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8 hours ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

The whole story and the GOP reaction to it is just dumbfounding. What if someone walks into a crowded area acting crazy toting guns and yelling, someone tackles him and gets shot by the person, and they prevented 30 people from dying. Based on what happened with Rittenhouse, the crazy guy would go free and be able to try again later. He basically gave all would-be mass murderers a playbook on how to get as far as you can before crossing that line so you can do the most damage. Just wave your gun around while running around but don't start shooting yet.

That's a lot of hyperbole. He was actually provoked and chased, so some form of self defense was justified. Now, he was also a minor in possession of a fire arm across state lines, and the response was disproportionate to the actual threat but the law doesn't really care about that.

9 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Hahaha!  SOOOO TRUE!  I was just saying that to a friend!

 

Last Friday I bought an option on SMCI that expired that day!

It did not end well for me!

Yeah... Never buy 0dte or around earnings. I've learned that lesson the hard way several times.

50 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

What I'm trying to figure out is if I can place an order that's good for maybe 30 days where if the stock drops 3% in a single day, it buys.  Or, if it increases 3% in a single day it sells.  So far, it doesn't look like I can do that.  I would need to really study the options game before I dive into actual puts and calls.  My class on that in college was over 30 years ago.  

You should be able to set limit orders and stops for specific values.

I play with options a little, but it's literally gambling unless you have enough capitol to buy options that are 6 to 12 months in the future to reduce your risk.

36 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

Ah, so it was a political snub

Let's just say hypothetically they purposefully didn't invite Tesla because of Elon. Who cares? He's extremely toxic right now and just a s#!tty person in general. We're talking about a political party that distances itself from people like John Edwards, Anthony Weiner, Al Franken, the Cuomo's, Senator Mendez, etc. and we're supposed to be mad that they snubbed a man child who calls people pedos and reposts white supremacy stuff?

8 minutes ago, funhusker said:

Maybe Tesla declined an invite?  Why is this something anyone is worked up over?

 

American politics is exhausting!

Or maaaaybe the announcement wasn't only about EVs but tailpipe emissions, so it includes EVs, hybrids, and ICE vehicles. Which means it affects the big 3 more than anyone.

6 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

I know you didn't mean to double negative there...but regardless, if Musk was a hard lefter, do you admit the response would be different? 

 

Because it would.

Did you ever stop to think what the context of that photo might be, or did you just embrace the rage bait?

3 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

Troy has a bit of the dock worker/mob enforcer look to him. I like it.

I was thinking Sean Callahan's brother, but he does look like he could work in sanitation.

23 minutes ago, Gage County said:

 

Yes, Milley said 2500 of our best trained men, I believe he said Seals. They would have been supported by military contractors and, get this, NATO troops! They don't say permanently, only that some US troops would remain behind.

 

@BigRedBuster, I agree, Trump was pretty clear on getting completely out. I don't think Trump would have taken the Joint Chiefs advice to leave behind a small force.

 

 

Our NATO allies were in country with us up until the end.

I don't think the American public would tolerate leaving troops in Afghanistan (but I think they'd be shocked to know we still have troops in Iraq). That would basically be a continuation of the status quo for the last 10 years.

I think the reality is that the Trump administration royal f#&%ed up the negotiations. The Biden administration made the right call to continue the withdrawal, but the planning and execution (outside of the military operations) was very poor.

Biden probably should have restarted negotiations with the Afghan government and the taliban... But short of restarting the war I don't think there was anyway to keep Kabul from falling, and at that point there was no way to prevent the tragic events of the Afghanistan people at the walls of the airport. The 13 final soldiers that were killed is tragic, but they (and their families) are being used as political pawns now. The reality is they could have been killed regardless of what actions were taken and when, because it was an ISIS attack, not the taliban.

19 minutes ago, Gage County said:

I had the hearing on for a few hours yesterday. Pretty much a rerun of the Senate Arms Services hearing in Sept 2021, had that on at the time too. Milley and McKenzie spent most of the day telling how the White House and the State Dept time after time ignored their advice. Heck, Joe Biden couldn't remember his briefings (a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory). Milley and McKenzie testified otherwise.

 

Instead of honoring Trump's May 1st withdrawal date, Biden sent tthe military contractors home, abandoned Bagram Air Base, drew down the forces, and stayed months longer than agreed. 

 

The Republicans asked several times why Milley didn't do more. He goes straight up military, it's his job to advise the president, not to make or influence the president's decisions in public. He's had a change of mind on that stance, he suggested negotiations between Ukraine and Russia back in Nov 2022.

Didn't watch any of it but hasn't Milley and the brass's stance always been that the US should have left a  small contingent pf troop there permanently?

40 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

Nobody ever mentions the most idiotic parts of the Trump negotiations: the US agreed not to bomb the taliban if they were more than 500m away from an ANA position. That's less than 1/3 of a mile, you can still engage with small arms fire, motors, artillery, or almost anything at that range. That meant that our airstrikes supporting the ANA almost disappeared overnight and they effectively could no longer be offensive.

4 minutes ago, Gage County said:

Why are they attacking civilians?

4 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

Gee... it's almost like we tried to say this when it happened, but certain people wanted to spin it as the US willing leaving it's own equipment behind as a gift to the taliban.

Maybe if Trump wants to bring up the ANA's equipment we should talk about how he left their government out of negotiations with the taliban and released some 5,000 prisoners back to the taliban.

2 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

Eat s#!t Trev

1 hour ago, DevoHusker said:

 

 

Who tips at 5 Guys??? It's always been expensive, but it's also better food than McDonald's. We've got one right next to our place, but we only eat there every 2 years 

Last time it was over $30 for 2 burgers and a fry. You bet your sweet a$$ we took peanuts home with us!

On 3/16/2024 at 4:14 PM, BigRedBuster said:

 

Most of those snow birds bring themselves and their flags back to lake St Claire for the summer.

20 hours ago, teachercd said:

Large fry and cheeseburger t McD’s

 

7.54!!!!

 

Good lord

Cheaper than 5 guys

1 hour ago, Lorewarn said:

 

 

Yeah but it's also Don Lemon

I know, I know. Everybody sucks.

9 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

Maybe Lemon thought a little too highly of himself

 

 

 

It's the New York Post... Salt grains...

52 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Bernie Sanders proposing 32 hour work week and only 4 days a week!

 

YES PLEASE!

Bernie has some great ideas. This isn't one of them. This is how you continue to have blue and white collar jobs outsourced.

1 hour ago, Hagg said:

 

Agree.  But also thinking about the possibility of a pattern as to Trev's job history;  perceived uncomfortable situations he's found himself in.  I'm asking/speculating, not stating. 

 

Mark May and Trev got into it more than once about various things (as they were probably supposed to for the broadcast), and things got hot more than once, most notably when Trev was doing a synopsis on a nice Husker win and he remarked at the end, "The Blackshirts are back."  Mark May disagreed very much, Blackshirts always over rated etc,  and laughed in a snickering manner and then turned to him and asked, "You were a Blackshirt, weren't you"  Trev responded, rather reverently as I recall, "Yes I was."  Mark put his pencil down and said, "I rest my case."  Trev Alberts' voice went high, "WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!"

 

He was gone in a few weeks. 

 

As noted in other posts here his job at UNO seemed to have been sprinkled with unhappy controversies. 

 

I just wonder about him a bit, now.  He's obviously not Drunk Boy Scott Frost losing a job, but... I do wonder if there is a pattern of cultivating discontent.  At best he's found himself in that.. hoping he's not a cause of it is all I'm saying. 

That's why I said Trev can be an a$$h@!e too. There's no way he comes out of this looking fresh. What he did is pretty unforgivable to a fan base that's been s#!t on for decades, and the only beacon in the limelight has been volleyball (thank god for John Cook and those women). His tweets the past 24hrs have also been extremely cringe.

It's one thing for us 9 to 5 people to leave a job because our bosses suck, but he was getting paid almost $2M/yr to guide this program and deal with the bulls#!t. $2M in Lincoln Nebraska goes a loooong way. To lie to a fandoms face and tell them the things he did the past few years and then fly out the door to an old rival just when things are looking up is trash. Even more so when he never spoke out about the issues publicly. The dude would have had the entire state's ear. As an alumni and supposed lover of the program he had a responsibility to speak out, and he didn't.

55 minutes ago, Packerhuskerfan said:

Also,

 

 

I think most of us here fully understand this. The political reasons Trev left are a symptom of the overall problem beholden to a specific group.

Also, the state government and University can be FUBAR, and Trev can still be an ahole for leaving. None of it is mutually exclusive.

1 minute ago, teachercd said:

While I agree with them it seems wildly unprofessional for medical experts to discuss this without actually examining him in person.  

 

I get what WE do it here but that is different.  

Did you just make a coherent, logical, and we'll thought out argument in P&R? Are you feeling ok?

9 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

What a f#&%ing idiot. 
 

If I were a Republican, I’d be pissed. But, since I’m not, I can just kick back and watch. 

Tim, you've got some stuff on your chin...

3 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

 

 

 

Duh! Everybody is an a$$h@!e over there and all the normal people are suffering because of it.

2 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is one of the dumbest wastes of time and effort ever.