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Amputations left and right coming in from Miami - KC game.

I just saw this stabilized footage for the first time. Not sure if it leads me one way or the other.



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Maryland up by 2 on #1 seed Ohio State in 2nd quarter.

Because I'm bored, let's go ahead and make this the official thread to keep track of both our bubble status, and that of our fellow bubble-inhabiting companions in this closing stretch of the 2023-2024 season:

Based on Lunardi's bracketology-
(Last Four In)
Seton Hall
Providence
Gonzaga
Wake Forest*

(First Four Out)
Texas A&M*
Mississippi
Utah
Butler

(Next Four Out)
Villanova
Drake
Cincinnati
Colorado

-Some quick thoughts......I penciled in Wake Forest and flipped TAMU, after Saturday's results. Not gonna change much more than that, as Lundardi hasn't updated things Friday. Also, Drake losing to UNI probably ends any hope they had of getting an at-large bids, but what does that mean for Iowa considering there's plenty to debate about who the better team is between the two of us.

Here's a list of the rest of the contenders (whether you think they're in or not is up for debate........hence the purpose of this thread):

AAC-
South Florida**
Florida Atlantic
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Memphis
Charlotte
SMU
UAB

A10-
Richmond**
Dayton
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Loyola, Chicago

ACC-
Wake Forest
Pittsburgh
Clemson
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NC State
Syracuse

Big East-
Seton Hall
Providence
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Butler
Villanova

B12-
Kansas State
Texas
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Cincinnati

Big Ten- (Pur, Wis, Ill, NW, Neb)
Michigan State
Iowa
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(Anyone else?.....PSU? Minn? OSU?)

MVC-
Indiana State**
Drake

MWC-
Nevada
Colorado State
New Mexico
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UNLV?

P12-
Oregon
Colorado
Utah

SEC-
Texas A&M
Mississippi

Sun Belt-
Appalachian State**
James Madison

WCC-
St. Mary's**
Gonzaga


**- currently leading their conference, could possibly/debatably still be an at-large team if they don't win conference tournament (which could potentially also work against other bubble teams)

We've had signs for a couple weeks... daffodils, some tree blossoms... Lots of tree blossoms now... Lots of rain.

My father in law dropped some logs off last night. Sliced some up to have with crackers when the kids went to bed. Went down to the man cave and was set to relax. Deer sausage with cheese mixed in and the first piece was amazing. Get up to take a piss and come back and two of our cats are gobbling it up. Then one runs off with a piece.

Those little furry bastards inhaled two pieces and ran off with another. I’m sure they will leave a nice present in the litter box soon.

What happens to the bowl games? Will some be included or all of them? I still like the bowl games reward for fans. Get to go some place warm like NYC.

Are pretty messed up. Yikes.

By Max Boot
Columnist |
August 7, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT

All you need to know about the state of the Republican Party today is what happened at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas on Thursday. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has been destroying his country’s democracy, received a standing ovation less than two weeks after he gave a speech in Romania in which he endorsed the white supremacist “replacement theory” and denounced a “mixed-race world.”
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One of Orban’s longtime advisers quit over what she described as a speech “worthy of Goebbels” before backtracking a bit. But Orban hasn’t recanted his repugnant views, and right-wingers in Dallas thrilled to his denunciations of immigration, abortion, LGBTQ rights and “the Woke Globalist Goliath.” He even excoriated Jewish financier George Soros, a Hungarian native, as someone who “hated Christianity.” The racist and anti-Semitic signaling was not subtle.
You can trace the current iteration of the Republican Party to the 1990s Gingrich revolution, as my brilliant Post colleague Dana Milbank does in a new book. Or you can go further back to the Goldwater revolution in the 1960s, as I did in my own book. But we must also acknowledge that something profound has changed in recent years.
Ten years ago this month, Republicans nominated a national ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul D. Ryan, a centrist former governor and a budget policy wonk. Now we have the coup-coup caucus cheering Viktor Orban. This is the Trump effect: The former president has made the marginal into the mainstream of the Republican Party, and vice versa.


Some observers were deceived by the success in Georgia of Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in handily defeating Trumpist challengers in May despite certifying President Biden’s victory. That was an aberration. In other races across the country, Republicans are nominating far-right fanatics who claim that the 2020 presidential election — and any election that they lose, for that matter — was “rigged.” By refusing to accept electoral defeat, they embrace authoritarianism.
In four key swing states — Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania — the GOP nominees to oversee state elections deny the legitimacy of Biden’s election. Two of those candidates, Arizona secretary of state nominee Mark Finchem and Pennsylvania governor nominee Doug Mastriano, were outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. If elected, they are no more likely to certify a Democratic victory in 2024 than they are to embrace critical race theory. Meanwhile, most House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for inciting an insurrection are being driven out of Congress. Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer was the latest to lose a primary last week to a proponent of the “big lie.”
Taking a cue from Trump, the winners of Republican primaries traffic in authoritarian imagery and rhetoric. Guns have become a de rigueur accessory in GOP campaign commercials. Arizona U.S. Senate nominee Blake Masters wants to lock up Anthony S. Fauci for trying to slow the spread of covid-19. And Arizona gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake wants to lock up her opponent for certifying Biden’s election victory.
Masters and Ohio U.S. Senate nominee J.D. Vance are both bankrolled by tech tycoon Peter Thiel, who has concluded that freedom and democracy aren’t “compatible.” Thiel’s “house political philosopher” is far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin, who is also close to Masters and Vance. Yarvin has mused that we may need an “American Caesar” to take control of the federal government. Trump is auditioning for the role; his henchmen are plotting to fire tens of thousands of civil servants and replace them with ultra-MAGA loyalists in 2025.
The libertarian-leaning Republican Party I grew up with in the 1980s is long gone and not coming back. Republicans still use the language of “freedom,” but their idea of freedom is warped: They want Americans to be free to carry weapons of war or spread deadly diseases but not to terminate a pregnancy or discuss gender or sexuality in school.
Republicans, once suspicious of government power, are now eager to use it to impose their agenda. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, next to Trump as the most likely 2024 GOP nominee, is establishing his culture-war credentials by, most recently, suspending an elected prosecutor who vowed not to “criminalize personal medical decisions,” such as abortion or “gender-affirming healthcare.” DeSantis even threatened to investigate parents who take their kids to drag shows.
These Republican extremists are often described as the “New Right,” but the term doesn’t fit. The New Right was the movement in the 1960s-1970s that produced Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. You can argue that the New Right helped lead to the present imbroglio, but it’s hard to imagine Goldwater or Reagan flashing Viktor Orban a thumbs-up, as Trump did.
Some other term is needed. “Christian nationalism” and “nationalist conservatism” have been bandied about, but the most apt phrase for this American authoritarianism is the New Fascism, and it is fast becoming the dominant trend on the right. If the GOP gains power in Washington, all of America will be in danger of being Orbanized.

'We've got more dangerous criminals coming into this country than we've ever seen before,' Brandon Judd said.​

The head of the National Border Patrol Council believes President Biden "slapped every American in the face" during Thursday’s State of the Union address.

It took Biden roughly 40 minutes to get to the issue of immigration, and Brandon Judd said he didn’t believe his remarks were up to par.

"He didn't address what he could do. All he did was blame it on President Trump. But look, I have the opportunity to speak with President Trump. I know that the reason why he didn't support that bill has nothing to do with politics. It has everything to do with — the president understands it from day one, he could step into office and do a lot more than what that bill does," Judd said on Fox News' special coverage of the State of the Union.

"He also understands that if a bill were to be passed today, that there would be no appetite to pass a better bill when he's in office."
Last month, the Senate failed to pass a supplemental spending agreement that included aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan as well as an ambitious border security and immigration package that drew widespread opposition from conservative Republicans in both chambers.

But while the Biden administration and negotiators talked the bill up as a tough but fair way to tackle the border crisis, Republicans in the House immediately declared it a non-starter and conservative opposition in the Senate quickly stacked up. More than 20 Republican lawmakers in the upper chamber argued the provisions would not sufficiently reduce the historic number of illegal migrant crossings, and warned it would normalize record-high levels of illegal immigration.

During his State of the Union address, Biden called the bill "a tougher set of border security reforms than we've ever seen," which drew groans from Republicans in the crowd.

Judd said Trump feels he would have actually hurt the country by supporting the bill. He also believes that the bill only received the support that it did because of the situation President Biden has put the country in. The National Border Patrol Council supported the bill, but Judd wanted Americans to know it’s simply because of how bad things are under Biden.

"He has put us in the situation that we've never thought that we would ever be in. We're apprehending seven times more people than what we normally apprehend. We have more than 10 times the got-aways. We've got more fentanyl coming into this country than we've ever seen before. We've got more dangerous criminals coming into this country than we've ever seen before. We've got terrorists on the terrorist watch list that are coming into the country," Judd said.

"He didn't address any of that," he added. "So, he's put us in a position that we're going to accept anything that is better than the status quo, and that bill is better than the status quo."

Judd said it would be "completely disingenuous" for Biden to blame Congress when he has the executive authority to "do more than the border bill would ever do."

"He’s not going to do it, because if he did something like that, he would be admitting that over the past three years, it’s been his fault that we have this crisis at the border," Judd said. "He didn't announce anything today that is actually going to help us secure the border, so that was a slap in the face of all America."

30+ pt lead with 3+ min to go, save her legs or an injury

Hey, lets take a shot at CC while we go full racism, shall we?


Unreal

Oh my

5:30pm BTN

Penn St (19-11) takes on Iowa (26-4) after the Nitty Lions trashed the Badgers 80-56.

Penn St has now on 3 straight after 6 straight loses. Iowa beat PSU at Carver 111-93 in their only meeting this year.

I’m hoping to get to watch the game at 12:30am from Norway.

Go hawks!

I've been reading news stories and Reddit and it seems like anti-semitism has exploded the last few months.

I'm reading stories of how dozens of Jewish people seem scared and are discussing if they should leave the United States. I didn't realize it was that bad but I may be clueless.

I live near Washington D.C. with a huge Jewish population and most of my friends are Jews. I haven't asked them personally but none have told me they feel unsafe.

I was 2 miles from the Air Force member that lit himself on fire last week in front of the Israeli Embassy while screaming "Free Palestine!!!"

Have you noticed an uptick of anti-semitism in your work or social circles? Any pro-Palestinian protests?

I know Iowa is Uber Conservative so I assume it's less than other places.

CSB.

I am fired up! What day is it, oh that’s right it’s Wednesday. I decided to start this thread early, because I am truly pumped for our team leading into this weekend.
Some may still have forgotten that we lost three of our starters for the season yet we are number two in the rankings.
We are healthy and peeking at the right time. The team is together and focused, it’s time to show what we are made of.
Now, as far as the pregaming, I was actually planning on being in Maryland for this weekend, but those plans were diverted by my sister-in-law and her sister.
So what do wrestlers do, we move forward and push through it. I will be home for the weekend Getting the boat ready for the spring and preparing the food for our big 10 watch party.
On the menu,
Breakfast Saturday morning will be fried eggs with bacon and low-carb English muffins and protein pancakes also mostly for my daughter.
Mid afternoon snack is Cod/Seabass Fishcakes and chips with salad.
Dinner for Saturday is PRIME RIB seasoned to perfection, roasted with red potatoes and carrots. I make a horseradish sauce that goes on everything along with an Ajou. LETS GO HAWKS!!!
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Another person?

Always been a struggle for me.

@fredjr82 I just used the line here at the poker table. Stunned the crowd.

Guy said “I flopped two flushes tonight.” And I hit him with it.


They all about shit themselves. True story.

😂😂😂
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