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Kentucky loses everyone to draft

Slow down chief. IU was sanctioned for recruiting violations like five years ago.

Now back to the more interesting tangent.
 
P4nthers11 said:
Hilarious turn of events. Mad respect for the volunteering. Though to stand up for the millenials and assuming you are a doctor, did you begin your volunteering at a point in your life in which you were relatively financially secure? That doesn't take anything away from you if you were as there are tons of doctors that do not do anything close to what you have done, but in my cynical experience I've noticed that of the people in my age cohort (late 20s) who are traveling the world volunteering or in the peace corps. or working in sustainability for NGOs-- a lot of them come from family money and it is interesting how that can give someone the freedom to follow their urge to help others.
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P4nhters, thanks for the kind words. I neither came for money, nor waited until I was financially secure to start volunteering. I have to credit my parents for that, though. My parents have always been involved in community projects and service, so that was my example from an early age. Yes, I am a doctor now, and that upbrining made getting into med school much easier. I didn't have to cram in a bunch of volunteering in college to beef up my app. I had been doing it along because it was just expected in my family.
When I moved to Central America for that year I had almost no money (wasn't a doctor yet). I slept on the floor of a future colleague for the first 5 weeks. I wasn't sure if my money would last until I could start making some to get by. My parents have donated funds to some of the projects I have been involved in and even helped support some folks that wanted to assist, but they have never funded me working abroad. That actually made my experience that much better. Again, I lived very humbly and primarily on rice and beans for a long time. I recall having one of the homeless kids asking me for money in downtown San Jose, Costa Rica. He asked for a couple hundred colones to buy some fried chicken and offered to let me watch him eat so I knew it was for food. My response, "you eat fried chicken, I can't afford fried chicken?!?" That's when I realized the homeless kids were eating better than me. :p
I appreciate your defense of millenials. I don't expect everyone to do what I do, and don't think any less of those that don't. We can all contribute in very different ways. My point wasn't to put down millenials (I hope that is clear). It was to put a worthless little shit in his place. I readily admit that I have gotten a lot out of this and love it. That said, it doesn't get any easier to volunteer once you are established and financially secure. That only brings more responsibility and commitments that get in the way. It is getting harder to leave family to do this work or even just commit so much time at home with planning and administration that I could spend with my wife. Fortunately, she really values what I do and understands and supports.
 
Tobacco Road said:
Good for you. That sounds like a great service, and exactly the type of thing I was asking about.
My investment is a bit more. Based on a path that began volunteering to provide medical services to local migrant workers I saw a bigger need. A decade ago I put my life here on hold and moved to Central America for a year. I worked with a non-profit that was primarily providing medical and public health resources to Nicaraguan populations where resources and access were very limited. This also included working with Nicaraguan settlements in Costa Rica where those that had become Costa Rican citizens would still have difficulty receiving the basic medical care to which they were entitled through the socialized medical system. I would come to find out that sometimes they would not be given appropriate therapy for very basic and treatable medical issues because the local Costa Rican doctors didn’t think they were smart or reliable enough to follow directions. That is a level of prejudice many of us do not witness very often in this country. In addition to directly treating patients, we also helped provide education and resources to improve the quality/safety of their drinking water and other measures like building chimneys for their wood-burning stoves. The smoke in the home causes chronic lung and eye issues.

This led to (volunteer) leadership roles with 2 additional international non-profits in Central America. In the decade since, I have continued this commitment returning to volunteer 10-30 days every year in these underserved communities in Central America. None of this is very glamorous and typically involves very humble living conditions. It has been quite a rewarding experience and I have gotten a lot more out of it than I could ever put in. I look forward to raising my kids with the opportunity to spend parts of their childhoods in these communities to help shape their world view and appreciation for other cultures (and hopefully plant a seed of service in them). So, I am not who you would like to frame me as being. My life and actions tell quite a different story. An intolerant person whose decisions are driven by their prejudice doesn’t offer up as much as I have to live and work within another culture like I have. He would not value the immersion in another culture like I have. And I have given more than time and labor. Financially, I am well in to 6 figures. Other than my honeymoon, I haven’t taken a vacation in a several years so that I can dedicate my time away from my paying job to these projects. We have made dramatic impacts on local communities and a couple orphanages. We have even built a fully functional hospital run by local doctors and nurses, where before there was only a small outpost for a rotating doctor to come every couple weeks.

So, to have a little twit like you, whose actions are so quiet relative to his verbal accusations and arrogance, say that my prejudice is “the problem” is laughable.
Don’t be too down on yourself. We do need loud voices making it clear that it is no longer acceptable in our society to discriminate against or marginalize people for the color of their skin, their gender or even their sexual orientation. But let’s be clear, that is what your primary contribution is….talk.

If you weren’t so quick to expect your ethical supremacy over everyone else you might notice a lot more people doing good things. It might even open up opportunities for you to join in and get off your ass more than one day every other year. So, yes, I will keep “doing me”. At least doing me is actually DOING something. Based on our tangible accomplishments, I think it is working out fantastic. You keep talking and convincing yourself the rest of us are the problem.
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Made it legible.
 
I'm an alum.
eta: Thanks to loki. Sorry, that was a stream of consciousness that I just wanted to through. Didn't take the time to edit for readability.
 
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BTB said:
This thread is a serious waste of a perfectly good opportunity to gratuitously bash Calipari, his program and the morally bankrupt fan base that is BBN.
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Creaning

Creaning
The practice of pulling a scholarship from a college athlete(s) in order to open up a scholarship for a more highly valued recruit.

"With all the Creaning going on at IU, it might turn players off from going there."
 
Tobacco Road said:
I'm an alum.
eta: Thanks to loki. Sorry, that was a stream of consciousness that I just wanted to through. Didn't take the time to edit for readability.
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Kudos on the path you have chosen in life. You remind me of my roommate at Wake. He was a physics major at Wake but was miserable working for an oil company after graduating. I sent him an article on a relative of Stanley Livingston doing geology research in Malawi Africa so he quit his job, joined the graduate program, and went to Malawi. When the the boat captain for the project quit, Jim quit the graduate program and became the captain and stayed in Africa when the project ended. He met and married a Peace corp volunteer and has spent the last 20 years in Malawi coordinating water and sewer projects for rural African villages. His wife is a nurse and runs the medical clinic in Mzuzu and they have adopted 6 African orphans, three sets of twins. I respect and admire both of you for your service to humanity.
 
I'm just checking back on this thread but has it been established that someone has contributed more to those of a different race than someone else who has 60,000+ posts on the message board and calls out others for being racist? Fascinating.
 
Tobacco Road going way out of his way to defend a dumb Liquid Karma post. I don't get it.
 
I'm glad we have now adequately compared our dicks.

YO mdmh - are the Harrison twins gonna get drafted? What do they know that we don't?
 
Strickland33 said:
I'm glad we have now adequately compared our dicks.

YO mdmh - are the Harrison twins gonna get drafted? What do they know that we don't?
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I think Andrew goes late 1st or early 2nd. The lack of euro stash picks in this draft probably gives him first round value. I think Aaron goes mid to late 2nd, but if he doesn't shoot well in his workouts he probably goes undrafted. Both guys could stay and be great college players, but they've maxed out their athletic potential and won't ever have higher draft stock, so it's not worth the injury risk.
 
I think I'm just gonna copy Tobacco's kill shot post and reply with it to dv7 no matter what the topic - that's assuming he ever shows up again.
 
EagleDeac said:
I think I'm just gonna copy Tobacco's kill shot post and reply with it to dv7 no matter what the topic - that's assuming he ever shows up again.
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Y'all have a weird sense of kill shot.
 
EagleDeac said:
I think I'm just gonna copy Tobacco's kill shot post and reply with it to dv7 no matter what the topic - that's assuming he ever shows up again.
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Why wouldn't I?

I'm glad TR does such great things with his time. I didn't list the only thing I do with mine to help those less fortunate than myself. Nor will I now because I don't do those things to brag about them on the internet. I do them because I think they are the right thing to do.
 
deacvision7 said:
Why wouldn't I?

I'm glad TR does such great things with his time. I didn't list the only thing I do with mine to help those less fortunate than myself. Nor will I now because I don't do those things to brag about them on the internet. I do them because I think they are the right thing to do.
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And on the third day after his tobacco-roading, he rose from the dead. The Prophesy has been fulfilled!
 
Biggest charitable thing dv7 has done recently has been to create these boards that your old grumpy ass is posting on, so dv7 has affected everyone's life on this board more than anyone else. Charity for the rich and white is where it's at!
 
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