Two geniuses but also more than a little sociopathic, Norm and Uke.

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What is his current excuse for the way its acted since he was elected again?

Biden's Dow has been down 10 days in a row.

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscast coverage of Trump’s Cabinet picks ‘almost uniformly negative,’ study finds​

FIRST ON FOX – Flagship evening newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC have been "almost uniformly negative" when covering some of President-elect Donald Trump’s most significant Cabinet appointees, according to a new study from the Media Research Center.

The MRC examined all coverage of Trump’s Cabinet appointees on ABC’s "World News Tonight," "CBS Evening News" and NBC’s "Nightly News" from December 1-14. The study primarily focused on Trump’s Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth, FBI Director selection Kash Patel and Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard, though it also included the other appointments.

Trump’s nominees earned a combined total of 60 minutes and 47 seconds of coverage during the 2-week period. The conservative media watchdog group found that 96% of the coverage was negative.

"Across all three networks, the coverage of Gabbard, Patel, and the handful of other nominees mentioned was entirely negative. Only Pete Hegseth, who received the lion’s share of the airtime, enjoyed a scant four positive evaluative statements, all of which cited his mother describing him as ‘redeemed’ and ‘a changed man,’" MRC senior research analyst Bill D’Agostino wrote.

"To reiterate: the only positive commentary any Trump nominee received on the broadcast networks was from his own mother," D’Agostino added. "In addition to a whopping 96 percent negative tilt across their flagship evening newscasts, these networks also appear to have paid the most attention to Cabinet nominees who appeared to have the highest chances of sinking."

CBS spent the most time on Trump’s nominees overall, spending nearly 25 minutes on them with over 14 minutes focusing on Hegseth.

"While CBS had the most negative overall coverage of the Trump transition (96.7%), they actually were softer on Hegseth than their counterparts: 88 percent negative, making them the only network of the three not to cross the 90 percent negative barrier," D’Agostino wrote.

The second-most transition coverage came from NBC, which was negative 94.7% of the 21 minutes and three seconds spent on Trump’s selections. NBC spent over 11 minutes on Hegseth alone and was the only network to have 100% negative coverage of him, according to the MRC.

ABC spent 19 minutes and 25 seconds on Trump’s nominees, 90% of which was negative, the study found.

"The network devoted 13 minutes and 33 seconds of that time to Hegseth, with a 91% negative slant," D’Agostino wrote.

Patel was the only other nominee besides Hegseth to receive more than a full minute of coverage from the trio of networks.

"Evaluative statements about Patel across all three networks were uniformly negative," D’Agostino wrote.

The MRC also found that "the majority of the reports about Hegseth centered around the handful of salacious allegations against him," but the networks "abruptly lost interest once his chances of being confirmed started to look more promising."

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, considered a pivotal vote in the confirmation battle over Hegseth, initially appeared skeptical but expressed willingness to give him a fair shake on Dec. 9.

"Incidentally Hegseth received 37 of his total 39 minutes of coverage from the three broadcast networks on or before December 10. In other words, once his confirmation appeared probable, the broadcast networks abruptly lost interest in the scandals with which they had inundated their airwaves for the previous week and a half," D’Agostino wrote.

Patel was elected on November 30 and "dominated the evening newscasts with a combined 18 minutes of immensely negative coverage" the following evening, according to the MRC.

"But when key Republican Senators who had expressed uncertainty about other nominees publicly indicated that they would support Patel’s confirmation, he quickly became an afterthought," D’Agostino wrote.

"Then like clockwork, on December 11 — the day after Hegseth received that much-needed public support — Patel was back to being the most interesting Cabinet appointee, earning 193 seconds of airtime that evening, compared to just 21 seconds for Hegseth," D’Agostino added. "This pattern of focus suggests that the broadcast networks were budgeting their coverage of Cabinet appointees based on whose nomination they felt they had the best chance of sinking."

MRC founder and president Brent Bozell blasted the coverage as "appalling."

"This is as predictable as it is appalling. It is simply indefensible. But America is seeing through this agenda. And then the media wonder why their numbers are tanking," Bozell told Fox News Digital.

"These radicals' agenda to undermine and damage - no, destroy - a president-elect, verges on the anti-American," Bozell added. "It's 2016 all over again. Donald Trump won the presidency and immediately the radical media are out to sabotage him."

Just made the largest political donation in UK history. America first my ass. Trump's owner is playing our asses. And the geezer he just bought a month ago is letting it happen.

Big entry tonight.

Just followed by Tyler Barnes. Two years of eligibility left. Could be nothing, could be something.

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I never really thought about it until Neil broke it down. It’s mind bottling to realize how many possible sequence combinations there are for an ordinary deck of 52 cards.

Let’s say you’re holding in your hand a deck of cards that has been thoroughly and randomly shuffled.

If there were a trillion universes, and each of those universes contained a trillion civilizations, and each of those civilizations contained a trillion people, and each of those people had their own deck of cards, and each of those people thoroughly and randomly shuffled their deck of cards a trillion times every second of every day for a trillion years, there is still only about a 40% chance that any one of those shuffled decks would identically match the sequence of 52 cards you’re holding in your hand.

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If you recall, the way this works is the D's prevent people from going to work. Then for the next 4 years, the incoming President can pretend he created those jobs.

With Florida announcing the return of Napier. Auburn doing the same with Freeze and South Carolina getting it together with Beamer. It looks like the once anticipated moves not looking to occur, or at least with top shelf programs like Florida, USC, and Notre Dame. We may be in a position where more guys like Cignetti aren't going to be moving up.

With NIL and the new expanded playoff, this might be the norm. If Cignetti can win at the Ferentz clip with the compensation, it may be more secure than a place like Ohio State. Ryan Day has never won less than ten games outside of 2020. He's on the hot seat. Sherron Moore is guiding a gutted Michigan team to at least a bowl appearance and he's getting roasted.

Dan Mullen got fired at Florida, he had a top 15 ranked squad and recruiting class. But he was deemed a failure. If Indiana can make the playoff, Cignetti is an all-time great at Indiana. In Ann Arbor or Columbus he's got to make it every year and he better win the whole thing by year three. If he's making the dough and doing what Campbell is doing at Iowa State, it's got to be a great lifestyle.

Then again, Florida, USC and Penn State may open up next year. They've got pressure, resources, history and are just better programs. Eventually they're gonna rebound and the man who does that is going to be heralded as superstars.

I avoid them like them plague myself

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Walter Camp Honors: junior running back Kaleb Johnson and senior linebacker Jay Higgins -- have been named Walter Camp First-Team All-Americans

The Hawkeyes have had at least one Walter Camp All-American (first or second team) over the past 11 seasons, dating back to 2014. Iowa has the longest active streak nationally of having a first-team All-American (2019-24). The Hawkeyes have had multiple Walter Camp honorees in five of the last six years, including the last two seasons with multiple first-team selections.

I couldn't find the thread about this from a few weeks ago, so starting a new one. This documentary is wayyy better then Tiger King. I actually felt sorry for ole kc...until the very end. Anybody else watch this one?

Is the POTUS calling them criminals?

What crimes did they allegedly commit according to Joe Biden?

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Leading Miami by 10 with 4 to go. Bunch of D2 transfers beating the Canes.

Anyone want in???

List 13 celebrities you predict will pass in 2024. If/when they die, subtract their ages from 100.

For example, if Jimmy Carter dies aged 99, you get 1 point.

Add up the points at the end of the year. Whoever has the most points wins! There's no cash prize this year. I lost in 2023.

My only 2023 "hit" was Tony Bennett. My buddy got Burt Bacharach. $50 loss goes to help Ukranian refugees.


BrianNole's 2024 Celebrity Death Pool:


Bill Cosby
Charlie Sheen
Jimmy Carter
James Earl Jones
Dick Van Dyke
Bob Newhart
Mitch McConnell
Shannen Doherty
Tom Brokaw
Bruce Willis
Vladimir Putin
Donald Trump
Sharon Osborne

This is as of December 17, 2024. Intended for the curious, not as a judgment.

Patrick McCaffery - Butler: 11.9 ppg, started all 11 games for 7-4 Butler. Shooting .470% from 3 - not sure if he changed anything or has just been on a heater.

Tony Perkins - Mizzou: 7.8 ppg, started 4 games, played 8 for 9-1 Missouri. Must have been hurt for a bit. Only has one game in double figure scoring.

CJ Frederick - Cincy: 1.6 ppg in limited minutes over 5 games for #19 Cincinnati. Yep, he's still around - he redshirted in Joe Wieskamp's freshman class at Iowa.

Ahron Ulis - Nebraska: 3.4 ppg in about 15 min/game for 7-2 Nebraska. Finally got to play after having to sit last year for the gambling investigation. We'll see him January 7th.

Dasonte Bowen - St. Bonaventure: Averaging 11.1 and 4.2 assists, starting 10/11 games for a 10-1 St. Bonaventure team. They lost to Utah State too - He had 15 pts.

Josh Ogundele - Tennessee State: Yep, he's still around too. Left Middle Tennessee last year and has already played in 11 games with the first 2 starts of his college career. 4.5 pts 3.7 reb. Team is 4-7.

Amarion Nimmers - Tampa Spartans: After a stop at Indian Hills CC, is averaging 16.1 ppg and shooting .426 from 3 for the D2 school, which is 7-2 on the season.

Ann Selzer still searching for answers after final Iowa Poll badly missed its mark​

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 signaled the results were off

JOHNSTON — More than a month after the November election, Iowa-based pollster Ann Selzer still is searching for answers.

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A powerful coalition of African American churches is calling for the suspension and investigation of MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton, alleging that donations from Kamala Harris’s campaign to Sharpton’s National Action Network have compromised the integrity of the black Church and journalism.

Last week, MSNBC admitted it was “unaware” that Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign had paid $500,000 to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network nonprofit ahead of a favorable interview with the Democratic nominee on October 20, just weeks before the election, according to Fox News.

(just more proof no one likes the left or their extinctionist ideas)

For those who haven't gotten around to reading his books, here's a nice intro. The book he mentions, Unstoppable Us, it the book he wrote aimed at kids. Adults will want to plunge in with Sapiens. He's really good.

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