If they knew about the injury and was going to be tabled until June, he obviously wasn’t going to the combine. And we were told by multiple sources it was Iowa or the NFL. I find it hard to believe anyone would draft him without seeing him in the combine. Someone help me out here, it’s not adding up to me.

is stupid.

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To fund the Democratic party campaign debts in bait and switch post. Proceeds to get ruthlessly mocked and ridiculed.

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Community Notes for the win!

No wonder they hate X!

It is not a felony conviction, but maybe could be some day. And there is the investigation and maybe a legal case of Trump using false financial docs to get a loan from a Chicago iirc or midwest bank. There is more ice to find under the surface.

The NY AG case was a huge settlement against Trump. And of course Trump wants to sue everyone and he expects them to pay but he doesnt like to pay. He is just an extremely sociopathic type of person who blames everyone else and who thinks rules do not apply to him. So notice that is like a lot of these rich and so called really rich people.

This game is bananas lol.

Fannie Willis will go down in history as one the biggest failures in the legal field.

Georgia attorney Ashleigh Merchant reacted to news that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had been disqualified from her "weak" election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday.

A Georgia court of appeals filing declared that the "appearance of impropriety" stemming from an affair Willis had with Nathan Wade prior to hiring him to prosecute the case required her disqualification from the case.

Merchant, who exposed the improper affair months ago, told "Fox & Friends" on Friday that she believed Willis stuck to the case despite the scandal because she didn’t want anyone else to know how "weak" the case was.

"She could have done the right thing early on, whenever we brought this to everyone’s attention, and said, ‘Hey, let’s have a neutral prosecutor handle this case. Let’s have someone else look at it.’ But I think she was terrified because her case was so weak, she didn’t want someone else to look at it," Merchant told Fox News Channel’s Steve Doocy.

Based on Merchant’s uncovering of Willis’ relationship with Wade, Judge Scott McAfee ruled in March that Willis must either withdraw herself and her team from the 2020 election interference case or remove Wade as special prosecutor. Following the decision, Wade resigned from his position in the case, leaving Willis to continue it.

At the time, Merchant expressed her desire to have seen Willis removed from the case entirely, writing in a statement, "While we believe the court should have disqualified Willis’ office entirely, this opinion is a vindication that everything put forth by the defense was true, accurate and relevant to the issues surrounding our client's right to a fair trial."

Merchant’s goal to see Willis ousted happened months later on Thursday, after the state appeals court declared that Willis’ "appearance of impropriety" constitutes "the rare case in which disqualification is mandated, and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings."

Merchant characterized it as an obvious decision, telling Doocy that Willis’ impropriety was "something that you couldn’t turn your eye away from, and I think that’s something the court of appeals said."

"It’s one of those things that you know it when you see it," Merchant continued. "It’s the appearance of impropriety. It is so great that it had to be enough to kick them off the case."

After speculating that Willis wouldn’t willingly leave the case because of its weakness, Merchant expressed her belief that if a more "neutral prosecutor" got hold of the case, they would have it dismissed.

"I’ve always thought, if a neutral prosecutor – someone who didn’t have a financial interest in this case and a political interest in this case – looked at it, that they would see things differently. And they would decide that the taxpayers, the courts, the people who are charging the case, they deserve this case to be dismissed."

Would you rather that I be your grandpa or your grandma?

Who’s more mediocre?

Nobody else is as mediocre as the two of us, but I’m more mediocre than @Jimmy McGill !

ORLANDO, Fla. —
Florida's high-speed passenger train service suffered the first fatality on its new extension to Orlando on Thursday when a pedestrian was struck in what appears to be a suicide, officials said. Overall, it was Brightline's 99th death since it began operations six years ago.

A northbound Brightline train headed to Orlando struck the 25-year-old man shortly before 9 a.m. near the Atlantic Coast city of Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara said at a news conference. He said the man was homeless and appeared to have intentionally stepped in front of the train.

Brightline’s trains travel up to 79 mph in urban areas, 110 mph in less-populated regions and 125 mph through central Florida’s farmland. It is unknown how fast this train was traveling, Mascara said.

Brightline officials did not immediately respond to emails and phone calls seeking comment.

Related: Brightline’s high-speed rail service from Miami to Orlando starts Friday

Brightline opened its extension connecting Miami and Orlando on Friday, though the celebration was marred when a pedestrian was struck by one of the company's trains carrying commuters from West Palm Beach to Miami.

Brightline trains have had the highest death rate in the U.S. since its Miami-West Palm operations began — about one death for every 32,000 miles its trains travel, according to an ongoing Associated Press analysis of federal data that began in 2019. The next-worst major railroad has a fatality every 130,000 miles.


But we're "saving the planet" amirite?

December 28, 2024 Update:

After the 27-20 loss to UCLA on November 2, 2024, Little Debbie extended their streak of losing 4 or more games in a season to 21 YEARS IN A ROW.

Today, Dec 28, 2024, Little Debbie hung on to beat Boston College 20-15 in the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl

Little Debbie finished 2024 with a 7-6 record.

Frank Solich (Bo Pelini coached the bowl game?) went 10-3 in 2003. That team was ranked as high as #10 in the country.


Here is a look at the 21 years since that 10-3 season in 2003:
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Bill Callahan (4 years)
2004: 5-6
2005: 8-4
2006: 9-5
2007: 5-7
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Bo Pelini (7 years)
2008: 9-4
2009: 10-4
2010: 10-4
2011: 9-4
2012: 10-4
2013: 9-4
2014: 9-4
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Mike Riley (3 years)
2015: 6-7
2016: 9-4
2017: 4-8
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Scott Frost (4.25 years)
2018: 4-8
2019: 5-7
2020: 3-5
2021: 3-9
2022: 1-2 (fired on Sep 11, 2022)
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Mickey Joseph, Interim Head Coach (.75 year)
2022: 3-6

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Matt Rhule (2 years)
2023: 5-7
2024: 7-6


Little Debbie. The official snack cake of the Big 10 Conference.

A large reservoir in Pacific Palisades that is part of the Los Angeles water supply system was out of use when a ferocious wildfire destroyed thousands of homes and other structures nearby.

Officials told The Times that the Santa Ynez Reservoir had been closed for repairs to its cover, leaving a 117 million gallon water storage complex empty in the heart of the Palisades.

The revelation comes among growing questions about why firefighters ran out of water while battling the blaze. Numerous fire hydrants in higher-elevation streets of the Palisades went dry, leaving firefighters struggling with low water pressure as they combated the flames.


epartment of Water and Power officials have said that demand for water during an unprecedented fire made it impossible to maintain any pressure to hydrants at high elevations.

Had the reservoir been operable, it would have extended water pressure in the Palisades on Tuesday night, said former DWP general manager Martin Adams, an expert on the city's water system.

As if the weather situation wasn't bad enough at ATL, this happened:

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And it's the second such event at ATL this month?! 😮

Eggs are expensive though.

Lower Net ranking than both Drake and UNI. Bummer, I was hoping it was going to be a Quad 1 opportunity.. Oh well I guess they'll just have to upset UCLA.

Hope to finish season 4 this weekend. Billy Bob Thornton is a badass and I might have to change my name to Billy McBride.

An appeals court recently upheld a $460,000 judgment against two Eastern Iowa cattle farmers who somehow misplaced a valuable bull named Michiyoshi and attempted to substitute him with an impostor.



The case involves the owner of the bull, American Wagyu Breeders, of Michigan, and Eric and Sarah Bailey, formerly of West Branch.


They forged an agreement in late 2012 in which the Baileys cared for the bull on their farm about 5 miles east of Iowa City in exchange for use of his semen for their Wagyu herd, according to court records.




The Japanese cattle breed is thought to produce among the most delectable cuts of beef, and Michiyoshi's 100-percent black Wagyu genetics were coveted.


But in 2016 after the bull was sent to a central Iowa business for semen collection, DNA testing revealed that he was not Michiyoshi. Instead, the DNA matched another Wagyu bull the Baileys had possessed but claimed to have sold.


Michiyoshi's whereabouts remain a mystery.


"Despite days of trial and years of litigation, we are left just as confused now as the day the original petition was filed," Judge John Sandy wrote in a Thursday Iowa Court of Appeals decision. "We only know that a full-blood black Wagyu bull named Michiyoshi disappeared into thin air."





The bull that was claimed to be Michiyoshi was actually named Hirashige, which had purportedly died after the Baileys sold him to a friend years earlier.


The Baileys gave many conflicting details about the situation, court records show, including when the bull was sold and when he died. Sarah Bailey had initially claimed Hirashige died in 2013. Later she said the death happened in 2015.


The remains of the deceased bull that had been sold to the friend were exhumed but were too decomposed to obtain a sufficient DNA sample for comparison, court records show.


"It is still unclear how the supposedly dead Hirashige was represented to be Michiyoshi for several years, and there is no trace of Michiyoshi," Sandy wrote.


American Wagyu Breeders sued the Baileys in 2019, and in 2023 a jury found them liable for breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation and ordered them to pay $460,000 for the owner's losses.


The Baileys divorced while the lawsuit was pending, and Eric Bailey died last year. Sarah Bailey and Eric Bailey’s estate appealed the jury’s decision based on a judge's exclusion of certain evidence and testimony, court records show. They also questioned the amount of damages awarded by the jury.


But the appeals court found no procedural errors that affected the outcome of the trial, and it said the award was reasonable.


The judges noted that "Michiyoshi was only as valuable as the quantity and quality of semen the bull might provide," which his owner estimated to be about $700,000.

Nate Stanley was throwing to those guys in 2019, too.

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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are sending representatives to agencies across the federal government, four people familiar with the matter said, to begin preliminary interviews that will shape the tech executives’ enormous ambitions to tame Washington’s sprawling bureaucracy.

In recent days, aides with the nongovernmental “Department of Government Efficiency" tied to President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team have spoken with staffers at more than a dozen federal agencies, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media. The agencies include the Treasury Department, the Internal Revenue Service and the departments of Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, and Health and Human Services, the people said.

At the same time, Musk and Ramaswamy have significantly stepped up hiring for their new entity, with more than 50 staffers already working out of the offices of SpaceX, Musk’s rocket-building company, in downtown Washington, two of the people said. DOGE aims to have a staff of close to 100 people in place by Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, they said.


While much about DOGE remains unclear — including who is paying the salaries of these staffers or exactly how DOGE representatives work with the formal transition team — the agency outreach reflects intensifying efforts by Musk and Ramaswamy to propose what they say will be “drastic” cuts to federal spending and regulations. Even as the scale of their project grows, Musk and Ramaswamy are encountering a slew of obstacles, including reluctance among congressional Republicans to approve deep budget cuts and a skeptical career civil service.
Two government employees said remarks Musk and Ramaswamy have made about the civil service have made them wary of the entire DOGE effort. Longtime civil servants — some who have built their careers learning the intricacies of the federal bureaucracy — are an awkward fit with Silicon Valley’s fast-moving and disruptive culture. Many in Washington regard the tech entrepreneurs as arrogant or naive about the complexity of reining in government.
The U.S. presidential transition process traditionally involves teams from the incoming administration working with existing agency staff and officials on the transfer of power, including regular briefings. This year’s changeover is far smoother than it was four years ago, when the process was complicated by Trump’s refusal to recognize the results of the election. But the uncertain status of DOGE relative to the rest of the Trump transition team has raised new questions about who precisely is speaking for the incoming administration.


In a potential nod to the myriad challenges facing DOGE, Musk has begun tempering certain promises in his bid to achieve sweeping reform by reinventing the federal bureaucracy, eliminating entire agencies, shrinking the federal workforce and slashing historic sums from the federal budget. In an interview Wednesday night at CES, the tech trade show in Las Vegas, he said DOGE may fall short of his initial aim to cut $2 trillion in federal spending.
“I think we’ll try for $2 trillion. I think that’s like the best-case outcome,” he said. “But I do think that you kind of have to have some overage. I think if we try for $2 trillion, we’ve got a good shot at getting $1 [trillion].”
The idea of a commission to cut waste and regulation, long discussed among conservatives, was taken up by Musk and Trump during last year’s presidential election. Musk put $277 million toward electing Trump and other Republicans in 2024, and Trump has made the billionaire one of his most powerful advisers. After the election, Trump named Musk and Ramaswamy as DOGE’s co-leaders, assigned to identify government waste that the White House Office of Management and Budget would try to cut.


For a project named as a joking reference to a meme-based cryptocurrency, DOGE has taken numerous steps since the election to build a very real Washington operation. Over the past several weeks, DOGE has been deluged by applications that have poured in through direct messages on X, Musk’s social media site, where the group put out a public call for “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.”

That led to swarms of applicants who sought to bring their experience and credentials to the attention of Musk or Ramaswamy. In a blog post, Vinay Hiremath, co-founder of the tech company Loom, described four “intense and intoxicating” weeks of DOGE-related work after he became involved.
Although he ultimately decided not to relocate to Washington for a job with DOGE, Hiremath said he had been added to multiple groups on the encrypted messaging app Signal, where DOGE is conducting much of its initial work. Hiremath did not respond to requests for comment.


The crowdsourced callouts were followed by postings for more specific roles: Just after Christmas, DOGE said it was looking for IT, HR and financial staffers for full-time, salaried positions. This week, it put out a request for software engineers and information security engineers for full-time roles, advising applicants to send over “a few bullet points demonstrating exceptional ability” along with their cellphone numbers. On X, some users have listed their IQ scores in replies to Musk and DOGE and said they included them in their applications.
Key leadership roles have also fallen into place. Steve Davis, the Boring Company president who oversaw steep cost-cutting at Twitter (now X) after Musk bought it, is helping to oversee the entire effort, and deputies have been recruited to focus on narrower aspects of its agenda, such as legislation and regulation, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Emil Michael, a former Uber executive, is one of the people overseeing the effort to cut regulations, according to one person familiar with the matter, also speaking on the condition of anonymity to reflect matters not yet made public. Trump has announced the appointment of Katie Miller, former press secretary and communications director for former vice president Mike Pence, to DOGE. Trump also said in December that Bill McGinley, the former White House Cabinet secretary whom he’d previously named as White House counsel, would serve instead as DOGE counsel.


It remains unclear exactly how DOGE will drive change. The White House budget request applies to spending in fiscal 2026, which doesn’t begin until Oct. 1. Spending for the rest of the current fiscal year is being hashed out on Capitol Hill by congressional Republicans who already have voted overwhelmingly to boost spending for the Defense Department — an agency DOGE has vowed to target.
Numerous party officials, meanwhile, are quietly wary of approving big spending cuts at the same time they are working to extend the expiring provisions of Trump’s 2017 tax legislation, which would reduce revenue by trillions of dollars. And it’s not clear how much weight Musk’s star power will carry on Capitol Hill, where federal spending is often prized for its benefits to hometown constituents. The limits of Musk’s influence were revealed in late December when Congress revised a stopgap spending bill he criticized but passed separate legislation to implement many of the specific provisions he lambasted.
As Musk’s emissaries begin to make contact with federal officials, critical questions remain unresolved about the group’s authority and responsibilities. The two federal employees expressed confusion about what DOGE is assigned to do — including whether it has Trump’s full backing.


“Every administration has to establish a relationship with its career people, because it’s the career people who keep the government going,” said Bill Hoagland, senior vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank. “I think this is an important foray, but given what they have stated, it will be difficult for some career individuals to be cooperative with the DOGE people, who are not elected and are more advisers than political appointees.”

We just got two cats, our first live animals living with us not in a cage or aquarium. It's ****ing disgusting. Hair, dander, shit & piss accidents. Why do people do this? (If it's not obvious, I was not in favor of this but everyone else in the family overruled me)

In 1 play He elevated Himself up Draft boards and curb stomped the Texas OT Williams draft stock , That play will get played over and over leading up to the draft , Great move By Sawyer and very clumbsy whiff by Williams, Plumb bad whiff .

Interesting discussion on Iowa Public Radio about what's going on in Des Moines right now.
*The House debated for over 9 hours on a bill that would supposedly allow arbitrators in salary disputes in schools to have more latitude. The bill wasn't going anywhere in the Senate.
*The Senate approved legislation making texting while driving a primary offense. If this moves along, and I have no idea why it won't, cops will be able to pull drivers over on the suspicion they are texting. Brad Zaun was one of only 6 Republicans that voted against it. He said you "Can't legislate common sense". Odd thing to say. Murder isn't common sense, but we make rules stating it's illegal anyway.
*Katie O'Bradovich was on the panel and she said she thinks Chuck Palmer, who is the head of the Dept. of Human Services, will be the sacrificial lamb in the fight over closing the state facilities in Clarinda and Mt. Pleasant. Say one thing about Terry Branstad. He's never been afraid to throw a pal under the bus if it keeps the stink from getting on him. Palmer must be reconfirmed this year, and their are rumblings several Republicans want Palmer gone.
*After scaling back commercial property taxes the financial stress is making school funding very hard. House Republicans refuse to move off of a 1.5 percent increase in funding. Democrats in the Senate have come down from 6 percent to 4 something.
*Don't take it for granted that Branstad will be able to stuff the Board of Regents with stealth candidates. With three open seats on the board he's intent on politicizing it.
*No funds have been approved for outdoor recreation and water quality improvements even though the voters approved this several years ago. It was tied to an unspecified future increase in the state sales tax. One of the panelists noted that like the gas tax several years ago, the Iowa Farm Bureau is now pushing quietly for the sales tax to go up, thereby funding more water quality improvement projects.

Kind of an odd session. It's an off year for elections, so you'd think with a split chamber and a governor with so few principles something would get done. But, besides a rapid push through of the increase of the gas tax very little has been accomplished.

Discuss amongst yourselves.