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bullzak

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  1. Love Massachusetts being all Nanny State. This is the same state that barred residents from buying AAPL in the IPO in 1980 as too risky.
  2. As for BOB, my teenage kids were talking at dinner one night about various political views among their peers such as kneeling during the anthem and not saying the pledge etc. I thought it important to remind them that although we live in a country where people should be free to think and do such things, that right was bought by good people who died for their country. So we are watching BOB because in my view WWII was truly an epic struggle of good vs. evil and thankfully good won, this time. A timely history lesson for them.
  3. My step dad was in the Pacific. He was married at the time and his wife got word that his ship, the USS Quincy, was sunk at Guadalcanal with 370 dead. News blackouts being in place at the time she found out a bit later he had been transferred to another ship before they set out. Then he was at D Day Iwo Jima. Pretty sure he was in shore party heading right for the main landing strip at Iwo. 4 of 14 KIA. Then later involved in battle of Okinawa, when the kamikazes really started. Was in middle of Pacific and wrote letter to his wife and two sons saying he would never see them again because they were preparing for invasion of Japan. Then we dropped the bomb. His crew called him the Old Man. Out of Navy in December 1945 at age 26. These guys were YOUNG. He didnt say a lot about it but I knew enough. Said the kamikazes at Okinawa were scarier than Iwo. When he died we went through his personal effects. I have a big Iwo Jima G-2 situation map that he took ashore on my wall, with the ships orders of the day as provenance. Look at it every day and think about what those men went through and I am thankful.
  4. Thought Baalke and Harbaugh were at odds in SF. Then again Harbaugh seems to piss off everybody by Year 5. Urban needs to get as many NFL guys on staff as possible. Jax has more capital than anyone for building a team. Its really going to come down to drafting well [Trevor Lawrence better be as advertised]
  5. Dont people think Campbell has a real shot at UMich? Figure this is the swan song for Harbaugh so ISU guys may only have another year.
  6. Again, a guy will go places with a hardon he would never go with just a machine gun.
  7. And I am all for stop routes but not as the sole foundation of your route tree.
  8. Understood but all that time OU kicked our ass their safeties never had to show their backs to our QB. Never. Just crowded the line so we could run or throw short passes into a stacked box. Predictably bad results. Way too easy to scheme unless you have witches at QB.
  9. Never understood why GDGD insisted on majority of stop routes. You have your receiver catch the ball with his back to the defense and then go from standing start and break tackles for YAC. Happens sometimes but not often enough. Crossing and hitting guys on the move seems like a much better base passing game.
  10. Actually if you're making the move Jax is the right one on paper. More draft capital and cap room than anybody in the NFL. Could be a quicker turnaround that people think if they nail some draft picks the next couple of years. Have to think Urban actually has control of that behind the scenes. If not they are probably fucked.
  11. Problem with the NFL is you cant always recruit another hot shit QB to take the place of the dog you have under center. If you overcommit to a guy who goes south you're screwed for years and everybody gets fired. See Philly and Carson Wentz. Cleveland and everybody until Baker. Jets and Sam Darnold. Tampa and Jameis Winston. Hopefully Chicago and Mitch Trubiski. List goes on and on.
  12. I can attest Illinois is a shitshow. In running for worst governor in the nation. Even though seniors and LTC account for the majority of deaths they are accounting for something like 3% of vax. Meanwhile 30 year old hospital researcher working remotely is first in line. Go ahead and tell me that is all about public health.
  13. Believe it was Mike Deal, and yes they were really strong. Not sure whatever happened to him.
  14. Insofar as your team is in a championship game, no.
  15. I look at football as part of the marketing arm of the university. Its a chance to show tangible excellence on a broad scale. What we have shown over the last decade in football is mediocrity. It takes some shine off other endeavors. If the BMD are willing to try to fix that I just dont get the problem. A lot of these same people donate a ton to the university outside of football. They want excellence across the board. Dont see what is wrong with that.
  16. If you really believe in the direction the program is heading you HAVE to say that or you have said nothing. What CDC really said is mediocrity is better than nothing. Shit put it on a bumper sticker.
  17. Cant believe he didn't get shot dead right there. Unbelievable
  18. Are we really going to hire some nobody? Next you're going to tell me there is no Santa Claus. Fuck 2020
  19. Five kills in one day. Pretty, pretty good. Right Stuff on tap tonite. We could use a little more of what he had for sure.
  20. Put me in the camp this makes way too much sense for Texas not to completely fuck it up. Too bad because if we decided just THIS ONE TIME to take no prisoners, Texas would rock. But we are a "public ivy" Cal Berkeley wannabe, so alas, not happening.
  21. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/16/texas-coronavirus-spike-young-adults/ One of the areas of concern Abbott mentioned was Hays County, where 476 of the 938 confirmed cases are people ages 20 to 29. People in their 20s accounted for 50.7% of all the cases in Hays County as of Monday,
  22. Sounds like a slice of heaven you should call whatever you want.
  23. And people say there is no civil discourse anymore. Death from COVID is down 90% from the May peak. The case spike is worth watching for sure, but it does not translate into ICU, vents, and death the way it did in March. This may be because the new cases are skewing younger and potentially because the virus is weakening. Of course no one knows. My point is that people need to be a little more skeptical of the panic porn folks and look at what is happening more broadly in the US with respect to the most important stat and that is death from this thing.
  24. Somebody wants to tell me how many people were infected as of March 15 then I will start paying attention to current cases and change rates to that. Obviously cant be done because almost no one could get a test then. We are finding it because we are testing at a level that never happened in any nation during the peak. Some of the testing is [gasp] focused on vulnerable populations like nursing homes, prisons, hospitals, meat packing. Deaths and ICU are way down. If that holds, then the virus can be said to be acting like other coronas and waning in the summer. Lets see if there is a round 2 in the fall.
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