I’m going with Mar-a-Lago, with Trump officiating




Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt are engaged.
After years of quietly dating long distance, Hannity, 62, proposed to Earhardt, 48, over Christmas week at a church in his home state of Florida.
"We are overjoyed and so thankful to our families for all of their love and support during this wonderful time in our lives," the pair told Fox News.

Hannity shares two children, Patrick and Merri, with ex-wife Jill Rhodes, whom he wed in 1993 and divorced from in 2019.
Meanwhile, Earhardt has a daughter, Hayden, with ex-husband Will Proctor. The former couple got married in 2012, announced their separation in 2018 and finalized their divorcein 2019. Earhardt, who is based in New York, was also previously married to Kevin McKinney from 2005 to 2009.

The couple told Fox News that they "still get along well" with their ex-spouses and that they "made them aware this was happening ahead of time."


Hannity and Earhardt said they bonded over their shared religious beliefs, and described the church as "the perfect place" to propose, according to the outlet. They met with their minister shortly after the engagement.

Pitt just lost to Toledo after multiple OT’s.

I think Narduzzi left the field without shaking hands with the Toledo Coach.

I’ve always thought Narduzzi was an asshole. Seemed like he practically taught targeting to his Defense while at MSU.

He also stood up for James Franklin after our game with PSU where they had players constantly faking injuries.

He’s a putz.

Quite the indictment of Garland…

We have just witnessed the greatest failure of federal law enforcement in American history.

The reasons for Donald Trump’s reelection are numerous and will be hotly debated in the weeks ahead. But the story of his comeback cannot be told without seriously grappling with how he managed to outrun four criminal cases, including — most notably — the Justice Department’s prosecution over Trump’s alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election.

At the root of it all are the considerable and truly historic legal missteps by the Biden administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well as a series of decisions by Republicans throughout the political and legal systems in recent years that effectively bailed Trump out when the risks for him were greatest.
The two federal criminal cases against him are now dead as a practical matter. Already there is reporting suggesting that special counsel Jack Smith will leave his post and dismiss the pending cases, which is not that surprising considering that Trump pledged to fire himonce back in office anyway. The Georgia case, an overhyped and misguided vehicle for post-2020 legal accountability, is going to remain on ice and perhaps get thrown out entirely in the coming years, at least as to Trump (if not his co-defendants). In Manhattan, where Trump was supposed to be sentenced in a matter of weeks after his conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush money case earlier this year, Trump is likely to ask the court to cancel the sentencing date; regardless of the mechanics, there is no reasonable scenario in which Trump serves some period of incarceration while also serving in the White House.
All of this will happen despite the majority of the public’s stated interest in concluding the criminal cases — the federal election subversion case in particular — as well as polling that suggested that Trump’s conviction early this year hurt his standing across the electorate and with independents in particular.

If that seems incongruous, it is not. The most obvious explanation for Trump’s win despite his considerable legal problems is that a critical mass of voters were willing to set aside their concerns about Trump’s alleged misconduct because of their dissatisfaction with the Biden-Harris administration. Fair or not, this was absolutely their right as voters.

But if the system had worked the way it should have, voters would never have faced such a choice. If Trump had actually faced accountability for his alleged crimes, he may not have even appeared on the ballot.

The most comprehensive accounts on the matter, from investigative reporting at The Washington Post and The New York Times, strongly indicate that the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation and public hearings in 2022 effectively forced Garland to investigate Trump and eventually to appoint Smith in November of that year — nearly two years after Trump incited the riot at the Capitol.

There are many people — including many Democratic legal pundits — who have continued to defend this delay and may continue to do so, so let me be very clear: Those people are wrong.

It was clear after Trump’s loss in 2020 — even before Jan. 6 — that his conduct warranted serious legal scrutiny by the Justice Department, particularly in the area of potential financial crimes. But that probe, which could and should have been pursued by Biden’s U.S. Attorney and aspiring attorney general in Manhattan, somehow never materialized.

It was also clear — on Jan. 6 itself — that Trump may have committed criminal misconduct after his loss in 2020 that required immediate and serious attention from the Justice Department.

The formation of the Jan. 6 committee in early 2021 did nothing to change the calculus. There too, it was clear from the start that there would still need to be a criminal investigation to deliver any meaningful legal accountability for Trump.

In fact, the warning signs for where this could all end up — where the country finds itself now — were clear by late 2021, less than a year into Biden’s term. The public reporting at the time indicated (correctly, we now know) that there was no real Justice Department investigation into Trump and his inner circle at that point, even though the outlines of a criminal case against Trump — including some of the charges themselves that were eventually brought nearly two years later — were already apparent.

Confirmed with NIU transfer wide out, Trayvon Rudolph that he's visiting.

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In June 2019, the owners of a Panama City hotel that was managed by Trump's businesses, and carried the Trump brand, accused two companies, Trump Panama Hotel Management LLC and and Trump International Hotels Management LLC, of not paying taxes on their Panamanian earnings.

They all are under continuous scrutiny and more now with social media. This Pew Research poll has National Parks, USPS and NASA as most popular. CDC is more favorable than thought it would be...

David Brooks talks about his journey from Jewish agnosticism to sort-of Christianity.

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Glamorous Dr Nesheiwat is famous in the US as a medical expert on Fox News and has often talked about how losing her father at a young age inspired her career in medicine.

But The New York Times last night revealed that when she was 13 she accidentally shot dead her father at the family home in Orlando, Florida.
In her memoir, Beyond The Stethoscope, Dr Nesheiwat describes how the loss of her father inspired her to chose medicine as a career, but does not mention her role in his death.

She wrote: ‘When I was 13 years old I helplessly watched my dear father dying from an accident as blood was spurting everywhere. I couldn’t save his life. This was the start of my personal journey in life to become a physician.’

Israeli troops stormed one of the last hospitals operating in the northernmost part of Gaza on Friday, forcing many of the staff and patients out of the facility, the territory’s health ministry said.

The Kamal Adwan Hospital has been hit multiple times over the past three months by Israeli troops waging an offensive against Hamas fighters in surrounding neighborhoods, according to staff. The ministry said a strike on the hospital a day earlier killed five medical staff.

Israel’s military said it was conducting operations against Hamas infrastructure and fighters in the area of the hospital, without providing details. It repeated claims that Hamas fighters were operating inside Kamal Adwan, though it provided no evidence.

Hospital officials have denied the accusations.

The Health Ministry said troops forced medical personnel and patients to assemble in the hospital yard and remove their clothes amid the winter temperatures. They were led out of the hospital, some to an unknown location, while some patients were sent to the nearby Indonesian hospital, which was knocked out of operation after an Israel raid earlier this week.

The ministry said troops set fires in several parts of Kamal Adwan, including the hospital’s lab and surgery department. It said 25 patients and 60 health workers remained in the hospital out of 75 patients and 180 staff who had been there. The ministry’s account could not be independently confirmed, and attempts to reach hospital staff were unsuccessful.

“Fire is ablaze everywhere in the hospital,” an unidentified member of the staff said in an audio message from the hospital posted on the social media accounts of its director Hossam Abu Safiya. The staffer said some evacuated patients had been unhooked from oxygen. “There are currently patients who could die at any moment,” she said.

In raids, Israeli troops frequently carry out mass detentions, stripping men down to their underwear for questioning in what the military says is a security measure as they search for Hamas fighters. Although the AP doesn’t have access to Kamal Adwan, armed Hamas security men in civilian clothes have been seen in other hospitals in Gaza, controlling access to certain areas or the distribution of supplies.

Since October, Israel’s offensive has virtually sealed off the north Gaza areas of Jabaliya, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya and levelled large parts of the districts. Tens of thousands of Palestinians were forced out, but thousands are believed to remain the area, where Kamal Adwan and two other hospitals are located. Troops raided Kamal Adwan earlier in October, and on Tuesday troops stormed and evacuated the nearby Indonesian Hospital.

The area has been cut off from food and other aid for months, raising fears of famine. The U.N. says Israeli troops had only allowed four humanitarian deliveries to the area from Dec. 1 to Dec. 23.

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The Israeli rights groups Physicians for Human Rights-Israel earlier this week petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice seeking a halt to military attacks on Kamal Adwan. It warned that forcibly evacuating the hospital would “abandon thousands of residents in northern Gaza.” Before the latest deaths Thursday, the group documented five other staffers killed by Israeli fire since October.

Israel’s nearly 15-month-old campaign of bombardment and offensives in Gaza have devastated the territory’s health sector. A year ago, it carried out a wave of raids on hospitals in northern Gaza, including Kamal Adwan, Indonesian and nearby al-Awda Hospital, saying they served bases for Hamas, though it presented little evidence.

Israel’s campaign has killed more than 45,400 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, and wounded more than 108,000 others, according to the Health Ministry. Its count does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. More than 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians have been driven from their homes, most of them now sheltering in sprawling, squalid tent camps in south and central Gaza.

Israel launched its campaign vowing to destroy Hamas after the group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel in which militants killed around 1,200 people and abducted some 250 others. Around 100 Israelis remain captive in Gaza, around a third of whom are believed to be dead.

One of the lasting memories of the 2024 Chicago Bears season will be fans chanting “Sell the team!” in the final two minutes and as they exited Soldier Field on Thursday night after the team’s 10th consecutive loss.


The Bears still had the ball. They had crossed midfield. They still had the ability to stop the clock and they were trailing the Seattle Seahawks just 6-3 when the disgruntled crowd picked up on what White Sox fans did at Rate Field during a record-setting season of futility. There was no mistaking what the message was as the Bears offense tried to engineer a game-winning drive.


The opportunity fizzled out. The Bears lost 6-3 to fall to 4-12 with one game remaining before the team launches headfirst into its coaching search. Quarterback Caleb Williams took seven sacks in what was another lousy performance by the offense. The Bears are now 98-3 since the start of the 1950 season when they limit the opponent to six points or fewer.

Nah, liberals are right, we don’t need DOGE. Democrats rich buddies in military supply need these grifts you see.

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A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that threatened librarians and booksellers with imprisonment if they were found to have provided “harmful” content to a minor.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks ruled that two parts of Arkansas Act 372 — which Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed in 2023 — are overly broad and vague, and violated librarians’, booksellers’ and patrons’ First Amendment rights.


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The two parts of the law that were struck down would have established a criminal misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in prison, for librarians and booksellers who distribute “harmful” material to a minor. It also would have required local governments to create oversight boards to review challenged content, which often deal with themes of race and sexuality. The ruling, which will likely be challenged, comes as a growing number of GOP-controlled statehouses have considered similar laws that threaten librarians with prison.


“Up until the passage of Act 372, it appears that Arkansas’s more pressing concern with respect to librarians was that they be insulated from meritless claims and time-wasting prosecutions,” Brooks wrote. “Times have changed.”

If the statute’s purpose “was to protect younger minors from accessing inappropriate sexual content in libraries and bookstores, the law will only achieve that end at the expense of everyone else’s First Amendment rights,” Brooks, who was appointed by former president Barack Obama, said. “The law deputizes librarians and booksellers as the agents of censorship; when motivated by the fear of jail time, it is likely they will shelve only books fit for young children and segregate or discard the rest.”
The state plans to challenge the decision. “I respect the court’s ruling and will appeal,” Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said Monday. Sanders’s office did not respond to request for comment Thursday; the governor has said to local media that the law “is just common sense: schools and libraries shouldn’t put obscene material in front of our kids” and will work with Griffin to appeal the ruling.

About $35/month ($70 total for me and my daughter) for an 8 day trip to Tokyo and Osaka next month, if I go the US Cellular route. 150 MB plan for each line, which doesn't seem like a lot depending on what my daughter is doing lol.

For almost the exact same amount I can get an 8 day unlimited Mobal (company) data plan (piggybacks on existing carriers in Japan) and change out SIM cards once we land. They have another 30 day plan that includes Voice and Text for about twice that.

The Mobal plan is a known cost - not sure what to expect from US Cellular if there are additional fees or if I hit the 150 MB limit. I just browse the internet, but daughter may be streaming a small amount and doing a lot of social media.

Any thoughts from International travelers?

Came across Kirk's introductory press conference yesterday and thought who would have projected his 24 year run at Iowa. Many people asked who? Of course everybody wanted Stoops. Kirk was very articulate in that press conference and his answers were well thought out.

After a one win first year and three win second, I doubt many thought he'd last.
Interesting today, many college coaches say Kirk is everything that is good about college football.

He develops young men for football and life after football, he is a man of high integrity, he doesn't go for more points late when the game is in-hand, has given back to the university many time over.

Now in his twi-light years of coaching, he stands near the cusp for most wins by a Big Ten coach. I'm proud to have him as our coach.

Thanks Coach for many great memories! Hope there's a few more, you deserve it.

This was on a long, on going thread about Caitlin…,

“”I don’t know what is more insane:

Megyn Kelly assuming she has a place in this conversation or Sheila Johnson chastising Clark’s award.

Caitlin Clark is a 1st Team All WNBA guard as a rookie. She has electrified her sport from Iowa and Indiana but is followed en masse across the USA and world wide.

She’s 22 years old and admits her flaws openly in interviews and also admits that she’s ****ing good without being a bragger.

Frankly, she’s the most compelling basketball player on the scene right now partially because she’s imperfect. She goes for it. She’s competitive and willing to fail. She pumps up teammates. She is out in the sporting scene. She credits her family. She’s funny.

I just don’t know how anyone can encounter this young adult and be anything but astonished. And those who feel the need to limit her accolades should instead focus on those who they believe should be celebrated because although in sports you only have one winner, in life and in this vast environment of media, we can celebrate many many more.

For example, I was thinking about Aliyah Boston yesterday and how impressive it was when she got her motor fully juiced, the way that she played all season. I played basketball last night, full court 5 on 5, and I was the biggest guy on the court - I like to pass and rebound, and originally I joked that I’m a little bit of Caitlin and a little bit of Angel (cus finishing around the rim is an area of opportunity for me, ha). But I realized last night that I might just kind of be more like AB. And one of the toughest things about being like AB, is having to play basket to basket, set physical screens, make smart decisions with the ball, rebound, protect the paint, hit your long range shots when you’re open…

I go on this rant to say, it’s really not that hard to celebrate someone who isn’t Caitlin. It’s also really not very hard to celebrate Caitlin. Why must we villainize Caitlin for celebrating others? Why must we villainize those who celebrate Caitlin? I’m both exhausted of it and fueled by how frustrating I find it.””””


Me…To those of you who don’t know better. Being political isn’t what you were put on this earth for. Not everything has to be so personal.

The woman from the Mystics IS stupid, Megan Kelley IS stupid.

Life is fickle and precious. Everyone should spend more time lifting people up and looking for the good in society not the bad🥰

OK, this was a huge pain in the ass, so I am not sure if I will do it again before the final tournament seeds come out. Especially if no one cares.

But, I used an online expansion calculator to turn my probability of AAing by seed into the probability of each discrete number of AAs per team. I only did this for the 18 teams that have at least two expected AA's.

Now, in addition to seeing the expected AA's, you can see how the distribution shakes out for each number of AA's from 0 to 10, along with the most probable result.

All of this was done with the final pre-season Wrestlestat rankings (again assuming rank = seed).

The one big caveat is that true freshmen who have not wrestled in a college open are not included in the rankings yet, as near as I can tell.

I know some people on this board are going to want to fight me (5 AA's? Are you out of your ever lovin', mathematically challenged mind?), but really your issue is with Wrestlestat.

Strong fight from the Huskers today, don't get me wrong, but that kid just went 0-for-October on scoring any touchdowns. 0 TDs, 5 INT, 9 sacks.

I get why you go through this with him now. But that kid is very much a KID out there.

Ok, this is not a discussion on if KF should go or when he should go. None of us have any control over this and there is enough post on this. He could be here another 1-5 years.

So just for simple discussion.

What do you think is important to the next hire?

Someone associated with Iowa, played for Iowa or loyal to Iowa that will stay and not look at this as a steppingstone in their career?
Keeping some of the staff.
If not a head coach from another school,
Defensive coordinator coach?
Offensive coordinator coach?
Keeping some of the staff as assistant coaches with some type of association with Iowa?
What type of contract and buy out would be best?

Hopefully there are no technical issues today.