Glad I’m setting the parking brake in 3 hours and done until mid January. Going to enjoy watching the chaos (if no deal) from the cozy confines of home with popcorn and hot cocoa.

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In one instance, the chief executive of a shelter provider paid himself more than $1 million in one year. That provider, CORE, was almost entirely funded by the city, according to the report.

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I realize we have the Rex Chapman thread but half of that is broken twitter links, it seems. Let's make this the thread for funny memes you come across while experiencing the interwebz.
OP's mom memes are fair game, btw.

I'll start:

Iowa +2.5 o/u 43

Yet another Biden mess that Trump and the R’s will need to clean up.

First Step: Speaker of the House Elon Musk.

The groundswell among Rs to make Musk the next Speaker of the House is growing. Rand Paul (despite having moved to the Senate) is for it. MTG is for it. If Josh Hawley signs up, it could be a done deal. (I say that because he probably wants the job for himself; so if he steps aside, that may end any serious objections.)

Does anyone know if Musk wants the job?

Musk is unlikely to know how to do the job, but he could easily hire/bribe/delegate - so cluelessness isn't an obstacle. And, like him or not, he does seem to be a quick study.

I'm sure Newt Ginrich would jump at the chance to join Musk as unofficial co-Speaker.

I'm also sure Musk would not be held to any ethical standards or have to put his holdings in trust or any of that good-government silliness.

Second Step: Eliminate the "Natural Born" Restriction to Becoming President.

It's a stupid rule that should have been amended away a long time ago. With Musk pouring billions into getting the amendment passed and ratified, what's stopping it?

Third Step: Eliminate Presidential Term Limits.

The American people should be able to vote for the candidate of their choice.

Fourth Step: President for Life Elon Musk.

Neil Cavuto, a business journalist who hosted a weekday afternoon program on the Fox News Channel since the network began in 1996, signed off for the final time on Thursday.
Mr. Cavuto, 66, also hosted two programs on Fox Business, but is best known for “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” which was in the 4-5 p.m. slot for 28 years. He did not give a reason for leaving but said he was not retiring from journalism.
“I got to do what I love here — report the news, not shout the news, not blast the news,” he said, before signing off. He said that Fox had given him a generous opportunity to stay, but he declined.
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He was behind the anchor desk for 12 hours of programming each week, including “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” on weekdays and “Cavuto Live” on the weekend. Beginning Friday, those shows will drop the Cavuto name, becoming “Your World,” “Coast to Coast” and “Fox News Live,” a Fox spokesperson said Thursday night. They will have rotating hosts.
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Mr. Cavuto could be an outlier on Fox News, often criticizing President Trump and his policies, and crediting the Covid-19 vaccination with saving his life.
In 2019, Mr. Cavuto said on the air: “Mr. President, we don’t work for you. I don’t work for you. My job is to cover you, not fawn over you or rip you. Just report on you — to call balls and strikes on you. My job, Mr. President — our job here — is to keep score, not settle scores.”
“You’re entitled to your point of view, Mr. President,” he continued. “But you’re not entitled to your own set of facts.”
In early 2022, Mr. Cavuto disappeared from his programs for over a month. When he returned, he told viewers that his absence was because of the coronavirus, which had sent him to an intensive-care unit. “I’d like to urge people of all sorts: Please get vaccinated,” Mr. Cavuto said at the time on another Fox News program.

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Mr. Cavuto received a diagnosis of cancer in the 1980s, of multiple sclerosis in 1997, and he had open-heart surgery in 2016.
“Neil Cavuto’s illustrious career has been a master class in journalism and we’re extremely proud of his incredible 28-year run with Fox News Media,” the network said in a statement. “His programs have defined business news and set the standard for the entire industry. We wish him a heartfelt farewell and all the best on his next chapter.”
Mr. Cavuto was an anchor on CNBC, which he joined upon its launch in 1989, before leaving for Fox News in 1996. He joined Fox Business when that channel started in 2007. Earlier, he was the New York bureau chief for PBS’s “Nightly Business Report.”
“I’m not leaving journalism,” he said during his last show. “I’m just leaving here.”

With the ruling that JUCO athletes retain all 4 years of NCAA eligibility regardless if they play at a JUCO for two years, how does that impact recruiting in sports? I would think it makes jucos more enticing for players to attend as they are pretty much a prep school now, especially with DI rosters being cut in most sports. Login to view embedded media

WELLSTON, Okla. (KFOR) — A former substitute teacher is heading to prison after being found guilty of soliciting sex from a student. Although, she claims the student lied about it.
Emma Delaney Hancock will spend four years behind bars. The sentencing was read in court Wednesday afternoon after the jury initially recommended six years.
Court documents say she and a student began exchanging nude photos and videos.



The boy also told investigators he had met Hancock privately inside the school several times to ‘make out.’ Hancock denies she did anything wrong and says the student is lying.
Despite that, a jury sided with prosecutors in late October and said Hancock was guilty. News 4 spoke with a family member of the victim. They say they are satisfied with the sentencing, but they wouldn’t call this a win because of how they say it has affected the victim’s life.

Moments that they say only come once for everyone, but moments the victim will not get to experience. The family also tells News 4 they will look to move forward and put this behind them.

As for Hancock, she will have to register as a sex offender. The victim’s family has also filed a lawsuit against her.

Feels so bad about it she’s now aiming for 1,000.

Aim for the stars, Lily!

Lily Phillips is sparking a debate online after sleeping with 100 men in a single day.

In the Josh Pieters documentary titled I Slept With 100 Men in One Day, the OnlyFans model recalls sleeping with multiple men one day in October to create NSFW content for her subscription-based social media page.

In one clip that has gone viral, the model can be seen breaking down in tears as she says she felt somewhat "robotic" sleeping with that many people in one day.

I think by the 30th when we’re getting on a bit, I’ve got a routine of how we’re going to do this and sometimes you disassociate and it’s not like normal sex at all,” Phillips said. "In my head right now, I can think of like five, six guys, 10 guys that I remember and that’s it. But it’s just weird, isn’t it? If I didn’t have the videos, I wouldn’t have known I've done 100.”

Now, following the release of the documentary on Dec. 7, Phillips is revealing that she plans to be the first woman to sleep with 1,000 men in 24 hours.

On Nov. 5, Phillips shared a TikTok stating that she was currently "in training" for her 1,000-men goal, which she hopes to achieve by January 2025.

She noted that on Dec. 15, she will “be taking on” 300 men — which she said is “the most amount of guys I’ve ever done.”




https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/onlyfans-star-lily-phillips-breaks-221350454.html

the ceiling is pretty high. Bummer that they've dropped two very winnable games against power conference teams

Pretty powerful movie based on a true story dealing with WW2, the WACs and the culture war of the day…
Watch it if you have a couple of hours..

For a number of months I've been seeing the occasional headline or video talking about "Greater Israel." Some say that's Netanyahu's true aim.

Gaza
West Bank
Lebanon
Syria

What's next?

You can google maps. There are different ones but this is a common version

Who will it be?

Iowa soccer made history on Friday, besting Georgetown 1-0 to reach the Sweet Sixteen. Unfortunately, the magical season came to an end on Sunday when the Hawkeyes fell 1-0 to Virginia Tech. Sunday's loss stings most because Iowa had the best chances of the game and were only inches from turning a 1-0 loss into a 2-1 or even 3-1 win. The Hawkeyes matched Virginia Tech's physicality and generated chances through well-placed through balls and combination passing.

Still, it shouldn't negate what was an incredible season for this group of Hawkeyes and extraordinary careers for the most accomplished senior class in program history. Head coach Dave Dianni and these seniors put this program on the map, and the Hawkeyes are motivated to make this year the standard, rather than the exception.

Elsewhere, Iowa women's wrestling put on a clinic at the Missouri Valley Open, and Hawkeye swimming and diving posted multiple top-10 marks in school history, including a new school record.

You can follow along with all things Iowa Olympic Sports here.

My brother has been a Duck fan since he was in the womb, when can I purchase tickets for this game? I can’t trust ticket sites nowadays.

Shoot me now...

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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.

It is bad enough that virtually every Senate Republican remains mute in the face of President-elect Donald Trump’s gusher of threats (most prominently, to prosecute opponents), lies (good for Time magazine to fact check its Person of the Year!) and absurdly unfit nominees. Unsurprisingly, docile Republicans raise no fuss over the conflicts of interest and self-dealing already evident in the transition. But that is not the worst of it.


Frankly, far too many Democrats have been overly solicitous of the incoming Trump team. Consider Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) praising vaccine conspiracist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In addition, a batch of them are embracing Trump’s proposed “Department of Government Efficiency” run by his billionaire cronies. While platitudes from Democrats about finding “common ground” may draw praise in some quarters, normalization of Trump’s personnel and agenda is as premature as it is unwise. Why not wait to see what he does? Why sustain the fiction that a president bent on tearing down government institutions and spreading conspiracies is an ordinary president?
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Most problematic to me are the troubling decisions of legacy media owners. We saw the pattern starting with The Post’s and the Los Angeles Times’s refusal to endorse a presidential candidate, followed by MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s trek to Mar-a-Lago and then the spectacle of legacy and new media owners (including Post owner Jeff Bezos) kicking in $1 million each for the Trump inauguration. The widely panned ABC News defamation settlement might have been the worst instance of capitulation in the history of major defamation litigation. (In a whole other category of awful: the new, patently absurd L.A. Times “bias meter,” a sort of trigger warning for readers who cannot figure out which way a Times opinion columnist leans, and the constant owner-meddling.)
Decisions like these don’t mollify Trump; they invite further abuse. (Sure enough, Trump is now threatening to sue the Des Moines Register over a poll he didn’t like.) Media owners paying cold, hard cash to an incoming president (whether by settlement or donation) mars their organizations’ independence and gives rise to suspicion that those outlets will pull their punches. The last thing news organizations should do is give the appearance of “pay to play.”


I can do no better in reaffirming journalistic standards that seem quaint these days than to reiterate The Post’s own “Seven Principles for the Conduct of a Newspaper,” published by Post owner Eugene Meyer in 1935:

The first mission of a newspaper is to tell the truth as nearly as the truth may be ascertained.
The newspaper shall tell ALL the truth so far as it can learn it, concerning the important affairs of America and the world.
As a disseminator of the news, the paper shall observe the decencies that are obligatory upon a private gentleman.
What it prints shall be fit reading for the young as well as for the old.
The newspaper’s duty is to its readers and to the public at large, and not to the private interests of its owners.
In the pursuit of truth, the newspaper shall be prepared to make sacrifices of its material fortunes, if such course be necessary for the public good.
The newspaper shall not be the ally of any special interest, but shall be fair and free and wholesome in its outlook on public affairs and public men.

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If a news organization offers up financial tribute or shies from endorsing an opponent, readers and viewers have every right to question its impartiality, aggressiveness and spine.
The sort of behavior we have witnessed from many legacy outlets will not help win back audiences who have lost faith in them. (Progressives are horrified; right-wingers will never patronize them.) Maintaining financial and personal distance from the president, whom news organizations are obligated to investigate and hold accountable, should not be difficult.

If people in positions of public trust, whether in elected office or in media, do not demonstrate — in deed and word — sufficient courage, fidelity to democracy and resistance to authoritarian manipulation, we will tip into a kakistocracy without much of a fight. Sadly, the past few weeks have not been encouraging.

So . . . Israel has been attacking UNIFIL positions in southern Lebanon. What do you think about that?

The U.S. economy grew at a 3.1% annualized pace in the third quarter — stronger than previously thought, the Commerce Department said on Thursday.
Why it matters: The revision suggests 2024 was yet another shocker year in which the U.S. economy surprised to the upside, as other major nations grappled with sluggish growth.

By the numbers: The revision is an upgrade from the initial estimate of 2.8% growth in the July-Sept. period.

• It largely reflects stronger exports and better consumer spending, offsetting a bigger-than-estimated drag from inventory investment.

The intrigue: The third quarter grew at a slightly quicker pace than the prior quarter, which expanded at a 3% annualized rate.

• A tool developed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta estimates the economy might be even stronger in the current quarter, with 3.2% growth.

What to watch: The Fed cut borrowing costs for the third time on Wednesday, but signaled fewer cuts ahead in 2025. One reason: the economy is hanging on while progress on slowing inflation has come to a halt.

• "What we see happening in the economy again is most forecasters have been calling for a slowdown in growth for a very long time, and it keeps not happening," Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday.

The bottom line: President-elect Trump will inherit a strong economy. Still unclear is how his proposed policies on immigration, taxes and tariffs will shape growth in the months to come.

Happy Friday and Happy Holidays to all you assholes.

Just wanted a reason to post this video because I’ve watched it like 20 times now and it still makes me laugh.

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