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Essentially Flyertalk / Say Something Nice About The Last Poster In This Thread

« on: May 14, 2017, 03:41:42 PM »

Easy to do.
Go! 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Pinball Lessons - Hurry, Slots Are Filling Up Fast!

« on: April 08, 2015, 09:29:29 AM »

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Essentially Flyertalk / Anyone else here been the victim of a major scam?

« on: March 05, 2013, 05:58:21 PM »

Or am I the only one?

I am talking over four grand.

 

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / A Tea Party Invitation to Morgan Freeman

« on: October 07, 2011, 11:28:39 AM »

In case you missed it, Morgan Freeman made some comments a couple of weeks ago in an interview with Piers Morgan on CNN regarding the Tea Party and possible racist motivations in wanting Obama to be a one-term president.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/09/23/piers-morgan-freeman-obama.cnn#/video/bestoftv/2011/09/23/piers-morgan-freeman-obama.cnn

Those comments caused a big stir, and this invitation by Ali Ackbar (a tea party organizer) was I think a very good response to the misconceptions that Freeman has about the movement.  He does a good job of explaining how things have changed dramatically in the South since the days when Freeman was young, and how racism these days is definitely the exception and not the rule.   

http://teapartybrew.com/opinion/2011/09/a-tea-party-invitation-to-morgan-freeman/

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / K-State Team Wins International Competition

« on: July 15, 2011, 09:33:35 PM »

Sorry to clutter up the board with another K-State championship thread and all.....

http://www.gardneredge.com/news/2011/07/01/4391-k-state-agricultural-economics-graduate-students-win-international-case-study-competition

 

 

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Essentially Flyertalk / KU Employee Turns Out to be a Serial Killer

« on: June 13, 2011, 10:04:09 PM »

http://www.kake.com/news/headlines/121812654.html

This guy (Brett Seacat) was an instructor at the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center in Hutchinson (a branch of Kansas University) and employed there since 2008.  Back in 2002 he was a defendant in a wrongful death suit when he was a police officer in Wichita.  What happened was a prisoner was being taken into the jail for processing on a DUI charge.  The guy had his arms handcuffed behind his back.  Seacat gets pissed off and slams him up against the concrete wall so hard that his head cracked open and he ends up dying in the hospital.  Unfortunately the guy's family was too poor to continue with the wrongful death suit after spending $13,000 on it, and it ends up getting dismissed.

So fast forward to April 30 of this year.  Seacat is married with two small kids.  The marriage is crumbling.  His wife files for divorce and serves him with divorce papers.  Unfortunately she still allowed him to sleep on the couch until he could find other living arrangements.  Two days later in the middle of the night he shoots her in the head and starts the house on fire.  He makes it out of the house with the two kids and of course he leaves her body in there to get burned hoping the fire will cover up the evidence. 

Shouldn't be a big surprise that a KU employee could turn out to be a serial killer, but the thing is I actually knew this guy growing up and used to ride the school bus with him.   

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Hitler's Take on Mizzou's New Coach

« on: April 06, 2011, 12:19:56 AM »

Pure gold from Tigerboard:



 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Our Next Head Coach.....

« on: March 21, 2011, 11:50:53 AM »

So Dreamy   

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Lady Cats are an 8 Seed

« on: March 14, 2011, 07:00:27 PM »

Knock off Purdue and then get a shot at UConn!   

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / I think she is STILL EMAW to the core

« on: March 13, 2011, 09:41:50 PM »

http://www.bracketography.com/selection-committee/

 

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Kansas State Football / LHC Bill Snyder Honored With FBI Director's Award

« on: January 19, 2011, 06:47:43 PM »

I love our coach.   At least he's been spending his time on something worthwhile.  Mixed emotions here actually.               

http://www.wibw.com/sports/ncaakstate/K-States_Snyder_Honored_With_FBI_Directors_Award_113310829.html

Through the leadership of Snyder, more than 250,000 Child I.D. kits were distributed to kindergarten and first grade students throughout the state of Kansas. Coach Snyder raised the funds to make the distribution of the I.D. kits possible as well as arranging press conferences and helping the FBI get connected to schools for the distribution.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Asprilla off the team

« on: January 15, 2011, 11:21:18 AM »

 

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Kansas State Football / Carson Won The Game For Us!

« on: September 25, 2010, 04:14:53 PM »

All you haterz can GTFOOMF!

 

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Excellent Article About Obama Fracking Up The Economy

« on: September 03, 2010, 08:57:25 PM »

By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/the-stimulus-kicks-in-higher-unemployment/

In our book 2010: Take Back America – A Battle Plan, we write:

“The prospect we now face is not the intermittent up-and-down fluctuations of unemployment we have had since the Great Depression. Thanks to Obama’s policies, we’re confronting the possibility of an unemployment rate that never comes down, just as they have in Europe. If we stay on Obama’s course, lower joblessness in the United States will be a thing of the past.”

The recent rise in unemployment back up to 9.6% and the loss of 54,000 jobs in August, suggests that our prediction is – dismally – coming true.

The Obama stimulus plan has finally kicked in: The higher spending he brought to our nation and the debt levels that are accompanying it are the result.

Why is unemployment remaining so high? Because the totality of Obama’s policies are dragging us into a depression.

• The prospect of dramatically higher taxes next year is freezing consumer spending, particularly in the upper income ranges which spend a third of America’s consumption.

• The huge changes that are looming in medical care brought about by Obama’s health care legislation are freezing new employment and expansion in the medical sector which accounts for 16% of GDP.

• The financial reform legislation has so raised the prospect of a federal takeover of any bank that makes “imprudent” loans that financial institutions are afraid to lend, freezing new job creation.

• The looming possibility of cap-and-tax legislation in the name of halting climate change is freezing any expansion in the manufacturing and energy sectors since these policies will force jobs to move overseas to locations that do not impose such a tax (e.g. India and China).

• The massive expansion in the deficit and in the resulting debt has so eroded confidence in our nation’s future that Americans are now saving 6% of their income, up from 1% in the past, sapping consumer spending.

• The threat of new rules for union elections that will spread private sector unionization is freezing business expansion plans.

Obama’s rush to spend, regulate, re-engineer, redistribute, and tax have stopped any recovery and are sending us back into recession.

In her wonderful book The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes notes how FDR’s policies in the late 1930s did the same thing. She notes how the imposition of the Social Security tax in 1937 (benefits did not start until 1941) and the rapid wage hikes that accompanied the passage of the Wagner Act (steel worker wages rose 40% in 1937) sent a recovering nation back into a new depression that lasted until the war started in 1939.

In his haste to re-make America and to bring us the “fundamental change” he promised as he campaigned for president in 2008, Obama has torpedoed the recovery and sent us back into a double dip recession.

The answer is to cut spending back to pre-Obama levels, reduce taxes and eliminate the threat of tax increases, zero fund the changes Obama has legislated in health care (and repeal them in 2013), eliminate the threat of cap-and-tax, and lay the basis for solid economic growth.

We have left the recession that started in 2007 and entered a new recession caused by Obama’s policies.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Jerry Moran or Todd Tiahrt in the U.S. Senate Race?

« on: July 17, 2010, 11:04:06 PM »

I have to admit I am torn on who to vote for in this race because I like both of these guys a lot.  It is a rare phenomenon in politics to have to decide between two outstanding candidates such as this, and it pains me that I can't vote for both of them.  But I guess that's a good problem to have, especially since the winner of this primary will likely be the de facto winner of the general election in November and very well could occupy this senate seat for the rest of their career.  There is virtually no substantive difference between the two in terms of their stance on the issues and voting records.  Tiahrt is viewed more as a "movement" conservative and Moran more as an "establishment" republican.  In reality, they are not far apart.  I just hope the people that fill their respective vacated house seats are half as good as these guys were.  Any compelling reasons for me to vote for one over the other?  (I honestly have not made up my mind yet.)

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Kansas State Football / Buffs Might Be Good This Year!

« on: June 29, 2010, 10:44:30 PM »

'Tis the season for optimism, folks.  Even for Buff fans.

You know, I am actually starting to come around to the possibility that we won't suck this year.

Maybe it's the Lexipro starting to kick in.

Or maybe this program has been kicked and screwed long enough, that
finally it will be time to catch a 5th down type of break. Maybe this
year when Goodman hits the upright, it will bounce through for three
points. Maybe this year will have a Bronco's circa 1999-2000
experience with injuries...because the last three years have been the
complete antithesis of lucky when it has come to injuries. Maybe in
CU's last year in the Big Twelve, we will be the team that benefits
from slop-ass broken play hail mary passes, rather than getting beat
by them. Maybe Nebraska will miss a chip shot field goal and we will
win in OT, rather than the other way around. Maybe an attractive
co-ed will go to a recruiting party and actually have nice things to
say about her school to a recruit, convincing him with positives,
rather than getting drunk and going down on one guy while another guy
does her from behind, then suddenly deciding that she could use this
to become famous and wealthy.

21 out of 22 recruits have qualified, and the 22nd is still a
possibility. Even the juco guys have made it this year. Maybe
Simmons will get his waiver, because maybe the people who decide such
things will grow some humanity, and actually hear his story. Maybe he
will prosper under a position coach not named Dan.

Maybe we can win despite the mental midget hawk. Maybe there are
enough people associated with the program....players, asst. coaches,
fans....who are sick and f-ing tired of being a laughing stock in
college football, that they rise up and give it everything they have
for a season. There is finally some decent Junior and Senior
leadership on the team...finally some units who have played together
for more than a couple of games....and finally some consistent speed,
size and athleticism on both sides of the ball.

Maybe this nightmare is FINALLY going to end, and end in a very big way.

Or....maybe the Lexipro is starting to kick in....

 

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Essentially Flyertalk / I Finally Found Something I'm Above Average At

« on: April 24, 2010, 09:42:32 PM »

On average, a person produces about half a liter of fart gas per day, distributed over an average of about fourteen daily farts.

I'm more of a 20-25 kinda guy.  


http://www.heptune.com/farts.html

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Lon Kruger to Colorado?

« on: April 13, 2010, 04:52:34 PM »

Per a NetBuffs poster:

According to Bohn, Kruger's people have inquired already. Would be
a homerun.

Different NetBuffs poster not very excited about it, though.

Kruger is a bit on the "fringe", would he stay longer than Bz? Can
he do well with the academic side? He has a KSU/UNLV background, I
think that's dicey, at best.

Me:   

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Clemente the "Cold Assassin"

« on: March 26, 2010, 12:56:03 AM »

Whitlock also admits how wrong he was about Frank:

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/25/1837446/jason-whitlock-k-state-clemente.html