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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 10, 2022 19:46:20 GMT -5
Duh. I probably should have come up with that in about five seconds.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 8, 2022 19:59:42 GMT -5
Hiw effing stupid, hypocritical and corrupt are MAGA GOPers? Pretty damn stupid. (Any HoyaTalk "Republican" want to point me to any proposal for "banning guns"?). During the hearing, Rep. Steve Scalise (La.), the No. 2 Republican in the House, argued against tightening gun restrictions in response to the recent mass shootings, arguing that airplanes were not banned after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “Airplanes were used that day as the weapon to kill thousands of people and to inflict terror on our country,” Scalise said of the attacks. “There wasn’t a conversation about banning airplanes. There was a conversation about connecting the dots — how can we try to figure out if there are signs we can see to stop the next attack from happening?” Although airplanes were not banned after the 2001 attacks, billions of dollars have been spent on aviation security since then. After the attacks, the federal government took charge of airport security, creating the Transportation Security Administration to oversee security at more than 400 airports. Scalise himself was critically injured in 2017 when a gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice in Virginia. SOURCE: Washington Post, June 8, 2022 As I’ve noted in a previous post, this line of “reasoning” is impossibly dumb. I cannot fathom how people think this is sound logic, and from the #2 ranking House Republican no less. What an embarrassment. The fact that this isn’t even close to the dumbest thing a Republican congressperson has said in the past 24 hours speaks to how ridiculous the whole party has become. 35-40% of Americans probably think he's a genius. And by the way, I really miss All in the Family.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 8, 2022 19:22:35 GMT -5
Seems like you're slacking off, njhoya78. Get with the program! If you can't toe the mark, we'll just have to replace you. [looking for laughing emoji, but can't find it]
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 8, 2022 19:19:34 GMT -5
Who is the other active former Sonic?
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 6, 2022 19:26:14 GMT -5
American exceptionalism? The United States is one of the only countries in the world where mass public shootings are a regular occurrence. Researchers Jillian Peterson from Hamline University and James Densley from Metropolitan State University, both in St. Paul, Minn., have spent their careers tracking these events, and their research shows that attacks are overwhelmingly carried out by men whose ages are strikingly clustered around two key periods in their lives. Workplace attacks have been mostly carried out by men in middle age. School shootings, on the other hand, involve perpetrators mostly in their late teens or early 20s. Men in these same two age groups, Peterson points out, also have higher rates of suicide largely using firearms. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/06/03/why-so-many-mass-shooters-young-angry-men/This is exactly what I said to my wife when we were discussing al of the mass shootings over the weekend.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 6, 2022 18:47:03 GMT -5
To say he seems out of his depth is putting it exceedingly kindly. Unfortunately, at this point, he sounds like he needs a neurologist quite badly. I look for Herschel, assuming he isn't arrested, to pull some pages from the Coach Tuberville play book.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 6, 2022 18:45:01 GMT -5
"Republicans" corrupt for the last 50 years. President George Washington, in his celebrated 1796 Farewell Address, cautioned that American democracy was fragile. “Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government,” he warned. Two of his successors — Richard Nixon and Donald Trump — demonstrate the shocking genius of our first president’s foresight. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/05/woodward-bernstein-nixon-trump/The Trickster was a piker compared to the last guy. Now there's something the last guy can brag about.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 6, 2022 18:40:28 GMT -5
I predict Howard and American for the local games, as usual. I've given up on GW, but how about a game with George Mason?
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 6, 2022 18:32:36 GMT -5
From same website: thehoopsresource.com/bracketology/Potential turnarounds: Here is another crazy, not that crazy one. I think you got to like Ewing’s portal work. Getting Wahab to come back really put it over the top to me. He’s one player that had played better under Ewing in the past before he left, but I do not believe he did anything to discredit his ability at Maryland. I had him ranked higher than most. Unfortuantly Ewing is still the coach but this level of talent will bring expectations. NCAA or bust this season or he’s likely fired. He fluked his way to an Auto-bid NCAA team once, I think he can get there at large now possibly with this level of talent. You give a good coach like Tom Izzo this roster and I might have them top 20, that’s the difference. Georgetown 194 NET Qudus Wahab 6-11, 237 7.7ppg,5.6rpg(@maryland) 19.7 Sr Akok Akok 6-9, 215 3.4ppg, 3.2rpg(@uconn) 17.9 Sr Brandon Murray 6-5, 214 10.0ppg, 3.0rpg(@lsu) 12.2 So Jay Heath 6-3, 175 10.6ppg, 3.3rpg(@arizona St) 13.7 Jr Dante Harris 6-0, 170 11.9ppg,4.1apg 12.7 Jr Amir Spears 6-3, 185 12.7ppg 3.0apg(@duquesne) 13.3 So Bryson Mozone 6-6, 200 15.8ppg, 5.7rpg(@usc-Up) 18.3 Gr Ryan Mutumbo 7-2, 252 5.1ppg, 3.0rpg 21.7 So Malcum Wilson 7-0, 205 2.5ppg, 2.8rpg 18.1 Sr Wayne Bristol Jr. 6-6, 185 12.5ppg, 4.3rpg(@howard 2020) 13.5 So Bradley Ezewiro 6-8,246 1.6ppg, 0.9rpg Is this Izzo guy available?
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 2, 2022 20:23:52 GMT -5
Today a cemetery in Racine?
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 2, 2022 20:20:42 GMT -5
Now the MAGA GOP coverup can't blame a teacher as it initially tried. Everyone and everything at fault except the easy availability of semi-automatic weapons for 18-year olds, which were banned from 1994-2004. Four days after saying that the gunman who massacred children in a Uvalde, Tex., elementary school had gotten inside through a door “propped open by a teacher,” the state agency investigating the massacre now says the educator had closed the door. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/31/uvalde-teacher-door-closed/Total blinders and cognitive dissonance abounds. I'm glad the finding is that the door wasn't left open by a teacher, but I'm inclined to go first to the 19 police officers dispatched to the scene who had special training for this very type of situation -- all good guys with guns, one would presume -- who did little to nothing to help the students in Rooms 111 and 112. So for anyone thinking we can arm more and more people to protect our schools, no. Most schools prepare and practice for such events, and Robb Elementary seemed to have done due diligence in that regard. And even with that, the human error and judgment was inexplicably poor. Everyone who has been in extreme duress and shock-inducing events may know that we practice and prepare, but nothing can predict that events and reactions will unfold as expected. Still, to get bogged down in that discussion is to ignore that what brought an 18-year old with 2 legally purchased AR-15's to an elementary school with the intent to harm others. So, if the first conversation starter is "Are you o.k. with children getting murdered in their classrooms and folks getting gunned down in their grocery store or mall or movie theater or anywhere?", the followup can/should be "Do you think all of the factors that lead up to an incident like those in Buffalo or Uvalde are o.k., i.e., in the best interest of the safety of school and community members?" THAT's where the discussion needs to focus ultimately, I think. It will stop Ted Cruz, et.al. from proposing "hardening" a venue by making only one entrance and one exit with armed guards, etc. -- that will do nothing except make our schools and public places even more like a prison. It will also open up a chance to talk about restricted access to guns, universal background checks, red flag laws, banning assault weapons, gun owner safety and storage, training and registration whe you buy a gun and regular renewal of those. I mostly want to be this guy when I'm out playing superhero: And Traitor Cruz couldn't give a flying #$%@$
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 2, 2022 20:18:59 GMT -5
Great stuff. Absolutely fantastic.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 2, 2022 20:06:10 GMT -5
Bull Durham. AG Garland should pull the plug on this miscreant for good cause - politically-motivated indictments. For three years, conservatives hyped John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the FBI’s original investigation of Russia’s effort to help Donald Trump get elected president in 2016. Durham, a prosecutor appointed in 2019 by then-Attorney General William P. Barr, would blow the lid off the real scandal, they said, which was a conspiracy between Democrats and the FBI to get Trump. This would show there was never anything to the Russiagate scandal. Durham had all the time and resources he needed. As of last December, a partial accounting found he had spent about $3.8 million. So what did he come up with? He delivered two indictments, both of people no one ever would have heard of and both for the crime of lying to investigators. On Tuesday, one of them, lawyer Michael Sussmann, was acquitted by a federal jury. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/31/durham-flop-trump-coverup-failures/The experience of the trial left me with three main impressions: First, that the case against Sussmann was not just weak but was frankly beneath the standards of reasonable federal prosecution; second, that the case was only glancingly about Sussmann and his supposed lie at all; rather, third, the case was fundamentally about displacing the conventional worldview associated with the Trump scandals and establishing the respectability of the insurgent Trumpist counter-narrative. In that effort, as with the effort to convict Sussmann, Durham has failed. www.lawfareblog.com/thoughts-michael-sussmann-verdictTell me that the people who still believe this claptrap will be influenced one iota to change their minds.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 2, 2022 19:54:01 GMT -5
Brennan: I wonder if Georgetown’s Aminu Mohammed made the right decision. I really rate the player, and think he makes a lot of sense as an NBA prospect; he has versatile size, long arms, moves really well, could translate into a ferocious defender, and he was a rebounding machine at his size last season. These are the kinds of raw skill materials that some NBA franchise should, at some point, be able to extract to everyone’s benefit. They could make him unique. And Mohammed was a five-star prospect and a McDonald’s All-American, so maybe it’s not entirely surprising that he was ready to bounce once he got fully into the draft process. But is he going to end up on a roster? His draft stock is all second-round stuff, and that’s when he’s actually listed in a mock draft at all. At the very least, relative to current projections, he seems extremely unlikely to get guaranteed money. You can maybe understand why Mohammed thinks it’s better to try to develop his game in the NBA rather than at a Georgetown program coming off a 0-19 Big East campaign — Patrick Ewing’s track record for developing pros (or even retaining top players after a season or two) is questionable at best. But whether he went back to Georgetown or became a top transfer portal target, Mohammed could have done with a summer in the gym shooting a couple thousand shots a day, and then a full college season shooting it better than 39 percent from 2 and 31 percent from 3. Again: really interesting player. You can see a useful future for him in the NBA. You could see him being a lottery pick in a year if things broke right in year two. Right now this feels like a gamble. theathletic.com/3346585/2022/06/02/gonzaga-michigan-nba-draft-deadline/Brennan must have read my 2000 shots a day post here on Hoyatalk.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 31, 2022 21:10:30 GMT -5
The obvious solution, of course, is more guns in the hands of good people, teachers, for example, so they can deal with the bad people with the guns.
It just makes me want to scream. Bluegray79's analysis is spot on. The politicians, at least one "party" in particular, are just hoping that this will go away, as it has every time before, and I think they can fairly be called out that they value guns more than the safety of our children. This should be a talking point for the upcoming election every single day until something is done. And I don't want to hear, oh, it's just a mental health issue. Sure, it's a mental health issue, but that is absolutely not the only issue that needs addressing.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 31, 2022 20:51:33 GMT -5
Monkeypox is generally spread through close physical contact. There have been relatively endemic outbreaks in Africa for decades. The last outbreak in the US was in 2003 when Gambian rats imported to several Midwest exotic animal exchanges infected prairie dogs, one of whom (named Chuckles, IIRC) liked to bite people. www.clinmedres.org/content/2/1/1.longThis should be no real risk to the general public at large, with the caveat that the epidemiology of spread in the current European outbreak and cases in N America is still being investigated. One of my colleagues diagnosed the first American case (no surprise to me). www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/29/metro/how-boston-doctor-diagnosed-first-us-case-an-international-outbreak/www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/monkeypoxHere's an interesting twitter thread on the natural reservoir for monkeypox: Of course, the disinformedia (Twitter, Fox News, etc) are already trying to make this another "Fauci / the NIH are plotting to loose this killer virus on us" news item... Oops. I inadvertently quoted the wrong post immediately above. Meant this one.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 31, 2022 20:49:40 GMT -5
Chuckles? If MTM were still around, she'd break up laughing.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 31, 2022 20:34:46 GMT -5
In his conversations with the Buckeyes, Kaiser said he’s been asking the same types of questions he’s asked each school recruiting him. “It’s pretty much been like, what is there other than basketball that you have?” he said. “Because at the end of the day high-major basketball is high-major basketball. Big Ten, ACC, it’s all big-time so I want to see what else they’ve got going on that I can benefit from because if they’re going to use me to play basketball then I’m going to use the school to further myself too.” www.dispatch.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2022/05/28/ohio-state-offers-rising-2023-wing-jamie-kaiser-jr/9960832002/At one time, many years ago, I might have thought this was a reference to academics and contacts. Now, I'm guessing it's NIL and has zero to do with academics.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 28, 2022 20:35:53 GMT -5
Insanity and imbecility taken to its logical extreme. I wonder if this imbecile is related to the other Georgia imbecile, MTG?
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Post by hoyarooter on May 28, 2022 20:08:31 GMT -5
In fairness, Ed brought it up here. Probably because he can't defend his positions on that part of the board or in any forum anywhere. He took the shot. Shots back should have been expected. The "leftists" didn't derail the thread. The "Republican" did. The same one that is scared to comment on the part of the board for such things because he knows he can't defend his positions. But, he feels so strongly in his "convictions" that he doesn't even try to do so. Instead, he takes it to the BB part of the board because, in his 90+ years, he's, apparently, not developed a backbone. He's remarkably quiet on the part of the board for the itch he scratched since his side lost and his buying into conspiracy theories have been proven both false and stupid. One would think a pro-life guy would be active on that part of the board in the past few months especially. You may be surprised to know that Ed hasn't had one thing to say. Raise your hand if you're surprised. Oh, look. No hands. Imagine being fortunate enough to live to be 90+ and still not have a ninth grader's understanding of biology nor a well-informed set of beliefs and defenses of the things you profess to believe in deeply. In the words of their favorite President: sad. To all others: pathetic. On topic, Dan and all of the admins do what they do because they love Georgetown and Georgetown basketball. If they need to shut some things down to save some of their own time now and again, so be it. As consumers and posters on the site they provide, the, likely, best response is, "Thank you. I'm sure you're doing what you feel is best for the forum you provide for free." tas, you and I seem to agree on most things, but I have to say this was completely unnecessary. I think SS addressed this issue more than adequately, if only writing for himself.
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