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!!!

(Spoiler he is coming to Iowa) Without a solid indication of an awesome OC hire. Oh also don’t forget to eat sh*t

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is proposing stricter rules for concentrated livestock feeding operations near karst soil — something environmental groups have been seeking for years.



The agency’s cost-benefit analysis — required by an executive order from Gov. Kim Reynolds on all existing state administrative rules — shows regulations on concentrated animal-feeding operations, or CAFOs, are needed to protect human health, reduce cities’ water treatment costs and preserve tourism.


“While there are costs in complying with the regulations, the benefit to the environment outweighs the cost,” the Iowa DNR wrote in an 83-page report issued in September.




The Environmental Protection Commission, an appointed board that provides policy oversight over Iowa's environmental protection efforts, on Nov. 21 approved a notice of intended action to replace Iowa Code Chapter 65 with new rules governing CAFOs. The agency is accepting public comment through Feb. 23 before voting next spring.


The nonprofit Iowa Environmental Council started asking for new rules in 2021, after the Iowa DNR approved a manure plan for Supreme Beef, an 11,600-head cattle feeding operation near Monona. The facility was built in karst terrain, where a manure spill could quickly seep through porous bedrock and contaminate groundwater or Bloody Run, a prized trout stream.


A Polk County judge overturned Supreme Beef’s plan earlier this year, which led to multiple revisions. The Iowa DNR approved a new plan Nov. 17.

The Supreme Beef feedlot near Monona, pictured March 29, received state approval Nov. 17 of a manure plan after a judge rejected a previous plan. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette)

Karst areas get extra protections​

The proposed Chapter 65 calls for new requirements for CAFOs located in Northeast Iowa’s Driftless region, an unglaciated area with rocky terrain and karst soils.


No new CAFOs would be allowed within 5 feet of karst. Between 5 and 15 feet, a manure storage basin would be required to have a 5-foot continuous layer of low-permeability soil, nonsoluble bedrock or a 2-foot synthetic clay liner.


The Iowa DNR also would formally adopt a map showing the 100-year flood plain so citizens can make sure they aren’t proposing CAFOs in those areas.

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The Environmental Council asked the Iowa DNR last year to adopt flood plain maps, saying the agency had issued permits for CAFOs in the flood plain at least seven times since 2003 even though feeding operations are prohibited near waterways.


The Iowa DNR estimates CAFO owners each would have to spend $10,000 more to provide a thicker barrier between manure and soil in karst areas. Owners of small CAFOs aren’t required to get manure management plans.


There are no additional costs to the state, the analysis notes.


When asked to compare the costs and benefits of the changes to the cost and benefits of inaction, the Iowa DNR said “greater environmental harms would occur” without regulations.


“There would likely be increased medical costs due to poor water quality, including possibly an increased rate in cancer and birth defects,” the agency wrote. “The cost of water quality treatment by municipalities would likely also increase without proper regulations controlling the discharge of manure into waters of the state. Additionally, the lack of regulations would have an adverse impact on recreational and tourism activities in the state.”

Nitrate pollution costs Iowans​

Alicia Vasto, the water program director for the Environmental Council, said she was glad to see these statements from the Iowa DNR and for the agency to propose stricter standards for CAFOs near karst.


“There are some incremental changes in this new rules package, but it's nowhere near the kinds of regulation we need to see in this state to protect public health and quality of life for Iowans,” she said.


The Environmental Council this week published a report called the “Cost of CAFOS” that summarizes some of the ways Iowans pay for poor water quality.


“If the current amount of nitrogen pollution from farm fields and CAFOs continues, Iowans will be responsible for paying up to $333 million over the next five years to remove nitrates from drinking water,” the report states.


The council pointed to a 2019 analysis in the journal Environmental Research that showed nitrate may be linked to thousands of babies being born early or facing very low birth weight. Cancers attributed to nitrate are estimated to be higher in Iowa than in neighboring states, according to the nonprofit Environmental Working Group.


Iowa also stands to gain $30 million a year in tourism spending by improving water quality, according to an Iowa State University analysis cited in the Environmental Council report.


Vasto expects the Iowa DNR’s proposed rules, viewed as a compromise between environmental groups and ag advocates, will be approved, since they already have gone through earlier public comment periods and have gotten buy-in from the Governor’s Office.

“I started my career in immigration enforcement in 1984 as a border control agent. I've worked for six presidents up to Donald Trump. Every president I've ever worked for took some steps to secure the border because they understood you can't have strong national security if you don't have border security. But President Biden is the first president in the history of this nation that I know of who came in office and unsecured the border on purpose.

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House Republicans on Wednesday morning were racing toward a vote to elect Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana as speaker, hoping to bring an end to a tumultuous three-week stretch of party infighting that has left the chamber paralyzed.

Republicans were rallying behind Mr. Johnson, a little-known social conservative from Louisiana, ahead of a vote on the House floor expected early Wednesday afternoon. He secured the nomination late Tuesday night after the hard right blocked a third nominee for the post, Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota.

While it was not certain he could muster a majority, Mr. Johnson, 51, appeared to have the best chance of any Republican who has pursued the speakership since the far right forced a vote to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy three weeks ago. In an internal party vote on Tuesday night, Mr. Johnson faced no opposition, though a few Republicans voted “present” and more than 20 were absent.
“We’re going to restore your trust,” Mr. Johnson said at a news conference on Tuesday night, flanked by Republicans. “We’re going to do this quickly, this group here is ready to govern and we’re going to govern well.”

• Because of his party’s slim majority, Mr. Johnson can afford to lose no more than four Republican votes if all Democrats are present and voting for their own leader, Representative Hakeem Jeffries, as they have consistently. A majority is needed to win the gavel.
• Mr. Johnson, 51, is a lawyer is in his fourth term in the House. He served on former President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment defense team, played a leading role in recruiting House Republicans to sign a legal brief supporting a lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election results and was an architect of Mr. Trump’s bid to object to certifying them in Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. An evangelical Christian, he is deeply opposed to abortion rights. Last year, he sponsored legislation that would effectively bar the discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity at any institution serving children younger than 10 that receives federal funds.
• The weekslong Republican feuding over the speakership has exposed bitter, often personally animated divisions within the party, and House Republicans have toppled three of their own nominees for the post. But in a sign that gave Mr. Johnson and his allies hope, both mainstream and hard-right lawmakers who previously blocked speaker candidates have said they are prepared to back Mr. Johnson on the House floor.
• Mr. Trump effectively endorsed Mr. Johnson on Wednesday morning, writing on social media: “My strong SUGGESTION is to go with the leading candidate, Mike Johnson, & GET IT DONE, FAST!”
• Should he win, Mr. Johnson would immediately face a host of challenges that dogged his predecessor, Mr. McCarthy. He would confront a mid-November deadline to pass a measure to fund the government to avert a shutdown. And he would need to lead a conference deeply divided over foreign policy as Congress considers the Biden administration’s $105 billion funding request for Israel, Ukraine, and the southern border. Mr. Johnson has opposed continued funding for the war in Ukraine, which has emerged as a bitter fault line in the G.O.P. and in the spending battles he would have to navigate in the coming days as speaker.

Kayla Guo contributed reporting.
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Representative Ken Buck of Colorado, who opposed Jim Jordan’s bid for the speakership in part because he refused to acknowledge that the 2020 election had not been stolen, said he would support Mike Johnson today on the floor. Johnson was a lead architect of the legal objections to certifying the election results.
Highlighting the deep personal and ideological fissures within the House G.O.P. that foiled the conference’s three prior nominees, Buck said Johnson emerged as a unifier because he “has the least enemies in this conference.”
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Buck added that he hoped Johnson would “come to the right conclusion” as Trump’s former lawyers increasingly acknowledge their roles in propagating the lie that the election was stolen.

Bidens open border policy is going to be another nail in his coffin regarding his re-election chances.


Residents' animosity toward the Democratic Party runs deep, according to Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez, who said the anger has only been getting worse due to the growing migrant crisis.

The local Democratic official joined "Jesse Watters Primetime" Monday to discuss how his residents feel about local leaders in the city after activists vowed to make their voices heard during next summer's Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Lopez said the Black community feels abandoned and is "no longer feeling the love from Uncle Joe," as the city continues to try to make room and special accommodations for migrants.

Voters expressed their anger this week at a rally near city hall, with one activist saying Democrats should not expect the 2024 political convention to be "peaceful."

"When you take a group of people that have paid no taxes, can't vote and you put them in front of the voters? We're gonna show you how we feel about the Democratic National Convention. If you think you're gonna have a peaceful Democratic National Convention while our people are starving, stay tuned!" he said.

Another woman declared that she was "done with the Democratic Party."

"Mayor Johnson, Governor Pritzker and President Biden have shown us what they think about the Black community all over this country. … I'd rather deal with a snake that's outed himself in the Republican Party, than a snake that's covered up in the Democratic Party!" she said.

As a result, Lopez described what he has heard from the streets of Chicago.

"What they say about Joe Biden, and indeed the entire Democratic Party as a whole, is that most of the Democratic voters feel as though this party no longer represents them."

Lopez said the Democratic Party moved too far to the left, "while leaving a vast majority of our voting base off in the wilderness with nowhere else to go but to the embrace of the Republican Party." He said voters know what to expect from Republicans, while feeling deceived by Democrats.

"I think what they're worried about is that the Democratic Party vocalizes all kinds of things and then does not deliver, actually does quite the opposite," he told Watters.

Mayor Brandon Johnson recently put the blame for the crisis on his predecessor, Democrat Lori Lightfoot and said right-wing extremists are "going after democratically-ran cities that are led by people of color."

Chicago residents have been speaking out as the city moves forward with plans for a winterized base camp to house migrants in Brighton Park.

Local residents say the city has ignored their concerns of overcrowding and safety, as well as fears that the encampment is being built on contaminated soil.

At least 20,000 migrants have poured into Chicago since August 2022, when many migrants were bused from the southern border states to liberal cities farther north. Efforts have been underway to strip Chicago of its sanctuary city status as some residents sound off about the issue.

In addition to the influx of migrants who lack shelter, an estimated 68,000 Chicago citizens are considered homeless, Fox News Digital reported earlier this month.

FOX 23 reported Chicago is paying nearly $92,000 per month to lease the lot in Brighton Park. That is in addition to a $29 million contract the city signed with GardaWorld in September to build additional migrant camps.

Need someone to step in for me as I usually start a grades thread. Most likely going to miss the live match and hope to catch the replay after sons match tonight.

Thank You

GO HAWKS!!!

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I asked this in the game thread but didn't get a reply so, then I googled it and found the following twitter thread. Interesting, anyone know the answer on how the rules address it?

"Rules question: isn't a post player who is "sealing the defender" committing a moving screen or is there a special rule for offensive post ups that exempt it? Purdue has been killing us with this and Luka Garza used to be great at it also."

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Is it Safe?

"Bayati summited to a test that allegedly showed him having a blood-alcohol level of 0.158, almost twice the legal limit for driving.
Bayati claims he doesn't drink and that someone tampered with his coffee by pouring isopropyl alcohol in it."

Hmmm sure....

Ravens -9.5 over Texans
Over 50.5 49ers/Packers

C notes on each. Who do you like?

Cheers and GO HAWKS!

An American Airlines flight attendant was arrested Thursday after authorities say he secretly recorded or attempted to record videos of girls while they used the bathroom on five flights last year.
An investigation began after a 14-year-old girl reported him to the Massachusetts State Police after an incident on a September 2023 flight from Charlotte to Boston. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said he possessed similar videos of four other girls between the ages of 7 and 14.


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The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts said in a news release that Estes Carter Thompson III, 36, was taken into custody in Lynchburg, Va., and will make an initial court appearance in the Western District of Virginia. Thompson, a Charlotte resident, will later appear in a federal court in Boston, where the family of the girl aboard the September flight reported him to police.



Thompson faces one count of attempted sexual exploitation of children and one count of possession of child pornography depicting a prepubescent minor. He could receive 15 to 30 years in prison for the first charge and five to 20 years for the second. He also faces the possibility of a lifetime of supervision, a fine of $250,000 and restitution to the victims.
“What Mr. Thompson is accused of doing is disgraceful, and we believe, calculated, given that this alleged conduct occurred on at least five flights,” Jodi Cohen, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division, said in the release. “This case should make it crystal clear that the FBI takes crimes aboard aircraft and the sexual exploitation of children seriously. If you’ve been the victim of a crime aboard an aircraft or have witnessed one take place, we ask you to report it to both your flight crew and the FBI.”
The North Carolina family who reported Thompson in Boston filed a lawsuit against American Airlines on Dec. 1 alleging the company “should have known the flight attendant was a danger” and that other crew members failed to confiscate his phone midflight, allowing him time to destroy evidence.



“We take these allegations very seriously,” American Airlines said in a statement Friday. “They do not reflect our airline or our core mission of caring for people. We have been fully cooperating with law enforcement in its investigation, as there is nothing more important than the safety and security of our customers and team.”

American said Thompson was “immediately withheld from service following the September 2023 incident and hasn’t worked since.”
A 14-year-old girl identified in court filings as Minor A was traveling with her family on a Sept. 2 flight from Charlotte to Boston. According to an FBI affidavit, the girl was waiting for a lavatory when Thompson approached her and told her she could use the one in first class. Thompson told her he had to wash his hands before she entered and spent what seemed to the girl to be an unusually long time inside. Thompson also warned the girl the toilet seat was broken, the document says.


According to the FBI affidavit, when the girl entered, she saw red stickers on the underside of the toilet lid labeled “INOPERABLE CATERING EQUIPMENT.” After she used the toilet, the document says, she noticed the stickers were concealing an iPhone with a light turned on. She took a photograph of the phone and the stickers and immediately reported what happened to her mother. By the time her mother got up to inspect the lavatory, the stickers and the phone were reportedly gone.



The girl’s father confronted Thompson and two other flight attendants about the incident, the affidavit says. The other flight attendants attempted to help the father review the contents of Thompson’s phone to de-escalate the situation before Thompson took it back. The flight attendants reported the incident to the captain and notified law enforcement on the ground. Thompson had time to lock himself in the lavatory for three to five minutes, the affidavit says.
When Massachusetts state troopers interviewed Thompson in Boston, he gave them consent to search his iPhone. They found no record of calls, texts, photos or videos on the phone. Thompson was allowed to leave, but authorities retained his phone and his suitcase.
A search of the suitcase found 11 of the same red stickers that Minor A photographed on the toilet. A forensic search of Thompson’s phone by the FBI later found it had been reset to factory settings on the day of the flight.



Upon reviewing Thompson’s iCloud account, the FBI was not able to locate video of Minor A in the lavatory. The FBI found four other videos in the account that were filmed between January and August last year on an iPhone 12, the same model as Thompson’s phone.
The videos contained metadata showing they were created at times when Thompson was working on American Airlines flights. The four minor victims in these recordings were 7, 9, 11 and 14. The children were identified to the FBI by their parents.
To establish “other evidence of sexual interest in children,” the FBI affidavit says Thompson’s iCloud account also contained 50 images of a 9-year-old unaccompanied minor from another flight. There were also hundreds of images of child pornography that appeared to have been created by an artificial intelligence website.

Ex’s birthday and Chris Street.

**** 1-19.

Even though we are basically in the pre "big bang" phase of AI, I am over it already. Computer generated social media sucks in that trying to judge real or generated is not a fight in which I relish to attack everyday.

With Proctor joining the hawks I thought of a recent weakness of the offense that might get much better and that is red zone pounding the ball in for TDs.

My memory is that Kirk's best teams could pound the ball in with the fullback lead play and any number of very good running backs following the blocks. The 2002-3 teams could, 2008 with ShonnG, 2009-10 with Wegher and ARob, there were big powerful running backs in 2011, 13, 14 and on. The last couple of years it was a struggle.

It will be great to see the running game come alive again and mesh with some much improved passing scheme play

Take those two out of the equation and this team might get an NIT bid.

Neither one has any business in the bigten.

McGee got out of a couple of dead to the rights with his own bonus moves. Teched # 5 Smith. 126 is crazy every week.

By Dana Milbank
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May 20, 2022 at 12:03 p.m. EDT
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) outside the Capitol on May 12. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg News)
When John Bridgeland left a senior position in George W. Bush’s White House and joined Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in the fall of 2004, an eager undergraduate got assigned to him as a student fellow and facilitator of his seminar.
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“She was so excited because I was one of the few Republicans” then at the school’s Institute of Politics (IOP), Bridgeland told me this week. He remembered her as “extremely bright” and “through-and-through public-service-oriented.” She was so impressive in the seminar that he chose her to do a project with him selling Harvard students on the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and other service opportunities. “I thought the world of her,” Bridgeland said.
The young woman’s name was Elise Stefanik.
Bridgeland secured her a job in the White House when she graduated in 2006, personally appealing to Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and other former colleagues to hire her. Bridgeland later encouraged her to run for Congress, which she did, successfully, in 2014 — and the New York Republican quickly established herself as a leading moderate. “I was so incredibly happy and proud,” Bridgeland said. “I viewed her as the bright light of her generation of leaders. She was crossing the aisle. She was focused on problem-solving. She had the highest character.”
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And then, he said, “this switch went off.”

Today, the world sees a much different Stefanik. This past week, after the racist massacre in Buffalo, attention turned to her articulation of “great replacement” theory, the white-supremacist conspiracy beliefs said to have propelled the alleged killer. Before that, she had been a prominent election denier, voting to overturn the 2020 results after the Jan. 6 insurrection, and then using the issue to oust and replace House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (Wyo.) because she refused to embrace President Donald Trump’s election lies.
Now, Stefanik has thrown her support, as the No. 3 House GOP leader, behind a proposal to “expunge” Trump’s impeachment for his role in the insurrection. She has joined a small group of extreme backbenchers as co-sponsors of the resolution, which casts doubt again on Joe Biden’s “seeming” win, citing “voting anomalies.” The resolution has no purpose (there’s no constitutional way to expunge impeachment) other than to sow further distrust of democracy.
It’s a story told a thousand times: Ambitious Republican official abandons principle to advance in Trump’s GOP. But perhaps nobody’s fall from promise, and integrity, has been as spectacular as the 37-year-old Stefanik’s. “I was just so shocked she would go down such a dark path,” said her former champion, Bridgeland. “No power, no position is worth the complete loss of your integrity. It was just completely alarming to me to watch this transformation. I got a lot of notes saying, ‘What happened to her?’ ”
The answer is simple: “Quest for power,” Bridgeland said. “But power without principle is a pretty dark place to go. She wanted to climb the Republican ranks and she has, but … she’s climbed the ladder on the back of lies about the election that are undermining trust in elections, putting people’s lives at risk.”
As a candidate in 2014, Stefanik refused to sign Grover Norquist’s no-tax pledge, a Republican purity test. Then the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, she became a co-chair of the Tuesday Group of Republican moderates. She boasted about being among the most bipartisan lawmakers. She criticized Trump’s “insulting” treatment of women, his “untruthful statements,” and his proposed Muslim ban and border wall.
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Trump adviser Peter Navarro published a book, and in it he unveiled the plan to keep Trump in office. (Video: Monica Rodman, Sarah Hashemi/The Washington Post)
But Trump’s huge popularity in her upstate New York district changed all that. She became one of Trump’s most caustic defenders during his first impeachment. After Trump’s 2020 loss, she embraced the “big lie,” making a stream of false claims about voter fraud, court actions and voting machines, and urging the Supreme Court to reject the results.
When Bridgeland saw his former protegee’s lies about the election, “I was shattered. I was really heartbroken,” he told me. Alumni of Harvard’s IOP petitioned to remove Stefanik from its advisory committee, and Bridgeland signed it. “I had to,” he said, “because Constitution first.” Stefanik called her removal a “badge of honor” and a decision on the school’s part “to cower and cave to the woke left.”
Bridgeland, a career-long policy innovator who still considers himself a Republican, retains a flicker of hope that his former student might return to her early promise, recant the lies, and prove true Ralph Waldo Emerson’s belief that if a “single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”
“People become totally ruined by their failure to stand up for the good and the true, but I do think she has the spark still and could awaken to it,” Bridgeland said. “It’s not too late.”
For our country’s sake, I wish I could believe that.

Apparently these dumb things are what it's all about these days. So much so that Target has to limit two per person. I hate people.

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