Bragg is leaving
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This kid looks a lot like Bragg, but way better handles and he plays without thinking.
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)This kid will be an Oubre type player.
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@KUSTEVE said:
but to repeat the scurrilous suggestion that Israel had anything to do with poisoning innocent children in Syria is ridiculous, and as irrational an idea as I’ve ever heard.
That is a ridiculous (scurrilous?) mischaracterization of my remarks and thinking.
But since you are not usually this way I will take the trouble to clarify.
Israel didn’t do it.
There are many suspects.
I hypothesize it, and this category of events, was the work of a large global organized crime organization that has insinuated itself into many of the state governments, militaries and certain major corporations. I suspect something much bigger than what Ian Fleming once anticipated (and warned of) in spy fiction may have come to pass.
It would be kind of like what some call a Deep State, except that it would be a globalized Deep State insinuated into many elements of governance, force structure and commerce. what some once called a Meta Crime Cartel has perhaps metasticized into a hydra headed entity inside and outside governments, militaries, corporations and terrorist organizations. And it’s gotten way more control than any crime organization has ever acquired before
It appears to plague USA, UK, the Crown, the Vatican, Russia, China, and probably most of the major states and organizations of the world.
So: Israel didn’t do it anymore than USA, UK, Russia, China and Syria did it.
Fleming apparently knew how the world really worked and he apparently wrote fictions about what kinds of dangers could conceivably emerge one day, based on extrapolations and inflations of past threats, as surely as George Orwell did.
Flemming’s vision and Orwell’s vision may turn out to have been co-evolutionary.
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@jaybate-1.0 I didn’t understand your reference to Israel, obviously. I took my post down.
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Thanks. I reread my own post and saw how you could have drawn the conclusion you did.
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@jaybate-1.0 I should’ve asked before jumping to conclusions. I should know better. My apologies.
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The main thing is for the authorities to find those responsible for this sort of agent provocateur event, or whatever it turns out to be categorized, and they need to be brought to justice by trial. We are at the time before Hammurabi’s code concerning terrorism. Rule of law has to be imposed on this stuff generally, however else we choose to respond . I’m not saying I’m categorically opposed to retaliation, but it’s not enough. we are descending into barbarism relying solely on retaliation, counter terrorism and torture. Revenge is NOT justice. The various cultures of the world all recognize this. Bottom line is: if all a culture and state can deliver its citizens is revenge, individuals don’t need culture, or states. Revenge we can do without government.
Revenge is not working.
Culture we need.
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@jaybate-1.0 Exxon on the uptick yesterday. Reminds me of Dick Cheney’s former workplace, the billions reaped from reconstruction in Iraq.
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@REHawk said:
the billions reaped from reconstruction in Iraq
Suggested edit: …the billions stolen from alleged “reconstruction” in Iraq…
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How about just sticking to the topic of this thread and take the political crap elsewhere?
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@jaybate-1.0 It was a false flag designed to draw up hatred towards Assad, in order to overthrow him, and advance the Islamic Caliphate, imo. The Globalists must have their war. I would advise all citizens of Damascus to get the heck out of there while there is still time.
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@brooksmd I’m sorry.
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RODNEY…my favorite comedian…
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@brooksmd Fair enough. Please send me a note of deconflict if you plan to send missiles. Just so I can move and hide my half dozen toxic Jayhawk t-shirts and a couple of KU caps somewhere off and away into the heart of my remote 30 Ozark acres before photos of them burning might be released on Fox “news.”
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@brooksmd said:
How about just sticking to the topic of this thread and take the political crap elsewhere?
Sorry for having jumped in to the off-topic.
Hmmm…are you wishing you had kept to your plan to stay out of the basketball section until Late Night?
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@mayjay Good Friend, NEVER GIVE A INCH!
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It will be interesting to see who we sign in this late recruiting period. If I’m correct with JJ, BIFM. LL and Bragg out of the mix, if everyone else stays doesn’t that leave us with two Scholarship(counting our 2 signees)? Rivals shows us as the only school to offer Jusiton at this point so you’d think he’s a shoe-in at this point but Duval seems to not be on board if DG stays. We will know a ton more in a few weeks.
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@kjayhawks Evans too, right?
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@jaybate-1.0 said:
Hey, maybe Carlton can join Conner at WSU!!!
Just kidding, I hope.
Shame on you! Give yourself a time out right now young man!
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Enjoyed your post. Solid view of the situation. Touched on my “old school” background where you always grind it out and struggling is actually your biggest opportunity to improve. IMO, that is the only reason UNC won the NC this year. It was their “redemption season” and redeem they did.
I appreciate that you challenged a thought in here and you don’t post often. I think many people in here are a bit intimidated to post a challenge since they haven’t built a huge rep in here. We really need more people voicing out in here… so THANK YOU for contributing!
It does seem like we have all been left in the dark about Carlton… there is more to the story than we all know.
I’m like many… and I’ll miss his monster smile and the dream of seeing him reach higher levels of play. Guess it just wasn’t met to be.
I think we also realize Carlton is young and needs to do some growing up. Perhaps a move is what he needs. Hard to say with the limited knowledge we know.
But I like your idea of “sticking it out.” Lots of KU players in the past had a rough time at first but they stuck it out and ended up having monster careers.
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I wonder if a red-shirt year is what Bragg needs? (It might have worked at KU if he’d been given the option.) It will give him one whole year to get his life straight. It will give him one whole year to focus on school and how to be a self sufficient adult without gameday pressure. Yes he will still practice, but without the pressure of gameday.
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@drgnslayr If it were only basketball, I would agree that Bragg should just stick it out. But the off-court issues have probably made him feel like a marked man. Socially awkward at best for his last 2 years of college, and likely in the crosshairs of the L PD, not to mention likely being on permanent probation with the coaches and the school.
And then, too, we don’t know how much his teammates actually want him around after his season ended with him not playing vs Ore despite our desperate need for inside help. This might be the biggest unknown.
All in all, leaving gives him a good chance to just go forward. Having to prove no more than any transfer. I say, let the kid have a new chance for college to be fun.
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@mayjay thinking discipline more than fun!
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Totally agree. Plus… I really think he will benefit by sitting a year. Great chance for him to work on his game while learning the new system in place.
Yes… I can see the possibility of him feeling like a “marked man.”
I wonder if he saw the writing on the wall when we signed Billy. Billy appears to be a stepped-up version of Carlton. And with Doke coming back, it looks like we have two very similar players fighting for minutes at the 4… a position we already know can sometimes do us better by using a tall guard at the spot.
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@dylans I hope it works out for him. Personally I’m sad to see him go. He wasn’t a dick at KU. Not a thug, not a bad influence. He just didn’t fit in Self’s system and he made some bad errors in judgement but I cant hold that against him because who doesn’t do that when they are in college?
