Time for HBOT to get their festivus on.

Adam, Ross AND i discuss Iowa's miss on Penn State transfer portal quarterback, Beau Pribula and the latest commitment in Central Michigan DL, Jonah Pace.

PODCAST:

I like Thelwell starting, but the Hawks got out-rebounded again yesterday. Any of you geniuses got a solution other than 'Fire Fran'?

Some sights are showing Iowa as the front runner despite a recent visit to Columbus. I just don't see how we have the funds comparatively.

There's your second transfer commit. Premium three thoughts shortly.

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When revenue sharing starts.

1. Will student athletes be classified as employees or independent contractors?
2. Will their pay be public record?
3. Can the university fine them if they violate university policy?
4. Will student athletes unionize?
4. If they do unionize, will there be a collective bargaining agreement?

That day where people whose entire existence is based on threads on this site bump as many of their threads to the top of the board as possible.

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.”

So, I'm on YouTube and I see this in my sidebar

Neurologist: Alzheimer’s STARTS in Your 30s & 40s! THIS Health Mistake Makes Your Odds WORSE!​

That gets my attention. But then I notice that the video is 2 HOURS LONG! Yikes!

So I want an AI that I can feed the link and it will give me a concise summary with the important stuff bullet-pointed.

Do any of the public AIs do that yet?

The doormat or mandator? Obviously the most powerful VP was Cheney and the least Quayle. With all of the big personalities right now he appears to be an afterthought.

Bought a new Sony tv and Sony receiver. Existing surround sound left by prior homeowners, so I decided I’d reuse. Seems to work ok when watching cable or listening to music but when the ps5 is the input things get weird. During games, the entry screen where normally music would be played (think nba 2k) only the sub plays, no other speakers. If I play YouTube through the ps5, no sound at all. I’ve tried to adjust all the ps5 settings but I cannot get it figured out. Is there any audio/video studs out there that can set me straight?

No way he hits the whole world. Also where does he shit during the deliveres

Crackers with can cheese and a Micelob Ultra is legit.

Come at me bros then drop one of your own.

Login to view embedded media And she runs a news organization? wTF

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(CNN) – Disney has cut a transgender storyline from its new animated Pixar series titled “Win or Lose.”

The edit comes ahead of the show’s release next year.

The animated show centers around a co-ed middle school softball team called “The Pickles.”

Each of the show’s eight episodes will focus on a different member of the team.



"Win or Lose" will begin streaming Feb. 19 on Disney+.(Disney)
According to a source, while the storyline involving gender identity will no longer be included, the character will remain in the series.

In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, Disney said for animated content directed toward younger audiences, the company recognizes that “many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline.”

“Win or Lose” will begin streaming Feb. 19 on Disney+.

It was dramatic last year v. Oklahoma, Creighton, Clowns. I kind of quit paying attention after that. Last night v Clowns it was more of same.

Would any of Iowa's players start for the Clowns? Sixth man? Seventh man?

Who is the big money man directing all of that talent to the Clowns? Seems to be a bit of a stretch to think that TJ's personality is the reason.

And for the record, when does Fran's contract expire and what is the buyout?

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Jfc. They are the dumbest. Scared of everything but dictators.

Can’t wait to be forced to eat the cost of my drone to have to buy an Uncle Sam Patriot Flyer.

Put together a list last night of QBs Iowa could still go after in the portal.

Those with connections to the program, those without and one name to watch, should he enter.

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Just got a letter saying they are reducing everyone's coverage and raising rates by a minimum of 20%. Smh

Yeah, people just don't realize how great the economy is right? Yeah right. iT wEnT uP 4o% iN OtHeR cOuNtRiEs!

Sorry but Grassley and McConnell need to go.

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The rest of the prep begins soon. Pray for my septic system. Not going to be a fun night.

Iowa state officials are asking a court to require the federal government to share some Iowans’ citizenship information so the state can determine who is ineligible to vote.



The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate.


The Republicans’ lawsuit asks the court to require U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to “promptly” provide the immigration and citizenship status of each person on a list of 2,176 Iowans provided by the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office.




“The State seeks the information to ensure that its elections were and will be safe and secure,” the lawsuit states. “The ‘purpose authorized by law’ was investigating to determine whether criminal conduct occurred in connection with an election and to ensure the integrity of future Iowa elections.”


Pate’s list was composed of Iowans who live in the United States legally but at some point indicated to the state transportation department that they were not full U.S. citizens. Pate developed the list in his effort to ensure no Iowans without U.S. citizenship attempted to vote illegally in the 2024 elections.


Pate tried to get information on the 2,176 individuals’ citizenship from the federal agency. According to Pate’s office, the agency’s office in Des Moines went over the list and prepared the information sought, but the lead office in Washington, D.C., would not permit the information to be shared with Iowa state officials.


According to the lawsuit, Citizens and Immigration Services told the state in an email it could not release the information to the state because the list of names would “require extensive research and review by multiple oversight offices.”





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“The role of Iowa Secretary of State requires balance between participation and integrity. We have identified solutions that will allow us to verify voter eligibility at registration — not at the time of voting,” Pate said Tuesday in a joint news release with Bird. “The combination of access to the SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) list, citizenship verification already completed by USCIS, and the ability to verify using social security numbers will not only make processes more efficient but will also provide another important tool in our toolbox to safeguard our elections process.”


For the November election, Pate instructed elections officials to require any individual on the list to vote via a provisional ballot, which gave those voters a week to provide proof of U.S. citizenship.


The ACLU of Iowa and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa sued Pate’s office over the policy less than a week before the election, but a federal judge ruled that Pate’s directive could continue.


Some county auditors were able to determine the citizenship of residents in their counties before Election Day. At least 200 Iowans’ ballots were challenged in the state’s most populous counties, according to what those counties’ auditors told The Gazette.


Some auditors discovered examples of noncitizens having voted or registered to vote in previous elections, both of which are Class D felonies in Iowa, punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of $750 to $7,500.


In a statement, the ACLU of Iowa and ACLU National called the Iowa lawsuit “a waste of time and money” and accused Pate of using faulty and dated state data and alleged that due to his directive, “perhaps thousands of naturalized citizens were improperly targeted and challenged at the polls.”


"Studies, journalistic efforts, and repeated attempts by government officials in Iowa and nationally have found very few noncitizens who have voted out of the many millions of people who vote,” the ACLU statement said. “This wasteful lawsuit isn’t going to change that. State leaders should spend their time on actual problems that face our state.”


Bird, in the joint news release, said her office filed the lawsuit to force Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration to release “the election integrity data that it has been hiding from Iowa.”


“The Biden-Harris administration knows who the hundreds of noncitizens are on our voter rolls and has repeatedly refused to tell us who they are. But the law is clear: voters must be American citizens,” Bird said in the statement. “Together, with the (Iowa) Secretary of State, we will fight to maintain safe and secure elections that Iowans can count on.”


When asked why the state did not file the lawsuit before the election, when a ruling in its favor could have produced the citizenship information in time to be useful for the Nov. 5 general election, a spokeswoman for the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office said it had hoped the federal government would deliver the information without the state “having to resort to a lawsuit.”


The spokeswoman said Pate’s office would “continue to ask for the information and exhaust every avenue available to us.”


The lawsuit asks the court to require the federal agency to “promptly” provide the immigration and citizenship status of all 2,176 individuals on Pate’s list without cost, and cover the state’s attorney fees and other litigation costs.


In the lawsuit, the state claims there are 65,000 people registered to vote in Iowa whose citizenship the state cannot verify. There are nearly 1.8 million active registered voters in Iowa as of Dec. 1, according to Iowa Secretary of State figures.


“The federal government has those resources,” the lawsuit states. These are individuals who registered to vote in Iowa without using an Iowa-issued driver’s license or ID card, according to the lawsuit.


“Those voters have never had their citizenship status verified,” the lawsuit says. “Thus, it is possible for a non-U.S.-citizen to register to vote without using a driver’s license or ID card.”

Will win a minimum of $600 in my fantasy football league. Pick me a bottle of wine or bourbon to celebrate with. Wines, I prefer full bodied reds. Recently been drinking Frog’s Leap Cab and Petite Syrah.