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Post by hoyarooter on May 7, 2024 21:25:23 GMT -5
“Took time to vote” lmao yeah they spent all that time reading the tweet and tapping their phone, what a labor intensive task showing the difference in the programs. It wouldn’t be a “stupid” poll if Casual hadn’t been relentlessly annoying since last year talking about Pitino or if this poll was posted when bother rosters were complete. Beating an horse to death is an understatement for him and certain people on this board. And he has I think close to 15k followers. I wanted Pitino too but people need to get over it already sheesh. I don’t know about you, but I don’t vote in every poll I come across. 951 people felt it was worth voting or felt it was important to have their voices heard. That’s all. hoyaboya voted 750 times.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 7, 2024 18:45:17 GMT -5
Reversing one of her own decisions, the federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case granted his request on Monday to postpone the deadline for a crucial court filing in the criminal proceeding, increasing the chance that any trial would be pushed past the November election. The ruling by the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, was made in a bare-bones order that contained no factual or legal reasoning. It did not schedule a new deadline but erased the one she had set almost a month ago ordering Mr. Trump’s lawyers to file by Thursday a detailed list of the classified materials that they intend to introduce at the trial, which is set to take place at some point in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla. -- NY Times May 7 2024 Corrupt Loose Cannon continues doing the Grifter's bidding. A fine jurist, much more qualified than those corrupt judges in NY and DC.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 3, 2024 18:21:45 GMT -5
They are doing a major disservice to the country. Every time a story about Trump comes up, people should be continually reminded of the horrifying dystopia Trump promises his second term would be as he himself laid out in his Time magazine interview. It’s unfathomable to me that people would find his promises acceptable, especially among those that consider themselves “patriots”. Well, a significant portion of those "patriots" think that the word patriot means feeling empowered to be overtly bigoted and racist. Full stop. And also to overthrow a duly elected government based on nothing but falsehoods.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 3, 2024 18:15:37 GMT -5
Not great. I had more confidence Stewart was gettable than Cliff. Hopefully other targets were identified and we pivot quickly. Shocked by this news…if Cooley can’t close a guy like Stewart, with his background, up against Ohio State, that is just pathetic. He says about the guy he didn't want.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 3, 2024 18:09:42 GMT -5
Rothstein reporting Stewart to OSU. Yep I hate being right.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 2, 2024 18:32:11 GMT -5
I dub thee the Georgetown Rule.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 1, 2024 17:38:43 GMT -5
[/a] to the Putin regime would be too much for even Trump. [/b] Wow, i hadn't even considered Gabbard's potential to tap into the great midwestern animuns for Hillary Clinton, whose ridiculous and unsupported Putin charges (joined in by John Brennan as I recall saying with no evidence that Gabbard had ties to Putin) against Gabbard would be a renewed catalyst for Hillary hatred. (I always remember the summer of 2016 when I was in Madison Wisconsin and saw all the Trump signs on my trip back to the airport and heard all the stray anti-Hillary talk in UWisconsin lobbies and saying to myself Trump could actually win this thing). What a wonderful conversation to revisit from the Trump side.[/quote] We'll see how well some of these boaShut upl posts age. [/quote] Something seems to be wrong with my system, as despite repeated tries, I've been unable to correct the garbled post above. Try this: We'll see how well some of these boaShut upl posts age. I'm sure Trump's recent interview with Time Magazine will do wonders for his support.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 1, 2024 17:31:04 GMT -5
Gabbard's complete lack of experience and her [a href="https://neweasterneurope.eu/2022/10/12/american-agents-of-misinformation-tulsi-gabbard-russian-propaganda-and-article- 88/"]uncomfortable ties[/a] to the Putin regime would be too much for even Trump. [/b] Wow, i hadn't even considered Gabbard's potential to tap into the great midwestern animuns for Hillary Clinton, whose ridiculous and unsupported Putin charges (joined in by John Brennan as I recall saying with no evidence that Gabbard had ties to Putin) against Gabbard would be a renewed catalyst for Hillary hatred. (I always remember the summer of 2016 when I was in Madison Wisconsin and saw all the Trump signs on my trip back to the airport and heard all the stray anti-Hillary talk in UWisconsin lobbies and saying to myself Trump could actually win this thing). What a wonderful conversation to revisit from the Trump side.[/quote] We'll see how well some of these boaShut upl posts age.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 1, 2024 17:26:44 GMT -5
I can't believe Marjorie Taylor Greene making a motion to vacate the Speakership. What a dumb thing to do. With the current Republican lead in all the swing states, which may even be understated, the Republican Party is almost at the point that they just need to show up six months and a few days from now. There is no way this turns out well, the show only diverts from needed campaign messaging and only helps the opposition. True political incompetence. MTG is many things but she is not incompetent. (Lauren Boebert is another story.) Greene knows that Johnson will survive a move to vacate the chair but this is a ploy to draw away donors from Republicans in Congress that do not support her. If it succeeds, it increases her ability to be a power broker for donors and given that Johnson is not a leader of the party in any way, shape, or form, it is an attempt for her to gain leverage if the Congress flips to a D-led House and a R-led Senate. If it fails, it is soon forgotten. On a wider tangent, it also is another step for her to position herself as a player in 2028 when neither current nominee is constitutionally eligible to run. What makes you think that will stop one of the candidates?
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Post by hoyarooter on May 1, 2024 17:25:00 GMT -5
I bet he knows of another way to vacate a building. If the reports I read about the goings on at Columbia last night are true, Bowman is way out of line.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 30, 2024 20:53:43 GMT -5
Sounds like just a cold to me. Take bleach.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 30, 2024 20:48:00 GMT -5
Hey, Tyler, come on over for dinner.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 30, 2024 20:46:53 GMT -5
Im not trying to disparage Styles, he came in and played hard. His numbers were OK offensively, fairly poor defensively. A solid secondary player. Stewart is a stud defensively and one of the best rebounders in the country (somewhat small sample) He wouldn't give us a ton offensively but doesn't need to be as the 4th or 5th option. Peavy and Stewart immediately make the defense better Defense? Do we need to improve our defense?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 30, 2024 20:45:48 GMT -5
Sean Stewart's brother is a sophomore at Howard: hubison.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/miles-stewart/7762This one's a done deal. Given the kid's background/family, Georgetown's a perfect fit for him. Hopefully we don't have to expend too much in NIL, his family is obviously well-to-do. It would be great if we can save on Stewart and still have enough to bring in Cliff O. If we do that, I'll get over the fact that we will have 3 guys that are all 6'9", 220-230 pounds, none of whom can guard a true high major 5 man. Excellent attempt at the reverse jinx - with a dollop of damning with faint praise - Trolly McTrolly. This. Plus, I fear we may be putting the cart before the horse. I'm sure Ohio State also has plenty of NIL$ to offer him, and I'm at a point where I don't regard us as a lock for anything. We'll know before too long.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 29, 2024 19:03:05 GMT -5
H5N1 is Bird Flu. Over the last 25 years or so there have been periods in other countries where it has crossed from birds to humans and the 58% mortality rate is from confirmed cases investigated by the WHO in foreign countries and it is unknown whether that number has any relevance as the only people tested for bird flu in those countries were people sick enough to be hospitalized. H5N1 Bird Flu in our country has been crossing from birds to cows and is causing some cattle to get sick. News this week that in the ballpark of 20 percent of milk samples tested both by government labs and private labs show particles of this virus in milk samples. It appears routine pasteurization of milk is inactivating the virus so it is not infectious to people drinking milk (unless they were to get it from a farm before it is pasteurized.) There have been two cases of humans in this country getting it from cattle they worked with one this year and one in 2022. Both had mild illness and recovered quickly. There have been no cases reported from drinking unpasteurized milk. Separate issue is surging measles in many countries. Outbreaks are starting in the unvaccinated and sometimes passing to people who's vaccination protection has dropped off. Some states in the United States only required one dose of MMR to be considered fully vaccinated so some people who only received one dose of measles vaccine as a child may not be immune and may be at risk. As another example in Illinois there have been 64 cases already this year which is more cases than were seen in a whole year in more than 30 years in my state. Thanks for this info.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 28, 2024 18:53:35 GMT -5
…including vaccine disinformation. Excuse my ignorance (could ask Dr. Rooter, I guess) - H5N1 is measles? And it has a 58% mortality rate for unvaccinated children? When was the measles vaccine developed? I recall having measles and German measles when I was a kid, but that was more than a few decades ago.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 26, 2024 20:35:23 GMT -5
MAGA GOPers are lacking in intelligence, hence their lack of a sense of humor. They are suckers and morons. Humor is a sophisticated cognitive process that involves a multitude of mental skills. To 'get' a joke, one needs to recognize the context, understand the multiple meanings of words, identify incongruities, and use abstract thinking to find amusement in the punchline. Therefore, perceiving and appreciating humor is an indicator of cognitive flexibility, creativity, and linguistic intelligence. www.miragenews.com/mirth-and-mind-why-humor-hinges-on-high-1010349/Researchers in Austria recently discovered that funny people, particularly those who enjoy dark humour, have higher IQs than their less funny peers. They argue that it takes both cognitive and emotional ability to process and produce humour. Their analysis shows that funny people have higher verbal and non-verbal intelligence, and they score lower in mood disturbance and aggressiveness. www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/funny-people-are-also-more-intelligent-according-to-new-research/Highly educated adults – particularly those who have attended graduate school – are far more likely than those with less education to take predominantly liberal positions across a range of political values. And these differences have increased over the past two decades. More than half of those with postgraduate experience (54%) have either consistently liberal political values (31%) or mostly liberal values (23%), based on an analysis of their opinions about the role and performance of government, social issues, the environment and other topics. Fewer than half as many postgrads – roughly 12% of the public in 2015– have either consistently conservative (10%) or mostly conservative (14%) values. About one-in-five (22%) express a mix of liberal and conservative opinions. www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/This is why I got a good chuckle out of Republicans like Ramaswamy (thank heavens that clown has pretty much disappeared) supporting a civics test to qualify for voting. 80% of Republicans would fail miserably, including half of Republican U.S. Reps, and a handful of Senators (I’m looking directly at Tuberville). I have my suspicions Trump couldn’t pass a basic civics test. I'm sure that's true, but the civics test would only be required for minorities.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 25, 2024 19:46:56 GMT -5
And thinking it's clever to say "Democrat party" or that "Let's Go Brandon" is the height of hilarity. MAGA GOPers are lacking in intelligence, hence their lack of a sense of humor. They are suckers and morons. Humor is a sophisticated cognitive process that involves a multitude of mental skills. To 'get' a joke, one needs to recognize the context, understand the multiple meanings of words, identify incongruities, and use abstract thinking to find amusement in the punchline. Therefore, perceiving and appreciating humor is an indicator of cognitive flexibility, creativity, and linguistic intelligence. www.miragenews.com/mirth-and-mind-why-humor-hinges-on-high-1010349/Researchers in Austria recently discovered that funny people, particularly those who enjoy dark humour, have higher IQs than their less funny peers. They argue that it takes both cognitive and emotional ability to process and produce humour. Their analysis shows that funny people have higher verbal and non-verbal intelligence, and they score lower in mood disturbance and aggressiveness. www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/funny-people-are-also-more-intelligent-according-to-new-research/Highly educated adults – particularly those who have attended graduate school – are far more likely than those with less education to take predominantly liberal positions across a range of political values. And these differences have increased over the past two decades. More than half of those with postgraduate experience (54%) have either consistently liberal political values (31%) or mostly liberal values (23%), based on an analysis of their opinions about the role and performance of government, social issues, the environment and other topics. Fewer than half as many postgrads – roughly 12% of the public in 2015– have either consistently conservative (10%) or mostly conservative (14%) values. About one-in-five (22%) express a mix of liberal and conservative opinions. www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/I agree with all of this, which is why I love Blazing Saddles and Animal House.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 25, 2024 19:42:39 GMT -5
Given MAGA GOPers limited cognitive abilities and intellectual capabilities, this essay, adapted from Kagan's book, will most certainly pass over their racist, xenophobic and authoritarian heads. Their most likely response, is it's TLDNR. Morons. Opinion We have a radical democracy. Will Trump voters destroy it? For some time, it was possible to believe that many voters could not see the threat Donald Trump poses to America’s liberal democracy, and many still profess not to see it. But now, a little more than six months from Election Day, it’s hard to believe they don’t. The warning signs are clear enough. Trump himself offers a new reason for concern almost every day. People may choose to ignore the warnings or persuade themselves not to worry, but they can see what we all see, and that should be enough. How to explain their willingness to support Trump despite the risk he poses to our system of government? The answer is not rapidly changing technology, widening inequality, unsuccessful foreign policies or unrest on university campuses but something much deeper and more fundamental. It is what the Founders worried about and Abraham Lincoln warned about: a decline in what they called public virtue. They feared it would be hard to sustain popular support for the revolutionary liberal principles of the Declaration of Independence, and they worried that the virtuous love of liberty and equality would in time give way to narrow, selfish interest. Although James Madison and his colleagues hoped to establish a government on the solid foundation of self-interest, even Madison acknowledged that no government by the people could be sustained if the people themselves did not have sufficient dedication to the liberal ideals of the Declaration. The people had to love liberty, not just for themselves but as an abstract ideal for all humans. For two centuries, many White Americans have felt under siege by the Founders’ liberalism. They have been defeated in war and suppressed by threats of force, but more than that, they have been continually oppressed by a system designed by the Founders to preserve and strengthen liberalism against competing beliefs and hierarchies. Since World War II, the courts and the political system have pursued the Founders’ liberal goals with greater and greater fidelity, ending official segregation, driving religion from public schools, recognizing and defending the rights of women and minorities hitherto deprived of their “natural rights” because of religious, racial, and ethnic discrimination. The hegemony of liberalism has expanded, just as Lincoln hoped it would, “constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of colors everywhere.” Anti-liberal political scientist Patrick Deneen calls it “liberal totalitarianism,” and, apart from the hyperbole, he is right that liberalism has been steadily deepening and expanding under presidents of both parties since the 1940s. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/24/trump-tyranny-christian-nationalist-democracy/About face, says the Supreme Court.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 25, 2024 19:17:15 GMT -5
Slightly off topic but I am surprised Larranaga at age 74 wants to stick around for the new world of NIL CBB unless he's just in it for the money. The winningest coach in program history and a recent UM Sports Hall of Fame & Museum inductee, Larrañaga received one additional year on his deal, now taking it through the 2026-27 campaign. “I am excited to announce Jim's contract extension through the 2026-27 season,” Radakovich said. He had back to back great years followed by a disaster. Maybe he just doesn't want to go out that way,, but it looks like they have a major rebuild in front of them. Where have I seen that before?
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