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  1. Let's see if I understand this. When BLM or antifa protests go too far (like in Portland), well, it's simply due to the unique characteristics of that particular geographic region, or perhaps it's just due to the temperaments of a small group of offending individuals who happen to belong to BLM or antifa. But when a crime situation goes too far and BLM/antifa takes issue to it (like the George Floyd death), then it's because the entire police force is racist. Therefore the whole city must be punished with burning, looting and violent protests. Okay, got it.
  2. The media has been reporting the people with reactions to the Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine nearly every day for the past month. It was reported on NBC Nightly News again just yesterday. But the numbers don't seem to indicate a problem, imho. 8 million people have received the J&J vaccine. Six have had problems with blood clotting. One died. One person out of 8 million. WTF?? There would probably be more than six negative reactions if 8 million people received a placebo injection. But the media just keeps ringing the alarm bells. I wonder how many people are reluctant to receive vaccinations due to the alarmist media reports of negative reactions? 1 million? 10 million? 50 million. And of those, how many of those will die? Let's run some numbers: About 10% of the U.S. population has gotten Covid-19 over the past year. Roughly 1.5 to 2.0% have died (if you believe the reporting). Let's use 1.5% to be conservative. So, if the back of my envelope is correct, around 1.5 unvaccinated people out of 1,000 die. That's 1,500 out of a million. If 10 million decide not to be vaccinated due to the alarmist media reports (10 mil is a total WAG), it will result in 15,000 people needlessly dying. So much for responsible and accurate journalism. /smh (Let me know if my math spitballing is in error.)
  3. If it wasn't for the riots and threat of more riots, this probably would have been the verdict.
  4. Heh, a Class C1 quarterback being recruited to FBS. For some reason Scott Frost didn't hold that against him.
  5. Unforgiven Rainman Gladiator None of them would be in my personal top ten though.
  6. Football and soccer would be great sports to film with a drone. But I guess you'd need a no fly zone to avoid passes and punts.
  7. They should have posted a Tweet immediately after that one showing her trying to walk across the room.
  8. Jordan Burroughs: My Life Legacy and Pursuit on www.Peacocktv.com. It's free! An excellent documentary on Jordan Burroughs
  9. Yeah, I was just going by the B10 standings. LINK But last season was so screwed up with so many games missed, there's a lot of uncertainty about how things played out.
  10. This decision is unfortunate. Predictable, but unfortunate. LeGrone is a slimebag and sexual predator. In a KETV article from last year it sounds like LeGrone was researching what the penalty would be if he got caught lying to police about what happened. LINK
  11. Not the worst just because we beat them. Penn State and Rutgers were both pretty solid teams last year. Around the middle of the B10. (Which is surprising for Rutgers.)
  12. Why did we maintain U.S. military bases in Europe and Japan after WWII ended? Why do we have them there today? Is Afghanistan less strategically important?
  13. Bush2: 2001-2008 Obama: 2009-2016 Trump: 2017-2020 There's a lot of misinformation in the media about which POTUS was in office during the Afghanistan troop build-ups. The chart above might be helpful.
  14. Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible 18 MARCH 2021 www.nature.com <snip> In February, independent data scientist Youyang Gu changed the name of his popular COVID-19 forecasting model from ‘Path to Herd Immunity’ to ‘Path to Normality’. He said that reaching a herd-immunity threshold was looking unlikely because of factors such as vaccine hesitancy, the emergence of new variants and the delayed arrival of vaccinations for children. The Five Reasons 1. It’s unclear whether vaccines prevent transmission 2. Vaccine roll-out is uneven 3. New variants change the herd-immunity equation 4. Immunity might not last forever 5. Vaccines might change human behaviour LINK ======================================================== Well, that's not good.
  15. Three of the five came to NU in non-traditional manners—that is, not as graduating high school seniors signing with us. Martin (grad transfer), Kolavevic (grad transfer) and Payne (juco). So we’re really making hay with the grad transfers and jucos. I guess that good, huh?
  16. Bear enters house in Pasadena, CA and gets chased out by 2 tiny enraged terriers.
  17. I wonder where we'd be if we stuck with the option all these years? Better off, or worse off? Hmmm...
  18. So your "Ummmm...... YES!!!" was answering a different question then. Fair enough. What did the article say about Nebraska law? I'm not familiar with the standard of law in Nebraska, so I'm going by what the attorney Hughes said in the Journal Star article that started this conversation. ================================================================ Since we all hate it when posters expect others to do a mini-research project to respond to a post, here is attorney Hughes' quote from the article: She said LeGrone's accuser saw him come in the room while she and Hunt were having sex and didn't say "What's going on here? Hold on a minute. Stop. "She has an obligation and a responsibility to do or say something to make the fact that she doesn't want to do this reasonably known to the person that's doing it. She has that responsibility and she didn't do that," Hughes said. ================================================================ Did anyone actually read my post above that started this? I'm guessing no, since Utly only plucked one sentence out of context to start an argument. My point above was that, although I think LeGrone is a slimebag, and probably a sexual predator, it looks like an issue that could possibly decide this case is that the victim didn't say "no". That is all. Good day sir.
  19. So your "Ummmm...... YES!!!" was answering a different question then. Fair enough. What did the article say about Nebraska law? I'm not familiar with the standard of law in Nebraska, so I'm going by what the attorney Hughes said in the Journal Star article that started this conversation. ================================================================ Since we all hate it when posters expect others to do a mini-research project to respond to a post, here is attorney Hughes' quote from the article: She said LeGrone's accuser saw him come in the room while she and Hunt were having sex and didn't say "What's going on here? Hold on a minute. Stop. "She has an obligation and a responsibility to do or say something to make the fact that she doesn't want to do this reasonably known to the person that's doing it. She has that responsibility and she didn't do that," Hughes said. ================================================================ Did anyone actually read my post above that started this? I'm guessing no, since Utly only plucked one sentence out of context to start an argument. My point above was that, although I think LeGrone is a slimebag, and probably a sexual predator, it looks like an issue that could possibly decide this case is that the victim didn't say "no". That is all. Good day sir.
  20. So you're saying that for consent to take place it has to be verbal. "Yes, let's have sex", or something to that effect. Because that's what it sounds like you're saying.
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