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What terrible programing production. Ridiculous.

Shoulda cut ties with Mike and gone after Dusty May.
Thats now four straight for Fred over Mike.
Ulis gets scraps of minutes for Nebraska.

This is just Zach's 2nd year in the program.

Abdul Hodge on the current #3 Iowa Tight End: "I see him as a 1."

Check this out & watch:

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Are we more likely in our lifetime to see unicorns, magic pixie dust or tax cuts that pay for themselves?

The new Republican line is to borrow borrow like their is no tomorrow and as long as it from tax cuts we can rest assured they will pay for themselves.

Is this total BS or what?

Time for old school root canal Republicanism and raise the crap out of taxes and cut spending like there is no tomorrow.

We have grown the National Debt $30 Trillion since Clinton was President, $15 Trillion since Obama was President and our adding to it at a rate of $1 Trillion every 90 days. Should we do what Truman, Ike and Clinton did as they each balanced the budget 3 times or just get more in debt and give a big FU to our kids?

Has anyone used Purelight Power for solar panels?

Between travel, the holiday, the Music City Bowl, and a few other Iowa sports things, the Soldier Salute event kind of slipped thru the cracks on me.

Not that there was a lot of drama to it -- both the men and women dominated some pretty weak fields.

The men had finalists in 7 weights (all but 125, 141, and 157) and crowned champs at all 7 weights.

There were all-Iowa finals at 133 and 184. Drake Ayala beat Kale Petersen 20-5 at 133, while Angelo Ferrari won via medical forfeit over Gabe Arnold at 184. Shame we weren't able to see Ferrari and Arnold go at it.

FINALS RESULTS
133 – #4 Drake Ayala (Iowa) tech. fall Kale Petersen (Iowa), 20-5
149 – #4 Kyle Parco (Iowa) dec. #6 Lachlan McNeil (UNC), 8-5
165 – #2 Michael Caliendo (Iowa) vs. #9 Andrew Sparks (Minnesota), 7-6
174 – Patrick Kennedy (Iowa) dec. #18 Danny Wask (Navy), 6-2
184 – Angelo Ferrari (Iowa) MFF #6 Gabe Arnold (Iowa)
197 – #2 Stephen Buchanan (Iowa) major dec. Aeoden Sinclair (Missouri), 15-4
285 – #12 Ben Kueter (Iowa) dec. Bennett Tabor (Minnesota), 1-0

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Two serious videos for any who want to know the stakes

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A popular Iowa City pizzeria is returning to downtown Iowa City after 10 years away.



The Wedge closed its most recent location at 521 Highway 1 on Dec. 29 to move into its new location at 113 Iowa Ave. That site, in between Joe’s Place and Get Fresh Cafe, previously was home to Benders yoga studio.


The new location is tentatively set to open Jan. 3.




The move moves the hand-tossed pizzeria back downtown for the first time since 2014, when Iowa City Council terminated The Wedge’s lease a year and a half early, at the restaurant’s request. At that time, The Wedge was renting a city-owned space on the Ped Mall at 136 S. Dubuque St. for more than $6,200 per month.


The city gave The Wedge a $40,000 low-interest Community Development Block Grant in 2008 to help open the downtown location, which was repaid by the lease’s termination.

Not sure if this podcast has been discussed on here. It isn’t new and they have even started a version about the 2000’s. I’m sure a decent amount of our hrot music lovers will enjoy it as much as I do.

I’m kind of late to the game on this show but it’s really well done and pretty addicting. Even when they highlight a song that i don’t like, the guy (Rob) mixes in so much additional context that makes it worth a listen.

Any fans of the show here? Favorites episodes?

This coming spring we are going to start a garden. We have a pretty good sized area if we wanted to use it all. Probably 30 feet long. Could be as deep as 10 feet, but to start we will probably keep it to a single or double planting row, so maybe 6 feet or so. This particular area had the typical awesome Iowa soil unintentionally stripped out as casualty of war from a previous project in the back yard, and it struggles with having plush thick grass grow. We will need to add fertilizer and such. It also gets a ton of direct sunlight. I know we will do tomatoes. I would like to grow peppers but we have tried to grow them in the past with little success. I like the idea of zucchini. What do you guys plant? Do you use planters or beds, or just plant directly in the ground?

Caught up with Langden Kitchen this afternoon to discuss his recruitment.

After picking up the offer from Iowa State on Saturday, things have blown up for him. Hawkeyes appear to be in a solid spot, though. A solid prospect with some serious upside under Kelvin Bell.

STORY:

U.S. Steel and Japan’s Nippon Steel sued the United States government on Monday in a last-ditch attempt to revive their attempted merger after President Biden blocked it last week on the basis that the transaction posed a threat to national security.
The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Washington, accused Mr. Biden and other senior administration officials of corrupting the review process for political gain and of harming steel workers and the American steel industry by blocking the deal under false national security pretenses.
Mr. Biden moved to block the merger after a government panel charged with reviewing foreign investments failed to reach a decision about whether the deal should proceed. In a statement on Friday, Mr. Biden said that he was acting to ensure that the U.S. maintains a strong domestically owned and operated steel industry. The president had previously vowed to ensure that U.S. Steel remained American-owned.
The companies are asking for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to conduct a new review of the deal.
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The companies also filed a separate lawsuit against Cleveland-Cliffs, an American steel company that previously tried to buy U.S. Steel but was rebuffed, along with Lourenco Goncalves, chief executive of Cleveland-Cliffs, and David McCall, international president of the powerful union United Steelworkers. The lawsuit alleged that Cleveland-Cliffs and the head of the union illegally colluded to undermine the proposed deal between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel.
The legal actions represented a long-shot maneuver by the companies to preserve a deal that was ensnared in election year politics. Presidents have broad authority to determine what constitutes a national security threat, and no transaction blocked under those powers has ever been overturned by the courts.
However, Mr. Biden’s move to terminate Nippon’s $14 billion bid for U.S. Steel raised questions about whether those powers were being abused, given that Japan is a close ally of the United States. In the rare cases where deals have been blocked, they usually involved companies with ties to U.S. adversaries such as China.
“Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel are disappointed to see such a clear and improper exploitation of the country’s national security apparatus in an effort to help win an election and repay political favors,” the companies said in a statement on Monday. “Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel are entitled to a fair process and have been left with no choice but to challenge the decision and the process leading to it in court.”
David Burritt, the chief executive of U.S. Steel, assailed Mr. Biden on Monday, suggesting that the president blocked the deal because he “owed the union boss a favor in exchange for an endorsement.”

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“The government failed us,” Mr. Burritt said in an interview on the Fox Business Network on Monday. “They failed because they didn’t follow the process, and we are going to right that wrong.”
The White House defended Mr. Biden’s decision on Monday, pointing to the threats to the U.S. steel industry that the committee highlighted.
“A committee of national security and trade experts determined this acquisition would create risk for American national security,” said Robyn Patterson, a White House spokeswoman. “President Biden will never hesitate to protect the security of this nation, its infrastructure, and the resilience of its supply chains.”
The lawsuit against the Biden administration was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The suit also names Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen, who chairs the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, and Merrick Garland, the attorney general.
The companies argue that because Mr. Biden publicly said last March that he did not want the deal to happen, the national security review conducted by the panel, known as CFIUS, was tainted by politics and “designed to reach a predetermined result.” They also claimed that the panel had failed to engage with the companies when they proposed measures to mitigate any national security concerns.

24 points today, 24 more than we got in top 20 games last year 🥴