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Wild shit if true. FBI said there is strong evidence this is from this guy.
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He could say things on air that affect trades to and from the Raiders, who are players flying under the radar on squads; he could even voice during a telecast who would be leading draft picks at certain positions of need, ostensibly ones the raiders might need or want.

I mean even Kirk Herbstreit cant make pregame picks as an analyst of games he is calling from the booth.

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Seems his confirmation is all but assured at this point.

I do. I think it's great Mostly Sam's, but I have Wal-Mart+ also

Good win Pats fans.

The Bills screwed them. They lost an additional high first round pick in trade.

I found it interesting that Gennings Dunker praised redshirt freshman walk-on offensive lineman Cael Winter out of Waukee Northwest in a recent interview.
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I hadn’t heard much about him previously, so I did some digging online. Turns out he had a medical condition in high school that doctors felt gave him less than a 30% chance of survival. Amazing story.

The Bears pulled off a great, deceptive 90 yard punt return TD, video replay below. They forced a fumble and went 20 yards for a TD.

At halftime the Bears have 57 yards of offense vs the Packers 222 yet Bears lead 14-13. J Love is out and hurt his hand. Kirk Ball 101 and working so far.

I do predict that the Packers will win it as the bears just cant move the ball very well. The packers are the better team but maybe by 25% and we know when Iowa plays a team distinctively better than them that Kirk Ball doesnt always hold up.

The punt return was a punt from the bears 45 yard line, the bears return team and returner all faked like the coffin corner kick was heading to one sideline while one lone Bears blocker went to the other side of the field and guess what the ball went to the lone guy who didnt hardly need a block to go 90 yards.

The winner of today's Minnesota (14-2) at Detroit (14-2) game wins the NFC North and the #1 seed in the NFC playoffs; they also would need to win just 2 home playoff games to reach the Super Bowl.

The loser gets the #5 seed and would (likely) have to win 3 playoff games on the road to reach the Super Bowl.

Vikings buy 1,900 tickets for Lions showdown at Ford Field​

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  Kevin Seifert, ESPN Staff Writer
• Jan 4, 2025, 08:45 PM ET

The Minnesota Vikings found an effective but expensive way this week to increase their in-stadium presence during Sunday night's winner-take-all NFC North matchup with the host Detroit Lions.

The team purchased roughly 1,900 tickets near the Ford Field visitor's bench on the secondary market, ESPN confirmed Saturday, at roughly $1,000 per ticket -- or just under $2 million in total. The Vikings then offered them to team-based stakeholders at a cost that ranged from $200 to $300 per ticket, ESPN confirmed.

In a statement, the Vikings said: "Given the uniqueness of this game, we wanted to offer our stakeholders -- staff, family, season ticket members and team partners -- an opportunity to attend."

The Lions declined to comment when reached by ESPN.

The series of transactions is unusual but within NFL rules, highlighting the significance of Sunday's game to both teams. The winner will clinch the NFC North title as well as the NFC's No. 1 playoff seed with a first-round bye, while the loser will be the No. 5 seed and open the playoffs on the road in the wild-card round.

Sports Illustrated first reported news of the Vikings' ticket acquisition.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz concluded last month that no undercover FBI employees were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, nor at the rally on the Ellipse preceding the riot. He also revealed that the bureau had 26 informants in D.C. that day, but only three of them had been tasked by FBI field offices to be in the city. While they entered restricted areas at the Capitol, none were authorized to do so or to encourage others to break the law.


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These findings should be so unsurprising as to be unworthy of much attention. They are sadly relevant because, four years after the insurrection, key figures in the orbit of President-elect Donald Trump have tried to misrepresent them to suggest that they validate the preposterous claim that the FBI staged the Capitol attack.
“For those keeping score at home, this was labeled a dangerous conspiracy theory months ago,” Vice President-elect JD Vance wrote on social media, sharing a story about the 26 informants. Billionaire Trump backer Elon Musk added: “What’s the difference between a ‘right-wing conspiracy’ and reality? About 6 months.” Vivek Ramaswamy, who is set to lead the “Department of Government Efficiency” alongside Mr. Musk, added that anyone who “uttered the facts” in the inspector general’s report was previously labeled a “conspiracy theorist.”


Hovering over all of this is Mr. Trump’s promise to quickly pardon people convicted of Jan. 6 crimes. This would be even less justifiable after the IG report’s than it was before.
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The report says that the assistant special agent in charge of the counterterrorism division at the FBI’s Washington Field Office denied a request to send an undercover employee to D.C. for Jan. 6. This shows that the agency was mindful of a policy that limits undercover employees from collecting intelligence at First Amendment-protected events.
In FBI lingo, informants are confidential human sources. The inspector general determined that 23 of the 26 who went to Washington on Jan. 6 did so “on their own initiative.” The other three were tasked with reporting on potential domestic terrorism subjects who were thought to have been going. One of the three entered the Capitol, and the other two entered the restricted area around the Capitol.
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There should be no revision of history; it was Mr. Trump, not the FBI, who told those in the crowd on the Ellipse that they needed to “fight like hell” to overturn the election results and that he would be joining them at the Capitol.
If anything, the inspector general concluded that the FBI should have done more. Mr. Horowitz says the FBI did not canvass its field offices for intelligence from its informants before Jan. 6, which could have helped law enforcement officials prepare better. He says that the bureau falsely reported to Congress immediately afterward that it had done so.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...tid=mc_magnet-oppodcasts_inline_collection_20

Four years after the insurrection, federal agents have continued to make arrests. On Dec. 19, a Florida man was charged with assaulting a D.C. police officer with a baseball baton the Upper West Terrace of the Capitol during the mob’s effort to stop the counting of electoral votes. Nearly 1,600 individuals — from almost every state — have been charged with federal crimes during the 47 months since the attack, including about 600 on charges of assaulting or impeding law enforcement, which is a felony. (On Dec. 23, a former D.C. police lieutenant was found guilty of improperly warning the leader of the Proud Boys of his pending arrest two days before the Jan. 6 attack and then lying about it to investigators.)


Mr. Trump has said he plans to pardon those convicted of Jan. 6 offenses within “the first nine minutes” of taking office on Jan. 20. A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll conducted in December found that 66 percent of Americans oppose issuing such pardons. Doing so anyway would be an affront not just to the rule of law but also to the brave officers who gave their all that day to hold the line.
Mr. Trump will have the constitutional authority to issue these pardons because he won the 2024 election. On Monday, a joint session of Congress will convene to formally certify the president-elect’s victory. Presiding over that process will be Vice President Kamala Harris, even though she lost the election, just as Al Gore did in 2000 and Mike Pence did four years ago. Democracy endures in spite of, not because of, the chaotic attempt to overturn the will of the people four years ago.

But we have McCaffery so............

16 US military survivors remain alive
https://apnews.com/article/pearl-harbor-attack-anniversary-hawaii-97e21f0b36f969bf0c5b3a8bb2641694

She fell down the stairs at the Capitol her first day back. What are we doing?

When Donald J. Trump ran for president in 2016, the official Republican platform called for imposing “firm caps on future debt” to “accelerate the repayment of the trillions we now owe.”
When Mr. Trump sought a second term in 2020, the party’s platform pummeled Democrats for refusing to help Republicans rein in spending and proposed a constitutional requirement that the federal budget be balanced.
Those ambitions were cast aside in the platform that the Republican Party unveiled this week ahead of its convention. Nowhere in the 16-page document do the words “debt” or “deficit” as they relate to the nation’s grim fiscal situation appear. The platform included only a glancing reference to slashing “wasteful” spending, a perennial Republican talking point.
To budget hawks who have spent years warning that the United States is spending more than it can afford, the omissions signaled the completion of a Republican transformation from a party that once espoused fiscal restraint to one that is beholden to the ideology of Mr. Trump, who once billed himself the “king of debt.”
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“I am really shocked that the party that I grew up with is now a party that doesn’t think that debt and deficits matter,” said G. William Hoagland, the former top budget expert for Senate Republicans. “We’ve got a deficit deficiency syndrome going on in our party.”
The U.S. national debt is approaching $35 trillion and is on pace to top $56 trillion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. At that point, the United States would be spending about as much on interest payments to its lenders — $1.7 trillion — as it does on Medicare.
The United States has long borrowed money to fund government spending by selling Treasury securities to investors around the world. But the need to borrow money has exploded in recent years as tax cuts and increased spending widened the gap between what the federal government spends and what it takes in through taxes and other revenue.
Economists warn that if the debt burden grows too large, it will slow economic growth and could lead to economic instability. The International Monetary Fund said last month that the United States faced an urgent need to curb spending and raise tax revenue to narrow its budget deficits.
“Such high deficits and debt create a growing risk to the U.S. and global economy, potentially feeding into higher fiscal financing costs,” the I.M.F. said in an assessment of the U.S. economy.

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At the first presidential debate between President Biden and Mr. Trump last month, the candidates sparred over who was responsible for the nation’s red ink. Mr. Trump claimed, without evidence, that he would have chipped away at the debt if not for the trillions of dollars he was forced to spend during the onset of the pandemic in 2020. Mr. Biden, who has proposed raising revenue by increasing taxes on the rich, argued that the nearly $2 trillion in tax cuts that Mr. Trump enacted in 2017 were to blame for the yawning deficit.
For years, Republicans have raised alarm about the national debt when a Democrat controls the White House.
In 2009, Tea Party Republicans employed fears about a looming debt crisis to derail President Barack Obama’s agenda, mobilizing in opposition to government bailouts for struggling homeowners and fomenting protracted fights over raising the nation’s debt limit.
Republicans in Congress tried several times to block Mr. Biden’s spending plans and waged a prolonged fight over lifting a statutory cap on how much the United States can borrow.
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Yet that passion for austerity dissipated when Mr. Trump took office and Republicans passed a $2 trillion tax cut that was paid for with borrowed money.
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A recent analysis by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget found that Mr. Trump approved nearly twice as much borrowing — $8.4 trillion — during his time in office as Mr. Biden has so far during his term.
Maya MacGuineas, the group’s president, said she found it alarming that the Republican platform ignored the national debt and failed to offer any ideas for addressing the biggest contributors to increased federal spending — Social Security and Medicare.

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“It is pretty astonishing to read the platform of a party that for years has talked about controlling fiscally irresponsible behavior, and find promises to cut taxes, promises not to fix Social Security and not even a mention of reducing the out-of-control national debt,” Ms. MacGuineas said.
Last fall, House Republicans unveiled a proposal to balance the budget over 10 years through deep cuts to discretionary spending and called for the creation of a commission to recommend changes to Social Security and Medicare, two of the biggest drivers of the national debt.
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But such policies are unlikely to be enacted if Mr. Trump wins a second term.
“The congressional branch of the Republicans are quite devoted rhetorically to fiscal responsibility,” said Robert Bixby, the executive director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan group that lobbies for lower deficits. “What we’re seeing is maybe a divergence between the Trump people and the congressional people.”
He added that “when push comes to shove, they’ll pass the tax cuts and not pay for them.”
Mr. Trump has called for extending his 2017 tax cuts, which analysts estimate would cost $4.6 trillion over a decade. He has also proposed exempting income derived from tips from taxation, which could cost another $250 billion over 10 years.
The former president has offered some proposals for raising revenue and reducing spending to narrow budget deficits. He has suggested that more tariffs on imports would raise tax revenue, offsetting reductions in income taxes.
And in a campaign video last year, Mr. Trump said that, if elected, he would try to restore impoundment powers of the executive branch that would allow him to essentially seize money approved by Congress that he believes is wasteful.
“This is the only way that we will ever return a balanced budget — impoundment,” Mr. Trump said. “With impoundment, we can simply choke off the money.”
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Still, impoundment is nowhere in the Republican platform, making it unclear how much the party itself is prepared to rally around that idea.
The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 prevents presidents from clawing back money appropriated by Congress without congressional consent. Mr. Trump could challenge the constitutionality of that law, potentially setting up a legal fight.
However, budget experts believe that even an aggressive use of such powers would have only marginal impact because they could not be applied to “mandatory” spending programs such as Social Security or the mounting interest costs associated with the debt.
If Mr. Trump wins and succeeds in enacting a fresh round of tax cuts, he is likely to argue, as he did in 2017, that they will spur sufficient economic growth to pay for themselves. Economic research has shown that while those tax cuts did spur business investment, they did not pay for themselves.
The director of the Congressional Budget Office, Phillip Swagel, told lawmakers this week that the 2017 tax cuts “by far” did not pay for themselves and neither would extending them.
Mr. Swagel, a top economist during the George W. Bush administration, warned that “the fiscal outlook is daunting.”

Only the one Hawkeye Bacon poster who I shall not say his name actually believed that free speech bullshit.

New on the Twitters: Negative content about public figures will be punished by the platform. LOL. Convenient.

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Oh nothin’

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IF this is a real account, this is pathetic.

Scholarship chart for the upcoming year is updated.

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Per twitter account. Interesting development…

"As a parent, 90% of the time you will ever spend with your kids happen during their first 18 years."

Took the daughter to a concert tonight at Billy Bob's Texas. I recognize there will soon be a time when she'll no longer prefer to do things with me, so I'm getting in as much as I can, while I can!

For reference, it was the Josh Abbott Band.

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I would think a portal players especially a qb would want to see the scheme and see what the receivers look like in action.

This QB has 1 year left I believe I read so he wants to like the culture but he can put up with some stuff as it is only for a year and a half. But I would hope he maybe sees some ability with Gill, vanderzee, buie and howard.

By the way, does anyone know the 40 yard dash times for the 4 receivers I just mentioned? I know Wetjen is really fast.

Anyone else watching?

Huge chunks of the field are coming up on nearly every play. Sod lines and topdressing sand still very much visible. There should be zero football played on this surface.