Carter Pearson to ISU

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Guys…. GUYS….

please tell me I’m wrong. Please tell me this isn’t real. Did we really just spend $30 MILLION on a gottam warehouse?!

No windows?! Our new, state of the art facility is a part of the prison industrial complex?!

Before I say bad things - did I miss them?!

I might be a little scared.

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First lady Jill Biden defended her husband’s poor polling numbers Wednesday morning, hours after a new survey found him lagging behind rival Donald Trump in six out of seven crucial swing states in a head-to-head matchup.

“No, he’s not losing in all the battleground states,” the president’s wife said on “CBS Mornings.”

“He’s coming up. He’s even or doing better. So, you know what, once people start to focus in and they see their two choices, it’s obvious that Joe will win this election.”

A Wall Street Journal poll released late Tuesday showed Trump besting Biden in Michigan (48-45%), Pennsylvania (47-44%), Georgia (44-43%), North Carolina (49-43%), Arizona (47-42%) and Nevada (48-44%).

Trump and Biden are tied in Wisconsin at 46% each, but the Democrat came out on top by three percentage points when including independent candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West, as well as Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Lars Mapstead.

Kennedy pulled 10% of voter support in Wisconsin, while the other third-party candidates received 1% each and 9% were undecided.

RFK Jr. is aiming to get on the ballot in all 50 states, but is facing challenges as an independent candidate. His team says he has qualified for the ballot in Nevada, Utah, New Hampshire, Hawaii and North Carolina.

The polls spell bad news for Biden, who won six of the seven states surveyed in defeating Trump in 2020.

The president, 81, has insisted that polls exist that show him besting Trump, though evidence of such surveys are scarce.

What are these people afraid of?

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Irecently had a layover at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul airport on my way to visit my parents in Oregon, so I stopped at McDonald’s for a quick bite. Rather than being greeted by a human cashier, I was met with a hall of self-serve kiosks, where I placed my order and paid for it.

Expect to see a lot more machines and far fewer human workers in states and cities that are artificially driving up the cost of employees through higher minimum wages.

“The government seems stuck on this way of fixing something that doesn't need to be fixed,” Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust Advisors, told me. “It messes up the marketplace, and businesses attempt to find a way around it because these are not market-based wages – and today with robotics and computers they can. So it ends up hurting people.”

While efficient, automation like those ordering screens at the Minneapolis airport is emblematic of what happens when the government distorts the marketplace with a heavy-handed regulatory approach.

Minneapolis has mandated a $15.57 hourly minimum wage – more than twice the federal minimum wage of $7.25 – for large employers, but that wage will apply to all businesses starting this summer. While the airport isn’t technically part of any city, its employers are no doubt forced to offer comparable wages to attract workers.

High wages are having other effects, too. Minneapolis residents will soon be out of luck if they want to call an Uber or a Lyft. Both companies are leaving town in May after the ultra-liberal city council (several of the 13 are declared socialists) applied the minimum wage to drivers, overriding the mayor’s veto. The companies said the mandate makes operations in the city unsustainable.

So in the effort to increase pay for drivers, the city council effectively will strip thousands of jobs and leave many people without transportation.

As Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey said in an interview, “Getting a raise doesn’t do a whole lot of good if you lose your job.”

Nice work, Minneapolis.

California hikes minimum wage, employers lay people off​

Then there’s California. In what should have been an April Fools’ joke, a law requiring fast-food workers at large chains to earn $20 a hour took effect April 1.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed the law last year. Obviously, businesses aren’t happy because it's bad for their bottom lines.

Biden's new rule may take your job: Biden claims to stand for women, but his new regulation will kill jobs that women want

Newsom admitted as much when he tried to give his buddy Greg Flynn, who runs Panera Bread franchises in California, a loophole from the law. Flynn is a big Newsom donor, and Newsom had demanded a curious exemption to the law for restaurants “making in-house bread.”

After the justified uproar that Flynn was getting special favors, he has said he’ll abide by the higher wage.

It’s no surprise that even before the new minimum wage became reality, restaurants started planning layoffs. For instance, Pizza Hut has said it will cut more than 1,000 delivery jobs. Many more are following suit.

As any economist could have predicted, these businesses are having to downsize their workforce, reduce hours and raise prices. That’s what happens when the government meddles in the private market.

It’s hard to see how this benefits anyone in the long run. Minimum wage jobs have traditionally existed to give people an entry point into the work world, but government-driven inflated wages will take those opportunities away from inexperienced workers.

And this government intervention ignores that workers have more choices than ever.

“It’s such a competitive marketplace and unemployment is so low that if you’re disappointed in the job in either the culture or the wage or the working conditions, you can move,” Wesbury said.

Less work for same pay? Welcome to Bernie’s world.​

You can always count on Congress’ resident socialist, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, to come up with truly wild (and costly) ideas. He’s a constant pusher of “free” college, student debt forgiveness and high minimum wages.

Sanders also says Americans deserve a 32-hour work week. Employers would be forced to continue paying workers the same pay and benefits as they get for working 40 hours. And he’s not just thinking about it – he’s introduced a bill.

Sounds pretty darn good, I have to say.

Unfortunately, in the real world, companies would have to make adjustments to afford this cushy new employee benefit. Employers would either have to hire more workers or lose out on productivity, and consumers would face higher prices as a result. Other unintended consequences would surely follow.


Bottom line: The private sector works best when the government gets out of the way. It’s a lesson liberals never seem to learn.

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Catching up on Cobra Kai, am I understanding this correctly... Japanese dude beats the shit out of Daniel San's Japanese girlfriend in KK2. Fast forward to today, said Japanese dude and Japanese girlfriend are just cool now?

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This kid should be locked up for life. There’s only one McLovin.

The Hyball: A Newfound Optimist's Take on Iowa and the Final Four​

Bobby Loesch • Go Iowa Awesome
Staff Writer| @bobbystompy

The Hyball is a weekly basketball column


Spent a long time as a fatalist.

A long, long, long time. In many ways, I still feel like that is my default DNA as a sports fan. The sky is falling, the next injury, the trap game, the "are we rooting for a paper tiger?" feeling.

There are bigger issues in the world, so if we are going to willingly choose college basketball as one of our interests, why not keep on the sunny side? Because this Iowa women's basketball team, as I've said maybe 15 times in the last three years, is a routine Celebration of Joy every time they step on the court.

And if my beloved Michigan Wolverines can win the natty in football, then I assure you any-freaking-thing can happen.

But I'm not asking you to lean on random chance here.

READ MORE: https://iowa.rivals.com/news/the-hyball-a-newfound-optimist-s-take-on-iowa-and-the-final-four

From The NY Times:

... The Thomases and Ms. Clanton, a 29-year-old conservative organizer turned lawyer, have built such a close relationship that the couple informally refer to her as their “nearly adopted daughter.” Ms. Clanton, who was previously accused of sending racist text messages, including one that read “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE,” has lived in the Thomas home, assisted Ms. Thomas in her political consulting business and joined her in a “girls trip” to New York. ...

Her upcoming Supreme Court clerkship, one of the most coveted jobs in the American legal profession, is the latest triumph in her redemption from a highly publicized 2017 controversy over the racist messages. The blowup led to her departure from a group she helped build, Turning Point USA, which seeks to increase the influence of conservative students on college campuses across the country.

Either way, his decision is another example of the justice landing himself in public controversy, this time by hiring his wife’s former employee and a virtual family member primarily known outside the justice’s circle for allegations that she sent anti-Black texts. Friends say Ms. Clanton’s hiring also reflects Justice Thomas’s sympathies to a young woman under siege, as he has been, from what he has long viewed as a sanctimonious liberal elite.

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Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chair and White House strategist, believed before the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on Congress that a “Maga movement” of Trump supporters “could rule for a hundred years”.





“Outside the uniparty,” the Washington Post reporter Isaac Arnsdorf writes in a new book, referring to Bannon’s term for the political establishment, “as Bannon saw it, there was the progressive wing of the Democratic party, which he considered a relatively small slice of the electorate. And the rest, the vast majority of the country, was Maga.

“Bannon believed the Maga movement, if it could break out of being suppressed and marginalised by the establishment, represented a dominant coalition that could rule for a hundred years.”

Arnsdorf’s book, Finish What We Started: The Maga Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy, will be published next week. The Post published an excerpt on Thursday.

A businessman who became a driver of far-right thought through his stewardship of Breitbart News, Bannon was Trump’s campaign chair in 2016 and his chief White House strategist in 2017, a post he lost after neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville that summer.


What happened yesterday is a disgrace.
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He remained close to Trump, however, particularly as Trump attempted to overturn his 2020 defeat by Joe Biden.

That attempt culminated in the attack on Congress of 6 January 2021, when supporters Trump told to “fight like hell” to block certification of Biden’s win attacked the US Capitol.

Nine deaths have been linked to the attack, including law enforcement suicides. More than 1,200 arrests have been made and hundreds of convictions secured. Trump was impeached for inciting the insurrection but acquitted by Senate Republicans.

Notwithstanding 88 criminal charges for election subversion, retention of classified information and hush-money payments, and multimillion-dollar penalties in civil cases over fraud and defamation, the latter arising from a rape claim a judge called “substantially true”, Trump won the Republican nomination with ease this year.



As a Trump-Biden rematch grinds into gear, Bannon remains an influential voice on the far right, particularly through his War Room podcast and despite his own legal problems over contempt of Congress and alleged fraud, both of which he denies.

The “uniparty”, in Bannon’s view, as described by Arnsdorf, is “the establishment [Bannon] hungered to destroy. The neocons, neoliberals, big donors, globalists, Wall Street, corporatists, elites.”

“Maga” stands for “Make America great again”, Trump’s political slogan.

Arnsdorf writes: “In his confidence that there were secretly millions of Democrats who were yearning to be Maga followers and just didn’t know it yet, Bannon was again taking inspiration from Hoffer, who observed that true believers were prone to conversion from one cause to another since they were driven more by their need to identify with a mass movement than by any particular ideology.”



Eric Hoffer, Arnsdorf writes, was “the ‘longshoreman philosopher’, so called because he had worked as a stevedore on the San Francisco docks while writing his first book, The True Believer [which] caused a sensation when it was published in 1951, becoming a manual for comprehending the age of Hitler, Stalin and Mao.”

Bannon, Arnsdorf writes, “was not, like a typical political strategist, trying to tinker around the edges of the existing party coalitions in the hope of eking out 50% plus one. Bannon already told you: he wanted to bring everything crashing down.

“He wanted to completely dismantle and redefine the parties. He wanted a showdown between a globalist, elite party, called the Democrats, and a populist, Maga party, called the Republicans. In that match-up, he was sure, the Republicans would win every time.”

Now, seven months out from election day and with Trump and Biden neck-and-neck in the polls, Bannon’s proposition likely stands to be tested again.

Under Iowa's new law:

Exercising one's religion includes the ability to refuse to do anything "substantially motivated by one's sincerely held religious belief, whether or not the exercise is compulsory or central to a larger system of religious belief", as defined in the bill, allowing for a broad legal interpretation.

Just sent my sophomore (no pics) at the University of Iowa a form letter to give to her professors. Reads something like this: "I sincerely believe that only God possesses the right to judge people's actions, including my actions. Therefore, your grading system violates my sincerely held religious beliefs. I hereby demand that you refrain from grading my performance in class. I will attend classes and you will give me the requisite hours of credit for my attendance."

Sounds crazy?

Before answering . . . please tell me how individuals can use "religious exemptions" to avoid becoming vaccinated.

I would absolutely love to read stories of people "flipping the coin" and taking advantage of the legislature's broad statute in ways that will infuriate the legislature.

Thought I posted about this when it happened, but couldn't find anything. My bad if so.

I spoke with Trey Buchanan -- son of Indiana Pacers GM, Chad Buchanan -- about his decision to walk on at Iowa a couple days ago. Trey shared his thoughts on how he believes he can carve out a role at Iowa, why the staff likes him, his relationship with Connor McCaffery and more.

STORY:

The home of a local pizza icon is being considered for historic landmark designation despite the building owner's pleas to abandon the campaign.

The Iowa City City Council on Tuesday, April 2 chose to consult with the Planning and Zoning Commission before adding a historic preservation overlay district to 302-316 Bloomington Street.

The address is home to Pagliai’s Pizza, several apartments, and a laundromat.

City staff and the Historic Preservation Commission Chair cited the property’s long-standing, integral presence in the northside neighborhood. They also referenced the structure's "unique character" and "one-of-a-kind architecture."

E. Bloomington property is nearly 150 years old​

First built in 1875, the primary building at 302. E. Bloomington Street was used for a Czech dance club. The adjacent laundromat was initially a horse stable. The building's interior was renovated through the years into an apartment-type building that also included a market.







The building and laundromat are considered one property and would be rezoned under the historic preservation district designation.

Pagliai’s Pizza opened in 1969 and eventually became its most iconic tenant, having served residents for more than 50 years.

Building owner Gary Skarda put the E. Bloomington property up for sale for $5 million in October 2023.

From October:Pagliai's Pizza building hits the real estate market at $5 million, business will stay open

Teague, Salih have minor concerns, shelving vote​

The April 2 council meeting was met with broad community support for the building. A group of people passed out stickers that urged the council to “Save the Pagliai’s Building.”

Building owner Gary Skarda filed a protest of the commission’s historic landmark recommendation just hours before the council meeting, meaning a “supermajority” of the council, six of the seven members, would need to approve the historic designation. A typical, uncontested vote would require only a simple majority of four councilors.


Councilor Laura Bergus was absent at Tuesday’s meeting and thus, a unanimous vote was needed.

Skarda believes a historic landmark designation would make the building more difficult to sell.

A protective rezoning would force owners to consult the Historic Preservation Commission before making physical changes to the building.

Marx recognized the value of labor in producing things, and further acknowledged the ownership of that labor by the worker. He believed that workers had common (class) interests so that, for example, it didn't make sense for workers to go to war to defend the unshared profits of capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Pretty straightforward notions that the rich and powerful don't want people thinking about too much.

I don't get why so many Americans are scared about Marxism and use "Marxist" and "Marxism" to vilify some people and scare others.

Can someone explain that to me?

Sick of hearing about how difficult of a season they've had. They lose one five star, they just put another in. Since 2020 they have had 11 top 30 high school recruits according to hoop gurlzs and 5 In the top ten. Iowa 1 in each category. CC Geno was saying if you want to find the top player in the country, just look at the best player on a championship team. What Iowa has done in the past two years is way more impressive that what Uconn has even if they win it all. The talent level is not comparable. I would say a player that can elevate her teammates to play at a five star level is on a different plane than the best player from all star teams like Lsu, Uconn , and South Carolina

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...fooled a few folks hahaha

And, do you like it? How expensive is it?

I have Norton. I've been using it for a couple of years and I like it. But it's expensive, and there are additional add-on's I could buy to add to the cost.

I use the password manager and the PC system cleaner in addition to the threat detection tools.

Is it worth it? What is out there that is better or less expensive? Or both?

Now that "he who shall not be named" is gone from the program, how do you project the starting lineup in 2024?

Begging for $$$

LOL

"Oh Hill Yeah" ad by Hillshire Farms has their panties in wads...

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole:

Hillshire Farm’s smoked sausage and lunchmeat commercials include a double entendre that is inappropriate and unnecessary. Foul language (or the implication of it) is not needed in this or any commercial, but that is obviously what Hillshire Farm intended with their play on words.
The ad praises their food, of course, bragging on how delicious it is, Then, the commercial ends right after the insinuated but obvious profane ending, “Oh, Hill Yeah.”
Hillshire Farm chose to include phrases that sound just like curse words and to end the ad with viewers understanding exactly what was implied.
This type of advertising is entirely unnecessary. Hillshire Farm has deliberately decided to produce controversial advertisements instead of wholesome ones. One Million Moms finds this highly inappropriate.

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Well?