And assess to themselves what they have become (and always have been). Will they? Time will tell.

Blah blah blah blah. Prattle on blah blah prattle prattle. Bias blah prattle, anti-Jewish dog whistle blah blah.

Changing hearts and minds, one "Israeli lobbyist" at a time.

this board was so active debating stolen elections

and here we are being the proof get indicted for it


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Happiness used to be U-shaped by age, with middle age the least happy. Not anymore. Young people are now the least happy.​

Couple of bonus questions that we will get to as well:
- Which are least happy? Conservative or Leftists
- Which have higher incidences of mental issues? Conservatives or Leftists?

1) We have not heard reports of deaths and will check into it.

2) People were killed, but by a faulty Palestinian rocket/bomb.

3) OK we killed them but they were terrorists.

4) OK they were civilians, but they were being used a human shields.

5) OK there were no fighters in the area so it was our mistake. But we kill civilians by accident, they do it on purpose.

6) OK we kill *far* more civilians than they do, but look at how terrible other countries are!

7) Why are you still talking about this? You are an anti-Semite.

Test this technique the next time Israel gets caught committing an atrocity.

HT to Glenn Greenwald

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@smalls103 do you see DT making a serious run at any committed or uncommitted, top 50 guys?

Sorry if I missed it, but this paciolan system is anything but intuitive for me.

We are in section 109 and the literature said we can purchase online beginning at NOON today.

No link for me to purchase tickets.

But while on hold on the phone.... i get reminded repeatedly to purchase them in our account. NOT.

UGGGGGHHHH!!!

He is doubling down….

President Biden encouraged what he calls “reproductive freedom,” the latest euphemism for abortion, which received numerous cheers from the audience. I think it is a sad commentary on our culture when people cheer when a child loses their life. In another moment of division, he spoke about in vitro fertilization (IVF), which has wide bipartisan support in Congress. But he focused on the situation in Alabama, which is carefully being resolved as we speak, as another way to divide us, instead of discussing the value of the lives of all children. Thousands of children, from every state, will be born this year through IVF.

The President brought up the border security proposal I worked on over the past several months. Some of the things he said about the bill were even true. The bill would have added many new Border Patrol agents, ICE agents, asylum officers, deportation flights, and fentanyl detection devices at the border. The bill would have built more border fence, ended the open border parole program, added detention beds, and dramatically increased the speed of deportations by changing the standard for asylum screening.

The bill did not have everything I wanted, but it also did not include any amnesty programs. The myth that the bill allowed 5,000 people in a day is just that, a myth. Under the new rules in the bill, the first person that crossed the border each day and every person after that faced a much tougher asylum standard and rapid deportation to deter the next person from paying a cartel to cross. But if the border was overrun with 5,000 people, like what has happened almost every day this year, the rules tightened even more to give law enforcement new tools to immediately deport every person who illegally crosses our border without any screening.

President Biden conveniently left out the numerous existing legal authorities he has already to better secure our border but refuses to use. If the President would enforce the border the same way President Trump or even President Obama enforced the border, we would not have the chaos we currently have in our nation. Both parties are currently choosing to play election-year politics with our national security by blaming the other party for inaction. We should do everything we can to solve the problem now and allow the election in November to resolve the rest. Inaction when there is danger should not be an option.

On Friday, while addressing reporters, Schumer said that “our ultimate goal” is to grant U.S. citizenship to every illegal alien in the country.

trump draws 100K to the dark blue jersey shore and 25k to the dark blue south bronx, biden's puppeteers are bailing water on the titanic and they know it.

if your offense is one hail mary after another, you ain't got no offense. demorats can't run on anything other than abortion, 44% of abortions are from the morning after pill and the pill is available every where. so shut up and go to the drug store you woke dumbasses. or they keep talking about the stock mkt exploding, almost no effect on most of the middle class. and they keep calling us stupid b/c we can't see how great hour lives are.

here's biden's hail mary list that i can remember, prolly others, respond with more of biden's hail marys.

now diaper boy is ready to debate, with a laundry list of requirements, what a pussy

telling morehouse grads that america hates them, vote for me, i love you guys.

'forgiving' student loans, tried it last election, did he deliver? pretty sure that loan 'forgiving' funding ain;t gonna happen. once again, that pesky supreme court

gasoline is still $2/gallon more expensive than when this hair sniffer took office, soooo, lets dump more barrels of strategic reserve oil on the market and hope it pushes gasoline prices down before the election. been there and tried that, didn't work then, won't work now.

suddenly the border is important to hair plugs schumer/biden. schumer, that asshole can see himself loosing his senate power after the gop takes back the senate. now biden is all up in our grill about closing the border. too little too late, where the fvck were you guys 3 yrs ago?

marijuana is now a schedule 1 drug. schedule 1 includes, heroin, lsd, meth, etc. now shit britches is trying to get mj off the shit list and on the misdomener (sp, not looking it up) list. talk about buying young votes.

next hail mary? something to effect mail in votes, like another pandemic.

add to the list biden's inability to read a teleprompter, walk up stairs, or hold a press conference, this guy is toast. a vote for gaffe boy is a vote for KNEEPAD HARRIS. you want that dumb bitch running the country? and side note, who took the bar exam for her, she could never have passed on her own.

djt did press conferences every day for hours as covid was ramping up, and the liberal press tore trump a new asshole every day. not stumble boy, he just can't think fast enough. so, he just gets softballs from cnn and msnbc. he can't answer a hard question.

finally, i remember obama and hilary on cnn or msnbc years ago saying, if you disagree with our policies or opinions, then you are just not smart enough to see we are right. i got a tree, can you get a rope?

ok wokesters, thats blood in the water, what you got?

coming for my guns? come heavy

Nebraska Cornhuskers
* 39-20 overall, 16-8 in the Big Ten Regular Season (second to Illinois)
* Won Big Ten tournament, winning five in a row after being run-ruled their opener
* Making 18th appearance in NCAA Tournament (last appearance 2021)
* Has been to the CWS three times (2001, 2002, 2005)
* They beat Baylor (4-1) and K-State (8-0), but lost to OU (7-6), Texas Tech (6-3), and twice to Kansas (13-11 and 9-4). They split with Wichita State.

On Offense
* Huskers are very balanced offensively, with five regulars batting from .306 to .353. Their lineup seems to be in constant flux with one exception...
* Junior C Josh Caron is the big stick on the team. Hitting in the 3-hole, he's batting just .320, but leads team with 16 HRs, 15 2BLs, 73 Hits, 65 RBI, 45 Runs, and 228 ABs, all far ahead of the rest of the team
* 2B Cayden Brumbaugh hits leadoff most of the time. He's batting .309 with 11 2BLs, 3 3BLs, and 13 SBs in 16 attempts
* RF Case Sanderson bats second. He's batting .340, 5 doubles, a triple, two homers
* 3B Josh Overbeek hits in the 9-hole (sometimes leadoff). He's batting .281 with 9 2BLS and 5 HRs. He's stolen 16 bases in 19 attempts. Second on team in Ks (49 in 206 PA).
* DH Rhett Stokes has the team's highest bat avg. at .353
* SS Dylan Carey hits in the middle of the lineup, but is batting just .251 with 59 Ks, which leads the team. He and Caron are the only players to have started every game. He leads the team with 17 doubles and has added 7 bombs.
* Other hitters include Ben Columbus (.307, 7 HRs), Gabe Swansen (.306, 4 HRs), Tyler Stone (.297, 8 HRs), and Cole Evans (.256, 5 HRs, 41 RBI)
* Their stats say CF Riley Silva is batting .266, but he's been hit by pitch 26 times - yes, 26! - and walked 24 times, and has a OB% of .416 (second on the team). He also has 31 stolen bases in 34 attempts and has 16 SACs. You'd think he'd been hitting leadoff, but nope

Pitching
* This seems to be the strength of the Huskers. They have a lot of pitching depth, which helped them come through the loser's bracket of the BiG tourney.
* The Huskers have four pitchers with double digit starts and another who has six starts under his belt, including a complete game.
* They have a 4.40 team ERA, which these days in college baseball is pretty impressive (OSU's is 4.06).
* Their starting four do not give up many free passes, just 69 in 281 innings.

* Their ace is Brett Sears, a senior right-hander who is 9-0 with a 2.00 ERA in 15 starts.
* He's the Big Ten Pitcher of the Year.
* Opponents are batting just .176 against Sears. He has 97 Ks and and just 22 BBs in 99 innings pitched (better than 4-1 K-to-BB ratio)
* Sears got the save in the Big Ten tournament championship game in his only relief appearance of the year
* You gotta think he'll be the starter against Florida on Friday for the Huskers

* Soph. RH Mason McConnaughey is 8-3 with a 3,09 ERA - which is alright, alright, alright! He's struck out 81 and walked 23 in 67 innings. Teams are batting .242 off of him.
* Drew Christo, a junior right-hander, is 3-3 with a 4.63 ERA. Opponents are batting just .221 off of him. He's made 10 starts and 16 appearances.
* Junior southpaw Will Wash is 5-4 with 10 starts and 14 app. and has a 5.06 ERA. He's walked just 10 batters in over 58 innings. Teams are batting .300 against him and he's given up 10 bombs.
* Their fifth starter is Jackson Brockett (3-2, 3.57 ERA, 35 IP, 12 A, 6 S), who they started against Ohio St. in their first round game of the BiG tourney and got burned (they lost 17-2 to Ohio St.).
* The four starters are also used in relief a lot (15 relief appearances between the four)
* Primary relievers who do not start appear to be LH Jalen Worthley (3-0, 3.94 ERA, 4 saves, 32 IP), Casey Daiss (0-2, 4.15 ERA, 5 saves, 21 IP), and LH Caleb Clark (1-0, 7.92 ERA, 30IP)

Summary
* Much like Florida and Niagara, Nebraska has one guy who you can not let beat you - Josh Caron. Behind him, they have a balanced attack. They average about 7 runs a game.
* I like the fact that they'll probably use Sears in the opener against Florida. I don't think their coach will try to hold him back like they tried to do in the BiG tourney and got burned.

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Niagara Purple Eagles
* Went 38-15 overall and 20-4 in Mid-American Athletic Conference (MAAC) (runner-up to Fairfield)
* Won the MAAC tournament championship as the No. 2 seed, upsetting Fairfield in the championship game to get the automatic bid.
* They have won 8 games in a row (which includes going 3-0 in the MAAC tournament)
* This will be Niagara's first trip ever to the NCAA tournament.

Highlights of schedule:
* Swept by UNC-Ashville
* Lost 2 of 3 to Queens University
* Lost 2 of 3 to Fairfield (during conference schedule)
* Split with James Madison (who is in the tournament)
* Lost 2 of 3 to Michigan State (only Power 5 team on their schedule)
* Lost twice to Le Moyne

When on offense
Niagara has six regulars batting over .300. They have FIVE left-handed sticks in their lineup.
* Niagara is led by Eric Rataczak, their left-handed hitting first baseman who bats third in their lineup and is a RS Junior.
He leads the Purple Eagles in just about every offensive category, including batting average (.402 ), home runs (16), doubles (14), runs batted in (67), runs scored (57), HBPs (8), as well as at-bats, OPS, Slug %, and OB%. He's only struck out 23 times in 252 plate appearances.
* Nick Groves is their left-handed hitting sophomore leadoff hitter and CF. He's hitting .326 with 12 2BLs and 3 HRs. He has stole 19 bases in 25 chances.
* Brady Desjardins is a junior SS and right-handed stick who normally bats second in the lineup. He's hitting .316 with 12 doubles and 6 home runs. He leads the team in walks with 38 BBs and has stolen 6 bases.
* Gavin Schrader is another lefty stick. He is their sophomore cleanup hitter and normally the DH. He's hitting .314. He is second on the team to Rataczak in doubles (13), home runs (9), RBI (47), runs scored (54), OPS (.943), and SLG% (.524).
* Nick Monile is a left-handed hitting freshman outfielder who bats ninth, but is second on the team in batting average at .340. He has 4 doubles, 2 triples, and 3 home runs. He also has 9 steals on 10 attempts.
* Rees Kozar (FR., RF, .309, 8 HR), Matt Ward (SR., C., .286, 4 HR), Kelly Corl (SR, 2B, .284, 4 HR), and Vincent Mauro (JR., 3B, .269, 6 HR, lefty) round out their lineup.

Pitching
The Niagara starting pitching leaves a lot to be desired. Their three main starters are:
* Maximilian (gotta love the name) Ramirez (4-5, 15 starts, 6.38 ERA, 55 IP, 1.93 WHIP)
* Preston Prince (0-1, 10 starts, 4.95 ERA, 36 IP, 1.90 WHIP)
* Gage Wheaton (0-1, 9 starts, 5.82 ERA, 38 IP, 1.81 WHIP)

All three have had issues with walks. Ramirez 43 BB in 55 IP, Prince 39 in 36, and Wheaton 41 in 38.

Only one other pitcher (Brady Kobitowich, 0-1, 5 starts, 9.00 ERA) has more than 3 starts on the bump.

But the Niagara bullpen has some guys with some nice numbers:
Zach Cameron, Blake MacMillan, Ryan Minckler, Noah Richardson, and Steven Hospital apparently have all stepped up when the starters faltered.

* Cameron is 8-1 with a 2.95 ERA and has 55 IP - all in relief - to tie Ramirez in that category. He has a 1.11 whip (that's very good) with 11 saves.
* MacMillan has just two starts and five total appearances in just 12 innings, but has an 0.73 ERA and a whip of 0.65, having given up just 4 walks and 4 hits.
....He actually started and went 4 1/3 in the MAAC championship game against Fairfield.
* Minckler is 6-1 in 19 relief appearances (no starts). He has a 3.83 ERA in 49 1/3 innings pitched.
* Richardson is 7-0 in 26 relief appearances (no starts). He's struck out 55 in just 31 innings and has a 4.94 ERA, but he also has surrendered 29 walks in those 31 innings.
* Hospital is 2-2 with a 4.30 ERA in 25 appearances (3 starts) and has thrown 37 2/3 innings.

That's a bullpen that has three guys that have more innings this season than two of the starts and have a collective record of 23-4.

Summary
* Like many #4 seeds, Niagara comes in hot with an upset win of their conference tournament. We can't sleep on them.
* That being said, we got a really nice first-round draw (versus someone like the good DBU or ORU squads we've faced in the first round in the past)
* They faced - and lost to - a lot of mediocre to bad teams. Jump on them quick and make them feel like they don't belong on the same field with us.
* Rataczak has outstanding numbers and you can't let him beat you.
* Between Rataczak and Joc Caglianone of Florida (.415 with 29 bombs, expected to be one of the top picks in the draft), you have two of the elite hitters in the whole NCAA tournament.
* Between Caglianone and Benge, you have perhaps the two top two-way players in the nation.
* It would behoove OSU to jump on whoever the starter is for Niagara and get into their pen quick and force them to have to extend it.
* As mentioned by others, with five lefties in the lineup, going with Garcia in the opener makes a lot of sense.
* With Benge stepping up at No. 3, you don't feel like you have to hold back on using Garcia and Holiday in the opening round as an overwhelming favorite.


I'll try to do a scouting report on Nebraska and Florida later.

Across from Clemson. Niagara 4, Florida 3, Nebraska 2

That if you’re Jewish no matter where in the world you are from you can obtain Israeli citizenship by asking for it? If that’s true what would be the Zionist reaction if 50,000 Iranian Muslims declared they are converting to Judaism and want to immigrate to Israel immediately?

Well, on second thought maybe not.

Hope I'm wrong, but expect to get screwed by the committee. Guess I'm glad we finished on a roll and are hosting at all.