Very entertaining. 2 episodes available on Prime with new releases every Thursday.

Concept. 1000 contestants have to survive various rounds of challenges, bribes, team eliminations, mass eliminations based on 1 person’s decision, etc. Hard to completely explain.

Good stuff. I’m already pissed I have to wait a week for episode 3.

Oh, and the winner takes home $5M.

Glad Ty Thompson didn't end up at Iowa.

He's a really bad passer.

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don’t just clear the windows, do the hood and roof too. Nothing more infuriating than driving at 75 mph getting pelted with ice/snow because you’re too ****ing lazy. If you can’t do this, stay off the roads.

Opening or opened somewhere in North Liberty.

Yell Free Palestine for 20 percent discount.
The last bit might be a joke.

At least 5 dead, including suspect, at a Christian school shooting in Wisconsin, police say https://www.kcrg.com/2024/12/16/mul...ooting-christian-school-wisconsin-police-say/

Don’t see this posted yet.
You guys really are slacking

Self-defense. Also found him not guilty of felony aggravated assault. Hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life.
I don’t know how self-defense laws are writtten in other states, but I’m guessing he would have been found guilty of one or both offenses in other locales.

Musk, I need to think of a good nickname for him, is just a piece of shit who thinks he knows what is good for U.S./us. He is acting like he is the prez. And it will be interesting to see how the dumpster/Elon dynamic plays out because the dumpster wants all the headlines since he is so self-absorbed.

It will also be interesting to see if somehow he is asked or told to divest is his businesses that have govt contracts if he wants a job in the admin.

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She faces some stiff competition to get in (now or in the future), but a very cool honor for Lisa Bluder all the same.

More info on the 2025 eligible candidates for the Basketball HOF here:

What will the depth chart for the bowl game look like? Who else will go to portal or opt out for draft?

There's a video playing on here ad nauseam in which the "expert" says, "If you want to win the Heisman, don't go to Boise State." Well, that's a great take.

Jeanty ALMOST won the Heisman @ Boise State! He finished a close second NOT because he played for Boise State, but because Travis Hunter had a better year playing on BOTH sides of the ball. Hell, Ted Williams hit .406 (still a record) for Boston in 1941 but did NOT win MVP. Joe DiMaggio, who hit in a still record 56 consecutive games, won it instead. So is the message, if you wanna be the MVP, don't play for Boston? LOL

So the Pentagon comes out and says they just found out we have double the amount of troops in Syria than they thought.
Good management going on it appears

She s from Canada. is iowa interested in her? She played in iowa in EYBL. Anybody see her play? She can dunk with ease.
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I thought Joe's Place and the incredibly stupid doctor *33* would post this before me since they are the "authorities" on the jabs. More bad news for the retards who supported this mess. I think maybe we should make the people who took the jabs pay more for their healthcare now and go to the back of the line for services. Isn't that fair, Joe? You know since that's what you wanted for the unvaxxed?

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This is former Alabama Offensive Lineman Mike Johnson, who won a National Championship with Alabama in 2009.

Johnson was selected 98th overall in the 3rd round of the 2010 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons.

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These dumb****s have no clue what their job is

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POS as usual:

Hours before the start of a federal government shutdown, President-elect Donald Trump doubled-down Friday on his insistence that a debt ceiling increase be included in any deal — and if not, let the closures “start now.”

Trump, who is not yet even sworn into the White House, issued his latest demand as House Speaker Mike Johnson arrived early at the Capitol, instantly holing up with some of the most conservative Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus who helped sink Trump’s bill in a spectacular Thursday evening flop. The clock is now racing toward the midnight deadline to fund government operations.

“ff there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now,” Trump posted on social media.

Trump does not fear government shutdowns the way Johnson and the lawmakers see federal closures as political losers that harm the livelihoods of Americans. The incoming Trump administration vows to slash the federal budget and fire thousands of employees. Trump himself sparked the longest government shutdown in history in his first term at the White House, the monthlong closures over the 2018-19 Christmas holiday and New Year period.

More importantly for the president-elect is his demand for pushing the thorny debt ceiling debate off the table before he returns to the White House. The federal debt limit expires Jan. 1, and Trump doesn’t want the first months of his new administration saddled with tough negotiations in Congress to lift the nation’s borrowing capacity. It gives Democrats, who will be in the minority next year, leverage.

House Republicans were quickly cobbling together a new plan, which could involve splitting up the previous efforts — government funding, disaster and agricultural aid into separate votes — with debt ceiling potentially later. They were preparing to meet privately during the lunch hour to discuss next steps, with a shutdown 12 hours away.

“Congress must get rid of, or extend out to, perhaps, 2029, the ridiculous Debt Ceiling,” Trump posted — increasing his demand for a now five-year debt limit increase. “Without this, we should never make a deal.”

Johnson is racing behind closed doors to prevent a shutdown, but his influence has its limits. Trump, and billionaire ally Elon Musk, unleashed their opposition — and social media army — on the first plan Johnson presented, which was a 1,500-page bipartisan compromise he struck with Democrats that included $100 billion in disaster aid for hard hit states, but did not address the debt ceiling situation.

A Trump-backed second plan, Thursday’s slimmed down 116-page bill with his preferred two-year debt limit increase into 2027, failed in a monumental defeat, rejected in an evening vote by most Democrats as an unserious effort — but also some three dozen Republicans who refuse to pile on the nation’s red ink.

On Friday morning, Vice President-elect JD Vance arrived early at the speaker’s office at the Capitol, where a group of the most hardline Republican holdouts were meeting with Johnson. The speaker has insisted on finding a way forward.

Government workers have already been told to prepare for a federal shutdown which would send millions of employees — and members of the military — into the holiday season without paychecks.

“Welcome back to the MAGA swamp,” the House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries posted.

“That is why our country is on the brink of a government shutdown that will crash the economy, hurt working class Americans and likely be the longest in history.”

Jeffries was communicating with Johnson on the path forward, according to multiple people in a closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting. But there was no discussion in the meeting on whether a deal is being discussed or the details of legislation.

In the Senate, which is controlled by the Democrats for a few more weeks, there are talks of trying to push forward the original package, the bipartisan compromise that Johnson, Jeffries and the Senate leaders had negotiated to strike a deal earlier this week. That would be difficult, but not impossible.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the original agreement “the quickest, simplest, and easiest way we can make sure the government stays open while delivering critical emergency aid to the American people.”

“I’m ready to stay here through Christmas because we’re not going to let Elon Musk run the government,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the chair of the Appropriations Committee who was instrumental in that first deal. “We had a bipartisan deal—we should stick to it.”

President Joe Biden, in his final weeks in office, has played a less public role in the debate, drawing criticism from Trump and Republicans who are trying to shift the blame for any shutdown on him.

Johnson faces an enormous task as he tries to keep government running, appease Trump — and save his own job.

The speaker’s election is the first vote of the new Congress, which convenes Jan. 3, and Johnson will need the support of almost every single House Republican from his razor-thin majority to ensure he can keep the gavel. Democrats will vote for Jeffries.

As the speaker twisted Thursday in Washington, his peril was on display. At Turning Point USA’s conservative AmericaFest confab, Trump ally Steven Bannon stirred thousands of activists with a withering takedown of the Louisiana Republican.

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“Clearly, Johnson is not up to the task. He’s gotta go,” Bannon said, drawing cheers. He smiled and cocked his head at the response, “President Trump? These are your people.”

Outside the speaker’s office, next steps were uncertain.

Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., a former Freedom Caucus chairman, came out and said that he would be surprised if there was a vote Friday on any path forward. Moments later, GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert said that Republicans were making progress and having Vance in the room is helping move things toward a resolution.

“I think President Trump was possibly, sold a bad bill yesterday,” the Colorado lawmaker said. “I did not want to see a failure on the House floor for the first demand that President Trump is making.”

"Senate Democrats introduced a bill to abolish the Electoral College. Democrats hate middle America– they want the coastal elites to choose the president of the United States."

Pregnant Kentucky woman cited by police for street camping while in labor​

Officer detained woman and confiscated mattress from under a Louisville overpass after she said her water broke

A homeless woman in Kentucky was cited by police and had her mattress confiscated and destroyed as she went into labor on the streets of Louisville, local media reported.

Body camera footage obtained by Kentucky Public Radio from the city police force showed Lt Caleb Stewart walking up to a pregnant woman under an overpass in the city’s downtown area.

The visibly pregnant woman, whom the radio station is not naming, told the officer that her water had broken. “I might be going into labor, is that OK?”

“I’m leaking out,” she added.

The woman told Stewart her husband was calling an ambulance but Stewart also called one for her. As the woman walked to the street to wait for help, Stewart demanded that she stop.

“Am I being detained?” she asked the police officer.

“Yes, you’re being detained,” he replied. “You’re being detained because you’re unlawfully camping.”

Kentucky has a new state law that bans street camping, meaning no person may sleep or set up camp on public property, including sidewalks. Homelessness rights advocates say the law does little to solve the social problems faced by the unhoused and leads to increasing interactions with law enforcement.

Stewart walked back to his car to write the citation as city workers put the woman’s mattress into a garbage truck. The camera caught Stewart remarking to himself: “So I don’t for a second believe that this woman is going into labor.”

The woman gave birth later that day, according to her attorney, the public defender Ryan Dischinger. The family is now in a shelter.

“The reality for her, and for anyone who’s homeless in Kentucky, is that they’re constantly and unavoidably breaking this law,” Dischinger told the radio station. “What she needed was help and compassion and instead she was met with violence.”

Dumbass bastards:

House Republicans on Tuesday said their one-time colleague, former Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, should face a criminal investigation for her role on the select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
A 128-page report from the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight said Ms. Cheney should be investigated for witness tampering. It accuses her of colluding with Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide who became the committee’s star witness as it examined Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The report — released as Mr. Trump, now the president-elect, has been promising retribution against his political enemies, including Ms. Cheney — accused Ms. Cheney of using the select committee as a tool to attack Mr. Trump. It was spearheaded by Representative Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, the chairman of the oversight subcommittee.
Ms. Cheney defended her work on the select committee in a detailed statement, and called the Republicans’ report “a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth.”
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She said the select committee had heard from “scores of Republican witnesses, including many of the most senior officials from Trump’s own White House, campaign and Administration” and produced “a highly detailed and meticulously sourced 800-page report.”
Ms. Cheney said Mr. Loudermilk’s interim report “intentionally disregards the truth and the Select Committee’s tremendous weight of evidence, and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did.”