If you are enough and produced enough protein you could stretch for a great deal. Probablyor thna the circumference of the earth. The problem is that if you were too heavy you couldn't wrap around the earth because you'd droop off like a wet towel after gym class. Think about it

Season sweep.
Fire Fran

I think of youre bald you have to bone up on those hand signals because your hair certainly won't be contributing. Think about it.

Well, am i

1st team B10
1st team All-American
Academic All American of the Year
AP Player of the Year
USBWA Player of the Year
John R Wooden Award
Naismith Player of the Year
James E Sullivan Award
Dawn Staley Award
Nancy Lieberman Award
Wade Trophy
Honda Sports Award
Big Ten Player of the Year
Big Ten Tourney MOP
Leading scorer in Country
NCAA Tourney Scoring Record
NCAA Tourney Assists Record
Leading Scorer in Collegiate Women’s Bball (soon)
Yep, I’ve seen enough she’s not good, everyone agrees

What a bunch of beta cucks. Great job by Biden to throw some gasoline on the fire.

why didn't he play if the NFL? He never even got a try out?

Iowa softball put together an impressive comeback last season in the National Invitational Softball Championship (NISC) title game. The Hawkeyes traveled to their first tournament last weekend, looking to turn last season's postseason success into a springboard for the 2024 season. Sophomore Jalen Adams will be asked to do even more after an All-Freshman team campaign on the mound last season, and she was more than willing last weekend, taking the mound for three starts in the Hawks 3-2 start to the year. The young Hawkeye team looked good in their early outings and got strong contributions from freshmen Soo-Jin Berry and Jena Young.

The group was clear that their goals for the year included a conference championship and a berth in the NCAA tournament. It will be an exciting spring to watch this team chase down those goals.

Elsewhere, Iowa track and field had another record weekend, breaking five more program records. Back indoors, tennis and gymnastics both got back on the right track with wins and the Hawkeye golf teams began their spring seasons.

You can follow along with all things Hawkeye Olympic sports here.

Iowa softball put together an impressive comeback last season in the National Invitational Softball Championship (NISC) title game. The Hawkeyes traveled to their first tournament last weekend, looking to turn last season's postseason success into a springboard for the 2024 season. Sophomore Jalen Adams will be asked to do even more after an All-Freshman team campaign on the mound last season, and she was more than willing last weekend, taking the mound for three starts in the Hawks 3-2 start to the year. The young Hawkeye team looked good in their early outings and got strong contributions from freshmen Soo-Jin Berry and Jena Young.

The group was clear that their goals for the year included a conference championship and a berth in the NCAA tournament. It will be an exciting spring to watch this team chase down those goals.

Elsewhere, Iowa track and field had another record weekend, breaking five more program records. Back indoors, tennis and gymnastics both got back on the right track with wins and the Hawkeye golf teams began their spring seasons.

You can follow along with all things Hawkeye Olympic sports here.

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Eager to learn more about how he plans to complement Lester's system.

Cedar Rapids doesn't have 5 seasons. It has 5 smells.

What's the difference between Cedar Rapids and a bag of dog shit? The bag.

Former president Donald Trump and top advisers have talked with former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard about foreign policy and how the Defense Department should be run in a second Trump term, according to people familiar with the matter.

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The talks with Gabbard — who has staked out a role as an outspoken critic of aid to Ukraine and U.S. military interventions overseas — are part of a broader conversation about how Trump would manage the Pentagon differently if voters award him a second term. Trump has repeatedly told advisers and donors in recent months that one of his biggest mistakes in his first term was his personnel choices at the Pentagon, where he says he was stymied by officials with diverging opinions.

He sought to immediately pull out of many countries where the United States had troops, wanted to withdraw from NATO at times because he said other countries were not paying enough, questioned traditional alliances, praised and negotiated with dictators considered foes of the United States and clashed repeatedly with the Republican establishment, particularly Senate Republicans, on foreign policy.



On Saturday, Trump claimed that he suggested to an unidentified foreign leader that he would encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to NATO countries he views as not spending enough on their own defense — comments that prompted widespread criticism.
During his presidency, Trump cycled through multiple defense secretaries and national security advisers. Most of the relationships ended in ignominious firings and questions from them about his approach and temperament.
Gabbard was elected to Congress in 2012 as a Democrat and left Congress in 2021 after four terms and a failed presidential campaign. After dropping out, she endorsed Joe Biden for the 2020 presidency. But in recent years, she has spoken at the Conservative Political Action Conference, filled in for Tucker Carlson on his former Fox News show and made other appearances in front of Republicans. She exited the Democratic Party officially in 2022. Gabbard has drawn criticism from Democrats and some Republicans for meeting and defending Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and for her isolationist views, but she has become something of a darling among hard-right Republicans in recent years.



Trump has met with Gabbard at least once in person last year. Gabbard has often shared Trump’s approach toward the world with the former president and his team in the post-presidency, according to advisers who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose private details. Gabbard and Trump and his team have discussed military entanglements overseas and Trump’s frustrations with Republicans on foreign policy. Trump advisers also hope Gabbard — who serves in the Army Reserve — could appeal to independent voters in a general election, one person familiar with the strategy said, and advocate for his military policies.
“She appeals to Republicans who are skeptical of intervention overseas, which is now a majority of Republican voters,” said Andrew Surabian, a Republican strategist who advises Donald Trump Jr. and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio).
The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment.



In an email, Gabbard declined to answer questions about her interactions with Trump or his team. “Out of respect for people I talk to or meet with, I have a long-standing policy about disclosing who I meet with and what was/wasn’t discussed,” she wrote.

The Gabbard conversations are only one element of Trump plotting out a second term in the Defense Department. One adviser said that he is determined to have personnel in the department this time who will listen to him and who share “his views philosophically 100 percent” after years of clashing with the Pentagon during his presidency, and that he has begun talking about the Pentagon.
A former senior administration official said Trump was repeatedly frustrated that he could not get involved in acquisition fights at the Pentagon and negotiations over planes, ships and other weapons of warfare.
“He did not like they had gotten rid of the F-22 program and he was really obsessed with the fact that the big companies are ripping off the Department of Defense,” the official said. “He wanted to be personally involved in negotiating these kinds of things.”


He also clashed with Pentagon officials about the role of the National Guard, as they raised alarm about deploying the guard in some domestic situations, and frustrated Pentagon officials by floating the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act. The law would have allowed him to deploy active-duty troops to combat unrest. Such deployments are rare and typically only sought when other measures are not sufficient.



Another former senior administration official said he is “greatly concerned” that Trump will upend longtime alliances if he is elected to a second term. The issue, the official said, came up “constantly” when Trump was in office, with him raising the prospect of pulling troops from Germany and South Korea and both withdrawing troops from Africa and closing all U.S. embassies there.
“He sees these treaties and partnerships as transactional relationships, and he is constantly looking at the ledger and saying, ‘Is this a good deal or this a bad deal?’” the official said. “He views America’s forces abroad, and America’s protection, as a service to be paid for.”
Among former administration officials, there is greatest concern that he would try to install Douglas MacGregor as a top official at the Pentagon. MacGregor was appointed by Trump to the board of the U.S. Military Academy after the Senate did not confirm him to be the U.S. ambassador to Germany. MacGregor is a frequent Fox News guest who has counseled Trump and has a history of espousing baseless accusations and complaining about migrants.



David Urban, a longtime adviser to Trump, said he believed the former president would put more pressure on NATO in a second term — and “there will be a retrenchment in terms of foreign engagements.” He said Trump would also have more people in the Pentagon secretary’s office who were known to him than during his presidency, when he largely deferred to others to pick political appointees.
“There are thousands of people who affect policy. So the assistant secretaries, the deputy assistant secretaries, those are all people who drive and shape policy — there you’ll get more Trump-like than served before,” he said.
John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, said Trump “did feel like he was being blocked on a lot of things at the Pentagon.”
“It was not the deep state and the Defense Department organized against him. It was his own incoherence against him,” Bolton said.

Iowa lawmakers tussled Tuesday evening over school curriculum, engaging in partisan debates about how to teach about U.S. history, race and the role of "social emotional learning" as Republicans moved to advance a slate of education bills ahead of a Friday legislative deadline.

Among the GOP-led bills advanced by the House committee is one that would outline specific topics, people and documents to be taught in grades one through six (House File 2330), and another that commissions a full review of the state's core curriculum, educational standards and content standards, aimed at discussions on race and "social emotional learning." (House File 2329).

Under the first bill, social studies curriculum would be required to include such topics as the "history and meaning of the United States flag and national anthem," the "culture heritage of western civilization, the United States and the state of Iowa," and "the study of and devotion to the United States' exceptional and praiseworthy history."

Fifth- and sixth-graders would be required to study "Common Sense," the Revolution-era pamphlet by Thomas Paine; writings from Alexis de Tocqueville; and transcripts of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, among other topics.

"Whether we want to believe it or not, with our emphasis on STEM … math and the other things we began to focus on over the course of the last decade or so, I think we've dropped the ball on history," said Rep. Steve Holt, R-Denison.

"That is why I have been so deeply concerned, because I've talked to so many young people and they can't tell me about the greatest generation, they can't tell me about Dec. 7, 1941, they can't tell me about Normandy. But they can tell me all the negative stuff."

The bill encountered broad criticism from Democrats, who warned it would be burdensome to districts and educators and was too specific, emphasizing some parts of history while minimizing others.

"I think being incredibly prescriptive in curriculum is not the job of this Legislature, and that this bill, fundamentally, is legislative overreach," said Rep. Heather Matson, D-Ankeny.

The other proposal would require the state's education director to conduct a "comprehensive" review of all graduation requirements, curriculum, content and educational standards, and recommend policy changes in a report to Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Legislature by the end of the year.

Both bills advanced to be eligible for House floor debate, keeping them alive through Friday's first "funnel" landmark of the session, alongside several other education proposals.


Committee Democrats expressed a range of concerns with the social studies legislation — arguing that it was too prescriptive and would put teachers and districts in a bind; that several of the topics weren't age appropriate for grade-schoolers; and that the curriculum didn't suitably address either the darkest parts of U.S. history or world history.

"This particular prescribed list gives me pause," said Rep. Molly Buck, D-Ankeny, a teacher. "Not because I have an agenda, but because as a teacher, I just don't know where the time would come from."

Matson noted that she had been told the list of curriculum topics was derived from the Civics Alliance and National Association of Scholars, citing an article that refers to the blueprint as "the right's new social studies plan" and requesting that any additions to core curriculum come from within Iowa.

Asked to clarify what the bill's description of "devotion" to American history could mean, Rep. Brooke Boden, R-Indianola, the bill's sponsor, said it would mean teaching "the founding principles" of the U.S.

I won say anything negative. Is he worthy of this role? Please discuss.

So will there be one hired before March?

We all know working for him has lead to countless people ruining their reputations, getting fired, being disbarred, and even criminal charges. But has anyone come out better?

How our brave vets and service members must be disgusted with Lying Donnie Sexual Abuser's draft dodging scheme with his laughable and overused bone spurs ploy. Haley was spot on. Combine his draft dodging with his despicable characterization of our dead war heroes as 'losers and suckers' and I can see why military service members want nothing to do with him. He's an embarassment to the USA.

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