Reports coming that trump is pulling out of the WHO, and will completely walk away from the organization on day 1 of his 2nd term. One less disaster for the US tax payer to finance.

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Musk, the world's richest person, spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars helping Trump get elected president in November. Removing the crash-disclosure provision would particularly benefit Tesla, which has reported most of the crashes – more than 1,500 – to federal safety regulators under the program.

I just got a flask for Christmas. What is a good booze to put in it? I am thinking bourbon but I don't know.

This is 100% accurate... I certainly won't send a check by mail. Except I did and fingers crossed it gets there. It was either mail a check or pay over $200 fee to pay my Key West property taxes via electronic methods.

DeJoy has been a disaster for the Post Office...

DeJoy Covers Ears During Blistering Rant By GOP Rep​

December 10, 2024

“Almost every single business I know that wants to send a check out won’t use the U.S. Postal Service anymore. I won’t use the U.S. Postal Service anymore. That’s on your watch. The two major decisions I’ve seen you make, which is on the distribution centers and on employee rate hiring, have done nothing to mitigate this in real-time ways.
“I don’t understand why you give yourself an A Grade, as you just stated when it comes to the delivery we have. Your reputation is done. Whether you admit it or not, in the military, if I have a skipper who things are going bad for, they’re a good military officer.
“But you know what we do when things go wrong repeatedly? We relieve them. You know what you do when a CEO repeatedly fails in that business model falls apart? Nobody wants to use that business anymore, and it becomes non-profitable. You fire them.” – Freshman GOP Rep. Rich McCormick, during which Postmaster General Louis DeJoy covered his ears.

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Hindsight's obviously 20/20, but I don't think it takes an optometrist to see that Iowa was playing against some big-ass dudes tonight. Dembele was working. And if fatigue wasn't a factor — Fran didn't even wait for me to finish my postgame question to say it wasn't — then lineup construction was the fault in a game where Iowa was outscored by 10 in second-chance points and lost by 9.

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I really wish this was a headline from The Onion or the Babylon Bee. It's not.
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President-elect Donald Trump suggested Thursday that an imminent government shutdown will be blamed on President Joe Biden after Trump tanked a spending bill that would have kept the government open.
“If we don’t get it, then we’re going to have a shutdown, but it’ll be a Biden shutdown, because shutdowns only inure to the person who’s president," Trump told ABC’s Jonathan Karl.
The government shut down twice during Trump’s first term, both times in 2018.

"How long do we have?"

Kirk Ferentz opened up on a host of hot-button topics on Friday, including:

* the transfer portal (and its problematic timing)
* Iowa's NIL positioning
* the impending 105-man roster limit

and much more. Lots of interesting stuff from KF here:

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

I was entirely unaware that actress Anne Ramsey quit acting, changed her name to Cynthia Lumis, and is now a U.S. Senator for the state of Wyoming:

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I never really thought about it until Neil broke it down. It’s mind bottling to realize how many possible sequence combinations there are for an ordinary deck of 52 cards.

Let’s say you’re holding in your hand a deck of cards that has been thoroughly and randomly shuffled.

If there were a trillion universes, and each of those universes contained a trillion civilizations, and each of those civilizations contained a trillion people, and each of those people had their own deck of cards, and each of those people thoroughly and randomly shuffled their deck of cards a trillion times every second of every day for a trillion years, there is still only about a 40% chance that any one of those shuffled decks would identically match the sequence of 52 cards you’re holding in your hand.

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I can't imagine there are many people persuaded by a cult that only has ad hominem tirades in their too kit.
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Quite the indictment of Garland…

We have just witnessed the greatest failure of federal law enforcement in American history.

The reasons for Donald Trump’s reelection are numerous and will be hotly debated in the weeks ahead. But the story of his comeback cannot be told without seriously grappling with how he managed to outrun four criminal cases, including — most notably — the Justice Department’s prosecution over Trump’s alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election.

At the root of it all are the considerable and truly historic legal missteps by the Biden administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well as a series of decisions by Republicans throughout the political and legal systems in recent years that effectively bailed Trump out when the risks for him were greatest.
The two federal criminal cases against him are now dead as a practical matter. Already there is reporting suggesting that special counsel Jack Smith will leave his post and dismiss the pending cases, which is not that surprising considering that Trump pledged to fire himonce back in office anyway. The Georgia case, an overhyped and misguided vehicle for post-2020 legal accountability, is going to remain on ice and perhaps get thrown out entirely in the coming years, at least as to Trump (if not his co-defendants). In Manhattan, where Trump was supposed to be sentenced in a matter of weeks after his conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush money case earlier this year, Trump is likely to ask the court to cancel the sentencing date; regardless of the mechanics, there is no reasonable scenario in which Trump serves some period of incarceration while also serving in the White House.
All of this will happen despite the majority of the public’s stated interest in concluding the criminal cases — the federal election subversion case in particular — as well as polling that suggested that Trump’s conviction early this year hurt his standing across the electorate and with independents in particular.

If that seems incongruous, it is not. The most obvious explanation for Trump’s win despite his considerable legal problems is that a critical mass of voters were willing to set aside their concerns about Trump’s alleged misconduct because of their dissatisfaction with the Biden-Harris administration. Fair or not, this was absolutely their right as voters.

But if the system had worked the way it should have, voters would never have faced such a choice. If Trump had actually faced accountability for his alleged crimes, he may not have even appeared on the ballot.

The most comprehensive accounts on the matter, from investigative reporting at The Washington Post and The New York Times, strongly indicate that the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation and public hearings in 2022 effectively forced Garland to investigate Trump and eventually to appoint Smith in November of that year — nearly two years after Trump incited the riot at the Capitol.

There are many people — including many Democratic legal pundits — who have continued to defend this delay and may continue to do so, so let me be very clear: Those people are wrong.

It was clear after Trump’s loss in 2020 — even before Jan. 6 — that his conduct warranted serious legal scrutiny by the Justice Department, particularly in the area of potential financial crimes. But that probe, which could and should have been pursued by Biden’s U.S. Attorney and aspiring attorney general in Manhattan, somehow never materialized.

It was also clear — on Jan. 6 itself — that Trump may have committed criminal misconduct after his loss in 2020 that required immediate and serious attention from the Justice Department.

The formation of the Jan. 6 committee in early 2021 did nothing to change the calculus. There too, it was clear from the start that there would still need to be a criminal investigation to deliver any meaningful legal accountability for Trump.

In fact, the warning signs for where this could all end up — where the country finds itself now — were clear by late 2021, less than a year into Biden’s term. The public reporting at the time indicated (correctly, we now know) that there was no real Justice Department investigation into Trump and his inner circle at that point, even though the outlines of a criminal case against Trump — including some of the charges themselves that were eventually brought nearly two years later — were already apparent.