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818SUDSFan

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  1. ACB's concurrence was odd. It seems she agreed with the three "liberals" that a portion of what was said by the five MAGATS, er Republicans. bordered on being ultra vires. However, she also seems to have ridiculed the three libs for being unnecessarily critical of the Repubs. Alito and Uncle Thomas would probably love to get a chance to hold Mr. Grumpy immune from prosecution but my guess is Roberts, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and AVB are hoping against hope they never have to decide that issue.
  2. corruption: dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery A $65,000 donation would be a big deal if the public office involved was for the chief executive of some podunk city of less than 50,000 people. However, it's the governor of the most populous state in the country we're talking about. Newsom had $25,000,000 by February 2022. https://politicalwire.com/2022/02/02/gavin-newsom-rebuilds-war-chest/ By my admittedly shorthand calculation, the Pinera Bread guy therefore appears to have donated approximately 3/100ths of 1% of Newsom's campaign fund. Do you really think Newsom could be bribed for such a pittance?
  3. Sorry you didn't understand. My TIC premise was that Cal athletics have become so destitute that when the ACC loses its four most valuable members to the SEC and the B1G by the end of the decade, unlike Stanford it will be unable to continue sending its teams back East to a conference which will then have only half as much TV revenue (of which Cal and Stanford will receive only 30% of a full share). So assuming that happens would Cal then join the Pac-whatever? Or would the Pac-whatever even want Cal? Since there is no easy answer to either question, I opined Cal should in that event just drop down to the FCS level to discontinue the financial sieve that FBS football has created and form a Western version of the Ivy League to largely include other UC schools. Thanks for your support of the Aztecs.
  4. Sorry. I was just trying to explain my interest in and disappointment with Cal.
  5. With due respect, you're taking this much too seriously. Everything I've said is a TIC dig at Cal football which is a total embarrassment to my dad and other alumni. Dad got his MBA there the last year Cal went to the Rose Bowl, which was 1958 and IIRC, Cal's athletic department is now something like $177M in arrears. Cal may still be a large public school with top-notch academics but it no longer belongs in an FBS conference.
  6. Lol. Have you ever seen the Claremont football stadium? It's smaller than any community college stadium I've ever been to. I just checked and their highest attendance in 2023 was less than 1,900 and that was probably standing room only. Caltech? Caltech dropped football after the 1993 season in which it lost to the University of San Diego's JV teams and others of that ilk by a cumulative score of 229-25.
  7. You mean the guy donated a whopping $65K to Newsom's campaign? With due respect, in California, 65 grand wouldn't even get you a one-car garage next to a toxic waste dump.
  8. I call bullshit. The Donald Trump we all know and love would never do anything like that.
  9. Major depression is a terrible illness. I'll be pulling for the young man to be able to overcome it.
  10. You know that and I know that and many others here know that. However, news doesn't travel very fast in that other guy's neck of the backwoods.
  11. With due respect, since that site appears to completely fail to control for such variables as the quality of competition, that metric seems next to worthless. And see this: https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/teamrankings.com
  12. Only if the top half of the current MWC membership first bails.
  13. She was apparently raised Jewish but Kanye, aka Ye (lol!), has supposedly helped her see the light about her own people.
  14. And shouldn't be necessary if we provide them with the necessary weapons. https://www.voanews.com/a/professional-soldiers-from-colombia-volunteer-in-ukraine/7481205.html
  15. Get it right, my friend. When it comes to football, it's UMESS.
  16. Norway, which is a wealthy country, has been giving the equivalent of 1.7% of its GDP to Ukraine and see how much even the unwealthy Baltic countries, Poland, etc. have been giving: https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/ This is no time to allow a POS like Putin to gain military and political momentum.
  17. If additional GOP members of the House would join 22 of their peers in growing a pair and rejecting Trump's ignoramus position on additional funding for Ukraine, the recent success of Mr. Grumpy's butt buddy Putin would turn around rapidly with no need for NATO troops.
  18. Putin has supposedly been prosecuting this war with a greater and greater proportion of conscripts. Having to resort to that was maybe the main reason the Soviet Union gave up on Afghanistan. I don't disagree with you on Ukraine ever getting Crimea back. However, if the GD House Republicans would allow passage of a funding bill before it's too late to allow Ukraine to negate Russia's current air superiority, Ukraine can continue to fight Russia's highly overrated army to a standstill and eventually a peace treaty can be effectuated. Putin will never admit it but such an agreement is a loss for him and he might actually be overthrown in a few years.
  19. The B1G might not be as uppity as the Pac-12 was, but it's plenty uppity. As such, there's no way the B1G would ever want a red neck military school like A&M.
  20. Not overturned but the damages will be reduced significantly giving Mr. Grumpy what everyone except his base will see as simply another Pyhhric victory.
  21. Agreed To put it another way, he looks like Make Johnson.
  22. Donald Trump + South Carolina: = A match made in heaven
  23. Ya think? You Lobos with one of the 3 or so best fan bases in the conference deserve better than Richard Pitino. Whatcha think the chances are of you getting Alford back?
  24. That point makes some sense but neither of those flagship universities has academics even as good as SDSU's. Hell, maybe Cal would want to fill those last two slots with Land Grants that Cal long partnered with: OSU and WSU. Both are much closer to Berkeley than Honolulu is.
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