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  1. On 3/4/2024 at 10:21 AM, SalinasSpartan said:

    Just a FYI to people, the entire decision was not “unanimous”, only part of it was. The majority held that Congress has to actually pass legislation to enforce Section 3; ACB, KJB, Sotomayor, and Kagan disagreed on that part of the decision and felt the majority was answering a question that didn’t need to be answered in this case.

    Although in good news, it seems to be implied in the decision that yes, the President is an “officer” of the U.S.

    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. On 3/3/2024 at 3:10 PM, modestobulldog said:

    Oops, my bad. What is the threshold for corruption.

    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. On 3/2/2024 at 8:54 PM, Brew_Poke said:

    So now you want to pivot to football? You and gaucho were talking academics. I'm out until you can figure out what you want to argue about. Good luck in the Dance; I'll be pulling for the 'Tecs, just like last year.

    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.

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  4. On 3/2/2024 at 8:41 AM, Claremont McKenna Bronco said:

    Davis, UCSD, Irvine, and UCSB are great schools. Some are top 10 in the nation in academics for a public school, but they are definitely a tier below Berkley and UCLA for academics. Those four schools aren’t top 10 academically in the state let alone comparable in anyway to an Ivy. Cal Tech, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Stanford, and Harvey Mudd are tier 1 academic prestige in the state. USC, UCLA, and UCB are a close second and can be reasonably argued for tier 1.  Saying that the UC System compares anywhere near an Ivy is embarrassing. It’s cringe when people or publications throw around terms like “public ivy”. 

    The UC schools are some of the best LARGE PUBLIC universities, but no where near the prestige of the smaller Ivy’s, many private universities, or private liberal arts schools/engineering schools.  I will give you the closest thing most UC’s have in common with the Ivy’s is they don’t care about being competitive at a national level in sports. I do believe that not playing FBS football DOES hurt many of the UC’s from a national perspective with ‘Joe Average’ that cares more about the football team then how many people the university is sending to med school a year. 

    *I went to both Claremont McKenna and got my masters at UCD

    ** Didn’t include UCSF due to their narrow focus, no sports, and lack of undergrad population.

    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.

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  5. On 3/1/2024 at 9:32 PM, Brew_Poke said:

    You want to put together west coast "Ivies" and you're not even talking about Claremont Colleges or CalTech. Whatever, bozos.

    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. 

  6. On 2/29/2024 at 8:19 AM, modestobulldog said:

    Anybody else tired of elites not abiding by laws and mandates they foist on others? Seems like Newsom’s buddy at Panera got a nice carve-out exemption to the $20 / hour minimum wage set to go into effect in about a month. Newsom winery gets special treatment during coof mandates and who can forget the French Laundry incident.

    https://www.kcra.com/article/report-california-fast-food-law-panera-newsoms-relationship-with-billionaire-franchisee/60014966

    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.

  7. On 2/29/2024 at 10:31 PM, jdgaucho said:

    UC Berkeley, Davis, Santa Barbara, Irvine and San Diego boast high rankings in research and typically rate well.  They're called "Public Ivies" because they can provide an overall college experience that compares favorably to the Ivy League.  Academics, social life, the whole bit. 

    A new league with those five UCs (and maybe Stanford?) would be as close to a west coast public version of the Ivy League as you can get. Athletically too, with their emphasis in other sports besides basketball.  But it would still need at least two more members to sign up.

    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.

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  8. On 2/29/2024 at 8:53 AM, alum93 said:

    And Liberty took the CUSA invite and played in the Fiesta Bowl this year.  But maybe that MWC invite is in the cards down the road....  Or maybe not. 

    Only if the top half of the current MWC membership first bails.

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  9. On 2/26/2024 at 7:27 PM, crixus said:

    UMASS was a previous football member of the MAC (2012-2015). I'm not positive, but I think they were let go because the MAC wanted them as a full member but UMASS said no?

    Get it right, my friend. When it comes to football, it's UMESS.

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  10. On 2/27/2024 at 12:38 PM, masterfrog said:

    Could they not get their money from other allies?

    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.

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  11. On 2/24/2024 at 1:30 PM, halfmanhalfbronco said:

    Nah.  Ukraine can not win back the territory they lost.  They don't have the men.  Their much anticipated counter offensive was a complete and utter failure.  No aid packages will accomplish anything significant  Their absolute best case scenario is several more years of war as they slowly and inevitably lose territory and men.  Russia probably would have taken a peace deal that ceded them the land 12 months ago.   Doubt Russia would agree to that now, they have all the momentum and more importantly time and bodies.  No reason for Russia to deescalate at this point.  Putin and any successor may as well take it all now over the next decade, it's a formality more or less.

    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.

  12. On 2/24/2024 at 3:08 PM, LetTheFurFly said:

    UNM gets a week off before going to Boise. This loss might be enough to push us out of the regular season title.

    Now we have to take BSU and USU on their home floors to do it. Or possibly tie it.  

    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?

  13. On 2/24/2024 at 2:10 PM, jdgaucho said:

    I'll put it another way @Brew_Poke.

    Currently you need seven full members for a basketball conference.  I don't believe 818's scenario of a Cal-led West coast Ivy League would work without Nevada or Hawaii. There simply aren't enough institutions for Berkeley that are available and acceptable to them in-state, Oregon and Washington. Nevada and Hawaii are state flapships. Much easier to stomach aligning with.

    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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