What is the proper donut etiquette when bringing donuts for a work team? Do you buy enough for everyone to have 1,2, or 3?

Let’s say a group of 8 total people - are you bringing in 12, 18, or 24?

Why haven't I heard of this person named Uncommitted before? Seems a lot of people have. They got a lot of votes last night.

A guy who never visited Samoa and only campaigned via Zoom calls, beats Biden.😂😀🤣

We are up to one of these GOP satire has become reality stories every day.

Login to view embedded media

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

And, no evidence of any subsequent "breakthrough" infection!!! 🤣

Login to view embedded media
In summary, our case report shows that SARS-CoV-2 hypervaccination did not lead to adverse events and increased the quantity of spike-specific antibodies and T cells without having a strong positive or negative effect on the intrinsic quality of adaptive immune responses. While we found no signs of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in HIM to date, it cannot be clarified whether this is causally related to the hypervaccination regimen. Importantly, we do not endorse hypervaccination as a strategy to enhance adaptive immunity.

#Hypochondria

OMG

‘Merica. We are so doomed.

Login to view embedded media

Friday has been was a dark day for freedom. In eastern Ukraine, Russian forces are on the verge of taking the city of Avdiivka after a months-long fight, thereby bringing closer Vladimir Putin’s goal of fully annexing yet another Ukrainian province — Donetsk. And in a Russian penal colony north of the Arctic Circle, Russia’s foremost dissident, Alexei Navalny, was pronounced dead at age 47.


I am filled with anger and despair as I write these words. Not because I am surprised by the Russian president’s villainy — that, by now, is sadly well-established. But because I am shocked and dismayed that America, the bastion of freedom, might abandon the fight against Putin’s evil. House Republican leaders are giving every indication that they are willing to reward Navalny’s killer by cutting off Russia’s Ukrainian victims from further U.S. aid, thereby making it inevitable that more good people will suffer his fate.
The circumstances of Navalny’s death remain murky. But whatever cause of death is listed on his death certificate, there is no doubt as to who killed him: He was murdered by Putin. Navalny was a tireless and fearless crusader against corruption and in favor of freedom. He was thus a mortal threat to a dictator who has established the most complete personal tyranny in Russia since the days of Joseph Stalin.



Putin had already tried to kill Navalny once, in 2020, by poisoning him with a nerve agent. Navalny survived, thanks to medical care he received in Germany. He could easily have stayed in the West with his beautiful family, yet in January 2021 he chose to return to Russia to lead the fight against Putin in person. He knew what would happen to him upon landing: He would be sent to prison on trumped-up charges. And he was. Yet he willingly sacrificed himself, because he calculated he could be a more effective advocate for freedom within Russia than outside it.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...?itid=mc_magnet-oprussia_inline_collection_19

Some Ukrainians had criticized Navalny for flirting with right-wing elements in Russia and embracing Russian nationalism. But although Navalny refused to condemn Putin’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 — a move that was widely popular in Russia — he was a steadfast opponent of Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Last year, he called for Ukraine to return to its internationally recognized 1991 borders, which would mean the return of Crimea.


Even with Navalny behind bars, his associates continued to expose Putin’s breathtaking corruption — including the dictator’s construction of a $1.3 billion palace. The video about Putin’s palace swiftly reached more than 93 million views on YouTube. We can only imagine Putin’s rage. Navalny’s prison sentence kept getting longer, and the conditions of his imprisonment kept getting worse. As my Post colleague Robyn Dixon notes, “Navalny was repeatedly placed in harsh conditions in solitary punishment cells, confined in those conditions on 27 occasions totaling more than 300 days, often for trivial offenses such as failing to keep his top button fastened.”



In December, Navalny was sent to a former gulag north of the Arctic Circle, where he died Friday. He thus joins a long list of martyrs for Russian democracy — including Anna Politkovskaya, Sergei Magnitsky and Boris Nemtsov — who have been murdered by Putin’s odious regime.
In 2021, President Biden said the consequences of Navalny’s death in prison “would be devastating for Russia.” He no doubt had in mind more sanctions. But since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the West has already maxed out sanctions on Russia — or close to it. The Russian economy is hurting but is being kept afloat by oil sales to China, India and Turkey. There is not much more that the United States can realistically do on the sanctions front without more cooperation from those nations.
But there are two things that the West can do that would get Putin’s attention:



First, send to Ukraine the estimated $300 billion in frozen Russian assets held in the West, primarily in a Belgian clearinghouse. The European Union and the Group of Seven recently agreed to send to Ukraine the profits from the Russian holdings, which could amount to $4 billion this year. But it would be far more effective to send the entire amount to make clear to Putin that aggression does not pay — literally.
Second, pass the $60 billion aid package for Ukraine that was just approved on a bipartisan vote of 70-29 in the Senate but that remains stuck in the House. Avdiivka is falling because the defenders are running out of ammunition. It would be a tragedy and disaster if that occurred elsewhere along the front lines — or if Ukraine ran out of air-defense ammunition to protect its cities from Putin’s murderous missile and drone strikes.
The only way to avoid Ukraine’s defeat is by providing more U.S. aid. Yet House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), in thrall to former president Donald Trump and his “America First” isolationists, refuses to grant the aid bill a floor vote. A failure to pass the aid bill will reward Navalny’s killer.



It might be no coincidence that Navalny died when he did, and it’s not only because Putin is determined to eliminate all opponents ahead of his farcical “election” next month. Putin is feeling confident because of the emergence of a pro-Kremlin caucus on the American right. Former Fox host Tucker Carlson, the very definition of a “useful idiot,” traveled to Russia recently for a simpering interview with Putin followed by the posting of propaganda videos about how much better life supposedly is in Russia than in the United States. Even worse, Trump — who, according to the polls, would win another term if the election were held today — recently said he would not protect NATO members who failed to pay their nonexistent “dues” and said that he would encourage the Russians “to do whatever the hell they want” to those supposed deadbeats.
Putin feels as though he is winning — and thus as though he can get away with murder. Giving that rapacious dictator a sense of impunity and invincibility is extremely dangerous. We can still fight back, however, by giving Ukraine the funds and military equipment it needs to defend itself. Only by defeating Putin’s aggression in Ukraine can we possibly hope to see the emergence of a better, freer Russia — the dream that Navalny gave his life for.

How dumb are these idiots?

This guy says he won’t vote for Biden in November if he doesn’t change his pro-Israel stance:

Dearborn resident Alwan Thafor, a 34-year-old commercial driver, said he wants to see Biden make more diplomatic efforts to end the war in Gaza. If nothing changes, he said he would likely sit out in November.

“I’m voting uncommitted to send a message to Biden that this should be taken seriously,” Thafor said. “Women and children are being killed for no reason.”

So what does this moron think Trump will do? He will give Netanyahu free rein to carpet bomb Gaza and not think twice about it. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face 🙄

The bald eagle as the national symbol with a black person?

Any migrants found in Iowa after having been previously deported by federal immigration authorities would be guilty of a new state law under proposed legislation that Republican state lawmakers passed out of the Iowa Senate on Tuesday.



The proposed bill states that a person who attempts to enter or is found in Iowa any time after having been deported or denied admission to the U.S. would be guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor, punishable by up to two years in jail and a fine between $855 and $8,540.


Under the bill, the penalty increases to a Class D felony if the person’s removal from the U.S. was after a conviction related to drugs or against another person, or is believed to be a threat to national security, among other provisions. A Class D felony in Iowa is punishable by up to five years in jail and a fine between $750 and $7,500.




Iowa Sen. Jeff Reichman, R-Montrose, said the bill is needed because he believes President Joe Biden’s administration has not sufficiently enforced federal immigration laws at the U.S.-Mexico border.


The proposed bill, Senate File 2340, is similar to a law passed recently in Texas. That law is being challenged as unconstitutional by the federal Department of Justice.


“What is unconstitutional is the way that our federal government is (abdicating) their duties. They refuse to enforce the laws,” Reichman asserted during floor debate in the Senate.


Sen. Janice Weiner, D-Iowa City, expressed concern that the proposal would make it harder for law enforcement officials to work with victims of human trafficking and sexual assault in order to arrest traffickers.





Similar concerns have been expressed by charity and religious organizations that house asylum-seekers.


Reichman said the legislation does not permit arrests at schools, churches or health care facilities. However, the bill exempts only those physical locations; victims of assault or trafficking could be arrested elsewhere.


With its passage out of the Senate on a party-line vote — all Republicans voted for and all Democrats against — Senate File 2340 is now eligible for consideration in the House, which has an identical bill that has not yet been considered in that chamber.

House passes bill to require radon mitigation​

New Iowa single-family and two-family houses would need to include radon control methods under a bill House lawmakers passed on Tuesday.


Radon is a colorless and odorless gas that comes from the breakdown of radioactive materials in soil and rocks. The gas is harmful at high indoor concentrations and can lead to cancer. Every county in Iowa is rated as a radon “Zone 1” by the EPA, which puts them at the highest potential for indoor radiation levels.


The bill would add a requirement to the state building code that new construction include passive methods for radon mitigation.


Lawmakers said they hoped the bill would help address Iowa's high cancer rate compared to other Midwestern states.


The bill, House File 2491, passed the House 96-1. It is now eligible for consideration in the Senate.

House bill would regulate drug paraphernalia​

Iowa lawmakers passed a bill to regulate and impose higher taxes on paraphernalia for the use of marijuana and other drugs.


The bill, Senate File 345, targets glass and metal pipes and bongs that are sold as tobacco products but often used to smoke marijuana.


The bill requires retailers to obtain a license in order to sell the products, giving cities and counties the authority to approve permits. Retailers would need to pay a $1,500 permit fee annually to sell the devices.


The bill would impose a 40 percent excise tax on top of the regular sales tax on the sale of glass and metal pipes.


Money collected from both the permit fees and excise taxes would go to fund specialty courts to address substance use disorder and mental health issues as an alternative to a traditional court proceeding.


The bill passed the House 90-7. The bill passed in the Senate last year, and it is now eligible to be signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Yeah, that's gay.

Anyway, prepare for a rough night with no lube my Florida peeps!

Login to view embedded media
It seems that dark brandon was seen with a hard hat on backwards recently which earned him quite a bit of deserved mocking online. Snopes, being unable to help themselves, immediately attempted to run cover for sleepy joe and claimed he had not worn his hard hat backwards. Unfortunately, they were clearly lying and after getting called out over it ultimately had to walk it back and correct the record and state that joe Biden, our drooler in chief, was in fact unaware of how to wear a hard hat. Simply amazing stuff from Ole 46 and snopes.

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Anyone want to take a stab at this? If Iowa, Wisky, Minny, and MSU all end up 11-9 how will they be seeded in the BTT?

SIAP

Login to view embedded media

...on Fox for Iowa/OSU game. Holy crap!

Tomorrow Cedar Rapids is forecast to have a high of 69 and a low of 12.



Still pales in comparison to the record:

Wonder if clark will play overseas in the off-season? I always thought it would be interesting to try the WNBA season during the fall/winter when peeps are in basketball mode. The college game is played at the same time for men and women, so it seems odd the pros wouldn't do the same. I get players would have to make a choice between wnba and higher paying foreign leagues. Also schedule in pro arenas could be a nightmare.

Northwestern taking out MSU would be a nice hit to MSU. Injuries piling up with NU. Boo needs a big game. Rutgers beating Wisky not likely but Wisky been looking choppy.

Is this still common practice?

I am hiring someone and only one of the four candidates I’ve interviewed thus far has followed up with an email reiterating their interest in the position.

I have always done that and when I’ve hired in the past (pre-COVID) most people followed up.

Another formality gone by the wayside?

Yes, we have all seen the video from Soldier Salute... It is beyond outrageous and something out of a bad movie about pro wrestling.... But, even though me might be surprised at how over the top it was, are any of us surprised AJ Ferrari caused/created a scene or fiasco? no none of us are. That should tell you something. Ask yourself, in an effort to have a top level 197# in the line up, which only lasts 2-3 years, does it create a very bad look and reputation to the Iowa program may last many years? The reputation that Iowa has no standards, no class, and will take on anyone no matter what if they're really good at wrestling. To make it even more of a head scratcher, it all went down with an opponent that is an Iowa wrestler, and with the Iowa coaches in the opposite corner. This really does provide an idea that maybe the young man has a screw loose, can't help himself, doesn't understand consequences for actions in the moment, or he is just an insufferable jackass. The last part was clear in 2021. if this is how they act when everyone is watching, what are they like when they think nobody is watching? The rumors are probably a good indicator of that. Lastly, an individual in the room such as AJ, runs the risk of being a virus, contributing to a very bad atmosphere and culture etc. I for one, had high hopes he had matured, and would join the program and contribute... Past behavior is indicative of future behavior.... and his actions are not a one/off moment or mistake but a pattern of being a jackass.

I have been a die hard Hawkeye wrestling fan since the Gary Kurdelmeier days... and, the current state is certainly disappointing, but Iowa is still a top program and the times have placed us in the Sanderson/PSU era for now. With that said, Iowa is the team everyone loves to hate. Why? Because Iowa was so dominant for so long. Other team's and other fans banded together to hate Iowa, which was coupled with Iowa's fierce aggressive physical style (now known as Iowa Style-even though it isn't demonstrated and practiced anymore by Iowa wrestlers like in the past). Having an AJ Ferrari on the team, especially after the latest antics, actually justify the Iowa hatred and will be hard to shake for years to come. Yes, it will damage the Iowa Wrestling brand. If AJ never competes for Iowa, but trains out of the Iowa wrestling room the virus and disruption is still there. Conclusion: Cut AJ loose. Lay down the rules, and expectations of behavior on and off the mat for Anthony (existing assault charges-on probation with deferred sentence) and Angelo with zero tolerance. If they choose to stay, they know the requirements.