This guy has the recipe to unite us. He mocks both sides taking themselves too seriously. His explaining jokes to idiots is genius.

1pm FS1
Purdue -6.5
O/U 165.5

#2 Purdue (16-2) comes to carver after smashing Indy on the road. Iowa (11-6) is really going to need the bigs to step up, Freeman is going to have his hands full against Edey. Although it’s going to come down to three point shooting as always for the hawks.

I’m seeing a 93-79 Purdue victory.

I'm upstairs watching football. Mrs. Lucas is downstairs watching something else. I don't really care what it is. Anyway, the only beer left upstairs is a Swarm, and no matter how much I want to support buying KP today, I want a Bud Light. I text her to bring a few bottles upstairs and hand me one in the recliner, and she responds, "Not a chance, sweet cheeks".

Thank god this isn’t really happening because it’s on Fox. 🤡

"We don't have a heroin problem in the Rio Grande Valley. We don't have a meth problem in the Rio Grande Valley. It comes through here, but it doesn’t stay here," he said. "We don't have MS-13. … They're in Virginia, Maryland and D.C. They come through here, but they don't stay here. They're going to your areas."

My Wi-Fi is fine really - not even something that I should be concerned about. My computer normally speed tests at 125-175 Mbps and my phone about the same or better. I'm not a gamer, so I don't really need super high speed. But my smart TV's still spool every once in a while, which is annoying.

So, when Mediacom (Xfinity) said they were raising my speed from 400 to 600 Mbps, It made me wonder if things really should be working faster.

So, I bought a new Arris 3.1 DOCSIS router and a eero 6+ Mesh Wi-Fi and figure I was ready to see what fast speeds would be like.

However, the speed increase was negligible. Computer at 175, phone at 210.

Called Mediacom and they said my device speeds should be more like 550. Had a tech come out and check it out - the speed to the house was 800 and the eero wi-fil was picking up 800. I can see the 800 speed on my eero app.

Called eero and they said that if your getting 200+ on your devices that's about as good as you can do on a wireless wi-fi.

That's nonsense - internet speeds in some places are over 1 gig. What's the point if devices are going to stay at 200 anyway?

So, what am I missing?

I know there are plenty of tech guru's out there - but if you want to help please try to dumb the explanations down a smidge.

Need your help HROT!

There's about 4 or 5 inches here near Washington D.C.

It hasn't snowed here in 2 years. Last winter it felt extremely warm. It's bitter cold now.

I'm wearing my fishing boots up to my knees when I walk outside in the tundra.

CSB.

How much snow do you have? Do you like snow?

I dislike it because I have to drive in it.

A key ally of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) said Saturday that the lead prosecutor of the election interference case against former president Donald Trump should step aside amid allegations that Willis hired him while the two were in a personal relationship.

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Norm Eisen, who served as special counsel to the House of Representatives’ first impeachment of Trump, told reporters Saturday that there is no legal basis to disqualify Nathan Wade, an Atlanta-area lawyer whom Willis hired on contract as a special prosecutor to lead the case. But the controversy is not going away and threatens to delay the case against the former president, which must be avoided, Eisen said.

He said Willis should not step aside because of the importance of the case and because the voters of Fulton County elected her to the job.



“There is an overwhelming amount of evidence justifying the decision to prosecute Mr. Trump and his co-conspirators, including Mr. Roman,” Eisen said, referring to co-defendant Mike Roman, who included the sensational allegations in a filing two weeks ago seeking to disqualify both Wade and Willis from the case. “The evidence is strong. The case is powerful. It’s very likely to lead to conviction. And we mustn’t lose time on the calendar given the paramount public interest in bringing that strong case to a speedy conclusion.”

Eisen said that if Wade were to ask his ethics advice, he would say: “No matter the law, discretion is the better course of valor.”
Eisen’s remarks represent one of the first instances of a Willis ally acknowledging the potential damage that the allegations have brought to her and the case. Although he was quick to note that many facts remain unknown — including proof that she accepted airline tickets and other gifts from Wade — he said it seems clear that the two have had a personal relationship, and that was “not wise.”
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Eisen said a relationship between two prosecutors does not pose a conflict of interest and does not trigger disqualification proceedings under Georgia law. He made clear, however, that the alleged behavior could violate Fulton County ethics policies. On Friday, Fulton County commissioner Bob Ellis sent Willis a letter indicating that he planned to investigate whether Willis’s hiring of Wade and alleged acceptance of gifts from him subsequently amounted to a misuse of county funds. A spokesman for the district attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.



Ellis’s letter came in the wake of fresh evidence that Wade paid for at least two airline trips with Willis while the investigation was underway, according to bank statements filed in his divorce case Friday. The statements were part of a filing by lawyers for Wade’s estranged wife, Joycelyn Mayfield Wade, in an effort to compel Willis to testify in the divorce proceeding, which the district attorney sought to avoid in a separate filing on Thursday. It is unknown if Willis repaid Wade for the expenditures.
Wade purchased tickets for himself and Willis on two occasions, according to the statements — a trip to Miami purchased in October 2022 on American Airlines that was later changed to a trip to Aruba, and a second trip purchased in April 2023 to San Francisco on Delta Air Lines.
Roman, who is charged alongside Trump in the Georgia case, has argued that Willis improperly benefited from hiring Wade as a special prosecutor by receiving free travel from him. Wade, who is an attorney in private practice, has earned more than $650,000 from Willis’s office for his work.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) struck down a bill that would have banned gender-affirming care for minors, preserving such care for residents beyond his state as well, because families of transgender youths who live in states with bans have been traveling to Ohio for treatment.

Republicans, who have a supermajority in the legislature, could override DeWine’s veto and are expected to push back.

“This bill would impact a very small number of Ohio’s children. But for those children who face gender dysphoria, the consequences of this bill could not be more profound. Ultimately I believe this is about protecting human life,” DeWine said Friday during a news conference announcing the decision. “Many parents have told me that their child would not have survived, would be dead today, if they had not received the treatment they received from one of Ohio’s children’s hospitals.”


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“These are gut-wrenching decisions that should be made by parents and should be informed by teams of doctors who are advising them,” DeWine continued. “Were I to sign House Bill 68, or were House Bill 68 to become law, Ohio would be saying that the state, that the government knows better what is medically best for a child than the two people who love that child the most: The parents.”

Hundreds of anti-trans bills have wound their way through dozens of state legislatures across the country. Almost half the states in the nation have passed laws targeting transgender people — including states that border Ohio. Many of these bills ban gender-affirming care for minors and restrict trans girls’ participation in school athletics.
Ohio’s Saving Adolescents From Experimentation Act, or SAFE Act, would have prohibited hormone therapy, puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery for people under 18. The measure also would have prohibited transgender girls from playing on sports teams designated for girls and women in high school and college, known as the Save Women’s Sports Act. Its sponsor, state Rep. Gary Click (R), has said that the measure was not about “culture wars” but about “medical ethics.”



Click’s office had told The Post that if vetoed, he would call for the legislature to override the veto.
DeWine said that while he is vetoing the bill, he is directing his administration to begin work on administrative rules “to establish important protections for Ohio children, and Ohio adults” on the issue. This will hopefully avoid a veto override, he said.
Ohio legislators sent the bill to DeWine this month after heated debates among lawmakers. Proponents argued that the measure focused on the well-being of children; opponents argued that the bill was not supported by science and, in turn, could cause more harm than good.
Hundreds of people testified in hearings on the legislation this year, with 87 people testifying during a state Senate committee hearing in early December that stretched past 11 p.m. A majority of them testified against the bill, and many of those who supported the ban flew in from out of state to testify.



The bill passed the Ohio Senate 24-8 and the House 61-27, largely along party lines in the Republican-controlled chambers, joining more than 20 states that have passed similar restrictions in the past two years.
Ohio resident Rick Colby broke party lines in May to testify against the bill as a Republican. His adult son is transgender, and has received gender-affirming care in the state, Colby told The Washington Post this week, referring to the bill as a “horror” and adding that it suggests a disparity among Ohioans’ ability to care for their trans children.
While minors who are already receiving gender-affirming care would’ve been allowed to continue, other parents “would be criminals, if they seek care for their child after the bill becomes effective. It’s crazy,” Colby said, suggesting that the governor consider creating a commission to study the issue instead. “This is not like some partisan issue here. This is an issue that transcends politics. … Get all the right people together, parents and even supporters of the bill, get them all together. Then have public meetings.”

I’d rather staple my sack to my thigh than watch this dog shit.

I thought this might be of interest to many, I haven't seen this posted in any of the threads about the replacement OC. No speculation or rumor, just a comprehensive list of all the schools replacing one this year and what jobs have been filled so far by whom. They also do a DC one you can find on there if anyone wants to check that out.

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Make me puke. Purdy is a smug douche.

WHO: #2 Purdue Boilermakers (16-2, 5-2 Big Ten)
WHEN: 1:00 PM CT (Saturday, January 20, 2024)
WHERE: Carver-Hawkeye Arena (Iowa City, IA)
TV: FS1
RADIO: Hawkeye Radio Network (Gary Dolphin, Bob Hansen)
MOBILE: foxsports.com/mobile
ONLINE: foxsports.com/live
FOLLOW: @IowaAwesome | @IowaHoops | @IowaonBTN
LINE: Purdue -6.5
KENPOM SPREAD: Purdue -7 (Purdue 88, Iowa 81; Purdue 74% chance of winning)

The last time #2 Purdue and Iowa squared off on the basketball court, the Boilermakers were fresh off a 92-88 overtime loss to Northwestern. The game was in West Lafayette, a recent house of horrors for Iowa basketball. The result was predictable: Purdue jumped out to a big lead and pounded Iowa for 40 minutes before wrapping up an 87-68 victory.

That Iowa victory kicked off a seven-game winning streak for Purdue, before they suffered another road upset 11 days ago, at Nebraska. The Cornhuskers were red hot from outside and buried the Boilermakers under 61% shooting from deep.

Purdue bounced back from that loss with two more wins, including an 87-66 road throttling of in-state rival Indiana on Tuesday. Purdue remains, by any measure, a Big Ten title favorite and one of the very best teams in the country this season.

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272!

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😂 😂 😂
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Neat interview with Clark. Apologies if this has already been posted. They asked some good questions and Caitlin of course is so articulate.

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Saw this on Twitter. Not sure how legit this is, and the guy did emphasize it's only a rumor.
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Ravens win big

But Trump…..

Great night of wrestling, mostly looking forward to Ayala getting another high end win against Ramos and Franek coming out with a dominate win over the older Blaze brother.

Got me some homemade grilled balsamic chicken and broccoli rabe with lots of garlic and toasted garlic bread ( gotta keep away the demons) to wash it down we have a cheap Cabernet wine, I just can't justify buying expensive wine when the cheap stuff taste better!

GO HAWKS!!!