tcp

Hi Guys,
 
Some of you may remember that you had kindly donated to a cause I'm in a ways back and I wanted to give you a finall update on what your hard-earned charity dollars did and then I will leave this subject alone hopefully for the remainder of my time in this community. I just feel I owe this to you since you guys were decisive to our recent success. 
 
Our mission to DC was a bigger success than we could have hoped .As a result of our efforts, we have managed to get a seat at the Vets Admin table to discuss the plight of chronic pain patients in the VA system and their difficulty obtaining adequate treatment for persistently painful conditions and llnesses. We now have lined up sponsors in both chambers of Congress and are going to proceed with our mission to get the VA to alter it's Opioid Safety Initiative policy to ensure vets that need opioid medications can receive them while safeguarding the health of others as well. 
 
I, personally, will likely be testifying before the Senate and telling my personal story for the first time in public. Maybe I'll get my Al Pacino moment and get to bellow, "I'm put of order?! You're out of order!" Or maybe not. 
 
Anyhow, I can't thank you all enough and of course my friend Cip for facilitating it in the first place. The good lord indeed works in mysterious and unexpected ways. 
 
On behalf of myself, my community, and disabled vets everywhere, I thank you. 
 
*Now* we can get on with hoops and I swear, these guys had better win something while I'm still bloody alive. :)
 
tom
 
 

Hey tcp, since you survived Viet Nam, you'll be around for a long time.  😉 .  Glad everything went well!
 
 

Hi Guys,
 
Some of you may remember that you had kindly donated to a cause I'm in a ways back and I wanted to give you a finall update on what your hard-earned charity dollars did and then I will leave this subject alone hopefully for the remainder of my time in this community. I just feel I owe this to you since you guys were decisive to our recent success. 
 
Our mission to DC was a bigger success than we could have hoped .As a result of our efforts, we have managed to get a seat at the Vets Admin table to discuss the plight of chronic pain patients in the VA system and their difficulty obtaining adequate treatment for persistently painful conditions and llnesses. We now have lined up sponsors in both chambers of Congress and are going to proceed with our mission to get the VA to alter it's Opioid Safety Initiative policy to ensure vets that need opioid medications can receive them while safeguarding the health of others as well. 
 
I, personally, will likely be testifying before the Senate and telling my personal story for the first time in public. Maybe I'll get my Al Pacino moment and get to bellow, "I'm put of order?! You're out of order!" Or maybe not. 
 
Anyhow, I can't thank you all enough and of course my friend Cip for facilitating it in the first place. The good lord indeed works in mysterious and unexpected ways. 
 
On behalf of myself, my community, and disabled vets everywhere, I thank you. 
 
*Now* we can get on with hoops and I swear, these guys had better win something while I'm still bloody alive. :)
 
tom
 
 

Thank you TCP. It is our duty to take care of our vets.
 

Hi Guys,
 
Some of you may remember that you had kindly donated to a cause I'm in a ways back and I wanted to give you a finall update on what your hard-earned charity dollars did and then I will leave this subject alone hopefully for the remainder of my time in this community. I just feel I owe this to you since you guys were decisive to our recent success. 
 
Our mission to DC was a bigger success than we could have hoped .As a result of our efforts, we have managed to get a seat at the Vets Admin table to discuss the plight of chronic pain patients in the VA system and their difficulty obtaining adequate treatment for persistently painful conditions and llnesses. We now have lined up sponsors in both chambers of Congress and are going to proceed with our mission to get the VA to alter it's Opioid Safety Initiative policy to ensure vets that need opioid medications can receive them while safeguarding the health of others as well. 
 
I, personally, will likely be testifying before the Senate and telling my personal story for the first time in public. Maybe I'll get my Al Pacino moment and get to bellow, "I'm put of order?! You're out of order!" Or maybe not. 
 
Anyhow, I can't thank you all enough and of course my friend Cip for facilitating it in the first place. The good lord indeed works in mysterious and unexpected ways. 
 
On behalf of myself, my community, and disabled vets everywhere, I thank you. 
 
*Now* we can get on with hoops and I swear, these guys had better win something while I'm still bloody alive. :)
 
tom
 
 

Hi Guys,
 
Some of you may remember that you had kindly donated to a cause I'm in a ways back and I wanted to give you a finall update on what your hard-earned charity dollars did and then I will leave this subject alone hopefully for the remainder of my time in this community. I just feel I owe this to you since you guys were decisive to our recent success. 
 
Our mission to DC was a bigger success than we could have hoped .As a result of our efforts, we have managed to get a seat at the Vets Admin table to discuss the plight of chronic pain patients in the VA system and their difficulty obtaining adequate treatment for persistently painful conditions and llnesses. We now have lined up sponsors in both chambers of Congress and are going to proceed with our mission to get the VA to alter it's Opioid Safety Initiative policy to ensure vets that need opioid medications can receive them while safeguarding the health of others as well. 
 
I, personally, will likely be testifying before the Senate and telling my personal story for the first time in public. Maybe I'll get my Al Pacino moment and get to bellow, "I'm put of order?! You're out of order!" Or maybe not. 
 
Anyhow, I can't thank you all enough and of course my friend Cip for facilitating it in the first place. The good lord indeed works in mysterious and unexpected ways. 
 
On behalf of myself, my community, and disabled vets everywhere, I thank you. 
 
*Now* we can get on with hoops and I swear, these guys had better win something while I'm still bloody alive. :)
 
tom
 
 

Hi Guys,
 
Some of you may remember that you had kindly donated to a cause I'm in a ways back and I wanted to give you a finall update on what your hard-earned charity dollars did and then I will leave this subject alone hopefully for the remainder of my time in this community. I just feel I owe this to you since you guys were decisive to our recent success. 
 
Our mission to DC was a bigger success than we could have hoped .As a result of our efforts, we have managed to get a seat at the Vets Admin table to discuss the plight of chronic pain patients in the VA system and their difficulty obtaining adequate treatment for persistently painful conditions and llnesses. We now have lined up sponsors in both chambers of Congress and are going to proceed with our mission to get the VA to alter it's Opioid Safety Initiative policy to ensure vets that need opioid medications can receive them while safeguarding the health of others as well. 
 
I, personally, will likely be testifying before the Senate and telling my personal story for the first time in public. Maybe I'll get my Al Pacino moment and get to bellow, "I'm put of order?! You're out of order!" Or maybe not. 
 
Anyhow, I can't thank you all enough and of course my friend Cip for facilitating it in the first place. The good lord indeed works in mysterious and unexpected ways. 
 
On behalf of myself, my community, and disabled vets everywhere, I thank you. 
 
*Now* we can get on with hoops and I swear, these guys had better win something while I'm still bloody alive. :)
 
tom
 
 

Hi Guys,
 
Some of you may remember that you had kindly donated to a cause I'm in a ways back and I wanted to give you a finall update on what your hard-earned charity dollars did and then I will leave this subject alone hopefully for the remainder of my time in this community. I just feel I owe this to you since you guys were decisive to our recent success. 
 
Our mission to DC was a bigger success than we could have hoped .As a result of our efforts, we have managed to get a seat at the Vets Admin table to discuss the plight of chronic pain patients in the VA system and their difficulty obtaining adequate treatment for persistently painful conditions and llnesses. We now have lined up sponsors in both chambers of Congress and are going to proceed with our mission to get the VA to alter it's Opioid Safety Initiative policy to ensure vets that need opioid medications can receive them while safeguarding the health of others as well. 
 
I, personally, will likely be testifying before the Senate and telling my personal story for the first time in public. Maybe I'll get my Al Pacino moment and get to bellow, "I'm put of order?! You're out of order!" Or maybe not. 
 
Anyhow, I can't thank you all enough and of course my friend Cip for facilitating it in the first place. The good lord indeed works in mysterious and unexpected ways. 
 
On behalf of myself, my community, and disabled vets everywhere, I thank you. 
 
*Now* we can get on with hoops and I swear, these guys had better win something while I'm still bloody alive. :)
 
tom
 
 

Hi Guys,
 
Some of you may remember that you had kindly donated to a cause I'm in a ways back and I wanted to give you a finall update on what your hard-earned charity dollars did and then I will leave this subject alone hopefully for the remainder of my time in this community. I just feel I owe this to you since you guys were decisive to our recent success. 
 
Our mission to DC was a bigger success than we could have hoped .As a result of our efforts, we have managed to get a seat at the Vets Admin table to discuss the plight of chronic pain patients in the VA system and their difficulty obtaining adequate treatment for persistently painful conditions and llnesses. We now have lined up sponsors in both chambers of Congress and are going to proceed with our mission to get the VA to alter it's Opioid Safety Initiative policy to ensure vets that need opioid medications can receive them while safeguarding the health of others as well. 
 
I, personally, will likely be testifying before the Senate and telling my personal story for the first time in public. Maybe I'll get my Al Pacino moment and get to bellow, "I'm put of order?! You're out of order!" Or maybe not. 
 
Anyhow, I can't thank you all enough and of course my friend Cip for facilitating it in the first place. The good lord indeed works in mysterious and unexpected ways. 
 
On behalf of myself, my community, and disabled vets everywhere, I thank you. 
 
*Now* we can get on with hoops and I swear, these guys had better win something while I'm still bloody alive. :)
 
tom
 
 

Here ya go ...
 
 

Great find, jimmy!  I've never seen the unplugged version.

Don't even try to argue with me. I mean, I guess you can try.
 
But then find another university that could get 92,000 people to show up for a women's volleyball match.
 
You can't.
 
Find another university that consistently gets 15,000 people to show up for a 10-22 men's basketball team.
 
You can't.
 
Find another university that has the nation's longest sellout streak in football.
 
Well, OK, there's obviously only one of those (and it's us) but still.
 
"Oh, yeah, well, some big boosters buy up the unsold tickets every game to keep the streak alive. So there. Nanny nanny boo boo."
 
Really? OK, so which university is in 2nd place and with how many consecutive sellout crowds?
 
Oh, so you can find someone on Twitter or Nebraska Rivals board who said something crappy about our coaches or our players or the opposing team or their coaches. Sure. Great. Doesn't disprove my point. It's not like we have the ability to kick anyone out of the Husker fan club. And anyone can pretend to be a Husker fan online. Besides, they're probably jayskers, so it doesn't really count.
 
And find another university where the fans who sit over the visiting team's tunnel traditionally have ALWAYS given a standing ovation to the visiting team leaving the field, win or lose.
 
Can you find ANY of that anywhere else? Can you find ALL of that anywhere else?
 
Didn't think so.
 
Leave me now and go back to your snooty bar in Dundee with your "craft" IPA that, truth be told, you couldn't distinguish from Bud Light in a blind taste test, you only think you like it because someone told you you should. You know who you are.
 
Bye.
 
Go Big Red. We're clearly the best fan base on earth. Top five in the universe. I'm not wrong.

Random acts of positivity need to be rewarded. Miller Husker, PM your info and jerky and sticks are on their way.  We'll do this on a regular basis. Just be positive, and you never know what will happen!

i long ago took up the habit of marking "zen" in big letters across the pages of basketball season on the calendar....
it's pretty effective. 
 
 

Based on the roster as it stands, I feel compelled to go with a PG. That leads me to either Lance Jeter, Tai Webster or Glynn Watson.
 
I'll go with Sweet Jete in this case. Watson is too small to pair with our current backcourt and Tai's sub-30 career 3P% is a non-starter for a Hoiberg PG. Jeter's positional size & leadership ability would be huge for this team, not to mention he is a good distributor who can make open 3s.    

Standhardinger.  🙂

I'm going to catch some grief over this, but I'm kind of in the "oh, well" camp.  He's leaving. See ya.  Was Graham Spanier the reason we won national championships in 94 and 95? Was he the reason Danny went on his run from 91-95?  Nope on both counts. Everything seems to be in place for all Husker sports to succeed.  I'm not getting my shorts in a bunch over this announcement.  The only thing that could screw this hire up is if Harvey Perlman gets the gig.

Musta gotten a better NIL deal in Columbus.

HI guys, 
 
I wanted to say thanks to all of you who generousklly helped my partner and I get at least one of us to what's turning out to be a more important opportunity than we ewere originally led to believe. As some of you know, I work for a patient's rights organization called P3 Alliance (where you clicked on our link!) and I'm in charge of policy development and strategy. My disability has degenerated significantly this past year, so I'm down pretty much to my last campaign.
 
In any event, we have managed to get some meetings scheduled with our own Senator, Jim Lankford, and a few of his colleagues to talk about the effects of the VA Opioid Safety Initiative and changes that everyone wants made to that policy now that we know too many vets have died as a result of "cutting off the spigot" 6-7 years ago. I was almost one of them myself, and I lost literally everything to the opioid war--home, property, my cars, you name it. 
 
With the recent release of Netflix's "Painkiller" film, another movie relying on old and now discredited research more than 5 years old in their script, our allies decided that there needed to be more legislative action taken to protect our community from the inevitable public backlash that follows these types of movies (I estimate OUR movie will be made in about 3-4 years, when most of us are dead!). 
 
In any event, those of you who donated have made it possible for our voices to be heard at the federal level in a more efffective setting than a public hearing. On behalf of chronic pain patients, I can't thank you enough. After all, one of these days, God forbid, it may be you in our shoes, and you're going to hope then that we prevailed now. 
 
Thanks for the assistance, and thank you Matt for allowing Cip to do this and for me it's back to hoops. 
 
GO BIG RED!!!
 
tom
 
 

HI guys, 
 
I wanted to say thanks to all of you who generousklly helped my partner and I get at least one of us to what's turning out to be a more important opportunity than we ewere originally led to believe. As some of you know, I work for a patient's rights organization called P3 Alliance (where you clicked on our link!) and I'm in charge of policy development and strategy. My disability has degenerated significantly this past year, so I'm down pretty much to my last campaign.
 
In any event, we have managed to get some meetings scheduled with our own Senator, Jim Lankford, and a few of his colleagues to talk about the effects of the VA Opioid Safety Initiative and changes that everyone wants made to that policy now that we know too many vets have died as a result of "cutting off the spigot" 6-7 years ago. I was almost one of them myself, and I lost literally everything to the opioid war--home, property, my cars, you name it. 
 
With the recent release of Netflix's "Painkiller" film, another movie relying on old and now discredited research more than 5 years old in their script, our allies decided that there needed to be more legislative action taken to protect our community from the inevitable public backlash that follows these types of movies (I estimate OUR movie will be made in about 3-4 years, when most of us are dead!). 
 
In any event, those of you who donated have made it possible for our voices to be heard at the federal level in a more efffective setting than a public hearing. On behalf of chronic pain patients, I can't thank you enough. After all, one of these days, God forbid, it may be you in our shoes, and you're going to hope then that we prevailed now. 
 
Thanks for the assistance, and thank you Matt for allowing Cip to do this and for me it's back to hoops. 
 
GO BIG RED!!!
 
tom
 
 

tcp,
 
Several years ago, you launched into me on here in a way that seemed to me to have been disproportionate and unwarranted. From what you've described above, though, you were almost certainly going through a very tough period in your life at the time. It seems highly likely you had no patience to spare. Of course, I couldn't have know that then. And you no doubt didn't know that, at that particular moment, I felt like I was getting attacked from multiple different directions nearly simultaneously. Death by a thousand cuts, as it were. So, I probably reacted differently to you than I otherwise might have.
 
When you lashed out at me, I probably internalized it too much. I reached out; you didn't reply. So, I put you on ignore for awhile. Maybe you knew that; maybe you didn't.
 
It just occurs to me, when we interact with people, not just on here but in life in general, we see the person we're interacting with in a snapshot at a moment in time. That's OUR perspective. However, from the vantage point of the person in the frame of that snapshot, that moment falls within a much larger context of things going on in their lives. Things we may have no idea are going on. They may be dealing with trials and tribulations far greater than we realize.
 
It's easy for us to judge. It's harder for us to understand. There are things that we don't know about the person we're indignantly launching at in the heat of the moment. And five, maybe six years later, we find out the things they were dealing with at the time we scrapped with them were much larger than we could have imagined.
 
In addition to learning about your story of perseverance in the face of hardship, I hope I also develop the virtues of patience and tolerance. I'm aware I'm not the most tolerant and patient person on this board. I'm aware I tend to not "suffer fools gladly." But my definition of "fools" probably casts a broader net than it should most of the time. My skin may occasionally be too thin. My tolerance level too low.
 
tcp, I regret seeing our difference more than our similarities over the last however many years. I sincerely wish you well. I hope you're around to see our first Husker NCAA tourney win. And, from the bottom of my heart, I'm sorry for what you're going through. May your burdens ease. May your days be filled with abundant joy in spite of the burdens you carry. May friendships sustain you. Be as well as your circumstances allow.
 
Norm

NO, Thank you for your service to this once GREAT NATION!!!

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