We shall see. Every year there are gambling conversations, but this is the first time I believe sports betting has been on the table.

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Japan’s largest steelmaker Nippon Steel won its bid to purchase US Steel, a deal valued at $14.1 billion that will put the legacy American company in the hands of a foreign firm.
The purchase announced Monday comes months after failed bids by domestic competitors Cleveland-Cliffs and Esmark, which tried to purchase US Steel for $7.3 billion and $10 billion, respectively. The combination will make Nippon the second-largest steel company, trailing only China Baowu Group.


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US Steel will retain its name after the acquisition and remain in Pittsburgh, where it was founded in 1901 by J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and Charles Schwab, according to a statement.

The United Steelworkers Union, which represents many of the company’s workers, condemned US Steel’s decision to sell to a foreign entity as “greedy” and “shortsighted” in a statement. It also said that US Steel did not reach out to the union before making the deal.


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“Our union intends to exercise the full measure of our agreements to ensure that whatever happens next with US Steel, we protect the good, family-sustaining jobs we bargained,” the union wrote. It also urged regulators to scrutinize the purchase as a threat to national security.
The union ratified a four-year contract in December 2022, which states that a new labor contract must be agreed upon before an acquisition is completed. Nippon said it will honor all of US Steel’s existing union contracts.
Nippon agreed to purchase US Steel in an all-cash transaction that valued the company at $55 a share — a 40 percent premium from the stock’s closing price on Friday. US Steel shares rose sharply on the news, breaking $50 a share, good for a 27 percent increase.
In a statement, US Steel said the transaction is expected to close in the second or third quarter of 2024.

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Been a lot of spittin and fightin lately and I figure I need a nemesis. Apply in the thread.

Any chance?

Shenandoah and Ottumwa need help.

According to Panama Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes, recent rush of Haitian migrants is only the beginning.​

Nearly 30,000 Haitian migrants have already made their way over the U.S.-Mexico border in recent weeks, but Panama's foreign minister says far more are on their way – and she has been sounding the alarm for months.

In a new interview with Axios, Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes said that since the beginning of 2021 more than 85,000 Haitians have crossed through Panama and that she believes "they all are heading toward the U.S."

In addition to the 85,000 people that have already made their may to Panama and beyond, Mouynes said another 30,000 are waiting in Colombia while Panama is unable to take them.

All this happens while Dementia Joe has stated their is no crisis or problems at the border, his failure to comprehend reality will end in disaster.

I love the inconsistent and careless editing relationship the NYT has with its op-Ed submitters. Lying is OK only sometimes.

"[He’ll] be the first modern U.S. president trying to govern in the face of an opposition that refuses to accept his legitimacy," Krugman wrote. "And no, Democrats never said Donald Trump was illegitimate, just that he was incompetent and dangerous."

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Scores in the Champions League knockout round for Dortmund today at 18 years old. U.S. fans wait for the first great American soccer player looks like it might be in threat of ending soon. We've been burned many times before, but this kid is showing more than just potential. He's putting up results on the largest stage for one of Europe's biggest clubs.

Civil Court

Parents vs Defendants: JOE BIDEN, UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Jury trial.

What do you award the parents?

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Bought a new nightstand safe.

The major focus for me was:

Biometric entry.

Manual entry Backup.


Cool thing it has that I'm wondering how much it will be used:

An app to tell you if it has been opened/disturbed.

I did also purchase the additional battery.

It's plugged in, with a battery backup, and now an additional battery backup. The box says if it's unplugged the first battery Is good for 4-6 months and the additional battery gets you another 6 mo.



Here goes:

Interesting premise, here:

How did Mike and Carol hook up?

The show conveniently skips over that question. You never learn what happened to Mike’s first wife or Carol’s first husband. The kids never mention their original mother or father. The kids’ grandparents never visit after the wedding. Only once, in the series’ pilot, did anyone display a photo of one of the missing parents.


Clearly, something had happened to these two families that was so traumatic no one dared to bring it up. But what? Nuclear meltdown? Alien abduction? Evil clown attack?

One day, while watching another channel’s afternoon movie—the Alfred Hitchcock classic Strangers on a Train—suddenly I saw, with a startling clarity, the answer to my mystery: Mike murdered Carol’s husband and Carol killed Mike’s wife. It was a crisscross killing.
No one would suspect a thing. Each lover would have an alibi for their spouse’s death. Then, when the heat died down, they could marry and move in together.


That’s really the way they became the Brady Bunch.


How did they do it? I had my suspicions: As an architect, Mike knew how to weaken a balcony railing or sabotage a staircase, making Carol’s husband’s death look like an accident. How did Carol off Mike’s wife? A phony mugging outside Sam’s meat market, perhaps. Given Carol’s size, maybe she got an assist from Alice. That woman knew how to handle a knife.


You might ask, “Why not just divorce their spouses?” But these were the dark ages of the 1970s. Divorce still carried a stigma. It would have ruined Mike professionally. That minx Carol wouldn’t have been welcomed by the PTA crowd. Another motive for murder occurred to me: How do you support six kids, two adults, and a housekeeper on one salary? You collect the insurance on two dead spouses, that’s how.


Knowing what I now knew, I spotted things I hadn’t noticed before. Mike was clearly a man desperate to hide a secret, one that apparently curled his hair. Carol displayed a nervousness that lent a certain hesitation to her manner. Because of my secret knowledge, the show took on an edge it hadn’t had before. The once-tame laugh lines now carried a darker tone, even in the silliest dialogue about Davy Jones and Marcia’s nose.


In those pre-internet days, I had no outlet on which to announce my theories. If I told my parents, they’d say I was watching too much TV. My pals at school would look at me as if I had grown a third arm. So I brooded on it, alone, as the show became a pop culture phenomenon, the subject of several revivals, even two feature films. By then, I had moved on—or thought I had.


Whenever I heard that song, it would all come flooding back. It happened again the other day. This time, I checked Google. A year before she died, Florence Henderson, who played Carol, was asked in an interview what happened to that lovely lady’s first spouse.


“I killed my husband,” she said. “I was the original Black Widow.”


The interviewer thought she was joking. I knew better. I’d known all along. It had been much more than a hunch.