 

But that's the point. Whether they have changed their views on abortion or not, they continue to vote for politicians who are reshaping the Supreme Court and advancing stricter state abortion laws than we once thought possible. It's easier to support these new abortion restrictions -- or shrug them off as the price of owning the libs -- if you no longer face the consequences themselves.

It's a pretty simple observation, admittedly anecdotal, and there are plenty examples of aging libs forgetting where they came from, too. 

1 minute ago, Archy1221 said:

Nope, but excellent try and twisting things around.  It is on you,  for doing that.  
 

How do already imagine my answer?  

All this would be easily answered if you answered the f#&%ing question. Straight up. No twist. 

4 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

That would a question for your friends and it would depend on when the alleged abortions they paid for took place.  

Did you really just say "alleged abortions?"

2 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

I’m fine explaining in public, but certain posters here will take words out of context in order to twist them into something it’s not in hopes a mod finds that innocent discussion possibly skirts board rules.  

That's the very opposite of being fine explaining it in public.

How exactly would your Easter response be any different than the dozens of politically heated posts you make every week without Mod intervention?

You make it sound like your answer would be worse than we already imagined. And yet, totally innocent.

That's on you, Arch. Not me.  

5 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Wait till the poster understands how many innocents Obama blew to pieces with drones. 

Neither Republicans nor Democrats quite knew what to do with that fact. 

19 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

I won’t be trying to answer it either in this forum because of the risk of others taking words out of context, trying to get me banned which often has happened.  Maybe though a private DM we could discuss, but otherwise I will pass.  

So you are afraid of explaining why Trans Visibility conflicts with Easter in public. 

Boy, if that doesn't tell the story. 

9 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

Knapp and @Guy Chamberlin

I think the below quote applies to both of your posts.   The older I get, the more loving and accepting I see God the Father.  For Jesus said he was a reflection of who God really is - "He who has seen me has seen the Father".   A great book along those lines is Brad Jersak's "A More Christ-like God- A More Beautiful Gospel" - gets rid of the false image of the revengeful, angry, retributive god of bad theology which affects too much of western theology but not all of Christianity  (A theology which led to the Dark Ages and was a form of political control when Rome and the church at the time were tied at the hip).   Jersak's other book "Her Gates will Never Shut" also gives a more hopeful picture of 'end things'  - a more hopeful viewpoint that most of the church in the first 3-4 centuries  held before Govt and Religion united to control people.  (Thus the reason I'm so opposed to Trump's Cult)

 

 

Luke 14 The Parable of the Great Banquet

vs 10-26

But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests.  For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

 Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.  But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,  and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Then one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.” Jesus replied: “A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests.  At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’

 “But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.’

 “Another said, ‘I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’

 “Still another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’

 “The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame. (TG: Taking editorial liberty: bring in those consider outcast by the self righteous - The LGBTQ.., the illegal or legal immigrant, _)

 “‘Sir,’ the servant said, ‘what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.’

 “Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full. I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.’”

I appreciate the parable, although there's still a lot of anger and I dare say revenge. I don't see why you shouldn't invite some neighbors and outcasts to the same meal and treat them equally. That would be a nice lesson. Maybe the guy trying to sell his oxen could make a different date. The banquet-giver is pretty thin-skinned in this parable. 

But I do share your bigger picture TGH. The Old Testament used a lot of fear, which the Church was happy to exert in the name of control.  Jesus' gospel of love and forgiveness often seems at odds with God's earlier word, but as the fount of Christianity it is a wonderful blueprint for how we should all live. You certainly don't have to be Christian to appreciate Jesus' teachings.  

46 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Which pro life politics are they supporting?  No access to abortion? Limited access to abortion after a certain timeframe?  If so what is the timeframe these peers are supporting? 
 

In general, what was the timeframe of when these procedures took place in relation to conception?  Does it coincide with their current timeframe policies these peers support? Or have thought processes changed? 
 

Is the child happy he/she was born? 

Many if not most are all-in on right wing candidates (basically just Republicans) lobbying for conditions and timeframes they did not face back when they were fertile. But to your point -- if abortion is represented as a state voter referendum, a lot of these people would support more leniency than their elected officials, and perhaps the Supreme Court itself. 

Have their thought processes changed? Or is it just easier to ban abortion when you're long out of bar crawling and child-bearing years? As a Christian do you prefer a return to a pre-Roe world where abortion was nearly as common, but illegal and less safe, especially for the underclass?

I don't know if the kid who didn't get aborted is happy he was born. I guess he could turn into Mozart or Hitler any day now.