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Sun Star DiJonai Carrington Shades Caitlin Clark With Blunt Message

This crap is getting out of hand quickly. CC answers a reporter's question and with her answer she stays above all of this.

Then comes along this response.

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On the Road Again -- Indiana Fever vs. Chicago Sky

At the Cedar Rapids Airport currently, waiting for my connecting flight as I'm heading to Indianapolis tonight.

The folks at Yahoo! Sports reached out to me to head there and cover the Fever vs. Chicago Sky game to get content for their social channels, as Caitlin and Angel Reese/Chennedy Carter face off once again tomorrow at 11 am CT. I'll drop any extra notes/intel I get from the game here.

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Iowans' support for non-COVID vaccine requirements in schools erodes, Iowa Poll finds

You knew it was only a matter of time. Enjoy your polio, measles, tuberculosis, smallpox whooping cough and mumps morans!:


Just 34% of Iowa adults now say all children should be required to receive standard shots unless they have a doctor-signed statement showing they have a medical reason not to be vaccinated, the poll shows. That’s down from 59% who supported such a requirement in 2015, when the Iowa Poll asked a similar question about childhood vaccinations.

The shifting opinions come amid controversy over COVID-19 vaccines, which are not included in the list of shots Iowa children are supposed to receive before attending school. The list of state-mandated shots includes those against measles, polio, mumps and whooping cough, which have been required for decades.

The new poll specifically asked how Iowans feel about the state law requiring children to be vaccinated against diseases other than COVID-19.

The new poll finds that 28% say the state should have no law on childhood vaccinations. Another 21% of Iowa adults favor allowing limited exemptions to childhood vaccine mandates for medical or religious reasons, while 14% back allowing broad exemptions, for personal reasons as well as medical or religious reasons. Three percent are unsure.

The 28% of adults who think Iowa should have no law on childhood vaccinations is up 12 percentage points from seven years ago, when 16% believed that.


The new Iowa Poll, conducted by Selzer & Co., is based on a sample of 813 Iowa adults. It was conducted from Feb. 28 to March 2 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.

Iowa’s current childhood vaccination law allows exemptions for medical or religious reasons.

Public health experts say although some children have legitimate medical reasons not to receive specific vaccines, no major religion teaches that vaccinations are wrong.

A plurality of Iowa parents with children under 18 say there should be no law requiring children to receive vaccinations​


Just 17% of Iowa Republicans favor requiring all children to be vaccinated against diseases other than COVID-19 unless they have a doctor-signed statement saying they have a medical reason not to receive the shots. But 56% of Iowa Democrats favor such a strict requirement, as do 34% of political independents.

On the other hand, 46% of Iowa Republicans say the state should have no law on childhood vaccinations, compared to just 5% of Democrats and 27% of political independents.

25 Years Ago, right now……

My innards a were spread out in a cardiac surgery suite at Iowa Lutheran Hospital and the docs were triple by-passing my ticker. They fixed my heart, I recovered completely and I became a liberal…..good news for all of us here at HROT!

Ironically, 50 years ago today I was married for the first time! She didn’t like the move and a few years later moved to Texas….and as we all know…..”all my ex’s live in Texas”……but we were both much happier people after her move!

June 16th has been a pretty significant day in my life……maybe that is the date (sometime down the line) when it ends?

Meanwhile, I am going to practice my Rory-putting stroke.

Forever stamp will increase to .73 soon

What a bargain to send a letter across country or to the cousins a few miles away.
Average for 30 basically modern countries is $1.81, while Italy charges $4.48.
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So, why are U.S. stamps still cheaper than elsewhere?​

One glaring reason is scale. The U.S. "is by far the largest market for the delivery of domestic mail," with the Postal Service "handling half of the world's domestic mail (50.2 percent) in 2021," according to the OIG.

While the USPS has seen a long-term decline in use of its main domestic mail product, the drop has been even sharper and more prolonged in other countries. So while the U.S. agency is seeing dramatic drops in volume, it's better off than Postal Services in many other nations.
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Top Dem strategist James Carville says Biden should not have run for re-election

Veteran top Democratic consultant James Carville says he wishes President Biden wasn’t running for re-election and worries that disenchanted young party voters will sit out the November election because of it.

“It isn’t the choice I was crazy about,” admitted Carville, who played a major role in getting former President Clinton first elected in 1992, on 77 WABC radio’s “The Cats Roundtable” on Sunday.

“I thought that President Biden should not run for re-election,” the political guru said. “But he did — it’s him and Trump — and that’s where I am.”

Carville argued that the Democrats have a deep bench of younger elected officials who would be a better fit for the times than the 81-year-old Biden, including Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore

“I thought that President Biden should consider not running for the election, but that’s not the choice he made. And so, I’ve got to live in the world that I’ve got to live in, not the world I wanted to live in,” the consultant said.

He noted that young voters were key to twice electing Clinton and fellow former Democratic President Obama — and said he is worried they now are tuning out both Biden and 77-year-old Trump.

Carville said their apathy could have longer-turn implications for the US.

“The lack of enthusiasm among young people for public policy and public service and being involved in the public square is quite disheartening,” the consultant said. “I can understand it on one level. I’ve talked to them, and they feel like a lot of things are not working for them.

“They feel like two 80-year-old guys don’t mean much to them. I am really afraid that we are going to lose the generation of young people. … That’s my greatest fear for the United States, that young people are disengaging,” he said.

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14U/16U National Duals

14U and 16U National Duals kick off this morning in Greco. Greco is today and finals tomorrow, then Freestyle is Friday and Saturday. Iowa should do well in both styles and both age levels. Here are the team seeds in Greco.
14U Greco Seeds
1. Wisconsin
2. Washington
3. Ohio Red
4. Michigan Blue
5. Indiana
6. Iowa
7. PA Blue
8. Minny Blue
9. Texas Gold
10. Illinois
11. Oklahoma Red
12. Utah
13. Georgia
14. Colorado
15. Arkansas
16. California

16U Greco Team seeds
1. Iowa
2. Utah
3. Minny Blue
4. Illinois
5. Texas Gold
6. California
7. Colorado
8. Washington
9. Kansas
10. Okie Blue
11. Georgia
12. Wisconsin
13. Idaho
14. Michigan
15. Missouri
16. PA

Brackets are on Track. You can watch live on Flo.
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