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Offthemat

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  1. Who on last year’s squad were transfers?
  2. While they claim that co2 is causing more destructive storms (which is provably false) they also insist that our energy be generated from weather sensitive sources. I’d like to propose a solution to this madness. Starting now, no more precious petroleum derived energy may be wasted on building solar panels and wind mills. You need to use your green energy to build the mining equipment needed to mine the ore and process the steel, make the batteries, all the way to building and erecting the panels and turbines. Every step , transportation, everything. We know it can be done with coal, petroleum, and nuclear generation, if you can’t do it with green, then GTHOOH.
  3. Biden Administration's Terrorist Pier in Gaza: The Trojan Horse For Terrorists to Take Over the Region by Bassam Tawil March 27, 2024 at 5:00 am Placing Qatar -- rather than, say, the United Arab Emirates -- in charge of the Gaza pier entrenches a terrorist-sponsoring Trojan Horse at Hamas's beck and call. Qatar will use the pier to supply Hamas with more money and more powerful weapons. The port will also undoubtedly be used to smuggle Islamist jihadis from all around the world into the Gaza Strip to launch more massacres against Israelis. Qatar has a long history of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist offshoots, but also Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Hezbollah and the Al Nusra Front. If Qatar really wants an end to the Israel-Hamas war, all it has to do is order its Hamas puppets immediately and unconditionally to release all the Israelis kidnapped by Hamas terrorists October 7 and held hostage in the Gaza Strip. Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal, who are based in Doha, would not be able to refuse. Qatar is their lifeline. The Qataris, however, are evidently in no rush to pressure Hamas: Qatar is clearly facing no pressure from the Biden administration. On the contrary, the Biden administration just agreed to extended Qatar's ability to host America's Al-Udeid Air Base, the headquarters of CENTCOM, for another ten years – for nothing in return. "Congress must weigh in and cancel the 10-year extension of the military base in Qatar... The U.S. should seize assets tied to individuals and entities in Qatar for supporting terrorist groups, especially those tied to Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism.... It's time to put Doha on notice that they are jeopardizing their relationship with the U.S. by providing material support to designated terrorist groups. Qatar is clearly acting like a state sponsor of terror and should not be allowed to use the U.S. banking system to bypass existing, though not enforced, sanctions on funding Iran and its terrorist proxies." — Former US intelligence officer Michael Pregent, The Hill, January 22, 2024. The US should definitely start withdrawing from Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar. Thanks to the Biden administration -- which is also pressuring Israel not to eliminate the remaining Hamas terrorist battalions in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah -- Qatar and its Hamas pawns are having the last laugh. In light of the Biden administration's decision to turn itself into an ally of terrorists and their supporters, such as Hamas and Qatar – instead of strengthening US relations with Israel and its allies in the Gulf who are fighting terrorism -- it is a very long last laugh, indeed.
  4. His train left the tracks some time ago.
  5. I thought maybe Sammy was on the JoJo diet plan.
  6. So they are enrolling in whatever program is available rather than seeking a specific discipline?
  7. With nearly every thread you start and post you make in this section.
  8. Pretty quick on the “NOT TERRORISM” draw.
  9. You can bet he’s dribbling somewhere.
  10. I think you need to take into account that Williams was injured while defeating Swidersky, who had handled Alvarez easily. If they had replaced Williams with Alvarez after Big 12s, would he have gotten an at-large? He would likely have been seeded differently and faced different opponents. Williams impressed me. His duck under is so fast he can’t always catch it and his cradle is as good as there is. In early season tournaments, Williams majored Carter Young, who majored Alvarez.
  11. And just as I described, it seems to have hit a self executing dead end.
  12. There them go again. Them is ignorant and them insists on remaining ignorant. And wrong.
  13. I don’t believe that is his proper pronoun. Thomas Sowell: […] Self preservation is said to be the first law of nature, and this applies not only to human beings but also to organizations and movements. The March of Dimes was set up to fight polio but it did not disband when polio was wiped out by vaccines. Nor did civil rights organizations disband after civil rights laws were passed. The fatal mistake made by those who imagine that they can appease movements and organizations with concessions is that concessions are incidental trophies for those who receive them, but unmet grievances are fundamental to their continued viability. Back in the 1930s, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain thought that he could buy off Hitler with concessions to avoid war. More recently, both Israel and the Clinton administration discovered that offering even the most extraordinary concessions could not buy off Yasser Arafat. For either Hitler or Arafat to have made a lasting peace would have been to say that his grievances had now been met — and that would have been a devastating blow to the movement which provided his power. Against this background, it may be easier to understand why a demand can be made and a crusade launched to get something that everyone knows in advance will not be given — reparations for slavery. No way are millions of white, Asian, and Hispanic Americans going to pay reparations for something that happened before their ancestors ever set foot on American Soil. Even those whites whose ancestors were here before the Civil War know that most of those ancestors — whether they lived in the North or the South — owned no slaves. Seen in this light, the demand for reparations may seem like an exercise in futility. However, seen as a source of a lasting unmet grievance, it is a stroke of genius to keep blacks separated from other Americans and an aggrieved constituency to support black “leaders” in politics, organizations and movements. This demand also mobilizes a certain amount of support or sympathy among whites, especially those in the media and in academia, where such support or sympathy costs nothing, and allows those who give it to relieve their own sense of guilt, while risking other people’s money — and national cohesion. Some white politicians can also benefit at little or no cost to themselves by expressing sympathy with the reparations cause or even voting for meaningless apologies for what others did centuries ago. For these various groups, reparations is a win-win issue. For everyone else, including the vast majority of blacks, it is a lose-lose issue. Blacks have already begun suffering losses from con men who have asked them to sign up for their individual shares of the reparations — and have then stolen their identity and used it to defraud them. But this is just a down payment on the losses from this futile crusade. In a democracy, a minority that is no longer even the largest minority cannot afford to alienate, much less embitter, the majority which ultimately holds the political power in the country. Too often, unending demands and grievances from black leaders and spokesmen create the impression that most blacks want something for nothing. In reality, most blacks lifted themselves out of poverty before the civil rights laws or the welfare state programs took effect. Not only do most whites not know this, neither do most blacks today, for their leaders have taken credit for this progress by depicting it as the fruits of their civil rights movements and political efforts. But the poverty rate among blacks fell by half between 1940 and 1960, before any of the major federal civil rights legislation or the vast expansion of the welfare state under President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs. Between 1940 and 1960, black males’ number of years of schooling doubled. How surprising is it that doubling your education raises your income? In short, most blacks raised themselves out of poverty, but their leaders robbed them of this achievement and the respect it deserved — in the eyes of blacks and whites alike — by making it seem like a concession from the government and a product of agitation. Pointing blacks in a direction from which little can be expected, and away from the enormous opportunities open today in the economy, is a formula for personal frustration, even if it benefits “leaders.” But then, that frustration is itself a benefit to “leaders,” who need a constituency with a sense of grievance.
  14. He attended the hush money court this morning.
  15. Impeachment is a dead end due to partisanship. The dimocrats won’t even vote to demand that care be given to a baby born alive after an attempted abortion. Do you think they would vote to convict sleazeball biden?
  16. It could make it safer as well as better. No incentive to head for the boundary if it won’t save you. It would be a good idea to add 4-6 foot boundary for existing mats, anyway.
  17. I’ve asked if it might be better for folk style to just allow takedowns initiated inbounds to count even if they finish out of bounds. No need to drag the toe.
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