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    Charlie Kirk Part IV

    Debate away...
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    Hawley Proposal re: Congress Holding and/or Trading Marketable Securities

    I'm on record here several times saying that members of Congress and employees of a lot of other federal governmental agencies -- pretty much anybody in Congress or in a job that requires Congressional approval -- shouldn't be able to trade stocks, bonds, futures or other marketable securities...
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    Reminder Ahead of Saturday: No Profanity. No Teaser Titles

    TideFans is the best Alabama site on the net, and one of the best boards of any kind. A big part of that is because the rules don't allow behavior that is tolerated elsewhere. Ahead of Saturday's game, a reminder of TideFans rules around profanity and around teaser titles seems in order. No...
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    What's The Best Career Advice You Ever Received?

    We're at the end of the offseason, so I thought I'd ask one more general purpose question: What's the best career advice you ever received? For me, there are two: 1. Never go to your boss with a problem without having at least two proposed solutions in which you've thought through the...
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    WSJ -- "How NCAA Fumbled Control of College Football"

    Article from today's WSJ. If you aren't a subscriber, it'll be behind a paywall. With One Colossal Mistake, the NCAA Lost Control of College Football - WSJ Essentially says that the crucial mistake was in the early 1980s when the NCAA', led by Walter Byers, wouldn't negotiate a settlement...
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    How many times? NO PROFANITY!

    Welp, we didn't make it to preseason practice before somebody couldn't control themselves. Just suspended a long-time member (2001) for 90 days for an attempt to get around the profanity filters with cute use of symbols. How many times do we have to say it, guys? No profanity. Acronyms and...
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    Lesson for Ed Orgeron -- Don't Mess With Karma

    Couldn't decide if this was football or NSNP, but in a close call landed on Football. Either way, it's a lesson in how you should act....though I don't know whether Orgeron has the brain capacity to learn a lesson. Ed Orgeron owes ex-wife $8 million of LSU buyout after Louisiana Supreme Court...
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    New Rowing Coach Named

    Somewhat old news, but I didn't see a thread, so I started this one. Looks like Glenn Putyrae was nudged out the door about a month ago. Had the telling, "leaving to spend more time with family" statement from Putyrae. Kind of like, "pursuing other career opportunities," in the business...
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    SCOTUS -- Surprisingly Unified, and Surprisingly Bi-Partisan

    I have to confess, a factoid at the end of a WSJ editorial caught me off guard. Following up on some surprising unanimous rulings released last week, it said that 45.8% of SCOTUS rulings in the last term were unanimous. Side Note: SCOTUS terms are not on a calendar year. They run from the...
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    Discussion of Gymnastics

    Mrs. Basket Case and I have been to almost all the home meets, and it's been a frustrating year. Our ladies are perfectly capable of scoring with Oklahoma or Florida or anybody. The difference is that they're also maddeningly inconsistent. Last night, we were tied with Florida (#4 in the...
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    What Realistic Changes Would You Make To The CFB Playoff?

    It's the offseason, so I thought I'd throw this out. There's been a lot of quite justified criticism of the College Football Playoff. So if you were benevolent dictator what realistically achievable changes would you make? I say "realistically achievable" in that I personally would prefer 8...
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    Opinions on SofaBaton?

    We have a more traditional home theater system, with several components: Samsung TV, a region-free BluRay, a CD player (with USB capability), turntable and cable. All run through a Bose Acoustimass 6.1 speaker system. Streaming is limited to Netflix and very occasional Amazon Prime. To now...
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    Reminder: Cute Attempts to Circumvent Profanity Filters Are Treated As Profanity

    Hasn't come up as much as it used to, but members who should know better still occasionally post profanity. Just a reminder: Cute attempts to circumvent the profanity filters with numbers and/or symbols are treated just as if you typed the word out. To my mind, they're actually worse because...
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    Are Any Early Entries Going Through Bowl Practice?

    I know they can't actually play, but do we have any early entry players practicing with the team ahead of the Reliaquest Bowl? If so, does anyone know who they are? Just looking forward to a less tumultuous next year.
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    SCOTUS Might Review A Bad Decision From 2005

    Saw this on the Jonathan Turley website -- a really good place to find information distilled into the main points. Eminently Overdue: The Supreme Court Considers New York Case That Could Overturn the Infamous Kelo Decision – JONATHAN TURLEY I've long thought that the 2005 Kelo decision was...
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    Whatever Happened to Brandon Avalos? We Have The Answer

    Couldn't decide if this was Football or NSNP. Went with NSNP because, other than the fact that the subject played at Alabama, football really doesn't factor in much. Some of you may remember Brandon Avalos, a quarterback during the Shula era, and also the stepson of Rodney Orr, owner of...
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    Trump Considers Shrinking or Abolishing Bank Regulation

    According to this article from the WSJ, Trump is considering a material shrinkage of agencies that regulate the country's financial system. Exclusive | Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators - WSJ This is jaw-droppingly dangerous. Without getting into the geeked-out...
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    Guys, We’re Serious. Please Review Sticky On Misuse Of Emoticons

    We’re trying to make the board in general more oriented toward debate, not personal, “I’m rubber, you’re glue,” sorts of junior high inanity. If you disagree with a post, that’s fine. Just say so and state your logic. Don’t use either emoticons or written language to denigrate an opposing...
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    Tommy Tuberville Might Be The Dumbest Senator

    Couldn't decide if this was political or not. Went with politics, not football. Michael Casagrande, a sportswriter for al.com, torches Tuberville's hypocrisy regarding pay-for-play. I actually agree that pay-for-play has to be reformed, have worn my suggested solution into the ground, and...
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    Stop It With The Personal Attacks!

    This issue has been coming up more and more lately, mostly on the Non-Sports Politics and Religion (NSPR) board. In a totally unrelated incident, there's another poster serving a long sentence for a personal attack over there. This new one was on the Football board. A long-time poster has...

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