Wow, that Creighton team is fun to watch. Would love their coach when Fran is done.

Anyone on here remember this film? It's cheesy to watch now in a lot of ways, but the Cold War fear, tension and the nightmare of WW3 are well depicted. I vaguely remembering watching this when I was young and being scared as hell. It's saddening that the threat of complete worldwide annihilation looms now as much as it did then.

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I wouldn’t bet money on it happening, but it wouldn’t completely surprise me either.

Harris would get to be the first female POTUS, if only for a week or so. And she could issue Joe an 11-year blanket pardon like the one he gave Hunter. That would effectively close the door on any investigations into any improprieties that may have occurred in Ukraine or China and Joe can live out his twilight years free from legal hassles.

The purple jabberwocky ate rock candy on a box spring in his mother’s underwear.

Not silent chuckles, but actual laughs. I realized today that I don't laugh as much as I used to, or should.

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Let's go!!! She was my first pick for president in 2020 before the DNC bernie'd her. From dnc vice chair to Director of National Intelligence for a republican president.. talk about career growth!

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday that Israel launched dozens of strikes across Syria in recent days. The attacks drew sharp condemnation from U.N. Special Envoy Geir Pedersen, who called for a halt to the strikes.

“We are continuing to see Israeli movements and bombardments into Syrian territory. This needs to stop,” Pedersen said.

Katz said the Israeli navy “successfully destroyed the Syrian fleet” overnight. He added that he, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had directed the Israeli military to establish a “sterile defense zone” in southern Syria to “prevent the entrenchment and organization of terror” there.
The strikes, which were reported Monday and Tuesday in the northeast and around the capital, Damascus, targeted Syrian military installations, including multiple airports and a possible chemical weapons facility, according to two Western officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive security matter.



The IDF is “not involved in what’s happening in Syria internally,” said Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman, adding that Israel’s interest lies in “protecting our borders and the security of our civilians.”
Israel also deployed troops across the Syrian border, beyond a U.N.-monitored buffer zone, for the first time since the official end of the Yom Kippur War in 1974. The deployment follows the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime to rebel forces.

Here’s what else to know​

• Netanyahu testified at his corruption trial Tuesday, becoming the country’s first sitting leader to take the stand as a criminal defendant.
• The leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the rebel group that led the charge to oust Assad last week, pledged in a statement Tuesday to “hold accountable” members of Assad’s regime who were “involved in torturing the Syrian people.”
• Mohammed al-Bashir, Syria’s newly appointed caretaker prime minister, will run a transitional government until March 1, he said in remarks Tuesday. He previously led the rebels’ civilian government.
• A member of Russia’s parliament called for Assad, who is now in Russia, to be given citizenship. “Russia treats all its allies humanely, even if they are defeated,” said Alexei Zhuravlyov.
• The U.S. Justice Department has leveled war crimes charges against two men who it said served as high-ranking officials under Assad. The DOJ said Jamil Hassan and Abdul Salam Mahmoud, who remain at large, engaged “in a conspiracy to commit cruel and inhuman treatment of civilian detainees, including U.S. citizens,” during Syria’s decade-long civil war.

Longtime Democrat Texas Judge Switches Parties: “The Radicalization of the National Democrats Pushed Me Away a Long Time Ago” (Video)​

Burrow is the latest high profile athlete to have his home burglarized while he was known to be out of town for a game. First it was Kelce and Mahomes. Last night someone burglarized Burrow’s house while he was in Texas to play the Cowboys on MNF.

A swimsuit model named Olivia Ponton arrived at the home to find a shattered bedroom window and the room ransacked. She immediately called her mother, who called 911, and now police are investigating to see if this is some sort of organize crime ring.

According to the DM 6 of the top 10 in state recruits are ISU bound. 3 to Iowa. Thoughts?

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...6NG19RYpX0ZGQeXgEQ_aem_1MDXovQTOa3DrJJQHcQAmg

It's happening across the board, left wing media shows are taking a dump in the ratings, nobody but the brain dead even tune in.

A trio of MSNBC programs hit all-time viewership lows last week as the network continues to struggle on the heels of President-elect Donald Trump’s Election Day victory.

"Alex Wagner Tonight," "Inside with Jen Psaki" and "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" all hit rock bottom last week despite a busy news cycle that included the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the ensuing manhunt for his killer, a slew of news related to Trump’s Cabinet picks, the fallout from President Biden announcing he would pardon his son, Hunter, and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad being ousted from power.

"Alex Wagner Tonight," which airs during Rachel Maddow’s 9 p.m. ET timeslot on Tuesday through Friday because "The Rachel Maddow Show" only airs on Mondays, averaged only 595,000 total viewers during the week of December 2 for its lowest-rated week since the show’s 2022 debut.
"Inside with Jen Psaki" averaged only 651,000 total viewers for the program’s smallest weekly audience since it launched last year when Psaki famously ditched her gig as Biden’s first press secretary to join MSNBC.

"The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" managed more total viewers than it had last week, but the program hit an all-time low among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults age 25-54. "The Last Word" averaged only 61,000 demo viewers last week for its smallest audience in the critical measurable since the show launched in 2010.

The ratings lows come as Comcast recently announced it would spin off NBCUniversal cable assets, including MSNBC, into a separate company that will not be tied to NBC News. As a result, the fate of shared resources and even the cable network's name and editorial direction are in question.

Meanwhile, "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski angered many viewers last month when they admitted they met face-to-face with Trump after spending years insisting he was a "fascist" and an overall threat to democracy.

I genuinely hope we can come together as a country. It should be obvious to see MAGA has been pushing us vs them, toxic culture.

There will always be differences in beliefs and that’s ok. The Right needs to remove MAGA to move forward. If you can’t see that now, I’m not sure there is any hope for you.

Kirk Ferentz .... now you reply with someone who isn't planning on entering the portal

Yikes.

Hopefully, he stays there.

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Trump Media shares surge up to 20% after Trump rally in New York City​

Shares of Donald Trump’s social media company rocketed up more than 20% Monday, on the heels of the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign rally in New York City.

Trump Media stock rose above $46.80 per share in intraday trading, eclipsing its recent peak in mid-July, when the company’s market value soared after Trump was nearly assassinated at a rally in Pennsylvania.

That surge was followed by a major sell-off that hit bottom in late September, when DJT stock scraped below $12 a share.

But the Truth Social operator recovered all of those losses in October, as the election between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, entered its final weeks.

Just got word about a new portal QB from multiple sources.

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Anyone get an error message when trying to buy bowl tickets through the university?

During the campaign, President-elect Donald J. Trump swore he had “nothing to do with” a right-wing policy blueprint known as Project 2025 that would overhaul the federal government, even though many of those involved in developing the plans were his allies.
Mr. Trump even described many of the policy goals as “absolutely ridiculous.” And during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, he said he was “not going to read it.”
Now, as he plans his agenda for his return to the White House, Mr. Trump has recruited at least a half dozen architects and supporters of the plan to oversee key issues, including the federal budget, intelligence gathering and his promised plans for mass deportations.
The shift, his critics say, is not exactly a surprise. Mr. Trump disavowed the 900-page manifesto when polls showed it was extremely unpopular with voters. Now that he has won a second term, they say, he appears to be brushing those concerns aside.
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“President-elect Trump has dropped all pretense and is charging ahead hand in hand with the right-wing industry players shaping an agenda he denied for the whole campaign,” said Tony Carrk, the executive director of Accountable.US, a government watchdog agency that has been tracking Mr. Trump’s cabinet picks with ties to the project.
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Mr. Trump’s cabinet picks and other appointments have reaffirmed the fears of many Democrats and government watchdogs who say Mr. Trump will use Project 2025 as a road map to expand his executive power, replace civil servants with political loyalists and gut government agencies like the Department of Education.
Mr. Trump has picked Russell T. Vought, one of the authors of Project 2025, to lead the powerful Office of Management and Budget. In choosing Mr. Vought, Mr. Trump will have someone who views the position as far more expansive than just overseeing the budget.
Mr. Vought wrote in Project 2025 that the person picked for the job should view themselves as an “approximation of the president’s mind,” while establishing a reputation of the keeper of “commander’s intent.”
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In the report, Mr. Vought wrote that the incoming administration should overhaul executive branch institutions, such as the National Security Council and National Economic Council to align with Mr. Trump’s agenda, while abolishing White House offices for domestic climate policy and gender policy.
Earlier this year, Mr. Trump tried to distance himself from his former staffers like Mr. Vought, who also served as budget chief during his first term. Democrats were ramping up attacks that tied Mr. Trump to Project 2025 as voters grew unsettled by its promises to amass power in the executive branch.
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“I have no idea who is behind it,” Mr. Trump said on social media in July, despite his ties to former staffers like Mr. Vought.
In a statement this week, Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, argued Mr. Trump “never had anything to do” with Project 2025.
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“All of President Trump’s cabinet nominees and appointments are wholeheartedly committed to President Trump’s agenda, not the agenda of outside groups,” Ms. Leavitt said.
Mr. Trump has also tapped Stephen Miller to be his deputy chief of staff for policy and Thomas Homan to be a “border czar,” positions that do not require Senate confirmation. Mr. Homan is listed as a contributor to Project 2025. The legal organization Mr. Miller founded during Mr. Biden’s time out of office, America First Legal, was listed at one point as an adviser group to Project 2025.
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Both officials will be responsible for elements of Mr. Trump’s goals of establishing detention camps and carrying out mass deportations. The Project 2025 blueprint also recommends rescinding restrictions that prevented immigration agents from carrying out arrests in schools and churches.
Mr. Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, wrote a chapter in Project 2025 that called for reining in “Big Tech,” eliminating immunity protections for social media companies and imposing transparency rules on companies like Google, Facebook and YouTube.
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“It is hard to imagine another industry in which a greater gap exists between power and accountability,” he wrote.
Other contributors to Project 2025 include Pete Hoekstra, Mr. Trump’s former ambassador to the Netherlands and his current pick to be ambassador to Canada, as well as John Ratcliffe, Mr. Trump’s pick to lead the C.I.A.
A former director of national intelligence, Mr. Ratcliffe was cited repeatedly in the document, including in a chapter on the intelligence community written by Dustin Carmack. Mr. Carmack was Mr. Ratcliffe’s chief of staff when he served as Mr. Trump’s director of National Intelligence in his first administration.
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Mr. Carmack made the case in Project 2025 for empowering the director of national intelligence, as the leader of the intelligence community. He also said the leader needed to “address the widely promoted ‘woke’ culture that has spread throughout the federal government with identity politics and ‘social justice’ advocacy replacing such traditional American values as patriotism, colorblindness, and even workplace competence.”
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Alex Floyd, the rapid response director of the Democratic National Committee said that “after months of lies to the American people, Donald Trump is taking off the mask.”
“He’s plotting a Project 2025 Cabinet to enact his dangerous vision starting on day one,” Mr. Floyd said.

A long-deceased boss I had about 25 years ago (a retired professor) was convinced the have-nots would be coming over the wall for the haves before too long. He also argued that we wouldn’t be able to build walls high enough.

Leaving aside that we just elected a billionaire who seems intent on stocking his administration with fellow billionaires, thoughts on whether this is a realistic possibility?

Director of Cold War film ‘Red Dawn’ said movie’s success taught him lesson about liberal Hollywood​

Amanda Milius talked to Fox News Digital about the 40th anniversary of her dad's movie: 'I don't think Hollywood liked that too much'​

Asked to define why the film struck a chord and has resonated for more than a generation, the younger Milius referenced a line from the movie where Swayze’s character sums up why the young people are fighting so desperately to defend America against steep odds. "Because we live here," he simply explains.

"That [scene] means, ‘We have to do this. We have to take care of the country… This is our responsibility,'" she said. "It's like this very American idea of, I'm going to go and I just know in my bones that if somebody were to invade my land, I would go and protect it in whatever way I could with my high school friends in a truck."
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John Milius is a former board member of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and "Red Dawn" featured a scene where the Soviets use gun registration lists to confiscate weapons. The younger Milius said of her dad and that scene: "I think ‘Red Dawn’ is the movie where he got to do the most of what he wanted without interference, because there's so many things that he gets away with in that movie that you could never do today. I mean, just never."

She called the gun confiscation moment her dad’s warning to "watch out for government overreach" and added, "I think most people love that scene. I love it. I think it was, you know, pretty on point."


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From UI:
8 Hawkeyes Named AP All-Big Ten

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Eight University of Iowa football student-athletes – junior Kaleb Johnson, senior Jay Higgins, senior Connor Colby, senior Kaden Wetjen, junior Gennings Dunker, senior Logan Jones, senior Sebastian Castro and senior Jermari Harris and freshman Rhys Dakin -- have been named Associated Press All-Big Ten selections, it was announced Tuesday by the AP.

Iowa had five first-team selections -- Castro, Colby, Higgins, Johnson and Wetjen -- the most of any team in the expanded 18-team league. Johnson and Penn State tight end Tyler Warren were the only unanimous first-team selections by the voting panel of 21 media members who cover the conference.

It looks like the Swarm gameday tailgate will be held at Barstool Sports Nashville with Dallas Jacobus confirmed to be playing. Details will be forthcoming.

123 2nd Ave S, Nashville, TN 37201

Close to the stadium.