Saw this list on - where else - YouTube. A few good options.

10. The Poseidon Adventure - YouTube, STARZ
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3. Poltergeist - YouTube
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Dec 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, about ending childhood vaccination programs.

When asked if he would sign off if Kennedy decided to end childhood vaccinations programs, Trump told Time magazine, "we're going to have a big discussion. The autism rate is at a level that nobody ever believed possible. If you look at things that are happening, there's something causing it."

When asked if the discussion could result in his administration getting rid of some vaccinations, Trump said: "It could if I think it's dangerous, if I think they are not beneficial, but I don't think it's going to be very controversial in the end."

Asked in the Nov. 25 interview if he thinks childhood autism is linked to vaccines, Trump said: "No, I'm going to be listening to Bobby," referring to Kennedy. Trump said he had a lot of respect for Kennedy and his views on vaccinations.

Just got a text that Iowa is set to host a coveted DIII defensive back.

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Badgers offered already

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Just another @Here_4_a_Derp / Ryan account.

The state of South Carolina still uses the Electric Chair for capital
punishment. They now have a cost-saving remedy concerning the
criminal's last meal.

The convicted prisoner gets a Red Baron frozen pizza as he sits
down for his last meal in the electric chair. Obviously, the frozen
pizza heats up fast as the convict is electrically warmed up himself.

Bottom Line: It is cheaper to serve a frozen pizza on the electric
chair instead of a full steak dinner in the prisoner's cell.

President-elect Donald Trump threatened Monday to file a lawsuit against The Des Moines Register and famed Iowa pollster Ann Selzer, whose final survey before the Nov. 5 election badly underestimated Trump's support in the state, which he won.



“In my opinion it was fraud and election interference," Trump claimed of the survey, according to the Associated Press.


The incoming president took questions from reporters Monday at Mar-a-Lago in Florida during his first news conference since winning election.




ABC News last week agreed to pay $15 million toward Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate assertion on the air that the Trump had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. Instead, Trump had been found liable for sexual assaulting and defaming her.


Trump on Monday previewed future legal action he planned to take against the news media. “I'm not doing this because I want to, I'm doing this because I feel l have an obligation to,” he told reporters.


“I'm going to be bringing one against the people in Iowa, their newspaper, which had a very, very good pollster, who got it right all the time and then just before the election, she said I was going to lose by three of four points,” Trump continued. “And it became the biggest story of all time, all over the world.”




Selzer announced last month that she would retire her polling operation, a decision she said she had made well before the election.


The pollster, whose sterling reputation took a hit when it missed the Trump-Harris result in Iowa by 17 points, said she has seen nothing in the polling data that should have signaled the results were off.


“If you’re hoping that I had landed on exactly why things went wrong, I have not,” Selzer said Friday during recording of “Iowa Press” at Iowa PBS Studios in Johnston. “It does sort of awaken me in the middle of the night, and I think, ‘Well, maybe I should check this. This is something that would be very odd if it were to happen.’ But we’ve explored everything.”

Wicked sound. Ts and Ps though.

I have no idea if this is legit or not -- either way, it's insane. I hope this isn't real.

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But the case will continue. Good call.

Georgia appeals court disqualifies Fani Willis but refuses to drop case against Trump​

An appeals court in Georgia disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump and others for allegedly trying to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The court, however, declined to dismiss the case altogether.



In a 12-page ruling, the court said a previous ruling by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee allowing Willis to remain on the case if special prosecutor Nathan Wade withdrew did not prevent an "appearance of impropriety." Willis and Wade admitted to having a romantic relationship.

"The remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times when DA Willis was exercising her broad pretrial discretion about who to prosecute and what charges to bring," the ruling said. "While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings."

"While this is the rare case in which DA Willis and her office must be disqualified due to a significant appearance of impropriety, we cannot conclude that the record also supports the imposition of the extreme sanction of dismissal of the indictment under the appropriate standard," the judges added.

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Two men died in Rochester, New York, after being infected with a rare fungus found in bat feces they had used or planned to use to fertilize homegrown cannabis plants, according to a report published in a medical journal.

Bowl season is underway and Pickin' on the Big Ten is back with winners, losers, and observations on the first set of bowls (and Playoff games) involving Big Ten squads.

The picks:

President-elect Donald Trump has stunned lawmakers in Washington by calling for the suspension — or outright elimination — of the federal borrowing limit, introducing an explosive new demand into last-minute negotiations over averting a government shutdown this weekend.
In social media posts and interviews on Wednesday and Thursday, Trump called on congressional Republicans to lift the debt ceiling, a law that limits how much money the federal government can borrow.

I wrote up an article about some things Fran could try doing in order to get better defensive play this season. Give it a read and we can discuss it here. I'll make you a guarantee: his cryptic recent comments about Traore will become even more concerning after you read the article.

This and not testing to what extent our election guardrails will hold against a more sophisticated scheme to steal the election are some of the 'good' aspects of Trump's win:

Surveys taken since Donald Trump’s win show a resurgent faith among the president-elect’s supporters, and little Democratic appetite for conspiracy theories.

Americans are more confident in the country’s election system than they have been at any time since the 2020 election, according to a new study — a shift owed to a sea change in Republican sentiment since Donald J. Trump’s election.

The findings, which echo other post-election polling, underscore the role Mr. Trump played in encouraging Republican suspicion of unwelcome results, and reveal stark differences in how Republican and Democratic voters have handled recent losses.

“The increase is heartening,” said Brendan Nyhan, a professor of government at Dartmouth College and a director of Bright Line Watch, which commissioned the survey from YouGov. The group is a consortium of political scientists that has conducted regular polls on democracy issues since 2017. “But there’s also bad news, which is we now have to wonder if Republicans will only trust the system if they win,” Mr. Nyhan said.

Eighty-nine percent of all respondents recognize Mr. Trump’s victory in last month’s election as legitimate, according to the Bright Line Watch survey. Only 65 percent said the same of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in 2020 in the group’s survey that November.

The shift highlights the two parties’ differing response to losses. Eighty-three percent of Democrats view the outcome of the 2024 election as legitimate, according to the survey of 2,750 Americans, which was conducted in mid- to late November and has a margin of error of about 2 points. By contrast, only 27 percent of Republicans viewed the outcome of the 2020 election as legitimate at the time.

A Pew Research Center post-election poll released this month found similar results. Eighty-four percent of Democratic respondents polled last month said they believed the 2024 election had been run “very” or “somewhat” well, a decline of only 10 percent from 2020. But the share of Republicans saying the same jumped to 93 percent from 21 percent in November 2020.

Mr. Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him, which remains unsupported by any evidence, profoundly reshaped the political landscape in the years after his loss. The stolen election claim led his supporters to riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, threatening the peaceful transfer of presidential power for the first time in American history, and it became a litmus test for Republican candidates and officials at every level of the party, from county chairmanships to the U.S. Senate.

It spawned elaborate conspiracy theories and costly legal settlements for the right-wing media companies that gave them a platform. And it was at the heart of the case for election that Mr. Trump made to Republican voters from the first days of his 2024 campaign.

“We won by much more in 2020” than in 2016, Mr. Trump falsely claimed at his campaign kickoff rally in Waco, Texas, in March of last year. “But it was rigged.”

The centrality of election denialism to the post-2020 Republican Party raised concerns that mistrust of the election system had become deeply ingrained on the right, enough so that it could outlast Mr. Trump’s own presence in politics.

But the 2022 midterm elections suggested its limits, as many prominent Republican candidates who won primaries by rallying Trump supporters against the supposed theft of the 2020 election lost in their general elections. Some, like the Arizona candidate for governor, Kari Lake, tried to challenge their own losses in 2022, but failed to generate much grass-roots momentum.

“It didn’t play the same as it did in 2020,” Mr. Nyhan said.

Early results showing a sharp decline in Democratic turnout last month led to the circulation of conspiracy theories on the left claiming Mr. Trump had stolen the election, and, less intuitively, on the right, where the drop-off was taken as evidence that Mr. Biden’s numbers in 2020 were inflated.

But the Bright Line and Pew surveys suggest that Democratic suspicion did not broadly persist after Vice President Kamala Harris’s concession, underscoring the influence that candidates and other party leaders have on their supporters’ views of the system’s legitimacy.

We've been arguing about the age of the school shooter in another thread. This thread is just to get an idea of how many students start kindergarten at 6 rather than 5. Please share the age your child started school and their birth month (no need for SS numbers or their mother's maiden name ).

So I have been dealing with it for about 15 years. I have had to go to the ER for cardioversion 7-8 times during that period, most recently, yesterday. That was after one about five weeks ago too. The cardiologist I'm working with strongly recommended the ablation surgery so I am going to bite the bullet and do that on October 23rd. Curious if any of you have had it and what your experience has been? Also, any recovery time needed? I am looking forward to getting off all the medication and hopefully, no more ER visits.

TIA.

Why are they there and do you actually eat them?

Serving the Quad City area since 1940, Ross' was a great local spot for breakfast 24 hours per day.
Founded by Harold Ross, Harold's family ran the business throughout it all.
Multiple Presidential candidates and sitting presidents have eaten there including: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich.

It was the home of the magic mountain.
That culinary climb features a slice of grilled Texas toast covered in loose ground beef and piled with a mountain of French fries or hash browns and smothered with cheddar cheese sauce.

good to see people getting second chances in life

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My wife is 38+ weeks pregnant with child #1 and we are expecting the arrival any day. We have taken courses, read books on sleeping, etc., spent an outrageous amount of money on stroller, crib, etc. and are very excited.

I have been acutely aware of the controversy around vaccinations and an alleged link to autism, but because I had no kids, I never looked into it. From what I can tell, there have been no scientific studies that prove causation between the MMR vaccine (generally given at around 8 weeks) and autism. The anti-vaccination movement has been largely grassroots (parents of austistic kids who were supposedly healthy before the vaccine) and a Dr. Wakefield in the U.K. Hollywood types like Robert De Niro and Jenny McCarthy have also hopped on board.

Fast forward to today, a dear friend (well-educated, level-headed father of two) started pleading with me to not vaccinate. He went so far as to say that our friendship means far too much to him to allow me to make the mistake of vaccinating, and asked that I meet up with him to discuss. My friend believes that the vaccinations are a huge money-maker for "Big Pharma," who is in bed with the CDC. He is a great guy and friend, but his behavior seems almost cultish. We are both committed Christians, and he compared his pleading with me about vaccinations to sharing the Gospel of Christ with an atheist friend.

Obviously, we would not do anything that could increase the risk of our child having autism. With that said, my look at the data seems to indicate that the odds of vaccine-induced autism (or other complications) are less than the odds of contracting disease due to not vaccinating.

What say you, HROT?