A dog-friendly cruise setting sail in November 2025 from Tampa is gearing up to insure a paw-fect experience for canine owners and lovers. Come for the non stop barking, stay for the poop covered decks...


Contributors on Reddit. com posted mixed reactions. “Cruises are already floating petri dishes. This doesn’t seem like a very good idea,” said one.

“Now all decks are poop decks,” said another.

A couple of posters worried about dogs going overboard.

One said, “sounds awesome if you like dogs,” while another chimed in, “Better than a gorilla-friendly cruise, I suppose.”

No one has ever got all 11 picks correct.

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Not necessarily friends or family (feel free to discuss that as well if you’d like) but more “other” people in your life. Co-workers, garbage man, mailman, dentist, etc…. Any of you throw a bone or a tip to anyone kind of random?

I ask because last week when I came from work and rounded up my trash cans from the street, I found a nice little card attached to one of the cans wishing me and my family happy holiday from our trash man, Christian. First thing I thought was “clever little ****er working it for some Christmas tips” as I don’t recall ever seeing this before. Wife said the same thing when she got home. Fast forward one week later and the next trash day and lo and behold, it worked. Two neighbors of mine had cards taped to their trash cans this morning. Now I am feeling obligated to do the same.

So, I ask again. Any of you give random people like this that you don’t really have a personal relationship with? If so, how much?

I hope smoking Joe embarrasses JerryWorld

Does anyone know the best option to go to for bowl packages? I know in the past this website would have an option. Appreciate any help or suggestions!

Does anyone have any suggestions for a home security camera?

I don't want to pay a monthly subscription.....I would like to start w/ something simple that I can check on things while I'm away. Maybe 1 indoor and 1 outdoor w the possibility of adding on. Recording isn't really that important either. I'm not sure where to start. I see options all across the board I don't want to overbuy, but don't want junk either.....

Ben Clymer building a powerhouse, they crushed it at ironman.
Definitely have to keep our eyes on these guys.

Prime time basketball. Big event with Tennessee and UCONN. Iowa's chance to show the nation they're a big time program even without Clark. WUFF!!

Not a big deal to lose, but Iowa just looked lost. It was embarrassing to watch them try and handle the basketball. Explain Iowa offense tonight? It wasn't even the full court pressure but the lazy passes in the half court that baffled me.

And where were the freshman in the second half? Could Jan have gone small on spurts to help handle the ball and get something going on offense? Seemed like she didn't make many adjustments.

Due to some poor planning, we had a ton of pie at Thanksgiving this year. Been working through it all and I just ate the last piece of it this afternoon. Had to pull a couple mold spores forming off the top of the crust, threw it in the microwave, put some ice cream on it. Good to go.

I've done stuff like this for forever. Never had any gastrointestinal repercussions.

People in my circle think I'm nuts. Am I?

Let the fun commence!

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from the late 1980s/early 1990s, for people who were convicted of buying crack cocaine in a police sting operation. The main catch - the crack was manufactured by the police because they had difficulty getting product to sell in their sting operation. Those arrested weren't busted for dealing, they were addicts who were buying for their own use; much of the time, the police held the sting sales at locations that were close enough to schools/playgrounds/churches or other spots where the charge would be a felony instead of a misdemeanor. The State Supreme Court ruled in 1993 that the police couldn't do this any more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida prosecutor says he will seek to vacate as many as 2,600 convictions of people who bought crack cocaine manufactured by the Broward County Sheriff's Office for sting operations between 1988 and 1990.

The Florida Supreme Court ruled in 1993 that people couldn't be charged in cases where the sheriff's office made the crack cocaine and undercover deputies then sold it to buyers who were arrested and charged.

Broward County State Attorney Harold F. Pryor said Friday that while his office was reviewing old records, prosecutors realized that many people may still have criminal charges or convictions on their records because of the sting operation.


Side note, I've known Pryor since he was a little kid; used to play hoops with his dad & I coached him in a peewee basketball league. Nice young man.

“It is never too late to do the right thing,” Pryor said in a statement.

OK, Colonoscopy's vulgar thread got me thinking it would probably be appropriate to have a thread to share favorite Thanksgiving recipes and/or traditions. I'll start.

Cream of peanut soup (AWESOME as an appetizer while waiting for turkey to cook, or with day-after cold turkey sandwiches):
- Boil 1 chopped yellow onion and two chopped carrots in 1qt chicken stock. When veggies are soft, puree it.
- Add 1 cup cream, 1 cup smooth peanut butter, and 1/2 cup crushed peanuts. Stir until blended over low heat
- Serve warm with tabasco to taste

Those who donate to Swarm will now earn I-Club priority points. One point per $100 donated to the collective.

Don’t know what these priority points exactly entail, but this appears noteworthy.
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Did he get the last laugh?

Or does his team need to make the S16 for that to be the case?

Continuing my efforts to post non-political threads….

This seems insane!


https://youtube.com/shorts/fYPfHpBXeVM?si=FRi4Asu-pq35AOfq

Lol


JFC what an unfit clown and 34 felonies rapist. But mah eggs!

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Almost exactly a century ago, in February 1925, Chief Justice William Howard Taft persuaded Congress to grant the Supreme Court an extraordinary power: to pick which cases it would decide.
Most courts do not get to choose the cases they will hear, and their central task is to resolve disputes one at a time. The Supreme Court, by contrast and by dint of the largely unfettered discretion over its docket granted by the Judiciary Act of 1925, understands its job to be quite different: to announce legal principles that will apply in countless cases.
The law effectively changed the court into a policymaking body, and the nation has yet to come to terms with “the immense powers of this new role,” Robert C. Post, a professor at Yale Law School and its former dean, wrote in a new study.
“The transformation has led to an ever-deepening crisis of the court’s authority,” he added.
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch made the key distinction — between resolving individual disputes and setting down broad legal principles — when the court heard arguments in April on Donald J. Trump’s claim, as a former president, of absolute immunity from prosecution.
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“I’m not concerned about this case,” Justice Gorsuch said, adding, “We’re writing a rule for the ages.”
Granting the court the power to set its own agenda has caused it to gravitate toward particular sorts of cases, Karen M. Tani, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argued recently in the annual foreword to The Harvard Law Review.
“The vast discretionary portion of the docket is decidedly not an objective representation of the legal questions that matter most to the American people,” she wrote, adding that “the court’s discretion has flowed along particular channels — toward issues that have preoccupied the conservative legal movement.”
Even as the court agreed to hear cases last term that ended up boosting Mr. Trump’s prospects and dealing blows to federal regulators, Professor Tani wrote, it turned down an alternative slate of cases on questions of urgent concerns to many Americans — like consumer debt, child support and fair housing.
At his confirmation hearings in 2005, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. famously compared judges to umpires, both in the business of calling balls and strikes. The metaphor, Professor Tani wrote, “registers differently when one recognizes that the court also has some ability to field the players, assign the batting order and dictate which pitches can be thrown.”

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When the 1925 law was enacted, it was widely viewed as a modest and sensible adjustment that would let the justices focus on important matters.
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Until then, the court’s docket was both dull and crushing. “You little realize the amount of grinding, uninteresting, bone labor there is in writing more than half the cases decided by the Supreme Court,” Justice John Hessin Clarke wrote in 1922 in explaining his resignation after just six years.
But the changes spurred by the law would have deeper effects than workload management, and Chief Justice Taft knew it.
In a 1921 speech, he argued that the Supreme Court was “not a tribunal constituted to secure, as its ultimate end, justice to the immediate parties.” Instead, he said, the court’s job was to make sure the law was uniform across the nation and “to pass on constitutional and other important questions for the purpose of making the law clearer for the general public.”
Just a few years after the law was enacted, Gregory Hankin, a Washington lawyer, identified the deeper meaning of the change in a prescient 1928 article in The Journal of the American Judicature Society. “One might well say,” he wrote, “that the Supreme Court is abandoning its character as a court of last resort, and assuming the function of a ministry of justice.”
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The court led by Chief Justice Roberts has embraced the power granted by the law, Professor Post wrote in his paper, which is still in draft form and will be presented at a symposium next year. “It is this conspicuous lawmaking role, a gift of the Judiciary Act of 1925,” he went on, “that continues to prompt political contention and crisis.”
A new history of the Supreme Court by Stuart Banner, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, is called, fittingly, “The Most Powerful Court in the World.” The book devotes nine pages to the 1925 law, saying it empowered the justices to pursue their policy goals.
“The justices were transformed,” Professor Banner wrote, “from passive recipients of cases to active participants in the making of the law.”

A coalition of former prison officials, relatives of homicide victims, civil rights advocates and religious leaders is urging President Joe Biden to empty federal death row before he cedes the White House to President-elect Donald Trump, who staunchly supports capital punishment.

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Letters to Biden that were made public Monday ask him to commute all federal death sentences to life without parole, invoking the president’s Catholic faith and public opposition to capital punishment, and criticizing the death penalty as arbitrary, unfair and biased.

“We need clear and lasting steps that will ensure that the next administration will not execute the people currently facing death sentences in the federal system,” states one of the letters, signed by a collection of current and former prosecutors, police chiefs and attorneys general.



Forty people are on federal death row, including the gunman who killed nine Black parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina, the surviving Boston Marathon bomber and the attacker who gunned down 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue. All three were sentenced to death when Biden served as president or vice president.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...mc_magnet-deathrowstories_inline_collection_9

Supporters of capital punishment say delaying executions for decades, or not carrying them out at all, can retraumatize the victims’ relatives. They also argue that not carrying out death sentences is a betrayal of the court process through which the punishments were handed down and lets horrific crimes go unpunished.


When Trump’s first administration moved to resume executions, then-Attorney General William P. Barr said the government owed it to “the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.”
Robert Blecker, who wrote a book on the death penalty and taught criminal law and constitutional history at New York Law School, cautioned against mass commutation, saying Biden’s administration should take the time to examine each case and circumstance.

“The essence of executive prerogative is to be discriminating — to discriminate the worst of the worst of the worst from the less bad,” Blecker said.
And if Trump revives the federal death penalty, Blecker said, there should be the same careful individual review.
Trump’s first administration restarted federal executions after a nearly two-decade pause, carrying out 13 lethal injections, some in the days before Biden was sworn in. The president-elect’s transition team did not respond to a request for comment about whether Pam Bondi, his pick for attorney general, would seek to resume federal executions if she is confirmed.

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Player of the Week
JuJu Watkins, USC
Sophomore – Guard – Los Angeles, Calif. – Sierra Canyon
• Averaged 30.5 points, 4.0 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.5 blocks during USC’s two wins
• Set a new USC record with nine made three-pointers against California Baptist
• Shot a career-high 9-for-11 from beyond the arc on her way to a season-best 40 points versus the Lancers
• Third Big Ten women’s basketball player in the last 25 years to score 40 points and nine three-pointers in a game
• Added 21 points against Oregon
• Earns her first Big Ten Player of the Week award
• Last USC Player of the Week: JuJu Watkins (Dec. 9, 2024)

Freshman of the Week
Olivia Olson, Michigan
Guard – New Hope, Minn. – Benilde St. Margaret’s
• Finished with a game-high 18 points in Michigan’s win over Northwestern
• Also grabbed six boards and recorded a block in 36 minutes of action
• Started the fourth quarter on a solo 8-0 run to erase the Wolverines’ deficit
• Collects her first Big Ten Freshman of the Week laurel
• Last Michigan Freshman of the Week: Syla Swords (Dec. 2, 2024)