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Post by Bando on Oct 19, 2011 11:30:10 GMT -5
Dude, stop. It's the Democratic Party. You're just being childish at this point. Of all the things posted on this board, that's what bothers you? Really? Is it more or less childish than a picture of a lesbian loving (hating?) dinosaur? So you're response is, essentially, "you started it"? Thanks for proving my point. And for the record, "lesbians" is descriptive.
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Post by Bando on Oct 19, 2011 2:13:30 GMT -5
I'll say the same thing about an on-campus arena that I always say: without a Metro stop, it is a logistical nightmare.
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Post by Bando on Oct 19, 2011 2:03:47 GMT -5
I cannot possibly see how people could be writing off DFW's series as "prejudiced" somehow. Like it or not, DFW is using actual numbers as they exist today, while proponents of the RDC are banking on nothing more than optimistic assumptions. "Let's start a basketball-only conference, we'll totally be greeted as liberators!"
Great series, DFW. I did make some posts about a RD-style conference during this current brouhaha, but I was working from the assumption that the worst was happening and all the football schools were leaving.
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Post by Bando on Oct 19, 2011 1:51:40 GMT -5
I seem to recall people picking out a few racist signs at Tea Party rallies and using those to paint all Tea Party members racist. I'm just trying to use a similar method to paint all Democrats as believing the Pope is a Nazi. Of course they both are stupid attempts. Ed, that's where you have it wrong. The Tea Party really is racist and those signs from the Tea Party rallies are truly indicative of all members of the movement. The comments of Susan Sarandon, on the other hand, cannot be extrapolated to the Democrat Party. Dude, stop. It's the Democratic Party. You're just being childish at this point.
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Post by Bando on Oct 16, 2011 1:40:37 GMT -5
I am pretty amused that Rush Limbaugh used this opportunity to claim that Obama was targeting Christians and then quote approvingly from the LRA manifesto.
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Post by Bando on Oct 13, 2011 13:32:30 GMT -5
I'm still kind of baffled that Cain is in the lead in most polls. I mean, this guy barely has a campaign staff, and he's not spending any time in Iowa or New Hampshire. It's like Fred Thompson's strategy, but it's actually working. My working theory is that Cain is just a holding place for the anti-Romney vote at this point, and his support will wither once a credible challenger comes along.
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Post by Bando on Oct 6, 2011 12:16:15 GMT -5
I think I speak for all of us when I say: .
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Post by Bando on Oct 5, 2011 12:41:24 GMT -5
Romney is having a string of political luck I haven't seen since, well, Barack Obama. Take these two timelines:
Obama: - Senate primary opponent quits after allegations of spousal abuse - GOP opponent quits after his divorce papers to a B-list (but hottttt) celeb come out - GOP replaces Ryan with performance artist Alan Keyes, Obama easily wins Senate seat - Presidential primary opponent Clinton hires a staff that doesn't know the actual rules for acquiring Democratic delegates - Economic crisis hits a month before the election, McCain haphazardly reacts, Obama wins presidency
Romney: - Jindal, the anti-Romney, embarrasses himself on national TV, doesn't run - Pawlenty, the anti-Romney, fails to launch - Bachmann, the anti-Romney, embarrasses herself on national TV, dives - Gingrich continues to be Gingrich, never makes a dent - Perry, the anti-Romney, embarrasses himself on national TV, dives - Ryan and Christie don't run - Palin doesn't run, if she does it will be too late
Now obviously you need to be positioned to take advantage of good fortune, as Obama did with a great organization and Romney did with the experience you can only get by running for president already. It's just interesting to watch.
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Post by Bando on Oct 5, 2011 12:31:08 GMT -5
So, to take the other side, everyone's fine with the executive branch determining that you are actually in combat against the United States? Yes. Hail Caesar!
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Post by Bando on Oct 3, 2011 16:47:51 GMT -5
Depending on how well surgery goes tonight, I might be up for a Darwin award.
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Post by Bando on Oct 3, 2011 13:35:02 GMT -5
He's not an American as far as I'm concerned. There are processes to legitimately revoke an American citizen's citizenship, you know. Sen. Lieberman suggested last year that we investigate reforming the system to make it more streamlined and transparent, but was shouted down by the progressives. With this cherry popped/precedent firmly established, I hope Mitt and Rick have started compiling a list of people who aren't really Americans as far as they are concerned. The processes as they stand right now all involve defection to another state. al Qaeda isn't a state and thus can't be defected to. You could add NGOs to that, I guess, but that could possibly lead to a slippery slope ("You've pledged to Socialist International/the UN/etc., you're no longer an American!")
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Post by Bando on Oct 3, 2011 13:30:04 GMT -5
So should your hero Barry O. I can just imagine the Left collective horror if W had pulled this move. Mr. Obama has just appointed himself judge jury and executioner. I personally applud this action but am amazed at the selective ethics/morality of Barry's supporters on the Left. You mean like me, who just criticized it? Or Glenn Greenwald? I mean, all the opposition to this is coming from the left (save Ron Paul), so I have no idea what you're talking about.
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Post by Bando on Sept 30, 2011 15:21:40 GMT -5
There are a lot of problems with this whole thing. Obama has basically asserted the right to kill an American citizen anywhere without due process or any check on his ability to do so. Bush killed an American citizen too, but since that guy wasn't targeted (he was collateral damage), this is very different. This is not a power an American president should have.
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Post by Bando on Sept 29, 2011 22:30:15 GMT -5
If there were any true Tampa Bay fans beyond Dick Vitale, I would congratulate them on an incredibly gritty comeback and wish that they make the Yankees pay for failing to step on their necks when they could have. "You people in Tampa are nawt true fans! You cannot compare to the THE LEGENDARY FANS OF FACK THE YANKEES NATION. NO ONE DENIES THIS!" Comments like that are why everyone outside of New England was rooting against the Red Sox. Man, I love Tawmmy.
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Post by Bando on Sept 26, 2011 15:14:26 GMT -5
Not sure if this is clutter or if it should go in one of the 8,765,908 other conference threads, but the A-10 is going to the Barclays Center, so I hope the BE can lock down MSG- es.pn/nsuXeYI was just trying to figure out where to post the same thing. You gotta think they'll move to the latter half of the week, like us, no? We're going to have one conference tournament in Manhattan, another in Brooklyn at the same time. We should definitely be pushing some "NYC Basketball Week" thing to ESPN.
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Post by Bando on Sept 23, 2011 12:08:27 GMT -5
So, that was a pretty crappy debate for Perry, huh? Here's hoping he can hold on and eventually be the nominee.
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Post by Bando on Sept 23, 2011 1:51:28 GMT -5
Bigelephant, enjoy your enthusiam, agree we have to be pro-active rather than passive, but you lost me in talking about Georgetown and Division 1 football. Can't happen for reasons too numerous to mention. I can mention a few: 1. I'm pretty sure DC public schools have better game facilites than we do. 2. Do you have an extra billion dollars lying around you want to commit to this? Because Georgetown doesn't! 3. Any football tradition we had is lost. Students watch real college football in their dorms on Saturdays, they don't go down to the MSF. 4. The band tried to become a scramble band once, and athletics killed it. You need music scholarships if you want a marching band. 5. 6,000 students on campus is not enough to support FBS football. 6. Say we do get 40,000 people a game to watch football (low by FBS standards). How exactly are they getting to campus, with our tens of parking spaces and no public transportation? etc., etc., etc.
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Post by Bando on Sept 21, 2011 23:29:16 GMT -5
thebin: You're advocating we move to an arena of 10,000 (bleacher) seats, meaning that we'd break even if we get 3,000 or so. If we're getting around 3,000 a game, then Georgetown basketball doesn't exist anymore.
Futhermore, moving to the armory itself is a move that will kill Georgetown basketball. You really think people are going to shell out current season ticket prices for a bleacher seat? Do you think as many students will brave a 30 minute metro ride to a shady part town? What about the downtown office worker who likes to get a beer and/or dinner with his friends before or after the game? Let me be clear here: even if the on-court product remains the same, moving to Armory will mean a drop in attendance.
Combined with the lower ticket prices the university will be forced to sell at, this means that basketball revenues will go down, erasing any benefit gained by cheaper rent. Less basketball revenues means the program dies, you cheese-eating surrender monkey.
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Post by Bando on Sept 21, 2011 14:24:14 GMT -5
The PAC-12 expansion won't continue unless Texas comes along. And that's a sticky point, as Texas doesn't want to go for equal revenue sharing. That's the impasse that's preventing the dominoes from falling at this point.
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Post by Bando on Sept 21, 2011 14:22:17 GMT -5
thebin, I call BS. You act as if our only options are 1) hope the football schools keep us around or 2) join the A-10. I'm sorry, but this is a false dichotomy. I know saying as much puts the lie to your BOLD TRUTH TELLER persona, but you're advocating surrender without giving battle. That's insanity.
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