President-elect Donald Trump threatened Monday to file a lawsuit against The Des Moines Register and famed Iowa pollster Ann Selzer, whose final survey before the Nov. 5 election badly underestimated Trump's support in the state, which he won.



“In my opinion it was fraud and election interference," Trump claimed of the survey, according to the Associated Press.


The incoming president took questions from reporters Monday at Mar-a-Lago in Florida during his first news conference since winning election.




ABC News last week agreed to pay $15 million toward Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate assertion on the air that the Trump had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. Instead, Trump had been found liable for sexual assaulting and defaming her.


Trump on Monday previewed future legal action he planned to take against the news media. “I'm not doing this because I want to, I'm doing this because I feel l have an obligation to,” he told reporters.


“I'm going to be bringing one against the people in Iowa, their newspaper, which had a very, very good pollster, who got it right all the time and then just before the election, she said I was going to lose by three of four points,” Trump continued. “And it became the biggest story of all time, all over the world.”




Selzer announced last month that she would retire her polling operation, a decision she said she had made well before the election.


The pollster, whose sterling reputation took a hit when it missed the Trump-Harris result in Iowa by 17 points, said she has seen nothing in the polling data that should have signaled the results were off.


“If you’re hoping that I had landed on exactly why things went wrong, I have not,” Selzer said Friday during recording of “Iowa Press” at Iowa PBS Studios in Johnston. “It does sort of awaken me in the middle of the night, and I think, ‘Well, maybe I should check this. This is something that would be very odd if it were to happen.’ But we’ve explored everything.”

So, I'm on YouTube and I see this in my sidebar

Neurologist: Alzheimer’s STARTS in Your 30s & 40s! THIS Health Mistake Makes Your Odds WORSE!​

That gets my attention. But then I notice that the video is 2 HOURS LONG! Yikes!

So I want an AI that I can feed the link and it will give me a concise summary with the important stuff bullet-pointed.

Do any of the public AIs do that yet?

The doormat or mandator? Obviously the most powerful VP was Cheney and the least Quayle. With all of the big personalities right now he appears to be an afterthought.

Bought a new Sony tv and Sony receiver. Existing surround sound left by prior homeowners, so I decided I’d reuse. Seems to work ok when watching cable or listening to music but when the ps5 is the input things get weird. During games, the entry screen where normally music would be played (think nba 2k) only the sub plays, no other speakers. If I play YouTube through the ps5, no sound at all. I’ve tried to adjust all the ps5 settings but I cannot get it figured out. Is there any audio/video studs out there that can set me straight?

No way he hits the whole world. Also where does he shit during the deliveres

Crackers with can cheese and a Micelob Ultra is legit.

Come at me bros then drop one of your own.

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(CNN) – Disney has cut a transgender storyline from its new animated Pixar series titled “Win or Lose.”

The edit comes ahead of the show’s release next year.

The animated show centers around a co-ed middle school softball team called “The Pickles.”

Each of the show’s eight episodes will focus on a different member of the team.



"Win or Lose" will begin streaming Feb. 19 on Disney+.(Disney)
According to a source, while the storyline involving gender identity will no longer be included, the character will remain in the series.

In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, Disney said for animated content directed toward younger audiences, the company recognizes that “many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline.”

“Win or Lose” will begin streaming Feb. 19 on Disney+.

It was dramatic last year v. Oklahoma, Creighton, Clowns. I kind of quit paying attention after that. Last night v Clowns it was more of same.

Would any of Iowa's players start for the Clowns? Sixth man? Seventh man?

Who is the big money man directing all of that talent to the Clowns? Seems to be a bit of a stretch to think that TJ's personality is the reason.

And for the record, when does Fran's contract expire and what is the buyout?

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Jfc. They are the dumbest. Scared of everything but dictators.

Can’t wait to be forced to eat the cost of my drone to have to buy an Uncle Sam Patriot Flyer.

Put together a list last night of QBs Iowa could still go after in the portal.

Those with connections to the program, those without and one name to watch, should he enter.

STORY:

Just got a letter saying they are reducing everyone's coverage and raising rates by a minimum of 20%. Smh

Yeah, people just don't realize how great the economy is right? Yeah right. iT wEnT uP 4o% iN OtHeR cOuNtRiEs!

Sorry but Grassley and McConnell need to go.

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The rest of the prep begins soon. Pray for my septic system. Not going to be a fun night.

Iowa state officials are asking a court to require the federal government to share some Iowans’ citizenship information so the state can determine who is ineligible to vote.



The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate.


The Republicans’ lawsuit asks the court to require U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to “promptly” provide the immigration and citizenship status of each person on a list of 2,176 Iowans provided by the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office.




“The State seeks the information to ensure that its elections were and will be safe and secure,” the lawsuit states. “The ‘purpose authorized by law’ was investigating to determine whether criminal conduct occurred in connection with an election and to ensure the integrity of future Iowa elections.”


Pate’s list was composed of Iowans who live in the United States legally but at some point indicated to the state transportation department that they were not full U.S. citizens. Pate developed the list in his effort to ensure no Iowans without U.S. citizenship attempted to vote illegally in the 2024 elections.


Pate tried to get information on the 2,176 individuals’ citizenship from the federal agency. According to Pate’s office, the agency’s office in Des Moines went over the list and prepared the information sought, but the lead office in Washington, D.C., would not permit the information to be shared with Iowa state officials.


According to the lawsuit, Citizens and Immigration Services told the state in an email it could not release the information to the state because the list of names would “require extensive research and review by multiple oversight offices.”





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“The role of Iowa Secretary of State requires balance between participation and integrity. We have identified solutions that will allow us to verify voter eligibility at registration — not at the time of voting,” Pate said Tuesday in a joint news release with Bird. “The combination of access to the SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) list, citizenship verification already completed by USCIS, and the ability to verify using social security numbers will not only make processes more efficient but will also provide another important tool in our toolbox to safeguard our elections process.”


For the November election, Pate instructed elections officials to require any individual on the list to vote via a provisional ballot, which gave those voters a week to provide proof of U.S. citizenship.


The ACLU of Iowa and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa sued Pate’s office over the policy less than a week before the election, but a federal judge ruled that Pate’s directive could continue.


Some county auditors were able to determine the citizenship of residents in their counties before Election Day. At least 200 Iowans’ ballots were challenged in the state’s most populous counties, according to what those counties’ auditors told The Gazette.


Some auditors discovered examples of noncitizens having voted or registered to vote in previous elections, both of which are Class D felonies in Iowa, punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of $750 to $7,500.


In a statement, the ACLU of Iowa and ACLU National called the Iowa lawsuit “a waste of time and money” and accused Pate of using faulty and dated state data and alleged that due to his directive, “perhaps thousands of naturalized citizens were improperly targeted and challenged at the polls.”


"Studies, journalistic efforts, and repeated attempts by government officials in Iowa and nationally have found very few noncitizens who have voted out of the many millions of people who vote,” the ACLU statement said. “This wasteful lawsuit isn’t going to change that. State leaders should spend their time on actual problems that face our state.”


Bird, in the joint news release, said her office filed the lawsuit to force Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration to release “the election integrity data that it has been hiding from Iowa.”


“The Biden-Harris administration knows who the hundreds of noncitizens are on our voter rolls and has repeatedly refused to tell us who they are. But the law is clear: voters must be American citizens,” Bird said in the statement. “Together, with the (Iowa) Secretary of State, we will fight to maintain safe and secure elections that Iowans can count on.”


When asked why the state did not file the lawsuit before the election, when a ruling in its favor could have produced the citizenship information in time to be useful for the Nov. 5 general election, a spokeswoman for the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office said it had hoped the federal government would deliver the information without the state “having to resort to a lawsuit.”


The spokeswoman said Pate’s office would “continue to ask for the information and exhaust every avenue available to us.”


The lawsuit asks the court to require the federal agency to “promptly” provide the immigration and citizenship status of all 2,176 individuals on Pate’s list without cost, and cover the state’s attorney fees and other litigation costs.


In the lawsuit, the state claims there are 65,000 people registered to vote in Iowa whose citizenship the state cannot verify. There are nearly 1.8 million active registered voters in Iowa as of Dec. 1, according to Iowa Secretary of State figures.


“The federal government has those resources,” the lawsuit states. These are individuals who registered to vote in Iowa without using an Iowa-issued driver’s license or ID card, according to the lawsuit.


“Those voters have never had their citizenship status verified,” the lawsuit says. “Thus, it is possible for a non-U.S.-citizen to register to vote without using a driver’s license or ID card.”

Will win a minimum of $600 in my fantasy football league. Pick me a bottle of wine or bourbon to celebrate with. Wines, I prefer full bodied reds. Recently been drinking Frog’s Leap Cab and Petite Syrah.

The investigation, by a sergeant in the sheriff's office, concerned whether McAndrew continued monitoring a sex offender after the person was supposed to be discharged. No charges or disciplinary action have been brought against McAndrew, and Lane said the state attorney general and county attorney's offices and the Iowa Department of Corrections all "have determined no wrongdoing on part of Jennifer," Lane said.

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Lane also contends that Cournoyer later improperly accessed and made copies of the sergeant's investigative report when Cournoyer was asked to pass the report, compiled in March, along to the Iowa Attorney General’s Office.
Cournoyer, through a spokesperson, denied Lane’s claims that the bill was related and said she acted properly when presented information from a whistleblower.

The Senate Ethics Committee declined to take up Lane’s complaint because it “was received after Lt. Gov Cournoyer had resigned the Senate seat thus there was nothing for the ethics committee to address,” Senate Ethics Committee Chair Tom Shipley, a senator from Adams County, wrote in email to the Quad-City Times Thursday.
Lane said Thursday he was exploring other avenues to express his concerns.
The bill Lane referenced in his complaint, Senate File 2014, later renumbered as Senate File 2277, was introduced by Cournoyer in January and passed committee but was not taken up by the full chamber.




The bill stipulated that a sheriff conducting a disciplinary or criminal investigation of a sheriff’s office employee who is an immediate family member of the sheriff shall have the investigation conducted by the attorney general or the state department of public safety.




Scott County Sheriff Tim Lane speaks during a 2022 roundtable hosted by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to discuss challenges with local law enforcement leaders in Davenport. Lane has filed an ethics complaint against former Sen. Chris Cournoyer, who is now Iowa's lieutenant governor.
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In his complaint, Lane asked the ethics committee to appoint a special counsel to determine whether the introduction of the bill "was part of a conspiracy” between Cournoyer and the sergeant investigating McAndrew “to force the DCI (Division of Criminal Investigation) to further the criminal investigation on Jennifer McAndrew, harass her, and put her job at risk.”
McAndrew, Lane's wife, works for the Iowa Department of Corrections, not the sheriff’s office.

In an interview, Lane acknowledged the bill’s language doesn’t appear to apply to McAndrew, but Lane said he got a call from an Iowa Capital Dispatch reporter when the bill passed subcommittee who said Cournoyer had said the bill was introduced to address a problem in the Scott County Sheriff’s Office.


Lane said he doesn’t have any relatives that work for the sheriff’s office, and that he believes Cournoyer intended to expand the bill's scope to be able to compel another agency to continue investigating his wife.

“The act of doing a criminal investigation on somebody starting with no citizen complaint and having no merit and what appears to be a conspiracy between a deputy sheriff and a senator to change the law in order to further the investigation — I believe that is something that is a serious ethical violation that needs to be looked into,” Lane said.

A spokesperson for the governor’s office wrote in an email to the Quad-City Times that claims in Lane’s complaint are false.
“The complaint, conveniently filed the day she was sworn in as lieutenant governor, doesn't even make sense,” the Governor’s Office Deputy Communications Director Mason Mauro wrote in an email. “Sheriff Lane insinuates that Lt. Governor Cournoyer introduced a bill in January because of what she allegedly learned in an investigation file on Sheriff Lane's wife three months later, in March.


“Lt. Gov. Cournoyer acted appropriately when provided information by a whistleblower, and Sheriff Lane's false allegation surrounding the investigation of his wife demonstrates the need for the very type of legislation that Lt. Gov. Cournoyer introduced."

Mauro did not respond to questions about why Cournoyer introduced the bill and what Cournoyer did with the investigative report.

Lane fired sergeant who secretly investigated his wife​

Sgt. Josh Wall, a veteran employee of the Scott County Sheriff’s Office, began investigating McAndrew in 2023 without telling his superiors. He produced a report in March 2024 and gave it to Cournoyer to pass to the Iowa Attorney General’s Office. When Wall's supervisors found out about it, they investigated Wall and held a hearing. At the recommendation of a captain and lieutenant in the sheriff’s office that investigated Wall, Lane fired him, according to a decision written by the Scott County Civil Service Commission.


Wall appealed Lane’s decision, but it was upheld by the Scott County Civil Service Commission. Wall could not be reached for comment.

Wall told the commission he believed McAndrew was violating the rights of a sex offender by monitoring him longer than she should have, and that he kept his investigation secret because he feared retaliation.
Wall investigated for months before compiling a report in March 2024 that Lane said recommended federal and state criminal charges and a civil rights lawsuit against McAndrew. Wall then gave the report and a flash drive to Cournoyer to take to the Iowa Attorney General, Lane wrote in his complaint.
The Scott County Civil Service Commission wrote in its decision upholding Wall’s firing that “though the investigation may have involved Sheriff Lane’s spouse, Sgt. Wall completely failed to bring his concerns to the attention of anyone. There is far from clear evidence any potential crime was committed here as first described to Sgt. Wall.”


In its decision, the commission wrote that it believed Wall had a “legitimate concern” when Wall first heard from the sex offender.
“But thereafter, Sgt. Wall did not follow any proper procedure or reporting or documentation so required. He failed to take proper steps to notify virtually anyone in the sheriff’s department, or the county attorney’s office, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office, or the Department of Criminal Investigations. If he truly believed a crime had been committed, (he) really told no one, at least for many months. Sgt. Wall did make a secret investigation and really did so as a sheriff’s deputy.”

Cournoyer supported Lane’s opponent in the Republican primary earlier this year, Chris Laye. Lane notes in his complaint that Cournoyer wrote a letter to the editor in the Quad-City Times in May 2024 that stated, “The citizens of Scott County deserve someone who enforces the law who doesn’t think he or his family members are above it.”


Lane wrote in his complaint that “this statement speaks publicly to the content of Wall’s criminal report. Senator Cournoyer was heavily involved in the Chris Laye for Sheriff campaign, and Sgt. Josh Wall was the campaign manager and accountant.”
Lane accuses Cournoyer of “harassment of a citizen, use of confidential information to further her own interests or the interests of another person, disclosing confidential information, and improperly or illegally obtaining confidential information.”

Blackhawks, Bulls, and White Sox will be available free across “most of Iowa” with a digital antenna…

Voting no on the Social Security Fairness Act...Thank goodness other members of Congress saw the unfairness in the WEP(Windfall Elimination Provision) & GPO( Government Pension Offset) laws and said good by to those ideas !! You three get a lump of coal in your christmas stockings from me!! Merry Christmas everyone !! Here are some receipts in case you didn't know...
In case you don't know about WEP & GPO....heres what they did:
Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP):** This provision reduces the Social Security benefits for individuals who receive pensions from jobs not covered by Social Security, typically affecting public sector employees like teachers, police officers, and firefighters who worked in states or municipalities that offer their own pension plans instead of contributing to Social Security.

- **Government Pension Offset (GPO):** This affects the spousal or survivor benefits of someone who also receives a government pension from work where they did not pay Social Security taxes. It can significantly reduce or eliminate these benefits, particularly impacting widows, widowers, and spouses.

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This was in the mega thread, but that is less visited than it once was. Thought I would deposit this here. Terrifying video.

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Tom Hanks made two appearances last night, one of which was a reprisal of his David S. Pumpkins character. There were worries that the large cast turnover would reduce the quality of the show this season, but it's been excellent. They always find and cultivate talent.
For the snowflakes of HROT, there was also a funny horror movie spoof of who the Dems will run in 2024 for POTUS.
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Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security​

Can Modern Air Defenses Stop Santa’s Stealth Sleigh?​

By
Robert Farley
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https://www.19fortyfive.com/2024/12/can-modern-air-defenses-stop-santas-stealth-sleigh/

Humanity’s long, bitter struggle against Santa Claus continues.

Over the last two years, the battle against the Arctic Holiday Elf has breached new technological frontiers, changing how we think about preventing chimney intrusions.


Santa poses for a picture in front of an F-35 Lightning II before visiting members of the 419th Fighter Wing Dec. 8, 2019 at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The wing hosts the children’s Christmas party annually to provide an opportunity for reservists to reconnect after a busy year of multiple deployments around the globe. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Justin Fuchs)
The NORAD Santa Claus tracker continues to supply children the world over with data about Santa’s incursions into national air space.

But despite technological innovations, Santa remains an air defense threat. What have we done over the last two years to prevent Santa’s reign of holiday terror?

What Have the Last Two Years Showed Us?​

Air defense has become the name of the game in terrestrial warfare, and the technologies and techniques developed in the Wars of Humanity have clear implications for the struggle against Claus. Advances in air defense technology have made efforts to deliver presents at close range without stealth nearly suicidal for elves and reindeer alike. Conventional aircraft and sleighs simply cannot operate without substantial risk in contested airspace.

This has left Santa with some unappealing options. Glide bombs launched at stand-off ranges can reduce the danger to Santa’s sleigh, but are imprecise and often result in packages being delivered off target. Delivery of packages through long-range precision cruise missiles can solve part of the targeting problem, but at volume the expense is high and even the fastest cruise missiles can be shot down.

Historically, Santa has demonstrated reluctance to go ballistic, given the incapacity of most conventional roofs to receive a sleigh traveling at terminal velocity. Nevertheless, precision-targeted ballistic missile delivery of packages has increasingly become an attractive option for Santa.

However, advances in ballistic missile defense technology mean that even the most lethal delivery systems have only a slim chance of arriving at their targets successfully. Volume helps, of course, and one of Santa’s long-honed strategies of package delivery has been to saturate an air defense system on a single night. However, this still leaves many packages undelivered or delivered to the wrong address.

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Santa poses for a picture in front of an F-35 Lightning II before visiting members of the 419th Fighter Wing Dec. 8, 2019 at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The wing hosts the children’s Christmas party annually to provide an opportunity for reservists to reconnect after a busy year of multiple deployments around the globe. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Justin Fuchs)
However, there is little room for triumphalism. As Santa has access to advanced stealth technology, he remains a direct threat to conventional air defense networks and to the targets that they protect. Indeed, a properly employed stealth sleigh can blind and defeat an entire air defense system, opening an entire country open to the delivery of holiday packages. Combined with drones and long-range precision munitions, a holiday campaign of terror spearheaded by stealth reindeer can still defeat the best efforts of even a well-constructed air defense network.

Santa and the Drone Revolution​

In response to these trends Santa has mightily expanded his use of delivery drones. Guided and carefully programmed drones can, at manageable expense, deliver packages with precision to targets across a country. The best available evidence indicates that Santa has developed a system of drone-control centers below the Arctic ice, manned by specially trained elves and capable of coordinating a multifaceted holiday offensive against a wide array of targets.

Moreover, autonomous and semi-autonomous drones can deliver packages without direct control, avoiding concerns about electronic interference. Drone campaigns are particularly well-suited to the North Pole’s air penetration strategy because of close linkages between Santa’s defense industrial base and his toymaking industries, taking advantage of dual use technologies that have both military and civilian application.

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But drones aren’t the end of the story. Most of the North Pole’s drones travel at speeds and on flight paths that are subject to interception from conventional air defense systems. As with missiles, volume can help by overwhelming defensive capabilities, but this leaves many packages undelivered. Moreover, the development of counter-drone drones have helped to even the holiday aerial battlefield.

Harding has had a great start to the season. It seems as if his haters have shut the **** up and I bet qchawks has a lot to say