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How’s that OiT? Did I do this right?

FFS maga is a disgusting cult.

A Council Bluffs man has been sentenced to prison in connection with a homemade gun found after he caused a disturbance at a Tama casino in April 2022.

Som Boun Cam, 56, was sentenced to five years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release during a hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa in Cedar Rapids.

Authorities said Cam had jiggled hotel door handles and kicked doors at the Meskwaki Casino — conduct prosecutors said amounted to attempting to break into rooms and the defense attributed to the erratic behavior that comes with drug use and mental health episodes.

Cam then “shadow boxed” with a fire extinguisher and paced the hall before becoming involved in a scuffle with another hotel guest.

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Medics took him to the hospital for medical treatment and he left behind his backpack, which was later turned into the lost and found.
Inside the backpack, hotel workers found a glass pipe and a loaded homemade double-barreled gun capable of firing .410-bore shells.
Cam returned for the backpack days later, and police found three bags of meth in his coat pocket. He admitted to police he built the weapon himself, according to court records.
ATF workers tested the weapon and it worked as intended, court records state. The gun was categorized as an “any other weapon” which would have required registration through the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.
Cam is prohibited from handling firearms because of prior felony drug and weapons convictions, according to prosecutors.

I agree with this... even if kids will find a way around it like alcohol... even Pepsi

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9 of the 14 big ten teams made the list. Iowa is in good company with Nebraska, Rutgers, Minnesota, and Northwestern by not making the list.

List current through March 2023:

Keith Law is who created the Top 30 list. I was hoping to see BB in the teens, but top 10 is pretty special.
Mentioned him being pretty raw with a higher ceiling than many. 100+mph with room to still refine.

Athletic Top 30 MLB 24 Draft

Neil Young posted a since-deleted letter to his management team and record labeldemanding that they remove his music from Spotify. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,” he wrote. “Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.”

“I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” he continued. “They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both.” Young is referencing the steady stream of misinformation about vaccines that Joe Rogan has peddled on The Joe Rogan Experience. Last month, 270 doctors, physicians, and science educators signed an open letter asking Spotify to stop spreading Rogan’s baseless claims.

..Semen Seamen.

"Two-time NFL head coach Jon Gruden will need to learn that phrase and others, as he heads to Italy to continue his coaching career. Via Ben Axelrod of AwfulAnnouncing.com, the former Monday Night Football lead analyst will serve as an advisor to the Milano Seamen of the European League of Football."

Those emails really did crush his job prospects. Maybe this will give him a load of new prospects domestically.

From last night:


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Men’s basketball doesn’t deserve its own forum.

all's fair in love and war

A Montana rancher created giant hybrid sheep and sold them for hunting, creating the lambs by using illegally imported genetic material from the world’s largest sheep species, federal prosecutors say.
The moneymaking scheme sought to create a hybrid species of sheep that could be sold at a high price to hunting preserves in the United States and would mimic the world’s biggest breed, the Marco Polo argali sheep, a threatened species that lives in central Asia and is prized by trophy hunters.


Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 80, created more than 150 cloned embryos of the species and successfully bred a male Marco Polo argali, selling one of its offspring for $10,000, according to the criminal complaint filed against him by federal prosecutors. He used the sheep’s semen to breed it with other species, creating hybrid sheep and selling them to people in Texas and Minnesota.



Schubarth pleaded guilty to the two felony wildlife counts against him this week in federal court. He faces up to 10 years in prison and fines of up to $500,000.
Schubarth sold and bred mountain sheep, mountain goats and similar breeds at his 215-acre ranch in Vaughn, Mont. He began his effort to clone the Marco Polo argali in 2013, working with at least five other people — all unnamed in court documents — over the course of eight years, prosecutors said. No one else has been charged in connection with the case, the Justice Department said Thursday.
“This was an audacious scheme to create massive hybrid sheep species to be sold and hunted as trophies,” Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division said in a statement.
Schubarth’s attorney, Jason Holden, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post.


Marco Polo argali sheep have distinctive spiraling horns and can weigh more than 300 pounds — about double the size of a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. They are big prizes for trophy hunters, who travel to Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Mongolia to hunt them.



The breed is protected by an international convention and under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, which lists the species as threatened. They are on Montana’s list of prohibited exotic wildlife.

Sheep with larger horns and bodies are worth more to hunters, including at private shooting preserves, where hunters pay to pursue captive game. That means they can be sold to such facilities at higher prices.
To carry out his scheme, Schubarth obtained tissue from a Marco Polo argali that had been hunted in Kyrgyzstan from someone who smuggled it into the United States, according to the complaint. He then took the sheep tissue to a lab, which used it to create 165 cloned embryos.

Schubarth had embryos implanted in some of his ewes. One gave birth to a male Marco Polo argali, which Schubarth named Montana Mountain King.


He then used Montana Mountain King’s sperm to impregnate other species of ewe, bringing species that are prohibited in Montana across state lines to do so. That included buying and selling parts of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in violation of state laws, according to prosecutors. He also sold Montana Mountain King’s semen.
The scheme broke state and federal laws relating to animal import and export, game animals and animal protection. By introducing new genetic material into sheep, it also potentially threatened the health of native sheep populations, prosecutors and state wildlife officials said.

“The kind of crime we uncovered here could threaten the integrity of our wildlife species in Montana,” said Ron Howell, chief of enforcement for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.
In court documents, prosecutors described an elaborate effort among Schubarth and others to breed and transport the sheep. Someone he worked with falsely declared Montana Mountain King’s offspring as a different species to obtain state veterinary certificates that would permit them to move the sheep across state lines, the complaint alleges. Another accomplice was the person who allegedly brought the hunted Marco Polo argali tissue to the United States.


Schubarth sold dozens of straws of Montana Mountain King’s semen to people in Texas and Minnesota, and they illegally moved ewes from both states to Schubarth’s ranch to be artificially inseminated, the complaint alleges. They then transported Montana Mountain King’s offspring to Texas and Minnesota.
In addition to the $10,000 sheep, Schubarth sold 11 sheep with one-quarter of Montana Mountain King’s genetics for $13,200 total to two people in Texas, prosecutors said.
Schubarth is set to be sentenced July 11 in Montana.

Drake would still get an invite, right? That would be cool.

They started out 1-9 & are 14-5 since. Apparently had at least 2, if not 3 starters in and out of the lineup early on.

Halfway through the Meecham bio on him. Awesome. TJ knew how to Jedi-mind trick both the populace and fellow statesmen better than anyone we ever had.

In about 1774, he knew that the main grievances being held against the King were by the wealthy, land owners and the educated Whig thinkers. But he also knew he needed all classes on deck to get behind the idea of independence. So, while in Williamsburg he called for a “Day of prayer and fasting” of all Virginians to pray that “both sides” come to their senses and avoid a civil war. Then he spells out all of the grievances perfectly, acting like a neutral character but used the language sure to piss everyone off about what was happening while not being accused of treason (yet).

It really got all of Virginia on board and behind the idea of a revolution while calling for “a prayer for peace”. Genius.

csb

A few weeks past, people were in prison, and we had a nice forum and didn't have to listen to all the left's and right's dribble on here? Man was that a pleasant time.

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

What is the proper temperature in the microwave?

Former treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin is putting together a group of investors to buy TikTok, he said Thursday.
Mnuchin made the comments during a TV interview as the Senate prepared to consider a bill that would force TikTok’s Beijing-based parent ByteDance to divest the popular social media app. Under the bill passed by the House on Wednesday, TikTok would have 180 days to find a buyer or face a ban in the United States.


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“I think the legislation should pass — I think it should be sold,” Mnuchin told CNBC. “I understand the technology, it’s a great business, and I’m going to put together a group to buy TikTok.
The bill’s proponents say they want to wrest TikTok from foreign control, expressing concerns that the Chinese government could use the app to spy on Americans or influence elections. TikTok, which says its U.S. operations use cloud servers in the United States, has criticized the bill and lobbied against it, saying the real objective is to ban the app outright.



Mnuchin was part of a 2020 effort to force a TikTok sale or ban when he led the Treasury Department under President Donald Trump. Mnuchin said a Treasury panel that oversees foreign investments recommended a sale, although Trump ultimately signed an executive order barring U.S. entities from doing business with TikTok and another Chinese-owned app, WeChat, which would have effectively banned them from app stores on phones in the United States. Federal courts blocked the order, however.
Since leaving government, Mnuchin has founded Liberty Strategic Capital, a D.C.-based private equity firm focused on technology companies. Mnuchin declined to say Thursday who might be part of his investment group, but he stressed that no single investor would have a controlling interest.
Several other investors have expressed interest in buying TikTok, although it’s unclear how advanced those efforts are. Canadian investor Kevin O’Leary, a regular on the Shark Tank TV show, has said he wants to buy the app. He has called it a “complicated transaction,” however, because Congress has not clarified whether it would have to be a full or partial divestment.
Former Activision chief executive Bobby Kotik has also floated the idea to potential investment partners, according to the Wall Street Journal.

while on a traffic stop. Well, that's what he called it when talking to a dispatcher, although it is clearly a turkey, and for some reason he kept quacking at it like it was a duck. There's video with the linked story, it's well worth the couple of minutes it lasts. Turducken lives matter?