POLITICAL THREAD

[HymanKaplan]

Just to avoid fly-bys from folks that don't understand sarcasm, I wasn't being serious when I feigned shock over an Ivy League university completely crapping the bed when it comes to dealing with real life.

 

[HeismanWinner]

Yeah the son did it

 

[ScrewDuke1]

How long until Trump is blamed for what happened to Reiner and his wife?

 

[HymanKaplan]

Even for the media, it would be impossible to spin this politically. It was apparently a strictly domestic issue.

 

[JumperJack.]

Unverified.

 

[tls]

My favorite was the Kentucky 1975 win over Indiana

My second most favorite of all games attended in person .. First is 1978 championship game

 

[HeismanWinner]

Riiiiight.

$100 on Mossad claiming Iran.

 

[tls]

I don't think there has ever been a dunk before or after that one where the player seemed to elevate even more just before throwing in down.

Dirk tried to dunk over UL in the regional final in Knoxville instead of holding for the last shot and the Cards ran away from the Cats in OT .. Loved Dirk but that was bonehead

 

[paulcalhoun_rivals397471]

Dirk tried to dunk over UL in the regional final in Knoxville instead of holding for the last shot and the Cards ran away from the Cats in OT .. Loved Dirk but that was bonehead

I remembered him tanking a layup instead of trying to dunk it.

 

[tls]

Tell me you didn't read what I posted AND know nothing about WTC architecture AND are repeating irrelevant talking points without telling me....

Don't get me wrong. I'm impressed you did all that in just one short post. That's remarkable. Clearly been smelling your own flatulence the right way.

"Yes, the World Trade Center towers were engineered to withstand the impact of a large jet."

Neither of the towers were hit by "multiple impacts" and neither were hit by "747s."

- A jet is incapable of the shearing of steel girders witnessed in the crater.
- Jet fuel is incapable of the shearing.
- Jet fuel is also incapable of a sustained high temperature burn. It ignites and reaches temperatures as high as 1700° and then is done.
- There is nothing normally used in an office building/skyscraper that burns to the temperatures necessary to weaken steel girders to the point that they would be cut rather than bent (and even bending them is impossible within the engineered structure at the sustained temps of the fires that day).

In order for a single steel girder to be deformed/bent, they would ALL have to be bent because of the steel reinforced concrete flooring to which they were attached. Were they bent, the building would not have fallen straight down and also not at near freefall speed.

I don't generally talk about it on here because of people's cognitive dissonance and the pointlessness of arguing with people that don't know anything about architectural engineering or metallurgy, and that will never be revealed and truly investigated in this world in my lifetime. But if you want to argue about it, there are a lot more engineers with data and history to back them up that will crush any of your arguments.

Israel did it right? The engineers will tell us, no doubt

 

[HymanKaplan]

Micah Parson, Evan Williams, Zach Toms, and Christian Watson all with devastating injuries today against the Broncos. That makes 40 percent of their starters that have missed all or most of the entire 2025 season due to injuries. That is historically unprecedented in the modern era.

 

[tls]

I remembered him tanking a layup instead of trying to dunk it.

Was there but that was certainly a while ago .. still he was going for a dunk that was blocked by the UL center, Charles something other maybe