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Post by hoya95 on Jan 6, 2021 19:13:34 GMT -5
He's stupid. He's evil. He's crazy. Remove him tonight.
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Post by hoya95 on Dec 16, 2020 14:10:31 GMT -5
The data here may be factually accurate but the interpretation suspect. Though Trump was attempting to further short-circuit the approval process, it was his stressing that procedures be streamlined that played a large role in having vaccines in record time. Not the only impetus, but one of them. Do you have any doubt that, if adverse side effects show up, Trump will be assigned blame? Hope someone answers this question. Sure, it had a little slice of the impetus. As a good Catholic, surely you understand the concept of intent. His total abandonment of the process of combatting COVID at all for the past few months show actual intent quite clearly IMO. As to your question, I'll answer it. I do not expect we will see anything more serious than what has been reported and peer-reviewed thus far. People are always going to have minor adverse reactions to vaccines and the most common ones (already seen with some frequency) are an excellent indicator that the vaccinee's immune system is doing it's job and reacting to create protection. As for blaming Trump for vaccine adverse events when the process of that evaluation followed ended up being standard procedure? Well, there are jerks on both sides of the aisle. Other than that, I doubt anyone in their right mind would assign blame to Trump for that. It's an absurd conclusion. As to assigning credit to Trump, I'm sure the families of 300,000+ dead Americans are quite ready to give credit where credit is due. The only thing I didn't like in the vaccine news was that more people got Bell's Palsy in the vaccine group than the placebo group for both Moderna and Pfizer. For a non-scientist, once feels like a coincidence, but for it to happen in both trials is a bit troubling. Is that cause for legitimate concern?
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Post by hoya95 on Dec 12, 2020 15:08:11 GMT -5
Obviously, hope the kid from Florida State will fully recover. But if this was caused by COVID, shut the season down tonight and wait until we can vaccinate the players.
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Post by hoya95 on Dec 8, 2020 18:20:06 GMT -5
When the NBA came back, they had to have random afternoon games to finish the regular season and because they only had two courts they could use. There has to be a TV reason for this, but it's mindboggling to me that college basketball is rushing things and just throwing a glut of good games onto TV. I just noticed that there is an excellent Creighton-Kansas game that started at 5 on a Tuesday. And I didn't have a clue that Villanova was playing Texas up against the NFL on Sunday. There's no need to finish the NCAA Tournament until mid-May. There are no fans. There's a bubble in Indy they can use. You can play regular season games at small on-campus arenas if there is a building conflict. I can't understand why they don't spread things out, give themselves room for the inevitable cancellations, and hope that the pandemic at least gets more manageable as we get further into 2021. The answer to everything is college sports is money, but I don't see how they are making more money this way.
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Post by hoya95 on Nov 27, 2020 12:26:22 GMT -5
Was wondering where the Xavier game that was supposed to be televised went. Apparently, the FS1 production crew has COVID issues, and they can't even televise it at all. Then I flip over to see Bill Raftery in a pretty crowded gym with no mask. (From the cryptic comments on FOX yesterday, it appears that Terry Bradshaw has COVID as well.) I'm happy to have the entertainment from a season, but it seems like we're really tempting fate, especially with all the older men coaching a sport with zero social distancing.
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Post by hoya95 on Nov 23, 2020 14:22:15 GMT -5
The days of government by cable news for cable news seem to be coming to an end. Whatever will we do? How can they be qualified if they haven't been babbling on TV non-stop?
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Post by hoya95 on Nov 21, 2020 23:08:42 GMT -5
In the latest episode of "There is No Such Thing as Rock Bottom", Trump's "lawyer" is now claiming that the Republican Secretary of State of Georgia and the Trump-loving Governor have been taking bribes to participate in Hugo Chavez' invisible election fraud from the grave. I understand that we cannot appeal to the consciences of Republican elected officials to stop President Nero from trying to burn down 240 years or so of democracy. They don't care about that. But they also better realize that this monster will throw every one of his "allies" to the wolves as soon as it suits him. If they don't rip the band aid off soon, they will be under his thumb for at least another four years. Obviously, they won't lift a finger to save our democracy, but maybe someday they will to save their own careers.
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Post by hoya95 on Nov 16, 2020 12:16:02 GMT -5
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Post by hoya95 on Oct 20, 2020 23:05:17 GMT -5
Very sorry for your loss.
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Post by hoya95 on Oct 17, 2020 0:33:02 GMT -5
They keep doing this and I'll agree it's not racist bs if you can find me one instance of this happening to a white member of congress of any gender. Sen Perdue has served with Sen Harris for 3 years. Has any Republican won statewide office in Virginia since George Allen did the same thing? At least symbolically that’s when the state became reliably Democratic. Georgia isn’t there yet, but it’s becoming more of a swing state by the day. The demographics keep changing, and it’s only a matter of when this relentless nastiness based on race puts you in the minority, not if.
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Post by hoya95 on Oct 2, 2020 23:03:50 GMT -5
This Saturday event may have single-handedly started a spike in DC.
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Post by hoya95 on Oct 2, 2020 22:08:35 GMT -5
So this keeps bugging me. Supposedly, Trump just tested positive late last night. Today, he already developed symptoms. I thought that usually took 4-6 days? Then the symptoms got worse. And now he's already been hospitalized? Doesn't this seem entirely unexplained acceleration of the entire process? Is there any reason to believe DJT was only tested positive late last night as they are telling us? They've refused to say when was the last test he took before Thursday night. He was on the "honor system" to have been tested before the debate Tuesday. Certainly looks like he got exposed in the super spreader event last Saturday, and there is no actual evidence they tested him again until he had symptoms. Whatever the truth is, I doubt it's going to show the White House behaved responsibly.
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Post by hoya95 on Sept 27, 2020 22:43:45 GMT -5
I'm curious as to what percentage of Trump supporters would abandon him if it were exceedingly clear or if it were proven (unlikely due to the DOJ back-stopping Trump's personal agenda) that Trump had committed additional fraud with regard to tax laws. Trump University and Trump's charity certainly didn't move the needle. How many instances of fraud are too many to continue to allow this person to hold the Office of the President for those that continue to support him? If he wears a tan suit, that'll probably do it, right? THAT would be egregious. The standards and moral expectations are the same for all that hold the Office, right? I've dog-cussed those I disagreed with politically forever. But I always thought I could deal with them as people, and hell, perhaps even change some minds if I argued well enough. But these last four years have shown that the only "principle" about 40% of the country has is grabbing the power to hurt those who aren't like them. Not "small government", not improving health care, not saving the environment as the planet burns, not protecting the constitution and the rule of law, and not even preventing a Russian pawn in the White House from allowing Putin to put bounties on our soldiers. None of these are deal-breakers for them. I couldn't have imagined that 10 years ago. No matter what happens in November, you can't put that toothpaste back in the tube. And it's pretty damn depressing.
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Post by hoya95 on Sept 23, 2020 15:13:48 GMT -5
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Post by hoya95 on Sept 19, 2020 22:13:15 GMT -5
Hypocrite scumbag McConnell has already said that Trump's nominee will get a vote by the Senate when he denied Judge Merrick Garland even a hearing because it was an electoon year. Republicans are pure scum. First of all, I don't believe the republicans can garner enough republican votes to confirm a nominee before January; and, there will surely be no Dems to support such a move. However, the Democrats created this situation. Prior to Robert Bork, for the most part a president was afforded the privilege of placing his nominee on the bench but, with Bork, the Democrats started treating it as blood sport. They destroyed Bork, almost did the same to Clarence Thomas (50-48), and attempted to do likewise to Neil Gorsuch (54-45) and Brett Kavanagh (50-48). Even Samuel Alito garnered but four Democrat votes. Only John Roberts enjoyed more than a few Dem votes. All the while the Republicans, for the most part, played nice. Ginsberg was approved 96-3, Sotomayor 68-31. Then, to top it off the Dems changed the rules to allow judges to be confirmed by majority vote. They made their bed, now they are crying they might have to sleep in it. Boo hoo. All you who are saying it's the right thing to do to wait until after the new president is installed, have no moral ground on which to stand. I hope Trump submits a qualified candidate, preferably female, and McConnell rams it through. Then the Court will have 13 members next year. No whining when it happens.
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Post by hoya95 on Sept 5, 2020 12:45:45 GMT -5
Wonderful. We’re probably going to have to lock up the John Thompson memorial thread due to 30 year old recruiting fights. Or at least get a moderator warning. I really hoped we’d make it to the funeral first. Just a note: recruiting is an inexact science dropped into the middle of a very sleazy business. Nothing is ever as simple as we think it is.
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Post by hoya95 on Sept 3, 2020 13:01:44 GMT -5
Are you suggesting Grant Hill was saying things that he didn't believe the other night? Seriously?
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Post by hoya95 on Sept 1, 2020 13:26:30 GMT -5
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Post by hoya95 on Aug 31, 2020 13:28:16 GMT -5
The only time I ever actually met him was when I got his autograph when I was four years old, and I'm not sure where I'd be without John Thompson. I certainly wouldn't have gone to Georgetown at least. So I can't imagine his influence on the lives he actually touched. To be born to parents who couldn't read or write in a segregated city and then to go on and build the legacy he built is just stunning. He was an oak tree of a man in every sense. His influence will be seen and felt long after the rest of us are gone. RIP.
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Post by hoya95 on Aug 26, 2020 14:24:23 GMT -5
Serious question: has there been an African-American coach who has survived a major recruiting/pay-for-play or academic scandal the way Bill Self or Will Wade have so far? Or the way Jim Boeheim did? Or who got another high profile job quickly the way Bruce Pearl did? Part of the problem is obviously that there are so few African-American coaches in the first place, but I can't think of any examples. I'd probably say Clem Haskins at Minnesota or Kevin Broadus tenure at Binghamton? Broadus got forced out at Binghamton even though they made the tournament. So he didn't exactly survive it. I have no recollection of Haskins. What happened there?
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